dawgr
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13 years ago
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on: Junk DNA — Not So Useless After All
Maybe not observable effects. There so many tiny things that must be in our genes that switches that affect anatomy are probably a small percentage. For example, the way people's laughs sound or the fact that almost everyone is attracted to paradisiacal places are probably influenced by genes and not just culture and nurture.
dawgr
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14 years ago
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on: Think twice before analyzing/releasing your genetic data
Is it not possible to ask them to delete all my DNA data? My subscription will end soon, can I just ask them to delete it completely in a clear worded email to make sure there is no misunderstanding as to what I mean by "deleted"? Will EU laws protect me from this or are they irrelevant since they are a US company?
dawgr
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14 years ago
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on: The Fertility Implosion
What surprises me is that they consider low fertility rate a problem. There are plenty of people from other countries that would be willing to work in Western countries with low fertility rate.
If fertility rates are below replacement level, then let them be and let immigrants from a third world country work in their place. There are plenty of people in this world already.
dawgr
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14 years ago
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on: Everyone's Trying to Track What You Do on the Web: Here's How to Stop Them
You don't need to track people to show them ads and in no case should you track people without their consent.
dawgr
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14 years ago
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on: The Five Stages of Hosting
I'm usually on Fedora, but I barely have to touch anything.
dawgr
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14 years ago
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on: The Five Stages of Hosting
The problem is the "o/s installation" part, while I can install Ubuntu which is fairly easy these days, I'm not a sysadmin and I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be able to configure it properly. Do you recommend any book that'd teach me how to set up a dedicated server from start to finish, including all those little details of OS configuration?
dawgr
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14 years ago
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on: Chapter 6 of the Rails Tutorial, 2nd Edition is out ("Modeling users")
Could you please include a small section that talks about how to integrate rails and backbone?
dawgr
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15 years ago
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on: 23andMe Genetic Testing Kit Free with a Year Long Membership of $108
Damn, I already paid, is there any way I could do it now or it's too late?
dawgr
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15 years ago
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on: 23andMe Genetic Testing Kit Free with a Year Long Membership of $108
It says that I would have to pay 9 dollars a month. Do you know if I can tell them to charge the whole subscription once instead of 9 dollars every month?
dawgr
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15 years ago
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on: Poll: Do you work for "the Man"?
I'd like to ask to anyone who has worked as both, for himself and for the man, which one is more stressful? To the degree that this question can be answered, I realize it would depend a lot on the exact job and that it's not black and white.
dawgr
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15 years ago
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on: Patio11 says Hello Ladies
Expect a surge in period tracker web apps.
dawgr
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15 years ago
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on: Visualization: Movies Are Getting Worse
Yeah, you are right, I always confuse the two.
dawgr
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15 years ago
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on: Visualization: Movies Are Getting Worse
Some recent good movies:
-Animal Kingdom (Australian crime film)
-True Grit (Western)
-How to train your dragon (Pixar film)
dawgr
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15 years ago
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on: Nokia to developers: no Qt for Windows Phone development
If they were going to switch to iOS, can't they just switch to Objective-C too even if they used to work with C++ before?
dawgr
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15 years ago
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on: Why do ebooks cost so much?
Okay thanks, so I can assume that hypothetically if I were to download text PDF books from certain places, then convert it to Kindle format, I would then be able to get first class reading experience? Are you happy with your Kindle 3 overall? I'm considering whether to get the one with 3G, but I don't know how good the webkit browser is, what do you think of it?
dawgr
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15 years ago
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on: Why do ebooks cost so much?
I was going to buy a Kindle this week but this article is making me think twice. I thought it'd definitely be cheaper to buy books. What about PDFs? There are thousands of PDFs on the internet which you can get for free, is the quality of PDFs worse than books in kindle format? Do you have to scroll sideways or something? Or is the font smaller?
dawgr
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15 years ago
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on: Reading the Book
"In the US, we like to think reporters have no bias, but of course, they do. In Europe, the biases are much clearer."
Not related to the main point of the article, but I don't agree with that. It was very subtle, but in my opinion that is a big lie.
dawgr
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15 years ago
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on: Chinese Stealth Plane J-20 Revealed
Wow, that's sad. After all the money that was spent on the F-22.
dawgr
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15 years ago
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on: Dear Google: please let me ban sites from results
That will never happen, if they ever did that it would be an admission that there is something inherently wrong with their algorithm. They won't do it.
dawgr
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15 years ago
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on: Our Brains Are Shrinking. Are We Getting Dumber?
I know it's a joke and you might be right, but I don't think the need to reduce brain size would be such a huge evolutionary pressure to see a decrease of 10% in just 20,000 years, that's relatively little.
Granted that the bigger the brain, the more energy it needs, but if the brain uses 25% of our energy, 0.25*0.1= 2.5%. Even if that's wrong by a few percent, it doesn't sound like such a big advantage to cause that decrease in so little time and as it's been pointed out, it actually started happening when more food/energy was available from agriculture or whatever.
