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murtnowskion Cost of a 51% Attack for Different Cryptocurrencies

Government actor says hold my beer

murtnowskion Scientists Fix Genetic Risk Factor for Alzheimer’s Disease in Human Brain Cells

https://github.com/Murtnowski/Alz23andMe

I made a script to examine the raw text dump from 23andMe. See the README for a list of interesting genes to check.

23andMe does have the raw data you can look up. You can use the raw explorer on the site or download the data to text and then examine it.

Recently they just got permission in the US to do some health screening again and now they let you opt in to a Alzheimer health section.

I find looking at the raw data to be easiest.

murtnowskion A link between polygamy and war

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murtnowskion The U.S. Flooded One of Houston’s Richest Neighborhoods to Save Everyone Else

Why? Houston was been flooded several times before. Particularly in 1929 and 1935 when the county finally decided to form a flood control agency. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harris_County_Flood_Control_... Climate change is real, but if every time we get bad weather you call it that it’s a little like crying wolf.

murtnowskion Key differences between Python 2.7.x and Python 3.x (2014)

Why is this still a thing?

murtnowskion Square Said to Acquire Team from Struggling Social App Yik Yak

Been running anonember.com for a while now without issue

murtnowskion Has Amazon been hacked (wrong author attributions)

murtnowskion Jeff Bezos’ Annual Letter

How would you fix it?

murtnowskion The TSA Must Go (2016)

I don't fly because of the TSA. I have zero fear of terrorism on my flight.

murtnowskion Site Reliability Engineering

Does Amazon have an equivalent position as an SRE?

murtnowskion Finland will hand out cash to 2000 jobless people to test universal basic income

Wouldn't a better idea be to give it to people with lower middle income which is more indicitive of the average household

murtnowskion Let’s replace Twitter with something much better

Why replace twitter? just do your own thing and let twitter do its thing

murtnowskion This year we can end the death penalty in California

I never said you said it wasn't

murtnowskion This year we can end the death penalty in California

It is a fact that Charles Mason was relieved from execution. Just like it is a fact that because of the court rulings around 1972 he became eligible for parole.

Charles Manson and other 106 inmates on death row in 1972 were all convicted killers who were relieved from the death penalty.

Many victim's family members were upset by the courts decision.

murtnowskion This year we can end the death penalty in California

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/11/13/wrongly-con...

While the innocence project has saved many innocent people, it's important to remember that they also are wrong sometimes.

murtnowskion This year we can end the death penalty in California

I'm not making an argument. I'm stating facts. I never said I was OK with it.

murtnowskion This year we can end the death penalty in California

California already removed the death penalty in 1972 then later reinstated it. This resulted in killers like Charles Mason being relieved from execution and denying many victim's family member from obtaining a measure of justice they wanted.

Since being reinstated only 13 people have been executed. And none in the past 10 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Californ...

murtnowskion Stackoverflow needs redesign

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30948205/excel-customtask...

This was a very tough issue SO helped me to solve. I used a comment someone left to help me start my own research and create the code snippet I needed. I then asked someone for a indepth description on why my snippet worked and what was really going on.

While I don't use SO as much as my early coding days, I still feel it's very helpful.

murtnowskion Stackoverflow needs redesign

If stack overflow users hate newbie questions they should add a filter option to ignor questions with users under 100 points.

murtnowskion Web2Web: Serverless Websites Powered by Torrents and Bitcoin

WebRTC has no built in peer discovery to bootstrap the startup. At minimum a signaling server is will be needed for exchanging descriptions. You may also need to exchange ICE candidate information. So while this isn't serverless, it could be really great for reducing bandwidth costs until you consider that this design does not play well with mobile devices which have usage caps.

murtnowskion Amazon is preparing to launch streaming music service

Don't they already have steaming music

murtnowskion Ask HN: How long did it take you to get your first dev job?

About a week. Which cities are you applying to?

murtnowskion You Can’t Talk About Robots Without Talking About Basic Income

There have been plenty of historical examples of automated mental effort from Wall Street trading, to telephone switching, to legal research, to librarians, record keeping, accounting, logistics management, forestry overwatch, security, safety regulation, meter reader, parking enforcement, communication, art, banking, many examples throughout history.

murtnowskion You Can’t Talk About Robots Without Talking About Basic Income

This has already happened many times throughout history with industrialization and new technologies.

murtnowskion Apalachin Meeting

Hacker news?

murtnowskion 'I've seen the greatest AI of my generation destroyed by Twitter'

And here I was thinking the New Yorker couldn't get any worse.