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One problem with this is that you need fairly advanced technology to be able to sequence DNA, and therefore this method can only be used to communicate with advanced civilizations. It could not be used, for example, to restart civilization after a collapse to barbarism.
One way around this would be to encode the instructions for building the DNA sequencer on something non-perishable and easily read with low technology (e.g. large monoliths), with a pointer to the DNA cache. How to make the plans comprehensible to the intelligent barbarian is left as an exercise for the alert reader. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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For the first time, scientists have created embryos that are a mix of human and monkey cells. "Ape must never kill ape"
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... and have them enter politics.  
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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We already have animals in politics, apes included
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Oh, this is a really good idea. Not.
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If a co-worker was to spontaneously combust (à la Garth Marenghi's Darkplace) in your office, what you might expect to one day slough off the ceiling and slap atop your computer screen would be this anthropomorphic webcam No, I don't think it would. Nope. Uh-uh. No how.
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I don't know why, but I would have expected this being posted by OG in his "IoT Crap" series in the lounge...
yeah, I know, that doesn't necessarily fall into IoT... but still connected to the internet and crappy (and creepy) enough
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Ewwww.
Kent- two "ewwww" posts! This one and the human-monkey embryo one!
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Marc Clifton wrote: Kent- two "ewwww" posts! This one and the human-monkey embryo one!
Humanity has reached the end of this line. Time for a moral species to take over...
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And with three ewes, I'd have a flock
TTFN - Kent
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You aren't the only one feeling like you're giving more than you're getting from your employer – a chunk of Microsofties are of the same opnion. "Big boss man, can't you hear me when I call?"
But -- free soft drinks and coffee? Isn't that a great deal?
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Quote: You aren't the only one feeling like you're giving more than you're getting from your employer – a chunk of Microsofties are of the same opnion.
The question is... do they think it about their employyer? Or about Microsoft?
In this case that could be a not so small difference...
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Any company that provides a treehouse[^] for meetings and work is OK by me.
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In my early 20s I travelled up the coast to a hippy town (Nimbin) right near Byron Bay.
We'd taken a tent, so wouldn't want one of the on-sites.
The signs all called it a combi-van park. Hmmmm. Yup, on-site combis to sleep in. Someone had opened and offered us 1/2 a plastic supermarket bag full of pot for $10 a few minutes earlier, in the town's main street, with no more secrecy than someone asking for a cigarette.
Anyhow, the office at the park was up a tree and the flower-garden by the communal kitchen had a spindly 2 ft dope plant trying to survive.
Well.... you did say "Any". 
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+100 for the reference, great song! 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Companies reeling from natural disasters and massive demand from OEMs, consumers. But...I made dip...?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Companies reeling from natural disasters and massive demand from OEMs, consumers and miners.
FTFY...
still trying to get a GPU at a drop and it is really difficult... but mostly go due to bots, not to human buyers (we are not so fast)
not willing to pay 2,5x its recommended price
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The U.S. government is considering issuing an executive order that would require vendors to provide a software bill of materials (SBOMs). Caution: may contain nuts
Or at least - made in a facility that contains nuts
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Can we ask for such a label for politicians and regulators?
Ingredients:
1% brain
99% Void
CAUTION: May contain traces of bullshit, crappy political correctness and utterly nonsense...
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Nelek wrote: 1% brain
That's an extraordinarily high percentage for a politician.
For most, it's more like: "Brain cells: one (unused)"
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Hmpf.
Ever tried to get a "Safety Integrity Level" certification? Even for the simplest level, you have to provide far more than that.
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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Er... isn't this just going to rule out smaller vendors in favour of bigger vendors who can afford to tick the (largely worthless) boxes.
Regulatory capture, much? Follow the money.
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And we have a winner! Probably exactly why the idea is going forward. 
TTFN - Kent
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