You got it. For me, I like getting my personal and work emails pushed to my iPhone in the same place (the Mail app). Though I have the Gmail app I don't use it.
The whole thing sounds crazy -- I wonder if it's a competitor trying to sink them. Or an even crazier twist would be a competitor trying to sink them while simultaneously leveraging their open code base...
Exactly. It's not clear to me whether they're only checking for SNPs in a single locus or if they can multiplex (or do whole exome). Though Oxford NanoTech is still essentially vaporware at this point, their technology excites me a lot more than something like this.
My first thoughts exactly when I saw this post. Well actually my first thought was "Doesn't OP mean Google is laying fiber in Austin? Ooooooohh I get it...". I'm happy about this -- it means that Google's mission is coming along nicely. Screw AT&T.
I knew Thiel was gay - and until today had no idea Rabois was as well. The story you linked to is the first time I've seen this and to see that they were some ultra conservative bible toting rebels is... Bizarre.
Are they Tech's equivalent of the anti-gay senators caught in rest-stop bathrooms?
> to see that they were some ultra conservative bible toting rebels is... Bizarre.
Or Mother Jones is trying to set up a strawman of them as being homophoboic bigots without realizing that they were actually protesting [1] the then-controversial Stanford speech code, which prohibited much more speech than the government could prohibit. Lawsuits [2] were underway against the speech code and it was a bit of a topic of the day.
As others have pointed out, the safest way to protest a speech code that bans certain slurs against protected groups is to attack your own group. Rabois standing around using anti-gay slurs can easily prove that he's actually protesting the speech code by saying "look, I'm not homophobic, I'm actually gay myself." A bunch of white guys standing around dropping the n-word would not work out as well.
I looked through your links and don't see anything about Keith Rabois being gay. That he was might be common knowledge, but it's not intimated on those sites.
"As others have pointed out, the safest way to protest a speech code that bans certain slurs against protected groups is to attack your own group. Rabois standing around using anti-gay slurs can easily prove that he's actually protesting the speech code by saying "look, I'm not homophobic, I'm actually gay myself.""
Also, if he were a closeted homosexual it would make sense as to why he didn't tell Square about the relationship.
Except that Rabois (and Thiel) were both in the closet at the time. In lieu of "look, I'm not homophobic"...
first-year law student Keith Rabois - refused to answer their questions, but sent a letter to the Stanford Daily confirming the allegations. "Admittedly, the comments made were not very articulate, not very intellectual nor profound," Rabois wrote. "The intention was for the speech to be outrageous enough to provoke a thought of 'Wow, if he can say that, I guess I can say a little more than I thought.' "http://news.stanford.edu/pr/92/920212Arc2432.html
Because obviously, the world is a poorer, fundamentally less free place if we're not allowed to harrass people by shouting we hope they die of AIDs. Thiel at least later admitted embarrassment over the whole episode.
Scroll, scroll, scroll, close window. Typically left feeling completely neutral. I've got kids and my friends are at the getting married / having kids age now as well, so my feed has gone from "I'm so fucking high!" pictures to "Look how cute my ugly baby is!". Occasionally I use it to contact people whose phone number / e-mail address I don't have, and it's great for that. It's like my White Pages.
This is all really great, but my ISP and router situation is not at 100% uptime and about once a week I need to reset them both. I wouldn't be able to rely on this completely :/
"If you use an iPhone 4S or iPhone 5, you can enable Lockitron to sense when you walk up to the door and unlock for you using Bluetooth 4.0. We call it Sense."
From their FAQ: If you have an iPhone 4S or iPhone 5, Lockitron will work even if the internet or power go out. And of course, you can always use your original key
I guesss it also uses Bluetooth for manual unlock and not only for Sense.
