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> everyone who is not of sub-Saharan decent is part Neanderthal.

Has this been proven? I mean both conditions, ie: that everyone of sub-Saharan descent having no Neanderthal DNA? Also, the percentages are really low, eg: my friend from China did 23andme and his Neanderthal percentage was 0.1%.


I suppose in theory that there might be some non-sub-Saharan people that don’t have Neanderthal DNA just by chance, but it is unlikely.

There are also people that have far more than the average (2-3%) - for every person like your friend there are other with way more.


4% here!


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I apologize if this is a silly question, but what exactly does "computer company" mean? I read the link. I see "oxide computer" which makes me think, oh is this one of those newfangled oxide transistor but I clicked a few links like oxide computer principles of operation hoping to get an idea of what this is but instead I see some stuff about candor, empathy which is not what I thought principles meant in this context. I looked through the comments hoping to see someone explain it but no win there. Oh well. I'm sure someone will explain it.


This is a bad landing page.

1. Bad HN title (doesn't say anything about what they did about the computer they made)

2. Landing page image has some generic background and as far as I saw, no tangible product, other than some shelves of their latest workspace.

3. If they could just include some diagram here or there and put some bold text/say they're building AWS for people/startups, that'd be great and to the point

Not bashing them, but just some thoughts I had about their presentation.

Regardless, I'm extremely excited for what they're building. Been waiting for something like this to pop up.


> Landing page image has some generic background and as far as I saw, no tangible product, other than some shelves of their latest workspace.

From Jessie's blog post [0] it looks like this is the actual garage where she supposedly started the company.

But I agree, there is absolute zero information on the product they are planning to build.

Probably because they are still working on fundraising.

[0] https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/born-in-a-garage/


It's amazing it has >400 upvotes at all.


I suspect upvoters have some context that's implied by knowing the domain of these founders or their previous work.


Their main landing page:

"Oxide is building a new kind of server.

True rack-scale design, bringing cloud hyperscale innovations around density, efficiency, cost, reliability, manageability, and security to everyone running on-premises compute infrastructure."


They forgot to add “blockchain” and “machine learning” to complete their BINGO card. “cloud hyperscale innovations” is a good one, though—haven’t heard that one yet.


"Hyperscaler" does have a meaning in the data centre world, and their use of it here speaks to the benefits they hope to deliver, so it's not 100% a marketing buzzword.


Add also "built with ️"


Their company mission is to kick-butt. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯


Its from a quote by Scott McNealy, the CEO of Sun and is regarded as the final epitaph of Sun.

>Kick butt, have fun, don’t cheat, love our customers, change computing forever


Hell, I'll kick my own butt for a million less.


I am also quite confused. After looking at the homepage, I have no idea of what this company does.


It is a company whose product is hardware. For example: Sun, HP, Apple.


Looks like vaporware with nothing to distinguish themselves from the incumbents. Are they going to do anything special other than put their branding on Taiwanese boards?


The original Somali "pirate".


If you ignore all the Barbary pirates, across half the North African coast, who went right back to the 12th century. In good part it was in reaction to them, and their slavery raids on English and other coasts across Europe, and their piracy that started the English era of privateers in reaction.


> If you ignore all the Barbary pirates, across half the North African coast, who went right back to the 12th century.

Your sentence is missing a clause. Please explain.


> understand the difference between looting and preservation

british were infamous for their destruction of indian metal art by melting it down for sundry purposes of their army


> To stop someone else patenting it

prior art.


Prior art is very difficult to prove and patent reviewers often miss obvious examples. They can't so easily ignore a pre-existing patent. It also protects the invention from exploitation by foreign competitors, in jurisdictions with reciprocal patent protection.


It depends, obviously. Prior art is easy to prove by pointing at an existing patent. It is also easy to prove by pointing at an article in a mainstream publication in the local language. So "protective publication" or "defensive disclosure" is a reasonable alternative to getting a patent (and perhaps letting it expire at the first opportunity).

Prior art is only difficult to prove if you're relying on something along the lines of folk knowledge among the indigenous peoples of the lands where the Jumblies live.

It's non-obviousness that is notoriously difficult to prove.


Prior art doesn’t apply in foreign jurisdictions. A country that is first-to-file can file the patent then stop your domestic company from using the tech.


> Prior art doesn’t apply in foreign jurisdictions.

Can you elaborate on this? Japan, for example, requires you to disclose any prior art during application similar to the U.S. Israel recently adopted similar rules. These disclosures frequently include US and foreign (WO, EP, etc) patents and patent publications.

> A country that is first-to-file can file the patent then stop your domestic company from using the tech.

Assuming you filed first in your domestic country, then you just apply in the foreign country and claim priority from your domestic application - thereby granting your application an even earlier effective filing date.


> Asians adolescent academic performance is a worse predictor of this than for Europeans.

Why do you think this is the case?


> That's why initiatives like those of the winners of the Global Learning X-Prize[1] have shown measurable impact on learning outcomes.

[1] https://www.xprize.org/prizes/global-learning

Sorry, but I have to challenge your authority. You're saying "measurable impact on learning outcomes" and then linking to same site which doesn't give any evidence of this. As far as I can tell, these prizes are being awarded by people who are all in the same social circles and even their peer reviewed papers don't seem to carry serious outcome analysis. The whole Nicholas Negroponte-Epstein-Ito scandal just shows these people are not interested in the outcome. Again, as he self-described himself "a rich white guy", Negroponte didn't suddenly wake up and care about the welfare and education of children in the third world, nope, not believable, as shown by his subsequent actions.

Negroponte's OLPC wasn't his first debacle either. https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/71fe/5e987a89dfb7a6e7dbb3dd...

Negroponte and his gang of destroyers went from developing country to developing country intent on destroying simple proven-to-work schemes and replacing them with his costly OLPC. He knew that local NGOs desperate requests for funding would be bypassed in favor of his large contracts which could be utilized by bureaucrats to hide corruption.

I'm sorry that you wasted your time working on the software. I was tasked to work with the XO-1 and it was an utter waste of our time. We'd have been far better off if those funds had been spent on providing vaccinations, and lunches at school which have been proven to have a vastly better long term outcomes than a underpowered unconnectable amd-geode board with a wonky unusable pixelqi LCD.

Honestly, when I first heard of OLPC, I was so excited by all the claims. I remember they sent us screenshots of MIT engineers designing a pulley type charger and they told us the OLPC would run for hours from a few minutes of pulling. It was all fake and total marketing BS. Honestly, after the OLPC, my respect level for MIT Media Lab went down the drain. I realized these people aren't really significantly different than a reasonably educated grad student in a developing country. They just use their accents and mannerisms and social circles to get themselves perceived as being capable of delivering something superior, when in reality they delivered a barely passable netbook. The whole Joi Ito-Epstein pedo scandal has further reinforced my opinion. Developing countries would be better off not buying into the whole MIT aura as it does not seem deserved. It is sad that MIT continues slurping funds from developing countries to do jobs-for-the-boys club type projects. I had thought better of such an institution but I was completely wrong.


> Negroponte also defends taking the money > his privilege as a “rich white man”

Negroponte also goes around demanding people refer to him as the father of the netbook. This is not the first time Negroponte has destroyed institutions. Media Lab Asia was a disaster. https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/71fe/5e987a89dfb7a6e7dbb3dd...

OLPC was an unmitigated disaster, not just for Negroponte but also for the world. The level of wastage of money at all levels. Just incredible.


OLPC is One Laptop Per Child for those unaware

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Laptop_per_Child#Criticism


>'Negroponte also goes around demanding people refer to him as the father of the netbook.'

I'd go with a strategy of malicious compliance on that one. Though I would probably add some extra titles as time went on. Any suggestions?


> as long as they mostly play ball with our commercial and political priorities.

our?


Liberal democracies' generally.


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