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691.
by 323 5y ago
Quite a lot of people are starting to say that measuring inflation with a single number is like measuring the temperature of the whole US with a single number - "today the temperature in US is 81 F".
692.
by 323 5y ago
Indeed, it's like saying "the CPU used 16 Wh of energy, executed 1 billion MOV instructions and 2 billion ADD instructions for both these two tasks, thus the algorithm it ran must be identical".
693.
by 323 5y ago
> If a police officer can do that from an app, everyone can do it. The police can get your phone location from an app, or you car registration, yet these systems are still pretty secure, certainly not hacked by "everybody". It
694.
by 323 5y ago
Most likely the police will soon have the ability to stop or remote control them from a special app.
695.
Russian military drone has a retail Canon DSLR camera inside(twitter.com)
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696.
by 323 5y ago
If you can hit the force in germany/uk/france you can also hit the value there. And a second strike is kind of by definition counter value. Leaked Soviet era nuclear war with NATO plan: > Vienna was to be hit by two 500-kiloto
697.
by 323 5y ago
There are US nukes in Germany, Italy and Turkey. France and UK have their own. It would be pretty weird for Russia to not be ready at all times to target those countries. I don't know with what exactly, but surely they have thought abo
698.
by 323 5y ago
Russia has plenty of solutions to target Europe, from Iskander intermediate range missiles to submarine launched ones, to gravity bombs or even the new hypersonic Kinzhal cruise missiles. Also, the whole premise of warheads burning up on re
699.
by 323 5y ago
> There is limited reason China/NK would involve themselves in a nuclear escalation between Russia and NATO. I've seen someone say (without citation) that US would nuke China too in a full-scale nuclear war with Russia just s
700.
by 323 5y ago
His political views are, how to say it politely, interesting.
701.
by 323 5y ago
Do you feel the same about easter eggs? Because when I argue that and give example of easter eggs which caused security vulnerabilities or broke shell scripts on certain dates people reply "oh, lighten up, you are just a party killer,
702.
by 323 5y ago
It will just be goalpost moved again: "I'll believe it when AI makes a number 1 on spotify hit song". After that happens they'll say "a human still selected the song from the 10 created by AI". Or something sim
703.
by 323 5y ago
We're quite close to the moment where we'll be able to release 1000 drones/robot dogs in a city with the mission to blow up all the tanks or white/blue arm-band soldiers. Possibly with a human in the loop for final confi
704.
by 323 5y ago
We discovered one Higgs boson. But there could be a few more. This is not settled yet.
705.
by 323 5y ago
Maybe they are just not running them? There are a lot of military experts saying that they see baffling examples of incompetence from the Russian army in this war, failing at really basic stuff. I'm no military expert, but I've se
706.
by 323 5y ago
No written promise was made, but there were verbal promises. > Vladimir Putin insists that the West cheated Russia by expanding NATO eastward following the end of the Cold War. Is there anything to his claims? The short answer: It'
707.
by 323 5y ago
The same thing was said when book printing was invented, that we would lose the fabulous scribes that manually duplicate books with a human touch, while replacing them with soulless mechanical machines. Or when synthesizers and computer mus
708.
by 323 5y ago
Maybe it might cause a traffic jam - blocked forwards, blocked backwards.
709.
by 323 5y ago
In 2019 there was a power blackout in London. When power was restored, a number of new trains refused to start without a technician physically coming over with a diagnostics laptop to them because power fluctuated outside allowed bounds or
710.
by 323 5y ago
What happens if you make an annotation mistake? Could the compiler generated code then have a security vulnerability, just like when you use undefined behaviour and the compiler is then allowed to optimize safety checks away?
711.
by 323 5y ago
Imagine a sequence in the DNA like this: TAAAAAAAAAAAACAAAAAAAAAAG. The way sequencing worked is the DNA is split into small parts and then they are aligned back together. But if we split the sequence above we might get these pieces: AAAAAA
712.
by 323 5y ago
Probably related somehow: > Kazakhstan will not help Russia to evade Western sanctions imposed on Moscow over its ongoing invasion of Ukraine, a top Kazakh official has said. > Kazakhstan is not part of this conflict. Yes, we are part
713.
by 323 5y ago
The ruble interest rate was increased to 20%. You can make any currency go higher with a sufficiently high interest rate, but that interest hike has a huge impact on the economy. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/28&#x2
714.
by 323 5y ago
Hypothetically speaking, if it is ever proved that SARS-CoV-2 was indeed leaked from a lab, and that the people working there are guilty of gross negligence and the evading of gain of function controls, what do you think the punishment shou
715.
by 323 5y ago
Quite a few experts said originally that the furin cleavage site (FCS) is the "smoking gun" evidence that the virus is lab modified. But then other experts said that it's just a coincidence that could arise naturally. Now we
716.
by 323 5y ago
I've seen this thought many times: > AGI 1 will create the next even better AGI 2 But this doesn't quite make sense. If AGI 1 is conscious, why would it create a different more powerfull conscious AGI 2 to take it's plac
717.
by 323 5y ago
Studies in nutrition are a meme in themselves. Eating eggs gives you cancer. Next week it protects you from cancer. Coffee cause hearth problems. Next week it prevents heart problems. And so on and on for basically everything we eat.
718.
by 323 5y ago
You mean like disabling important functionality required by uBlock and other ad-blockers? https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/googles-manifest-v3-st...
719.
by 323 5y ago
W3C is irrelevant these days. The "Web" is what Google decides it to be - what new APIs to add to Chrome, what protocols to use (HTTP/2, HTTP/3) to access it.
720.
by 323 5y ago
> Zurich Insurance removes Z symbol after letter used to show support for Ukraine war https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/zurich-insurance-remove...

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