Comevius

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by Comevius 5y ago
GnuPG should not be used anymore. https://latacora.micro.blog/2019/07/16/the-pgp-problem.html For file encryption age is recommended. A frontend for it would be welcomed. https://github.com/Fi
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by Comevius 5y ago
Many biological systems are suggested to depend on quantum mechanical effects. See quantum biology. There is such a thing as plant intelligence. Could they have quantum intelligence then? Do dolphins and elephants have quantum consciousness
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by Comevius 5y ago
Daniel Lemire's blog is great as well, learned so much from it. https://lemire.me/blog/
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by Comevius 5y ago
The danger of surveillance is that it changes the power dynamics, which creates a risk of discrimination, blackmail and persuasion. It also interferes with our intellectial freedom. It hinders us at experimenting with new or controversial i
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by Comevius 5y ago
Disinformation and propaganda don't yield democratic resilience, usually there is an authority figure behind them and believers who conform for the certainty, stability, simplicity. These opinions don't require privacy, on the con
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by Comevius 5y ago
We already live in a world where surveillance changed the way people think and act, causing us to suppress non-conformist opinions. It is why mass surveillance exist in the first place, to foster collective conformity. Unfortunately we are
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by Comevius 5y ago
Paradoxes are just inconsistencies you must resolve to make your model of reality useful. Stating that reality is a simulation to resolve the inconsistencies is not useful.
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by Comevius 5y ago
We feel that we (and life, consciousness) must be special, but it's just thermodynamics. https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-life-and-death-spring-fro... https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/1
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by Comevius 5y ago
They became cost effective in a few years. The average price per integrated circuit dropped from $50 in 1962 to $2 in 1967. By then Moore's Law was established. At the end of the decade we had hundreds of transistors on a chip. At the
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by Comevius 5y ago
> And we believe it’s up to tech Founders, VC’s and employees to do something about it. Nobody stops Silicon Valley from saving the world, it's just that it is harder than creating Wi-Fi connected juicers and apps, even if that app
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by Comevius 5y ago
Interesting technology, but I can't imagine that they can scale it to a thousand qubits, let alone a million reliably. And even then it would have a narrow range of applications. I foresee a lot of disappointment.
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by Comevius 5y ago
If this wins it will be because of the price and because it can be deployed fast, but it does not look safe to pack that many battery-powered cars into a small and long tunnel. The Level 5 driving by 2027 is nonsense.
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by Comevius 5y ago
The authors of these often publicly funded research works don't actually make money, publishing companies like Elsevier do. Elsevier is basically a rent-seeking monopoly. They also publish fake journals, and manipulate the impact facto
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by Comevius 5y ago
There is only so much one can control and for a limited amount of time. This is not a weakness, it is life. If you don't have a sustainable system it doesn't matter how much control you have at the moment. Unfortunately in our s
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by Comevius 6y ago
Our minds don't exist independently from each other to begin with, we are not as separated as we are connected. We are all part of a system, just as our brain has parts. We don't see it this way for some evolutionary reason, but d
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by Comevius 6y ago
This is spot on, I use Emacs as an X window manager, terminal, file manager and so on, not just as an editor.
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by Comevius 6y ago
I noticed that Radicle claims similar functionality to centralized code collaboration platforms like GitHub, but Radicle itself is being developed on GitHub. They could use some dogfooding, and new website.
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by Comevius 6y ago
I always found Pinker to be a wide as an ocean, deep as a puddle kind of thinker. His simplistic views are eloquent, but flawed, however somewhat easy to communicate, which makes him popular. A true celebrity intellectual.
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by Comevius 6y ago
Unpopular opinion: Bootstrapping a profitable software company has never been easier, you don't usually need venture capital for it. It can even hurt you, because VCs tend to fund growth at all cost, so you can end up acquiring users a
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by Comevius 6y ago
It's nothing new, investors chase valuation over profits, which among others depends on growth because of the benefits of network effect. As a result most invested capital goes into user acquisition, and products become heavily subsidi
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by Comevius 6y ago
Investors for software startups are not that great if you want your business to be self-sustaining without becoming a unicorn or a Ponzi scheme. I'm not saying that participating in bubbles cannot be economically rational, but venture
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by Comevius 7y ago
> Discord is spyware, silently logging and tracking every action performed within their app, without once asking the user if they consent or not You have to read and agree to their Terms of Service and Privacy Policy to use their service
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by Comevius 8y ago
https://climate.nasa.gov/
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by Comevius 8y ago
There is no need for him to do any of that: the president of the United States is in the spotlight regardless.
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by Comevius 8y ago
"If you take climate change, which is a serious issue, it’s been co-opted by pessimistic baby-boomers and turned into a dark nightmarish scenario, rather than saying that we need to restructure power and resources in a way that could m
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by Comevius 8y ago
Are you refering to the two email leaks from the University of East Anglia (Climategate), the one in 2009 and the 2011 one to Russian servers? There was no scientific misconduct there, only climate denialists taking messages out of context.
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by Comevius 8y ago
This is a great paper actually. It depends directly on the premise that cosmic rays cause drastic changes in cloud microphysics. The proof presented for this is a statistical correlation between termination points of sun activity and ENSO (
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by Comevius 8y ago
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-05314-1#ref-CR8 The Eemian was caused by reduced North Atlantic ocean circulation, a courtesy of the previous Saale glaciacion period, too much fresh water, and continued tran
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by Comevius 8y ago
"requires a large helping of evidence to back it up" Those are available at http://cloud.web.cern.ch/content/publications . The experiments are started back in 2009. See Wikipedia for a simplified description
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by Comevius 8y ago
I don't know why I linked it if you just end up making your very own conclusions. This paper is part of the CERN CLOUD project ( http://cloud.web.cern.ch/ ), an experiment trying to model our atmosphere to find out how m

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