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by QAPereo 9y ago
Hopefully the FBI already has their hooks in this, and uses it to work up the chain. Along with incredibly graphic violence, this has been the darkest part of the internet since day 1.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
And? HN deserves better... click on the DOI link at least and submit that, not this garbled secondhand trash.
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Range is an issue, so you’d need an agent to smuggle it in country, verify the targets and approach, then release. Now, if they’re caught before, or if the device is recovered... game over. A super high tech assassination speaks to the iden
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Why? Just make the current iteration have a sharp point on it and coat it with your desired toxin or tracker. The tech is here now, and we’re in real trouble without solid laws around this.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Phys.org is a roaring dumpster fire, and frankly the domain should never show up on HN. If it’s on phys.org, they found it somewhere, and that original source will be far better than the half-assed version on phys.org. Actual original paper
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by QAPereo 9y ago
The general idea is called a Canary Trap, and IIRC it was popularized by Tom Clancy. The most common form is to have some subtle variations in the content or wording, which would give away the origin. Edit here we go https://en.m
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by QAPereo 9y ago
How is search advertising a win for consumers?
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Just to 1... do they know any better? What other experiences do they have to compare against?
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The spice must flow...
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To be fair, Detroit more or less conformed to the hype, a la Robocop , at least for a while. Cali is doomed long term with the water situation ( Caddilac Desert is a great read), the future of Louisiana is unclear, and so on. The predicti
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It’s definitely not equivalent, but the coping mechanism and means of dissipating personal responsibility are identical.
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You sound not entirely unlike someone who gets to sleep at night by telling themselves they only designed them guidance system for a missile, or the fuse for a mine. Hopefully it’s that... the alternative is the absence of a conscience.
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Maybe they’re bright enough to see that it’s not taken and wasted , but becomes the foundation of their incredibly successful state. Not everyone in every country is blinkered by the ideology of the greediest, in the hope of joining them.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
By the same token if you specialized in armored cars that could outrun police and were invisible to radar, you’d have no right to be shocked by who ends up using it. You’d protect diplomats and people in dangerous parts of the world... and
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” ― Edmund Burke
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified_Newtonian_dynamics#... The Wired article grossly oversells the popularity and integrity of MOND theories.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
That algorithm is not a natural phenomenon, it’s made for a purpose it serves, and I’m so tired of “the algorithm did it” as an excuse. Please try again. I agree on the ad blocking, but if everyone actually did it the internet would implode
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by QAPereo 9y ago
I think that her point is... why? What’s the point of this? What is the long term societal impact? It’s not just that she wants to avoid that crap, but that she feels she shouldn’t have to.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Fair enough, I’ll keep that in mind going forward. Thanks for taking the time to teach.
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Uncertainty doesn’t require observation, you may be thinking of perturbation?
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What’s in a Conjecture? An ER=EPR Example (2016)(4gravitons.wordpress.com)
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Hiding in the dark forest.
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To be fair, you have it exactly right. He had hypothesis which turned out to be incorrect, or at the very least not the whole story, and the story is weird and hard to believe. The truth is it’s taken a long time and a lot of testing Tom p
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Happily! The sun lacks the necessary mass to burn using the nuclear reaction it uses (CNO), and quantum tunneling is the answer to how it burns. For a brief discussion on the reasons why: https://www.physicsforums.com/thread
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The electron’s wavefunction isn’t localized like the classical “billiard ball” and has a nonzero chance of being on the other side of a barrier. The truth is that it has a nonzero chance of being on the other side of the galaxy, albeit a m
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by QAPereo 9y ago
I mean that the uncertainty in complementary variables such as position and momentum exists with or without the act of observation, or measurement. We can certainly observe it in an artificial setting, but it’s also the reason that the sun
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A really good way to get an intuitive grasp is to spend some time getting a handle on quantum tunneling.
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Maybe we just see the overall trend and its global impacts, and we don’t think buying a luxury fallout shelter is the same response.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Are people really that confused about the difference between fundamental natural uncertainty, and the measurement problem?
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What makes you think that they do?

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