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Not to mention that I would guess modern piracy and VPNs go hand and glove.
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Porn age-checks risk pushing children to dark web, officials warn(bbc.com)
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No, but then, I like physics so I’d start rattling off fundamentals like the hyperfine transitions of Hydrogen, the speed of light in vacuum, and the mass of the proton.
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For values of “eventually” which include timescales on the order of proton decay...
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Life is going to be just fine, but complex lifeforms with an endless list of needs and dependencies like us are utterly screwed. As for “figuring it out” what does it tell you that the smartest people with the best education on the topic ha
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In particular this resonates painfully, “This is a cozy home for believers in bootstrapping and meritocracy, proponents of shallow libertarianism.“ And then... VENTURE CAPITALISTS HAVE SPEARHEADED massive innovation in the past few decades
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“Special” is a human concept which may not exist objectively, empirically. Distinct, unique, etc... are probably more honest, assuming that we don’t exist in a multiverse.
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Preserving minutiae for future archaeologists is a bold and exciting idea which should be funded and pursued. It is not however, the mission of the LoC. Edit: not to mention that I think you have a far too rosy view of the world we’ll be le
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...And expect that collapse to be sudden (relatively speaking) and take a baffled majority by surprise. Then expect conflict, trending more and more to desperation and violence.
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If you look to video games for lessons in this, then sadly most people want their shinything on time, even if it’s broken. A lot of people don’t, but we’re utterly drowned out by the wallets of people who buy day 1, every day. As with secur
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Different != Special
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It does, at the cost of preserving the firehose, through endless format and media shifts, and at the cost and under the assumption that future historians will want an archive they need a strong AI to manage. There is also the cost, as in pa
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True, but filling the records with so much noise that finding the interesting ones amounts to concentrating gold from seawater, you’re no longer doing the job an archivist should.
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https://www.haystack.mit.edu/hay/staff/jball/etiy.pdf A good read, especially on the last page the paragraph beginning with, “The history of science contains, one after another, a series of blows to mankind’s
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Iranian Hackers: Sophisticated, Frustrated and a Rising Global Threat(nytimes.com)
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Of course those questions were only raised after it all went public, and Uber became a bad word in some circles. It’s possible the investors were so due diligence free that they had no clue, but I really doubt it.
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6. Package this in such a way that anyone can deploy it, making it eternal and diffuse. Otherwise it’s just going to be one or two people with the feds eating them alive to “make a point” about law and order.
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Right, and it’s an adversarial process between that higher level of government, and local interests. What you’re suggesting is akin to asking people to forgoe the use of an attorney during criminal proceedings. The idea is that competing in
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I think one problem here which is being brought up by many, and a problem that plagues many interesting ideas: what’s the physical mechanism? More important is the issue of just what the multiverse theory exists to accommodate. Timeline spl
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Some of us would be terrified, but also excited about the prospect of studying a supermassive black hole from the inside. You know what I mean? Some things are just so singular and incredible, and so to the heart of a given field of interes
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Why? Moving is expensive, stressful, and potentially fraught with risks as any major change in life can be. You do that, all while knowing with certainty that of the 7+ billion on Earth, few would move to accommodate you. So why? Out of the
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First point: Get used to this. Moderately-priced mass-market drugs will disappear. Or rather, they will go off-patent and become generics. With no R&D expenses to recoup, they will become cheap commodities, costing a few dozen or hundr
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https://undark.org/article/peak-pharma-drug-discovery/ Offers a fair amount of substance to back the notion that in general, medicine is going to be breathtakingly expensive in the near future. The state of biolog
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Never meet your heroes, am I right?
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Magic Leap Display Developments Revealed in 2017 – Part 1(kguttag.com)
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Oh it would be, but we’ve known for centuries that the holy prepuce was actually... According to an unconfirmed 19th-century source,[14][15] in the late 17th century the Vatican librarian Leo Allatius wrote an unpublished[16] treatise enti
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter https://www.haystack.mit.edu/hay/staff/jball/etiy.pdf Dark Forest The tyranny of ‘c’
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Sadly, in our present world stupid is dangerous because machiavellians and martyrs alike are magnetizing it with arguments that are as wrong as they are emotionally convincing. I don’t usually do this here, as it’s not strictly substantiv
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Meanwhile the lawyers and original plaintiffs will be able to buy their own sex islands...
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Tracking and hacking ships with Shodan and AIS(pentestpartners.com)
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