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by _red 7y ago
Quote: > The experiment described in the paper sampled randomly generated numbers produced through a specialized scenario involving quantum phenomena. Why even write that sentence? It literally means nothing. From a tech perspective, it
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Redhat's Open Letter to FSF Concerning Next President(redhat.com)
3 points by _red 7y ago|0 comments
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by _red 7y ago
>would be the supposed quantum supremacy True. Another way he could have responded is: We don't care if quantum computers actually do anything useful, only that we can use the PR to get positive stock price movement.
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Genetically Modified Mosquitoes Are Breeding in Brazil, Not According to Plan(gizmodo.com)
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by _red 7y ago
Strange that they haven't considered chemical reasons: Males have more iron / more hemoglobin...perhaps male bones are just more likely to fossilize for some chemical reason(s)?
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by _red 7y ago
Well, Brave started from nothing and seems to be growing. I use it now on all my devices and really like it as a daily driver. Had Brendan been able to try these ideas with the firefox userbase it could've advanced the privacy conversa
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by _red 7y ago
One of the hallmarks of a collapsing society is that "everything becomes a political statement". The newspaper you read is a political choice, as does the sneakers you wear, and where you eat for lunch.
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by _red 7y ago
As Harvard Professor Robert Putnam has pointed out: One of the effects of "increased diversity" is that there is a shift away from being a high-trust society. This causes, among other things, increased isolation and social diseng
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by _red 7y ago
1. sign up for new phone at heavily subsidized rate in exchange for 3 yr service 2. after month 1 cancel service / credit card 3. sell unlocked phone on ebay
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by _red 7y ago
Electric cars are really fun to drive from a sports perspective, its just a shame they have such huge carbon footprints. Singapore, who has some of best pollution regulations of any modern state, has rated electric cars as "super pollu
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by _red 7y ago
Out of interest, are apps that help you break the law against iOS App Store guidelines?
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by _red 7y ago
Dont the chinese own grindr now? is it fully legal to use in china?
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by _red 7y ago
What you said is true, but Project DragonFly is a real thing and its quite likely DragonFly has state-sponsored spies working on it. (Possibly without google's knowledge)
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by _red 7y ago
There is a certain disconnect between "warning about antibiotic overuse" and ignoring that the same selection pressures are exerted by vaccine use.
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by _red 7y ago
The unspoken tragedy of this is how the IRS limits for "wealthy" were developed in 1913 when $250K as upper-limit was equivalent of several million dollars now. They seem to have zero interest in re-calibrating those high brackets
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by _red 7y ago
I really want Walmart to succeed in online delivery because I don't want Amazon to gobble everything. Recently, I was shopping for a media entertainment cabinet. Its for our upstairs media room, so I wasn't super concerned about i
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by _red 7y ago
I think this is conflating factual and rational. They are not mutually inclusive. Although its a book on economics, Von Mesis's "Human Action" premise is that all human activity is necessarily 'rational' from the vi
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by _red 7y ago
Totally agree that it will be a hardship. However the following things are all true: (a) There is a chance that "carbon taxes" will lead to just as much practical hardship on the poor, (b) There is no guarantee that these carbon t
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by _red 7y ago
+2.5C increase will render earth uninhabitable? Or will it upset insurance coverage of high dollar coast lines?
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by _red 7y ago
Can elaborate more on the practical benefits of encrypted memory? Presumably this is mainly good for multi-user systems? On the average single-user system it seems that if you can already read memory there are 1000 other possible exploits t
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by _red 7y ago
Because the vast majority of the earths history has been without ice on the poles. Obviously this will force changes on humans no doubt. However, trying to shoehorn this natural fact into a political / carbon-credit trading scheme is d
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by _red 7y ago
Define "immigration". One of the problems that smart, educated, intern-level immigrants have is they are getting caught in the crossfire of millions of uneducated day-laborers streaming over the border. We should have increased im
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by _red 7y ago
You can bet the big-tech companies are the ones suggesting what a great idea this is to government officials (ie. Regulatory Capture). It wouldn't surprise me that if in 10 years we all will need to have a minimal social presence to do
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by _red 7y ago
>conflate socioeconomic factors with race Not sure what you mean. Please elaborate your thoughts... > and be unconstitutional Guess what else is unconstitutional? Surely you must realize that the practical way forward with gun control
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by _red 7y ago
Would you support a targeted form of gun control? For instance, if statistically it could be shown that 13% of the population were responsible for >50% of all gun crimes, wouldn't it make sense to focus on removing access to guns on
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by _red 7y ago
I would imagine that in the future video encoders will start to automatically include a cryptographic signature every X frames, which then players will become aware of and show an indicator for "original / modified" content.
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by _red 7y ago
A hypothetical: You are driving your car and see that the pickup truck in front of you has an empty cardboard box in it (you can tell its empty by the way its floating around in bed of truck). Suddenly a gust of win picks up the box and it
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by _red 7y ago
No one ever talks about eBay anymore....but when are we going to collectively realize that they are the best of the "big tech" companies? They've stayed remarkable true to their mission, haven't entered politics (ironic
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by _red 7y ago
But doesn't FB use the existence of said profiles as a lure for advertisers? (eg. Your ad could reach any of our 1B members...) Seems like a class-action lawsuit in the making.
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by _red 7y ago
This probably has a large amount of 'survivorship bias' embedded in it (no pun intended). People who are frantic, time-critical, but not immediate life-threatening situations probably grab their bag (ie. the landing gear on plane

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