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by _yb2s 2y ago
I suspect bad encryption still does exactly what they intend, because it means there is no simple one click solution built into an OS or browser to download streaming media for later watching or sharing with friends. For example, a lot of r
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by _yb2s 2y ago
How does the remote streaming server know a key is an authentic hardware GPU that hasn't been compromised, and not something you just generated in software, to enable software level decryption of the media? It seems like you'd nee
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by _yb2s 2y ago
Most people just want to be able to access media easily with no effort- which they already can do with cheap streaming subscriptions. They have no interest in owning the rights to use it forever, or in downloading or copying it. They wouldn
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by _yb2s 2y ago
There’s some technical details missing here. I get decrypting the video on a gpu makes it harder to screen capture, but can’t you just still emulate the GPU in software or directly capture the digital video output? The GPU still has no uniq
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by _yb2s 2y ago
“Normies” are never going to care about the stuff the FSF is interested in. I don’t think you can extract the philosophy from the eccentric personalities that created it, they’re one in the same.
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by _yb2s 2y ago
I’ve regularly bought and sold good running 70s/80s/early 90s Volvos and Mercedes for under $1000 (and sometimes under $100) on Craigslist and at auto auctions- close to their scrap metal value, yet these are vehicles that will la
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by _yb2s 2y ago
I think the author is right, but it presents a great opportunity for people that appreciate quality over newness. Old stuff that is good- from media to cars to clothing is practically free, and the new stuff that is garbage quite expensive.
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by _yb2s 2y ago
He only skimmed them- scientists at his level are more like a CEO than the stereotype of a scientist- with multiple large labs, startups, and speaking engagements every few days. He trusted me to make sure the papers were good- and they wer
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by _yb2s 2y ago
I am actually quite surprised Terence Tao still gets papers rejected from math journals... but appreciate him sharing this, as hearing this from him will help newer scientists not get discouraged by a rejection. I had the lucky opportunity
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by _yb2s 2y ago
excellent comment
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by _yb2s 2y ago
All/most of the US National labs are still incredibly productive at making big discoveries. I attribute it largely to the culture and organization system Ernest Lawrence set up during the Manhattan Project, which persists to this day-
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by _yb2s 2y ago
I think what makes it hard for people to notice is that sea level rise thus far is about an order of magnitude less than tidal range. Same with climate change- it’s warmer on average but the difference is mostly unnoticeable compared to nat
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by _yb2s 2y ago
From firsthand experience, this simply cannot be true. I can give them totally novel and unique physics problems I just made up- that requires tracking the movement of objects through a series of events, and it answers most correctly. Moreo
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by _yb2s 2y ago
You don't now either.... I'm an academic scientist and more than a few times I have looked up the CVs of well respected researchers whose work I really admired, and was shocked to discover they had no PhD, yet were still in a perm
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by _yb2s 2y ago
“woke” the adjective not the past tense verb. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/woke For clarity, my suggestion was also sarcastic.
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by _yb2s 2y ago
“When I say no I feel guilty” which is about assertive communication, which is essentially the opposite of emotionally manipulative communication. Also the blogger “The Last Psychiatrist” has good information on Narcissism.
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by _yb2s 2y ago
I think our culture needs some general awareness and “antibodies” against Narcissism, and emotional manipulation in general. People seem generally unaware of, and as a result easily manipulated and controlled by people with these behaviors.
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by _yb2s 2y ago
Most such things are more about insider cultural knowledge than actual money. Most “upper class” activities and styles can be done cheap or free, but you need to know how.
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by _yb2s 2y ago
> I'm the opposite of woke English already has a word for that- asleep
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by _yb2s 2y ago
True, in addition to things like diatoms making silicon structures, magnetotactic bacteria make iron containing metallic structures to detect magnetic fields. It is in principle possible to both recycle and manufacture metal and silicon obj
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by _yb2s 2y ago
Happy to provide citations, but I think more explanation is in order. The stuff we currently make from metals and petroleum are not optimal, they are just whatever we could easily make from those things we could find historically. With prec
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by _yb2s 2y ago
A lot of people I think mistakenly assume technology, capitalism, etc. are fundamentally evil because they’ve been used to do awful things… but they are just amoral powerful tools. One needs to have a sense of ethics, quality, and responsib
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by _yb2s 2y ago
> We need a way to disable vehicle telemetry It should have a standard UI for doing so, but if you are technically inclined it is usually trivial to do- pulling a fuse, or changing a setting over the OBD port. However, you will lose usef
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by _yb2s 2y ago
Not surprised- VWs CarNet app for interacting with the car is the single worst software I have ever used… I would literally believe that their entire software engineering team consists of a single 11 year old with 2 weeks of coding experien
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by _yb2s 2y ago
I really like the Amish approach to technology, but don't think most people are aware of the nuance: they aren't against technology, but critically evaluate the net benefit, and adopt it if it seems like a benefit to them, not jus
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by _yb2s 2y ago
I sympathize with you and feel as Thoreau said that "men have become the tools of their tools." I care deeply about the natural environment, and find most modern technology dehumanizing. I enjoy simple living and spend most of my
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by _yb2s 2y ago
> Primarily because technology always requires physical resources (mining) and habitat destruction There is no fundamental reason to require such things. As Fuller said, the goal of technology is to “do more and more with less and less u
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by _yb2s 2y ago
I’m not talking about technology, I’m talking about having an understanding of how reality works. I fully agree with you that one should have a sense of ethics and use the precautionary principle when deciding what to do with that knowledge
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by _yb2s 2y ago
> How in the name of sweet balrog did a genetic process get called sonic hedgehog? Researchers that discover things can name it wherever they want. This family of genes are all named after hedgehogs because it makes fruit fly embryos spi
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by _yb2s 2y ago
> The production of truth in an industrialized fashion is boring. Chess is a game, if it gets boring that defeats the point…. Math on the other hand is basic science research, and enables us to understand how the universe and our bodies

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