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by adolph 2mo ago
I think the reasoning is similar to why Amazon notification emails are very generic: user data is used for various purposes that a growing number of users and 3rd parties have concerns about. In addition to on-device, Apple is making effort
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by adolph 3mo ago
Failures also have lots of valuable information. There was a recent Complex Systems podcast about efforts to glean pharma trials. https://www.complexsystemspodcast.com/episodes/ruxandra-tesl...
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by adolph 3mo ago
Its amazing to see this beast and think that all the firey stuff isn't the primary energy source (although totally necessary to pushing the mass out the back fast enough). The reason it’s very small is that almost all of the energy
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by adolph 3mo ago
It might be helpful to describe gravitational relationships with human generational terms of parent-child, grandparent-grandchild, sibling, cousin, etc. So the Sun is the Moon's gravitational grandparent and Jupyter is its parent-sibli
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by adolph 3mo ago
My lay person understanding is that supplemental creatine screws with a common lab test to screen for kidney problems. Let your physician know if you are taking any supplements so they can interpret your lab test results appropriately or or
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by adolph 3mo ago
> Do you have any aircraft on mind that can unfold its wing while flying? XB-70 Valkyrie
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by adolph 3mo ago
Yeah, this is the first place my mind went with it. Aside from gate size category, folding wings could tighten up an overall airport like an aircraft carrier. Return to human-scale non-suburban airports (rip Mueller, Meigs et al). The secon
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by adolph 3mo ago
As well as find has an -exec param to perform things one at a time or all with the same command by using a slash semicolon or a plus sign respectively: #order files from different levels in a file hierarchy by size: find . -type f -ma
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by adolph 3mo ago
find print0 with xargs 0 is such an awesome combination. One day I'll remember to use it instead of piping into while read ln; do ...
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by adolph 3mo ago
Out of the gate, Canada and the US share 1 as country code and includes entities that aren't countries like Globalstar (Mobile Satellite Service): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_telephone_country_code...
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by adolph 3mo ago
Her family had been in Egypt for 250 years, that's a long time for genetic admixture. Otoh, Continuing the tradition established by previous Egyptian dynasties, the Ptolemies engaged in inbreeding including sibling marriage, with many
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by adolph 3mo ago
This is something I wasn't aware of that is fascinating. The ph balance of the rebar's environment determines the progression of oxidation. There was a guy in the 1920's who observed this and had the idea to put cement in pai
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by adolph 3mo ago
> installed under some works dept land/pole/utility access permits Another option might be right of way or easement permitting, similar to how utility poles and such are regulated as private property with an allowance to be in
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by adolph 3mo ago
> So these are only being used on active calls. I see your distinction better now. The Reynolds essay speaks a little more to the issue at hand. Essentially the technology allows for scope creep. Previously the limiting factor for physic
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by adolph 3mo ago
'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy In this short essay, written for a symposium in the San Diego Law Review, Professor Daniel Solove examines the nothing to hide argument. When asked about gove
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by adolph 3mo ago
Here is a RadioLab podcast [0] about the system from company Persistent Surveillance Systems [1]. An interesting dimension to systems similar to the US military's Gorgon Stare [2] program is that they are generalized rather than specif
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by adolph 3mo ago
Is that a limitation of the antenna? I though QuadRF uses SDR so can see many frequencies, not just the wifi things like ESPARGOS [0] From documentation, QuadRF: Operating frequency range of 4.9 - 6.0 GHz (C-Band). 0. https://esp
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by adolph 3mo ago
Maintenance isn't cost-free. As an example, the operating system and other software dependencies of the game depends will eventually be depreciated and not supported. If a security vulnerability is discovered in software still availabl
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by adolph 3mo ago
This isn't surprising given how different businesses may value a payment against an ongoing obligation to customers. @patio11 had a good podcast about this "Cash received is not revenue earned" last April. What the GoDadd
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by adolph 3mo ago
Using the infinitive rather than gerund form of a verb to reference a an instance is a common pattern. "I went for a walk," instead of "I was walking." I think it is interesting to attempt understanding people's cho
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by adolph 3mo ago
That makes more sense. How could a library or a bookshop in a location legally offer books that are banned in that location?
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by adolph 3mo ago
Isn’t that already the case, yet some amount of store theft still occurs? It could be there is a base rate of people who don’t know yet and thus a natural rate would be higher if remote locking wasn’t a thing. https://xkcd.com&#x
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by adolph 3mo ago
I think that "en-GB" is not sufficiently descriptive. There are 160 dialects of English [0]. Within the island of Great Britain there are three historic countries with distinctive usages of language: England, Wales, and Scotland.
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by adolph 3mo ago
> German portmanteau word "Zensurheberrecht" ("Zensur": censorship; "Urheberrecht": the related concept to copyright in German law) The recent podcast about Machiavelli by Dwarkesh had an interesting part ab
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by adolph 4mo ago
This brings to mind the wonderful Econtalk episode about Bruno Leoni [0]. The beginning of the podcast describes his untimely passing, which almost seems a Cohen brothers movie plot. So, we pore over Supreme Court cases on the First Ame
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by adolph 4mo ago
As I understand it, the dynamics are similar to generic drugs where there is a large capital hurdle to new production facilities and a likelihood that prices will soon drop to a point that a new facility will lose money. https://
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by adolph 4mo ago
My response was to your thesis: "whenever I see announcements about OCR it feels like this should be a solved problem if it’s been accomplished at the scale of USPS for many years." I think the USPS has "solved" much of
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by adolph 4mo ago
How is my French descent real life human name at all relevant? Yeah, I've gotten it from people with minds like your's for a long time, continually since grade school. Your comment illuminates more about you and your fellow notice
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by adolph 4mo ago
From what I recall (the article is register-walled now), the document had twitter handles and public statements. Did the article specify they gathered nonpublic information?
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by adolph 4mo ago
Ok, name the ethic or ethics being violated by the behavior described in the article.

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