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arbol
4y ago
We're working on a distributed, privacy-focused captcha system at prosopo. captcha are served by a network of providers so there's no central data store. We're going live this quarter and you can sign up for updates on https
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arbol
4y ago
It's a great title
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arbol
4y ago
The study would be more interesting than a fox news vox pop.
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4y ago
Maybe this is ok. The reputation of the account is still at stake and the friend may have trusted you with their private keys so that you can give taxi rides and increase the overall account reputation. If the private keys were stolen then
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4y ago
The current system expects people to jump into any car with a driver who claims to be the registered driver of said car. > who claims to own blockchain address X Ownership of a blockchain address can be proven with a signature. In the cu
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4y ago
Very nice. Do you have plans to extend this to meronyms etc?
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> If I (a trusted third party) maintained a giant public database that anybody could append to You're opening yourself up to equivalent of DDoS for databases. Add extra maintainers for redundancy and economically incentivise people
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4y ago
> I have spent years having to endure the horseshit from places like Theranos You don't need to read the articles. Your sense of mistreatment seems out of proportion.
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How exactly have you had to endure anything from these companies other than voluntarily reading about them?
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4y ago
But is writing this any faster than python and beautiful soup?
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Mockingbird Is Shutting Down
(gomockingbird.com)
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Email received below: It’s Jeremy, from Mockingbird. I am sorry to write this (and I realize that it might make some of you sad, too), but Mockingbird will be shutting down at the end of April 2023. Aside from a few support emails and chat
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4y ago
This is a great point. To build an application on the current web, you're usually using a third party's data (e.g. Twitter) and you're relying on them to make sure its correct, available, and perhaps even for authorisation. W
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4y ago
Nice, thx
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4y ago
Now we just need an Android version of this!
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Thanks, I might try to get this working with picroft
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Yeah, but this is the closed source Apple implementation of speech to text versus Mozilla's abandoned deepspeech. I'm sure its possible to get it working well on a pi but I don't have the time to create and maintain a persona
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4y ago
The restrictions on creating art are the product of the society you live in, which means they are the product of capitalism if you live in a capitalist society. The way society is organised determines the cost of people's time, the cos
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The pi isn't really fast enough to process the speech in real time. deepspeech by mozilla was cited as an offline alternative to the Google speech API but it's difficult to set up with Mycroft and doesn't work very well (lack
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4y ago
Trading what?
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> The details were made public on October 6 through a court filing that detailed the customers who fell victim. https://criptokio.com/en/altcoins-en/celsius-net-worth/
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I'm pretty sure mycroft sends your speech snippets to Google for processing so it's not exactly offline. https://mycroft-ai.gitbook.io/docs/using-mycroft-ai/customiz... I'm currently trying to setup
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4y ago
Any chance of this making GitHub copilot cheaper?
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> and added features to assist that on purpose Unless the service was redeployed (unlikely) or operating behind a proxy contract, it wouldn't have been possible to add new features.
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Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan https://m.youtube.com/channel/UC-AQKm7HUNMmxjdS371MSwg
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Fair cancer impact comparisons. But the point was that increased sunshine can reduce cardiovascular issues so you'd need to look at incidents and impact for heart attack, stroke, etc.
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"...skin cancer kills surprisingly few people: less than 3 per 100,000 in the U.S. each year. For every person who dies of skin cancer, more than 100 die from cardiovascular diseases." Personally, I'm from the UK and don'
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Perhaps I should've mentioned that this quote was taken from a research publication. "In a 2016 study published in the Journal of Internal Medicine, Lindqvist’s team put it in perspective: “Avoidance of sun exposure is a risk fact
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There are a whole host of benefits associated with sun exposure that are reduced by wearing sunscreen. “Avoidance of sun exposure is a risk factor of a similar magnitude as smoking, in terms of life expectancy.” https://www.outsi
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Not directly answering your question but related: "early sunscreen formulations were disastrous, shielding users from the UVB rays that cause sunburn but not the UVA rays that cause skin cancer. Even today, SPF ratings refer only to UV
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