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by b800h 3y ago
Yes, agree. Reaching for possibles, though. This is such a world-changing discovery that I'm trying to curb my enthusiasm, which is lifting off.
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by b800h 3y ago
It's difficult to understand the full context. For all we know this is some sort of maverick with a Weibo channel (or whatever) to promote. But I think we'd know that by now? No idea.
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by b800h 3y ago
Currently the replications look less professional than the (one) failure to reproduce. The next couple of days will be a rollercoaster.
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Huazhong University demonstrates LK-99 diamagnetism(twitter.com)
593 points by b800h 3y ago|285 comments
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by b800h 3y ago
It specifies "the Internet" and doesn't seem to define the term.
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by b800h 3y ago
Absolutely not true historically. We were brilliant in the early 80s, largely thanks to Mrs. Thatcher.
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by b800h 3y ago
It matters if you're in the UK and you're a tech hobbyist.
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by b800h 3y ago
Yeah agree about point to point services. Email and SMS and voice. What I don't see is the bit where it says that the audit responsibilities are limited to certain people or companies. If you could point to the "reasonable and pro
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by b800h 3y ago
That's not my understanding of the legislation. I see no exemptions from the child access provisions. The criterion is "any site with a significant number of child users" or where additionally OFCOM decides to intervene, a
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by b800h 3y ago
It's important to distinguish this from the encryption provisions of the bill. This part of the bill is distinct and means that social sites will need to verify ages of users and fill in lots of forms while they're at it.
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by b800h 3y ago
Should add MUDs, website guestbooks?
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by b800h 3y ago
Very useful, thanks.
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by b800h 3y ago
The bill itself doesn't appear to exempt anyone. From Taylor Wessing: "[following amendments] The OSB continues to apply to any service that enables content generated, uploaded or shared by one user to be encountered by another us
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by b800h 3y ago
Good point. Done.
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by b800h 3y ago
Interestingly, if you run a BBS through the telephone system, you'll be immune, as the bill specifies "the Internet", but: 1. I think the lines have jitter now they're over IP anyhow. 2. Bit niche...
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by b800h 3y ago
Good shout, I'll try to squeeze in something within the character limit.
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Ask HN: Online activities to be made impossible by the UK Online Safety Bill
195 points by b800h 3y ago|105 comments
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by b800h 3y ago
True within limits!
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by b800h 3y ago
No, you're supposed to go to X and search on there. And consume ads.
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by b800h 3y ago
They'll need to create some sort of reputation system to make it work. Alternatively, move back to typewriters and not publishing online. AI reversing the internet again.
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by b800h 3y ago
Honestly at this point I'd be unsurprised if the Forbes article about the trick was written by AI as well.
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by b800h 3y ago
A random online dictionary says it means "(fully or partially) covered with water" and I hereby declare that this means that only singular water molecules are not wet.
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by b800h 3y ago
But can water make water wet?
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by b800h 3y ago
Some people would just be in favour of the rights of parents to eductate their children however they like...
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by b800h 3y ago
Yes, as per Harrison Bergeron, as mentioned elsewhere in these comments.
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by b800h 3y ago
Bit of a weird position to take that you're in favour of schools doing indoctrination, just as long as it's away from the viewpoint you don't like. That's pretty authoritarian; seems to be on the rise these days.
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by b800h 3y ago
I'm generally very positive about science and engineering, but I'm completely sick and tired of its use in dehumanising technologies. We need to be a lot more savvy about what we consider acceptable, and politics will have to chan
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by b800h 3y ago
This is one of the ontological arguments for the existence of God. Any intelligible first cause must have a prior cause. Therefore the first cause is unintelligible. The thing which caused the universe is beyond our understanding.
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by b800h 3y ago
It's a bit more complicated than that. Imagine playing a game of Minecraft where the game was constantly being updated to help you get the most out of it, and where you experienced something much deeper as a result of engaging in that
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by b800h 3y ago
> doesn't imply that there has to be some great power that created it Ah but it does! There's lots of modern apologetics around this, not in the least the Kalaam argument, which go into it.

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