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by beloch 5mo ago
You can argue these exhaustively . They have not done that here. Some of their arguments are complete bunk. e.g. "Quantum key distribution requires special purpose equipment" Yes, it requires special equipment. That hasn'
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by beloch 5mo ago
Two points: 1. There is a strong anti-QKD bias on HN or, at least, a very vocal few who reliably heckle anyone who discusses it. I get shouted at if I even mention it, and will likely get shouted at for saying this. 2. Should you trust t
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by beloch 6mo ago
How much time you spend on something has become a metric of success in both gaming and social media. I occasionally play a perpetually-in-alpha AAA+ game (I won't name it to avoid the flames) that recently asked users to fill out a que
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by beloch 6mo ago
Did this pass peer review somewhere?
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by beloch 6mo ago
The most important thing to realize about cryptography is that, for most methods short of a Vernam cipher or quantum key distribution, coded messages need to be treated as published with delay . Cipher text can be archived today and attac
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by beloch 6mo ago
It's a chicken and egg problem. Without users, a new social platform lacks content, so it can't attract users. Unless something decidedly new and compelling comes along, users will probably stick with what they know... unless s
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by beloch 6mo ago
Logs of location data on people are already worth real money. The FBI has admitted to buying it. The companies that do age verification will absolutely be selling that data unless there are severe penalties for doing so, and what are the
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by beloch 6mo ago
At least they didn't go with "AI Veganism". It might be better to shoot for terms that have more positive associations. e.g. Someone might claim to be a fan of "soul code" (i.e. Code made by people with souls and n
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by beloch 6mo ago
The following phases are likely: 1. Build-out and Competition: (current phase) Multiple AI companies write down massive debt while building data centres and offering sweetheart deals to customers in an attempt to dominate the market. The f
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by beloch 6mo ago
I got a bluetooth Majestouch sometime a decade or so ago and it's been a daily driver ever since. At the time, there weren't a lot of bluetooth mechanical keyboards out there. The bluetooth bit can be a little bit picky or slow
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by beloch 6mo ago
"Even the gravity on Venus (0.91g) is homelike, which means that airship habitats, sensors, smoke detectors, toilets, and all the rest can be developed on Earth instead of forcing us to build a space station that can simulate Martian g
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by beloch 6mo ago
"Downtime — the thing that actually costs a farmer money during planting or harvest — shrinks dramatically when you don’t need a factory technician with a laptop to diagnose a fuel delivery problem." --------------- Tractors aren&
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by beloch 6mo ago
For those saying that this is fine because company computers are company property... This is like going to work in a drug-lab where everyone is required to strip naked to ensure no "product" can be smuggled out. It's a zero
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by beloch 6mo ago
This is what I don't understand as a non-American. Why is this creeping corruption not opposed? What happened to, "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance"? A CBC political commentator recently said, "America is not
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by beloch 6mo ago
If every employee at a corporation has the right to free speech and to make political donations, why should the corporation itself have need of such rights? Just because big money won in 2010 doesn't mean the ruling should go unchalle
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by beloch 6mo ago
This is what happens when you allow money to influence power without check. What can be done to curtail it? Ban corporate donations to political parties and PACs. Limit personal contributions. Implement campaign spending limits so partie
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by beloch 6mo ago
There's an interesting race happening here. On one side, there is the usual process of figuring out how to properly use this new tech. It is to be expected that some experimentation is necessary to figure out what applications AI boos
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by beloch 6mo ago
The DNA of humans and chimps is 98.8% identical. The percent difference between genomes of species is one of those tricky measures that doesn't really give good intuition. I find it much more useful to think in terms of the time since
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by beloch 6mo ago
Rent seeking is for those who already have capital and can use it to influence those with political power. "Passive income" is for those who don't own capital. One works. The other... often not.
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by beloch 6mo ago
Let's just say the "artist" was never again going to be able to walk normally, wear normal pants, or sit without a doughnut pillow. It was a voluntary disability.
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by beloch 6mo ago
I once saw an interview with a guy who was into extreme body modification of an unprintable and life-altering nature. He said something to the effect of, "I like challenging people's conception of what humans are." I transla
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by beloch 6mo ago
For the Canadians sitting at home, tut tutting more American foolishness that could never happen up here... Flock started their expansion into Ontario this very month[1]. We should probably oppose this. _________ [1] https://www.
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by beloch 6mo ago
"There is a final irony that deserves attention. If the doomers truly hold their stated beliefs at their stated confidence levels, they should be more honest about what those beliefs imply. A few weeks before the attack, a journalist a
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by beloch 6mo ago
Apple moved the Ctrl key around at least a couple times. On the Apple II it was next to the A key, the same as it was on the Xerox Star. The CMD key was a later addition. At this point, I'd say let history be history. It'd be b
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by beloch 6mo ago
The solution to this kind of problem is standards. For most of the history of computation, things were moving too fast for anyone to really worry about standardization. Computing environments were also somewhat Balkanized. Standard keyboa
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by beloch 6mo ago
When a regime starts killing thousands of it's own people it's a sign of weakness, not strength. Iran's theocracy was teetering above the abyss before the U.S. started bombing them. Now, they're probably good to go for
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by beloch 6mo ago
“The bad news is that we have not reached an agreement, and I think that’s bad news for Iran much more than it’s bad news for the United States of America,” Vance said. “So we go back to the United States having not come to an agreement. We
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by beloch 6mo ago
Crypto-miners are switching to AI token farming when bitcoin is low. They have compute that's both installed and powered, so why not do what pays better?
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by beloch 6mo ago
There are plenty of laptops out there that have square edges on the user-facing edge. However, most are tapered and/or have hinge designs that tilt the laptop surface towards the user, dropping that square edge away from the user&#x27
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by beloch 6mo ago
"The third factor was the deaths of 25 chimpanzees, including four adult males and 10 adult females, as a result of a respiratory epidemic, in 2017, a year before the final separation. One of the adult males who died was "among th

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