betterunix2

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by betterunix2 5y ago
Pretty sure he meant carbon emissions, but technically you are correct, "steel" is a mixture of iron and a relatively small amount of carbon. As far as I know (but I am not an expert) there are not many applications for elemental
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by betterunix2 5y ago
It is still more dangerous than the other endemic coronaviruses that cause the common cold. In general the selection pressure on viruses (and other parasites) is to be less disruptive to the lives of their hosts -- not just being less dead
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by betterunix2 5y ago
Ebola is not endemic to humans. It is not lethal to the bat species in which it is endemic.
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by betterunix2 5y ago
At this point that is the best case. COVID zero is a pipe dream, there are just too many vaccine refusers and too many people refusing to do anything to avoid spreading the virus. If COVID follows the typical evolutionary pattern of virus
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by betterunix2 5y ago
Yet it is predominantly the unvaccinated who are overwhelming hospitals with more severe cases. In NYC it is something like 15x difference -- 30 per 100000 unvaccinated versus 2 per 100000 vaccinated people wind up requiring hospital care.
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by betterunix2 5y ago
Yet the unvaccinated are still overwhelmingly more likely to wind up requiring hospital care than the vaccinated.
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by betterunix2 5y ago
Not very hard to find the current, best understanding of the phenomenon: https://www.ninds.nih.gov/Current-Research/Coronavirus-and-N...
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by betterunix2 5y ago
"there are no clean non ZK mechanisms to prove your solution outside of sharing the solution itself" This is not entirely true. Witness hiding proofs are not zero knowledge (no simulator) but also do not reveal the solution. It
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by betterunix2 5y ago
"If the technology delivers value" The technology does not deliver value for users. It has always been intended to benefit Microsoft and their media partners, with a bit of window-dressing meant to trick users into believing that
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by betterunix2 5y ago
The Internet is not much older; it is reasonable to say that the Internet started in 1982 when TCP/IP was first standardized, though some would say that the Internet started a few years later with the creation of NSFNet and its inter
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by betterunix2 5y ago
"A security processor that guarantees safety for critical data is a good piece of hardware for those that require such functionality" I am not the first to point out that malware writers are a big beneficiary of such features --
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by betterunix2 5y ago
"I think it's the point that trusted computing is optional" It is optional the way the Internet is optional; in theory you can live without it but no longer practical. If companies keep pushing these systems, eventually they
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by betterunix2 5y ago
"Suburbanites shouldn't have to pay for city subway and potholes." Then city residents shouldn't have to pay for the roads that make car-centric suburbs possible or the various subsidies given to rural residents. Honest
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by betterunix2 5y ago
As expected, since the confidence level is determined by the number of times the protocol is executed, not which edges are chosen. Each time you select an edge you are opening a brand new commitment to the (claimed) coloring of the graph,
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by betterunix2 5y ago
Where are the search trees, heaps/priority queues, deques, and so forth in the Common Lisp standard? There are arrays, lists, associative lists, and hash tables, and a few scattered functions for manipulating trees of cons cells. Bey
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by betterunix2 5y ago
George Hotz (geohot) was a teenager when he cracked the iPhone and was 20 when he cracked the PS3. So...yes, young adults certainly can extract keys if they have the time and motivation, and being young adults they often have plenty of tim
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by betterunix2 5y ago
A chain of first/second/rest/nth is also unreadable, as is the equivalent using plain car/cdr. Lists should not be used as a substitute for defining a structure with properly named slots. I am a big fan of Lisp but it i
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by betterunix2 5y ago
"my Holy Book is the only religious authority" Sounds like idolatry to me -- sounds like you are taking a book, written, edited, and organized by human beings, and equating it with God.
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by betterunix2 5y ago
People who read the bible without any religious context, as if it was just a book, will almost certainly see only a disjointed and contradictory collection of ancient stories and writings. Without any religious context that is all the bibl
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by betterunix2 5y ago
There is something amusing about weaponizing the key revocation process like this...
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by betterunix2 5y ago
Note that "second" will not work as intended if you just have a pair; it access the second element of a list. I rarely find any use for anything beyond first, second, and rest; if I need to access nth elements I will likely switc
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by betterunix2 5y ago
cdaddr is an unreadable monstrosity. Keeping it around for the sake of reusing good code from decades ago is one thing, but let's not praise it for giving programmers a compact way to retrieve a nested list. It is too easy to mistake
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by betterunix2 5y ago
All translations are biased by the translator; there is no such thing as a translation that "transparently" conveys the meaning of the original. Even moreso when you are dealing with writings from an ancient culture, where much o
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by betterunix2 5y ago
Historically the square root of negative one arose more naturally than you might think; it is basically impossible to avoid it when you derive a cubic formula. Historically the work on complex numbers started as soon as cubic and quartic f
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by betterunix2 5y ago
Some do, like the word "cat," which does (more or less) correspond to a monophyletic group, Felidae.
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by betterunix2 5y ago
It will have no impact on morality because few people actually derive their morals from a religion, even if they claim to. Religions contextualize and validate morals that adherents hold regardless of their active participation, and some r
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by betterunix2 5y ago
I would suggest that it may be more related to the declining birthrate. Having just had a second child, I can say that kids have made me more active in my local religious institution, and I have observed the same among other friends with
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by betterunix2 5y ago
I think it is better to speak of uniquely Neanderthal genes. Our genome must have been almost identical to the Neanderthal genome, given that interbreeding was both possible and that the hybrid offspring remained fertile. So it is likel
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by betterunix2 5y ago
On some level, yes: we can generally distinguish human faces from chimpanzee, gorilla, and other primate faces. In general, though, our facial recognition has some quirks that make more fine-grained identification of relatedness hard. Fo
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by betterunix2 5y ago
Global outages or reductions in service quality are very rare these days. Regional outages happen from time to time but are not very common. Local outages are frequent, but irrelevant -- the Internet is meant to be resilient to local outa

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