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by chithanh 6y ago
> But my general point still stands, COVID is far, far more dangerous than the vaccine. It is worth breaking that down by age, sex, and other risk factors. For an 80 year old male obese smoker, who lives in a country with high COVID-19 r
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by chithanh 6y ago
That is not entirely correct. Schmieden and Laugwitz for example developed in the 1950s a nonstandard Analysis which adjoins an infinitely large element (called Ω) to the natural numbers. The basic idea was a formula A(Ω) was true if A(n) w
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by chithanh 6y ago
Given how malware has been demonstrated that infiltrates the Intel ME firmware, reads main memory and covertly exfiltrates data (through introducing packet jitter), I think it is safe to assume that Intel has the same abilities. https:&#x2
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by chithanh 6y ago
Signal can at least in principle censor user content, because they control both server and clients. (And they do, for example you can "delete" your messages that are stored on other clients.) With Matrix you have the choice to use
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Hoeg Law: Ironic YouTube Censors Our Legal Video on Tech Censorship(youtube.com)
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by chithanh 6y ago
> Same thing is going on with Germany’s car industry at the moment with the attempted shift from ICE’s to Electric, I call that BS. The market was shifting to Android. Industry veterans like Jean-Louis Gassée wrote that during OPK era, h
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by chithanh 6y ago
> I think the people who ultimately led to Nokias downfall worked at 1 Infinite Loop where the iPhone was developed. I always found those reports about the iPhone causing Nokias downfall to be not credible. Nokia's vast majority of
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by chithanh 6y ago
I disagree that caloric drinks like sugary soda (along with hyperpalatable food) are a small part of the problem. From the standpoint of public health policy, it is a good idea to introduce simple measures that are effective for 90% of the
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by chithanh 6y ago
The price of products does have an impact for shoppers. Also especially with poor people, raising prices limits the amount they can afford. "It was concluded that there is reasonable and increasing evidence that appropriately designed
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by chithanh 6y ago
The WHO found that the consumption of sugary soda declines when it is taxed[1]. > A 10% increase in the food budget of someone at or near poverty isn’t trivial. The goal is to decrease the consumption. [1] https://www.who.int&
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by chithanh 6y ago
It's not that insurmountable. Each release, large parts of the kernel get rewritten anyway. Lots of kernel code is copyrighted by companies now. So yes, it will probably take too much time and effort and give too little benefit to be
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by chithanh 6y ago
That moisture indicators are used as a way to weasel out of warranty claims is indeed common. But that was not what I was referring to. What I mean with having fewer warranty claims is that the Macbook doesn't break in the first place.
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by chithanh 6y ago
As others pointed out, that was likely intentional. Apple designed this safety mechanism into the laptop, so they would not have to deal with such warranty claims. Also the temperature change is not a problem while the laptop is non-operati
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by chithanh 6y ago
Possibly condensing water caused some transient short circuit. If your laptop survived, you were lucky.
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by chithanh 6y ago
That the laptop shuts down when below minimum operating temperature is a Good Thing™. For example, the battery performance changes greatly (reduced capacity and discharge rate), and the battery may even take permanent damage when charged at
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by chithanh 6y ago
So you need a laptop whose operating range includes 3°C. How long it is exposed to 3°C doesn't matter because components can already take damage from the very moment they are cooled below the operating range.
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by chithanh 6y ago
I think the holdup for the iMac is not the CPU, but rather Apple's discrete GPU which is not ready yet. For replacing the Xeon-W in the Mac Pro and iMac Pro, they will also need a higher performing CPU, sure.
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by chithanh 6y ago
If it is not covered by fair use, then it would be at most copyright infringement, and there the rights holders can use DMCA takedown notices. There was no necessity of Twitter to engage in pro-active censorship here. In my understanding th
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by chithanh 6y ago
Twitter and Facebook are not just any domestic firms, they do control a major part of social media. They may not have a legal responsibility to hold every post to the same standards, but if they enforce their policies selectively on politic
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by chithanh 6y ago
But now that you have legal access to the book, you can publish citations from it under fair-use doctrine.
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by chithanh 6y ago
According to Google statistics, bit flips are encountered at a rate of 8% per DIMM per year. https://research.google/pubs/pub35162/ You want ECC in your desktop if you cannot afford your data to become (silently)
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by chithanh 6y ago
I was with you until the mobo cost. Wtf, $280 for a mobo?? A totally decent B550 mobo with ECC support can be had for less than half that price. The only advantage of Intel Xeon at this point is RDIMM/LR-DIMM support on their Xeon-W p
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by chithanh 6y ago
> If there's any link between Vietnam and Rome, we'd have found traces of them along the Silk Road or maritime routes. Actually, ancient Greek and Roman artifacts have been discovered at Óc Eo in the Mekong Delta.
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by chithanh 6y ago
> The list goes on - true, most cops certainly want to be good, but there are systematic issues emporing the bad ones. No, I would say that most cops will follow whatever the culture is in their organization. If the culture is rotten, th
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by chithanh 6y ago
The Wikipedia article says how, you need a definition of real numbers that includes nonzero infinitesimals (IOW does not satisfy the Archimedian property). So let there be an ω with 0.999... = 1 - 1/ω. Then a number between 0.999... an
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by chithanh 6y ago
You are downvoted, but you are actually correct. 0.999... != 1 can be true in nonstandard analysis. So if using standard analysis over nonstandard analysis is a convention, then ultimately 0.999... = 1 is a convention too. (The Wikipedia ar
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by chithanh 7y ago
> because the local political elites enable them to be assholes FTFY
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by chithanh 7y ago
I think you might be confusing this with the 2D/3D random walk in a discrete infinite space? Poincaré recurrence is about exhausting the phase space in (discrete or continuous) bounded systems.
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by chithanh 7y ago
>> Universities should not be responsible for both education and assessment. > Easier said than done. In more niche disciplines, the only people qualified to evaluate student attainment are other academics in the same discipline. I
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by chithanh 7y ago
There exist easier targets, such as the loudspeakers which can be turned into microphones. https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/woot17/woot17...

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