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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> Google's messaging app mess I'm reminded of the classic headline from 2018: "Google to simplify messaging strategy, will support only five messaging apps". https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018&#
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> This problem is much worse for "open" systems in which the protocols are public or in which the clients are open source because in those systems anyone can build their own client that interoperates with the system but doesn&#
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I'm reminded of the Church–Turing–Deutsch principle[0] which states that a universal computing device can simulate every physical process. Putting that another way, I think it means that anything that can happen in the universe can be
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
I think that as well as having something like Crev for distributed code reviews / audits, it makes sense to have some sort of Web Of Trust system for letting entities say who they trust (and how much they trust them). There's a bi
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> whereas a human can take arbitrary time to think, Are you saying that GPT-6 would be less intelligent than a human, because we could give it an arbitrary deadline within which to answer the question, while not restricting a human that
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> No amount of solar/wind farms will make sun shine in Europe at night Wind farms don't need to make the sun shine at night, they just need to make the wind blow at night. So far they have managed to achieve that quite well. M
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> The discussion needs to be about gigajoules per hectare Remember that for nuclear you have to factor in the size of the potential nuclear exclusion zone, which was 4,143 square km for Chernobyl and up to 807 square km for Fukushima. h
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I'm glad that you were emotionally attached to your child when they were 12 months old, and that is completely normal. I apologise if I gave the impression that I thought parents would find it easy to lose a child at that age. The poi
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> I'd certainly prefer to have never been born. What if your parents found out when you were 12 months old? Would you wish that they had euthanised you at that age, before you were really self-aware, and before they got too emotion
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A helpful way to think about security is with a threat model, where you consider who the threat actors are, what they're trying to achieve, and what their resources are. Your aim shouldn't be perfect security, but just security wh
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Forgive me if my statistic caused the topic to stray away from the issue of teacher safety. The recent tragedy in Uvalde did involve the deaths of more students than teachers, which I assume is typical for such events, but on the other han
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You'll be relieved to hear that those models already have censorship engines built in to try to prevent them generating problematic content.
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> The game in question is a PC-8800 series title called 3156 Coro Coro, which is pronounced saikoro koro koro in Japanese, and means “rolling dice.” This is a numeric pun[0] based on the readings: 3 sa (short for "san")
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Now this just needs to be integrated with DALL-E/Imagen and GPT-3 (plus a text to speech engine), to create an offline version of YouTube.
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I mean, you're right; someone making that list might not think to include "centaur", and maybe one Halloween a child is dressed up as one, and the computer vision system interprets the "centaur" as a horse instead o
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For comparison, the Washington Post[0] says: "The Education Department reports that roughly 50 million children attend public schools for roughly 180 days per year. ... That means the statistical likelihood of any given public school s
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Yes, with nuclear energy, we'll be able to provide for humanity's needs until the global population is back down below 7 billion, which, if things go well, could be reached about 100 years from now, and, if things go badly, could
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
This is an incredible development, but the real test will be what scale they actually manage. On that note: > Walmart announced an expansion to its DroneUp program, which it claims will provide the potential to reach four million US hou
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It may seem strange to some that the wrath is targeted at those who "destroy the earth", when Revelation is full of visions of angels doing fairly destructive things to the earth, but I think the traditional understanding is tha
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> “We’re developing, through technology, an ability for consumers to measure their whole carbon footprint,” said J. Michael Evans, president of Alibaba Group USA, on a panel on responsible consumption. “What does that mean? Where they a
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Alibaba executive draws scorn for proposed individual carbon tracker(marketwatch.com)
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I see what you're saying (and the statistic has other problems, for example not measuring break-ins that were unsuccessful or not attempted because of the gun) but not everyone may be as responsible as you. So, it can still be a net be
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Climate change is definitely a cause for concern, but the world is doing more and more to solve it (albeit it not quickly enough to prevent large numbers of unnecessary fatalities throughout this century). As for violence, it's worth n
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There must be a lot of statistical noise in the climate system and political systems, but maybe there is enough data now to find the signal within that connects the two. I think that one particular risk that needs to be thought about specif
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> my dad kept a loaded handgun in his nightstand as of a few years ago due to very overblown fears of a home invasion. As you might guess, the statistics do not support his decision: "Guns kept in homes are more likely to be involve
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> The web killed the internet. This is an under-appreciated observation, and adds useful context to a lot of the other answers given here. > I wouldn't be surprised if http came for smtp next. I hate to be the one to tell you, b
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Do we want policy decisions to be influenced by which side can produce the most emotive imagery, though? This is just "think of the children" with more steps. For example, if you're going to highlight the scenes from inside
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> the actual problem: Male Violence. Do other countries with lower rates of gun violence (per capita) have fewer men (per capita)?
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> the actual cause of the violence (a person) Are you saying that other countries with less gun violence per capita just have better people?
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Having to invoke emergency powers, when other similarly-affected countries don't resort to that, should be seen as an admission that the government has failed to correctly prepare. As such, power should instantly be transferred to the

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