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by edejong 7y ago
This kind of rhetoric is fueling the opposite camp. It really doesn't matter which camp you are in: we should admit to the vagueness this video is full of: "some scientists believe...", "this scientist thinks...",
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Money won over principles after all.
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I wish I could automatically append your comment to each similar statement people tend to make nowadays.
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I love that train of thought. Could be the basis for a sci-fi book.
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We also do it to preserve our unique prestine environment providing higher-order evolution. And we do it to preserve our ideas, our discoveries and our memories.
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Curiosity Rover finds levels of gas suggesting life(techcrunch.com)
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Alright, after having done some research on effective, long-term measurement of air quality, I am here to give you some bad news. Your sensors are going to break. Depending on the environment and the mode of operation of the sensor, you&#x2
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by edejong 7y ago
For me the Eureka moment with Common Lisp came when I read 'The Art of the Meta Object Protocol' (Kiczales) [1], which made me rethink OOP, the power of macro's and the power of Lisp. Lisp is an extremely fundamental and deep
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A carbon tax is probably the worst thing you can do. First of all, it will seriously destabilise a large economy where democracy still plays an influential role. This will place more economic power at the hands of non-democratic nations, al
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Good advice! I’d still rather buy a not-so-smart-tv /display.
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So, a neighbor’s compromised wifi router could remotely exploit your smart tv without even configured settings: https://blog.exodusintel.com/2017/07/26/broadpwn/
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You are counting on the WiFi module not to be remote hackable?
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Yes, I guess something got lost in translation there. So, what's not allowed is to 1. Setup a covert recording device in your house. 2. Go to the store/work/gym/zoo. 3. Covertly record your spouses conversation with her
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by edejong 7y ago
Yet another alarmist article stretching to find a relationship with our man-made climate change. It is sowing doubt instead. Press (especially the far-left Guardian) should think twice publishing this. There are much better indicators such
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You need to be party of the conversation being recorded. Ownership is irrelevant.
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IANAL either, but I’v come to understand that covert recording conversations which you are not party of, is illegal, regardless of the location.
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By the hospitals or by the government unwilling to regulate disclosure?
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Well, n=2 (at least, HN?)
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Yet climate change scepticism is rising. Are we using the right rhetoric? What’s wrong with the current approach?
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Rare-earth elements are formed in supernovae, so if you happen to have a supernova in your backyard, you’re golden! Otherwise, it’s a rather expensive ordeal, battling those subnuclear forces.
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None of them are less important. All three need to be present in order for a system to be secure. Especially when it comes to attacking infrastructure, removing the availability of operations on this infrastructure is a good attack vector.
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Confidentiality, integrity and availability. Those are the components of a secure system. Crypto provides the first two. But what about the third?
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The interwebs is full of examples (search for categorical color palette colour blind). But colorbrewer [1] is well known. And this [2] article "Color Universal Design (CUD) - How to make figures and presentations that are friendly to C
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by edejong 7y ago
If the velocity is a^x, with a a number like 1.1 and v a number between 0 and 255, I would agree. However, what I’ve seen is that 2 is twice as loud as 1 and 256 twice as loud as 128. That means soft passages become discretized and uneven.
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Counter example: spreadsheets.
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Not my experience. The expressive control is exponential, so either you clip on either end of the velocity spectrum, or you get discrete steps at the lower end.
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As an amateur musician, I played with real time synthesis a lot. Latency, and especially jitter in latency is the biggest enemy. 100 ms is an eternity. 5-7 ms is still noticible and anything above 10 ms becomes a nuisance. Some artists, esp
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This is one source corroborating your claim: https://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/nutrient-densi... But it's good to read that whole article, because in general the availability of fruits have gone u
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The traditional media had to operate in the open. You could figure out what your neighbor was reading by buying his/her newspaper for a day. Also, newspapers could report on each other’s reporting. This has become increasingly opaque.
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I’d be more concerned about the effects on the journalism sector. Suddenly they can target worldwide the public perception of everything. It’s the most detailed and effective propaganda machine ever built.

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