elorant

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by elorant 2y ago
The dark forest theory is about intentional communication. It doesn't say anything about technosignatures.
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by elorant 2y ago
To me, Dyson Spheres seem impractical. For one, where are you going to find all the material needed to cover even a fraction of the surface of a star? Additionally, if you do build something that massive, you'll probably influence the
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by elorant 2y ago
If you advertise through Facebook you get a lot of fraudulent traffic. So I don’t see how they fight spam.
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Where are floppy disks today? Planes, trains, and all these other places(zdnet.com)
16 points by elorant 2y ago|5 comments
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by elorant 2y ago
I have uMatrix installed and never see them. The greatest achievement for GDPR for me was that it significantly reduced the amount of spam I receive.
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by elorant 2y ago
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40337009
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Boeing may face criminal prosecution over 737 MAX crashes(bbc.com)
3 points by elorant 2y ago|0 comments
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AT&T paid bribes to get two major pieces of legislation passed(arstechnica.com)
93 points by elorant 2y ago|11 comments
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Nearly all Nintendo 64 games can now be recompiled into native PC ports(tomshardware.com)
11 points by elorant 2y ago|1 comments
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by elorant 2y ago
Why do you make the distinction from HFT? At their heart they're both the same thing. You're using algorithms to trade and eventually manipulate markets. What kind of value are you adding to the whole system?
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by elorant 2y ago
Well it’s an algo trading company.
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by elorant 2y ago
I highly recommend the book "The Man Who Solved the Market" by Gregory Zuckerman which explains how Simons build his infamous company. https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Solved-Market-Revolution/dp/0...
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Did GitHub Copilot increase my productivity?(trace.yshui.dev)
1 points by elorant 2y ago|0 comments
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Streaming feels more like cable TV than(theverge.com)
1 points by elorant 2y ago|0 comments
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by elorant 2y ago
So an ad at the end of text is worse than one embedded in the answer? Care to explain why?
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by elorant 2y ago
The ads don't need to be conversational, they could be just references at the end of the answer.
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Basic Turns 60(zdnet.com)
1 points by elorant 2y ago|0 comments
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Boeing says workers skipped required tests on 787 but recorded work as completed(arstechnica.com)
24 points by elorant 2y ago|14 comments
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Survey finds that 60 firms are responsible for half of plastic pollution(theguardian.com)
11 points by elorant 2y ago|4 comments
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Titan submersible likely imploded due to shape, carbon fiber(newsnationnow.com)
1 points by elorant 2y ago|0 comments
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First 'tooth regrowth medicine' to be tested in Japan from Sept. 2024(mainichi.jp)
237 points by elorant 2y ago|90 comments
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Microsoft plans to lock down Windows DNS like never before(arstechnica.com)
25 points by elorant 2y ago|8 comments
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Ryzen 9 7950X3D surfaces with 192MB L3 cache(tomshardware.com)
18 points by elorant 2y ago|1 comments
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Intel's Foundry Business Lost $7B in 2023(extremetech.com)
8 points by elorant 2y ago|0 comments
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Rising metal prices could mean more expensive laptops, PC parts in near future(tomshardware.com)
3 points by elorant 2y ago|1 comments
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by elorant 2y ago
If life is so rare, then having two planets in the same system with life, even at different epochs, seems absurd. That’s why I said it’s scary. It means that life can easily get a kickstart but for some reason it doesn’t make it all the way
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by elorant 2y ago
We could locate technosignatures though. Even if they don't wish to contact us we could tell if the galaxy was teeming with intelligent life.
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by elorant 2y ago
This is scary on two fronts. One, whatever happened to Mars could happen to Earth, and two, it puts the Great Filter probably in our future. If our solar system had two hospitable planets then there should be plenty of Earth like planets ar
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by elorant 2y ago
The same reason they watch a reality show for the Kardashians. People want a glimpse into the life of the rich and famous.
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A $3,400 electro-capacitive keyboard that gets rid of stabilizer noise(tomshardware.com)
3 points by elorant 2y ago|0 comments

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