fmihaila

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Indigenous Colombians fear losing their hallucinogenic brews(economist.com)
7 points by fmihaila 7y ago|2 comments
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Semantic Sanity by Semantic Scholar(s2-sanity.apps.allenai.org)
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Fla. governor signs bill allowing AVs with no human operator(autonews.com)
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No prison for first defendant in college admissions bribery scandal(usatoday.com)
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Supersonic speeds could cause big problems for the F-35′s stealth coating(defensenews.com)
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'Pumping heart patch' ready for human use(bbc.co.uk)
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US demands social media details from visa applicants(bbc.com)
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Tech workers organize protest against Palantir on GitHub(fastcompany.com)
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by fmihaila 7y ago
> Exxon is just giving people what they want. The blame rests with people who want a lifestyle that's incompatible with avoiding climate change, not the companies that simply are feeding consumer demand. Well, Purdue Pharma is also
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An eye on experiments that make quantum mechanics visible(aeon.co)
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by fmihaila 7y ago
> I think he's counting on 'exponential improvement'. Here he is, on record, stating that he believes Tesla has essentially solved the problem ('game, set, and match'): [1] https://www.youtube.com&#x2F
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Great White Sharks Flee from Killer Whales(theatlantic.com)
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When Did the Anthropocene Begin? A Great Climate Debate(theatlantic.com)
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by fmihaila 8y ago
> It's more a question of if you think anyone (in possession of icbms at least) would take that risk in the current state of the world? It doesn't have to be anybody's decision. Cascading mistakes and system failures happe
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by fmihaila 8y ago
> Is it really that weird to not have "enemies"? There I people I wouldn't hang out with or wouldn't work with again, but I don't think I'd consider them enemies. You made the assumption that I considered
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by fmihaila 8y ago
> It'd actually be fantastic [...] Either my brain was chosen as a test, [...] or I'm part of a follow-up trial or large-scale roll-out Or your enemies took power, and when they were going through the vats for payback they pick
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by fmihaila 8y ago
> (If they're explicitly trying to cause me pain, that would be a no.) That is my point. I imagine that, if this was a possibility, quite a lot of people would be ok (or even demand it) to make available "150 years after natura
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by fmihaila 8y ago
> Throwing it out there—when I'm dead, you are totally allowed to resuscitate my brain. Better than being dead. Are you comfortable with the possibility that those who are reviving you might not be doing it for your benefit?
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by fmihaila 8y ago
This is from the Nature article on the same subject [1]: > [...] Nevertheless, the development of technology with the potential to support sentient, disembodied organs has broad ethical implications for the welfare of animals and people
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Pig brains kept alive outside body for hours after death(nature.com)
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by fmihaila 8y ago
> NATO and the EU have started anti-fake-news efforts to combat this narrative. It was all over EU facebook ads a while ago. I hope you realize how deliciously ironic this paragraph is.
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by fmihaila 8y ago
> No information passes thru the event horizon of a black hole. No information is lost . A copy of it can very well fall into the BH (and it does).
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by fmihaila 8y ago
> Ah yes, Netherlands: a land of barbarians, murder and rampant disentery. Not a single industry in sight. Netherlands were the first in the industrialized world to tolerate it, and that demonstrated a lot of courage given the general
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by fmihaila 8y ago
> ... purgery (generally the main one if they can't get you for anything else) Perjury (for the benefit of those who were as confused as I was).
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In Ontario, a battle for the soul of psychiatry(theglobeandmail.com)
1 points by fmihaila 8y ago|0 comments
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by fmihaila 8y ago
> True randomness has no structure because that's what makes it inherently unpredictable. That is its structure. "No structure" is a perfectly valid value for "degree of structure". Not seeing that is the same
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by fmihaila 8y ago
> You can't make that bet. Mathematics is just a language Not just any language. It is an ever-changing, ever-growing language, which always expands along with our understanding of the universe. There is no a priori limit to eithe
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Black Hole Picture Released from Event Horizon Telescope(washingtonpost.com)
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I wanted to help Google make AI more responsible but was treated with hostility(washingtonpost.com)
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by fmihaila 8y ago
> Is there a percentage pie chart for what was used on the MAX? Like 80% Ada, 15% C++, and 5% C? I wonder if we'll see a move to things like Spark where proof verification becomes more standard? I don't know much about avionics

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