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by gnode 7y ago
It's because the housing is highly subsidised by the government, in an attempt to prevent gentrification pushing low income people out of the area, breaking up their communities, changing the ethic makeup of the community and other suc
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by gnode 7y ago
The UK definitely needs more overall housing capacity, and there is plenty of land which is not built on. Although I don't think this is the issue here, where the area is already full of dense residential and commercial buildings. Subs
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by gnode 7y ago
I don't see why you'd need fibre optics for that. Mirrors would work just fine, as in a concentrated solar plant.
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by gnode 7y ago
Autophagy is the self-cannibalisation of cells to give up their molecular components. Are senescent cells capable of doing this? They have at least stopped producing nucleotides, and the double nucleus suggests they have broken down toward
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by gnode 7y ago
The wikipedia article ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senolytic ) cites https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4748967/ from December 2015, so the concept is at least that old.
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by gnode 7y ago
It sounds to me like these senescent cells have reached or completed telophase (construction of nuclear membranes after mitosis), yet cytokinesis (splitting of the cell) has been inhibited. Perhaps during mitosis some kind of genetic integr
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by gnode 7y ago
> US principle like the right to free speech, it doesn't exist in the UK. The UK has a right to freedom of expression in both common law and the Human Rights Act (incorporation of the European Convention on Human Rights). There are
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by gnode 7y ago
CERN is a (multi)government research institute, similar to the US Department of Energy's Office of Science for instance, rather than a teaching faculty.
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by gnode 7y ago
Memory in the brain is very connection based. Spaced repetition is a good technique for strengthening connections, but not for structuring it usefully. I find the best thing is to make as many connections as possible to and amongst the thin
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by gnode 7y ago
Any agent which has the ability to perceive red must have some mechanism which corresponds to that percept. The percept of red has to be different to other percepts so that it is not mistaken for something that is not red. It is subjective
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by gnode 7y ago
> The problem I have with this is that you can then claim that anything and everything is conscious. The thing would have to have correlates of consciousness; mechanisms which perform the properties which constitute conscious thought. I
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by gnode 7y ago
I think the particular shape of normal human consciousness is a product of evolution, but I don't think consciousness itself is. People can experience altered states of consciousness which can be detrimental to their survival such as p
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by gnode 7y ago
If you believe philosophical zombies are impossible, as many philosophers do, then the Turing test is the consciousness test.
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by gnode 7y ago
It seems to me that the properties of consciousness would naturally follow from any generally intelligent system. An intelligent agent must be aware of phenomena in its environment, it must be able to distinguish phenomena (qualia), its exp
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by gnode 7y ago
I'm very surprised to see that this malware hasn't been stripped of symbols and metadata, or disguised them in some way. It makes me wonder whether this is an amateur operation, or deliberately designed to give the impression of o
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by gnode 7y ago
Most discussion of backdoors these days is no longer about weakening the encryption itself, but prohibiting its private use. It's about data retention, key escrow, key disclosure and man-in-the-middle attacking everyone like Kazakhstan
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by gnode 7y ago
> They just make it all look so easy. > spaghetti code that some untaughts have churned out Now we see both sides of the coin.
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by gnode 7y ago
I think it's important to distinguish between conditions which are unfortunate and conditions which are unbearable. Sanctions commonly make conditions unbearable for the poor; when food becomes scarce, the poor starve first; when energ
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by gnode 7y ago
"Coding" is as meaningless a term as "writing". Much in the same way you can leverage basic writing skills to achieve entrepreneurial success, you can do so with coding skills. A literary academic may still consider writ
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by gnode 7y ago
> [...] outnumber those who do. If their understanding that amateurs make for better hires than professionals is correct, then amateurs being the minority makes an even stronger case for filtering.
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by gnode 7y ago
What if friendliness is not a property of the technology, but of the use? With all the potential concerns of AGI, I think nuclear technology is a good analogue. It has great potential for peaceful use, but proliferation of nuclear weapons i
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by gnode 7y ago
> consider that the possibility of annhiliation is already a very real and present danger (nuclear weapons) What concerns me about the hazards of developing technology like AGI is not simply that it could be dangerous (governments alread
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by gnode 7y ago
War has often resulted in regime change or occupation, sometime even execution of defeated leadership, so no; war often affects the elite (in the end).
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by gnode 7y ago
A lot of the benchmarking focused on handshaking, which is asymmetric cryptographic performance. As far as I know acceleration for asymmetric algorithms specifically is uncommon, although general SIMD instructions can improve performance.
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by gnode 7y ago
Inevitably some crypto primatives must be written in assembly languages in order to ensure timing attacks and alike are not possible. As far as I know, there's no support in Rust or C for requiring such constraints from the code genera
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by gnode 7y ago
> performance, security, wearout reasons If memory pressure is low, and the swap is used to page out rarely / never used pages in favour of more disk cache, then there is a performance gain to be had, and wear should be minimal. You
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by gnode 7y ago
> The author never explained why putting rarely used pages in swap will improve performance if I have adequate RAM. Putting rarely used (or never to be used again) pages in swap frees up physical RAM to be used as disk cache, which can i
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by gnode 7y ago
In order to have a positive effect, a technology only needs to be less discriminatory than the technology it replaces. I chose the example of education because it is very expensive and discriminatory today; a technology which replaces the n
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by gnode 7y ago
> Imagine these advantages not being subtly embedded in the life experience of well-off Westerners, but being directly for sale—and turned up to 11. Intergenerational social and economic mobility would disappear. [...] augmentation could
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by gnode 7y ago
Speed / power is a similar affair; a bigger battery is essentially more battery cells, and more power. The increased weight doesn't significantly detract from top speed, as air resistance dominates. In fact, additional weight incr

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