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by gojomo 3y ago
Oops, yes, corrected, thanks!
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by gojomo 3y ago
Here's a good 4-feed live multiview, with the submitted feed in it's lower-left quadrant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=804nPrAUAxg If you scrub back to 22:17:15 (on the embedded video clocks), you can see the i
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by gojomo 3y ago
As another small hint of Mikolov-vs-Le divergence: they're the coauthors of the 'Paragraph Vector' paper ( https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.4053 ) applying a slightly-modified version of word2vec to vectorize lo
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by gojomo 3y ago
As noted in my other reply ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38604877 ), this link doesn't actually support the strong claims made: "California requires", "with name and PII", "for 10 years&
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by gojomo 3y ago
There are lots of Apple Stores, many in jurisdictions that don't prioritize vigorous prosecution of small thefts or mere possession-of-stolen-property. There are lots of individuals who'd take the chance to make a quick buck. So i
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by gojomo 3y ago
You, sir or madam or mir, are an everyday hero. (nb: s/mouth/per month/)
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It's actually less dumb but more corrupt: it's the lobbying funded by the company that sells zinc coin blanks to the US Treasury: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans_for_Common_Cents
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by gojomo 3y ago
Great 2002 logic - but that's practically the archaic 20th century. People, it's 2023! There should be a wildcard coin with an NFC chip & e-paper display. Vendors & consumers should be able to load/drain it of any sub
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by gojomo 3y ago
From the reports in this thread, it seems that front-line Apple employees presented with a reasonable-looking (even if forged) "proof of purchase" can re-enable a device registered to another person's account. Perhaps, that y
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by gojomo 3y ago
A good example of why I try to keep anything I consider really important out of iCloud entirely! (That's quite hard with Apple's various dark patterns to boost iCloud usage & lock-in.) But yes - it looks to me like dishonest a
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by gojomo 3y ago
That sounds credible. The Apple Support person I spoke with denied such audit logs even exist, probably in some officially-coached language that they can bluff as being truthful when pressed.
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by gojomo 3y ago
A similarly-compromised front-line T-Mobile employee once enabled a "SIM-swap" on my active iPhone phone number. It was reported in T-Mobile's systems as my personal visit, with supporting documentation/ID, to one of the
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by gojomo 3y ago
Per another reply's report, you can just forge a plausible-looking plain-piece-of-paper "proof of purchase" – y'know, how crooks might have done so 100 years ago, with some predigital printing supplies. Show that to th
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by gojomo 3y ago
After a iPhone theft in Europe earlier this year, I don't quite trust Apple's assurances with regard to stolen iPhones. My phone was snatched from my hands in the street. I was able to wipe it via 'Find Devices' within a
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by gojomo 3y ago
Thanks, but: neither of those links say it's a California requirement, nor that it's stored with PII, nor that it's necessarily/always kept for 10 years (your original claim). Instead, it's said to be kept for at m
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by gojomo 3y ago
Do you have a reference documenting this requirement? I've not seen it reported, & when I last checked (long ago), 23andme seemed to allow a customer to decide whether their sample was retained beyond the current round of tests. An
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by gojomo 3y ago
Neat that they're crafting this kind of product. But, given how easily such full sequences can plot your exact relations with any other unblinded records, this may be largely "DNA Security Theater" against the threat of the
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by gojomo 3y ago
TLDR: 'Space junk' needn't just be tracked & dodged, or de-orbited; some of its materials & mass could be repurposed to remain of use in orbit. In particular, some large existing masses that would otherwise need to be
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by gojomo 3y ago
People don't realize how dependent modern US industry depends on encabulators from China.
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> They had an opportunity to report the behavior and they passed on that to benefit themselves at the expense of others. Under the systems proposed, their amnesty depends on their cooperation with prosecution. (Under the specifics I de
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by gojomo 3y ago
One of the many reasons onerous discretionary land-development systems are bad is the giant opportunities & incentives for corruption. Some other comments have raised the question: if you're stuck in a corrupt system, should the p
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by gojomo 3y ago
I agree with Stross's admonition, "always be wary of SF writers bearing ideas", and believe it doubly-so when they are opining on actual science, social science, & politics – areas where understanding may not correlate, a
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by gojomo 3y ago
It's murky whether the outputs of OpenAI's models can be copyrighted at all. Further, even the model weights , if released or leaked, might not qualify. Even 'steal' isn't quite the right word for the allegation of
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by gojomo 3y ago
Yep. I was lucky to visit to see the nearby 2021 eruption – and also got in a Blue Lagoon stop. Peninsula / coast / power / airport / key roads all pretty close, and an eruption could be bigger & longer. I do have im
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by gojomo 3y ago
Sure there's an argument: Information wants to be free. Copyright is abusive. Broad fair use rights, especially for transformative purposes, is all-important for the future. The costs of enforcing limits are higher than the benefits of
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by gojomo 3y ago
Yes: basic but thorough in assuaging many concerns, in a concise quotable way.
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by gojomo 3y ago
The 1783 Laki eruption killed roughly a quarter of Iceland's human population via famine & majority of its livestock via poisoning. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laki
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by gojomo 3y ago
Were your ancestors there before the immigration the parent post alludes to? Are you a Huldufólk with internet access?
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by gojomo 3y ago
Yep. But: the upcoming eruptions could limit or destroy access routes, change geothermal patterns, create other nearby health risks – or even, as you put it, result literall in "the whole thing being swallowed by a lava fissure"
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by gojomo 3y ago
With linear video, there's a hard limit to what user-loyal ad-blocking can achieve with casual in-the-moment browsing: Google can ensure the ad's clock-time duration occurs, before they serve the main video. So, even if you'r

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