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by greendestiny_re 7y ago
I have a sinking feeling this kind of synthetic food production is just a bait for health-wary consumers. After reeling in enough customers, lab-grown fish produced for profit will inevitably have to deteriorate in quality to maintain/
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by greendestiny_re 7y ago
>or take the blatant malware step of replacing or altering Firefox Firefox is still considered open source, correct? From what I know, open source software is meant to be altered.
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by greendestiny_re 7y ago
Ultimately, self-driving vehicles require maintenance on the road, meaning a human riding along; if the self-driving capability fails, the human will take over the wheel. Logistics companies want to minimize maintenance costs, meaning the s
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by greendestiny_re 7y ago
My gripes with the switch paradigm are that it: a) isn't transparent b) doesn't empower the user c) isn't easily modifiable a), b) and c) are the exact opposites of what open source software is meant to stand for. Firefox is
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by greendestiny_re 7y ago
All code is available – as a tar.xzipped archive of Firefox source code containing over 150k files and measuring over 1GB in size when unpacked.
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by greendestiny_re 7y ago
I feel you. I saw this kind of thing coming back in 2010, when Firefox started copying Chrome blow for blow. I saw Google's influence on Mozilla and knew it could only turn out poorly. By the way, what can you say about that?
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by greendestiny_re 7y ago
Can Firefox be called open source any longer? Users can't inspect the code or contribute to the code, which is what addons used to do.
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by greendestiny_re 7y ago
I was recently introduced to the idea of gluing and/or stitching one's own body parts or open wounds in case of a severe injury due to the costs associated with US healthcare. I found the nonchalant discussion of such horrible suf
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by greendestiny_re 7y ago
Saying that systems are too complex to be audited is a horrifying statement that reveals an environment ripe for abuse.
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by greendestiny_re 7y ago
I believe it's a fundamental lack of faith in one's product or service that results in untenable corporate growth maximization schemes.
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by greendestiny_re 7y ago
Interesting that you mention "wire fraud," which is defined in a sense that involves "intent to deceive using an electronic device". Basically, woman lying about her weight on a dating app is committing wire fraud, as is
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by greendestiny_re 7y ago
Just curious – what content exactly would you be interested in? If any other poster wants to chip in with suggestions, feel free.
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by greendestiny_re 7y ago
Colorful eyewear can be used too. https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sbhagava/papers/face-rec-ccs16.pdf Looks realistic, plausible and can be 3D printed (authors of the paper even provide the design sample).
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by greendestiny_re 8y ago
>Saudi Arabia only freed their African slaves in 1962. Do you have any further reading on this?
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by greendestiny_re 8y ago
I find the linked article incomplete and the way DeepMind framed the story disingenuous. There was no mention of the fact the DeepMind team produced 5 versions of AlphaStar and pitted them all against both TLO and MaNa without telling them
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by greendestiny_re 8y ago
At one point I was playing Serious Sam, an FPS. I finished the game and let the credits roll by, noticing a quirky name "Derek Smart". I searched for it on Wikipedia and arrived at the eponymous article, describing the life and cr
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by greendestiny_re 8y ago
I find Grady Harp's Amazon profile [1] activity suspicious, to say the least. Here's one of his reviews from January 11, 2019: "Australian author Phillip Strang has gained his platform as an adventure writer through his caree
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by greendestiny_re 8y ago
Drop in property value comes to mind if there's an adjacent stretch of untamed wild.
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by greendestiny_re 8y ago
Red circles and arrows are a fairly reliable attention magnet. See how the pictures with circles and arrows are interspersed through the article? The idea is that the user is drawn to scroll further when they're about to give up. You c
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by greendestiny_re 8y ago
Black-box attacks using specially crafted glasses that can mess up the facial recognition software already exist, leading to invisibility and/or misclassification. https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sbhagava/papers/face-
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by greendestiny_re 8y ago
Normal speaking speed is 150 words per minute, which when recorded equals to a ~1MB M4A file. I typically send 7-minute audio recordings, meaning roughly 1,000 words or about 2 pages of A4 text. Rather than getting slammed with a wall of te
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by greendestiny_re 8y ago
Social media use Pavlovian conditioning to drive adoption. Even the notification icon is – a bell. I stopped using all of them and I suggest you do too. If needed to stay in touch, send your friends and family a voice message as an email at
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by greendestiny_re 8y ago
Only an artist could come up with this: http://prntscr.com/lgk7x0
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by greendestiny_re 8y ago
Facebook Dating is going to encounter the exact same problem all dating apps do – too many men aggressively soliciting their matches and too few women responding to such solicitations. By the way, did anyone notice the linked CBC article ha
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by greendestiny_re 8y ago
The PDF I linked above shows that taking Naloxone, opiod antagonist, reduces the desire for junk food, meaning it's a literal addiction; trying to just quit cold turkey is just like opiod withdrawal that causes even more stress and bin
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by greendestiny_re 8y ago
I recently ghostwrote a sizable text on diabetes, with one part dedicated to cortisol. In short, cortisol is secreted due to a real or _perceived_ threat, meaning that by framing everything around us as challenges we avoid activating the HP
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by greendestiny_re 8y ago
When faced with spacious word limits during my freelance writing gigs I often go off on a wild tangent to fill in the quota. This one time I was asked to write about diabetes and found myself mentioning Okinawa centegenerians, soy cooking o
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by greendestiny_re 8y ago
These efforts are commendable but the UI developed around them, particularly the "don't allow/allow", is atrocious and a pale memory of Firefox philosophy of placing control into user's hands. Where is the additiona
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by greendestiny_re 8y ago
>The funny thing is the verdict is "mostly false", yet it confirms everything I said. This is how Snopes generally operates – create a disingenuous headline, debunk it in a big blocky font at the top but then lay out the facts
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by greendestiny_re 9y ago
>I never find that these kinds of studies lead to correct and actionable information about how to slow down aging or how to lead your life. Don't salt your food _at all_ to maintain a healthy blood pressure. >Furthermore, it also

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