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by itcrowd 6y ago
Schneier makes an excellent point about the usefulness of the contact tracing apps that I (personally) haven't seen much elsewhere. > As long as 1) every contact does not result in an infection, and 2) a large percentage of people w
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Projecting the transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 in postpandemic period(science.sciencemag.org)
8 points by itcrowd 6y ago|0 comments
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by itcrowd 6y ago
1 day ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22825344
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EU member states do not want a common coronavirus policy(ftm.nl)
1 points by itcrowd 6y ago|0 comments
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by itcrowd 6y ago
Thank you for the extensive reply :)
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by itcrowd 6y ago
I like the idea of making art more accessible by spacing out the payment. Congratulations on the launch! I won't comment on the art for sale, because I think it is too much in the eye of the beholder but I will give some feedback on yo
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by itcrowd 6y ago
This is a fascinating revelation, the European equivalent of the Five Eyes. The author, by the way, is a Dutch professor of Security, Privacy and Identity at the Radboud University (Nijmegen). His website is here: http://www.cs.r
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by itcrowd 7y ago
The story here is that Zoom uses key distribution servers located in China (in addition to several servers in the USA) and that Chinese law might be compelling Zoom to disclose the encryption keys. I think it is a valid concern, but for me
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by itcrowd 7y ago
Hi Nick, Congrats on your launch. Just wanted to tell you that there's another service called PDF eXpress that's in use for IEEE conferences to make sure the authors conform to the given template. I know it's not exactly the
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Roche releases Covid-19 test recipe, after EC considers intervention(ftm.nl)
148 points by itcrowd 7y ago|43 comments
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by itcrowd 7y ago
I think this is the one you need. Interesting, thanks for the suggestion to search for it! https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2019/02/14/adventures-in-netfli...
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by itcrowd 7y ago
So .. one user gets banned for unclear reasons, Github doesn't reply within a week and somehow Github is now the equivalent of the German Nazi party? I understand: it's frustrating and maybe undeserved that a service has banned
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by itcrowd 7y ago
Not sure why this is on the number 1 spot currently. This is a letter signed by non-experts (albeit sometimes scientists/engineers). To me, it comes off as the climate-change denier letters or 9/11 "truthers" letters. Pl
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by itcrowd 7y ago
The questions to ask for any test: - What is the false positive rate? - What is the false negative rate? - Considering the above, what is the efficacy of mass testing? (Not saying it is or isn't effective, hard numbers are necessary)
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by itcrowd 7y ago
It's a 1M prize, not the money allocated to implementing whatever change is proposed. If Helsinki comes up with a plan, within a year, at the cost of 1M, to decarbonize their city's heating and then takes 5-10 years to implement t
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Mpemba Effect(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by itcrowd 7y ago|1 comments
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by itcrowd 7y ago
As I understand it, it "wasn't considered illegal" and for some shady minds that means it is legal, even if highly dubious or morally wrong. The mechanism that made it possible was outlawed at some point, I think 2011, but th
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by itcrowd 7y ago
http://archive.is/KVLGE because "Democracy Dies in Darkness"
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by itcrowd 7y ago
Any number of ways. For example pitching behind closed doors to potential customers. Others don't have customers, they trade with their own money (not just small-time traders, by the way).
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by itcrowd 7y ago
> On the 34 companies tested, the MIT researchers' model beat an aggregate Wall Street analyst benchmark in 57.2 percent of quarterly predictions tested in the experiment. Sorry but I'm not impressed by this number, for various
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by itcrowd 7y ago
Based on the abstract, it is a pulsed system (in contrast to continuous wave LEDs) so I think there is a bias voltage of 14V.
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by itcrowd 7y ago
Original essay: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/01/china_isnt_th...
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by itcrowd 7y ago
The threat, some argue, with the Ocean Cleanup is not so much to "traditional", underwater fish, but rather to an obscure floating type of species known as the neuston [1]. Marine biologists are warning about the impact of the OC
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by itcrowd 7y ago
The secondary reflector, seen floating here ( https://www.futuretimeline.net/21stcentury/images/the-five-h... , right image), can be moved. See details here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1105.3794
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by itcrowd 7y ago
I think the interference that is caused by visitors to the theme park is limited, since the cell phone / WiFi bandwidths are around 800 MHz to 5 GHz and the operating range of the telescope is 70 MHz to (max) 3 GHz. I think the focus o
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by itcrowd 7y ago
> This is not what I'm saying. Sorry if I misunderstood. I'm not entirely sure what you didn't mean but here's my best-effort attempt. I think my confusion came from the example you cited in your previous post, about
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by itcrowd 7y ago
Yes. If I make an exact (3D model) replica of a mailbox, or analogously, a re-recording of a song that sounds exactly the same, the original designer of the mailbox or song can exert authorship rights through copyright action. The fact th
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by itcrowd 7y ago
> Can I just point out the insanity of 3D models being subject to trademark and copyright? Not sure if I agree. If a song is included in a game without license, it wouldn't fly either. Designs can be copyrighted and may not be copie
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by itcrowd 7y ago
(To continue your journalist analogy) So what happens to "the journalist" when something speculative is reported in a newspaper piece that is written by 7 people five years ago? In addition, five of the seven writers are now worki
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by itcrowd 7y ago
I agree with the last two paragraphs of your post viz. humility and reform. > the disconnect between "most scientists agree there is a reproducibility crisis" and "most scientists believe most of the papers they read are b

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