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by lolc 2y ago
Right, cities have all the bad stuff and no individual control over it! Regarding benefits: There are indications that people with schizophrenia use nicotine to self-medicate. The health risks of nicotine when inhaled but not smoked are rel
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by lolc 2y ago
Bitcoin is the actively mined motherlode of pure sunk cost fallacies. The funniest thing about it is how by design it's deflating to zero as people eventually lose access to their keys.
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by lolc 2y ago
The whole discussion reeks of experts who are used to fighting nicotine addiction that now can't let go when that addiction turns into a benign habit. Many people use nicotine for regulation of emotions and who are these experts to tel
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by lolc 2y ago
What do you mean by "getting a better idea of things"? The rules governing Bitcoin are chosen by humans. It's a cultural artifact. We have very limited abilities to affect the distribution of gold. The two are not alike.
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by lolc 2y ago
Yeah sorry secondary market is not a proper term for what I wanted to say. I meant the liquidity is not on Bitcoin itself but on the exchanges. That means the technical guarantees of Bitcoin the protocol are not in effect for most trades. S
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by lolc 2y ago
Most Bitcoin liquidity is in secondary markets. I wonder for how long investors are willing to foot the power bill. 2040 sounds a bit long.
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by lolc 2y ago
Unhook sounds right, but I forget it's there because it just works.
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by lolc 2y ago
I'm just glad there are browser extensions that remove all that Youtube dross no questions asked. It's interesting to me that somebody would try and curate their experience in this shitshoveling assault on the nerves that is Youtu
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by lolc 2y ago
Eh, maybe it's related to expected selling but the exchange rate between Bitcoin and Dollars is very volatile. Moves like that happen every other week. So let's see whether that's a sustainable drop. Sustainable as in "m
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by lolc 2y ago
Well yes sometimes a bullshitted solution may be correct! But the person doing the prompting for a bioweapon will end up with yeast sludge anyway.
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by lolc 2y ago
If people like me are in the audience, they might be worse than useless.
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by lolc 2y ago
I still don't know whether there was an actual increase in comments that start with "You're correct". Maybe it's just me noticing it more after Chatgpt came to prominence with its subservient ways.
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by lolc 2y ago
Which is why I find the article so compelling because I'd always read box plots as being about variance. To me the plot implied a quite normal distribution.
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by lolc 2y ago
Following the links leads to an amazing cloud-top view of a gigantic jet taken by a pilot: https://spaceweatherarchive.com/2019/10/25/close-encounter-w...
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by lolc 2y ago
Oh that was an interesting dive into LED peculiarities. And I did have an oddly behaving movement sensor too! It turned out to be mice. The sensor was just very sensitive.
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by lolc 2y ago
What the grandparent post was referring to as "obvious reasons" must be the high prevalence of HIV in the study countries[0]. Why wouldn't they test in countries with the highest infection risk? There may be common reasons
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by lolc 2y ago
Yes, from what I know for a volcano we have a good geological model of what is going on, and reliable ways of measuring the relevant parameters. Still predicting an eruption is an achievement, and predicting the not eruption especially so.
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by lolc 2y ago
Yeah the Oracle blurb was not embedded well. The presumedly paid writer did a shoddy job.
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by lolc 2y ago
Once you add sensors you can't promise buyers that their car with less sensors will be just as self driving as the car with more sensors. So adding sensors is a big deal for Tesla, because they are in the market of selling a promise of
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by lolc 2y ago
Get our reproduction cycle to be based on advanced tech. Then let society collapse so it doesn't have the tech anymore. Will take a few generations still.
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by lolc 2y ago
If they are so much as inconvenienced by our probes, they are not a greater power but bumbling roboticists like us.
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by lolc 2y ago
I find the idea pretty wild that we should be able to predict earthquakes within days. My understanding is that earthquakes can be predicted like bridge collapses can be predicted. You can collect signs of a developing fault, but the uncert
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by lolc 2y ago
I've been thinking an escrow system could work. On signup, you pledge to donate to a charity when you leave. Candidates won't be able to get back their funds, they can only release them. Once they have a mate, their mate would mak
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by lolc 2y ago
Who argues against users taking responsibility? The users who demand exfiltration protection around the Recall DB? Or the commenters who maintain that extra protections are pointless?
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by lolc 2y ago
Users will be blamed until security improves.
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by lolc 2y ago
Ok, what if I forget or don't know it's active?
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by lolc 2y ago
So I want to read an encrypted mail, then delete it. What do I do?
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by lolc 2y ago
Text on screen can be more confidential than text on disk.
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by lolc 2y ago
Eh I've lost files because I was working in a ramdisked /tmp when the computer lost power. That's what one gets when working in a dir called "tmp". Some people will see their stuff vanish from /var/tmp and
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by lolc 2y ago
This Recall feature keeps text of emails typed and never sent, of documents viewed and deleted.

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