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by marshray 4y ago
This isn't 'controversial', it's total Alex Jones Infowars-type batshit.
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by marshray 4y ago
> All of the world's problems are government-created Earthquakes? Dandelions? Sunburn? Marital infidelity?
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by marshray 4y ago
> On 21 July 2017, bitcoin miners locked-in a software upgrade referred to as Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) 91 > By 8 August, another milestone was reached when 100% of the bitcoin mining pools signaled support https:/&
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by marshray 4y ago
I assure you no one at Apple is losing any sleep over Louis Rossmann. If they have freaky strict disposal controls over leftover components, it is because they are trying to prevent China's famous "midnight run" of the assemb
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by marshray 4y ago
ISIS in Syria were one of the early adopters of armed drones. If they were so considerate as to gather in a central location, it wouldn't require a nuke to take them out.
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by marshray 4y ago
If wars were instead fought by small battery-powered drones, they would probably greatly reduce civilian deaths in wars.
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by marshray 4y ago
It's very difficult, but still much easier to inspect processing facilities for illegal enrichment than it would be to prevent manufacturing of military drones. Drones are increasingly used by civilians, and we see in Ukraine that cons
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by marshray 4y ago
What if a defensive drone swarm, to be effective, must be generations more advanced than the attacking drone swarm? There could be an interim period of many years where very important stuff is very vulnerable.
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by marshray 4y ago
It's definitely designed for that scenario.
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by marshray 4y ago
Very short range. Requires many people for every km of defended line. Overwhelmed with numbers. Drones can avoid it with altitude. Overall, an expensive solution unless you happen to have thousands of bored soldiers who have nothing else to
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by marshray 4y ago
Unlikely that Apple even stocks "Texas Instruments ICs for board repairs" for their own use either. Custom ICs (and at Apple's volume why wouldn't they be custom?) will be ordered and delivered straight to the manufactur
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by marshray 4y ago
> However, if the exchange itself goes under you SOL. Either your deposits are federally protected from failure of the institution, or not. It's as ridiculous as me telling my credit card issuers that their loans to me are federally
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by marshray 4y ago
How would it be similar, when FTX has everything to do with FDIC/SIPC protections?
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by marshray 4y ago
"brokerage accounts are SIPC-insured, cash associated with brokerage accounts is managed into FDIC-insured accounts at our partner bank" https://twitter.com/Brett_FTX/status/1552339740397109248
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by marshray 4y ago
How do you accidentally make false statements about customer funds being FDIC- and SIPC-insured? It's just not plausible to me that this wasn't an intentional attempt to mislead about some pretty darn fundamental properties of t
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by marshray 4y ago
> You don't have the right to compel a third party Sure, but that's not what's going on here. The USG is compelling all third parties to refuse to provide the sanctioned entities with any services, which includes publi
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by marshray 4y ago
Any one malfunctioning passenger is sufficient to fail the overall flight. Assume each is independently probable of malfunction. If we know nothing else about the passengers, we can only model them as having some average rate of successful
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by marshray 4y ago
If the USG prevents you from contracting the services of publishing platforms, I think that would be a proper 1st Amendment issue. Probably the USG would argue that its interest in suppressing terrorist funding and money laundering override
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by marshray 4y ago
The probability of any passenger malfunction should be exponential by the number of passengers.
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by marshray 4y ago
Quite the bold design choice to put the removable storage on the underside of the motherboard.
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by marshray 4y ago
Intelligence directly affects, and can be observed in, employee work output. For some jobs, other it may not matter. In fact, US courts have upheld explicit discrimination against people of higher IQ: https://abcnews.go.com/
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by marshray 4y ago
What identity token would you prefer? Would it be bound to the mobile device in any way? Would it require that a canonical list of registered identities be stored server-side? How would you impose a cost on spam accounts without burdening u
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by marshray 4y ago
For what it's worth, that is cheap no-name Chinese test equipment he's using. Probably a $300-400 setup, which is not nothing, but well within reach of most families.
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by marshray 4y ago
It's about the lifecycle of the inventor, not the motor, silly. Even though the probability is low that he is founding a revolution in magnetodynamics, I personally found this story more inspiring than a blog post about the latest fron
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by marshray 4y ago
This stuff is so fascinating, I really need to learn more about it. :-)
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by marshray 4y ago
Bet it'd do just fine - maybe better than humans. People just get confused by large numbers of similar syllables because we have to buffer them for more processing. I suspect a pure speech-to-text model doesn't need to worry so mu
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by marshray 4y ago
> You’d obviously never do this for untrusted code. Doesn't panic imply that the program entered a state from which it was never explicitly designed to recover? Since that state may persist across invocations of a function, doesn&#x
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by marshray 4y ago
As the sibling post said: > I mean, if all bets are off, all bets are truly off. We have to expect that panic (e.g. from slice index operator) exercised an execution path that the library developer had never even considered, much less va
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by marshray 4y ago
Great article BTW, loved it! Will certainly become a classic. The web server example scares me. Something happened during execution that the programmer didn't expect. There's a bug in the program. What if the panic is due to memor
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by marshray 4y ago
It is human nature, but there is a lot to talk about here. Our inability to distinguish reality from fiction and propaganda is being weaponized to pry systematically at the cracks of or society and destabilize it from within. As AI becomes

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