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by mckirk 5y ago
This is also why, paradoxically, the more atrocious the actions of the state become, the more entrenched the people become in their belief in the propaganda. Because to question the propaganda would become dangerous existentially, if it wou
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For any future HQUs reading this: Please look up 'self fulfilling prophecy' and consider whether a forced outcome truly improves your learning, before updating your probability of 'being clippylike'. And give me a call i
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In places that use a silly system called 'Fahrenheit'.
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https://worldhappiness.report/ed/2022/happiness-benevolence-...
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That's strange, I don't have a membership and can see "Human Effect Matrices" for individual supplements without a problem. Only the inverse search, i.e. the matrix for "what helps against depression" is limite
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by mckirk 5y ago
For information on supplements like this, examine.com[1] is great. For many things, there is a "Human Effect Matrix" on there, which gives a good overview of the effects that were observed in studies, their magnitude, and how cons
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by mckirk 5y ago
Really? Everything points to 'economy is fucked for the foreseeable future', people are worrying about possible food and energy shortages, and your take is 'don't forget your FOMO though, stonks still go up'?
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I'm curious what we'll call this one. Afterburner sounds cool.
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I thought about it previously and found it kinda odd that it seems so natural to say 'the Ukraine' when usually that is only the case for 'acronym countries'. It sounds pretty ridiculous for example to say 'the Ital
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Because it is interesting to people on this platform?
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Germany's current gas reserves would last until about the summer, if it completely ceased importing gas from Russia (currently about 40% of its demand is met by Russia iirc). After that, things would get complicated for industry and po
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Isn't it ionic... Don't you think?
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Ah right, I had overlooked that, never having seen the word "lorawan" before. I honestly have no idea how widespread LoRaWAN is, but I would be very surprised if it came anywhere close to the coverage you can achieve using Apple u
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You also need a way to communicate back the tracking results, which presumably implies a SIM card and thus more opportunity to get detected (and linked back to you). But yes, in theory you can (and always could) do that. The barrier to entr
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I think it could be a case of "they were so preoccupied with wondering whether they could that they didn't stop to think whether they should". Without a doubt, FSD using only visual input would be the gold standard and awesom
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I still don't understand the decision to get rid of all the other sensors they used to employ. Yes, a human can drive using only video input (though sound and touch definitely help), but humans have an eternity in evolutionary pressure
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Oh god. Format string bugs in infotainment systems that can be triggered by careless radio stations. What could possibly go wrong.
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You guessed the 26 letters and then guessed the game was screwing with you?
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by mckirk 5y ago
With a redaction as bad as a Gaussian blur at such a high resolution (and a dictionary of only 2048 candidates), you don't need multiple angles to decipher those words. It'd be great if they replaced the key with bogus words first
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Okay, why do you think those are terrible though? Aren't they a useful tool, provided they are implemented in a privacy-preserving manner (which I suspect the ZK-proof implementation is all about)?
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It seems likely you are just trying to get a rise out of people, but I'll bite: Which tech do you mean, and what do you think makes it terrible?
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Great to see this on here! Since I've started listening to it, I go around recommending the book to basically everyone. The truths in there are so simple in theory, but it's still eye opening to be confronted with them.
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I agree! One of the few books I picked up and knew after the first few pages that I'd like it a lot.
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by mckirk 5y ago
That was a fascinating deep dive into an area I had no idea about, thanks! Of course I immediately tried to find a MagnaCut knife to maybe gift myself for Christmas... But it seems they aren't really available yet, if I'm not mist
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That would be either 'Red Rising' by Pierce Brown, or 'All Systems Red' by Martha Wells. Though I have to add a cautionary remark: I found the books in Wells' "Murderbot Diaries" to be short enough and gri
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As far as I can tell, we seem to be striving towards developing the most efficient means to have our attention subverted.
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And this coming from Dr Nonsense himself! What an honor. (I agree though, that was impressive mental gymnastics.)
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I suspect Excel et al. are the absolutely perfect topic to target people at the intersection of 'affluent' and 'overwhelmed'.
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The flu mutates at a way faster rate, though. If the current pandemic was caused by an influenza virus, you'd have a whole lot more strains to worry about. We're only seeing 'this many' Covid variants, because right now
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Run around screaming, of course! Have to get rid of the holiday-calories _somehow_.

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