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by neiman 7y ago
Yeah, the joke did have some insight to it. I'm a mathematician, where theorems cannot be patented. It makes things so much easier in case we'll start proving (some simple) theorems using computers in the near future.
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by neiman 7y ago
This all becoming a bit too complicated... why not to just cancel the patent system and that's it? :-) (humor people, humor)
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by neiman 7y ago
You're right. There were cars passing and pedestrians, but their noise didn't penetrate into the apartment. By "dead silence" I meant what's being heard from inside the house.
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by neiman 7y ago
I know, I took the liberty of sharing in the comments a story of increasing audio level in society in general as I think these are connected social issues.
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by neiman 7y ago
Where I was born it used to be dead silence at night till about a decade ago. Then the buses started announcing station names outloud. As the announcement is loud and the bus windows are open, I get woken up from it almost every night. Next
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by neiman 7y ago
Nations are turning the internet into a weapon. It's terrible when it comes to authoritarian nations, as it's so difficult to imagine an upheaval taking place under internet surveillance, but it's even scarier with democracie
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by neiman 7y ago
Mixed reality
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by neiman 7y ago
Where are we standing with open XR? Especially equipment, including controllers? I love XR (=VR/AR/MR), but I still didn't manage a good easy open source way to do that.
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by neiman 7y ago
I just saw people using it when I visited Mozilla, but it looked fantastic then. Not to mention the moral aspect of it.
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by neiman 7y ago
As long as I can run Firefox on it, and it got a micro-SIM, I'm good. There's a web alternative for most apps I use, where besides that I just need a tiny computer in my pocket with constant connection to the internet (hence, micr
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by neiman 7y ago
I really rather opt-in:-)
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by neiman 7y ago
ENS allows to register names with emoticons, I think that regular URL allows that as well. The problem with those things is not that they're not memorable, but that there's no good UI to type then when you want to write the name.
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by neiman 7y ago
> There is plenty of documentation on data collected (see first posts regarding Human Web on the tech blog), how anonymization works, why record-linkability on data collected is prevented (and forbidden), etc. Furthermore, source code ca
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by neiman 7y ago
The problem where I live and studied, is that libraries state and book stores has deteriorated in the last few years for obvious reasons. At the same time it became difficult, or actually, impossible, for a privacy conscious person to buy e
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by neiman 7y ago
Soon to be obsolete: a driver.
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by neiman 7y ago
"Starting in the last week or so, hordes of fake people were beginning to come in.." Who would have imagined giving free money would cause that?
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by neiman 7y ago
I understand many people here, and in the world, don't like cash anymore. But there are many others, like me, that still think that physical money gives them a better feeling of their spending. So in my eyes Kong is a really nice take
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by neiman 7y ago
Is there any positive ethical aspect of this tool?
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by neiman 7y ago
That's great! How do you represent a chemical structure mathematically? Is it a graph? Or something else? It seems more complicated than just a simple graph structure.
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by neiman 7y ago
This is quite strangely written, but if I understood correctly: - they got $1.1 B for selling PIR - the will build a new misterious endowment to manage this money, right?
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by neiman 7y ago
Together with selling .org to Ethos Capital, we're getting a worrying picture of problems with the current model of managing TLDs. Managing TLDs is a lot of power in 2019, since the Internet is such a powerful player now. I'm not
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by neiman 7y ago
Is RISC-V fear is theoretical or is it based on some specific example(s) that happened to them, or some other foundation, in the past?
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by neiman 7y ago
I haven't read all those papers, but basically you could always bribe miners, even without smart contracts, just by giving them money outside the blockchain they mine. One of the ideas of PoW is that if you have enough money to bribe t
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by neiman 7y ago
"The name, contact number, email and shipping address within certain orders may have been exposed." I really hate that most companies force me to give a phone number when I buy something. Why do they need it? Why forcing? I usua
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by neiman 7y ago
Isn't it creepy that People Data Labs, "a data aggregator and enrichment company", collected data on 1.2 billion people? Isn't it exactly what GDPR came to prevent? Are there no Europeans among this group?
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by neiman 7y ago
A distopian car for a distopian world.
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by neiman 7y ago
Wow, may be slightly overwhelming for a newcomer but a great idea nevertheless! Which tools they used to make these beautiful infographics?
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by neiman 7y ago
I dunno why they need it and I personally won't share it, but if they ask honestly, without any manipulation tricks, and people decide to share it, I don't see an issue. Freedom goes both ways.
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by neiman 7y ago
Doesn't seem like the case here, you need to participate in the "Intel Computing Improvement Program".
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by neiman 7y ago
afaik it is a request for opt-in collecting metrics, while still trying to respect your privacy (as much as possible in this use-case). I won't do that, but if someone agrees I don't see any ethical issue with it. Is there anythin

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