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by nerdponx 2y ago
That doesn't make sense because information is still costly to collect. It only loses value if everyone already knows it, but that's the opposite of what's going on here. Companies that collect and correlate this data keep th
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Both. Analogy: we need safer road design and better enforcement of antisocial driving behavior and stricter penalties for hurting people with your vehicle or putting them at risk of harm.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
If you're interested in the topic, it's a pervasive and not-fully-solved problem even in well-intentioned research, where special care is needed in order to avoid accidentally re-identifying individuals in anonymized data simply b
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by nerdponx 2y ago
That's because all of the content blocking actually results in a very distinct fingerprint. If you want to be un-fingerprintable, you need to look like a lot of other people.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
It can uniquely identify you , personally, danielvaughn, among a sea of millions of other "anonymized" users. That information can be used to provide precisely-targeted advertising -- or coming soon to a Kroger near you -- precis
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Good to know and thanks for that link. I am curious why this was downvoted, is that not a trustworthy resource?
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Ethanol subsidies. Part of the demented legacy of the Bush era. And it's only getting sillier: https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/biden-team-sets-out-e...
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Because currently the manned spaceflight component of NASA is more like a jobs program than a useful contributor to science and space exploration.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
As I understand it, Ukraine is mostly getting old outdated equipment, and Israel is actually buying weapons, not just receiving them as gifts.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
It will be impossible to enforce. The people who don't leave good reviews simply will get dropped from the mailing list. However, it forces the whole thing to kind of move underground, which should help at least reduce the scale of the
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Especially now that literally anything the FTC does could be struck down by a federal judge at any time, unless it is explicitly written out or delegated legislation.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
The "light bad" argument I think misses the point. It's not about heating, the idea is that an electromagnetic field might excite electrical systems in the body, and that we have evolved to tolerate some baseline level of th
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by nerdponx 2y ago
If radio waves activate calcium channels in the heart or whatever, hopefully it's at least something that can be triggered to a greater or smaller degree and thereby can still be studied.
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It's only irrational if you don't fear all sources of radio wave emission by the same amount.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Or just get sick from close contact with another human being. Influenza and Covid-19 can be serious! Probably much greater risk there than from somehow accidentally getting boiled alive by radio waves from a scanner.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
It would be conclusive if the smell of alcohol consistently made people sick but actually drinking (magically deodorized) alcohol had no apparent effect on the same people.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
This is the same nonsense argument that people use in favor of abolishing police. "They only catch some crime and keep some criminals off the streets, not all of it" is a totally nonsensical reason to get rid of the institution en
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by nerdponx 2y ago
I disagree, I think it's worse than useless. It provides a false sense of security to voters, and it will prevent future reform because people will think the problem has already been solved.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
I wonder if they're going to put their content behind a subscription or paywall somehow.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
It's still useful because it provides some information . Specifically, a change in life expectancy, or a change in the rate of change in life expectancy (as here) means something . We just don't necessarily know what that someth
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Yes, if you're lucky you'll pass out or go into shock or dissociate. But you might not get lucky. I also wasn't focused only on predators. Actually being shaken around and ripped apart by a lion is probably not the worst wa
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Right, but the license attached to a file doesn't make it clear whose diffs are whose. You don't think it would be a reasonable defensive measure to include a license so it's obvious who committed which changes on exactly w
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by nerdponx 2y ago
The actual story here is that it's slowing down because the lower tail is growing , not because the upper tail is compressing as we hit some kind of upper limit of human longevity. That is: more people are actually dying younger , wh
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by nerdponx 2y ago
There's a myth floating around among certain "crunchy hippie" types that predation in nature is relatively humane and usually results in a quick kill. That myth could be dispelled easily by watching just about any wildlife vi
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Are there any "citizen science" initiatives where I can buy a device like this and upload my insect counts to some database that's useful for researchers? I have been interested in setting up some things like home weather mon
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by nerdponx 2y ago
You could imagine doing it with 2 specialized NNs, but then you have to figure out a huge labeled dataset of scene graphs. The problem fundamentally is that any "manual" feature engineering is not going to be supervised and fitted
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Should open source contributors start including license terms with every commit? Or at least an SPDX identifier.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
The same exact thing goes for physical addresses too. The fact that I live at my address is public knowledge. But the presence of my address in any particular database, mailing list, etc. is not and should not be public knowledge.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Python does typing pretty darn well now for data like API requests and responses. "Typed Python" does poorly (compared to e.g. Typescript) on things like overloading functions, generics, structural subtyping, et al.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Are we sure that microplastics from the new pipes aren't just as bad? Can you make your water reasonably microplastic-safe by running it for 2 minutes in the morning?

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