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by nyolfen 6y ago
that doesn't seem to describe ML either
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by nyolfen 6y ago
it was sitting underground and unknown to men for almost all of time
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by nyolfen 6y ago
i'm guessing this came out of the recent hackaton. it's insanely cool! big props. if i read it correctly, the readme mentions a not-yet-shipped install command. is there a projected date that is going to roll out?
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by nyolfen 6y ago
there can be more than one reason, but the censorship began in earnest after trump's election and before covid.[1] this isn't even a controversial position and i'm nowhere near the only person to have remarked upon it. [1] h
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by nyolfen 6y ago
it's the effect of trying to avoid regulation by self-regulating. after trump got elected, one of the big media narratives was that it happened because of misinformation ("fake news"); the response has been censorship by plat
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by nyolfen 6y ago
it doesn't have to be efficient, it just has to keep drones aloft indefinitely
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by nyolfen 6y ago
perhaps you should read the article
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by nyolfen 6y ago
you should try to listen to podcasts where you think the hosts are interesting. they’re useful for uncovering new threads of information of and modes of thought, which are more usually associated with what you gain from personal conversatio
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by nyolfen 6y ago
...yes? do you think bad things should be ignored if your side did them also or something?
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by nyolfen 6y ago
> But the key question is -- do you live in or have any connection to China? If not, then I would go with the CCP surveillance because there is no obvious mechanism for such surveillance to harm you directly. they can spy on your busines
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by nyolfen 6y ago
putting minorities in concentration camps and state sanctioned ip theft are probably worth considering
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by nyolfen 6y ago
is america feudalist for having a drug czar?
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by nyolfen 7y ago
it's a minimal turing-complete function, built out into a higher-level language and functional, deterministic operating system (arvo) that is virtualized on a host OS. arvo runs an encrypted overlay network that is decentralized and fe
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by nyolfen 7y ago
> federated/feudalist network organization, etc. it turns my gears when people describe urbit as 'feudalist'. feudalism is what we have now, where we're serfs on facebook's manor and can't pack our stuff and
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by nyolfen 7y ago
you've been able to download urbit and use it for decentralized chat and forum discussions (in an earlier version) via webui since ~2014. this is the first instantiation of something like a full social software suite, but it's als
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by nyolfen 7y ago
you are hopelessly naive if you think this is a coincidence
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by nyolfen 7y ago
you can definitely assume they have a cozy relationship: > NSO's founders are ex-members of Unit 8200, the Israeli Intelligence Corps unit responsible for collecting signals intelligence.[9]
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by nyolfen 7y ago
i think i would settle for them saying the word 'taiwan'
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by nyolfen 7y ago
how granular is ss7 psl data? if it's decades old i suspect it isn't gps coords or anything (not diminishing the seriousness of this; mostly curious about whether this is something the rest of us should be worrying about)
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by nyolfen 7y ago
great review of one of his books here: https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/8bypq0/read...
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by nyolfen 7y ago
if you're homebound and enjoy exploring game systems, you could do worse than diving into a few rl's
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by nyolfen 7y ago
> “As Lawrence O. Gostin, a professor of global health law at Georgetown University, put it: “The truth is those kinds of lockdowns are very rare and never effective.”” uh, except... the one we all just watched be successfully implemente
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by nyolfen 7y ago
i do not doubt that there art parts of sweden with significant diversity; it still pales in comparison with america, one of the most diverse nations in history
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by nyolfen 7y ago
the largest nordic population is sweden, which is less than 10% the population of the US. it is also ethnically significantly more homogenous than the US, which by your own standard is dizzyingly diverse ('white' contains dozens o
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by nyolfen 7y ago
the WP glasses i tried a few years ago via mailed preview package all seemed like the very lowest quality i had ever handled -- flimsy plastic, cheap-feeling hinges. totally pleased with my 40$ pair from zenni though.
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by nyolfen 7y ago
not sure how pervasive biometric monitoring is supposed to address elder abuse, but "elderly are a severely under served community" is perhaps the most historically rootless and wrong-yet-unfalsifiable thing i've read this we
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by nyolfen 7y ago
advocate for policies that will return manufacturing to domestic factories
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by nyolfen 7y ago
it's much, much deadlier and more contagious than the flu, there is hardly any research into treatment, no vaccine and no herd immunity. if this gets into serious exponential takeoff, which seems increasingly likely, we're talking
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by nyolfen 7y ago
many people have beloved family members who are older than 60. even if you are young, the symptomatic infection can be very severe and disabling for a week or two. it's also extremely contagious. > especially not since lethality goe
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by nyolfen 7y ago
significantly less deadly than sars but also significantly more contagious. sars was only contagious once you showed symptoms, which does not appear to be the case here. for covid, los alamos suggests a pre-intervention r0 of 4-6: https:

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