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by p-e-w 3y ago
> We publish this report today, because the maximum embargo period of 90 days we offer has been exceeded. Most of the issues mentioned in this report are currently not addressed by upstream, as is outlined in more detail below. > [...
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> The big lesson is that CFC removal has been a massive win for humanity and that kind of categorical and decisive climate action is exactly what we need in the future! That's one lesson. Another lesson is that when powerful people
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Lead is still everywhere: In fishing ballast, in curtains, in camera stands, ... I used to love removing those little lead pellets from curtain weight ropes. It wouldn't have crossed my mind to so much as wash my hands afterwards. I&
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Top-down control was not the norm in the past. In fact, top-down control in the modern sense used to be impossible. Sure, there were lords who claimed large parts of the population as their property. But they often didn't even have a
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by p-e-w 3y ago
The CFC ban really threw the baby out with the bathwater. We went from "let's put this stuff into every household item, and release it into the atmosphere by the billions of tons" to "nothing must ever contain CFCs ever
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by p-e-w 3y ago
I can't imagine what it must have been like for people to hear about yet another "miracle drug" that cures most diseases – and then gradually realize that this one actually works.
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by p-e-w 3y ago
What you're missing is the fact that in today's world, where almost every aspect of life is subject to top-down control, any "enabling" technology above all else enables oppressors to oppress more effectively. If free-fo
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by p-e-w 3y ago
I write what I consider to be the truth, because I believe the truth to be important, including when it is demotivating, and even when it is destructive.
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Yeah, but Google is a million times more powerful than Mozilla. Which is the whole point.
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> I don’t expect the EU to allow Google to treat fines as just a part of doing business. Why would you not expect that? That's exactly how EU fines have worked for the past 10 years.
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Sure. And impose a fine of 3-5 billion Euros. Which Google will fight in the courts for a few years, then eventually pay. Without actually changing their practices. For which they will again be fined a few years later. I wouldn't be su
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> The public managed to convince Intel to disable the serial number feature of their processors 23 years ago. At a time when technology companies were just companies – not the system that effectively runs much of the world. Mozilla also
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Nope. Only for those lucky one-in-a-thousand among them who did eventually win. Nobody respects, or even remembers, those who fought "to the bitter end" but lost anyway.
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by p-e-w 3y ago
The ugly truth is that lots of "science" being done today isn't actually science – it's a performance art that superficially imitates certain behaviors that are associated with real science. And how could it be otherwise
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Google isn't a "steward" of anything. They are an entity concerned with expanding their own power. And there is absolutely nothing that you, or I, or any other browser maker, can do about it. But at the very least, we can be
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by p-e-w 3y ago
The statistical interpretation of observations is so subtle and complex that it's a good idea to assume that any publication from the empirical sciences is complete garbage, until you know for sure that a qualified statistician has sup
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Moral posturing sure is fun, but we'll see what happens once Chrome becomes the only browser that you can use to log in to your bank. Mozilla made lots of noise about EME, but eventually fell in line – and that was at a time when Firef
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Alternatively, you could set up LanguageTool[1], which runs much faster, is more reliable, is open source, and, crucially, doesn't require sending what you wrote to a server on the Internet. Plus, it already has high-quality integratio
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by p-e-w 3y ago
HTML is the solution to walled-garden lock-in? What? Those walled gardens already use HTML, including some of the semantic elements mentioned (plus ARIA semantic attributes, which are much more sophisticated). > ChatGPT-like interfaces a
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> Because that’s the scientific method? The world's leading science journal publishing grand claims without verification, in the face of mounting evidence that the claims might be incorrect, is most certainly not "the scienti
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> imagine what you might sound like if you wrote a press release for or tried to explain to a layman some project you're involved in, and then had it translated to Korean. My understanding is that this was supposed to be a (draft of
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Look at some of the most ground-breaking research papers in the history of science, such as the Watson/Crick DNA structure papers. They literally discovered the core of life itself, which is infinitely more important than a room-temper
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by p-e-w 3y ago
So the groups trying to replicate right now are basically wasting their time?
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Sounds like they have it the wrong way round. Considering the uncertainty surrounding all of this, and the initial problems with replication, why would Nature publish this before it has been independently replicated? Not sure what they&#x
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> because they just got a few mm^3 But why? The base materials are cheap and easily available, and the synthesis process seems rather straightforward. Why don't they have kilograms of this stuff by now?
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> It's a shame that these papers were published before they were polished by the authors. Indeed. It's also a shame that they chose to use language like: "We believe that our new development will be a brand-new historical
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> In addition, when a pressed Pb10-xCux(PO4)6O pellet is located on top of a commercial Nd2Fe14B magnet at room temperature, no repulsion could be felt and no magnetic levitation was observed either. So what about the video[1] that shows
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by p-e-w 3y ago
It's weird to see how in such articles (which concern topics that are deeply philosophical by nature), philosophical terms like "facts", "consciousness", "knowledge" etc. are just thrown around as if there
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Indeed. It's astonishing how many people seem to believe that passing law X would accomplish X. We have no shortage of laws already. Including many laws that (on paper) protect individual rights. All of those laws are routinely being i
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by p-e-w 3y ago
The GDPR is merely a (weak) response to the overwhelming erosion of individual privacy that has been taking place during the past 20 years. In practice, individual privacy has been diminished to a degree that calling the GDPR an improvement

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