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by pgalvin 2y ago
I was referring to the commenter’s second idea that perhaps the Mona Lisa on display today is a copy. Alas, the truth is less interesting.
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by pgalvin 2y ago
Unfortunately (for a fun theory), carbon dating and x-rays of the Mona Lisa have disproved that.
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by pgalvin 2y ago
Nowadays, and especially for those under about 30, phone calls come near-last on the list of things smartphones are used for. To change to the Librem 5, I would need to: - change the way I communicate with all of my friends and family by us
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by pgalvin 2y ago
Interestingly, Google has recently started to shift their entire infrastructure for location tracking off their servers and onto users’ devices. Motivated in part by geofence warrants (and, in this commenter’s opinion, perhaps by anti-abort
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by pgalvin 2y ago
Even if the system is safer than human drivers (I can’t speak to this), why would the lowest paid workers at the company voluntarily sign up for _any_ increased liability? If one of the programmers pushes out a bug that kills someone, why s
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by pgalvin 2y ago
Okay, I’ve got elements 29 and 30. Which side do I put each on? See the problem? :)
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by pgalvin 2y ago
Apple has a lot of technical solutions that mean data is collected, but is never associated with a particular user. As an example, location data is shared with Apple, but it’s associated with a random unique identifier rather than your acco
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by pgalvin 2y ago
You have not been able to export the raw data from Location History, via Takeout, for about a year (in preparation for this change). i.e. no GPX files
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by pgalvin 2y ago
It’s likely a mixture of genuine and ulterior motives, in this case. The amendment was proposed by a politician who seems to believe in it genuinely. Furthermore, there is a genuine gap in the law. There’s a case to be made that the law is
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by pgalvin 2y ago
It’s clumsy wording. I took the intended meaning to be: “This data is from New Zealand, replacing gas turbines, but many countries will also be replacing fossil fuel generators and have similar numbers.”
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by pgalvin 2y ago
Whilst the British Library is spending a lot more money rebuilding, and expected to take a year or more to be fully operational again, there are some upsides to this. Their IT infrastructure used outdated and insecure practices, which enabl
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by pgalvin 2y ago
That is exactly what the lawsuit against the IA seeks to establish as illegal. Almost everybody this thread mistakenly believes that the lawsuit is strictly about the unlimited lending that has long since been suspended - it is not. The law
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by pgalvin 2y ago
It’s actually about both. The unlimited lending provoked the lawsuit, but the lawsuit seeks to establish a precedent against 1-to-1 lending too.
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by pgalvin 2y ago
That is quite literally what this lawsuit is trying to establish as illegal (it was a grey area before). Many people misunderstand and think it is just about the temporary unlimited lending. It was motivated by that, but went further.
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by pgalvin 2y ago
The lawsuit is not limited to a ruling against the unlimited lending, but any lending whatsoever (even 1-to-1).
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by pgalvin 2y ago
It was intended to send a message of “we support you”. However, most healthcare workers are paid incredibly poorly and the NHS is generally in an extremely poor state, in part due to mismanagement and underfunding by successive governments.
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by pgalvin 3y ago
You’re right :) I misread your comment as saying there was no scenario where we should resort to it, and I meant to raise the question of if there could be one day.
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by pgalvin 3y ago
You’re playing devil’s advocate so I won’t criticise :) But I’ll add - cloud seeding might prevent heating, but it can’t prevent ocean acidification. Secondly, if one country or organisation came to dominate it, and the world settled into a
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by pgalvin 3y ago
I think the point being made is that mankind is not acting fast enough - we are currently on track for facing a real risk of an irreversible domino effect of heating that we can’t stop. The IPCC reports discuss a range of possibilities - th
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by pgalvin 3y ago
In order to protect an area from capitalism (e.g. logging), you generally need to give the locals some financial incentive. Eco-tourism is widely credited with protecting mountain gorilla populations, for example, when perhaps in a perfect
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by pgalvin 3y ago
On the contrary, it can provide a defence. “You have a defence if you can convince the court that you drank the alcohol in question after you had driven and that you were not over the limit whilst you were driving.”[1] With that said, your
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by pgalvin 3y ago
A 2-tonne vehicle making a dangerous manoeuvre and risking human lives for a squirrel is the same as an incredibly slow-moving, 5-10kg piece of plastic stopping its motor, in a garden, to protect a species vulnerable to extinction? Not to m
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by pgalvin 3y ago
On the topic of interesting Physics contributing to new cancer therapies, there is also Boron Neutron Capture Therapy ( https://www.neutrontherapeutics.com/about-bnct/ ). I gather the gist of it is that it builds up boro
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by pgalvin 3y ago
Do you happen to know when the air conditioning was added? I recall what seemed a very cold visit nearly two decades ago but couldn’t find any information online as to when the air conditioning was added.
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by pgalvin 4y ago
There is no decentralised backup of the IA. They’re using 100-200 petabytes of storage. The wayback machine alone is still in the tens of petabytes.
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by pgalvin 4y ago
If the messages are end-to-end encrypted, there is no way to do this. A backdoor or other mechanism means it is no longer end-to-end - some third party is involved. Furthermore, the UK has a long history of such “strict oversight and transp
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by pgalvin 4y ago
If you login on your phone, it’s possible your phone will automatically become a “second factor” if on Android, or if you have Google apps installed on iOS. This would resolve the problem, but I can’t promise it’ll work. Note: I mean in mob
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by pgalvin 4y ago
Happy to report the full book can be borrowed on the Internet Archive. This can be found on page 92, as indicated in your link. https://archive.org/details/cognitivepsychol00howa
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by pgalvin 4y ago
Cannot speak for this exact scenario, but generally in western and northern Europe (the only places I am familiar enough with) there doesn’t exist the culture of suing that the US has gained a reputation for - deserved or not.
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by pgalvin 4y ago
I’m not in this field at all, but having read a lot of research papers at the time it is my understanding that many countries have revised this recommendation (some even before Covid). It takes additional time, causes significant additional

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