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by pgeorgi 7y ago
I suppose the important bit is really that there's universal buy in (and with the moon landing thing that was supported by making it a matter of national pride). With incremental progress you risk things looking invisible (just like AI
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> You want bigger missions? A base? Mars? Nope, not what we’re going for. Could be specified as well: "Internationally organized base station (ISS style) on the Moon by 2030, permanently staffed after 2032, an experimental ecosystem
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
The Google Assistant/Lens stuff on Android phones has QR scanning integrated.
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> IMO, I'd rather have laws that state that if you are in any of the licensed "advice professions", that if you aren't licensed you have to clearly and loudly proclaim your lack of certification in any marketing mater
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That wasn't what the OP was asking. Instead there was some hand-wavy assertion that can be generated within seconds but takes minutes to disprove. That's a popular tactic to bind resources while at some point getting something tha
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
The reason I picked them is, as you said, that cause and effect are easily linked in their case. Colloidal silver is suspected to lead to kidney damage, but it's much less conclusive. I'd also call "you turn into a smurf&quot
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
https://www.heraldsun.com.au/archive/news/swiss-woman-starve... "This was the fourth known death linked to breatharianism and Jasmuheen's books since the practice emerged in the early 90s." Unlicens
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
> thus giving you access to the disk securely The amount of encrypted data could be a side channel
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There was such a statement in 2010. Times, situations, decision makers can change, so how would such a statement help?
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
Depends on "better". For any definition where better includes economic superiority, the easiest way to show that is to let time sort things out.
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> If you have an issue with visitors, talk to them. This is externalizing a social cost: Normally your neighbor (that you know personally, ideally, so you can discuss any matters with somebody you know) will take care of their visitors&#
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
Wow, that one looks good. Thanks for the pointer! I wonder how much is in there that precludes cross-compiling to Windows.
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> Thats right, in a language where everything looks like it's yelling at you, you have to find a little tiny period to find where execution resumes. In old non-proportional fonts on old CRT screens with low resolution, "."
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
I'm running a "beta test" of sorts of XMPP+OMEMA with non-technical people in my circles, and while Conversations (Android) and Monal (iOS) are getting there, there are still functionality and compatibility gaps. Gajim is a u
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
The elephant in the room is "what to do about email", and a significant part of the issues are related to the "encrypt email" use case: part of the metadata leakage, no forward secrecy, ... The closest advice to this in
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
> who leads Google’s Open Research The only trace I can find of that group/team/whatever is that she leads^Wled it. What does it do? > in order to stay at the company, she would have to “abandon” her work on AI ethics and he
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Good for you. The article is about schools in Germany, Hessen specifically, which is where for several decades I have more to do with schools than I'd like to.
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Retired. As soon as the kids are in the work force, they're not the teacher's problem anymore.
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Of course that trend continues, but it's their typical excuse ("we need to teach marketable skills") and once the kids are part of the workforce, any further training (e.g. to learn about that mythical Ribbon UI, I remember t
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
Swiss atomic clocks even, but they had some issues. https://spacenews.com/rash-of-galileo-clock-failures-cast-do... Wouldn't be too surprised if that ground station's job (which I guess is compensating for relativ
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
What prevents them is the inability to teach students beyond "click the button that looks _precisely_ like this to get the desired effect". That is, they consider knowledge gained in one of these applications to be non-transferabl
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
Depends on the field you're trying to enter: If the entire stack is open source based (most of devops that isn't Windows, for example), it certainly gives you lots more opportunities if you can show that you know what you're
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
I started working on open source firmware: first openbios, then coreboot. The one thing that made this a job opportunity (my career is coreboot-based for about 12 years now) was that I built some rapport within the communities. These days I
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
It provides awareness to differences in rules, signs and road markings which may help expand.
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Nuclear reactors are delicate machines, and owners all over the world treat them badly to maximize profits, those in France being no exception. In theory there's lots of controls and oversight and everything, in practice the nuclear in
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And worse than what the wikipedia article states (Bellard asserts that devices licensed for HEVC would be able to use BGP since it's the same technology), licenses are usually given for a certain purpose. I'd be wary about reusing
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
> Why is NBC putting pressure on Boeing? For the clicks? It's one of the cases where screwing up your product has consequences, even for a huge nation-state-backed duopolist. That happens so rarely it's newsworthy.
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
> Italy was free of the original sin and was making a good situation worse by joining the EU. "co-founding the EU" (but nevermind: EU and Eurozone aren't the same)
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> Their only plausible motive would therefore seem to be that they currently enjoy profiting off your raw browsing data and violating your privacy at the highest level by spying on it and selling it. Alternative take: DNS level blocking
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There's money to be made there, and they made a lot of money, so much that the company stopped caring about the other divisions - until they didn't, and it started to cost them tons of money in lawsuits. Yes, a different managemen

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