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by rapjr9 2y ago
True, data can increase paranoia. It can have good effects also. One of the most common effects from wearing an activity tracker is people suddenly realize they are hardly moving at all. 95% of the time they are sitting (often 99% of the
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by rapjr9 2y ago
Machine Learning can be of some use in analyzing all this data. However with ML there are usually false positives, false negatives, and accuracy below 100%. If the ML says you have a 61% chance of having had a heart problem, is that meani
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by rapjr9 2y ago
Some telecom perspectives here: https://www.telecoms.com/security/us-offers-telcos-tips-on-t... https://www.telecoms.com/security/t-mobile-us-we-were-hacked...
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by rapjr9 2y ago
So until the new satellites are deployed and all receivers are replaced (say a decade or so), all civilian GPS could be jammed, shutting down a lot of civilization. Sure the military missiles will hit their targets, but nothing else will w
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by rapjr9 2y ago
I worked in research on wearables for more than a decade, including research with medical doctors. The number one reason we got from doctors about not using wearable data was that they didn't know what to do with it, what it meant. I
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by rapjr9 2y ago
Unfortunately many people claim an absence of evidence _without_a_thorough_search_ is evidence of absence. As in "I have haven't seen it so it must not exist". Many people who are experts do this. There needs to be some ne
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by rapjr9 2y ago
Most gasoline has alcohol in it now. How has that affected it's flammability?
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by rapjr9 2y ago
A little off topic, but what are the roads releasing into the environment as they wear down? Asphalt is often somewhat radioactive since it's made from oil? Is there benzene in there? What is the scale of asphalt nanoparticles compa
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by rapjr9 2y ago
So kids are not human and can't decide they don't like being told what to do?
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by rapjr9 2y ago
This is an area that appears to need some serious research. It seems entirely possible that "good posture" is an idea that comes from our monkey heritage where standing tall was a way to threaten other monkeys and gain status. A
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by rapjr9 2y ago
Has anyone done the calculation, adding up the wealth of the richest and determining the difference it would make in the lives of everyone else? Is it $100/year? $1000/year? $10,000/year? $100,000/year? $1,000,000&#
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by rapjr9 2y ago
People have ego's. Instead of saying they are wrong, adopt their perspective and help them discover your perspective. They may like your perspective and adopt it as their own reasoned opinion, lead them to it, and then they may adop
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by rapjr9 2y ago
But then the source code of the nation states is hacked and anyone can pull off nation state style attacks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vault_7 The nation states still have a money/people/breaking+entering
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by rapjr9 2y ago
While this looks astounding compared to where computer graphics was decades ago, it still often looks fake, both the terrain and the characters. Why is that, what is left to improve? Obviously character motion (maybe more variation so eve
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by rapjr9 2y ago
Indeed, if thinking about AI polluting the data and replacing humans. However, it also seems likely in the near term that training will go to the source because of this, that increasingly humans will directly train AI's, as the roboti
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by rapjr9 2y ago
I've worked on agents of various kinds (mobile agents, calendar agents, robotic agents, sensing agents) and what is different about agents is they have the ability to not just mess up your data or computing, they have the ability to di
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by rapjr9 2y ago
Seems like a natural reaction to ghost jobs. Post ghost applications in order to "sample the market" to find out which jobs might be real.
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by rapjr9 2y ago
Usurping the powers of Congress is the real issue here. If the military did things and hid them from Congress and the President, then they are in big trouble. Air safety is a secondary issue. National security is a concern, but given how
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by rapjr9 2y ago
They might blackmail you to get at their higher level targets. Still not much you can do about it, unless you work at AT&T or Verizon or Lumen, or you report the blackmail to the FBI, something most people probably would be extremely u
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by rapjr9 2y ago
If you are fired you get unemployment (which the company has to pay). If you walk out you get no unemployment benefits. A better strategy to use if WFH is enforced with the goal of getting workers to quit is to just keep working from home
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by rapjr9 2y ago
I've seen something similar happen and think I figured out the reason. Weather forecasts in my area were very accurate for decades, then they got much worse. They were off in timing for events, and incorrect about whether rain was go
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by rapjr9 2y ago
One of the studies is mentioned here, there have been others as well: https://time.com/6265510/covid-19-weaken-immune-system/
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by rapjr9 2y ago
Grip strength as a measure of aging has been known about for a long time. I was working on research with a gerontologist 10 years ago and he told me it was one of the most reliable measures he used in his practice for telling when someones
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by rapjr9 2y ago
Reminds me of this IR spectrometer that started as a $400 Kickstarter project: https://www.consumerphysics.com/ and became a successful product (for industry, not so much for consumers though it was initially sold to consum
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by rapjr9 2y ago
In trials now, trials expect to be completed in five weeks: https://drgnews.com/2024/10/23/south-dakota-company-to-test-...
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by rapjr9 2y ago
Usually WiFi, so it doesn't need a cable to transmit the video/audio. The video processing electronics in cameras probably also emit some RF but that would be at a variety of much lower frequencies and only detectable with someth
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by rapjr9 2y ago
Look for "bug detector" on eBay, there are lots of RF and optical camera detectors and they are fairly cheap. They work, at least so far as detecting steady streams of WiFi data, and cellphone transmissions, I've tried a cou
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by rapjr9 2y ago
This doesn't sound like a crisis? These are all recent: "How Much Does Long COVID Cost Society? New Data Shed Light" https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/how-much-does-long-covi... "Long COVID: con
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by rapjr9 2y ago
Too bad this article avoids describing what some of the complex ethical issues are. In my mind the big one is that nation-states could take over the creation and raising of children, creating a population of their choosing. Of course they
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by rapjr9 2y ago
I used to write very short programs for the Amiga that would scan through all the pixels on the screen and assign a color to them based on whatever math functions I felt like writing. They took hours, sometimes days to run, but the results

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