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by return1 7y ago
"washing" is a euphemism for pressing a button, though
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by return1 7y ago
i dont think that is the case. people care about their privacy, and facebook provides adequate controls to make them feel safe. they have not had leaks of private messages for example, which would be very embarassing. and compared to the wi
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by return1 7y ago
Nature has an editorial on the paper that is better and free https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01328-x
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by return1 7y ago
Yes, they are synthesizing speech from thought while the person mimicked speaking moving their mouth but making no sound. > Although synthesis performance for mimed speech was inferior to the performance for audible speech—which is proba
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by return1 7y ago
> Why are advances like this always presented as useful in a medical context? You don't think that people who have lost the ability to speak, e.g. from stroke would find it useful?
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by return1 7y ago
That is the case https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/09/06/the-america...
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by return1 7y ago
in the same way that facebook just merged existing friend networks to a bigger one.
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by return1 7y ago
this is a necessary step forward if we want to create a borderless union where you can't trust your neighbours.
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by return1 7y ago
winter is coming
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by return1 7y ago
i dont know any relevant project sorry
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by return1 7y ago
more centralization, great. why not make search itself distributed by broadcasting the queries recursively and gathering results?
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by return1 7y ago
I 'm not a content maker, but i 'd say go ahead and make it. Despite what people say, most publishers do use that strategy. As they say, look at what people do.
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by return1 7y ago
Does user-contributed content count as well? I run https://opensimworld.com/ as a profitable freemium community while nursing some other projects too (listed here: https://projectilo.com/user/igniweb )
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by return1 8y ago
this startup is based in EU so they have to comply for all their users around the world.
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by return1 8y ago
> the EU outlawed environmentally shitty lightbuilbs when did that happen?
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by return1 8y ago
this is actually true, while in theory EU says GDPR applies abroad, it simply doesn't because its not law of the land. Only indirectly can it be enforced, e.g. a US based payment processor would want to comply because otherwise EU busi
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by return1 8y ago
i thought it applies to EU residents/ visitors in the EU, and to the users of companies based in the EU...
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by return1 8y ago
the damn thing is more abstract than poetry. it s indicative that all these months, i have not seen a single article / presentation that provides a concrete example of how to shield a website.
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by return1 8y ago
How could that problem be solved? Is it something that market forces could somehow self-correct? It is in a sense a general cultural issue, but how does one go about correcting the culture?
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by return1 8y ago
between this and the various DNS hacks, maybe we should consider a trustless solution.
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by return1 8y ago
.com is a good compromise. i believe the average user assumes the .com domain to be the most legitimate / canonical.
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by return1 8y ago
shouldnt we be using some trustless system for encryption by now?
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by return1 8y ago
since DNA is by nature unalterable, that implies that there is no right to privacy of DNA.
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by return1 8y ago
and sequence it
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by return1 8y ago
i find it hard to believe that they were so lucky that a "small website that allows you to upload DNA data directly" just happened to have that data.
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by return1 8y ago
could they even? They d have to send a letter to all the relatives of each of their customers that their partial genetic information is stored in their computers.
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by return1 8y ago
it is problematic. but 1) we 're mostly talking about mice - higher animals are a lot more regulated and 2) the best we can do is to improve experiment registration and reporting in order to avoid all the redundant work and improve pro
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by return1 8y ago
We re talking about killing ~15 million people every year in the USA alone. That's one hell of a way to eradicate cancer, of course.
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by return1 8y ago
security, like DNSSEC does. but only 1% of domains use DNSSEC. there are other advantages, like uncensorability, direct access to dns records, disadvantage is speed I am not advocating "blockchain for every problem", but name reso
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by return1 8y ago
how is it not a better solution in this case?

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