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TLDR > This investigation’s interim report concludes that SARS-CoV-2 and the resulting COVID-19 global pandemic was, more likely than not, the result of a research-related incident associated with coronavirus research in Wuhan, China. I
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The people who made the shows got paid. The commercial television network that broadcasts the shows is paid by commercials. And TV networks don't like commercial skipping, e.g. https://www.techdirt.com/2012/05&#x2F
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You don't know what websites have ads until you visit them. But the problem isn't the presence of ads. It's that the ads are served by advertising networks, that track users across multiple websites and build profiles of user
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You are assuming Earth-like "meatbags". A suitably advanced civilization might be able to genetically re-engineer their bodies with live longer, and in more exotic environments. They may also go the cyborg route and have mechanica
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One thing I try to do is retrieve information from the system instead of hardcoding it. For example, instead of USER=mail UID=8 use USER=mail UID=$(id -u $USER) It improves portability and removes potential sources
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(I missed that one, thanks)
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I try to use the long-form of command-line switches in scripts, e.g. `cp --force` instead of `cp -f`.
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I trust humans telling me to trust their computers less than I trust humans or computers by themselves. Computers are human artifacts that amplify human biases.
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A separate question is how reliable the blood oxygen sensors actually are. For example, see https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/safety-communications/pu... > Many patient factors may also affect the accuracy o
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I learned how to program on personal 8-bit computers using BASIC as a teenager in 1980. There were no data structures besides arrays, and there was no theory. The internet was not available to mere mortals and books and magazines were expe
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> I was there earlier this month with a team making a documentary for GB News GBeebies right wing propaganda? > The police and social services have lost huge amounts of confidence, while the Labour Party has been especially damaged, t
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> If you have some "thing", that is so grotesque that it needs to break a users web browser in order to work correctly, you no longer have a "site". You have a creature, you have an application. There is nothing &quot
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If people have to install an app just to us your site, then many of them won't bother. And a significant portion of business users will be in desktop browsers with restricted permissions, so they can't install an app
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This goes for most "work" that requires a bit of thought and planning. People are expected to be at a desk for X hours a day so they can be managed, monitored and measured.
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I've removed external fonts and scripts due to GDPR concerns. I'm not going to add this.
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You purchase a lifestyle signifier. It's the tech equivalent of wearing Gucci.
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Henry Miller Odyssey (1969)(youtube.com)
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Henry Miller talking about his life and work, with him reading some of his work.
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Nuclear and biological weapons are also part of the "natural progression of technology" but it's widely agreed that they shouldn't be released to anybody and everybody, and the people distributing those technologies have
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I suspect that the public liked it before the pundits.
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And for anyone who insists that Apple is one of the good guys: > In response, Apple contacted the Secret Service and they raided my apartment. After censoring the work online, Apple did not pursue a civil case against me.
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This started to become a problem in the early 1990s. A friend of mine had trouble with his Honda that turned out to be a faulty but expensive microchip that needed replacing. Gone are the days when you could go to a local junk yard and pick
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This caught my eye: > In 2017, the New York Times reported that Uber had identified various local politicians and regulators and served them a separate, misleading version of the Uber app to avoid regulatory penalties. At the time, Uber
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The ancient Egyptians expressed axioms by a series of concrete examples. Stating them as actual axioms or theorems with proofs (by Greeks, Indians and Chinese, among others) was an improvement. How can we communicate actual axioms to extra-
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For what it's worth, the Tolkein Estate is involved with the production, because they were unhappy with Jackson's adaptation. The source material is a vague outline that stretches out over centuries. But I'm tired of purists
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How can you communicate the axioms of Peano arithmetic to intelligent extra-terrestrials, in a way that they would recognize it?
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That's a rather naive view of truth. For intuitionistic mathematics (which is very important for theoretical computer science), truth is a mental construct of a proof in a language, and only shared by communicating that construct to o
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No. From the article, > While it is popularly claimed that it is illegal to die in Longyearbyen, the wording of this claim is misleading. While it is not actually illegal to die in the town, there are no options for burial of bodies ther
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Wikipedia will allow pages devoted to individual characters from Tolkein stories, but not pages about real people who have contributed something to science or culture.
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I was disagreeing with this statement: > My modern version of this is browsing with JavaScript disabled. Most of the sites that don’t work weren’t worth my time anyway. I think a lot of sites that require JavaScript are worthwhile. (Whet

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