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by sangnoir 2y ago
I meant to say the "simpler" (but still very complicated) solar sail approach was for a one-way trip . On paper, our civilization can muster the energy required to accelerate tiny masses to relativistic speeds. A return trip at t
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by sangnoir 2y ago
We'll need even bigger[1] breakthroughs in propulsion if it's going to be self-propelling itself back to Sol at relativistic speeds. 1. A "simpler" sci-fi solution foe a 1-way trip that's still out of our reach is a
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Frankly, with the amount of real-world walking required to progress in Ingress and Pokémon Go, most players were compensated by the motivation to get a decent amount of exercise, which had a net positive impact on their health. Most exercis
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Why would anyone take issue with this? Asking as someone who tried both games at different points. Niantic was always open with the fact that they gather location data, particularly in places cars can't go - I remember an early blog po
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Objective truth =/= Apolitical truth What research gets funding, grant selection, grant applications, getting donations, creating a research group, what gets published, who gets award prizes... all of it is political. Same goes dor t
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> The editor-in-charge, and indeed every human being, is always biased > You don't want an unbiased editor-in-charge, they're really just a person whose biases you don't recognize. These 2 truths are hard for some to di
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Your assumption is that there exists an "apolitical truth" that science should aspire to. There isn't. There are many truths that can be discovered through the scientific method. Those truths are inherently political (see el
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> In the 80s, 35% of university employees (administrators+faculty) donated to Republicans The Republican party used to be the leftwing party, right up until the 1960s - which is the right timeframe for the staff to have grown up in a &qu
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by sangnoir 2y ago
What sort of falsifiable evidence would be sufficient to convince you? That specific named individuals who were on slave patrols later became sheriffs?
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> If evidence for your claim was as plentiful as you claim, you would just add another link. I gave examples of 3 southern states (and a link to one, detailing how the law enforcement was devolved to antebellum mores in Louisiana)
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> Ideally, Google would be forced to divest itself of Chrome and that Chrome would become an open source project a la Linux. Clearly, that's very unlikely to happen. Chrome's upstream (Chromium) is already open source. If Goo
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by sangnoir 2y ago
I have noted we have shifted from "I can't find a single example" to "I don't trust the first provided source", and yet there are plenty of other sources, if you're searching in good faith. The history of
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by sangnoir 2y ago
CUDA is the assembly to Torch's high-level language; for most, it's a very good intermediary, but an intermediary nonetheless, as it is between the actual code they are interested in, and the hardware that runs it. Most customers
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by sangnoir 2y ago
I suppose if you dismiss an article out of hand due to the ideology of the author without even seeing what historical facts they claim or their references, they might not be valuable to you. Should progressive academics declare all CATO p
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> For the slave patrol point, I would appreciate a single example of this phenomenon Potter, Gary "The History of Policing in the United States"[1] references Platt, Tony, "Crime and Punishment in the United States: Immed
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by sangnoir 2y ago
But isn't free speech is when" others are forced to listen to me* without me seeing their trash takes? /s
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> Why should we expect a general-purpose instruction-tuned LLM to get this right in the first place? The argument goes: Language encodes knowledge, so from the vast reams of training data, the model will have encoded the fundamentals of
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> trying to move the world to Solar/electric etc. Is he, really? He recently announced that he supports Trump's position of getting rid on EV subsidies, stating that it hurts Tesla's competition more.
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> You'd need to buy Twitter for quite a lot of money On the other hand, if he had been forced to buy Twitter against his better judgement, he may have an axe to grind against the "overbearing" administrative state and use
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Not only do other HN commenters largely agree that it belongs to HN, they decided that it deserves to be the top comment on this discussion, at the time I authored this comment
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Well, one is before they spend a lot of money, and the other is after. In only one of those scenarios are they prone to spear-phishing wire fraud on the Title deposit. The victim is already primed, and has indicated they have gobs of mone
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Title deposit wire fraud is a very big risk. The amounts are devastating to the victims, so the operator has to go above and beyond to secure the data because of the huge risks involved. Would you risk losing a 5-/6-digit amount to f
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> Yeah, the only people who pragmatically need decentralization are people who are being censored but that's very few people. There is a larger group of people who are frequently harassed but don't have sufficient control to pr
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Join a botnet, and use your node to log into other devices and/or deliver attack payloads.
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A smart stethoscope won't monitor consciousness and lucidity, which are vital signals.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
HN nerds[1] talking about doctors reminds me a lot about bean-counters talking about IT and software. > Plenty of hackers who think they can do it better than the doctors right here on HN Of course they would, it's easy to come up w
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Microsoft, in its eagerness to hit Google's revenue, universally set DNT on its browser of the day, which muddied the water on informed consent, and gave Google and other trackers an excuse not to respect it, since it wasn't techn
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Remember: O2 gets paid for incoming international calls by the minute
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by sangnoir 2y ago
I'm not sure I'm following your argument in the context of this thread. Are you suggesting there were no surveillance court orders whose targets the Chinese found a d copied?
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How would their own targeting relate to "copying of certain information that was subject to U.S. law enforcement requests pursuant to court orders"? AFAIK, telecoms enforcement requests subject to court orders in the US mean one t

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