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by scottie_m 8y ago
Wouldn’t those same people want to avoid a place like Burger King in general? They’d be supporting the business of one of the largest consumers of beef in the world.
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How to avert a data-storage disaster(nature.com)
2 points by scottie_m 8y ago|0 comments
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The True Dollar Cost of the Anti-Vaccine Movement(arstechnica.com)
1 points by scottie_m 8y ago|0 comments
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by scottie_m 8y ago
In response to What could possibly go wrong? . That has nothing to do with whether or not it’s a good idea, just that I believe very little can go wrong I’m the context of Mossad oversight. I’m certainly not endorsing the deal.
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by scottie_m 8y ago
No, that isn’t at all what I’m saying, and you can tell that’s the case because it bears literally no relation to what I did say.
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by scottie_m 8y ago
You have to wonder if that software has flaws known to the Israelis, I certainly would if I used it.
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by scottie_m 8y ago
It’s OK, if the post had gone anywhere I would. Either way it’s good to know what happened, thanks.
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by scottie_m 8y ago
Probably not much, as I suspect the Israelis will keep a very close eye on the project and intervene if/as needed. They have a more realistic long-term view of the region IMO, and are capable of handling these issues effectively, if
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America’s Black Box: A Rare Look at the Violence of Incarceration(nytimes.com)
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by scottie_m 8y ago
I didn’t remove the punctuation or change the capitalization. I assume mods did it for... reasons?
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Unusual Lightcurve of a ‘What Is This’ Star(centauri-dreams.org)
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Volcanoes Lightning and Radioactive Gas, Too(nytimes.com)
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The Joy of Statistics(nature.com)
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Local leaders cooling to Boring Company tunnel promises(arstechnica.com)
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Ultima Thule may be a frankenworld(sciencenews.org)
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by scottie_m 8y ago
It’s Google, which is notorious for smothering virtually everything unrelated to search or ads in the crib, and especially when it’s something they made in-house. Add to that streaming games; problematic for the (by far) most popular two ge
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Psychiatry’s Incurable Hubris(theatlantic.com)
110 points by scottie_m 8y ago|123 comments
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by scottie_m 8y ago
As much as I hate privacy predators, I think there’s a difference between making life worse, and actively selling people things to shorten it and reduce the quality of health with addictive substances.
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by scottie_m 8y ago
I think it more or less already is, just as people have been condemning slavery for thousands of years. The problem is now as it always has been, that profitable things linked to power structures are hard to stop without widespread violence
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Boeing Downplayed 737 Max Software Risks, Self-Certified Much of Plane’s Safety(arstechnica.com)
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by scottie_m 8y ago
All of that changed when McDonnel Douglas merged with Boeing.
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Spacefaring Mythologies(centauri-dreams.org)
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Manganese in Parkinson’s Disease(stke.sciencemag.org)
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Air pollution causes 800k extra deaths a year in EU, 8.8M worldwide(eurekalert.org)
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by scottie_m 8y ago
In conversation you also have the benefit of being able to effectively use body language to communicate the delay without resorting to “uhhhh” or other sounds that make people seem uncertain or dim.
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Tesla Transforms “Full Self-Driving” and “Tesla Network” Language(thedrive.com)
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by scottie_m 8y ago
Humans are general intelligences requiring almost two decades of specialized training and growth before we even think about letting them drive. The human eye is also vastly superior to any camera in existence, so even being generous there i
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Training Artificial Intelligence to Predict Alzheimer’s Disease(undark.org)
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by scottie_m 8y ago
Outside of Five Eyes countries then.
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by scottie_m 8y ago
The thing is, a paywall isn’t going to work out for most publishers either, because they’re not worth the money. Most “content” out there is marginal at best, deceptive clickbait at worst. Putting up a paywall is more likely to just end in

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