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by searine 3y ago
If you were smart enough to hack 23andMe to get genetic data to find a specific person, you'd be smart enough to reconstruct identities from publicly available data. You'd just have to cross-reference public anonymous databases wi
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by searine 3y ago
>but what if I want like 200.000 people so I can find one that has a DNA profile similar to mine There are already literally entire databases of millions of peoples DNA freely available for scientific research.
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by searine 3y ago
The reason chemical pest control and broadly spraying fertilizer on the top of fields are a thing is that they have low labor costs. You'd get more efficacy if you walked the field and removed pests by hand or sprayed fertilizer only w
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by searine 3y ago
There is a reason dairy farmers have to buy fertilizer. Most dairy farms are very efficient at collecting all the waste the cows produce. They then empty the pits into a tanker truck and spray/inject it onto the fields. It goes a long
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by searine 3y ago
>Here is where the AI robots could make a big difference Usually when someone says "AI will save the world because" it is followed by a bunch of naive hyperbole. However, you are 100% right. A few robust robots with an AI to sp
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by searine 3y ago
>Longer term you get different crops and even a return to things like crop rotation. Farmers never stopped doing crop rotation.
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by searine 3y ago
I agree, but is the design of the system malicious? I don't think so. It's just stupid, and exploited by malicious people.
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by searine 3y ago
Hanlon's razor. Never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity. The US healthcare system is a mess, but I don't think it's intentionally malicious. It is just a mash of a thousand different systems, creating one
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by searine 3y ago
Love Bobby B videos. Second that recommendation.
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by searine 3y ago
The deeper issue is the C-suite being unresponsive to users wants and needs. Reddits comments are a goldmine for LLMs, hiking the price on the API is to cash in on data greedy AI. 3rd party apps are just a pawn. Yes it is reddit's site
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by searine 3y ago
I tried to register, but my 30 character random letter password with numbers letter and characters "wasn't complex enough".
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by searine 3y ago
You could say the same about fingerprints, facial recognition, or behavior patterns. People get really paranoid about DNA for some reason but then willingly give out other kinds of PIID without caring.
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by searine 3y ago
>These loans should be dictated by the free market for a multitude of reasons It is a crime and tragedy that education needs loans at all. Students are not for your personal profit.
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by searine 3y ago
Education is investment in community, not a profit generating vehicle. I will gladly invest in my communities knowledge base any day of the week. Tax me. Please. Pay the teachers what they're worth and make the NIMBYs and FYGMs cry.
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by searine 3y ago
I generally agree. As I said, it was a hodgepoge, with no one solution covering the nation. Lots of proposals for more comprehensive solutions but nothing ever with enough momentum to make it into law. https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by searine 3y ago
>It’s really interesting how the US has managed to get a health system that’s extremely expensive, doesn’t cover everybody, is highly bureaucratic and complex, delivers below average outcomes and has overworked hospital staff. Well, most
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by searine 3y ago
>What does Opportunity have to do with science? Most science requires specialized tools and materials that cannot be obtained outside of an institutional environment. Tearing down the institutions means ceasing basically all non-profit g
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by searine 3y ago
>The fact it's a monster that eats people alive to me is an evidence that the whole thing needs to be torn down and replaced, which is the best way to erase all these sorts of harms. It is easy to tear down but hard to build. I get
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by searine 3y ago
Depending on options like depth and quality, a hundred to 500 hundred dollars.
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by searine 3y ago
Science was traditionally the hobby of the aristocracy, and the middle-class scientist is only a very recent invention. It's a shame that the career seems to be reverting to a track that only the independently wealthy can pursue. Gover
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by searine 4y ago
>and it's done on a long-term 'maintenance' basis rather than on experiment-basis. The thing is, you can't just start and stop many kinds of animal research. For certain models, there needs to be ongoing maintenance o
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by searine 4y ago
The threat of monoculture is overblown. Yes if your entire society relies on one staple crop that has low diversity and no pest management, you are at high risk, but that is not modern society. If the cavendish is wiped out, people would ba
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by searine 4y ago
Seconding 'drawabox', a great intro course that teaches sound fundamental skills.
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by searine 4y ago
Hard disagree. AI is a good tool for artists who already know how to draw, it is a terrible tool for beginners. It's like telling someone who wants to learn spanish to just use google translate. A beginner needs to practice raw fundame
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by searine 4y ago
Thanks.
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by searine 4y ago
The correct response to a criticism you disagree with is "thanks".
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by searine 4y ago
Pests will adapt to physical pest control like fire or crop rotation by timing their life cycles to avoid it. Robots aren't any different in that regard, if used without care pests could hypothetically adapt to their usage. The key to
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by searine 4y ago
Pre-prints should be avoided for any study that has a political bent (even if the authors don't intend it to). Pre-prints are fine for 99% of papers, because even if they are controversial they don't have a lot of reach. It is jus
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by searine 4y ago
There is more at play here than just an interesting experiment. The dramatic claims of the paper are not supported by experiments present. They highlight a real pattern, but that is far from proving SC2 being of synthetic origin. A better a
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by searine 4y ago
https://academictree.org/flytree/ does something similar for genetics or the base site for dozens of other disciplines.

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