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by shadofx 8y ago
Not like there's a lack of open source web browsers. Why go specifically for the closed source Chinese-owned browser that asks for your crypto keys and provides a "free" "VPN"?
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by shadofx 8y ago
Do note however, that powerful nations often do such convincing with the barrel of a gun.
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by shadofx 8y ago
It's political in nature
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by shadofx 8y ago
RTX provides a unified lighting model that "just works" out of the box. It's a feature that caters to AAA game artists, who want to spend more time doing art and less time rebaking textures for 2 minutes each time they change
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by shadofx 8y ago
The premise is that 20th century historians rewrote history to fit their political-economic theories, not that innovation is not real. >None of these points is accurate. Duke was not the first to use the cigarette machine; in fact, all o
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by shadofx 8y ago
To find out what parts are technically challenging.
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by shadofx 8y ago
You can still configure zero conf frameworks, it's just not explicitly required for it to function
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by shadofx 8y ago
You "can", however case law in the US is very deeply anti-plaintiff, due to centuries of supreme court justices voting in favor of free speech. A joke would not satisfy the criteria for libel.
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by shadofx 8y ago
I think "helicopter parenting" is not related to authoritative, authoritarian, and permissive parenting styles. The former defines the parent's relationship to the child's society, whereas the rest defines the parent&#x2
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by shadofx 8y ago
In the latter situation, the government will print the money they need for doling. Then everyone will be making >$10m/yr as the value of the dollar drops to zero.
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by shadofx 8y ago
Academia boycotting the military won't destroy the MIC. It will simply move all military research into military sectors, because if you can train a person to kill, you can train them to do science.
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by shadofx 8y ago
It's probably possible, but you'd need gigabytes of child porn to train a NN to detect child porn versus porn in general.
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by shadofx 8y ago
Tracking users and showing ads is blatant harm. Controlling the market and raising costs for sellers results in those costs being passed on to the buyer, causing indirect harm.
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by shadofx 8y ago
It means arresting a suspect on a minor misdemeanor which satisfies warrant requirements to make the suspect available for interrogation for "another", bigger crime.
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by shadofx 8y ago
Time would be saved because they won't use the system. /s
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by shadofx 8y ago
You could isolate some mosquitoes in captivity and wait for the afflicted ones to die off completely.
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by shadofx 8y ago
What if the mutation somehow jumps species? Maybe some sort of mosquito retrovirus which makes a transcription error and copies Gene drive into its RNA?
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by shadofx 8y ago
It eats it's own poop and then licks your mouth, or your fingers which you then eat with.
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by shadofx 8y ago
Some of our medical machines were invented under the assumption that Helium would be dirt cheap. Once the price of helium rises those machines will become absurdly expensive to operate, and people will start dying of treatable diseases. Not
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by shadofx 8y ago
Any legitimate grievance can sound like "propaganda placed by hostile foreign agents to undermine domestic morale" to the right ears.
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by shadofx 8y ago
Radiation has known degrees of safety. https://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_tab... >There is no "safe" level of asbestos exposure for any type of asbestos fiber. https:/&#x
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by shadofx 8y ago
https://www.osha.gov/SLTC/asbestos/ The difference between asbestos and radiation is that there is no "safe" amount of asbestos exposure, according to OSHA.
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by shadofx 8y ago
The laws are put in place as a measured response to real threats. You need to remove those threats first before the laws can be changed.
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by shadofx 8y ago
from the article: >Once MySQL published this invalid character set, it could never fix it: that would force every user to rebuild every database.
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by shadofx 8y ago
ISPs really only started abusing their power in 2011-12, hijacking connections to point to their own stuff, blocking video, etc. They got sued. Then the FCC got tired of wasting money in court so they made it a rule.
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by shadofx 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oncovirus
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by shadofx 9y ago
The need for human operators to identify targets serves as a hard logistical limit to how many drone strikes can be delivered. Turning them into a machine removes that limit. Suppose you decrease error rate by 10% (optimistic), but increase
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by shadofx 9y ago
This is more like a plumber being hired to fix the kitchen sink having a moral obligation to search the septic tank.
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by shadofx 9y ago
+delivery truck can serve the entire neighborhood, saving gas from everyone's cars +frequent restocking means you can use a smaller, more energy efficient refrigerator +frequent restocking potentially means fresher food -supply is cent
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by shadofx 9y ago
So Trump is a harbinger of technocommunism?

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