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by simiones 2y ago
> There is a cryptographic mixer like Tornado Cash that is responsible for the unlinkability, by “tumbling” the tokens to anonymize them while still making sure that each person voting legitimately had registered. This is not anonymity,
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by simiones 2y ago
The most likely thing by far is that the download failed part way through, but the error was never reported, or the reported error was never checked. Also, it's quite possible that the HTTP client didn't even know that the downloa
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by simiones 2y ago
I was trying to reference this famous video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWM_PgnoAtA
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by simiones 2y ago
It's quite impressive to read an article as alarmist as this and find that basically every regulation it's complaining about is actually very sensible. Of course an AI tutor is a high risk scenario: having an AI that children are
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by simiones 2y ago
Nah, you can totally drink a big glass of that.
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by simiones 2y ago
> though of course it leans in the other direction. Besides what the others have noted, are you implying that the Twitter is leftist, or that the WSJ is? Overall, both the WSJ and Twitter very much lean right in the political spectrum.
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by simiones 2y ago
I have no idea. I understand there are some a priori reasons to believe whole grains have certain health benefits. From what I quickly found in some basic searches, some studies find an effect, some don't. Those that do are typically p
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by simiones 2y ago
> Since the mechanism by which TFA increases CVD risk is separate to this, this is compatible with TFAs causing harm. As far as I know, the main mechanism for that is reduction of HDL-c. However, the study you cite found no reduction of
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by simiones 2y ago
TFA is suggesting almost the exact opposite. "Servers" are moving more and more to an architecture where the service is a distributed collection of machines all over the world sharing only a DNS name; multiple servers share the sa
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by simiones 2y ago
Our eyes (+ brain visual processing) are way better than the vast majority of cameras you can buy, judged on things we care about in driving. Typically only high-end film cameras approach the dynamic range of our eyes, for example. The on
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by simiones 2y ago
It does in certain strictly determined conditions + human assistance. But the point Tesla didn't go through "FSD with ultrasonic + lidar + cameras", and then start to reduce the sensors. They went from "no FSD" to
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by simiones 2y ago
> Some people want to write an entire library rather than writing statements. Why? Because you want to make code more readable, and getting rid of extraneous intermediate results is one way of achieving that.
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by simiones 2y ago
You often end up with a lot of extraneous variables with no useful names if you do that. A lot of the time the intermediate results in a pipeline are almost meaningless.
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by simiones 2y ago
You can actually (almost) make it work, you just need to add an extra type parameter to keep Go's silly limitations happy [0]: strs := []string{"abc", "defgh", "klmnopqrst"} ints := From[string, int]
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by simiones 2y ago
If the drug is needed by 1 million people, selling it for $1 will net you $1 million (let's assume all the 1 million can afford $1). If they instead sell it for $1000 and only 2000 people who need it can afford it, they'll make $2
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by simiones 2y ago
> From the economics perspective, something being Monopoly doesn't mean it's inefficient. From an economics perspective, if there is a monopoly, there is no free market, so you can't rely on the market for efficiency. A mo
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by simiones 2y ago
I misread the question a bit, sorry. Still, I believe the arguments hold - while I'm sure that it's possible to make cheap er missiles, especially if we take into account the markup typically associated with military contracts, I
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by simiones 2y ago
> Ares is building a new class of anti-ship cruise missiles. Not sure what this has to do with my claims about not being able to use cheap drones for taking down fighter jets. Military ships, like tanks, are also somewhat slower and
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by simiones 2y ago
Each of the Nobel prizes is awarded by a different committee from a different organization. The Nobel Peace prize was established at the same time and in the same way as the Literature, Physics, Physiology or Medicine, and Chemistry prizes
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by simiones 2y ago
In addition to the other replies, he is the only US president in modern history to explicitly authorize the assassination of a US citizen without a trial, and create a legal doctrine allowing future presidents to do so; and he was the major
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by simiones 2y ago
No, because all the things you got rid of to make drones cheap when fighting tanks are required when fighting fighters. You only need to be slightly faster and slightly more maneuverable than your target to take it down, while older AT weap
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by simiones 2y ago
For one, because of physics: it's easy to hit a slow moving tank from a flying vehicle. It's impossible to hit a fast-moving flying vehicle from a slower moving one. And you can't make a cheap light rotor-based drone move as
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by simiones 2y ago
There is no guarantee whatsoever that if Russia were to launch a nuke on Ukraine, the USA or any other country would launch one against Russia. If they launched one on the USA or a EU country, that would be a different matter.
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by simiones 2y ago
No country in the world is free to develop nukes, for any reason. Some still do, of course, but it is expressly forbidden by international laws and agreements.
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by simiones 2y ago
> The reality is that nuclear weapons are a deterrent against existential threats, and all else is a bluff. So it's not a risk of losing this war that will push Russia to commit such murder-suicide, but an existential threat to its
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by simiones 2y ago
> They also seem to be trying to get entrenched in Crimea, and IIRC brought up the idea of some promise that Ukraine wouldn’t ever going NATO, although don’t remember if that was a serious proposal or what. NATO explicitly added plans to
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by simiones 2y ago
The Iron Dome was easily overwhelmed with the ~200 ballistic rockets fired by Iran recently, many of which hit the military bases they were targeting. So it I think the point stands.
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by simiones 2y ago
Most of these guidelines are based on the same sort of flawed population-level studies that can't control for many other aspects. For example, the "Mediterranean diet" is consumed in countries that have all sorts of other spe
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by simiones 2y ago
The point is that, if the Blue Zones concept is BS and none of these places have high life expectancy, then there is no reason to discuss them in the context of nutrition or lifestyle recommendations of any kind. Those recommendations may b
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by simiones 2y ago
Well, the most common is of course `if err != nil`, which is unaffected. But in the very rare occasions that someone is actually handling errors in Go, `errors.Is` and `errors.As` are recommended over plain casts since they correctly handle

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