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by toss1 1y ago
THIS: >>"food someone would actually order, even if it was teleported to them instantly". The article states >>Quality control became impossible. Shared kitchen facilities meant that one staff member prepared food for
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by toss1 1y ago
>>"The real wonder is in the human mind that constructs reality from fragments, that can be fooled by a flourish, but that can also be illuminated by experiment. " Beautiful.
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by toss1 1y ago
Not much; I used to think the same thing. But there are many ways to make the same chemicals from bio sources, either directly grown (corn or soy as feedstocks) or more processed, or bioengineered so bacteria convert some bio input to the
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by toss1 1y ago
The govt key decrypts everything , real-time and stored/archived, sent in that nation during the time it is in use, and that key is in use in multiple places/machines, and is in an org that is a high-profile target for many other
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China's Great Firewall- 500GB source and docs leak online – sold to 3 countries(tomshardware.com)
16 points by toss1 1y ago|1 comments
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by toss1 1y ago
A straightforward solution to the author's problem is to offer both modes of answering, with errors or with "IDK" answers. Even charge more for the IDK version if it costs more, and the error-prone version can be "cheap
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by toss1 1y ago
It is not just racist, it also allows all kinds of exploitation and unethical practices. I briefly worked for one such CEO in a major tech city. Core of Indian H1-B staff coders and about same amount of US white staff in both coding, custom
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by toss1 1y ago
Just for copyright infringement? You might like to have a word with Aaron Swartz, except he ended his life as he was being Federally prosecuted for copyright infringement, copying scientific articles. Remarkably similar, bulk copying of da
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by toss1 1y ago
Yup, I always take editing suggestions and implement them manually, then re-feed the edited version back in for new suggestions if needed. Never let it edit your stuff directly —— the risk of stealth random errors sneaking in is too grea
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by toss1 1y ago
This is insane Successive US administrations for good reasons want manufacturing moved onshore, but they refuse to make a country-specific scheme for working visas (as exists for countries including Singapore, Canada and Australia), because
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by toss1 1y ago
Yes, and the fact they responded so strongly shows the app IS definitely effective, and not mere "theater" as the author wants to claim (it may not be as effective as it could be, it might be many things, but it is definitely we
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by toss1 1y ago
The Fermi Paradox might want to have a word here... Particularly considering the law of large numbers in play where incalculable large chances have so far shown only one sign of technologically-capable life —— ours, and zero signs of any ot
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by toss1 1y ago
THIS. Conflating a software vulnerability with a criticism of the overall concept is a good way to become non-credible and get both ignored The article repeatedly claims the entire concept is mere "activism theater" yet with zero
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by toss1 1y ago
Wow, what an excellent and concise way of describing the conundrum! Indeed, if we are surrounded by only supposed "information" that is false, it is technically the same as having zero new information! So it is the situation preve
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by toss1 1y ago
Yup. Key point: >>[propaganda] functions over a long period of time exceeding the individual's capacities for attention or adaptation and thus his capabilities of resistance
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by toss1 1y ago
^^^ THIS! ^^^ The explicit goal of dezinformatsiya (coined by Stalin) is not to get people to believe the lies (an occasional bonus) —— the goal is to get people to GIVE UP on finding the truth. Once people give up on finding the truth,
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by toss1 1y ago
Yup. "In the world of the blind, a one-eyed Jack is King." Their web stuff was indeed terrible (& still isn't great), and I'd bet management had to do a LOT of wrangling to get the reports, but it still gave them a
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by toss1 1y ago
Yup, software was one of the keys to Walmart being able to expand as much as it did in the 1980s-90s. Their advanced (for the time) inventory & sales systems could tell when some products were selling well in one region and not in anoth
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by toss1 1y ago
In only a very few cases with specific degenerative diseases. For the other 99.9% of us, the number of studies showing the difference made by exercise, healthy eating, not smoking or drinking alcohol are too numerous to mention. Ignore the
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by toss1 1y ago
yup, and I'm pretty sure they already died for nothing anyway —— or died for at most a few bad ideas and an authoritarian government's hubris (looking at our CDC it seems the administration is going to force the US to (re-)learn a
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by toss1 1y ago
Yup, using AI for any serious tax calculation or even advice is a REALLY BAD idea. A close relative is a top expert in US Trust & Estate Tax law working at a well-known BigLaw firm. Of course they have substantial AI initiatives, int
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by toss1 1y ago
The big tech companies are now becoming archetypal evil — directly analogous with the ancient stories of 'deals with the devil'. The devil cannot take your soul, but if he can get you to agree to a deal... well... good luck with
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A Single Mutation Made Horses Rideable (With Link to Study)(smartnews.com)
1 points by toss1 1y ago|1 comments
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by toss1 1y ago
For sure! Tho it seems the original BTC design expected huge transaction volumes and transaction fees to take over providing income for miners as mining fees repeatedly halved. But they didn't anticipate that people are not using BTC
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by toss1 1y ago
Meanwhile, as the spying threats increase, the current administration is doubling the number of Chinese students let in. While they bray about the security threat from China and about restricting technology and access, they actually sell to
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Bitcoin miners say fee drought poses existential threat to network(dlnews.com)
23 points by toss1 1y ago|19 comments
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Large language models can reconstruct forbidden knowledge(fastcompany.com)
5 points by toss1 1y ago|0 comments
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by toss1 1y ago
The industrial leaders in Germany in the 1920s and 1930s also thought they could control Hitler, who was also rightly seen as incompetent. That did not work out well for them. Hubris is a heluva drug.
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by toss1 1y ago
Yup. And worse yet, they are likely to start to do so with interventions that are broadly-effective across many species, not only a specific target. IFF there is a way to specifically target, e.g., their first example, the corn rootworm, an
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The Stock Market Is Selling the Fed's Independence Because ZIRP Broke the World(splinter.com)
73 points by toss1 1y ago|61 comments

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