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by turbonaut 4y ago
I’m not sure if I’m reading it correctly, but if the reader has the inference / bias that playing games makes life suck, that would be a positive feedback loop (albeit with negative effects). Negative feedback loops are self correcting
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by turbonaut 5y ago
A (self-made) tool-assisted 5… 1. LARES - xxxxx 2. BIONT - xxYxx 3. PUDGY - xxxxG 4. COMFY - GGxxG 5. COCKY - GGGGG I agree - great idea. It only took 22 hours’ CPU time, a custom string encoding and several trillion operatio
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by turbonaut 6y ago
The vaccines have also been delivered in slightly different contexts that may relate to risk of hospitalisation. Pfizer, for example, often administered in hospitals due to the freezer requirement. You could imagine the risk of hospitalisat
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by turbonaut 6y ago
Decrease the interval, increase the frequency.
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by turbonaut 6y ago
> Take A.I., for instance: completely dominated by the U.S. and China. Europe? DeepMind?
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by turbonaut 6y ago
Cunard (subject to the pandemic) still operate a transatlantic service with Queen Mary II - which they describe as a true liner. The crossing between New York and Southampton takes seven days. The clocks are changed by an hour on each sea d
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by turbonaut 6y ago
Whilst it may not be relevant to you, I think part of this is that Google are in a position to incentivise firms to better serve users with disabilities. If I am penalised not for relevance but for accessibility then I fix the accessibility
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by turbonaut 6y ago
Whilst it depends a bit which ships you count- the world’s busiest shipping lane is generally regarded to be the Straits of Dover with about 400 commercial transits per day. [1] 1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strait
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by turbonaut 6y ago
Whilst the suggestion is clearly not serious, having pre-recorded or even repeated random noise is akin to re-using a one time pad. Continued ‘listening’ - even long after the relevant conversation - could first be used to extract the fake
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by turbonaut 6y ago
Indeed, even if you were Elon Musk, building a space elevator to ISS and you used the wrong type of foot, you’d only be 80cm out.
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by turbonaut 6y ago
Whilst standardisation is obviously important, the article references an anecdote where a building had to lose a storey due to the usage of the ‘wrong type of foot’. This does not seem overly plausible given the error would be <2mm over