xr4ti

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by xr4ti 8y ago
In no way do the benefits outlined by OP even come close to outweighing the systemic risks posed by omnipresent surveillance coupled with precise targeting of individualized persuasive messaging with the intent of behavioral change. The way
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by xr4ti 8y ago
Not just private prisons. The prison guards union has been one of the most potent political forces in California over the last 20-30 years. https://www.nytimes.com/1995/11/07/us/political-gains-by-pri...
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by xr4ti 8y ago
The converse is also true -- a wide range of drugs are subject to metabolism by gut microbes. This can throw off plasma concentrations and reduce effectiveness, or cause unwanted side effects or unexpected toxicity in the worst cases.
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by xr4ti 9y ago
Sorry I don't quite follow your comment. What does free speech have to do with unregulated, unconsented mass surveillance and violation of end user privacy? That "new" social network already exists. It's called Snapcha
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by xr4ti 9y ago
Seems perfectly in line with restrictions on other dual use technologies, such as biological pathogens, nuclear fuels, etc.
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by xr4ti 9y ago
Possibly naive question from a non-physicist... does this not follow from relativity as a natural a consequence of the effect gravity/mass has on spacetime? By that I mean that the edges of galaxies experience a "reference" s
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by xr4ti 9y ago
Not sure I agree. Inheritance refers to flow of influence on properties from parent to child. I think anything beyond that high level definition requires additional qualifiers (e.g. genetic heritability). Inheritance is typically not de
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by xr4ti 9y ago
What is this "free speech" on the net people that speak of? Has it ever existed? With few exceptions the right to post in a forum has always been at the pleasure of the mods/sysop. In fact, the quality of discussion is usual
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by xr4ti 9y ago
I don't see why this should be very surprising to people. It's not difficult to think of heritable traits that have nothing to do with genetics such as: social status, money/property, spoken language, etc. Biological phenom
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by xr4ti 9y ago
A better term to use would be ancestry. There is a very strong social component to race and ethnicity. Case in point, I know a number of people who "pass" - meaning 99.9% of people incorrectly guess their race/ethnicity an
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by xr4ti 9y ago
A manager can't follow each individual employee every moment of the day. To be a little more abstract, I'm talking about the degree of privacy and autonomy that workers are afforded. The reason people find the idea of wristband t
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by xr4ti 9y ago
There are qualitative and quantitative differences between requiring weekly progress meetings, daily updates, and microchipping employees.
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by xr4ti 9y ago
Because economy exists to sustain and enrich the lives of humans, not the other way around.
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by xr4ti 9y ago
I think the underlying assumption that the "amazing transparency" enabled by crypto currencies will necessarily lead to a fairer more humane world is dangerously naive. Does it not occur to people how an immutable, publicly inspec
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by xr4ti 9y ago
> Touting the amazing evolutionary benefits of CF isn't really helping your case. Sure you (maybe) can't get cholera but you will likely die by 40! Only if an antibiotic resistant cholera epidemic doesn't wipe you out firs
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by xr4ti 9y ago
Not leave things up to chance?! Is the universe not inherently probabilistic? I'm guessing you mean make things a little more deterministic than they are now in terms of human evolution? Maybe, but I think its important to ask wheth
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by xr4ti 9y ago
Unrestricted gene editing in humans is probably a bad idea. (1) Evolution has been pretty effective to this point, (2) decreasing genetic variability will make humans as a species more susceptible to extinction from a single event, and (3)
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by xr4ti 9y ago
My tinfoil hat theory is that there is currently a giant transfer (or several transfers) of wealth going on outside of the purview of regulators (e.g. evasion of sanctions). The big uptick was the dark money moving into bitcoin and other c
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by xr4ti 9y ago
I really don't like the authors shoehorning a linear model into this work. I perceive it as an attempt to give the article an undeserved veneer of statistical/mathematical rigor.[1] I think their hypothesis would be much better s
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by xr4ti 9y ago
Well change the words "music" to "conversation" and song to "person" (or phrase), and things start to get pretty scary.
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by xr4ti 9y ago
> Now Playing, has a daily battery usage of less than 1% on average, respects user privacy by running entirely on-device and can passively recognize a wide range of music. Maybe I am missing something, but this seems to be much less resp
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by xr4ti 9y ago
I tend think of compassionate use more in the context of medical devices and biologics (e.g. synthetic antibodies) than small molecule drugs. And to reiterate FDA regulation has more to do with marketing (and prescription/reimbursemen
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by xr4ti 9y ago
The FDA specifically (and famously) does not regulate the practice of medicine. They regulate the marketing of drugs and medical devices - mainly that you cannot market something as an safe and effective treatment for a disease/condit
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by xr4ti 9y ago
Humans are social mammals. If you want the benefits of herd membership, then that requires some degree of conformity and surrender of autonomy. That is the price we all must pay. If you want to be independent and go another way then do s
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by xr4ti 9y ago
Eyewitnesses can easily be confronted and cross examined. Questioning eyewitnesses is a relatively common skill among defense attorneys, and the arguments being made in such cross examinations are easily grasped by jurors. The algorithm beh
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by xr4ti 9y ago
This looks like something that is just begging to misinterpreted and abused by investigators and prosecutors. >Opaque technology with an unknown error profile? Check. >Broad search criteria that guarantee a high false positive rate?
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by xr4ti 9y ago
I have a problem with the term "dysgenic" -- mainly because the term is applying a value judgement to things (phenotypic traits) whose value is entirely contextual. The main idea I'm getting at is that the world is dynamic an
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by xr4ti 9y ago
Seems like an easy fix might be to simply kill the engine if the key fob goes out of range. I can see this problematic if erroneously triggered on a highway or something, but it would limit the range the thieves could take the car to the r
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by xr4ti 9y ago
Sure. However, I think the objective would to increase difficultly and the level sophistication required for exploitation rather than compete security. For instance, a physical lock on your front door can easily be defeated by someone wit
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by xr4ti 9y ago
4chan -- pol in particular -- is an agitprop prototyping board, and about as unreliable a source of information as you can get. Useful when you want to get a sneak peak at the propaganda campaigns, and internet brigade tactics and talking p

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