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23andMe being a Google spin-off I wouldn't be surprised if they do a full sequencing regardless of whether you pay for it or not. At the very least I would expect them to store the samples indefinitely so they can do it once it's economically viable.

>For example, lets say that everyone encounters an opportunity to become a billionaire at a perfectly constant rate of 1 opportunity/year [0] and the probability we can capitalise on it with our skills is normally distributed (ditto for ruinous events)

I think your assumption is wrong. The key idea is that the outcome of random lucky events depends on the amount of capital one already has. A lucky event doesn't add to capital, but multiplies it, so consecutive lucky events accumulate creating a long tail.

If you believed in Bitcoin in 2012 you probably wouldn't be rich today, if you were living paycheck to paycheck at the time. If by 2012 you already had some spare capital from getting lucky in the dotcom years, on the other hand...

The paper: [1]

(While it's nice to have a model, "fortune" has been synonymous with "luck" and "wealth" since Roman times [2], so it's not exactly a new concept)

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.04237

[2] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fortuna#Latin

From the title I thought this would be an European UnionPay, but it's just another European Zelle.

Wired earbuds:

- have better sound quality

- have less latency

- are cheaper

- can't get lost as easily

- weight less

- don't need to be charged

Wireless earbuds:

- don't have cables that get tangled

- rarely explode inside your ear causing permanent hearing loss

>GIANT Enormous Huge Red Flag #2: captcha asks you to types command in shell. I have no comment on how naive one must be to do this.

Funnily enough there's at least one legit captcha that has you do this: if you have JavaScript/WASM disabled it gives you the option of running the anti-DDOS proof-of-work in a shell and pasting the result in a textbox.

I love how easy it is to integrate the tiny, standalone tools that make up s6 without having to commit to an entire init system. It's a great example of the benefits of the UNIX philosophy.

I didn't know there was a formal service for it, that's very cool. Still, it relies on the miner keeping its word instead of cracking the private key. In practice it would definitely not bother risking its reputation like that, but I wonder if there's way around it, with smart contracts or something.

That must hurt. In case I crack the next puzzle... how should I go about collecting the prize without having to mine a block myself or trust a miner not to screw me over?

FWIW it works fine for me on mobile. The default layout is odd but it's possible to move and resize every window.

Huh, it seems it's just my browser that resets the noise every run.

I opened the page in Firefox like the article suggests and I get a different pattern per site and session. That prevents using the noise as a supercookie, I think, if its pattern changes every time cookies are deleted.

I didn't know canvas anti-fingerprinting was so rudimentary. I don't think it increases uniqueness (the noise is different every run) but bypassing it seems trivial: run the thing n times and take the mode. With so little noise, 4 or 5 times should be more than enough.

Fine, in that case companies that take security seriously and/or have frugal data collection and retention policies will be more affordable than their competitors, since their premiums will be cheaper.

Buried under the rest of the article is this, since some people only do headlines I'll copy it here for visibility:

>Shanbehzadeh was sentenced to five years for alleged pro-Israel propaganda activity, four years for insulting Islamic sanctities, two years for spreading lies online and an additional year for anti-regime propaganda.

>His lawyer, Amir Raisian, told Shargh Network, a reformist newspaper in Iran, that he would appeal the verdict, especially the accusation of pro-Israel activity. The prosecutor’s office in Ardabil alleged that Shanbehzadeh had been in contact with Israeli intelligence officers and was arrested when trying to leave the country, according to Voice of America.

My new ISP took this to another level: if you transfer your landline phone number they send you a voice-only SIM card and a 4G router into which you're supposed to plug your landline. Calls to the landline number are redirected to the number in the SIM (with a significant delay). I wonder why they did it this way instead of implementing VoIP, especially since the all-in-one GPON/Wi-Fi router already has a landline port.

In that sense pass is no different from other password managers. What prevents the user of an "online" password manager from storing the passwords offline, remembering them, or not logging out and reusing cookies? You have to rotate the credentials themselves anyway.

If we had to vote everything with our wallets Tesla wouldn't exist in the first place. We would have $5,000 trucks made by Burmese war prisoners that can reach 200mph on full self drive, running on palm oil without a catalytic converter.

No need to enable developer settings, at least in Android 14 it's in accessibility>color and motion>remove animations.

>Ethereum became non-fungible

What do you mean by this? I haven't been following this space for a long time and searching only brings up NFT stuff.

Couldn't this be caused by a competitor spamming the report button rather than an automated alarm?

I don't want to frighten your family more, but shower NEVER is safe. Unlike lightning, slips and falls in the bathroom are quite common and sometimes result in death or lifelong injury.

You're right, I should have read everything before commenting... sorry.

Or (more relevantly to current geopolitics) Mosaddeq's Iran.

This would be impressive if the examples weren't taken from the same dataset (Laion-5B) that was used to train the Stable Diffusion model it's using.

Feels bad to have one's job interrupted. Looking on the bright side this is the excuse I needed to check out Radicle...

So there's regulation. Until I read this I had assumed the bank branch was helpfully breaking the law by refusing to release customer funds. Do you know what's the law that forces (or allows) banks to do this?

So far, the concept of consciousness is basically metaphysics. It doesn't have a role, it can't be measured... If I may suggest a starting point to get over this hurdle: let's create a "consciousness captcha": some task that is easy for conscious beings, but hard for algorithms. Consciousness evolved, therefore it must have provided an advantage. We just have to find it.

I suspect tech companies spy us in ways they don't disclose, but anecdotal evidence like this is not useful. The most likely culprit is cognitive bias: if you hadn't heard that word, you wouldn't have noticed the recommendation. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion

What demographics?

These were apparently taken from Calar Alto, Almería (37°13′25″N 2°32′46″W)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GNQEcVZX0AA13FE?format=jpg&name=...

https://img2.rtve.es/im/16098919/?w=900