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I think the idea is that the migration instinct passed down by wild salmon is an epigenetic heritable trait. This trait is strongly selected for in wild salmon populations, but not in farmed populations. The constant influx of this maladaptive trait into the wild population is leading to an overall decrease in the ability of the wild population to successfully propagate.

I kind of wander if the comments are intentionally bad, providing programmers something to bike shed about. A sneakier approach to the flattery the models used to so use so heavily.

In the end some guy from apple (lets call him Mr. Johnson) will have to hire a plucky band of hackers and security experts to operate from the shadows and get revenge. Isn't having corporations be above the law grand!

To be clear, those threats of violence were against me and my co-workers if we didn't vote to unionize.

My only experience with unions was as a low level employee while I was in high school. It consisted of certain employees trying to drum up willingness to unionize through a combination of unrealistic promises and threats of violence. The company I worked for at the time was in trouble and went out of business before the unionization effort came to a vote. I don't know how representative my experience was, but it definitely soured me on unions for a long time.

These days I definitely believe that something needs to take up the role of fighting for the rights of labor, but I remain skeptical that unions, at least as they exist in the US, are the right tool for the job.

None of what you've said is untrue. And if this was an internal report to an executive, I'd agree with it. But this is a public statement and I'm more inclined to believe that this is part of a coordinated run up to a move to ban the import of 'dangerous' Chinese AI models -- or something else equally self serving -- than a simple statement of truth.

I don't doubt that they found some evidence of AI use. I'm just skeptical that the amount and strength of evidence has anything to do with their making this statement.

I've been thinking about why the AI companies are making so much use of fear based marketing. And I'm wonder if it isn't just naked Machiavellianism at work.

For a long time tech companies were forced to compete for power by being the most loved (or at least not the most hated). But now they've found an avenue to cultivate fear.

Bold of you to assume that the public has more influence on legislation than lobbyists do in the US.

I'm fully expecting my next employer to grill me on my grocery purchasing habits and inferred medical history in my next job interview. Its all there for purchase and AI can put it all together into a compelling narrative. Suddenly my preference for prunes becomes a lifelong dire struggle with irregular bowel movement that may distract me from my work. Expect pointed questions about bathroom break lengths.

Unfortunately we're living in a world where instantly dismissing anything that reads like ai and hanging up on anyone that might be tts is increasingly rewarded.

Art and its meaning are in the eyes of the reader, yes, but when you live in a version of the Library of Babel where every book is properly spelled and punctuated, seeking meaning in what you read is a great way to waste your life.

To be fair the designer who created the font would probably agree that for use cases like passwords or serial numbers etc. you should use a different font. That's the nice thing about having different fonts around. You can choose which one you want to use.

There are a lot of mediocre therapists out there. And even if you do get a reasonably good one, they might not click with you in terms of personality/approach/cultural background.

That's some real obsessive stalker logic there.

Dexter Morgan wins again.

Neat. Once you add zoning aka biomes, it seems like this could be really useful in generating realistic game maps.

Round trip latency includes two trips to the sattelite and back. So geostationary sattelites have ~480 ms of travel time and ~70ms of delay

It's sad that people are so utterly resigned to having an ineffective federal legislature that the possibility of restricting the use of binding arbitration by means of the passage of new laws is not even considered.

Reminds me of Maytag Blue Cheese. Are there other food products out there from surprising brands?

Based on my examination of my own attitudes about China, I'd say unease/fear about the future actions of the Chinese government may fuel some of my desire to criticize it for issues I may otherwise be indifferent to. While this fear is not based on some underlying dread of the Han people, it is, perhaps, motivated by nationalist instincts that many might disparage.

Good point. The developer tendency to resist fixing bugs caused by our tools just leads to complacency about broken tools.

If you are really curious I can give you a few use cases I've seen that I think are valid.

1. There is a gap in housing between when someone moves out of their old place and when they can move into their new one. So they need to store all their stuff for a while.

2. Someone has a nice hardwood tree taken down in their yard and they want to keep the wood, but they don't want their garage /workshop to be full of drying wood.

3. Bulky outdoor sports equipment. Storing your kayak, etc. in your urban apartment may not be an efficient use of space.

4. If you are in business for yourself, you may need a small amount of warehouse space. The easiest way to get that in the US? Self storage.

While I generally agree with you, a court order to provide a password does bring with it a few problems.

1. Sometimes knowledge of the password itself could be considered testimonial. If there is doubt as to whether or not the an individual owns a particular computer, then being forced to provide the password is tantamount to being forced to concede ownership, which would violate protections against self incrimination.

2. People do legitimately forget passwords, and the courts have no way of distinguishing between people who have genuinely forgotten and those who falsely claim to have forgotten. Being subjected to indefinite detention for forgetting a password would violate due process, while keeping someone in jail until they comply with a legal warrant is legitimate. Since the court cannot distinguish between these two cases, any penalty the court may impose for contempt runs a variable (depending on the facts of the case) but non-zero risk of being a miscarriage of justice.

The fact that this patent isn't classified leads me to believe that the Navy doesn't think that this will go anywhere, at least not in the near term.

The only real benefit of open plan offices is that they are slightly less ugly.

I agree that the numbers in the US are unlikely to be changed post-collection, but there are still pressures that lead to the under reporting of suicide rates here as well. For example, accidental overdose can be very difficult to distinguish from suicide. If there is any question, coroners will often err on the side of ruling the death an accident to spare the survivors additional emotional hardship.

The way the system is supposed to work is that simply publishing should be sufficient to prevent anyone else from registering future patents on anything that you've published. After all, publishing creates prior art which should invalidate any future patents covering your technology.

Or have been exposed to union related violence and intimidation. When someone says "Join a union" I hear "Sign up to get sucker punched in the bathroom" if somebody suspects you aren't going to fall in line. I know that's probably uncommon, but formative experiences are formative.

@sibling maxxxxx

If you think that being a plumber or an electrician or a mechanic never requires creativity and deep knowledge, then I think you are looking down on those professions a bit too much. Much like programming, most of what those fields involve is routine grunt work. But from time to time, the usual ready-made solutions don't work and you'll have some tricky problem to solve.

I think it would be very unusual to refer to the mode as the average, especially if it wasn't close to the median or mean.

Yeah, I know I'm not super excited about google gaining the ability to continuously monitor the status of my erectile tissue.

To be fair, it's often unclear what you need to do to comply w/ sanctions, and being found non-compliant can bring down some really heavy penalties.