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This reminds me of a famous quote coined by the famous comic book artiste Alan Moore which is, "quis custodiet quie custodiet" which is Spanish for "Who Watches the Watchmen" (refers to his famous graphic novel and cinema film as well)

Also I believe it was Abbie Hoffman (famous 1960s peace activist) who famously is quoted as saying, "let he who fights dragons be careful not to become a dragon himself, and if he shall stare into the abyss, so too may he become an abyss" - so that basically means if you fight criminals all day even with the best of intentions, the wear & tear of it over time might eventually turn you into a criminal too

I believe it was BeOS who if not first then most famously embrace haiku error out messages : https://gist.github.com/benjaminoakes/e58a9ddb0ead8eefbbae40...

e.g. Errors have occurred. We won't tell you where or why. Lazy programmers.

Login incorrect. Only perfect spellers may Enter the system.

Local and global anesthesia use it often, actually even though you'd think it's the anesthesiologist that uses it (because they are known to be drug fiends) usually it's the surgeon who makes use of cocaine. I remember in my medical training that old surgeon Dr. Jackson, he'd have that thick moustache that'd always look like it'd been dragged through flour. But then he'd say "let me show you how to do surgery young paduans" and I'll be damned if he didn't perform 18 whipples, 13 trepinations, and 32 colonostomies in an hard-drivin' 48 hour continuous surgery jamboree

I agree. 10 is 10% of 100, 1,000,000 is 10% of 10,000,000. They're mathematically equivalent. Why do I care if it's 10 people, or 10,000,000 people, or if it's just quoted as 10%? These are all abstract numbers, numbers are not matters of humanity.

You should check out my book then. I realized that everyone was starting to, not write books, but that they were writing instructional books teaching about how people should write books. I said to myself, "well let's teach them how to do THAT instead". One step more metain the game. Anyway, my book is about how to make videos to teach people how to write books, things like marketing and profit-maxxing. There's a lot of great pedagogy in there.

Also what kind of name is "100 rabbits". Reminscent of "50 blessing" from hotline miami

Other thing said to me by then-CEO of Goldman (during my new trader / out of school training months / Goldman onboarding), he said "there's 3 ways of making it in this business: be smarter, be first, or cheat. Now, I don't cheat. And although I like to think we have a lot of pretty smart people in this building, it sure is a hell of a lot easier to just be first. "

I mean. Delta is also an airline, and if airline's love to do one thing it's to point fingers and shift blame. Mostly such that they don't reimburse you what you are legally owed if they jam you up, but also it seems throughout.

Let's get concrete here on the BS laws.

Does the law hope to prevent people from causing harm, physical, financial, etc, to others or their property? Keep it.

Does the law aim to prevent people from harming themselves, excluding suicide? Toss it out, freedom. [i.e. heavy taxes on soda; mandatory helmets]. Some jurisdictions try to enumerate every little possible way a bad thing could happen and make it a fineable offense, and it comes off as very much "invasive HOA" energy

Does the law aim to indirectly incentivize particular behaviors for political goals? Toss it [i.e. some parts of California have fully failed permitting systems which prevent any new houses from being built whatsoever, which is great for the environment since all development has been permanently halted. the faulted law is gladly allowed to persist with the hidden political reason behind it]

Now as for monopolies I think we have entered a bizarre system of mostly duopolies. The OS duopoly. the cell phone duopoly. search engine duopoly. Streaming duopoly. Social media duopoly. the stock markets is a duopoly. our political system is a duopoly. coke and pepsi. and so on. what we do need on the point of looking out for the "little upstarts" is a very careful investigation of these duopolies to see if they are truly competing for all their worth, or if there's a backroom agreement on things. I believe tech is a little thicker on the backroom agreements

Just for those unfamiliar with LORAWAN, LORA WAN is a combination of AI's "low rank adaptation" (LORA) approach with phsysionerual networks where by the WAN network grid is mirrored by an identically structured neural network. By performing a LORA on the neural network model of the physical network the network flow and efficiency can abstractly be "fine tuned" to a particularly observed use case, then deployed physically as node executor policy. Using it generally entails (1) system-wide packet-dump A LA NSA to build a training set (not saying whether or not the NSA does this sort of thing) then (2) fine tuning against the LORAWAN model and finally (3) deployment of the AI engine for each note to manage packet forwarding ,routing, and queueing policies.

Seems to me, if the zuck is dropping a gorillion dollars to put out free trained models out there (for small outfits to fine-tune to their purposes), the play is now to take the enormous field of small outfits and put them on a level playing field against zuck's enemies such as google. so he's wrecking gogle's chances indirectly, clever play. Now as far as zuck, yes, not ideal all his tech is out there, but that doesn't mean he doesn't have better tech behind lock doors, and the silver lining is now in effect he has a gorillion people tuning and optimizing HIS model - priceless. I wish google entered into such a war to be honest.. and especially openAI

meh a lot of the mega size genome have been well known. i can think of ameoba at 200x more genome than human and a gorillion polyploid plants. Some have this has been known the last 20-30 years. Some further back. Anyone can look at some chromosomes in a microscope, no sequencing, can say if something is polyploid or not. It's a whole field, called cytobanding.

Now as far as assemblies what is interesting there, we never sequencing the human genome . What we did was sequence a lot of the human genome "except for the hard parts, seems impossible". Well in the past few years the T2T projects has successfully sequenced the whole dang thing. Just because something is "hard" or "more repetitive" don't mean ain't nothing interdasting in dere.

Probably not. The "pop off" tech you are speaking of is highly developed and matured by farmers. How do you get semen from a bull for example. I believe it is called an "electroejaculator" and involves electrocuting the prostate directly, through the anus and rectum of course. I use mine on my husband all the time, it's quite lovely if you're bold enough.

The technology is of course used in humans e.g. https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cdrh_docs/pdf/K962379.pdf

for those looking to switch to firefox (as I did) do be warned that although I make no claim as to whether its more nor less evil than google, firefox does have various ad-related perks sometimes turned on by default... sometimes turned on suddenly with an update a la windows. Firefox in theory lets you cut it all out, but just expect that cutting is needing to be done to get there

I've always been of the hippocampus that it's short not long term memory in units of one day. Evidence that's the only CNS location that generates new cells on the regular (besides the nose). Timestamp cells produced within. Burns / fine tunes neocortex during sleep. and such.

Also noting that such thing as "an electric artificial hippocampus" has existed for some time - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3395724/

they was some interesting funk in the 80s : Lisp computer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine (these were very hot in 1980s era AI) connection machine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connection_Machine (a gorillion monobit processor supercluster)

let us also not forget The Itanic

I can explain it much more simple

"At first Linus created /dev/dsp, and the user did smile upon him, and the user did see that it was good, and the user did see that it was simple, and people did use their sound, and people did pipe in and out sound as they did please, and Ken Thompson Shined upon them for following the way"

"Then the fiends got in on it and ruined it all, with needless complexities and configurations and situationships, with servers and daemons, and server and daemon wrappers to wrap the servers and daemons, and wrappers for those server wrappers, and then came security permissions for the server wrapper wrapper wrappers, why doesn't my sound work anymore, and then the server wrapper server wrapper wrapper server did need to be managed for massive added complexity, so initd was replaced by systemd, which solves the server wrapper wrapper server server wrapper through a highly complicated system of servers and services and wrappers"

RIP /dev/dsp you will be missed

- Kernighan 3:16

For me it's self evident the argument is false by way of contradiction. Assume it's true. There exists a consciousness nerve cell, with a nucleus and such as all nerve cells have, somewhere in the mind. As far as how the brain is "built" during the embryonic stage, you'd expect that cell to have a typical "home" in the brain or brainstem somewhere. Then that "home" would be a known spot where if a stroke occurs, or other damage, at once eliminates forever that persons consciousness. But not so common core area such as this has ever been found, suggesting our assumption in the first place, that such a cell exists, is false.

Now that's one extreme, the all commanding cell. It's also self-evident that cells aren't some 'set of equals' commune. Of course there are master cells that activate other cells in certain conditions. This is seen even in our deep learning nets where you may have a "I see a cat" neuron and "I see a dog" neuron that triggers the response program for those things.

That's all to say, reality is a place in between

I agree. This type of article is internet forum argument fuel because the area is such grey, arguments on both size. Reminds me of the lady who got burned by McDonalds coffee like, bro, you spill hot coffee on you then you might get a burnt. She won that one. McDonalds keeps it hot for sterilization/safety. I'm guessing also there is diminishing returns to bone removal so removing 99.9% is much easier to do than removing 99.999999 percent. So it's like, do you do something that harms 1 in a million but makes it way cheaper or way safer for the rest, or avoid that harm but now people pay the price. My main thing here, equivalent to "bro why'd you spill coffee on yourself" is "bro, do you chew your food, because someone who chews their food would know there's a bone in it"

I agree with you for 99% of cases but there can be unexpected domains in the mail, or more interestingly, having your data sold. If hyperrin-nexflux2@port69 starts getting random spams for example, then you have a good idea who fucked up

To me there is actually a logical difference from a game theory perspective, ignoring ethics: A seeming native is a "likely potential regular customer." So you offer a lower price per visit, but in the long run make lots of money from so many visits. A seeming foreigner is a "likely never to return customer." So there's an incentive to screw over the customer and profit-max, no downside since they weren't returning anyway.

So there is this universal capitalistic incentive to over price the Gweilo. Of course a way to soften this is to invoke capitalism again and allow competition to drop prices. But then this dives into things like price elasticity for tourists versus natives, and how clientele feel about tourists. If the local clientele are xenophobic the bar may even expel those they don't like much less charge a higher price, and from a capitalistic perspective this may be a tactic to retain ongoing regular customers.

I would argue this type of reasoning is seen throughout many fields. For example, anything involving money and the field of medicine has wildly all over the place made up pricing.

I would argue in all cases, this is in fact scummy, and the solution would be to mandate a clear pricing schedule (specifically with criteria on if and when different people are charged different prices) and thus open information availability to inform the customer. Tourists can then voluntarily say "I really want the food here, I'll pay the premium" or voluntarily say "on principle this is unfair, I'll vote with my feet and go to the even-priced competitor"

There are various discounts for things like senior citizens and military and such throughout, so none of this is a new idea.

Same thing happened to me, but when I tried to redeem the gift card, the checkout computer crashed and entered a reboot loop

My pet hypothesis is Fauci saw an infectious disease / epidemiologists dream thought experiment. What if every human on the planet self-isolated for XX weeks? If most illnesses (e.g. cold, flu, airbone) die out after X days without a host, presumably a large chunk of communicable transient diseases that have been around forever.. would suddenly no longer exist. My thought is there was a sort of power-drunkness, mix of anxiety, and the blissful joy of doing this naughty experiment on 350 million people. With the best of intentions of course.

Of course the problem with it all is one general of medicine. The infectious disease specialist stays in their lane and devises an infectious disease solution. I don't think psychiatrists or economists had much of a say in it. I would speculate there are particular populations such as healthy teenagers, who mostly handle COVID easily with near-zero death rate( HEALTHY teenagers).. where these COVID restrictions caused more damage, psychological and suicide, then the COVID precautions themselves... in order to save the boomer population which did benefit.

The other problem, obvious now, is it didn't work. You can't bottle up people, particularly not muricans, a very individualistic culture. The goal was to knock out COVID in a week or two and look how it went.

I find the realtime translation feature quite compelling. Audio translation requires everything being said twice so doubles latency. If two people from two language speakings both used this, it's a massive step towards a universal translator.

A lot of the other features are meh, reminscent of what a 1980s high tech watch might do for you. feels like a PDA

The part where I get excited are the AI applications, this is also where it gets unethical. i.e. microexpression/voice analysis, AI suggested responses, realtime fact checking of what a person says, and so on. Applications in anything requiring human interaction, sales, meetings, dating, friendships, etc. Imagine being the voluntary puppet of an AI that tells you what to say. If it becomes mainstream, the implicit bias people make towards someone who wears the glasses and therefore may be AI-fed. The inequalities of the have versus have nots, with regards to having such a personal AI.

Ultimately their best bet if shooting for success would probably be to connect it to an AI though. That and social media feeds.

Anna's cousin, Amy ZLib here.

Anna is doing well, I cannot explicitly "out" her identity but let's say she does well for herself and in a quite safe and stable country. Financing again is a topic where she is strongly positioned but generally asks that people respect her privacy. She does work with a small team of engineers regarding distributed data storages, and is very open to people who want to be mirrors. A petabyte is nothing to her, perhaps a few dozen drives. Underlying system is known as "AAFLOW" I think of it as the next higher elevated version of bittorrent

KYC is not an issue for Anna, she prefers Chik-fil-A or Popeye's

Law enforcement typically focuses on domain seizure and not server seizures because a domain may trivially be pointed to a backup server, whereas it is non-trivial to point a million end-users to a new domain.

Anna doesn't wish to speak in great deal regarding protective measures and backup plans, but let's say there is person after person system after system, plan within plan, at the ready if anything should happen.

With regards to opsec tips for small time pirates, don't disclose anything personal on any social channels, or if you do, make it up. Generally it's best to have a labtop you purchased in cash in a non-traceable way, camera and microphone and bluetooth and wifi physically removed, and keep it in a farraday bag generally, but when you need internet access find a public access point. Anna usually runs a pringles can antenna a ways from a coffee shop in an old concrete structure, with a modded usb wifi dongle, but she tries to be random in terms of timing and location when she hits the internet. this type of opsec has served her well.

"In the US this can be common and the staff low key make everyone anxious about it. Like "uh oh guys, room is running out in the overhead" "might have to check your bag". It's not the end of the world, but it's an easy thing to ham up from the framework of annoyance and unfairness. You don't get the convenience because the guy in front of you got there first, and now you're waiting +30 minutes for the bag to be released from the cargo compartment. And maybe he brought 3 bags, over the limit, and you have just one smaller bag. You know what unfairness and anxiety like this generates? Sales and an arms race to board ever earlier with ever more bags at an ever higher price. If this trend continues eventually it will just be one guy with 1000 bags who pays $50,000 to board first and filling up all the bins at once. "

if you think the whole "600k is what it would have cost" thing is crazy, then stay far away from our medical system! In medicine 600k is getting off easy

I attest to reolink, have used it for security, 16 cameras, 3000 miles away, for ~2-3 years. Setup includes UPS on everything. Has been very stable. It even has a pretty easy to reverse engineer cgi-bin API (and very insecure) but sadly my ISP plugged the firewall hole I made for that :(

I have in some cameras had issues with connectivity but as far as I can tell, it's from using an indoor ethernet cable outside... and the RJ-45 end-of-cable wire threads literally dissolve into dust from the moisture... but that's not on the camera

About 20% of documented residents of washington speak spanish, and up to 52% including bilingual, documented, and undocumented. Thus it is the majority language.

eh forget all this coding minutiae, i dabbled with arduino here and there.

in my experience it's not to do with code. your serial/usb runs the bytes back through your debugger (typically IDE On the PC). Your IDE has config settings like baud rate +/- encoding that you have to config. If that IDE config is messed up (IDE Is presumably printing out your printf bytes over usb or whatever), then your output is bytes. Make sure your baud is correct.

Immunotherapy is not some wonder drugs. It's been around for some time as far as cutting edge is concerned, obviously quite new compared to the 1980s chemo revolution. By "been around by quite some time" I mean there are quite a number of immunotherapy drugs, and follow-on "me-too" competitors, and lots of 2nd and 3rd and 4th generation drugs. THe only reason it may seem brand spanking new to you, is dunning kruger effect.

It's quite expensive and doesn't always work. We have predictors of whether it works well or not, but nothing has stuck. It's very hard because cancer is hard and immune system is hard, and this is both.

THis whole thing about "immunotherapy is new and has bugs to figure out" is half true, but hell, if "bugs" mean that it doesn't work, the whole reason immunotherapy exists is because the things that came before also had these "bugs" ie people dying.

Every cancer is different. Every cancer is different in every different person. THere are common trends, common genes, common themes, absolutely, but every cancer is different just like every person every face is different. At best you can get a common drug targeting common genes and common themes, just like you could target people with brown hair, but if you happened to have blonde hair you're out of luck until they cook up a solution for that. This is the nature of cancer and where there is no universal cure.

also this board is pretty dang comp sci heavy, and comp sci and physics the instinct is 1000% dunning kruger within the realm of biology or other extraneous inferior-appearing fields. BIology is the most rabbit hole ridden field. The rabbit holes have rabbit holes, and they have their own rabbit holes. You're thinking about cancer but maybe it relates to some evolutionary resistance that was necessary 200 million years ago, and that relates to a biochemical pathway protein binding side. It's a polymath's wet dream really. So it's important not to hand wave or give airs of understanding it. I've been specializing in the area for many years and I can say that nobody understands it really, other than that it works sometimes with some various correlates of when it works. Like most parts of bio, people will specialize in one compenent of the system or one pathway, not the system as a whole. People who claim to capture the system as a whole kinda do interesting things but they don't have the detailed big picture, more like various correlates that are frought with confounders