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Let's say a power station fails unexpectedly. There are several options.

1) Expect politicians to do their job in times of emergency.

2) Rolling blackouts.. or maybe build or incentivize through fines and regulations adequate backup and reserve in the system?

3) Give up and hand over control of peoples possessions to the corporate giants. (ask them nicely not to just use this to reduce reserves and maximize profits)

Never mind that there hasn't been a real power shortage in my country for 70 years.

Nothing to hide is an incomplete sentence. Nothing to hide from who? Surely you want to hide your children from abusers and predators? Don't you want to hide your banking details from con artists and fraudsters? Your identity from identity thieves.. Your location from burglars, your car keys from car thieves or your blood type from rich mobsters with kidney problems..

we don't know who are any of these things. So we should protect ourselves from all of them, in effect we have everything to hide from someone, and no idea who someone is.

edit; let me just add the obvious, that the government and police, Google and Facebook, are made up of many someones.

Even the bad stuff like crime, in places where the law is brutally unjust crypto is a good tool to get around it. And blaming crypto for carbon emissions is like blaming Tesla for carbon emissions because a recharge comes from coal plants. Its our responsibility to structure renewables as the cheapest, so industry (including crypto) invest in them.

How many stories on here about payment processors, or even banks freezing accounts for arbitrary or no reasons? Crypto is one of the few options around this. There are countless countries where it has been useful for political reasons, helping people in war zones, or to bypass unjust sanctions.

So you have not had use from crypto means its useless to everyone? Its like; The YEN has been of no value to me so nothing good must have ever come of it...

I have looked into Sync software, and i use this for local backups, but I'd only trust the cloud with an encrypted file container, which i have to re-upload each time.

I run Thunderbird portable from a data pen, which is why this metric is important to me (i realize it won't be for the majority of users).

Edit; Okay i know i could buy a bigger data pen, but i also do weekly backups to the cloud and am limited to 7mbps upload, 2g takes 40 minutes, so every bit i can shave off helps. But i want to emphasize i realize it won't be important for the majority of users

Your point might just be bias.

Haven't read the whole study, but i assume people with fewer symptoms of X are able and motivated to exercise more because they have fewer symptoms.. And the article is just inventing the most interesting causal link for a study that doesn't travel far from correlation?

I frankly don't like this definition, but it does make a great deal of sense.

https://metro.co.uk/2023/01/19/nearly-50-people-died-from-co...

"..was this a result of sound government planning, or good luck?" Jesus, what a question.

I suppose the big difference between a person stealing my car, and the immobilizer stealing my car is that my insurance has to pay out for that first one.

I wonder what kind of society Nvidia wants? Crypto (some of it) offers a freedom to buy and spend that is not corporately regulated. Some crypto brings huge investment in energy production; Green where the society structures it to be, not green where the society structures it not to be.

Did they think gaming brought more value to society?

Its nice that AI will 'reinvent nearly every industry', but i suspect it will just become another focusing tool to focus more wealth onto the very wealthy.

I currently use porkbun and namesilo with very few issues so far (about 3 years). You will need to unlock your domain and get an authorization code (EPP Key) from Gandi and then go to your new registrar and select Transfer Domain. Its fairly straight forward.

The support ticket took 5 days and they shut down my account later that day, actually while i was trying to get a buggy old webcam to work.

They actually mention validation.com now; https://www.namecheap.com/id-validation/ though i couldn't find any reference to it at the time.

But stupid shortsightedness aside; it was crazy, they needed to put the smokers (which was me at the time) at the back of the plane as that's the direction of the airflow inside, but the toilets were at the back so everyone had to walk through the smoking section anyway..

We have a very similar algorithm to AI for creating 'new' things, that never really strays from our data sets.

And i don't see any difference in human and AI within the context of creating art.

If you are trying to conflate those things, you need to do a better job.

The size of the data sets is not so different, humans take millions of examples within millions of examples over decades from birth to produce anything of substance.

That's just a description of what the AI is doing with a tacked on group interaction that AI will do when more AI art is available.

>dehumanizing sledgehammer

In other words people tend to be objective, i disagree but i don't see the problem. If our only difference is because we can anthropomorphize humans better than AIs then there is no objective difference.

But just to play along for the sake of the argument, for Humans to create "art", it would have to ingest a body of boring mystery whodunit prose and be guided to write a poem about it.

And if its not behind us, it has to be in-front of us or we are under a great misapprehension about the nature of the universe.

Kids shouldn't have unsupervised access to the internet. This has become a controversial statement, mostly due to a false sense of security brought on through censorship.

Though honestly, in areas of free speech my country seems to treat Saudi Arabia as a fecking role model.

But i would say that taking public keys doesn't fulfill the "removes property from an individual's possession" in the law.cornell.edu link. There is no way to 'remove property from an individual's possession" while "leaving property in an individual's possession" at the same time. And if you are have done the second one of those things then you have failed to do the first.