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>does it prove her claim true that it is harmful?

Always reminds me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovKw6YjqSfM

Doesnt work for youtube for me though. The ads come through.

Next up is graphene pollution. All such new tech should also have tech that allows for natural decomposition and shouldn't probably be used until that is available as well.

With humans, you can change an opinion. Once AI has made up its mind, there isn't anything you can do anymore. The entire system and extended network of interaction points will stick to the decision/stance it has made.

If you are an outlier in the data, you will remain an outlier in the system.

This is terrifying.

Not really. There are actual deaths on the ground with desperately hungry people being denied benefits due to the bio-metric authentication systems flaking out. So much so that the CEO of the agency managing this system himself has an authentication failure rate of around 19%. Thankfully he doesn't need the ration to survive.

This reads like propaganda.

Not sure how many of you run pihole and check the logs. The number of sites tracking people is crazy. To top it, devices and android phones in particular, seem to be doing it a little too much as well. I tried using mi phones for a while and decided to stop after looking at my logs.

The tools are probably probably domain specific as well. But are there any standard/OTS commercial tools for this?

What are there tools that help simulate complex systems? Things like biochemical balances in the human body, economies, enzyme actions and homeostasis, environment and climate? Etc etc...? What tools are used by those in the profession?

Aadhaar in India is far worse.

99% of the data has leaked multiple times already. It also seems to sport all the classic signs of an amateur project. Post facto design changes, unauthenticated mails, unprofessional mobile apps, leaky access to all of the data irrespective of your need, terrible code (same hard coded passwords for everyone), cludgy design increments making the problems worse while not acknowledging existing issues, logical errors (like beign unable to reset passwords if you have lost mobile device) and the deaths of people unable to access hospitals and food in some areas, Police cases against people reporting on vulnerabilities, ... ...

It's a kafkaesque nightmare and I am surprised no one mentions it on HN much. Probably because it's a slow motion train wreck.

I am not sure how the Indian courts are even going to justify continuing with the system anymore given the absolutely callous handling of the data thus far by their Aadhaar agency.

In the end, India's aadhaar is actually not a government project, it is a private project run by a bunch of companies run by some ex infosys top shots who have time and again proven to only look after their own interests.

Way too much information leakage from its mobile OS (MiUI?) back to China though.

I find it weird that there isn't enough outrage about this and it is already beginning to be the new normal. In a more ideal world, Apple would have been forced to issue a patch that reverses this forced obsolescence on consumers.

Problem is I didn't find anything reputable. Most of the sources I got was tinged with "woo woo" UFO lore. But a googling will show you. Also found a Joe Rogan video with the Delonge guy.

It's not an unknown alloy.

I dug around a bit and it's a 3d layer printed nano-composite of very high purity bismuth and magnesium doped with some other trace elements and a crystal structure that they think indicates it was grown in a zero-G environment. Apparently even the wiring is baked in. I mean if we didn't know how processors were made, they would look like magic under the microscope as well. But I guess they genuinely don't understand how the layering was achieved.

What they say they don't know is how to manufacture it.

They should change their marketing; 50% faster than before*

In small letters: *for 500 charge cycles. After that it will run at the speed of your coffee maker.

>Chasing down misidentified flying objects and hoaxes will not. The idea that numerous spaceships, each with more potential kinetic energy than mankind has created in its entire history, are just flying around our atmosphere without leaving massive and easily recordable emissions is ludicrous.

Identifying, understanding and explaining/eliminating exceptions is how science progresses. I know it causes discomfort to see something that defies expectations right in front of you. That does not mean we do not examine it. We should.

Interesting. In another 300-500 years, I am pretty sure we will start simulating sensory experience and ultimately the past. I am not sure if I am a toy simulation of the past from the future, right now.

Given a choice between surviving and building something new, anyone would choose surviving. The red tape in India even now is atrocious. Recent raids on sales tax enforcers turned up corruption money in truckloads.

I wonder what this can do for astronomy.

In the same vein, any one know of a cheap (around 30-50$) dual NIC SOC?

The biggest grouse I have with most linux desktops I have is the font rendering. I understand that it is to do with the patents on cleartype etc, but its been so many years with this problem

This is being pushed through in haste and rips a huge hole in privacy for its citizens. The Indian state and the agency managing this exercise (UIDAI) have refused to own up to responsibility for any breaches. They have even gone ahead and started punishing people who point out flaws in the scheme.

Centralizing biometric data and giving third parties access to it is a bad idea anyway.

Besides, in the confusion a large number of foreigners are likely to become citizens. This is a huge foul up and a live example of how badly thought through some government programs are.

I propose Null or Drop Table.

If we could do large scale engineering we would engineer something like this I suppose to increase the habitable worlds in a system.

The first big disruption of civilization will be fuelled on facebook. Look at what happened in the middle east and is happening else where. Starts out slow and happy and descends into violence and chaos which in large part will be started by police themselves.

Strangely, we dont get to see as many of the cheaper chromebook laptops in a country like India where taxes are such a huge part of a laptop price. A macbook or a thinkpad are out of reach for most people here.

This means I'll be recognized even if I appear in photographs taken by others in public places and I dont even use FB. This is unsettling.

Ahh, it's the BBC.

I think we have reached a point in journalism where it has now become important to identify who is reporting it as well. At this rate we will need a simple content bias/color code plugin for different sites.

As an Indian, I have found that the BBC has been overly pessimistic about India especially on the web. Their story selections, headlines, and the voices listed as sound bites in the stories support the "downplay theme" for India.

The other problem is that laptops are being built like mobile phones, with everything soldered to the board and the whole thing either sealed shut or taped down. Upgradeable & portable laptops just dont seem to exist at the price points they used to.

Frankly there is something off about the separation and pricing of internet vs "internet via wifi/hotspot" on their service.