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So much for proof of ownership.

Honestly? I blame the reptilians for this.

>and both wind and solar installed capacity is growing at a nearly logarithmic scale.

Boy, that sure sounds promising

1 MWh roughly costs 150$ for nuclear, about 50$ for wind/solar. You're telling me that the magical solution to all our energy problem using solar and wind energy only would be to overbuild THREE times solar and wind infrastructures, for a cost of 3*50=150$/MWh, which is essentially the same as if we were to use nuclear instead.

PLUS 3 hours battery scattered everywhere in the country (to be renewed every few years).

PLUS a full continental electricity grid (basically admitting that not every country can be sovereign of their own energy).

Was this post supposed to make solar and wind look good?

> Weinstein is either going senile or running a very advanced grifting operation to increase his clout on social media.

I think he exists in a superposition of both.

Exactly. We can't rule out the possibility that the editors of Nature are microdosing on LSD.

I don't know where in my comment you read that race issues should not be discussed anymore.

I'm merely denouncing those who try to shoehorn the subject of race in every discussion.

Yes. I'm convinced the most racist people are those who can't stop talking about race, and that would include a fair amount of self-proclaimed and vocal "anti-racists".

A metaverse managed by Lain, not Zuckerberg? One can only hope..

Maybe the meager amount of fake accounts uncovered here is testimony to how good the CCP is at compartmentalizing it's propaganda cells.

>Certainly it is not in Facebook's interest to allow this kind of data harvesting.

How so? They benefit directly from it without having to do any of the hard work and they can put the blame on someone else if the whole thing blows up. Seems like the perfect crime.

Couple days is typically worst case scenario. I only experienced that once when I wandered a lot during the experience, so it may not be completely imputable to the drug itself.

Last time I used it I stayed comfortably at home. The day after I could go hiking in the Alps without any problem.

Anyway, the tiredness you feel after using 2-CB is nowhere near as close to that you experience with MDMA, which may last for weeks. Which leads me to think 2-CB would be better for microdosing.

Also this is in no way me advocating 2-CB has being completely safe. Most people who tried it deem it so, but as of yet few researches have been conducted on that substance.

I am skeptical about microdosing on MDMA, as the substance itself is pretty taxing on the body and the brain, and I don't think much good would come from completely depleting your serotonin levels.

I think this substance is useful, but its usage is best kept on a (bi-)monthly basis so you have time to recover between sessions.

A better candidate than MDMA for microdosing with similar effect would be 2-CB. It does not deplete any of your serotonin, and you recover from it in a couple of days, even after massive doses.

Dude, you're seriously over-interpreting it.

It is obviously a metaphor for Ego death, which is not even mentioned once in your article.

Not necessarily.

If you know the method used by Apple to scale down flagged images before they are sent for review, you can make it so the scaled down version of the image shows a different, potentially misleading one instead:

https://thume.ca/projects/2012/11/14/magic-png-files/

At the end of the day:

- You can trick the user into saving an innocent looking image

- You can trick Apple NN hashing function with a purposely generated hash

- You can trick the reviewer with an explicit thumbnail

There is no limit to how devilish one can be.

10 bucks they don't.

>256 topics would be ceil(log2(256)) = 8 bits of entropy

Unless several topics can be assigned to a person (which seems to be implied in the article), in which case that's 256 bits of entropy available to classify each person.

>As a reminder, there are ~ 10 billion people on earth, so if you have 34 bits of entropy or so, you can uniquely identify each person.

Yeah, well theoretically you could. But that assumes that browsers are able to extract and balance some very arbitrary and very specific information from the browsing habits of all people on earth in a perfect decision tree.

In practice, lots of browsing habits overlap, making this decision tree far less discriminating and powerful than the theoretically optimal one.

Though I think you are absolutely correct that in practice the number of bits to build up a classifier able to uniquely classify each person must be pretty low. Maybe a few hundreds.

That may very well be possible with those 256 topics mentioned in that article.

Also I don't understand the difference between cohorts and topics, apart from the fact that topic are less numerous and can have appealing names?

They fucked up? No they didn't fuck up.

They got what they wanted. It did sting a bit, but it was calculated.

They won't suffer any massive losses over that, they have the moral high ground among non tech people, who mistakenly believe that they're doing something to protect children.

What is missing is figures about how many cases facial recognition helped solve.

Without figures, it's difficult to tell if it brings more troubles than benefits.

It really sucks for those wrongly convicted, but it may cause more harm not to use this technology.

An immediate way to alleviate those injustices would be to instruct police officers that statistical models do not spit absolute truths. Great tools are not a substitute for either thinking nor humanity.

In my opinion, the conceal feature in Vim provides the best of both world to the name vs symbol problem.

When you want to review your code, you just go into normal mode, concealing all lengthy but frequent names into appealing symbols. When you want to write code, you switch to editing mode and all symbols on the editing line turn back into names

I use this feature mostly with python code. One liners making proficient use of lambdas, maps, reduces, and other functional treats are satisfyingly condensed, reducing the amount of attention required to parse each line.

No need for custom keyboards. People don't have to parse arbitrary symbols to understand what I wrote because the underlying code remains vanilla.

A drawback is that the apparent conciseness tricks me into writing very big one-liners difficult to parse when all terms are expanded.

It's harder to smoke

It is not very difficult to imagine that antivaxxers would use this article as proof that vaccination was a mistake and that we should not go further. However, this bit:

> Our data show that anti-disease vaccines that do not prevent transmission can create conditions that promote the emergence of pathogen strains that cause more severe disease in unvaccinated hosts.

Actually makes a convincing case for anyone who did not get the vaccine to get it.

Anyway, that won't convince hardcore antivaxxers, so we shall see in the upcoming months/years whether this article actually transposes to our situation. Just a shame this may be happening at the expense of gullible yet still good at heart people.

This has nothing to do with America.

Prepping up to meet China's expectations?

It's almost comical the tendency companies/societies/countries have to invoke absolutely abhorrent concepts in order to justify their future unethical behaviors and shield themselves from any valid criticism.

The fact that they raised the children card speaks volumes about the level of fuckery they're gonna deploy on this one.

Pretty nifty :)

May I suggest you try with a twisted, "moebius" version of the torus? By having the loop spiraling up one or more cell every turn. That could be fun.

I suggest we replace all of that complicated stuff with a simple, optional textfield where the user can talk extensively about his pronouns, why he sexually identifies as an attack helicopter, why his genitalia exhibits quantum behavior, why his gender is located on the higher end of the fractal when the planets are aligned a certain way, and whatever else that person has to say.

That way no one would be left behind. No feelings would get hurt. Easy to implement. Easy to discard for those not interested. Lots of entropy to characterize your gender etc.

I suggest we label this textfield the "special snowflake field", and make it 4096 characters long. Although there is a case to be made for making it 64K, if that can help people feel safe and included.

>Stop fantasizing that the government cares about the shit you buy. This is not about you.

Well, it sorta is when this plan applies to everyone.

This seems like a very petty problem to focus on in "an increasingly uncertain world". I think establishing a link between people making/playing video games and people who actually abuse the red cross symbol causing actual casualties is just plain counterproductive. Until they back that connection with actual data, I stand unmoved by their statement.