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I think the most fascinating bit about Grahams Number is, that is is used as an upper bound in a proof about colored subgraphs in a completely connected graph of dimension [n]. But this is only an upper bound... the actual number of dimensions [n] that satisfies the proof is unknown, but it could be as low as 13 for all we know...

Ahh OK... well yes, that makes way more sense. I think it's a matter of convenience, its far simpler to download an app and let it "do its stuff" than to find a suitable client and feed it the correct config.

What you describe is also a good setup. Good if you don't trust your VPN provider to deliver a secure app -- a level of trust that cannot always be assumed.

Not everyone has the resources or inclination to learn how to setup and maintain their own vpn servers. If they are only a single user on that machine, the anonymity of the service is also compromised.

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That being said: Everyone who has the inclination should absolutely give it a try!

They might be heuristics, but how can they ever be useful? They can neither be used in the analysis of a person nor are they predictive...

There is also no way this information is 100% accurate at all times. Emotional recognition is inherently probabilistic -- there will be false positives and false negatives, no matter how good the heuristic is. In the end, it'll be you who has to prove that you were in an emotional stable state, and not the algorithm that gets scrutinized.

Sorry to hear that. That's seriously fucked up, and I am almost sure that it wouldn't stand in court

>> that you don’t decide what’s in direct competition. That decides a lawyer

No. If in doubt a court decides it, not an encroaching law department -- but nobody wants that to happen so everyone silences themselves beforehand...

Just one more reason for me never to be employed by a company with more than 150 employees

Have you? This is only relevant if your invention is in direct competition to the business at hand.

Have you tried OSMand (https://osmand.net/). It is not very pretty, but I definitly love the "offline" feature and bicycle maps.

Technically yes, but... In front of several german courts simple web blogs and other (definitely) non-commercial projects have lost their cases against "competitors" (usually trigger happy shyster lawyers that see a quick way to make easy money). The wording of the law states that every publication platfrom that operates "Geschäftsmäßig" (like a business) is liable to have an imprint. The courts have defined the word "Geschäftsmäßig" as meaning regularly -- so it is only important how regularly you post, not if you make money with it or not.

Security Theater at its finest. If something happens they can always claim: "Look -- we did something -- it was utterly stupid and had no effect at all, but we did it, what else could we do?!?!"

>> At least gitlab let's you self host, which would let you run backups on offsite hosting meaning zero downtime.

Zero downtime but not zero maintainence cost. I think the administration of a full CI/CD environment (not only the gitlab machine, also the runners, the network etc.) are the main factor for this.

You could also try to provide paid content. I am more than willing to pay for content I like, if the price is reasonable and I can avoid ads and tracking -- I already support a number of media-outlets and podcasts with donations.

If you provide paid content AND try to track me or make even more money with me via ads: goodbye...

On the other hand: If you rely on ads only, it is doubtful that your media-outlet is truly neutral -- would you really do analysis and investigations on your highest paying ad clients (?) -- I doubt it...

"free country"... oxymoron of the century by now...

Not quite:

>> Show HN: Can an AI predict if your HN post will go viral? The results will shock you

Bad: 0.8326 Good: 0.1575

The best phrase of the whole piece: "hereditary meritocracy".

It's an oxymoron, but elegantly explained: “When you create a ‘meritocratic’ selection process where the production of merit is increasingly skewed by parental income, you end up with a hereditary meritocracy.” Sums up the situation pretty niceley. I can't speak for the US, but in Germany it's been this way for quite some time. The single most important factor in determining future achievements is the income of ones parents.

We start the "selection process" even earlier than in College. Kids after elementary school (at the age of ~10) go either to the Gymnasium (which gives you a university certification) or Realschule + Berufsschule (trade school). I know some elementary school teachers and hear horror stories of vindictive but resourceful parents suing schools, teachers and whole school-districts because their kids didn't get into a Gymnasium. This has lead to a situation where as much kids as possible get funneled to a Gymnasium, in order to avoid being sued by the parents.

Gymnasium education is being diluted so every idiot in the class can participate. And the young adults that achieve Abitur (Gym-degree) are utterly unprepared for any form of University-Level education, since self-organized learning and critical thinking skills are still somewhat important here. At the universities, the same game happens again, only it's a bit more complicated to influence positions there.

Fidel Castro is probably the man who survived / foiled the most assassination attempts (with a lot of help of the KGB).

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estimated the number of assassination schemes or actual attempts by the Central Intelligence Agency to be 638 (according to the Church Committee)

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But most of these cases are still shrouded in the veil of secrecy by the intelligence agencies, so there is still a lot of guesswork and substantial amount of secret records involved.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_attempts_on_Fide...

That is not true. There is no such law in Germany, and the public backlash against it would be enormous. In the east we had a government that would pressure citizens to spy on each other -- any hint of that would be political suicide on all levels...

You are correct, but at this point in time, we have to ask: "What ideology?" -- Ideologically most systems are the same: Cleptocratic oligarchies. They might have local flavours here and there -- communist, authoritarian, market-liberal, social-democratic -- but basically they are the same.

If the history of the last 40 years of "climate debate" teaches us anything, then that it will not only be left unchecked, but it will become worse. There is absolutely no reason to be optimistic about CO2 emissions on a global scale.

If zero emissions by 2040 is a realistic scenario, then we have to create the foundations of this development now. What we do instead is: lackluster regulations in Europe, active denialism and in the US, expansion of the oil- and gas industry in Russia and increased coal production in China.

Been there, done that... It is a waste of time and effort if you can't convince other people to join your services. I have operated a jabber server for quite some time (2008ish - 2012). Mostly for me and some friends to organize lan parties and such. I told other people about it but after a week of interest, no one seriously used it, since everyone was already using other services to communicate -- also using a XMPP client seemed to be to much to ask for the non-techies.

As time goes on our communications moved towards facebook and teamspeak. And after dropping out of the local gaming scene I stopped operating it altogether -- if I am the only one using a comms-infrastructure its kinda moot, even if it's a federated system. I had some contacts outside of the gaming-bubble but by the time no one seemed to have used it anymore.

Consider this: Sleep deprivation is torture. Anyone being held in a condition like this and not getting serious medical attention -- psychological and physiological -- is also torture. The fact that after several months outside the confines of the embassy-cell, he is still in a condition that resembles torture victims is evidence enough of that. It's also very convenient that it looks like this is self-inflicted and "no one can do anything huh?". Any person other than him would be hospitalized immediately.

'Pacifist' does not imply no defense spending. Swiss neutrality is arguably a very pacifist foreign policy, while Switzerland has a very well funded military for a country of that size.

Oh well you know, stuff like this also happens:

https://wahlen.sachsen.de/LW_19.php?wahlkreis=51&_cp=%7B%22t...

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State elections in saxony this year. Look at the table underneath the map:

Wahlberechtigte -- eligible to vote -- 1 722

Wähler -- voters -- 2 083 -- 121,0 %

Interview about the issue in german: https://netzpolitik.org/2019/interview-zur-finfisher-abmahnu...

Because the pi might be needed for more demanding workloads (networks, routing, sdr radio system). With this solution you can build low-tech control systems and programmable switches with a bit of logic where a raspi would be overkill.

But the doomsday scenarios aside, this is super useful as an educational device. It can teach people what computers actually are and how they operate on the lowest possible level.

"Kids" at ages 25-35...

I love the zoomable UI, very neat and it gives a perspective on how "small" a position of 800 million pounds can be...

I tried it several times, but I am usually a slow typist and English is not my native language, so I sometimes think twice about how to formulate a sentence. Sometimes when I wrote a posting, I ended up hitting the timeout, just when I was about to post. This is the only reason I turned 'noprocrast' off again, otherwise it is a super useful feature!

Well, we can at least have solace in the fact that these are the exact same outlets that are suffering financial losses since at least 10 years. They are dying a slow death and this is their final straw -- not that it will do them any good, to the contrary. Good riddance!

I think a better comparison would be antidepressants. A common class of antideps are called SSRI -- selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors. They have a similar mechanism to MDMA -- block the re-absorption of serotonin by neurons, so more serotonin is available for neurochemical processing.

Stimulants mainly act on the dopamine system, although MDMA might act on both systems: dopamine and serotonine.

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MDMA is also quite toxic in long-term usage.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3870191/