mjbeswick

No because they would be point to point. Many parts of the phone network were connected via microwave links before fibre optic cables replaced them, as fibre carry much higher amounts of data.

I take it you are talking about anabolic steroids.

Most people don't understand that a person will not simply gain huge amounts of muscle by taking them. It does allow more lean mass gain, but only if muscle are being stimulated to grow and extra calories are being consumed.

The is a lack of curiosity because there is no evidence.

Microwave energy has been found many times to be directed at embassies (such as the Moscow signal), but it wouldn't be any form of weapon. Such transmissions would likely be RF power for passive bugs, radar, or jamming signals.

It was a great choice; as most people in Britain would find it bloody funny!

Women will hate finding out that it can guess their age and weight! It can even guess their socioeconomic group, and if they dye their hair.

Yes it can guess body weight and age!

It's not hard to find groups of society where expose to HIV is very high, which are the ideal groups to study. Many people in these groups see contracting HIV as inevitable and do not fear it as you would expect, as it is not seen as a shame or death as as it was around the late 80s.

There subculture of people are people who actively try to transmit / contract HIV, often at so called "biohazard parties".

Have you ever heard about the Royal Mail Underground which used to move mail across London?

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

A small light railway between large cities makes sense where roads are congested and cannot be expanded.

Smoke alarms in a domestic setting might, but not systems installed in large buildings.

Welcome to Mr Olympia!

You don't need drugs to grown muscle, just an active lifestyle; which is also highly beneficial to mental health. Many of peoples physical and mental problems are a result of their sedentary lifestyle.

As someone who has take MDMA many times in the past I very sceptical about it's therapeutic value in treating PTSD. The high is incredible, but that comes with a comedown of the opposite feelings; including depression, anxiety, fatigue, and can last from hours to days. Those effects are of course dose dependant.

I'm really sceptical about the idea of treating people with mental heal issues with MDMA, as the "comedown" from it can be horrendous and causes a period low mood, depression, fatigue, anxiety, etc. Not the kind of thing you want people with PTSD experiencing! Those side effects are of course dose dependant. There is no mention of what is considered a dose, but it no uncommon for people to take a gram or more recreationally over the course of an evening.

That's how insurance underwriting works anyway, as gender, age, car model ect are all used to calculate a premium based on risk.

In the UK you can have a "black box" fitted to your car by insurance companies, where low risk driving get you a discount on your renewal.

It's not really about equality, as no one is complaining about men doing the most dangerous and laborious jobs, as mining, forestry, saturation diving etc. According to most reports, men are more than 20 times more likely to die at work.

Bias exists in training data generally because it reflects reality.

Considering the example give the article, the average CEO is a white male; so surely you would expect that unless you explicitly asked for diversity!?

It's should be down to users to alter their prompts if they wish to generate images outside of statistical norms.

I work for a big UK supermarket as a developer working on their self checkout software. The tills have better specs than you would expect, as they are running 30 or so containers using Docker. They are not cheap!

This is more a issue with the current legislation rather than a technical one.

That's your opinion, but right now he law doesn't cover training AI models.

Do you think that content created people is truly original?

Container ships use in the region of 150 to 250 metric tons of fuel per day, so $75,000 to $125,000 in fuel alone.

You can own guns in the UK, but few people do as there is no need. There is a shooting range no far from me, but it's simply not poplar here. I guess that why the US has approximately 160 times the gun death rate of the UK!

Aircraft are very expensive to operate, so it's unlikely that aircraft are being flown without good reason. It also depends on what the definition of "empty", as an aircraft is never empty, as it always have a crew. There are many small aircraft at Farnborough.

What about cargo planes, as they no not have passengers!?

There is nothing wrong with peaceful protests, but blocking traffic and people glueing themselves to roads and trains are not passive acts. The police have been escorting just stop oil protesters for their own safety, as the public started against protester.

Why does anyone need a gun in the UK!? The US has 3.6 gun related deaths per 100,000 people, while the UK has 0.3. Politician in the US would have you believe knife crime makes up for the lack of gun crime, but the truth is that the US has 4 times rate of violent crime than the UK. There really is no legitimate need for civilians to own handguns.

It's true that the UK has a large number of surveillance cameras in towns and cities, but that's more of a reflection in the cuts to number of police over the years.

Motorways are 70mph or in Germany 80mph, although some sections of the autobahn are unrestricted!?

People often cite bias in facial recognition systems, but I would argue that the average human is worse. Many people struggle to distinguish between people of ethnicities that are different from those they are most familiar with.

The real problem with people interpret the data from those systems, assuming the confidence levels of matches are displayed as they should be.

There are many places in the US where the groundwater is contaminated by industrial pollutants, even if it is within the safety limits that have been set. I assume many people think bottled water is safer.

It's misleading to say that death by hypoxia is experimental, as many people have died from that.

At least this method of execution has very little chance of being botched, although I'm sure many people will argue that it is too humane!

It's reasonable to assume that any coffee that is served fresh will be scalinging hot, and that if you grip any disposable coffee cup too tightly, then the top wil pop off.

The staff didn't spill the coffee on the lady, she did it to herself.

I doubt this would go to court in other developed countries where healthcare is free!?

Most people don't have enough muscle mass to make any difference. An excess of muscle mass is also associated with a shorter lifespan. I have weight trained for years and have a BMI of 31, and have pretty low body fat; but that isn't healthy in the long term either.

Modern civilization simply isn't possible without fossil fuels. There are finite reserves of oil, gas and coal, and it is inevitable that these will continue to be exploited until it is no longer viable. Without oil it wouldn't be possible to grow or distribute enough food to feed the current human population.

Climate change is a very real threat to human civilization, but mainly because of the size and distribution of the population, and lately expectation of people. The earth has been hotter in the past, and so the CO2 locked up in fossil fuels was originally in the atmosphere.