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rolph··on YouTube Suspended Us [video]
patreon is loving youtube. theres nothing like playing jenga with your own platform, to the benefit of a competitor.
rolph··on Early adversity leaves lasting molecular imprint across the body: primate study
do you mean intrinsically not capable, or systemicaly not capable.
rolph··on Early adversity leaves lasting molecular imprint across the body: primate study
the size of the cohort isnt the problem, its the enshrinement of catechisms that perpetuate a mentality of blue collar legacy.
rolph··on Early adversity leaves lasting molecular imprint across the body: primate study
it is manifestation of a physical law at a higher level of organization.

it is gene fitness, except the observer is focused on species population level dynamics rather than individual level dynamics.

they may look very different however the fundamental mechanism is contribution of a biopolymer to variations of biological fitness

rolph··on Early adversity leaves lasting molecular imprint across the body: primate study
Gattaca (1997) - IMDb

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119177

rolph··on Ask HN: What is one thing about AI that annoys you the most?
ad targeting.

a technology that could be used for something productive, being used to side channel ad reconnisaince and delivery in a guilous fashion.

rolph··on GTA 6 Physical Copies Won't Include a Disc, Will Just Be a Code in a Box
Some Retailers Are Refusing to Sell GTA 6 Due to the Lack of a Disc

https://www.ign.com/articles/some-retailers-are-refusing-to-...

rolph··on Mr. Big (Police Procedure)
a soon as the line is crossed to even insinuate harm or repercussion for not engaging with the sting it is entrapment plain and simple.

this sort of procedure works on a particular psychetype, keep in mind there is not a lot of particularily bright people in prison.

about a quarter of subjects dont fall for it, because even so called professional interogators are pretty obvious to someone accustomed to thinking before acting.

also an actual member or neophyte of a crime organisation knows better than to start lipping off about past criminal activity. having loose lips wont get you an audience with a real mr. big, it will end up precipitating a tragic accident.

rolph··on Show HN: Accent Roulette – guess a stranger's country from their voice
accent or "twang" is contagious not hard set.

you can say with confidence,a person has deepexposure to a set of dialect and affect, however there is reduced confidence when using voice character to infer country of origin, or current location.

rolph··on Overturned truck releases 24M honeybees forcing Texas town lockdown
this is a truckload of "hives", i airquote as its not made obvious if these are actually established hives, or if they are hive splits, which is likely at this time of year.

the difference is that a split or a package, is not as defensive, vs an established hive with queen brood honey and pollen,which will be vigourously defended.

further exacerbation arises from the presence of many different queens, which will attack each other, and will be attacked by non hive mates.

this is very dangerous to remediate.

rolph··on Google will make you wave at your computer to check you are real
username and timestamp with sharpie, or your not human.
rolph··on My Steam Machine is a 50ft HDMI cable
50ft fibre optic HDMI cable, for those of you throwing an exception based on time domain reflection, and line level settling periods.
rolph··on What we call "age verification" is actually mass surveillance
Doppelgängers Don’t Just Look Alike—They Also Share DNA

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/doppelgangers-dont...

rolph··on MSG Made Dossier on Activists Who Opposed Facial Recognition
if you attach some kind of socially hostile mandate to that list, and accumulated resources to actuate that mandate.

its one level of unhealthy to point at a demographic and say, "them they the source of the problems" , thats like archie bunker.

going further, individual names and dox, curated summarized to a quick read list, gathering weapons building a cell, thats historically malignant.

rolph··on Flock-Powered Police Chiefs Stalking Women Shows Why Warrants Are Needed
i think i saw that post, i think we're both describing what happens when someone copies plates and doppelgangs people to throw off the surveillance.

i think in this case the LPR was right, the same plate number was in two different places, the assumption of how many plates were involved needs review.

160mph for 20min through suburban streets, that kind of attracts attention, there would be a lot of complaints and witnesses if that happened

rolph··on Flock-Powered Police Chiefs Stalking Women Shows Why Warrants Are Needed
its effort well worth it, and really is not a lot of effort. if you stole the plate, the theft is evident, when there are duplicates then it becomes difficult to know which one to suspect, and that also presupposes knowledge of the duplication.

you would have to realize, it is not feasible for a car to be in location 1 thenbe in location 2 many miles away in a few minutes.

the odd thing about criminals is thier effort to perpetuate crime is often far greater than getting a job, but is somehow the preferable option.

rolph··on Flock-Powered Police Chiefs Stalking Women Shows Why Warrants Are Needed
guess what prolific career criminals do with crime cars?

they look for a car that is very similar if not exact make and model of thier stolen vehicle, then they "clone" the victims license plate with a sheet of embossment copper and a stylus, apply paint at thier shop and affix the imposter to the crime vehicle. that buggers the whole LPR thing.

they can replicate dozens of plates in a day and offer the service for contras.

rolph··on OpenAI's $1T Bullshit Is Falling Apart [video]
videos are not in and of themselves disqualifying, however rarely meet the bar.

the definition of news has dangling chads as well.

mainstream pulp news is rarely HN material, informatives that foster intelligent progress gain more traction.

rolph··on New Presidential Executive Orders to Fast-Track Quantum Computing
thats because perfectly opposite outcomes are equivalent quantum outcomes.
rolph··on Concerns over therapy ferrets used to kill rats at UK's largest childrens prison
less rats is good.

ferret vector of disease is bad.

id have to say a need for childrens prison is concerning as well.

rolph··on Ask HN: Can't Create an Account
if you keep creating a new account everytime there is an issue instead of contacting and dealing with it, you will be blacklisted.

you should contact dang and figure out the problem.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48617861

rolph··on The Wholesale Plagiarism of Obscure Sorrows
both spellings, while having differing implications, tend to be true.
rolph··on The brain was not designed for this much bad news
gives me the idea, rank news items according to geographic distance, and "blast radius"

closer to you gives higher rank in the feed, tighter blast radius lower rank.

example, events in your present location rank higher, events 100miles away rank lower. police stopping someone for a seatbelt and issuing a ticket, likely ranks lower, vs evacuation order for city ranks higher.

a cheap way of assessing relevance score.

rolph··on Subquadratic claims it broke through a bottleneck that's holding back LLMs
it appears they ditched distributive multiplication of all terms, and took an approach akin to grammatic analysis.

if you were to tag words as nouns and verbs, then identify subject and predicate, you dont need to wrk so hard mathing things you dont need.

rolph··on The Wholesale Plagiarism of Obscure Sorrows
so does loosing a business.
rolph··on The Wholesale Plagiarism of Obscure Sorrows
then DMCA the entirety of google and alphabet, and tender class action for direct and contributory violation, with the option to back it off to the literary work in question when goog takes a seat at the table and takes it seriously
rolph··on Ask HN: Due to spam on GitHub, what platforms can I move my projects?
New repository settings for configuring pull request access [feb13-2026]

https://github.blog/changelog/2026-02-13-new-repository-sett...

rolph··on Floppy Disk Piracy: How Software Was Shared Before the Internet
i remember a widespread justification:

" i know you wrote this program in your basement, and made dozens of copies, your not even a real business"

somehow, only a corporation was legitimate enough to develop a program, and expect to profit, indies were somehow disqualified from being professional.

rolph··on Why the Human Genome's Tangled Physicality May Confound AI
higher order [secondary,tertiary] structure is almost subjective, while primary [sequence] structure is a data representation scheme.

the DNA is also a mechanical device that does molecular work in order to generate a transcript. molecular strain, and torsion are major considerations in the final functional distribution of expression domains.

2' and 3' topologically associated domains[TAD]

rolph··on Scientists warn 'Godzilla' El Niño could intensify climate impacts worldwide
you might want to hedge if your a speculator.

https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/e...

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