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I'm confused as well. This is what their youtube video [1] claims, but to me it seems obvious that a computer simulating another computer would be slower.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZNEzzDcllU

OpenMP IS trivially usable.

I've been watching Friends on Netflix. I'm now on season 9, having never watched it before. I've watched the other odd show here and there but none near as long as Friends.

This all to say that your experiences may not extend to others, and they have ample data to make their business decisions.

It usually happens much slower than pictured in the graph, and it is believed that humans are the cause for the acceleration.

On the other hand it also isn't the end of the world as some people would have you believe.

I've heard the theory that in countries where women are more dependent, like Muslim countries, they have much higher levels of enrolment exactly to be able to escape their dependency on male family members. Similarly in poorer countries, like India and ex-Soviet republics, the enrolment for the sciences versus arts is larger than the rest of the world.

Because there are business where it is natural for customers to cluster. It is not natural for car customers to cluster since nothing stops you from purchasing from a different brand, there is little or no vendor lock-in.

On a social platform or online marketplace there is a natural tendency to cluster, customers do not want to maintain multiple social profiles or bookmark 10 "amazons".

But.. they do, though. You can (and people do) make a very targeted ad, then query what users matched with it, and so on until you've sufficient data for your purposes. Plus you can use their public APIs to then match their ad data with the users public information. Facebook knows this, and does not prevent it (by hiding user identifiers for instance) because it's part of their strategy.

And the more "AI" is involved, we'll see more people excluded in a variety of ways, the true negatives.

Well, they were caught (warned about it), so they came clean. It's still a bit troubling that they didn't detect themselves. Better than nothing I suppose.

It's just marketing. Of course if you really want to you can bend a blockchain for this purpose, eroding it as much as possible, with the central validators and what not. A rose by any other name...

Another wild prediction. This person's wild claim is that if go on with the current path the ocean's will rise 7 meters and there will be worse storms. You can visit http://www.floodmap.net/ and see how 7 meters is nothing, even discounting that we can adapt and protect against flooding. Worse storms are bad, but if the alternative is "World War II-style transformation of industry", what alternative is that? How can the world say to 5 billion people "sorry, you have to stop your industrialisation now, there may be storms in the US".

In most parts of the world you are entitled to privacy even if you are outside, and you can demand photos/videos taken of you without your consent to be deleted.

Plus, just because I have a website, that doesn't make it's content open domain, for some business to copy all it's contents and publish them without my knowledge.

Everything is overpriced. Everything they've done has been overpriced for years. They're a marketing company first, selling overpriced iThings because they're status symbols to people with poor judgment and too much money.

Your "established operations" are more expensive and GCP is newer than DO. Plus, getting the attention of someone to restore your account is probably easier in DO than in a faceless giant company like Amazon, Microsoft or Google.

A ban on political campaigning is very different from banning speech on politics in general.

In many countries recording someone in public without their consent is simply illegal. If you notice someone caught you in a picture or video, and you visible (not just a blur in a giant mass of people), you can request (force) the person to delete the footage. I've seen this happen multiple times.

Concerts and other closed events routinely have as a condition for attendance that you consent to have your photo taken.

It went from a poor fishermen's village to the poorest village for decades. It really destroyed the economy and lives of the place, there are no jobs there whatsoever and you are advised against going there without protection (which is unheard off in the rest of Portugal).

I thought that too, but looking at the map there are no other transoceanic cables to Portugal, so maybe there are deep holes off that coast.

I'm guessing a 2-7% tax is on the low side of such balance.

Where is caffeine not taxed?

There is vast evidence for these camps, heck, you can see them in google maps.

https://theintercept.com/2018/08/13/china-muslims-uighur-det... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/China_hidden_cam... https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/11/if-you-enter-a...

What does being a violent or not violent crime have to do with it? What does being incarcerated for committing crimes have to do with "disappearing" for being muslim? How does the US imprisonment rate of 0.716% even compare to putting about 30% of the population in concentration camps?

And in Russia they ban instead this or that free speech advocate. And in China it is some other group of people that cannot speak. And in India, and in Brasil, Iran, Pakistan, UK, etc. There are always offensive people or sensitive subjects.

The only question is Facebook going to ban each group of people per country basis or globally. If globally, we are going to have a very limited, gray area of speech in Facebook.

The Swedish rape allegations were an obvious sham and have already been dropped years ago. Usually when this happens the case is just dropped, yet the UK really pressed in arresting Assange for "failing to appear in court", which is most countries is a minor thing (the accused is not punished for lying in court or missing court dates). I think it's obvious that any excuse will do for extraditing him to the US, to make an example of him. But so much time has passed and the case is so public now that I at least hope the UK will save face and free him instead of extraditing him.

I didn't check the math but it doesn't surprise me. These guilds were quite often in the business of war making and colonisation, selling ads seem paltry in comparison.

Creepy

I think the parent comment was referring to IBM in the Holocaust. Foreign powerful companies that would really have little to lose for not helping the Nazi regime.

Commenting on the video of the event in 7 minutes:

1. Apple News was announced again? I think it was already released wasn't it? Still not interested though. No matter how much "AI" they use to make recommendations.

2. Being forced to have an iPhone to have a credit card that seems like any other card sounds like a terrible idea. Plus where I live we already have multiple apps and services that allows me to create an infinite amount of cards and transfer money with zero fees.

3. The single game subscription seems interesting, specially the part where they say they can also be played offline. I wonder how they do that. I don't play games anymore, still, interesting, wouldn't mind trying it.

4. tv.channels looks like other similar services, and they seem to imply you can only use their app on smart TVs and their devices, which is a big no-no. Still, if with good shows and price competitive...

Good, it's a terrible service so I support any terrible practices they choose to support in speeding towards their demise. It's always been just a platform for the self entitled (verified profiles) to spread their gospel to the masses.

This is most likely a website keeping the same data in HTML5 web storage, flash cookies or other, and when noticing one of them has been removed, repopulating them. These are also sometimes called super, zombie or persistent cookies.