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Comment · 3 months ago
The author of this paper has also apparently published a proof of the Riemann Hypothesis. yeah idk if they should be trusted as an authority on this.
Comment · 6 months ago
They say its mythos like, without actually comparing it to Mythos (fair enough, it's not public) but the bar for a model to be mythos-like has to be that you can produce as many novel and high severity security vulns outlined in the Mythos redteam blog. I haven't seen any other lab produce a report like that yet. The proof is in the pudding.
Comment · 7 months ago
I don't mean to come across as a snob, or anything like that, but I find this PR really odd.

It's the authors first time contributing to this repo and it the feedback on the PR that was addressed is really odd, like some of it is super basic stuff, even if you're not familiar with the code base or the language.

Just an all round weird vibe.

Comment · 2 years ago
Do you think speed cameras don't make people speed less, and hence roads safer? I don't really understand your point here about a private operator wanting to maximise profit here.

Putting cameras in places where people are likely to speed so you can get more money would be directly correlated with being most impactful at reducing speeding. Another free market win in my mind.

Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
I believe that is just to disable the inclusion of the payload, the given env variable will disable the payload when it is live.
Comment · 3 years ago
How? WebRTC came out in 2011 and wasn't even widely supported in web browsers until years later. Omegle came out in 2009, and launched video in 2010.
Comment · 3 years ago
Sounds like it could backfire though, as it would also make it hard to find the truth.
Comment · 3 years ago
> How do you scribble "family of three: mom, father, daughter" without any emojis?

How often do people need to do that; with that level of fidelity, right down to the composition of the family? My suspicion is not often. A short sentence does this description just as good and is much less ambiguous, as in written, concise communication that is "emoji-rich" is filled with so many details (such as the composition of the family and their skintone) it's often not clear which details are important for the message and which are not. In addition because emojis are rendered differently on different devices the meaning may be lost (e.g. when apple changed the gun emoji to a watergun, many messages took on different meanings depending on if a revolver was used or a watergun)

Comment · 3 years ago
> Google search could pay chrome to be the primary search engine

This doesn't sound like a good idea if your goal is to prevent these two companies (or divisions of the company) for co-conspiring.

Comment · 3 years ago
Quite regularly I see sponsored content that is targeted at people living in the US. If the product is even available in my country there's a huge shipping cost and exchange rate that makes it not worth purchasing even with a discount code. I try not to spend too much time watching YouTube every day so skipping sponsors for products I cannot buy is a good way to save time.
Comment · 3 years ago
I think the original comment is misleading. As far as I can tell you need your employer to buy the EV for you; and then they don't have to pay Fringe Benefits Tax on it. This might benefit people who get a "company car" but I don't know of anyone who has gotten a fringe benefit as large as a car from their employer before. I don't doubt it happens but I doubt it helps anyone except employees and employers who could comfortably afford the tax to begin with. I'm not a tax expert so I could be completely misunderstanding this though.
Comment · 3 years ago
Same here, except I think I might be older than you because it was still called "Beryl" back then for me. It's amazing how much impact a video showing windows wobbling around on Ubuntu had on me. I also installed Ubuntu, I remember doing it through wubi.
Comment · 3 years ago
Our excess deaths were extremely low while the rest of the west were letting it rip in 2020~2021. Most people I know in Australia have only recently gotten covid for the first time.
Comment · 4 years ago
I thought that you had to verify your email work address for blind; so doesn't this mean not "anyone" can post false rumours, only meta staff?

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