koheripbal

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Comment · 10 months ago
To add a little context, this suspension comes immediately after Anna's Archive publicly implicated themselves in the Spotify scraping "hack" in which they downloaded nearly the entire content library of Spotify and was preparing to release it publicly (~300TB worth) via torrent.

They published a blog post outlining their plans.

Comment · 2 years ago
I think he means it would need to be calibrated on Mars as the exact ground density and composition isnt known from earth
Comment · 2 years ago
I know someone who works as a social worker in a homeless shelter.

She is the sweetest young woman in the world.

It is a hellish job. I cannot even imagine her managing belligerent addicts. She would quit in a heartbeat.

These rules are in place for the simple reason that workers demand it

Comment · 2 years ago
> Even those of us dabbling in stocks must find this increase mind-boggling

No, those of us invested in tech stocks have also seen large double digit returns this year alone.

Comment · 2 years ago
> new ideas for advancing equity and inclusion

It means providing research containing useful narratives that can be used by others to promote DEI political objectives.

For example, in math it means publishing commentary on how math is widely used for racial discrimination and should generally not be trusted. See the popular book "Math Is Racist". Several Mathematicians are cited in the book.

Comment · 2 years ago
YYYY-MM-DD is the international standard more of us should use.
Comment · 2 years ago
A simple Airthings or Awair air quality monitor shows you the VOC rate in the home and it is easy to see how a fan keeps the levels at zero or even just opening a window drops the pollutant rate to almost zero very very quickly after cooking.

I trust my data over internet opinions.

Comment · 2 years ago
That's why furnaces have a chimney.
Comment · 2 years ago
Non-Western powers are doing the exact same thing online.

... and have been caught and demonstrated to be doing it explicitly.

Not sure why you focus on the less demonstrated western powers doing it.

Comment · 2 years ago
...lots of things SHOULD be true, but are not in practice.
Comment · 2 years ago
The only clean energy that is capable of producing constant power is nuclear power.
Comment · 2 years ago
There is no correlation between asthma and fracking. There is not even a plausible mechanism for such a causal relationship. That is a very odd point to make.
Comment · 2 years ago
It seems likely that, like us, intelligent life invents AGI prior to leaving their primary planet.

Organic life is then merged/exterminated/controlled in favor of AGI.

AGI would not have the biological instinct to grow/spread/reproduce, and thus the cosmos should be populated with a handful of individual billion year old super advanced AGIs, perhaps only one or two per galaxy, sitting quietly in orbit around some stable star or perhaps even in the great voids outside the galaxy somewhere.

Finding one is likely near impossible as they may not want to be found.

Comment · 2 years ago
It's crazy that this is so widespread, has brain disease implications, and yet there is no treatment for the hundreds of millions of people worldwide currently infected.

What is likely worse is that they can only document the worst cases, and cannot measure the subtler impacts on seemingly healthy infected people.

Maybe this is a major cause of ADD, or depression, or dyslexia, or autism, etc... we haven't done the research, so we aren't even bothering to test or treat a clearly extremely common infection. Its stupid.

Comment · 2 years ago
That would not have protected 23andme from this issue. Password complexity does not stop password reuse.

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