mplewis9z

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Comment · 7 months ago
Federal elections are all run by the individual states, so a state ID would be all you need.
Comment · 9 months ago
I think a corollary to this is that any pizza is a personal pizza if you believe hard enough.
Comment · 10 months ago
The problem is when things like this happens: https://apnews.com/article/chatbot-ai-lawsuit-suicide-teen-a...

When AI behaves sycohphantically towards someone, it can encourage and exacerbate any mental health problems they may already be having, especially related to social isolation.

Comment · 11 months ago
You very conveniently omitted the middle part of that quote: “... and end the world as they struck targets on either side”. That very clearly implies that nukes would not be targeted at Canada, which is laughably wrong. There are multiple significant military sites that are part of NORAD that would be primary targets, let alone major population centers that would be obliterated if it came to full-on Mutually-Assured-Destruction time.
Comment · 1 year ago
You made a big leap there from “robotic missions” to “autonomous robotic missions”, which I think very few think is realistic in the near-term. Some limited autonomy exists as a force-multiplier, sure, but pretty much all robotic space missions are still basically controlled remotely by a human.
Comment · 1 year ago
They're talking about the Benjamin Franklin House, which is in fact in London.
Comment · 1 year ago
Probably not on the standard itself, but practically a guarantee they have attacks on the major implementations, especially OpenSSL.
Comment · 1 year ago
You do know that both pneumonic and bubonic are caused by the same bacterium, right? They’re just different transmission methods.
Comment · 1 year ago
Capital One’s personal lending is also notorious for targeting the mid-to-low end of credit card customers. They routinely deny people for credit cards if it looks like the applicant pays off their cards in full every month - they love a customer with a credit profile that has no negative marks but with a moderate debt-to-income ratio that means they’ll get those sweet interest payments.
Comment · 1 year ago
The costs will likely be covered by insurance, which is hilariously cheap and also covers events you could never feasibly prepare for.
Comment · 1 year ago
I’m an outsider to that field, but I don’t see a reason why mRNA can’t be the “mRNA moment” - fungal vaccines are possible, and if you can find the right target protein you can make an mRNA vaccine against a particular infection.

I think it’s just a matter of priorities and funding, which fungal infections as a whole don’t get enough of in general.

Comment · 1 year ago
And the average EU country is quite a bit smaller than the average US state, along with the EU being more densely populated - public transit certainly has some artificial/political roadblocks in the US, but it’s also fundamentally more challenging and expensive here.
Comment · 1 year ago
Yes.
Comment · 1 year ago
Primordial Hack Bloles?
Comment · 1 year ago
I’m in fairly good shape from biking pretty much every day and my average _cycling_ speed on my hybrid bike is below that, my goodness. If I’m on a completely flat trail, carrying nothing else with me, and I’m really pushing it I can average about 16 mph for an hour but to know that there’s someone out there running as fast as I bike is absurd.

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