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The real article title says there is an association, while the HN title says there is causation ("Sitting for a long time shrinks your brain even if you exercise"). Very bad

Everyone that wants to transact privately and without censorship or middlemen is a criminal? This society is so sick that that's a common viewpoint

I can't even reply to your comment without my words being stolen and used to train "AI". I have no option to opt out. So you will only get this chilled response.

Advertising companies including google make many billions by gathering, using, selling the personal information of people just like you

You are really claiming that Google doesnt want your data? And claiming that big companies in general don't want your data? It's so absurd that i am not sure i understand your comment correctly.

It is an absolute 100% guarantee that Google wants your data

Hong Kong protestors were tracked by looking at their purchases of public transport tickets. Canada froze the bank accounts of those involved in protests also. Wikileaks had to rely on cryptocurrency for funding and donations could be tracked otherwise. From this I see a trend that shows it is critical for democracy, don't you?

There are several models.

Haveno already works by providing p2p multisignature escrow. With this design, you need to match with an individual and do a direct exchange. There is a Tor-based application

BasicSwap has another model with noncustodial atomic swaps and some sort of decentralised orderbook.

I expect that Serai will be much more effective than those. It will launch soon with a liquidity pool design, similar to Uniswap for Ethereum. With this model, other people can profit by providing liquidity for pools. It will be very easy for anyone to initiate a trade and do an exchange for a different currency from the pool. It will be incorporated into the most popular mobile app Cakewallet, so it should be accessible even for non-technical users and quickly gain adoption. I think this has the potential to provide an even more convenient, generally superior experience compared to centralised exchanges.

Based on all the other comments it seems like nobody else understands this. Funny.

People will just (legally) use decentalised exchanges to convert between monero and bitcoin so it won't have much impact

I just read the section in his book that the article refers to and within context it doesnt say anything that the article suggests. It doesn't say anywhere that he believes in the noxious vapors of miasma theory or that he doesnt believe germs exist. Did you read it? Can you quote where he says he doesnt believe in germ theory?

I am not sure he even misunderstands miasma theory. At a certain point in history, miasma theorists were incorrect about the exact mechanisms for spreading disease — they didn’t understand the concept of disease vectors in the environment, like mosquitoes — but their drainage and sanitation solutions were highly successful. I think that is what he refers to with statements like "miasma’s approach to medicine". At worst it seems like he may have used the term 'miasma theory' in a different way than is typical, which hardly justifies the claims in the article.

The section of his book ends with this: "As a final side note, it seems to me that a mutually respectful science-based, evidence-based marriage incorporating the best of these two clashing dogmas would best serve public health and humankind". How can he write that if he doesn't believe in germ theory as the headline clearly implies? He is looking at the history of science and making deeper statements about the general approaches to studying the spread of disease. I think the article seems to willfully and intentionally misrepresent the text.

That doesnt make any sense and i never hear anybody else say that.

Financial assets have some degree of correlation, of course. So? Most people dont even have access to the stock market

Essentially the same for me, I had one incident where someone was arguing in favor of it and then immediately embarrassed themselves badly because they were misled by a chatgpt error. I have the feeling that this hype will collapse as this happens more and people see how bad the consequences are when there are errors

Even in 2012 bitcoin could very concretely be used to order drugs. Many people have used it to transact and preserve value in hostile economic environments. Etc etc. Ridiculous comment.

Personally i have still yet to find LLMs useful at all with programming.