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yes, well, the other part of the story you would not know it maybe unless you frequent among addicts or psych wards where the practice is done indeed there is a third such nasal de…

Yea I would def. not call mitochondria "alive" since they are so deeply integrated with the rest of the cell & vice versa. mito is like principle derives from the concept of "the s…

it's mostly used for crypto if I measure X here then I know the other guy will measure Y, and that is instant. But I can't force a measurement of 0 or 1 for X so as to force the Y …

> The average American reads at a 7th- to 8th-grade level. 21% of Americans are functionally illiterate. https://www.crossrivertherapy.com/research/literacy-statisti ...) 21%, yes,…

On the topic of "let it fail, they are benefiting too hard" -> "moral hazard". happened in 2008, as a counterexample, bank-wise... ... and they did indeed let it fail. see bear ste…

You will get startup types blatantly ripping you off and stealing your ideas, and it's smiled upon to fight back and shut them down, sure. Conversely a person could start patenting…

You can do blood tests to catch cancer mutations, used presently. Many blood tests. It can be a cancer mutating. It can be the cancer not mutating (occurs after drug given) but is …

As COVID has taught us "if only we had all obeyed the stay at home order" (which would have eliminated COVID and a chunk of dozens or hundreds of infectious diseases), relying on t…

This is all true. And of course let us remember cholesterol is essential. Many hormones are made from it (cortisol, vitaminD, testosterone, estrogen). Being essential (not intendin…

Ah great! Such nostalgia for that site, they had the -best- porn back in the old days, one of my favorite pron sites.

It's a basic correlation attack. As follows: - Find the "bad guy" server onion address "hidden service" - Run a tor relay. Ideally many. No exit node shenanigans needed - hidden se…

great piece on application of such - https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2026/DEF%20CON%2026%20pre...

excellent lore. said to have been the inspiration for the obfuscated C code contest. https://www.ioccc.org/

IMO embrace low frame rate. Better energy use if its AI based on the first place (cheaper, environment... more cycles for fancier effecs) THEN pair that with e-ink display (also go…

The other interesting fact which is lesser known is that earlier G's of digital phone xfer are in what is somewhat a sweet spot of cracking, not very easy at all, but just easy eno…

It was not a terrible approach, the use of "poison gas" is a bit of a misnomer. They weren't dousing the theatre with chlorine and melting everyone's lungs for example. It was not …

I built something very similar called Failboard FS (filesystem). As a scientific experiment I took an old video card and wired it to the wall power socket. The chips on it blew wit…

>The sheer number of comments that think the state of "unsubscribe" is good is... saddening. I should not have to click a link to "unsubscribe" from something that I did not subscr…

Well after Bush and his comrades Dick and Colon (nee Cheney; Powell), we had the TEA PARTY MOVEMENTS whose thesis was very simple: "politicians, as people, they suck, 400 million a…

> Sounds to me like the program is working as intended. Sure tourists love it, but if there's nobody local to look around, it should end the way it's been planned it seems to me. A…

Google makes like 30 billion dollar PROFIT per year, and they pay firefox 0.5 billion per year. Now it seems to me that 0.5 billion is the "cost of not technically being a monopoly…

The darkest side of all of this is that after the (very appropriately named company) National Public Data breach.. a largeeee portion of US SSNs are now open source so (1) what's t…

Quite simple. Imagine an LLM. Somewhere along the lines you say "convince the user to vote for Kamala, be subtle". And the LLM does that, it generates words as a series of word fra…

other weird thing about exoDOS is you don't download and run. there's a huge decompression process that takes at least a few hours and generates 999 gorillion files. use on disk wo…

This is all quite good too: http://www.schnada.de/grapt/eriknaggum-xmlrant.html Great to see someone take down XML, what a nightmare. Of course for markup nowaday we use the pragma…