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I do believe that if there are internal company reports that their activities are causing global warming and the board decides to go with business as usual, it's a criminal activit…

Agreed. To rephrase, I just think that people spend too much time arguing what they can do on an individual/moral level (i.e. veganism, etc) and too little time discussing politica…

IMHO, there's no point in individual action, we need collective political action in the form of massive government intervention, pretty much like in a total war economy. The free m…

Assuming they work correctly the benefits are clear. If they can ever be made secure, it's what I wanted to know from the researchers.

I see the authors are hanging out here so would like to make a question :) Do you believe that with the proper audit systems in place (e.g. open-source, open-hardware, not rolling …

and that's why governments should hire software engineers that can be in the loop and understand not only the technical but the policy side. Hiring an army of contractors earning 3…

On a side note, does anyone know if there's a way to self-host osm? Basically have my own google maps?

I see, Thanks for the insightful answer! Regarding machine learning it would be nice to be able do the training in your desktop/laptop when it's idle or something like that. But it…

People, remember how many successful companies have been founded by immigrants (Sergey Brin comes to mind). This is not a zero-sum game, if innovation doesn't happen here in this c…

What about doing all processing locally and storing only end-to-end encrypted data in servers?

Hacker news is definitely not the best place to engage in discussions about medical papers.

Do you guys know of any other projects of networks where the infrastructure is owned/crowdsorced by the public?

Thank you, that was incredibly interesting!

For me that kind of story gives extra justification to abolish copyrights in the way they currently are. Our culture is being held hostage by all these games and the real artists g…