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I have a bizarre love for the heat death theory, partially because it goes so well with Lovecraft's "And with strange aeons even death may die" in my mind.

uMatrix and http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/ have completely replaced dedicated adblockers for me.

This is like asking a group of artisans what is the best kind of timber to make furniture out of, I'm afraid.

What other interests should the EU have on this topic? Genuinely interested in people's views.

Although just like the things you list, I can think of a plethora of ways with which advertising can literally, indirectly change my life by convincing me to purchase a product or …

Yesterday I promised myself to not buy cigarettes anymore nor ask anyone to do it on my behalf. This first step only requires tremendous willpower when visiting a store, as the dis…

I was intrigued by this a while back. I think of training a NN as generating a function, an equation, from a training set which, given a specific input, outputs a prediction. If yo…

My acquaintance tells me the same. Presidential election being less than a month away I can see it being a big thing there, too.

I would guess one of the reasons to be the fact that there are a myriad of (money-free) hosting providers out there offering plain drag&drop file uploading with PHP support (often …

This is just a wild guess which I can't verify at the moment, but have you tried setting the evil bit in your outbound packet headers, as per RFC3514?

That reminds me of solipsism* : the idea that your own mind is the only thing surely existing and might contain everything else; the universe, other minds within. * https://en.m.wi…

For now, these decisions will be made for me by our gofmt overlords.

The article correctly quotes 10-20 jobs per 1k units, but the mayor of Salo has apparently said[0] that there's probably an extra zero there, so reality could be closer to one or t…

Perhaps the thing we call empathy is just a strange side effect of the negative subconscious feedback a member of group-oriented species gets when their friend is, or is going to b…

"Any sufficiently advanced AGI is indistinguishable from parent" just crossed my mind and I wanted to share.

Is the Android version in any free app store?

What is up with the popup ads, by the way? I've been seeing them a lot lately when I enable JS, even on my bank's site. They were, in the past, tried with failure and all major bro…

The way I see it, dummy cameras and real ones have exactly the same pre-crime effect: they both create a sense of security and add to the observed risk associated with committing a…

This was happening at the Finnish border, too, but just recently Finnish authorities banned crossing it with a bicycle, officially for safety reasons.

I fantasise that in a parallel universe US, kilometer is considered a singular base unit whereas kilometre is thousand metres. This allows one to write "kph" instead of "kmph" when…

Don't you have an app for that?

I didn't think there was really anyone who actually thinks that the metric system is more complicated than the imperial one.

By false positives I meant non-firearm objects which the robot recognises to be firearms, and incapaciting brought tasers to mind. I am probably looking at this problem through sma…

False positives would be scandalous. We would also need an unspoofable way for the AI to distinguish intent of the weapon drawing, because law-enforcement et cetera. The bot can't …

They don't, really. This is basically saying they won't take legal action against their citizen for owning or trying to obtain said materials.