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Counterexample: Public transport throughout Luxembourg (the entire country, not just the capital city) is free. As in beer. Clean, safe, and reliable, too. The positive "flywheel e…

So a single configuration mistake in a single place wiped out external reachability of a major economy. It happened in the evening local time and should be fixable, modulo cache TT…

Short answer: No. Apple already caved in advance. Longer answer: In the UK, Apple already implements age "verification" at the OS level, starting with IOS/IPadOS 26.4. If Apple had…

> but Apple needs to follow UK law The Online Safety Act does not require device manufacturers to enforce age "verification" at the OS level. If Apple had not implemented this, it …

That's exactly where the flaw likely is, on the side of the top surface layer which faces away from you. Air bubble in the plastic, or dust inclusion. If you really want to get to …

The ID cards as realized in many other countries are comparatively benign, because they are a physical credential in the possession of the person concerned. The government cannot s…

It only helps because the chaotic system under consideration has periodic components. The attractor shown in figure 1e has such periodic components, and identifying these does help…

Yes, you're right. Off by one error on my part caused by concentrating on the bottom half of figure 1a while trying to visualize this and formulating my question.

There's an earlier paper [0] involving the same authors which explains this a bit better. AIUI, they use the 3x3 neighbourhoods to capture local directional and curvature (i.e. gra…

This is an utterly brilliant hack for dimensionality reduction leading to pattern recognition. That it even beats SVMs (albeit with a single carefully chosen example ;-) is icing o…

> If I understand the linked chart, there are discontinuities in the marginal tax rate, not the effective tax rate. True, but they are harsh discontinuities, sufficiently so to hav…

Marginal rate discontinuities in the UK income tax system [0] are driving highly undesirable (from the taxman's point of view) behaviour. The increase in marginal tax rate from £10…

Note that if you are based outside Germany and you want to start a "Mahnverfahren" then you'll need to start it at the district court of Berlin-Wedding https://www.mahngerichte.de/…

Speaking from experience, there is no single, easy answer to your questions about specific measures and workarounds, because neurodiverse people are so, well, diverse. The common s…

Thank you for the reference. Its author defines a "rogue AI" as: "an autonomous AI system that could behave in ways that would be catastrophically harmful to a large fraction of hu…

> sober voices as Geoffrey Hinton sounding the alarm about super-smart AI Can someone please explain to me what exactly the danger is / the dangers are of "super-intelligent" AI? A…

These aren't Meccano, they are East German "Construction" sets. A riff on the Meccano idea, but metric, and probably not paying license fees to Meccano at the time ;-) The parts wi…

> One of the problems in the third world is that thugs backed by local politicians can illegally take over your land. That's not even limited to the third world. Source: Personal e…

TI-59 programmable calculator (the one with a magnetic card drive) from 1981. The most remarkable thing about it are the manuals: They are an excellent introduction to programming,…

> life is much better net than it was under Bubonic Plague With all due respect, that's whataboutism. Life is much better than it would be under Ebola, too, but the issue here is t…

Not true. If you show up at a UK A&E with what looks like a gunshot wound or a stab wound, you will get healthcare, but the police will also be informed of you having suffered thes…

Precious metal, if held in physical form, has the unique property of being no-one's obligation. Additionally, it is by definition a bearer "instrument" and easily transportable, th…

Quite. Historically, countries which build walls don't do so to keep people out, but to keep them in.

FTFA: "...we have to distribute Opus as a free binary... can’t distribute it as source. And, once a day, it has to anonymously report back to Digium" Binary blob only, and phones h…

It's not a new idea, John Myers O'Hara expressed it well over 100 years ago: http://www.unz.org/Pub/Bookman-1902nov-00229:19