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"Using newly-assembled data from 1980 through 2024, we show that 25% of scientifically-active, US-trained STEM PhD graduates leave the US within 15 years of graduating." I believe …

I’m not seeing how you are getting there from that quote. Seems like one of the least controversial sentences in the article. Maybe it would be better to say “should” instead of “n…

I don’t know if that source ultimately took into account the CO2 costs in extraction and transportation. However, plastic sure isn’t free in that regard! 8-10% of petroleum (which …

At first, I thought this was a good overlooked point, but after digging into it, there isn’t a net reduction. According to [1], the gCO2e/kWh for the relevant energy sources are: C…

Find someone interested in continuing that business under a long term (royalty or such) or short term (lump sum) financial arrangement that is acceptable to you? I think there will…

Do you think it’s more difficult for people to identify with and connect to media lacking people of their own race? Interesting idea.

Back when I had a really nasty run-in with poison oak, my friend’s father who was a doctor suggested the hot water trick. AMAZING. His explanation was that it depleted histamines t…

Hence why I also included “the training methods and data.” All three come together to produce something impressive but with inherent limitations. The human tendency to anthropomorp…

No. The author is demonstrating a concept - that there are many easy inroads to twisting ChatGPT around your finger. It was very tongue in cheek - a joke - the author has no true e…

It is reasonable to say that the author demonstrated that bit of trust was misplaced to begin with. The training methods and data used to produce ChatGPT and friends, and an archit…

I didn’t really believe it would work until I tried it, but having a fan blowing on you at high speed works to cool your whole body, including inside the headset. I no longer exper…

I generally agree, but on the other hand, from a consumer perspective IoT devices have and continue to be particularly inconvenient. After 15 or so years of IoT devices, what do we…

The initial batch of Skylake CPUs do not implement SGX: http://www.anandtech.com/show/9687/software-guard-extensions... Any word on whether there will be a BIOS update (for example…

Can anyone identify a patch to apply to existing kernels to fix this? Are there any released 3.8+ versions that are not vulnerable? The "mitigations" section at the end is not fort…

Given that it looks like commits were just made 12 days ago ( https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.... ) or possibly as recently as 38 hours ago ( https://gi…

> vrtx0 1 hour ago | parent I'm probably missing something, but I don't see how this is feasible. Moving all firmware to a device that lives on an external bus means that you must …

I do not believe there is are any Intel chips that give you VT-d (IOMMU) and do not require a firmware blob. Blame Intel for that situation. I think AMD has open sourced most of th…

It seems like a pretty valid concern. Part of the next generation of rootkits seems to be targeted at SMM-level rootkits (termed "ring -1" by some) that are installed in the BIOS. …

I think your observations are pretty much spot-on, except for your last point: > The stick being external doesn't seem to provide much advantage otherwise, since if the laptop hard…

It is going to be pretty hard to take an off-the-shelf notebook and make the proposed changes, especially when you are talking about implementing hardware kill switches for certain…

Yes, Intel might do that, but "circumventing the circumvention" is practically describing Intel making the change as some kind of malicious/hostile actor that wants to facilitate y…

Once upon a time, most/many PCs had physical BIOS protection in the form of a jumper on the motherboard that would allow you to put the BIOS into a read-only state. However, we hav…

You can skip the Purism laptop, and just simply download the Qubes OS installer and try it out on whatever system you have. It uses the same installer framework as Fedora. As long …

OK - I will deny it, just by the simple fact that for the last 6 months I have used Qubes exclusively, including daily use of MS Office 2013 (and more recently Office 2016) for wor…