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Flawless AI generated videos will result in video footage not being trusted. This will simply take us back about 150 years to the time before the camera was common. The transition …

Is deepseek’s architecture not scalable anymore? I can see in a couple months some company with access to GPUs create a much larger and better performing model based on the deepsee…

I have a similar story, but not as serious as OP. A couple years ago, out of the blue, I started having almost constant unbearable back pain. Doctors I saw didn't know what it was.…

So almost all of energy used by humans today comes (or came) from the sun, directly (solar panels) or indirectly (fossil fuels, plants, meat). You can divide the amount of calories…

I am neither angry or riled, and I hope people who read my comment don’t get angry or riled. It’s just fun to think of the dystopian possibilities of new tech, even if the likeliho…

That’s because there is no incentive to ‘artificially’ speed up wood decomposition right now. With the right incentive and no thought on unintended consequences, it might happen. Y…

Imagine this: Monsanto patents a genetically modified bug that eats plastic, sells it to governments and recycling plants. Then, once it gets into nature and it starts eating thing…

Print and spend dollars at value ‘A’, right after the money gets in circulation, value decreases to ‘B’, the spread between ‘A’ and ‘B’ acts like a tax on all cash. This results in…

Also, no president or congress wants to be at the helm of a ‘self inflicted’ recession. Every politian just kicks the can down the road.

Debt levels being high means that a significant portion of the revenue is there to service the interest payments and the remaining is not enough to cover all other expenses. Theref…

Government revenue needs to come from somewhere, and inflation is a type of tax. By the time hyperinflation is possible, the federal government will have two choices, keep interest…

I came across an article about vaccination against ingested prions a while back. I couldn't find the exact one that I read a year ago... the one I read talked about a test where th…

I started taking and deleting my data off FB 5 years ago, after I knew better. I'm only on FB because of messenger, and checks FB less than once a month. I think that's a better ap…

Yeah it could be, will have to wait for more details first. I would not be surprised if FB kept that phone number with a "deleted" flag to this day though.

I deleted my phone number around mid-2018 and it’s also part of the leak tying the phone number to my name and gender https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26708923

I moved out of the country mid 2018, and that was around the time I removed the number from every service I had it with. I tried to migrate to 2FA and authy since my phone number w…

I deleted my (outdated) phone number from facebook years ago and it's still part of the leak, with my name and gender in it. I did not replace the phone number with another phone n…

Isn't there a way to circumvent the new California law by making the riders sign contracting agreements directly with the drivers instead of with Uber? Uber can still take a cut of…