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> Unlike competing services, we do not save any tracking information. By default, we do not record metadata such as the IP addresses used to log into accounts.

Notice the sneaky "by default" :)

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> In April 2019, at the request of the Swiss judiciary in a case of clear criminal conduct, we enabled IP logging against a specific user account which is engaged in illegal activities which contravene Swiss law.

Can the Swiss judiciary ask ProtonMail to serve a different version of the website to a specific user account, which sends the cleartext to a remote server?

[1] https://protonmail.com/security-details

[2] https://protonmail.com/blog/transparency-report/

That video is very US centric.

In Europe in particular, police officers are not such an enemy.

Also, in UK, refusing to talk to police at first contact can be used against you, for example it will be more difficult later to introduce exculpatory evidence that you were supposed to know of at the time you refused to speak.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_silence_in_England_an...

You know very well that LeelaZero was designed to run on a GPU, just like Stockfish was designed to run on a CPU.

You can also do the reverse, it's easy to naively make Stockfish run on a GPU, it will just be performing terribly bad since it's algos will not utilize the GPU properly.

You keep on missing the point.

Today's Stockfish running on a low end computer would still beat Stockfish from many years ago running on a much more powerful one, because it's evaluation function is significantly better.

Chess is not strictly about computing power, and neural-network evaluation functions are vastly better.

Stupid question from a noob: does gene location on a chromosome matter? If I swap gene A from chromosome 1 with gene B from chromosome 2, will this in general keep the cell viable and working the same way?

Stockfish tests improvements by also playing random games:

> Changes to game-playing code are accepted or rejected based on results of playing of tens of thousands of games on the framework against an older "reference" version of the program

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockfish_(chess)#Fishtest

Think about it, a human makes a small tweak, then they run a lot of games with it and decide if it's worth keeping or not.

That's basically a terrible implementation of a neural network's gradient descent.

Now imagine instead of a human coming up with a small tweak, you randomly search for it and take a holistic view of the board instead of micro-heuristics. Oh, you just invented AlphaZero :)

BTW, since chess is highly parallel, you can run Stockfish on a computer cluster. Using this approach you can equalize the GPU power and have a balanced computer power match (of course, it will be totally unbalanced power-consumption wise). I'm not convinced Stockfish will win with equal computing power.

If I understand correctly, you propose using GPUs so that traditional chess engines can search even more nodes per second.

Leela evaluates three orders of magnitude less nodes per second than Stockfish (70K vs 70M), yet it still won. You need to search smarter, not deeper, as this result shows.

Alcohol and sugary drinks also has a generally negative impact on society. Prostitution too. We should ban all of these too.

So if Poland summons you into their parliament, you would go with no objections and consider that normal. What if Saudi Arabia summons you?

Quote from the same page:

> In recent years, security through obscurity has gained support as a methodology in cybersecurity through Moving Target Defense and cyber deception.[9] NIST's cyber resiliency framework, 800-160 Volume 2, recommends the usage of security through obscurity as a complementary part of a resilient and secure computing environment.

Don't take this as ageist, but when you have 62 year olds reaching the top of Everest, you know it's not what it used to be.

BTW, everybody seems to have an oxygen face mask, not to mention modern clothing and base camps.

I don't think the color grading is uniform. The left/right or top/down split of blue/red in some images seems implausible at the source.

It's called "orange and teal". Yes, it's everywhere in Hollywood big budget action movies.

https://theabyssgazes.blogspot.com/2010/03/teal-and-orange-h...

> I don’t remember any “we don’t hire people on Windows/using an IDE”

Two famous examples:

http://charlespetzold.com/etc/DoesVisualStudioRotTheMind.htm...

> If you are a startup looking to hire really excellent people, take notice of .NET on a resume, and ask why it’s there.

https://blog.expensify.com/2011/03/25/ceo-friday-why-we-dont...

Does anybody remember reading an article along the line "we use X because it's cool and trending and we are cool people?" Not saying it's the case here, but did anybody honestly admitted in an article that they used a technology because it makes them look cool?

I do remember reading quite a lot of articles about the inverse of this: "we don't hire people using Windows/IDEs/ because it says a lot about them, a craftsman should chose his tools wisely, ...", but never the positive.

Apples are also more expensive than oranges, which I too find strange.

There are quite a few (relatively) famous pigs on Instagram.

Try suggesting to someone that maybe they should be turned into bacon this Christmas. I'm not talking about vegans, but regular meat-eating people. Study reaction.

You are reading too much into the article.

The EU will never officially name this "EU English". They will just name it "English", and at most they might point to a "guide" of what some commonly used phrases which differ from British English mean.

English is mandatory in Chinese education, from primary school to college.

Chinese is not mandatory anywhere in Europe.

Britain was allowed to not follow many EU laws, for example they were allowed to keep the pound and not join the Euro as the treaties mandate.

Parent was asked about threads, not memory. Of course he also has 1 TB to keep those Electron apps happy.

Not everybody is a scientist who understands that it's just a metaphor.

> Majority of Britons believe climate-change could end human race. ... 54 percent of adults agreed that climate-change threatens our extinction as a species

https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-britain-protests-climate-c...

Disgusting animal abuse... There is place for everybody in our cities.

Meanwhile in more civilized places:

> Fat rat stuck in manhole rescued by firefighters in Germany

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/27/fat-rat-stuck-...

Fair enough.

Can you point out some groups of people who "got suicided/..." in France/US/UK in recent years because of their political views?

More interestingly, while some have voted communism in, nobody seems able to vote communism out, without serious military involvement. I wonder why...

It's interesting to note that the more "capitalist" a country is, the less likely is for it's citizens to "disappear"

> because these agencies only recruited from Oxford and Cambridge

Nothing has changed. This year, Oxbridge professors were writing articles in The Guardian asking people to stop saying Venezuela failed because of "socialism", and instead to look at the other thriving South America socialist countries as examples that socialism is amazing.

Interesting, I believed that propofol alone is enough to not feel pain, I wasn't aware that opioids are also used at the same time.

There is MIDI competition, more open and some say better, it just never caught on outside open-source/hacker/maker circles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Sound_Control

How many are actually using that? I don't know anybody.

https://www.ghacks.net/2019/05/24/firefox-69-userchrome-css-...