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The primary threat to salmons (and many other species) everywhere are obstructions (like dams and sluices) in rivers.

It is a pretty good test to find out which people are simply egoistic bastards, who really don't care about others.

Many of them are somewhat stupid, in that they think that it will not affect them personally, and have not really thought about the effects on other people.

But a lot of them are simply anti-social persons, that don't really give a shit about others.

Not all Dinosaurs are dead. I see a lot of them flying around everyday.

The other question of course is how much time will it take to develop the correct hardware and software?

A lot of things that are easy for humans, like object and speech recognition, are still very difficult for machines. It took a long time to develop this. There is no real reason to believe that computers will match this soon.

There is one thing missing from this list that works in some other languages as well: use plurals (groups of people). In general, the words that are used to describe groups are gender-neutral, even when the words to describe the members of the group are not.

Just a simple example. With "nurses" we use "they", "their", "them". With "nurse" you might use "she", "her" and "her", or for a male gender: "he", "his", "him".

This is just a very bad idea.

Trucks are heavy. This means that they have a lot of kinetic energy. This means that they can do a lot of destruction to anything that comes in their way.

Trucks are big. It is very easy for them to block many lanes at once.

We currently don't have any fully automated driving normal cars (And IMNSHO we will not have them in the next decades). The risks with automated trucks are a lot higher than the risk with automated cars, so it makes no sense to start with the trucks until we are certain that we have solved the problem with the cars.

Another important scientific contribution from Alan Turing.

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

Please don't post references to articles that are beyond pay-walls.

This is an interesting topic, but we can't have a discussion about it when some people cannot read the article.

Many people believe that a fungus is either some kind of mushroom (they are possibly good-looking, sometimes good to eat, and sometimes poisonous) or some kind of mold (which most people regard as something bad).

Fungi (yes that is the plural of fungus) play a very important role in our world. Most higher plants depend on some fungus to get important nutrients from their environment. The first real antibiotic (penicillin) was derived from a fungus. Many products that we drink or eat, like wine, bear and a lot of cheeses, also depend on fungi.

First of all, congratulations, when you get Bruce Schneier to endorse your work, you have probably done something interesting.

But still the article is not very clear on technical details. Of course on initial contacts your phone has to provide information about your service provider (they will somehow have to pay for your communications) and it has also has to have some form of identification about your phone (so that the service provider can decide if they want to pay for it). If I understand it correctly, normally this identification is the IMSI, which is normally constant for your phone. From the article it is not clear if you are proposing to generate multiple IMSI's for a phone or using other types of information in the protocols.

Do you have some links to a more technical explanation of PGPP?

From a PR point of view it is probably not a very good idea to call yourself a troll. Also it does not describe what these people are doing. Typical trolls do not really believe in what they write, they are just trying to start a flame-war. The people that are described in this article obviously believe in what they write, and are using it to push back against the propaganda by big corporations.

It is highly unlikely that recovery will be so fast. Some things take a long time to learn for a population. For example learning which plants are poisonous is quite costly for a population. Elephants in Botswana travel through the Kalahari desert to get to the Okavango delta. On this 650 mile migration they travel from watering hole to watering hole. It will take a very long time to recover from the loss of memories about their locations, because they die if they cannot reach the next watering hole in time.

This article is (hard) science fiction.

As for the fiction part, it is written by someone who has a lot of literary talent.

For the science part, I don't believe for a moment that the "computer generated" parts of this story were actually written by computers. But they can already generate very convincing texts. It is very well possible that they will be able to generate texts similar to these in the near future.

> What is likely is that the virus jumped from bats to humans 'in the field', i.e. in nature. This is what happened with SARS and MERS to the best of our knowledge.

Both SARS and MERS had an intermediate host before it jumped to humans. Many other species are vulnerable to COVID, so it is not at all necessary that it was directly transmitted from bats to humans

Insinuating that this was caused by the group that was studying bats at the Wuhan institute is not really good science because there are so many equally likely hypotheses.

This does not really help finding the real origins of COVID. The most likely outcome of the current pressure on China is that this country will try to destroy all results they have on bat viruses.

This is a temperature at which humans normally cannot survive. It is yet another example why climate change is not just about raising the average temperature by one degree.

For many HN readers (like me) Washington DC is in a foreign country. But Washington DC is not a US state, so it is not at all surprising that many Americans treat it as a foreign country :)

What is happening here is the same thing that happens with UFO's. There are multiple incidents for which there is no good explanation, and many people automatically assume that they have the same cause.

What is happening here is the same thing that happens with UFO's. There are multiple incidents for which there is no good explanation, and many people automatically assume that they have the same cause.

Just a few remarks.

The incidents occurred in foreign countries. These countries may have diseases to which US citizens have not been exposed.

The persons involved were mainly CIA. They are payed to be paranoid, but sometimes paranoid people are wrong.

What is the motive and who is the perpetrator? Russia is the obvious candidate, but why would they do it with some weird kind of radiation. They are perfectly capable of killing people with chemicals.

Automated reporting only works well if you have got good input data. The article gives many examples of problems with input data. Using automated reporting on an important and sensitive subject is probably not a good idea.

This article does not give any explanation, neither from a business point of view nor from a technical point of view, why a new microservice was needed.

Please, let's have a brief moment of silence for the poor souls who build this system, and especially for those who will have to maintain it in the future.

Some people don't have English as their native language. When such people want to write a scientific article in English they will have to use someone who can write English but probably does not know much about the research. So of course there will be articles with "Tortured Phrases".

This is worrying. The only reasonable explanation for such a high infection rate is that some animals are spreading it to other animals. So even when we are able to vaccinate all humans, we will not be able to eradicate COVID because there is still a reservoir in other animals.

I am a bit disappointed that no one has mentioned a big problem with all these machines: security. Most of these items were developed by companies with only limited experience in security. They offer a tempting attack surface for attackers. Once they are compromised they can be used to attack other devices in your network. Most of them run proprietary software, so it is not possible to verify its code. They require that the network is correctly configured which is not at all easy. There have already been a lot of incidents where surveillance cameras were exposed on the internet.

As we have seen with the recent heat wave in Canada, some global circulation patterns are surprisingly sensitive to disruption.

It can be very difficult to determine from which country the attack originates. For example, we know that North Korea does a lot of hacking, but has almost no internet connections. Clever hackers will always try to route their attack through some other country.

It is pretty strong evidence that the step from going from other molecules to RNA/DNA only happened once. Our molecules definitely changed their environment, so it is probable that they out-competed their mirror molecules.

This is sound advice. But I would suggest that you choose words for which you can find some mnemonic to remember them, e.g. by combining them in a nonsensical sentence.

Adding feature upon feature to a language that does not have a good foundation generally leads to disappointing results. My favorite examples are Javascript, Perl and C++.

You should probably not be very honest. Any criticism will likely on put you in a negative light, and you might want to have some references from that company at a later point in time.

These are some shocking differences. How did you come up with this expression?