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We can't even get people to look for a green lock icon in their URL bar. I really doubt the kinds of people that are most vulnerable to these attacks will suddenly develop an interest in cryptography.

And if the fake confirms someone's worldview or serves their interests, confirmation bias will take over and no "fancy math" is going to change their mind.

YaxelPerezon Engineers create ‘lifelike’ material with artificial metabolism

Yeah, that's basically what life is.

YaxelPerezon Mountain View approves razing rent-controlled units for $1.5M homes

Okay, but move the jobs there too.

YaxelPerezon Atlas observes light scattering off light

I know a couple rouge nation-states that might be interested

YaxelPerezon Uber and Airbnb Alumni Fuel Tech’s Next Wave

Like Japan: http://urbankchoze.blogspot.com/2014/04/japanese-zoning.html...

YaxelPerezon In Fatberg Fight, NYC Goes to War Against Flushable Wipes

my guess is it's like this: https://youtu.be/vwIUgZmFTxc

YaxelPerezon Gwern's Law: Ads cost you a tenth of your users

We don't hand children meth so that they behave, but we do with mobile games.

YaxelPerezon How random can you be?

This might be what you're talking about:

http://samy.pl/opensesame/

YaxelPerezon Galaxy Simulations Offer a New Solution to the Fermi Paradox

Stars closer to the core move faster, so it's more like a whirlpool than a rotating disk.

YaxelPerezon U.S. Student Debt in ‘Serious Delinquency’ Tops $166B

A little hyperinflation would go a long way.

YaxelPerezon Wondering about the link between intelligence and meaning

Socrates and Plato were outliers among Greek society and spent a lot of time criticizing it. It wouldn't be surprising to them that most people suck.

YaxelPerezon Google hired microworkers to train its controversial Project Maven AI

https://joeyh.name/blog/pics/recaptcha.png

YaxelPerezon San Francisco proposal would ban government facial recognition use in the city

ez, just use gait recognition /s

https://www.apnews.com/bf75dd1c26c947b7826d270a16e2658a

YaxelPerezon Alarming Decline of Quality Youth Playtime

For some, staying at home is also meaningless and monotonous.

YaxelPerezon Ray Kurzweil: AI is still on course to outpace human intelligence

Raising a kid without having to change diapers sounds pretty cool.

YaxelPerezon How I use my Raspberry Pis to help me work on with my side projects

I've found ngrok [1] useful for hosting stuff without opening ports. The only problem is you need to pay to get a fixed domain name.

1. https://ngrok.com/

YaxelPerezon GNU ed 1.15

You can put the sed version in a cron job

YaxelPerezon Emacs Fireplace

https://xkcd.com/378/

vim all day

YaxelPerezon For-Profit College Chain Closes, Shutting Out Nearly 20k Students

Yeah, see that's the whole point of those institutions. It's all just signaling. Harvard could let in twice as many people easily, but then it would stop being the "best school" because acceptance rate affects school ranking.

Instead of focusing on those schools, why don't we as a society try to remove the stigma of going to community college or learning a trade?