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https://www.thenational.scot/news/20676882.there-no-climate-emergency-clintel-declaration-debunked-experts/
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b1c1jones··on We don’t know enough about the Pornhub acquisition
"The porn industry is quite serious about following the letter of the law" and "This antiporn movement is more about control and censorship than protecting children." are both claims that require evidence to be judged whether true or false.
b1c1jones··on We don’t know enough about the Pornhub acquisition
So, Puritan can't be twisted? Using isn't being emotional and irrational?
b1c1jones··on We don’t know enough about the Pornhub acquisition
Being against exploitation is puritan?
b1c1jones··on We don’t know enough about the Pornhub acquisition
Statistical evidence, please.
b1c1jones··on Mary Quant, ’60s designer who invented the miniskirt, has died at 93
Star Trek communicators and tricorders come pretty close, but then again that was predicted for the 23rd century. One beef I have about The Expanse is that they have cell phones, albeit fancy holographic ones. Not sure we will still be using that paradigm, we may have moved into wearable devices or something involving direct brain communication by then. We are already on the verge of that.
b1c1jones··on New NASA Director Swears Oath on Carl Sagan’s ‘Pale Blue Dot’ Instead of Bible
I'd swear on A Canticle for Leibowitz.
b1c1jones··on Night of the living brain fog dead or how I hacked myself better via open source
I saw an otolaryngology, got a sleep study, was prescribed a cpap with the study recommended pressure, and I am fine. I suppose I could have wandered the tech desert, but this is my health we are talking about. I have other tasks I am better suited to do than wander through a field I had zero training in. I approach my cardiology issues the same way.
b1c1jones··on Are your memory-bound benchmarking timings normally distributed?
Yes, box-cox can be used, even if the lognormal itself isn't a perfect match for the actual distribution, with the correct choice of lambda.
b1c1jones··on The Pornography Paradox
Objectification is dehumanizing.
b1c1jones··on Are your memory-bound benchmarking timings normally distributed?
I've found timings in general were lognormal a long time ago. I had to routinely apply transformations to get meaningful ANOVA and DOE results.
b1c1jones··on Cloudflare DNS Must Block Pirate Sites, Italian Court Confirms
I believe he passed. Absolutism in the defense of Nazis is a vice, as I see it. Cloudfare is not a government entity, concepts of governmental speech suppression do not apply to it.
b1c1jones··on Stanford just released a 386-page report on the state of AI
How much was written by AI?
b1c1jones··on 2001: A Space Odyssey
Before all of that was Clarke's short story "The Sentinel", which was the actual genesis of the idea.
b1c1jones··on Today’s management-speak has a lot in common with 1930s Soviet propaganda
"People are our greatest asset."
b1c1jones··on A misleading open letter about sci-fi AI dangers ignores the real risks
Not yet, nor close to it, does AI have a mind of it's own.
b1c1jones··on Is Babylon 5 secretly the most influential TV show of the past 25 years? (2021)
Article neglects Homicide: Life in the Street doing the multi-episode story arc, plus having top notch acting.
b1c1jones··on Dismantling a Crappy Malware Operation
Great work!
b1c1jones··on 68k.news Has Zero Content
It's back
b1c1jones··on We need a new economics of water as a common good
Private investment in firms that create water use optimization will help mitigate water use issues. That includes water treatment, including industrial and commercial technology to reduce water usage.
b1c1jones··on 68k.news Has Zero Content
Tried various countries too.
b1c1jones··on Monero founder outed as Interpol informant
Bitcoins
b1c1jones··on RNA compound and vitamin B3 found in samples from near-Earth asteroid
Google [or search engine of your choice] is your friend.

https://earth-planets-space.springeropen.com/articles/10.118...

b1c1jones··on RNA compound and vitamin B3 found in samples from near-Earth asteroid
Organic doesn't necessarily imply living.
b1c1jones··on Ask HN: Do you think this is the start of the new financial crisis?
Your metro area is not my metro area, nor is it any other metro area besides your metro area.
b1c1jones··on Spack – scientific software package manager for supercomputers, Linux, and macOS
Thanks for the edification. Here I was thinking it sounded too Vulcan.
b1c1jones··on Ask HN: Has anyone here left the big city in pursue of a simpler life?
I left the big city to pursue a life free of parking tickets for bogus reasons.
b1c1jones··on A Brief History of Time is ‘wrong’, Stephen Hawking told collaborator
Corollary: Helmuth von Moltke (1800–1891). “No plan of operations extends with certainty beyond the first encounter with the enemy’s main strength.”
b1c1jones··on A Brief History of Time is ‘wrong’, Stephen Hawking told collaborator
Headlines suck.
b1c1jones··on Show HN: I want to change how people buy health supplements
Please please please do Amen Clinics
b1c1jones··on Rupert Murdoch Lies at the Heart of Democracy's Destruction Worldwide
The Libertarian Party has never seemed too particularly concerned with favorable demographics.
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