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In theory, the phone camera (and microphone) are not supposed to be on 24/7 and sending that info to a 3rd party. Whether that can be known for sure is probably known only to the hardware/software manufacturers. Supposedly, the Russian app Max randomly switches on the camera (can't find a citation for that now), so you can use that as an example of how far it could go.

It is for this reason that I like people doing it. I refer to it as setting "the evil bit". Go ahead and let me know that you only spout garbage before I even click the link.

I can understand how someone right on the edge of disaster (and Homer was always on the edge) would get into debt, but those numbers would imply 2/3 of people are in what I would consider imminent financial collapse. Surely people couldn't exist in that state for lengthy periods of time. Right?

Do you have a citation for the 35% number? I wouldn't have thought it was that rare.

Still touring 60 years later.

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

I believe that it is because we all have the same basic brain structure. The part of the brain that controls speech is in the same location in each person. So is motor control, vision, etc.

Maybe having the same chemical stimulants going through the same basic processing hardware causes the same outputs. But that's just like my opinion man.

It's been a while since I was in college, but mine gave the bare minimum credit hours (3 classes) to qualify as a full time student and the classes were brain-dead easy. That seemed like a good compromise to get students used to the college life.

Technology Connections did a video (because of course he did) on how gas furnaces work. The short of it is that the flame is contained inside of metal tubes and never mixes with indoor air. No exhaust gases can leak into the breathable air.

https://youtu.be/lBVvnDfW2Xo?t=266

Conspiracy theories thrive in environments of silence. If no one can talk about their time in government organizations (military, CIA, etc.), speculation is all we have left.

At this point, there are enough commenters in both threads to justify a merger.

>>US government is working overtime to make sure legacy technologies stay around while the rest of the world is investing into the future.

>"Rest of the world"? Europe isn't even a player in the AI race.

I think the legacy technology he is referring to is the more about the electrical generation method rather than the AI use of that electricity.

Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49220350

256 comments, 8 hours ago

The flagged/dead comment contains a copy of the entire page, but the relevant part is:

> Built by us, not rented from someone else

> We’ve installed our own servers, co-located in a secure facility in Amsterdam, set up by our own engineers. This new location is built to the same high standards as our existing infrastructure in Philadelphia and St Louis, with our own hardware and our own software — specified right down to the exact model of disks in each machine.

> In all our locations, data is stored encrypted at rest inside locked racks, and managed by our in-house team. We don’t rent computing or management services from a big cloud provider and pass on their assurances. That’s how we’ve approached privacy, reliability, and performance for more than 25 years.

Primaries are not for down-the-ticket party voters. I didn't bother to vote in the primaries because I don't really care about the subtle shades of blue or red, I only care about are you any kind of blue or red. Each politician is either for what I want or against it. I will be showing up for November, that's when my vote will matter.

Not always. There are diminishing returns at the top end of the quality spectrum. I tend to go with the cheaper item even if I can technically afford the more expensive one if their quality is close enough.

He isn't blaming the software problem on the government. He is saying that if we apply this reasoning to everything in our lives, then we have a race to the bottom in other facets, of which one is government.

I can't believe it has been 10 years since Microsoft's "Hitler did nothing wrong" AI chat bot. I didn't realize LLMs were that old. Was this an LLM or something else?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/24/microsoft...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/microsoft-shuts-down-ai-chatbot...

There was a service called Baller Alert (the name seems to be ungooglable now) that would stalk basketball players and send announcements whenever they were spotted in clubs/bars just so the women could try to flirt with them. https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=baller+alert+30+for+30+brok...

It isn't a summary. It is every word of the original article copied and pasted. I can understand doing that in something that is paywalled, but I didn't have any problems getting to the article.

oh, so when https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html says:

>What does [dead] mean?

>The post was killed by software, user flags, or moderators.

"moderators" isn't referring to just anybody with a downvote capability? They mean just the website owners, e.g. dang, etc.?

We stopped high sulfur when we realized it was causing acid rain. CO2 is also acidifying the oceans, so there aren't a lot of things we can pump into the atmosphere without consequence. Best to avoid doing that altogether.

To answer tyromaniac's question that is dead and therefore I can't reply to: The United States utility companies bill by the kWh, so American-centric news will report in multiples of that unit.

And as a sidenote, why do people downvote a question rather than answer it? Some of us like answering questions and deadening a question removes that ability.

The term you are looking for is Defense in Depth/Layers

Don't know much about bitcoin, but if they know which numerical wallet it came from, can't send it back even if they don't know the person who owned it or communicating with that owner?

Like if I woke up one morning and found money in my bank account that wasn't supposed to be there, I could just tell the bank to send it back where it came from.

If you buy now, you are buying high. The time to buy was before the war was announced publicly. That's what insider trading is for.

People can make up their own minds as to whether they are willing to take the risks, but first they must be given accurate information. It is important to know if the studies that say something is safe has been funded by the industries that profit from it.

Not at Walmart. They want their employees to get on government assistance to justify paying them less.

https://factually.co/fact-checks/business/walmart-workers-go...

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/19/walmart-and-mcdonalds-among-...

True, but I am upvoting it just to get discussion on the general topic (which seems to be happening).

Parents homeschool or private school their children for lesser reasons.

The people deploying them know how to make money off people's fears and the "we have to do something" mentality.