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lowdose··on UK to overhaul privacy rules in post-Brexit departure from GDPR
But you know that with asking the right questions you are able to receive evidence that the company is committing a criminal offense.
lowdose··on Observation-based early-warning signals for a collapse of the Gulf Stream
The negative Darwinian effect as Musk calls it.
lowdose··on Tesla 2Q 2021 Quarterly Result
Record driving behavior off all cars coupled with their number plates and let the AI decide what to do next.
lowdose··on A Contamination Theory of the Obesity Epidemic
> It's lack of exercise”, they yell. But making people exercise doesn't seem to produce significant weight loss, and obesity is still spreading despite lots of money and effort being put into exercise.

Could this be explained by the weight gain in muscle?

lowdose··on The CIA's 3-Decade Effort to Mold the World's Views (1977)
Russia has the economy size of Italy, it’s just chaos for attention.
lowdose··on “I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsoft” (2004)
Special effects for a more dramatic vibe for Bill Gates Jr. listening in.
lowdose··on My approach to taking notes in meetings
Record everything, voice to text every conversation.
lowdose··on ‘Dragon Man’ skull may be new species, shaking up human family tree
That's a good metaphor for what is going on.
lowdose··on The Anxiety of Influencers
Conspicuous consumption started with the invention of Santa Claus. Rolex and Mercedes leverage the snob effect.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snob_effect

lowdose··on EU set to unveil plans for bloc-wide digital wallet for various services
Finland is also the only country that made rational choices in the setup of frequency auctions. Maybe better infrastructure delivers superior digital implementation of government structure because actual equal access to internet speed is guaranteed.
lowdose··on Amazon Prime inflates prices, using the false promise of ‘free shipping’
On the other hand AWS basically saved the world from economically collapsing by WFH made possible through the innovation of turn key massive distributed compute capabilities to anyone with a credit card. AWS offered GPU's in 2015, it took both Google and Microsoft 4 years to make a comparable offer.
lowdose··on Please commit more blatant academic fraud
Out of curiosity could you refer me to some sources to read more about this.
lowdose··on Brain-Computer Interface User Types 90 Characters per Minute with Mind
Maybe the connections are in reality electronic stimulants to release dopamine, serotonine, endorphin & GABA et. al. in the mix of your cocktail without using pharmaceuticals. Neural link is a big Pharma killer dressed as a pig. Use a NN in the feedback loop trained on your autocomplete output.
lowdose··on Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering
My M1 does not have performance issues like that with docs 3x the size. Breeze right through even with 20+ other tabs open.
lowdose··on My service to check whether an item is counterfeit or not
Adidas has unseen Chinese competitor that sells any Adidas made in any size throughout Europe. They advertise with Google but the webshop images are just a couple of pixels too small to do a decent reverse image search.
lowdose··on Ask HN: I don't want to do this depression cycle anymore
Get a rucksack. Put 30 kg of stones in the bag. Put your alarm on Monday that you have to start squatting for a half hour. Wednesday & Friday another 30 min Balboa set and you will be 2x.
lowdose··on Google Assistant “Memory” supercharges saving and reminders, in development
Very disappointing as a business customer you need the enterprise plan of workspaces to enable calendar access for Google assistant.
lowdose··on WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days
Why not give them more places on earth to habitat?
lowdose··on Top Texas regulator ousted as recording emerges of pledge to protect Wall Street
I record every conversation I have when talking to public officials.
lowdose··on Google Play service fee reduced to 15% for the first $1M/year
So maybe this is a very calculated financial incentive to nudge the "vast majority".
lowdose··on Delphi Method
Sounds a lot like reading the comment feed on hn. A panel of experts that have better forecasting abilities than FANG combined.
lowdose··on Earth’s magnetic field broke down 42k years ago, caused sudden climate change
It could be that our alphabet was the key to scale.

On a side note is it a coincidence Golang has exactly 27 first class functions?

lowdose··on The superspreaders behind top Covid-19 conspiracy theories
The Wuhan lab ATIP documents identify exactly what was shipped to China. The list includes two vials each of 15 strains of virus:

Ebola Makona (three different varieties) Mayinga. Kikwit. Ivory Coast. Bundibugyo. Sudan Boniface. Sudan Gulu. MA-Ebov. GP-Ebov. GP-Sudan. Hendra. Nipah Malaysia. Nipah Bangladesh.

> "The only reason the correct packaging was used is because the Chinese wrote to them and said, 'Aren't you making a mistake here?' If that had not happened, the scientists would have placed on an Air Canada flight, several of them actually, a deadly virus incorrectly packaged. That nearly happened," Attaran said.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/canadian-scientist-s...

On both sides of the world these labs are not acting responsible.

lowdose··on Stonehenge may have been built in Wales and then relocated
I don think it is really the case but it could be Stonehenge is the result of the first FOMO. Either build or burn on the stones.
lowdose··on Bluetooth Trackball Mark II
Maybe someone can hack it to a uncatchable dog toy.
lowdose··on Astronomer Avi Loeb Says Aliens Have Visited, and He’s Not Kidding
Avi Loeb does what ever it takes to keep doing what he loves. I hope to see more scientist like Avi because we need to consider more wild radical ideas. When aliens have no place in proper science, wtf are we studying?
lowdose··on Let's Not Dumb Down the History of Computer Science (2014)
To make new pop culture cooperation is necessary otherwise a culture stays niche. Diffusion of new culture works exactly as diffusion of technology from innovators to late adopters. The paradox with culture is that when an innovation is adopted in the mainstream late adopters do not perceive it as innovation because it is now the normal thing to do. Innovators do because brands validate new behavior, values and rituals that are contrarian to the status quo.

Nike & BLM, Tesla & global warming, Apple and computing without a 1000 page manual.

Nike validated Kaepernick at a moment for the first time that more kids of color are born than white.

https://www.slideshare.net/superbrands_poland/douglas-holt-h...

lowdose··on Neil Armstrong's bootprint on the moon is now protected by U.S. law
What about a moonlap? 3.5 hour drive in a Cybertruck?
lowdose··on Amazon’s new health band is the most invasive tech we’ve ever tested
Limited hang out.
lowdose··on Singapore approves lab-grown 'chicken' meat
Just Eat --> Eat Just is pretty brilliant.
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