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skjernson Clan Wars Blamed for Ancient Collapse of the Male Chromosome

I'm in the Netherlands, and have the same problem

skjernson Microsoft has sunk a data centre in the sea to investigate energy efficiency

my local swimming pool is heated by waste-heat of a nearby powerplant

skjernson The Psychology of Japanese Train Stations

Nowadays most stations are also subtitled in Latin writing

skjernson Microsoft’s commitment to GDPR, privacy and customers’ control of their own data

This! I don't use the MS account for my installation. Nevertheless, a lot of stuff must be sent to them about me.

skjernson The case for electric scooters

In the Netherlands this already exists in most places: A car lane, a large, separate cycle lane and a smaller pedestrian lane

example https://i.ytimg.com/vi/pAL4yr927e4/maxresdefault.jpg

skjernson The AI Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet

Prolog horror intensifies

skjernson Random Darknet Shopper: A Live Mail Art Piece

pics or it didn't happen

skjernson Ask HN: Women of HN, tell us about yourself and your journey in tech so far?

thanks for the strawwoman!

skjernson Lockheed Martin has obtained a patent for a compact fusion reactor

how's there a scarcity of mates? for each male there is a female (approx.)?

skjernson Telegram: 200M Monthly Active Users

I stopped using it because my messages were not arriving and notifications were several hours to days late.

skjernson Facebook Really Is Spying on You, Just Not Through Your Phone's Mic

thanks!

skjernson How I Helped Potty-Train My Kid Using Twilio and an AWS IoT Button

why not just use a wireless door bell? cheaper and easier.

skjernson Facebook Really Is Spying on You, Just Not Through Your Phone's Mic

"80s" - "voice recognition" - "accuracy" - which doesnt fit?

skjernson Dirt Poor: Have Fruits and Vegetables Become Less Nutritious?

Second this question. Most conclusions I heard so far were "Organic is not healthier", which is contrary to what the author states.

skjernson How Dropbox handles downgrades

I remember still being able to delete files and synch those changes. So that should be no problem.

skjernson Flight Sim Company Embeds Malware to Steal Pirates’ Passwords

You know that good hackers are wearing balaclavas!

skjernson Ten years on from Norway's quota for women on corporate boards

Maybe better than not being elected in the first place? To my understanding, quotas are only a transition solution.

skjernson Neural nets more accurate than humans at detecting sexual orientation in images

This is probaly the best article that you need to read after reading another one of those 'detecting sexual orientation with dating profile pictures/prison inmates/etc' papers:

https://medium.com/@blaisea/do-algorithms-reveal-sexual-orie...

skjernson Who Killed the Junior Developer?

I clearly live on the wrong continent.

skjernson The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM

coordinated by who? By negative reports you mean 'something that women do wrong'?

skjernson Who Killed the Junior Developer?

is 50k really such a bad starting salary or is there such a big difference between US and EU?

skjernson iOS 11 Security [pdf]

I recently sold my Android in favour of iPhone, exactly for that reason.

But again I'm probably a hardcore consumer who cares.

I really hope that there will be a change in mentality. It's crazy what google keeps of you if you enable Google Now.

skjernson Induction of self awareness in dreams through low current stimulation (2014)

That's so 2014

Please also regard the methodological problems that are posed by the study http://neurocritic.blogspot.nl/2014/05/does-gamma-tacs-reall... and that they only used 3 subjects. Furthermore they are not willing to share their data with other scientists. However, support comes from another group: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053810013...

skjernson The impossibility of intelligence explosion

you mistake sleep for being idle. Sleep is a vital part of our self-improvement. And the AI must also necessarily do things that will not lead to self-improvement, but are important to self-sustaining.