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Let AI be rather religious and virtuous than playing god to determine the fate of the mankind...

I would rather believe in God and the uncertainty than being my fate determined by machines designed by bunch of greedy, irrational clients of Mr Epstein.

I replaced the battery after using the kindle Paperwhite for 7+ years. And now its battery life is as good as the new one's.

Is ISBN database available for download?

While trying the script, I am getting the following error -

<Trace> ReadWriteBufferFromHTTP: Failed to make request to 'https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/40298680.json'. Error: Timeout: connect timed out: 216.239.32.107:443. Failed at try 3/10. Will retry with current backoff wait is 200/10000 ms.

I googled with no luck. I was wondering if you have a solution for it.

What's the difference between an OS and an emulator in this scenario?

"The difference is the extensive legal framework protecting Western citizens and companies from state security overreach."

Unfortunately, China is winning in the rest of the world for the same reason. While western citizens and companies are well protected, the West has intentionally kept the rest of the world vulnerable for self dirty interest. We have seen the Western hypocrisy in policies and moral codes destroying societies for decades all over the world. If the Western code of conducts for the rest of the world were hypocrisy free, Chinese slithering would have been impossible, and the world would be a lot better than it is now.

We have been following Singapore math for our kid since he was a little over five years old. We've found the concepts in this book series practical and workbooks enjoyable for the kid.

If solving problems create opportunities for new ventures, that is what the smart people should do instead of piggy backing on technologically stagnated big corporations. Developing countries may have significantly less quality of life in general, but there have always been a class of people enjoying life no less than anyone in the "first world", probably more. Simply put developing countries also need amazon, paypal, EV as they develop and adaption of long existing technology is more important than innovation there. So, entrepreneurs from technologically advance (and competitive) countries have even more opportunities to play bigger roles and create significant impact in a society.

The best thing about dial-up was the sound of the data transfer. Ah! Those days!

From my history of long time loneliness, I have learned to cope with it by observing things that bring me out of my comfort zone in positive way. I found the following activities helping me- 1. Attending (and pushing myself to mingle) conference or workshop on topics of my interest and expertise. 2. Spend some time at the park or places where relaxed people are around you. 3. Learning wu shu or Tai chi from a good master. It not only helps to widen your physical capabilities, but also you get to interact with other people. 4.Challenge yourself with activities that you are able to fulfill, and enjoy. Volunteering for non-profit organization, hiking in the mountain, learning a new sports, even walking slowly, aimlessly in the market/mall helped me feel myself.

I wonder if the experience improves by using proxy browsers, such as- Opera (lite/mini).

I wonder why India with population 1.3bn has only 145MB zipped footprint when USA with population a quarter of that has almost 1 GB? AFAIK, FB is huge in India.

This is a remarkable device. The configuration looks good as well. It reminds me of the primary concept of Microsoft Courier.

While going through pros and cons for considering a buy, I found no email client, messenger or a browser. For the targeted audience, at that price point, and with that hardware config, those features are unavoidable.

Thanks for excellent technical analysis! I personally enjoyed reading your article. However, to my knowledge, no decision maker is interested to learn the technical details. Don't we know already this tiktok is just in the US-China cross fire?

Our American friends are interested to teach our Chinese friends lessons by hitting hard on their public business faces. Never mind not talking about thousands of real state investments by Chinese people in US cities. Never mind, not talking about CCP atrocities on the Xinjiang people going way back at least 15 years (since when I am following).

It's not support for humanity, it's not about sudden urge for national security, it's about politics and populism.

Capitalism is driving the world, and it is setting the policies as per necessity, different ones in different countries. The west has stopped exporting democracy around the world since the cold war was won. Many countries have democratically elected government turned to autocratic/authoritarian regime.

Oh, "populism" is the new best friend of the rising powers.

Just out of curiosity- when Google is infamous for hard-to-reach human support, what in the Internet would make anyone interested to register their domain with them? Do they provide some sort of security or insurance that I am unaware of?

All the popular dedicated domain registrars I have used so far have excellent human support. Godaddy, namecheap, namesilo to name a few. I don't know if big companies or corporate use something more to secure their domain names and DNS, do they?

Gradual militarisation of US police is one significant development since 9/11.

China has already bought the second (Russia) and third world (not in terms of wealth, rather actual third world) with the cheap variants of original technologies. Intellectual property is meaningless in this arena, and so is reasoning. Moreover, America has stopped streaming the "American dream", stopped winning "friends and allies", and is flexing muscles on the rest of the world.

I thought this war of the giants will remain paused for the rest of the covid-19 situation, however, it seems unlikely before some major causality. And Huawei seems to be in the center of the stage.

When someone talks about robots destroying the mankind, I start picturing scenes from movies or tv series (i.e. Terminator, iRobot, Westworld so on) where human like robots try to destroy the mankind.

Robots taking over the world may not be eminent. However, greedy people taking over the world with the help of robots and AI is already being facilitated for quite some time. Governments acquiring technology to hush the oppositions and free speech around the world is a common phenomena around the world. Usage of data along with AI to pinpoint, target and destroy enemies is being used for over a decade.

It is the usage of data and AI by the greedy community we need to be more concerned about, not silly imitation of life that barely perceives the world.

May be its days are numbered, but MIPS still has significant presence in the low to medium end routers (Mediatek's MT72xx, Atheros AR7xxx so on).

Then the website must be breaking on my side, even though I cannot see any error (neither in Safari, nor in Chrome), only a couple of warnings. This is good for GP to fix the issue, I guess.

I am not being judgemental, rather trying to understand how you get fish of that size with your far-from-well-designed website (from your profile), and far-from-rich marketing contents. Is that luck? Or, your lack of time to work on your own presentation?

Again, I am seriously not being judgmental, I am curious.

"This week we filed a lawsuit in Arizona against Namecheap, a domain name registrar, as well as its proxy service, Whoisguard, for registering domain names that aim to deceive people by pretending to be affiliated with Facebook apps."

Wasn't Facebook supposed to request for information through the legal system instead of suing the registrar itself? Isn't Facebook publicly and unreasonably flexing muscle? So long justice...

Few days back, I installed the last version of Microsoft Encarta (2009) in an old PC (CPU E5200, RAM 4GB). To my surprise, all the millennial around me were astonished how fast and smooth that software was running and searching for information on a typically (very) slow machine.

It would all make sense to me, if they wouldn't charge $800 and $1000 for 24" and 30" monitors (with keyboard and mouse) respectively. Are they designing the monitors from ground up as well?

Business around privacy is a thing going on for at least a decade. However, we often forget that our data flow is controlled, monitored, and stored by those who we try to protect our data from.

It will be interesting to see the implementation of three dimensional drone traffic.

Who is working on the drone path guidelines, and traffic control policies?

Western companies have been bending blatantly a little too low to save assets and market shares in China. With trade war, human rights abuse in Xinjiang, and Hong Kong protest, this is probably a good chance for the West to stand against China's invasion.

All android smartphones data are exploited by Google through google services, by manufacturers through uninstallable bloatwares and by app providers through apps. If a user disables a permission, the app refuses to work.

The cheap smartphones are sold mostly in the Asian and African markets where the mass can afford that, and data privacy means nothing to those users.

So, Your data, my data, all are up there somewhere, no matter how cheap or expensive devices we use. Why do we still live in the illusion of data privacy? Is there any?

From “Climate Change: How Do We Know” from NASA, mentioned in this article, there is a carbon level rise and fall graph which looks almost periodic. Perhaps the previous cases of cause and effect help us to be aware of the present situation?

For example- Do we know what took the carbon dioxide level high during 400000 and 320000 years ago, aftermath and things that brought the level down eventually in next few thousand years before the rise (again)?

[1] https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/

I have seen the army in my country to emphasize on having total control on each and every equipment they have. They boast on being able to completely disassemble and reassemble all the mechanical war machines.

I wonder how that works for software heavy war equipment, such as F-35. Does the seller provide full source code and control (and probably training?) over modification of the software? Do they agree on the paper only that the buyer can never get to use those weapons against the seller? Or, do they set those policies right inside the control units of those weapons?

If the seller country have significant control on the control units of the war instruments sold to another country, and if the seller country is able to update/modify/ control/restrict devices over the air, won't that make the buyer country just an outpost of the seller country?