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From your link: "As of April 2019, 3000 of the 10,000 pieces of space debris routinely tracked by the US Military as a threat to the International Space Station were known to have originated from the 2007 satellite shoot down.". This does not make it seem unlikely to me.

Given that many countries are willing to give these same companies huge tax breaks I don’t think the power balance is biased too much towards countries.

I think it's something you actually should be proud of, this way you increase the frequency in which companies encounter a "deaf" person which forces them to adapt quicker to people with such disabilities.

My suspicion is that they explicitly call this a payment for legal reasons.

That's because you scale the y axis along with it. If you were to define the y axis as added value from 0(no added value) to 10(very high added value), then this is only going to start getting interesting around x=0. Before that the change is still exponential but the value not significant according to our (arbitrarily) defined value scale.

I see a lot of comments blaming either substack or 1password, but to me it seems the archaic transaction method of credit cards deserves most of the blame for these kinds of problems.

If the transaction authentication takes place on a separate page hosted by your own bank (so after the amount has been finalised) these kinds of mistakes can't happen. Unless the user neglects to look at the shown amount, but then the user is clearly at fault.

I use it quite a bit for 3D printing. Its user interface is a bit daunting at first but with the part design workbench I’m now able to create moderately complex parametric parts in a matter of minutes. Commercial software might be more feature rich and intuitive but freecad comes along nicely

by that logic, would the linux command "kill" also be offensive enough to the relatives of murder victims that it warrants a rename?

451: Unavailable due to legal reasons

I'd predict this would lead to rampant domain squatting on such a free TLD, which would render the TLD useless

Not saying that these videos are a good thing, but would doing things like this be proof (assuming muting/active viewing is logged somehow) of gross negligence allowing the company to hold you personally liable if you make a mistake that could have been prevented had you watched the video?

What you want isn't always what you need. Things just working is nice, but I'm not sure how much people are aware of the value of actually owning things and being able to move to a competitor without loosing everything. As these monopolists tighten their grip on these devices you see them limiting functionality and use cases AFTER you've purchased them, just because they can.

Thank you for providing these links backing your claim, so far I haven't been able to disprove the numbers that have been used. I still feel like it could be made competitive somehow, I'll get back to shouting that biofuel is an option when I've found out how :)

Personally I imagine biomass/fuel could be a very attractive option if executed properly (sustainably and locally sourced): * Where you grow the biomass you could create somewhat biodiverse piece of nature * Storage of biomass is cheap * Knowledge and machinery from regular fossil fuels can be (partially) reused * No waste that will need to be looked after for 1000s of years in fear of leakage/terrorism

Unfortunately biomass seems to be looked at similarly as nuclear; just because it could be executed poorly the whole idea is written off..

To me GPT-3 feels more like a rocket-booster than a high-altitude plane. On its own it's not going to reach the moon, but combined with the right guidance and additional thrust it just might.

I think being able to model future outcome of something in a similar way humans would (like GPT-3 does) is the first input step for an overarching AI to reach some kind of sentience.

With my admittedly limited understanding I believe that what differentiates our thinking most from other animals is that we are able to evaluate, order and steer our thoughts much better. If we can develop something that can steer these GPT-3 "thoughts" I imagine we could get quite close to sentience

Just like when something unexpectedly breaks due to a component of the serverless environment that has been changed slightly causing your system to break, only then you have even less control when trying to debug the issue

I think it's mainly beneficial for things where the palette of your medium is limited such as thermal receipts/labels and epaper/e-ink

Jail might be a bit much, but giving them the maximum fine allowed under the GDPR seems quite reasonable to me. I'd even go so far as to try and transfer the debt to the individuals responsible if this causes the company to go bankrupt, as this is clearly malpractice.

Maybe you're talking about something else but according to the features page [0], both importing and exporting issues as CSV is enabled for all versions of gitlab.

[0] https://about.gitlab.com/features/

wouldn't an easy fix for verifiability be that you include a list of hashes of every valid share along with each individual key?

Hashicorps Vault has a feature called wrapping, this allows you to share a secret in a way that it can be opened once (with an expiration date as well)

I suspect he moved the camera slightly in between taking pictures, this would create different patterns which then reduces the amplitude of the distortion when you average these different patterns

even better, add this as a bookmark and you're only one click away from a PDF:

javascript:window.location='https://sci-hub.tw/'+window.location

what do you mean with layer 2 technology? If you're talking about the data link layer of the OSI model I am not sure how that applies here..

I expect that it will help gain a deeper understanding of physics which in turn will enable the development of new technologies. These new technologies could in turn help us greatly in facing our biggest challenges.

I am wondering when merge approvals will come to the community edition. To me this seems like a feature that is "essential to running a large 'forge' with public and private repositories". This would mean that it should be made available to the community edition according to their stewardship page[0].

[0] https://about.gitlab.com/company/stewardship/

We shouldn't talk too much about our skepticism on this becoming problematic. Otherwise believable skeptic text can be generated by malicious actors through AI once it does become problematic so that they can drown out real concerns with virtual trolls.

https://sci-hub.tw/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/art... I think this paper is relevant

Force them to provide an openly accessible API to allow people to receive messages/event invites and send messages to the users of that platform. Then they can choose to use a different social network without having to give up their connections with people who haven't jumped ship. This way the advantage of the network effect of popular social networks will disappear.

I'd be interested to hear your reasoning for why you think sales tax is so bad. Personally I see it as one of the more reasonable ways of taxing people, as for every product sold the government/society had a part in making the sale of the product possible.