feralimal

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University of Minnesota Researchers Tried to Poison the Linux Kernel(thenewstack.io)
2 points by feralimal 5y ago|1 comments
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by feralimal 5y ago
Of course your eye is a sensor. As are all your senses. The difference is that the input it receives is unmediated by external sensors and software. Visualising atoms or DNA is fine, but it is an inferior source of information. By a lon
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by feralimal 5y ago
Yes, look at all that squashed DNA, lol. Seriously though, how do we know that is DNA? It just looks like wiggly worms. And the DNA pic is black and white, but the picture of graphite is in colour. How is it in colour? Is it 'enhanc
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by feralimal 5y ago
You don't think there's a difference between what you see with your naked eye, and what is visualised for you by sensors and software?
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by feralimal 5y ago
Perhaps this is a water filter advert: "Using activated carbon filtration devices (like Brita filters) can help reduce TCE in drinking water" But really, how could they possibly narrow it down to that? How can they ignore all the
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by feralimal 5y ago
I'm sure its a cool project. But its not showing things directly, is it? Its interpreting a frequency and converting that to an image. Is it really that different to a music visualiser?
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by feralimal 5y ago
I've looked into this a bit more, specifically reading this essay: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2158244014542585 which seems a fair synopsis for me, of Hayden White's position in Metahistory.
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by feralimal 6y ago
Metahistory! That's exactly what I'm talking about. I'll take a look and thanks for the recommendation :)
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by feralimal 6y ago
That's a refreshingly honest reply! Thanks! This is why I said that history is an interpretative act. I don't have an issue with the making the best of a past that is hard (impossible?) to discern. And that while our subject ma
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by feralimal 6y ago
Thanks for the link. You also say "January 6, 1614". Very specific again! Where did you get that from? There are no dates that I can see, nevermind the 6th of January. Did you read the cover page? Not where it confirms that th
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by feralimal 6y ago
"A dance of “glorious and strange beauty” took place in a wintry garden in the south of England on January 6, 1614." So specific!! And that's just the first line! Is it just me, or are they just telling stories about the 16t
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by feralimal 6y ago
What helps, I find, is to think of governments as administrations. The civil service does implements whatever it has been told. Politicians are voted in - this is a slight of hand to distract the public. (I think of politics as a soap op
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by feralimal 6y ago
It was relegated to acceptance about 10 years ago.
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by feralimal 6y ago
I enjoyed this article. Perhaps because I agree! There are many quotes I could pull, but I liked this: "true education is the opposite of what many think it is. For many, becoming educated means knowing things and feeling assured tha
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Oscar winning directors faked war footage, inc Pearl Harbour(nypost.com)
1 points by feralimal 6y ago|0 comments
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by feralimal 6y ago
For me, this touches on everything that is wrong with the setup we find we have. How we lose our privacy and are beholden to our corporations and governments. * We are separated from our data. It should be ours, and we should be able to a
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by feralimal 6y ago
I find it really strange, amazing even that this is still a flammable topic. I mean, erosion of privacy is at the heart of Google's business. How does everyone forget this? They are a business and don't care about people or the
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by feralimal 6y ago
Your product has a feature that curtails 'addiction' for the benefit of the user - ie to improve knowledge via spaced repetitions. A knowledgeable customer will recommend you and come back for more. Great! Social media requires
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by feralimal 6y ago
I absolutely agree! But, the reality we need to accept and work from is that with vested corporate interests aligning so well with intrusive governmental and military interests, nothing is going to change. Don't hold your breath for pr
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by feralimal 6y ago
Cheers. Its a fight for attention! I often do long comments, but sometimes I'm try to get things down to a concise yet witty nugget ;)
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by feralimal 6y ago
"Our findings show the need to go beyond genomic analyses in cancer diagnostics, as mRNA events that are silent at the DNA level are widespread contributors to cancer pathogenesis through the inactivation of tumour-suppressor genes.&qu
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RNA vaccines could inactivate the genes that suppress cancer(nature.com)
2 points by feralimal 6y ago|2 comments
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by feralimal 6y ago
Fair enough - these statements are very open to interpretation. The way I view them is to try to take an approach that a lawyer would. Could a lawyer try to argue that they process the data and generate an artifact that is passed to facebo
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by feralimal 6y ago
We can trace the throw away culture back to Edward Bernais. https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/pr-created-... I think consumer goods were made and advertised as being 'made to last'. However, i
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by feralimal 6y ago
"The privacy and security of your personal chats with family and friends will never change. Neither WhatsApp nor Facebook can see the content you share with family and friends, which includes your personal messages and calls, the attac
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by feralimal 6y ago
How dare you! My comment, I felt, cut to the nub of what is going on! Google is scrapping information from you from your phone, your browser, your emails, your searches. They track you at scale. They track millions of people at scale! U
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by feralimal 6y ago
Luckily, modern life has made the interminable meetings of the 70's a thing of the past. Right? Right?!?
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by feralimal 6y ago
Yes, as the US cedes the economy to China, they will also surely become stronger militarily. And with the US (and other Western countries) in a perpetual lockdown in the coming years, which will accelerate the transition - we had better ma
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by feralimal 6y ago
'cos it would be too creepy if they did!
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by feralimal 6y ago
Democrats are democratic in the US, of course. Oh, I see. Names don't matter if they are inconvenient.... Nazis (a literal shortening of Nationalsozialismus) - no they weren't the left.. 'cos Hitler, and Hitler bad. Freedom

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