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I suppose they sell ads with the promise that personalization does work.

...a member of a key CIA advisory panel has said.

Surely it can be prevented by giving the CIA more power and money?!

"What we need is scientists who have backbone, who have an unwaivering unaltering desire to get to the truth at all costs. "

Well, they also need to eat. So you'll have to pay them for it, as directly as possible.

But the people saying it was like a flu, were vilified.

That's a relief! If they teach them to replicate themselves, many more people could be rescued.

In the morning to you too!

There seems to be more investigative work:

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-44111476

I always saw the hormones that regulate our emotions as primitive forms of memory, older than neurons. So an organism can remain in a certain state for a while.

There is also the possibility that RNA is used for memory:

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-44111476

Does anyone know how they manage to produce complex microstructures like that, RNA inside a lipid capsule, on such a large scale?

Does these vaccines need an adjuvant to work, or is the change to the affected cells large enough to trigger an immune reaction?

That was a great article! The last paragraph, however:

"By the way, Knuth is interested in these algorithms mainly for the interesting mathematical problems (...) not because they’re in any way efficient algorithms! "

Made me wonder, these kind of algorithms, where there is a lot of comparing and swapping of adjacent records might be more efficient on a tape-based architecture. Or an architecture with a lot of prefetch caching.

Here, in the Netherlands, towns get more similar. Mostly because all the shops are part of the same big chains, with the same cheap building style, and the same ways roads are upgraded. Cities all have their own history, so there is more variation there.

No, but most of them used to ride a bicycle at some point in their lives, and know of the dangers that cars pose to them. Also Dutchman here.

Indeed. People tend to forget that the Middle Ages lasted for a thousand years. When all the conflicts are put together it seems there were only murderous barbarians out there trying to murder and/or rape you. But most areas were war-free most of that time. The reason that Barbara Tuchman wrote about France in the 14th century is that there happened so much.

Monty Python and The Holy Grail was not a documentary but satirised (among other things) the way the Middle Ages were depicted in movies and books.

One of the reasons we have such a bad image of that period is that the brutalities of the French Revolution needed to be justified.

I think the skull and bones will be a good symbol for millions of years, unless evolution takes a really weird turn.

This reminded me of the famous lecture by Ken Thompson, Reflections on Trusting Trust:

https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thomp...

Basically you have to trust the compiler because it compiles all code on your system, including itself. Not entirely the same, and I think the Intel trick is more nefarious.

This is the book i give as a present to the most geeky of my friends.

I also like the idea, but isn't it already tried with the transputer computer?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transputer

And since programming is still mostly just chaining actions together, maybe we are just not very good at using other paradigms.

It seems to me that being part of the CSM gives players a huge advantage in a game where economics are so important.

It wouldn't surprise me if RS-232 will still be around long after USB falls out of use.

Does anyone know the reasons why USB was not made backward compatible with RS-232? It would only take a very short negotiation to determine if both endpoints support USB.

Thanks! This AND trick is great. Actually makes me want to go back to assembly-level programming.

He allowed himself to have other women, he didn't allow her to have other man.

There were mentions of open, public humiliations with sexual suggestions. You don't have to accept that talk in a meeting that you attend even when it is completely consensual.

Chivalry has nothing to do with gender roles, or holding doors for pretty women.

The way I have learned it is about doing the right thing while avoiding reward or recognition.

If your chivalry is killed that easily, it was not worth much to begin with.

I agree with you, and before reading yours I wanted to write a less theatrical comment in the same line. I figure people like Appelbaum are making tech a hostile environment for women to work in, like a vicious circle.

The thing that drew my attention was the public comment he made about giving head. Because why would anyone want to work with a person who behaves like that? He probably knows how to pick an audience, but the real explanation came at the end of the article:

"People like Jake can be found in other places (...) Wherever power imbalances, hero worship, and secret-keepers intersect."

And those are places that independent people like to avoid. And that might be an explanation for why so many people never heard of stories like that in their surroundings.

Same experience here, also from AA. Most of the countryside has also good 3G. Some websites are unreachable though. I am not inclined to comment on the political situation.