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I have a bizarre love for the heat death theory, partially because it goes so well with Lovecraft's "And with strange aeons even death may die" in my mind.

uMatrix and http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/ have completely replaced dedicated adblockers for me.

This is like asking a group of artisans what is the best kind of timber to make furniture out of, I'm afraid.

What other interests should the EU have on this topic? Genuinely interested in people's views.

Although just like the things you list, I can think of a plethora of ways with which advertising can literally, indirectly change my life by convincing me to purchase a product or service.

Yesterday I promised myself to not buy cigarettes anymore nor ask anyone to do it on my behalf. This first step only requires tremendous willpower when visiting a store, as the dispensers are placed at checkouts so I must stand right next to them when I'm in the queue.

I was intrigued by this a while back. I think of training a NN as generating a function, an equation, from a training set which, given a specific input, outputs a prediction. If you can come up with an equation-input pair that, when executed, a) accurately enough approximates some data, and b) requires less space than the original file, you have achieved (most likely lossy) compression.

My acquaintance tells me the same. Presidential election being less than a month away I can see it being a big thing there, too.

I would guess one of the reasons to be the fact that there are a myriad of (money-free) hosting providers out there offering plain drag&drop file uploading with PHP support (often paired with a mysql database access). This makes PHP software extremely easy to install.

Not that it would be even possible to run non-PHP server side scripts with majority of said providers...

This is just a wild guess which I can't verify at the moment, but have you tried setting the evil bit in your outbound packet headers, as per RFC3514?

That reminds me of solipsism* : the idea that your own mind is the only thing surely existing and might contain everything else; the universe, other minds within.

* https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solipsism

For now, these decisions will be made for me by our gofmt overlords.

The article correctly quotes 10-20 jobs per 1k units, but the mayor of Salo has apparently said[0] that there's probably an extra zero there, so reality could be closer to one or two per 1k.

[0] http://m.iltalehti.fi/digi/2016022621178689_du.shtml

Perhaps the thing we call empathy is just a strange side effect of the negative subconscious feedback a member of group-oriented species gets when their friend is, or is going to be harmed, physically or otherwise. The choice between gaining/saving an ally or gaining a treat can certainly be a selfish one, and in my opinion most likely is.

"Any sufficiently advanced AGI is indistinguishable from parent" just crossed my mind and I wanted to share.

Is the Android version in any free app store?

What is up with the popup ads, by the way? I've been seeing them a lot lately when I enable JS, even on my bank's site. They were, in the past, tried with failure and all major browsers got a built-in blocker.

The way I see it, dummy cameras and real ones have exactly the same pre-crime effect: they both create a sense of security and add to the observed risk associated with committing a crime. With dummies you get really low cost (practically no maintenance) but lose the benefits if and when a crime actually happens. Still net positive, I think.

Like common locks, cameras only really prevent opportunistic crime. And for prevention, dummy is as good as the real deal as long as it's not widely known which is which.

This was happening at the Finnish border, too, but just recently Finnish authorities banned crossing it with a bicycle, officially for safety reasons.

I fantasise that in a parallel universe US, kilometer is considered a singular base unit whereas kilometre is thousand metres. This allows one to write "kph" instead of "kmph" when they want to be consistent with "mph", without getting odd looks from others.

Don't you have an app for that?

I didn't think there was really anyone who actually thinks that the metric system is more complicated than the imperial one.

By false positives I meant non-firearm objects which the robot recognises to be firearms, and incapaciting brought tasers to mind.

I am probably looking at this problem through smaller-and-safer-country specs, Here police shootings are really rare, but so are other kinds of shootings. I thought of bots with high mobility due to the recent advancements in that sector, which would in my opinion make much more sense here than installing dozens or hundreds of stationary devices in every public space.

False positives would be scandalous. We would also need an unspoofable way for the AI to distinguish intent of the weapon drawing, because law-enforcement et cetera. The bot can't always already be at the scene when something happens.

Anyway I know at least one company working towards this goal as we speak, but I bet they aren't anywhere near that yet: http://gimltd.fi/ (Generic Intelligent Machines)

They don't, really. This is basically saying they won't take legal action against their citizen for owning or trying to obtain said materials.

Not quite, but close: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1401143/ (Rare Exports)

The concept has definitely been affected by religions, even having some roots there, but nowadays it's as religious as Easter Bunny. Saint Nicholas is God's earthly avatar: rewarding those who live by his rules and punishing the rest.

Maybe they'll buy Jolla (which is not doing great atm), get old Nokia engineers back and continue with Sailfish OS. Alien Dalvik is great for Android software compatibility but a push for official recognition from Google for Play services and such would definitely help.

Independent operating systems is a good thing imo, but interoperability is crucial for them to coexist like browsers.

Finnish people drink a lot of coffee; in my place of work it's a mug (0.2 litres) every two hours or so during a twelve hour shift. Some people there have been doing that for over a decade and apparently their dosage and consumption interval has remained the same, keeping blood caffeine levels quite steady.

Finland has the highest coffee consumption per capita in the world with ~12kg annually; compare to the US with ~4.1kg: http://www.worldmapper.org/posters/worldmapper_1038_coffee_c...

The audio is fine if that tab is not active but distorts when I switch to it. Otherwise very, very smooth.