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Re:Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse on Thursday September 17, 2026 @10:20PM (#49749508)
This sphere goes further back: There's direct connections to Extropianism and onto many more: Transhumanism, Julian Assange, Alcor, Timothy Leary, John Perry Barlow (EFF, Grateful Dead), another VP: Dick Cheney, Nicholas Negroponte, Marvin Minsky, Jeffrey Epstein...

Really depends on how broad of a brush you use. This article makes lots of connections but could connect with all of the above with only a few more.

Whistleblowers get ignored regularly.
Or the other way: The reason the scam was caught was because people were looking for flaws. Society gives a lot of grace to male scammers.
Re:Gemini 3.8 Flash on Thursday September 03, 2026 @09:25AM (#49549637)
Google is targeting a different segment of the frontier.
Re:IPFS Maintainers Winding Down on Monday August 24, 2026 @06:05PM (#49426455)
I have thought IPFS (or something like it) could provide a solution to ongoing scraping woes.
Yet, the government requires these, e.g. in the case of PERM applicants. https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/employer-recruitment...
Re:A no-brainer for protecting your brain on Sunday July 12, 2026 @03:26PM (#48883821)
My understanding is that they're not sure if the vaccine will last in your system for more than 30 years, and that subsequent doses may be less effective, so getting it early may weaken you later.

But I am with you. My personal bet is we'll know more about this by the time that becomes an issue.

The earliest cohorts of vaccinated children are approaching their 30s, so we should learn about long term efficacy this decade.

Re:I Build a 10 Inch Mini Rack from Aluminium Extrusions on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @08:31PM (#48741035)
Any of it. TFA references https://loganmarchione.com/2025/09/homelab-10-mini-rack-v2/ which uses standard 10" shelves.
Re:I Build a 10 Inch Mini Rack from Aluminium Extrusions on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @08:29PM (#48741024)
Pedal polarity is inverse of typical barrel plug polarity though.
Re:Leanstral 1.5 on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @08:18PM (#48740948)
Curry-Howard correspondence.
Re:Language Models Need Sleep on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @03:44PM (#48284986)
Yet this is how "thinking" models got started.
Re:A few interesting modern pixel fonts on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @03:36PM (#48284880)
Depends on the DPI of your monitor and your glasses prescription.
Not at all. The Rerum Novarum timing is too intentional.
Re:The Intolerable Hypocrisy of Cyberlibertarianism on Saturday May 09, 2026 @08:54PM (#48079906)
Note that at least Negroponte (mentioned in the article once) also had Epstein ties. https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/09/05/133159/mit-media...
Just like the sun streams lots of power to us!
Sure, but mud puppies and Olm also exhibit neoteny.
Re:Girl, 10, finds rare Mexican axolotl under Welsh bridge on Thursday April 23, 2026 @10:51PM (#47884913)
How much fertilizer does the Iowan farmer need to add to their field to achieve that? How many years can they maintain that yield without eroding the soil?
Re:Girl, 10, finds rare Mexican axolotl under Welsh bridge on Thursday April 23, 2026 @10:49PM (#47884897)
Not an axolotl, but mud puppies live as far north as Canada and have external gills: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_mudpuppy

Olm in the Balkans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olm picture: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:P_anguinus-head1.jpg

No one electron goes the 1600 mile distance. An increase of cheap energy supply in one place lowers likelihood of production elsewhere, but it is more diffuse than selling Iowan energy in California.
Note that the subsequent 12th edition (1922) may be in public domain in your jurisdiction.
I find similar happening with Gemini Pro. Despite paying for Pro, it regularly locks me out, without visibility into consumption. Nothing on the plan comparison page indicates limits. https://one.google.com/about/plans

Edit: I may have conflated these two threads. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47739260

Re:Bitmap fonts make computers feel like computers again on Thursday April 09, 2026 @06:29PM (#47711099)
Yet the article is not using a bitmap font
Re:PicoZ80 – Drop-In Z80 Replacement on Thursday April 09, 2026 @06:22PM (#47711040)
Not all that different from the MCS-96 HSIO.
Re:A dot a day keeps the clutter away on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @12:00AM (#47596649)
I use a variant of access tracking by treating things like stacks.

My bins are stacked like in the article's photos. When I am done with a bin, it goes on the top. Least recently accessed bin is on the bottom. I need to get better about cache eviction though.

This also works with clothing on a rack. Put clean clothes on the left. Choose what to wear from the right. Eventually, the things you don't like wearing will all be on the right. This also happens to sort clothes by season.

Re:A dot a day keeps the clutter away on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @11:57PM (#47596626)
I think of atime as the electronic version. And to address the cost, you can mount with noatime.
It depends on which direction you are referring to the ownership flowing.

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