The hardest part of building nukes is acquiring weapon-grade enriched uranium, because it's controlled as hell and you will get bombed if you try to make your own.
If you spend hundreds of millions of dollars on enriched uranium, paying salaries for team of engineers is the easy part.
North Korea, Pakistan, India, South Africa & likely Israel didn't get bombed due to their enrichment programs.
There is a rumor that the USSR flirted with the idea of a pre-emptive strike on Mainland China to decapitate their nuclear program after the Sino-Soviet split. This did not happen obviously.
Iran didn't get bombed, although that may just be because other forms of sabotage were available.
Syria & Iraq on the other hand, yeah those got bombed. But it's not 100% a guarantee.
Conflict of interests is a real thing to worry about. I wouldn't trust scientist working in tobacco company on cigarette harm, even if I have no evidence of wrongdoing.
But there is laundry list of features that some animal does better.
Humans on whole do everything 'ok'. Humans have a lot of features, and for each feature they aren't the 'best', but on aggregate they do them all together on average better. They are one animal that combine total features better than any single animal.
Guess my point, is when it comes to 'mind' people are still thinking humans are divinely 'exceptional'. But really, it is one more 'feature' that the human animal does best, but that does not mean other animals don't have the same feature, but scaled down.
Seems like people complaining that 'bees' aren't intelligent are just trying to keep humans propped up on a pedestal. When really, it is one more feature that is scaled.
Does it effectively keep the humans on a pedestal to consider our traits as fundamentally different?
I think it is all on a continuum, humans are animals. But putting us on that continuum makes all the animals look like absolute garbage, intelligence-wise. If we want to put humans in the game, we’re going to be absolutely dunking on, like, every animal in terms of ability to abstract and teach concepts.
Technically humans are dunking on all other animals. We're killing them all rather handily.
I'm arguing against the group that think humans aren't animals, that they are imbued with some extra metaphysical secrete sauce that we are incapable of understanding.
This group usually come out strong against any of these studies that hint at some continuum that includes humans and animals on same scale. Even if humans are on far end of the scale.
Asymmetric cryptography isn't a rocket science. Airline keeps encrypted recording and public key, certain government institution keeps private key, you need both to decrypt.
This violates rule 1 by requiring a government institution to keep a private key: no change to how current regulations or laws work or to how current workstreams outside of the secondary backup system work (i.e., no change is required like having the judiciary start using crypto)
This violates rule 2 by not assuring that a warrant is necessary because somebody at the government institution has the private key (assuming that institution is not the judge): It should be technologically impossible for any person or entity to access the data without a warrant
> It should be technologically impossible for any person or entity to access the data without a warrant
I don’t understand why you’d impose restrictions on this system that do not exist elsewhere? What makes cockpit voice recordings sensitive enough to warrant more secure storage than people’s bank accounts?
Title "People cough more during classical concerts" implies that people are more likely to cough during classical concerts than non-classical concerts. Article implies that people cough more in classical concerts than at home.
There are numerous biological, physical and neurological factors that can affect cough rate, and implication "it's voluntary" seems to be rather ridi... far-fetched.
Unfortunately I can't download the paper; I get an error page.
I had the same reaction as you though.
My impression is people have respiratory issues, throat irritation, and it's worse during the concert season in dry concert halls, maybe exacerbated by personal fragrances, material from other people in the air and so forth. People try to restrain from coughing but it gets to be too much, and cough during breaks in music because there are no notes to interrupt. Alternatively the coughing is more audible during breaks, so people think it's more common at certain times, but that's only because it's easier to detect the coughing then.
Maybe the paper addresses these things but I can't tell.
I highly doubt it's some form of implicit communication though.
I was already running home server, so for me, setting up smart home was relatively simple:
- Buy Zigbee USB dongle
- Install Home Assistant and Zigbee2MQTT in Docker on server
- Initial configuration
It requires basic technical knowledge, but after initial configuration it just works.
There were three major pains:
- Configuring camera (ONVIF is pure pain) - it works initially, but I physically plug-in cameras only when I'm going on holiday
- Configuring voice assistant
- Finding good ZigBee remotes
- Price of Hue Wall Switch (DIY approach is possible by gutting cheap button)
Cameras and voice assistant troubles were arguably result of my "keep as much as possible within local network" approach.
Minor pains:
- Binding remotes to light bulbs, so they work even if server is down
- Finding instructions how to bind certain ZigBee accessories (they have "just open our proprietary app and it will explain what to do" manual)
That does leave one problem: you still need a way to segment your stream. Most length-prefixed framing schemes do not have any way to segment the stream other than the length prefix. What you wind up wanting is something like chunked encoding.
(Also, using zero as a sentinel is not necessarily a good idea, since it makes zero length messages more difficult. I'd go with -1 or ~0 instead.)
Using `-1` would require using a singed integer for the length, which I guess could be done if you're fine with having the maximum length be half as long, but that also raises the question of what to do with the remaining negative values; what does a length of -10 mean?
I thought -0 is only something in floating point numbers, not integers, and using floats for the length of a message sounds like a nightmare to me.
Ah, I was a little unclear. I mean ~0 as in NOT 0, an integer with all bits set. This is also the same as -1 in two's compliment. So basically, I'm suggesting you use the maximum unsigned integer value as a sentinel. That doesn't work if you're using a variable-length unsigned integer like base128vlq, but if you're doing base128vlq you could always make a special sentinel for that (e.g. unnecessarily set the high bit and follow it with a zero byte; this would never normally appear with a base128vlq.)
History as social science was basically invented between 19th and 20th century. Ancient writers generally had agenda and they happily filled missing pieces with ideologically-fueled speculation.
but, intelligence is not new. There were astute readers at that time, too. So there must have been a spectrum, and reading people knew something about that spectrum.. from fawning sycophants of the current despot, to tellers of tall tales, to scholars, and those close to traders and travelers.
> Mentally I felt like I needed more food and more junk food than I ever did before using the drug
This is consistent with hungry brain hypothesis. Your hypothalamus detects that you have less body fat than amount set on "lipostat" and it tries to get fat content back to this set amount.
The hardest part of building nukes is acquiring weapon-grade enriched uranium, because it's controlled as hell and you will get bombed if you try to make your own.
If you spend hundreds of millions of dollars on enriched uranium, paying salaries for team of engineers is the easy part.
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