23339 pts · August 4, 2014
This isn't even letting the enemy treat wounded combatants. This is civilian first aiders being blocked from treating civilians.
Oh yeah it definitely has the potential to be wildly unethical and dangerous. I think it would be cool for biological computing, materials science (kind of like 3D printing but the thing grows itself) and similar stuff... inevitably somebody is going to go all Gattaca at the first whiff of that kind of potential though.
Although to be clear I'm not claiming that big genome = advanced organism (or the inverse given the above), it was just an example as to how an intelligently designed genome might differ and the advantages inferred.
It is however hypothesised that birds evolved smaller genomes for this very purpose: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8905638/ Also potentially linked to corvid intelligence relative to mammals due to higher neuron densities: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cne.25298
It would be fascinating to see what a consciously designed genome would actually look like, I image you could have far smaller genomes reducing metabolic cost and increasing cell density for starters. I'm pretty sure over the next ~100 or so years we are going to see either amazing or truly terrifying things come from synthetic biology (or both I guess).
I think at least part of the issue is that these drones aren't using starlink in Russia, it's being used in Ukraine. Even if the drones originate in Russia it wouldn't be hard to have Starlink only kick in once they're in Ukrainian territory and EW becomes a problem. Really the US need to force SpaceX to implement a whitelist approach for units to work in either area and that way Ukraine can use it and Russia can't.
Honestly the least believable part of this is the idea of trump pulling off a complicated scheme without it immediately becoming public knowledge. If trump staged something like this he'd be on tape bragging about it and waving around planning documents to reporters inside a week.
I wouldn't call it an 'easy' win, like most of the mess labour now have to clean up it's going to be extremely difficult and necessitate a complete overhaul with difficult choices to make. If they fuck up, which is entirely possible given the scope, then they will get the blame and people will inevitably forget that the tories caused the mess in the first place.
It seems the board had drafted an endorsement for Harris and sent it to Jeff Bezos for approval, the above article doesn't explicitly state it but... pretty safe bet he torpedoed it. He actively supports Trump so this isn't cowardice, it's confirmation that the journalistic integrity of the outlet is compromised by the interests of its owner.
Yes they realise, their internal emails that surfaced during discovery in the Dominion case explicitly state as much. As for swaying votes I'm not sure the efficacy of their lies is the point, they are so chained to Trump and his base at this point that they have no choice but to go down with the ship. If they turn on Trump Fox is finished as a network.
Also worth noting that Germany would have been a truly hard sell. Like "hey do you want to live in this utterly decimated post-war wasteland, that most of you just fled from, which is currently occupied by people that just engaged in an extended campaign of genocide against you?"Even ignoring the religious quackery that drives fundamentalists that is not going to be an attractive proposition.
In this specific instance with Pence I suspect it is somewhat disingenuous, or he wouldn't have fought the order to testify against Trump. Any sane person knew that harebrained plan wouldn't work and would have caused utter chaos, all centred on Pence if he acquiesced, and he refused to do it because it would have ended his political career (at a minimum).
I suspect the greatest concern for most politicians is domestic politics. At the moment the political calculus is essentially that a majority are against supporting Netanyahu and his government, but they don't feel strongly enough about it for it to impact their vote, whilst a significant minority are pro-Israel single issue voters. Given the current inexplicably close election coming up there's no way in hell you'll see the current admin risk doing anything to rock the boat in that situation.
Sure but in the above I'm solely talking about those for whom their ad-based model is profitable, obviously this model isn't universal and you still have some services that revolve around subscriptions (usually because opportunities for ad delivery are limited and/or cost per user is higher). IMHO the ideal would be bundling: so you pay a third-party once which gets you ad-free delivery on a multitude of sites, and the money paid is distributed at a similar rate to that paid for ad impressions.
Yeah that's my point. Websites costs per user are so low they can survive on tens of cents per quarter per user, but when they decide on sub pricing it'll suddenly be $20 a month. It's not treated as an alternative to the ad model, it's an upsell. A very significant upsell.
It means doing something a certain way because the last person (that you copied from) did it that way, with zero understanding as to why. Often leads to comically identifiable idiosyncrasies in a codebase.
I'm something of an ad-absolutist. I'd be fine with ads that don't use or collect personal data and don't compromise the sites ux design, but those don't exist. I'd prefer to simply pay, like I pay for search and a few other things, but the problem is most sites try and charge 10x the ARPU they get from ads for a sub and that simply doesn't scale.
I wouldn't limit it to presidents! Like seriously, look at this shit. I genuinely don't understand how his PR team didn't just go "sir, you look like a fucking cockwaffle and cannot go outside like that."
That's cool, except there's video of him sitting down. There are so many embarrassing photographs of Trump. Sharing one that is blatantly false is weird and is no better than MAGA sharing out of context photos of Biden speaking to people off camera.
I believe that's actually his ill-fitting suit, although part of the reason the tails are so long is probably to hide the telltale shape of the Depends™ in photographs.
This isn't even letting the enemy treat wounded combatants. This is civilian first aiders being blocked from treating civilians.
Oh yeah it definitely has the potential to be wildly unethical and dangerous. I think it would be cool for biological computing, materials science (kind of like 3D printing but the thing grows itself) and similar stuff... inevitably somebody is going to go all Gattaca at the first whiff of that kind of potential though.
Although to be clear I'm not claiming that big genome = advanced organism (or the inverse given the above), it was just an example as to how an intelligently designed genome might differ and the advantages inferred.
It is however hypothesised that birds evolved smaller genomes for this very purpose: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8905638/ Also potentially linked to corvid intelligence relative to mammals due to higher neuron densities: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cne.25298
It would be fascinating to see what a consciously designed genome would actually look like, I image you could have far smaller genomes reducing metabolic cost and increasing cell density for starters. I'm pretty sure over the next ~100 or so years we are going to see either amazing or truly terrifying things come from synthetic biology (or both I guess).
I think at least part of the issue is that these drones aren't using starlink in Russia, it's being used in Ukraine. Even if the drones originate in Russia it wouldn't be hard to have Starlink only kick in once they're in Ukrainian territory and EW becomes a problem. Really the US need to force SpaceX to implement a whitelist approach for units to work in either area and that way Ukraine can use it and Russia can't.
Honestly the least believable part of this is the idea of trump pulling off a complicated scheme without it immediately becoming public knowledge. If trump staged something like this he'd be on tape bragging about it and waving around planning documents to reporters inside a week.
I wouldn't call it an 'easy' win, like most of the mess labour now have to clean up it's going to be extremely difficult and necessitate a complete overhaul with difficult choices to make. If they fuck up, which is entirely possible given the scope, then they will get the blame and people will inevitably forget that the tories caused the mess in the first place.
It seems the board had drafted an endorsement for Harris and sent it to Jeff Bezos for approval, the above article doesn't explicitly state it but... pretty safe bet he torpedoed it. He actively supports Trump so this isn't cowardice, it's confirmation that the journalistic integrity of the outlet is compromised by the interests of its owner.
Yes they realise, their internal emails that surfaced during discovery in the Dominion case explicitly state as much. As for swaying votes I'm not sure the efficacy of their lies is the point, they are so chained to Trump and his base at this point that they have no choice but to go down with the ship. If they turn on Trump Fox is finished as a network.
Also worth noting that Germany would have been a truly hard sell. Like "hey do you want to live in this utterly decimated post-war wasteland, that most of you just fled from, which is currently occupied by people that just engaged in an extended campaign of genocide against you?"
Even ignoring the religious quackery that drives fundamentalists that is not going to be an attractive proposition.
In this specific instance with Pence I suspect it is somewhat disingenuous, or he wouldn't have fought the order to testify against Trump. Any sane person knew that harebrained plan wouldn't work and would have caused utter chaos, all centred on Pence if he acquiesced, and he refused to do it because it would have ended his political career (at a minimum).
I suspect the greatest concern for most politicians is domestic politics. At the moment the political calculus is essentially that a majority are against supporting Netanyahu and his government, but they don't feel strongly enough about it for it to impact their vote, whilst a significant minority are pro-Israel single issue voters. Given the current inexplicably close election coming up there's no way in hell you'll see the current admin risk doing anything to rock the boat in that situation.
Sure but in the above I'm solely talking about those for whom their ad-based model is profitable, obviously this model isn't universal and you still have some services that revolve around subscriptions (usually because opportunities for ad delivery are limited and/or cost per user is higher). IMHO the ideal would be bundling: so you pay a third-party once which gets you ad-free delivery on a multitude of sites, and the money paid is distributed at a similar rate to that paid for ad impressions.
Yeah that's my point. Websites costs per user are so low they can survive on tens of cents per quarter per user, but when they decide on sub pricing it'll suddenly be $20 a month. It's not treated as an alternative to the ad model, it's an upsell. A very significant upsell.
It means doing something a certain way because the last person (that you copied from) did it that way, with zero understanding as to why. Often leads to comically identifiable idiosyncrasies in a codebase.
I'm something of an ad-absolutist. I'd be fine with ads that don't use or collect personal data and don't compromise the sites ux design, but those don't exist. I'd prefer to simply pay, like I pay for search and a few other things, but the problem is most sites try and charge 10x the ARPU they get from ads for a sub and that simply doesn't scale.
I wouldn't limit it to presidents! Like seriously, look at this shit. I genuinely don't understand how his PR team didn't just go "sir, you look like a fucking cockwaffle and cannot go outside like that."
That's cool, except there's video of him sitting down. There are so many embarrassing photographs of Trump. Sharing one that is blatantly false is weird and is no better than MAGA sharing out of context photos of Biden speaking to people off camera.
I believe that's actually his ill-fitting suit, although part of the reason the tails are so long is probably to hide the telltale shape of the Depends™ in photographs.