That's an oxymoron if there ever was one! I mean, why even bother speculating about it?
North Korean covid stats only serves one purpose: It's a nice canary for any news article. If it includes data from NK, you know you can stop reading right there.
Without including information on age and BMI, any covid death statistics are pretty much useless.
I suspect it is much higher. Easily 10x.
There was a study in England over the summer, which found that 3.4 million had been infected. Back then, the official number for UK was around 300k. In other words, the survey suggested 11 times more infections than the detected cases.
It's the most plausible explanation, though. They trained their network to detect something else in the photos, which vaguely correlates with other attributes.
It smacks of the advanced military AI of the 80s which could detect friendly and enemy thanks. But only if the friendlies were seen in sunshine and the enemies were under rainy clouds.
The infrastructure to route around censorship is already well established: TOR and several other onion-routing systems are ready to be used. Clients are readily available on all platforms.
What's maybe lacking is capacity and scale. More nodes and higher bandwidth is needed. On systems like Freenet, very extreme and repulsive content is a problem. I believe it is less of an issue on TOR.
And yes, censorship is always a slippery slope. We've discussed that here for years, and it's panning out exactly as predicted. We've now reached the point where political opponents in Western democracies are being censored. I suppose the ultimate step is to round up people for what they say. Then we can all be part of China.
You're too narrow-minded, my friend, focusing on issues too close to home. The outline above has nothing to do with Trump. Furthermore, it is by no means unique to America.
England is probably coming closest to this exact development, but the rest of Europe is not far behind. For countries which have run the full course, see for example gay rights in Poland, Russia. Or pretty much any critical speech in places like Turkey, Thailand.
I would think the ARM-based architecture is the real news here. I haven't paid too close attention over the years, but reckon the Top 500 has been mostly about x86 and PowerPC.
A link to an article which discusses that rather than going into musings about Moore's law and the future of exa-scale would be interesting.
Censorship is a slippery slope. It always starts with the nastiest of nasty content nobody wants to be associated with. That drives the initial requirement for infrastructure to censor. Once in place, the music and video industry jumps on the bandwagon. Censorship becomes common-place in the guise of protecting "intellectual property". Freedom-fighters (aka terrorists) seems an obvious target nobody will question. Now that censorship is a trivial every-day topic, adding political opponents to the list doesn't seem too far-fetched. "They are after all wrong - and should not be given a voice".
Right now, private companies are being "incentivized" to self-censor. Give it a few years, and it will become law, and anybody criticizing the current political junta will be outlaws.
And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
But we've proved it again and again,
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane.
- Rudyard Kipling
Dane-Geld, A.D. 980-1016
See Roger Eatwell and Matthew Goodwin’s book "National Populism" (2018) for a good summary of the history and rise of populist parties and politicians on both sides of the Atlantic.
They debunk several common myths about right-wing voters, like the "old white angry men" cliché, and trace the early beginning of today's parties to the early 1990s. (They do not mention 3G nor mobile Internet access).
Possibly by GPT-3 or similar. Expect more of this kind of nonsense in the future.
https://www.theguardian.com/co...
What's more concerning, was that it slipped passed the editors (not too surprising though, since they are probably also bots) and that people here are discussing the content at face value.
The article is spam. Slashdotters (at least those who are not bots nor Russian trolls) should know better.
That's about three days worth of revenue for Google. They really have to dig deep.
There has never been any precedent for the "compassionate" policies seen across the world this year. It was always assumed that there was a reasonable limit to the amount of resources worth spending to save a life. E.g. when safety measures are put in place on a high-way, it is based on a calculation on how many lives it will save and what each life costs. When life-saving procedures are taken at the hospital, it is based on an assessment of the likelihood of a successful outcome.
That logic has now all gone out the window in favour of a hysterical panic-driven approach to risk assessment. This year, we were forced to accept the complete shutdown of the entire world in order to let a minor group of seniors live a few months longer. The cost trade-off is completely absent from the narrative in any media. Most people are very poor at assessing risk, but this year no one can blame them, since it is near impossible to get to the required data to base decisions on.
For example, right now in France, it would have been interesting to understand why three times (15000 vs 5000) as many people are reported as newly infected on a daily bases compared to the peak in March. Meanwhile, there are only a fraction of COVID related daily deaths (70 vs 970) compared to March. I will not hold my breath for any insightful discussion on the topic.
The real news here is that there are no less than 67 employee levels at Microsoft. I mean, that should be enough for anybody, right?
Google has had similar cases, lost and taken similar action. (I forget where, France, Spain, Portugal?).
The problem was that the newspapers failed to realize that Google sends substantial traffic their way. So when the article snippets were gone, the users were too, and so the ad revenue. They all came back crying that "no, that's not what we meant". Yet, it's a bit hard to feel pity by then.
Be careful with what you wish for - you might just get it.
Software production is assumed to be a line function, but it is run like a staff function. -- Paul Licker
