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Comment Re:What can be done in case of a positive test? (Score 2) 11

Ironically there are treatments that show efficacy but they range between not FDA approved and illegal.

You can go to Mexico or the Caribbean for some of them (or find underground psychiatrists).

Getting lots of regular sleep, exercise, and going ketogenic can dramatically slow progression but there is a tau prion aspect that is difficult to halt. Lots of Omega-3's can keep your astrocytes healthy.

Some evidence supports ultrasound treatment but it's probably the higher harmonics which are not well characterized or even understood outside a few labs (ASU, et. al.).

Use protection as the tau prions don't stay in the brain.

Comment Re:Take critical infrastructure off the net. (Score 1) 32

Oh man you would eat your words if you ever worked in the power generation industry. Protip: We don't run the electrical grid like we did in the early 90s anymore. The grid functions now largely because the entire system is networked together and because engineers have instant oversight. If you want more power outages that last far longer than today, then sure, take things offline. Just don't be the one who complains that when a local breaker trips or a local generator is offline that you're sitting in the dark while a tech drives out to diagnose a problem due to not having the required information remotely.

It's easy to armchair engineer this sort of thing. But it is also quite ... by your standards ... shameful.

Comment Re: Suuuure (Score 1) 32

You're assuming the brilliant minds who designed the security of the small generator weren't also designing the big ones. The statement there was no risk, was not that there was no risk, just that the attackers didn't demonstrate they were being a risk at the time. Who knows what systems they could have gotten into. Maybe we should be sending them thankyou cards for showing restraint.

Comment Re:Shift storage to consumers (Score 1) 56

While trying to be clever with wording you wrote something quite silly. Yes of course grid batteries scale. They scale amazingly well. The benefit from applying storage at the consumer (a consumer with solar panels) is that it reduces load on transmission lines. That's nothing to do with "scaling" since by virtue of the current peak demand load already existing grid scale batteries don't have any negative impact there. And technically they still "scale" far better at the grid as it is far more efficient and cheaper to run large inverters than many small ones.

Comment Re:Time dependent demand [Re:Great Scott!] (Score 1) 56

This could, in principle, be easily solved-- air conditioners could easily store coolness. Water has a high heat capacity, and you could cool water during the solar peak, and use it to cool your living area in the afternoon.

I know American houses are made of mostly paper, air and held together by termites, but you don't even need water for this to work. In buildings which are made of something stronger, cement, aerated concrete, or some other material with thermal mass (like houses in Europe) the building itself can store an incredible amount of thermal energy.

Pre-cooling / pre-heating the home is actually one suggestion for load shifting, e.g. turn your AC on at 3pm before you get home so that most of the load is spent fighting the thermal mass of your house when energy is cheap, and then the AC is only used in the evening to maintain the already cool building (and vis versa for heating). No need for a water block. But this will not work well if your house is thin wood, drywall, and rockwool.

Comment Re:Licenses are not ownership. (Score 1) 31

This is not legal advice.

That much is clear, because it would be horrendously bad legal advice if it were. You went out of your way to quote a ToS that explicitly gives Twitch far more rights than you claim they have including derivative works, and somehow translate that to Twitch only being allowed to transcode video?

With that we can only assume that:
a) you don't know what all the words in the ToS mean
b) you don't know that courts already have ruled that AI training is transformative and fair use implying that the only question is whether content was legally obtained which in turn means that so far as every court has ruled to date, if you publish something for free or upload it to a service, it is in *legal* fact, fair use for AI training.

By their own admission, they had to force everyone to opt in because nobody would have if they didn't force it.

No, by their own admission the mechanism to opt-out was disabled by default. Based on current legal precedent and given the ToS you quoted, they actually don't need to give people a choice at all. But when they did give that choice, they made it opt-out, which ... of course they did, they would have been mad not to.

Comment Re:This reads like fake news (Score 1) 32

We deserve better psyops.

If the reporter had read Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent they could have done a better job but let's not give them any ideas.

BBC has always been in the business of narrative construction in service of the powerful to control the population.

And also Benny Hill.

Comment Re:Haha "particles" (Score 1) 22

The mid range of the standard distribution thinks particles are real physical objects.

One end of the curve thinks that sounds like nonsense - the other end knows they're mathematical abstractions with no intent to claim a physical description.

Some people are working on a physical model (bounded surface area / Pauli exclusion) but in the odd world of Mathematical Physics the physicists Interested in the physical are sneered at.

It's reminiscent of "that bitch is so ugly" heard from the mids about the prettiest girl in the room.

Comment Re: Did the read the TOS? (Score 1) 31

Did you follow the conversation. No one here was talking about AI specifically, they were talking about the "ton of rights to the content itself" something which the old ToS also granted Amazon.

And now you're cluelessly calling someone a liar despite clearly not having a clue what is being talked about and then calling them impartial, fuck all the way off with your shitty attitude.

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