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Comment Re:Hurry! Because..China? (Score 1) 36

The US can't let China have a moment.

What's important is what you do when you get there. The US raced to the moon the first time then just quit. China, at least as far as they've announced, seems to be planning to go and actually do some stuff like set up a long term research base. The US was also planning to do some interesting long term stuff but has cancelled most of that in the interest of beating China.

Comment Re:A business model exposed to soon? (Score 1) 33

I assume because they're charging by the minute they have to start up a VM or something to monitor it. They probably use the same process as any other "runner" except this one sshs to your machine and executes commands instead of doing it locally.

I don't see why someone who objects to this couldn't just replace it with their own system where their local machine does whatever it needs. Make a runner that pings your machine and then exits if you absolutely need to.

Comment Re:Sensible economic policies work. (Score 1) 128

Individually directly paid taxes

Piling on some more qualifiers? You are probably correct that the rich pay most of those as well, but if so then why the misleading generalization?

Probably because the number isn't as big. Income taxes are (usually) designed to be progressive. That's the point. Most sales and property taxes, including the hidden ones, are only weakly so. Billionaries don't eat thousands of times more bananas than poor people.

Comment Re: The persistent myth (Score 1) 28

You don't need to "think", whatever you think that is, to do depth from motion processing. You don't even need it to do contextual range estimation from still images. There are perfectly good old fashioned engineered solutions for both. Learning algorithms just let you do it faster by learning some shortcuts.

Comment False conclusion. (Score 1) 1

It's about college students: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsph.umich.edu%2Fnews%2F202...

For the first time in roughly 15 years of collecting Healthy Minds data, we have seen two consecutive years of improved outcomes from fall 2022 through spring 2024,”

You don't trend downward for 13 years and suddenly claim the issue is overblown because of small improvements over the last two.

"A decrease in severe depressive symptoms from 23% in 2022 and 20% in 2023 to 19% in 2024."
More students reported taking psychiatric medication: 31% this year vs. 29% in 2022 and 2023.

Related? Hmm!

None of this disproves the idea that elevated pandemic-era tech usage could have contributed to well-being declines in young people

Important to what reason.com is trying to claim.

Comment Why not both? (Score 1) 87

It could be an epigenetic effect which means it's a combination of both genetics and environmental exposure. This is to say some are predisposed to developing Parkinson but it must also be triggered by environmental factors.

Marines exposed to TCE at Lejeune were 70% more likely to develop Parkinson's.

There is also the possibility that TCE doesn't cause Parkinson's but rather simply something that mimics the symptoms of Parkinson's.

Occam's razor breaks down when you try to apply it to populations due to biological variation.

Comment Re:Once again, no. (Score 1) 61

Just FYI, I'm unaware of a fully static recompiller due to:
1) address calculation issues with indirection
2) data modification requirements

I've seen one static recompiler but it was naive at best and failed entirely when it came to dynamically generated instructions. There are also other issues regarding assembly language tricks like using the operand of an instruction as an instruction by directly jumping too it. This is a neat trick that occurs in Super Mario Bros. for NES.

Static recompilation is an are of interest of mine because I would like to see old games (which have many assembly tricks) be able to run natively on newer systems. I could talk about this in depth but it requires a bit of understanding of the issues that remain, like identifying code versus data. That said, I'm confident a general static recompiler can be produced but it will require plenty of symbolic algebra to translate the old data to the new target.

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