DNA does not encode a complete model of the human that has the DNA, it encodes a bunch of potential clones of that human. This is an abstract, incomplete model. To encode a complete model you would need a complete physical measurement of this particular human as a physical system. But there is a theorem by Thomas Breuer that no physical system can contain a complete measurement of its own state.
- Network controller for my latest file server and video NAS, which is based on a USB RAID-1 drive. The box that produces the graphics however is a small Intel-based box (not a NUC though).
- Network controller (using CUPS) for a very old laser printer that only has USB.
- Various hobby electronics projects like controlling an Arduino robot via photo and ultrasonic sensors and wifi, developing networking software for ESP8266, and various other simple electronics experiments.
I interpret this as using the binary operation "both" in a reduction over a list of three items. Kind of like how you can add a list of numbers through e.g. (PLUS 1 2 3 4) in LISP, although addition is actually a binary operation.
Hearing about Niki Lauda brings back memories of the death of the Swedish F1 racer Ronnie Peterson in 1978. I was sitting on a commuter train, and heard whispers moving through the coach saying "Ronnie Peterson just crashed". There were of course no mobile phones at that time, so the information came from F1 fans who were following the race while listening to their portable FM radios.
Some survive, some die.
George Harrison (of Beatles fame) later dedicated his song "Faster" to the memory of Ronnie Peterson.
All it takes is one information leakage scandal, and customers will abandon Slack at the drop of a hat. It's just a chat app, so it's very easy to replace.
Equifax is a consumer product with uninformed customers, wherein the 'blowback' can't really be had by individual customers, rather, it has to pick up as a media storm.
Slack contains a world of sensitive corporate information.
Oddly though I don't recall any major email company losing gazillions of emails to a hacker either, but I could be wrong.
It's an existential risk for Slack, but not unlike most other SaaS companies as well, so it's just part of the cost of doing business a per the industry.
It's important not to forget that this isn't about whether Slack is something a company should adopt. Any such risk you can attribute to using Slack will be multiplied a million-fold with a nascent service being developed by a single person or startup. All of these are reasons to continue using Slack instead of switching to Level.
Agreed. According to science, life began about 4 billion years ago, and has been going on without interruption ever since. Personhood is a completely different (but nonetheless very interesting) category.
There is one aspect in which non-radioactive heavy metals are worse: since they are stable elements they must be stored away and guarded forever, not just for a limited number of years.
Heavy metals can't hurt you unless you ingest them. Proximity or handling doesn't hurt people. Radioactive materials, however, vomit particles everywhere in an untraceable way. Radioactivity cannot be removed from contaminated materials without transferring the radioactivity to something else. This is the key difference. Heavy metals can also be filtered from water and segregated from other substances, while radioactivity cannot.
I have only visited Ireland as a tourist, and my impression was that the Irish very much like to tell stories to anyone who will listen, or even to random innocent tourists who are waiting on a train platform. Telling stories is not bullshitting however, but maybe this is a cultural tradition that makes the people aware of bullshitting in a way that affects the test scores?
I stopped eating cheese at around 4 or 5 years of age. I just stopped liking it one day and started hating it instead. When I turned 25 I began eating pizza as an experiment, and had no problems with it, but still many years later I do avoid cheese and other dairy products in most situations. I suspect it might have something to do with lactose intolerance, but I have never attempted to verify this.
