> Most of the former Soviet Block governments fell without any bloodshed.
That was Gorbachev. Most leaders of any country would roll tanks.
Gorbachev sent the tanks rolling in Lithuania (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_Events).
Readit Newsjhonkola commented on Engineering for Slow Internet brr.fyi/posts/engineering... · Posted by u/jader201
This is in the context of a substance we’re trying to use to destroy enemy tanks and kill/injure combatants, not make s’mores out of.
Though it remains in the environment even after the operation and civilians will be exposed to it. This has been the case in e.g. Balkans (https://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/07/world/radiation-from-balk...) and also in Iraq (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/19/us-depleted-ur...)
jhonkola commented on Count the people around you by monitoring wifi signals github.com/schollz/howman... · Posted by u/captn3m0
Couldn't almost any WiFi router, and thus the user of that router, then be in violation of GDPR simply by logging which MAC addresses attempt to connect to that router? Even connections by accident (selecting the wrong SSID).
I know my Netgear router has a history of basically any connection attempts and their MAC address; it does this by default, not sure I can even turn it off.
And how would you even present a GDPR notice to the user prior to logging that kind of information?
No. Wifi router needs the MAC address in order to provide a service to the user, thus it is allowed to collect the MAC. GDPR allows collecting personally identifying information if it is necessary for providing the service.
"We're Facebook for middle age people.". Isn't that just Facebook? At least that is what all young ones say - that it is used by middle-aged people
I know What's Up. Facebook just bought the world's largest (and unlisted) mobile phone number directory:
WhatsApp's convenient 'matching by phone number' feature uploads of all of your phone contacts to their servers. Though positioned as one of the good guys, they too had their price.
With this acquisition, FB bought the ultimate data set of users and leads, and with it secured access to the last remnants of your privacy.
Your fake name/profile on FB will no longer protect you. Your friend's contact list spilled the beans months ago...
Uninstalling WhatsApp now, though I realize that after several lovely years might just be too late already.
Cat, bag, out of. Such wow. Much sad.
This was also my first thought. FB gets a lot of information on people's actual behavior wrt their contacts (who do you contact and how often), and this for people all over the world.
I think a lot of people who are skeptical of this story just don't realize that they appended to be surrounded by people who have developed unusually accurate physical models.
I recommend browsing Amazon reviews of (non heat pump) electric heaters for statements about which ones are more efficient. (The less efficient one produce more waste heat?)
Because there are few consumer products that exercise people's understanding of gravity, basic thermodynamics might be a good proxy. However the real point of the article isn't all the misconceptions that must be "plucked out" one by one, but the struggle of trying to figure out how to encourage students to form more comprehensive models.
I'd also add that an important goal in teaching is students' facility in applying principles, and confidence to question intuition and consensus.
Well, in case of electric heaters used to heat a home the efficiency should really be measured in terms of "how much electricity is consumed if the heated room is kept at constant 20C measured at e.g. center of room". This is somewhat dependent on the quality of the thermostat controlling the heater.
Then, I think that there are some real differences found in the efficiency of the heaters.
jhonkola commented on Are We Losing the Secrets of the Masters? eetimes.com/author.asp?se... · Posted by u/damian2000
There's a really interesting book series called "The Cross Time Engineer". It puts a modern day engineer back into the middle ages and follows his path to rebooting an industrial society from just the knowledge in his skull.
While it's surely not wholly accurate, everything related to the material science and technology level is at least plausible.
http://www.amazon.com/Cross-Time-Engineer-Adventures-Conrad-...
And for a cynical take on the "modern engineer brings advances to middle age" also taking into account social aspects, Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" (http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/86) is good reading.
jhonkola commented on The Deal That Makes No Sense stratechery.com/2013/the-... · Posted by u/monkbent
Microsoft is probably aiming to become a patent troll in the long run due to their lack of innovation. They already have many patents they can extort future innovators with, so picking up Nokia's (reported to be worth $6b) makes sense.
They didn't buy Nokia's patents. They bought Devices & Services business unit (the one making the phones) and a 10-year (non-exclusive) licence to Nokia's patents, which obviously are needed to make the phones. Does not sound like a patent troll move on part of Microsoft.
However, my real problem is with what I call “The Google Strategy.” Basically, they take publicly funded infrastructure like HTTP and SMTP, capture the network by dumping “free” products on the market (with basically no advertising), kill off competitors, then monetize their market capture by removing the "free" part, packing these products with ads, making them worse and worse over time in the process. And everyone is trapped, since they captured the network of this public infrastructure. This is the story of Google Search, Gmail, YouTube, etc.
It’s anti-competitive, anti-markets, and quite frankly should have been regulated away as a strategy a long time ago.
Google basically ran Microsoft's classic anti-competitive B2B strategy to capture the consumer internet, and got away with it!