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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The overwhelming majority of all neurons in our body are just for controlling movement. Ironically, things like language or creativity require very little of our computing power and might be replicated by machine learning and a sufficiently beefy computer. But complex motor tasks? We're way ahead of our current tech on that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Only the first human was natural, every one after that was created by humans.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

I'd say [email protected] is the better option, but hey, as long as you got your question answered... :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

False in theory, true in practice. It is rare for the political landscape and a majority vote to align in such a way that it really has a disruptive effect. And in those instances wherein it happened, wasn't uncommon to see a coup afterwards.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)
> be me
> lymphoma cell
> produce lots of protein called Cdk9 that activates genes that make me divide
> cells like me normally die from apoptosis tho (programmed cell death)
> okay then
> also produce lots of protein called Bcl6 that deactivates genes that make me die from apoptosis
> no apoptosis now
> researcher gives drug
> drug glues together my Cdk9 with my Bcl6
> when Bcl6 visits a gene to deactivate it, Cdk9 activates it instead
> apoptosis.jpg
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

So, Russia is effectively endorsing Trump? Or just trying to destabilize as much as possible?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Countries anger and provoke each others' populations by pointing out the bad stuff, and defend against that by censoring or otherwise cracking down on dissent. Articles like this are just attacks against us in this process, true, but I think specific ones like this are still useful, when critically understood, to help us realize that not only the countries we don't like use those authoritarian tricks, but more or less every one (and those countries that don't are couped by one or another who does).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

I don't really think the Russian economy is any real bottleneck here; they have abundant natural resources, a densely-knit industry and even now still many trading partners. Ultimately the only realistic way to stop the war is a peace agreement, which is why people voted for Zelenskyy in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

I guess Putin believes there will be a WW3, and would rather fight Ukraine before they actually join NATO and build up military infrastructure. Pulling out now would be a blunder under that viewpoint.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

There's this post of mine, also this article gives some background on the application of PIR to anonymous messaging. Basically, I'm trying to do a basic version of that, but using a state-of-the-art PIR protocol introduced in this article. It's still not great performance-wise, but it's enough to be practical (as stated, many thousands of users given enough resources).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

No, sorry, I haven't uploaded anything yet, I've only coded the protocols and some benchmark code. The idea is for each client to send and receive data continuously. Since text messages are pretty small and YPIR+SP doesn't have a lot of overhead, that could be a reasonable way to conceal all metadata, as long as there are not enough people connected to overwhelm the server.

 

After some investigation and benchmarking, it looks like the best PIR protocol for this use case is YPIR+SP (from February). On a single compute- and network-constrained server, with users on constrained (and possibly metered) networks, this would amount to providing service to up to 1000 users while keeping latencies reasonable; by (quadratically) scaling the server(s) enough, that could become up to 100,000. That means this method of message routing could definitely work, although I look every day in case new protocols are published.

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Edit: tl;dr: all tools seem to be capable of 28 nm process, except the lithography machines. However, the report (why?) doesn't include the most advanced lithography tools that are known to be manufactured.

Source

 

Today they published a new report in the series. To my surprise, it includes a second chart with revenue-based data. Enjoy!

 

First of all, I'm sorry if my question could be easily answered by finding the right source. Overall I'd say I read very little theory written by contemporary comrades, and that's something I need to fix once I have the time.

 

Remember this post (tl;dr: did an A2 Russian language examination after nothing more than Duolingo lessons for two years)? Well, I passed the tests! Performed kind of poorly in the essay, as expected, but still well enough not to hurt my overall score; spoken test went fine (to my surprise), as did the comprehension tests.

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

1 more year has passed, and I'm still tracking these numbers, albeit now posting with a different username. The upward tendency has not just continued, but even increased; now Linux is nearing 4 % market share globally and over 2 % on Steam.

 

I'm taking a CEFR A2 Russian language exam in a few minutes. Let's see if a massive Duolingo addiction is all it akes to crack it.

 

Ok, so I was reading about solarpunk and circular economy and such, and came across this. Seems pretty reasonable, but also very vaguely worded, both by Wikipedia and the Capital Institute. I don't yet understand what they actually advocate for in terms of economic power dynamics, and I was wondering if any of you have heard of this concept before and think it's worth reading more into it.

Ps. if you think it's some sort of lunatic pseudo-science please let me know, that can help me keep myself safe.

 

I've been thinking about this a lot lately. Obviously there's the surface-level matter of speculation and deceitful schemes that's been going on around this field for the last few years, but the theoretical background is interesting, rapidly evolving, and seems to be packing a great deal of transformative potential.

I'm not sure what to believe about this. On the one hand, cryptocurrencies are the go-to option whenever one wants to conceal their economic activity, which doesn't seem like a good thing in a socialist economy (e.g., could lead to a black market-like dynamic).

On the other hand, it's becoming increasingly clear that the general idea of reducing extractable value comes naturally from the advancements in these technologies. Trust does not need to be paid for at a price any higher than the minimum required to keep the system working. It is entirely possible that production be entirely governed via the blockchain with no way to extract surplus value at all (e.g., risks hedged collectively, knowledge/entrepreneurship provided through a decentralized proof mechanism that reduces its effective cost...). Under this scenario, since no worker would be incentivized to resort to any other system, concealing transactions wouldn't be a problem anymore.

Then there's the issue of how the blockchain, as something that already exists today, would impact the transition into socialism. In this regard, I personally doubt there are any benefits beyond some specific use cases, like concealing transactions from bourgeois authorities.

Of course, there is a possibility that further research opens the door to new forms of worker cooperation, in parallel to unions and coops. Maybe it would be easier for us to perform some economic activities as a group without having to trust anyone, or maybe it would be easier to organize.

So, here are my own thoughts. I would like to see your opinion on the matter, specifically:

  • Do you think the communist society is compatible with blockchain?
  • Do you think socialist countries should ban these technologies?
  • Do you think the blockchain under capitalism makes a transition to socialism more feasible or less?
 

It's really cool that the trend is going on. It's also interesting how this seems to correlate so well with inflation in the US (ignore badly applied statistical test):

Guess that capital gotta keep expanding at all costs :)

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