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Where opinion is being manipulated by the U.S. security/military complex.

The study is not by him. I wasn't even aware who hosted it; I only found this link somewhere on the web and thought it might be relevant.

You're under the impression the first thing that would go in such a scenario would be the life-saving stuff?

I think once we admit nature to be more important than humans, we will quickly slip on the slope and reduce consumption too far. Politics is largely dumb, so the risk is there. What you call leisure and dispensable is someone else's existence (e.g. the tourism industry). Central redistribution is hard and mostly does not work and gets abused. There are few historical examples in which it worked well and many in which it has failed.

So? Reducing emissions in Germany is still a drop in the bucket.

40% of CP investigations in Germany are started against minors

This in particular seems like such a silly outcome of over-regulation and bureaucracy. Amazing. Research suggests most child sexual abuse does not have much of a long-term effect at all:

https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/wp-content/uploads/A-replicatio...

This (of course!) does not mean it is good or should be done, but it suggests this is not an urgent issue, certainly not one that can justify abolishing privacy, especially when these measures only catch the small fish, not the large trafficking rings who will probably switch to different means of communication once theirs gets compromised.

Unfortunately you are wrapping it in delusional hysteria such as "you will die of a horrible death from an infection without painkillers". So you're getting down voted because you are completely ignoring how things such as subsidies work.

Are you denying that reducing consumption drastically increase the chances of such a scenario? Of course what I wrote is only an illustrating, but likely plausible scenario, one of many ways in which it will increase ecological harshness.

EU's and Germany's emissions are negligible anyhow (9% and 2%, respectively). It's all about the U.S. and China (and maybe India) at this point, especially the latter two that have the strongest increase in emissions. There is no point in inflicting arguably some of the worst politicians in history on these relatively small European nations. They should rather be investing in building a strong workforce and military that can rebuild after storms. The fact that this is not being discussed openly is deeply suspicious.

The propaganda and media cooptation is just staggering. It's extremely suspicious that very little attention is paid to the fact that reducing consumption will likely increase poverty. If you trace, for example, the supply chain of some medicine you might use, or might depend on in future: The machinery, chemical refinery, transport, sourcing or resources, management, markets, and infrastructure below all that. All of this will get orders of magnitude more expensive if we reduce carbon emissions. You will not be able to afford medicine if you need it, and possibly die of a horrible death, e.g. from an infection and without painkillers. In the meanwhile, anyone raising these issues is defamed as climate change denier.

I dearly hope the Greens will not win. Reducing consumption is an extremely tricky problem, and likely unfeasible without creating large amounts of poverty. I'd rather live in a rich, powerful nation with strong workforce and military rebuilding after each storm than being stripped my last rights and eating worms while a tiny elite still enjoying the freedoms we once had. Please do not fall for the propaganda.

Edward Snowden's revelations provide very solid evidence that what can be done is being done.

We might as well have to accept that there is no solution to this problem.

Because Western imperialism is very likely only a secondary cause, if any. You see strong condemnation of sodomy all across Sub-Saharan Africa, Middle East and South Asia, with an extremely wide variety of religious and practical (STD prevention) underlying motivations, even in regions without any history of imperialist occupation, and such cultural norms are stronger in regions with higher birth rates, higher infectious disease death rates and lower hygiene standards.

When you look at rare events, then it is easy to get a quadrupling (or more) due to tail effects.

It looks like AppLocker is available in Windows Pro, however not configurable via GPOs: https://msendpointmgr.com/2020/09/20/does-applocker-work-in-...

Is anyone aware of a tool that simplifies setting up AppLocker? I simply would like to whitelist already installed programs and block everything else, ideally without configuring anything.

Does this require Windows Enterprise/Education?

This one?

https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95

Yeah, it's kinda embarrassing and funny at the same time how this study is likely saying more about Mensa members than about high IQ people in general.

Lol, why is my comment down here with 7 upvotes.

tl;dr: Don't use batch norm for preventing exploding gradients but adaptive gradient thresholds.

For this they compute the Frobenius norm (square root of the sum of squares) of the weight layer and its gradient and take the ratio of these as clipping threshold.

That saves the meta search for the optimal threshold but also is better than a fixed threshold could ever be.

Very simple idea.

Don't expect support if you do not pay.

Though CSV is an extremely common format. Even if does not outperform in every regard, it is still astonishing how close it gets.

It amazes me how an open source project can outperform a 40 year old multi-billion dollar app. I think this points to major corruption and incompetence as a result of market monopolization.

Because it isn't open source.

And even if it was causal, you'd still need to investigate what it is on social media that causes misery, e.g. ideologies/misinformation, social comparison/envy, cyber-bullying, addiction, bad news/sensationalism or echo chambers.

Politics is a means to an end. Investigating power abuse through one's own technology would be self-harm from the POV of a mega cooperation.

Good image dithering algorithms do maintain sharp features like edges.

tl;dl:

* Sex differences in general intelligence are small, so the F>M achievement gap in higher education likely is not explained by women being smarter.

* The gap emerges already in elementary school and the gap in elementary school is predictive of performance in higher education.

* The gap in elementary school is not new, and can likely be attributed to females maturing earlier in their attention skills and being less unruly.

* So girls/women may have always been more fit for school, but they lacked incentives to make something of themselves and were held back by their biology in earlier times.

* What is new is a strong incentive for girls to succeed in school due to the economic opportunities and reduced investment in the children and birth (e.g. birth control).

* The gap mainly exists in lower-to-middle income families, not so much higher income, so a good environment can presumably aid boys to be more focused, or boys may be more sensitive to a poor environment.

* It concludes with anecdotes by a teacher about how a return to more manly competition may not actually be helpful for boys as it discourages slow learners. Rather, boys should be more supported, and they need to get over the stereotype that nerdiness and conscientiousness is for the girls. Plus the topic of boys falling behind should not be a taboo.

Most areas of the brain are rather homogenous. They've done experiments rewiring inputs going to the visual cortex to the auditive cortex in rodents and they could see. Further, artificial neural nets demonstrate that extremely simple repetitive structures can implement a vast function space simply by training them by stochastic gradient descent. The most complex structures in the brain may be hardwired social behaviors, including facial expression and recognition, but these may not be necessary for the intelligence part as individuals strongly impaired in hardwired social behavior (autists) are sometimes capable of complex thought.

Is there a full list of the vulnerable images?

Presumably images from reputable vendors like alpine:latest and openjdk:jre-alpine are OK?

Usually, scientists are extremely careful with extrapolation, the big exception being the big bang, because it sells, I guess, and because it is hard, if not impossible, to verify.