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byErrol backfiring
ary 26, 2026 @09:34AM
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Attached to: US Congress Fails to Repeal 'Kill Switch' for Cars Mandate
Greenland is fine, for now.
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byErrol backfiring
uary 20, 2026 @12:15PM
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Attached to: Europe Must Invest in Open Source AI or Cede To China, Schmidt Says
But... but... but... Europe must have a bubble too! Because otherwise, where are they going to find another excuse to burn more fossil fuels?
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byErrol backfiring
ary 19, 2026 @05:09AM
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Attached to: Bezos's Vision of Rented Cloud PCs Looks Less Far-Fetched
Sorry I have to explain the joke here. An Xstation is a graphical terminal device from the 80s. It features a monitor, keyboard, mouse, network card and graphical card. It existed because in that days hardware was expensive, and sharing RAM and processor time between multiple users was a wise idea. When Elon Musk bought twitter, the new logo closely resembled the old X logo from the Xstations. The graphical protocol is now called X11 because, well, time has moved on. X11 is now slowly replaced with Wayland on some systems. The whole X protocol is the reason that unix machines can be graphically connected to over, for example, an SSH tunnel, without any trouble.
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byErrol backfiring
anuary 14, 2026 @12:13PM
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Attached to: Bezos's Vision of Rented Cloud PCs Looks Less Far-Fetched
Given that this is called an Xstation, I would suspect Elon Musk would have come up with the idea.
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byErrol backfiring
anuary 14, 2026 @09:54AM
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Attached to: Europe is Rediscovering the Virtues of Cash
Even then, there are too many state actors who would want to disrupt internet connectivity in Europe. Keep It Simple and Stupid is actually a good strategy. Off course, it is also nice that no institution monitors everything you pay for, and can deny payments at any time.
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byErrol backfiring
anuary 14, 2026 @05:54AM
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Attached to: Doubt Cast On Discovery of Microplastics Throughout Human Body
Oh, come on. People who are referred to as bombshell even look like they are made of plastic.
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byErrol backfiring
ary 02, 2026 @04:41AM
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Attached to: Some of Your Cells Are Not Genetically Yours
If you follow some lessons in immunology (like this one), you will learn that B cells will recombine and change a selective part of their own DNA to come up with antibodies against formerly unknown substances.
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byErrol backfiring
ember 30, 2025 @06:09AM
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Attached to: Meta Just Bought Manus, an AI Startup Everyone Has Been Talking About
I heard about manure before, but not as the name of a company.
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byErrol backfiring
mber 19, 2025 @11:41AM
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Attached to: Food Becoming More Calorific But Less Nutritious Due To Rising Carbon Dioxide
For much of the world, avoiding starvation is the principle goal, so for these areas, higher crop yields are beneficial despite lower nutrient density.
As Slicher Bath remarks in his book about the agricultural history of Western Europe, "Starving people do not eat less. On the contrary." They eat anything they can. It is the nutritional value that is the problem.
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byErrol backfiring
mber 19, 2025 @06:48AM
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Attached to: Swearing Actually Seems To Make Humans Physically Stronger
No wonder Slashdot readers are such pussies. All the funny remarks translate to "Make love!" "Yes!". That is no swearing.
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byErrol backfiring
ecember 17, 2025 @05:28AM
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Attached to: Senators Count the Shady Ways Data Centers Pass Energy Costs On To Americans
Non-Disclosure Agreements are a giant red flag.Any politician who signs one must be prosecuted immediately for undermining democracy, violating transparency laws and corruption. If someone asks you to sign an NDA, you know something extremely fishy is going on.
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byErrol backfiring
ember 16, 2025 @01:05PM
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Attached to: Tech Giants Can't Agree On What To Call Their AI-Powered Glasses
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byErrol backfiring
ember 16, 2025 @07:36AM
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Attached to: PayPal Applies To Become a Bank As US Loosens Regulatory Reins
The main difference between banks and other financial institutions is that when they go bankrupt, government will take the losses. After the worst of the last crisis, it was already painfully clear that a next crisis would be an impossible burden, so be careful what you seem to care less about. This is asking, no, begging for an ugly crisis with enormous consequences.
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byErrol backfiring
mber 15, 2025 @01:30PM
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Attached to: Scientists Thought Parkinson's Was in Our Genes. It Might Be in the Water
Well yes. Scientists never thought it was a purely genetic disease. As explained by professor Sapolsky, there were a lot of ancient descriptions of all sorts of diseases, but not Parkinson's. That one has emerged since the industrial revolution and the use of pesticides. There may be a genetic component in how well you can survive the poisons causing it, but poisons were always the culprit.
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byErrol backfiring
mber 15, 2025 @06:33AM
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Attached to: Polar Bears are Rewiring Their Own Genetics to Survive a Warming Climate
Actually, some of it just might be going on.
First, "Genetics" is a bit of an undefined term. There are Genes, which code for actions (in fact proteins to be made which perform actions), and transcription factors which guide when these genes are read and therefore activated.
For example, polar bears might make more stress hormones due to the heat, which might activate some genes which would otherwise not be active.
Apart from that, re-shuffling DNA does occur in some cases. In humans, this is one of the things that enable the immune system to react to new hazardous substances.
If you are interested, Professor Robert Sapolsky has a great introduction to genetics (part 4 and 5) as part of his college in behavioural biology.
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