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brianorca , to technology in FCC slaps $300M fine on “largest illegal robocall operation” it’s ever seen

It’s not your number. It’s all the numbers.

brianorca , to showerthoughts in When I was a kid I identified old TV shows because they were black and white...

The SFX was the limitations of tools they had, (and budget) but there were a lot of aspects of set design and stunt doubles where they could get away with more on a TV show in SD compared to a movie. When HDTV started, even news shows were forced to drastically improve the quality of the set pieces and makeup because small details could now be seen.

brianorca , to technology in First U.S. nuclear reactor built from scratch in decades enters commercial operation in Georgia

But antimatter needs energy to create, probably more energy than it can produce. Unless you can find some source of it in the environment. Fusion is much more likely to be feasible.

Antimatter might make a good compact way to store energy for a starship, if it was created in a large fixed facility with access to huge power sources. But it’s not a way to generate energy by itself.

brianorca , to technology in After 9 months, the New Orleans Police Department’s use of facial recognition has resulted in zero arrests and multiple false positives

When they are trained with incentives for finding something, instead of incentives to be correct, then they will find something. Same is true for man or beast.

brianorca , (edited ) to selfhosted in How do you archive your e-mails? What format should the archive-files have? eml? mbox?

MBOX is a standard format, which is text based, (like the emails themselves are) and should be compatible across multiple email clients. It can contain entire folders.

EML is also a standard text format, but usually contains a single email in each file.

In the worst case, you can just open up either one in a text editor if you need to find something.

brianorca , to news in First room temperature and pressure superconductor discovered

Not a computer. A conductor. A superconductor is a material, a chemical. Finding the right combination of elements to make a new material with specific properties is usually called a discovery. (As there are a finite number of elements, and a finite, though large, number of ways to combine them, especially for homogenous, non biological molecules.)

Designing a process to create that material would be an invention.

brianorca , to technology in Apple Says It Will Exit The UK Market If Government Passes Update To Investigatory Powers Act

Criminals would. Laws like this disarm citizens but those who are willing to put extra effort to cover their tracks are less affected.

brianorca , to technology in Apple Says It Will Exit The UK Market If Government Passes Update To Investigatory Powers Act

Totally different kind of laws. The Canada law makes the tech companies pay for news that get from other sources. I’m not sure I agree with that link tax, but I see the reasoning. The UK law outlaws end to end encryption, which is anti consumer in my view.

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