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Aaron 🥑🚈🚰🏀@aceckhouse
worst thing about this is that they didn't steal a more effective vaccine
The Independent @Independent
Russian spy ‘stole AstraZeneca vaccine blueprint and used it to develop Sputnik jab’ https://t.co/ltrfaP7QCs
11:31 PM · Oct 14, 2021
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Could be worse, they could have stolen Sinopharm
juan@juanbuis
students are starting to steal each other's notes with iOS 15 and it's... kind of genius
4:27 PM · Oct 14, 2021
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Unexpected upside of iOS 15 with the new telephoto lens. kids find a way!
Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
"The final solution of Taiwan question"
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1:25 AM · Oct 15, 2021
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Yikes
AK@ak92501
ADOP: Approximate Differentiable One-Pixel Point Rendering
abs: arxiv.org/abs/2110.06635
3:24 AM · Oct 14, 2021
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By the way, as one person pointed out, this is likely going to make it eventually possible to move around inside photos of places you've taken many photos of.
Daring Fireball@daringfireball
Apple Appears to Be in a Standoff With South Korea Over New App Store Regulations
daringfireball.net
Apple Appears to Be in a Standoff With South Korea Over New App Store Regulations
5:05 PM · Oct 15, 2021
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The standoff is that Apple is saying they're already complying with South Korea's new rules for apps stores, despite not having changed it's policies. Gruber compares this to the “I told them we’ve already got one” bit.
Eliezer Yudkowsky@ESYudkowsky
I will always support any proposal which ends in the human species building a vast, dangerous, inscrutably powerful artifact
Arthur B. 🌮 @ArthurB
Now's a good time to plug an awesome proposal for disposing of nuclear waste: literally, put it inside of a big tungsten ball.
The waste heats the ball from the inside, the ball melts the ground underneath it and slowly sinks to the earth's core.
https://t.co/scJD2KAljs
6:06 PM · Oct 15, 2021
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From the paper, they're proposing basketball sized SSCs, and "To answer a recurrent worry, starting a volcano requires perhaps ten orders of magnitude more energy than a capsule would contain"
