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Gene-drive technology could alter entire species, help eliminate malaria and prevent extinctions, but assessing the risks is difficult
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Multiple vulnerabilities discovered in TikTok enabling sending arbitrary links through SMS, exposing private account data, and more
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UrbanFootprint: A SimCity-like tool that lets urban planners see the potential impact of their ideas
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Fantasy Flight Games appears to have laid off at least ten staff, and is shutting down Fantasy Flight Interactive
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OldTimeyComputerShow: 24/7 of retro computer and gaming tv programs
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Would you eat lab grown human meat?
This question popped up between my friends and I when we were discussing the possibilities of lab grown meat. When discussing lab grown meat, one of the arguments for it is that it is far more...
This question popped up between my friends and I when we were discussing the possibilities of lab grown meat. When discussing lab grown meat, one of the arguments for it is that it is far more ethical to consume as it didn't originate from a living, conscious being. But if you replace the meat being grown in a lab to human meat rather than fish or beef, is it still less ethical? Or is it something that will be seen as incredibly taboo to the point where it should be outlawed?
I would be curious to read your thoughts and points of view on this!
For me, it's going to be a hard no that it shouldn't it be done. But to be honest, I feel like my feelings regarding it come from an emotional perspective rather than a logical one.
Edit: Let's throw in lab grown human organs as well. Say these are the organs that aren't suitable for transplant, but are perfectly edible.
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Trump backs away from further military conflict with Iran
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What have you been watching / reading this week? (Anime/Manga)
What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was...
What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was cool, something that was bad, ask for recommendations, or anything else you can think of.
If you want to, feel free to find the thing you're talking about and link to its pages on Anilist, MAL, or any other database you use!
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Billionaire’s company in talks to buy electric grid on Lanai
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Why the simple life is not just beautiful, it’s necessary
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What programming/technical projects have you been working on?
This is a recurring post to discuss programming or other technical projects that we've been working on. Tell us about one of your recent projects, either at work or personal projects. What's...
This is a recurring post to discuss programming or other technical projects that we've been working on. Tell us about one of your recent projects, either at work or personal projects. What's interesting about it? Are you having trouble with anything?
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Sonos, squeezed by the tech giants, sues Google
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New electric car sales in Norway rose by a third last year amid soaring demand for Tesla's vehicles – but the company will face a more competitive market in 2020
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I’ve studied the ‘weirdos’ Dominic Cummings is talking about – I’m not sure he really understands who they are
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Report from the Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) has called on Denmark to improve conditions in two centres where migrants are detained
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Learning about work ethic from my high school driving instructor
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Göteborg Film Festival to kick off gender-balanced programme with Maria Bäck’s Swedish drama 'Psychosis In Stockholm'
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A world without pain
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Ukranian Boeing 737-800 plane with 176 people on board crashes near Tehran, Iran with no survivors
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Are there any personalized recommendation engines/sites that you trust?
In the 2000s I used to use a service called last.fm (originally called Audioscrobbler) that would track the music I listened to and give me recommendations based on that. It was able to give me...
In the 2000s I used to use a service called last.fm (originally called Audioscrobbler) that would track the music I listened to and give me recommendations based on that. It was able to give me some really great personalized suggestions, but that came at the expense of me handing over significant amounts of personal data.
In prioritizing privacy, I feel like I've stepped away from a lot of the big recommendation engines because they're tied to data-hungry companies I am in the process of disengaging with (e.g. Goodreads is owned by Amazon). I can still find stuff I like, but it's often the result of manual searching that turns up popular recommendations that work for me, rather than less well-known or acutely relevant things. last.fm was good at giving me less "obvious" recommendations and would find music I was unlikely to find on my own. I want that, but for all of my media: books, movies, etc.
There's a second concern in that I also feel like I can't trust platforms like Netflix, who seem to prioritize their content over that of other studios. Their recommendations feel weighted in their favor, not mine.
What I want is an impartial recommendation engine that gives me high quality personalized suggestions without a huge privacy cost.1 Is this a pipe dream, or are there examples of this kind of thing out there?
1. I don't mind handing over some of my specific interest data in order to get good recommendations for myself and help a site's algorithms cater to others, as I get that's how these things work. I just don't like the idea of my interests being even more data for a company that already has thousands of intimate data points on me.
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Photographer documents a friendship between a grey wolf and a brown bear
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The replication crisis of scientific papers and why it's happening
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IRGC: Missile attack on US base in Iraq is revenge for Qasem Soleimani killing
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Hubble surveys huge spiral galaxy UGC 2885, 2.5 times wider than Milky Way and containing ten times as many stars
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A history of buying books onto the bestseller list
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Major fire at Stavanger airport on Norway's west coast destroyed hundreds of cars, grounded air traffic and led to the evacuation of the facilities
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A microbial map of the city – Boston, USA
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Nipsey Hussle was a bookworm. Now Black men are finding inspiration in what he read
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State of the World 2020: Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowski
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The parable of the pebbles
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Steam 2020 Lunar New Year Sale announced to be from Jan 23 to Jan 27
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Firefox 72.0 release notes
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Major League Baseball is discussing on-field technology for communicating pitch calls to prevent sign stealing
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Finalists announced for 2020 Independent Games Festival awards
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Play Chess against GPT-2
@theshawwn: I am preparing to release a notebook where you can play chess vs GPT-2. If anyone wants to help beta test it: 1. visit https://t.co/CpWrFvtnY2 2. open in playground mode 3. click Runtime -> Run All 4. Scroll to the bottommost cell and wait 6 minutes If you get stuck, tell me.
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Fortnightly Programming Q&A Thread
General Programming Q&A thread! Ask any questions about programming, answer the questions of other users, or post suggestions for future threads. Don't forget to format your code using the triple...
General Programming Q&A thread! Ask any questions about programming, answer the questions of other users, or post suggestions for future threads.
Don't forget to format your code using the triple backticks or tildes:
Here is my schema: ```sql CREATE TABLE article_to_warehouse ( article_id INTEGER , warehouse_id INTEGER ) ; ``` How do I add a `UNIQUE` constraint?9 votes -
Smaller HTML Payloads with Service Workers
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The tragedy of art’s greatest supermodel
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Bjarke Ingels Group and WXY reimagine downtown Brooklyn
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Eldren - We Just Want the World (2018)
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TV Tuesdays Free Talk
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here. Please just try to provide fair warning of...
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.
Please just try to provide fair warning of spoilers if you can.
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How valuing productivity, not profession, could reduce US inequality
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How elite professions create inequality
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How ride-hail companies can help, not hurt, cities
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What are some good idle/incremental games?
I get heavily into Universal Paperclips about a year ago, it really just scratched a particular itch in my mind. It was particularly nice to be able to play it at work and not need to worry about...
I get heavily into Universal Paperclips about a year ago, it really just scratched a particular itch in my mind. It was particularly nice to be able to play it at work and not need to worry about it being open 100% of the time!
What are your recommendations for similar idle/incremental games?
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Alienware’s Concept UFO prototype imagines a gaming PC that’s shaped like a Nintendo Switch
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How climate change threatens Iceland's iconic puffins – and the community that has gone from hunting and eating them, to rescuing them
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India and Pakistan: A continuing story
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Mysterious disappearance of Greenland's medieval Norse society in the 15th century came after walruses were hunted almost to extinction, researchers have said
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