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eirikurh | 2 years ago | on: Epicycle Clock

Also see https://dice.camp/@Sophie/110582295710095733

eirikurh | 2 years ago | on: Peter Cameron's Blog: Real-World Turing Machines?

The interesting tidbit, IMO, is that "... Sir Roger Penrose ... started off with a brief discussion of artificial intelligence; he doesn’t believe there is such a thing, and dubbed it “artificial cleverness”."

eirikurh | 3 years ago | on: Waste heat will boil the oceans in about 400 years

Sabine Hossenfelder: All power plants create waste heat that contributes to global warming. At the moment, the contribution is fairly small, but if mankind flourishes it is bound to increase and eventually it will become a problem. The only thing we an do about it is to build an air condition for the planet.

eirikurh | 3 years ago | on: The European Union’s Official Site Has a Persistent ‘Piracy’ Problem

The European Union warns that pirate sites can lead users to malware and other unwanted content. Unfortunately, the EU also has its own piracy problem; its official website continues to be exploited by bad actors to advertise piracy-related scams.

eirikurh | 3 years ago | on: Japan's hydrogen strategy does nothing for decarbonisation: study

Sabine Hossenfelder recently made a video on hydrogen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zklo4Z1SqkE

eirikurh | 3 years ago | on: What causes Alzheimer's? Scientists are rethinking the answer

From the article: "A report in the July 2020 issue of The Lancet listed the variety of known risk factors for dementia, ranging from air pollution to repetitive head trauma to systemic infections." The article doesn't mention diabetes or sugar.

eirikurh | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Migadu? Postale? Mxroute? Or any other mail services using this model?

I've used purelymail for two years and almost without problems.

eirikurh | 4 years ago | on: Google to turn on activity tracking for many users who turned it off

purelymail (https://purelymail.com/) is great! Can't recommend it enough.

eirikurh | 4 years ago | on: Purelymail – cheap, no-nonsense email

I have used purelymail for about a year, moved almost all of my correspondance to it (custom domain) and am very happy with it. Good and speedy support when needed. I recommend it.

eirikurh | 5 years ago | on: After spending $57M on Facebook ads, I was kicked off

Speculation: Could there be a connection to something similar to yesterday's story about Uber being defrauded? (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25623858)