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heronymus | 7 years ago | on: Twitter user hacks 50k printers to tell people to subscribe to PewDiePie

Exactly that! When I was living on the street, we used to call the fire "stoneage-tv". Because the human brains have such a long history of staring "into" the fire, I have the mild suspicion, that reading on e-ink displays without a backlight might make it less likely to get lost in thoughts, than when staring on a "glowing" screen. Unfortunately the only competetive screens are still rather expensive (paperlike)..

..damn, I got lost in offtopic thoughts again! ; )

heronymus | 7 years ago | on: Slow Software

I think it means workers who, for example, climb on industrial chimneys for maintenance.

heronymus | 7 years ago | on: Generating custom photo-realistic faces using AI

That's not even far fetched, the ever expanding possibilities of targeting individuals through the big data evolution, will clearly lead to some nightmare like this. My hope is that capitalism will be rendered obsolete through cultural and technological progress, before we arrive there. Stuff like this always reminds me on YTCracker's cyberpunk Album "Introducing Neals"

"...big data and your love live after this..."

https://ytcracker.bandcamp.com/album/introducing-neals

heronymus | 7 years ago | on: So You Want to Open a Small Press Bookstore/Artist-Run Space? A Cautionary Tale

Not a native speaker, I don't understand the meaning of "filled up urns for meeting rooms"?

heronymus | 7 years ago | on: Oil droplets guided by pilot waves do not give rise to double-slit interference

>This is discussed in the article; the de Broglie-Bohm interpretation relies on a global pilot wave, which has non-locality issues that pilot wave theory hoped to avoid.

Isn't it the other way round? Pilot-Wave theory having issues with non-locality that de Broglie-Bohm hoped to avoid?

heronymus | 7 years ago | on: Bytedance said to be valued at over $75B in new round

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sed_Hbb5dmw

heronymus | 7 years ago | on: Inverse-T History (2009)

Nice, thank you, I like the site and really enjoyed reading this.

(written on my Thinkpad, which has a "real" keyboard) ; )

heronymus | 7 years ago | on: Link Between Alzheimer’s and Herpes

The first link I found was this:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8327020

It seems to be plausible, that by adapting a healthy diet, at least the risk can be lowered and the onset delayed.

But my impression is, that a lot of factors, like poison from the environment (not only food and water, but also through the air) in combination with deseases, allergies and maybe medications etc, come together with genetic preconditions.