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I've read the couple of critical responses but on merit, the message is true. Anecdotally, my wife takes hundreds of photos every month that essentially no one will ever see again.

Android has a memories feature that serves them back up to us on occasion. This is a pattern writ large for huge swaths of data.

Differences in governance or allowable access leads to mass duplication and data rot on anything remotely dynamic.


I was that kid, now I have 3 sons and I am homeschooling my oldest because he is similar. The hack is essentially to praise the work, not the outcome. On some level you have to be unfair to your kid to be fair with him.


Any non paywall version?


It appears to be a paywalled summary of an open access paper:

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-024-01518-6


Copper and copper alloys are great antiviral and antimicrobial. Why not work out the minimum deposition required to create that mechanic?


This is due to the oligodynamic effect, and silver is equally potent.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligodynamic_effect


You can't take this as authoritative but my business has a data relationship with Toyota and they have a ton of juicy telemetry data.

Their attorneys are mad protective of the PII they have. Our relationship serves the public interest. We use the data to find people with open recalls where Toyota doesn't know who the current owner is.

I say this to say that we have other OEM relationships that are far more liberal with their encumbered data. This far Toyota seems to be playing it very straight.


You seem to be suggesting that Toyota are the good guys because they collect data but don't share it.

That's not what I want! I want them not to collect it. Then I don't have to worry about what they use it for, whether they share it, or whether it will get leaked.


But will you sue them if you get hurt and you find out the part was a known failure mode and eligible for a recall?


Sure, why not?

This isn't some dichotomy: either collect data behind peoples backs, or have no way to reach out when there are recalls.

An alternative option: provide an easy, obvious way to subscribe to such notifications.


That's my point. They're likely doing it to minimize exposure risk for lawsuits.


This is somewhat reassuring, but it also makes me question what exactly they're sharing that could facilitate the service you describe.

It sounds like an interesting business though, and one of only a couple examples I can think of where telematics could be used in the public interest.


> We use the data to find people with open recalls where Toyota doesn't know who the current owner is.

Shouldnt this be able to go through the State? My state informed me of a recall on a vehicle that I bought used.


The creation of the steam turbine is also fascinating.

It's a testament to engineering that hot air engines are remotely competitive when so many of the physics line up for steam.(phase change, heat capacity, heat conductivity)

The limiting factor as always is heat transfer between the heat source and the medium. If we had better heat exchangers, the theoretical maximum of steam is still the best.


I like to make an appearance in threads in this domain and just say, yeah, it's not just possible but "fun" to put the puzzle pieces together.

It is a very tough problem to solve. Especially when you consider the richness of the datasets you use to put the pieces together.

In my experience the only effective means is to poison the data, in addition to the common sense steps mentioned here.

Poisoning a dataset means seeding a wide variety of the datasets you use to discover PII with fictional look alikes that resist debunking.

Additionally you can poison the core set if you are very clever about it.


Virtually every effective hedge against inflation is taxed heavily. There is no respite from dilution.

When you look at it from that perspective you see a systematic attack against any safe harbor.


Which, from some points of view, is the point. The government wants money to be going toward investments (real, productive kinds), not sitting around as an inflation hedge.


Real estate is the most durable investment. A plurality of wealthy people became so via real estate.

It is also reasonably resilient to inflationary dilution.

I'm fortunate to be still earning. You could spend your life building a small nest egg and paying off a home to retire in and have it just litigated right out from under you.

Your argument is "time marches on" but then what value in saving and accruing capital? It's all short sighted transactional consumerism or bust. That's no way to live.


It's not the governments job to care about that.


It’s the governments job to do literally whatever the voters want it to do.

Turns out the majority of voters are not all that interested in defending the piles of unproductive wealth.


Surprising since the lower wealth masses depend much more on unproductive wealth as their store of value (such as cash) vs the extremely wealthy that depend more on near monopoly of productive capital.

Maybe it's the minority who have tricked the majority to vote for their bidding.


At risk of Godwin's law, Hitler was elected right?

Or Ben Franklin, "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch"

Mob rule doesn't imply ethical or moral.


It very much is the government's job to deal with tragedy of the commons situations. It's arguably it's only job, outside of contract enforcement and national defense.


> It's arguably it's only job, outside of contract enforcement and national defense.

Which funnily enough are both just other forms of tragedy of the commons.


Yep you've found the debate point between minarchism and anarchism.


Municipal bonds?


Munis pay lower rates than taxable bonds so tax free status is a wash.


Munis stink compared to even moderately well managed REITs, especially in inflationary times.


I realize "speed is a feature", but it's rare when that is THE feature. :)


I love programs that minimize the trifecta of code complexity, code length, and runtime.

Ugh, such a good practice. Wish we did it more. We need more single-file, well-purposed and commented, editable and hackable libraries. :'))))


I agree, that is the core idea behind most projects we build and maintain at Unum. Otherwise it would have been impossible with just 10 devs: https://github.com/unum-cloud


Fan of the channel.


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