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Dimensional’s Matrix Book is an annual review of global returns that highlight the power of compound investing. It’s a fascinating document: you can look up the compounded growth rate of the S&P 500 for every year going back to 1926. Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash
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Yesterday at Google I/O 2023, it was announced that Google Bard would be undergoing a massive expansion, bringing the AI chatbot experiment to 180 countries. However, what Google didn’t mention is that Bard still isn’t available in the European Union. "Google Bard won't even bother to try and comply with consumer privacy protections"
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In other words, Google is admitting that their LLC (Bard) system is incapable of securing their data. Based on Italy's recent banning of Chat GPT for similar reasons, I suspect none of these systems are capable of securing their data.
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A new experiment uses superconducting qubits to demonstrate that quantum mechanics violates what's called local realism by allowing two objects to behave as a single quantum system no matter how large the separation between them. At long last we have an answer for how Star Trek can have instantaneous communication with a space station that'll take hours to reach in a ship going warp 9.5.
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God does not only play dice with the Universe, He sometimes throws them where they can't be seen.
-- Unknown
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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But the qubits weren't separated, they were connected via a 30 meter wire cooled to a few degrees Kelvin.
So the wires you can see in old Flash Gordon serials aren't poor special effects, they're quantum communication lines.
Do I get a NoPrize for that?
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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MarkTJohnson wrote: Do I get a NoPrize for that?
No. You get a dead cat in a box. When the box arrives empty, it won't be empty.
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... or was it "Meters 30 cubits apart used to confirm Einstein was wrong" ?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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A private space station company, Vast, announced on Wednesday that it intends to launch a commercial space station as soon as August 2025. After deploying this "Haven-1" space station in low-Earth orbit, four commercial astronauts will launch to the facility on board SpaceX's Crew Dragon vehicle. This vehicle is like: What if SpaceX had a customer who had a reason to develop Dragon XL before NASA or SpaceX did?
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My only question on that design is why put it inside the F9 faring? Why not eliminate the faring and get the extra volume in the module?
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Because then they'd have to protect the entire outside against aerodynamic force on the way up. Not doing so nearly doomed Skylab.
Also unless they upgrade to a more powerful rocket it wouldn't do them much good. They're currently near the maximum reusable payload mass for F9, going from the fairings usable internal to external volume would almost double the module size. That in turn would push its mass into needing a more expensive expendable F9 or Falcon Heavy launch.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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Quote from the article: As part of Wednesday's announcement, Vast said those four crewed seats are now up for sale, as are those for a second mission that will launch no earlier than 2026.
"It's a super aggressive schedule," Jed McCaleb, the founder of Vast,
Erm....ummm....yeah I think I'll pass on this one.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Microsoft Corp said on Wednesday it will not raise salaries for full-time employees this year, citing tough economic conditions, but will continue with its bonuses, stock awards and promotions. *please don't have companies follow their lead*please don't have companies follow their lead*
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CEO: "Tough economic conditions for thee, not for me!"
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Like Tile and Apple, Google will now rely on devices owned by other people to pinpoint your missing gadgets. But the company insists privacy was at the top of its priorities. Beautiful ... unethical ... dangerous. You've turned every cellphone in Gotham into a microphone.
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Unique identifiers are considered personal data, and you are still required to have a privacy policy even when using these analytics tool. And other things you should definitely talk to a lawyer about.
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It's worse than this article indicates - cyber security researchers have proved that it's impossible to fully anonymize data.
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“It’s at least as good as our best customer service representative, and it’s probably on average better,” said Wendy's CIO Kevin Vasconi to the Wall Street Journal. After successful early tests, the fifth biggest fast food chain in the USA will start using AI chatbots to interact with drive-thru customers next month. Look, if an AI says I want nine sweet teas instead of one Diet Coke, that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make to our AI Overlords.
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At Wednesday's Google I/O conference, Google announced wide availability of its ChatGPT-like AI assistant, Bard, in over 180 countries with no waitlist. Great, let's race to the singularity so as to please our stockholders.
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A ransomware intrusion on hardware manufacturer Micro-Star International, better known as MSI, is stoking concerns of devastating supply chain attacks that could inject malicious updates that have been signed with company signing keys that are trusted by a huge base of end-user devices, a researcher said. I've got an MSI graphics card. I guess this means I can never again install new graphics drivers for this computer.
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In my case is the motherboard, it is around 2 years old and haven't installed any update, so I guess I could count me as safe (as long as they have just found it out now, but were hacked for a good while... then I could be screwed as others).
This is another proof that there is no 100% security.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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You shouldn't have issues with the graphic board as it is an nVidia (or ATI) so you'd install their drivers anyway. MSI does not provide its own drivers for graphic cards AFAIK.
Motherboards are another issue altogether, altough I never had any update for those drivers in years.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
The shortest horror story: On Error Resume Next
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Google’s I/O keynote was jam-packed with announcements, including three new Pixel devices and a bunch of new AI advancements. Now AI can harvest my data too!
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Continuing its run of ground-breaking discoveries, the James Webb Space Telescope has snapped the clearest images yet of the dusty disk around the young star Fomalhaut. If you'd known anything about the true nature of the universe, anything at all, you would have hidden from it in terror.
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Sean Ewington wrote: If you'd known anything about the true nature of the universe, anything at all, you would have hidden from it in terror answered 42.
FTFY  
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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