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Hmm not sure what you're referring exactly in that article... maybe this (serious question)?

Just a few weeks ago, he said that he must remain in power. Why? In order to prevent a Palestinian state. Only he, so he said, can do that.

So this became his main electoral campaign slogan: I will prevent a Palestinian state.

Didn't they start as a non-profit? But I guess, as someone I know used to say, there's one god everybody worships: the money god.

Technically, no, iRobot and Amazon "mutually agreed" to terminate the deal, most likely cause the EU probably wasn't going to approve, but:

1. The EU was set to deliberate in mid Feb, so they didn't (yet)
2. It's also possible that Amazon used the likely rejection of the EU as an excuse to back out of a deal they didn't want anymore

I don't know which one it is, but if Amazon wanted to close, they would've been willing to make concessions to the EU to get their approval, rather than backing out.

My understanding is that this dialog won't appear if you update apps from f-droid or other 3rd party store, but only if:

1. The app was installed from one store (or just the play store, not sure), and
2. You are now trying to update the app by downloading an apk from somewhere else (e.g. a browser)

That would normally fail because the signatures don't match, but I guess there are places, like apkmirror, where you can find apks that are signed by the original developer (and so, they are authentic and 100% safe), but then google will give you a warning that you might not receive updates and such.

At least, that's my understanding. A tiny bit annoying, but not a big deal.

There are rumors that it could come without a steering wheel or any pedals to lower costs

Ehm what? Full self driving (and self crashing)??

Said another way: if a company offering a password manager can recover all your passwords with you just clicking "forgot password", that means they can read your passwords in plain text (and so can hackers if the company gets hacked).

Seems like we'd need both a way to block an instance posts only, and a way to block all posts, comments and users from an instance. Is it too much to ask? Did somebody open a feature request in github already (and has it been accepted or ignored)?

Yes, there are a lot of legitimate users for this AI technology, and writing a meaningful product listing title from (say) a longer product description, maybe in a different language, seems fine to me. Even using trademarked names could be ok, if the product sold has them (e.g. "mini pc with Intel (tm) processor").

The fact that they are generated and used without anybody even looking at them is highly suspicions, of course...

I just checked amazon and searching "OpenAI policy" or anything the like yields no results. I guess they got taken down?

One thing that's sure to make things worse is to tell an angry person to "calm down"...

I see, thanks for the explanation. Yeah, burner phone, or I guess, have a "phone" using only wifi and use some secure messenger app to call & text (I want to say Signal, but that requires a phone number...), for the truly paranoid.

I think the whole premise of the question is: trump somehow seized power and become the "supreme leader for life", democracy is now dead, elections are a sham just like (russia/china/iran/your favorite autocratic nation), so this is exactly the kind of dystopian future where Hunger Games were set. He just made Trump be the ruler.

I read the article but I must've missed something: basically it's saying if I go to another country and use my phone or device in roaming, my home telecom operator, and so my home country, can track me via the GSM signaling protocol. This is pretty much expected, so I don't see the big deal, but ...

Two questions:

1. Can a third country not related to my home country or the country I'm visiting track me? the article uses the example of Saudi Arabia tracking saudi citizens abroad, which is troubling but unsurprising. If an unrelated third party / country could track, that's more interesting
2. Can't I just avoid this by simply buying a local prepaid SIM card when traveling? The article says "there's not much you can do about this" but if I were to buy a local SIM card, then I'm not roaming.

That's because you're on the internet, and nuance doesn't exist. It requires thinking, which is hard.

Note: I don't know JP and don't have an opinion on him (yet). I'm responding only to the question in the title.

GPT4 is pulling these numbers out of its ... I mean, out of thin air ;)

phew... the human race is safe (for now) 😅

The probability of getting both right the first time is easy: 0.250.25 = 0.625 or 6.25%

The probability of getting exactly one right is: either you get the 1st one right and miss the second, or vice versa. Thats 0.250.75 + 0.750.25 = 0.50.75 = 0.375 or 37.5%, so the probability of getting at least 50% is 0.375 + 0.0625 = 0.4375 or 43.75%, even without retries, so pretty good odds. The probability of missing both is 1 - 0.4375 = 0.5625 (or 0.750.75).

When you retry, there's two possibilities:

1. You missed both: now your probability of getting at least one of them right is: (1/3)(1/3) + 2(1/3)(2/3) =~ 55.55%
2. You got only one wrong: you just need to guess the other, so it's 100% for you to get at least one, and 1/3 (33.33%) to get both

So, including a retry, you either:

1. Guess them both the first try: 0.0625 or 6.25%
2. Guess one of them, then guess both: 0.375(1/3) = 0.125
3. Guess one of them, then still guess only one: 0.375(2/3) = 0.25 or 25%
4. Guess none first, then guess one: 0.56252(1/3)(2/3) = 0.25 or 25%
5. Guess none first, then guess both: 0.5625(1/3)(1/3) = 0.0625 or 6.25%
6. Guess none, then still guess none: 0.5625(2/3)(2/3) = 0.25 or 25%

So, probability of a passing grade is 75%. Not a very good test if it's so easy to pass by random guessing ;)

But laws respecting speech are not nearly as liberal.

Then I'm not sure if it would be their best bet ... Wikipedia relies on free speech on many levels.