2023-05-04

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Simulation of the Earth’s mobile radio-leakage as seen from nearby stars

Our preliminary results demonstrate that the peak power leaking into space from mobile towers is ∼4GW.

We demonstrate that the mobile tower leakage is periodic, direction dependent, and could not currently be detected by a nearby civilization located within 10 light-years of the Earth, using instrumentation with a sensitivity similar to the Green Bank Telescope.

The money spent on lotteries doesn’t go to the park | Hacker News
Nashville Shooter Manifesto Placed In Secure Crate Alongside Motive For Vegas Shooting, Epstein Client List, Ark of The Covenant.
Land Ownership Makes No Sense
US workers deserve a break. It’s time for a 32-hour working week
Why Silicon Valley is bringing eugenics back

One of the problems with his narrative is that the global population is growing — it hit 8 billion people last year — as is the US population, though the rates of growth are slowing. Musk, however, acts as though we’re already in a state of decline, which suggests he’s more concerned with the growth rate of particular segments of the population than the population as a whole — as his concern about the procreation of “smart” people suggests.

(1950, PDF) Prediction and Entropy of Printed English – Claude Shannon
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Scaling up the Prime Video audio/video monitoring service and reducing costs | Hacker News

"we went back to basics and stopped using needless expensive AWS stuff that caused us to completely over architect our application and the results were much better".

Court: Man took leaf blower so brazenly, it wasn't burglary

the evidence “utterly failed to establish” that Bertram engaged in any “secret, sly, or clandestine conduct,” which must be proven to convict someone of burglary. With Wednesday's decision, the court also vacated an 8- to 12-year prison sentence that had been given to Bertram. The justices also vacated a 491-day sentence Bertram received for violating his probation in an unrelated case. They noted a prison term for violating probation can only be imposed for committing a felony, and in this case that matter was vacated.
The Untold Story of the Boldest Supply-Chain Hack Ever | Hacker News

the article repeatedly insinuates that the attack was traced to the Russian government, in fact it says it so often a casual reader could be forgiven for thinking they had proof. But a careful reading shows that they have absolutely no idea who did the SolarWinds hack. The link to the SVR is simply that Kevin Mandia has a "hunch" based on "pattern recognition" from his work in the 1990s. Not only is no proof presented, they don't even have anything that could be called evidence.

Writeups of hacks are always like this nowadays. It's the Russians. How do we know it's not the Chinese, or the Americans, or the British? We don't but if we say it's the Russians everyone will be on our side, so let's roll with that.

Buying a Coal Mine Gets Easier!

The article does a pretty good job of explaining conservation leases but it’s hilarious how the author reflexively labels PERC a right-wing think tank with deep ties to fossil fuels that supports “free market environmentalism” in scare quotes and never feels the need to resolve this with their support of conservation leases. Blank out, as Ayn Rand would say.
The thinking error that makes people susceptible to climate change denial