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Is there any full genome sequencing company which doesn't keep dna results associated with user name? ie. strong privacy guarantees

I thought they all gave you the option to delete your data? That's effectively the same.

Big companies that have a legal team and operate in the EU generally do honour deletion requests - I have worked with/for some and a big part of the system architecture usually revolves around being able to be sure that deleted data is erased even from backups within 30/60/90 days.

Smaller companies, all bets are off - good chance your data is sitting on a dusty hard drive/tape backup or in some 'data_extract_test_2023.tgz' file in an S3 bucket.


I requested deletion, but I have no faith whatsoever that it was honored.

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The problem is how much of your resources and time right now will you spend "prepping" for that "no matter how slim" chance in the future.

Its like working out in the gym - if you see it as a chore and a must, it is or becomes painful very quickly. If you make it fun and self-motivating (and ie get into hiking and camping in the wilderness, or practice shooting on targets, or training martial arts, some people really enjoy gardening and so on), the time is not wasted but enjoyed.

But I agree thats hardly a mindset of typical US redneck prepper. Although most of them live in rural areas and at least some hunting skills are sort of essential to cut costs.


> hunting skills are sort of essential to cut costs.

That's the first time I have heard of marauding post-apocalyptic biker gangs being called "costs"!


Depends if Cursor / Copilot are using Zero Data Retention API or not.

or 8+ years


Their goal is for forever+ years.

Shit needs to get ugly fast enough to make the masses take notice or they may just get their way.


He will already have serves his second (and therefore last) term, or what do you mean?



Huh, that page actually seems to admit that the third term is not valid:

> Rewrite the rules with the Trump 2028 high crown hat.

Or perhaps I misunderstand what they mean with "rewrite the rules".


They know it's not valid. That's why they want to rewrite the rules.


Sure, but it’s still couched in legal theory that seeks to legitimize it. That phrasing suggests the rules need to be changed to legitimize it, which tracks with my understanding but not the rhetoric.


I find it unlikely but…

Much of my extended family would absolutely join a civil war on side Trump to get him into a permanent position of power if given the opportunity. Some of them are in the military. So it’s not unreasonable by world history standards that he could get a subset of the military on his side in a coup scenario.

I think people in large urban centers or outside of the US don’t realize how much certain parts of the country truly worship him above anything else. I know many people like this, I have to see them at family events, so you can’t tell me it’s an exaggeration. I’m not sure there are enough to do anything substantial, but the seeds are there.


Yeah the amount of people I heard praising God when he was elected was disturbing. People literally believe he is a messiah. It's terrifying.


I hope they realize how profoundly un-American it would be to fight a civil war to install a king/dictator in power.


They don’t/won’t.


He has spoken repeatedly about running for a third term.


You do realize that the last time he was voted out an angry crowd literally stormed the capitol to overturn the election? What more can they do with better preparation?


Trump has repeatedly asserted he wants to run for a "third term" and his base worship him.

His electorate's beliefs are whatever he tells them they are. The same is true for the Republican Party. Trump is effectively free to ignore the constitution without consequence.


I took it to mean whoever succeeds him could be just as bad.


You are assuming Trump will step down?

You are quite naive, aren't you?

Martial law will be declared, for whatever reason they can come up with. Maybe the "invasion" excuse again, maybe Greenland, maybe Canada, maybe Mexico. But one thing is sure: Trump will be the last president of this democracy iteration.


Text prompts are very short now, but that can quickly change if prompt following improves.

Software Engineers bring their vision to life through the source code they input to produce software, systems, video games, ...


Hands in Winning entry in "Not the Bees" are very unlike any driver. I wouldn't count it as a pass.


I hate to say it but I feel like as a result of staring at so many equivalents of Tyrone Rugen since the dark ages of Stable Diffusion 1.5 - I literally DID NOT EVEN notice that until you called it out. The training data in my wetware has been corrupted.


More difficult examples:

- wine glass that is full to the edge with wine (ie. not half full)

- wrist watch not showing V (hands at 10 and 2 o'clock)

- 9 step IKEA shelf assembly instruction diagram

- any kind of gymnastics / sport acro


What's the reason to test the "not showing ..."? I've never seen anyone make that kind of request in real life. They ask for what they actually want instead. You'd ask for a clock showing 3:25 rather than "not 10:10".

I mean, it's a fun edge case, but I'm practice - does it matter?


Problem is that watchmakers always set the watches to show V with clock hands when they market their watches. This causes a very strong bias in image generation models, making it very difficult for them to generate watch that shows any other time, even if user requests it.


> I mean, it's a fun edge case, but I'm practice - does it matter?

*in practice, not I'm practice. (I swear I have a point, I'm not being needlessly pedantic.) In English, in images, mistakes stick out. Thus negative prompts are used a lot for iterative image generation. Even when you're working with a human graphics designer, you may not know what exactly you want, but you know that you don't want (some aspect of) the image in front of you.

Ie: "Not that", for varying values of "that".


> Thus negative prompts are used a lot for iterative image generation.

Are they still? The negative keywords were popular in SD era. The negative prompt was popular with later models in advanced tools. But modern iterations look different - the models capable of editing are perfectly fine with processing the previous image with a prompt "remove the elephant" or "make the clock show a different time". Are the negative parts in the initial prompt still actually used in iteration?


Sponsored sections are baked into video and very easy to skip.

Unlike platform ads which disable video control while the ad is playing.


Aider wastes tokens like crazy.


In which cases?


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