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New comment by alexpc201 in "Florida surgeon charged with killing man after removing liver instead of spleen"

alexpc201 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:17:58 +0000

In Argentina, a person had the wrong leg amputated. It is terrible to fall into the hands of surgeons in third world sanatoriums. https://www.lanacion.com.ar/sociedad/berazategui-le-amputaro...

New comment by alexpc201 in "Turning an iPad Pro into the Ultimate Classic Macintosh (2021)"

alexpc201 — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 22:40:10 +0000

What I’d like to use is an app just like MacPaint on the iPad, I haven’t seen anything even similar.

New comment by alexpc201 in "Tough news for our UK users"

alexpc201 — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 22:59:49 +0000

It’s a damn liability. You take a plane to New York, but for some reason, it gets emergency diverted to Heathrow, and you end up arrested.

New comment by alexpc201 in "I was a Theranos whistleblower. Here's what I think Elizabeth Holmes is up to"

alexpc201 — Fri, 16 May 2025 11:21:30 +0000

I think they will try to make this new company have some kind of success (real or fake) and then seek a pardon from Trump. I have no proof, but no doubts either.

New comment by alexpc201 in "WTF Happened in 1971? (2019)"

alexpc201 — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 18:11:43 +0000

I believe it is the most plausible explanation. Microcomponent electronics and later microprocessors made workers more productive.

New comment by alexpc201 in "OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment"

alexpc201 — Sat, 14 Dec 2024 01:57:01 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roko's_basilisk

New comment by alexpc201 in "A skeleton made from the bones of at least eight people thousands of years apart"

alexpc201 — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 10:27:30 +0000

So the assembly of the bones wasn’t during the late Neolithic? Go figure!

New comment by alexpc201 in "A skeleton made from the bones of at least eight people thousands of years apart"

alexpc201 — Sun, 10 Nov 2024 13:00:21 +0000

“Whether the assembly of the bones occurred in the late Neolithic or in the Roman period, the presence of the ‘individual’ was clearly intentional,” write the researchers.”

I would like the researchers to explain to me what hypotheses they consider to suggest that in the Neolithic they had bones from the Roman period.

New comment by alexpc201 in "Don't ever hand your phone to the cops"

alexpc201 — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 11:05:56 +0000

Never, but never, in any situation should you give a police officer a turned-on mobile phone. First, turn it off and then hand it over. It’s as simple as saying, “Hey Siri, turn off phone,” and then confirming. Once this is done, the phone is indistinguishable from a brick in terms of stored information. If you hand it over turned on but locked, there are several police devices that can unlock it and copy the information it contains.

New comment by alexpc201 in "AI-powered music scam nets musician $10M in royalties–and federal charges"

alexpc201 — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 22:44:29 +0000

Wrong by one order of magnitude. 12000 plays per day. Not so difficult.

New comment by alexpc201 in "The art of programming and why I won't use LLM"

alexpc201 — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 20:36:22 +0000

"LLM is not for me" sounds right. But, if you want to use LLM to avoid building the tedious parts of a project like the user interface, APIs, etc., and decide to code your algorithms the old-fashioned way, that's fine too.

New comment by alexpc201 in "Confessions of a Theoretical Physicist"

alexpc201 — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 13:03:41 +0000

It reminds me of the plot of the novel "The Three-Body Problem."

New comment by alexpc201 in "Confessions of a Theoretical Physicist"

alexpc201 — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 13:01:38 +0000

Most likely, the nature of consciousness and reality are rigged in such a way that we cannot use our consciousness to decipher them. Any progress in that direction is useless and, at this point, almost ridiculous.

New comment by alexpc201 in "Cryptominers made $100k from mining at an Airbnb for three weeks"

alexpc201 — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 12:24:41 +0000

Perhaps they weren't trying to steal electricity but rather avoid consuming all those kWh in the same location. If an electric company sees a similar energy consumption at a property over a considerable period, they will report it because it could be a drug plantation or an illegal mining farm (Europe). Using AirBnBs and changing locations every 15 or 30 days seems to be a solution to that problem.

New comment by alexpc201 in "Mass tourism protesters squirt water at Barcelona tourists"

alexpc201 — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 21:25:50 +0000

The Catalans worked for 30 years to position Barcelona as a premium tourist destination, with advertisements even on buses in London, only to now intimidate tourists by splashing them with water and blaming them for all their problems.

New comment by alexpc201 in "Second Canadian scientist alleges brain illness investigation was shut down"

alexpc201 — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 00:52:14 +0000

Most probably: https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Colm-Kelleher/dp/0743499352

New comment by alexpc201 in "Starlink Mini brings space internet to backpackers"

alexpc201 — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 12:11:35 +0000

Becomes abstract. In the short term, you will be able to use your iPhone 17 to utilize Starlink satellites. They have already done tests with the iPhone 15.

New comment by alexpc201 in "Nobody knows what's going on"

alexpc201 — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 05:07:55 +0000

It's like thinking about how stupid the average person is and then realizing that half of humanity is even stupider.

New comment by alexpc201 in "An Interview with Lola De La Mata about tinnitus"

alexpc201 — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 21:55:06 +0000

I think it was Hugo Zucarelli, the inventor of Holophonics, the recording system used for albums by Roger Waters and Pink Floyd, who discovered that the human ear generates a sound of a specific frequency which it uses through interference to discern the spatial location of a sound source. This has always been a mystery as to how, besides knowing if a sound is to our left or right, we can also tell if it comes from behind or in front of us, above or below us, which should be impossible with just two ears on the sides of our head.

New comment by alexpc201 in "Squatting in Spain: Understanding Spain's "okupas" problem"

alexpc201 — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 20:20:36 +0000

And millions of euros to Securitas, Prosegur et al.