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"researched the use of blockchain in #humanitarian work, says that #blockchain technologies... offer no obvious advantages over other tools organizations could use, such as an existing payments system or another #database tool. “There’s no proven advantage that it’s cheaper or better,” he says. “The way it’s been presented is this #tech solutionist approach that has been proven over and over again to not have any substantial impact in reality”"
wired.com/story/trump-administ

#Trump#Coup#USPol
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The slowest part is traversing NAS file system.
Writing all the interesting metadata to a csv.

Oh hey, I've got to find distinct paths by same artist, title, album_title. *groan* Well, fine. I need a little #database. Fine, let's expand this learning #duckdb.

Ah, the riveting world of #database transactions! 🤓 Watch as an entire article bravely explores the mind-blowing concept that #transactions are limited by #disk writes, only to conclude that, shockingly, disk #speed matters. Because what else would you do with your day in 2020 besides counting fsyncs? 🙄📉
sirupsen.com/napkin/problem-10 #tech #insights #fsyncs #HackerNews #ngated

sirupsen.comMySQL transactions per second vs fsyncs per second

»Facial Recognition Company Clearview Attempted to Buy Social Security Numbers and Mugshots for its Database:
Clearview AI spent nearly a million dollars in a bid to purchase “690 million arrest records and 390 million arrest photos” from all 50 states, court records reveal.«

What does this have to do with intelligence if the dasts are clearly clearly visible? (just a retired question.)

😬 404media.co/facial-recognition

404 Media · Facial Recognition Company Clearview Attempted to Buy Social Security Numbers and Mugshots for its DatabaseClearview AI spent nearly a million dollars in a bid to purchase “690 million arrest records and 390 million arrest photos” from all 50 states, court records reveal.

🚢 𝗔𝗜𝗦 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗮 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝗡𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 (𝗙𝗡𝗕-𝗨𝗣𝗖) 🚢 és una bases de dades en #accésobert que proporciona dades AIS recopilades per les antenes de la #FNB-UPC. Accés: https://f.mtr.cool/clzbhdieyl #Database #AIS #maritimetraffic