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Google Delists Sites Providing DIY Hormone Therapy at Behest of UK Government https://www.404media.co/google-delists-sites-providing-diy-hormone-therapy-at-behest-of-uk-government/

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Google Maps emailed me with early access to its automated venue suggestions (branded ‘AI’).
So I asked for wheelchair accessible restaurants within a mile.
It offered four options with the nearest ~3 miles away, the fourth ~18 miles away. I know at least one of them is wrong about wheelchair access. Each is a regional / national chain.
While Google Maps supposedly tracks wheelchair access as reported by users, it seemed to go off user reviews. And it did so poor…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02089 has been replaced.
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Nonlinear Stability of Black Holes with a Stable Light Ring
Recently, ultracompact objects have been found to be susceptible to a new nonlinear instability, known as the light-ring instability, triggered by stable light rings. This discovery raises concerns about the viability of these objects as alternatives to black holes. In this work, we investigate the presence of the light-ring instability in scalarized Reissner-Nordström black holes, which have been previously shown to admit stable light rings. We employ fully nonlinear numerical evolutions of b…

Google Delists Sites Providing DIY Hormone Therapy at Behest of UK Government https://www.404media.co/google-delists-sites-providing-diy-hormone-therapy-at-behest-of-uk-government/

Google Delists Sites Providing DIY Hormone Therapy at Behest of UK Government
“In the short term, they will be left with no healthcare at all. However, they will find alternatives, as they always have.”

Gack, this story about Google apparently laying off YouTube Music employees who were trying to unionize? (Haven’t seen any reported/verified coverage yet, but watching.)
Long time YTM customer here. Initial feeling is that this is unacceptable and I guess I’m looking for streaming alternatives?
#YouTubeMusic #Google

This https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.00379 has been replaced.
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Outstanding: A Multi-Perspective Travel Approach for Virtual Reality Games
In virtual reality games, players dive into fictional environments and can experience a compelling and immersive world. State-of-the-art VR systems allow for natural and intuitive navigation through physical walking. However, the tracking space is still limited, and viable alternatives are required to reach further virtual destinations. Our work focuses on the exploration of vast open worlds - an area where existing local navigation approaches such as the arc-based teleport are not ideally suit…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.05062 has been replaced.
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On Locally Rationalizable Social Choice Functions
We consider a notion of rationalizability, where the rationalizing relation may depend on the set of feasible alternatives. More precisely, we say that a choice function is locally rationalizable if it is rationalized by a family of rationalizing relations such that a strict preference between two alternatives in some feasible set is preserved when removing other alternatives. Tyson (2008) has shown that a choice function is locally rationalizable if and only if it satisfies Sen's $γ$. We expa…

If anyone has recommendations for alternatives to Google Suite please let me know!

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.08031 has been replaced.
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United for Change: Deliberative Coalition Formation to Change the Status Quo
We study a setting in which a community wishes to identify a strongly supported proposal from a space of alternatives, in order to change the status quo. We describe a deliberation process in which agents dynamically form coalitions around proposals that they prefer over the status quo. We formulate conditions on the space of proposals and on the ways in which coalitions are formed that guarantee deliberation to succeed, that is, to terminate by identifying a proposal with the largest possible …

Ils sont quand même fort chez google quand, après la présentation de Macron (qu'il a mis sur youtube malgré son discours contraire), Youtube m'offre en prochaine video Bardella de l'extrême droite anti-européen qui veut supprimer l'alloc des parents qui ont perdu le contrôle de leur adolescent.
Quand? Quand est-ce que les pouvoirs publiques vont apprendre Š ne pas utiliser ces plateformes américains pour les choses sérieuses? Il y a tant d'alternatives disponibles!…

A suggestion for Google and the app store. When a person types in a specific word or phrase and you find no matches say so, then present alternatives. Wanted to know if Geany or RUST was there. Presented with a lot of apps, but no Geany or RUST.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.07324 has been replaced.
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Alternatives for the $q$-matroid axioms of independent spaces, bases, and spanning spaces
It is well known that in q-matroids, axioms for independent spaces, bases, and spanning spaces differ from the classical case of matroids, since the straightforward q-analogue of the classical axioms does not give a q-matroid. For this reason, a fourth axiom has been proposed. In this paper we show how we can describe these spaces with only three axioms, providing two alternative ways to do that. As an application, we show direct cryptomorphisms between independent spaces and circuits and betwe…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.10969 has been replaced.
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Application of tropical optimization for solving multicriteria problems of pairwise comparisons using log-Chebyshev approximation
We consider a decision-making problem to find absolute ratings of alternatives that are compared in pairs under multiple criteria, subject to constraints in the form of two-sided bounds on ratios between the ratings. Given matrices of pairwise comparisons made according to the criteria, the problem is formulated as the log-Chebyshev approximation of these matrices by a common consistent matrix (a symmetrically reciprocal matrix of unit rank) to minimize the approximation errors for all matrices…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.01594 has been replaced.
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The character of non-manipulable collective choices between two alternatives
We consider classes of non-manipulable social choice functions with range of cardinality at most two within a set of at least two alternatives. We provide the functional form for each of the classes we consider. This functional form is a characterization that explicitly describes how a social choice function of that particular class selects the collective choice corresponding to a profile. We provide a unified formulation of these characterizations using the new concept of "character". The …

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.15333 has been replaced.
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Classification of Gravitational Waves in Higher-dimensional Space-time and Possibility of Observation
The direct detection of gravitational waves opens the possibility to test general relativity and its alternatives in the strong field regime. Here we focus on the test of the existence of extra dimensions. The classification of gravitational waves in metric gravity theories according to their polarizations in higher-dimensional space-time and the possible observation of these polarizations in 3-dimensional subspace are discussed in this work. And we show that the difference in the response of g…

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Realistic Total-Body J-PET Geometry Optimization -- Monte Carlo Study
Total-Body PET is one of the most promising medical diagnostics modalities. The high sensitivity provided by Total-Body technology can be advantageous for novel tomography methods like positronium imaging. Several efforts are ongoing to lower the price of the TB-PET systems. Among the alternatives, the Jagiellonian PET (J-PET) technology, based on plastic scintillator strips, offers a low-cost alternative. The work aimed to compare five Total-Body J-PET geometries as a possible next generation …