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Why not use traps or if you really want to play with nature, increase the populations of natural predators - like dragonflies. Oh right, that can't be patented. On the other hand I'm quite curious to see how this turns out! It seems like the first mosquito that is able to produce offspring that are immune to the bacterium, either through adaptation or mutation, is something that should be be rapidly selected for. Tiger mosquitoes can lay ~300 eggs so any favorable mutation should be able to rapidly propagate.
Sure but not all species play an equally critical role in the ecology.
I certainly understand how you could come to see this kind of stuff as anti-American, but that's really a misjudgment.

I (or we?) stand in one of the many countries where this threat is developing, but one of the few countries where our predecessors have secured the liberties for us to do something about it. So in this sense, we are the custodians of ourselves: and any true American would tend to their government while discussing with their countrymen how they can do the same.

(Hopefully that addresses your point, now that I see what you're really saying.)
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"So, this is the next attack vector? Bitcoin is not green? The energy put into Proof-of-work is what makes the system immutable. People who complain about bitcoin's energy use, don't seem to grasp what makes the bitcoin Blockchain immutable. In order to change the Database, you have to go back > and do the "work" which becomes practically impossible after approx. 10 blocks. You take that away and you'll make the system Tamper evident, and not Tamper Proof as it is right now. It's the only secure data base ever invented, and thats because of the energy used to secure it.

I don't see these people complaining how much energy Las Vegas wastes. Or Hollywood. What about professional sports? How much energy does going to war cost? All of these are less important than the only sovereign moneys system in the history of man-kind. So, please, stop complaining about the energy use, i left my violin at home."

- daggerhashimoto

In addition, if Bitcoin disrupts the banking industry and a portion of wall street, we'd have to subtract their energy consumption.

It's just logically lazy to not consider if the benefits outweigh the costs, and sound immutable finite hard money out of reach of central authorities brings with it enormous benefits.
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A human driver can shout and gesticulate which will enjoin passers-by to engage with the situation - waving and shouting too. I've seen several slow speed (eg parking) accidents avoided this way. Perhaps these vehicles need a "I'm in danger" external indicator of some sort too?
Nope, just observing a bunch of people making claims about "what content kids should watch" unconnected with facts or evidence, and then getting VERY defensive when this is pointed out.
I suspect that’s in large part because of the headline’s officious use of the term “US government” as the actor, not to mention the completely sensational description of the bugs as “killer.”

Does “EPA approves release of infertile mosquitos” sound as scary? Because that’s what’s actually going on.
This is an awesome idea! As someone who moved to a new city recently with no friends or family, I've been waiting for something like this to exist!! Super excited to try it out, thanks for sharing!
That's truly cool.
Great suggestion. But...

Microsoft has an annoying "in your face" bundling precedent. (Windows vs. IE, Windows Store. Renaming hell: windows live..editor, messenger, essentials, msn..messenger, One..drive, Xbox..music)

It should be okay, if the VS code team can integrate Azure without management or marketing taking over. Else VS code would become Azure code and it'll nag you to login to your Azure account on every startup.
This technology can't eliminate mosquitoes. It's literally just birth control. Some mosquitoes still mate with otherwise normal males and continue to produce offspring.
I've had dengue and zika, and I don't care how arrogant it is, I'm all for extincting those fuckers.
By those standards, can you provide a TLD that is not the result of some atrocity or another?
> Suppressing the mosquito population of an entire city is likely to require the weekly production of millions of these mosquitoes. To reach that level, Dobson’s company must find a way to efficiently separate male mosquitoes from females. The company’s technicians now separate them both by hand and mechanically,

Sounds like a potential use-case for that mosquito zapping laser[0], which I've heard can target by gender.

[0]https://www.fastcompany.com/3059127/what-happened-to-the-mos...
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That sounds like a nightmare. Google Docs is barely powerful enough for writing a three-page letter. I can't imagine writing a collaborative 200-page document with it.

LaTeX + git would be the ideal, but my coworkers would shoot me for suggesting it.
How do you explain TMZ, People and the Enquirer / Globe / Weekly World News? Seems taht credibility isn't a necessary condition for popularity... at least not globally.
Aside from population-wide sums or “averages” (in the specific sense of “arithmetic mean”), there's also models, medians, various distributional measures, etc. Which subset (which may include more than one selection) of these are most appropriate for a particular comparison depends on the specific purpose of the comparison. Arithmetic mean and/or sums are usually the easiest measures, but quite often not the most relevant.
You may be right. Even in hops-obsessed Oregon it's getting easier to get drinkable microbrews again. There are brewers stepping up to the challenge of making interesting lagers now.
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Something like 30 out of the 500 anopheles species are capable of carrying malaria. Only 2 of those 30 bite humans: A. gambiae and A. funestus. Eradicating those two would be sufficient and another species, one that doesn't bite humans, would take over the rest of their niche. "Bites humans" is not a sufficiently beneficial adaptation to be a game-changer. We can eliminate that trait and precisely that trait with surprisingly little selective pressure.

Most of the "whoops" tales we hear are people that didn't listen to their scientists telling them not to, didn't have scientists at all, or were from long enough ago that we can discard their stories as irrelevant in the same way that we'd discard things like "spaceflight is impossible" and "nukes will end war". We've now traced the food chain around malaria mosquitoes out to three or four degrees of separation, including things like their competitors, the diseases they carry, and the things they spread those diseases to. Their entire ecological niche is trivially replaced by close relatives that don't carry malaria to humans. They're not even common enough to have major food-chain or crowding effects like you'd see with ants, rabbits, kudzu, or sparrows. Everything that we can find says that the damage from eradicating these two species would be zero. Not "small", not "manageable". None.

Malaria-carrying human-biting mosquitoes are small enough and unimportant enough that we should be thinking of them as disease organisms rather than insects. I'm sure you're perfectly happy with the eradication of bot flies, polio, and smallpox; why not A. gambiae and A. funestus?
People are always quick to point out that this is just what it takes to build a trustless and decentralized currency, which is probably correct, but it's not clear whether such an extreme level of trustlessness is even necessary (if you are not a crypto-libertarian on principle).

The benchmark for Bitcoin are normal financial transactions as they exist today (and work quite well, most of the time). So the question really is: Are you ready to have humanity spend the additional energy consumption of a country (or many countries if Bitcoin were to scale up) to run a system that offers only very limited throughput (relative to established systems) and hasn't even proven yet that it's even a viable alternative to fiat money from an economic perspective? Not to mention the scaling issues that come with such broadcast protocol.

I don't really see the widespread use, at least as envisioned by Bitcoin proponents. If it's just the decentralized aspect and transparency that you want, you can relax your trust assumptions and implement something like a distributed ledger with known identities which doesn't need proof-of-work to prevent sybil attacks (identities which of course would have to be certified in some way, unfortunate).

Oh well, it's still a very cool technology, but I hope for the planet's sake that cryptocurrencies stay in their niche of anonymous transactions for those who actually need it.
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Anyone interested in this should watch some "Flash Anzan" videos. Here are some of the more impressive ones I've seen: [1], [2], [3]

Here's one describing more of the basics: [4]

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JawF0cv50Lk

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ktpme4xcoQ

[3] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vGMsVirYKs

[4] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFmDvAnIXo8
OTC standard dose for regular strength Tylenol is 1-2 capsules x 325mg. They are giving the patients 1000mg or the equivalent of two extra strength pills (500mg). While both are 'standard' doses, I think the poster's point is that they're comparing 'regular strength' opiates (5mg of oxy/hydrocodone) with extra strength acetaminophen (1000mg acetaminophen). If they wanted a proper comparison, they should compare 7.5 or 10mg of oxy/hydrocodone with 1000mg of acetaminophen. Also, because the oxy/hydrocodone pills they test also contain acetaminophen you'd think they'd test the efficacy of oxy/hydrocodone by themselves as well, but apparently that didn't cross their minds. It definitely looks to me like the combinations tested were chosen so as to get a predetermined result.
You are correct. MosquitoMate (mentioned in TFA) is working with Verily's Debug: https://blog.verily.com/2017/07/debug-fresno-our-first-us-fi....
Interesting. You could probably simply "kill" the ones you don't need in a particular batch.

I don't think I've ever considered "killing" the optimum strategy for sorting before.
I heavily disagree with this decision from the US gov't. It's incredibly arrogant and selfish for a species to try and modify nature for an evolutionary advantage.
Wouldn't having millions of people not dying every year cause problems of its own?
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The energy put into Proof-of-work is what makes the system immutable. People who complain about bitcoin's energy use, don't seem to grasp what makes the bitcoin Blockchain immutable. In order to change the Database, you have to go back and do the "work" which becomes practically impossible after approx. 10 blocks. You take that away and you'll make the system Tamper evident, and not Tamper Proof as it is right now. It's the only secure data base ever invented, and thats because of the energy used to secure it.
I don't see these people complaining how much energy Las Vegas wastes. Or Hollywood. What about professional sports? How much energy does going to war cost? All of these are less important than the only sovereign moneys system in the history of man-kind. So, please, stop complaining about the energy use, i left my violin at home.
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It’s important for our community to authenticate that our users actually identify as women so we leverage FB to confirm that the women are real people. We appreciate the feedback and are already thinking of using other ways to sign up!

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Check your local over-the-air stations; PBS has a separate digital channel for children's programming here, so it's always available.
> Our Word Detector was also a significant bottleneck. We ended up essentially rewriting OpenCV’s C++ MSER implementation in a more modular way to avoid duplicating slow work when doing two passes (to be able to handle both black on white text as well as white on black text); to expose more to our Python layer (the underlying MSER tree hierarchy) for more efficient processing; and to make the code actually readable.

Was this ever contributed back to opencv?
Of course the network could operate with less competition. But it is designed to incentivize participation.

The temptation to dominate the network / hash power inevitably produces high energy usage. Again, by design.

I'm not sure that's a liberal standpoint, and admitting the reality of some people associating bitcoin mining with "wasteful" energy usage is not a flaw in logic.
"additional complexity" is the ticket. Linux Desktop tried so hard to chase some strawman of the "average user" over the past 2 decades, while at the same time keeping their identity as a unix system, that they ended up building a nightmarish Rube Goldberg machine that is completely opaque in its operation even to a lot of the people claiming to be experts in using it.

They sacrificed "simple" on the altar of "easy" and, unsurprisingly, it didn't get them anywhere. Simple is easy to work with, and easy to reason about. That means that even when you screw up, it will be pretty obvious why, and when it breaks it will be pretty obvious to fix. It also usually means it'll be pretty flexible. DOS was simple, but not easy, for instance. Windows has been trending this way too.

Of course, if you ask me, the Linux community always prefered complexity anyway. Take package managers: they only exist to manage complicated dependency relationships. Instead of asking why they have such complicated dependency relationships in their software, or why that causes so many problems for them, they instead wrote a package manager to handle the whole complicated mess; and that package manager was such a rousing success that no one ever wrote another one because it had so elegantly and completely solved the problem. Sigh
I've heard this story before. I think it was on a documentary about the source of General Tso's Chicken (and I'm not making a joke), but I don't recall for sure... Do you have a reference?
Looks like we invited nkurz to repost that one but it didn't happen to get traction either time. Hard to say why, but it wasn't flags.
I struggled and still do with multiplication taught in School. As a child my dad showed me "Napier's Bones". I haven't looked back since, it may be slower, more drawing, but for me it works

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napier%27s_bones

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZLpqTyZMM4
Discussion 3 days ago about the original blogpost that Geoff Manaugh is commenting on: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15637504
This is by far one of the dumbest things I've ever heard. We're talking systemic levels of risk...
The primary purpose of dropbox was never "backup". It was always to intelligently store and share data, and to be able to identify information inside of it - like if it's an image, have a gallery. If it's a word doc, have a light weight interface for reading and editing, etc. It was also one of the primary ways to get data out of cell phones because of the "sharing" and "syncing" options.

I think you are confusing dropbox for something else?

In fact I think dropbox would be a horrible backup solution! Don't use it for backup or you will be disappointed.
Mere mortals trying to understand the inner workings of intelligence agencies make me cringe.

There are no good boys and bad boys here.
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Only it doesn't always work out like that. In Chattanooga the local provider displaced Comcast as the largest ISP and they are making good money.

Also competition is bad. People might get ideas...
Samething is done with chickens for egg production. It's barberic, the males are ground up.
You'd pay for land by value, not amount.

So Google owning an block in Manhattan to put their office on would probably garner a higher bill than a farmer with a bunch of fields.

But yes, you can side-step the tax by using less land and eg more capital. (But that's fine, somebody else will use that land you are not using, and pay the tax for it. And if everyone is doing that substitution, it'll make land more expensive in the end.)
This sounds almost like a Creationist argument, like there is some greater purpose behind the existence of all species, or that each species is some kind of keystone keeping the whole spectrum of life together. I happen to believe that nature is not necessarily intelligent or benevolent. Not everything that is produced by natural selection is by definition good for the planet (or necessarily bad either).
I ported a Groovy/Grails app to Java/SpringMVC once.

My technical motivations were more about moving away from Hibernate. Arguably there were plenty of reasons for leaving it as it was, though -- if I had known enough to be able to solve certain data access complexities back then, Grails was in many ways a better fit for the problem. The experience in a (more-or-less) functional language wouldn't have hurt any either.

The business motivation was simple: Java/SpringMVC programmers are (or were then) far more plentiful, so adding/replacing tech resources was made much simpler.
The main motivation is how hard it is to get a good .com domain name.
Could be a natural selection/control process tho.
It's fine being careful but this argument devolves all too often into some kind of religious nature worship. We are the dominant species on this planet. Animals and plant life - nature - have to conform to our wishes. Not the other way around.
It's common to be able to run a remote debugger via JTAG, allowing the system to run normally, set breakpoints, examine memory, etc.

Even though it's run over the same wires, it's a separate protocol from the hardware JTAG probe you describe.
If I could, I would drive every human-biting mosquito to extinction. Ecosystem preservation and caution in deploying new technology is nice, but human welfare takes precedence.
ever heard of the food chain ?
Agree. Bitcoin is a fun experiment / proof of concept.

I'd add that I hope we will eventually tackle the energy problem, hopefully without throwing away the good parts of decentralization / distributed ledgers.

It might be optimistic, but I think many early technological revolutions bring learning costs and risk environmental damage.
Well it's definitely not weeks. The rollout process for a TLD takes several months, most parts of which are unavoidably public.
I typically only watch Cartoon Network when I'm traveling for work and I only wish it was King of the Hill. They use Family Guy as a firewall and it's fucking interminable, I keep flipping back hoping it's come around to Robot Chicken or whatever but it's always more goddamn Family Guy.
Interesting drop.

I have many questions but two are very high on my list:

1. one of the commit messages mentions merge from a git remote hosted at devlan.net. Who owns that host and is it a hidden CIA server or repurposed captured host?

https://wikileaks.org/vault8/document/hive-log/page-41/#pagi...
Merge branch 'master' of ssh://stash.devlan.net:7999/hive/hive

https://www.whois.com/whois/devlan.net

It kinda looks like a captured host registered originally by a French admin.

2. Why Solaris? Microtik and the other router targets make sense in combination with generic Linux machines, but Solaris sticks out and there must be an interesting explanation for targeting that. What kind of internet facing Solaris hosts are out there or which orgs use it in such a capacity to become a target for the CIA?
comma got open-sourced: https://github.com/commaai/openpilot
This is happening inside cities though. I'll take some arrogance and selfishness to reduce the incidence of dengue.
I think KDE5 was an even bigger disaster than KDE4. It completely trashed KDE's famously great support for localization, and half the applications still haven't been ported over. And somehow they managed to shoot themselves in the foot with notifications and then drop the ball handling it.

For all of KDE4's problems, and it did have problems, KDE5 just feels like half a desktop.
More emphasis on video. Which I hate. But that's not even an internet problem. People can't read or concentrate.

Apart from that god save the BBC. One of the few news outlets that try not to cater to a bubble.
I didn't say it would be easy :-) Which is good in that it creates a nice moat around others entering the space. The question I would throw out to a tax lawyer that was operating at the level of Appleby would be this, "What set of relationships, companies, and structure would be necessary for a US person to shield all of their US tax exposure while living in the US?" Then I would ask my MBA friend, can we create such a structure so that the marginal cost of adding an additional US person to the structure would be significantly less than 3 - 10% of their shielded tax.

The theory being that the company would be funded on that margin and by knowing the cost to set it up and the rate of return from the marginal cost, you could put together a plan to build it and grow it.
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I think a lot of people still haven't seen https://feathersjs.com/. Has been around for a while and offers all of this and more AND is drop in replacement for Express.
Once you tie the benefits of bitcoin to something as tangible as the "benefits" of a weekend in Vegas, people will back off the application as the problem.

If grid energy is renewable, bitcoin is not a problem, and actually helps push increasing energy infrastructure. In the ideal world...
My biggest issue with HOCs is the hard time you have when things are nested to high hell. A component like withThis(withThat(enrich(withState(withPropsOnChange(withPropsOnChange(withPropsOnChange(withPropsOnChange(....... when this component gives you an issue you begin to wonder what HOCs are really doing for you.

Having a render prop is slightly better but even this escape hatch isn't foolproof and you'll still end up needing things like onClickOutside.
No, I'm saying killing all the bugs is as good as a solution as cutting your arm because your have arthritis in your hand.

Plus, there is a lot of BS with this "killing millions" arguments. As I lived in Mali, and worked in Senegal, Uganda and Kenya, I can tell you that:

- people there consider it like a big flu. It only kills the very weak, others just have it like you have a running nose in the winter. And those people are weak because we destroyed their countries, we still leach them, so they have poor infrastructures and poor access to major resources, including food, clean water and decent hygiene.

- We have had a cure to most forms of malaria for several years now. Not something experimental or mysterious. I just went to the Pasteur Institute in Paris for that. You have protocols based on Malarone (surprise, it's not the preventive-only drug they tell you it is, it can cure as well). But besides tropical disease expert doctors, nobody will let you know that. And Malians don't have the money to buy it anyway. See previous point.

So mosquitoes are not the problem. The problem is that our system are killing millions.

Should we solve that problem by a collective suicide ? Apparently death of the mass is the popular solution to people dying.
Unfortunately, Resharper doesn't handle large code bases. C++ or C#.
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Not just mosquitoes, this one specific type of invasive mosquito. There will still be many other mosquitoes after the wolbachia thingy is done. It doesn't work on most mosquitoes