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Your finer points do nothing to dispel my argument, in fact, they further make my point.

I'm not blindly accepting anything; the 'popular narrative' is in fact something like 'US involvement in Vietnam is Imperialism'.

US involvement in Vietnam was not an act of Imperialism by any historical standard and it was ballpark consistent with actions in WW1, WW2, and Korea.

The US did a reasonable job of helping to rebuild Japan, a nation that had marauded the region, murdered millions and attacked America (does an Imperial power help their enemies rebuild, institute democracy and leave them better off?), and this included some things like 'getting women the right to vote'. It's ridiculous to think that the occupying Americans would 'right all the historical wrongs' of a very foreign nation levelled to the ground. 'Wrongs' which by the way you've characterized politically (i.e. 'left-wing' vs. 'right-wing') and therefore difficult to consider in a moral context anyhow.

Ironically, were the American occupiers to have intervened further, armchair historians would find yet another excuse to lament it as yet another form of 'Imperialism' or 'cultural imposition of western values' etc..

And your comments about South Korea ... yes, backing an authoritarian leader in the aftermath of devastating war in the mid-20th century is a rational and practical choice. It's not to say that all American choices are perfect, but actual unfolding of history for most S. Koreans went reasonably well by any standard.

Thanks to American involvement in South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan they are all lively, healthy, fruitful, democratic nations today.

Were the Americans to have not walked away from their victory over the VC and North Vietnamese forces, and left a contingent of forces remaining South Vietnam and continue the threat of total annihilation of Northern forces ... South Vietnam would be like South Korea - a beacon of civility and progress to the region.

Sadly, the Americans withdrew, and so I got to grow up with Vietnamese refugee friends in my neighbourhood, who incidentally, all became Dentists. Literally all of them.
I wonder how far you'd get with a bot that macros perfectly but also A-moves 2-3 groups.
It’s not a literal inquiry, it’s the verbal equivalent of a TCP handshake.

It’s protocol negotiation, volume adjustment, and preparation for transmission.
Since you mentioned it in this thread, you clearly are aware that such a system is morally "challenged". How did you rationalize it to yourself? Was it something that started innocuous and evolved to become worse, or were you aware of how insidious it was from the start?
Is Facebook evil? Everything bad about Facebook is bad for the same reason
I meant to illustrate that dealing in physical goods is well defined and regulated, any trouble will have no regards for intentions or what is physically possible.
Disposable forks and plates seems wasteful
Humans are remarkably good at rationalizing away irrational things. There's no doubt we live in a better, safer time now than we ever have. But progress leads to new dangers and threats we didn't think possible.

In my above post, I talk about being a victim of a gender-fueled hate crime. Because that is not normal to me. And it's not very normal for others, either. The violence in the middle ages could have been normalized to the point where it didn't cause as much suffering. That I'm not sure of, but it probably depends on the prevailing religious doctrine of the time.
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But you end up paying even more through insurance premiums than if you had paid it out straight to medical companies through your taxes. How does paying an entire middleman for-profit industry magically make things cheaper?
I wonder if it's an Australian thing for the response to "how ya goin'?" to be "how ya goin'?".
I dont. If I applied what I did at work all day to what I do at home, both would become very monotonous. Sometimes I like to do things slowly just to take enjoyment in the act of doing, or I like to keep a routine so I can do chores on autopilot and not have to really think about it
I store physical items in my home in an LRU cache. Items I use all the the time are close to the places where I use them. Less frequently used items are stored further from the place they are used, for example in a closet or the garage.

This clashes badly with my roommate, also a programmer, who strongly prefers to store items by category. He will put all the kitchen gadgets on a shelf by the kitchen even if those gadgets go months without being used.

The advantage of his method is that you always know where something is, because it’s in the right place. The advantage of my method is that most of the time I get things done faster, though sometimes I end up spending some time looking for a thing I use only infrequently.

It turns out he also has much more stuff than I do. Since caches are more efficient with a smaller working set, it makes sense that we would each prefer our own strategy. Who knows which direction the causation goes.
It sort of makes sense in an engineering/programming context, but life in general doesn't really lend itself to that level of control.

Did you ever try thinking about how they might turn out for the best instead to compare results? Energy follows thought, the more you focus on it the more likely it is to happen from my experience. And the only place and time you're ever going to stop failure from happening is here and now using up to date local knowledge.

Take it or leave it...
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TBH - climate silos and finance silos are difficult to merge. Different language, KPIs, incentives and concerns. We're trying though to reconcile the two! That said, banks are increasingly paying attention. The two drivers for this are: (1) Ratings agencies including climate factors in their ratings, and (2) G20 Financial Stability Board, Bloomberg Committee calling for voluntary disclosure of climate risk and mitigation steps by company boards.
It's just a standard greeting. Personally, I find it weird if people actually tell me how they're going when I ask them.

It's even more peculiar/banal in French, where the conversation goes:

Salut, ça va?
Ça va, et toi?
Ça va.

"Ça va" translates to "it is". So in essence, it's a completely meaningless exchange.
I've seen similar - Them: "You're too pessimistic" vs. Me: "You haven't thought this all the way through".

There's a balance to be struck though, because often worrying too much about things that don't happen or saying "I told you so" when they do only really serves to annoy people.
With the death of certain Twitter APIs coming up soon, I wonder if many Twitter client developers will start to make Mastodon apps. I would love to see "Tootbot" by the Tweetbot developers.
dont touch my dns settings, srsly!
And sorry to answer the other question: we work with NGOs, although not necessarily advocacy NGOs.
I really want to know, to what extent the D score can change, and what factors can change it.
What an excellent answer!
I've always considered the standard reply to be "yeah nah, not too bad, yourself?". I think that it's possibly more Kiwi than Australian though.
1. And if I set up my own, does it need to be a community?

No. Mastadon and other compatible servers like GNUSocial do have single-user environments. [0]

2. Am I shutting myself out of an experience by creating, say, a Mastodon instance for my family?

No. The entire thing is federated, users from all servers can speak to each other.

[0] https://github.com/ummjackson/mastodon-guide/blob/master/sin...
The amazing progress of image recognition over the last few years would vastly reduce the amount of work required. You would need to chain together a more generic object recognition network, and feed the results into another trained network to detect numerals. Analogue clocks might work better with more traditional geometric detection.
Fascinating story! I'm curious why this isn't massive lawsuit material, I know in the US it would be. I thought the UK was similarly litigious?
Plates are paper so the environmental impact should be relatively low. I agree that the plastic forks are still a problem but haven't really found a solution. I do wonder though, would never having to wash dishes offset the impact of disposable cutlery?

Edit: never mind, see below. Apparently paper still has a ton of impact as far as manufacturing it goes (it's not just renewable trees, there are chemicals involved).
Dictionaries and other sorted books is what comes to mind for me. Always open from the middle and pick the next stack of paper to split from either the left hand or right hand until we get to the page we want.

In school, we'd need to open a specific chapter of our textbooks, and I'd search by the same method.
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This is an extremely uncharitable reading. Infosec is a field rife with kneejerk dismissals until people actually see the exploitation in action. How long has the (ethical) tech community been warning people about the NSA and Faceboot, until Snowden and Cambridge Analytica actually happened?
Aren't dividends better because you get to keep your shares? An employee who needs to increase their earning by selling ownership of a company risks losing the continued stream that they'd collect via dividends. If I get dividends, I may not be so inclined to dump my stock for short term gains.
I have very similar instincts, and it weirds me out sometimes. I have an in-depth understanding of the efficiency difference of the direction I mow my lawn (NW/SE is the best for the shape of the yard, but you can't do that every time. N/S is second most efficient. E/W is third and I can't stand it), and am constantly wondering if there is a better way to snowblow my driveway.

Past that, I feel myself optimizing paths through the office and hand movements for juggling things and the door, stuff like that. And then when I see people use less than optimal routes and techniques I wonder why that's the case.
"Ça va." translates "It's going well", not "it is".
Similarly, "Ça va?" translates to "Is it going well?".

It's as meaningless an exchange as most greetings (the only meaning being to actually acknowledge and greet the person), but it does mean something literally, and the exchange is technically more complete than when answering "How are you?" with "Hi".

That being said, you'll see someone answering "Salut, ça va?" with "Salut!" quite frequently as well. I would perhaps consider it slightly more of a misstep than in English, but only marginally so.
It seems to be really difficult for people to understand that a bad outcome doesn’t necessarily imply a bad decision, nor does a good outcome imply a good decision.
Can you recover from a significant failure?
As a hypothetical since I'm working on a game that may use this, how would you feel about the following? For a multiplayer .io-style game, you get a score per level, and a cumulative score. The top few players by cumulative score are shown to everyone and celebrated, etc. If you ever get zero points in a level though, you'll lose your cumulative score - unless you watch a video ad.

Is that acceptable, or does it feel like blackmail?

(FWIW I'm discussing this with a lot of other gamedevs too, but since you brought it up I figure you might have a "different community" opinion worth my knowing!)
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You also have to add a recompute expense to that calculation. The $500 3-piece suit that you only wear to special work events, weddings, etc. shouldn't get deleted just because you haven't used it in a year.
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Several of the comp.lang.* hierarchy have activity.

There is also comp.misc which has some activity as well.
The confusion seems to lie with you here if it's with anyone. The stop gap RC4 preference is explicitly enabled by handshaking.

Beyond that though you seem to have your history out of order, BEAST is a TLS 1.0 attack, but TLS 1.2 was finished years before BEAST was published.

It's not a case of a protocol version "had to be burned to fix the problem" but two subsequent protocol versions had already shipped years ago which fixed the underlying cause and, as is the reality for which you seem so ill-prepared, scarcely anybody had upgraded.

All these years later financial services companies are getting waivers from PCI saying their cheap third rate POS terminal "has a mitigating control" and so it's fine that they still do TLS 1.0. So that's nice. Nice for them I mean. Hey, if you're "lucky" one day they'll be relying on a ten year out-of-date WireGuard, as enthusiastically endorsed by Thomas Ptacek. And every time you're asked about it you can spit feathers. How dare they. Like I said, if you're lucky.

As messy and uphill as it has been, the journey from SSLv2 to TLS 1.3 was only possible with the handshake.
I worked for a business that sold videos burned to very cheap blank DVDs, for a pretty high price. We tested them onsite, and had about a 20% failure rate (they cheaped out on the equipment, too) and the passing discs wouldn't work for about a third of customers anyway. I think those discs delaminate after a few years.
As well, the South African “howzit”, which from my observation isn’t even actually a question but just invites the other person to say what they wanted to say.
I love how often phrases start with "yeah..."
This reminds me a lot of Marie Kondo's book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, which had a huge impact on how I organize things.
Really nice, this kind of functionality should be part of static web servers / Amazon S3 in order for serverless catalog applications to really work. In particular geospatial catalog standards that want to replace CSW.

Unrelated, I see a golang port of jq is being pulled as a dependency, doesn’t knowledge of that query language on the clinet side break the HATEOAS expectations?
I was taking a lyft to the airport in St. Louis a couple months back coming home from a geospatial conference and the driver heard me talking to my coworker about maps and mentioned that he too worked on geospatial data as he worked for the national geospatial intelligence agency.

Considering how government salaries go I feel like this is the more likely spy in your Uber.
I wouldn't call using Ubereats and hiring cleaners to be increasing efficiency, but rather outsourcing your work.

Throwaway plates and forks are also terrible inefficient from an environmental point of view. Also, don't you find it less enjoyable to eat with plastic tableware? What I've found works best for me is to minimise the number of plates and forks you have in the house. If you only have one plate, you just wash it every time you use it, takes 30 seconds max. If you have a bunch of plates, then you always put off washing them, and then you have a whole stack.
It should be noted that Publix is one of the largest employee owned companies in the US.

Employees own 31% of the firm through an employee share-ownership plan. (The rest of Publix, established in 1930 by George W. Jenkins, is largely owned by the Jenkins family, which still runs the firm.)
I have the same problem.

IMHO do both: multiple LRU caches by category.
The MAC is just an example. You need some way to block someone abusing your connection. It's the first point raised in the requirements for safe harbour. For this you need to be able to say "this is the same person/device as before".

> couldn't you just tell the person they're not allowed to use your wireless anymore

The context we started with is wifi open to the public. You've never met your users and you may never see them (directional antenna from a distance), so the legal name is not useful either.

The situation where you know the users is much simpler.
Opinion does not require evidence. He was commenting based on experience.
Offset the impact on the environment? I don't think so. How is it harmful to the environment if you wash dishes?
Why not go all the way, and live on Soylent?
I'm surprised that today I read at least 3 comments and some articles about "denialism". Is it the new frontier of the "fascists against anti-fascists" war?

I do believe that there is a lot of things coming from mainstream media we have to dismiss, and it seems some of these things are now been publicly defended against public discredit. The same way the mass media lie to us today, their ancestors lied to ours. It is natural and healthy to pursuit lies of the past, it is a shame that some people are trying to put it as a negative behavior.
Did the pigs need the transplants, like were they sick? (I can't access the article's supplementary materials)
I had to figure this out for an assignment at university. The answer is no, it doesn't offset the impact of disposable cutlery. Plates are a bit trickier, since they break, but cutlery lasts practically forever, I've got 30 year old knives and forks that are still going strong.

This is especially true if you use a dishwasher, modern dishwashers are very efficient.
Saw one of these the other day and proved that it used OpenStreetMap data, couldn't find any attribution anywhere but I didn't have the device for long.

... so it's violating the ODbL too.
I've always done this but I always find my cache being polluted because I didn't estimate the frequency of use correctly. Regular purges are important otherwise it ends up as a fragmented mess.

A good alternative is how I handle my clothes, many would call it a pile but my clothes are stored as a few LIFO stacks, one for work, one for weekends, one for underwear, etc. For work the shirts are all the same so it's just the simplest option, for weekends it works out well because my favorites are always at the top. I suspect most people manage their pantries the same way.
Interacting with the mouse and keyboard at this speed and precision is absolutely a very interesting part for me. It is a limitation of he human organism.

What if we could pit humans and ai bots at the speed of human imagination?
Besides a few neckbeard types, does any significant number of people actually care about Mastadoon? I remember App.net got all buzzy several years ago. Whatever happened to that? Facebook got big because college students wanted to get laid and that’s where their friends were. Twitter got big because it captured the Zeitgiest and had a FOMO aspect. I am not sure what Mastadoon has going for it to convince normal people to care.

How is a Twitter client developer going to actually make any money on this? How is anyone going to make money on this?
The creation of paper is chemically intensive, from processing to dyes to color it. It is not environmentally friendly.
You're saying that the answer to the problem of inherent advantages in the game of wealth creation -- which boils down to existing wealth generating much more much faster than far less wealth -- is to 'join a VC'? It's difficult to tell if you're being moralizing or humorous. The question we're chewing over is, does accreditation requirements help or hurt the ability for individuals to ascend economically. It obviously hurts them and the other side of the coin is that it reduces a wider fallout should things go wrong.

Which part is controversial?
I've been posting to alt.cyberpunk every few months trying to get things going. I use eternal-september(.org) for my usenet access.
https://www.amazon.com/Perfect-Stix-Cutlery-Kit-200ct-Dispos...
Some are casters, like T90[0]. They stream a couple of hours of AoE2 commentary every day on Twitch. They collect income from Twitch subscriptions and donations and also Youtube ad revenue. It's very hard work for not a lot of money.

A very small handful of top players plays it full time. Viper[1] is the "top guy" currently and he streams on Twitch. So his income is Twitch + Youtube + tournament winnings.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZUT79WUUpZlZ-XMF7l4CFg

[1] https://www.youtube.com/user/TheViperAOC
It's the Front Range that's badly affected, winters aren't as cold as they used to be, and as a result the Montain Pine Beetle is expanding its range. The weakened pine forests are a fire hazard.
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So your the one behind that story! Thanks for taking the time to write it I have always loved that story.
Very cool! I'm into medium format and 35mm, although my cameras need to be dusted off and brought out for fresh air.
There is indeed a balance, because opportunities tend to have time limits. Thinking things through for too long to arrive at a sure and optimal way of doing something might mean failing to take the opportunity you had to do it at all.
A medical doctor friend of mine pointed out that thinking slow was fine, except in an emergency or indeed any time--limited situation where the rate of response needs to be above some threshold. Think: baraster responding to opponent, a and e doctor, board-room negotiation etc.
It's certainly true that overweight people tend to run a little warmer. It's just a brute consequence of more insulation. We are not abstract thinking machines, but rather embedded in the physical world. My weight has fluctuated over the years, and when I'm carrying more pounds, I definitely notice that temperatures I used to feel comfortable at now cause me discomfort.

As for the implication. I really didn't imply anything. I have no idea of expounded's weight. Being overweight would be one explanation of his experience, but not the only one. I didn't know, so I asked. It certainly seems to be a touchy subject for him or her.
I do, though I haven't adopted it yet. At some point, a new protocol will get social media right, and free itself from walled gardens.

I don't know if it will be Mastodon, but I'll keep looking with interest until it happens. Mastodon seems to get a bunch of things right, and it may evolve into a more-open (and messier) Face-gram-ter-+ that gets enough traction to thrive.

People derive a lot of value from email. A protocol like this should be viewed as something like email.
Proprietary, but there’s also Dante Virtual Soundcard.
Never tried that, and personally I still do enjoy the taste of "conventional" food, just not the experience of cooking it nor dealing with the mess afterwards.
It can be very difficult.

Solutions range from wearing a cooling vest that contains gel packs (you freeze them before wearing them) to fursuits with integrated cooling fans. (Often they vent through the ears.)
I relate to the author of the original article in that I'm a slow thinker. I really envy people who can vocalize intelligent, confident decisions or opinions on the spot. I don't like feeling stupid because I can't articulate moderately complex thoughts on the spot. It feels like I don't think in words anymore, but rather in something like abstract math (not like a savant, mind you), and translating back to words accurately is laborious and time consuming. I like the pace of commenting on an Internet forum like this one, where I can be thoughtful and take my time and rewrite a bit before sharing.
Which is unfortunate. I consider myself a highly skilled technical user, and the burden of running and maintaining my own Mastodon server, or even my own Nginx server to redirect WebFinger requests somewhere else, exceeds the free time I have to devote to the problem. (Keeping another VM alive, updated, and configured through the years costs mental energy, time, and money.)

Whereas, adding an SRV record to my existing DNS server? That's trivial, comes at no marginal cost to me, and doesn't leave me with the constant mental burden of worrying whether my Mastodon or WebFinger server is available, secure, etc.

Owning my own digital identity should be easy. Simplicity encourages adoption, and widespread self-ownership of one's digital identity is key to hindering the growth of walled gardens. Mastodon does not make ownership of one's digital identity simple.