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> contaminated with self-referential post-modernist bullshit.

What do you mean by this?
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> My suspicion is the Public Defenders’ offices are nearly universally underfunded and overworked, so the only way to make this work is to make sure they’re resourced appropriately, which would be a tough battle politically.

That would be a worthy battle in itself. Public Defenders' offices should be funded as well as criminal prosecutors' offices, and organizationally be (at least) peers of them.
And others have had 20% annualised returns which are ... questionable.
Case in point: the USPS. It's the Republican "starve the beast" strategy [0] (of course, not limited to the US, just commonly seen here).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast
> I feel like this is a misreading of the situation.

I was referring to the quote from the article "that people who agreed with [Zuckerberg's decision] were afraid to speak out for fear of appearing insensitive," so I don't think it's a misreading of the situation. On the contrary, I'm expressing my lack of surprise, given my personal experience as a conservative in tech with a 98% liberal peer group. I am unable to talk freely about my political beliefs in the same way that, say, Biden or Bernie supporters are. I would be labeled a racist simply for agreeing with any republican point of view. Whereas I routinely see friends on Facebook getting hundreds of likes on statuses that call republican politicians "vile" or "scum."

As an aside, what's particularly frustrating is how many people assume or expect that I hold the same views as them when in casual conversation. Someone will bring up Trump as if it's a foregone conclusion that he's a racist sociopath and anyone who supports him is one too, and I just have to nod along and laugh with them, or find a way to change the subject, lest I be "outed" as some sort of violent extremist for supporting the president.

> The president is unequivocally spreading hate and inciting violence

Unequivocally? I think you could find a lot of people who disagree with this assessment of his words. Who's to decide what is "unequivocally" an incitement of violence?

> There is a distinct difference between expressing a political view, such as that we should have the government spend less money, and inciting random citizens to commit violent acts against a perceived enemy.

This is a strawman, because I haven't seen Trump "inciting random citizens to commit violent acts." Regardless, of course there is a difference between political speech and inciting violence. But who is to be the arbiter of it? Because from what I've seen, certain people on the left can twist almost anything outside of their agenda to fit their definition of "violence." As a contrived example, some on the left would be "offended" by the suggestion that "a country is not a country without a strong border," equating it to "locking kids in cages." Is it violence to advocate for strong borders and criminal consequences for illegal immigration? Or is it political speech? What about when the president says it?
My Sony a6300 is supported, but I can't get it to work. Doesn't even show up on lsusb when I connect in PC remote mode, much less in gphoto2 --auto-detect. I'm stumped. Too bad, that would have been useful.
This site would be nice if it wasn't so biased.
I only use Jekyll for macwright.org - haven't really used Hugo or Gatsby much.
It's baby formula not protein powder. It's literally life-sustaining. Calling it merely "a food" misses the point because, other than breast milk, it's the only food very young infants can consume.

I'm not arguing that tampons and sanitary napkins shouldn't be FSA-eligible; I think it's 100% correct that they are. I'm just pointing out the randomness of what is considered eligible.
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I have a 5 year old, and bought a new mirrorless camera back around then too. When I look back through photos, there's a lot of photos with that camera in the early years, but some of my favorites are still the spontaneous ones snapped on the phone that was in my pocket. 1 year olds don't understand "wait! Hold that cute pose well I run and get the good camera, make sure the battery is in and the right lens attached!" (and 5 year olds understand, but have neither the patience nor tolerance for that nonsense).

As time had gone by, more and more of our photos are from a cell phone. A few weeks ago I got some really great pictures while we were out on a bike ride and found a neat rocky area off the path, and the sun was hitting everything just right. I wasn't planning on pictures, so never would have taken the camera with us anyway, but and chances are if I had the light wouldn't have cooperated as perfectly as it did.
> taking back lost freedoms.

Better not to lose them in the first place, though, right?
>Black lives matter is destroying cities across the USA.

You're right in that there is unfortunately some damage being caused to property, with some of those not having large corporate backings or insurance to recover from it.

It's apparent that there are some opportunists using the protests as cover, or that this is a misguided small fraction of people protesting.

If we're talking about what is destroying our cities, this is a small blip. We have a opioid crisis, thousands of people routinely going bankrupt not being able to afford healthcare, and a government that stacks the odds against the working-class in favor of the rich. Corporations are getting more powerful and there is a greater wealth disparity than ever before. If anything that is what is destroying our cities and this is some minor symptom of it.
Man, this seems like such an uphill battle. I feel like unless they can show police were trying to deliberately target the press rather than just treating them like any other members of the public, they'll have that much more difficult of a time getting past qualified immunity and winning a lawsuit.
> However, at least one investor who listened to his presentation was reluctant to invest in the venture because of his Enron past, that person said.

Only one!??!

Throw away the moral discussion of what he did. You can completely ignore it and you still must conclude that his track record is of one of destruction of investor value.
Same. Motor and general engineering seem to be sound but oh so much weak, creaky plastic.

It’s a shame there seems to be nothing better in a similar form factor. Clearly possible at the price.
This is the real answer. Removing the incentives that discourage interoperability and common standards would help. This probably means regulating spying-centric advertising and related mass-data-gathering out of existence.

Twitter should be a protocol with many providers and many clients, not a restrictive service from a single provider. Ditto most of the rest.
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I mean, can anything really ever be objective? Or are things just continually witnessed, from tens - to trillions - of times?
Compared to the US it doesn't sound too bad.
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Photos are on a separate NFS device. In addition, there are various .* directories, like .vim, .R, .golang, etc. and some of them are being synced to the Nextcloud too. I don't sort by filetype anymore. So I don't care if it is a PDF or something else, but instead, I care about the context: Is it an ebook, a scan, or does it belong to some project?
> Eastern Europe

Eastern Europe is not a great example of productivity either.

I can totally understand why employees from poorer countries disappear all the time - why wouldn't they? They know they're getting paid peanuts in your country (so you don't expect much) and you're paying them an incredibly competitive salary in their own country (which means their lifestyle is closer to upper middle class).

Which means they can piggy-back off your seemingly efficient decisions and get away with doing less.
They're not only starting now, they've been going since early February. This one just finished: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2016638. It found no preventive effect. Other trials are looking at treatment effectiveness.
The problem was not that they changed recommendations based on the knowledge available at the time, it's that those recommendations were not given with a qualification and confidence level appropriate to the strength of the data.

There was too much desire to appear strong and knowledgeable, resulting in too many occasions where forceful, even morally-based recommendations needed to be not just modified, but _reversed_ based on updated data (see the Surgeon General's tweet from Feb 29 on the uselessness and social immorality of mask use -- hasn't aged well).

To be fair, this was not all the CDC -- the media amplification / simplification played a huge role here also -- but the fact remains that the CDC and other US health authorities promulgated recommendations that were flat out wrong and in some cases actively harmful by overindexing on poor data.
Doesn't the US have a huge problem with IP trolls? It's really hard to get an accurate figure when the US can just issue IPs like it's no one's business and can to go to court to dispute these equally as easily. At least here in Europe, it's a lot more difficult to file for patents, I've not found any conclusive numbers, but if you can extrapolate from these numbers here I would say that the US is the outlyer rather than the norm https://www.simmons-simmons.com/en/publications/ck0d2ofe9u6d...
I liked this article since it points out a problem in math where it can be hard to know what is currently known.

Perhaps a result can be proven using a little known proposition in a completely different area of math, but it is hard to find that result in the literature.

That is one reason I came up with https://mathlore.org. It is a place to collect mathematical info (with links to articles for a deeper look) so you or others can find it later when you need it.

It supports of public collection of math info as well as allowing you to build your own private collection so you can keep track of what you have learned.

The hope is it will be useful to others to help learn math and prove new theorems.
Think of it another way. We've endured a harsh global economic crisis for about 380k deaths (or 0.5% mortality). The human and environmental costs of climate change could be significantly worse, and we know the cost is probably on par with the costs of the pandemic (and it can be distributed over longer time frames). We absolutely can deal with it. The problem is that a pandemic seems very urgent and scary and climate change is something that will affect us in a few decades. Dealing with it in panic mode would be very costly.
Does this include dividends in returns? Most senators are older (closer to retirement), I am assuming they invest more in dividend stocks and bonds than growth stocks.
That makes sense.

It would seem one way to protect the contracted company would be the right to withhold releasing the source code until the terms of the contract were met. You may not want to fight that legal battle, but at least it would give the smaller guy some leverage. As it sounds from the article, Star Theory Games doesn't have anything to fight back with.
Allowing world events to affect your internal emotional state is no way to live. If you cannot consume news media without being emotionally compromised, you may want to re-consider the news sources you are using, and perhaps reduce your consumption.
Shading the sun like this opens the door to a very dystopic future where sunlight itself is commoditized.
Andy Fastow (Enron CFO) is really the one who executed all of the structured finance shenanigans. Skilling’s sin was lying about it to investors.
I’m pretty sure the problem of police abusing their power is never going away, so long as we have policing in its current form rather than some sort of unarmed or lightly armed community helpers. The reason they are always equipped with lethal weapons and so quick to use them is that their role is mostly to protect the people who have property from the people who don’t. And in America that’s always going to have a racial element. Black people in America are mostly still used as cheap labor- human capital stock. Unless they are willing to start redistributing wealth away from the super wealthy towards the least wealthy the ruling strata will always have to use violence to maintain order. And that means journalists too.

That is why if you want to highlight who is holding the real power and address the issues of inequality, the best place to start is to attack the police directly. Because it’s something that they are structurally unable to fix without fixing a whole bunch of other stuff first, and it places the focus right in the center of where the violence is coming from. It forces a confrontation by making a demand that they cannot ignore but also cannot actually address.
I agree with you this probably won't be easy. But the video of the CNN arrest is quite damning in my non-lawyer opinion. They had press credentials. They clearly and calmly identify themselves as press. They clearly and calmly state that they will move back to wherever the police want them. They are arrested 1 by 1 over the course of several minutes.
Maybe platforms shouldn't allow politicians on there full stop.
doesn't include dividends
> I want to cover my eyes and ears for the media and political shit show that's going to come from this. It's true that a certain politician shouldn't be trumpeting unproven treatments, but the media seemed to celebrate when that politician was "proven" wrong. Did we forget that we should all be rooting for treatments to work?

We're hoping for _a_ treatment to work. Trump's motivations were largely self-interest, financial investments and other.

We didn't celebrate because Trump was wrong. There was skepticism about the treatment, but he (not a physician) was up there pimping it. Even he didn't necessarily believe it was the cure. For all he said that, he said "Hey, take it anyway, why not? Can't hurt!" (when indeed it can). Finally came conclusive evidence that "You are wrong. Be quiet." Though Trump being Trump, that didn't overly work.

It's no different to "Pharma Bro" Martin Shkreli, who once lodged an appeal / protest against a drug being approved...

Not because it was dangerous. Or less effective. Or more expensive.

No, in fact it was safer than treatments out there. And more effective. And cheaper.

And all those reasons meant he opposed it. Because it wasn't _his_ drug. People who say "Big Pharma is holding the cure to cancer", etc., all those conspiracy theories? Shkreli literally opposed a better drug because it would cost him and his company profits.
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All turbo buttons I remember specifically clocked down to 4.77 mhz - apparently the original 8088 frequency?
Second chance at the same thing he got caught for ?

no one would be bothered for him to become VP / consultant and advising customers like the guy in wolf of Wall Street .

It is completely different when is asking people trust with him money
Giving him a second chance means letting him out of jail, not trusting him immediately with large sums of money when he gets out.
questionable? they have inside knowledge
Which is all the more reason to acknowledge it will happen and handle it directly, instead of waiting for a rogue actor.
But that is not what this is about. Read the title at very least, it is about US banning the flights from China.

China does allow flights to and from the US on Chinese airlines - the "fairness" you allude to implies that US airlines should be able to fly to China as well.
I really don't get the Dyson hate for their vacuums, are the newer models rubbish or something?

My folks have old the DC02 (bought in 1996 or so and still running) and I own the DC25 (11 years on and still works great).
Even today with modern avionics there would be no reason why an aircraft's computer systems would need to interface with a general-purpose LAN. Take a look at the control system of a Cirrus Visionjet for instance. It's quite locked down as its own embedded system. For reliability and resiliency reasons it's good to keep some things compartmentalized.
We could build cooling devices on the poles. A dome around them to reflect light and (maybe) generate (some) of the necessary energy. There are well developed solutions to generate energy from waves and ocean currents. The cooling units also have pumps to essentially produce ice. The kinetic energy solutions are long snakelike tubes which can also serve to transport the
You might be right about the germs, but the dyson hand dryers are a lot better at drying than regular ones.
This is part of the larger issue of the police - in Minneapolis and a lot of other places - actively resisting efforts by the public to document police actions and provide any level of accountability through those recordings. That is a freedom that needs to be defended.
Well, that's a kind of a rude generalisation. :) Or maybe I read you wrong.

You should know there's a lot of world-class talent around here. Sure there's tons of slackers but I posit that's true everywhere (maybe they can't squeeze through the cracks in the USA? but they still exist).
Those lower-salaried workers will soon realise that they have lost the citizenship lottery so why would they bother?

No matter how much you try the only way to fix that is to equalize their opportunities, but you would never do that because you're inherently interested in keeping them poor.
Studies of brain activity aren't as useful as scientists thought
HSBC is neither Russian nor German, even though they do business with the Russian and German economy and government.
The defendants could make a reasonable case against both the officer who stole the property out of police custody and the police department that failed to protect it. The former for theft and failure to return the property to its owner, and the latter for negligence. I believe the term is "jointly and severally liable"?

The police department has its own separate claim against the officer, of course, for the costs they have incurred (separate from the value of the stolen property, which wasn't theirs to begin with) as a result of the officer's actions.
I'm pretty sure you've imposed your own assumptions on what I meant when I said that.

That said, if all you see are the problems, it's easy to think there's no downside. It's entirely possible for other aspects of our society to get worse as we focus on those items. It's also possible for those aspects to get worse as we fail to make any meaningful change on the items we focus on, and eventually fail.

Assuming only positives can come from change is very dangerous. That doesn't mean we shouldn't attempt things anyways, but we should do so with eyes wide open, and not delusional as to the possible outcomes.
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I think a lot folks are overlooking that there are indeed some concerning instigators in some of the crowds, trying to escalate violence. I found this list of supporting videos...

https://old.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/gvmhh6/fbi_...
From the article:

> The contract with Take-Two was the studio’s only source of revenue at the time. Without it, the independent studio was in serious trouble.

> The [founders] had been in discussions about selling their company to Take-Two but were dissatisfied with the terms, they explained.

> Take-Two hired more than a third of Star Theory’s staff, including the studio head and creative director.

> By March . . . Star Theory closed its doors.

So, a small game studio played chicken with Take-Two, a $15 billion juggernaut, and lost. Take-Two picked up the pieces.
The problem is, there’s no way to enable ADB if you’re in a crash loop. Your phone has to already have it enabled, as far as I know.
Some would argue that he made enough of his first chance to merit being passed over in the "second chance" lottery.

His second chance is going and living out a quiet existence, maybe volunteering or working on his golf handicap, raising foster puppies, whatever.
Not sure how you'd do it, but it would be really interesting to see an analysis of how the $3.50 going to the Against Malaria Foundation affects people's choice about whether to pay more.

The idea of someone looking at it and thinking "well, I'm already paying $3.50 that goes to a good cause, may as well tack on another few bucks for the developer" seems like it would make sense, but I wonder if that would actually show up as prevalent.
In practice it makes up around 2%. The remainder in good times is people who were just fired, a few layoffs (since even in booms businesses can fail) and a few people entering the workforce.
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