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See "Administrative Bloat and Academic Freedom"

https://www.thefire.org/administrative-bloat-and-academic-fr...
"Only draconian access to personal data, as used in South Korea, seems to have brought any positive results."

The article quickly glosses over this fact (and leaves out Taiwan) and labels this successful system for stopping COVID-19 spread as draconian. I imagine that the NSA/CIA/FBI already has such a system in place that maybe it would just needs to get scaled up to cover everyone in the US. It's too bad the people in the US can't trust their government to ramp up and use such a tool to stop COVID-19 and then shut down the system afterwords. The Patriot Act proved that once given special powers any limited time provisions just keep getting extended forever. Some people born after 9/11 are adults at this point.
The ease with which money can be moved in and out of money market funds mean that it’s probably unlikely that anyone has a long term balance of over $2000 or so in a savings account. At those levels the difference in interest rates is dwarfed by fees etc.
If I can just add a slightly less critical point to the above — yes, the $5 price turned me off, but I think it's a great concept. As I read this, I had physical revision cards in front of me, filling them up with formula prior to joining a lecture, so I could use them for reference.

Would I use this for book marking formulae and research? Potentially. But would I pay for it? Sadly not.

It's a great idea, but there have to be two things to make this successful I think: a useful concept, and a tool valuable enough to be worth money.

Good luck, and don't give up!
Indeed. The article uses “fees” to include tuition but yes usually it’s called “tuition and fees.”
Yeah but the giant protests occupying cities for weeks are not about psychedelics sentences at all. They are generally in support of the state of things, funded by hostile billionaires in hopes that small businesses will be destroyed and that any potential competition in the middle class will disappear with them. People aren't asking for lower LSD sentences, they are demanding an end to "racism" and some kind of penance because a career violent criminal with heart disease passing counterfeit currency overdosed on fentanyl while being arrested.
A particularly nasty case of nominative determinism; giving it such an obviously sinister name was never going to work out well.
I pretty clearly constrained it to genocide.

Are you saying genocide is good? Or are you deliberately ignoring the words that I wrote?
An important part of the NSA problem is that terrorist conspiracies are a largely imaginary boogeyman. The vast majority of its collection is unwarranted. But the pandemic is real, we know that the damage it does is directly related to the effectiveness of contact tracing, and we know that anyone having contacts outside the household is doing an unusual and extremely dangerous thing.

This is more like tailing people who buy bombs and visit crowded public places with them.
He’s saying treatment so someone lives another week is qualitatively different from treatment so someone lives long enough to die of something else.
Also, that impeached lunatic and his enablers managed to kill more American civilians than Bin Laden ever could in twenty years.
The thing that concerns me (and probably any regulatory body as well): a conventional helicopter can make a controlled landing without power. This plane will rely on a ballistic chute? So flying over urban areas at low altitudes, after a power failure it will just fall down wherever the wind takes it?
I was working on my Private Pilot license in the mid-90's. I quit just around 40 hours with my only remaining required training maneuver being a Night cross country.

I quit for pretty much the reasons you give: while I could have afforded to finish my license, I realized owning my own airplane would have been prohibitive. Sure, I could get a Cessna 152 for around $20k at the time, but then hangar fees, maintenance, insurance, etc. were far more than I could afford.

There's a reason the average small plane owners at my airport drove Toyota rustbuckets with the bumper sticker "My other car is an airplane."
Its an insider's journal paper so they gloss over what zircons are although they're the whole point of the paper.

The chemistry of zircons is pretty cool. A non-technical terrible analogy is they're like nearly indestructible test tubes that bottle up whatever contaminants are in the area when they initially crystallized and then they sit there for eternity or until lava melts them (and some lavas aren't hot enough to melt them, whoa!).

So various natural variations in Hf isotopes by location are bottled up by zircons, and when melted into ancient glass the glass liquifies at a half or third the temp required to liquify zircon crystals, so they sit there with evidence of where the materials came from bottled up for all eternity.

Zircon also shows up in radwaste schemes. Despite mother nature and humanities best efforts we generally haven't destroyed zircons over centuries, so it seems a useful strategy to bottle up radwaste in giant zircon crystals.

Weird fact, most zircons are stable at boiling iron temperature. Note I wrote boiling, not melting iron. Liquid tungsten is hot enough, sure, but not mere liquid iron.

Its a pity zircons are structurally useless. Of course it would be a recycling nightmare if they were industrially useful for bulk structures and components. Interesting sci fi aspect, all the chemists I've talked to are certain that Pierson's Puppeteer General Products space ship hulls were based on the idea of industrial zircons as a structural material although in one story those hulls were proposed to be a carbon fiber analog of zircons or something like that. A "zircon polymer", should such a magical material exist, would make an interesting structural material when threads of it were knitted into 3d shapes.
It’s been true since the day the TSA security theater / jobs program started. “Land of the free, home of the brave” hasn’t been a thing since I was a kid.
The term "cyber" has been part of the information security lexicon and if you work in the industry you accept it as reality. Especially if you work for government or a government contractor. Claiming that people who use the word cyber don't know what they are talking about is just ignorance at this point.
"The primary reason for mandating the wearing of face masks is to protect dental personnel from airborne pathogens. This review has established that face masks are incapable of providing such a level of protection. Unless the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, national and provincial dental associations and regulatory agencies publically admit this fact, they will be guilty of perpetuating a myth which will be a disservice to the dental profession and its patients."

Archived snapshot: https://archive.is/6bE19
No problem! It was very interesting!
There's also a rumor that elites are kidnapping 900,000 kids a year to rape them and extract adrenochrome from their pituitary glands while still alive. It's hard to find a reliable source for this, but ah, nevertheless.
"A BBC radio interview circa 2004 given by the former head of the KGB, General Yevgeni Primakov, as well as a former congressman confirmed that Homeland Security hired Markus Wolf, the architect of the STASI informant program, as a consultant for DHS."

Just hard to find the original interview. You're welcome to search yourself, or perhaps discuss something else?
A large part of C#'s advancements are that additional abstractions have been added in .NET Core to make at least some of those concepts a bit more idiomatic, especially around passing segments of memory around.
Looks like a great tool, but its dependencies are sufficiently complex to warrant a Dockerfile. This way it would be very clear what the dependencies are independent of how the host system is configured.
The key point this writer is making

> we are watching the perfect and perhaps inevitable combination of a domestic-security superagency and a President who rejects all mechanisms of accountability, including the Senate confirmation process.

Accountability appears to be broken with a two party system.

Combined with a President who’s willing to push boundaries and a federal agency built to act more swiftly with broader powers, we could see a lot more civil strife before this term is up.
The value of comments and references depends on the software context. If inexperienced people are expected to be editing or reading the code they're more valuable. However, they are expensive to keep in sync with changes to the implementation and the value has to balanced against this cost.

Java and C# did not replace C. They're typically used for different tasks.

Objectively speaking, do we have evidence these enterprise OOP practices lead to better software?
They are both equally bad.

Twitter has already identified the problem, Facebook apparently needs a few month longer. Both are not doing nearly enough.
This is the same with gasoline prices too. CA gas prices are still well over $3/gallon despite low crude prices.
The author is a non-trustable convicted plotter of coup d'etat "Michael Rubin" - nothing he writes holds water. he provokes greece to start a war to "demand" 100% of the sea rights, because of some tiny islands.
This resonates with my experience having grown up in a dictatorship. The loss of privacy can be insidious and feel ‘not a big deal’.
Which lunatic? Be more specific, Usa seems to have quite a few of them as president.
I have always believed there is room for an $xx/year service in the US that provides a virtual bank account number so you can easily switch banks in the background. The decrease in switching friction may actually make banking interesting/competitive again.
This isn’t true in the US. Typically, you can refinance anytime you want, and I’ve never seen a prepayment penalty.

Closing costs aren’t a penalty, as it does take some work to get a mortgage. Although in free money times, even that is sometimes waived by lenders.
State universities — the bulk of public universities in the nation — are already subject to control by state legislatures. The problem is that this central planning capability is not in practice used to improve education and its affordability, but rather to enrich and empower the university staff (and occasionally faculty) as they siphon off public funds, loans, fees and tuition, in a classic illustration of the principal-agent problem. Even the retirement systems seek overtly political ends with their investments.

Unwinding this debacle will involve dealing with the entire university's staff, who will be dead set against it, and who will have contracts that are in place to protect them. The legislators who do so will face extensive public criticism from these highly paid, highly motivated people, who wish to protect their pay. Good luck with that!

(Private universities should of course be free to do as they wish in this regard, because who do you think you are; mind your own businesses.)
It's going to be highly interesting whether Intel can compete in this market. GPUs are quite hard and, compared CPUs, haven't stagnated much.
Yes, I get that. But actually designing experiments that measures the latter case using mice is extremely difficult and probably impossible. Especially because you are designing these experiments in order to see how these cures might work on humans.
There is speculation [1] that the federal officers deployed to Portland include not only government employees, but also private security contractors. This seems reminiscent of "Pinkerton's National Detective Agency". If accurate, this undermines the legitimacy of the deployment, and perhaps explains why official identification for many of the officers is not provided.

[1] https://medium.com/@wkc6428/the-lead-federal-agency-respondi...
I have used several these sticks (Huawei E353, E3131 and others). You plug them in, they are automatically handled by usb-modeswitch and show a few CDC serial ports (one for PPP, one for AT commands and one that I'm not sure what is for). You run ppp on the port (I guess this is also managed automatically by NetworkManager in more user-friendly distros) and it connects you to the internet. Nothing is being installed in the process. (maybe there indeed is some Linux driver from Huawei, but I see no reason for installing it)
I would love to see a two-part program

1. No more government-backed Student Loans. (Tuition would drop like a rock.)

2. Build many more free/cheap community colleges and make that much more accessible to everyone.
Encrypting Your Homelab
Yup, America's tenure as the country to look up to ended on September 11th 2001 when it caved into the demands of a tiny number of extremists.

Land of the oppressed, home of the scared.
Ensembles and Ensembles of Ensembles
It's not for now. It's for the future. At least we are figuring out how to build better oppression.
There are plenty of front end engineers that understand how computer works, how server works, and how to debug under pressure.

It's good enough to debug performance and compilation problems.
There are really 2, 3 or 4 protests.

There's the BLM daylight protestors... There's the "moms" in the evening... Then there's the anarchists/antifa at 2am.

Before you judge what the DHS is doing, watch the videos from 2am. I think many people are watching the peaceful daytime videos and seeing DHS as overreacting. Which it would be.

I don't think it's overreacting to people setting the court house on fire, hitting police in the head with hammers or destroying businesses. You can find videos of this easily even though the "protestors" tend to beat up and eject "unofficial" camera people.

And they've been doing this for 2 MONTHS, way before DHS arrived with a mission to protect federal property, which we all pay for.
Well the have a control in similar countries which didn't partake.
This is incoherent. He speaks on cultural/political/economic issues that he has very little actual interest or knowledge on and comes to very obtuse and banal conclusions. The IDW's schtick is to make your "common sense" feel scientific through flawed logic and appealing to your identity by saying words/phrases like "reason", "logic", and "free speech", without actually practicing the tenets of any of them.

The IDW constantly touts the need for experts, who stand in the face of political correctness, while hypocritically not being experts themselves in the subjects they always want to talk about on public platforms.

To relate this back to technology, it's very similar to designing apps. Everyone feels like they are an expert app designer, simply because they can identity that something feels off about an app, and because they use apps everyday. In fact, they aren't expert app designers, and they are simply identifying problems that most people can identify, and have no real solutions to offer. But because the pain of using the app is shared by many people, a lot of people latch on to loud mouth non-experts for pointing out the obvious and making them feel smart.
"everyone can know whether you have been near them or not."

For a very broad definition of "you" and for an unconventionally small set called "everyone". If you are forced to quarantine, a lot of people will know about your infection anyways, completely without any convoluted mental gymnastics about theoretical deanonyzation possibilities. Epidemic control has always been a very low privacy endeavor and app-based tracing following the Google/Apple model doesn't change that the tiniest bit. In fact of it was fully deployed it could replace a lot of far more invasive tracing, causing a net increase in privacy.
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I'm developing an application for use by the internal users of a public sector organization. There aren't any requirements for fancy UI so I'm just using good old bootstrap 4. However, I think that the defaults don't look as much professional, or if you want "enterpris-y". Could you recommend me a better approach? Ideally I'd like to just keep my bootstrap layout and change some fonts / colors / sizes etc by an extra css style that would override the bootstrap 4 defaults.

Thank you!
Very cool read. Not least because that setup is very close to what I am doing right now, and the infrastructure I have (DS218+ and NUC represent).

Please help me understand your choices. You went for reproducible VMs on your fourth, custom machine. The three NUCs are compute-only (stateless?) nodes for a k8s cluster.

What kept your from making your custom-machine a node as well? That gets you Infrastructure-as-Code too, since your Nextcloud (what I am setting up right now, too) and whatnot are defined in code, using containers.

By the way, since my set-up is a single NUC, I ended up going for docker-compose. That has just plainly worked. Single-node k8s with outside access (only need HTTP/HTTPS for Nextcloud and the like, with reverse-proxying through subdomains for more apps, like CodiMD) didn't prove to be friendly to me (not my field of expertise). I tried had tried multiple CNIs, traefik and contour as IngressControllers, and MetalLB as a LoadBalancer, but could not get it to work.

And even if it ended up working, it would have to be a stateful k8s cluster, and I imagine that adds a whole layer of problems, too. Do you then go for NFS to the Synology NAS? Seems like the best idea, but that will be much slower than the nodes' local SSDs. Do the SSDs then sit idly, without work to do? Seems like a waste. If the deployments/PVCs/PVs are tainted such that they are bound to specific nodes, you don't have much of a cluster, more like a spread-out docker-compose (which still beats docker-compose, I guess, if it gets running).

These are the questions I couldn't answer, or whose answer drove me to docker-compose.

Since k8s has so much more steam than docker-compose, I imagine in 1-2 years, k8s will be the go-to for single-node homelabs as well. What do you think?
As someone who has advocated for strong states rights (a position that’s traditionally not held by the progressive left over the last decade) I find these times to be interesting, and full of ideological dissonance.

People are asking for a federal mandate on masks, but at the same time want no federal enforcement of these laws? How about neither?

I hate seeing a world where “federal police” come in and squash local protests, and it bugs me that previously state rights advocates are calling for it.
I don't understand why we have a lockdown for everyone. If you are old, obese, or at risk, why not self lockdown?

Obese people had 4 months to lose weight to prepare for coronavirus. I do have sympathy for "at risk" people that would lose their unemployment.

But we are putting a generation of students at a disadvantage to protect 0.5% of the population, and most of that 0.5% can self lockdown.
> there’s no particular need to build it off of their contact tracing platform

Building surveillance off the contact-tracing platform would allow the three-letter agencies to track movement of a single device regardless of whether or not you try to sever its connection to the cellular network. You might be able to hide a single device from the network, but would you be able to hide all the other devices around you that are trying to snitch on you?

Surveillance is more than just the technical means of data collection but also the societal framework in which it occurs. Contact tracing, if it worked, would have been a bunch of "good PR" for surveillance in general, and that affects how people will react to similar increases of data collection in the future. How to you think the FBI's 2015 case against Apple would have gone if there was already precedent for unlocking devices if the owner was thought to be infected?
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That’s just how much refining fuel costs. There is no monopoly of fuel suppliers holding the gas price up, and gas stations make very little money selling gas itself.
> Build many more free/cheap community colleges and make that much more accessible to everyone.

They're already cheap, accessible to everyone, and ubiquitous. What would change?
This comment seems mean, perhaps. But, Picasa's facial recognition was far better than Digikam's and I marveled at how Picasa could do so quickly, so long ago, what Digikam has failed to do (until now?).

I've been a Digikam user for a long time now, it's really useful for me, but the whole face-tagging system has been really poor for a long time IMO (eg all faces recognised in one image as same person; all tags recognised as being the last person manually tagged).

It's one thing I'd love to have donated to a bounty on as it saves a lot of time to have working tagging.

I wonder if there are plans to add other types of tagging, object recognition or what-have-you.
What is the life worth without privacy?
It's interesting how I very clearly constrained this to genocide and you're ignoring that.
"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy, instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate. Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."

-Martin Luther King Jr.
We know friend who used to do some unethical marketing stuff, and some of our content are from him, but we also plan to get stories from our subscriber if they found any
I thought this was going to be like https://github.com/rycee/home-manager but it is more system-wide services.
Not always. A prominent counterexample would be Bill Gates Sr. In any case, you don't have to wait for the 2021 report to see the evidence that hunger is a real problem even in 1st world countries like the UK. Mothers going hungry so their children do not can't simply be dismissed as the result of poor life choices.
why should we care about mice? I mean get to me when you test it on pigs or primates at least
The premise of the article has almost nothing to do with current events.

One can dislike how/why DHS was created and also believe that order needs to be restored the area by the feds.

As for the "unmarked cars" picking people up, what is actually happening to these people? Is it catch and release? It seems pretty tame to me.

Should they just let the protesters/rioters burn down the courthouse?

As to whether they are protesters or rioters, ask whether you think Peter Schiff could do what he did during occupy and stroll into the crowd attempting to debate and defend capitalism with the folk (which I think he failed to do at all, but more just the fact he was able to try it there is significant)? The answer is of course not; he'd probably be beaten or severely injured.
exact reason why I moved from Onenote to Typora (for Mac) and Notability (for Ipad)
Did I miss something or are low adoption rates and bluetooth issues the only indicators that decentralized tracking has failed, as pointed out in the article?

The lack of statistics about success/failure otherwise seems to imply more of a "we don't know for sure"?
Also, Switzerland is crucially a very wealthy country.
We should probably change the link of the article to this, I couldn't see the original one due to the paywall.
If you say that, then I don't think you've paid attention to what they did to ROM sites in recent years. No other company has been as aggressive as they've been on this front.
The Past, Present and Future of Workplace Technology
Title sounds like the Fed.
Fun Fact: Switzerland is not part of the EU.
What's the origin of that quote?