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> Are you advocating welding people in buildings?

No, that's a straw man. It's like saying that someone who advocates for an effective police force is also advocating for that force to recklessly kill suspects.

What I am advocating for is mandatory pandemic control measures that are strict enough to work and applied consistently until the job is done, and a population that's willing consistently take efforts to protect the common good rather than complain and resist when things aren't maximally convenient to them personally. That applies not just to first-order responses, but to second and third order responses as well.
Here's some thoughts on why this is not pursued:

What device that runs a browser today is not capable of internet connectivity through wifi or cell tower? Free websocket platforms are ubiquitous.

If you need a LAN anyways, can't you tether and run a websocket server?

Power is consumed. A device-to-device communication is made. 5G does that much better. The vendor has access to the chips and antennae. They're going to win vs. the browser and WebRTC.

Also, if you want to broadcast over WebRTC, doesn't every client have to connect to everyone else?
Where I grew up (south Gujarat, IN) every year someday in September, families prepare multiple plates of good food and place them out on terraces for the crows to eat. They believe the crows eating this food to be recently deceased ancestors/family. The number of plates placed usually correspond to the number of deaths the family's witnessed in living memory.
R&D and political power I guess
As a US person myself, I don't really take issue with stopping extraditions because it would probably be a lot cheaper just to execute enemies abroad. Think how much money Putin has saved over the years. Now the whole Kashoggi mess shows how easy it is for this approach to backfire, so you certainly have to be careful.
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Technically almost impossible. The US have bases overseas, its enemies don't have anything within or close to the US borders.
I think that's true for 2 player games but not >2 player games?

reference: https://int8.io/counterfactual-regret-minimization-for-poker...
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Pretty naive to not understand the concept of allowing these terrorists to operate abroad allows them to more easily coordinate and carry-out attacks in the US, but especially in Europe.
Launchpad is simple to make work. I don't use Mac, but I can use Launchpad.

I do use Windows, in as much as I have to for work, and I still can't make Win8's launcher work.

Edit: Wrong version of Windows.
This is an interesting concept and reminds me of some of the best parts of Covey and Michael Hyatt planners.

Two small suggestions: let me add a new task by tapping anywhere on the screen (e.g., tap Today than tap anywhere in the middle of the screen), and support swiping back. It feels a little claustrophobic. The data model makes a lot of sense though.
Wouldn't a more accurate analogy be a doctor offering them advice on how to better or successfully commit a crime? There's nothing illegal about a doctor offering medical treatment to someone (obviously it depends on the nature of the medical treatment and licensing and etc.)
But usually we despise both suicide bombers and assassins, not congratulate the assassin on killing so few bystanders.

The question by GP is more along the line of "what if instead of spending lots of money to kill fewer bystanders we spent that money to reduce the number of people that are so dangerous to us that we kill them".

Of course we know that won't happen because building weapons helps US companies and building hospitals and helping local people in foreign countries doesn't.
Have you tried PokerTH? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PokerTH
Bexarotene, the drug used in this study, is already approved and available for certain types of cancer treatment. The problem is that the side effects are severe. Severe side effects can be acceptable in relatively short term cancer treatment, but untenable for lifelong treatment in Multiple Sclerosis patients.

Specifically, the thyroid effects of Bexarotene are so common and significant that one study even recommended that patients be given adjunctive thyroid medication when beginning treatment, even when low doses are used: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30903705/

Likewise, the effects on blood lipids are significant enough that patients are frequently forced to take statins during their course of treatment: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29805374/

Assuming an MS patient would have to take this drug for a lifetime, or at least use it frequently, suggests that these side effects could worsen quality of life or even shorten lifespan more than MS itself.

Promising drug candidate, but no one should be rushing out to find a way to get their hands on a Bexarotene prescription just yet.
I'm using Linux distros for like 10 years now and recently I (again) didn't even know how to close a window. Is it Super+W? Super+Q? Alt+F4? All of those 3 might work.
How do I access app preferences? Ctrl+Alt+P? Ctrl+Alt+O? Ctrl+Alt+S? You know, because "preferences", "options" and "settings". All those shortcuts work depending on the app.
> There's no reason to be walking around with a mask.

I see that statement as a lie. Fauci addressed it in the TheStreet interview and explained why he lied. I don’t see how somebody would see that as not-a-lie, but if you’d like to, go ahead.
I don't know anyone that believes it's a conspiracy, but they don't believe it's as serious as the media or the governments portrayed.

Which is actually supported by studies that say infection rate is higher than we think (making the mortality rate lower) and by recent data saying that hospitals got 4 times better at not killing patients (mainly by using steroids and not using invasive ventilators).
This last peak of infections didn't bring the amount of deaths we were expecting.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/06/why-is-it-that...
The anthropomorphism hijack is way too strong. Couldn't help but think "Get in, mate!"
https://sourcehut.org/ supports mercurial.
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Because wikimedia doesnt do shit like telling people what they want to hear. If the consequences of that is china blocks our entry to WIPO, so be it. They already block chinese wikipedia which is something the wikimedia movement cares a lot more about than WIPO
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If you'd ever worked for a giant ISP you wouldn't be begging to work for Comcast.
> Sounds like public domain. What’s the difference between the two then?

Public domain, other than by copyright expiration or (in the US) federal government creation is actually not clearly possible to create in a legally unambiguous way in many regimes with automatic copyright and no direct provision for unilateral transfer to the public domain; the most permissive open source licenses approximate it while providing better legal clarity.

Open source licenses often seek to protect the originator from liability they might otherwise incur from chain-of-commerce relationships, making it safer for them to make the software available without fee, and to prevent misattribution of origin. Other open source licenses, while not having field of use limits, seek to assure that derivatives are also offered on similarly-free terms. There's quite a variety, within the bounds of certain essential guarantees that are central to the common value proposition.
> I am not sure if any of this is particularly useful advice—none of it sounds that hard, and yet in the 15 years since, it hasn’t been close to replicated.

There's a reason for this - PG/Jessica never set out to replicate anything. Same thing went for people like Jobs.

This is the problem with trying to emulate highly successful people. We assume there is a pattern and then try to replicate it. The reality is that these people found a path that no one was looking at and exploited. Many people attempt this and fail.

The older I get the more I realize that there really isn't a secret to highly successful people. The best advice I've given myself is to stop trying to find other's secret and to just find my own. Success is skill * luck.
That would depend on the nature of the extradition agreements between the two countries. It seems ill-advised for Mr. Assange to head to the UK which has a famously "special relationship" with the US.
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Normally it would be good news. Given the recent news though, I feel more like commenting:

Titanic's band also got much better musicians as they practiced more on the deck...
> I don't see it as a lie at all.

Lying is a combination of truth + intent to speak untruthfully.

The video you are replying to at least plausibly demonstrates intent to deceive (for arguably good reason imho, but deceit nonetheless)

The video you responded with offers a different perspective, but it does not nullify the prior video. What is True is true from all perspectives, otherwise it is not true.

> "There's no reason to be walking around with a mask."

From a Truth perspective, this seems untrue.

> "When you're in the middle of an outbreak, wearing a mask might make people feel better, and it might even block a droplet, but it is not providing the perfect protection people think it is."

"perfect protection" is an interesting choice of words. Is he suggesting that if masks are not perfect, they should not be worn? Of course not. But then, why did he say that?

> "And often, there are unintended consequences, people keep fiddling with the mask and they keep touching their face."

And therefore, we shouldn't wear masks?

> "Exactly. It can lead to a shortage of masks for the people who really need it."

Which is the reason he gave in the first video for the deceit. I'm not disputing that this was a decent enough strategy under the circumstances (a mask shortage), but it backfired.

> I don't see it as a lie at all.

They've done a decent job covering this up in most people's minds, but not with conspiracy theorists or highly detail oriented people, and I think it's a shame that people seem frequently unwilling to even acknowledge that they have at least somewhat of a valid point. What is strictly true should perhaps not be ignored. If you want people to "not do your own thinking, trust the experts, without exception, then you would be well advised to be worthy of trust. Or, don't, and reap the rewards Mother Nature bestows upon you.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled."

- Richard Feynman
Again, the problem is that there are reasons they can't. Doctors and harmacists should not be playing gateway keepers. Just imo.

I've had it with terrible doctors, long waiting times and needing to get a prescription every damn month or so.

And God forbid you move countries, that's months of going through the whole process again. All for some non addictive medication.

Some countries have them OTC and it works fine. It just doesn't put money into the system's budget and the doctors' pockets.
That’s nonsense. Federal police arrested people committing arson against federal buildings and processed according to due process. Legal and expected. Makes no difference if the vehicles were unmarked.
To be fair let’s point out that Kanye West probably has bipolar disorder, which is a serious medical condition that really does require medication, and, it’s not really clear if he is taking medication for it consistently.

To exacerbate that the music industry isn’t exactly known for being good for ones mental health - rather, the opposite. They’ll happily let someone suffer if it brings in dollars.

So while I don’t approve of a lot of his behavior (more so the trump stuff than the Taylor Swift stuff), I think Kanye gets a bad rap because people think “asshole”, instead of “someone who genuinely needs medical treatment / support and probably isn’t getting it.”

Not that the two can’t also overlap.

OK, I’ll stop ranting now :).
> If you want to put a tinfoil hat on, you can consider that it may be planned obsolescence, but to put the blame squarely on software, I would disagree with.

You don't need tin foil hat when facing the truth :).

Also, while things you mentioned aren't software-related, they're modern tech-related. Like, last 20 years. Fridge motors dry out because they're being made cheaper, with not enough lubricant put into them and no option of opening them up and pouring in the grease. Touch panels are going on the fritz because touch panels suck (that's often very much software), and they shouldn't be put on appliances in the first place. But it's cheaper, so they are.

Worth noting that there wasn't some big price reduction happening from solid appliances 20 years ago to crappy ones today. Price remained roughly fixed, but appliances started to suck more and more.
I also recommend "Hacking with Andrew and Brad: tip.golang.org" [1]. They are part of the Go team. It's just something to watch the pros doing live coding. By the way, what's with antirez's colorscheme? I wonder if he really uses that blue background or is it just for the video.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rZ-JorHJEY
Is there any way to make Ubuntu web browser (any) rendering closer to MacOS? When I browse the Web on my MacBook Pro, it’s really pleasing to the eye. When I do the same on Ubuntu,- not so much. Is there any way to fix it?
The best evidence we have indicates that most patients who recover from a SARS-CoV-2 infection will retain a significant level of immunity for at least several years, just like with other coronaviruses. So yes herd immunity would work from an epidemiological perspective. Whether it's preferable to the alternatives is a political question.

https://www.jimmunol.org/content/early/2020/09/03/jimmunol.2...
I'm not saying consumers demanded subscriptions. vendors push them because it's a saner way of managing revenue for products that require maintenance post-sale anyway.

that said, I think consumers would prefer subscriptions if they understood how it aligned incentives. one way or another, a product will stop receiving support when the money stops flowing in. with a permanent license, it ends when people stop buying licenses. with subscriptions, it continues as long as enough people keep paying.
No, subscriptions introduce the perverse incentive to release unfinished products and slowly drip-feed fixes. Having to test extensively before a one-and-only release may not drive nearly as much revenue, nor provide a running deliverable stream for a given engineer/product manager's CV, but it is clearly the better user experience.
Am I the only one who thinks watching videos is an inefficient way to learn new programming techniques?

There's no way to copy and it's hard to remember where a specific concept was so that you can reference it again. Sometimes, the video or audio quality is bad enough that you can't even really tell what's going on.
Its a thematic org not a chapter: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Amical_Wikimedia

It was a lot easier to get chaoter status when wikimedia taiwan did it than it is currently.
This looks pretty good and I'll give it a shot, I've been fairly keen on disabling notifications in general so the lack of them here is more of a selling point because I don't feel like I'm handicapping myself.
I believe in Mozilla.and their products. as much as they need to get their admin/ceo pay down.as much as they need to adjust the new Android Firefox UI

Unless there is another foundation with a browser promoting a free and open internet, my vote will always remain with them.
Yeah because those "legions of people" surely haven't done more to erode our freedoms over the past decades than some militants in the thord world.
I guess its time for you millennials to understand and ACCEPT that random people don't align with your values.
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> These folks halfway across the world aren't bothering, nor do they actually threaten my freedom in any way shape or form.

As a counterargument, you can't know that. It seems like this argument could be restated as "I don't trust the US government to dispassionately determine who is a threat and even if they were a threat I am not in favor of killing people as a response." Which seems fair but the world is a complicated place and there are justifiable uses of drone strikes.
>I don’t know what has to happen for people to stop tolerating software as it is.

What we've got here is a question of cost and choice. If my choices are all equally bad, IE: vendor one is not any worse than vendor two, then inertia or cost become determining factors. In terms of consumer software - consumers have been conditioned to have low expectations, and these costs are further reduced because prices are so often free or very low-cost. In regards to commercial-focused packages - again, so often we put up with it because the systems we're using are so complicated and specialized that the pool of options are limited and/or the domain is so complicated that problems are inevitable.

So long as this is the landscape, few software producers have incentives to do the things necessary to improve, and/or believe they can spread the cost of improvement over a long period, IE: don't make the investment until the pain is too great.
In this case, adverse effects from Bexarotene are virtually guaranteed, even at low doses. This study explored hypothyroidism in even low-dose Bexarotene and found 61 out of 66 patients exhibited hypothyroidism: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30903705/

Bexarotene also significantly elevates cholesterol markers and blood lipids, which would accelerate heart disease and shorten lifespan.

The researchers aren’t simply dismissing drugs at the first sign of side effects. We have many drugs on the market with significant contraindications due to adverse side effects in specific populations, and doctors are generally well-informed about testing for these conditions and selecting only suitable drug candidates.
If you find anything cool to do with it, let https://twitter.com/LC_Labs know.
Yep. On the About page Kovid says,

> libprs500 was renamed to calibre in mid-2008. The name calibre was chosen by my wife, Krittika. The libre in calibre stands for freedom, indicating that calibre is a free and open source product, modifiable by all. Nonetheless, calibre should be pronounced as cali-ber, not ca-libre.
If you brake in the middle of the highway (even just to slow a little) when the road ahead is clear you become a bigger hazard than the plastic bag. Double if you swerve as you suggested.
Would UBI just be absorbed by an increase in rent and housing prices?
fyi, you can get pretty far on the basic shortcuts subbing ctrl for cmd.
Using an electrical shock to bypass a subsystem in Android makes me think of Data in Star Trek glitching out when he got stuck in an EPS conduit once.
How does the oversight board work? Does it monitor shenanigans in all elections worldwide? Does it care if the “good guys” and “good gals” are the ones engaging against less sympathetic adversaries? What’s the plan?
This seems like a reasonable way to deal with riots. I don’t understand the outrage, unless people are under the false impression that these were “peaceful protests”.
Wikimedia is the name of the movement, separate from corporate entities that also share that name.
We had that in the early days — Java applets. But the paradigm was a little different because they were essentially Java programs and not JavaScript.
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Chronic Lyme, fiber myalgia, and chronic fatigue are also mysterious illnesses that many people struggle with.
That's cool but memorizing a language doesn't mean he can write good code. You still need to learn the patterns.
As somewhere to start there be some preexisting research on the effects of tax returns on poorer families that I would not know how to find.
Because some companies won't give references, because some people have sued because the company gave a bad one. So you can hand a prospective new employer your reviews, and say "This is what they have to say."

Also, it lets you interview without someone calling your current employer and asking, which might avoid some discomfort.
I'm one of those holdout firefox users. every day I come across more websites that only work on chrome though :/
If radicalization in these countries works anything like it does in the west, then the missiles would be more effective at preventing radicalization if pointed at social media tech executives.
Yeah artists have been doing “hackathons” since day one :/.

Sorry to be that guy, I just hate seeing jargon migrate. The proper term is simply “working on stuff”, or “collaborating” if you prefer :).

Or Jamming, whatever, what have you. A lot of albums in various genres have gotten made that way over the years.
> Your analogy is just bad. Closer would be banning all drivers between a certain age rubric because possibly, maybe, some of them will get drunk and drive.

You know we already ban all drivers "between a certain age rubric"? Try to get your driver's license from age 0-15.
I understand that. I'm saying it's a false dichotomy.

Like, would you rather drink a shoe leather smoothie or a shoe polish smoothie? Neither! Why are we drinking shoe related smoothies at all?!

Why do we need to assassinate anyone at all?
The war on terror has killed easily three orders of magnitude more people than 9/11, and antagonizes the US with the regional population.

It's neither proportional nor effective.
we're talking here about the Total Cost of Ownership of software. people are learning to evaluate for themselves how well stuff works, and buy/notbuy or use/notuse accordingly.

someday there may be a market opportunity for software that is less broken than the usual.

arguably Apple used to occupy some of that niche.
Sure, but until quite recently, OSes were not updated at such breakneck pace. At this point we're hitting what can be seen as industry-wide, self-justifying scam: software needs subscriptions because it's being continuously updated; it's being continuously updated in big part because every other software is being continuously updated.

Still, as a Linux and Windows user, I've absolutely grown to expect my desktop software to work 10 years or more without updates. After that, I can always spin up a VM with an older Windows version.
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>5-15% on web content is significantly faster to me.

Is it though? Would you even notice it?

If there was an already short processing action, e.g. 1 second, now it would be 850ms -- hardly noticable.

If there was some long processing action, say 5 minutes, now it would take 4 minutes and 25 seconds.

Hardly something to write home about in either case...
Alcohol is such an underrated substance it's ridiculous. Its health destroying properties are right under heroin's imo.

Heavily addictive, while there are several great alternatives to it when it comes to recreation and relaxation, which are ironically either heavily regulated or illegal.
Can't make change if you ignore the people you disagree with.