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> You'll need to educate yourself on the intricacies of apartment building rentals ...

I'm not the OP, but this doesn't look like retirement and this is no my favorite type of work.

> ... but the success is very likely.

It is probably not so easy.
> So the company should fire someone that hasn't been found guilty, simply based on one person's complaint?

No, the company should investigate and have evidence, one way or the other, beyond just the complaint before any kind of final action, though there are some interim precautionary mitigations that are might be appropriate, often.

> Where did "innocent until proven guilty" go?

“Innocent until proven guilty” is a maxim of criminal law; a company treating potential harassers as if the company were either the state enforcing criminal law or, worse, as if it could act only following the state enforcing criminal law will eventually find itself in quite deep civil liability for harassment.
The conspiracy label is not necessarily interesting or relevant. More to the point is the quality and directness of evidence and potential useful reactions.

For example, where novel coronavirus comes from does not change what it takes to avoid the virus. And if Antifa were to make a sustained effort to dominate rural lands then the same kind of efforts that might be used for defense of liberty against any other threat are still the first and best option.

Attempting to understand exactly who is involved and what their motivations are is the least effective way of handling modern life. It makes more sense to be measured and balanced with all information and to make use of best practices based on what is most likely.
This is great for preserving all the old content. It'd be cool to see a follow up project for an ide to author new stuff - as a kid the timeline system made producing 2d games accessible in a way that I haven't seen with JavaScript engines on the modern web. Being able to just draw and animate then slap some scripts on it was a really interactive way to learn
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Product teams deploying code to our Kubernetes clusters are strongly recommended to use resource limits, and we're going to make that a hard requirement at some point.

We haven't noticed unusual CPU throttling, though we do have some workloads that turned out to be burstier than expected and had to adjust their CPU limits to match.

Note that when it comes to subtle Linux thread scheduling behavior, your experience will depend on which runtime you use, and if using runc then which version of the Linux kernel your workers run. We weren't affected by the CFS bug introduced in Linux v4.18 because we never ran Kubernetes workloads on a machine with the affected kernel, and if a similar bug occurs in the future it might not affect workloads running within gVisor or Firecracker.

Additionally, Stripe has historically cared more about security than efficiency. This lead to an architecture where services run on dedicated VMs, which naturally strands capacity and reduces the impact of bugs that appear at high utilization and/or high core count.
Can one simply charge more, to compensate totally or partially for a perceivedly unfair "tax"?

"Charge more" is somewhat common advice. A high-quality business that played its cards well might get away with it.

One generally doesn't want to play a race to the bottom anyway.
I think that people are proposing a conspiracy theory as you've described there; I think it goes along with phrases such as "The Deep State" and "Our Greatest Ally".
> He followed the same formula a hundred times:

Its the same formula used by particular Indian community who came to the US in 70s, 80's and now own most of the motels in US. Put your family to work, save lots of money, use those savings to buy another motel, bring immigrants from your community, put them to work, rinse and repeat and that is how a small Indian community are the Motel Kings in the US.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/2018/09/south-asi...
Given that they mentioned there was a small bit of corruption at one point in the video, I think photorec might even do a better job.

My guess as to the cause of that corruption is that the file was slightly fragmented, but the fragments were pretty close together, and streaming video formats are resilient enough to tolerate some garbage in the middle of the stream.

IIRC photorec should be able to handle this.
A FOSS Flash Player implementation has certainly value, and I hope to have contributed to the cause by starting the Lightspark project years ago. The sad reality is that the Flash runtime is massive and under-documented. The best approach for Flash preservation in the medium term is using _actual emulation_ to run the binary player itself.

Further reading:

https://medium.com/leaningtech/preserving-flash-content-with...

https://medium.com/leaningtech/running-flash-in-webassembly-...

https://medium.com/leaningtech/announcing-cheerpx-for-flash-...

https://medium.com/leaningtech/cheerpx-for-flash-now-general...

For questions: https://twitter.com/alexpignotti
>Again, the probability is a way to describe the balls themselves, not just our knowledge.

Probability is about the fact that you don't know everything about the balls themselves. If you could make 100% predictions then your knowledge of the balls would be equivalent to the balls' description.

Why do you even use "describe the balls themselves" to describe this situation? From the perspective of probability you just set an upper bound to how much knowledge you could possibly have about an object, it's still knowledge.
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I find this a good read overall. Not because it's perfect, but because we simply can't tolerate lies to go unchecked. We've witnessed one of the most advanced democracies in the world, susceptible to unsubstantiated claims, wild conspiracy theories and workplace abuse. This can only stop when people know what they're truly dealing with, and speak up, using their freedom of speech and can do so without undue reprecussions.
Humble Bundle seems like a good deal. They have a built in audience and you’re guaranteed visibility / promotion.

The other 2 are a total scam unless you get put on a featured page. What’s the value of being alongside 1 million other apps with terrible discoverability?

Developers still have to do all their own promotion and drive customers to the platform for purchase, but then Steam or Apple get 30 % for ringing through the transaction. IMO those 30% fees would drop to 10% very quickly if there were competition.
> I am sure the flat earth stuff and the 5gs are manufactured conspiracies, for the sole reason of developing a mechanism to basically discredit any public suspicion once something gets slapped the "conspiracy theory" term.

Also "vaccines cause autism". There was well documented fiasco around swine flu vaccine (pandemrix) that seems to have given narcolepsy to some people, but more often than not bringing that up labels you as an anti-vaxer and noone wants to listen. It's ironic that article speaks about "thought-terminating cliches" where some conspiracy theories are used as such to cover actual issues.

My point here is that most issues are subtle: I'm happy I was given polio vaccine when I was a child, but I don't trust pharma that much and I'd rather not take anything that didn't go through years of testing and I think big pharma's bad reputation is well-earned.
On my mobile so hard to go.into detail, but take a look at 6rd and the Linux 6to4 tunnel driver. You can assign a prefix to the overlay, then each machine's IPv4 becomes a subnet, and packets can be routed by the kernel knowing only the destination pod's IPv6 address.
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The same formula worked for Indians as well who dominate the motel industry in the US.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/2018/09/south-asi...
> From a scientific point of view, the problem is that there are no definition of what a "conspiracy theory" is.

But there is, isn't it?

I mean, it's a theory regarding conspiracies.

And colloquially, the theory is supported by no rational basis or evidence, or it's basis is so twisted and convoluted that its main premise isn't even falsifiable.

> And then there are theories or rumors that happened to be correct after all ( watergate, contras, etc).

You're confusing hypothesis with conspiracy theories.

Hypothesis are open questions that are falsifiable and verifiable.

Conspiracy theories are illogical leaps of faith supported by barely any rationality.

There was evidence supporting the theory that Nixon was engaged in shady tactics to steal the election. There is absolutely no evidence that "the masked singer" was produced to condition the public to believe that wearing a mask was cool.

> This is not a black or white thing.

It pretty much is. At most, the shade of grey between the blackest of blacks and the whitest of whites is very thin.

If someone is presenting baseless assertions as facts supporting a conspiracy that is supported or hinted by no rational basis whatsoever then where's the doubt?
> And if they don't want to, it's not the companies place to babysit and play judge and jury.

It's absolutely the companies enforceable legal obligation to effectively prevent (including terminating ongoing) sexual harassment even if there is no crime, crime report, or criminal law enforcement action.

Sexual harassment overlaps with a variety of crimes, but it doesn't require a crime, and the employer is civilly liable for it no matter if the individual causing the problem has committed or been investigated for a crime or not.
>What have you learn about the coin's true flip probability?

Nothing because you only tested the coin flip machine in aggregate. If you have a different throwing mechanism the results could be completely different.
Amazon's ads are 10x cheaper than Google/FB etc ads, that's why many brands remain amazon-only - they can't afford to advertise outside of it with their narrow margins.
I do code in every languages I want to code with... and this website has the curious ability to show me synchronicity everyday I visit it...

THis is strange & scary...
Sometimes the design space is so limited though (I'm talking in general here), multiple people will inevitably arrive at similar designs. I've felt this myself with mobile design which can be really constrictive. Once you enumerate obvious interface variations, weigh up pros/cons, discard the obviously bad ones, iterate a little etc. you can come up with something you think is unique but has been done many times before.

I was designing a mobile paint app for example and had to make choices like how you bring up the colour picker, move layers, change tools, preview brush settings etc. There's only so many ways to do certain things on a tiny screen.
> I don't, and neither should the company, which is why they should call the police.

Sexual harassment generally is not a crime (though it overlaps with some crimes), and even if there is a crime involved the police and public prosecutor are under no obligation to do anything about it.

The employer, however, is under an enforceable legal obligation to do something about harassment.
I hate endless chats. Not matter if it is work or my personal life. If I need to do focused work, I switch off Slack. At the same time, I love emails with long, detailed, well-thought points.

So, for my team (after trying quite a few options, with Slack being a no-go), I went for Basecamp. To a large extend, it is email-like, with chat and to-do lists as features (so can be used when needed), not - the core.

However - do you know some BC-like tools for community building (edu/gaming)? Discord is considered the go-to solution, but it lacks "posts" for more focused content.
EPITA is not part of the French elite school system. It couldn't even deliver an engineering degree until 2010, and considering the curriculum, I am surprised it could, but I guess it is all part of degree inflation that we see everywhere.
> The alternative to an App store with a 30% cut on everything is a store without free apps and a complete ban of in app purchases.

Where do I sign up for this dream store? I’d be pretty happy to see all the low effort skinner box trash disappear overnight.
This is not a systems problem, but an emotional pattern.

To break down that "setback" feeling: it often feels like one must "make up for" that setback, i.e. to get back where one "should" be. This causes one to move the goal posts further and further in order to save one's ego.

Inevitably, the goals to "save" one's ego become more outlandish and impossible, further setting one up for feelings of failure. These failure feelings often cause one to retreat to the passive, short-term pleasurable / long-term destructive habits (e.g. procrastination, substances, video games, etc).

That stuck feeling happens because it feels really hard to let go of that narrative, which causes these Emotional Phugoids [0] that ultimately lead to further inaction.

There are various things that have worked for me, but most of it is around acceptance and recognition of this pattern. Meditation helps too, to recognize that voice that says "in order to make up for pissing away 2 days tweaking your Emacs config when you need to write that unit test, you must finish the project by the end of the week!".

In addition to meditation, practicing boredom has been enormously helpful. If you can step away from that feeling of always needing to use every second of your time to the max (e.g. catching up on twitter while using the bathroom), it can help close those mental open loops. When one frantically is trying to listen to podcasts at 2x speed while reading a tech blog post while getting jostled around on Caltrain (at least when we used to do that...), your brain just lobs these open problems at you and it's easy to get overwhelmed.

I find these self-binding contracts to be a smaller portion of the equation for making progress in life. I know people who have one note on their phone with their TODOs that are successful and people who have email auto-responders, a bunch of accountability buddies / apps, and a mindmap / Zettelkasten / Roam / Notion account that looks like the graph of sites on the internet, yet they accomplish nothing.

Relying on a system of any sort without changing your brain through emotional work is attempting to build a house without the foundation.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phugoid
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I have not heard an effective way to address the empirical fact that lies are easier to make than truth. It is quite easy to make up a conspiracy, as ill-defined as that term is, and spread it. It is much harder to craft an argument against conspiracies, since it requires adherence to the truth. It is easier to create chaos than order. Then there is the additional factor that onlookers might just see it as baseless arguing---whom do you trust unless you do careful fact-checking (but which repository of "facts" can you trust?). Somewhat related is that "common sense" thinking is often flat out wrong. Sometimes, truth is counter intuitive.

Humans will always fall prey to grifts. And the problem of conspiracies in our age seem to be grifting at scale.
An alternative to annoying phone hotlines
Or Wire...they probably belong already to a 3-Letter Service (with the swiss-stamp of security and trust on it)
First, it's not "free". It's just not paid for by those who'll benefit from it.

Second, that cost could be paid - or not - by those who purpotedly stand to benefit from this program (the elderly). If you prefer care providers whose staff aren't defficient in Vitamin D, change your provider.

Third, who's to say these vitamins are going to be consumed, rather than resold?

The UK has become such a joke. Even when the so called conservatives run the government, it reminds me of China or North Korea.
What is the distinction?

There’s not a whole lot of science about the effects of radiation on life and there’s not a lot of science about factors that influence how bad a corona case turns out.

Of course its far fetched to say 5G causes corona, but I would say it’s only unlikely it influences it. There is no proof either way. Ignoring that uncertainty is not science.
My guess would be some sort of Tesla CyberTruck or SpaceX StarShip stainless steel promo.
99 cents is a very common price point for paid phone apps, and when Apple originally introduced its fee structure, there were some doubts if they'd manage to even run this at break even.
your bias is leaking pretty heavily
When a side is able to conjure almost majority of a huge population, there are real unresolved issues these people care deeply about. Democracy is still the best measure we have that confounds even expert opinions. As it is self-integrated, it co-depends on the larger self and identity of the population.

What is needed is to resolve those issues, while not succumbing to populists who seek to create enemies and destruction.
I’ll choose the naked credit card field to give the merchant more money since I’m not responsible for any fraudulent charges either. I know it costs me time and money to have to dispute charges, but I’ve never had to in 15 years of card usage, and the couple times my card number was attempted, the bank’s system had already flagged the transaction for me and asked me to verify.

Basically, I see no value in PayPal to be in a credit card transaction. However, I wouldn’t do the same for an ACH/debit card transaction.
Since blender has a built-in game engine isn't blender the blender of game engines?
I've been blogging since 2004.

Started with a home-built system in bash, moved to hosted Movable Type, then switched to Blosxom, and I've been running Blosxom in static mode since 2007.
This smells like marketing promo start to finish. My guess is Musk.
Not from stripe, but I've seen pretty bad CPU throttling.

Often see quota's get exhausted through short bursts that don't show up in metrics that then causes CFS throttling to occur even though it looks like the pod is no where near its limit. Also struggled with application startup requiring far more CPU than at runtime leading to ridiculously slow startup times if you had a low limit.

So far our solution has been to just remove CPU limits, but hoping things will get better.

Removing the limits really improved our latency tail, and so far hasn't resulted in CPU saturation at the node level but your mileage may vary
Wow, that is completely wild. I can't say I've ever been browsing someone's personal site before and suddenly found myself playing Commander Keen then Doom.

Too bad it's so hard to actually play those games on Mac without triggering shortcuts like switching Spaces etc.
Your argument is actually addressed in the article:

> It may be worth acknowledging the fact that certain conspiracies – like Watergate – have occurred in the past, but they were supported by incontrovertible evidence rather than rumour and supposition.

Even if they turn out to be true, those were all conspiracy theories before there was sufficient evidence for it. And you would have been a conspiracy theorist had you believed any of them without sufficient evidence.

Being a conspiracy theorist is not about whether your theories are true or not. It's about what kind of evidence you use to support your theories.
So clients actually shout at consultants? Guess somebody's parents didn't raise them right.
I'm not sure that religion is a good example. I mean, religion is quite openly a set of guidelines and rules that establish how a society should operate. Some religious text books use parables as rhetoric devices to show scenarios that illustrate how behaviors harm or benefit society. Thus, we don't need the supernatural to be religious. It helps, but it's not necessary.
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Vitamin D is an essential micronutrient with a central role in maintaining health. I recommend prudent daily sun exposure to support the natural production of vitamin D in our skin as one of the best ways to get enough of this vitamin. But if, like many these days, you have few opportunities to go outside due to work, school, or weather, you may be at risk for vitamin D deficiency. Here are more info on vitamin D: https://www.canadapharmacy.com/
> On the other hand, it's also possible that Fortnite's Android woes were due to artificial hurdles (e.g. requiring users to first navigate menus to allow "unsafe" side-loading). I suspect they don't have this difficulty on PC where it's just a simple go to website->download->install.

I suspect this is a big part of it. I chickened out installing a 3rd party App Store once because Google’s warnings sort of make it sound like you’ll lose the permission prompts on individual apps. Even side loading a single app I think it might be a bit ambiguous.

No matter what the details are, side loading is always an intentionally degraded experience regardless of platform based on my experience.
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Steam doesn't force a payment provider for in-app purchases unless a user chooses to pay out of the Steam wallet and a developer has added support for it. Quite a few F2P games on Steam collect credit cards unlike what Apple/Google allow developers to do.

Steam also has a ton of social network features like chat/communities/etc.. and they support multiple platforms. They also reduce their cut to 25% and 20% above $10 million and $50 million respectively.

Developers and users are completely free to use or not use Steam, GoG, Epic, Itch.io, or others. Quite a few developers do pre-orders on Humble, and then sell on Steam, etc.. You're stuck with Apple/Google TOS for the vast majority of apps regardless if you're the developer or user. Epic couldn't possibly bring the same lawsuits against Steam, maybe the consoles, but even they allow different in-app purchase payment providers (F2P games collecting credit cards again) and subsidize the consoles quite a bit at the start of each cycle.
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They’ve just tried the ‘trumpet medicine as effective, then discredit it as ineffective’ cycle for the second time, now with remdesivir. I don’t know if this is malice or incompetence but I do know that taking their stories at face value, without verifying yourself, is not the smart thing to do.
That's not really true, most conspiracy theories do not withstand even the most basic scientific scrutiny and are not scientific theories.
The biggest improvement I measured was about 15x. I'd say you can get 3x most of the time (go down to 33% of previous runtime).
If a seller has the ability to sell at a higher price, they will, regardless of their expenses. If the maximum possible sale prices do not result in revenue exceeding expenses, then the seller will go out of business.
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I believe the point being made was that in the 50s and 60s in the US there was a large domestic market that had almost no foreign competitors (either they were still rebuilding form WW2 rubble or were way behind US tech) and those same foreign markets were mostly open for US exports. In a lot of industries there was probably a good foreign competitor at the top-end, a few low-end foreign companies, but the vast middle of the market was exclusively owned by US companies for at least two decades.
> In fact Steam kills the whole "Apple store is a gouge" premise stone dead. It literally is just a distribution mechanism on desktop computers, where you absolutely can side load apps and games as much as you like, and they're still considered very much worth 30% by the market.

Are they?

Look at how insane the backlash from the gaming community has been over Epic opening their own store, or how gamers acted when EA opened up Origin.

Steam also provides significantly more for their 30% than Apple/Google do for their storefronts.