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It’s a known side effect of dengue immunity acquired through getting infected with it. The vaccine was approved hastily and without addressing this concern - it is not “a known side effect of dengue immunity” but a side effect of prior infection, avoiding which was the whole point of the vaccine.

There is no reason to believe that SarsCOV2 infection has a similar problem (ADE) or causes a similar long term issue - but it is too new to be sure. And if it does have an ADE issue (or similar) it is possible the vaccine will trigger it like the virus (as happened with this particular dengue vaccine, but which can potentially not be an issue with a different vaccine)

And it’s also possible that the antibodies matching the protein chosen will attack another similar protein in the body with some people - and will cause an autoimmune condition. It is unlikely, but possible.

That’s why vaccine safety profiles are usually tested for years before approval for general population. These vaccines have had exactly 2 months wide scale safety evaluation.

I am very hopeful they will turn out safe; but our knowledge of their safety profile is very far from our usual level at the time vaccines are approved, especially with respect to long term safety.
To be fair, this happened, note the "Church arsons and attempts" chapter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Norwegian_black_metal_sc...

In 1992, members of the Norwegian black metal scene began a wave of arson attacks on Christian churches. By 1996, there had been at least 50 attacks in Norway;[2][27] in every case that was solved, those responsible were black metal fans.
So, I went down the link, found a big photo, with really small fonts over it, and maybe potencially interesting content,

But could not read it, because is mostly very light gray fonts over a clear white bright background.

I would suggest to double-check UX
I'm the author of a Swift framework for working with Tiled tile maps and want to thank you for your work; your site was invaluable in helping me wrap my head around hexagonal grid mapping & pathfinding.

There is truly nothing out there like it. :)

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First Apple product I've seen that doesn't have a giant Apple logo on it.
From what I can tell both run better on the M1 Macs than on previous Macs with integrated GPU (if that helps). Other Blizzard games run extremely well like World of Warcraft, others like StarCraft Remastered do not yet run at all though.

I am working on getting more game reports as well as getting the accuracy (& confidence) of the reports up.

Perhaps I should add a feature for getting notified once a playability status changes from not playable to playable?
I have a similar feeling about some of the other design features such as the carrying case and the watch style "winder". They seem overly fussy and lack cleanness IMHO.

I simply conclude these are not designed for me. I think I prefer my current QC35s

I do note though that they are not really branded as such. It's just that Apple's styling is very distinctive. My Bose headphones for instance feature an embossed Bose logo on each ear.
Not to pile-on, but I've used envkey in the past and would definitely recommend it to anyone: https://www.envkey.com/
Is there any indication that there is some specific acute problem, such as an increase in percentage of society that becomes radicalized/violent, over other times in human history?

Is this a "something must be done!" because it's on the news, or because it's an actual new problem warranting special attention?
Because their bluetooth implementation is garbage compared to apple's.
Technically, nothing prevents you from installing AOSP on these smartphones. Even better, you can have lifetime updates and verifiable drivers. In practice, GloDroid exists on Pinephone [0], but it's far from usable.

[0] https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=10613
Ok, can you explain to me how you do it? I have AirPod pros and the only way I can switch between devices is to go to the Bluetooth menu on the device I want to listen to and tell it to connect to the AirPods. That’s fine, and it doesn’t bother me much, but it doesn’t seem especially fast or magical to me. Is there a better way?
> That puts it in the same price category as: Sennheiser HD660S, Audeze LCD-1, Beyerdynamic DT1770/1990, Grado RS2e, among many many others.

It looks like none of these are wireless, so I don't think the comparison is accurate.
The nasty pretend exchanges between coworkers on this page is a really depressing way to highlight this tool: https://www.qt.io/design
> you need to have a subscription for as long as you distribute your software with Qt6 under the commercial license!

Seems reasonable? As long as you're getting benefit from Qt by distributing software using it you need to keep paying for it?
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Well if you are the type of guy to buy this headphone, you'd probably also own a macbook to watch movies on.
Whew, I forgot I was looking at the US price…up here in the frozen tundra of Canada, they’re $880.27 after taxes.
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I would really love to see the results of a blind comparison to a range of sub $100 products. $549 for headphones is just wow.
Most of the other large car companies have debt loads over $100 billion. This means two things:

- they have significant amounts of capitalization that don't show up in their market capitalization. "Enterprise Value" (which includes debt) is a more accurate representation of their size.

- Their stock prices reflect a significant risk of bankruptcy. If Ford doesn't go bankrupt, it's worth a lot more than $9. If it does, it's worth $0. This analyst rates that probability at 42%: https://www.macroaxis.com/invest/ratio/F/Probability-Of-Bank...
I am not sure if that move is especially smart. More like not being a complete idiot by not taking the almost free money people are trying to shove on your bank account.
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They might be the best action movies, but I don't consider them the best Bond movies, bc they're so different than every other Bond movie. They're a different genre all together.

It's not that I don't like them, or even like them any less in general; I just have a hard time considering them to be Bond movies at all. They're so serious, even when being sarcastic and dry. They're not fun, and not something I probably would have been excited to binge watch as a kid, as the other ones are/were. I try hard to convince myself this is just temporal bias, but I'm less convinced the more I think about it.

And I still can't wrap my head around the fact that Goldeneye and Casino were directed by the same person.

I say this as someone who has 4 different actors in my top 5 Bond movie list, and none are Craig. So probably not a popular opinion- but also as someone who's never read any of the books, but seen every movie multiple times.

Then again, I also consider Brave Little Toaster to be a better version of Toy Story 3, for almost opposite reasons, while I still consider TS3 to be objectively the best Pixar-formula movie made. (Unless counting the first 10 mins of Up as it's own entity.)
That’s the feature I was waiting (and continue to wait) on. I think there’s a future there they’re not pushing quite yet.
Companies that have a vaccine are aware of image. They know that the world is watching, and this is a big marketing opportunity. They will make a profit, but long term goodwill is more valuable than any profit they could make selling to billionaires, so I doubt anything will go to auction.

The hospitals treating Saudi princes are real hospitals. So they can win auctions if it comes down to that, because they are invited to them while the rest of the black market isn't. I don't think real vaccines will come to auction though.

There is one thing left: vaccines that have approval issues. Any vaccine that is somewhat effective by not enough (The Oxford vaccine at 65% efficiency is questionable). The Russian vaccine. Any of many that haven't started phase 3 trails yet. Any vaccine that has safety issues. All are candidates for someone to "leak" to the underground. You will have to consider the risks, but it might be worth it to get it now and then in a year when the better vaccines come to you get that too.
It's a little bizarre that Kaczynski was a published mathematician of some note before he fell afoul of MK Ultra

https://medium.com/cantors-paradise/the-mathematics-of-ted-k...
Is it though? The hard part about distributed systems is performance in our crappy real world environment with unreliable poorly performing and faulty public internet, unreliable hardware, OSes, etc. Which is directly at odds with needing TLA+, because if you do need it, it means the complexity of the algorithms is so great, that you won't be able to keep them in your head and understand every aspect of their performance to make something work well. It's similar how people think they can just peek a random consensus algorithm they've heard is correct and easy and make a decently working distributed storage, which is silly of course, it's only good for educational purposes.

EDIT: (Ah, I see you are a TLA+ promoter, that's why you made a comment like that)
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Yeah, but that argument sounds like asking people to use “logmein” as a password so they don’t need to install MDM on everything.

Management of devices without authentication and authorization means anyone can do it. Which is the state of things today (for DNS).
> Apple is my hero in that regard

How does apple becomes your hero when they are selling the same thing ?

> deeply troubling subculture where passionately debating about very expensive cables and gadgets without ever being able to pass a blind test on the claims is the norm, almost like cargo cult

That sounds like the apple cult.

> quickly pushing you on the money-spend-for-audio-performance scale where you are simply supposed to check you bank account

We are talking about $549 earphones from apple here.
Are you trolling on purpose?
with this valuation, I would instead sell half of company and acquire GM and Ford for that money, then it would definitely be 600B company, as a bonus I might as well add some smaller companies just in case like Hyliion

UPD: will acquire Boeing as well
"People are mistaken when they think that technology just automatically improves. It does not automatically improve. It only improves if a lot of people work very hard to make it better" - Elon Musk, at Ted 2017
>a ‘custom’ W1 chip on a device supposedly made for creatives?

According to Apple Bloggers creatives are a small market and really Apple is about serving the 99% not you and the Pro doesn't really mean for Professionals and all the other arguments that get wheeled out when this stuff starts to fall short.
You see the problem here is that crazy has many forms. Like Ted Kazinsky crazy can be smart and intellectual. The writings seem to make sense, especially for a young mind, and people develop an empathy for the cause. People read his manifesto and others like Mein Kumph and sometimes people, especially growing minds, seem to think it makes sense.

YouTube and other videos are much worse because you have full scale productions instead of books and letters. Do you remember the ISIS state videos? Where everything looked peaceful and welcoming? Then when people go there it was hell on earth, some raped, some killed, some even worse.

There’s a line we haven’t figured out between free speech and hate speech. Ted’s manifesto is more like free speech but the ISIS stuff and Nazi stuff is pure hate.
GCP project banned due to false positive crypto mining violation
Have anyone experienced this before? First of all, I'm not mining crypto. I'm just using multiple Windows VMs to run MetaTrader 4 (Forex trading application) for many users.

My project is down for 6 straight days and I'm still going back and forth with their support to reinstate my project.

Is AWS more flexible in terms of policy? Last thing I want is I build my entire business with GCP, scale to a million MRR they suspend my project again due to some violations which are not true.

Thanks
I've seen it do both. I remember the days when it shoved you towards literal Nazis, and then years later I got in a friendship-ending fight with somebody who was far more pilled than I had imagined. Among the wild stuff he was trying to tell me, was the idea that YouTube pushed people towards moderates, and he had a study that was fairly recent.

If this study was anything like accurate, then AT THE TIME it was pushing people very gently towards more moderate YouTubers, in a subtle way. My nazi-adjacent former friend was really upset about this.

Thing is, both he and I remembered and acknowledged the time when it was feeding people extremist views really noticeably. His problem was essentially that it had stopped. I guess my problem is: who stopped it, why, and when are they going to switch back to doing that again?
> First person receives Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine in UK

*after getting approval from regulators

Tens of thousands already received the vaccine during trials. This marks the official rollout with general public availability (pending supply issues), so that's cool. It's just weird that the article refers to this dose in particular as a "historic event".
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It should be compatible with standard Bluetooth 5.0. It would be attractive to use with PS5 that has a SPU specifically for spacial audio.
Sweden had preparations like this for roads and ports.
The article also claims the captured data will never be leaked:

> [Apple's privacy ad is] truly scandalous, but not for the reason Apple wants you to think it is: the way in which this ad depicts how your information is used — literally broadcasting your web browsing and searches and private conversations to those around you — is so misleading that it is hard to call it anything but misinformation.

It's like they have never seen any of the huge data leaks that occurred over the past few years, or that whole NSA data collection system. There is no such thing as computer security in 2020. If there is data on a networked computer, it should be treated as effectively public.

The article describes how privacy could be compatible with data collection in some perfect fantasy world, not the real one we inhabit.
I first herd Einstein on the Beach after a particularly manic period in undergrad. My advisor wasn't familiar with it, and I may have spooked her a bit try to explain it. I think to this day its great background music for programming work, but to me more because it can illicit that sense of young focus and drive that I find increasingly fleeting. Perhaps not unlike how music can "wake up" dementia patients. It elicits a deep base response.

Anyhow, I didn't know that either about his life. Very fascinating.

As an aside I believe I discovered Einstein on the Beach after listening to Hydrogen Jukebox. I wonder how others come about listening to it for the first time. Especially those in their 30s like myself who were born a decade after its success.
It's worth noting that there are specific add-on modules that are only available under the GPLv3 license. Qt6 doesn't have all of them yet, and they (supposedly) will be coming in the 6.1-6.2 releases.

Qt5: https://doc.qt.io/qt-5.15/qtmodules.html#gpl-licensed-addons

Qt6: https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qtmodules.html#gpl-licensed-addons
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That's right. It's just not that easy with other devices.

Not sure how apple devices "just switch", it might be that they have multi-device bluetooth; or they have custom hardware.

But other devices are very "sticky" with their BT connections. My approach is mostly to turn off bluetooth one one device when I want to switch to another.
Occam's Razor is that the authors of that story gave an interview with some security researchers talking about the potential security flaws of some motherboard (a BMC most likely). These researchers may have even talked about hardware backdoors in the abstract (a known potential problem, but whether or not it was actually happening... well... hard to tell from the article).

They then went to a 2nd researcher to talk about "small chips", which is ambiguous. Some researcher was like... well... those 0402 ceramic capacitors are called "chips" (which they are: they're "ceramic chip capacitors").

The authors then got confused, and wrote about how 0402 capacitors were security flaws. Or something. I don't know, but that's how an article like that comes to be written in my head.

And now that the authors of the article are talking about stupid chip capacitors that can apparently take over the computer, they're completely off track and there's no reason to read the article with any level of seriousness.

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> So are you implying that senior execs at tech companies were lying?

All I mean to imply, is that its bloody obvious that an 0402 chip capacitor can't hack your computer. That Bloomberg's authors couldn't understand this fact before publishing greatly diminishes the reputation of the article in question.

https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/i9VdsjZLS_P...

That's a 6-pin chip capacitor, is it not? Please, explain to me how a passive noise-dampening component can hack a computer.
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After seeing similar things throughout the years, I feel like that is very doubtful. When tested, the push for privacy is much stronger than the push for cost.
Qt is great and I get disappointed that the discussions surrounding it often devolve into nitpicking the pricing and licensing terms. Seems people are less willing to pay for high quality tools these days.

On the technical side, the qt quick desktop styling is intriguing. My main use case for Qt is for desktop applications and while qt quick is often recommended I usually go for qwidgets instead. 9/10 times I need a traditional interface with menu bars, forms and tables. While qt quick lets me make nice looking UI, I often need something that just works similarly to how a traditional desktop application works, looks be damned. Im curious if they'll manage to close that gap in qt6 but I'm skeptical which means I'll probably stay on widgets for the foreseeable future.
Every symptomatic person was asymptomatic before they started getting their first symptoms. It might have been few days that they already had the virus on their mucus membranes.
If a person has no symptoms, I think it is reasonable to say they are "asymptomatic".

There is absolutely a difference between 'yet to have' and 'never will have' but I think it is potentially confusing to attempt to delineate between asymptomatic and "pre-symptomatic".

The main concern with messaging that causes confusion in this regard is that a superficial reading of "asymptomatic doesn't spread virus" would imply that if you aren't symptomatic, you aren't a danger.
> acquire GM and Ford

Why take on all the baggage?
Apple has been very successful at leveraging a “complete the set” psychology among the faithful. When you’re happy with all of your other Apple gear, it’s easy to impute — to borrow a favorite Steve Jobs word — the level of quality you’re accustomed to onto a new product you’re unfamiliar with.

Apple has ALWAYS operated at a premium margin, and appealed to users who want quality, but also don’t want to spend time comparison shopping laundry lists of features and components.

These will appeal to people working from home, just in time for Christmas when people are willing to spend a little. With a pandemic raging, if you’re in the market for headphones you can’t exactly go out and try a bunch of pairs on. (Guitar Center is going bankrupt, if I recall.)

So people will likely be happy to know there’s a product made by Apple that fills an additional niche — so they won’t have to give it much thought and will know that it’ll probably be of similar quality to what they’re used to with other Apple gear.
Similarly I'm seeing several comments in this thread saying other companies offer better headphones for cheaper. We simply don't know how these perform yet.
Excuse me, what?! How do you define status? Owning apple gear?
Irregardless of the platform, is there any other brand with better Bluetooth UX than Apple?
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We call that being naive here.
Yes, after less than a year my Samsung washing machine is making a horrendous grinding sound when spinning... I regret not getting a Miele that is likely to work better for longer.
These are in a completely different category than pro audio headphones, they are wireless with active noise cancellation.

As someone that owns a couple of the high end models you mention, and uses my Bose qc3 headphones every day, if you don’t get why that’s a difference all I can say is I highly recommend trying it. If you don’t want to pay $550, then get the Bose or Sony equivalents.

All the audio quality in the world doesn’t do you much good walking down a noisy street, on a plane, or even sitting in a noisy open office. I’ll happily take pretty good sound + wireless and noise canceling over great sound in these environments.

What I’m guessing Apple is trying to sell based on this price point is sound on the same level of the high end models you mention, with the convenience of wireless noise canceling, plus the (gimmick?) of spatial audio. I’m very curious to try them at some point to see if they deliver.
I assure you jazz does indeed exist.
Some people may enjoy listening to nice headphones and don’t enjoy reading about them.

This happens in just about every hobby. e.g. Some people buy expensive golf clubs and don’t know how to properly swing them.
What you're calling "attachment", others would call "trust". Like the sibling comment, my wife and I got a Bosch dishwasher when we needed one because we didn't want to spend a couple days becoming dishwasher experts to save a couple hundred dollars and obtain some criterial best that we wouldn't even appreciate in practice. We went on the consensus around the brand and the experience of people we know who got one.

I'm not sure why Apple receives this kind of contempt for having built a brand people trust for valid reasons (i.e., "I've had a consistently good experience trusting this brand"), going by the comment that's gotten so many bothered here.
So you can be literally infected with vegetarianism now?

(brb writing a novel about a secret agent trying to stop a terrorist vegan organization from putting this in the water supply of new york city.)
At least they don't have a big glowing apple on each side.
> the audio quality for calling is disastrous, disabling (or turning down the noise cancelling) is impossible without their App

Do I have the QC35 II's or something then? There's a button on the side of mine which will change noise cancellation level.

At any rate, yeah, there are annoyances for sure. Keeping open two connections rather than having to switch is a definite improvement, IMHO.
Wow, that’s great! I can’t wait to read about it for the next decade and never see an actual product using it.

Seriously though, battery science must be as hard as they say. Every six months I read about some promising new development... that never, ever filters down to consumers.
I can get behind this mentality. It's not mine, the only Apple products I owned were iPod nanos, and compared to what was on the market back then, they were really good.

Always trying to get the best for the smallest possible price starts to drain you. You get to a point where you say "I trust them and I can afford it" and that is ok. I wish I could do that.
Been using my Grado RS2 headphones for around 18 years. Their repair service is excellent! Also I expect each Grado headphone to have a overall lower carbon footprint.

I did notice the Apple website does not list the Frequency Response specs.
This comment gave me a good chuckle. I appreciate the honesty and self reflection