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It's not luck, Covid is likely as bad as it is because we're so terrible overweight and unhealthy.

There is evidence that obesity and other lifestyle are making Covid-19 worse than it could have been.

But we'll ignore and just enable a continuely growing health problem of obesity.

https://academic.oup.com/jn/article/151/1/9/5981716
Great, thanks a lot for referral! I'm mostly interested in understanding the underlying mathematics at the moment, but I'm sure the practical experience will be valuable too.
If you did switch away from wmii, what window manager would you switch to? I’m in the same situation where after using wmii for so long none of the other tiling window managers feel right.
Ameridroid covers the US market: https://ameridroid.com/
That´s interesting, and it is an important "stick". On the other side, I know some banks are giving a "carrot" to these types of companies by providing a "portal access" that allows these companies to connect their customers with their bank accounts so that the customer can select what to share with these sites.

Of course, once those portals are enabled we enter the Facebook game: Where a lot of customers will blindly give all access to Plaid like companies, and then consumer group advocates will criticize for the amount of information that they are (still) mining from ignoring customers.
We call that group of small bananas "lady finger" bananas in my country. There are dozens, maybe hundreds worldwide. Some popular ones are Nam Wah, Blue Java, Ice Cream, etc
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https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1348619731734028293

Edit: on reading the article, his source for the assertion seems to be Parler employees: "Indeed, a Parler executive told me that of the thirteen people arrested as of Monday for the breach at the Capitol, none appear to be active users of Parler."

He reported that on Twitter as "Do you know how many of the people arrested in connection with the Capitol invasion were active users of Parler? Zero."

I think that's bad journalism even if you agree with his conclusions. It's single-sourced and the source has every reason to downplay their involvement in the events of January 6th. I think that at the very least, Greenwald should have checked those 13 users to see if they had active Parler accounts, rather than just taking Parler's word for it.

Further, the number is inaccurate. The DoJ press release (https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/thirteen-charged-federal-cour...) says 13 people were charged in federal court, and 40 were charged in superior court. That was as of Friday; I can't quickly find info on whether or not more people were charged over the weekend, but then again, I'm not a professional journalist.
I used an ellipsis for brevity. Explain how that changed the meaning of the quotation into disingenuousness?
I imagine this page's creative process to be something like:

- Okay, we need to think of some reasons besides "It's not GPLv3".

- In fact, let's list that one last so it looks like an afterthought that doesn't concern us so much.

- Hmm, no, too conspicuous. Make it next-to-last.
I catch colds roughly 7-8 times per year. It sometimes feels like I have cold symptoms more days than I don’t. I currently have cold symptoms. If I had to isolate every day I had a cough, sore throat, congestion, or sneezing, I’d be under house arrest most of the year. I think it’s vitally important that we have accurate COVID tests that can definitively distinguish a case of the cold from a case of COVID.
That's a fair point, there's some more good discussion on this here:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03519-3

For the broader point, regardless whether or not someone is more likely to have a common cold or COVID given the same group of symptoms, I think the point stands that if someone has symptoms consistent with COVID they should proceed as-if they have COVID -- especially given the current case rate in US.
What would they eat if they were rehydrated?
Well, is it Parler's speech or the speech of it users?

I don't think anyone has asserted that Parler or its employees are advocating violence.
This seems to veer a bit close to the idea of "learning styles", which as far as we can tell don't actually exist.
For: yes, we should have regulation that ensures net neutrality, right down to "complete ignorance of the bitstream".

Against: ISP needs to cover more than just the last mile, and for everything except the last mile, competition seems like a positive thing (though potentially wasteful).

So I'd like to see all physical layer providers bound to absolute net neutrality (service and contracts can never be pulled based on contet), and the last mile regulated similarly to other utilities.
I'm talking about communities with very little other material footprint. Nearly all discussion is on ephemeral platforms. There are no other knowledge bases to refer to.
I grant you that Taiwan had a very small number of confirmed cases early on. Then they closed their borders.

Taiwan deserves credit for reacting quickly enough that they could do contact tracing to eradicate a small number of cases. But you keep missing the point: it's much easier to do this when you're an island nation with a paucity of international travelers.

Even in a year where international arrivals are down by >80%, the US had more than a quarter of Taiwan's population arrive internationally. And that's just visa arrivals.
DDoSing is already an illegal cybercrime in the US. A DDoS attack could be classified as a federal criminal offense under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA)[1].

Under Damaging a Computer, 1030(a)(5)

> The provision may also be used to prosecute
the perpetrators of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, which occur, for example, when an attacker overwhelms a server’s ability to process legitimate requests by overloading the server with a flood of illegitimate traffic.

[1] https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R46536.pdf
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> A Map [with value type = void/unit/() [0]] and a Set are two different things

Not to defend Go or anything, but that's like saying:

| A Array [with element type = byte/char/u8] and a String are different things

It might be useful to call them different names (of course that would require Go to support generic typedefs for `type Set k = Map k Void`), but they're still fundamentally the same thing.

0: which, to be fair, is not the same thing as a map with bool values.
Capitol Hill siege 'may be the beginning of the end of Big Tech': Scott Galloway
Because terms of service are vague and, more importantly, selectively enforced.

Selective enforcement of private contracts is totally legal, and the EU('s executive branch) is uncomfortable with the public policy implications of that when it comes to social media and would like new laws passed to add extra regulation on uniformity and specificity of moderation policies.
Perhaps, but personally I'd prefer any potential life seeding events to be controlled so we are reasonably confident we aren't wiping out a potentially unexplored domain of living things. If we're interested in expanding the frontiers of life I'd love for it to be a scientific pursuit rather than brought about by human error.

However if we're talking cosmically, the chaotic crash landing does seem to be more in line with the more natural unpredictable way of the universe. So who am I to judge?
How is it a ponzi scheme? Previous generations suffered for our (future) wellbeing.

With a ponzi scheme things get worse over time, not better.
>But - generally, having widespread (ideally very sensitive) COVID testing for any type of travel outside of the home is a good thing.

It would also be good to test for any disease before traveling. Flu, cold, just stay home for those, too
I did work at -20C some years ago in Lithuania in one of my construction gigs. It's bloody cold, yet we kind of are( or used to be) used to cold winters and people usually are well prepared: clothes, tyres, etc. At -25C it becomes difficult to breathe. Now it's all good and nice for northerners,but how the hell the Spaniards can survive it?!
> 2- Signing an SSL certificate is a one-time thing.

Certificates are definitely the weak spot here, as many of them already have a poor track record regarding security so probably poor spines too. Certificates requires central authority somewhere in the chain, and if they don't let you in, you don't stand a chance. Self-signed certificates are not gonna fly for most parts, unless you teach people to self-validate certificates with out-of-band ones.
I think Teamspeak defaults to a fairly average codec bitrate choice, it's not great but not awful. You can easily change it to be significantly better than what Discord offers though.

And because it's not running in electron TS voice is a lot more stable under packet loss situations.
You'd then have forks pretending to be "secure" wrt things like Protected-Video-Output-Path, widevine etc. Sort of like Magisk for Windows. Disney, Netflix and many others don't really like that.

And you'd have versions with configurable update servers. And LE probably really enjoys the fact, that they can ask "Hey, next time SubjectX downloads daily defender updates, please add-in the Remote-Adminstration-Toolkit" for any of a billion computers. I'm expecting MS to get a big list soon with maybe several dozen million new "people of interest" that need tracking.
> So how do we guard against this type of attack?

Looks like they compromised the editor. If so, then I imagine checking checksums for each component of the toolchain would work. Though if they compromised the filesystem or runtime then that would complicate things. But still, a hash tree or certificate of the OS and toolchain as part of CI would seem to be a good idea in 2021.
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Are you sure? Do nearly all of us catch a cold _this_ year? I know the flu is way down this year due to covid-related behavioral changes. I'd be surprised if common colds are unaffected.
I believe a lot of the things that got cancelled due to covid-19 didn't really need to be. There is somewhat of a cult centered around shutting everything down without any sense of nuance. Not enough respect has been given to the ability of people to decide for themselves what is in their best interests.
The steps we are taking to reduce COVID spread also reduce the spread of the cold. I would be absolutely shocked if we don't end up having our lowest impact cold and flu season in decades this year. That isn't to say the grandparent comment is correct, just that you can't really use a comparison from prior years as an indication of how many people will get a cold this year.
No it's not. The ellipses in the middle are sufficient to denote that there is a trimmed portion of the quote, especially as this is a threaded post and you only need to scroll slightly up to see the unmodified original.

There's no misapplied meaning created from the cut either, as the final parenthetical unambiguously clarifies that the subjects of the former sentence were part of the group of subjects in the latter sentence.
I just find it hilarious that these are the same people that advocate for an unregulated free market.
> Clang has aged it's both slowed down and reached parity in both compile and execution speed

A serious question: Is it correct to say that any compiler with state-of-the-art optimization cannot be fast, and clang's previous performance advantages were actually due to the lack of various optimization techniques and other features? And is there any investigation and research on the tradeoff of compiler speed/complexity vs. execution performance? Many minimalist purists claim that modern compilers are evil and it's possible to write a small and fast compiler. Yes, but at what cost? And is the cost too large to be justified, or is it that computers are acutally fast enough?
OK, "dumbification" is unnecessarily antagonistic. But one can bring up an online presence today with astoundingly little knowledge of the technology or the implications. So maybe "massive simplification" is a fairer, nicer and more reasonable tone.
The PGP key is E2C73BC53B9118A0.

I can't find it on any keyserver, yet.
Top-down doesn't necessitate state-level involvement. It could imply a small network of like-minded high level employees or executives collaborating on leveraging their positions in order to achieve political ends.

I personally believe that most of the companies performing Parler's deplatforming have had factions waiting to do so since it's inception, but had been held back by their executives out of fear of governmental scrutiny. No collusion, as it were.

With the results of the Georgia primary, the Democratic party will have majority-control of the legislative branch, and executive authority will no longer be a threat. I think Parler's deplatforming was as inevitable as Gab's. Its success with conservative legislators, and Trump gave it a short buffer.

The current administration is on the outs, and the Capitol riot put enough blood in the waters to bring the sharks in early.
> SolarWinds did next to nothing to avoid it happening to them

And how does one stop this from happening to them? Assume 'standard' security practices are in place, e.g. firewalls.

Clearly the attacker was able to get their payload to be executed by a developer in SolarWinds. This payload clearly didn't trigger antivirus software, and hid itself from the developer and the build systems. How does a typical software dev. team guard against this?
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>safety of the marginalized before the comfort of the privileged.

Democrats have an even worse track record with that if you check the statistics for Democrat ran cities.
They didn't deplatform him until he crossed a line in terms of violence; they didn't deplatform him right after the presidential or even the Georgia races were called.
Care to expand on your generally bearish stance?

I've seen a lot of cool / practical uses for GPT-3.
World Education Services (and others) evaluate foreign degrees and determine the US equivalent, the Central Office for Foreign Education in Germany does the same for US degrees and determines the German equivalent.

The equivalence of credentials matters for example once you get into the realm of government jobs with strict requirements, or getting accepted into Master or PHD programs.
Say you need a binary heap to hold some customer records, and another binary heap to store some orders. How many times do you implement a binary heap?
Well do we have anyone here with locked google account who went that route?
> Wayland is in some ways actually better because it removes the massive central mess that is the X server... but then forces every other component to deal with those things, and does so in ways that to date play badly with composability in the software

This is a great example of Larry Wall's Conservation of Cruft principle. [0]

[0] https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/Perl6-Doc/share/Apocal...
I wonder how many enterprises can afford that? I know of one that had a security team that was supposed to approve all dependencies, but it became a joke because it took them forever to approve a package or update, so patches weren't approved in a timely manner. The security workload had the reverse effect of making many builds less secure.

There does seem to be a market opportunity though, for a curated, "blessed" clone of NPM for enterprises to pull from.
Maybe he wanted to tank the deal once they figured out Plaid scrapes financial portals instead of integrates with them.
> but not necessarily disallowing the account to be effectively anonymous

With the average opsec of chat sites, would you bet on "effectively"? Ironically Parler itself just had a leak.

Even if a company currently has good opsec, it can be acquired and go downhill (or turn evil).

In the current climate, this comment could (and would) be construed as implicit support of Parler, with all the consequences. The rich left loves "consequences", except for themselves.
What is your evidence for this claim?
They've been using these lateral flow tests in the UK quite a bit - particularly for university students returning home/to campus (or at least, that was the plan!).

But I'm not convinced the data on their effectiveness really supported using the tests in this way: https://twitter.com/deeksj/status/1340975400726478849

But it was a political "win".
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> They don’t just agree with it, they explicitly use that alt text to justify their oppression.

[citation needed]

"I'm sure the CCP thinks the same" is the laziest, weakest form of objection. You're not off the hook, you must still prove the idea being criticized is wrong regardless of what the CCP thinks about it.

(Like I pointed out in another comment, I think you've misread the alt-text, because it certainly doesn't support censorship).
At one end of the spectrum I need to make sure people aren't choosing dumb passwords and are applying software updates. On the other end, centralizing control makes a very juicy target for hackers.
Wierd, since whois says:

Domain Name: AR15.COM
Registry Domain ID: 984217_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.epik.com
Registrar URL: http://www.epik.com
Updated Date: 2021-01-12T19:30:31Z
Creation Date: 1997-03-28T05:00:00Z
Registry Expiry Date: 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z
Registrar: Epik Inc.

I guess "Creation Date" refers to the original registration of the domain anywhere rather than with the current registrar.
Windows includes code from a lot of different companies and places. Sorting out all the licenses would be a major headache (especially as code is refactored/edited) let alone getting agreements from everyone for a new license.
If you want to keep a truly low profile, I hope you don't zero-index your citations out in public!
> But it seems reasonable to say that if you engineer a thing that may be subjected to unlimited, unknown stress, you engineered it wrong.

A computer is that by design. Anyone using computers is using a system subjected to unknown and unlimited inputs, especially when connected to the internet. (But it can be exposed via employees if it isn't)

Any controls we have at the moment are "this will not happen (under the assumptions we're currently aware of)".

If those companies didn't run this monitoring solution, they would use a different one. Unless the system is perfectly covered with access policies (none are), the monitoring solution is a global access to enterprises. You can mitigate the impact, shard things, etc. but there are still many cross-cutting concerns which will (suddenly?) turn out to be a single point of failure.
Wonder if mega.nz will not block this download.
Parent is talking about embroidery.
I remember trying this and it was OK. It didn't fit my needs however as I wanted to find forks of pages. Unfortunately that isn't possible and one can only navigate revisions backwards, not forwards. Quite a pity.

I don't know how this fits in with IPFS now. dat:// seems to be yet another distributed storage protocol
The terms of the contract likely are just that AWS will give them their money back. Pretty much all contracts have some sort of clause to allow you to break it with some penalty.
By the looks of things the inauguration is going to be a lot more heavily patrolled by the Army.
What he's saying about Parler is easily provable as false:

https://www.abc4.com/news/top-stories/i-have-guns-and-ammo-v...

I used to love Glenn, But I don't know what happened to him after Snowden. He's been an unapologetic hypocritical bootlicker ever since.
> It's highly unlikely that the latter is more friendly to fringe or extremist views

This is empirically false though, at least in the the USA.

In the USA there are extremely strong protections for free speech.

If it was required that platforms followed the existing way that the government is allowed to ban certain speech, then platforms would be much less restrictive, because our laws of what speech is allowed is very pro free speech.
To me it sounds like they hacked the editor/code signing tools to insert malicious code on save/commit by devs. Having iron-clad CI toolchains don't help you with that. Need to focus on how to defend the devs.
This is utter nonsense, demonstrating that you don't even know what S230 does.

For anyone who may be confused, please see:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20201030/09165945621/your-...
What are the pros and cons to moving to a purely populous voting system? Have other countries made this move and how did it play out? I bet someone here is an expert on this topic.
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I am not from the US, but probably not gonna happen due to state politics? As in the whole point of EC is that mostly urbanized states won't overwhelm the sparsely populated ones?
Indeed; the relevant JFK quote comes to mind: “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
The power a media company has is derived from its market share, which starts with zero for a startup, and grows with the successful performance of the company.

Similarly, the effect a company has by withdrawing access to its services is proportional to the power it has earned through its performance over time.

Thus, the power and influence a media company has is not arbitrary. it is a function of its social relations i.e. the percentage of society it has converted into customers, patrons, and followers.

To directly address your example - it already exists. One example: Fox News is selective with its choice of guests. Some types of guests get more access than others. The way the system deals with this is to allow other vendors besides Fox to operate competing networks.
What best practices were ignored?

From what I'm reading here I'm terrified as I don't think the industry can protect from a targeted attack like this. The only thing we have going for us is defence in depth to make a targeted attack expensive (like this attack was), and that there are sophisticated attackers and very many software shops which means I have a low probability of being the next victim.
It's difficult to draw a clear line between what Plaid is doing and a phishing scam.
>I'm a PM for Confluence Cloud and we're always trying to make it better.

That's the problem. It's beyond repair since many, many years. You can only make it worse.

Ditch it! Throw it away, and rewrite from scratch. If you don't bungle it again (here lies the risk, as we're still talking about Atlassian) you'll have a better product then ever in one year.
Parler's inaction and bad faith moderation has enabled the calls to violence.

This is a violation of AWS's TOS which is why they're breaking it.
> The steps we are taking to reduce COVID spread also reduce the spread of the cold.

...and cases are going up, so it's probably safe to assume that there are lots of colds being transmitted, as well. And as I said, there are many cold viruses in circulation, at all times.

Even if you believe that "the steps we are taking" are working, you have to assume that they're disproportionately effective for the common cold in order to make the statement the OP was making. Say what you will about SARS-CoV2, but it's more-or-less like any other respiratory virus in terms of transmission characteristics. There's no particular reason to believe that anything we're doing would stop rhinovirus or RSV, but not SARS-CoV2.
What if the police are militia members too