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Conservatives (Like Richard Spencer) have issues with Race and immigration. Disavowing their "issues" is not censorship. I wish whinging "conservatives" would stop pretending they are being censored when in reality its just that no one has to platform their "issues". Period.
I am almost surprised that companies don't get into more trouble over location tracking. Your smartphone knows exactly when and how often you see a doctor.
Agreed - Definitely a different class of problem than "software". There are large barriers, eg. lab contamination, biocontainment, low input protocols, etc; however, technological innovation will help with these.

That being said, we see a future where someone without advanced molecular training can put a sample (whether that's a nasal swab, concerning white powder received in the mail or lab-grown meat) in a black box and get out a meaningful report.
Which, if you look at the history of "re-education", is still horrifying.
> It is not sufficient but noone said so and it would be stupid to even assume that

Err, no, a bunch of people who bother talking about Wayland propose it as a solution to everything. Now that they are being called out on it they are walking back their positions.
> gray-market goods, which are legitimate items that Amazon sellers buy from distributors or retailers, rather than from Nike itself.

Nike trying to cast distributors and retailers as "gray market" is a little gross.
buy a plane, I just did that. you loose all your money really fast
It should be noted that the "errors" in this case are gaps in sequence. Sometimes the DNA strand slips through the pore and some bases aren't called.

The actual base calling is on par with Hi-seq in my experience. In software terms, you are missing chunks of code, but aren't flipping bits.

This is important because in certain experiments, you care less about those gaps (scaffolding for example). So you can get a lot of cheap utility out of nanopore sequencing.
>The vast majority of people do not read beyond the title of the study...

At the risk of breaking a rule, I would like to point out that OP claimed this 28-page report was "editorial garbage" a mere 4 minutes after it was posted.

Perhaps either of you would be able to highlight what, in this, is flawed, biased or garbage?
You make it sound as though no one would volunteer. I think you're severely underestimating the altruism of some people.
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If you want to see what a real run looks like, here is a little gist of my last Nanopore run, raw basecall -> alignment (no consensus)

https://gist.github.com/Koeng101/abc674e1acd575646748afcbcc7...
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I see no counter-evidence in your reply, just invective. So this is not very convincing. Meanwhile Facebook's Joel Kaplan has been running interference for entities like Breitbart[1].

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/6/21357663/facebook-removed-...
EU anti-trust takes harm to competing business into account, but American anti-trust is totally focused on consumer harm, and specifically harm from higher prices.

So unsurprisingly, American tech monopolies are usually middleman-monopolies that offer low (often free) prices while squeezing businesses on the other side. Facebook/Google sells the user as the product, while Amazon is GREAT for low prices, but not so great, and sometimes ruinous for the sellers.
Maybe not clear cut corruption, but a big conflict of interest.

Citadel has a good interest stake in Melvin Capital: https://www.wsj.com/articles/citadel-point72-to-invest-2-75-...

Melvin Capital is the hedge fund that's directly hurting from retail investor actions. That's an easy google you can do yourself.

Citadel stands to lose quite a bit of money from retail investors now and potential in the future. So them giving a regulatory authority 700k to talk about the issue... is it really hard to imagine which way Yellen is going to lean on this one?
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With something that has one quarter the energy density but four or more times the power density, the right place to put it commercially might be between the charging station and the batteries rather than the batteries and the motor. Replace 25% of the batteries with this, charge it in a fraction of the time of the full battery pack, then have it charge the batteries while you're driving down the road. I don't need 5500 horsepower. 390 miles on a really short recharge cycle makes a lot of sense.

If one could do both, that might be nice. But cutting charging time while maintaining most of the range makes more sense than having acceleration bursts to the wheels that never make it to the road.
Nice look. I was a bit confused at first that clicking on a row expanded it: I did hit back and wondered where the page went. I find that generally I'll open a bunch of single-job tabs for later perusal, and I'm not sure how to do that here.
so give an example!
It doesn't though, as basically everyone in this comment section can attest to. This is simply one instance where it's better - looking at it closely, this is actually an open-source program supporting a standard open format better than proprietary software that has its own alternative - pretty common when you think about it.
I hear ya. I have a bit of nostalgia for the brand, myself, though did not participate in any of the stock situation.

It's a tough spot.

(1) 3D Printing -- really good idea; I'm rehabbing my 3D printer for my kids, this evening, so they can print Among Us characters. If I didn't have a 3D printer, I might consider that sort of option, but I'd probably go online first. And that's kind of the problem they need to find a way to pivot away from.

(2) Gamer Bar -- I think a few have panned this idea. I love it, but not for GameStop. Their locations are unlikely to be ideal for restaurant style-businesses. And while it's a different kind of business, they'd still fall under the same regulations which would require substantial reworking of their retail outlets. Assuming "bar" means "alcohol", that's going to knock out many of the retail locations -- any where getting a liquor license/landlord approval isn't possible/practical/affordable. I have no idea if this would be popular, or if it would fall victim to "teen dance club" problems[0] ... often the way I imagine things "should be" aren't they way they turn out :).

(3) Tabletop/LAN Parties -- Not sure LAN parties are all that useful these days, but maybe? Moving into other forms of games seems really logical. Most hardcore gamers that I know are also into a variety of adult board games and all have disposable income.

Assuming the idea is "stay retail and keep many of the retail locations open", I think the biggest problem is finding a product that they can actually sell. I know people still buy games in physical formats, but that's ending at some point. All of my game/software purchases are digital. All of my console purchases are online and all of my used/pre-owned purchases are craigslist/marketplaces.

I stopped using GameStop to recoup the value of obsolete games/consoles because the prices they offered for my used stuff was never competitive and the cost to purchase (often beat-up) used items from the store were similarly not competitive. Granted, it's been years. Offering to sell used products on consignment or with a firm, low, commission would change my mind. Offering both options would cover everyone.

Maybe going back to 3D printing -- perhaps providing customizable accessories to a variety of console components (i.e. grips for controllers, knobs with icons on them, etc) in-store might be an option. I don't know if that's going to be the end-all, but the cost is reasonable considering it offers a huge inventory on-demand. Focus on covering accessories that are niche but popular and offer customization since they're print-on-demand.

[0] Where I live, there were a few notorious "Teen Dance Clubs" that charged cover, didn't serve alcohol, and were pretty much the most popular place for the police to visit any night they were operating for all kinds of minor crime.
This makes a ton more sense. Though I'm not a big fan of flatpack either, it's not quite as crazy weird as using Docker for the works.
I take these type of responses you are linking to as someone trying to protect the establishment. I'm required to have enough money in my account for transactions that I wish to make. If I don't have it, I don't get to buy it. If I want to pay later for something I want to buy today, there is forms of credit.

If a clearing house doesn't have money to do the transactions that they are offering, then that is their problem. If they need to dip into a line of credit, then they can do so at their expense. If you "need a minute" at the end of the day to figure out what you have done during the day, then you are doing something wrong.
Old video terminals are beautiful. I owned an ADM-3a for a period, but gave it to a fellow collector because the flyback transformer whine gave me headaches (he's old enough that he can't hear it). The VT100 definitely lives near the top of my wishlist... I've got a nice pair of Amiga machines, but I'd trade them both for a working VT100 with very little hesitation :)
There's also settlement and reversibility of transactions. A check might be cleared and settled, but later discovered to be a fraudulent check, reversing the transaction.
Have you never watched a drug smuggler movie? Half the headaches are trying to launder the money.

Speeches are the best way to bribe someone. Once they give the speech, it's "services rendered". There's no shady money transfers to explain, since it's all out in the open. There's no risk of fraud. There's no way to be caught in a lie, because the entire payment is pegged to physically speaking in front of a group, which they actually did do. The only questionable thing is the amount paid, which is subjective.
The biggest thing the FSF could do is innovate on economic models that help economically support people deeply focusing full-time on making the software as easy to use, troubleshoot, and understand as possible.

There is a metaphor with Islamic finance somewhere here.
Awesome, that makes a lot of sense thank you
I expect a lot of Redditors will be very disappointed when they realize just how much money hedge funds made, on average, out of this episode.

The WSB moderators really did everyone a disservice by letting obvious misinformation flood the subreddit. It’s hard to view the later stages of the GameStop phenomenon as anything other than a Reddit-fueled pump and dump scheme.
I would bet money that the interaction at Starbucks never happened. The author might have overheard some comments, but the altercation itself truly sounds made-up.

Now, I don't want to cargo-cult elite schools, but yes graduating from one of them sends a strong signal. I assume someone who could get into Stanford & al. is minimally competent since he was able to get admitted and graduate from a tough CS program.
Tangent: why does a car going above 2 Gs feel, for lack of a better word, not scary, but a roller coaster pulling the same feel scary (in an exciting way)?
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Title should be "Mudrick Capital Gains $200 Million on AMC, GameStop Bets" which is more accurate and less clickbaity than the current.
Am I correct in reading that you think stock based acquisitions or employee compensation is all fraud?
I agree with the premise, but there's no way to please populists. If public servants got paid 7-figures, there would be even more outrage.
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There's no picture in the story but if you are picturing something like the Golden Gate bridge or the Brooklyn bridge - this is more like a 2 lane road bridge spanning a 30' wide river.
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A similar thing is happening in Morocco. So far the best theory I heard of why it happens - which I especially respect because it is so old.

The theory is that the increase in reliance on the market to organize one's life leads one to understand the real social relationships in society no longer as relationships between real people, but instead as relationships between material objects, thus alienating people from the societies that are important to them.

It stops being because of Walid at the grocery store that you get eggs, but instead because of The Store that you can do so, so why care about Walid anymore? It's not thanks to Pierre down the road that your driveway is clear of snow anymore, it's thanks to The Snow-shoveling Company, defined by the amount of snow left, the average price, and the time at which they come (regulated of course by The Market) that you have a shoveled driveway, so what's the point in caring who Pierre is?

As you stop understanding the relationships and the value that allows you to live your life in social terms, there is no longer a reason to care about who your neighbors are unless they actively impede you, and the converse too.

I don't know if it's the correct one, but as this sort of phenomenon is so strongly correlates with economic development it rings very true to me.
I've never really loved this advice.

If people use weak passwords, the hash algorithm doesn't matter, they're going to get cracked. If you use strong passwords, the hash algorithm doesn't matter, they're not going to get cracked. This sort of thing only matters for medium passwords. And can be avoided by requiring strong passwords.

It also does very little against precomputation attacks (e.g. rainbow tables), because it makes it take longer to compute the tables but it's still efficient to use them.

Meanwhile it adds a user-perceptible amount of latency to logging in, because the hash algorithm is so slow. That causes users to take steps to avoid it, e.g. by staying logged in when they don't need to or preventing their machine from locking, which reduces security.
I don't see how this will help with wilderness trips, especially with the reduced range.

It shouldn't take hours to charge with specialized stations. Sure, the capacitors will give you a charge in minutes, but a supercharger station will give you a charge in about 1-1.5hr. Timing that with bathroom and food breaks should work well.

The capacitor charge stations would need to be more numerous for the decreased mileage. And with the ability to charge at home except for road trips, what makes that model viable?

Edit for sidenote: wilderness areas don't allow motorized vehicles, so maybe that doesn't matter.
True, it’s not something you can apply everywhere. But there are use cases where the downside is virtually nil.
Tangent.

Any talk of tech people and farmers seems to always change to pot.
A lot of system designers are insufficiently empathetic to the plight of those who do not yet know as much about the system as they do. This directory-hiding "feature" is kind of a "gotcha" in that a new user could waste hours if he has somehow failed to learn of its existence and he is taking an experimental approach to learning about the system (GoboLinux) as opposed to a "read the documentation" approach.

Sometimes requiring the user to know things that cannot be discovered by experimenting with the system is a necessary evil, but there should be a good reason for the requirement.

Contrary to what you seem to believe, the fact that purely aesthetic reasons motivated the designers of GoboLinux to create this footgun is a bad sign, not a good sign.
Depends on the fuel. The speed of the 'chemical fire' (which is what it is) inside a shell casing, for example, is very high.
I had a chance to buy a VT-101 a few months ago, but without the keyboard. Maybe the guy still has it.

I wonder how much effort it would take to connect it to a Raspberry Pi.
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"Nobody" thought some hedge funds or bond holders would win along the ride, right?

Regardless if they were tipped off about the restrictions in advance or not I think they were good citizens taking risks and helping two companies found in distress due covid.
iso-8859-1 (and by extension UTF-8) specify a single-character CSI. Does anyone know if any terminals will accept this?
In the UK we do the tech and the finance in the same city.

My observation is based on over a decade working on trading and settlement systems at multiple major international banks, exchanges.

The infra is creaking at the sides, it is too expensive to fix individually. We're talking hundreds of millions, even billions, at every institution, that they internally decide, repeatedly, that they cannot spend. Every so often a bunch of them try and work out how to build an industry utility for faster, better settlement but can never get past the politics. So it won't change in a big way, not from the current vantage point.

But the world is changing. More countries and industries getting into the financial system, changing retail demand, more complexity for small businesses working internationally, etc... so I don't think it ends with "it's too hard to properly fix this" so let's not.

I am pretty convinced at this point that the world will fix it, as I've described, but from very different starting points to major New York and London institutions, and they'll drag the rest of the industry kicking and screaming along with them at some point... once there's money to be there in size, the big banks and funds will follow.
Really well thought out post, thanks for sharing
Altvista's edge over the competition at the time was that it indexed the most content. But google came in with pagerank and had superior results. There was a 3 year span or so where people just attributed google's success to minimalism. in terms of minimalism, hotbot was a disaster, but it was the algorithm that truly set google apart.

minimalism has its good points, but falsely attributing it to google's success probably focused too much attention to it in the internet of the 2010s.
If you repeat the process many times will it reduce that error rate, or are the errors non-independent?
You chose to listen to the wrong advice then. Our advisors stated "at least 2 years" at middle of March 2020. Their projections for vaccine was too pessimistic. But that's a bonus, and we still see that vaccine logistics is a hurdle to overcome.

You need to sponsor those who tell it as it is.
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Are you sure about that? My last consensus run worked with complete coverage of ~410 bp region. Here is a gist of the raw pileup without consensus - https://gist.github.com/Koeng101/abc674e1acd575646748afcbcc7...

Visually, I think, you can see that it isn't THAT bad (low coverage at the ends is because of how I barcoded the sequences).

I hate to be that guy, but have you actually used the technology? And if so, approximately what year? Unacceptable for what procedure? Do you have any raw reads that have been troubling you?
True, but it was a damn sight better than nothing :)
> What would you rather me be doing to fight it?

Honest answer? You and I, as individuals, can't fight it unless we are right there when it happens. As I have said, more than once now, the fact that we can make choices does not make us omnipotent.

In any case, I'm not the one that is saying everyone should drop everything and go fight child trafficking. You are. I am simply pointing out that you are not actually doing what you claim everyone should be doing.
I spend all day in git, but when the school asks me to install yet another online tool, I want it to be straightforward. I really don't want to spend additional 15 minutes figuring it out on the evening on top off all chores and home school etc.
Sweet. I keep meaning to getting back to finishing my latest version and making the floppies but yeah, time management is a perennial challenge.

I used to schedule appointments with myself but it's so hard to keep up the act, sleeping in and doing nothing all day is so nice.
I use emacs elfeed for my feeds, however I found it frustrating that my different feed categories - news, views, tech, podcasts, etc - all get jumbled up out of the box into one massive rss firehose.

Eventually I realised I could simply use bookmark.el to quickly create filtered search versions of my feeds based on their respective tags, and now I'm much happier. After setting it up, a `C-x r l` (bookmark-menu-list) later and I get a list that looks like this

RSS: Daily News @24-hours-ago +unread +news
RSS: News @1-weeks-ago +unread +news
RSS: Not news @2-weeks-ago +unread -news -hn
RSS: tech @2-weeks-ago +unread +tech

Bookmark.el was written in 1993 by a Karl Fogel in 1993, and it still interoperates nicely with a random newer package like elfeed.
I wouldn't put too much faith in what he says. Seems like if you see something you think is worth $50 per share selling for $300 in a short squeeze scenario, you should sell. This morning, I read that he failed to realize more than $10M of paper gains.

Ok, maybe you're in it for the long run, but it clearly wasn't worth $300. Cash out, buy back in a month when things settle down. Then again, he's been so public with this that if he were to sell and ghost WSB and Youtube, he might legitimately fear for his life for the next decade. Maybe there's something to be said for traders not telegraphing every trade.
I once bought a car, but did not have a check for the deposit on me. They let me drive off the lot with the car and I dropped off the check the next day so this is a pretty decent analogy. If for some reason I was unable to deliver the check I would be returning the car to them at a reduced value.
People with small capacity phones (a lot of people) won't install your app, and may actually uninstall it if it's too big. That may not be priority #1, but it certainly deserves some consideration.
RSS is awesome! I never got the hang of using a read-application, instead I use rss2email to get copies of posts delivered to my inbox.

There are a few different tools for getting the feeds to email, my own is a pretty simple golang application I run in a docker-container:

https://github.com/skx/rss2email/
Or a big Prisoner’s Dilemma experiment.
This is very nicely explained in terms of calling functions. It all makes much more sense now.
The restrictions were at the brokerage level and only affected retail investors.