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"There is absolutely no public welfare benefit in creating statutory minimums on wages, benefits and working conditions"

This is so flat wrong, have you ever bothered to read how theae laws came about? Maybe you should not assume that people who put them in place arw idiota.
Common tactic is to teach at the level of what the school wants kids to be at.
No matter how many or if any kids are at that level.
>which are typically fairly limited for any given generic

Nonsense. Aspirin is a generic drug. Generic drugs are widely produced because a) again, anyone can make them so b) profit margins are very thin. Thus, c) the only way to profit is through volume.

HCQ is a very common generic drug; it is given prophylactically to those traveling to malaria areas, for example. Any COVID19-driven short-term shortages are going to affect the manufacturers' bottom lines in relatively small ways. Again, I ask: What evidence is there that Trump or anyone else had a financial incentive to untowardly push HCQ?
Doesn’t a parent have to stay home with the kid anyway since everything’s remote?
What? He is not talking about targeting anybody.
Even the claim "the USSR produced a billion tons of steel while causing only several million people to starve to death in perfectly avoidable ways" doesn't really pose any problems for the theory that its economic system is fundamentally incapable of working.
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None of those rules are worth the cost. Identity theft, created by the concept of centralized identity, costs billions of dollars. Investigations of those other crimes are still possible without government-mandated privacy invasions by banks, and the privacy invasions are a huge cost in themselves.
Thinking about it a bit more, Reddit is a really good example because it launched and got popular before the iPhone or the App Store existed (2006 or so). It was a fast and minimal site back then, similar to what Google used to be.

Either the existence of the mobile app, or the drive to get people to install it, ruined the website. It's slower and has poorer usability than 5 years ago, and also 15 years ago.

Twitter is another company that existed before the App Store and the SPA trend. I noticed they recently turned off the ability to see the 280 chars you care about without having JavaScript on :-(

It's trivial to have a no-JS fallback, and they had it, but turned it off.
Something funny happened during the windows phone era. Eventually, microsoft made more money from android patents then from windows phone sales: https://www.onmsft.com/news/microsoft-makes-more-money-its-a...
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> If reddit or nytimes has a bloated, intermittently failing SPA site, that's an annoyance. When it's a form to apply for unemployment, ACA health care, DMV, or other critical services, it's a critical failure.

Unfortunately the incentives are backwards. Typically governments have to choose the lowest bid. Those private companies you mentioned can make more complex tradeoffs.

Sometimes, of course (cough Florida unemployment and covid tracking sites), failure in performance is by design.
If you write a program that can write out text files, do not test it on its own source code.

Trust me on this.
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There is only one way to fix this problem folks. Privatize the EPA, deregulate wastewater storage, and use the money saved to give the rich a tax cut. The rich will then trickle down into the reservoirs to save us from these problems.
And if it is happening, we might hear about that in a few years' time, if it's discovered, and if it's brought to light in circumstances that are conducive to the vendor making a public disclosure (eg. which are impossible to cover up).
...which is also wrong. Because if you read the article, the insurance company footed the bill for the cleanup.
The UDM, UDM Pro, and I think _all_ newer controller software require cloud login at some point in the process.
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Passive immunization with broadly neutralizing antibodies have been shown to prevent HIV infection in various animal studies. The goal is apparently to make the immune system able to manufacture such antibodies. The human immune system is fundamentally able to come up with these antibodies on its own, as some HIV positive individuals do develop them, but at least during natural infection they don't appear in everyone.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4604566/

However, antibody levels won't be as high in vaccinated individuals as they are in those passive immunization animal studies, at least not forever. The body can't afford to produce full levels of antibodies for all antigens all the time. Instead, human bodies reduce produced antibody levels some time after the event that triggered the production of the antibodies. The immune system remembers the antibodies it has come up with, and can ramp up their production quickly if the antigen is re-encountered, but the question is whether this reaction is quick enough to prevent HIV infection. IIRC people with who produce broadly neutralizing antibodies naturally still eventually develop AIDS, if left untreated. Time has to tell if vaccinated individuals behave more like those animal models, or more like that subset of people who produce broadly neutralizing antibodies a few years post infection.

Until now, every vaccine for HIV has failed, and there have been many attempts. But you never win if you never try :).
Looks like a basic ransom request but pushing malware to the ‘85 million’ devices through automated automated would be far more damaging.
Think about South Africa under apartheid. It was doing great financially. Much better than most (or all) African countries was it not? Yet much of its population didn't have a right to vote.

What good is financial progress if most of it goes to a minority and much of the population can not make things better because they cannot even vote?

And Southern States before Civil War, were also doing great financially. Is that all that's worth discussing?
I encourage reading the 'Background' and 'Introduction' sections of each of the PDFs linked below. I quote below some relevant paragraphs that may help you and others discuss this. Note that on these webpages, the 'Download' link is above-and-left of the instructions.

— "Arm SystemReady Requirements Specification" v1.0(A) defines SystemReady as:

For hardware, the Arm SystemReady Program defines a common BSA (Base System Architecture) specification and a set of market specific supplements. For example, SBSA (Server Base System Architecture) supplement specification is for the server segment. The common BSA contains only the bare minimum requirement to deploy an operating system. The BSA is a baseline and, as such, there is no limit on differentiation and special features that can be built atop the base platform, per the market need.

For firmware, the program has added additional boot recipes to accommodate the different standards and implementations that are used in a broader ecosystem. These recipes are described in the BBR (Base Boot Requirements) specification.

https://developer.arm.com/documentation/den0109/latest

— "Arm Base Boot Requirements" v1.0(F) states:

Variability in boot models and certain key aspects of the system has a direct impact on the cost of software system development and the associated quality risks.
The Base Boot Requirements (BBR) specification is part of the Arm strategy of addressing this variability.

The primary goal of this document is to ensure sufficient standard system architecture to enable a suitably built single OS image to run on all hardware that is compliant with this specification and the Arm Base System Architecture specification[10]. A driver-based model for advanced platform capabilities beyond basic system configuration and boot is required. However, this model is beyond the scope of this document.

This document identifies the Arm and industry standard firmware interfaces applicable to the Arm 64-bit architecture. They include the PSCI, SMCCC, UEFI, ACPI, SMBIOS, and DT interfaces.

Arm does not require compliance to this specification. Arm anticipates that Cloud Service Providers (CSPs), OEMs, ODMs, and software providers will require compliance to maximize out of box software compatibility and reliability.

https://developer.arm.com/documentation/den0044/latest

— "Arm Base System Architecture" v1.0(A) states:

Implementations that are consistent with Base System Architecture can include additional features that are not included in the definition of BSA. However, software that is written for a specific version of BSA, must run, unaltered, on implementations that include this type of additional functionality.

https://developer.arm.com/documentation/den0094/latest
> I think this is a symptom of living in the US. Been receiving robocalls and text messages all the time since I moved here.

Consider signing up for the Do Not Call registry. Does not do much against the scammers but you will receive significantly fewer telemarketing calls.

https://www.donotcall.gov/
This is like saying that using hammers leads to eye injuries because people taking shortcuts don't wear their safety goggles.

Regulations are the safety goggles of society. The hammer is not to blame.
Strange there's not a single mention of the serotonin spike on the onset of waking up. Some people have a higher surge than most, which causes adrenaline to flood the system leaving them in fight-or-flight mode, anxiety, and ... depression.
You're arguing a separate point entirely, which I wager is why you're getting downvoted. It doesn't follow logically.

The author isn't arguing that we should ignore all of the issues afflicting people across the globe and only look at the poverty line. He's countering the claim that people have not been lifted out of poverty.
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Just putting this out there - I still haven't received any kind of message from Facebook about the breach... I'm pretty sure in some Countries they have an obligation to notify users.
Link with a bit more actual information: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5...

As far as I can tell, what's going on here is that there are multiple stages of antibody development. People have circulating B cells, and these cells have their genomes modified by the the VD(J) recombination process [0] from the genome in the human germline (i.e. what your germline cells and most of the non-B cells in your body have). There are a large number, but nowhere near infinite number, of B cells and corresponding antibodies that can be produced in this process, and I think these are what the authors call "germline" cells.

Once a naive B cell decides that it encodes a useful antibody (which is a complicated process), it starts to divide. Some of the daughter cells further mutate in a process called affinity maturation [1] to produce what are hopefully even better antibodies.

I think that the idea behind this research is that there are certain antibodies that can be produced by affinity maturation that are very useful against HIV, but that the "germline" B cells that lead to these antibodies are not particularly likely to be selected by the immune system when exposed to natural HIV antigens. Instead, the researchers have developed customized antigens intended to target specific germline cells which are known to be able to mature into cells that can produce the desired antibodies. If this works, the next step would be a series of additional vaccines (which are not the same as dose 1) that will try to encourage maturation into the useful antibodies.

The takeaway is that this result is very promising and that there is (so far?) no reason to expect the trial participants to be immune to HIV.

For the ML crowd, another way to think about this is that, when your body is exposed to an antigen, it runs a massively parallel search algorithm to find good antibodies in a truly massive space of possible antibodies. Unfortunately, most people, when exposed to real HIV or to prior vaccine attempts, get stuck in a bunch of not-fantastic local minima. The idea is to specifically aim the search in the right direction so, after a few rounds, it can find a better solution.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V(D)J_recombination

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affinity_maturation
I couldn't agree more. It's one reason why I'm such a fan boy for Feynman, Hoare, Dijkstra, and Lamport, just to name a few. They all put serious effort into making their ideas as clear as possible. My opinion is that all experts should follow their example.
> Undeniably the product failed commercially. By the time we decided to sell the company, the product was doing ~20M+ of revenue but on a low growth rate, after having gone through ~140M of capital with (not unreasonable) investor expectations of unicorn-like returns.

Groove's revenue exceeded expenditures, though, right? Or could have? I'm not sure it was reasonable to expect success at that scale for an entirely novel class of application in an era where startup investments were still expected to 'mature' only after about a decade or more. Groove was only ~8 years old, and 1.0 had been released ~6 years prior.

> But the enterprise and consumers chose centralization as the winning architecture, and the rest is history.

As I recall, around 2.x you were more-or-less switching from a distributed architecture to a decentralized one, but... your point is taken. I suppose I should admire that you saw the writing on the wall as soon as you did.

The wheel keeps turning though, and I wonder if another stab at the idea could succeed today. Certainly the various risks of centralization are much more apparent, and to a broader audience, now.
> If it was never intended as a threat

The "just a prank, bro" defense?
You’re teaching him everyday (kids are naturally inquisitive and mimic), so I assume you mean structured learning. I’d say there’s not necessarily a downside to holding back on structured learning though structure and discipline elsewhere are good.
It's cool to be able to visualize these operations.

Perhaps you can add a blurb of instructions at the top of the app or in a dialog. It took a bit of playing around with to figure out how to make it work. Just a couple of notes about adding to, and updating the transformation pipeline; and regenerating the output (the button for which should maybe be with the other buttons).
To summarise "don't think about it".

Why do you fear it as an alive person? I get that you do, and I can make myself feel this way too if I indulge that same frame of reference. But why do you feel those emotions? Losing something hurts. But why do you feel bad about that loss? Most likely it's because you _can_ feel bad about it while you are alive. And, I certainly get that. It does make sense. But I see it as a fundamental error to feel this sense of loss about not being able to enjoy all the experiences of being alive because as a rule I take into account the fundamental state change that occurs after I'm dead. I look at that period only from the perspective of being dead, as that's how I'll be. If you look at being dead from the perspective of being alive, a frame in which you have emotions you can feel, then it feels bad, but this is some sort of strange faux-state that doesn't actually exist in reality as once you're dead you're dead, and while you're alive you're not dead. You're mixing aliveness and deadness together where I choose to cleanly separate them. I don't think about being dead from the perspective of being alive or having had been alive.
Um, does the law on blackmail supersede first amendment? How about death threats or recruitment for ISIS?

Obviously extreme examples, but making a point that first amendment has many things it does not protect.
Fair enough, that sounds solid, ignore people and do stuff ...
Neither is legal, I'm not sure what your point is?
Every privacy offending feature on FB is 100% by default opt-out. This is their ethos. When you gave them your number, you gave them a way to not only permanently & consistenly identify you but also let others "discover" you/r profile aka reason for this leak. Using your number as 2FA auth is just a side bonus.
I don't much care about my phone-number being leaked. Why because I don't answer my phone, unless I know who is calling. I do get lots of spam calls every day but thanks to my smart-phone spam-calls can be blocked. And if the hackers want to steal my identity, they cannot answer my phone and thus pretend to be me, can they?

Remember all phone-numbers used to be in a public book called "Phone Book".
I have said this before, but would like to reiterate that I am never touching or buying anything branded as Ubiquiti or owned by Robert Pera.

This hardware is far from cheap and consumers are literally paying for adware/spyware. I really hope Ubiquiti stock takes a nosedive over the next year.
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My understanding is that many HIV vaccine candidates have showed promising Phase I results but so far they have all failed in later trials.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV_vaccine_development lists five vaccines that made it to Phase 2-3 (and all failed). Two of them appeared to increase the risk of contracting HIV. The strongest candidate appears to have been ~30% effective.
I'd personally be extremely cautious of a rebuttal in a twitter thread rather than a professional rebuttal which is how these sorts of things should be sorted out in the scientific world. A twitter thread to rebut a peer reviewed paper actually makes me sad that this is where scientists go during a period where we need their input more than any other time.

Also, fwiw I followed antibody testing studies for the better part of a year and anything over 0.004 IFR was rare. I was surprised to see it as low as 0.0014 from this review expecting close to 0.002-0.003 but 0.0068 is incredibly high.
The climate will change slowly over centuries. People in certain countries won't wake up one morning in 2050 to unihabitable temps and 5 meters of water. It will happen gradually. Because of this, climate migration cannot be compared to wartime migration.

But the key thing to note is that billions of people will move over the next century or two for reasons unrelated to climate. The global population distribution looked different one hundred years ago and it will look different one hundred years hence.
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Are significant fractions of the country still fully remote? Even after the vaccine has been widely distributed to almost any vulnerable person who wants it?

In Florida, we've been in-person for any parent who wants it since the beginning of the school year. By now, 90% of families have opted back in to full-time in-school. I assume that preferences from around the country must be similar. I don't see how voters and taxpayers in full-remote areas aren't in outright revolt. I can't imagine being a state or local politician and trying to run for re-election on that platform.
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Pleasant 32C Autumn morning.

Shorts and T-Shirt is every-day-of-the-year uniform.

Cairns, Tropical Queensland, Australia.

Mind you, in mid-winter it sometimes gets down to a chilly 12C over-night. (Well, maybe for a few days a year.)
> At any one time, yes,

And changing keys mid-song is kind of passé, at least in popular music, isn't it? At least, the common practice of modulating up a key for a repeat chorus is a cliché.

Edit: Then again, just now I was listening to a song that, while it doesn't have the clichéd upward key change, does move between two major keys. I'm guessing this song, as written, couldn't be played in just intonation. https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=ElsdmXU8dUw And yes, I know I have questionable taste in music.
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It's theatre, of course we're starting with "these people need to be clear, larger-than-life character archetypes, not fully nuanced humans".
In the absence of basic parenting? The child is spending like eight hours away from their parents. Of course it's going to have an impact, parenting present or not.
It would have to be some kind of integrated CI build system thing that builds the product in a container. Seems like they have no incentive to offer that given that they totally own JS packages.
No. The second is legal.
> and they are more efficient managers than individual homeowners, so this might be a more efficient way of providing housing.

Call me skeptical, but I don't think the average person would share in the benefit of that efficiency.
> they cannot answer my phone and thus pretend to be me, can they?

Yes they can, they can totally do that and if they do you're screwed.
https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/15/22332315/sms-redirect-fla...
I love graphs (it was my favorite topic in algorithms) and I think they can be applied to many subjects to help us understand and visualize problems and systems better. In particular, I think graphs could really help network security monitoring efforts to quickly identify anomalies.

Also, graphviz is really cool.
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R.e. me cherry-picking my study: "But the association disappeared by third grade." Second sentence in the abstract? To me, an effect which disappears by third grade is not a small positive effect. It is no effect at all.

R.e. your study: this table (https://imgur.com/a/VOqDjNo) claims that ECE (i.e. pre-k and 3k) cause a twelve percentage point (20%) increase in the likelihood of graduating from high school. That does not pass the sniff test for me. The effect size is far too large -- it would be plain to everyone that ECE was a must-have if the effect were this big. No parent would opt not to send their kid to pre-K. The study authors acknowledge serious limitations to their methodology:

> Limitations: Research is needed to address several important limitations of the work presented. First and most importantly, circumstances surrounding today’s ECE programs differ from those associated with many of the programs included in this analysis. Many programs in this analysis were implemented at a time when alternative care options were limited, mostly targeted particularly high-risk children, often included comprehensive “wrap-around” services and home visiting components, and frequently provided services for multiple years at a time.

IMO, you cannot cite this study in opposition to my position ("kindergarten doesn't make a significant difference for most kids") in good conscience. It is a bad study, at least as it pertains to ECE for any non-at-risk kids.
Whatever interesting technology you take on, I recommend approaching it like a customer driven CRUD project. Define some requirements for it, and then learn enough of the technology to meet the requirements but not much more. That way, you'll be more likely to actually finish the project rather than bite off to much.
He didn't make threats. He is simply stating the fact that unionization will cause the company to change payment schedule, because circumstance changed, which is not a retaliation.