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> A lot of that space is unusable as crop fields.

It may be unusable as crop fields, but grazing it often prevents it from developing into a richer ecosystem that might be able to support a greater variety of wildlife and sink more carbon dioxide.

A rather extreme example of this somewhat famously happens down in Brazil, but there's also a not completely off-the-wall hypothesis that this phenomenon also at least partially explains the Little Ice Age. IIRC, the basic goes that the American peoples relied heavily on a version pasture-based livestock agriculture, which involved limiting the growth of forests in order to ensure plenty of grassland for large bison herds. The wave of plague that killed people off after European contact meant that the pasture land was no longer being maintained, and began to revert back to forest. This, in turn, sucked so much CO2 out of the atmosphere that it altered the world climate.
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The user most definitively has to know these things. Your argument is a race to the bottom I think.

We will end up with devices where the user has to know nothing, cannot do anything and is lazy and easily led.

Just as moving yourself around on a bike is healthier than planting your ass in your car, so is thinking for yourself and _once_ in your life taking the time to figure out what that whole location sharing thing actually means.
Perhaps the story was chosen because of its existence in popular culture, making it more believable.
> everyone should play by the same rules

Apple's apps have never done what the App Tracking policy stops App developers from doing. To be clear, this new policy is not about apps tracking their own customers—that's always going to happen. This policy is designed to stop companies like Facebook from tracking your activity across multiple apps on your device.

> you might have apps that collected even less data then Apple, and they are still subject the user consent message.

The consent requirement has got nothing to do with how much data they're collecting about you, rather with what they're doing with the data that has been collected.

> I can see from the downvotes that this is not a popular opinion

The downvotes are not because your opinion is unpopular, it's because your opinion is grounded in the aforementioned misunderstandings.
> Google search is harder to escape, of course.

Try Duckduckgo.com?
Dupe (kind of): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27075180
When I went to uni in Sweden, there was a mandatory course in academic writing as part of CS program. The learning objectives was more than just a styleguide proofreading by supervisors though, as methodologies, data collection and paper structures was covered. Pretty much the scientific process really.

This seemed to be quite needed for students to get up to speed. I was from Finland, where this subject was brought up before uni.

For what it's worth, I remember my supervisor calling bullshit on my then dense and overly academic writing and I thank them for it. It was a process of un-learning bad patterns or preconcieved notions about the writing process.

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So you think it's an accident that pharma corps make lots more money under the regime enforced by government? Or, possibly the pharma corps have engineered this situation politically (ie 'buying' politicians in some way - campaign donations, advisory jobs, etc).

Why else would gov arrange things this way of not at the direct [but covert] behest of the pharma corps? Do you think they're doing it (having overinflated prices for age-old life-saving medicines) to help citizens?
> I believe these choices should be handled by Apple through the store and not by the users: if the app is doing something shady with ads or location, the app should be disabled before it reaches the user's device; the user shouldn't have to "know" those things, the user has no way to check…

They do screen out nefarious tracking to the extent that they can detect it.

This choice is about consensual tracking.

I think users ultimately do have to know something about these things.
I work in a (California) medical facility. "Patient" is now a deprecated if not archaic term, no longer used.
Patients are now properly referred to as "clients" for at least 5 years now.
How is the seller able to contact you? I mean why is the site allowing them access to your contact info?
This is wild. The HD44780 is so incredibly ubiquitous in character displays, they are everywhere. Really curious to see where this goes.
Or you can teach them to fight to be treated fairly and to fight for others to be treated fairly. That's what I see out of the generation in their 20s. They don't seem to see themselves as victims. They have a keen sense of justice and are willing to speak out.
No I don’t believe iOS blocks all tracking by default. I had to go into settings and enable this.
Same here, kitty is amazing. It supports ligatures and also BiDi. Both of which alacritty don't support. I wish kitty had sub-pixel rendering though.
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Sometimes they do, but often they tell the pharmacy that they can use the generic (and most folks seem to want generic). Occasionally, they insist on the brand, but this is more often because while most generics are the same, sometimes there are differences. Lithium, used as a mood stabilizer, is the example I can think of, but is far from the only one.

More people want brand name for over the counter - like panodil/pinex - but sometimes this is because folks don't realize that the generic is the same drug.
Wouldn't they have located the cave by now, and a load of bats infected with the virus.
I use a 128GB m.2 SSD in a stick enclosure with USB A on one end and USB C on the other. Whole package was $30 from Amazon.
Commercial space travel should not be within a purview of ESA.

Its a research/science agency.

A usability study of space travel that is god knows how far out... well sounds like waste of money to me.
> Is there some aspect of standardized tests that makes the test easier for rich white kids while making it harder for others?

Rich white kids are less likely to have, for one of many examples, been deliberately exposed to toxic levels of lead by action of their state government.

There are a myriad of other unequally-distributed social and environmental impacts on cognitive function and academic ability, and evaluations of standardized testing tend to control for very few of them.

Standardized testing reveals uncorrected racial and economic injustice, it isn’t the source of it. Blaming standardized testing is a way of avoiding addressing the problems it reveals.
Unemployment insurance is only applicable to people that can work, choose to work, but cannot find work. Your criticism is all about the entire system of work. Different concepts.

I think you’re advocating for UBI. Maybe UBI is a better idea, but UI is not that.
>disrupting whole economy for apps

Citation needed. Somehow there was an app economy before the rise of massive data aggregation.

It's going to slightly impact the people profiting from the mass surveillance economy until they figure out how to get around it. This does nothing to impact the vast input feeds of location and traffic data from mobile carriers and ISPs, transaction data from purchases, etc. It basically forces those wanting to market to customers using Apple devices to remove the cameras from their customers' bathrooms and figure out another way to discover they are out of toilet paper. The pissing and moaning is because the industry basically was able to use the laziest possible implementation to get this information, now they will have to do a little more work.
An SSD may be more reliable than an HDD, but when a drive does fail during normal operation[0] it appears that data recovery is usually significantly more feasible/cheaper with an HDD. I’d be glad to be proven wrong.

See also Google’s paper[1]. It doesn’t seem to be especially black-and-white.

[0] This excludes cases such as e.g. dropping an HDD during operation and ruining large plate areas, of course.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.12373.pdf
The thing holding it back for Rpi4 is UEFI+ACPI, so I assume there's some boot process changes.
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Urxvt normally opens in ~.2s on my ancient laptop and uses ~15M RAM. Though running it in daemon/client brings that time down to ~.04s and memory to ~1.5M per window, the possible hang/crash freezing/killing all terminals in the process probably isn't worth it.
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Would be amusing if it was the queen's duck. (Probably more accurate to call it a honey pot.)

Basically, as long as the stars are there, they capture most of the fraud?
I have always wondered why "verified purchase" is a thing. That should be the default and only way to review. May be when they were little it was needed, but now they already know who is adding the review, they can easily check if the user bought that item in the last X months and only allow in that case. The rest of them can't add reviews, simple.
There are many stories were filtered out by Western media. Some not by media but could be filtered out by individuals selective ignoring.

For example: China built makeshift hospitals in very short period of time. This one is not filtered. Even Fauci suggested India should do that but in reality not many country can mobilize the resources. Another example is by strict locked down, Wuhan was sacrificed for the sake of all nation. Meanwhile the hospitals over the all country supplied volunteer medical personals and equipment pouring to Wuhan. There were too many registered volunteers even beyond the organizers requested. With enough resource concentrated in one place, covid was quickly under control.

It's mainly due to dictatorship system that other countries can not easily duplicate. This can explain most countries are "incompetent".
I thought the Spanish flu originated in China but came to Europe from the U.S., but came to the U.S. from Canada?
Your first sentence is a complete lie.
With all the anti-trust stuff going on against Apple I wonder if this strong stance against cross app/site tracking gets overturned after some sort of legislation.
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I'm just glad google caved allowing you to use authy.

Why do you think they did this?

Do you think building Google Analytics into Authy had anything to do with it?

Repeat after me --- until proven otherwise, assume everything Google does has privacy invasion built into it. This includes "caving".
Given Apple's history, and their business style, I don't think they have loyalty to any architecture or any specific technology in particular. They're care about product first, and choose whatever technology they need to choose to get there. https://youtu.be/oeqPrUmVz-o?t=113
In which case I would encourage you not to participate in Gleam, thank you.
Don’t you understand how terrible things must be for you in your head to get to a point where you can’t resist throwing printers at people?
You can use the --transpile-only option to skip type checking. I'm going start using that myself for scripts I know are already good! Just tried it and makes a good difference to startup time.
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The origin of Covid is our greed and lust for wealth. China never ate or consumed Bat of wild animal meat until the last few centuries. Lets ask the Whys?

Why did they start consuming it?
Because of the lack of food.

Why was there a lack of food?
Because of poverty

Why was there poverty?
Multiple years of bad rule.

Why was there so much bad rule?
Multiple years of invasions which hooked the population on poppy drugs.

Why were they hooked on these drugs and made poor?
So another country could get rich.

Thats the reason we have Covid today. Its called Karma.
That quoted paragraph also caught me up upon first read. After I thought about it I do agree that there is some level of trust in the protocol itself and actions of other actors using that protocol can influence that trust. But I suppose that the trust needs to be applied at some level. Trusting end-to-end encryption is a real trust. If someone comes along and finds a way to factor large prime integers the system would break and trust would dissipate.

It seems to me that its about realigning trust in this case. And its easier to trust a process that uses mechanics that force behavior to conform to the properties you desire than to trust a process that uses mechanics to enable behavior to conform to the desired properties. You still have to place trust in both implementations nevertheless.

In the case of Ethereum what is the trust? The protocol, the implementation? What is the trust in a bank? The same but with a bunch of human factors around the enabling the bank to function as you desire.

Settle appears to be a step back and try to solve the problem currency has in general by reverting to a barter system. The purpose of a currency however is to use a common valuation system.
Meh, it depends. If you’re in the right then responding to assholes in this way is acceptable, at least in the UK. I’ve found this doesn’t translate to German companies tho which have a kind of “the emperor is always right” attitude. ;)
The thing is that "staydown" is something that Google has already implemented. They could easily track YouTube uploaders as they do, say, accounts accessing Google Cloud Platform. You can bet that people who abuse the GCP don't get to keep creating fake accounts.

They could also turn on Content-ID for any video that is taken down through a legit request. The video is already on the servers. It doesn't need more processing. Indeed, I would guess that Google has pretty good technology for picking up duplicate copies. I rarely see the same video listed in a search with YouTube.

It's almost as if they want people to create the fake account and keep uploading. I've seen this kind of game in other industries where someone has a wink-wink, nudge-nudge agreement with lawbreakers. Scrap metal processors, for instance, used to be very good at not asking questions.

That wink-wink stuff changed when people got too fed up. Now the scrap metal processors are overburdened with plenty of regulation.

It would be smart of Google to embrace some of simple techniques for blocking the very low-grade piracy described in the article. It will save them (and all of us) from overly broad regulation.
Same

Only still have an account because my mom blogs on Facebook
Maintenance on the xorg server code base has all but ground to a halt. The next release is nowhere to be seen. Eventually Red Hat just said fuck this shit and started rolling xwayland-only releases.
> This makes me wonder why Amazon, in all their analytical genius, isn't cracking down on this when it's so blatantly obvious.

I used to work at Amazon, and can say that this came up on internal mailing lists all. the. time. It really bothers people, particularly engineers who see that it is eroding customers' trust in Amazon. It's really bad, and people know it. There were significant teams trying to work on it when I left.

I think it really is that it's a very difficult problem of cat-and-mouse, without any clear path to victory for Amazon, and the sellers have a huge monetary incentive to evade detection. It's very adversarial, and Amazon has the tough position of _also_ not wanting to discourage legitimate reviews and sellers. And there are so many sellers that solutions need to scale well.

So: I think they're trying, but it's a bona fide hard problem.
> They are in the top 1% because of being smarter and because of hard work (especially in the US, where they are more likely to have made their wealth on their own than inherited it). Their children are likely to inherit some of these traits.

That is literally what racism is! White people mostly make up the top 1%, so we should give them more opportunities because they're in the top 1% because you think they're genetically superior? What you wrote is exactly how all of this insanity of scientific and rational racism started in the 1800s. How we ended up with standardized tests, IQ tests, phrenology, and eventually with Hitler and Stalin exterminating inferior people.

If you adopt your view, then you end up with a strictly racist and classist society. People at the top get their kids into the best schools because they have money and connections, those schools provide the best education and the best social connections, and the cycle continues forever.

No. The children of people in the top 1% are not predestined to be genetically superior. They are not some sort of ruling race. They are just people who happened to have been born to rich people.
Expensive funerals are far from "unique to the US". The US spends substantially less as a proportion of income than Japan, China, Germany, Netherlands, the UK, and New Zealand, and is within a couple
percent of a half dozen other countries.

[1] https://businesstech.co.za/news/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/S...
This is my laymans test for the FFT theory.

Put in earbuds or a headset and (quietly) play sounds that are slightly different in frequency (1-10hz).

You will still hear a sort of ethereal beat tone between them that's different than the beat you would hear if you were listening to the same through speakers. I don't see how this would occur frequency-domain perception and it's too present (at least in my experiment) to be attributed to bone conduction across the skull.
without any incentive for financial reward?

Except when they do get financial rewards?

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/02/health/insys-trial-verdic...
Your article mentions the "Wuhan Institute of Virology", which one also finds named in a couple of news articles and scientific publications. However what is rarely discussed is that the Wuhan CDC (武汉市疾病预防控制中心), which also has a virus lab and was also researching coronaviruses is in walking distance from that wet market! I took a screenshot of it, in the top right is the Huanan Seafood Market, in the bottom the CDC, which includes a virus lab: https://i.imgur.com/smODVQe.png

Unfortunately you won't find it on Google Maps but anyone who is able to read Chinese can check this themselves. All the early cases were centered around this area, including the hospital that treated the first cases. It's absurd that this is almost never talked about anywhere. On the CDC website they had an open position looking for a researcher to study, among others, exactly the kind of bat CoV that's been identified as most closely related to SARS-CoV-2. This has since been deleted but it could still be accessed during the early days of the outbreak.
Maybe if you are Dev or QA in an ad tech company and need to test? /s
Do you mean equate instead of equivocate?
"News" is nothing but entertainment. Reddit "news" is just as much propaganda as traditional TV/newspaper "news"
Python is still the language I use the most. Have you tried using the pyinstaller package to create executables? It's super easy.
My eyes! Kudos for sticking with it that sounds like a write off heh
Its bog standard existentialism.
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>I believe GNOME doesn't want normal users, but rather users that will always do what they want them to do, aka the Apple mentality.

I would not say this is true, GNOME just handles extensibility differently. If you want to help with this, please consider working on this issue: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/1053

That would pave the way for GNOME shell extensions to implement window decorations (and other wayland extensions) in a way that doesn't burden upstream maintainers and make them have to support every custom wayland protocol that is only used by a handful of apps.

>I guess this is the kind of end user experience gnome devs want?

I can't speak for them but I think they would suggest that those low level libraries all collaborate on a shared library to implement nice looking CSD, that way there is no code duplication and no dependence on GNOME libraries. Another option would be for them to copy the approach used by firefox, and use dlopen to access gtk functions and draw the CSD that way when it's detected they're running in a GNOME environment. Such functionality could be put in a library and wrapped up in 1-2 function calls, to make it easy to use. SSD might be the approach used by other desktops, but it is not the only way to achieve this functionality, and it may not even be the simplest.
There's some benefit to the patient if the drug is effective treatment for a condition they knew they had but didn't know there was treatment for. Or if it's a new thing that treats something where the old treatment didn't work well or had bothersome side effects for the patient.

Major new drugs may get news coverage or may be brought up if a doctor sees something on your chart at a checkup, but ads may (or may not) reach more people.
It is incorrect to consider only one year. If the probability of an event is 1% each year, you expect the event to happen every 100 years or so. In fact with probability 1 it will happen at some point.
For Digital Ocean object storage, data transfer to/from a Digital Ocean VM is free. You only pay for bytes-at-rest.

But it seems S3 doesn't have a similar offering. Data transfer is free between S3 and EC2 instances, but you still pay the per-request charge.

I wonder can you factor this into the pricing algorithm.
Yeah but let's be real, while the "specific approved use" might be clear to a medical practitioner in a journal write-up related to FDA approval, the actual prescription ads shown to normal people attempt to use as general simple wording as possible to describe symptoms. To laypeople these start to blur together to very simple statements like "feeling tired? Worried about excessive weight gain?" While these might be symptoms of a specific FDA approved use of the drug, it results in an atmosphere of confusion for normal folks.
Really? I only just disabled it (although I had refused it for each app that asked me to enable it). Maybe I missed a prompt during the upgrade?

I'm sure I'm not the only one. I'm relatively technical and I thought until now that you had to do in on a per-app basis.
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I saw an app prefix the prompt to allow tracking with a similar-looking pop-up that said something like "please press allow on this next step ...". That pop-up only had one button, saying "Allow", then the actual pop-up asking to allow tracking came up after that.
While it's all semantics in the world of business speak and HR, this feels to me like it orients the relationship as any other business transaction.

I want to be a patient, in to see a doctor for diagnosis and/or treatment. I don't want to be a client, I'm not here to iron out a SEO contract.
He's literally not. I don't have the book, your other link is a podcast. And (this is the really important part) literally no one else, not even Breitbart or conservative link farms who would slurp this up like candy, is reporting that Rogin said it.

So I choose to believe that you're just wrong about what he said. Again, Fauci covertly directing funds to an area of research that the medical community has recognized as ethically problematic for decades would be huge news. And all you have is a podcast? Seriously?
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