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> US Gov should make it clear, if you are a critical service and if your service drops due to items being on the internet, for each occurances 10% of your total revenue (including your parent companies) are forfeited

This sounds good in theory but suffers from the cobra effect [1]; you think you’re incentivising security. You’re actually pushing obscurity. Colonial preëmptively shut down its pipe to prevent physical damage. Attach a fine to the discovery and disclosure and you disincentivise that prudence.

Better: make it easier for industry to build securely and incentivise redundancy.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive#The_origi...
Uber started out as Ubercab, a black limo-only service in SFBA, with the price of a generous tip already included in their all-in price. It was an extremely convenient, high-end service designed for the wealthy, and it wasn't for several years until they went downmarket with uberX and cannibalized their own high-margin thing.

I hope Uber Black (what the original Ubercab limo service got rebranded into) survives all this relatively unscathed. The high end service, nice cars, and surge pricing (meaning that you could always get a ride if you were willing to pay current top-of-market rates) was awesome for those of us not price sensitive.

uberX is cool too, but the high volume race to scale/race to the bottom made a pretty crap service for riders and a not great situation for drivers (although one that was better than not being able to be driving for Uber, otherwise drivers wouldn't have done it). It only continued to exist, in my view, because taxis and every other option sucked way, way, way more, and had for decades.
I’m very surprised to see this, but I guess you can just buy DMT now? No darknet needed: https://shroomsxpress.cc/product/d-m-t-vape-cartridges/
Reminds me of moiré patterns.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moiré_pattern

This is found in magic angle graphene, which will likely yield a Nobel Prize in a few years: https://www.quantamagazine.org/when-magic-is-seen-in-twisted...

I wonder if there is a connection to these spirals and their segmentation lengths…
> companies are chasing profits at any cost

Government systems get hacked all the time, too. Just because the government doesn't have a profit motive doesn't change a long list of human motivations that can be counterproductive.

The profit motive also incentivizes improved quality. If the product is bungled, the company is not likely to get the next contract. If the government agency bungles the product, they'll get a budget increase next time.
> We are living in a sad state where everyone is benefiting from technical progress but people think only the rich is benefiting.

We live in a sad state where people expect everyone to be happier if absolute material condition is improving despite the gap between haves and have nots widening, because everyone either ignores or prefers not to believe the piles of evidence that, outside of the most desperate circumstances, relative deprivation is the main driver of experienced disutility, not absolute condition, so the people with power (including the relatively empowered portion of the electorate) keep pushing full throttle on policies which make human experience worse while looking at poorly chosen metrics that let them say things are getting better.
On the flip side of that, I typically don't add a disclaimer about my heritage or political leaning before going into similar discussions, and it is hilarious that people assume I am a cisgender white male in order to invalidate anything I say. I also find it completely appalling how the "allies" act like female, trans and people of color have no ability to think for themselves or have different goals and opinions. To me, this is just as hurtful if not more than the "silent" and overtly racist people. Of course, now just add "allies" to the people that will argue about their worldview being altered. In person, people look at me like I have grown two heads when I suggest a minority might have listened to divisive comments from the former head of state. As if that is the biggest absurdity. People don't even want answers.
This question of missing cyber security audits came up for me in discussion of the Verkada hack. That’s the startup providing security cameras inside hospitals, prisons and schools.

It seems like cybersecurity and audits of security readiness need to be demanded from any authority over companies operating in sensitive areas.
Not even just the darknet, https://www.supremeterpenedc.com/menu

People are also making them at home pretty easily
Without the overhead of reaching many locations, fewer engineers/technicians can more efficiently operate the whole thing remotely.
I just imagine a guy who spends 10 hours a day cracking rocks with a sledge hammer, 6 days a week. It's too bad those last 5 hours worth of rocks just don't count....
This is true for nuclear weapons infrastructure. Paying for commutes and lodging are used there, might be useful to consider?
I am a fan of pytest, and mightn't have thought to make the same thing in Python land.
Yeah, I’ve heard of it. Thought it was gonna be about that lol
Wasn't MSFS called Bruce Artwick's FS on the early days?
I felt just as good at 30 as I did at 20. I used to hike up and down mount Washington (6300 ft) in a day and feel fine the day after. I think I was 33 when I did 30 miles of hiking in the white mountains in one day.

I felt like my body took a corner somewhere in my mid 30’s though. (Right about when my kids were born). Now it feels amazing to sit down. My hair is finally falling out too. My feet hurt when I put weight on them in the morning. I put on 20 pounds that I just can’t seem to get rid of.
Are you sure that's correct? If I'm reading the article you linked correctly, they basically decided to count savings accounts as M1 instead of M2. But since M1 is included in M2... this shouldn't change the total value of M2? So all of the increases in M2 were actually due to printing of more money (among other things).
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Precious metals are also risky long-term in that we don't know how "precious" they truly are in a solar system-wide context.

We can make well-informed guesses, but until there are boots on the ground of the Moon, Mars, and the asteroid belt, we can't know for sure.
By this logic, no company exploits its workers, since otherwise they'd just leave.
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I suspect a new currency will make it significantly more work to implement, even if it sounds more fun.
Fuck Joe Xiden.

Piece of shit terrorist needs a bullet in the head.
It's quality of life too. For pretty much every human, finding a way to get outside and breath hard is going to feel good. You're gonna sleep better etc.

Yeah we all know people who drink 3 cokes a day and aren't fat etc... but I know if I drink a lot of beers or cokes or whatever I feel terrible. When I go for hill sprints I feel amazing after.

It's clearly a good habit in a healthy life.
Why? While it’s not as good as bash or zsh as an interactive shell, for scripting it has a saner syntax, without all the weirdness that bash has. Also powershell can access basically any .net api, and thus can do things like serialise json objects built in, without learning external tools like jq.
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Presumably the subsidized rides are a boon to the hospitality industry as well.
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> The US Gov should make it clear, if you are a critical service and if your service drops due to items being on the internet, for each occurances 10% of your total revenue (including your parent companies) are forfeited.

Make it a crime to pay the ransom in a ransomware attack.

Make it a crime to fail to report a ransomware attack in a timely manner.

Ransomware attacks (and companies with poor security practices) will go away.
They feel skeezy, from years of marketing and targeting of their credit cards. I liked the ING Direct branding before CapOne bought them. No specific issues or experience though.
I also don't want certain things in my browser autocomplete history so every time I have a question I think is dumb I open an incognito window.
Because I'm curious and want to explore the space to find new, exciting, and legitimate reasons for everyday public use of encrypted platforms.
Not even remotely. Simple was Simple in the way people mean when the say they want simple. Not bare, or sparse. Just very clear and easy to use. BBVA's interface isn't horrible, but it reeks of 2000s web banking.
Polkacast: What are the current issues with podcasting that need to be resolved?
TCP would not be possible if your physical layer doesn't support two-way communication. I think UDP would.

Firewalls are currently used, and probably generally configured well. Petrochemical companies have a many-layered onion security strategy with minimal communication paths through the firewalls. Generally you might have 4-8 layers of firewalls from public facing internet to the PLC/DCS/SCADA. Administrative people might VPN 1-2 layers deep and engineers would at worst get remote access to the historian, 1-2 firewall layers above the PLC/DCS/SCADA.

It's my professional opinion that firewalls are not good enough for critical infrastructure. Even a completely air-gapped system was hacked thoroughly over a decade ago in Iran (See Stuxnet).

Your suggestion would suffice, if that box ("gateway", in the IoT parlance) was connected with a one way physical connection to the SCADA system over serial or what-have-you. Then it could communicate with TCP using existing application stacks.

I am designing a system like this at my current job, where luckily we are a small enough team so people have genuinely listened to my suggestions about this.

However, good engineers often disagree with me. I may be overly zealous on this particular issue and I take a lot of criticism about how dogmatic I am at times. I'm not a senior engineer by any stretch.
Also, don’t go anywhere empty handed. Always carry a clipboard or file folder with you to get donuts from the break room.
I wasn't including you when I said us.
The problem is not about being hard working or not hard working. It is about the constraints around that hard work; or lack thereof. In late modern labor society the normativity is to achieve in itself, without any philosophical or ethical constraints that grounds achievement in real meaning. It is a pick-and-choose buffet of values and priorities, that is individually curated - rather than also being synchronized with others, the past and the future - and there is only one rule, that you have to achieve.

The grammar of achievement is performance and excess. Everything is possible, and you must exploit yourself while trying to exhaust the possibilities. Except you can't and therefore it is a slow burn spiritual suicide, until you burnout, get into depression, have autoimmune problems etc and hopefully get a wakeup call. Except your therapist is not going to tell you to take it easy either, because they can't come up with any answer to lack of meaning other than work (and maybe to get a family) either.

Not that there is any evil conspiring forces that have set this up, but it also happens having people exploit themselves in the name of achievement yields more than being exploited by someone else directly; to be told what and what not to do all the time is unnecessary when people are equally capable of auto-exploitation. Everyone carries little walking labor camps in themselves.
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"what is the function of calling inheritance anti-democratic?"

As I understand it, legacy can be (and definitely is) used as a tool for wielding power, which (democracy wise) gets naturally viewed as a problem.

That's not to say that inheritance is bad or that it causes more harm than good. Personally, I think that denying inheritance will take away an important working drive for many people, which in turn will invite in the said people a cool off after achieving certain level of personal comfort. All that while the society at large would benefit more from the same people to fulfill their working potential than from diminishing whatever vector of risk to the optimal function of democracy. Also, whatever much or little one may achieve in life, at one point it must be passed to someone else, due to our mortal nature. I'd rather let the owners have control over how and whom they pass that to (i.e. to someone they know and maybe even had the chance to personally educate), as that to me seems the best setting for having things built in the long run.
Such uptimes aren't in the realms of impossibility. They do remain very hard to design and engineer, however.

Famously, Amazon SLAs Route53 with a 100% uptime (for its data-plane) [0] (not sure if any other AWS service comes close). So, here's at least one KV store that's one-ups RonDB.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22361358
Buddy, I acknowledged the error/confusion and then made a light-hearted joke. Don't take it so literally that you act like a dick.
Just like all other laws that companies break, they'll just get a slap on the wrist and continue their ways
Hey pseudolus, why is it that you frequently change the title and you’re not called on it. Your method of acquiring karma seems to violate the rules frequently enough, particularly as you mostly concentrate on major news outlets like the New York Times and editorialize their heading.
>Make it a crime to fail to report a ransomware attack in a timely manner.

You mean like "18 U.S. Code § 4 - Misprision of felony" [0]?

[0] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/4
I've always viewed the Calvinism theory as a kind of anti-American theory that violates Ockham's razor. The desire to prove one's self by overworking strikes me as an innate adolescent approach to competition. Whether it's to impress your peers at a casual sport or at your job. If some cultures achieve progress in a more healthy way, then that's the interesting and unnatural situation which needs investigating.
There is an argument for that. Haven't heard of prosecutions for doing so.
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>The gang even has a website on the dark web where it brags about its work in detail, listing all the companies it has hacked and what was stolen, and an "ethics" page where it says which organisations it will not attack.

And yet they don't give the URL.

I wanna see this page. Does anyone have it?
How do you empirically measure results for your n=1 experiment, where you are experimenter, subject, and outcome?

If I see comments providing diet advice with words like "undeniably", I lean toward downvoting them.
I genuinely thought this was a Lion King reference at first.
What you said is WILDLY wrong.

People in Roman empire lived until 90 just like us. For example Seneca de Elder was 92 when he died.

The reason why "life expectance" was 30 years was because child deaths, since that number is just an average.

If you have 2 people living in a country, one is 100, and the other is 0, and the child dies, life expectancy is 50.
Plagiarized.

They really did claim to have written "Killing Floor" with a stupid title of "The Lemon Song." Howlin' Wolf had been to london and recorded with Clapton. Hendrix had played a scorching version of it on BBC Radio One. No way they could have missed just that one. Then all the Willie Dixon. It's embarrassing how often Page/Plant claimed to have written classic blues and robbed working folk artists. Lowered my opinion of them significantly to see it so if you want to hero-worship them maybe skip compilations like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiiY4ciKFQA

And that's just some of it. When they stopped doing it the quality of their output fell off a cliff.
I don't think this is a blanket rule. Sometimes 2-4 year old cars can be the same price as a new car. This seemed to happen after the GFC crash.
I am sold. Tau is the law.
Of the last dozen times I took Uber Black or so, I had:

Drivers who didn't know where we were going and had to ask me directions (the airport -- seriously?), who got lost, missed turns, had trunks full of stuff so barely fit my not-especially-large luggage, drove very badly, didn't understand basic English...

Sure it's better than nothing, but... Not much better? Quality has gone down hill so much compared to a few years ago.
The night-vision story involved a donkey. Supposedly chickens were popular too. Guess they do lay eggs of a significant diameter.

Also had other stories that were less lascivious. Some were about what families resort to in a society without mental health care. Relatives chained in the courtyard raving.
OP requested some thing with a more traditional feel. Also, can you tell me what PHP 8 lacks?
That sounds like something that should definitely happen -- my worry is regulatory capture. I have very little confidence in the ability of politicians and related agencies to predict and defend against the machinations of private industry who would try to eke out a corner of the government-mandated gravy train for themselves for all time.

Would FedAccounts be essentially FedWire extended for regular people? It seems like governments don't really share information otherwise we could just lift the tech from Sweden (Swish). It would be an absolute sea change, but I want I want to starve is the finance beast as a whole -- the hedge funds that front-run and sometimes directly exploit pension funds, etc.

I personally think that one of the biggest things someone could do to unwind the current financial system's largess is just ply a bunch of money/expertise/tech at improving credit unions. I maintain an account at a credit union and I absolutely love it, the people that worked there actually seemed happy, plugged in to the local economy and society. It is bonkers to me that anyone still banks at the large institutions (the ones famous for overdraft "protection") with local credit unions being as good as they are (and often very competitive on rates). If the large institutions don't get all the deposit flow, then they can't offer the huge leverage to the firms, HNW individuals, etc -- credit unions aren't going to be out there offering 15x+ leverage to Archegos Capital.

Since what I've written is essentially a wishlist/vapor-policy, let's reinstate Glass-Steagall while we're at it.
A buyback does not trigger a taxable event, unlike a dividend. So the tax deferred value of buybacks is compounded over the years, which can be significant.
There are a few issues here. First note more importantly note that the barrier for "confirmed reinfection" here is far, far more strict here than the barrier for "confirmed cases in vaccinated individuals".

A "confirmed reinfection" for someone who previously had Covid requires them to have gotten sick, tested positive, have the virus sequenced, then later get sick, test positive, get the virus sequenced again, and have the sequences demonstrate that the infections were caused by distinct virus variants. This is because it is often impossible to tell if someone who appears to be reinfected is suffering from a relapse but never cleared the virus, is suffering from "long Covid", or otherwise falsely tested negative without fully recovering. The number of suspected reinfections is orders of magnitude higher than 72, simply because we don't sequence most positive cases, and even if we did, the chance of being infected by different variants is relatively low. Even in your tracker, it has a "suspected cases" for reinfections at nearly 40,000, which is likely a large estimate simply based on reporting gaps.

On the other hand, to be confirmed as a case after vaccination, you simply have to have been vaccinated, and then test positive. The bar here is far lower, so of course there will be more observed cases.

Lastly, immunity isn't some black box. We understand many of the biological components involved in how the immune system fights infection, in the form of IgA antibodies, IgG antibodies, T-cells, B-cells, etc. There have been numerous studies done over the last 6 months demonstrating that the presence of these immunity components is far higher for vaccinated individuals than those who simply have natural immunity.
Did someone just have their moment of libertarian enlightenment?
I have heard some plane infotainment systems use a 1-way optical link to solve this problem to get the speed/altitude/etc to the displays. It just receives the data as a downlink (no 2-way communications) and being optical its electrically isolated as well as impossible to transmit or even interfere the other way.
They've already succeeded. America is already unprecedentedly divided and demoralised.

“One need not destroy one's enemy. One need only destroy his willingness to engage.”

― Sun Tzu
Less than a year ago, 240 discussion comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23739596
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>In mathematics, a spiral is a curve which emanates from a point, moving farther away as it revolves around the point.

I'm surprised by that definition and always thought of a spiral as a curve with a monotonic signed-curvature function.

So, for example, the Euler/Cornu Spiral has a point of inflection where the curvature changes sign at the point of inflection, but the curvature increases continuously all the way from -infinity to + infinity as you travel along the length of the curve. So under my definition the whole Euler Spiral would count as a spiral, even though it stops revolving/emanating from a point just under 1/4 turn after the inflection point.

If you split a curve into segments at its curvature minimum and maximum points (vertices in the differential geometry sense [0]) then each segment has monotonic curvature and I'd define those as spiral segments. Vertices and monotonic curvature segments are preserved under inversion, which is mathematically useful.

In contrast, inflection points with zero curvature are not preserved under inversion. So the Euler spiral can be transformed by a suitable inversion to a curve like the one defined by Wikipedia, that is a curve emanating out from, for example, the origin.

Edit: just spotted this in the Wikipedia article on spirals 1]:

> Spirals which do not fit into this scheme of the first 5 examples:

> A Cornu spiral has two asymptotic points.

> The spiral of Theodorus is a polygon.

> The Fibonacci Spiral consists of a sequence of circle arcs.

> The involute of a circle looks like an Archimedean, but is not:

The Cornu spiral I've covered.

The spiral of Theodorus doesn't have a monotonic curvature function - it's a polygon approximation of the Archimedes Spiral, which does.

The Fibonacci Spiral's curvature function is a monotonic step-function.

The involute of a circle is a log-aesthetic curve, all of which have monotonic curvature functions. (The logarithmic spiral and the Euler spiral are also log-aesthetic curves.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertex_(curve)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral
that is a strange logical leap that makes absolutely no sense.
I guess stuff like this would make me wonder:

1 - How do you know you're getting real, pure DMT from such sources?

2 - What's the risk of getting busted from buying DMT openly like that and compounding the crime by having an illegal substance sent through the mail?

Incidentally, it's possible to extract DMT from natural sources.