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Tt was the CIA that infiltrated the communists in Italy for the exact purpose of shaping the politics of the continent to their design.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_Italy

See also:

https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2020/11/13/how-the-cia-created-th...

You may think that this accordance of like-mind was spontaneous, but it has clearly been a half-century long project of the United States.

No wonder their disappointment when their main man inside the bloc, the UK, elected to leave.
The store of value concept makes no sense because such a thing cannot exist. When you buy Bitcoin you hope the seller does something that maintains the existence of an economy that exchanges their currency for Bitcoin.

You can't just pile up gold and then expect to get something for it if everyone else is dead. You need a group of people (aka economy) willing to work for the gold.
I'm not really sure what's the point of your comment. You're just saying things from the arrogant (I'm so superior because I don't care for sports, did I tell you I'm rich and my ancestors all have PhDs?) to the insulting (it's okay that poor people can't participate, it's not like they're the apex of humanity).

Like I say, I'm not sure what your point is.
Indeed. The humans, they tend to want things to be simple, grouping together things that are different, or group together people who are different just look the same on the outside
Iran has good relations with the Arab Shia elite currently attempting to govern in Iraq. Iraq is today as it was in antiquity, the key to greater Iranian influence throughout the region. You might want to consider that before funding that government with your tourist dollar.
Wow, it is just so cool we’ve created a little alcove up in space for us fragile humans to live in.
No not really, the massive stuff yes..maybe, but small stuff no. Just imagine the power you need to go on the same orbit and around the same speed just to pickup a fist sized trash piece, then you need energy again to slow it down so it can fall back to earth, or you take i with you (and that needs more energy too for you next trash pickup, because your mass got bigger).

It's the old story: Oh we cut all the trees, time to invent a machine that can extract CO2 from the atmosphere.
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I'm currently reading Taleb's Antifragility book and he strikes a similar tune: The education system being little more than a way to cement social status, with actual innovation and entrepreneurship largely taking place outside it. Wealth leads to education, not the other way around.

I find this topic fascinating and it makes me see discussions about underfunded education systems and universities from a different angle.
He is proposing MMP (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed-member_proportional_re...) or something like it. Where some seats are awarded based on who gets the most votes in the election district while the rest of the seats are awarded in a way which compensates and achieves a total seat distribution which matches popular vote.
Post Match interviews are utterly inane. Naomi Osaka is doing more to promote the French open and tennis via this controversy by refusing to do them.

If they need the inanity to feed hundreds of third rate Sports writers they should be able to send anyone from their entourage who attended in the players' box.

Edit: String Theory [1] which i read in a "Year's best Sports writing" compilation is the best tennis journalism I've read. The author went on to literary super-stardom for other reasons. Tragedy is involved. I really don't know anything about any of it, haven't read it, I'm not such a literary person. The tennis article is great. I don't recall press conferences being crucial to its success.

[1] https://www.esquire.com/sports/a5151/the-string-theory-david...
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Not really different, it's leveraging users from a product to another. Gmail and Windows users are both stuck and forcefully promoted "unrelated" products (specific ads tied to OS/website so not easily blockable).
> English Wikipedia gets about 250M page views per day, which is only about 3,000 per second. If they used an efficient language instead of PHP, that's well within the capability of a single modern server!

This type of comment betrays a complete lack of knowledge about how large scale internet systems operate (which is something I've worked on for the last 10+ years) and comes across as incredibly naive. I can immediately point out huge flaws in your thinking:

* You're assuming that traffic is constant through the day (that you can divide daily traffic rate to get a sense of daily peak; or, in other words, you provision for mean usage, not peak)

* You're ignoring the problems of unpredictable hotspots (single articles suddenly becoming orders of magnitude more popular than the median in relatively unpredictable and spikey ways; think World Cup final or major earthquake)

* You're not reserving any safety margins for unexpected traffic growth, so you'd likely run into cascading failures

* You're assuming that the entirety of Wikipedia can be held in ram. Including all the history and such. Or, if not, that a single server has enough drives that spindle capacity won't be a problem.

* You're not even considering networking/bandwidth costs. How many network cards would your server need?

* You're ignoring any problems with replication/redundancy (e.g., no backups?) so your site would be a nightmare in reliability terms. Of course, once you do that, you'll need to reason about consistency problems.

I think your logical fallacy is that you're thinking that because your can't understand something (that running Wikipedia could cost so much), it must mean that the thing you can't understand isn't true. Instead, I'd suggest that you'd get further by focusing on discovering the limits of your understanding and genuinely asking yourself: "How could it be that it costs so much? What may I be missing?"
> People seem to want these foundations to not only spend the absolute bare minimum but also don't like them paying their staff properly or even at all.

Not at all would have my vote. I would donate for that.
Only the state constitutions as far as I know. Every state decides on its own how to conduct elections.
I blame labour as well. Remember when they joined forces in a ridiculously aggressive campaign against voting system reform?
You don’t have infinite gas, so it’s fine to take the foot off the pedal. Trust your instincts and stay with the other racers on the circuit. You will find your spots where you can accelerate out of a turn. It’s a long race.
The only way to lose heat in space is by radiating away infrared. If you have motors that generate heat you have to have a solution for getting rid of that heat. There’s also the sun blasting you with more than a kilowatt per square meter which goes from 100% to 0% in 90 minutes in low earth orbit. One way to mitigate this is to add mass, but making a long splindly arm considerably heavier is problematic.

Imagine all the things you would need to do if you were running a marathon on a course that alternated half a dozen times between a blizzard and a death valley heat wave... you would have to work with many many constraints and come up with a solution that worked for opposite extremes while not interfering with the thing you’re actually trying to do.
Landmines are worse, because they don't even know, the war has ended.
Just wait until you learn what “government” means in Latin :p
They purged content about fiction because it was pointless cruft, often had no independent references, and was generally indistinguishable from undue promotion/advertising of said fiction. The increased focus on stuff that's neutral and properly verifiable seems to have been good for Wikipedia itself.
You get stamped into Kurdistan. It's unobtrusive.
As other posters have said, refreshing your passport before traveling to the US works.
Sure, but removing the incentive entirely is usually a much better solution.
For others interested in this, Wikimedia salaries are all public [0].

[0] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_salarie...
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The Bitcoin is the scam. Its "price" grows only due to Ponzi con men involved. By design it is not suited to be used for anything on scale but the Ponzi schemes. It can't be a substitution for money even if it claims to be. Its number of transactions per time unit is very limited. It's not a solution for fast "double spending" resolution as one doesn't know when the consensus can be final. The technology is on another side unsuited for small scale deployment because then the "proof of work" is small enough that it whoever wants can indeed overpower more than 50% of the rest but using more computers, even from the cloud.

And then there is what we do know about what happens in practice:

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/22/majority-of-bitcoin-trading-...

https://www.theregister.com/2018/11/30/blockchain_study_find...

"We found a proliferation of press releases, white papers, and persuasively written articles," Burg et al wrote on Thursday. "However, we found no documentation or evidence of the results blockchain was purported to have achieved in these claims. We also did not find lessons learned or practical insights, as are available for other technologies in development."
I do not see why it needs to be easier than making a PR. What would you propose?
> France is one of the most aggressive state-sponsors of industrial espionage, after China and the US.

That's the kind of thing you can't just write out of nowhere without any reference.
Ah, the magical 40Hz. Thank you.
It is the same complaint you hear from people posting their art, music, videos, games online. “Why isn’t my creation discoverable among hundred thousands others?” “Why don’t storefronts and catalogues highlight my product?”

These people fail to realize that lowering barriers to entry applies not only to them, but also to everyone else equally.

You are not stuck in traffic, you are traffic.
I find it curious none of the comments touch on the subject of wikipedia's edit wars, propaganda and dubious decisions related to any information that is not scientific consensus.

It is not the free information space assumed. There is lots of politics and misinformation going on.

Big funding comes from sources creating direct conflicts of interest.
Nice photos. Hilarious how the ATM ate your credit card? How did that happen/what did you do next?
Magnus Carlsen, the most dominating chess player since Kasparov, has many times sabotaged the post-game interviews. The latest incident occurred just this week

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtrZkDUa8xU&t=11511s

It should however be added that Carlsen is aware that a leading sportsman should also be a showman, and he started many initiatives to contribute to popularity and diffusion of the game.
Honestly, it is a lot of work. I searched for years, whenever I had "free time" in engineering school, because my problems never completely added up and I could never put my finger on it. I very well felt like I was on borrowed time and I knew I was in a lot of trouble, health-wise. It took me about 4 years to figure it out.

You have to keep an open mind, and PUBMED [1] is your friend. Also, if you do not have institutional access to journal articles, Sci-Hub [2] is your friend. Libgen [3] can also be your friend too.

Searching Google Scholar with advanced key terms also helps, but I find it important to keep a paper log of my queries, so I can also follow my thought process.

Ultimately, you have to learn how to be able to "play" with bits and pieces of information that you get from the articles, and make it (relate it) into something meaningful to you. It requires a lot of intuition, and if you find yourself bored, then you are not doing it right. Some people just have this sort of intuition, but anyone honestly can do it. Just focus on never getting bored with the information, and you will eventually learn this skill.

Anyways, the rare disease I have is called autoimmune autonomic ganglionopathy [4]. I wrote a story [5] on how I figured it out awhile back. People seem to enjoy reading it.

I guess the best way to answer your question: I basically searched everything I could about autonomic neuropathy (autoimmune autonomic ganglionopathy is a form of autonomic neuropathy--and I had already been diagnosed with "diabetes-realted autonomic neuropathy"), to see if there was anything that I could possibly relate to my situation. When the situation really got blown out of proportion, I started looking hardcore at really rare stuff.

[1] PUBMED: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

[2] Sci-Hub: https://sci-hub.se/

[3] Libgen: http://libgen.rs/

[4] US Government Information Page on Autoimmune Autonomic Ganglionopathy: https://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/diseases/11917/autoimmune-...

[5] My Story on How I got Diagnosed with Autoimmune Autonomic Ganglionopathy: https://rareandextraordinarycom.wordpress.com/2016/05/14/fir...
> Compared to a private corporation profiting from the situation and dictating what music will/won't be available tomorrow

In a publicly funded version of this you just have the government deciding what will and won’t be available. Look at the existing cultural departments of national governments, they’re full of arbitrary decisions made by bureaucrats. At least with the current model, if someone comes up with a better way to get paid while giving artists and consumers a better deal they’ve got a chance of displacing the existing model, when you legislate something into existence it’s nearly impossible to renovate it.
Amazon is more than minimal-friction payment, though. It’s also discovery.
Yes, during chemo my mother bought on several reiki or hsimilar crooked pseudoscientific stuff to help her cope.

I'm not against seeing your occasionnal pastor/homeopath or other not-doctor that will at least take time to listen to you and rescribe placebo ater you unloaded on them (i think a shrink is more usefull and cheaper, but really i'm not in a crusade or anything, and i'm okay with sect/religion/"natural remedies" as long as it is not lithotherapy and you still get your chemo).

However pseudoscience stuff with no human component and just money is just taking advantage of fragile, suffering people. Aiming at them is as amoral as it get.

Tracking is shit because the ad industry is shit.
> that issue has been solved

It depends on what you consider the issue to be. If anyone is both an environmentalist/conservationist and honest about it, a reduction in population would be a good outcome for biodiversity and would permit rewilding land currently used for agriculture, housing, commerce, etc. In the context of our current economic systems, a declining population is a disaster waiting to happen.
Somehow some countries like New Zealand managed to move away from these issues so it is possible.
His last paragraph nails it:

"I can see why people are sceptical about universities, and angry at the elite ones. They are often now little more than training camps for the stormtroopers of capitalism."
My browser's Reader View got me through.
I'm a big fan of https://qalculate.github.io/. It has a nice GUI which can be used interchangeably with the CLI version.

It also has units, many built-in physical constants, currency conversion, matrices and probably tons of other stuff I don't know about.

I don't think it can be easily ran in a browser though.
That may be the case for you but certainly not everyone. I, for one, don't care about interviews at all and in all the sports that I have watched (which includes basically everything, including competitive gaming), I sticked to the race/match/etc only. I watch for the competitive spirit and competitors can express themselves through their actions which is how I may become a fan of them. All the "blabla" is unnecessary fluff and if it's even forced on the competitors, of course they should have the right to refuse, without straight up being denied participation.
Sigh. Apple just got another excuse to make its charging and data cable even more incompatible with other devices in the name of security ... Security is highly desired. But as a consumer the incompatibilities and the impossible-to-repair part is highly irksome. As is the price-gauging.
Or any Google app on iOS (i.e. Youtube), when you click on a link, asks whether to download Chrome or open it in Safari.

Shut the fuck up and open it in my default browser, thank you.
In Northern Europe and (slightly slower) parts of North America heat recovery ventilators are becoming standard on new buildings. In my country all new homes need to come with a unit that is at least 90% efficient. Retrofitting such systems isn't that hard, especially if you already have ducted AC. If you don't there are units that can ventilate a single room, they just need a 15cm hole in the wall.

You mention home automation, but it's actually interesting with newer houses that are built smarter, there is less to automate:

- The ventilation system needs to be sized for the house, then it can be left running all the time (you could turn it off or down when nobody is home, but these systems often consume under 100W of electricity - it's just two fans).

- With low temperature hydronic underfloor heating in a concrete floor, it takes so long for the system to heat up or cool down that turning it off when nobody is home will barely affect the temperature. If the system is balanced correctly, taking into account how much energy from the sun each room receives, you can do without individual temperature controllers in each room. Once it's setup the only adjustment needed is to turn it on in the autumn and off in the spring.
> Only if you assume that people with lots of hours listen to the same mix of artists as people with few to medium hours.

That's the big assumption, which is most likely false. Even though it's not allowed, entities like gyms or bars have the top40 on repeat throughout the day.
It feels strange to me why they're not just getting rid of the limit at this point. Especially since they already seem to have trouble getting couples to have two children.
Pardon me, in what cases is open source more profitable than proprietary?
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Not at all, all parts of education should be fully funded. Either pay everyone working on a project or have volunteers do it. Anything in between I wont contribute nor donate to.
Don’t hogtie this simple charity with AWS cloud infrastructure, especially if you are not going to always be around.

That just sounds so malicious.

See how far you can get with a Google spreadsheet.
That would be really hard to manifest realistically. This would need
- on one end some government agency that hands out copyright fees based on some very complex calculations on listening stats, scraped from all the internet? Lots of abuse possibility and even less influence for small creators
- on the other, quality apps and services that would compete with Spotify... with almost no financial gain? Look at the open source world, licenses were never an issue for p2p services to advance, and what streaming options do we have? Subsonic, Plex, Funkwhale don't even come close to Spotify functionality, and we didn't even mentioned where the content comes from.

I'm all for open content protocols and services, it's just historically reasonable that corporate solutions appear first. Once these are established, with proper shifts in copyright system, open solutions could build on their learnings.
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Anywhere from “later this hour” to “not until the sun grows in its demise to engulf the earths orbit entirely”

I’m fairly hopeful that it is a problem with a solution once there is adequate motivation.
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Which is a thankless job.
No it doesn’t. You might get a refund or some stock advice, but don’t expect any help beyond that
The superluminal speed is not an infinite speed, it's just faster than the speed of light, of course, but it called "instant". For example, a photon of light is emitted or absorbed "instantly", which is not true, obviously, because it means infinite speed of transition.
> If you look at how SARS-CoV-2 initially spread in the US, the WHO was not wrong. The US banned travel from China, but continued to allow travel from Europe. The first major outbreak in the US, in NY, was brought in from Europe.

It’s worth noting that there’s evidence it was already spreading in Seattle in Jan/Feb, following a Chinese import, before the late Feb/March outbreak in New York (which, yes, appears to have begun with European imports).

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6922e1.htm
Then their donation banner should reflect the true purpose of the donation, rather than misleading readers into thinking it’s necessary for Wikipedia.com.
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How it that relevant? Just as a music shop selling CDs cannot fix that a lot of their royalties (purchase price) don't go directly to artists and music labels skim a lot, Spotify cannot fix this.

In fact, Spotify has improved this situation, as self-publishing is now a lot more viable than 20 years ago.
Metaphorical meanings for medical issues are some of the most common metaphors in most languages, and I would be surprised if you aren't using them yourself. Rejecting it seems frankly as bizarre as rejecting metaphor entirely. Are you wincing when you read Shakespeare, Plato, Dante, Dostoevsky, etc, who all use this regularly? You're never been shocked or dumbstruck, never find anything lame or sickening? Never describe anything as crippling, mad, callous, stupid, idiotic, crazy, never get drowned in work?

The metaphorical use of paralysis even predates its modern precise medical usage, having meant more broadly enfeebled before relatively recently taking on its specific motor function related meaning--so that would be the medical field assigning a new clear definition to a term with a 2300+ year metaphorical history.

Anyway, please sign my petition denouncing libraries everywhere for putting all these joke books in the humour section. It is a real hassle for melancholics trying to balance out their bile. Then we're getting onto this Jesus fella for all this fancy double-talk about eye debris, I've had specks in my eye before and cornea scratches are a legitimate problem.
Yes it's impressive how many problems occur in a space-station.

Fun-fact: The training bicycle needs to be suspended otherwise the whole station would start to wiggle/vibrate which can damage the solar-panels...because of one little human on a bike ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bG3hG3iB5S4
> The cables were not designed to attack iPhones, but the Macs and other computers they’re plugged into for a charge or a sync.

This makes much more sense. iPhones are mostly protected from malicious USB cables by requiring you to “trust” any new connection.
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No, the WHO was right, and still is, epidemiologically speaking. The problem is that there is a difference in meaning between "this virus is airborne" and "this virus can spread through the air via aerosols".

The former means that the virus itself can survive being exposed to the air, which means it can float for hours and spread easily over large distances.

The latter means that the virus can only survive in the air when encapsulated in a liquid, which means it can not hover in the air for long (due to the weight of the droplet) and thus not spead over large distances.
I imagine there’s entire departments of people dedicated to managing this program. Probably dedicated party members. I don’t think they could take their titles away and reorganize them without starting a lot of infighting.