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Microsoft has always been a famously schizophrenic company: https://bonkersworld.net/organizational-charts

As a result, I'm happy to trust e.g. the VS Code team, while I would not extend that trust anywhere near the Windows team.
> It's kind of cute

Like a lot of people, I stop reading at the first insult, because I know everything after that will be worthless.
I am happy that the donation model is working out for them, and I would like to see it applied in more areas, at least if we can't secure government funding. Most prominently for mozilla, but also other important projects which currently rely on ads in a roundabout way or plainly neglected due to a lack of funding.
For a long time weapons have become more and more accurate. You go from Norden bomb sites, star trackers and inertial navigation. To terrain tracking, laser guidance and GPS. The more precise it is the smaller the blast radius can be. And if you want really low collateral damage you need really good precision. That means boots on the ground or disintermediating humans entirely.
"Earthlings thrash proof" would be more accurate.
> Wikipedia's purpose is to benefit readers by acting as a free widely accessible encyclopedia;

How are centralization, real time editing, and user blocking properties toward the above goal?

You probably know full well that network effects are prohibiting any other collaborative knowledge base from from ever croping up again.

All big companies link against wikipedia because the network effect, all funding and donations go to wikipedia due to the network effect, all editors spend their time on wikipedia due to the network effect.

Wikipedia is eating it's own childen, and if we ever want to get something better, it either needs to grow up and start acting like a responsible adult (which we know it won't because at it's core is the failed web equivalent of the stanford prison expetiment), or die and make space for a new genration of tools.
> Are Cats Responsible for “Cat Ladies”?

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/are-cats-responsi...
Wikipedia is not a dot-com. And their executive compensation is hardly "sky-high"; it amounts to a FAANG middle manager's salary, for a positive impact on the world that's easily as high as that of any FAANG.
Is it? You don't get 4k netflix on Linux. just 720p. There used to be a workaround to use an extension to change your user agent and then a later one to swap out some player JS but pretty sure both have been broken since late last year.
Why would an economically rational advertiser spend money advertising to someone who will never buy their product?
If everyone in the US paid an extra $100 per year in taxes, akin to a subscription fee, how would that money be equitably distributed to local journalists, small-time musicians and other "important" cultural contributors that can't get paid in the present economy? Seems easy to game, but open to ideas.
have very positive experiences w/ discord. I have learned a ton from channels like Economics Design (token economics) and Reactiflux (Reactjs)
WHO was not pressured into saying not to ban flights from China. The International Health Regulations (2005),[1] which govern the WHO, and which the US played a key role in drafting, strongly discourage travel restrictions.

The WHO is supposed to urge member countries to keep their borders open as much as possible, and to only institute travel restrictions if there is clear scientific evidence that they will help. Prior to this pandemic, I think the general view among epidemiologists was that for a highly infectious respiratory disease, all but the strictest possible travel restrictions would be ineffective.[2] This is the reason why the US government's own pandemic influenza response plan downplays travel restrictions - they were only considered a short-term delaying tactic.[3]

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. Because the US had almost no testing at that time, the outbreak in NY spread undetected for weeks. The actual travel restrictions the US implemented were largely useless. The only travel restrictions that would have helped would have been a complete ban on all international arrivals, coupled with extensive testing to find cases that were already present in the US.

If you look at the actual advice that the WHO was giving in late January / early February 2020,[4] it was probably a much better strategy than what the US ended up doing. The WHO stressed the need for testing, in order to both detect and curb the spread of the virus, under the assumption that whatever travel restrictions that countries would implement would be ineffective. What was the US' biggest problem early on in the pandemic? A lack of testing, leaving the country blind to the huge outbreak that was developing.

The US could have taken a much more extreme approach, banning all travel, but absent mass testing, that in itself would not have prevented the cases that were already in the US from spiraling into a major outbreak. And I simply do not believe that the US would have taken such a drastic move in response to such an uncertain situation.

1. International Health Regulations (2005): https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789241580496

2. Effectiveness of travel restrictions in the rapid containment of human influenza: a systematic review: https://dx.doi.org/10.2471/BLT.14.135590

3. National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza (PDF): https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/pdf/pandemic-infl...

4. Preparing for Cases of COVID-19: https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/PI...
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They have been trying to sell blockchain technology to businesses for a long time. Nothing has come out of it despite millions spent in r&d and marketing.
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Indeed. Would be a different story if it wasn't for the money involved. Heck, if you qualified for the 2021 Australian Open, you'd get 77,750 USD just for showing up [1].

I'd argue that getting a year's worth of pay is well worth wasting a few hours giving interviews. It's not as if the players aren't prepared and trained for that either.

[1] https://www.perfect-tennis.com/prize-money/australian-open/
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Eventually, Balanced Slim KETO is actually what it is publicized to be. In particular, people are getting hold of a keto support recipe that advances ketosis for viable fat consuming and alluring weight reduction results. The methodology that has been decided for this equation is standard and generally acknowledged by industry pioneers and society to a specific level. By and large, BHB salts are considered definitely more favorable than their ester partners, which uplifts this equation as one with some potential. Where things begin to get confounding, or more terrible, unclear, is the point at which we consider the fixing list. There's neither any notice of the breakdown of salts nor the exclusive mix.

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I presume that's after the works of h. p. lovecraft, who created an association between non euclidean geometry and horrific nightmare realms and beings.
I agree and did try messing with the views a bit vs. bing.com and realized it's not the same. Fair enough!

But to introduce a sidebar in a chrome-based browser just to ship Bing? and then add it to every right click context for only Bing, overriding your other search preferences? and the sidebar just redirects you to open the search in a new tab/window anyway (was at the bottom of the screen for me)?

I didn't love it.
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> normal people really do not care at all because if they did they would not consent to it when purchasing an iPhone or Android.

I think a lot of people care _but have no choice in the matter._
I was tricked by the US media to believe that the Danish were looking for online trolls, while instead they were spying us

https://www.southparkstudios.com/episodes/zi1v0u/south-park-...

/s
Sorry my point was about jobs@apple.com being the possible target of random job inquiries making the address unusable for Steve Jobs.
“Thanks for asking about my stomach.”
Wine/Proton handles all that these days.
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Scratch "directly", there is nothing direct about intransparent rewards. Again this sounds ominous for non-profit building on volunteer work
Yes. My point though is that it matters who selects the target, not how the killing is done.

Though I'm surprised we still need to kill people. I thought wars are won by technology nowadays, so what good does it do to kill a person? But maybe after all individual people are still important to organizations and it's a deterrence.
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Yes, don't get hung up on a cap on coins. That's optional.

You could issue those tokens in a centralized way, but with Ethereum, a 1000 such tokens can interact.

The question is rather, if you wanted to do a cyber chuck e cheese, why wouldn't you do it on a (performant) blockchain?

If the question is why do we need all those tokens for, and this is a good perspective on it:

https://insights.deribit.com/market-research/why-i-have-chan...
I guess you are not browsing from Romania, as I am(!). It is an occupational hazard of living here, I guess.
Spotify pays out about 75% [1] of their revenue as royalties

Your statement is equally disingenuous. How much of that 75% ends up going to the artists?
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Star Citizen is a much better example that is actively trying to pursue this goal of being an entire "universe simulator". Here's a recent video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYs_zn2pTZo
Yeah, but also in an era of vastly less inter city capacity for long haul. Properly implemented Opus on a network with under 1% packet loss sounds great.
I know it's not a real question, but it is actually the bigger problem to cool the ISS then to heat it.

Also to distribute it ~evenly around the station.

https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2001/a...
Maybe it already tried, and when it submits interesting things to talk about, its submissions just get flagged. Maybe when it tries to make some suggestion not in line with the groupthink, its comment just gets modded down and hidden.
The Wikia part is a very important point.

At some point in the last 10 years Wikipedia managed to purge as much content as it could about fiction because this was Wikia's turf. There was just an order from above and overzealous mods willing to do the work, even when the content wasn't readily available.

Now the content is in a website that's closed, slow as hell, littered with ads, tracking and autoplaying video.

Maybe Wikia should be the one footing the whole bill for Wikipedia, instead of Wikipedia spending 12% of donation money on fundraisers.
How are central bank digital currencies different from other payment methods?
Is "no comment" acceptable?
If her focus is on playing tennis, then interviews etc. are just a distraction. She may be contractually obligated to partake in interviews, but does she have another option if she wants to play at top events?

In my opinion there is too much hype and nonsense around professional sport and I would much prefer if sportsmen/women could focus solely on their sport without joining the circus.
Yes I am afraid, I am afraid that I won't be able to acquire some real estate properties to rent them out at reasonable prices. This literally has nothing to do with Bitcoin.

Oh, I am also worried about not completing that robotics project I started, because I don't have enough time.

Thanks for your comment.
as a former mediocre tennis player, you should not be a douche when you literally receive millions to play a sport that you love.

talking to the media is part of the job, you don't have to please the media, you can go and say "media suck!" and still get the millions because you got the skills.
I think the point is that if Google didn't do that and been successful at that, Microsoft would probably not feel the need to promote this as much as they do.
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Seems like you would need time travel to know whether or not such "hinges" actually exist. The world may be so chaotically intertwined that changing anything causes timelines to wildly diverge. In fact, maybe someone could coin a term for such a measure: the ratio of historic divergence to supposed meaningfulness of a change in preceding cause-effect chain(s).

Perhaps also a measure for the opposite: the resiliency (or inevitability) of events that are "fated" to happen, albeit in different ways, despite edits to cause-effect chains. This supposes that certain events are like the centers of funnels; you can edit where and with what velocities you roll a set of marbles on its curved surface, but within a specific set of parameters they're all fated to lead to the same outcome. I can imagine a sci-fi story in which a character tries to prevent WW2 first by assassinating Hitler, then by other means, but with each edit WW2 still happens, merely with different (and unpredictable) foundational cause-effect chains. (Likely there are already stories like this somewhere.)
Landmines have a simple binary "decision" process: is the target on them or not. So in itself that's not a decision, it's a physical phenomenon: you close a switch, you trigger an event.

Drones have several layers of added "decision making" that are out of human control making them far more dangerous. They get to autonomously decide, target, and kill based on many factors, using algorithms that we cannot trust or predict 100%. They also does it from afar. I know you can't trust a human 100% either but it's still the best we've got.

It's the difference between walking in a bog and encountering a lion. Both might kill you but they're in no way similar even in principle.

Autonomous killer drones are just automating murder and terrorism. Taking horrific weapons and making them worse by giving them better range, better targeting, and a brain that's smart enough to kill but stupid enough to do it as dangerously as possible.
We allow wealth and resources from dead people to do the equivalent, when that could do far more good if redistributed.

One $million cash-rich person dying might lose a pair of useful kidneys but children are dying from dehydration through diarrheal disease that's relatively easy to treat and that persons cash could save more than 1 or 2 people, probably 100s (or more) ... so why is the moral equivalence not made. Surely taking someone's stuff by default is less imposing of a state than taking someone's flesh by default?
Easy, just give the cash back to the person and tell them to spend it on whatever they want.
Russia annexed Finland as war reparations after the Finnish war. Sweden had problems with Russia well before that, but I'd say that most of the modern Scandinavian russophobia stems from this event.
I had a similar experience when trying out the Minecraft RT beta some time ago. I had gotten a GPU with ray tracing capabilities, and I wanted to try it out, so I went to download the beta. To actually use it, you have to have a Microsoft account, and an "XBox Insider" account or something like that. When you have both of those, and opt-in to the beta, the MS store is supposed to know you want to get the beta version instead of the normal one, and download it for you. Of course that didn't work, so I had to delete the app and re-install multiple times, and even restart the whole system to get it to take. On the restart, I got a new popup about opting in to sending my usage data to MS.

Finally I got it working, and it was a half finished mess. The home screen is full of micro-transactions (and this is a game which is supposed to be for children) and I had to go to a separate guide, not provided by Microsoft, to figure out how to get the special RT maps so I could actually see this feature working. And even then you could not just load up a new game and see raytracing, I had to do some manual work in the file-system to create a texture pack which could be used with an arbitrary map.

The whole thing just reeked of a room full of product managers trying to optimize a KPI around account creation without having taken a moment to go through the process and see what they had created.
The OS is basically a website now.
Their grant-making process is quite transparent. Much of it is documented publicly at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants
As an aspiring writer, the Internet has made it possible for small publishing houses to carve out niches, and made self-publishing more possible.

While there is increased competition, it has allowed many writing voices to be heard that would have not been heard pre-internet.
These things are managed and approved, end of life is a consideration for approval for us related space launches.
I agree with you, however:

> Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> The problem the cartels will face is that there is no other business that makes as much money

This is not true. See this article[1] and HN thread[2]:

> “It’s good business,” El Polkas says with a shrug. “It makes a lot of money.” When I ask how gasoline compares to narcotics, in terms of overall revenue to Los Zetas, he rubs his index fingers together. “Fifty-fifty,” he says. “It’s approximately as profitable as drugs.”

[1] - https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/drug-w...

[2] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18101141
This. Paintings, handycraft, documentaries, investigative reports, all become content, createable by anyone - and for the better. Society/tech just needs time to adjust on how to better reward quality content and make it filterable from low-effort noise (subjective!).
As opposed to Wikipedia where the content is written by third parties, and Wikimedia largely focuses (or should focus) on hosting the resulting content?
Well what on earth else do people think intelligence services do?

It's like... BREAKING NEWS: McDonald's found selling burgers!
Is that true nowadays? I think in the past, yes.
A slightly separate issue for landmines is the tendency to main but not necessarily kill. It might seem morbid, a lot of the logic revolved around whether a weapon caused unnecessary pain compared to quick death. Dum Dum bullets for example banned for military use for their tendency to cause more pain than needed (sadly only applies to military). I believe before that there was similar debate on a sword type used by cavalry.

Coupled with its indiscriminate nature, and denial of swaths of lands, and it's an cruel atrocity of a weapon.

Automated weapons I feel fall under something else.
Maybe if you already use the things that they are pushing on you, you won't notice anything. But every time I've updated my work laptop Apple have tried to make me opt-in to Siri after restarting with the new update -- they even add the obnoxious Siri button back to the touch bar even though I've removed it several times.
>The 21st century’s digital dazzle conceals age-old tricks. In keeping with the ways that charity has always been used to smooth over questions of fairness and exploitation, the new vogue for ad hoc donations seems designed to distract us from a handful of tech players getting ever-more wealthy, while the people on their platforms who would like to enrich the culture with something more substantial than cat videos are living increasingly impossible lives.

I think this article tries to make a complex problem into "fair/unfair" situation.

In my point of view, the "problem" is globalization itself. Everyone thought it would be the most fair thing ever. We would have access to more people and more things that were made all over the world, and we would see a boom of diversity. In reality globalization simply makes large players even larger, funneling the majority of the wealth and resources to few players.

That's why there's a handful of tech players getting-ever more wealthy. Everything compounds on a global scale, they can run businesses at loss, have access to unlimited capital, hoard every competitor, making them even more bloated and large.

Yet this is funny because within the artists industry, the exact same thing is happening. The big popular artists are getting most of the attention/wealth, probably at a scale never seen before. The Beatles have never reached so many people, and that's taking away from other artists - so it's not just cat videos. Why aren't artists complaining that other artists are taking away from them? At least radios had to manage a pool of time, now people can listen to the same artists, everyday, in a loop.

Should popular artists have a pool of time that gets empty after so many streams?

Which brings me to the point of: reach. Just because you can reach more people doesn't mean that everyone would have the interest/attention to invest their time to listen to music. Maybe the cat videos time was spent watching commercials in the 90's, or reading through a SEARS catalog in the 70's. The difference is that now it's funneled to few media companies.

So the question shouldn't be if it's offensive to have tip jars that help struggling artists, or if watching cat videos is culture decay... maybe should be, is globalization good for culture? Is globalization a fair and balanced system?
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My wife and I watch Sumo wrestling, and I often understand what the wrestler is replying because it's almost always incredibly simple, like, "I was really happy." The questions are almost inevitably like, "How do you feel about winning the whole tournament?"

They add nothing to the sport, except that I get to laugh that they say the same things as every other competitor.

Reading the comments here, I understand why. If they say anything else, they risk saying something that offends accidentally and it could hurt their career.

So I've got a lot of sympathy for the players here, and not much at all for the industry.
> the fire was caused by a nitric acid leak that the crew had been aware of since May 11.

What percentage of environmental catastrophes are known problems where people just ignored some issue? Seems like quite a few.
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Generally, I'd advise against storing coffee in the bean loader. They aren't really hermetically sealed, so your beans will go stale.

I always grind to measure, in which case I don't need timer.
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This is still whataboutism. I don't see anyone arguing that landmines are trivial or harmless.

The point is that they are entirely different concepts, and since this a discussion about drones, landmines have about much place in this thread as Tse-Tse flies, SUVs and low-head dams.
I don't disagree but it's worth noting the main way people have more kids is to pay a "fine" for the extras. So removing that fine will encourage at least some margin cases to have that extra baby.