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I do think it is productive to say. This thread shows clear efforts of an organized group, likely state-sponsored, to disrupt it. It was funny to see this happen on 4chan, because at first they could not get it right, and were stuck in their Wikipedia editor mode. They kept getting called out for it, or ignored.

They switched to upvoting and commenting unrelated threads to the front page. When 4chan changed their algorithm to combat this blatant manipulation, they ended with an effective weapon: shitposting.

You fill a thread on Covid or GoF research with an incredible amount of shitposts, and other shitposters attacking those shitposts, downvote walls of text to grey. Derail, derail, derail. You end up with a thread that nobody wants to read, and requires sifting through shit to find what you need. Then easier to just listen to the news about what expert Peter Daszak has to say.

Beating 4chan at its own game. 50 cent army is extremely good at shitposting.

And interesting posts are now hidden behind a "Read More", while posts defending zoonosis (imagine coming into a zoonosis theory thread to shitpost about lab-leak theory, hahaha) are on 2-3-4'th place.

It is getting harder and harder to find the facts or reason about what the hell is going on. The brain of society is poisoned to schizophrenia.
"Do your own research" really ticks me off. Plus, due to Covid, I have little else to do, sadly.
My friend, it is not about _this_ person specifically, but an attitude to everybody. Maybe this person did not change, maybe they did. But we need to assume good faith when we can, else we do nothing but divide people even further. Imagine yourself in a situation where you’ve probably done something stupid, realise that it is stupid and wish to be forgiven. Wouldn’t you like that someone asks you first “have you understood your mistake?” rather than assume you are the same person because they haven’t found evidence to the contrary (guilty till proven innocent).

The issue isn’t that this person didn’t make a mistake - we all agree on that. The issue is that in our culture, we don’t make room for a person to make mistakes and grow (often the only way to grow) by forgiving them and believing that they are a better person now and can contribute to society more effectively going forward.

I understand this is a tricky balance to maintain. But I sincerely believe the internet junta is unforgiving and judgemental beyond the point of any utility except making oneself feel better by “other-ising” people they don’t know, and claiming that they wouldn’t ever be like that person.

The reality is that we are all remarkably similar. We’ve just been in radically different circumstances and who knows how we would have behaved had we been in a similar situation?

I don’t mean to pick a battle with you. I understand where you are coming from. I would love to have a civil discussion with you. Have a wonderful day.
Hire, hire... At $850 profit a month, that doesn't seem to be workable advice.

That would first mean to get an investor so you can hire. Which is a completely different story.
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I do think it is productive to say. This thread shows clear efforts of an organized group, likely state-sponsored, to disrupt it. It was funny to see this happen on 4chan, because at first they could not get it right, and were stuck in their Wikipedia editor mode. They kept getting called out for it, or ignored.

They switched to upvoting and commenting unrelated threads to the front page. When 4chan changed their algorithm to combat this blatant manipulation, they ended with an effective weapon: shitposting.

You fill a thread on Covid or GoF research with an incredible amount of shitposts, and other shitposters attacking those shitposts, downvote walls of text to grey. Derail, derail, derail. You end up with a thread that nobody wants to read, and requires sifting through shit to find what you need. Then easier to just listen to the news about what expert Peter Daszak has to say.

Beating 4chan at its own game. 50 cent army is extremely good at shitposting.

And interesting posts are now hidden behind a "Read More", while posts defending zoonosis (imagine coming into a zoonosis theory thread to shitpost about lab-leak theory, hahaha) are on 2-3-4'th place.

It is getting harder and harder to find the facts or reason about what the hell is going on. The brain of society is poisoned to schizophrenia.
Not exactly: their behaviour is more akin to a storage facility with faulty security cameras and sleepy guards (and cheap locks).
They have a duty towards their customers (contracts to be honored) and this requires security.
To keep it simple: are there benefits of calling them out?

Are you really just in search of scientific truth, and is this science useful in this context of present and maybe future crisis?

My point is that actually it (the calling out) is done aggressively, and it was especially when Trump was president.
And maybe China is afraid to be shamed and discredited on the international scene, which would delight geopolitical enemies like US, or having to repay colossal sums of money to the world. And thus they would be refusing even the possibility of a lab leak.

If China was given a more relaxed treatment (but is it even possible? isn't the world out to find scapegoats and make them feel shame or get them to pay?), maybe they would have more willingly investigated the origins of the virus, even probably as a simple consequence of their other ongoing scientific investigations on covid.

I may seem unduly focused on the concept of shame in this comment, but this is precisely why it is an Asian problem. It is not obvious for Westerners that shame or discredit would be that much important.
The money problem only adds to it.

But what's even more important here to figure out a solution, is that the investigations about the virus origin will likely not help at all to solve the crisis.

Solutions are more in studying the variants, preventing the spread, and developping vaccines and antivirals.
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I do think it is productive to say. This thread shows clear efforts of an organized group, likely state-sponsored, to disrupt it. It was funny to see this happen on 4chan, because at first they could not get it right, and were stuck in their Wikipedia editor mode. They kept getting called out for it, or ignored.

They switched to upvoting and commenting unrelated threads to the front page. When 4chan changed their algorithm to combat this blatant manipulation, they ended with an effective weapon: shitposting.

You fill a thread on Covid or GoF research with an incredible amount of shitposts, and other shitposters attacking those shitposts, downvote walls of text to grey. Derail, derail, derail. You end up with a thread that nobody wants to read, and requires sifting through shit to find what you need. Then easier to just listen to the news about what expert Peter Daszak has to say.

Beating 4chan at its own game. 50 cent army is extremely good at shitposting.

And interesting posts are now hidden behind a "Read More", while posts defending zoonosis (imagine coming into a zoonosis theory thread to shitpost about lab-leak theory, hahaha) are on 2-3-4'th place.

It is getting harder and harder to find the facts or reason about what the hell is going on. The brain of society is poisoned to schizophrenia.
This list is also a bit incomplete, or more likely just refers to classes taught in the current school year. I co-teach a different ethics-focused class in the Stanford CS department (CS 181, which in this incarnation started in 2017). I think it's a pretty good class too, although as you suggest, there are limits on how much a quarter-long class can realistically accomplish. (We try to push the envelope with our project -- some of our students have protested outside Apple HQ or Robinhood, given presentations to the Palo Alto School Board, interviewed farmworkers and U.S. congresspeople about automation, handed out leaflets about net neutrality to tourists, etc.) The reading list and goals, etc., are up at https://cs181.stanford.edu.

In addition to the new "embedded EthiCS" program you mentioned, the CS program also offers a bunch of more focused classes on, e.g., trust and safety engineering (CS 152); law, order, and algorithms (CS 209); race and gender in Silicon Valley (CS 80Q), fair, accountable, and transparent deep learning (CS 335); computational social choice (CS 366); digital technology and law (CS 481); the Modern Internet (upcoming). And, of course, a much bigger range of classes about engineering, ethics, and public policy offered by colleagues across the university.

The truth, though, is that neither CS 181 or 182 is required per se. All Stanford undergrads have to take at least one course in ethics, and all undergrads in the School of Engineering have to take at least one course in Technology in Society, and both CS 181 and 182 fulfill both of those requirements. But many of our students do fulfill them by taking other classes.
> If you are not vaccinated, at this point, there is no excuse.

You know, I don't often use the phrase "Check your privilege", but this is one case where you need to Check. Your. Privilege.
Empty art can actually be serious. An example from music is John Cage's 4'33" [1].

The point was that just because the performer/performers is/are not playing their instruments does not mean you have silence in the concert hall. You still have the sounds of the audience, sounds from things like the HVAC system, sounds from outside, and probably others.

We are never truly in silence (even in an anechoic chamber your hear your body), but we learn to ignore these ambient sounds most of the time to the point that we usually aren't aware of them even if the things we want to listen to are briefly silent.

Cage wanted the audience to realize and experience that there was no true silence, and that there was a whole world of sounds that they had been ignoring.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4%E2%80%B233%E2%80%B3
You assume that it is easy to predict exactly what effect some genes from some bacteria would have is, say, spinach. It is rarely so. In traditional breeding, you know what you start with, and crossing two variants from the same species never creates anything unexpected.
Why do Muslims emulate Prophet Muhammad (pbuh)?
Dr. Zakir Naik
That's not what that doctrine means; information being classified and individuals having a duty to protect it are two distinctly different things. Imposing a duty to protect classified information on Americans who have not signed a national security NDA would be a breach of their first amendment rights. The rules are obviously totally different for people who hold or have held a clearance, but the legal basis for those rules is the NDA signed by those people.

This is fundamentally different than e.g. the British approach, where the official secrets act applies to everyone whether or not they have signed it.

It's also the case that while the doctrine of born secret has not been tested in court, it is generally regarded as unconstitutional and likely to be struck down by the courts of they are given the opportunity.
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I do think it is productive to say. This thread shows clear efforts of an organized group, likely state-sponsored, to disrupt it. It was funny to see this happen on 4chan, because at first they could not get it right, and were stuck in their Wikipedia editor mode. They kept getting called out for it, or ignored.

They switched to upvoting and commenting unrelated threads to the front page. When 4chan changed their algorithm to combat this blatant manipulation, they ended with an effective weapon: shitposting.

You fill a thread on Covid or GoF research with an incredible amount of shitposts, and other shitposters attacking those shitposts, downvote walls of text to grey. Derail, derail, derail. You end up with a thread that nobody wants to read, and requires sifting through shit to find what you need. Then easier to just listen to the news about what expert Peter Daszak has to say.

Beating 4chan at its own game. 50 cent army is extremely good at shitposting.

And interesting posts are now hidden behind a "Read More", while posts defending zoonosis (imagine coming into a zoonosis theory thread to shitpost about lab-leak theory, hahaha) are on 2-3-4'th place.

It is getting harder and harder to find the facts or reason about what the hell is going on. The brain of society is poisoned to schizophrenia.
Nasubi is awesome and he really seemed to enjoy his time on the show.
Read the article. The author lists 5 or more such smoking guns. All together, it is quite compelling.
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I do think it is productive to say. This thread shows clear efforts of an organized group, likely state-sponsored, to disrupt it. It was funny to see this happen on 4chan, because at first they could not get it right, and were stuck in their Wikipedia editor mode. They kept getting called out for it, or ignored.

They switched to upvoting and commenting unrelated threads to the front page. When 4chan changed their algorithm to combat this blatant manipulation, they ended with an effective weapon: shitposting.

You fill a thread on Covid or GoF research with an incredible amount of shitposts, and other shitposters attacking those shitposts, downvote walls of text to grey. Derail, derail, derail. You end up with a thread that nobody wants to read, and requires sifting through shit to find what you need. Then easier to just listen to the news about what expert Peter Daszak has to say.

Beating 4chan at its own game. 50 cent army is extremely good at shitposting.

And interesting posts are now hidden behind a "Read More", while posts defending zoonosis (imagine coming into a zoonosis theory thread to shitpost about lab-leak theory, hahaha) are on 2-3-4'th place.

It is getting harder and harder to find the facts or reason about what the hell is going on. The brain of society is poisoned to schizophrenia.
There are many ways to use ZFS for windows... even without OpenZfs on Windows!

Check https://happyadministrator.com/2020/11/29/windows-users-prob... : it's not just for servers. The performance gains and extra features make it worth doing for a regular desktop.

Personally, I am a Windows 10 fan. I have tried Linux but found the command line experience sub optimal ( explained on https://github.com/csdvrx/cutexterm ) - except for the filesystem!

So for my next Windows 10 installation, I preparing a KVM GPU passthrough, just to keep using msys2 on MinTTY for a wonderful user interface, yet with a great filesystem behind (a raid of NVMe, datasets snapshotting etc...)

That should give the best of both worlds!
They're all small compared to the duopoly/FAANG.
Any combat arms officer/NCO that doesn’t know what happened in the Armenia/Azerbaijan disco dance off last year needs to find a new job.

Moore’s Law price/performance has brought us to the point that individual soldiers can be individually targeted and destroyed by autonomous kinetic drones that are accessible to, and manufactured by, a fast growing number of nations.
I was a contributing student in the course in Spring 2020. Seems that the main difference is in the last 3 weeks and a lot more detail in how to train and infer when using Latent Variables in EBMs (they covered this last time but that content was mostly verbal, whereas there is more time dedicated this time in the slides and lectures).

A lot more examples on SSL too.

Alfredo also went all in on the visuals again. Amazing job.
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I do think it is productive to say. This thread shows clear efforts of an organized group, likely state-sponsored, to disrupt it. It was funny to see this happen on 4chan, because at first they could not get it right, and were stuck in their Wikipedia editor mode. They kept getting called out for it, or ignored.

They switched to upvoting and commenting unrelated threads to the front page. When 4chan changed their algorithm to combat this blatant manipulation, they ended with an effective weapon: shitposting.

You fill a thread on Covid or GoF research with an incredible amount of shitposts, and other shitposters attacking those shitposts, downvote walls of text to grey. Derail, derail, derail. You end up with a thread that nobody wants to read, and requires sifting through shit to find what you need. Then easier to just listen to the news about what expert Peter Daszak has to say.

Beating 4chan at its own game. 50 cent army is extremely good at shitposting.

And interesting posts are now hidden behind a "Read More", while posts defending zoonosis (imagine coming into a zoonosis theory thread to shitpost about lab-leak theory, hahaha) are on 2-3-4'th place.

It is getting harder and harder to find the facts or reason about what the hell is going on. The brain of society is poisoned to schizophrenia.
> Dr. Robert Redfield, former director of the CDC, said he received death threats from fellow scientists after telling CNN he thought the virus likely escaped from a lab. “I expected it from politicians. I didn’t expect it from science,” he said.

Holyshit. We have created an atmosphere of censorship and suppression to the point where noble, well meaning people have been turned into monsters.
Pulling this thread: say the government regulates it - what do they require? Regulations that say you need to be secure enough to not be hacked? That requirement changes daily.

Baseline security standards? Sure. But what is the baseline? And how influenced by lobbyists is that baseline? You know the big security companies would love to have their product be a government requirement. Attackers do not have regulations. They know the regulations and work around them. Makes it more difficult, but eventually they develop new attacks.

So now you’ve got this government body making regulations that needs people who understand security to make the regulations, who then need some way to audit the companies to ensure compliance. The companies then have to focus on the audits and not on emerging threats, or do both, and it increases overhead.

I’m not against government regulations when it is a good fit, but there are a lot of unintended consequences. The government is made up of people, too, and they may not be as close to the work to understand the optimal allocation of resources to minimize security risk.
> most aren't given a second chance like he was.

Most are almost never put in a position where things they've done or said over a decade ago is put under a spotlight. You have to be in a specific position, and have people specific want to take you down in the first place. Why do you think this specific post from 14 years ago happens to have been brought up now?
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I do think it is productive to say. This thread shows clear efforts of an organized group, likely state-sponsored, to disrupt it. It was funny to see this happen on 4chan, because at first they could not get it right, and were stuck in their Wikipedia editor mode. They kept getting called out for it, or ignored.

They switched to upvoting and commenting unrelated threads to the front page. When 4chan changed their algorithm to combat this blatant manipulation, they ended with an effective weapon: shitposting.

You fill a thread on Covid or GoF research with an incredible amount of shitposts, and other shitposters attacking those shitposts, downvote walls of text to grey. Derail, derail, derail. You end up with a thread that nobody wants to read, and requires sifting through shit to find what you need. Then easier to just listen to the news about what expert Peter Daszak has to say.

Beating 4chan at its own game. 50 cent army is extremely good at shitposting.

And interesting posts are now hidden behind a "Read More", while posts defending zoonosis (imagine coming into a zoonosis theory thread to shitpost about lab-leak theory, hahaha) are on 2-3-4'th place.

It is getting harder and harder to find the facts or reason about what the hell is going on. The brain of society is poisoned to schizophrenia.
You could divide your product into hobbyist and enterprise product lines, and sell support plans for enterprise for some recurring revenue.
> FTA "There is no evidence — not a smidgen — for the claim that COVID-19 originated in a laboratory in China or anywhere else, or that the China lab ever had the virus in its inventory. There's even less for the wildest version of the claim, which is that the virus was deliberately engineered."

There is evidence that the Wuhan lab had the bat and pangolin viruses in house, and there is evidence that the lab does and publishes gain of function research, and there is no need for evidence of a lab leak, everybody agrees they occur.

On the other hand, what there is no evidence for is natural mutation/evolution of the virus, or of a zoonotic species jump. Previous examples of zoonotic sources have always turned up evidence in animal populations within a short time, but in this case after a year and a half there is no evidence of an animal source for Covid-19.
Yes, most notably the F-16, which had a really good four-channel redundant analog flight control system. But is that needed on a transport aircraft? Fighters have it for extreme maneuverability, which a transport aircraft does not need or want.
Ditto. I'll never buy a Toyota after my experience trying to buy a RAV4 Prime last year.
> I wonder, what could have been things to say, that could have helped them to stop looking at the world in that way

I'm not sure, I feel like you can't change people unless they want to be changed. I'd say lead by example and show that it can be different.

Personally I try my best not to judge people by looks. I've had some questionable looking people asking for help in the past. And they turned out to genuinely need help and it was easy to do and it felt good to do. Things like letting someone use my phone, getting their diabetic dog out of the sun and home, helping with public transport because they got shitfaced the night before and couldn't work out how to get home.

It also helps having been on the other side of it. No one wanted to even let nerdy-looking teenage me use their phone. My car broke down and I didn't have credit on my prepaid phone to call for help. Apparently not a single person I approached had a phone on them. Yeah, whatever...
What a difference a year makes?

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/05/why-scientists-belie...
That is because it is the 2020 version. The 2021 version seems to be under construction.
Tracy Austin Broke My Heart (1994) [pdf]
Take it to reddit/twitter mate.
If you read the article Ars Technica points out the direct lies Huawei is telling: "no single line of code is identical to that of Android," and in the linked original piece of reporting, "is completely different from Android and iOS." Huawei's top brass doesn't appear to value truthfully disclosing either the provenance of its software or what it actually is so why should I bother with it?