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Conspiracy theories are the new urban folklore.

They get disconnected from their origins, repackaged and repurposed like a durable material.

"Cabal" traditionally is a dog-whistle for the antisemitism conspiracy about why the Nazis claim they lost WW1.

It's been durable. Lots of uses of cabal these days shed those nazi roots and repurpose it to just mean "those corrupted by wealth and power". It's still really, extremely close to a very dangerous form of anti-semitism, but it's possible for one to exist without the other.

It's really fascinating how transitive these lies are and how they can be composited like higher level programming objects to form essentially different flavors of insanity. I wish humans weren't like this but eh, don't know how to change it
I've done approximately that and just used https://github.com/atmoz/sftp bound to port 2222 or whatever. SFTP supports password auth just fine if you like, and AFAIK is at least as accessible and probably moreso (clients like filezilla will support both, and sftp shhould be preinstalled on most unix-likes).
AFAIK there is no reliable non-invasive procedure to determine the amount of plaques in the brain. So it will be difficult to make hard statements about the effect of potential drugs on the plaques.

Also we are not really very interested in the effect on plaques, we are interested in things like cognitive behavior which are a lot easier to measure.
Beat at what?
That's not fair, that's just some unrelated thing...
Yes lol.
So... you're saying it's a dupe?
But that isn’t portable. If you lose your device or just reinstall the OS, you can never login again.
Is that E2E, though? I'm not Kafka-knowledgeable, but that sounds like it's encrypted as it gets to your servers and encrypted as it rests on them -- not encrypted all the way between people sending messages.
> Russian Collusion

There is really strong evidence that there is Russian Collusion. The Muller report is full of actions by the Trump election team that point to them working in conjunction with Russia and Russian Agents.
I almost got trampled over by a running alpaca when walking around the ruins at Machu Picchu. I kid you not.

So that's what first came to my mind.
Banks are free to accept, reject, or kick people.

Not just there. Also here. Banks, PayPal, all the same shit in terms of exclusion and power imbalance
Hi, really appreciate the feedback! I 100% agree that the way we handle initial page load is not ideal and is an area I have been meaning to prioritize for some time. We've just been swamped with other customer requests for new UI interface and charting functionality.

I am curious your thoughts on a better way to approach this. My initial thought is for a single loading state which ends when all the data is ready to display on the page. It feels inevitable that there is some loading moment when we are fetching the data. It sounds like, based on your comment, that you would prefer there to be no loading state thought?
Yes - pachyderm is good for managing and running distributed data pipelines on flat files

There are also versioned databases like TerminusDB and Dolt that try to do similar in the database
well, Linux is hugely successful open source project. Virtually everyone is "touched" by it directly or indirectly.
It is one of core components of internet infrastructure.
Bitcoin could be that.

(of course I am aware that desktop/direct usage is really small)
> The main argument was that named arguments will cause your code to break when the arguments are renamed.

Here's the counter point : ordered argument list will break if the order is re arranged in the defined function. While for named arguments it doesn't.
Not sure if the yay is sarcasm. Heroku will remove existing SMS as second factor from all accounts, effectively making those accounts less secure. Yay Heroku! (Sarcasm intended)
They may also have picked bitcoin because of its liquidity and its stable techno-social scaffolding.

Also, I assume that users will have the option to move funds from Strike into a hardware wallet (or similar) of their choosing. Either way, if El Salvadorans get in on the ground of floor of the state adoption phase of bitcoin, they are gonna make bank.
Semantics? I know that LLD discarded the all-format architecture of gnu ld; arguably it got that idea from gold which is ELF only. But what semantics did it discard?

I'm a huge fan of LLD by the way. But in addition to performance and its implementation architecture, I think licensing had something to do with LLD's success.
Some of my neighbors are seniors who are on social security. Their houses were bought for about $160k in the 1970s. Which is expensive back then. Now they are worth $2M but they have no intention to move. Where would they live? And how can they afford the $30k/yr property tax?

What stops people from selling their homes isn’t prop 13, it’s the ridiculous rise in house prices in the last 15 years. It creates no mobility. Stop bitching about Prop 13, that is a lazy and short sighted and wrong explanation for house prices. Look at the inventory these days. It’s low because no one wants to sell their homes because where are they going to move to?
IMO we should probably reduce taxes on house builders. Maybe even give them tax exemptions. Do what we can to increase supply.

Speculators wanting to buy a house, redo the kitchen, and mark up the price 20% 6 months later though? We could just let older, unrenovated houses be cheap. That opens up deals to new home buyers. You can redo the kitchen after buying the house if you really care. You don't need some middle man to do it and mark up the house.
>this isn't a username I expected to ever see again

Mind if I ask what you mean by this?
Yeah, democratic partisans are terrible, too, and just about as divorced from reality.
An author wrote “Laravel is not PHP”. Here’s my response
Q: If someone causes damage to my property by emitting greenhouse gases, am I entitled to defend my property by shooting them?
It would be a necessity and extremely easy. It's not preventing authoritarian states from doing anything. Men with guns in riot gear just show up and seize all of your hardware, and whatever other property you own that they want. See China's current mining crackdown if you don't believe me. Many authoritarian states are currently tolerating crypto because it's an excellent way to avoid international sanctions and launder hacking ransoms.

By pointing out that crypto is banned for regular North Korean citizens, did you not just prove my point that it's a worthless tool for countering authoritarianism?
Removing 'likes' won't solve all the morale-crushing issues of course. When everyone you know is posting pictures of the happy hours that you weren't invited to, and the fabulous vacations that you don't have the time or money to take, it's pretty miserable.

There are people I unfollow just because their posts fill me with envy and a destructive hope that they secretly have problems they don't talk about. I can sit here and tell myself they might be under crushing debt or have bitterly miserable marriages - but that's a nasty, unhealthy frame of mind. Some people have better lives than I do. I have a better life than some other people. Expecting some sort of karmatic "fairness" isn't going to help.
I believe it was a video that the World Economic Forum put out on their YouTube in 2020. I am not sure if they took it down or not since then.

Related: https://www.forbes.com/sites/worldeconomicforum/2016/11/10/s...
Sort of.

It's not entirely off chain. It's hedged in that a transaction is created sending X BTC between us, we repeatedly update that transaction off chain every time we move small amounts of money between eachother, then after Y days we submit the final transaction to the blockchain to resolve the total amounts.

The idea being if one of us starts to be uncooperative, the other can just submit the transaction at its latest state so that we don't lose anything except that last update that we disagreed upon.
Seems legit to me. It worked. There was no reason for them to want to cash out apart from resistance to change.
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>This is called a minimum noise match, along with associated noise contours where noise is traded off with impedance match.

You also get to trade off your impedances with gain and stability. RF design is fun!
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Anyone remember the Apple II Z80 CP/M card (which always made me wonder why you would buy the Apple in the first place)?

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Z-80_SoftCard
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Making existing accounts less secure by removing a second factor is not “leading by example” in my book. Just make me pick a different second factor on my next sign-in.
It is downright wonderful that you think “when most parents tell their kids to get good grades, they mean "study hard and show me you learned", not "go get good grades by any means necessary".”

That’s simply not true in many cases. There are tons of parents out there to whom the grade matters more than the learning. Those aren’t good parents, and mine weren’t like that (I would’ve been destroyed, frankly), but many of my friends’ were. I suspect the proportion is much higher than you’d suspect.
These are the same arguments people used to defend Hugo Chávez back in the day. He’s very popular, the military loves him, other politicians are so corrupt, he’s just doing what he has to do in face of American imperialist manipulation, etc.

They are both tapping the same deep vein of authoritarian populism, although nominally at opposite ends of the political spectrum.
It's not a tax on the gains, it's tax based on the estimated current market value, which could go up or down.
Generally speaking, I think it's a reference to this video with predictions of the future. Whether or not it was advocacy for that outcome is the subject of debate, but it does appear to be an actual WEF video. https://www.facebook.com/worldeconomicforum/videos/101539205...
WEF's official video [1]. They took down the article they had on this topic, probably due to backlash [2].

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBBxWtKKQiA
[2]https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/11/shopping-i-can-t-real...
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> TOTP or hardware tokens don't generally suffer from the same problem.

But how many hardware tokens or TOTP tokens are users willing to deal with? I currently have eight for various clients and systems at work. If each online account required a TOTP token or a custom hardware token it would be a confusing mess of tokens.

I don't know if there's a safe and easy way of reusing the same token across sites. Until then SMS really is the only "solution".
From your own article:

However, there isn’t enough research to definitively link pay transparency to pay equality. At U.S. government agencies, most of which are required to publicly release pay information, women make 81% of what men make, according to the 2017 report from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. In the private sector, where the majority of companies don’t have pay transparency policies, women earn 79% of what their male counterparts make.
Microsoft pulls all future Windows 10 updates – for now
It is not about compliance (existing accounts are kept, and decision to prevent signups is made purely on the basis of the IP address and not e.g. the country that issued the credit card). It is about avoiding the promised blocking of outgoing mail from Western users of FastMail to Russian users of any other mail provider.
As an iOS dev the hardest part for me to learn has definitely been how all the parts of the build chain work together: linking, symbolication, etc. Swift tries to be high-level but Xcode still relies on a bunch of low-level tools to build the app, and often you'll be diagnosing why `ld` failed for something. Pretty interesting stuff.
I say it is unjust for a fixed income senior citizen or disability insurance recipient to have their property tax base grow to a point where they must flee their home of decades. The callus answer is to force the person to sell and take their gains and move so a younger person with higher wages can afford their once-home. I think it is unjust to remove an older, less abled, and less employment-opportunitied person from their environment.
If paying a ransom is made illegal, there's a very good chance victims will pay the ransom, and try very hard to hide the attack from the authorities to the best of their abilities. Punishing the victim rarely has the intended result either...
> just because younger people feel like they deserve to live in their house.

Well, they do deserve those houses. If we expect young people to work, pay taxes and raise new generation. This is yet another middle finger to young people. No wonder birth rate is in toilet.
paid => ads => free. How is a 'free browser' supposed to pay its developers?
The DLR closes most nights. When it re-opens, the first train of each day on each section is driven manually to confirm that maintenance crews haven't managed to leave anything on the track. Yes there are procedures to ensure they don't do that, but no procedure is foolproof.

Attendants may also choose to drive a train at other times, although doing so will generally be slower even if the computer is overseeing the journey (and the train won't accelerate above a crawl if the computer isn't overseeing) so it would be avoided in normal service.

The main job of these personnel are to assist passengers. So it's more a people job than train driver. Wondering if the Stratford destination is "the Shakespeare one"? They can help. Are the lifts working at the stop you need? They can check. Is it far to walk from this next stop to the museum? Does this ticket work on a ferry or only trains?
> So no, you don't need permission to do something as long as it only takes an hour or so and you can hide it somewhere in your daily standup tasks.

If you're having to hide work that you think is a good use of your time, then communication and process has already broken down. It doesn't matter what methodology you claim to be using or complaining about.
Mark to market property taxes do go lower when assessments go lower.
True, and this has happened to me as well. I just started looking for a new job and quit once I had one lined up. Given the circumstances, it was as amicably as it could have been, but it definitely wasn't my best exit. I just tried my best to control my own reactions and not to do anything that would make things worse. Sometimes that's the best you can do.
It also depends on your motivation. The intrinsic value of writing your post maybe is worth your efforts.
Totally agree about peeping toms. But, if a company gets to spy on you via their devices with impunity, your politicians representing you get pay bumps.
WEF also still has a 'the great reset' section on their official website https://www.weforum.org/focus/the-great-reset. WEF is essentially all those billionaires that meetup in davos every year
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This is more for the Mac Pro line. Not so much the laptops.

We’ve only see the Apple equivalent of the i3 with integrated graphics. It’s going to get interesting over the next several months as Apple unveils their middle and upper performance solutions.
I've lived in California for many years, as in 3 other states, and I can say that while the opinion that California is a "paradise state" is common among Californians, it's very far from unanimous, especially if you talk to people who don't live there. Personally, I disliked California quite a lot and I decided to leave it despite the (not too) negative impact on my career.

California is fairly racially diverse, but isn't that ideologically diverse - election results will clearly show that. I have conservative friends (both Trump conservatives and anti-Trump conservatives) who very frequently complain about the lack of diversity in the state. It's great if you are a liberal, not so much otherwise.

The weather in California is indeed good, but not for everybody. Its famed summers are very dry. If you like sun, you will love California summers, but you can get a LOT of dry days in a row. If you like a balanced mix of rain and sun, you will not like the summers in most of California. Also, because of this, a lot of the state's urban areas - especially in SoCal - is very brown and not really that pretty if you like the lush East Coast forests.

California beaches are not that good depending on what you expect from a beach. It's easy to do fun activities at the beach, but the water is quite cold and the sand isn't to everybody's tastes. Parking and driving times can also be brutal in the urban beaches. Very many people would rather go to the beaches in Florida or in the Carolinas than California, not including of course beaches overseas. I personally disliked the beaches there and only went a couple of times over the years.

Overall, I think the reason many people say California is a paradise is that it's a pretty unique state with a lot of personality (for better or worse), so if you are into the things California is good at, then California is the place for you because you won't find their particular mix anywhere else in the US.

But it remains to be seen that this particular mix of traits would be considered a "paradise" for most people.

What I'm saying above is somewhat obvious, as in "If you like California you like California". But when people make grand statements such as "this state is a paradise", one would assume that the vast majority of people who go to California would absolutely love it. But I'm not sure that's the case, especially if you include the enormous number of man-made problems we discuss so much.

The grass can literally be greener elsewhere. :)
Prop 13 is a limits how much property tax can increase in a year. So hypothetically without prop 13 it would possible that the value of your house jumps 10x and then you're stuck with paying 10x the amount of property tax that year.

I don't think we need to remove it completely but some adjustments like applicable only to a primary residence and not investment or commercial properties would probably go a long way.
World Economic Forum had a tweet with about 2 min long video describing the near future this way. I believe the tweet was deleted last year.
The main reason the homes are being bought up is the lumber and steal costs. Right now, it would cost me $500k to build a house that last year would cost me $190k. Real quotes I got for a possible build. More details on what I’m seeing here:

https://austingwalters.com/stagflation-is-here-monetary-infl...

With that being the case and the dollar appearing to be weakening, it makes since for them to buy anything they can.

Those homes they are buying for $300k would cost $500-$600k to build...

Regarding the great reset - here’s a Bloomberg article on how to navigate it: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-05-31/how-to...

It’s real and it’s here.
I think I remember seeing this in "The Art of Electronics" for actually amplifying shot noise for a hardware random number generator.
I don't believe X00,000 died from Covid-19. If I believe Covid-19 exists, am I still a Covid denier?

I feel like absolutist language such as x-denier is designed by stupid people to avoid debate.
>To be fair, they have a point. Besides, It's not so much America thats the issue but "Americans".

In Spanish, yes. In Portuguese, Americans (that is, those from and of the USA) are often called americanos. In French, américain is much more commonly used than États-Unien.

The Spanish meaning of americano that does not include Americans in this way is very unusual among major Western languages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_%28word%29#Other_lang.... I don't mean to say that the equivalent of "American" in those languages is the only way to refer to those of the USA, or that equivalents to "USA" and such don't exist. In Portuguese, Italian, and German, however, saying Americano/Americano/Amerikanisch would generally be understood as referring to that of the USA without additional context, as opposed to a Brazilian or Argentinean, in a way that Americano wouldn't in Spanish.
The IIe, IIc, and IIgs had a means to track the vertical blank signal, but the original II did not.

So a hack was discovered to let the 6502 see the video data being clocked out. It's described in great detail in Don Lancaster's book.

https://www.tinaja.com/ebooks/enhance_vII.pdf

The gist is that the last byte of each horizontal raster is not displayed on-screen, but with the hack the 6502 can see it. So if you set the low bit of the last byte to 1 for every horizontal line except the last one, now you know when the hardware has sent out the last byte of the last line. Vertical Blank comes right after that.
That’s been the claim for a while, yes. But actually delivery of said promises has always been “soon”.

And while six million isn’t a huge country comparatively, I personally would be mighty pissed off if my entire country was used as a massive financial experiment for crypto enthusiasts.
I keep an old phone around with a duplicate Authy setup. I also photograph the 2FA code or QR code and print it to a safe place.
It basically is now. He didn't invent the technique, but popularized it in inexpensive devices.

The O2 has been surpassed by many great designs, but the O2 really did start that arms race.
Most people who voted for Trump believe Trump lost to Biden.
Except the main benefit of BTC is really the lack of printability. Governments can't just make more of it even if they run the LN for their country. That said I don't think it will come to full LN centralization either.

There are still other cryptos that have further benefits as well.

Monero for example is fully private and can do ~1500tps on chain atm. Bitcoin adoption is just one avenue to competing currencies that bring freedom back. If the LN can remain distributed and bring anonymity to its users, then great, but if not there's still further alternatives, and with decentralized exchanges, governments won't be able to stop the use of a better system.

Currency competition is just plain great for human rights and freedom.
Wouldn't this accelerate the displacement of less wealthy home owners in neighborhoods that are being gentrified?
Yes. That's a crazy belief.
If their property taxes increased to the point where they cannot afford it, then that means that their property value increased significantly. Excuse me if I don't feel too bad for somebody who just reaped a massive windfall.

The "won't somebody think of granny?" argument doesn't really work when advocating for a policy that disproportionately subsidizes non-grannies.
Money laundering is "despicable"? That's quite a strong sentiment for a white collar crime which basically states that money not tracked by the government is illegal.
> In fact, a remarkably common response to a diagnosis of resistor noise is to seek a source of "good" resistors, with "good" being defined as without thermal noise. This is impossible.

It's impossible to make a totally noiseless resistor, but it's also important to understand that all resistors are not created equal.

Most resistors have noise levels that are orders of magnitude above the Johnson limit. Potentiometers are especially bad.

If you want "good" resistors for noise-critical applications, I recommend metal thin-film resistors. They hardly cost any extra anyway.

Also, in cases where resistors are used to set DC signals such as offsets and biases, you can add capacitors to filter the heck out of those lines to decrease their noise contribution.
that makes sense - I suppose using my model you could mask some of the data in a versioned graph or a collection contained in the database that can be surfaced up to other users who can then clone the collection that excludes PII. You could run the main collection and the PII free collection in the same data product. This might be an easier approach than creating fake data & fake schema.
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