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> This is a really bad idea, as US is known to tap any data they can get on their soil.

I think you meant to say, the US is known to tap ALL data we can get our grubby little paws on. We don't care if it's on our soil or not.

AIUI, it's arguably harder if it's on our soil, as then we might be spying on US citizens which requires a touch more paperwork.

NOTE: I'm not condoning this behaviour, just stating my understanding of it.
Let's say when you do wrong X to someone, it's quite possible that they return the "favor" someday. I don't know what we are arguing here. Are they evil? For sure, but do you really expect them to be gentlemen revolutionaries who only kill those "should be killed"?

Actually Europeans did the same in not so long ago, not as slaves, but as slavers (or some more fancy words), so people can go down much further IMHO.
As US forces withdraw from Afghanistan and the West’s loss of confidence finally results in actual withdrawals (though see the reversal by the French in Mali), it’s worth noting that old-style selfish neocolonialism is still alive and kicking e.g. in Haiti. Whether or not it is wise to withdraw Afghanistan-style, it seems sad that this blatant selfishness and incompetence—which does not benefit Western peoples terribly much these days anyway—continues despite a change in the thinking of Western foreign policy élites.

> Moïse says he is entitled to another year in office. Legal experts agree that his interpretation of the law requires twisting it beyond recognition, but there’s an old Haitian saying that the constitution is paper and guns are steel, and Moïse has the backing he needs from the OAS and the USA. At a press conference on 5 February, the State Department took Moïse’s side in the end-of-term argument. Perhaps this was mere expediency from the White House – Haiti is a small country and the Biden administration has inherited a myriad messes – but Moïse saw a green light.

> American ignorance and blitheness was on full display this month during a hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. When one of the Haitian witnesses, Guerline Jozef, urged legislators to examine the root causes of Haiti’s predicament, going back to the indemnity Haiti was forced to pay in 1825 to compensate France for its slaves,Congressman Brian Mast (R-FL) cut her off. He mansplained:

> > Haitians individually within Haiti [need to] look in the mirror and say: ‘We can’t rely on America, we can’t rely on France, we can’t rely on others. We’re hopeful for their assistance. But we have to look in the mirror and say, how do we do this?’ And that’s what I hope we can really really get to the root of, is ... what is it that they can look in the mirror and do to correct what is missing there?

> A few minutes later, the Haitian activist Emmanuela Douyon tried to set Mast straight. ‘Haiti is not waiting for the US, France or any other country in the international community,’ she said:

> > We’ve already decided what we want to do. What we’re asking is for the international community to listen and respect our choice. We have a president whose term ended last February. He has benefited from the support of the OAS [and] the US State Department, despite the fact that most of Haitian civil society acknowledges that his term has ended, according to the constitution ... This is what we’re facing now. And this is a perfect example of how when we don’t listen to Haitians, we can’t blame them later for the outcome. We want to end with all this corruption and impunity, we want to end with the old practices. [But] so many people do not want to give us a chance to decide for ourselves.

https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2021/march/haitian-democracy
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I'm guessing you aren't a parent. How else can they buy those Fortnite skins? Robux? Minecoins?
> The scary thing is that only sounds terrible if you have the mental energy to care about principles. Making decisions all the time is difficult, and it’s easier when someone else limits the options you can choose from. It’s not hard to turn a blind eye to a problem if, for the most part, your life is made a little simpler.

The more silly laws we pile on, the more time we have to spend violating silly laws, the less "rule of law" matters as a concept. How many Federal laws have you violated, this morning? I'm sure I've got a couple and I aint even left the house.
There is precedent to the Irish president exercising their power. In 1994 Mary Robinson refused Albert Reynold's request to have the Dáil dissolved (well, let it be known that such a request would be refused), leading to a new government being formed without a general election. If the Queen refused a similar request from a Prime Minister that would be a shock though.
>Authoritarianism is possible with most types of government, but is necessary for communism.

Only if the people aren't onboard. The whole idea of communism is with people being onboard (and running soviets, worker councils, etc).

Some not being onboard is OK - communism is about majority rule, not what some person likes or dislikes. In that, it's like any other system. A modern democracy also doesn't care if somebody likes to sell heroin freely, or whether they'd rather have a King.
> Ketchum is facing a cascading housing crisis caused by a rush of new residents during the Covid-19 pandemic, growing demand for workers during the economic boom that has followed

> the economic boom that has followed

Is this what we're calling it?
> Aside from taking it out of SYSTEM scope(!)

Windows does all kind of random things at SYSTEM scope and maybe for most of it, it is a terrible idea; yet they think that somehow VBS will save the world, and do not give a shit about the obvious existing shortcomings of their stack... At one point a virus could exploit a bug in the MS Defender AV engine and ironically execute under SYSTEM by just being scanned (!!) and they reacted by introducing MP_FORCE_USE_SANDBOX, however it seems that instead of quickly extending the usage of that sandbox to every user they... now just spawn the worker process (if the env var is there) but it does not do anything anymore :/

I get that engineers are attracted to working on new shinny things, but at one point not maintaining the old stuff (or even just properly removing!) under the excuse that the new unfinished one is more important is just lack of vaguely competent project management, and overall lack of professionalism. Even maybe of individual contributors: if you do not push strongly to get the shit cleaned-up in priority, you are as guilty as the people directing you to work on other (likely soon to be deprecated and unmaintained too) things.
Well, not sure what to make of that 70% since 70% of all youtube video watches are due to recommendation in the first place

https://qz.com/1178125/youtubes-recommendations-drive-70-of-...
Yes it was, technically. GPs point about not repeating the post-WWI mistake still stands though. Germany also received huge help as part of the Marshall plan.
"If I had a kid". There you go. Get back with us when you have to actually do the job you are criticizing.
THis book is better known as "ignorant writes about History by cherry-picking data points"
I am Jack's absolute lack of surprise.
I disagree. That's like calling Fentanyl a social problem.

Both are a problem caused by new sophisticated technology which exploit biological human flaws.
KYC does not give the gov't your transaction history, it simply means that your financial institution needs to verify your identity. It is part of an overall strategy to reduce the amount of damage malevolent actors can create.

You might try reading the Federalist Papers before making claims about the founding fathers. Again, it is not surveillance by government anyhow.
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As I told a European techie at a conference twenty-odd years ago, New York includes its suburbs. If New York were just Manhattan, things might be different.
Fires are actually a pretty important part of grass and tree ecology! Cleansing, reproductive fire.
The author of mimikatz is saying the patch still has remote and local privilege escalation issues if point and print is enabled. https://twitter.com/gentilkiwi/status/1412771368534528001
Had an itch to scratch ever since discovering on Android you can trigger the camera flash from a browser.

This was the first use case that came to mind. The app will work offline, in case of dire need.

Some trivia: the last message sent from the French Navy in Morse code was: "Calling all. This is our last cry before our eternal silence."
How does that cause sidewalk defecation problems in SF?
With the Developer Beta 2 it was more consistent in staying somewhat in the region. But still if you IP is consistently changing it is hard to adapt. Btw. Oftentimes Geo Databases are wrong as well.
VMS Software has released the x86_64 port of OpenVMS recently. However it is not currently available under the hobbyist program. They say that is coming soon.
Neither Mexico nor "South American countries" (which ones? That sounds like an incorrect blanket generalization) are "failed states".
just curious, how old are you children? you mentioned having a toddler further up. it makes sense that most social activities are planned by the parents anyway at that age.

I remember things starting to change in middle school. kids started making same-day plans for after school and shooting their parents a quick text to say where they were going. I tried using the school's phone a few times when I was invited, but there wasn't always time to visit the office between classes. that was pretty clunky to do one or more times per week, and I knew I would be in big trouble if I wasn't there when my dad came to pick me up. so I just had to accept that I wouldn't be participating in most of those spontaneous hangouts until I got a phone.

like you said, everyone is different. some kids are charismatic enough that everyone else will work around whatever inconveniences they bring. others are not. I knew my parents had a very firm stance on stuff like phones, so I didn't bother complaining about it much.
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The problem was that you were asking questions in an area where some activists want absolute conformity, and many of those activists and their allies can flag comments.
It's not that, it's generally that the license is sold and they don't have copyright for it in Europe anymore, at least as far as VICE is concerned.
Morally you and me might prefer a system where might does not make right and human rights are truly inalienable.

Practically, however, these rights are only inalienable as long as the powers-that-be (police, military, organs of the state) agree -- if hypothetical Emperor Epstein (or real-life President Ashraf Ghani) declares child rape to be legal, and police and courts obey him, then good luck going up against them...
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Yes, the same metal level plans are comparable since the coverage all health insurance has to provide is the same in the US (excluding the weird church plan loophole but they are not actually insurance and no one uses them)

https://www.healthcare.gov/choose-a-plan/plans-categories/

What will change is the network of healthcare providers that are in network for you. This is how I think price discrimination will work in healthcare in the US going forward.

A more expensive silver health insurance will have more doctors in network since it will reimburse at a higher price (from your or your employer’s higher premiums). A less expensive silver health insurance will have fewer doctors in network, since fewer doctors will accept that price. Or it will have overworked doctors, or you will have to see nurse practitioners or physician’s assistance instead of MDs.

If you find your employer’s in network doctors worse, then it is basically a stealth pay cut from one perspective.
Because passports were invited when women were not necessarily able to travel alone.

Also even today US government discriminates against women when issuing visas in certain countries.
So how come you didn't reply to the original parent's statement that:

> Some people think it's relevant that a new coronavirus emerged next door to a lab working on new coronaviruses

There's no definitive proof of this, either!

Forster admits that his research is not definitive. The comparison of his A and B strains to the nearest known relative, the bat virus, as a founding variant may be wrong. I understand that the main objection is that there were probably intermediary hosts, and that evolutionary mutations and geography don't always line up.

So does that mean it's 50/50 at this point, he may be wrong, but he may be right?

It's enough for me to question Wuhan as the site of the first human infections. It might be. It might not. I think that's the general scientific consensus at this point. We don't know for certain yet, right? That was my point. Perhaps I could have stated it better.
Yes, there are. Examples that immediately come to mind:

- Anyone driving a large vehicle for more than 9 hours per day, 56 in a week, and 90 over a two-week period in the European Union.

- Adults using a tanning under a sunlamp for more than one cycle in a 24 hour period in many countries (others, such as Australia, did ban them entirely).

- Children spending more than 10 hours per day in child care centers in many US states, such as Washington.

- Alcohol purchases are limited to certain times of day in many European countries (compare "No games between 10pm and 8am" in China).

Many of these are very difficult to enforce, and enforcement benefits from intrusive technology (such as tachographs) and even more so from intrusive AI (e.g. many EU countries were set to implement platforms to monitor truck drivers using AI, until the European Commission's Artificial Intelligence Act forced a change of plans).

I also disagree with the previous examples being as different in kind as you seem to think: e.g. the "no home-schooling" requirements, combined with mandatory attendance, still limits children's gaming time to something less than 19 hours on weekdays. Which is different from "no more than 1.5 hours", but only quantitatively, not qualitatively. And it certainly matches "the government does not trust its citizens to raise their own children", which was my main point.
My understanding is that narrowly targeted exploits are more the concern.
"Masks, hands, distancing" somehow costs 498B? Luckily, after a spike of 200k cases a day for a couple of months, it seems most of the population dies or becomes immune, with 3.6M infections (14M including reinfections) and 200K dead by simulation end. Doing the bare minimum and letting the weak die on the streets led to a pretty decent life for the survivors.
Imagine if we invented a device that gave people access to all the information in the world and then made fun of them for using it.
Sometimes Etsy customer service will just say "we no longer have a business relationship and we cannot talk further<disconnect>". So it may be weeks using un-documented email addresses and escalation processes that you only learn about on unofficial subreddits.
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Amazing package to train hugging face models.
Of this were a big problem in the west, we’d see a pause in immigration to the west.

People learn fast if things are not good. If you’re targeted, if you’re harassed.

I don’t mean people who have very little choice (their home countries are so bad they have to leave), but I mean middle class families who have alternatives. They still choose the west as a destination by choice.

I think this is a reasonable proxy indicating life isn’t bad for foreigners immigrating to the west. If it were bad, they’d choose to stay home or a neighboring country that has similar culture.

Also, regarding travel. Most people experience their travel to other countries as middle class visitors, not as lower class visitors. Take someone from a first world country who didn't go beyond high school who earns <$25,000 and put them in one of these places and see how far their skills take them.
You literally wrote "All the white population was massacred" 10 minutes before this second message.
Why do people say “whilst”?
> While I understand why people tend to put all of South America under the same umbrella

The only explanation is rampant ignorance. How could one consider that, say, Venezuela, Argentina, Brazil and Bolivia are all "under the same umbrella" except by simply failing to pay attention in school?

It's like saying that every country in North America is more or less the same.
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Ah, I was unaware of that, and was thinking more of the 1982 incident where Patrick Hillery shut himself in and avoided answering the phone so as not to be required to dissolve the government.

Both of these fall to me under "refusing to exercise powers" rather than exercising powers though.
I also recommend libreddit - https://github.com/spikecodes/libreddit

Recently on teddit.net, I've been getting an "Unable to connect" via some Tor Exit Nodes. So I'm having to create new circuits until teddit loads.
It really doesn't. If they have looked at the photo and decided it's a match, that already contains a lot of information on gender and sex a guard will use. If a guard decides there's a mismatch, we're well out into the extremes of the probability distributions.

When we compare that to the chance the ID is a good enough fake to pass otherwise but bad enough that it doesn't have the gender right and the chance that it's just bureaucratic error, a mandatory genital inspection makes very little sense.

And that's before we get to the practical costs of making border guards into dick inspectors. We could hypothetically get to your 50% number by just inspecting everybody's genitals, I guess. Except the false positive rate from turning security guards into medical experts would be through the roof.
we're all working from home, no one's using mobile data /s
My working definition is that statisticians choose and engineer models while machine learning searches a vast space of models.
Mexico could be worse, but could also be better.
I'm sure there are plenty, albeit not exactly the same thing. The question asked for a specific existence proof for a retailer that didn't take cash and I provided it.
I agree fully with you. I also think he might change his ideas on becoming immortal once he is a little older and comes to the conclusion that life has no meaning in itself and that even when you achieve a lot, everything while be undone in the future. Or when he realizes the lonelines of being smarter than most people. There is a strong correlation between intelligence and existential depression.

(I had thought about writing about this in my initial comment, but hesitated about stating it, because I did not feel at ease to write this about a person of his age.)
This kind of nonsense really goes back to the broken CVE process. https://opensourcesecurity.io/2021/03/30/its-time-to-fix-cve...

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Greg Kroah-Hartman has a similar opinion. https://github.com/gregkh/presentation-cve-is-dead/blob/mast...

Edit: LWN mention https://lwn.net/Articles/801157/
Sounds like "Das weiße Rauschen"? (The white noise, but I think he did mushrooms)

If so, I saw that one too ...
I am from the American south. The friendliness is almost entirely superficial. Let these people find out you're gay, or liberal, or not a churchgoer ... you'll generally encounter a completely different experience.
If the ground truth is unavailable in real time, are you still able to detect anomalies with the inputs?
Nitpick: Gram-Schmidt.
There are jobs, plenty of jobs, and yet somehow no one filling those roles.

Never mind that they're underpaying... or that we lost half a million people in the labor force...
It’s not available in Asia either. (And, I would guess, in Haiti itself.)
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That does sound more like it. My point was that this type of pseudo-“rehabilitation” can’t really be conflated with pseudo-“re-education.” No matter how abusive these rehabilitation centres are, they still have staff and facilities that the POW-camp-like environment of a re-education facility doesn’t (and probably cost a lot more to run.)

Similar to the difference between state prisons and state mental asylums in America in the 1960s.
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That must be wrong. There are no time measuring machinery and no notion of time.

Frequency, by the way, is not a synonym for time.
It's getting to the point where a sane mitigation would be to spin up a Windows 10 instance in Hyper-V, running the print spooler and driver in that, and using USB/ethernet passthrough!
> The other half is that many people reporting these issues have not "opted into" any security tooling and don't understand its tradeoffs. ... For a lot of people this is their first programming environment.

This attitude makes me kind of uncomfortable. Like, I have taught software development to a decent number of folks, but I've always done so in a relatively isolated environment. If one is buying into web programming, I have a hard time feeling like it matters that it's their first programming environment--it is a hostile place (the web) and some understanding of that hostility is pretty high on the list, I think, of Things To Get Used To. There's definitely a tension there with "don't overwhelm a novice", but I don't necessarily think optimizing for the novice case is wise, especially when we want those novices to have their heads on a swivel, too.

> But as a package author, I'd like to be able to mark somewhere that a particular transitive vulnerabilities can't affect my users.

I definitely agree with this, though, and this is a good way to help make something like `npm audit` more intelligible and useful.
Earning potential is simply better in the US. It’s not just Mexicans that figured it out, but immigrants worldwide did. People with decent lives all over the world fly here and overstay their visas because the earning potential is just greater. The truth behind the ‘all immigrants are desperate’ narrative is most are not desperate, but ambitious, and literally making a business decision.
Sorry for the late response. I think the solution is clearly to make more places like San Francisco. Not to make SF more like everywhere else.
> why a kid needs/wants

Needs and wants are extremely different things. Let's not merge them together.
I agree with everything you said, except for China not being communist.

The CCP's take is "Mao was 70% right" and officially identifies as communist. Its stated end goal is a communist society. It is in service of this goal that they are taking a capitalistic / globalization route to expanding their Lebensraum. Whether CCP = China I guess is another discussion, but I don't have a strong view there.
It’s not about the low level details it’s what you discover durning the process and building a mental model of the project and the style the code was written in.

Also, memory isn’t just about unprompted recall. If in 8 months you’re looking for how the project generates PDF’s or whatever your not starting from scratch. Sure a full text search will probably bring up a bunch of files but skimming them a second time should look familiar. You may even remember that different sections of code are using two different 3rd party tools because that’s the kind of thing you notice an a first read but might otherwise cause all kinds of shenanigans.

Of course reading takes time, but it’s kind of like negative technical debt. Your prepping so anything else you want to do becomes faster. Asking coworkers about code before they jump ship can clarify stuff in minutes that might take days once they left. Even better you often learn something generally useful on other projects.