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The article you link seems to talk in circles and dwell on the question of whether covid-19 came from that lab, but I don't see where it explains what definition of 'gain-of-function' Fauci is operating under, if not,

> gain-of-function — a type of research the U.S. government generally defined in 2014 as aiming to “increase the ability of infectious agents to cause disease by enhancing its pathogenicity or by increasing its transmissibility.”

What does Fauci claim the meaning of gain-of-function is, which excludes "take an animal virus and you increase its transmissibility to humans"?
They'd additionally have a closer base to ASML HQ and more opportunities for cross-pollination of talent.
I’m not disputing the right to do whatever you want with your phone.

My comment was specifically targeting the fact that jail breaking somehow encourages people to develop means of circumventing the security of devices. This is when this becomes dangerous - suddenly it has the potential to hurt unsuspecting users. Saying that the responsibility is with Apple (or Google) to make this possible feels like a straw man argument - their job is to earn money (no illusions there) and keep users safe, even if it means making it harder to tinker (which also helps them earn money)
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When you say "look around" you mean in an American suburb? Toyota sells cars all over the world where many people don't have a garage with access to electricity for their cars to charge. So they still need to build the infrastructure, whether it is privately in apartment building outside parking or in the streets or in petrol stations, which takes time to charge.

Many countries also don't have resources like the US and therefore producing electricity means import of some fuel. Hydrogen can be produced anywhere and that's why for many countries it could be much more attractive. Not to mention the environmental cost of creating batteries. So altogether Toyota has pretty good reasons to think what they think.
"the AI." You know this doesn't exist, right?
Some of the comments here are eye opening on how effective the misinformation campaign has been on this issue. There is no real evidence that SARS-CoV-2 originated from a lab leak. Rand Paul is being intentionally distracting to push a false narrative.
Wonderful! This means there’s a chance iOS users will be able to get root access on their devices.
> (which they promote it as being green while 99% is produced from natural gas)

If the carbon-containing part of the production was sequestered, it could reduce the carbon intensity of the fuel greatly, couldn't it? Still has to be extracted and stuff of course.
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It puts the insurance company in the driver's seat when it comes to negotiations, and it severely hampers the administrative side of medical practice performing the services, because they are in the awkward position of having to sue a patient, or put liens/garnishments against a patient's income/house. Insurance companies may not be at all helpful in this process either.
I mean, this just looks like your run-of-the-mill bug, or? If you filter on the bug label on GitHub you will find many more. It would be interesting to try figure out what is special about your setup since no one has reported this bug since it got introduced (and it doesn't show up on any of the CI).
Does Scala still have "the Scala problem" where learning a new Scala codebase is roughly equivalent to learning an entirely new programming language?
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Does it matter? BTC and ETH are the version 1 of something "new". The version one is the playground. There is plenty demand for ETH/BTC like systems without the inefficiencies and so people are building better systems. Flare is an new project that will (maybe, probably, who knows) be able to run everything ETH can because it uses the EVM but it does not use PoW or PoS and thus will not have the fees and slowness. Maybe Flare will still not cut it and die like the countless other projects then something else will come. Its just tech/code in the end. When it comes to real utility people will use whatever there is that delivers.

Unlike with the whole gambling where people mostly set their money on the big coins regardless of if its actually useful (its mostly not). There are some big companies out there building amazing stuff. Crypto people especially bitcoin people often hate them because they represent the "real world" with banks and regulations and all that. And ofc they dont build anything on BTC because its tech s*cks and is p much useless for anything beside speculation

Both BTC and ETH could be gone some day, the technology however will not go away. Most of the "bad" thing people point out is exclusively to PoW system anyway, like the whole energy wasting things. Its completely irrelevant for 99% of all other projects. Its kinda like if people would yell at cars because there are these huge diesel trucks that blow out black smoke in a world where ~99% of all cares are EVs. And then comes an article like this one here calling for banning cars because of the black smoke he saw the other day.

Reality check: We dont ban cars because some cares blow out black smoke.
We dont ban crypto because some (one) uses whole coal mines of energy.
Do you still know the co-founders? I wouldn't want to be known as the people that f*cked over the little guy because he/she left the company.

Now's the time to act they're not going to want the negative publicity.

That's exactly what happened in the social network.
This doesn’t make sense. The battery is 100% recyclable, and if you never use it’s full range the battery literally lasts longer. This sounds like ICE shilling devoid of the actual facts
I can't speak to your office environment, but in all the offices I've worked in, I haven't been "forced" to interact with coworkers more than I want to. Being at the office gives me the option to engage in high-bandwidth IRL communication when necessary, and to not interact/ignore other people when I'm busy with something.
Companies pay you for your output. The notion that they own your attention from 9-5 is ludicrous, right? Even in the office, we won't harass our employees if they close their eyes and meditate or they practice pen-spinning or reciting digits of pi, provided they're getting their job done.

And yet if they're at home, and they want to take breaks to improve their quality of living, this is suddenly a massive trust issue? In the past, commuting, we forced them to take two huge anti-breaks just so we can stare at them and so they can chit-chat with others? I just never agreed with the butts-in-the-cubicle-chair and the value of water-cooler gab.
So get another phone.
Before the past year I would have agreed with you, but since Fauci admitted that they initially lied about masks not working because they wanted to save them for healthcare workers, I don't think he has much credibility.
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If you argue North Korea to be a democracy, that is a whole different vocabulary, not changing any bar. In that case you are correct I guess.

On the contrary I think Hoppes criticism falls apart at empirical evidence like the cases you mentioned and his ideas of freedom will inevitably result in feudalism, not even a monarchy because the ruler would lack legitimacy and would face constant challenges. Monarchs as government can only exist if constituents can live completely removed from state influence. But that isn't possible in the world of today.
That doesn’t mean it can’t learn from it. Yeah they are solving somewhat different problems but in sheer usability of a language Julia could take a lot from Go.
Fauci was accused of withholding medicine for AIDS by former NIH research scientist & whistleblower Dr. Judy Mikovits, who helped isolate HIV. Like HCQ, the antibiotic Bactrim was withheld despite being effective in early trials. The delay benefited makers of more expensive & less effective drugs which took years to go to market.

Part of an interview: https://factcheckvaccine.com/2021/07/dr-judy-mikovits-ex-nih...

Transcript an interview with Yale Epidemiologist Dr. Harvey Risch: https://vaccineimpact.com/2020/scandal-anthony-fauci-has-bee...

There always needs to be an honest debate. Lives & the economy are at stake.
>If I said "why is this hard?" or "it's pretty easy to use google and look up the fact" to you in person, you'd think I was a dick.

Thanks for letting me know how I'd feel, but this is not what I would think. We'll just put it down to I just have thick skin. I'd just accept the challenge and continue on. <shrug>

Yes, Texas power grid is run by a bunch of people unconcerned about what they are charged with doing. ERCOT has proven itself unable to see the future. It's not that the grid as installed can't handle demands, it's their managment of power generation that is totally off base. "Let's plan downtime when it's getting hot where we know (at least should know) people will put a higher demand on the system" was the most recent. Can't speak to CA,NY,etc. CA was definitely hampered by things like being managed by Enron. So essentially, it seems to be coming down to incompetent/corrupt management.
Storage is flat to modestly in decline. Battery storage is a competitive, commodity business. Not sure how huge it will be.
If you're avoiding it, it may be helpful to know (if you didn't already; in that case, for anyone else reading) that, at least in the US, manufactured citric acid is a frequent additive not stated in ingredient lists ("natural flavors", among other things), as well as a reactive agent in some non-perishables eg. soaps and detergents. I was bit by that last one several times before researching the chemistry of soapmaking and learning about it with tired aggravation.
No, there are no "privacy considerations" to body camera footage. Those only into play when the footage is made public. When you cite "privacy," you're letting the police dictate the terms of the discussion.

The footage must be recorded and retained, with the decision to edit and/or release it left up to courts or other independent authorities.

As for two-party laws, those have to go. They don't have a place in a society where the people need the ability to hold police and other officials accountable. If the police are doing nothing wrong, they have nothing to fear, right? Isn't that what they tell us?
The use of USD, yes. The US military will probably intervene if any country attempts to sell oil for any other currency.

The value if USD, no. It doesn't depend on US military strength. The US government and banks inflate it as much as they want.
Agreed. You do have to ask, why the misinformation campaign happened in the first place, and to what extent are we seeing the misinformation campaign still being deliberately continued (rather than the aftermath echoing) in this thread and other recent ones.
This is definitely not just a you problem. There are resources out there like [1] and [2], but much less in the way of curation and a dearth of end-to-end tutorials/walkthroughs.

I'm not sure how best to improve the situation, but the current state of things leaves much to be desired. If you're willing, don't hesitate to post about your experience and any feedback you have on the community forums.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dczkYlOM2sg
[2] https://github.com/juliohm/julia-distributed-computing
The government doesn't need bodycams to spy on you.
> If a person decides to give up control of their device to another person or organization (like the device manufacturer

Exactly but what you’re missing is that with iOS this decision is made when you buy the phone.
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I have a Lexus with lane-keeping assist and adaptive cruise, on a 9 hour trip on Canadian highways, I have had to disengage only when I am exiting the highway to make pit stop. Should Lexus market their "Full Self Driving" capability too?
PA courts determined that the previous 1983 ruling (protecting political party from employer termination) is not good law, and will not use it as precedence again.

There are laws in place to prevent employers from coercing employees into political action - i.e. you won't get your annual bonus unless you donate to this political candidate - but these are protections from extortion, and not exceptions to the general rule that political party is not a protected class.
Let's say hypothetically we found out that the government was lying to us all along all while destroying our livelihoods and trying to restrict us from seeing our own families. Eventually it comes out that the virus was caused by government research in biological weapons. Do you really trust the government and media to have your backs at that point? They'll gaslight the public every chance they get... saying, it was a necessary lie to protect you and label people upset with the government as domestic terrorist threats.

I guess no one remembers our government's dark past with experiments and how they lie and then lie some more, since it was classified, until they are finally forced to face the truth and then they give a half-hearted apology pretending like it will never happen again.
I'm not an economics expert but I'm guessing we're teetering on the edge of stagflation.

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

Unlike the 70's it's not a single thing that had had upsets but multiple things in countless pipelines, increasing the cost and difficulty of getting workers, materials, and transportation.

I'm guessing logistics are all screwy in dozens of areas and prices are rising as fast as they can while capitalistic opportunists are trying to "get theirs" in the melee.
Thank you for the correction, my PC isn't supported by iTunes and my iPhone doesn't support 5G so I never knew this. I guess I have to buy a new $1000 phone to get this artibrary restriction lifted.
Arbitrary separating the hardware from the OS is not the same thing as the manufacturer having a say on usage. Like I am free to use my car how I want, but that I may not be able to easily repair it or swap parts like the seats or the engine is another problem.
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This isn't remote-exploitable, right? I.e. the exploit happens if you have a trojanware app installed, correct?

If it's a remote exploit I'm going to be telling everyone I know to update ASAP, but otherwise seems alright to let the regular auto-update schedule do it for them.
Why do you assume they'll drive like new? It's wear and tear that makes a car feel old, and Tesla isn't known for high quality.
It kind of defeats the purpose of competition if it becomes more about who has the most money vs who makes better rockets.
Jailbreaks require 0 days. What’s amazing is that they keep coming out despite the prices being so high and the game already having been played for so long.

Just a shame it won’t be in iOS 15.
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My entire commute is covered by a 22 mile battery.
I've put 600 miles on the battery this current tank of gas. I've not used gas yet.

While perhaps not typical, the compromise can be a massive improvement.
I think we have a big PL-shaped hole in our community. Taine's work [1] shows how much PL folks can add to Julia. We need more of them.

[1] https://github.com/thautwarm
That first link just says that the virus was unlikely to have originated in the Wuhan wet-market, which does not disagree with the lab outbreak hypothesis (whether or not that hypothesis is wrong).

Otherwise, what you've cited disagrees with the WHO timeline, which says pretty definitively that the first COVID-19 cases were in Wuhan (https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2...). Whatever disagreements one might have with the WHO, this timeline seems pretty well documented and supported by cross-referenced citations.
> I can't imagine re-adapting to something so insane as an office ever again.

It might be safe to say that one group likes being in the same physical space as their peers [0] and another doesn't, and that both these groups are judging each other for their choice (typical in-group / out-group bias).

> Why burden business relationships with forced several hours/week physical presence when nobody would impose that on a customer or a vendor, and lockdowns have shown that even (especially) marriages aren't designed for people to be stuck together that long.

See also: Chesterton's fence when advocating for fundamental changes in the way things work [1].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7434444

[1] https://fs.blog/2020/03/chestertons-fence/
That's why we need changes to the law.
I have ridden in Teslas with hundreds of thousands of miles on them, and am able to compare between that and my own Teslas and their (lower) mileage.
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2 hours is only like 100 miles of driving. Wouldn't it make more sense to run the battery down further, since charging is faster at a lower state of charge?
Lockdowns are killers in the global south
Why do people still use Tether? Alternatives like USDC and Dai are plenty liquid. I don't understand why anyone would put up with this level of unnecessary risk.
Some people just accept this attempted solution isn't going to fill the hole properly and stick with it anyways.

Others may get frustrated enough to make an attempt to fix the problem for real, only to re-remember how much harder that is in our current society and re-remember why they reached for this attempted solution in the first place.
When we can have $40K F-150 Lightning's and Cybertrucks, with their massive batteries, I think $25K electric econo-boxes will also be possible. The $70K F-150 Lightnings and Cybertrucks are coming next year, the $40K ones will take a little longer.
There are many countries, even "first world" countries, where a family of 4 does not need 4 cars to get on with their daily life.

Replacing 4 ICE cars with for 4 EV cars is not a solution to a problem worth solving.
How does this let you sideload iOS apps, or run older versions of them? That's like responding “just use Linux“ to a Windows user's complaint about Office.
>This raises questions. What happens to priorities, to company culture?

Many of those culture has definitely changed already.

Their PR and marketing strategy has changed. Their focus on Supply Chain and Operational first ( Cant blame them though ). Their Sales has become Push driven rather than Pull driven. ( It is a classic Supply Chain Management 101 ) Their whole UI design being lead by industrial designer rather than UI expert, although there are signs those UI designer are fighting back. It was wrong to ever have created the CDO ( Chief Design Officer ) in the first place, all due to mounting pressure from Wall Street which sync backs to the article. The title is so bad it might become Collateralized Debt Obligation of Apple.

>What becomes interesting is how Apple leaders jumped on the App Store explosion to shift the company’s finances away from the old hardware-centric design that Wall Street didn’t like.

Wall Street pressure should never have any influence. But Tim Cook is a strong believer in returning value to shareholders.

Their Apple Store has literally lost all of their culture since the departure of Ron Johnson. Partially destroyed by Tim Cook's hire Dixon CEO John Browett which anyone from UK knew how it would turn out. And later Angela Ahrendts, although that could partly be Jonny Ive's fault for his design changes in Apple Store. Luckily Deirdre O’Brien, a 30 year veteran seems to understand Apple Store better than her predecessors and is finally shaking things up a bit after 10 years of Apple Store being sidelined.

Services, Cloud, Apple Music and Apple TV+. Eddy Cue without Steve Jobs seems to be running all over the place.

While Apple is still making great products ( comparatively speaking ), their culture has definitely shifted. And it is very definitely Tim Cook's Apple. Not Steve Job's Apple any more. I think Steve Jobs sums it up fairly nicely,

"I have my own theory about why the decline happens at companies like IBM or Microsoft. The company does a great job, innovates and becomes a monopoly or close to it in some field, and then the quality of the product becomes less important. The product starts valuing the great salesmen, because they're the ones who can move the needle on revenues, not the product engineers and designers. So the salespeople end up running the company."
I've worked with that dev. After 2 weeks on the job, you realize the resume was full of shit, and are actively looking at ways to replace that dev.
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Adaptive cruise control doesn't steer the car. That plus "Lane Keep Assist" is mostly what Tesla "Autopilot" does. "FSD" does a bit more right now but not nearly as much as has been promised.
> Shotspotter or the generic equiv should be purchased by the city, not the police.

Generally, the police are part of the city, and the sole and deliberately centralized city agency with a mandate that makes something like ShotSpotter relevant.

So, of course, if it is bought “by the city”, it is through and under control of the police department.
The original poster is active on reddit, and has been active in the followup threads since news published his story. Its a sad one.
> No, because it still isn't legal tender, and lacks credibility as a medium of exchange.

Some countries have accepted BTC as legal tender. It's only a matter of time really.
For a fixed focal length, yes.
If however, you want to use a lens of a different focal length compared to the one naturally suited to the curvature, that makes things much more complicated.
I'll be keeping an eye on this account. I feel in a few months JB will be promoted to manager.
> I'm not against remote work, I just think people are being too entitled about it.

Does this not personify the relationship with the company a bit here? This is a negotiation. Skilled laborers have the ability to throw their weight around here a bit.

I personally don't think using bargaining power and leverage to ask for more (perks, pay, etc) is entitlement. The employer is allowed to say "no" and the employee is allowed to look for some place else that will say yes.

I think the mental framing that "people are up in arms over it" might be playing a bit into how you envision this working out. Most people I've spoken to have just said something like "I really liked working from home and if my boss asks me to come back I'll look for another job".
This assumes that a hybrid has to have a smaller battery to fit the ICE engine and/or that the ICE engine has equivalent weight/density.

On the one hand, volume versus weight an ICE engine is generally "lighter" than if that equivalent space were tightly packed with battery cells.

But on the other hand a car is not going to tightly pack the equivalent volume, most modern EV designs are a "skateboard" layout with all the batteries on the floor of the car. The front hood of the car is typically at that point unused space and many modern electrics place there now a "frunk" ("front trunk" or "froot"/"front boot" if you prefer Britishisms) for "bonus" cargo space.

From that perspective, a hybrid has "free" space for a gas generator by taking "back" the frunk space, but they have to shrink the battery because of the added weight of the gas generator. (The skateboard has the physical space either way, it shrinks to keep the overall car weight below an aerodynamic threshold, not to yield space for the gas generator.)