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Agree totally that NYT's framing of Cotton's position and statements was not reality based. If it exists, political bias is less significant than confirmation bias and echo chamber effects. Snopes has no excuse for not performing a basic check of NYT editorialized claims.

Please read the NYT editorial (2/17) [0] and Cotton's tweet (2/16) [1] again. The NYT claimed "Mr. Cotton later walked back the idea that the coronavirus was a Chinese bioweapon run amok." There is no walk back in that tweet. There is a continued questioning of the Chinese food market claims. Bioweapon is placed within the less likely range of different possibilities that start with natural transmission, noted by Cotton as being "still the most likely."

The tweet is in response to claims by a Washington Post article [2], later corrected with the statement "Earlier versions of this story and its headline inaccurately characterized comments by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) regarding the origins of the coronavirus. The term “debunked” and The Post’s use of “conspiracy theory” have been removed because, then as now, there was no determination about the origins of the virus."

I'd like to visit your statement As you have surely seen, in his twitter thread the senator does list "the engineered-bioweapon hypothesis" as a possible option, and also says that "the so-called experts" do not really know any better.

The full final tweet in the thread is "We ought to be transparent with the American people about all this. Maybe some of these so-called experts think they know better. I don’t. And they really don’t either."

In your statement it sounds like Cotton is claiming experts aren't a good source for judging among possibilities. I think a stronger text-based interpretation is that he is writing about _transparency_ and that some people who are claimed as experts don't want transparency.

At least two of Cotton's public statements focused on Covid origins cited the Huang et al Lancet article [3] which was authored by physicians on the scene. Cotton didn't lend "credence to a possibility that scientists widely dismissed." He drew attention to the fact that there was authentic scientific disagreement with the claims of Chinese authorities about the origins.

The tragedy in all this is that the hypothesizing the virus' origin wasn't the significant part of the message. It was an example for the broader point that the outbreak was serious and that Chinese authorities were not behaving with candor. The specific analogy Cotton made repeatedly was to the Soviet Chernobyl response.

0. https://web.archive.org/web/20200217083402/https://www.nytim...

1. https://twitter.com/SenTomCotton/status/1229202134048133126?...

2. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/02/16/tom-cotto...

3. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
In 2007, putting WiFi and cellular in the same radio stack was a real challenge. The iPhone was one of the first phones to have both radios in it — a handful of other devices did too, but it was really rare. Heck, I remember it took years for BlackBerry to successfully ship a phone with both 3G and WiFi (as opposed to having to choose between WiFi and 2G or only a 3G connection).

The big selling point of the first Kindle was the idea that you could access the store to download stuff anywhere. WiFi wasn’t ubiquitous like it is now (and even now, it isn’t as ubiquitous as I think we all would have hoped), which made having a free 2G connection really nice, especially when outdoors in areas that the E Ink display really shined.
Wow that's pretty generous considering you can still load content on the devices with a USB
That's a great parallel. Most of Disney's profit on this movie is gonna end up coming in the form of Disney+ subscriptions, which she won't be getting any cut of. And unlike the Spyglass case, her original contract explicitly anticipated this -- Disney just ignored it and now a lawsuit is the only way to settle it.
10th amendment too?
Mitosis: Write components once and compile to React, Vue and more
This literally happened in Argentina with the new renting law.

# of properties for sale went way up, # of properties for rent is way down, and to get approved for a rent you more or less have to agree to give out your first born son.
That would work.

If it ends up going big, there's always the option of buying the software in exchange for equity in the new company.
Presumably the LFP batteries will still have quite an advantage in terms of density.
ericschn below has a link to a video of Tarn explaining it. It's wonderful.
That's exactly who I am advocating for, not for myself, my wife, child, family were all loved and taken care of, which isn't the case for some children.

My wife and I walked by ICU beds daily that had children just starring at the ceiling, during the peak of their development, they have nothing/no one (except the love of hospital staff), for whatever reason, either in the care of the state, of their parents are at work to afford their child's ICU stay. We learnt we couldn't judge.
As a woman who worked for Blizzard in the past, I have to say, I'm very disappointed. I'll just leave it at that.
> What world is this were companies hire union-busting mercenaries? Is this the Pinkertons in 2021?

Excellent example of how this headline can mislead people. They're lawyers "hired to review Activision’s policies", not armed thugs who bust union skulls.
I'm leaning the same direction although I can't bring myself to leave Starcraft. But who knows. For those unaware there's a new company Frost Giant Studios founded by some of the best game developers from Blizzard and they're devoted to creating the next big RTS [0]. One can speculate about their choice to depart from Blizzard and their reasons are probably myriad but it can't be unrelated to the horrible culture there. Here's an interview with some of them on The Pylon Show hosted by Artosis [1].

[0]https://www.frostgiant.com/

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=As2tPggQaZc
I'm comparing with Germany, Italy and Spain, which is where I've lived in Europe.

A group of 5 homeless people in each of the cities i've lived there would have been a huge group.

I've continuously encountered groups of 20-50 homeless people living in Boston, NYC, Miami, etc.

That's an order of magnitude more than what I consider "normal".

The west coast is another order of magnitude higher, with groups of 100s of homeless people around seattle, san francisco, san diego, LA, etc.

But that not makes the situation in the east coast cities i've visited "good". I consider the situation in the east coast "horrible", and in the west coast "war-zone like", when compared with the cities where I've lived in europe (madrid, barcelona, milan, munich, stuttgart, etc.).
This reminds me of Quantum Cryptography in which Conjugate Coding [1] is used. Conjugate Coding is " A method of transmitting multiple messages in such a way that reading one destroys the others. This is called quantum multiplexing and it uses photons polarized in conjugate bases as "qubits" to pass information."

Even if you can detect such communication it is hard to eavesdrop it because:

"Quantum cryptographic systems take advantage of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, according to which measuring a quantum system in general disturbs it and yields incomplete information about its state before the measurement. Eavesdropping on a quantum communication channel therefore causes an unavoidable disturbance, alerting the legitimate users." [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjugate_coding

[2] https://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~crepeau/CRYPTO/Biblio-QC.html
Keep in mind, Pfizer is pushing hard to get the government to buy third doses from them. Also keep in mind, this study of theirs hasn't been reviewed, and Pfizer is, in general, shady as fuck.

Also, very important to remember, vaccines aren't intended to prevent infection, and they most don't. Vaccines are meant to prevent serious disease. So far, the sars-cov2 vaccines look good in that respect, but only time will tell.
Well, find the commit where the behavior is introduced, in any case.

Or, in some cases, multiple possible commits. If the bad commit is preceded or followed by untestable commits (declared that way via "git bisect skip", they are implicated also).
If running as a privileged user, you can run the process in just a PID namespace with no other container features enabled using the unshare command.

Systemd can also handle it by killing the processes by cgroup i believe, and for non services you could take advantage of that with systemd-run.
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I'm only going off the content in this screenshot: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E7bHsKrVgAMbTy5?format=jpg&name=...

Assuming that's not abnormal for her channel. For the record, I don't think it's, e.g., "indecent", and I don't think it's bad for kids to be exposed to even full nudity (barring contexts with negative messages), but I also don't know what point you're trying to make (you should be explicit).
> And I doubt anybody except skilled lawyers know whether the non-compete clause will hold if they are moving to a new startup which is registered in Delaware

Doesn't matter if the work is performed in California.
Silicon Valley is choke full of fraud and absurd valuations.
Is this Wikipedia article incorrect about the homeless in Germany? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_Germany
I actually elaborated on that in another comment in this thread.

Unions are bureaucracy. Adding politics, people and power to any structure inherently adds inefficiencies.

If individual bargaining is working just fine in an industry, then I would not push for collective bargaining. Because, it is tradeoff is between 'bridging the information asymmetry between how much power you think you command, vs what you actually command' and 'inefficiencies added by bureaucracy'.

Gaming has clearly crossed that tradeoff threshold. IMO, big tech has not.
I’d recommend Grim Dawn over PoE personally.
> You charge people a lot of money for electricity, and then this motivates them to learn it.

I challenge you to understand that, while this may seem reasonable to you, is not how humans operate. Especially in a household of multiple humans over which you have little/no direct control over, and multiple changes within a given month (the typical billing period for electricity). If you, your partner, your son, and your daughter have all gotten new, power hungry devices, and it's now also winter/snowing outside/aka the bill is expected to be high due to seasonal heating costs, and the a new, punitive rate plan has been put into effect, how could a non-technical consumer even start to address the change in electrical cost? Other than pay the now-exorbitant bill.

Regulations are the answer for the real world where people live. We can debate what the regulations themselves should say, but expecting human nature to suddenly change and that everyone should want to get an EE degree in their free time, just because their electricity bill is mysteriously higher, is not how I would approach trying to effect large sweeping cultural changes. Not when we can't even get a quorum of people vaccinated.
Discord limiting bot access to message content
hey, thank you for this! I didn't want self promote, and CTA's just seems sleazy in this sense, but I'd be lying if I didn't want people to read about the charity, because we want change!
(Oh, this is fun! I haven't done this in a looooong time!)

Unmeasurable? Like, you would have had to run an actual editing, encoding, rendering, or simulation task to measure it, but you only had the skills to read how many GHz were on the box, so you personally were unable to measure it? I suppose I'd have to hand you that one.

How well did the "clock speed is all that matters" rhetoric age over the last decade? When was the last time that Intel's claimed perf boost wasn't IPC driven?

My favorite part of this story is fifteen years later, when Intel's CEO says:

We have to deliver better products to the PC ecosystem than
any possible thing that a lifestyle company
in Cupertino makes

LOOOOOOOL! Whipped at CPU design (and manufacture -- who pays for those new kingmaking TSMC nodes?) by a company that doesn't even specialize in it. Whipped so badly that they have to admit it, even to themselves. Ouch!
It’s not even so much his poor understanding of the underlying infotainment tech. I wouldn’t expect him to know the architecture. A good CEO would be fine delegating that.

What speaks volumes is that he clearly has no idea what he’s talking about but speaks as if he’s a domain authority. Of course, this is a classic trait of a megalomaniac fraudster.
No we need to do away with the European "papers please" concept of mandatory ID cards.
Under that reasoning, it's difficult to imagine a power the CDC wouldn't be able to justify exerting under the guise of public health.

See how the ICC has been stretched beyond all reason to grant federal powers.

Keep in mind, the Bill of Rights was written during the tail end of the smallpox pandemic which had a 30% mortality rate.

The clear separation and limits on government powers were considered to be a higher priority.
Hilarious comparison, because it's actually like holding a getaway driver responsible... which is exactly how the law does work.

The taxi cab driver would be relevant in February of 2020 when it was new and unknown. If you're going out in public today unvaccinated, you're knowingly complicit in spreading covid.
On stack overflow, having several tangential non-answers will make the question look well-answered, potentially misdirecting the real expert away from it by creating a false impression.
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Dreamhaven & frostgiant are the ones I'm following (and super hyped for), is there anything else I should be aware of?
Yeah I suspect many, specifically small, landlords as long as they think the person can pay now... just not worth pushing people out.
The title of the linked article, "Message Content Access Deprecation for Verified Bots," isn't very useful if you aren't already actively in the Discord bot ecosystem and know what the title means, hence putting a more descriptive title.
https://youtu.be/2V1FtfBDsLU?t=2268

Goes until 43:25.

The whole talk is worth watching. It's basically about the higher level problems of business app development, how to address them, and how Clojure does address them.
The layers typically go: hardware > hypervisor instance (vm) > linux+distro > process. I think it's accurate to say that containers shuffle around those last two so it looks more like: hw > vm > linux > distro+process. The complication is that the lone linux in the middle is still deployed with a distro, it's just that the distro part is abstracted away from the perspective of the container.
I don't get it. If I don't deliver on time whatever I must deliver because of external reasons (e.g., you're slacking, you don't really communicate well with others, you don't have a solid understanding of some tech concepts, etc.) then sure, it's "my fault" (although, it's more like the "team's fault" because is the whole team the one that delivers stuff, but this is another topic). And I understand if I don't get salary raises/promotions.

But if the reason I don't get a salary raise is because I don't deliver on time because I am working on other company-related stuff (i.e., attending meetings) then either: a) I didn't communicate this clearly to my manager ("hey, I spent a significantly portion of my time on meetings") or b) the company thinks meetings "is not work".

So, if it's "a)", it's my fault; but if it's "b)" then I probably already quit (who wants to work in such a company?)
> Arabs were taking in the Jewish victims and refugees that the Nazis were forcing out of Germany while the Europeans and Americans were refusing them.

Good point. In all fairness you do have some good points and if you stick to them I say you have a better story.
> Sounds like this is less about the identity of the corporation you affiliated with and more about identity of you through what you choose to/not to affiliate with.

There is certainly an element of this, I am sure. But frankly it is that I don't want to give them even the millionth-of-a-cent of value that they could derive from my +1 to their active player numbers. I don't want to contribute anything to their advantage.
I think the first thing to figure out is: do you want to make games or game engines? Or is there a specific part of game development that you are particularly interested in? Back in the year 2000 I was very into Level Design. Back then the FPS genre just took off and I happened to stumble into a "Worldcraft.exe" in a folder in the CD of Half-Life.
We aren't really borrowing. The debt will never be "paid back" as it's not really debt, it is a dilution of value. The more dollars we create and spend, the less each dollar is worth.
> kids still buy their games

Any source on that? I always imagined the current Blizzard customer demographics in the 20-40 years old range. Kids definitely don't play WoW, Diablo or StarCraft/Warcraft. Not sure about Overwatch but I'd guess kids prefer Fortnite. So perhaps Hearthstone? You kinda need a credit card to enjoy the game tho.

But you have a point, people still buy their games, expansions, loot boxes, skins, monthly subsriptions and so on.
> a more congenial approach would be to provide your understanding of the agenda

That shifts works to me.

If someone sends a meeting invite without an agenda, either I trust them and we already agreed this was worth spending time on or they should learn to write an agenda.
Can relate. My current partner was a colleague and we had to literally work cloesly together. Something about the smell of her sweat activated the right brain function because it made me want more, as in 'let's procreate right now' and as wa later found out the feeling was mutual. That same smell on other women still has the same effect by the way; whereas I'm sometimes almost disgusted by people using a lot of perfume/deodorant.
I think that definition of a broom may be too broad for me to be able to exclude anything from it but I'll concede on the definition of tool from wikipedia being similarly also too broad.
The bug in this case was the minimum alcohol value a cat could like from its paws was above the cats LD100, so if they licked their feet when soaked in beer they would die.
Interesting: In HN, a same link submitted at a different time get different # of upvotes.

Same link, just 13h ago, but with 5x less upvotes than the one in here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27992894
> Americans consumed

Still a voracious consumer of Chinese goods, as is the world.
10 years ago, there was this article about another unexpected behaviour:

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/magazine/the-brilliance-o...
I have thought a lot about this. I am not sure that I have an answer because the way in which everyone (inc. myself) thinks about financial markets appears to be totally wrong (I am in the UK, we have had several rounds of QE since 2010...every time, the BoE gave a different explanation of how QE works).

But it is easier to comprehend that, most obviously in the EU, there is a shortage of risk-free assets. It is less that there is too much money and more that there is a mismatch between assets required by investors to match liabilities and what there actually is. My guess is that over the next ten years, we see a move to understand the demand for financial assets in more depth (and from this perspective, QE seems like financial vandalism). Framing purely in terms of supply doesn't really explain what is happening or why people are doing things that make no sense.

I also don't think 2007/08 was a function of too much money at all. It was a combination of structural issues, poor regulation, and a relatively normal financial cycle (people buying things because other people were buying them). What happened in 2008 was the market working effectively. It was after 2008 when the odd things started happening (one very interesting thing to me was Blackstone's property business...they were doing the most overvalued deals at the very top of the market in 2006/07...and they ended up making multiples, that really isn't normal, and the bailout in the view of the Fed was the market working...which is, ofc, totally backwards).
Because the US programmers were going to bed?
My policy is OOP is like Heroin. Don't even start.
Alright! Sounds like Nike, I’m in.
And yet, the number of people who think shorts are somehow evil (another EV CEO comes to mind) is absolutely mind boggling. I’ve heard relatively intelligent people explain to me that shorting should be illegal.
That's also true for heavy stainless steel pan.
¿Por que no los dos? Google has increasingly favored results that work in concert with the overall revenue-generating aspects of the web. Selling things has overtaken providing information, and SEO exists to push pages to the top of search results with the explicit purpose of making sites better at earning money. Google's business is selling ads and, perhaps more importantly, selling information about user preferences that allow businesses to better target potential buyers.

Just a random example I tried a bit ago. A search of "guitar tuner" gave results like Fender's online tuner site (stuff with plenty of upsells for Fender gear) a site that had a basic online tuner page – filled with ads, and a tutorial at the web site of a company that sells music lessons and runs music camps.
The United States government needs to break up The Avengers?
It's not really any more a monopoly than the business itself is.

The business/management is a group of people acting under a common umbrella seeking (naïvely, and oversimplifiedly) to trade the least money possible for the most production possible.

The employees/union are a group of people acting under a common umbrella seeking (naïvely, and oversimplifiedly) to trade the least production possible for the most money possible.

A union seeks to even the playing field between management and labor. It's not a monopoly unless the local union is affiliated with a global union that includes the vast majority of all workers in that particular field.
FTA:

> For customers with Kindle (1st Generation), Amazon is offering a free Kindle Oasis (10th Generation) device and cover.

> Customers with Kindle (1st and 2nd Generation), Kindle DX (2nd Generation), and Kindle Keyboard (3rd Generation) can receive $70 off a new Kindle Paperwhite or Kindle Oasis, plus $25 in ebook credits.

> Customers with Kindle Touch (4th Generation), Kindle Paperwhite (5th Generation, 6th Generation, and 7th Generation), Kindle Voyage (7th Generation), and Kindle Oasis (8th Generation) can receive $50 off a new Kindle Paperwhite or Kindle Oasis, plus $15 in ebook credits.

Sounds like you should qualify for the $70 + $25 credits. If you are actually considering it, I would contact Amazon if I were you. Personally I have the Kindle Keyboard and I'm not interested in the credit, I'm still happy with it and it still works fine. But I think it's great that they are offering it.
Damm - In the UK I remember being read the riot act that any misuse of NI numbers out side of a small number tiny permitted uses was a disciplinary offence.
When you look at the actual fraud (like Theranos) silicon valley funds are nowhere near it. The people that get duped are usually outsiders that are more easily manipulated.

It can be hard to tell the difference between big ideas and bullshit, they can often sound similar. Con-artists will mimic the people that actually know their shit.

In order to tell the difference you need to actually look at the underlying tech for yourself.
I'm sorry buddy, getting COVID & having a sick child, as the insurer, was my worst nightmare. I feel for you.

For sure, it could well be a lil

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