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If you use your brain to think through the initial 3-4 domino effects of a carbon tax, you'll quickly realize that the end result is the little guy paying the actual tax via inflation while the big guy actually enjoys larger profit totals (maintaining profit margin % on newly inflated prices = more profit).

The tricky part is actually using your brain to think it through.
Yes, that's mostly it!

A lot of what I'm talking about has to do with configuration, but reuse is another big element. Your example has no configuration, and so is good in that regard, however your example is not reusable, in the sense that it's only possible for a single counter to exist.

I realize this is a contrived example, because you were trying to keep things simple, but if I needed two distinct atomic counters in my app, then I wouldn't be able to use Ergo, as it's currently implemented, because the application only starts a single counter, and doesn't provide any capabilities for starting additional counters.

You could change Ergo to get around this, possibly by instead running a dynamic supervisor that can start named counters under it, using something like `Ergo.create_counter/1`, but this would only address this specific use case.

To go back to my last comment, if you instead exposed, for example, a `__using__` macro that modules could use to define new counters, then callers would be able to integrate as many counters as they needed, whenever or however into their supervision tree as they required.

This ties back to the testing point too: if the process is a singleton, managed by the application, then you can only run one test against that process at a time in order to isolate the state for this tests, and you need to ensure you properly clean up that state between tests. Instead though, if the library allows you to start the processes yourself, then each test can use `start_supervised!` to start it's own isolated copy of the process, which will be linked to the test's process, and automatically cleaned up once the test finishes.
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China had around 10% vaccination rate by the time the data was collected.

You are again posting evidence that does not back your argument. Any mutation in the RBD will affect immunity. The question is whether these mutations were from selection pressure from the vaccine or for higher infectivity. Given that the evolutionary millieu had low vaccination rate and that the variants are more infective in non-vaccinated populations, we know this is not the case.

If you can find an article that shows that vaccines cause evolution of variants, then post it. Otherwise, don't, I'm not interested in non-sequiturs.
We should probably also find a way to tax US dollar usage with CO2 tax as the net energy usage here is quite high as well
Behind the veneer of what Hollywood wants you to believe, the US is an extremely cruel place.
News reporters win Emmys too, they got varying categories.
Right, and my father that has lupus absolutely got the vaccine. I, however, don't - and don't want to get lupus. It's a small risk, probably the same as getting sick normally, but it's still a risk with basically no benefit to me.

Let's be clear: the primary reason the messaging has been "previously infected people should still get the vaccine" is primarily because there are a lot of people out there that think they had COVID when they didn't. I had a friend who thought he had it twice, and then finally did get it on the third time. I had another friend think he got it back in February of last year and then actually got it late last year. They're both relatively intelligent (if not ignorant about certain things), and that's just in my little friend group.

I understand why they went down that road, but there's no reason for me to take it.
I see it as an unwarranted search, which makes me feel like the state views me as inherently guilty until innocence is proven by sifting through my photos.
Until few high profile cases of people with nothing to hide getting swatted because of false positive / image crafted by a GAN to create false positive.
I understand the danger of the false positive but I suspect someone with actual child pornography on their device would trigger a dozen or more matches. Clever software would ignore a single match.
Non pay-walled site.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/technology/apple-plans-to-sc...
Oh man this brings back memories.

I must have been 6 years old. My dad came home with a computer that they were getting rid of at his work. He set it up that night and, having never seen a computer, I wanted to play with it. Well, for some reason, it had Kid Pix installed. I remember drawing something with a couple of green lines and a few rabbit stamps for good measure. As I recall, I then insisted that we had to print it and wouldn’t take no for an answer.
I bought the M1 Air and yes, it feels like an iPhone, but sized as a retro-ish laptop and able to run a dev stack which Apple still won't let me do on my plenty powerful enough iPad.
Why is that downvoted? It's correct. Talk to anyone who has tried to build housing in these cities. It's all but illegal to build and you need to have the right connections with the political class, along with great wealth to have any hope.
We forget that we are guests on this earth. The earth is not here for us. We are here for it.
Today kiddy porn, tomorrow wrongthink.
Let me help you, then, because you shouldn't be conflicted at all.

"Think of the children" is how they force changes that would otherwise be unconscionable.

They've done it with encryption and anonymity for years. Now they're doing it with the hardware in your pocket.
Those are usually easily reversible.
That's the not the real complaint. The real issue is this: Opting out requires signing up with Google and become a customer of theirs: https://developer.chrome.com/origintrials/#/register_trial/2...
The news of a GDPR fine against Amazon somehow flew past me. After reading this article, it seems like it's a done deal, so I did a few quick searches. Among them, The Verge reported it[0] last week, but they include a response from Amazon which includes this very relevant sentence:

> We strongly disagree with the CNPD’s ruling, and we intend to appeal.

Call me jaded, but I'm sure this will drag on for years and end up being settled for a paltry sum.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/30/22601661/amazon-gdpr-fine...
I switched to Affinity almost immediately and it was liberating to free my machine from the Adobe Cloud bullshit…

Unfortunately I have to say that Affinity Photo is still not good enough for my use cases: the difference lies mainly in the many tiny details which make the workflow an efficient workflow.

Publisher is a toy for now and has a lot to catch up to be on par with XPress or Indesign, especially if you want to do some serious type setting or design complex layouts.

I don’t have much to say about Designer as I work with extremely simple vector shapes and it’s good enough for me.

I’m looking forward to the evolution of the products but I wonder if the strategy to 'clone' Adobe was a good one instead of trying a revolution (like for example Figma).
i read the article, but consider it speculation at this point (that it goes to 100%). I haven't seen a clear offering by Tesla in writing about it yet, nor have I seen any of the e-mails Tesla sends to winners about the discounts they achieved.
> There is a ludicrous level of fragmentation where even individual distributions break compatibility with themselves every few years

Even worse, there is a vocal group of users who believe that this fragmentation is a good thing, and that software developers should target multiple distributions (or be shamed for it), as opposed to doing the sane thing and just targeting Ubuntu (or some common abstraction layer).
> The changes will lead to the bill raising $5.2 billion less than the $28 billion envisaged by the initial legislation, according to a Politico report citing the Joint Committee on Taxation.

How do they come to this conclusion since taxes are still owed? Just that they expect about 5 billion in tax evasion from this?
The topic of this article is potentially interesting, but this is just a poorly-written advertisement for Alias' services and doesn't address any of the actual issues with Amazon's GDPR compliance in depth.
> It definintely tries (that's sort of the point of it)

This is probably argument from definition (unclear) but in any case, it's a statement which needs backing up.

To cite a usual boogeyman for such discussions, the Soviet court system under Stalin wasn't at all interested in justice.

It's not clear to me that the incentives in the US court system align with justice more than accidentally. As in, sometimes the guilty go to prison, as a side effect of the prosecutor's office needing to clear their docket and present good numbers to keep their budget up. Very occasionally, the innocent are cleared of crimes, and even more occasionally than that their lives aren't ruined in the process; defense attorneys want to look good as well.
I have yet to deep-dive into the techical details of Pegasus so this is pure speculation, but if Pegasus demonstrates the feasibility of deploying and executing arbitrary payloads on remote devices without the owner's knowledge or consent wouldn't that raise a blackmail vector with this new program? Again I'm not familiar with the specific exploits used by Pegasus, but is there anything stopping another malicious actor from relying on the same exploits to say install a bootloader that downloads images that would trigger a positive scan?
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Great idea. I thought of making a startup area as well, we called it AaaS (AuthZ as a Service) .
This point is echoed by the creator of SQLite, Dr Richard Hipp, in his excellent talk "SQLite: The Database at the Edge of the Network". [1] "SQLite doesn't compete with client-server databases, it competes with fopen"

(I highly recommend to watch it, if only to get a sense of the smart and funny energy that Dr Richard Hipp puts off!)

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jib2AmRb_rk
US Govt Discusses Struggles with CCP
I don't think you understood the argument correctly.

Do you claim that the Delta variant is not more infective in non-vaccinated individuals?

Do you understand that the Delta variant outcompeted other variants in India, with a vaccination rate lower than 10%?

Beyond that, please don't cite subgroups of data when we have larger groups. By selecting specific outbreaks despite larger data you can p-hack any conclusion.
His presence in Fiji was already controversial as he entered Fiji via his wealth, even as the country closed its borders to traditional travelers. It was on the basis of
"medical donations" as reported by the press.

Nobody here would want to endanger the life of a 12 year old and hopefully his child is doing fine now.

It has been reported by the press, several times, he was spending most his time at the remote Island of Tavarua with both a 12 year and another child of 10:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tavarua

The main resort there will ask you to sign this waiver who says between other things:

"...I understand that the Island of Tavarua is a remote, undeveloped island. Further, I understand that the Released Parties do not provide medical services and that medical facilities do not exist on the Island of Tavarua. If I am injured, I understand that I will have to be transported to mainland Fiji to receive medical services and that the Released Parties do not provide such transportation..."

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/58f5426737c581de8a8d7...

The main issue is that the NZ government, under the excuse of privacy, did not make it clear if this was really an emergency and his child needed urgent medical care,
or just needed medical care not available at Fiji
and a billionaire could not be bothered to return back to his country or to Australia who had easier entry requirements, and was roughly at the same distance.

The fact that it was a air medvac that not says much. It was not disclosed if it was an airplane with special medical facilities or just Larry Page private jet. It was only mentioned a request was received January 11, 2021
no comment on how much time it took to approve it and when the flight actually happened.

I am sure any journalist worth it's salt should be able to track easily any medvac Auckland - Fiji flights on
11, 12 or later days. If the flight happened a few days after the approval, then it was just planned medical care not available in Fiji.

If he really loves Fiji so much, maybe he can help
donate an Hospital, sounds like they really
need it, and its probably pocket change:

"UN's Fiji medical evacuation flight unfair, says human rights advocate"
https://www.stuff.co.nz/tarana/125963687/uns-fiji-medical-ev...
I think all of these illustrate part of the challenge: They're all tremendously complex compared to the basic functionality of datatypes. That is part of the problem with many of the attempts to do the same again. A lot of the constraints AmigaOS had to deal with became strengths in that these APIs had to be simple because they had to work on machines with memory measured in kilobytes or megabytes.

Of course it's also more complex to do on a system where you expect security (no memory protection on Amiga's made that rather moot), but I think a targeted attempt to do just the minimum datatypes does - or even less, would still be valuable. E.g. many of the security issues are related to embedding a widget, but just providing a unified mechanism for loading and saving which could easily be sandboxed and interfaced to via a dumb pipe (still security issues in validating what's passed over that of course).
Would one use the youtube as training date?

Especially for the videos with Close Caption....

As simple as extracting the Audio and CC text?
.... Wait a minute. You got a bluetooth headset working reliably with Linux? Tell me more...
that was 4 years later, which was an aeon in internet time.
Can you clarify how you are an accidental American? E.g., were you born on a US base in another country?
Why do people think that Cardano is faster than Ethereum?
The food pyramid, demonization of fats, antibacterial soaps, and countless other examples were touted as "factually beneficial for society" by well educated professionals until there was sufficient data to definitively prove them wrong, and those that challenged them based on the insufficiency of the data were considered "crazy" until they were proved correct.
Your website makes it clear what the product does. I'm not a huge fan of the name, I don't see a reason to shoehorn "AI" into the name at the cost of it being hard to pronounce and remember.

Looks like you need a login to try it, and I don't really have a need for image editing.

I'm not sure if users care or not that the system is built on machine learning models. Maybe a quick note if it here and there is good because it helps them understand that there's something 'smart' about it, but I wouldn't put sentences like this:

> built upon self-aware machine learning models

That just feels over the top and probably confusing to users.

Please see my top level comment for knotend.com and leave feedback.
> And if you quit your job prior to selling (i.e had ordinary income <$40,000) then the capital gains would go to 0% (seems wrong (?) and maybe you would have to pay the alternative minimum tax... not quite sure).

Not a tax advisor, but I thought capital gains counts as taxable income? So someone who sells $50k worth of BTC will pay 15% on $10k.
Note that the way this fork was pulled off was very ad-hoc.

Ethereum devs were unable to create a legitimate transaction reverting the DAO funds because they do not have access to the hackers' private key. The reversion was done with a "surgical state change" hardcoded into the client itself.
Ok go read about Gandhi now.
While they are at it they should up the ante and also add COVID misinformation filters, so that a phone refuses to save it and/or doesn't send it anywhere. Would be very topical. There is also racism and other almost universally recognized wrongthink. If you decide to police offline activity as if it's a cloud platform, why not implement all the online platform's automatic content filtering/censorship? /s
That’s so true. Amiga didn’t have an RTOS, but it sure felt like it. Windows had so much latency in comparison that I couldn’t bear to use it for the longest time.
Couldn't someone that motivated come up with a dozen other ways to frame someone?

This seems a little alarmist to me.
Yet another FUD-spreader.

> there's still a non-zero chance something somethin could happen to you.

That was true before the pandemic, and it is still true today. If I die, I die. No need to restrict the lives of everyone else just because you are afraid of death.
A CO2 tax and rebate is progressive. The poorest people would receive more back in a rebate than they pay. But the biggest CO2 users would pay way more than they receive back.
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Most countries grant those same benefits.
Presumably Serif is either still working on the level of improvements that would justify a v2, or simply don't think adding more income/manpower will output a better product.

I appreciate that while I know they'll inevitably launch a v2, they didn't choose to claim every possible dollar on the table on the way there.
In other words, crypto miners are investing in lobbyists.
So "so?" is my reaction to wailing about their being taxed.
That is most likely to happen when the FBI "discovers" child abuse material on the phone of an uncooperative potential informant. In which case they are going to supermax prison where they will be ventilated by the inmates and no one will miss them.
This system isn't meant for child abuse.

It's going to be used in China against enemies of the state.

Then it will be used domestically for the same.

Apple is a horrific company that you should stop using.
Microsoft implemented this a decade ago.

>The system that scans cloud drives for illegal images was created by Microsoft and Dartmouth College and donated to NCMEC. The organization creates signatures of the worst known images of child pornography, approximately 16,000 files at present. These file signatures are given to service providers who then try to match them to user files in order to prevent further distribution of the images themselves, a Microsoft spokesperson told NBC News. (Microsoft implemented image-matching technology in its own services, such as Bing and SkyDrive.)

https://www.nbcnews.com/technolog/your-cloud-drive-really-pr...

There was another round of outrage when the Windows 10 TOS extended this to local storage.

It also has the use case of scanning for DRM violations. (ripped mp3 files or movies)
Amazon patents container based blue-green deployments [pdf]
Most cases are pled out of court. So the dilemma is you are innocent, the prosecutor is asking 20 years for the crime you didn't commit. If you plea guilty to the crime you didn't commit, you get 5 years. Your public defender probably has 40 other ongoing cases, so he is an expert at plea deals but who knows about his trial skills. He recommends you take the plea deal. Do you trust the jury to find you rightfully innocent?
Great, I like the name! I'm trying it now.
Leaving a sinking ship is wise
You can’t make a settlement after a fine is issued, the appeal can only reduce the amount or cancel it... I would have thought
So everyone here just has an FT subscription? I don't see anything but a paywall.
> For example, we're pretty good at getting our people out of thorny situations

How thorny a situation has to be? Because I'm aware of a case when an American couldn't bring his own children to the states because his ex wife didn't consent to issue them American passports. Petitions, letters to the embassy and his congressman, nothing helped. A 3rd world country his ex wife's a citizen of had no issue with consents, it just issued passports allowing her to get the kids and leave the country they were residing in.
This is exactly why I use firefox and switch it to in-memory caching only.
Affinity Photo has already been my go to for performance reasons (how is it so usable and snappy on an old iPad???). exciting to see it get faster yet.

inappropriate feature request: "divide" layer blending mode.
iCloud backups are not encrypted, this is a major knowledge point.
This seems more like an advertisement than a popular science article, which is a huge shame as it's an interesting topic.
Makes shooting straight with a house ball much more interesting than pro bowling, IMO.
> There is a fundamental difference in that you can drop in a new datatype without any program like ffmpeg or gstreamer having to learn new formats.

It's not an interesting or useful difference. The thing Datatypes lets you do is pointlessly spell things differently. Once you spot that you ask yourself, "Why am I doing this?" and the answer is only that you need to interoperate with other people who hadn't settled on one way to spell things so the best route forward is consolidation.

Most applications gain nothing from having, say, yet another mediocre bitmap graphics format. You just made your system more complicated without any improvements whatsoever. Clearly we should agree to just stop doing this. And we did.

> Gimp doesn't

Actually Gimp does. Gimp's file format handling is all via plug-ins. As with ImageMagick in this context maybe you actually needed to rescue crappy 1980s files you found on a floppy disk or whatever. But this helps us see what's going on - because Gimp's image file format handling is only for import and export of necessity Gimp itself is richer than any of these formats. Its native XCF format reflects a superset of the features you can care about.

But anything Gimp's native images can't do, you can't "add" using these plug-ins. The SVG plug-in for example can't magically make Gimp understand vector images, it just has to render the vector image as pixels because that's all Gimp understands.

So in the end any innovation is rendered pointless by this abstraction, the only way for an innovative idea to flourish is to sidestep a "datatypes"-like abstraction altogether.

> actually unify around using a specific standard.

You've almost understood. Instead of adding a layer of abstraction, and then unifying around this unnecessary layer, we instead chose to just use a specific standard format. The problem you're intent on solving vanished.

Didn't you ever wonder why Datatypes seemed so brilliant for image files, and kinda sorta OK for music, and then basically of no value at all for most other file formats? It's because there really were sixty different crappy pixmap formats that were completely interchangeable and half a dozen PCM audio formats likewise. But that's not what happened in other domains, because it's pointless.
Ever since GDPR and then CCPA were announced I've had vendors trying to sell me on solutions to manage our data - often heavy-handed solutions that come at a high technical cost. The sales pitches always stand on scare tactics, that the very existence of the company I work at is at risk.

But when I talk to lawyers they are less worried. They tell me all the best practices we already follow mostly protect us, that we need to make some minor changes here and there.

So, over time I've learned to ignore scare tactics like this. My experience is articles like this are sales pitches and not a good faith attempt at educating us.
This time it's very different. There are billions of dollars of ETH locked up in the staking contract, and proof of stake has been live and operating on the beacon chain for many months.
Notch could have put 99.95 % of his riches i to helping to fix and save the world without imactong his living standard. He could have made lives of a lot of people better. I know I would.

If he chose not to, and he feels empty, thats on him. He probably is empty.
Carbon tax is about transitioning away from carbon. If you're afraid about the little guy, couple it with a tax cut on lower incomes.