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There shouldn't be a debate about it in the first place. If you want an even higher chance of not dying if you manage to catch the virus, get the vaccine. If you care about reducing the spread, wear the mask. I don't see why either of these things need to be mandated as they sound like pretty clear cut personal decisions in my eyes but I digress.

What I am seeing are a lot of people that conflate wearing a mask to being protected from the virus' side effects, or that getting the vaccine makes it impossible for them to transmit, and that they are morally/ethically superior to those who take neither of these decisions.
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"Apparently going on shifts working 72+ hours non-stop is the norm."

C'mon, that's 3 straight days, i.e. skipping 2 nights. How can that be 'the norm' anywhere? Extraordinary claims requires extraordinary evidence - or in this case, just any evidence.
so you’ll be able to ruin someone’s life by sending them a live photo where one frame has child abuse. i find the law enforcement part of these well intentioned anti child abuse initiatives to be absolutely terrifying because the standard is not that you were proven to have been a party to child abuse but that an offending file was found on your device.
I'm building Blocktimize, which lets you launch dApps faster and monitor them. You can check it out here:
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This is probably mostly relevant for blockchain devs, but would love feedback.
A big difference I noticed in Japan was that the streets that have clusters of homeless are super clean, and people were not violent. It's not like in SF, for instance, where people littered on streets and assaulted pedestrians.
Démo: https://twitter.com/hearlamb/status/1423319975293603843?s=19
If you're still working at a place that still maintains COBOL code, you should quit and come back as a much better paid contractor. Don't waste your retirement doing that for less than a few hundred bucks an hour.

And if you're a young person, don't waste your youth on the dead-ends of the past. You can make a million bucks in a year if you're really good at all that AI stuff!
Right, but aren't you assuming that the delta variant can't go from vaccinated to vaccinated effectively? I don't think we really have solid data on this yet but it seems possible, at the very least.

If that is happening, and the R0 from vaccinated to vaccinated is above 1, aren't we creating immense evolutionary pressure to defeat the current vaccines?
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Remember the US No Fly List? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Fly_List

The list ballooned to over a million names, then required an ACLU lawsuit until humans became involved and a review process was initiated.

As long as the majority of Americans dont feel burdened by something, dont expect anything logical to happen.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions...
> Technically there's a 3rd way: extremely long wires, but that's basically never practical.

Did the math, ~170km (assuming 300,000 km/s and speed of light in copper been 90%) - that's a long wire, would also have to be superconducting or very high voltage ;).

Whatever room temperature superconductors end up costing Audiophiles will be the early adopters ;).
Incorrect. Monero can be mined using GPUs, and that is the dominant way it is mined.

Source : Mined Monero on an R9 290X until a few months ago.
Not really. I had a core plane in a desk drawer for years. Each time I got it out to show someone, bits of core would shake out onto the floor. See, the little ceramic cores decay over time and fall apart. By now (if I hadn't gotten rid of it) it would have no cores left.

Literally, 'bitrot'.
The K80 seems indeed quite affordable. But would multi-GPU setup work well for these cases? Is the RAM shared?
Good catch, edited.
For Apple, who has been trying to highlight their pro-privacy stances, to go through with this is pretty astonishing.
A high rate of false positives will create distrust in the system, and ultimately make it less effective since no one will take it seriously.
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Did they walk off the job in December and January, when they had higher than the current numbers of infection for 2 months straight?

CNN is highlighting this non-unique situation to dump on a hated "red" state. Will they be there in a week, when "blue" Oregon, Washington, and Hawaii all have bigger numbers than they've ever seen? Those states all social-distanced themselves into ripe fruit, ready for picking by the more contagious Delta variant.
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PoS is already working in Cardano, Tezos, and Algorand (among others).
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I bet(or know...) the people who verify those images don't get paid anywhere near enough.
Some games have it, with good headphones and when it's implemented well it's great otherwise couldn't tell if it was on or off.

Even a "brand" for it THX Spatial Audio
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> In fact I've invested in a company that buys large ships for the purpose of making money off of them.

Is that why you are so sore? Why didn't you just say so?

It doesn't take a lot of brain power to understand that most wealthy people don't buy yachts to make money, but to show it off. So your entire "don't you dare say that boats are money sinks because I invested in a boat company" is pretty tone deaf.
> FBI doesn’t invoice victims

what
Many Americans seem to believe that, but it doesn't actually seem to be the case. For instance, when Yemen was falling apart, countries like China, India, Pakistan, Russia, and Indonesia all worked hard to evacuate their citizens, many using their military to do so[1]. The U.S. response was to tell American citizens they were on their own[2]. The U.S. embassy even recommended that Americans seek assistance from India if they needed to evacuate[3].

So if anything, I'd say America is worse than other countries at getting citizens out of bad situations. But there seems to be a tendency for people to not look at what other countries actually do and just assume that America is the best.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-32162364
[2] https://foreignpolicy.com/2015/04/21/washington-to-americans...
[3] https://twitter.com/SMedia4/status/585286801968893954
International tax reporting is a real burden and I am not surprised they choose to go down that route if it makes life easier for them.
I don't think society can function without harsh penalties for child abuse, and I think thats a widely held belief everyone agrees with.

I do think your comment is conflicting though. The fuzziness of 'is this abuse' is real because collisions can occur, mass surveillance never goes in reverse, etc.
Whats the incentive for miners to continue to mine? They now just rely on tips? Won't they all just bail if they're not receiving enough tips to be profitable?
This will enable Apple to send hashes of matching fingerprint and face scans to their online database. This also completely disabled their argument that their product is safe because the data remains encrypted on your device. Instead of passing the data to the spy service they are sending a report on data to the cloud which will allowed to be much more opaque and misleading.

I just ordered a Iphone 12 Mini to replace an Iphone SE, but now I’m going to return it. No amount of cool tech in a product is worth enabling this slippery slope against human privacy rights.
Therefore what? Bad thing happens in the US, yes that's true, but well, that same bad thing happens in other places too, so therefore.... what?
Well I was in a Pizza express in woking, move along.
it took a long time to work it out, but it is running on the beacon chain and the consensus upgrade spec has now been merged: https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/3675
I used Sybase and SQL Server for a long time. PostgresSQL I found much tougher than expected to figure out. Just seems built for functionality over ease of use. I guess I got to get used to it.
I hope you don't ever run afoul of an internet mob from somewhere like 4chan! They might SWAT you while DDOSing your IP and doxing you then emailing your iphone dozens of photos that collide with CSAM perceptual hashes.
Yeah, sincerely. Language shapes thought. An asshole shouldn't be a measure of malice. It's a very useful organ with an important job. Just like you wouldn't call a badly behaving individual "nigger", "gay", nor "retard", you shouldn't call them "dick", "asshole", nor "cunt" neither.

Just call it what it is. By its true name. Actually say the thing you mean. Words exist. Deprecate outdated idioms and try evolving.
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Alternative is crowdfunding to create something like Pinephone, etc.
> I guess we need a proper CO2 tax to encourage better technology than proof of work

The statement replied to does not mention "rebate."

> But the biggest CO2 users would pay way more than they receive back.

This statement does not seem believable given the recent stories about tax avoidance strategies of the wealthy.
I saw the same when I was younger for Norwegian. Bokmål is the most commonly written form of Norwegian, but New Norwegian is used by about ~15%. Most software included Bokmål support, but you could bet some hardcore user of New Norwegian had made a language pack available as well.
The Blockchain doesn't mandate that you hold the private key of any wallet you owned since you acquired some Bitcoin assets.
None of that is happening. You're drumming up the very irrational fears you previously stated you despise.
That's all very good; I genuinely agree with it, and I think it applies to nurses too (schedules etc. permitting).

But it doesn't work if you're struggling to make ends meet. There are hospital workers who don't have health care because they can't afford it for example.
Pre vaccination and not really deadlier just faster spreading.
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It happens, I've blown up branches to the point of "welp, I hope that is still in the reflog" a few times.

Git is a double-barrelled footgun with a hair trigger.
Very interesting and illuminating!

Please continue on this adventure, you're onto something great!
Could be used to target specific individuals and discredit them (e.g. critics of government).
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I hate chart hacking. However, cases are up over 130% in the last two weeks. Hospitalizations up 80%. (1) The surge is unfortunately real.

(1) https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases.html
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I don't argue that Zelle is successful but it certainly did not kill Venmo. Venmo is alive and well. I think Zelle is more useful for things like tenants paying landlords, while Venmo is more for splitting a restaurant bill, so it doesn't shock me that Zelle is processing a lot more coin.
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Yeah, I had the same experience. With PipeWire it (mostly) just works, and reliably. The only thing I'm missing is always presenting the microphone as an usable device and only switching codecs/profile when the microphone is being used.
Depends on the system. My A1200 (6mb Ram, HD) is same spec as it was back in the day will run Wordsworth, Protext and DPaint IV just fine but doesn’t really do web browsing. I added a basic PCMCIA WiFi card though and it copes with ftp okay over open WiFi.

Don’t expect a screen resolution anything like the ones shown in the article though and RAM and the 68020 become an issue fast working with a lot of recent files. The author has a lot more RAM than me and it definitely shows.
Many times I have wanted the Oh No! undo and the Dynamite in my IDE.
Thanks a lot, and I truly agree.
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There’s no real threat of fascism in America and people who use the term to characterize American politics are either ignorant or disingenuous or both.
I think the USA made the mistake of using the communication channels from the health authorities for political purposes. Trust in authorities is weakened and the effectiveness of their communications is now low. Every day they continue this they make it worse. It seems that spokesmen have had mixed stakes beyond being responsible for peoples' health.

There might be some progress if the authorities somehow "repented" and became trustworthy. There's probably a lot going on at the local level where the communication and organization is happening that I can't speak to.

At the moment, this seems to be coming to an end in western Europe. The majority of unvaccinated are young, and many have had covid. Delta variant is spreading covertly without causing much symptoms or illness, so few people are getting tests. If it can't be stopped, it might be preferable that it spreads during the summer. No one knows what happens this winter, but the outlook seems good.
A natural pivot if the software was successful would be to start selling the hardware with the software putting them in direct competition. After all people generally don't buy OS they buy computers.
So how exactly do people get educated and products make it to market etc? There's a lot of "soft" infrastructure that you're forgetting too. That was part of Biden's point. There's hard infrastructure that everybody understands, and then there's the soft infrastructure like a well-educated workforce that can quickly adapt to the new market demands.

An efficient (not wasteful, which is tough to make happen) investment in either would help the US in every way, publically and privately.
In this case, I think you could work around that, as they could implement a high capital gains tax rate for cryptocurrency sales. Then it would only impact people who mine.

Obviously it seems they are going in the exact opposite direction on this, though...
> If it goes to nobody, is it really "gone forever"? Did it even exist in the first place?

Yes? Isn't "going to nobody" the very definition of "gone forever"? Previously miners received the ETH spent on fees, and either kept it, or traded it for cash. Since they will be receiving less, they will have less that they can sell, which should result in less selling pressure.
> ...what happens when I borrow enough ETH to win blocks, deliberately mis-verify TX...

Ethereum already "slashes" the staked ETHs of those who try to game the system (Ethereum already has one chain on PoS): the coins of stakes who try to cheat the system are not even confiscated, they're destroyed (making every other holder a little bit richer).

I don't know if this shall work or not, but that's their plan to keep bad actors from trying to attack the system.
Doesn't really answer your question, but the article says this:

> According to people briefed on the plans, every photo uploaded to iCloud in the US will be given a “safety voucher” saying whether it is suspect or not. Once a certain number of photos are marked as suspect, Apple will enable all the suspect photos to be decrypted and, if apparently illegal, passed on to the relevant authorities.
They do have the same amount of time. They spend it differently. That reflects their values. What you described was not different amounts of time but different values and priorities.
Isn't there the potential for abuse of this to track things like who you talk to in private? Even if the images on your phone do not contain CSAM, the hashes of all your images would need to be shared with Apple, the NCMEC, and who knows what other quasi-gov't agencies.
All it would take to build massive graphs of who talks to who, etc is to match up those hashes. It doesn't matter if they have no idea what image the hashes correspond to...
If they then take the simple step of generating hashes for common images found online, they could even track what sites you browse and such. Ignoring the potential for false positives and other negative side effects of the main goal, this is a horrific breach of privacy.
If you honestly think the gov't won't abuse any and all data they collect this way, I don't know what to say...
There aren't a huge number of crypto billionaires (though your calculations miss those who rode other crypto waves with their bitcoin profits), but there are a decent number of people in the upper 10-figure lower 11 figure range.

Outside of Satoshi, the number of those people who are anonymous at a governmental level has got to be quite small.
The process is described above, but it’s very hard to “innocently” end up with one of those images that they are looking for from the database.

And the way it’s being done (hashes), a collision is highly unlikely. If it does occur it doesn’t mean it’s similar in nature (e.g. innocent picture of own child in bath). The hash isn’t looking at the image content in the sense of “what’s in the picture”, just the bits of the file. So it’s highly, highly unlikely, even if a collision occurs, that the collision would be an image that happens to be another child innocently bathing.
Fingerprinting a person takes only minutes. Also, I think you're wildly overestimating the number of criminally-insane people.
I found this video interesting for two reasons:

1) How often do alarming system failures (as Rube Goldberg-esk as these systems can be) result in actual deaths? In this case multiple layers of alarm systems failed simultaneously - leaving 2 children without parents.

2) The conclusions ultimately questioned the need for the structure that housed this equipment. That struck me as quite a solution - and probably why you see so much heavy industry outside in the elements.

I am a huge fan of USCSB's failure analysis videos. Usually the lessons obtained were earned with blood.
They are scanning client and server-side photos.
Or when an internet troll gets your email address and/or phone number and starts spamming you with child porn pictures, which your phone immediately identifies and notifies authorities.
You have tens-of-thousands of profitable companies with such "unmitigated garbage" IT processes. Since they continue to remain profitable despite disaster-IT, they exist and hence will buy stuff like this.
You literally can’t order FSD the way He claimed initially.
We also logged everything, and then re-planted with the most profitable trees assuming we'd log it all again.

Who knew that densely planted tall pine trees burn so much?
I really don’t think Apple is consciously allowing these apps because they get profit either way. They’re very well aware that the long term success and profits of the App Store and the Apple ecosystem are based on users’ trust and frictionless experiences. In fact, Apple guidelines stressed pretty early on in the app store’s life (2010) that “we don’t need any more fart apps” in the App Store. I really don’t believe that they would risk their brand and image being affected by a very short-term focus on 30% commission on some scammy apps.

Also, more generally, even if this was conscious behaviour by Apple, I don’t think this really linked to “unregulated capitalism”. In any economic/political system you will find that some people serve their own interests while harming others or the public interest. Whether those “own interests” are amassing money, assets, power, access to goods/services or anything else deemed “valuable” in that system does not chance the dynamics of that basic conflict of interests which will cause trouble in any system. I’m afraid that’s human nature and there’s no system that can fully align those interests or avoid the negative effects of conflicts of interest.
Wikipedia says [1]:

> U.S. law also states that a child born outside of the U.S to a U.S. citizen parent who previously spent sufficient time in the U.S. is a U.S. citizen at birth, regardless of whether the child also has the citizenship of the country of birth or another citizenship. U.S. citizens married to fellow U.S. citizens can transmit U.S. citizenship to their children if either parent has ever had a residence in the United States (without any minimum time limitation on how long they held that residence.) However, for U.S. citizens married to non-U.S. citizens, the required period of residence is longer; under the Nationality Act of 1940 and the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, the required period of residence was set to ten years, five of which had to be after the age of 14. The Immigration and Nationality Act Amendments of 1986 reduced this to five years, two of which had to be after the age of 14.

So you're automatically a citizen if you're born in the USA, if both of your parents are citizens (and at least one has resided in the USA), or if either of your parents is a citizen and lived in the USA for 5 years (2 of which after the age of 14).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accidental_American
I'm not sure exactly what you are saying. I don't think there's any problem with the money being burned.

> nothing is "lost" or "burned"

That "specific" Eth is gone. I say "specific" because of course it's fungible, except for its transaction history.
The article is a mess, it could be anything. Locally? On iCloud? Hashed? Content detection? Who knows, the article has all of these keywords.
You seriously think you can scale number of hospital beds at an exponential rate?
Agreed, the fairest form of funding is fee for service and not taxation.
> Do you claim that the Delta variant is not more infective in non-vaccinated individuals?

In this study, there were more infections in the vaccinated group. That defies logic, though, and intuitively the infection rate of the vaccinated group cannot be higher than that of the unvaccinated. That's why I mentioned confounding factors.

From this study and others, I believe the vaccines used in the US do not provide substantial protection against infection by delta.

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

Yes, which means that it is more infectious. Its resistance (or lack of) to the vaccines isn't really relevant in a country with a 10% vaccination rate.

The fact that it's outcompeting other variants in countries with relatively high vaccination rates likely means that the vaccines are less effective against it.

> Beyond that, please don't cite subgroups of data when we have larger groups.

We're specifically talking about delta here, and I'm unaware of a study based upon a larger cohort where a statistically significant number of cases were sequenced, the variant determined, and the dominant variant found to be delta.

> By selecting specific outbreaks despite larger data you can p-hack any conclusion.

Again - show me the larger data here.
A completely separate problem. If you're not grounded in reality, it doesn't matter if you're operating in a deontological or consequentialist mode. You can justify bad outcomes with either.
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