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You didn't deconstruction, you tried to deflect. And it doesn't have anything to do with the original BBC article.
We should call them exterminating heat events, make it clearer.

Love the people calling for air conditioning. They should make peace corp or something compulsory, the degree of out-of-toucedness on some people about the degree of infra and poverty that exists here is extraordinary.
> A vegetation management inspection took place Jan. 14 but did not flag the tree that’s believed to have fallen on the line as needing work, he said.

> PG&E had also inspected the two poles between which the tree was found leaning May 13 and found nothing that required corrective action, Noonan said.

I used to work at a theatre as a teenager. We used to have these sign in sheets for bathroom inspection. Nobody really ensured the bathroom was in perfect shape. Basically just ensured there wasn't an obvious pile of vomit in plain sight.

I'm not entirely trying to say that there's been foul play here, but I guess I'm trying to point out that it's not very good evidence that nothing was wrong and it seems clear that something was wrong (given the fire).
Canadian Michael Spavor found guilty, sentenced to 11 years by Chinese court
This is what OP means.
they could always move to a lower cost of living? lol why should the other guy earn less just cause seattle guy wants to live in seattle?

if one can do the work remotely at the same quality as they would in office. i dont get why they should be paid less.
I think you're describing stablecoins just right. If that's all of it though, why should anyone be interested in what reserves these stablebanks hold.

What they're doing is, creating a USD bank. It's not just about bank guarantees. Game theory describes the stable outcome, it doesn't predict it.
> I've watched documentaries on Mt. Everest ascents where the climbers faced brutal cold, wind, & avalanches. Perhaps gear adapted to the conditions of the tundra could be an effective "survival pack" enabling people to survive for a few more hours should a car be stranded.

Having a car simplifies life a lot compared to alpine ascents. A car is going to be a better shelter than any tent available, and you don't really need to be concerned about volume/weight/water resistance of sleeping bags. (So it's still not cheap, but buying and layering some cheaper synthetic options saves a lot of money compared to -40C down bags.)
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$600M gone: The biggest crypto theft in history
Ok instant granulated coffee.
I’d assume it’s more about the tooling and libraries for JS. If I want to build an HTML based UI, I have thousands of JavaScript libraries alongside thousands of developers who know how to use them. If I want to build HTML that calls into C# I’ll need to do a lot more work myself.
Camera modules and image processing take a lot of power.
Australia and its system are slowly becoming easy prey for China.

Complete behind the scene control is not far away.
The fact that this is relevant to the discussion means we aren't trying to advance technology anymore, just make more sales.
I've heard of those devices before, but is there any way to bypass the heat exchanger section, like when the outside temperature is more preferable?
That is a good one! Also worth noting, they host the site on an RPi running off solar power[1].

1: https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/01/how-sustainable-is-a...
> the compact camera market is dying.
> Olympus just sold off their camera division.

And someone _bought_ that camera division. With the intent to continue designing, manufacturing and selling cameras under the Olympus brand. Sure, Olympus wasn’t doing great, but someone paid money because they thought they could run the business better. And their consumer business is in selling compact cameras, right? There appears to be at least some faith in the market.

> We probably won't see many new models from Canon

Personally I sure hope so. Their less-than-full-frame offering has been pretty lackluster afaict, other companies are doing the job better. We’ve lately seen some surprisingly kickass tech innovation in the full frame market from Canon, though. I hope they continue to focus their efforts.
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Note the terminology there: Cash or treasury bills.

That $31 billion in commercial paper might not be actually liquid.

The only thing that counts are the $6 billion in cash and $15 billion in treasury bills.

There are a number of other issues as well. Which bank is holding that cash? Is it actually a real bank?
Full-frame at APS-C prices would be great. It would lose one of the perks of APS-C: crop factor. Getting 450mm out of a 70-300mm lens is nice.

edit: since it's apparently not clear and I'm getting downvoted for sharing how this benefits a harmless personal preference, I will emphasize that I'm speaking to my needs. The 70-300 lens is what I use, not some abstract construct meant to represent all purposes.

The crop factor is generally a perk for people who shoot at the ranges I shoot at even if it comes with compromises for other needs.
Isn't DAI backed by USDC and Tether in part?
They don't have to be the moral arbiter of all society, just moderate their own users. The problem is that they want all society to become their users. They are biting off more than they can chew, to the detriment of civil society.
When this all turns around on you (and history says it will because it always does), remember you asked for your voice and the voice of those with similar views to yours to be silenced. Don't expect those whose voices you cheered to be muffled to come to your rescue. Yelling hypocrite won't save you. It's guaranteed to happen. There's no if here, only a when.
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You can set BPM to launch at boot just by going into Steam -> Settings -> Interface tab -> Enable “Run Steam when my computer starts” and “Start Steam in Big Picture Mode”
We've run this experiment before. Look at the number and severity of recessions/depressions prior to fiat currency and after.
i agree, it is bizarre. op has one of the worst takes ive heard about this whole thing.
My concern here is that every fire somehow becomes a cash cow for pg&e. It’s not clear, to me at least, aside from this article which may be premature given the arson suspect, that burying lines will solve the fire problem. So PG&E gets a ton of money, somewhat undeservedly IMO, and the state will still have fires but less resources to fight them with. I hope I’m wrong. It just seems like the worse pg&e does, the more funding they get. Perverse incentives are a real issue in economics.
New heat record in Italy 48.8 degrees Celsius (119.8 Fahrenheit)
That's not the definition of "moralizing".

> Moralize definition, to reflect on or express opinions about something in terms of right and wrong, especially in a self-righteous or tiresome way

Which is roughly what you (and the rest of the social justice crowd and, apparently, western Europe) just did.
Show HN: Rollup your emails into daily digests
It's trash, but mostly because it's got that standard Microsoft schmear on it, not because of electron.
Is there data on how effective therapy is for pedophiles? Intuitively I'd expect it enjoys the same 0% efficacy rate as gay conversion therapy.
ExpressVPN is a very well known VPN service IMO. I've certainly heard of it from several people, and seen it often in lists of VPN recommendations. Can't speak to the other points you raise, but ExpressVPN is certainly a known company in the field...
Yes, because the areas where we ignore and accept it are highly regulated and insured as a result of hundreds of years of learnings at this point. People react negatively when they see it outside of that context because it is something we have repeatedly seen fail and cause instability. This isn't hard to understand.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-55238803

They have covered those mercenaries, the first bit is about a different conflict but it also covers Libya later.
You could buy macrovision strippers from high street stores for years, Radio Shack / Tandy was a good candidate, they were usually sold as "video enhancers" or "video stabilizers" or similar language.
$ echo 'Ah yes those 280 character tweets lend themselves extremely well to deep thought.' | wc
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Correct.

There is a natural experiment on this. See which countries have compulsory voting and see how they have fared since. The results are not pretty.

On the flipside, the strongest "free" countries, switzerland and USA, have had voluntary parricipation since time immemorial...
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Actually, I think if anything, when you make "Google" money, the stakes become a lot higher. Taxes are easy enough to ignore when the base amount is low.
Or maybe i was just making a comment. this isn't some high school debate competition with all form but no substance
I'm generally optimistic about cryptocurrencies, but these kind of catastrophe scenarios where cryptocurrencies play the role of savior have always seemed pretty silly to me.

If the US dollar collapses or experiences hyperinflation, and/or US banks all collapse, pretty much everything is going to be fucked everywhere, most likely. Especially because whatever's driving that catastrophe is probably disrupting lots of other things, as well. (A major war, for example. The global Bitcoin/Ethereum/etc. networks might become disconnected and fragmented in those scenarios. Let alone infrastructure for fiat exchanges or paying for things with cryptocurrency.)

I think these events are very unlikely to begin with, yet a lot of cryptocurrency maximalists speak as though they're likely or inevitable in the mid-term or near-term. But if they do actually happen, I think digital currencies are going to be the least of almost everyone's concerns at those times.
I'll qualify that the vast majority of my electronic correspondence is business-related. I just don't really do "personal" electronic communication (text messages, email, video chat) too much. Most of my thoughts are coming from a business perspective, though I do really value having my old personal correspondence too.

I'm not using my persistent records to "correct" anybody, per se. For very specific "offensive" scenarios, like taking a vendor to task for failing to meet requirements, for example, I'm glad of having the details in black-and-white. Good business dealings are done in writing, in my experience. It keeps all parties accountable and.

Aside from that "offensive" scenario my old communication records are there to augment my memory. They helps me assure I'm living up to expectations and promises, and they give me super-human ability to recall minute details.

If referring back to old communication suggested a pattern of inaccuracy or out-right lying on somebody's part I'd certainly use that to inform my future dealings with them. I think it'd be gauche to speak about it overtly to anybody (except maybe immediate family) but it would color my interactions.
Does it ? The article seems to be mostly conjecture or studies on properly worn N95 masks (whose efficacy is not in question here).

> Osterholm, in Minnesota,director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, wears a mask. Yet he laments the “lack of scientific rigour” that has so far been brought to the topic. “We criticize people all the time in the science world for making statements without any data,” he says. “We’re doing a lot of the same thing here.”

This is literally how the article ends. It ends with a general acknowledgement of lack of understanding on the topic. That masks make intuitive sense, but the quality of research wrt. to it is pretty shabby.

It doesn't help that the likelihood of getting covid in outdoor settings is significantly lower than those indoors. Unfortunately, the masks almost immediately come off the second we are in this low ventilation + easily aerosolize-able environment. Mandates that are unenforceable under the constitutional structure of your nation are pointless grandstanding. (I generally question the holiness of constitutions too, but that's a whole another discussion)

Additionally no one enforces them to be worn correctly and people abandon social distancing the second their wear a mask. So they become generic tools to target and slander people rather than offer any real protection. Reminds me of post-9/11 safety measures that were intrusive enough that they could always find a bullshit reason for stop a brown person at the security checkpoint. It became an excuse for targeting ones you already had in mind, rather than ensure any real security.

I would have actually supported mandates for N95 masks and support a requirement for vaccine/anti-body mandate. (As far as we know, getting covid gives a strong enough immunity) Both would be just as draconian as the other recommendations, but, neither are useful tools for polarization, so both sides of the establishment conveniently ignore it.
Yes, that's what I meant. Surely home computers have been gaming machines since before Windows and that was also a heavy use case for Windows early on.

What I mean was that Steam simplified the selling, installation, updating, forums, mods, everything else -- the store that Microsoft really wanted to have with Games for Windows that never took off.
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From personal experience, I can tell you that there are automated systems searching for such pieces of art.

As for newspapers, all it takes is one copyright troll to realize it's happening, and suddenly there's lawsuit settlements everywhere, making him rich.
He wasn't talking about legal rights, he was talking about real consequences.
I'm referring to ANOM here.

Swedish police used FBI-provided data to arrest 155 indiviuals. Weirdly, the Swedish police cannot collect such data themselves, but need to act if they "stubble" across information indicating imminent crime.
> there is no middle ground anymore

Isn't there a grand coalition in Germany for most of the last 15 years between the center-left and center-right which did very well?
that wealth enable chronism, it could be better long term for the australian people (or most resource-based countries) if it dissipated tomorrow
This is truly asinine bullshit. Your work doesn't add less value to your company, you don't work any less hard. Where your body is physically located is irrelevant.
Oh, definitely. I personally like the fact that there isn't something stronger than "risk", like "ongoing problem". I.e., "We're building a mobile product and have zero mobile devs". We're stumbling along and figuring it out as we go, so does it jeopardize the project? Well, no. Does it jeopardize timelines, and a whole bunch of non-functional requirements such as stability and security? Very, very much. But I can't quantify those.

Or "velocity is X per sprint, and the deadline you've set is 3 sprints, and we have 6X worth of stories". That's not a risk, that's a promise we'll not deliver on time. But then upper management just sees that risk and either just says "well, we need to hit it", adn expect you to magic a solution, or tries to solve it in the only way upper management knows how, by trying to throw more people at it, despite the fact they've all presumably heard of the Mythical Man Month.
I don't necessarily know how you could write a smoothly-integrated shell for Windows the same way you can for your own Linux distro and not be constantly occupied with catching up and fixing your stuff from the potential changes from Microsoft just to make all the settings and toggles work properly to change things in the underlying Windows OS and then still potentially get issues from the Windows Update process that's out of your control. Going with Linux, in my opinion, solves having to rely on a platform that is potentially a competitor and therefore could turn hostile if they choose to. Microsoft has the advantage that it controls the whole software stack for the Xbox. It's also a giant uphill battle, but one that potentially benefits everyone due to the open source software behind it.

I'm personally also really happy that this gives incentive for AMD to improve their hardware support on Linux.
Yeah, ultimatums kinda suck as a negotiation tool for employees. High risk, low reward most of the time.

I would replace it with explaining that the pay cut makes you unhappy and/or makes the position less appealing. Make it an assessment of the position and the pay, but don't talk about actions that will come from it (like leaving or job searching). Telling them what you'll do is like obviously telegraphing your next move in a fight.
For an effective money market fund, there is a huge difference between cash and bank deposits; Treasuries; and commercial paper, certificates of deposit and reverse repos.
You can also add another big cons: the only supported way to run Signal is to own a device that runs code that you can't control on the main CPU (an iPhone; or an Android device, which also means running proprietary drivers in user space in practice). I know, I'm repeating myself.

You can manage to use Signal with most features without the need to run proprietary blobs by registering your phone number using signal-cli or axolotl (and maybe alternatives, but I haven't tried). They can run on a regular desktop or on a GNU/Linux phone, and then pairing Signal-Desktop with it. This is not straightforward, and forget convenience on the phone for now (I haven't managed to make groups work on UIs based on signal-cli though they theoretically should, Axolotl does not fully support new groups and by that I mean it's missing essential features like accepting an invitation).

Then, the blobs you are running are "only" in your phone's modem, unless you also managed to use some service providing SMS from the internet.

This is totally unsupported because it depends on alternative Signal clients that are not allowed on the Signal's network. For some reason Signal-cli and Axolotl don't seem to have been asked to stop from the Signal team, but it happened to a Signal fork, Free-Signal, which only goal was to de-blob Signal. And they are in their own right to do so, I'm not questioning this.

This is painful, really. Signal is so close to be great. Matrix / Element works well enough. It has rough edges but I (re)-discovered that Signal has some too and I'm not speaking about this whole situation.
It's far harder for me to personally find PG&E morally culpable when they were working at the fastest pace allowed by legal mechanisms to transition to a safer fully-buried infrastructure.
Generally speaking you don't have to worry that much about chemical weapons waste. Anything toxic enough and potent enough to incapacitate people on any militarily useful timeline needs to be pretty reactive with some subset of organic molecules. That pretty much always means that it readily makes bonds with something in the top few rows and right half of the periodic table. Likewise it will quickly find something in the environment to react with and become much less of a problem if you let it loose.

Heavy metals and exotic engineered chemicals that are only mildly toxic and/or are mostly nonreactive that can pass through the food chain or will not affect you immediately but build up is what you should worry about (agent orange, mercury, etc).
No, this wacko was setting fires in a fire. The events involving the power line happened a month ago. Fire has been going on for a while.
This seems wrong. If you require a proof that a program halts for all input (or of any halting equivalent property), then there will be programs you cannot write - those that possess the property in question but for which no proof exists, and those that actually lack the property.

In particular, you obviously cannot write a universal Turing machine in a system that requires a proof of halting for all input, because it by definition won't halt if it is fed a program that does not halt. A system that cannot build a UTM is not Turing complete.
The positive experience I have on a platform, the people I connect with, the things I learn — all of that is mine, and no change in algorithm can take that away.

I am also giving you a perspective as one of those "vulnerable" populations ostensibly harmed by TikTok, which is what the comment I responded to claimed.

I am saying, as one of them, that TikTok gave these "vulnerable" something that other platforms don't.

I won't go into ”addiction” issues (if you were to take my books away when I was a kid, I'd get no less angry), I'll just accept that it's an issue for large groups of people.

My point was that TikTok is more than that (addictive entertainment). It saves lives too.

Again, I am giving you a perspective as a "vulnerable" user of the platform. This is a perspective that you do not have (as a non-user at the very least). I don't doubt that other people will have a different experience. After all, that's the entire point of having that algorithm.

What I am saying is that TikTok is #1 not only because it's an addictive fun machine for some. There's a lot more. A sense of community for "vulnerable" groups and the ability to have reach is one of those positives that the parent comment was clearly not aware of.
Amusingly enough, they do have a Beverly office.

https://g.co/kgs/Je6f2F
In before "If Rand Paul doesn't like it, he can create his own platform." Next step is banning video for any usage of "he" or "she", because only monsters assume someone's gender.

edit: as my ego is bruised from the downvotes here, I'll quote Sir William Sidney when he was imprisoned by Napoleon: "Fortune's wheel makes strange revolutions, it must be confessed; but for the term revolution to be applicable, the turn of the wheel must be complete. You are today as high as you can be. Very well. I envy not your good fortune, for mine is better still. I am as low in the career of ambition as a man can well descend; so that, let this capricious dame, fortune, turn her wheel ever so little--I must necessarily mount, for the same reason you must descend."

So, people clapping blatant this censorship, don't be surprised when future Trump-like figure takes the lead and uses the same tools for censoring your own side. I hope you will at least have the integrity to say "fair enough".
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The "Start Building Your Course For Free Today!" button and TOS button are both just white strips in Safari on Mac.
> they were just interested in convincing enough people that it was possible for long enough to get rich quickly.

A million times this. I used to be a huge bitcoin fan in the early days. It's become obvious that it's failed and will never be a usable currency. Now it's just destroying the environment as a get-rich-quick scheme for unscrupulous people.
Ah, yes, for business dealings I'd certainly want a record. I was talking more about personal relationships, where I generally want things deleted after a while.
Careful, commercial paper is most definitely not the same as cash or treasury bills. It could be AAA, it could be BBB-

Wasn't there a story about an independent audit that was cancelled or something? I remember the weird assertion that they couldn't disclose whose commercial paper they were holding, which I've never heard before
Conversely, I can also live 10 minutes away but in a different city. Think LA.

Funny, but off-topic story relating to this: I once had my debit card shut off because I tripped a fraud alert by being in 5 different cities on the same day. This was in LA, and I really was in 5 different cities that day, but I probably didn't drive 50 miles.
Nah go on
This is the role of the attention economy. To fill up your face with screens and ads and make you into a good little consumer, fat and happy, an atrophied mind sitting on your duff like a Wall-E passenger, constantly distracted by fads and sucking down liquid shittrition.
Denuvo, which only works on Windows, lives in the kernel and is essentially a "benign" rootkit.

Sometimes it's not very benign, there has been more than one example of a game with noticeably improved performance once cracked to remove it.