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> PCs/ laptops/ etc. can use little USB hardware devices, from outfits like Yubico

This is actually built into most computers now -- Windows Hello, and Apple has something similar. Websites can check the attestation response to specifically block those, however. (Seems like Github allows it, and I've written code that allows it.)

> I think some iPhones do facial recognition instead?

Yup, they use whatever you use to unlock your phone. So if it's a FaceID phone, you can use FaceID to log in. You can also hold up your NFC Yubikey to the back of the phone and use that, even if you registered the key over USB on a PC! It's really, really good.
The case of Taliban is a good example of the conundrum platforms like Twitter perpetually find themselves in.

Multiple countries by now have recognized the Taliban as Afghanistan's de-facto government. Should their representatives be forbidden from communicating on social media? Should the US government really be allowed to decide which government is allowed to use communication platforms, and which isn't?

It's not a question with a trivial answer.
> Charges of “racism,” for instance, are primarily deployed against the political opponents of upwardly-mobile, highly-educated progressive white people.

Yep. Black people get to define our vocabulary. Internet throws a fit if someone squints their eyes and talk with a Asian accent.

But go "bippity boppity mamma mia" gesticulating heavily, and everyone laughs.
I find the same thing for 'dog whistle'. When people tell you who they are, believe them except I can read their minds and this is their actual intent.
It’s only fair to compare cycle numbers if you also compare cycle times.
I think what the video presenter is suggesting is that:

1. Revenue could be shared more fairly. The money that Roblox is keeping from kids is going into corporate pockets. There's no way around that.

2. The advertising could be more honest. If it's only for devs to make money, then mention that part only under the dev pages where 1% of the people will find them. For everyone else, advertise playing and creating for fun.
Vaccinate all people greater than 40 years old, preferably anyone and resume a normal life.

Even though the vaccine doesn't prevent to catch covid to high degree, it still prevent deaths and hospitalizations to more than 90% (whether Delta or not, and whether Aztrazaneca or Pfizer or Moderna)

Long Covid seems to exists, but it is about 2-3% of cases so nothing to really worry about more than any other disease.

Maybe at some point the vaccine won't protect from a new variant and things will change. But so far so good. And even at this point, Lockdowns and masks mania doesn't seem to be give a better output than asking citizen to be careful and try to limit meeting too many people (Sweden)

Here for more details https://cspicenter.org/blog/waronscience/why-covid-19-is-her...
> I always felt that some of the writing on this blog had a tendency to make mountains out of mole hills. I can't say for sure about the rest of it, but this is definitely a mole hill.

The thing is that the "fast path" or "happy path" of things is always nice and streamlined. It's when things start going wrong that it matters. If you marry yourself too heavily to a company you start losing your leverage. Depending on where you are and who you work with, things can get real dirty, and if your stuff is all intertwined with their stuff, that can add up to a lot of pain and suffering.
Vancouver BC hit over 42C this year, and hundreds of people died because the region is not prepared for heat. Victoria, which is facing directly out to the ocean, hit 39C. Houses and apartments don't have A/C, and businesses' A/C is not robust enough to deal with that much load. I would bet on it happening in SF too.

https://bc.ctvnews.ca/temperature-record-from-1895-among-59-...
That is literally the opposite of how scientific hypotheses start.

I'm guessing you're not a scientist.
Thats what I did, used second hand locoM2 units from a WISP for $20-40 each
I think it is important to note that its not the payment model itself that's the issue in those cases. It is instead the marketing that convinces people to engage with it in a way that is harmful / allows them to be exploited.

I would think contractor status can make sense for a small portion of people in the gig economy, but for a lot of people it would not.
And of course client side certificates. It's a pity they are rarely available as an option on public websites.
On the other hand, Linux is getting better and better. And with the prevalence of web apps, the main obstacle to running non (MS | Apple) systems is getting smaller. With Linux, you can adjust the level of security you need and you keep the key. Security improvements appear also in BSDs, especially OpenBSD, but honestly I wouldn't recommend people used to macOS to switch to OpenBSD (yet).
They suspected that nearest mine was 3 miles away now they suspect poisonous cyanobacteria in one of the ponds
The challenge I’ve found is that I end up with a lot of different MFA options which makes it hard to track where my exposure is. In some places I have two methods because I set up SMS when it was available and switched to an authenticator app and forgot to turn down SMS. It’s a shame there’s no SSO for personal accounts that established dominance so that I could just have 1 account I need to secure (although SSO solutions never put you in control of being able to minimize data leakage and let providers force you to disclose certain information for using their service).
Show HN: A serverless digital identity (cryptography)
You're right. Postgres doesn't give any control over primary data locality. That might cause querying 1 row a bit faster in Postgres (no log(N) traversal of the primary B-tree index) but picking out N rows could be a lot slower.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/indexes-index-only-scans....
AFAIK essentially yes, this is a popular (?) theory. The benefit of neoteny in humans is the retention of learning abilities, the human ability to learn doesn't decrease as much with age as it does in other animals
True, but it still puts the work of filing etc. on them. You can always self-rep. It's usually not a good idea, but here your argument is really very simple: "I signed this NDA on the basis of specific assurances, which were false. I have a record of those assurances from [company lawyer]."
At a big co, competence of whoever you are dealing with in HR might vary a lot depending on who you happen to be working with that day. Maybe they could also have improved some processes since she worked there.

I share an employer in my work history with her. I feel she captures some things I didn't like about the place pretty well, without hyperbole.
Pointers.

1. Install fatsecret (note that it does overestimate your passive calorie burn, it calculated 2500 for me, but in fact it was closer to 2200). If you can't pick the exact product you ate, pick the one with the hightest calorie count. In this case, overestimating works in your favour.

2. Start slowly. Do not start right away with 1500 calories/day, stay near your net zero point for a few days, or a bit lower

3. Then try a bit lower. Lower more, if you can. Repeat every few days.

4. Always pedantically calculate all calories. Kitchen scales are a must for any nonpackaged food with known weight.

Often the thought of the necessity to fill in weight and product removes the desire to devour something

5. Respect yourself! DO NOT eat something that you badly want to eat because you are a person who is controlled by his mind, not his desires! YOU are in charge, not your hunger

6. If you BARELY, BADLY need to eat that chocolate, eat it. But not 100g, but 1/8 of it, like 12,5g. AND count it.

7. Try to sleep more. When you sleep, you can't eat.

8. Buckwheat rules, simple to cook and has every mineral you need to stay healthy. On some days i got by by eating 250g of buckwheat and 150g chicken.

That's it, do it diligently and your weight will go away SOON.

I ate everything, from cured pork fat to chocolat, at any time, not caring for it at all. After 6, noon, midnight, just stayed below the threshold.

Good luck. :)
> as of now politics is entirely focused on the nouns - who, what, when. The immutable states of ones’ person. The answer is to move to a verb-based politics: what does this person do?

A sociology teacher I had at UMich said a lot of things I disagreed with but one idea that I'll never forget is that prior to the 20th Century, there were no homosexuals. Humans haven't changed- there were homosexual acts, which individuals may have practiced at varying levels according to the time and place in history. But it wasn't something that came to define one's identity until very recently in history.
orders of magnitude less though.
No, you don't understand. A combination of normal housing price inflation and lower mortgage rates can easily explain that result.
Brazil is such an outlier. I wonder why Bolsenaro didn't do anything about the insane import duties in Brazil. And don't get me started on the difficulty in using financial services there.
I didn't know it was controversial. In San Jose we have many (currently dry) ground water recharge ponds where water is let in for the purposes of seeping into the water table. Much of the city uses ground water, the resulting water is quite hard but has a decent flavor profile.
> Multiple countries by now have recognized the Taliban as Afghanistan's de-facto government. Should their representatives be forbidden from communicating on social media?

If they do not comply with the generally-applicable rules of the sites, yes; social media sites should not build in pro-government-of-any-place bias.
This is also excellent advice.

Actually maybe I should also add: keep not just the text of those e-mails, but also the from, to, date fields etc. If you ever get into a I-said / they-said about this, your employer might claim that your e-mails are a fabrication. If you get as far as a discovery process, and the company has to turn over e-mail records, that's going to make it much easier to locate the e-mail in question.
Agreed. Onlyfans is probably large enough that if they told their customers they could only accept visa or crypto payments that they would lose a lot less business than if they jettisoned their (core?) business.

In fact, MasterCard might lose enough business that they might reconsider. So this can’t be the full story.
Google's payments team is seeing an exodus of executives and employees
Color me un-reassured. It never ends well when you have a massive market driven by people who only think in terms of monthly payment.
I would say the loudest voices and it doesn't have to be very many of them at that.
A $100 wifi link with off the shelf equipment sounds more interesting to me (and applicable to my life) than a $1000 trench with fiber.
Microsoft MakeCode (here's MakeCode Arcade[0], just one aspect) is a terrific gaming platform which teaches standard Typescript (using a Scratch-type interface). It doesn't offer monetization of any kind so they can honestly advertise for the pure creative, maker, and educational markets. And they do!

[0] https://arcade.makecode.com/
You can figure it with math. Given a starting R0, a vaccination level, and an efficacy, you can figure effective Rt:

Rt = R0 * (1 - (vacRate * effRate))

So if Delta R0 is 6, a community is 65% vaccinated, and a vaccine is 80% effective against transmission, then effective Rt would be:

Rt = 6 * ( 1 - (.65 * .8)) = 2.88

Real effective Rt includes impact of mitigation levels and natural immunity. So for instance, in Portland OR, Rt is about 1.4. We didn't get hit as hard as surrounding states in the first few rounds, so we don't have as much natural immunity. In contrast, Seattle got hit harder early on; their effective Rt is a little lower - and Silicon Valley is actually pretty close to 1 right now.
For those who have worked at Facebook - why in the world are their policies like this?

Why is customer support so... unfriendly and unhelpful? No escalations possible? No way to reach anyone?
I didn't even make argument; I'm just asked the author to reconsider their statements given that there is historical evidence that ethics is more than just shaming and cancel culture. It's more https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_analogy and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_emotion
>Most people don’t buy a house based on the sale price, they buy based on what their monthly payment will be.

... which is itself an antipattern, just as it is for cars.
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One I see a lot of these days is "An X would say that" as in "a MAGA Trump supporter would say that" or "a far left liberal would say that" implying that whatever was said was made up dogma with no basis in reality.
We have many years of data on flu vaccine safety.

Should the flu vaccine be combined with newer vaccines which have numerically less safety data?
Thanks for the help you, you took the words out of my mouth haha......Per the question about a previous entry, a prior entry could always be cancelled out with a new entry.
Remember business is still take place on the front end and the blockchain is a back end ledger to verify the data...In the real world, if you accidentally sent an incorrect contract and that metadata hit the ledger, the user would simply cancel the 1st contract and send a new one, this would append the ledger and one could see that a previous version was cancelled and a new contract sent. There are also ways to to verify version history as was mentioned in that previous comment.
I've never been able to get into these animated videos of 3b1b, but the more recent videos with a more conversational tone (Lockdown math, the MIT Computational thinking course, the podcast) have made me a big fan of Grant.
Verily is not part of Google, so I'd think it's not part of Google Health either by definition.
Master/journeyman/apprentice were the terms in the middle ages when your parents sold you to master as indentured labour for a 7 year term. I'm of the mind that that was a form of slavery.

Peter Grimes in the George Crabbe poem murders apprentices and get off Scot free until an eventual comeuppance.
I had to read the last line twice to get the joke!
You realize that the way other diseases were eradicated required the cooperation of everyone on earth? Or at least in most countries. The reason we don't get polio in virtually any country on earth is because of global cooperation in the face of a disease with a known mitigation. Barely 500 known cases world-wide in 2019. Thanks to global cooperation. Too bad propaganda and social media probably ruined our chances of repeating such a feat...
Long covid also shows itself in lung function, with decreased vo2max, visible lung damage, etc.

I am unsurprised that this disinformation was posted by a user who posts right-wing extremist propaganda nearly exclusively.
To be fair this is what happens when you hire entirely from the technical Ivy League. No one wants to do the last 10% that's really the last 80% of the work because it doesn't carry the same visibility.

For what it's worth, Google, or at least some subsegment, does seem to be trying to fix this issue. I had a somewhat offensive conversation with a recruiter recently where they told me they're looking for people (like me) with non-standard backgrounds who don't necessarily have the pedigree that the usual Google SWE hire has. I hope they also extend this thinking to moms with young children. I know a good many technical women who fell off the career ladder after having children and were never seem to be able to get a chance to get back on, ultimately taking jobs far beneath their abilities or just shifting industries altogether.
I'm not sure if this is technically feasible, but maybe a yearly covid shot just gets added to the flu shot routine. Either through the same shot, or two shots in one visit.
There's nothing wrong with fixation on victimhood that actually exists: one person wronging another begets an oppressor and a victim. However, a fixation on victimhood to the extreme can lead to error with negative consequences.

For example, many forms of microaggressions mentioned in the article do not (in my opinion) lead to victimhood. To say otherwise runs the risk of making victims that don't exist. Being offended for example does not _necessarily_ make you into a victim.
...one of the very worst charges that can be leveled against someone – especially a white person – is to accuse them of being racist.

This won't be true no matter how many times you repeat it. "As a white person", I have been accused of racism. My response was to apologize and attempt to do better in future. I have largely been successful in those better attempts. When I have fallen short, I have apologized again.

At no point have I been fired or done prison time for my momentary racist episodes.

TFA seems like a ridiculous attempt to incite the problem it poses as lamenting. Flagged.
The criticism I made wasn't about the anecdotal nature of your post, but the lack of logic in the conclusions you drew from it.

It's amazing how people of your persuasion must avoid at all cost viewing their own thinking from a logical framework.
I've been to one of such trainings that demonstrated what we would call "a struggle session" (using the Mao's terminology). Basically, a few professional "victims" told sorrow stories and explained how they could improve their behavior in the future. The stories were bs and the "victims" were millionaires, but what impressed me was the sad and twisted expressions on their faces. The face expressions were genuine. While watching the show, I was thinking that they looked like "inversed saints": instead of teaching compassion and how attachment to emotions and material things causes misery, they teach to fixate on low-type emotions and minor physical traits and while doing so they demonstrate the mysereble psychological state they've inflicted on themselves.
>> Yet, white college students and graduates were significantly more likely than the average black or Hispanic respondent to brand these statements as “offensive.” This effect was especially pronounced among white highly-educated respondents who identified with the left.

This is what is called Cancel Culture. It is really not OK to be offended on behalf of someone else. When people do this, they are infantilizing (is that a word?) the supposedly offended and some of them don't like that behavior.

But go ahead and change your git repository to "main" instead of "master" just in case someone thinks it's some kind of slavery reference (everyone will update all their documentation and tutorials right?). Next we can work on your cars brakes (master cylinder), anything that involved master templates, certain golf tournaments, and what on earth are we going to do with all those masters degrees?
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1. The 1979 'shock' is not relevant in 2021 as the global energy situation is completely different so there's no point to make with respect to current strategy.

In short your 'first' concern about Iran's 'Oil' pricing etc. doesn't have any bearing on the situation.

2. Your response re: Houthi's, completely side-stepped the main point, which is that Iran is currently an antagonizing agent, directly attacking Saudi Arabia - literally knocked out 1/2 their refining capability in a military assault, and that the situation in Yemen is considerably worse than it ever was, with Houthis launching Iranian missiles directly into Saudi Arabian airports.

In any other situation - the result of 'missiles knocking out 50% production, and missiles raining down on major airports' would be war.

This is absolutely 'antagonizing' - they are directs acts of war by Iran - which both your 'It's Israel' premise, and your 'Houthi is an Old Thing' premise have ignored.

Of course, they're also grabbing merchant ships, shooting down airplanes (their own) - all that has to be put in the mix.

3. Finally - that a 'class of lawyers and lobbyists are trying to influence foreign policy' - doesn't make your argument.

There are 'lawyers and lobbyists' of every kind, pushing for policy changes in every direction. That's normal.

You have not provided any evidence that the leadership class, as a whole, is acting to maintain Iranian sanctions, because it's completely contrary to the interest of capitalism.

It's irrational that the 'Capitalist Class' wants to maintain sanctions, it does not benefit them in any way.

Here's is Boeing's loss of billions of dollars in contracts due to sanctions. [1]

The argument that Boeing and other F100 CEO's are pushing for sanctions, which costs them billions ... is not going to work.

Ergo - it's far more complicated than your argument insinuates.

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/here-are-the-businesses-most-af...
The analysis of value by this researcher seems to be entirely dependent on future price. But houses have value even if the price goes down: a place to live, space to own more things, for kids to play, stability where no one can kick you out etc. Someone buying a house during a "bubble" can be deciding that they value these intangibles more than future profit of selling the house later.
The topic isn't what your own personal definition of a "conspiracy theory" is.

Rather it is whether the term "conspiracy theory" can be introduced into a conversation and terminate thinking.
Sounds like you need a champion in management snd preferably skip-level buy-in as well.
Absolutely this also I went kayaking with some professionals that had some major accomplishments, like ocean crossings. I was the only one to take an extra paddle they all made fun of me for it guess who saved the day when we needed an extra paddle 4 days from civilization.
> The point is that it does seem like this Delta variant breaks through regularly and it does seem (again, purely anecdotal) like it's v infectious. Of course the thing to emphasise is that, whilst it might break through, the vaccine still stops serious illness to a high degree.

If numbers from IHU Méditerranée are to be believed, the Indian variant is about 6 times less dangerous than the English one. Way more infectious and less dangerous, the latter part helped mutating it to the former. And that's the numbers without taking vaccination into account.

I wish medias would relay the information fully instead of spreading fear by only telling about the more infectious part. If indeed less dangerous this is a very good news that this strain is spreading more.
> this person actually is a customer

That's the reason the "you're not the customer" line is just a distraction.

It totally misses the point that Facebook doesn't have customers any more than any other first world power has. Facebook has treaties with governments and follow laws when it's less costly than breaking them.

FTC actions are like one country taking another to the WTO -- not something to ignore, but not really threatening either.
> We have yearly flu vaccinations.

Where I live (Eastern Europe) those are taken by a minority of the population.
I'm so glad UNH never partnered with Google. I would have been planning an exit strategy for all my stocks ASAP.
You've had momentary racist episodes? Does that happen frequently?
Having worked on the government side of healthcare I can say all these systems support interoperability when money is on the line. That’s what tech giants don’t understand, every system is trying to create their own ecosystem and fighting each other in the process. The only way it works is when mandates have actual teeth, otherwise it’s its exactly as dysfunctional as intended.
Compliance is about liability, not security.
Thank you. I could be in the same state than you were, possibly. Now, I'm intrigued and open to read more.
Your comment is the "fallacy fallacy" where every statement is countered by the claim that it is in fact a fallacy.

The person you responded to has a cogent reply and you haven't done anything to address the meat of the matter.