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How can Chrome update the copyright if offline?
One of my computers has been offline for years. The current chrome vesion on it is 60 or so, which was released in 2018, but the copyright nofication on the "about" window says 2021 instead of 2018? How is this possible if it is offline and never updated?

here is an exmaple of what I mean:

https://www.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/google-chrome-security-update-93.0.4577.82.png
> I predict an increase in the number of golfers

You mean people who think they're safe because they don't realize they're in the earshot of another player's/random jogger's smartphone?

(I'm totally thinking of a scene from Person of Interest, 4x12, when a character hides in a park and makes a call over satellite phone, to talk out of earshot of a malicious AI surveilling everyone, only to be spotted by it through a smartphone of a passing cyclist. Can't find any video clip of to link here, though.)
I think unlimited PTO is an absurd policy to begin with. Why would you allow that? If people take a reasonable amount of days, then why not just have a generous policy like 6 weeks. If some people abuse how are you going to deal with them? Fire them? No, because you had the unlimited policy...
> This is an excellent resource

No, it's trying to minimize the costs - it's a coverup.

- the cleanup cost will be around $1 trillion and require significant army and political involvement for decades. These are costs borne by the taxpayer. (The Japanese PM actually coordinated the response directly after the plant operators started to abandon the site in the middle of the crisis!)

- 250,000 area residents were evacuated to school gyms, etc. and many will die there

- the US govt. intervened to analyze the true risks with a drone, and notified the Japanese that if the cooling ponds evaporate, there will be a fire and airborne release. So that was another emergency that had to be remedied.

- the operator was notified of the risks of flooding years beforehand. To save money, they defied the recommendations.

Stop being a nuclear apologist when you're incapable of understanding the most basic issues at hand. Merkel, who I don't respect, is right in this case that if it can happen in Japan, then it can happen in Germany.

> In both cases it’s far more dangerous to ride in a car.

Until you get a bill for $1 trillion. Can they send it to you?
Every time I read the story of gun violence in American school it send chills down my spine. As a parent you don't want to worry about shootouts at your kid's school. And this is totally preventable if Government bans guns.

I understand the idea that citizens need protection from government. But if fight really breaks out between government and citizens then there are weapons far powerful then guns that citizens don't have.

The whole gun debate is only happening because there are strong gun lobbyist in Washington. Gun manufactures makes sure that they can sell guns and make profit.
Like so many I learned to code on a ZX80 and basically never stopped. I'm here 40+ years later, typing this on a HoloLens and marveling at the impact that little computer had on me and the world.
RIP Sir Clive
I started with an Amiga 500. Wonderful machine, but the lack of a built in compiler/programming language that allowed you to access the power of the machine was a lack that limited your learning. I think it resulted in me taking a very wide path to my current programming job than would otherwise have happened. Looking back, there is a lot of power in having to work hard to get a program from a magazine entered and working. You are forced to learn something about programming.
A potential issue with ccTLDs in general is they aren't subject to ICANN policies at all. Countries can do whatever they want with their TLD, ICANN's only involvement is keeping their root zone entries up to date.

This means you're subject to the politics of whatever country's TLD you're using. If the country's lawmakers suddenly decide that their TLD should only be for use by local entities, or that owners of popular domains should pay more, or that certain types of content is banned, you have no recourse.

(Not that ICANN policies always help you. Some of the new TLDs have contracts with ICANN that allow them to arbitrarily jack up prices, which they've done: https://domainnamewire.com/2017/03/07/yikes-death-spiral-new...)
Some frameworks will offer this as part of the development process with a development server. Mojolicious (Perl) for example ships with Morbo as a development webserver, and Hypnotoad as a more enterprise ready one. One of the major differences is that morbo will take a path and auto-reload if any file in it updates, while hypnotoad offers zero downtime reloads, but you have to manually tell it to restart.

Arguably a delineation like this is better, even if just a single flag separating the behavior in the server, since it allows production to not worry about some file copies/changes forcing lots of reloads that aren't needed, which isn't really a problem in most development environments.
Talking about how expensive the phones have become lately, the max out specs on new iPhone 13 Pro Max costs $1,600 and if you add taxes it would be $1,760!
Aether is doing something pretty cool. Combining chat with threads and email lists. All three together.

https://aether.app/
Ask HN: Do You Have a Photoblog?
Do you have a website dedicated to photos (your own or otherwise)? If you did in the past what made you stop? Did you build it yourself? How easy is it to update?

In the interests of not seeming like a shill I'm not going to post my own photoblog ;-)
The potential costs of systemically removing correct but controversial/fringe content are extremely detrimental to scientific progress in general. Sure, we remove thousands of obviously false and likely harmful posts, and there are cases to be made for why that may be good, but sometimes hidden within those thousands of posts was something that may have had a tremendously positive effect, but yet could not be separated from the noise.

"The Crime of Curiosity" is a great way to put it, because we're already banned from questioning a lot of areas of science on most major tech platforms. This system seems to be helpful in some areas until it makes some mistakes, in which case the effects are catastrophic.

Remember that within the first year of covid, "masks work" was considered misinformation along with "a vaccine is likely to happen within a year or two", along with "this may be related to a lab leak", along with... Reality is always changing and uncertain and our policies should reflect that we do not have it all figured out, nor will we (collectively) ever. (Edit: as one commenter expressed skepticism of the mask claim, read over a link like https://old.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/fe2oqg/aita_... about how normal people felt about masks in the first few months of covid. It's pretty shocking and I feel like I'm living in an alternate reality just re-reading it and the top responses).

Now that our infrastructure is being expanded and built out with censoring of 'incorrect' information as a top priority, I fear for how bad the mistakes we make in the future may be.
Cheers Clive. Sorry to see you go. Your inventions were an incredible influence in my formative years and I wouldn't be here without you.

10 PRINT "RIP Clive Sinclair"

20 GOTO 10
Pretty sure that in total far more guns are moving south from the US than north into it
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No, it's very useful tool. If disclosed correctly I have no problem with it
Fine. Perhaps I shouldn't have said any nation, but Afghanistan is not a modern nation state. It's a time warp back to some era 1000 years ago with poorly run government theater that only existed to keep the kleptocrats stealing from their wealthy benefactor.

Do you imagine some well armed coalition of militias in Idaho or wherever is going to be rampaging through the American countryside and declaring a new nation? I wonder if these guys hugged their rifles in their last moments: https://youtu.be/t9K0fhMCTGk?t=102 NSFW
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This is uniquely american for sure. I've slept with a pager next to me, and wouldn't even go more than 5 minutes from my computer if on call. That said, it is a bit uniquely american to get paid the way folks do in some cases. And when you are young and working with friends, yeah, you do it here.

But this idea that it's illegal to promote someone working that kind of crazy number of hours instead of the guy who is gone on parental leave? I'm not sure about that. My understanding was your job had to preserved while on leave (fair), but not that you had to be promoted at same rate.
China is a reasonable government that has over a million Uyghurs muslims in concentration camps.

The history of a reasonably good country that had successes as the Great Leap Forward, the Chinese Cultural revolution and now the Uyghurs, among many others.

You know, Chinese government is not reasonably good at any level by any moral assessment.

Capitalism has been superior in every aspect: as a proof, migration flows went from socialists to capitalists countries, being East/West Germany just one example.
I no longer visit my out of state sister since she became a gun enthusiast who goes to the shooting range regularly for the "muscle memory", to use her own words.

It just didn't seem like a good idea anymore, considering my tendency to return home drunk in the wee hours on the weekends. Muscle memory, meet drunken brother repeatedly punching in the wrong alarm code @3AM, no thanks.

The dog was better.
Nice, this seems like the best way to do it. Fight workaholism, threatens the long term success of the business.

The problem is without other changes you likely incentivize people to take "PTO" but still work.
Damn nice. The question is was it even possible to stay separated from cheap and efficient labor? If it was, could they have closed the gap militarily/technologically if they had less ties...
A motivated party can deploy and detonate several bombs in places with a lot of people any day, Covid rules notwithstanding.

It's laughably/terrifyingly easy, the hardest part is building or buying the bombs.

But you don't see it done regularly at all.

Granted, a single nuclear or bio attack would affect way more people.
> I am asking you to look at the bigger picture
> My problem with looking at things through such a small lens is that “merit” seems pretty subjective

Ok, the bigger picture with a bigger lens is this: How do you slow the spread of harmful ideas?

You agree that some ideas are "better" than others. I think you would also agree that there is no simple definition over what "better" exactly means. It's complex and often elicits complex discussion.

My point, that you are trying again to skip over, is that presenting any idea as if it is inherently equal in merit to any other idea is fundamentally bad. To be specific, I think this because I believe that good ideas will eventually prove themselves out over time (even if they spread very slowly) while bad ideas will tend to rely on rapid spread to reach critical mass before they are disproven.
>From what I can tell, Facebook’s internal research on mitigation is leaning towards studying the connections people have to determine the threat profile - not just the individuals posting habits.

This is not unreasonable. I don't think for a second it's just organic trolling that's causing them problems. They have taken money from literal nation-states attempting to wage war by informational means and crush their enemies. Genocides in small countries doesn't begin to sum up the real threat profile here. Facebook could bear responsibility for actively aiding efforts to plunge the globe into hot war, if their paying customers got ambitious and foolish enough.

Small wonder they're trying to get things under control, but under control THEIR way. If they don't mitigate, they're liable to end up in the Hague.
Probably decent ROI which is why it keeps on happening!

They just need one person in each 10k spammed on average, to click the phishing url asking them to pay a fake bill and then charge them $328 instead of the $3.28 displayed o the page.

I received (and reported to their scam Dept) a phishing SMS yesterday pretending to be from Australia Post asking for $3.28 to release a delivery package I'm waiting for, which is most people in Australia nowadays with the current slowdown in mail delivery speed.

I am only guessing that the $3.28 phishing purchase would have attempted a $328 charge on my card... but that would be wildly profitable if the input costs per successful fraud were under $100...
We've reduced the barrier to making a death threat to the point that "X routinely receive death threats" is probably true where X is any public figure.
>lack of hardware support

Lol, this might be a chance for linux to outshine windows in hardware support.
Most of the Discords that I have joined aren't game related at all.
That’s weird
Yep as a business owner it's a great way to get out of paying PTO.
You are completely delusional.
Do you see any comparison to Machine Learning? I get the impression he considers himself like a hobbyist running some models on their home GPU. Without access to server farms, there is an almost zero percent chance a home hobbyist invents an AI capable of displacing large amounts of human workers or setting off nukes on its own. AI is dangerous, but can be explored safely by a small practitioner. Perhaps these biomaterials are more sensitive though.
>or a criminal being able to conceal their crimes?

What if I made something that you like to do illegal? Now you are a criminal concealing their crimes. Now your tech works against you and you must comply.

I absolutely agree with erring on the side of letting criminals get away with more if it means preserving privacy. No alibi safety net is worth trading away your privacy.
And shit for growing foodstuffs, too.
If you find yourself getting upset by something you disagree with, and are unable to explain why it is wrong, it might be helpful to have a more open mind. Or at least be more tolerant of different opinions. Just a suggestion. In any case I hope you feel better soon.
These are different cases.

Purdue and the Sacklers faced federal suits from DOJ and its offices, which were tentatively resolved by the settlements you linked.

Separately, Purdue is now in bankruptcy proceedings, to which the federal, state, and local governments are party because of their suits.

The Sackler immunity request is part of the bankruptcy proceeding, not the DOJ settlement.
Then put it behind a config setting.

Or let me view it through some other means.

I'm not opposed to spam filtration as a user default, but doing so silently without any indication of what is being filtered or ability to verify it is working is not acceptable for such a vital messaging system.
The will to fight is part of war. Often it's the most important factor. Afghanistan was a failure because the US lost the will to fight. The same was true for Vietnam. Conversely, the North maintained the will to fight long enough to defeat the South in the American Civil War, and Britain maintained the will to fight after the fall of France after WWII (an event that, in itself, was largely dictated by France losing the will to fight).

To be clear, Afghanistan was also missing a few other factors. A common dictum of war is Clausewitz's statement that war is the continuation of politics by other means. James Mattis has commented that one of the problems with Afghanistan is that the political goals of the war were not explicitly decided upon or communicated to the military. The US military is decently competent at winning battles, but they can't achieve a strategic goal that doesn't exist.
I think crimination of nearly all abortion is a good thing, cause an abortion is a murder.
> I'm hesitant to say it worked because vaccines are complicated and we’d need further testing to confirm our results.

That's the line that makes me interested enough to read more and think about what the author is saying. Misinformation doesn't typically come with a disclaimer saying it might be wrong, so that tells me the author isn't being intentionally deceiving or spreading information where they have no clue what's happening.

Reading more, it actually piques my curiosity a bit. It reminds me of board level electronics repair before I saw Louis Rossmann's YouTube channel. I always thought it was impossible, but then you watch one video of him doing it and realize all the rhetoric about it being difficult, impossible, and dangerous is just that; rhetoric.

I don't know what the answer is in terms of dealing with misinformation, but one thing I believe fairly strongly is that letting large, private institutions decide what's fact and what's fiction is problematic. The "facts" will always align with their business interests.

I'd even say it's risky to let big companies like manufacturers get away with their lies. I KNOW electronic and appliance manufacturers are lying about the complexity of their products because I can watch a YouTube video and fix a lot of what they claim is unfixable or too dangerous to fix.

Considering that, WTF am I supposed to believe when I read an article like this and someone is saying that biotech isn't as complicated as the profit driven institutions claim? There's got to be some truth to it if they behave the same as the electronics industry, right? Or am I sliding into anti-vaxxer territory?

No matter what, I think it would be a great step forward if we stopped accepting deceit and disinformation as being a normal thing for large corporations and institutions to engage in. We have so many provable examples in the electronic repair industry alone that I think it's endemic. Maybe if the big companies didn't lie so much, there would be less distrust and less of an opportunity for people to spread misinformation and propaganda.
Yep as a business owner it's a great way to get out of paying PTO.

These are all just the slow crawl of American businesses towards irrelevance.
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Gasoline is a little different because 2006 was the tail end of the Peak Oil era. There was a real fear that production of gasoline was going to peak around that time and never recover.

Imagine being criticized in 2035 for believing in 2020 that climate change was going to permanently change the world.

So that is a fear that I wouldn't call baseless. I don't think lay people expected the kind of technical innovation that happened in the petroleum industry in the past 15 years.
It's not really an imaginary price. Many people rely on their phones more than anything else they own, and many are willing to pay more to have the latest advancements on that frequently used device. The price difference is nominally much smaller than say a new car vs a used one, and arguably offers more of an improvement to their lifestyles.
Everybody back to your own domains and hosting (not fucking Amazon!). If your server provider bans you, then we have a real problem.
> The legislative branch cannot check the executive branch if the executive branch simply lies when asked "are you violating the Constitution?".

I imagine the Senate could have ordered Senate's Sergeant-at-arms to take Clapper into custody. The Senate probably decided not to do that for reasons they thought were good ones, even if you or I might disagree with those reasons. I'm not exactly sure how things would have worked from that point; I expect it's really hard to arrest and try someone for a crime when the executive branch doesn't want to pursue things.

> I have no idea why California continues to re-elect her, beyond they see "Democrat" and vote. Choose a different democrat.

I've done so, every time she comes up for re-election, but so far for some reason the majority likes her...
> Third, such ecosystem would be built in Rust from scratch.

Rust can actually interoperate quite seamlessly with external libraries, and make its own libraries available to other languages. You're quite right that the support for even simple numerics in Rust isn't quite stable just yet, so it's not ready for productive use. But it can get there, to a far greater extent than C/C++.
Well, I can't say they will actually take up arms against social workers but it is a fear. Many parents fear the current trends from parental authority over children to state authority over children. If you don't see that trend, you're not paying attention. There are many parents who feel they have reason to fear home-schooling will be outlawed. There are parents who fear that children are being given instruction or choices at school that parents are not privy to and that would traditionally have required parental consent and might be considered brainwashing by some parents. Some parents fear that the this is the tip of the spear and believe they would do anything to protect their children from being harmed as they conceive of harm.
Dream job: full time engineer on Windows Calculator team.
Automatic weapons were only ever rich people toys. Unless you've got a squad of buddies and one of them is laying down covering fire they're not very useful and they convert money into noise real fast.
Much simpler is to just paste to a terminal:

REG ADD HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Search /v BingSearchEnabled /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f
REG ADD HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Search /v CortanaConsent /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f
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You're still talking about a 30% increase in the price of food, which would have enormous ramifications; and it would not stop there. To take your math, a laborer at $5/hr is currently getting 10% of the retail price, $50, of 100 lbs of onions. If the laborer's pay is mandated to go up to $20/hr and the cost is passed to the consumer, they are now making about 30% of the retail price, $65, of the same box. That sounds alright, but here's the trouble: The rest of the cost of an onion to the consumer is not going into the profit margin of a corporation. In fact the margins are extremely slim. Virtually all the rest of the cost is going to sorting, transportation, stocking, and operating retail markets.

So our onion picker is making $20/hr. The stock boy in the market is still only making $5/hr, but his cost of food goes up by 30%. He's clearly being exploited - he makes less than an onion picker. He needs his pay quadrupled, too. So do the sorters, truckers, the mechanics, fuel attendants, market managers, every person along the way who touches that onion. All those increases get factored in so the final price of an onion will continue to rise, and then have to rise again, because no more value has been produced. When you put your thumb on one end of the scale, the inflation will ripple until that $20/hr will only buy the same number of onions that $5/hr would buy originally. Ultimately, after a period of economic contraction and devaluation of currency - and concomitant loss of personal savings in the bank, which will be soaked up by the financial sector, and those able to speculate against the dollar - everyone will be doing the same job they were doing before to be able to afford the same amount of onions.

I speak about this having lived through two periods of hyperinflation in Argentina. Fixing prices of goods or labor ends up destroying savings, and destroying people's lives. There needs to be a baseline - minimum wage - to prevent a race to the bottom. But when shortsighted people come into power promising to raise that faster than the rate of inflation, look out, because they're inextricably bound, and inflation will quickly catch up to it.
Well, prior to the legal system, the only way to resolve conflicts between humans was, well, violence. So, if the legal system loses legitimacy, we are back to violence as a dispute resolution system. Probably not a good idea, unless there's an authoritarian imperial Nazi setup that need to be sent down to Hell.
> You expect your employer to pay you for not working 40% of the year?!

No, but I expect if they won't that they do not call it "unlimited".