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You're packing enough untrue things into that comment that it's hard to believe you're acting in good faith but:

* It's dismissing the studies which show effects due to errors, which leaves the studies not showing beneficial effects. Science is built on evidence and thus far it hasn't been shown that Ivermectin has a benefit for COVID.

* Similarly, it's untrue to the point of being a flagrant lie to claim that the vaccines are untested when they went through full clinical trials and the high positive effects and safety rates shown in those trials have been backed up by data from many millions of people

* Similarly, it's flat out wrong to claim that COVID is similar to the common cold — even if you compare it to influenza, which is far more serious, that's not true — we've seen more children die in the last couple months than we typically see in an entire flu season.

* Vaccination does help reduce the spread, and that's even shown in the Israeli data — it's not 100% but if you look at the data it's very clear that vaccinated people at a significantly lower rate. Israeli comparisons are tricky because they have substantially different vaccination rates across age categories and a vaccinated 80 year old is still more at risk than someone younger, especially when those younger people are not taking precautions, which brings me to:

* Israel is nowhere near having the highest vaccine rate — that's a tie between Portugal, Malta, and the U.A.E. currently — and at a paltry 62% they're not even in the top 25. That's only slightly better than the United States at 55%.

* The Iraeli data does not show that vaccination increases spread: this is a lie spread by people who are comparing unlike things in the knowledge that many people will reshare those claims without checking them.
>> A screenshot from the actual experiment: https://twitter.com/joeosborne/status/1440456340673949700 Looks like the article is overblown.

> Edit: Previous tweets in that chain from Joe also don't lend themselves to trust.

That tweet is from @joeosborne "a @Facebook spokesperson." Not someone who I'd trust to accurately and fully characterize Facebook's actions. Given their prior history, I'd expect something misleading that attempts to portray them in the absolute best light.

He also seems to think journalists should take statements from company spokesmen as the absolute truth. That's not true, and especially not true for a company as untrustworthy as Facebook.
https://archive.is/aMRoF
That one is interesting but not great resolution and no greyscale. Also the ones that have 3 colors are usually extremely slow to refresh in my experience.

But at a similar price point there is also a 10 inch one with decent resolution and greyscale.

https://www.waveshare.net/wiki/10.3inch_e-Paper_HAT

I have this one running in a picture frame

https://dheera.net/projects/einkframe/
This seems like a super cool approach for early landers prior to the construction of dedicated landing pads.
> The US would concentrate on high performers, often to the detriment of their peers.

This is, at best, half true. The high performers might get the most attention from certain teachers (esp. in middle class and upper middle class schools), but systemically they are ignored.

1. The general idea in education circles is that the higher performers “will do fine” without any additional attention, so they don’t need much help. As such, very little research attention is focused on them.

2. Gifted education is a joke in the US. Almost completely ignored.

3. Most honors classes are also a joke in that they are often regular classes with more busy work.

4. AP classes are sometimes good, but it’s often easier just to take an actual college course if your school allows it. Same or less classroom time and much less busy work.

5. School administrators are evaluated based on performance metrics. In almost all cases it is more beneficial and often easier to improve the low performers than it is to improve the high performers. This is largely due to the metrics that have been chosen for evaluation.

As for Japan, that observation is very true. That said, most of the talent mismatches disappear starting at high school and sometimes junior high school due to tracking (of which I am a fan).
I think you'd be surprised how quickly we'd get over that. Regardless, if we abandoned Taiwan and it fell, there is pretty much no chance we'd invade several years later.
The most popular decentralised domain name system is ENS. While domains are not called NFTs (ENS predates the term) it functions more or less how you described.

https://ens.domains/
Not a silly question, I think you've described Namecoin.
Telling—being very generous—a lie couched in exaggerated hypotheticals (the lie: if sharing comp harms the company, it's the fault of the person who shared it, not management; exaggeration: this will have some huge and harmful effect on the company such that employees are significantly harmed) to your employees to keep them from acting in their own best interest is—still being very generous—kinda shitty.
Whilst the loveable bear was somewhat banned online for a little time a while ago, it's now not actually banned in China in itself and is and has been a popular children's toy. Disney stores also exist and sell winne the pooh in China.

What's more accurate is the use of the bear with reference to their leader (who looks like him!)

A better string would be "tianamen square massacre"
It's not the language itself, but the platform. VB6 was primarily used to write RAD GUI applications. The GUI elements VB6 provide are very outdated by today's standards.
interesting. I'd be curious to see what the "it came from a lab" deniers take on this one is
The Disc of Sabu
The cognitive dissonance is staggering
I really like how this was handled at Boeing.

Every year, the local SPEEA rep would post an anonymous graph showing compensation compared to experience. The org was large enough that you couldn’t pinpoint everyone, but you could easily see where you stood WRT your peers.
At my last job, all salaries were public record, and some dude even put together a website (https://umsalary.info) to make searching easier.

Want to know what some internal career change might look like? Just take a look. Want to see what career path got someone else to where they are? Take a look. Want to know if you are being underpaid/discriminated against? Click on the job title next to your name and see where you stand compared to all employees with the same role.

At a place where Diversity Equity and Inclusion is a stated goal I think this works well. I also know that people don't always get paid the same amount, and (as I often explain to my six-year-old) fair doesn't mean the everything has to be equal, but it is very useful to know where you stand.

At my new job, the information on Levels seemed accurate based on my offer, and I was very happy with it.
> Why do you think "chinese" is practically synonym to "cheap and most likely defective"?

I think this is orthogonal to china stealing/copying. A lot of stuff from china is cheap/low quality because that's where you can cheaply mass produce plastic crap. But a lot of products from china are extremely high quality, world class level. You just have to pay more for it.
“The internet was the evolution of telnet, which allowed users to connect to bulletin board systems via phone lines. However, connecting to those systems required that the user know the connection address and port.”

What? This is so confused that it’s “not even wrong”. Did GPT-3 write this? :)

As for the part that is just wrong, there’s never been an internet where you had to know the connection address (there were periodically updated host files) and you never needed to specify the port for telnet (it’s a “well known port”).
i think you answered your own question. it will be a useful language for a long time yet because it is simple and ubiquitous. these two factors probably outweigh all others. when you add blazing fast performance to the mix then your original comment looks even more ridiculous.
I don't think it is necessary to devote a whole room to it, just get long-lived and compact stuff like beans and rice. Although eventually one does get tired of beans and rice.
One of the elephants in the climate crisis room is coming to grips with how many watt-hours are appropriate to spend on a task that could be completed with human power alone.

As Denis Leary used to joke, we have exercise machines that mimic normal activities which we refuse to do, so we are all turning into hamsters. Maybe instead of a leaf blower I need a broom with a better design and just count the cardio I'm going go get against my budget for the week.

Maybe, as some people argue, getting down and looking at my plants closely avoids me having to spray fossil-derived chemicals on them based on incomplete information. It's a matter of perspective on whether that time is quality or just a chore. Some cultures elevate certain chores to an art form. Japanese gardening is but one example in one niche in one cultural group, but there are many others.
Wait - you can run waydroid, and thus presumably Android apps, on Pinephone? This is huge! How well does it work?
The story of McDonald's success in Italy is largely similar, with all marketing devoted to adding a "local" feeling to the experience after being labelled junk food. Even more, McDonald's entered the Italian market by acquiring a local burger company from the very beginning.

Many more success story of American brands in Europe thanks to heavy investing on local content come to mind (think Netflix vs competitors).
I'm really not sure how serious I should take the threat of Chinese made electronics - almost all electronics are made China, not just Xaiomi and Hauwei.

My iphone is made in China by Chinese contract manufacturer (Foxconn) - does that mean all iphones could be compromised with Chinese malware? It could be possible, but how can you tell? Is it possible to observe network packets going form my phone to a Chinese or Chinese-allied country?

Genuinely curious, btw. Any feedback would be very appreciated.
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Payments giant Nexi says it is working on digital euro with the ECB
> I mean, what would you prefer?

I would not choose to be the star. Observing substance (ab)use and suicide among celebrities and the affluent, it seems clear that a “starring role” in life is not an automatic ticket to happiness or fulfillment.

For me at least, a lot of the meaning in life comes from dealing with cold hard reality. Updating my strengths and my belief systems to be more aligned with a disinterested external world. Connecting with, learning from, and sharing with other humans what it all means and what it’s like to be part of this whole thing, to get a more complete understanding of the human experience.

Consider—if we were one unified consciousness with total understanding existing in absolute bliss, what would there be to do, to discuss? We might produce a limited world like our own to make existence more meaningful.
Why would shareholders sue the company they own shares in if their goal was to get a payout? Surely when the company reports such a payout the share value will reflect that. It seems like this case should be taken at face value, the shareholders want the company to change its behavior so that their shares can be worth more in the future.
Pro athletes' contracts are fairly public knowledge. Does that affect how professional sports teams perform?
Depends on the definition of the word "is".
Going to court over this in California, New York or Massachusetts:

You: Here are 3 emails I sent documenting the problem and asking for it to be fixed, here's a 4th email stating I would be hiring the handyman myself if it wasn't fixed, here's the 5th email with the invoice

Landlord: (who cares. Also they don't have an attorney because the cost of an attorney in court exceeds the repair by a huge margin)

Magistrate (in the 15-20 minutes you get in small claims or housing court): Landlord, you are fined $5000 for not fixing the issue fast enough. Next fine is $10k if you don't shape up. Dismissed
Didn't say it would be quick. Sure, it was a long cycle for them, but the ecosystem is much further along now. I think it's to bring to market in the hundreds of millions.
People often forget that 10X does not (only) mean quantity, but most of all quality.

Also thinking in factors may not be the right approach here. We should look at it in a more binary way: Can a developer achieve the requirements or not? In most cases the magnitude of skill shows in what a developer can solve at all, not how fast he/she can solve it.
Though, the order of events might be backwards there sometimes.
The director has a highly visible and strategic new feature they need executed, so they'll handpick the best engineers to work on the project. The engineers complete the project as fast as possible because that was the point of the project, to get the team that could produce a MVP fastest. And the technical debt and productionizing of the project is something that can be done by a less specialized pool of developers, who also are given way less tight time constraints.
I live in a low-mid CoL city, so I guess this is all super YMMV, but even with a 5% down payment, a decent home would run me around $1.5k/mo in mortgage payments (including interest, principal, PMI, and an escrow payment for taxes and insurance), whereas an equivalent rental would run well over $2k/mo, possibly closer to $2.5k/mo.

Sure, I can (and do) rent an apartment for less than a house, but that means rent increases whenever the owner feels like it - my rent has been steadily increasing to the tune of about 5%/yr, and this year it was all the way up to a 7% increase.
I make it a point to talk about pay on the regular. I want to know if I'm getting fucked or not.
I also own an M1 Mac and it's subtle or large compatibility bugs with specific development tools and applications.

Two cases where my work was impacted

1) I work with laravel running on a couple of docker containers. There's complicated bug where a memory leak caused by some low-level package all PHP docker containers rely on which is exclusive to Rosetta. It caused all my php containers to be out of memory permanently.

It's not an issue I had in the beginning, don't know the exact cause but I wasn't able to fix it once it started happening, so had to move away from docker for development (which was not problematic luckily)

2) It can't build OBS. OBS, like many other open-source software packages need a maintainer to add support for M1 build-steps. There was a major dependency that didn't have M1 build support yet, so simply not possible until that gets fixed.

This is the case for many packages, it just needs time before everyone catches up.

But for the rest it's perfect imo. The battery life is insane, the no-noise fan is insane, the no-heat is insane. Only battery/heat issues I ever get is when I game on it, which it isn't meant for necessarily either but just saying.

Edit: Oh I forgot to mention that while the keyboard feel is great, its build quality is.. questionable. One time a key just got stuck out of nowhere. Just stuck, nothing to do. I tried repairing it myself but oddly 3 months ago (not sure about now) there were no guides on how to safely tuck it loose, clean it and put it back.

I broke it unfortunately. This has not been my experience with any other laptop or keyboard ever. I hate this part of Apple's philosophy the most, "It's broken? Please give us a lot of money."
> I would not discount working on a side project alongside your day job.

If you choose to do this, read your employer's IP assignment policy very carefully. If you work for a large or medium-sized tech company, it is likely that your employer asserts ownership of all IP you produce, at work or at home, using their equipment or yours. This ability is limited in some regions, but even California allows companies to do this if the subject matter of the work is in some way related to the company's business. You don't want to spend 2 years working on a startup, have it gain some level of success, then have your former employer's lawyers mire you in IP lawsuits for the rest of its existence.
Almost completely unrelated problem.
Stay Home, Young Man
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Gas crisis: Two energy firms go bust amid warning more to come
This only applies to non-recourse state, of which there are only 12.
Even apps like Netflix are configured not to be available on Google play if the device is not a certified one. That certification is lost AFAIK on rooting. I have two perfectly good android tablets that can’t run Netflix
Brave Talk – Privacy-Preserving Video Conferencing
I brought up cilantro because I thought it was common-enough knowledge that, for some people, it does not taste like intended and is very much an off-flavor that can ruin an otherwise enjoyable dish.
I 100% understand how I might be in the right and win anything brought against me. What I'm trying to say is I don't want to deal with that headache or become an expert on how this works in order to win. Also, like I said before, I live in a red state and while I don't know exactly what rights a renter has, I don't want to know. I shouldn't have to become informed on this stuff when I'm doing everything right. Also just because something isn't legal, doesn't mean a landlord won't do it. I don't want to eventually win, I want to never deal with it in the first place.
For one, money. There is an organized group that charges $90 online for hocus-pocus covid medication prescriptions [1]. The more people that can be convinced that this is a worthwhile purchase, the more money they get.

https://americasfrontlinedoctors.org/treatments/how-do-i-get...
I think the point of x10 devs is this doesn't occur in other fields. It's like a HR Moore's Law.

I've always understood it as: if you step back and see the easy way, it's easy to be x10.

But most jobs are dominated by actual unavoidable straightforward work. Another exception is mathematics. You can certainly have a x10 mathematician! But it's not a mainstream job.
"But I told you it was just water!"

When I was a child a hairdresser cut a bit of my ear. Obviously I cried at the moment, it hurt. I may have been anxious about going to get a haircut for a couple of times afterwards. But then we found another hairdresser that was absolutely marvelous with kids, and never had any issue afterwards.

It's just about how the situations are handled. The given story being a very very poor example, despite the parents having good intentions.
Almost by definition, the 10x engineer is the one who is in a position to reuse and work within his own code, almost exclusively, rather than navigate the minefields laid by others.

The 1x engineer is a normal one who builds upon the work of other 1x people.

The 0.1x engineer is the one who builds upon the 10x engineer's work.
New macOS zero-day bug lets attackers run commands remotely
I feel the same is true for me as well. I wasn't aware of this extension though. For now, what I do is if I see myself getting addicted to an app, I just uninstall/block it for 2-3 weeks. After that even if I install it back, the craving is mostly gone.
It does come back though in 3-4 months. Facebook was boring for me so never used it again after uninstalling.
I mean in a practical way for a monte carlo simulation - usually in analog setup you set parameters with discretes, so you are going to need to do things like feeding a transconductance amplifier with your noise source. You're also going to worry about shaping and otherwise parameterizing your distribution - do you need uniformly distributed noise? gaussian noise? what are your limits?

I can imagine a lot of practical pitfalls and awkward half-solutions to trying to do an analog monte carlo; I was wondering how the OP went about it.
As someone with 60+ gigs of mp3s all organized into folders and properly tagged, I'll take Apple Music all day long. What "mercy" am I subjecting myself to? A friend says: check out this band, and within seconds I am playing it. Compared to spending a huge % of my income on records and CDs and then a huge % of my time dealing with mp3s, this is living the dream! How am I being abused? Because I don't own the music I am renting? My annual sub would buy a paltry number of CDs.
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In OP's example, the landlord had to buy a fridge, cut down some trees, and replace a floor. Clearly, 10 years of rent payments would cover that.

Being a landlord has costs, but I'm not sure what your point is. Renting property is clearly profitable, or it wouldn't be so common.
Just got my daughter's first haircut a couple weeks ago. All smiles. I agree that the solution is to act like it isn't a big deal, kids pick up on your anxiety and are rightfully concerned. "If my big brave dad is scared, this must be really scary!"

I do the same for global warming, nuclear war and covid. What is a three year old going to do about those things, why burden them with concern they can't act upon?
https://css-tricks.com/css-animations-vs-web-animations-api/
The US system is just plain weird and is a result of massive corruption at the beginning of the labor movement. Both sides did highly illegal things and whichever side was better funded (almost always the companies at the beginning) would bribe the local law-enforcement to get away with it.

Eventually this led to the establishment of the NLRB and various laws that kept trying to patch any (real or perceived) current imbalance of power. It's like a sport where they make rule changes to emphasize offense, but then a few years later make other changes to fix unintended consequences of the first change, and eventually you have so many rules that the refs need extensive training. (Professional gridiron football in the US is this way; not sure if there's a Nordic equivalent)
Fortnite will be blacklisted by Apple until all appeals exhausted
I have not used Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, etc etc for the last 10+ years. There wasn’t really an event or a moment where I said “I’m quitting social media”, rather I just sort of faded out of it.

I do browse Reddit and occasionally comment on something, or here on HN, so I still see things like Twitter posts frequently and keep up with things through some of those channels.

When I say I don’t use social media, I mean it directed more towards the kind of posting what I made for dinner so my friends can comment on it use case. I think our society is heavily focused on social media and it’s become an integral part of staying informed and up to date.

For that reason, I do check on certain people’s Twitter from time to time, or look at some replies to a tweet that was linked to from an article or something, what’s troublesome to me is that I can’t do almost any of this without signing up. I have more of a problem with it in regards to Twitter, as that has seemingly become the nearly exclusive place for a lot of prominent figures(including elected officials, high profile CEOs, etc) to give updates. Creating this walled garden feels like an attempt to limit access to information that is intended to be publicly available, and at this point my unwillingness to create an account is stemming more from my disdain for this practice than my desire to “quit social media”.
The PinePhone runs mainline Linux on a regular Arm64 SOC. Why shouldn’t it work? ;)
Agree to disagree. Java is inherently cross platform. Jetbrains stuff runs on any linux platform, as does vscode and any of the modern development workflow stuff. The development stack is steadily moving away from native apps. Vscode is essentially a webapp, and indeed it can run be run as one.