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This post exemplifies everything that is wrong with today's discourse from those who consider themselves to be "reasonable."

> But the vaccine is effective at slowing the spread. When children are vaccinated, it doesn't just protect them, but protects all the adults they interact with.

The point is if the risk of the vaccine to kids (non zero, in evidence of heart inflammation) is higher than COVID (which is low), it is arguably a bad idea to give it to them, and it is definitely unethical to mandate it to parents. Pivoting it to questions of spread is deflecting.

> The claim that "vaccinated people can still catch the disease and spread it to others" is misleading because it carries the implication

Stop. "Carries the implication" is not reasoning, it is a rhetorical trick. The point being made was clear, and you took a part out of context to beat it up with a "implication." The point being made is anyone who is still acting like the vaccine can get us to herd immunity is foolish. This was part of the stated goals of the vaccine, memory holes aside. The point isn't to claim the vaccine is a bad idea to take, the point is to point out the foolishness of those who continue to think if we could just push it hard and fast enough, we could end the disease. These people still exist, or at least, given the increased authoritarianism, are acting that way.

> It essentially boils down to "The vaccine isn't 100% effective, so why bother?"

"Essentially boils down to" - more weasel words! The point being made is lots of people claim to be waving the flag of science and objectivity, and can't even do basic risk analysis or keep up with the evolving knowledge we have. You took a very good post and turned it into an army of strawmen to knock down, and also tried to tag the person involved as an anti-vaxxer. Horrible stuff, really.
Selling signed URLs to frequently low-effort JPEGs, that don't convey ownership, don't guarantee the continued existence of the thing they point at, and don't come with any legal rights whatsoever?

It's basically just a next-gen version of the star registry scam that's been going on for decades. [1]

[1] https://www.star-registration.com/
The fact that by having a wallet you already have an pseudonymous account with every dapp that will ever exist is an exciting concept. Likewise, the developers don't have to really think about authentication or authorization or payments.
Speaking as someone who just quit their FAANG job to go out on my own, your comment is inspirational!

Thank you for your transparency.
People don't change numbers very often. Most people never do.
U.S. Treasury puts crypto industry on notice over rising ransomware attacks
Small point, but she was in the navy reserves. Larger point - she already had a PhD in math, so it isn’t as though she was ordered to take up an interest in STEM.
>Isn't there a lot of money lost in between all those steps?

I suspect OP is being sarcastic.
Funny you said that considering Diablo 3 real money auction house was a massive bust and got removed very fast.
Let's read that carefully, now.

The CFTC provides "sound regulation," not insurance. Insurance protects customers. Regulation by the CFTC is meant to protect "the U.S. derivatives markets." They aren't there to protect customers.

If the customers wanted a safe investment, they should have used an insured vehicle for that.
Excellent illustration of 7331's sister-level comment... your two *s have turned into markup
Yeah looking over the site I guess I understand why the discord was linked instead. They may or may not have killer ideas/tech, but the website fails to explain how it’s much different than the flash game sites of yesterday.

Edit: So I was planning on adding an edit with my thoughts after viewing the correct website, but my points mostly still stand and now I’m confused because both sites are like 70% the same..
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I went to elementary school in the 1990s and middle and high school in the 2000s. I was heavily into math, science, and technology since elementary school. There was extensive messaging and outreach trying to get girls and women into these interests. The lack of women in these fields was despite extensive resources trying to appeal to them, and it's been this way for at least several decades.

The disparity with places like the middle east is an example of the gender equality paradox [1]. The more patriarchal and oppressive a place is, the greater women's interest are in high paying fields as it provides a path to security and independence. In more egalitarian societies, women are more free to pursue fields in accordance with their own iterests.

1. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/02/the-more...
I wonder who did that. Having a seemingly crazy rule added due to one’s behaviour seems like a bit of a badge of honour.
When the American Revolution happened, none of the rebelling colonies had land on the St Lawrence River banks. Quebec already had the southern banks. People in the area sided with England, and never wanted to join the US afterwards. The US never saw fit to take over the area, and the US eventually became friends with Canada.

Edit: Shipping rights were never much of a concern, since the St Lawrence River has rapids[0] and isn't naturally navigable past Montreal. Besides, in 1825, the Erie Canal opened, and railroads were later built.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lachine_Rapids
Calgary is an interesting city at an interesting time. It’s ripe for a new industry, but I’m not sure simply catering to tech is the way to go. There’s high talent, high education, and cheap office space. Housing is also affordable as far as large Canadian cities go. Like many comments in here, I’m tempted to move back there to take advantage of that.
Yes exactly, but isn't that the direct opposite of what the commenter I am replying to was saying? That somehow Alberta is whining about being under-represented and that our landmass should entitle us to seats? I responding to that tired and also completely incorrect idea, not commenting on the merits of a fixed representation in the Senate, we can debate that at a later time.
One could argue that's worse
pirsig favored the motivation to actually learn the subject matter (and more generally to actually improve yourself) vs. trying to pass a course because you need the credential etc.
Web games are usually more casual. When the user is sold on the gaming proposition you can offer them a native client.
4.5 Millions deaths looking at the excess deaths.
And this was until a while ago, now that figure is probably much higher.
What more proof than this do you need?
as someone who has played magic the gathering for over a decade the secondary market is easily the worst part about the game. needing to worry about a card you spent 100 dollars on getting banned and dropping to 10 dollars over night or needing to make speculative pick ups in an attempt to save money sucks. like a LOT. I just want to play a game, not be a speculative asset day trader.
Wasn’t MySQL (pre-Oracle) an open source distributed RDBMS decades ago? At least I remember running it using replication in early 2000’s
I like using it as well, but I've been bit several times by having runtime exceptions completely swallowed.
I think being a "search engine" but starting with a very small database of recipes is not gonna help anyone. I tried searching for recipes by ingredient:

- "bok choy" 0 results

- "bok choi" 0 results

- "arugula" 0 results

- "rocket" 1 result (but for oysters rockefeller, which doesn't list rocket as an ingredient)

- "eggplant" 1 result

If the collection is that small, then maybe people should be able to browse, rather than search?

But even then, it doesn't seem actually useful.
The site does let you "search" without entering a query at all, which at least shows me a page with more than one recipe. I filtered by "vegetarian" as a dietary restriction, and saw stuff, at least. I scrolled until I saw a "Pasta Salad" recipe which stated it takes 835 minutes! Curious as to how that could possibly be, I tried to click through ... only to arrive at a page for "Mini Southwestern Corn Pup Muffins with Fiesta Dipping Sauce" covered by a "Welcome Back" sign-in modal. I can see under the modal that one of the ingredients is "hot dogs", so in addition to taking me to a different result than I had clicked on, it also seems to have taken me to something that didn't match my explicit filter criteria. After dismissing the modal I see that the page for this "result" isn't even the recipe; I have to click through to go to allrecipes. I return to my "Munchy" tab and try to go back to the list, and see that on load, it cleared my dietary restriction filter.
They’re different use cases. Maybe you replace your IRC or your slack with discord, but forums are a totally different thing.
>and it becomes impossible to drive anywhere without being tracked.

Might want to start with the mobile networks saving your phone’s location history. I do not mind the use of license plate readers on cops’ cars, if cops are actually going to start pulling over people who have not paid car taxes or are not displaying license plates or do not have insurance.

I would also like automated variate rate congestion tolling with license plate readers. That would help manage road capacity and grid lock, and make the costs of commuting more transparent.
Yeah, WASM and WebGL could use a fresh boost like that.
Once they get proven in games we can finally start getting rid of legacy stuff like HTML, CSS, JS and start innovating again.
Nothing says "FUN QUALITY GAMING" like cryptocurrency-enabled microtransaction-heavy pay-to-win games.

It's "Clash of Clans" meets "Bored Ape Yacht Club".

NO THANK YOU! I don't want anything to do with it.

I think Valve is making the right call here.
Unintentional typosquatting is an interesting take.

But I would not call it that way, as the names I'm coming up with are neither similar to any popular sites nor to sites with similar products. And often times all or most of the similar domains are just parked, often for sale (but not in my current budget).

And I wouldn't say it's difficult to land in such a situation when generating names of this kind - actually at least three of the ideas I'm playing with have this issue.

Essentially, I'm in a situation like, I suppose, etsy was (or could have been) when they've chosen their name and decided to use etsy.com. Then maybe found out that etsi.com is used by some company (from totally other line of business) already, or for sale, but went with their idea anyway, not worrying that they won't own etsi.com (probably fake scenario as apparently etsi.com is not used at the moment, but who knows).

Again, like with reddit, this particular example shows a scenario, where choosing such name & domain was not an issue for the company in the long run.

What I'm considering, are pros and cons of such approach, and maybe some unforeseen problems.
You can buy it as a gift and choose not to send it to anyone, which puts it in your inventory until you choose to send it.
You should see some of the highly automated, well-organized, well-run discords out there. It's pretty eye-opening and takes some getting used to, coming from a forum-centric world.
"monopoly", "monopoly power", and "market power" all have related but very much distinct definitions.

This is how the justice department defines them:
https://www.justice.gov/atr/competition-and-monopoly-single-...
I understand that many people are genuinely excited, and not everyone is trying to perpetuate a scam, but it's hard to be convinced when all arguments I find in favour are variants of vague references to "the future" and sentences starting with "imagine". No real "NFTs are a better alternative for X", and no convincing descriptions on what they can do that don't lean heavily on handwaving at some step.

I'm sorry, but the emperor is really walking around with his buttcheeks flapping in the wind.
Actually no, that is not our website. This is our website:

https://www.theimmersiveweb.com/
Pardon my ignorance - but if the game goes away, what precisely does the NFT token which remain grants you? Isn't it just a confirmation that you own an item in a game that you cannot access/use anymore?

I guess as always, I am looking for benefit of NFT/chain solution over simpler non-NFT/chain solution. I hear persistency, but in this case I don't see it in practical terms.
> They don’t work well with sprints

I think that was the "bug" in my context.
Well that's the thing, is that there are literally millions of people in entire countries being prescribed it. India has dished out millions of doses for COVID, and there are many doctors and researchers completely convinced by clinical evidence. It's not as if there are no people picking up a signal, or that no studies are showing utility, it's that the available studies are methodologically questionable. But as you are aware, there are more formal studies taking place at the moment, and the official scientific consensus is that we don't yet know.

Again, my argument against you was that you said that there was no motivation against it, and I said that wasn't true.
Want a demo?
My observation is that everyone is looking to simplify and streamline operations, and the financial sector just suffers more from faults in the pipeline due to every entity being a special snowflake. That said, a proper foundation for these things really isnt that unique to finance imho, once you get past a few of the outliers. My problem is this: you can know how to do this, but the largest hurdle is the army of incompetent middle managers who filter any truth from technically out of date c-suites. No amount of "tech stack" can fix these human problems.

I find myself considering if I even want to turn my years of experience into a bunch of ML-ops rules for these people in the first place...
Or “Steam bans gambling, money laundering and scamming”
If the Python maintainers doesn’t want to approve this, Gross should talk to the Pypi developers.
Generally supportive of you guys but want to pick even more.

> A lot of other apps follow a similar model, we allow people to cancel anytime and have refunded everyone that has forgotten to cancel.

Many ADHD people also forget or are too embarrassed to do that.

Life hack that works for some: at least on iOS and in my region one can subscribe, immediately unsubscribe and continue to use a product during its free trial period without risking getting trapped.
Apparently, canadians are a smart bunch!
CS:GO Skins are semi-fungible Tokens. StatTrak™ skins with counters are complete Non-Fungible Tokens. There's some game that happens to recognize them for in-game use - That's just as true for "NFT Games"

What Valve has banned is NFTs not using Valve's Tokens. It's not because they're decentralized, because I'm certain that NFT games using some other company's centralized platform would be just as unwelcome.

Is this "moral" of valve? No, I don't think it has any high horse moral standing. I think it's practical because Valve has to work with legal frameworks for virtual goods and they can't guarantee that any other token standards work within those frameworks.

All of this is just to say: Digital goods are stupid. Stupid can be fun - I own dozens of skins for various virtual games that i have bought with real money. I also understand that I "own" nothing and could lose them all at any point. I don't care, because I know they're stupid. Anyone trying to sell them as anything but stupid fun (and most companies are, Including Valve, though I think they're the best of the bunch) should be fined for doing so, and draw the ire of consumers.
Moderna Vaccine for Adolescents Delayed as FDA Reviews Side Effect
This seems to be a front page without the database it requires to do its work. Which is sort of what one would expect to be on archive.org...
Exactly, yet here we are.
Libertarian ideology has resulted in Tether being replaced by USDC in Ethereum DeFi.
Your claim is based on the bizarre premise that people are only intelligent when formulating mandates for otherd, while they can only exercis if formulating a course of action for themselves
I don't see how this refutes my point. The concept is independent of any of these manifestations.
> My understanding was that CPython viewed any single-threaded performance regression as a blocker to GIL-removal attempts, regardless of if other work by the developer has sped up the interpreter?

Previous GILectomy attempts incurred significant single-threaded performance penalties, on on the order of 50% or above. If Gross's work yields low single-digit performance penalty it's pretty likely to be accepted as this is the sort of impacts which can happen semi-routinely as part of interpreter updates.

The complete breakage of C extensions would be a much bigger issue.
Sorry to hear that. Hope you feel better soon!
I suspect it'll be too late. There's enough money sloshing around inside the crypto ecosystem for someone to build a crypto friendly steam and I think there'll be demand for such a platform imminently.

One big hit, one CSGO, one pubg and there'll be a competitor to steam that the likes of Epic can only dream of.
One could argue that's better, too - for instance in support of AML, KYC and the ability to reverse erroneous transactions - but the point I was making is that they aren't basically the same thing in this case.
Link to our Discord: https://discord.gg/zUSZ3T8

Link to our website:https://www.theimmersiveweb.com/
Twitch downplays this month's hack, says it had minimal impact
Analysis of Walgreens' stated reasoning for closing SF stores
> Maybe someone will get Android apps running natively on a Linux distro

Depending on what you mean by 'native', you might find Waydroid[0] interesting. It only does containerization, not emulation.

And also: While yes, Linux on the desktop isn't too successful, it is at a state that you can daily drive with it for all tasks. Maybe you won't get the MS Office suite running, but there are alternatives.

I think the Linux mobile niche will go into the same direction. It won't be successful, if measured by raw numbers, but it will be successful in that it will provide a functional alternative for those willing to do it. It won't ever run WhatsApp, but it will run usable alternatives.

> Depending on what you mean by 'native', you might find Waydroid[0] interesting. It only does containerization, not emulation.

[0]: https://github.com/waydroid/waydroid
It's a scam because you're buying nothing in both cases lol. You're exchanging money, with value, for nothing.
Nobody is surprised. :/
This is precisely why the "big" NFT games at the moment are all on boutique chains like Flow. They want full control, a % cut, and no secondary markets.
The fact the number of Tethers in circulation basically never goes down even when the crypto market gets more then halved says it all as far as I'm concerned, but without an investigation it is speculation. I was referring to the ratio highlighted by the article.
>A social network is a natural monopoly due to the network effect.

Thats exactly why it should be split up and regulated more heavily.
https://archive.is/St4NG
I think if you got a few beers in even the most adamant crypto advocate, you'd discover their thinking is more along the lines of, "The house of cards is out in the open with crypto, vs. hidden behind bureaucracy and obfuscation in traditional banking".

With crypto, the "average" person gets to feel "in on it" in a way usually reserved for coked up Goldman associates. That is possibly not a good thing, as you're pointing out.
How my company is winning the war for engineering talent
Still makes me laugh the time the store put cameras on every fridge door and also replaced the glass with screens as a misdirect and all HN could go on about was how smart they were they knew about glass.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27636773
Skins seem to have more of an in-game use and is far less on the nose than mentioning NFTs and Blockchain which perks the ears of regulators.
I think the issue at hand here is the double standard over the stated reason for banning games with NFTs.
Moat owners be defending them moats. They're so much more well established they can change their positions in a few years if need be or absorb them. Boring for sure but expecting the app store of games to follow almost-not-developed speculative stuff is a bit optimistic. In 10 years of course you'll have them in steam store that's a given but in the space until then I fully expect 99% of them to lose 99% of value or more.
It can be used by a different game. The token is just a token, what it means depends on how it's used.

A smart game producer that sees a NFT-based game go down could say "hey, you know all those items you had on <game X>? Come over to my game and you'll get <benefit> based on that stuff!" Since ownership of the token is publicly visible and not locked into Game X's database.

It could also be used by anything else, really.

Lots of ideas where cross-game promotion could be done using NFTs to validate ownership of something in Game A within Game B without requiring the game developers to set up a specific intergame data link.
The only way these companies can generate sufficient revenues is through advertising. It really does not matter what moonshot projects they are working on. There is not enough willingness to pay for that "work" to sustain a business.

The internet has value besides being a vector for advertising. This is more or less what the parent comment is suggesting.

Who pays the cost of supporting the internet. Internet subscribers. We finance (a) the delivery of advertising, (b) creation metadata about our usage (e.g., empty POST requests, beacons, various forms of telemtry, etc.) and (c) uploading our data to their computers.
You get a "worthless" digital asset either way but one of those doesn't burn a shit-ton of coal. So yes, you could argue the blockchain one is worse.
I am going to disagree and I suspect making money in the sense you are talking about will be globally banned over time. Any time real money is attached to a in-game currency it is a massive failure and ends up devolving into a scam/fraud situation. WoW filled with auction house farmers, Diablo 3 same thing, Fortnite is just a money printer for Epic and that's it.

Not only that crypto is already littered with scams and fraud. As soon as you start hooking up "central" nonsense to it, it will just amplify it.
+1 ! Though, not a very good Oculus player (yet)!
What i suspect you don’t like is having games in a walled garden at all then. Because app stores need rules of some kind, as they are liable for problems. The internet itself isn’t.
> I mean...are you interested in ways to make money off cancer patients, too?

If it actually helps treat cancer at a reasonable expense then absolutely. Medicine comes at a cost.
No, this doesn't feel like it holds up either. People looking to be doctors don't generally get chemistry PhD's. But those are the stats I'm looking at.
Hah. At one point Tether was claiming, during the days where they were holding on to the "1:1 backing!" that they were banking $2 billion A WEEK.

And yet the cryptofans were telling us we were curmudgeons for not buying into the hype (or in this case, the bullshit).
The morons of a certain political faction are actually taking horse dewormer.
Stop lying please.

https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/why-you-shoul...
I have a certain workflow similar to this.

1. Let testing/staging environments present the same, valid certificates and keys as your production domain. Simply keep a copy for your internal use.

2.1 modify /etc/hosts so that production aliases localhost

or

2.2 let an internal DNS service do the spoofing work.

You'll still need some action to switch between environments. Full ownership of certificates is a recommendation. At your own risk.
Is that what's happening though? Are gamers grinding NFTs for whales, or something like that?
Tesla Is Up $1B on Its Bitcoin Investment
What if I didn't exchange any money? What if the token in question does provide value by granting me access to something?