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They're not extraordinary claims, they're well established and part of a pattern. Unless you haven't paid attention to their scandals over the past ~40 years you should be well aware that the FBI's primary means of moving along politically hot-button cases is to cause a politically hot-button crime to occur. [1]

> ... FBI agent texted one of the shooters before the event, "tear up Texas." [2]

> In an affidavit filed in another case the government disclosed that the FBI undercover agent had actually "traveled to Garland, Texas, and was present... at the event." [3]

> Last month (article from August 2018), the stately Belo Mansion in downtown Dallas was home to an event many have been anticipating for over a decade: the investiture of Judge Karen Gren Scholer as a federal judge for the Northern District of Texas. It was one of those rare occasions in today’s hyperpartisan environment when local jurists, elected officials and ordinary citizens from both sides of the aisle had cause for celebration — the March 7 swearing-in of a highly respected jurist who is the first Asian-American U.S. district judge in Texas." [4]

Note the date here, that judge was sworn in on March 7, 2018. What did she do on March 8, 2018? Send a message not to sue the FBI, that's what... [5]. It should be noted that the Dallas Morning News is not a left leaning publication, to the contrary it's chock full of neocons, hence the hagiography written for this judge appointed to put in a fix for a 3 letter agency. No one outside of one DC blog seemed to notice that on her first day in the ND of Texas a brand new judge, sworn in the day before, took over a 3 year old case involving the FBI orchestration of terrorist activity in at least two states. [6] Cases in which the DOJ (stupidly) prosecuting one case admitted to instigating the so-called terrorists in another case halfway across the country.

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/opinion/sunday/terrorist-... and https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/21/government-age...

2. https://theintercept.com/2016/08/09/fbi-agent-goaded-garland...

3. https://reason.com/2017/03/29/that-time-an-undercover-fbi-ag...

4. https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/editorials/2018/08/01/sea...

5. https://i.imgur.com/ivGq1In.png

6. https://freebeacon.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Motion-to-...
Most combustion will produce some noxious byproducts, and absent the very expensive catalyst mentioned in TFA, ammonia also releases high levels of NOx (nitrous oxides).

CO has a lower possibly lethal concentration of about 200 ppm (with long exposure), though higher levels will cause more rapid and severe issues, with levels from 800 to 12,800 resulting in death in from 2--3 hours to a few minutes. Auto exhaust concentrations without a catalytic converter are 35,000 ppm.

https://www.abe.iastate.edu/extension-and-outreach/carbon-mo...

In the case of ammonia, it is the fuel itself which is toxic.

LC50 (lethal concentration, 50% mortality) varies by duration of exposure, from 40,300 ppm (10 min) to 2,000 ppm (4 hr). LC50 for 30 minutes exposure ranges from 200--2,000 ppm.

https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/idlh/7664417.html

Note that the kill mechanisms differ markedly. CO binds to hemoglobin, preventing oxygen from doing so, and effectively asphyxiating the victim. Treatment with oxygen should promote recovery in most cases. Ammonia is chemically caustic, exothermic when hydrating, and chemically induces necrosis and tissue death, most notably in the lungs if inhaled. Treatment and recovery are far more critical than with CO.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK546677/?report=classic

On top of that, CO is a fractional exhaust product whilst ammonia is the hyperabundant fuel. Any fuel spill or partial combustion presents and immediate and severe inhalation threat.

It's best to avoid both. Ammonia strikes me as the markedly greater risk.

With exposure to organic combustion virtually universal, CO poisoning deaths in the US range about 438/yr (1999--2012), or 1.48/million. From the accompanying map of case intensity, I'd surmise indoor heating is a principle risk case, with cases concentrated in northern and Rocky Mountain states. On balance, that's a fairly low per-person risk, the overall incidence rate is a measure of net exposure.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26032660/

In my earlier comment, CO has nearly exactly twice the incidents as ammonia, though I strongly suspect that this is based on a vastly larger potentially-expose population. Even with very limited exposure to potential poisoning, ammonia represents an absolute risk half that of CO, which has universal exposure.
tl;dr: Vaccination status correlates with a 13x reduction of infection risk and a 20x reduction of death risk.

Now, to be clear that's a confounded number. The vaccinated are also likely to be taking other mitigation strategies seriously. So the vaccine itself will be somewhat less effective than this.

Nonetheless, this is pretty damning for the horse paste set. In decades to come we'll wonder and think and study how this all went so horrifically wrong.
You can smoke, do crack and do all sorts of provably harmful things in moderation too. I guess the question is whether all pleasurable things are pleasurable enough to justify the harm they cause. Maybe to you, pop is. I'd say that empirical evidence shows that pop is a clear negative to society, is a recent addition to human diet and isn't universally consumed (so isn't actually necessary to anyone's life), so it seems like it's not far fetched to believe that it's probably not a bad idea to write it off our lives.
> If I had the time/chops, I'd love to PEP the packaging story into shape for 3.11.

Even if you had the chops, a PEP now with any significant impact is VERY late for 3.11.

> As it is, it would be great if there were some sort of bounty system whereby the consumer end of the equation (me) could contribute to pay for some 800lb brains to focus on tasks that are needful but not shiny, like packaging

For packaging, there is.

https://psfmember.org/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id...
Do you have an argument against that?
Self driving cars, free email, free docs, sheets etc.

It is a serious point. Protecting advertising companies from each other is a perplexing choice of resource allocation given the alternatives.
If I've fasted since an early evening meal and I skip breakfast (and I've done it for a week or two) I'm razor sharp until I eat.

My mind feels significantly keener.

In fact I used to dread eating something, anticipating what felt like a loss of 15 IQ points
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> That’s a bad idea though

Sure, it's usually a bad idea to muck around with the MOP or use metaclasses in Python or whatnot. But every once in a while it really is the best solution to the problem, so you're glad you can do it at all.
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even worse, your (single) integrated gyro estimate must then be fed back into your double integrated accel filter to subtract gravity and further compound errors :)
From the CDC website, https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/fully-vac...

> people are considered fully vaccinated: 2 weeks after their second dose in a 2-dose series, such as the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines, or 2 weeks after a single-dose vaccine, such as Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen vaccine

Until 14 days after the final dose, in addition to the risk of Covid infection or injury, there is risk of non-Covid infection or injury, due to the immune system working overtime to learn from the vaccine. During that period, it is prudent to avoid physical exertion or exposure to people in crowded environments. Some countries already issue such warnings to every person who receives a shot/booster.
I haven't seen this problem before, but that seems extremely unlikely to work to me - I think there are 2¹⁰²⁰¹ cases (not equiprobable although you can find the weight of each somewhat "easily"), so are you really going to get a good enough sample to measure the expected value to "five decimal places" without figuring out a lot about the underlying structure?
I hope OP has kept his Uranium related shares, the market went strongly up in the last months
You can choose what version of IM you want to build. There may be several releases more recent than Debian Stable!

I'm not sure what your objection to "nonstandard" software is. I write software for a living -- all of my work is "nonstandard" by definition, but it runs just fine. :)
If you can't handle a few seconds disruption, you really need actually private networking. Dedicated lines (or at least dedicated wavelength on shared fiber) and redundancy and very fast failover.

Volumetric udp reflection isn't really too bad to process anyway, as long as you've got the bandwidth --- fancy tricks get you from the UDP stack dropping useless packets to dropping useless packets without the UDP stack, possibly at the edge without using up nearly as much internal bandwidth.

Where it gets pretty hard to manage would be application level bursts, IMHO.
I agree with everything you wrote, and kudos for finding something that works for you.

I'll point out that IF didn't work for me, at least after an initial small drop of bodyweight (2-3kg IIRC). As you said, the reason IF works is the same reason any diet works - it helps restrict calories. But in my case, there were a few problems:

1. I was soon adjusting to the "eating window" and was eating extra portions, cramming in dessert before the window closed, etc. This meant I wasn't eating less calories.

2. I found it very inconvenient to stick to - family dinners, going out to nice restaurants for celebrations, etc caused issues.

A different approach worked much better for me, namely tracking calories using MyFitnessPal, and learning to eat more satiating foods (low calorie density foods as some call them). And especially "anabolic" recipes as they are known around YouTube (basically, low calorie high protein foods).

This gave me way more flexibility, for one thing, but also a much better understanding of how food and energy work - what kind of substitutions are "free" from a food-enjoyment perspective, but super helpful to lose weight.

But like you said - whatever diet is sustainable for you and causes you to eat less calories is a diet that will work.
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Any small-medium mostly white suburb or rural town - which is to say the entire state.

There are small pockets of comparative tolerance, usually centered around universities.

Take any smaller town, even outside the larger cities like Lansing and Grand Rapids: Charlotte, Eaton Rapids, DeWitt, Wyoming, and more. It gets worse as you go further north. I've been to potlucks in Traverse City (of friends of friends, not relatives, thankfully) with racial slurs being thrown around left and right. Let's not even talk about the Upper Peninsula.
I'm not sure the infection rates are reliable: vaccinated folks are much more likely to be asymptomatic or experience mild symptoms, so are much less likely to be tested to confirm infection vs. unvaccinated ones.
That janky (but clever!) hack sounds like something I'd do... and then leave running in production for 10 years. :)

Well done for writing your own solution!
What is the significance of the 3am early morning and later realisation that it happens more frequently throughout the day? How did that lead to him wanting to reseat the CPUs?
> Lowtax was by all accounts a real piece of garbage by the end

Yeah, I heard his ex-wives had to carry the body outside in multiple garbage bags. Fitting.
You might want to read patio’s previous article linked from this one, which covered this.
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What advantage does org mode have over Notion?
The aforementioned binding problem, which I'm now reading about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binding_problem
Also higher risk people are more likely to be vaccinated.
Would this be useful on Mars?
I'd love to see stuff on writing or game development (similar to Tigsource back in the day). Forums live and forums die.
Coke on Brazil has a returnable container. It's not glass though but a thick plastic. When you return it to the store you pay a lot less. Returnable glass bottles for beer are also predominant here. Logistically it makes sense because the trucks would return base empty otherwise.
> Given that SomethingAwful's non-forum content is predominantly user-generated and user-submitted (although not algorithmically) I don't consider it Web 1.0, it's more "proto-Web 2.0"

I thought "web 2.0" came hand in hand with the adoption of AJAX for requests and dynamic updates within a single page? The WWW was full of user-generated content long before then.

Reading through the article that you linked, as well as following some others from there, it looks like a little bit of retconning.
What is it about private equity that seems to systematically rot businesses from the inside-out?
VAT would actually be better. It would also solve a lot of the weird "inventory taxation" issues in the US.
I want to hear the Moms' side of the story. An abusive man can wield power through domestic violence but an abusive women is far more insidious. An abusive woman does not have the strength to employ violence so she uses other means inflict damage. Manipulation, legal tactics, lies and other techniques are used. The key here is that most of these techniques are subtle.

I don't know what happened here, but I can almost guarantee that the full story hasn't been told by the ex-wife. This is not to say the ex-wife is wrong, but I am 100% sure that aspects of the suicide that she was a direct contributor to are deliberately not mentioned in her little comment there. Rarely is a story so one-sided.

One thing that really pisses me off is this:

"I considered not sharing this out of respect for Rich's parents and sister, but after thinking on the incredibly vitriolic wall of text Rich's Mother sent to me this morning, saying upon many other things, that his blood is on my hands, I need to share it to regain some sense of control over what's taken place in the past 48 hours."

Someone is dead. Some vitriolic wall of text from the mother of a person who just died is normal. You need to share private information just to feel better? That is not justification AT ALL. What the hell did she do to push him to put a bullet into his own skull without saying goodbye to his childen? What WAS on that vitriolic wall of text that she is deliberately not mentioning?
How so?

Consider that the evolution of the system will be the same regardless of where the box is located, and as such the system has translational invariance. Per Noether's theorem it must conserve linear momentum.
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For SDE? This seems like strange advice to me.
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Was it FSD Beta or Autopilot?

Details in the article refer to it as both but it appears to be FSD Beta, which is currently only available for a few thousand people (ish).
> In decades to come we'll wonder and think and study how this all went so horrifically wrong.

Hopefully we will investigate why almost all (rare) deaths after vaccination can be attributed to only 5% of lot numbers, a statistical anomaly with no easy explanation since this power-law curve appears in the data for both mRNA (Pfizer, Moderna) and non-mRNA (J&J) shots. Could the reason be variance in manufacturing or distribution?
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Incredible how effective it is for people in their 40s. 55x is astounding.
> Ram Nath Kovind is 76

The president in a parliamentary democracy like India is a decorative head like the Queen of UK without much agency. Modi is the Prime Minister who is the real head of state.
What, organic computing?
Does iOS still not have something like Termux? I've never felt a need for apps like these when Emacs itself works so great on Android, it's even available in Termux's package manager.
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But vaccinated people are more likely to take a COVID test.
actually M$ do the same configuration for laptop. The graph card will be disabled while u unplug the power. So not matter what kind of the graph card u are using it will fallback to integrated graphics.
I can answer this question from experience as a grunt, and opinions that may not be exactly correct as I've never been on the PE company side myself.

The company I work for was bought by PE. Within weeks, most our hireable people left. Perhaps they were scared, perhaps they've seen it before, who knows. Some good people stay, but usually the comfortable ones, not the ones changing the world. How do I know, because I consider myself one of the competent comfortable ones, just being honest. But I'm leaving this year, it weighs on your soul. I barely do anything. At first it sounds like a dream, then you realize you're bored, not learning, and not working your brain.

Then, those useless asskissers you assumed wouldn't last long rise like cream to the top. They have no idea what they are doing, but are good at placating, and take positions of power.

From my perspective, it's easy to think PE people are dumb to let that happen. Maybe they are. Or maybe they don't care. Or maybe they are smart because they know these placaters will help 'sell' the company when it comes time to dump it. Make no mistake. PE exists to dump your company on some sucker.
> a new tactic of dismissing green policies as elitist is on the rise

"Green" policy as it exists probably is elitist.

Policy that actually tackles climate change requires funding the retrofitting or replacement of all existing buildings to be energy efficient (multiple dwelling buildings, insulation, triple glazing, heat pumps, efficient lighting, etc., etc.), scaling up urban and inter-urban land public transport massively, discouraging air transport and private vehicle ownership and operation, and redesigning cities to be much more compact and walkable and with higher building occupancy rates. (I. e., fewer second or third homes or otherwise unoccupied or intermittently occupied properties.) All of that implies higher taxes and more regulation. It also requires riding roughshod over NIMBYs.

It's a bit threatening, isn't it?
iSH perhaps? (Sorry, can't find a link right now, but it's an app that I can run Emacs on. Lightweight Alpine Linux, I think.)
Official VAERS data. Anyone can download the data and perform the analysis after importing into a SQL database.

Since someone is inevitably going to criticize VAERS as a data source: it would be trivial for CDC to release a comparable non-VAERS analysis from Vaccine Safety Datalink, their non-public surveillance dataset. While VAERS is flawed due to self-reporting, there are legal penalties for submitting false information, no legal penalties for failing to submit an adverse event report, and bureaucratic and time overhead for each submitted case. So there are also arguments that VAERS is missing data.
Why would they take a covid test if they believe they are immune?
In my jurisdiction (indeed in my entire country) it's illegal unless they're actually recognized by the engineering licensing org.

The only people who are allowed to call themselves engineers without being recognized professional members of the engineering association are a type of plane mechanic with federal certification which supersedes provincial law that restricts who can call themselves engineer.

Where I live it would be illegal for them to call themselves engineers unless they were professional engineers as recognized by the provincial engineering certification body which was created a law passed by the provincial legislature.

The provincial engineering org does have a computer designation, so they could get licensed and have it official if they were computer engineers, but I'm not sure about software.
Can you explain how Costco is relevant here when they make most of their money off membership fees and not sales?
My apologies, I was trying to be sarcastic, but it fell flat. I'm an older person too, and I like the possibility of having a career of reasonable duration. This is as opposed to the impression I've formed of work in the tech hubs being a young man's game. Which could also be mistaken.

Thanks for calling me out.
Not exactly a regulated profession like engineers or architects, but if computer guys want to call themselves computer attendants you go ahead smart guy.
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Heh, SA was a huge part of my formative years, spent a ton of time (years / many many hours) lurking there. Sad to see the spiral that happened with Lowtax. Feeling very melancholic...
RIP to a real one.
Doesn't the company have to pax tax though on earnings before that 7% rate?
What kills me about Windows Backup is that they introduced a good "disk image" backup solution in Windows 7 and they're deprecating it!

The current backup is basically just user data, and is not guaranteed to capture all of it.

The old backup protects 100% of the disk, even including recovery partitions and other special volumes.

Oh, and it produces a VHDX file that is directly bootable, either on bare metal or as a virtual machine.

I've used the disk image to recover entire machines in minutes and get back to work. I back up to an external SSD and if the main work machine dies, I just plug the SSD into another machine and use Hyper-V to boot it. I can be back up and running 100x faster than it would have taken to copy the files back.

Oh, and of course, you can take a snapshot before you start up the backup image so that you won't accidentally corrupt a known-good backup!
While I agree with you I sincerely see no real advantage in Wayland over X. Steam does not work properly with Wayland, client side decorations are stupid and broke the decorations of Kitty and Alacritty (requiring me to workaround it).
see: https://sites.psu.edu/bernickerpassionblog/2016/02/04/gedank...
VAERS data is raw, is not a controlled study (it's literally just a collection of voluntary reports), has minimal data quality control, and includes all cause deaths. It's what you use to find crumbs worth study, not what you use to drive conspiracy theories on the internet.

Basically, if you aren't an epidemiologist don't touch that stuff, it isn't for you. That's the equivalent of announcing you can land a plane because you played MSFS in the 90's.
From the SEC report:

>By the end of January 2021, some funds had closed out their short positions in meme stocks, realizing significant losses. 62 In contrast, some funds that were long GME saw significant gains.63 Some investors that had been invested in the target stocks prior to the market events benefitted unexpectedly from the price rises,64 while others, including quantitative and high-frequency hedge funds, joined the market rally to trade profitably.65 Staff believes that hedge funds broadly were not significantly affected by investments in GME and other meme stocks. Staff did not observe that any advisers to private funds and registered funds experienced liquidity issues or difficulties with counterparties.

Their sources for this are various news articles that were told this by hedge funds or anonymous sources. It is mentioned somewhere in the report that the SEC does not have the data or capability of detecting naked shorting.

All we can know is that the short positions definitely existed at one point, but that's about it.

>GME short interest hit 50% of shares outstanding first in 2012 and then again in 2015, 2016, and 2018, before rising even further in 2019. From then until early 2021, GME short interest hovered around 100%, hitting its high of 109.26% on December 31, 2020.

https://www.sec.gov/files/staff-report-equity-options-market...