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IRSF is a fascinating topic.

As it was explained to me (anyone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong), a shady/criminal organization takes control of a piece of the phone network. They pick a range a phone numbers for a country that is usually expensive to call, maybe a range of numbers that doesn't actually exist in that country, and they use the phone network to "advertise" a slightly cheaper route to connect phone calls to those numbers. Instead if it costing $1, it costs $0.80.

When someone makes a call to those numbers, they charge the cheaper rate, and then don't actually connect them to a real phone. Every time a call is made, they just get money.

The "S" is for "shared". They offer other organizations "for every call you generate to this range of numbers, we give you a cut". Let's call it 20 cents.

Now picture how many organizations are vulnerable to this. Every "call me back when a customer service rep is available". Every "call me to let me type in a code to verify I'm human". Every "leave a number our sales team can reach you at". They're all being attacked by these sorts of things constantly.

The cost to get a bot to trick the system into making a phone call is much smaller than the revenue generated. As long as that is true, the attacker wins.
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I’m wondering if humans are capable of hating life in a large group. I notice that justified despair is labeled a mental illness. It makes me assume quality of life isn’t factored into the mental illness equation. I think that not doing so is wrong because it makes healthcare used as a scapegoat to ignore that certain quality of life shouldn’t be lived. Unless we humans think that any quality of life regardless of how bad should be lived?
Predictably, people who are fine with censorship try to frame it as just business. A shoe store not selling books is your argument? Really? Spotify didn't decide they don't want to offer those episodes, they decided to do so after media started labelling Rogan as spreading misinformation and accused him of all the popular isms. Music has discretionary labels, removing it because its message is inconvenient to you is a different thing. This is reactionary and a really bad look for Spotify.
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In the world of ipv6 how useful is keeping a list of ips any more?

I suppose if you see a lot of requests coming out of a network you can just block ips based on the network portion of the address.
Nice to know that shitposting is now allowed on HN.
Agree. It's unclear from the article that information cannot still be reliably obtained from the sample. Sure the bonds break, but since the construction of nucleotide bases are well understood, does that mean these cannot be distinguished in the sample?
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Taking cars out of some urban areas is such an upgrade. Once in a while I revisit a street in a city I didn't visit for long, where the road has been appropriated for pedestrians and sitting area. Just like that, the street transforms – from a passage through which to go – to become the go-to attraction.
The Surgeon General isn't a position elected by the People, and to have them making strong suggestions (or threats) around speech that is regarded as highly controversial (i.e. both opposing sides are large and have valid stances) is repulsive, when behind the scenes _and_ publicly there is legal and monetary coercion happening to put the likes of Spotify in jeopardy if they don't bend to a single political narrative.
Giving in to the mob is stupid, the mob will never be satisfied
Ok but in this precise case, podcasts have not fallen to mono/duo/trio-poly yet.

Joe Rogan made a decision to take the money and give in to a corporation trying to make a podcast monopoly a reality. Who is to complain when the inevitable abuse of power ensues? If it didn't happen now, when podcasts are still open and standardized, it would've happened later once podcasts became proprietary.
>"forced"

How did anyone "force" Spotify to do anything? Various people put public pressure on Spotify and Spotify took the action that it presumably thought was optimal for its bottom line. Which companies do all the time.
It's a good reason if you're an autocrat threatened by pro-democracy movements and polities.
Wow fascinating, Thanks for the detail. Sorry for your troubles, especially the closed tech of settlement stuff, I find any time it is single source, someone involved cheaps out and it never works right.

Grats thou on having your own company.

So who runs the country? Is it a parliament system? Rich people? Outside countries? Religious organization?
It is arrogant to assume that if you haven't found a solution then nobody will. (trust expert when they say something can be done, ignore them if they say it can't be done, just do it)
Im sorry I misunderstood your question as a statement. Coming to it, this article mere compares the switch sales to Wii, but despite its availability PS5 surpassed switch sales. But to know the magnitude of the metric I think this would help you https://steamcharts.com/
Thats just from steam.
If you listen to joe rogans explanation, every single one of those uses of the word was taken out of context. He wasn’t using it in a racist manner, he was talking about someone’s use of the word. Even the Planet of the Apes reference was taken out of context. After he uses the term Planet of the Apes in the podcast, he immediately realized that it sounded racist and apologized because that wasn’t what he meant. And then goes on to say how he had an enjoyable experience. That all gets cut out to make him seem as racist as possible when he’s simply not racist at all.
I lived in Venice Beach a few years ago and it definitely did start up open up and become more bike friendly. The rest of LA outside of downtown is a mix of non-existent to horrendous cycling infrastructure.
I believe here they’re referring to the half-life of free DNA. In cells (plant or human) the DNA will be bound by a range of different proteins, wrapped up and packaged (e.g histones, but there are many other types too).

Presumably the half-life of these proteins is shorter than free DNA but their presence will still change the overall half-life.

Environmental conditions are another factor. The inside of a seed could have a more controlled pH, temperature, humidity when compared to the surrounding environment. That would also change the effective half-life.
Then I might have misunderstood you with the issue of propagating errors. In IRQ, as you mentioned, it wouldn't be very practical to blow out the system just because your error propagating mechanism depends on yet another thing that can miserably fail. That's why I thought of tagged pointers, given the sufficiently aligned pointer operation of marking the action as failed cannot be unsuccessful. Nice thing about it is that you also get atomicity basically for free.

> Character/byte pointers often start at unaligned offsets

Yes, but the address of that pointer is still 8 bytes long and idea of using 3 LSB of that address to encode the state is still applicable, isn't it?
Taken broadly always was the commonly used definition of censorship, and progressives understood that until they got the power to censor what they don’t like through their economic power.

Then they redefined censorship to be only if the government does it. Thats having your cake and eating it too.
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Funny enough, I like the Shin Megami Tensei series which in essence is a dark and challenging Pokemon. I find the mindless grinding while listening to a podcast quite relaxing.
Part of a free market economy is criticizing, and not patronizing, products you don’t like.

I’m welcome to say Spotify shouldn’t “censor” (in the corporate media sense) certain speakers.

And I can cancel/encourage others to cancel their Spotify subscriptions.

And I can keep on using Spotify, but let them know I don’t like their conduct, even though it doesn’t (YET!) make me unsubscribe.

All free market.
Carmel is nice, but man, they have some of the worst drivers ever.
There was an almost comedic example of that around here a couple of years back: people were publicly claiming that expanding a bike path to their suburb would cause increased crime, by which they meant the possibility of black people riding the trail out from Baltimore. Meanwhile, the actual robbers drive because you can't fit enough on a bike to be worth the risk but oddly there's no call to stop building roads.
How are the caller IDs (phone numbers) vetted to verify that they're actually used in robocall scams instead of legitimate EBR calls that some grumpy customer didn't appreciate?
> peaceably occupied

Isn't that an oxymoron?
Your inability to imagine convincing motives for the US government to lie about this is evidence that they are not lying about it?
If there's a fire, or you think there's a fire, I'd say you have a moral obligation to yell "fire in a crowded theater".

It's probably the worst example as this was the metaphor was by the government when people were passing out anti war flyers opposing the draft during WWI. These same people were tried and convicted under the espionage and sedition acts. The judges unanimously sided with the government.

If I think there's a fire, or a problem, damn straight I'm going to speak up, and this definitely feels like Spotify is taking down things "the public", no court even required how great, find distasteful in the moment.
Neither Russia, nor NATO plan any real war here. Ukraine - maybe, because it seems pretty convenient to grab some land in Donbas, given that West is ready to activate sanctions against Russia even before the first shot. Russian buildup is just big enough to put pressure, aggressive NATO rhetoric is to demonstrate "non-negotiability" of any limitations to NATO expansion.

Ukraine is not member of NATO and not an ally of NATO states, just a rather unreliable partner in security cooperation, a corrupt democracy with stagnating reforms that does not want to commit to the diplomatic agreements negotiated with the help of the West. There is no reason for NATO to participate in any military conflict there.
Why are their intentions important at all?
Can you show they follow some government orders?

If Spotify censors Joe Rogan's speech, it would mean they suppress or prohibit him to speak about a particular topic /content etc.
They made a couple of episodes unavailable on their service (that happens all the time with other content as well, and Spotify didn't even touch the recent ones dealing with COVID). I cannot see how this constitutes to censorship.

Which ideas/concepts are censored in the episodes taken down?

Also, the episodes and clips are still available if you search for them, and Joe Rogan can say anything he wants on other channels ... Or did I miss something?
> You can not draw parallels with Iraq. US is not willing to go to war over Ukraine, and Europe does not even want to sell weapons to Ukraine.

"We didn't plan to do this, we stated this so many times in all media, but what we said they are going to do is so bad, that we had to take actions... Totally not our fault, everyone can see that..."
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I haven't heard JR podcasts at all and haven't been tempted, even when I heard of him 2018-2019.
I don't understand how people can accuse Joe Rogan to be a shock jock. I don't listen to him because he is sooo mellow.

Howard Stern is a shock jock, and a crass one too.
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Jon Stewart is responsible for an entire generation of millenials thinking that pointing out political hypocrisy was enough.
And Tom Segura & Christina Pazsitzky? Wot?
The heat of the fire is not completely transferred to the cooking utensil due to air and losses, on induction and resistive stove tops, the heat losses are much lower since you don't heat anything in inductive (magnetic field heats the metal directly), and electric stovetops have no air-gap to transfer heat.

So, in the end, 90% of the time you're looking at the same cooking duration at the end of the day. So, you don't need that 120A load.

In other words, if the box says 5 minutes on medium, it's 5 minutes on medium. Regardless of gas, electric or induction.
For clarification:

Half-life of atoms as in "radioactive decay" (weak, strong and EM force) cannot really be modified by perservations methods. Here [0] a precise answer.

The decay-time of bio-molecular strucutres/bonds (containing information like DNA) can be modified in many ways very easily: low temperatures, exclusion of oxygen (amber) ...
I guess "half-life" of DNA is just some fast and crude laboratory proxy for chemical "stability" in a specific setting.

[0] https://www.wtamu.edu/~cbaird/sq/mobile/2015/04/27/can-the-d...
Yeah, and? It's one thing to ban someone from a specific occupation, and another to ban someone from all/most jobs.
When I tell people in my city they could instantly double their property values by greatly restricting car traffic and parking on their street, they look at me like I'm crazy.
> do you need to be a full time dedicated art practitioner to be considered as an artist?

If you define “artist” as not a profession, but more of a generic philosophy of working, then this statement:

> Is this the skill set of the artist or the programmer?

… is a complete apples-to-oranges comparison.

The skills you’ve written down are not tied to any profession and would apply to both “chess players”, “baristas”, “board game geeks”, and whatnot.
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I see your point, and don’t entirely disagree, but I am skeptical. If EPIC became open source you’d now need more tech staff to maintain your installations too, as the maintenance burden would creep ever larger, and at some point a business decision would be made to use closed source SAAS again anyway.
Try Tidal or Qobuz, they should work.
The fact that we have to discuss what was said in those episodes without being able to access those episodes shows exactly why this is a problem.
Is there a video of the talk that goes with those slides?
It is censorship by definition. Whether you think it's justified is a separate question.
Ok, let's use drunk driving as an example.

If you drive drunk and are caught, you can lose your license, which technically, means you can never drive yourself again.
Software engineers seem to have a lot of problems with trigonometry and especially spherical coordinates/rotations. One recent example is MS FS2020 which despite being a clean-sheet redesign is still unable to render correctly or fly near the poles.

Quaternions are popular because they are usually the fastest technique but are notoriously non-intuitive. This is the best guide I have found explaining them in a practical way: https://danceswithcode.net/engineeringnotes/quaternions/quat...

I used that guide to write quaternion functions for one of my projects. It is three times faster than the (also gimbal safe) trigonometric method I used previously. The quaterion functions can be found at the top of: https://github.com/kevinloch/bsrender/blob/main/src/process-.... The rotation quaternion is constructed at the bottom of https://github.com/kevinloch/bsrender/blob/main/src/init-sta.... The vector quaternion is constructed by simply copying the Euclidian x,y,z into i,j,k while setting r=0, and the output x,y,z is copied from i,j,k after rotation.

Beware my program uses a non-standard coordinate system where +y is to the left, being derived from equatorial coordinates used in astronomy where the x->y angle (Right Ascension) increases to the East. Removing the y-axis inversion/reversion steps in the quaternion functions should make them work with conventional coordinates.

The speed advantage of quaternions depends on the use case. If the points being rotated are natively Euclidian and you are performing the same rotation on a billion points then it's a clear winner as the expensive trig functions are only done once while the actual rotation steps are all + and *.
Might I ask what "fringe people" are? I've watched his podcast and he certainly has a whole spectrum of people on. He may have his opinions and biases, but a person is allowed that right? Who are these fringe people, people who have different opinions from you? From the main stream media?
Let me go off on a slight tangent: Should all jokes be taken at face value? Communication is a complex business, and surely what's literal is largely irrelevant; what matters is what is communicated; i.e. what a recipient learns from whatever signals you transmit.

JR is deceptive not because every spoken word he says taken in isolation is false, but because the way he frames and presents various sources leads listeners to draw false conclusions. Taking everything he says at face value is no more valid that taking a joke at face value. TL;DR: - "just asking questions" is deceptive; that's not a valid way to learn nor inform. We could discuss in depth how it's deceptive, but that's not really the point - the point is that not all questions will be interpreted literally, so you need to do the same when judging how reasonable that communication is. You have to look holistically at the message listeners will hear.
There are two more related articles on the power meter there:

https://gusbertianalog.com/tag/power-meter/
There is an App for iOS which might (I don't have a iOS device) be better for following on mobile (currenly following no Android) https://apps.apple.com/gw/app/fosdem-org/id941904933
And Youtube Music https://music.youtube.com/
He sold out Madison Square gardens in 2021. He’s a very successful comedian.
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What happens if an IP, rightfully included in the list, gets assigned to me or, worse, to the server I just rented?

Or if someone added my phone number as a prank, a revenge or an attack on me?
> So much visual art is just raw visceral awe, which is just not possible with a screen.

Do the Pandora ride at Disneyworld. It is raw visceral awe. Yes there’s movement but the scenery alone is stunning.

There’s also generative arts. I’d put Tyler Hobbs on that list. His work is beautiful
I think the problem with that is that these schemes rely on the phone network being ridiculously insecure. The scammers send a surprise bill to your telco, then they pass it along to you.

It wouldn't surprise me if the list only applies to consumer plans, or (as you say) high-balls stuff in certain countries.
1. It is, and has been for as long as computers have been available. My mum used an arts grant to buy a computer in like, 93', and taught herself programming. That's a pretty normal story for that generation. Earlier, many artists would use institutional access to computers (e.g Manfred Mohr).

2. One can create almost anything with almost anything. The question is, what are the relevant skills, and why is the medium compelling?

Programming is not the norm amongst artists these days, but it's also not unusual to meet somebody who programs, and most people use computers at some point in their process.
Very strange. I would probably pay my Spotify subscription just for the recommendation service.
Did you use Discover Weekly actively? Did you share your account with children, at parties, etc.?
I'm always puzzled by how Spotify recommendations seem to be so hit and miss for people. I wonder if it could be related to the type of music one listens to.
For those wondering about interstellar travel in sleeping pods, at room temperature humans could only be “frozen” for 10 years (1% bonds broken) before too much DNA damage would have occurred.

However, in temperature below zero at -5 degrees Celsius for example, half life of DNA is actually 10,000 years or more. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_DNA

Still, this would also only allow 200 years of freezing before more than 1% of bonds would have been broken.

The third and probably most viable option is to wake up the crew every 200 years to repair accumulated DNA damage.

Also, a small percentage of the crew would probably be awake at all times for repairs etc., so the crew could rotate every 200 years.
I'm surprised this didn't get more attention in mainstream media and on the Internet.
Some people say Russia out of nowhere invaded Ukraine for no reason.

Other people know there was a color revolution in Kiev that ousted a democratically elected president who was, just as Ukraine historically has been, aligned to Russia and put in place someone else who was completely against an alignment with Russia and went straight to alignment to the west. Then Russia invaded. To forget all this you need some serious cognitive dissonance since it's essentially the Cuba crisis of the 60s except with inverted roles.

So no, the US has nothing to justify what it has been doing since the crisis began in 2013. That is why it needs to keep making up excuses, they're meant for US people and its allies' people to believe and support action against Russia, by driving the narrative that poor ukrainians are being oppressed. No, the ones oppressed are the ones who voted Yanukovych and had their democratically elected representative forcefully removed from power.
Wow, this was a great and somewhat eye-opening read. Thanks for sharing!
Yes but they can take the bus or uber and in many cases reapply for a license.
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My knowledge about biking infrastructure is lacking but doesn't it make sense to allow/promote biking on the sidewalks as a start? Once biking gains more acceptance, allocating more budget for proper biking lanes would become much easier.
Same language, same culture ( books/TV shows/movies/music, cuisine ), a lot of shared history.

A Serbian and a Portuguese are much farther apart ( language, cuisine, history ( even if there are some small parallels like both being occupied by a foreign neighbouring power, independence being won by blood, and an oppressive regime in recent history, Ottoman occupied Serbia , world wars, Yugoslavia couldn't be farther from seafaring trade and colonialism Portugal).
Stable isotopes decay but at much slower rates. Even protons decay.
Better analogy would be for public transport passengers.
I am referring to the specific words in the transcript that they were using as they talked past each other, not trying to (re)define anything. The member of the press seemed to be under the impression that information should be associated with evidence, while the speaker did not.
Don't worry, the lost revenue won't be material to earnings.
His blog posts are reposted on multiple other platforms. If you can already see all of those posts on your favorite platform, what incentive do you have to visit the actual website?
It was a common refrain from people who were afraid to admit they read playboy to people in public that they just "read it for the articles" because they had surprisingly in-depth articles, interviews, etc. It's also why that persons analogy falls flat since no one is afraid to admit they listen to Joe Rogan.
Except that nobody thinks of nazis when reading pcmasterace, but you need to step out of your way and call out how you feel offended by a term that has no relation. Given that you are offended by it, why don't you go back even further a call out slavery and racism in colonial times?
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