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The odds of any particular human existing is 1 in nearly infinity.

The conditions had to be nearly perfect for life to form. And then if you look at your millions of ancestors, many of them were in near-death situations before they reproduced. And then, most people meet each other basically out of sheer luck.

It’s not like in science-fiction movies: a tiny fluctuation in the distant past would probably mean you no longer exist. The conditions had to be perfect just for your mom to meet and then take interest in your dad, and your grandparents, and their parents, etc.

But once you exist, the odds are 1 in 1.
I always thought this was an interesting thought exercise just conceptually (not even legally.)

If you and I are friends, is the knowledge of that friendship mine? Is it yours? Can I freely share that knowledge with someone else? The impact of this just became so absurdly large when we started saving those data points forever and mining them for all sorts of purposes they weren't originally intended for.
What would "doing the walk" look like for these parents?
Maybe the right thing to do here was to not apply Bitlocker if she wasn't trained on how to use encryption. Or, you know, if she wanted to set up encryption anyway and you're already helping her with tech, the backup key could live in your password manager in case she ever needed it.
> They will still dump them on the sidewalk (or in the bike lane) the instant their journey has finished. They'll also ride two or three on one scooter, without any awareness or regard for cyclists in the bike lane or pedestrians crossing the road.

Ticket the scooter company for improperly parked/docked scooters in geofenced areas where parking/docking is available. The scooter companies will update their software & hardware to bill the rider if they leave their scooter outside of a permitted dock. The riders will be incentivized to park/dock the scooters.

The problem will fix itself, without throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

I don't ride scooters, and I don't like stepping over them when people dump them/knock them down, but I love that they exist, and we need more, not less infrastructure to support non-automobile transport. In this case, the infrastructure consists of installing bike/scooter racks. It's not expensive.
My cousin's daughter was a super popular teenage social media star. From what I can tell from the family's accounts, the parts of the audience that were creepy men didn't much bother the family, rather it contributed a large part of the narcissistic supply in total. There wasn't any shameful aspect of "whoring out" - the affect felt more empowering, like domination over that pitiful part of their audience. Either way I agree, if your social media presence makes you feel bad you should drop it and find something that adds meaning to your life.

She's an adult now and sounds like is living a healthy enough life given the trauma of having unlimited money and being young.
This is a lot of words for "we told the kids they had to play nice and share".
> you're just a meal

Some animals attack out of defense as well, as in this case.

> let's not idealize animals

Acknowledging that most animals have consciousness, emotions, language, etc. isn't idealizing them, it's just an accurate observation. This is opposed to treating animals like trophies or non-sentient creatures.

> where you among other things learn that dolphins and sea otters have rapists amongst their ranks

As do humans.

No one said animals are better or more virtuous than humans. OP's point is that it's not OK to go into nature and randomly shoot at animals for fun, entertainment, etc.
> The average HN front page is not representative of reality when it come to some topics, Facebook/Meta being one of them. Negative opinions of these topics tends to be massively multiplied. There are valid criticisms but for you right now, ignore it.

While this is usually the case I feel that the when it comes to perception of Facebook the community of hackernews woefully underestimates the discontent towards Facebook in broader society.

Whether it's feigned obliviousness due to financial incentives or just an outright bizarrely delusional worldview the bay area SWE archetype of hackernews just can't quite see the forest for the trees when it comes to Facebook.

Akin to the opiate epidemic across America many people have personally seen their family members consumed by Facebook and so they have come to view Facebook with the same scorn as one would have towards a drug dealer.

Others who haven't lost friends or family personally from the actions of Facebook have instead seen the corrosive impact that Facebook has had on their communities, pitting neighbours against neighbours and friends against friends.

History will not be kind to Facebook and the impact that it has had on our society. 2022 is probably not the year of the Facebook intern and it's only going to get worse from here on out.
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Why do you say they weren't paying attention?
The study says they were given treatment "within 7 days" of onset. The proponents of IVM have always said "early treatment" was required for it to work.

Serious question: Does "within 7 days" meet the definition of "early treatment"? My guess would be "no", but curious what others think.

NOTE: To be clear, I have no opinion here. Just like discussion and curious on thoughts.
> We looked it up, and in her opinion there was no point to them because they were far, far, far below the level of any even moderately competitive skater.

It wasn't hard for skaters in 1930s to do all figures too. The hard part was to skate the same figure 3 times so perfectly that judges would see only one trace instead of 3 and no snow at the turn points.

Mastering art of skating to that level required tons of dedication and concentration and skill. That skill later could be used for other "free" elements like jumps or spin entrances or spirals. But figures were the building blocks.

What I'm saying that modern skaters almost skip this part, dismissing it as "too easy" right off the bat. As a result if you look at top skaters in 80s and top skater in 2022 – they're skating skills hard to compare. Also, people were trying some crazy jumps back then. Here is a practice video of Tiffany Chin doing triple axel in around 1982. [1]

But I do agree that format of compulsory figures competition is not set in stone. I'm actually working on the IMU sensor embedded into the skate and exploring different on ice visualization tech. Idea is to make figures skating sexy, find new ways to visualize/augment it and experiment with a new ways to compete in figures that is watchable and exciting.

By the way, the progress in skaters' levels was largely due to new scoring system (IJS) in 2006, and not from abolishing figures. Also this "progress" led to rapid increase of jump attempts needed for success (especially in quads), which led to dramatic increase of repetitive stress injuries in skaters. I'm not sure how to design incentive system for scoring in a way to incentivie skaters to explore limits, while keeping them in a sane zone so they don't break their bodies all the time.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE9pApU53W0
There's a new "G" every ten-ish years. Usually there is a lot of hype in the 2 to 3 years before the next G launches, at which point the early release standards are frozen. If equipment has a nominal 5 year replacement span, you deploy early release equipment, then at the half-way point, replace it with newer eqiupment, while looking for the next "G".

The "G"s are driven by marketing and hype - "5G" is better than "4G" and promises a pile of use-cases that haven't materialised. It's pointless even trying to dispel the hype. 1ms latency was heralded, 10 Gbit throughput, etc etc. You can't really do a round-trip measured to the radio (across just the air interface) yet with 1ms latency, let alone 1ms to anywhere meaningful. I'm reminded of Carmack's famous statement [0] about latency.

ARPU (average revenue per user) is not going up, at least in the European markets I'm aware of. Customers were not willing to pay more for 4G or 5G. In fact, I think many are ending up paying less - I negotiated a better deal this time around than last time around (anecdote, n=1, but far from alone) - competition is tight in a 4-operator market.

I don't think patents are necessarily driving the push - the push comes from operators competing to win churn from rivals. This comes from a race to the bottom on price. As soon as someone has "5G", everyone needs it, whether it's really 5G, or just 4G with the string changed on the screen [1]. "Another G" helps drive sales, and coverage helps drive sales. The operators drive the market, as they own the relationship with the customer. Vendors sell whatever operators want, and try to help them make a more compelling differentiated product (which is a dumb pipe now...) - they have fought over "fastest" and "coverage", now they are fighting over "lowest latency" and "best experience" and "most reliable"...

Ultimately, LTE is going nowhere fast, in my view. It varies by market, but will still be the underlying dominant tech for a few more years - unless you are on T Mobile USA or one of a few other carriers, your 5G is "non-standalone" and fully reliant on the 4G network and radios - the 5G cell is carrier-aggregated in as extra capacity. In early systems, uplink was only over 4G, so the only place the 5G radio was used for was downlink. Therefore I'm not convinced it's really patents that drive this, rather marketing and attempts to differentiate and sell to win over others' churn in a reasonably competitive marketplace with limited barriers to switching, and huge cross/up-sell opportunity when you do win a customer.

[0] https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/193480622533120001

[1] https://www.xda-developers.com/att-fake-5ge-icon-added-aosp/
It's too bad srsRAN doesn't support TDMA (yet). LTE band 42 and the 9 cm amateur radio band overlap, so it would be legal for hams to run LTE/5G nodes.

Having your phone being your first ham radio might be a great way to get younger folks into the hobby.
Abou nine years ago I bought a Windows 8 Pro license that was upgraded to 10 and now 11 for free. It was transfered between 4 or 5 machines including one virtual machine.

Perhaps your license is OEM?
They must experience lego equity (s). Everyone gets exactly the same pieces and nothing more.
Hasn't the tech community known this for years?
I mostly agree with you, but don't forget that this story happened about a hundred years ago. People had different mentalities back then, less empathy.

> The ranger said humans aren't tasty to wolves.

I'm pretty sure it's BS. I'd bet more on wolves being afraid of humans (which is a good survival trait! Here in western Europe they have been hunted to extinction).

I saw a YT video where a woman is recording a wolf that didn't see her. When it realize she's there, the wolf is startled and runs away.
First, even if you think everything is handled perfectly now, things can be unfair and still be the best possible option.

Try to see things from the perspective of a child. Or if that's too far away, a teenager. Didn't it always feel unfair to you that the adults could do all these things, were free to decide what they do and especially what they didn't have to do? Althewhile you were literally forced to go to school and could decide almost nothing? Especially later on, when you felt like an adult but just weren't on paper (not even talking too much about myself here, I had more freedom than most).

And that wouldn't have been completely unjustified. The way society forces teenagers, young adults even, into these states where they get no freedom about their lives is not something that's necessary natural, not necessary the right thing to do. I mean, for something easier, look at the utter harmless jokes of PC games that were censored back then for non-adults (and effectively even for adults, depending where you lived). That really was unfair and ridiculous. Heck, one of the most influential games I played back then was Deus Ex, would be seen as completely harmless today, it was rated 18+. Crazy.

Being completely unjust with things like phone usage can't help with all of that. Do as I say, not as I do can't be a great guideline for how to handle these things.
Every single Linux live USB can access the underlying partitions freely. Or if you prefer, you can instead use it to remove the local password and reboot onto an unlocked OS.
> The BLM movement and the BLM organization are different. Much the same way that Americans will all claim to be democrats but less than half will claim to be Democrats.

It's more different than that between the BLM movement and the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation organization (which, despite the domain name, isn't the sole BLM organization); among the groups at odds with BLMGNF are either a substantial minority or perhaps even an actual majority of the former local chapters, BLMGNF has apparently been leaderless for most of a year after failing to reach a deal with the two people that were supposed to take over last May as coleads to replace the outgoing executive director.
Can someone explain to me why Microsoft migrating my Minecraft account to my Microsoft account is not a huge security anti-pattern, given that this is the same account I use to access my high-importance Azure account? Do we really believe that the Minecraft launcher presents no additional attack surface and handles authentication material with the same rigor as the Azure login process?
I feel the same. I live in Oakland and we have proposal for this type of curriculum: https://equitablemath.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11...

I feel absolutely livid thinking that these people are out there to inject, indoctrinate and infect innocent minds of children with their disugsting view of the society.

Children grow up wonderfully around the world, some 7 billion of us are here. There is no way this type of indoctrination has any proven benefit besides perpetuating their biases.
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imagine living in this mindset constantly and being unable to turn it off, even when talking about kids playing with legos
Even if there's no one else in the room.
Giving the public something to focus their attention on rather than goverment and corporate America (and the relationship between the two) is a shrewd investment in my speculation.
According to the article the teachers banned the Legos because the kids had (to paraphrase) "developed a system of power and privilege which is bad because it's like capitalism."

The teachers are all trained socialists. They then spent months training the kids in collectivism.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Just stop procreating so you wouldn't have such problems.
I'm not sure if I'm more likely than the regular person to be addicted to the internet because I'm so plugged in to the industry or less so because I "know how the sausage is made" and have been very conscious of my usage patterns over years.

Still, I agree that it seems to be a pervasive thing, and I do believe a little reset period like the author describes would, on average, do the population some good.
Examples (and this is why I'm so picky about giving apps Contacts access):

* Friends that I went to graduate school with. Just based on our degrees (MLISes) and career titles, which are pretty public, and the fact that we keep in contact suggests certain types of hobbies we have in common.

* I grew up partially in some pretty rural areas, as did my sister. So which people my sister keeps in contact with from back then and what they're into is a pretty good indication of what she likes. Otherwise, why would they be in her contacts?

Basically, if your contacts have less scrupulous information practices than you regarding hobbies (e.g. your friend tells FB EVERYTHING) and they're in your phone, it's pretty easy with that info to peg you as 'Greg's friend from rock-climbing club who probably goes out with all of them for craft beer afterwards.'
Can’t really be mad at the profitable parts of the UI getting preference.
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When I was a kid my mother bought me and my two brothers a 5 gallon bucket of lego at a yardsale. We played with those bricks A LOT but no matter how much we built the bucket never seemed to drop below half full. There are only so many bricks you can place a day before your fingers feel like they're going to bleed.

Of course, we weren't keeping builds around forever either. That's the real trick I think. Lego should be for ephemeral builds (for some reason, kids usually understand this better than adults.) At the end of the day/week/month, take whatever you built and drop it back into the bucket. If you have enough lego for X kids to build things that last Y days, you'll never run out.
I've been using a Microsoft-based OS since MS-DOS, but this hard requirement to use a Microsoft Account will finally be it for me. I'm not going to be coerced into making a Microsoft account, let alone linking my personal, home PC to one. Thankfully Valve has made some good progress in Linux compatibility.
I think it would be interesting to make a system of 'natural disaster': have the kids (secret) vote ~once a week about whether existing structures should be taken apart and returned to the bins. After the kids leave that day, draw a random vote, and follow the votes prescription.

If one child isn't having fun with the way resources are allocated, your structure is in jeopardy. Would create a strong incentive to compromise until everyone is having fun to avoid loss.
I find QR code menus to be annoying, and they are exceedingly frustrating if you are with a group that doesn't all have smartphones, which includes families with kids. If I was forced into that frustration, then had ads inflicted on me, I'd likely not go back to that restaurant ever again.
The ones I mentioned? What are you talking about? More than half of them were never built by Microsoft in the first place (including Electron).

For the most part in its history Windows has officially only ever had 3 UI frameworks: Win16, Win32, and WinRT (or WinUI if you prefer to call it that). Win16 was shut down in the 32-bit transition (but had a compatibility path that lasted for many years following the transition). Win32 has a lot of individual "sub-frameworks" based on the decade the software was written in, but overall is still "maintained", but "stable". WinRT has had some hurdles with branding/naming/messaging/developer support, but that is in part because is very actively maintained and still growing and in part because Win32 is still maintained and legacy code developers don't want Microsoft to forget it/leave it behind, worsened by Microsoft taking too long to nail down a transition more like Win16 to Win32 in "soft" forward compatibility and relatively known end date (end of 16-bit processor support). They've put a lot of work in the "soft" forward compatibility in recent years, though partly in detriment to the "relatively known end date" (in Windows 8-10 it was "as more things move to mobile, HoloLens, Xbox" and in Windows 11 it is now "????").
A lot of it is just straight-up fraud. Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz has documented this in some detail.

Also, ivnmeta itself is just weird. It can only be characterized as a propaganda site. It's well done, but scientifically invalid. They're far, far better at science communication than, say, the CDC (low bar, I know). We don't know who they are or who funds them, though there are certainly correlations with other, generally right-wing or libertarian, flavored groups. Given the number of times it's posted unironically here, it looks like a large number of people have been taken in by it.
Them and the credit reporting companies.
“Here’s another paywalled article discussing the paywalled article”
I just deleted my reply to your comment, because I checked their homepage a second time and then saw this at the bottom:

> What is GStreamer?

> GStreamer is a library for constructing graphs of media-handling components. The applications it supports range from simple Ogg/Vorbis playback, audio/video streaming to complex audio (mixing) and video (non-linear editing) processing.

> Applications can take advantage of advances in codec and filter technology transparently. Developers can add new codecs and filters by writing a simple plugin with a clean, generic interface. Read more ...

> GStreamer is released under the LGPL. The 1.x series is API and ABI stable and supersedes the previous stable 0.10 series. Both can be installed in parallel.

That should be at the top of the page.
Now back to your question about contracting.

Not long before this, I'd read some business book that advised against getting stock in a company as an employee. The book said that as one individual, you couldn't really have much effect on the stock price, and you would be better off just negotiating a better cash deal. Something like contracting, or just getting a better salary.

After all, this is the standard advice we give people joining startups, right? Get the cash, because that fabled upside is unlikely to ever happen.

But sometimes I wonder what might have happened if I had pursued this Apple connection a bit more. I thought, "I might have become a billionaire!"

And then I remember how much that book had influenced me. I probably would have told Steve, "You keep the stock. Just give me a little more cash."

Based on how he treated some early Apple employees, I bet Steve would have been fine with that!

https://www.google.com/search?q=steve+woz+you+give+him+zero
Not going out of their way to put their kids into ethnically and culturally homogeneous environments.
I do all of my gaming on a Linux laptop via Proton. Even got it to switch between my iGPU and dGPU. We're _lightyears_ ahead of where we used to be.
a) It's your problem once your lawyer informs the court that you tried to pull them into unethical and illegal actions.

b) The government can seize your fungible money. They aren't limited to just freezing accounts. If your crypto is at all tainted by the underlying cause which led to the government freezing your account, you're going to have a bad time.
> Wait, how is that even mathematically possible? Most people are heterosexual and there is roughly the same number of men and women.

Men:women are born at 107:100. There are about 7% more men than women in the world at birth. This only evens out by age 40. This is due to suicide rates among men being wildly higher.

Most men and women are monogamous - but many people date. A few men sleep with many women. Many men never see a date or any sex. 25% of men will be childless. 15% of women will be childless. It should get kinda obvious how this works even with a monogamous society. Women can get sex when they want and not commit to someone even in a monogamous society. The attractive men can choose to be non-committal and sleep with many women. Eventually - many women will commit to a man but it will be to a man who had very few partners whereas the woman might've slept with many of the men who get to sleep with many women.

Basically - the idea is that a small subset of men are sleeping with all the women. The women might settle down eventually but they will inevitably settle down with a man who did not have many sexual partners.
So you linked to a random answers article (not a good sign) which in fact isn't even about the product being discussed (it's Word, not Outlook). In addition the ad they mentioned isn't an ad at all, it's a resume assistant feature offered as part of the linked in service and doesn't show up unless you open that feature.
I believe you just use a regular edu or enterprise key and just choose LTSC when you create your install media? Been a bit though
What? How will that help?
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