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If he has thousands of nuclear warheads, he's not just a rat and he's not cornered.

ie. there are still diplomatic ways out of this open to Putin. If he is not open to considering them and feels cornered, it is his own shortsightedness and failing.
> you have to admit their honesty when they lead with a horribly photoshopped image and caption it with

Admitting an obviously fake image is fake doesn’t mean they are honest in the text.
> but stealing remains stealing, whatever you call it.

Well, that is the question, isn't it? You consider mimicry to be a form of theft; others disagree.
Exactly. Thus one might think that they are related, but actually they aren't really.
Surprising to see so much negativity here. Limiting to a small number of headlines is a useful mechanic. I can see this going in a number of interesting directions.
Why do you attribute Qt's actions to racism rather than their stated reason?

Even if you're right about them being disingenuous, I don't see why this would be racism. Maybe nationalism?
https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/basic-security-principles-co...
Or essentially a privately owned orbital re-entry vehicle.

North Korea might be interested in an option to send a small payload to space to have it approach a pre-designated area at the touch of a button.
I had a bike like that (quote a friend of mine after borrowing it for someone else: "That bike is plain dangerous!") stolen after I left it on a bike rack on the sidewalk for a few days, since I needed it out of the flat. And it was locked - but with a flimsy lock.

The best deterrent I found? No air in the tires. Bike will remain there for weeks.

Had a loved bike stolen from me on the bus stop since I had no time to lock it. My brother found it in the schoolyard on his way to work with empty tires (tube lost air very slowly).
Take the Flawed IQ Test the NFL Just Quit Using
And zoom. I know Linux but I’m not a sys admin by any stretch. I’ve been using Linux as my personal laptop for 3 years now. It updates itself and has required hardly any manual intervention (just once I had to command line for an upgrade. Generally it’s justed worked.

The upgrader/installers are not perfect but it’s hardly so difficult that software developer would find it daunting.
And good luck buying any of these devices if you’re outside of the blessed distribution centers.

Try buying any of those in Brazil or non US/UK/EU countries and you’re going to have tons of fun with import taxes and shipping.

Suddenly, a cheap device costs more than a flagship iPhone or android with none of their benefits except the intangible freedom.
Most people suffer from vitamin D deficiency so I would say that it's recommended for everyone.
Vitamin D is also important when it comes to Covid https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8509048/
The other replies aren't incorrect. But I think the main reason is out of fear that other music tracks sound louder in a club which would make them feel more exciting.

This is kind of repeating with playlists now. Not all services normalize perceived loudness across tracks (e.g. Spotify web player).
I feel like the solution is to screen adoptive parents much more thoroughly. It is incredibly traumatic to find out that the people you live with and depend on don't want you around any more. Whether you think the parents at that point should nut up or find a new placement for the kid, it's already messed the child up just knowing that they might lose their home and family. Why are people able to adopt 17 kids and live off the government checks? That's an actual example from this series of articles. Why is that ever allowed to happen?

If the adoptive parents are screened more thoroughly, and given resources and help getting through the tough parts, we would see a lot less of this.
Breakthrough Technologies of 2022
There’s a strong evidence base for correlation, the base for causation is much worse. Only few things like bone health in the elderly have been shown to be improved by supplementation.
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> Children owe their parents and extended family nothing, as they had no choice being brought into the world. What they do with their life is entirely their choosing.

Terminal-state Western individualism. Not everything is about “choice.” Life chooses for us, gives us roles and duties and obligations. We come into this world owing a debt to our parents and family who help care for us that we can never repay, only pay forward to the next generation.
Samsung confirms hackers stole Galaxy source code
The development of alternative takes many years. Sure they can make some half-baked trashy version. But it will reduce users productivity a lot for years to come.
Nukes are well within the Ukraine's capability, as they probably built many of the Nukes the USSR has. That said, $$ spent on Nukes is a diversion and a waste. Part of the cause of the downfall of the USSR was all that money simply wasted on Nukes and other weapons. (plus the so called elites - I prefer the term 'toads' for their toadyism (I find this a derogation of the beautiful garden toads - which I quite like)) - a class of social parasites pretending to be communists plus the wide spread corruption that permeated their society as the people in power grabbed without limit. We see this endures today in the first and second wave of Oligarchs - the current form of theft from the rest of Russians in general.
Nukes will also be a hot point for Russia - it's normal prey is defenceless societies that it can bully = no fun of they have Nukes and can give me a hell of a black eye, so Russia will cry cassus belli again.
We now see that cronyism and corruption has riddled Russian weaponry with bad equipment and bad services. A lot of the $$ spent has been simply stolen by the chain of command and the chain is riddled with people placed in command by cronyism versus true capability. Reminds me of the way gentry bought commissions in the British Army back in the 17-18th century - licences to extort the colonies = USA said screw you and left.
We see this play out now. Sure Russia can flatten the UK, but the ongoing costs coupled with the collateral damages of sanctions might hobble Russia - unless China sees this as an opening?
For an interesting real-world case of ignoring IP laws, one might look at the history of Philips and its light bulbs:

- The Netherlands didn't have patent laws in the decades that Edison was introducing his lamps

- Philips bought up the machines of competitors that Edison drove out of business through his patent monopoly and started producing lamps en masse in the Netherlands

- more than a few researches of said former competitors joined Philips' R&D crew, presumably partially out of spite, partially because it was the only place where they could continue their research

- this combination of experts and not giving a damn about patents resulted in really quick innovation at Philips' factories, meaning their light bulbs soon were both better and cheaper than anyone else's (of course, this only lasted until the light bulb manufacturers formed a cartel to introduce manufactured obsolescence).

- eventually the Netherlands caved in to international pressure to introduce patent laws. By then Philips was so huge that they started abusing it for patent trolling of their own.
More nostalgia - reminds of sourceforge in particular and other 90-00s sites and products that were vacuumed up by various companies claiming to "add value" and then essentially destroying the thing.

Anything bought by IBM or Embarcadero seems to end up being abandonware too.

Not sure that's happening so much these days, but that's what happened to the 90/00s web.
Ukraine is not a state sponsor of terrorism like Hussein's Iraq was. I'd call this a very significant difference.
I think if you are to follow that logic, then English should've been long renamed to something else too.
It wasn't the EU that has escalated the conflict two Thursdays ago.
"Very little of this existed prior to around 1700."

That's because books were hand-made items, the industrial revolution hadn't begun, and there was no concept of IP.

>If I copy your software, you still have it; I might just have deprived you of profits

Well, yes. Ease of copying is a non-issue, because the real cost is in creation.

Of course it's analogous to theft, because someone very literally ends up with less money in their pocket.

And I make that point as someone who has seen multiple developers quit one particular space (music software) because piracy made it impossible for them to earn a living.

Pretending this is about what you want is simply narcissistic selfishness. There are two parties in these transactions, sometimes they're small independent developers and not giant corporates, and piracy has very real effects on their livelihood.
I agree with your sentiment and it’s a great video, but your 2A estimate is way off. Over 30% of all Americans personally own a firearm [1], so the overall level of 2A support is at least that.

[1] https://news.gallup.com/poll/264932/percentage-americans-own...
No. Again, no. "Sensation" is when people are open to be hit as if physiologically from what something suggests them (hence, 'suggestion') - it is lack of control. It is when a court accused Lenny Bruce of pornology when he used swearwords in his stand-up comedy performances - the accused him of eliciting arousal. You are not supposed to feel deeply overwhelming perturbances in front of swearwords: that is not how it works in adults - and if did, it would signal a problem. That is "sensation" (more common today in 'sensationalism'). It is when the Camelot knights faint in front of the "Knights who say 'Ni'".

Poetry and literature use language with mastery for the elevation of people who, since they have keys to appreciate it, must be expert enough to manage it - which means, all which is transmitted is mediated, digested. The ball is caught and managed, not taken in the face with strong notification from the nose.

Sensation is typical e.g. of the worse """political""" (multiply the bunny quotes there) speech and is allowed by those who want to "feel" instead of "consider". This attitude for the consensual receiver could be at most a "private time" activity which is like approaching «pornography[, ]supposed to be an exception, a consensual experiment - not the standard of communication, on the opposite». On the side of the proposer, those who attempt inducing sensation, it is immoral: it is degrading and damaging. Those who encourage the listener to rely on panic (lower, uncontrolled) responses instead of reflection, are criminals.

Also, about your misreading of my: «or if not mature you want to expose them to the world of serious adulthood for their awareness», to which I then added «[rephrased: you do not hide adult behaviour: example must not be missed]», nearby a member mentioned the idea of "avoiding the term 'homonym' ['homophone', 'homologue' etc.] just to be sure": because somebody may faint?! The rest should resort to crippled language?!?! You use 'homonym' and 'homophone' and 'homologue' because that is the language, the correct one, and all correct use is a model: you do not hide that to the immature (which would make them remain so), there is nothing like «test[ing] the reader's maturity», and to stop using 'homonym' because somebody may faint would be one apex of the absurd (and a dictatorship of the fools).
Some years ago, I came over a website that interactively demonstrated how a (software) 3D engine rendered rotating gears similar to glxgears in a step by step fashion. You could set the speed of the rendering process from a running animation to each and every triangle being rasterized, with depth testing and everything. I still try to look for the site, but it seems to have vanished from the internet.
I think the cases officially recorded by the Chinese start in December but all the scientific projections think it's earlier see eg. https://mobile.twitter.com/ydeigin/status/150023570950819840...
Oh, they did? Let's look at how America prevented Africa from manufacturing HIV treatments

"""
In 1997, South Africa tried one tack. It passed a law to allow the
importation of patented medicines that had been produced or sold in another
nation's market with the consent of the patent owner. For example, if the
drug was sold in India, it could be imported into Africa from India. This
is called "parallel importation," and it is generally permitted under
international trade law and is specifically permitted within the European
Union.

However, the United States government opposed the bill. Indeed, more than
opposed. As the International Intellectual Property Association
characterized it, "The U.S. government pressured South Africa ... not to
permit compulsory licensing or parallel imports." 3 Through the Office of
the United States Trade Representative, the government asked South Africa
to change the law — and to add pressure to that request, in 1998, the
USTR listed South Africa for possible trade sanctions.

That same year, more than forty pharmaceutical companies began proceedings
in the South African courts to challenge the government's actions. The
United States was then joined by other governments from the EU. Their
claim, and the claim of the pharmaceutical companies, was that South Africa
was violating its obligations under international law by discriminating
against a particular kind of patent — pharmaceutical patents. The demand
of these governments, with the United States in the lead, was that South
Africa respect these patents as it respects any other patent, regardless of
any effect on the treatment of AIDS within South Africa.

We should place the intervention by the United States in context. No doubt
patents are not the most important reason that Africans don't have access
to drugs. Poverty and the total absence of an effective health care
infrastructure matter more. But whether patents are the most important
reason or not, the price of drugs has an effect on their demand, and
patents affect price. And so, whether massive or mar- ginal, there was an
effect from our government's intervention to stop the flow of medications
into Africa.

By stopping the flow of HIV treatment into Africa, the United States
government was not saving drugs for United States citizens. This is not
like wheat (if they eat it, we can't); instead, the flow that the United
States intervened to stop was, in effect, a flow of knowledge: information
about how to take chemicals that exist within Africa, and turn those
chemicals into drugs that would save 15 to 30 million lives.
"""

https://archive.org/stream/free_culture/freeculture_djvu.txt
If Reddit and nofap are to be believed, it will have the effect of turning the Russian troops into hypermotivated superheroes.

Actually, if the whole conservative/Orthodox angle is as big as it seems (which would pain me), then we'd sort of be doing them a favor. They'd be happy to rid their society of that.

Maybe they're even right. No Ottoman sultan ever neutralized his nephew by giving him cold showers and clean living. What he'd do is put the nephew in the harem.
Do they patent the plant, or do they patent the processing of the plant to make drugs?
Could Americans do it?

Yes, if you don't mind crushing the economic lower classes.

Inflation in general, and gas prices in particular, are devastating to the lower rungs of the economic ladder. They shouldn't have to pay for economic policies implemented by the yacht class.
Step 1: have capital. Almost everything related to hardware has either a minimum order quantity or is uneconomic at small volumes. So you need to plan to make 1,000 units and pay for them before you receive any customer money.

Don't forget this is the supply chain crisis era, so you need to make sure you can get 1,000 units of all your parts that are actually in stock and not on 24 month back order.

The other comment that says "Scaling a hardware product is probably 10-100x harder than scaling a software product" is absolutely correct.

Once you have a prototype you can Kickstarter, but a lot of hardware kickstarter projects fail. https://help.kickstarter.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005134554-...

Step 2: you need to be either a very fast learner across a lot of subjects, while spending your own money, or hire some consultants who know what they are doing. I used to work for a product development consultancy, but it's a pretty niche market.

This includes minefields like UL and CE certification.

Step 3: you need to either pick "local" manufacturing, where you can build up a working relationship and they will genuinely help you, or "remote" manufacturing which costs less but you have to diagnose all the problems over the phone or get on a plane to them. The latter is much harder in the COVID era.

Step 4: assembly, shipping, taxes, payment, etc; some of the local firms will also handle this for you (and take a cut).
For those interested in following the same regimen, the test group took

* 2000 IU of D3 in the form of a softgel and [1]
* 1 gram of Omega 3 [1]

But it's important to note that the the Omega 3 was in the form of prescription Omacor [1] which has been renamed to Lovaza [2]

The D3 supplement was donated by Pharmavite [1] which probably means that the brand name was Nature Made https://www.pharmavite.com/what-we-make/nature-made/

1 gram of Lovaza contains 465 mg EPA and 375 mg DHA [4] and note that "Prescription medications may contain up to 90% omega-3 fatty acids, whereas over-the-counter fish oil supplements contain roughly between 30% and 50% omega-3 fatty acids" [3] so you should look at the label on your Omega-3 supplement to see how much EPA and DHA it contains. And finally, note that the ratio of EPA to DHA might matter too [5].

[1] https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01169259
[2] http://www.ncbop.org/pdf/omacorbecomeslovazajuly2007.pdf
[3] https://www.verywellhealth.com/prescription-and-supplement-o...
[4] https://lovaza.com/
[5] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33418065/
I dislike most things about the modern web – but seeing Flash gone is not one of them. Good riddance!
Italy has already seized Russian ships. I don't see them being invaded by Russia.

https://www.reuters.com/world/italy-seizes-yacht-owned-by-ru...
The name "Sir Francis Drake" does not yet appear in this discussion. Fixing that.
I switched to typing using neo [0] about 2 years ago. The beginning was hard. I went in with a 100% neo from day 1 approach. The second day I had to respond to a mail that would normally take a couple of minutes. Took me like 45 that day.

The most surprising thing to me though was that while it's painful to be so slow in the beginning from a "being productive" point of view, the actual issue is another: it takes a significant mental toll to learn a new keyboard layout. The first week or so I was mentally exhausted after typing for 5-10 min in a row. Fighting the urge of my fingers to jump to QWERTY was really hard and took immense concentration.

After about 3 months, I was at 70 wpm or so and improved steadily from there. Now around ~100 wpm depending on what I type (which is a bit quicker than using QWERTY, mainly due to being more accurate though; reached 100wpm peak on QWERTY and now peak at maybe 120).

Things of note:
- relearning Emacs shortcuts was much easier than I feared. Changed 1 or 2 shortcuts to make them nicer, but the basic ones I left
- I can still type on QWERTY reasonably well. Takes a few minutes, then my brain clicks and it feels more or less normal to type again. Only programming is hard in it now (fortunately not needed)
- didn't change to neo on my phone. Still typing QWERTY there
- it's much more convenient to type for my hands. Still want a split keyboard though.
- the additional layers of neo are an absolute game changer (having things like arrows under my hands, typing greek letters and all sorts o other unicode symbols is amazing)

[0]: https://neo-layout.org
It seems that 13k civilians were killed directly by the US and its allies (around 300 for Russia at this moment). Although I do not see why the civilian deaths caused by the destabilization of the region should not be counted as I don't buy the "they would have died anyway" argument (and even if it was true it would not be a valid justification for not blaming the US for these specific deaths, if someone murders someone you won't just let them free because there were order people looking to kill said person). It was the US that was providing local militias with weapons after all.

The middle east being a hotbed of conflicting religions is not an excuse. It just means that the US should have treated the region with a lot more care, you don't go around bombing nuclear reactors and then claim that it is their fault for exploding.
There is extremely solid evidence that 4000 IU or 100 mg a day is completely safe for all adults. There are some recent large studies that back this up.
A Poem (and a Painting) About the Suffering That Hides in Plain Sight
Thanks.

Faith isn't quite the right word for what I mean, but community isn't either. The particular set of opinions or practices that have the practical effect of keeping the parents (and some grown-up children) separated from the wider society. (The concrete practical effect mentioned upthread was being vaccinated.)
You assume that product must exist. It does not have to.
> This isn’t the Sudetenland in 1938, nor Poland 1939

Feels pretty much exactly like it, though. (Crimea was the Sudetenland (unless that was Abkhasia / South Ossetia).)

> Poland actually had defense pacts which were not honored

So to avoid that, this time around "Poland" wasn't even given any pacts (unless you count the Budapest agreement) but strung along in the hope of them... OK, so not an exact repetition; "History does repeat, but in a funny-house mirror". [Just made that up.]

> and was invaded by two of the most powerful countries in the world in a world that had not yet invented nuclear weapons nor ICBMs.

Isn't that quite a bit like someone saying "This isn't the start of WW1; we're in a vastly different world with tanks and gas now" about Poland in 1939? Yet most serious historians nowadays (AIUI) see WW2 as a direct continuation of WW1.

> This is Ukraine 2022 in a very different world with very different power dynamics, communications and much more destructive weapons technologies. There is a lot more at stake and to disregard that is foolishness.

Yeah, so it's still pretty much the same world, with the same power dynamics and weapons technologies as, but somewhat better communications than, in the 1970s and -80s.

Just like the 1920s and -30s were only a pause in the 20th Century World War, the mistake now is thinking that the Cold War ended in 1990. It's been going on all the time.
Yes but Putin is dropping 500 pound bombs on civilian apartment complexes. Jets vs Jets and military vs military is the horror of war but right now it's a slaughter of the innocent.

To pretend it's -not- going to end up in multi-country conflict if we just sit back is -exactly- what happened in WW2, everyone sat back and watched while millions of innocents suffered and died and then finally drew a line.

Ok, no "boots on the ground". But stop the 500 pound bombs on apartment complexes. Imagine if it was your street and what you'd be begging the world to be saved.
You would be surprised
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