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> Handling and managing money transactions to run an auction sounds very much like a tricky part, there's a lot of regulation I'd be getting involved in going down that road.

What makes you believe there won't be regulations on trading NFTs in the future? The moment NFTs become an instrument for money laundering you're going to end up with the same KYC regulations as any other financial instrument. There is nothing in NFTs that protect companies using it to be above regulations. They simply don't exist yet which doesn't mean they won't ever come. There is money in this, there will be regulations and major companies will have to abide by them.

> Building the integration with the game doesn't sound hard, no, and it's the same either way. Authenticate, call API to check ownership - beyond that it's down to your game. (edit - to be clear here, the API already exists, I'm not saying "build a generic API" but "use an existing, highly interchangeable service")

> What about this do you think is going to be the tricky part? Authenticating the user? Checking if that account currently owns the NFT?

I don't know, I don't work on the space. Leveraging from my 20 years of career I'd say that it's never trivial to integrate with a 3rd party for any kind of complex business logic.

Like never in never ever, I've never seen it be just a case of "call this API, save some data" and that's why I have this instant reaction that you're glossing over a part that isn't that trivial. Even if the APIs exist, are generic, etc., integration is the hard part.
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>They have indeed been mockingly dubbed by Western analysts as “emotional support armour” or “cope cages”.

Really, Economist? I know they are a blend of news and perspective, but this is cheap and uninformed. @daedlanth here mentions it is a Molotov deflector, and the Economist has a "related story" on that very page about breweries in Ukraine making Molotovs! Goodness.
American football is also played in Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Japan, and even Europe a little bit. Certainly not as popular as other sports outside the US, though.
Large Scale JavaScript
I was responding to WebUSB, and tacked a few other hardware APIs there. Both Firefox and Safari view them as harmful in their current form. They are not really on a standards track for now, they are "Draft Community Reports" or somesuch.

For something to become a standard that something needs two independent implementations. Before that it's just some browser's prototyping stage, no matter how many times Chrome will tell you otherwise.

According to chromestatus, WebMIDI now has positive position from Mozilla and negative position from Safari: https://chromestatus.com/feature/4923613069180928

Just three years ago Firefox's position was also largely negative due to unresolved security issues: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/58 It's possible those issues are now resolved, that's why it's making its way into Firefox. This means that Safari's stance may also change.

Same goes for other hardware APIs: from the point of view of both Safari and Firefox those specs have security and privacy holes the size of Jupiter. Not to mention that the quality of some of these so-called specs is very low. If/When these issues are resolved, we may see them implemented in these browsers, too.
Copperhead os? Not cheap.
There is no 'mystery' - the west might not be familiar it, but it's obvious what its function is: Decoys with electronic jamming and IR sources to help the missile evade defenses.
Exactly what I assume, hence why I don't see the value on the argument of "owning an in-game item", there is nothing to own, everything is on the hands of the platform that enables whatever I own to exist.
Did you read the part of the article about weight concerns?
If that is the goal why would you use such wide cable routes? Something like chickenwire would seem to accomplish the same goal much better and its a widely available material.
Haven't seen anyone discussing it yet.

> For example, in my social circles, there have been two waves of people migrating from iPhones to Android phones over the past few years. Both waves happened due to Apple PR snafus which caused a lot of people to think that iPhones were terrible at something when, in fact, they were better at that thing than Android phones.

I wonder what Apple PR snafus is that?

>Amazon eventually solved this problem by having their own delivery people (and Apple has done this as well for same-day delivery)

Apple employs they own people for delivery ? That is news to me. And I cant seems to find anything on Google to confirm this.

Otherwise the article sums up, The world is largely run by Pepla, people who cant tell the difference between Pepsi and Coca Cola. And the Market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.
AMD's Ryzen 7 5800X3D Launches April 20 Plus 6 New Low and Mid-Range Ryzen Chips
One click really was one click. They had all the payment and address info shared. You just clicked one button. They did have an undo.
Companies also actively make their products obscure or withhold replacement parts to force new purchases. This has a lot to do with right to repair.
I am not an IT professional but a bit confused by how many completely negative views there are here on AV use. I have a NOD32 license and at least twice per month a url is blocked while browsing in an unobtrusive way by the software, which makes sense as may have contained malicious JS or something. Maybe it would've been caught by ublock afterwards, or may have been caught by MS defender as well, but I like the assurance provided. You can argue that I'm browsing in an unsafe manner but I doubt many of you restrict your browsing to strictly "safe" chunks of the internet.
I want to give a shout out to the Roomba designers. That is my favorite gadget. I have a very old one. The quality is awesome. The ability to clean & replace parts is easy.
Whoever contributed $9,000 is generous in more ways than one. They magnanimously left it to someone else to be the first to contribute over 9000, when they could have easily claimed it themselves.
AT&T Chose WarnerMedia Spinoff for Discovery Merger to Avoid Discounting Stock
How we got 1500 GitHub stars in 1 week
There isn’t anything you can do in Rust that somebody couldn’t do in C-Thulu, but the Rust version might be secure and the C-Thulu version won’t be.
Now, to test the ideology, do Miami/Jacksonville/Ft. Worth. All Republican cities in Republican states, all with surging crime. They didn’t take the actions you mentioned, but have the same result. Maybe it’s an opportunity to re-visit baseline assumptions.
Reported in 2013, still unassigned. I guess we should be thankful it hasn't been autoclosed by a stalebot or marked WONTFIX yet.
The exception here would be if teams wanted to sign their rights over to the local municipality and be community owned like the Green Bay Packers.
I think @XCSme stated it best with their comment: "...Web developers are a big slice of DO's target market...". I don't know about you but I firmyl believe that both CSS Tricks and Digital Ocean produce some great content for an audience that is undertaking their own web projects - like web devs. I use DO for my personal projects, and also dive into CSS tricks when i need to look stuff up. But i have to imagine that maybe DO is also seeking to get the business of folks who might not be web devs...maybe folks who would traditiuonally want to learn new stuff on the legacy shared web hosts, but who heard from their techie friends that they should move to a provider like DO (or linode, etc.) in order to grow. Maybe a bit of a long-tail audience, but who knows, maybe there are tons of them out there? These not-yet/not-really web dev folks often need a little helping hand - hence the need for more and better guides (not just tech guides, but hand-holding content)...so when i see things in that light, then this kind of acquisition makes sense...in fact, i would guess everyone wins; the consumers; CSS Tricks team; and DO...at least i hope.
The entirety of Google itself is like a dark pattern.
CD sales just rose for the first time in almost two decades
Wrong.

I explicitly do not call them currencies because they cannot be used as such in the real world. All these tokens are extremely volatile and always used by speculators which makes them useless to be used as a currency.

It is fake money that is being cashed out for fiat money on these unregulated token exchanges, not to mention the decentralised ones.
It's pretty much BS like that that had me switch to IOS after years on Android.
If you replaced the contacts with a triac and replaced the switch mechanism with a thick bistable flexure, it would likely last centuries and have a BoM cost around $2.

I’ve had 2 switches fail over the last 2 years out of the ~40 switches installed in the house. One failed by welding itself closed and another failed by caving into the electrical box when I hit it too hard. Even though the 40 year life expectancy of a single switch sounds good, the reality is that one fails catastrophically every year. I’d love to get more reliable switches that last well over a century, but I’m not aware of anyone that measures this sort of thing.
Can you clarify what you want to do exactly?

3rd party apps can still register on Youtube URLs, the process just changed a bit. And being affected in my app[1] by this change myself I have to say that this permission-style model is an improvement IMO.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lambdasoup...
SSH and Git, Meet 1Password
The leagues explicitly forbid it now; the Packers were grandfathered in.
Better than decent. I switched from neovim to evil mode a few years ago and never looked back.
I remember getting into a an argument about Java being overhyped in 1995 but you know Java is still here…. AWT is dead, Swing is dead, JavaFX is dead, applets are dead but Java is still heavily used.
Didn't know MS built office spaces. But AFAIK we do fund airports and industrial parks.
From your cite:

>Where a piece of information (such as an IP address) does not directly identify a person, that piece of information will nevertheless be personal data in the hands of any party that can lawfully obtain sufficient additional data to link the information to a person's real world identity

In a world of data brokers that makes IP addresses PII. The only way it's not is if you verify that there is no way you can lawfully obtain additional data to link the IP to a person. I don't see how you can practically do that.
Ascenium Aptos – A New Class of General Purpose Processor
Because the sports team needs the infrastructure in order to operate.

IE, you can't build a stadium without upgrading the roads (and rail) to allow people to get there. Don't forget about parking if the stadium is going into a densely-populated area! The stadium also needs water, sewer, electricity, and maybe gas.

That being said, I suspect that a city helping with infrastructure, and the team paying for the stadium, is probably a good compromise.
Same here in Greece. I have no idea how people sleep without them, visiting the UK or US is always frustrating because I have to wake up at the crack of dawn.
> also: the resources (such as personnel, buildings

Just b/c a road is infrastructure, doesn't mean all infrastructure is like roads
> That just extends the limit, the limit still exists. Because of that limit, traffic reduces the range you can commute within that limit.

Yeah and? The limit is in the order of 250 miles. Have you seen how cheap houses get 250 miles away from cities? London to Bradford is about that distance, and the average property prices in those two are £629,400 [0] and £58,673 [1] respectively, nearly a factor of 11.

Or, if you prefer American reference points, SanFran to the edge of Nevada; or the White House to anywhere in Delaware and Maryland, most of Virginia and New Jersey, and half of each of Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia; or Boston to the Canadian border; or LA to Ensenada, Mexico.

Don’t tell me there’s nowhere affordable in all that. Especially not in the large number of tiny places that aren’t important enough to be labelled on the map when it’s zoomed out to 250 miles.

House costs are mostly the land cost. More range = more land = more supply => cheaper houses.

[0] https://www.standard.co.uk/homesandproperty/property-news/lo...

[1] https://www.moveiq.co.uk/blog/buying/10-cheapest-places-buy-...
Still talking about this after the Ukraine war? This is so 2021!
I think the difference is that football is a money making endeavor for the team owner. Opera isn't making money for anyone and needs help if it is to exist.

Giving money to football teams is not much of a step removed from putting it directly in the pockets of the already rich owners of the teams.
Modern western society has not built the social capital necessary to cope with its material complexity. It's built on an ethic of grifting, in the large or in the small. See the part of the piece where people think you deserve what's coming to you if you aren't assuming everybody's out to f* you.
Sure, assuming you're morally ok with this form of piracy, but parent did say legitimately and this is blatantly illegitimate.
I'd make the point that previously when opening a link or document that could be used by multiple locations you got a popup asking which one to use and if it should always be used or as a one off.

No problems with defaults, but you should let the user pick.
I'm guessing that is what happened. Maybe it was a clause in the contract? If Chris reads this comment maybe he can chime in to clarify. I should have made that clear in my original comment, though.

I found out about it by doing keyword research for a piece I was doing. Better.dev was one of the sites that ranked extremely well for it and I hadn't heard of the name before. Upon closer inspection, I learned that the post is an old Scotch.io article which is being redirected to his new project.
Looks interesting but it's only showing me a Twitter sign in option. Is that the only one?
The picture appears to be a T-90, and yes, it does have reactive armor on the top.
To be fair, Windows Phone would have - inevitably - eventually had the same issues.

For God's sakes, I saw a post yesterday about ads within File Explorer on Windows, it's nuts.
Hey man, we were just discussing avatars, not trying to create an existential crisis.
> public works

Correct, you answered your own question.

Stadiums are not this.
I've personally learned insane amounts from their tutorials even though never trying their services.
I believe they are a paragon of quality information.
Based entirely on their guides I would recommend their other services above aws, simply because I can see that they understand the underlying principles required to effectively handle what they are selling.
My experience on iOS was that many application specific links were forcing the use of apple's apps, even if you have a third party app installed.
> It's hard to imagine how popular football is worldwide for an American.

It's really not that hard.
I am all for hating on Google, but is this really a problem? How many people are consistently opening different links in different browsers? Whats wrong with just setting the default to some non-Chrome browser?
CIA black site detainee served as training prop to teach torture techniques
> pretend to enjoy the plotless hellscape of "Cats"

...Low blow man, low blow. Cats (the musical) is a lot of fun, and has some fantastic musical pieces.
Given how facial recognition software struggles with people who aren't intentionally trying to fool it it couldn't be that difficult.
Would it be beneficial to China to deal more (directly) with India & Russia at the cost of dealing less with USA & Europe?
If you go through all this trouble, you have essentially added another business line to your company. This may or may not be where a company wants to spend their resources. Rolling your own XYZ will always be cheaper than paying a 3rd party vendor, _if_ you have the time, experience, money, and competitive advantage to do it correctly, which are pretty big iffs.
> and I wouldn't even know where to start hacking these fully closed electronic systems.

If you have electronic shutters, most of these are a simple 230V based system: one neutral line and two 230V inputs, one for each direction. Hacking them is easy, get two programmable 230V relays (e.g. use a Raspberry Pi relay board) and never ever activate both relays at the same time.
The Economist is not misinformed. Those western analysts might be misinformed, but the Economist isn't. The cages are being called cope cages.

Incidental to that, I'm not so sure the analyists are actually wrong. Most of the cope cages look a lot like statistical slat armor to me; e.g. designed to disable AT shaped charges, but utterly ineffective at stopping burning petrol from covering the top of the turret. Molotovs break open on these slats, they don't bounce off. Furthermore, at least some of the cope cages have been augmented with sandbags piled up on top. If they were meant to shield the tank and crew from burning petrol, they'd get more mileage out of sheet metal than sandbags. If anything, these cope cages turn into BBQ grills for Russian tankers trying to bail out.
One thing I've been surprised with is how difficult it is to set up database connectivity. I thought you'd just connect to a private VPC but it makes connections and management difficult. Much easier to go with external IP and rely on firewall rules - though then you risk ending up open.
I see, so basically a static site deployment platform using today’s buzzwords.
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I find this point of view utterly mystifying. Making sure you don't miss your flight only costs a couple of hours, and the effort of being organised enough to leave on time. Missing the flight has a cost of lots of money, many more hours, and a whole bunch more organisation and talking to people. It seems like a dead simple trade-off.

Sure, if you end up missing the flight because of unforeseen circumstances, and you can afford to burn a few hundred bucks without it affecting your budget, there's no sense in feeling particularly bad about it.

But I see no sense in deliberately putting oneself at risk of that situation, unless your time really is that valuable or you have a massive aversion to being organised that outweighs the rest.

(I don't count 'having ADHD or otherwise being a very disorganized person' as 'deliberate', for what it's worth: if that's the case then maybe adopting the viewpoint above really is a good idea?)

[edit] Ah, noticed further down that you were taking domestic flights where rebooking cost you around $100, where presumably that's in the range that it doesn't hurt you too much to spend. You should probably note that everybody you're responding to has had to pay way more for their rebookings, so really you're looking at a completely different trade-off from them.
I don't think there is any difference from operational security perspective.

Russians would know very well that MiGs are flying from Poland no matter whether they would go trough Germany or not.

And they would have to track them precisely in order to attack in both cases as well.

The stupid part was going with the MiGs transfer public in the first place back at the beginning of the war.

But I recall it came from EU official and Ukrainians, not from Polish government directly.
i've several domains like these. Just for fun
I believe our friends in New Zealand are quite good at it too... ;-)
Intel Announces Investment of Over €33B for R&D and Manufacturing in EU
I presume for non-commute social activities? Weekends and evenings usually don't see congested traffic due to lower commuter traffic.
do you suppose the residents were consulted in the same way they might be if ther were attempting to build in pac heights or west village or the hills?
Exploring the climate crisis in Louisiana, what Mardi Gras can help the climate movement remember and how you can help ensure a just transition for the Gulf South
I remember the great floods at Leakington Spa. Terrible.
> much of that spent on new sports fields meant for the exclusive use of sports teams that constitute only a very small percentage of the student body population (not to mention the overall population).

Curious where you go this idea. I don't have any evidence to back up my suspicion that this might not be correct, but wondering what yours is, too.
This is part of a broader trend. Last year, Balaji Srinivasan tweeted about the idea of SaaS companies buying media companies – https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1374363031417753609 – and as an observer/operator in this space, I've heard about a lot of conversations going on behind the scenes with larger companies expressing an interest in smaller media companies (including my own - I value autonomy too much but for the right multiple.. :-D).

Consider Hubspot buying The Hustle, Robinhood buying MarketSnacks, Stripe's various acquisitions (like IndieHackers), Insight Partners bought The New Stack.. and this is all happening in the developer space too. Subscription based companies with high cashflow but high customer acquisition costs will continue to buy attention-based companies with relatively low acquisition costs because, frankly, the owners of the latter are generally quite happy with "modest" (<$40m, say) exits that the former can easily cover.
It's paywalled for me, but the picture seems to show the cage is made from pretty thin stock, so I'm not sure how useful it is in it's current state. Zoom in on it: https://www.economist.com/img/b/1280/720/90/sites/default/fi...
The article is definitely making an emotional appeal here. For the numbers supporting it I recommend looking at the criticism section of the Wikipedia article on the China Initiative https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Initiative and you’ll find some appalling figures (like 50% dropped charges on academics so far, which indicates feds are more than willing to bring make arrests and bring charges when they don’t even have a strong case for their allegations, ie witch-hunts against Chinese academics)

> They are not necessarily "spies", nor were they commonly accused of being "spies".

The charges don’t indicate they are spies, but if you read the indictments of e.g. Gang Cheng, it repeatedly accuses him of being loyal to China, which is all but calling him a spy

> The wide-ranging of recruiting of U.S. academics by the Chinese government is no secret at all. It is self-evident by the Thousand Talents Plan. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousand_Talents_Plan ).

Indeed, academics have been ensnared by political bullshit. The way I call it is China offered the carrot and USA offered the stick. If you want to work with China, the Chinese government will be more than happy to reward you; if you are caught working with China, USG will be more than happy to throw you into prison and try to ruin your life (even without enough evidence to convict, as in at least half of this cases)

Frankly, I wish I could say we were winning the battle over academia using free speech and anti-authoritarianism, but it appears being anti-China is the best we can do
I always recommend Kaspersky, as it's one of the best AV suites out there, and because there is still no proof whatsoever that the Russian government is "inside" KAV.