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Here's something you should know about whistleblowers in the US. If a whistleblower makes disclosures to the SEC that result in a judgement if the SEC successfully sues the subject of that disclosure. This can be worth tens of millions of dollars.

That doesn't mean their claims are false. But you should always be skeptical.

The second issue is the trial resulting from Elon Musk walking away from the Twitter acquisition. That acquisition agreement calls for "specific performance", which means Elon pretty much agreed to buy the company no matter what (he waived due diligence). He is expected to have to pay a fortune if not actually buy the company in his trial next month.

So it's at least worth noting that this disclosure happens right at a time when it might help Elon. Maybe unrelated but it's also a hell of a coincidence.

Employees that are fired (or are heading in that direction) can make all sorts of claims to deflect away from the fact that they were or soon would be fired, possibly with cause, possibly not.

The specific claims seem to be a little vauge like not giving employees tools to combat bots. Like what does that even mean? Twitter may have crappy infra for this but does it rise to the level of negligence or even malfeasance? That's not a slam dunk from what I've seen.

Keep an open mind but remain skeptical.
I met my wife over OkCupid. I have generally been successful with dating apps (about 20~25 dates over 2 years), but I agree the experience is toxic & mostly sucks
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I don't expect this kind of thing to happen. The very ideology of democrat's platform is : be generous and kind and help people.

The Democrats in office can barely agree on even basic moves to get public approval, good luck ever getting them to agree on directly harming millions of people just because they don't agree with how they vote.
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At the risk of being ridiculed, when I was a lad growing up in the UK I saw something that I later learned might be described as ball lightning.

It was late winter in the South West with overcast skies and melting snow on the ground, and looking out of the window of my bedroom across the street and into the opposite neighbour's front garden - which had been dug over to prepare the ground for vegetable planting in the spring - I saw a sphere of pinkish glowing light falling slowly to the ground. At first I thought it was a balloon, but looking at it more intently it seemed perfectly spherical and as it got close to the ground it hovered there for a good 5 or so seconds, illuminating the ground below. Then it completely vanished without a sound - no bang, no fire, just... gone. I ran out of the house and over to the neighbour's garden to see if I could find any remnants of whatever it was but there was nothing to be found except for what I noted at the time was a weird sharp smell and a small dish-shaped depression in the rough ground below where it vanished.

I obviously can't say for sure that it was ball lightning, and I hadn't heard anything about such phenomena at that point so didn't describe it as such at the time, but every now and again when the topic comes up I can't help but see similarities between what I've seen and some of the reports. At the very least, it's a good excuse to retell this bizarre story from my childhood.
He's sorta like a mix between Seth Godin and Elon Musk
Trusted third-party can do this. But it would be pretty hard to monetize and keep working.

Basically the third-party would view your receipt and confirm you purchased the product, and then let you review it.

Amazon kind of does this sometimes, and it doesn't really help for all the various reasons that immediately pop to mind.
But this doesn't scan for zero-days, only for several major known malwares.

If you want to catch real zero-days, you have to approach things very differently. Do behavioral analytics, seeing what a process is up to and if it's poking into things it shouldn't.

Many leading AV suppliers like SentinelOne, Cylance, Crowdstrike do this and are very successful at it. However Apple is just starting in the antimalware market so I forgive them that they're just scanning for some known-bads for now.
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I'd argue you're not really considering the total $ cost of an adult human being. I'm guessing many of those who have died during poorly regulated construction projects were relatively young too, so having invested heavily in nurturing workers to that point, the potential to capitalise on decades of productivity is lost.
If we're talking about the US, why layer on even more regulation to an already unnecessary industry? Just eliminate the dealership model & allow people to order directly from the manufacturer.
Do you ever plan on adding "headless" support? I could see this as "no-code" for backends, having a drag and drop builder for all the same operations but instead of a form, you just provide an endpoint to hit.
The best "security" is not to give data to "tech" companies. It is never too late to stop doing something stupid. It is unfortunate that governments will not help citizens in this regard by adequately regulating collection of data by "tech" companies. Laws limit data collection by governments from their citizens, for good reason. Meanwhile "tech" companies are under no such restrictions, which is beyond reason.
> NFS style approaches assume that I will give every user an unprivileged user on their local machine

With Kerberos it kinda works, each client is bound to a UID instead of blindly trusting the client, but very few people nowadays deploy this ancient tech (and it's fragile).
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Are you saying it takes 469ms to attach event handlers? That's well over a billion clock cycles. That doesn't sound efficient.
> The nice thing about indoor space is that we can make pretty much as much of it as we'd like.

What? Have you ever been in Lisbon? The city is pretty dense as it is. You could mostly just build higher, and that has its limits too, depending on the structure and foundation.

Adding more housing outside the core of the city might not be attractive enough. And increasing the density of people also means you need to increase the density of services (public and private) and utilities, which also comes with its own problem.
In winter 200-300W load? How do you heat your house?

I'm from EU, a relatively "cold" (French Alps at 1030m) place but definitively not that cold (peak cold -25℃/-13℉ in early morning, -8/10℃ (14/18℉) during the day between January and February), with a new home witch means well insulated, with a proper VMC, water-water heat-pump etc, and well... The MINIMUM load during night and early morning is around 1kW. IF Sun shine during the day, well, the load is not much an issue from 9h30 AM to 3 PM, but for the rest is on grid.

Of course old homes heat with gas/oil/wood/* so need far less electricity (still IME a bit more than 2-300W base load though) BUT apart of wood coupled with large hot water storage (to been able to sleep instead of charging wood every hour) if you are not living in a relatively cold place I doubt you have a 6-12 month gas/oil/wood reserve at home and during such "cold episode", being very rare so far, getting new "fuel" would probably be not that easier...

I've made a small p.v. with lithium storage as a very expensive UPS for the house, being relatively autonomous in summer I hardly can be autonomous in winter: in some RARE winters like the last one where Sun shine almost all day I can survive a day to the next cutting the heating depending on battery SOC, but in case of a day without enough Sun light I'm still on grid or on emergency generator backup... Having a real autonomy IME is more a dream than something feasible, at least something feasible at human prices because spending the price of a house just in batteries who might last at maximum 10 years for some rare episode is not really a sustainable price...
I love that you're being downvoted for a very basic fact: The governor of this state cares more about making sure trans kids can't feel comfortable in school than actually making sure school provides value to those kids.
I don't claim that it's 100% guaranteed legit just because they didn't deny it, but it certainly puts the burden of proof on the people who would claim that it is fake.

As for evidence that it was a coverup, Mark Zuckerberg stated publicly that FB algorithmically suppressed the story because the FBI came to them warning that it was Russian disinformation (of course they used the phrase "has all the hallmarks of" so they can deny that they lied about it later). Of course he could be lying, but I don't think he is, and you just asked for evidence, not outright proof.
The "ban" is about connector type, not the wire itself. And it doesn't "ban" anything - as long as you can connect your device using that one type of cable you had in your drawers for five years - it is okay. That is not a "ban", just a minimal requirement. (Kinda like EU doesn't ban some type of doors at buildings - it only requires that doors could open and wouldn't be in the way in case of emergency.)
You would be frightened and amazed at the lack of paperwork on every level of construction.

Sometimes the receipts are tracked, but often it's a "well we charged enough to cover our costs and we got what we needed to do the job, all good".
Our website blocked it inadvertently, we were using ASP.NET Identity which has internal email validation which by default does not accept it. Just flipping a flag in the configuration is enough to allow it, but until someone reported the problem I wasn’t even aware it was blocked.
Is this what you're referring to?

https://www.hertzcarsales.com/rent2buy.htm
Germany is working to make its spot on the list. At least in the cities.
Ban the things your datacenter's country of operation says are illegal, and ignore the rest
I'm skeptical a catapult could ever work in an atmosphere as thick as Earth's. The drag would be incredible.
> My time is worth the few thousand extra I pay that would be spent tracking down private owners, driving around to all of them to test drive, getting a mechanic to check it over, dealing with all those people, etc.

This is a common refrain, and while you can afford it, I doubt many people I know can really afford that cost of a few thousand dollars. If I offered a $1500 fee for doing the leg work for them, would they pay me the money? If not, then "convenience of saving time" is not the reason.
I wish there was a service where you could give them say a hundred bucks and they'd deliver maybe your top 5 cars to your house to poke around and test drive. The Zappos experience (they encourage people to order multiple sizes to try on and make the returns easy) but for cars instead of shoes.

I think a lot of people end up using Turo for evaluation purposes. I'm a little surprised that no one has attempted to disintermediate/democratize car sales as well as rentals. If I had the option to buy the car I rent on Turo, that would scratch the itch you're referring to, wouldn't it... at least for the used market?
China's life expectancy is now higher than that of the US
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> It only dropped support for the Daily Stormer after Heather Heyer was killed in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017 during a white supremacist rally.

When someone calls for censorship because speech leads to violence, ask yourself: Is the list of violent incidents used to justify censorship representative, or cherry-picked to include only the author's political opponents? Hint:

The same press outlets that portrayed Mr. Rittenhouse as a white supremacist have had remarkably little to say about the racial identity of Darrell Brooks, the black suspect in Wisconsin who is accused of plowing his car through an annual Christmas parade last month and killing six people, including an 8-year-old boy, all of whom were white. Given the suspect’s history of posting messages on social media that called for violence against white people and praised Hitler for killing Jews, you’d think that his race and the race of his victims would be relevant to reporters. Race is all anyone would be talking about if a white man had slammed his vehicle into a parade full of black people. Yet suddenly the left has gone colorblind. - https://www.wsj.com/articles/waukesha-killings-make-the-medi...

How many sites with hateful rhetoric were deplatformed due to the Waukesha killings? How many were deplatformed when Xavier Johnson killed 5 white cops and injured nine, saying he "wanted to kill white people, especially white officers" [1]?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_shooting_of_Dallas_police...
Hence android pay... err android wallet... err pay.. err google wallet... err google pay.. err google wallet again.. err now google pay again?

Maybe one day google wave.. or google plus... or google buzz will take off.
I have a lot of luck texting people "is anything fun going on this weekend?"
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+1 for bringing up FB as a comparison. They also do it, but in my experience not as much as Twitter. Been monitoring both Twitter and FB and Twitter is just incredible biased towards left.
That’s a great feature but not al all comparable for a deployment.

The closest thing for PostgreSQL would be Citus, I imagine.
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Yep, that's the one! Seems it's 3 days now, or 2 hours free.

Not all locations offered it, however, but it can be nice.

Even if you don't use it, renting the car or type of car you're thinking of buying can be a good strategy.
I wonder when the security practices mudge pushed for got put into place at various companies? The company I worked for put those into place between 5-7 years ago: limiting who had access to production, logging access, MDM, security scans on computers, security training, etc... Was twitter behind the curve?
The liberal enclaves of high paying jobs has been broken. These people decided to move to exotic or rural or destination places because we paid them like kings. Now we have a lot of entitled kings running around ruining everything yesteryear.
Here I think it makes sense for newish cars. Just check that there is some warranty left and it has full service history.

I would personally avoid private for cheap cars or those that transact often. As you might end up dealing with "jobbers" that is unofficial resellers.
Wait, what? On my M1 imac I’m getting about 25 minutes. What am i doing wrong?
Bringing free antivirus to Mac is a good thing IMO, especially since Microsoft has been doing the same for years.

I'd like to see much more behavioral analysis like the leading AV companies do, rather than just fingerprinting but it's a good start.

One thing I don't like about Apple's approach to security is locking the user out, making the OS like a black box. For me the user should always retain the last word. Until now most of their work has been in this direction (and the direction of iOS) but I'm pleased to see they're looking more into mitigation rather than just prevention now.
> USB can't offer as low latency as a piece of well-designed hardware plugged directly into your PCI bus, at least in my own limited experience.

This may be true but I've never had latency issues with USB soundcards. Right now I have a Line6 Helix Floor unit that I use to play guitar with. I can route the audio through the Helix effects, into Logic and back to Helix for more post-processing and have no latency problems.

I have had other brands and models and none introduced perceivable latency.

I don't use MIDI but I doubt it requires less latency than live guitar playing.

I had a PCIe soundcard a few years ago that made it almost impossible to get rid of ground hum though.
Agree. No one is trying to cancel him. It's just his legacy is greatly overinflated and his inventions had minimal or no impact on everyday life. It goes to show the power of marketing and perseverance if anything.
Forget measuring. We don't even agree on which direction the axis runs.

People on the left think "intolerance" is saying that gays shouldn't be able to marry, or that your biological sex is your gender. People on the right think that "intolerance" is saying that you shouldn't be able to own guns, or that you shouldn't be allowed to say the stuff that the left thinks is intolerant. That is, both sides want to define "intolerance" as being anti-parallel to their own political axis.

But that's not right. Either both of those are intolerance, or neither.

So we need a definition (worse, a definition that is agreed-upon, even if only loosely) that isn't tilted one way or the other politically. Between cognitive bias and bad faith, that's hard to get.
This is weird and the low usage thing seems totally incorrect. Pretty much everyone I know who knows about GitHub uses the trending page.
I hate the dealership experience and games they play and have always wanted to buy from carmax.

However , I have yet purchased a car from carmax, because they have been typically over $3.5K+ overpriced , for the same year ,model, and equivalent condition that I can get it at the scummy dealers.

Typical car shopping experience. Now this has to be modified a little depending if its a buyers or sellers market. However for the most part

1. Determine the car ,model,year, and condition of the car I want.

2. Browse carmax and set that as my highest price.

3. Email and go to local dealers and offer $3.5K- below carmax asking price than add tax and title to submit your offer as and out the door price.

4. Some don't responded but some do .

5. Go to dealerships ones that said they can do it at near the end of the month.

6. Then expect for them to do the bait and switch and send you to the backend manager who plays online games on his laptop for about an hour pretending to do something when they are really just trying to break you down. So when the manager comes into play I typically say great just give me a call or I come back after a couple of hours. so I don't wait there for no reason.

7. Manager plays the if he sold me the car for what I asked then they would be out of business. Then I say why did you agree to it and either I stay firm on my original offer or go up 500 bucks. they typically still don't approve at this stage which is expected and fine so I walk knowing they already have my contact information.

8. Play the wait game . Typically 1 or 2 weeks later I get a call back. They Agree for my original counter offer.

9. I go back in to sign the paperwork

10. The carsalesman is all giddy and sends me back to the manager and financier to close on the deal.

11. I get back and I see additional charges such as dealer fees and other bs which I say thank you but no thank you and the offer I submitted was out the door price. Sometimes I walk out again or they remove the charges .

fun stuff but like I said playing the stupid game has saved me $3.5K most times. The key is willing and having the time to play the stupid game with them, willing to walk, and not have an immediate need for a car.

There have been also times where I have been less willing to haggle on the price but even then I can typically get the car 1.5K below car max with little effort. When I buy new its a little trickier but I never pay anywhere near the msrp.
That last point, persistent meeting chats, is really nice
Just copy your local media station, nightly news loves running muck-raking things about stealerships.
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I empathize, I hope it works out for you.
I think it puts a pretty negative framing on immigration, that it's something you have to buy an indulgence for. Maybe that's true. Being a well paid tech worker who might try the expat lifestyle someday, I'm pretty biased. But I also wonder what it might look like to frame things in a more positive light. Maybe that could be connecting immigrants to jobs making a productive impact in the local economy, or showcasing local investment opportunities. Just from a pragmatic perspective, I feel like this kind of positive framing is more likely to get engagement. People get very defensive, very fast, if you make them feel as if they've done something wrong (even if they have).
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> but otherwise they know you know what you're doing and they'll make very little money on you

This has the air of "That One Weird Trick" that used to work in the early 2010s before everyone had heard of it. But now that it's the lead paragraph in every single "how to buy the exact car you want, for so much less money" blogspam, of course it no longer works.

I'm not sure why people expected it to continue when the entire business model of car dealerships is to turn suckers into money.

"Having to interact with a dealership" is around number 4 or 5 on my list of why I will never buy a car again, after years of not having one.