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Yesterday it was the old OKCupid blogs today it's WAW. I spent some time a few years ago exploring the incel wiki after one of the mass shootings that happened and saw these concepts popping up again and again. I feel like maybe these ideas are reaching a critical mass of young men lately and it will be interesting to see what the ramification of that are....

Looking at how men are doing in terms of life expectancy, educational attainment, career prospects, etc... does make it obvious something has gone very wrong for them as a group but I think there's a real lack of any sort of positive vision going forward. Mostly I see lamentations of how much better women seem to have it or angry calls for a return to the status quo ante.

Is there someone with a positive vision for men? Jordan Peterson spews a bunch of nonsense about fighting dragons and embracing suffering but that's not going to get men into universities or opening up emotionally with one another so that they stop drowning in lonely misery.

The one positive proposal I've seen lately was the suggestion that boys should start school at 6 instead of 5 since girls mature a bit more quickly which gives them a leg up in terms of academic achievement.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/10/boys-de...
Wrong again. I was classed as ordinary employee and had SS deductions just like any other job I've had.
Or just the 16 free RHEL instances...per person ;)
Actually you can get Rick and Morty legally in Canada via StackTV on Amazon channels for $12.99/month if you’re an Amazon Prime member.[1]

You can also watch episodes in the Global TV app, but you do have to have a subscription to Global TV to watch those, though it is often included in basic packages that start at $25/month ($15 for Alt TV) as CRTC mandated that channels be made available a la carte with a cheaper “Starter” package.[2]

That said the cheapest (legal) way to get Rick & Morty is to record it yourself over-the-air for free given that Global is a nationally broadcast TV channel, for now. Edit: Actually, I’m not sure this is still the case.[3]

1. https://www.adultswim.ca/where-to-watch/

2. https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/television/program/alacarte.htm

3. https://blog.fagstein.com/2018/11/13/corus-asks-crtc-to-shut...
If you could make the case that it’s necessary then what are we even talking about here?
> But if I started in VR, I'm basically stuck there.

That's not entirely true. You can still pull up screens and hack away in Workrooms. However, I don't think they let you hide your screens from others yet. I presume that feature will soon come.
The police just turn off their bodycams when they want to do something illegal, it isn't really transparency unless there are serious questions any time the camera is turned off or footage mysteriously "goes missing" from a computer.
Even in that older article he wrote about the Metaverse, it seemed like somebody just gave Ben Thompson a really good demo, and that made him bullish on the product. He's a very smart analyst, typically, but I don't think his prediction about the usefulness (or more accurately the adoption) of VR for business meetings is going to pan out. Nobody wants this stuff, and the cheaper, better solution for an increasingly remote workforce is just to have fewer synchronous meetings, not to spend thousands of dollars buying every team member a VR headset.
Does this actually make someone 1% more productive? I'm skeptical, but willing to be shown to be wrong.
The prospect of aliens trying unsuccessfully to communicate with a nematode is pretty comical
That's one downside, co-ops tend to remain small, due to the difficulty of scaling horizontal structures. This means it's easier to start one than to join one.

(This is also why I highly suspect Valve is not truly horizontal: you will never get 100 people to agree on anything important.)
Hotbits uses radioactive decay as its source https://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/

It measures the time between two events (call this T1) and then the time between the next two events (call this T2).

If T1 > T2, you've got a 1. If T1 < T2, you've got a 0. If T1 = T2 throw it out.

As this is measuring the time between events rather than the rate of events, a decaying source just gives less bits over time rather than less randomness.

> The trick I use was dreamed up in a conversation in 1985 with John Nagle, who is doing some fascinating things these days with artificial animals. Since the time of any given decay is random, then the interval between two consecutive decays is also random. What we do, then, is measure a pair of these intervals, and emit a zero or one bit based on the relative length of the two intervals. If we measure the same interval for the two decays, we discard the measurement and try again, to avoid the risk of inducing bias due to the resolution of our clock.
> Between the increasing cost of high-speed internet and the proliferation of streaming subscriptions — Netflix, Hulu, Disney Plus, HBO Max, Apple TV Plus, the Criterion Channel, YouTube, Shudder, Paramount Plus, Peacock, etc. — costs haven’t really gone down all that much. People wind up paying a little less, maybe, but at the cost of having radically fewer choices. What’s interesting about this is how little most folks really seem to mind the trade-off.

What the author misses is that people are so saturated with content that they don't need to subscribe to everything.

I don't have the time to watch everything that I am interested in on just Netflix. What is the point of subscribing to another service, that I won't have time to watch?

It wouldn't matter if they all merged into one giant streaming platform. I don't have the time to watch everything.
Isn’t that the point? Do you think they shouldn’t have investigated Hillary Clinton?
Good ol’ true Scotswoman argument…
No doubt "defund the police" implies using some of the funds for social programs, but you have to do some mental gymnastics to believe that it doesn't mean "reduce the amount of policing" particularly when the slogan was chanted in tandem with demands to remove or reduce police from communities of color and so on. The main thrust of "defund the police" was to reduce the amount of policing, which is what we got, and crime has surged as predicted (especially in communities of color, 80% of whom didn't want less policing, but it was demanded in their name anyway). Moreover "disarm cops so they learn to deescalate" is not markedly better than "reduce the amount of policing", but rather it seems differently predictably awful.

Granted, social program funds haven't increased, but there's no world in which we invest more in education or mental health services or anything else and it makes up for the drop in policing with respect to deterring crime. If you keep policing in tact and invest more in public services, maybe over decades you'll see a significant improvement (because investing in public services doesn't pay out immediately), but if we divest ourselves of policing, then crime becomes a much more powerful and immediate drag on underserved communities than the lift afforded by investment in (non-policing) public services. We need policing and public services.

> And any count of crime surge should also include crimes committed by police under color of law.

Even if you count every police shooting as an unjustifiable homicide (on the order of hundreds), they are completely dwarfed by the non-police homicides (on the order of tens of thousands). Indeed, the increase in annual homicides is about 10k since the pre-BLM era (a ~60% increase)--the increase alone completely dwarfs all officer-involved shootings.
I don't want to nitpick, but consider using multiple paragraphs and headings to make your writing clearer.

Instead of a readme, possibly use Github pages for the project blog (if you don't want to host/pay for your own site).
How do you hold an entity accountable when that entity has the capability to destroy any single individual with no repercussions?

Accountability is further complicated by the fact that the entity is political in nature, so the FBI has actual partisan backing through politicians, the court system, and even down to individual jurists.

I honestly don't know what the solution is myself.
No serious science can exist without philosophical foundations to it.

The whole modern materialistic scientific world view emerged from Aristotle "metaphysics" which is pure philosophy. To some extent at least.

So the more correct question is — what is modern science if not an applied side of philosophy?
The definition of white is that same as that for any other racial group: a member of the white racial group, determined by a combination of lineage, how one is perceived, how one perceives themselves, and more. It can be complicated, and so is usually just determined by a “I know it when I see it” test, or self identification. But certain hard rules like where your ancestry is from and how your parents race is exist.

Not only is it racist, there’s also no sense in tying extra garbage like “level of discrimination” to the definition of white - it just doesn’t match up to observed reality. White people have been enslaved, white people are discriminated against in many countries where they aren’t the majority, white groups receive varying levels of discrimination even now. These facts don’t make a person any more or less white.
Less content, but it's pretty consistently higher quality than other services, at least so far. It's more than just those two shows. It was actually kind of hilarious to see Apple win a best picture Oscar with a tiny indy film on their first try after seeing Netflix spend years and billions on huge names blowing their load on near miss after near miss.
The green texts isn't just branding or aesthetics. iMessage with non iphones is a legitimately degraded experience and the green texts exist to remind you of that, but even if they weren't green the experience would still be bad because apple realizes that forcing people to buy their phone if they want to have texts that send in under 5 seconds is an incredibly successful strategy. Having long form conversations over SMS just doesn't work given the time they take to send, and tons of iPhone users refuse to get a messaging app.
I have used VR a lot. What Quest is chasing is the old person’s vision of what VR should be - a bad mirror of reality. All of the good VR innovation I’ve seen has been in games.

All of my analogies are exactly the same. It’s using technology to try to poorly replicate what already exists rather than using technology to enable a bunch of new things possible without the bounds of the physical world.

> This is a terrible analogy because the DMV is not a meeting. It’s a service and it’s already being automated.

You’re missing the point. Renewing a license over the Internet removed an instance of one of the worst facets of the DMV. Quest isn’t working on getting rid of the worst parts of meetings, it’s working on copying (poorly) the whole experience as-is.

The quest version of the DMV if the website didn’t already exist would be to sit in a waiting room. Innovation would be to get rid of it.
This is a process for refining iron ore, as opposed to using a blast furnace, or using the same process with decomposed natural gas instead of just hydrogen. In steel production it would be subsequently smelted.
Right, but what you're describing is 'not being able to do math'. Like, if I've memorized a multiplication table and can give you any result that's on the table but can't multiply anything that wasn't on the table, I can't do multiplication.
> It doesn't solve the lack of real face-to-face communication from remote work, I'd argue it's way worse because now you're face-to-face with a bad simulation of a face.

For now, it's a bad simulation. But, this needs to be thought of on a 5-10 year scale. Might still be useless, but can't judge it on a 1 year scale.
Many business schools will have a research group focusing on organizational behavior, which will likely have information of interest for you.

For example >> https://eller.arizona.edu/departments-research/centers-labs/...
Some still washes up along the shores of the US: https://www.app.com/story/news/local/ocean-county/2018/03/31...

No pharaohs have washed up recently, though, as far as I know.
Apple moving into Ads is a huge systemic risk for the company.

No one will trust them again if they make one major mistake, and Ads are a minefield for upcoming regulations.

They have so much money and financing available, instead of being greedy, they should focus on hardware.
This 'design thinking' approach is such a rubbish. Having quite a bit of background into how design is done at Apple or some top studios, this kind of process couldn't be further away from how good design is actually made and yet, sadly, the web is filled with self-proclaimed gurus of this kind.
Intel is always planning thousands of job cuts. As soon as you get a job an Intel you'd better start looking for your next job.
I tried to create a website that would play this. Basically an ad hoc surround sound. The theory was that people would load it on 4 different devices, and one play button would start them simultaneously through websocket messages. Unfortunately I learned that the timing of the html5 audio element varies too much between browsers and devices.
Format Fetishism
So you mean my perception that the EU is run by a bunch of bureaucrats who don’t understand technology, stymie innovation and don’t think about unintended consequences? Do you think there may be a reason that hardly any successful technology companies come out of the Eu?
I don't think that's particularly a problem. Just because Netflix or Hulu offered one service when I first used them a decade ago doesn't mean they're obliged to provide the same service at the same price forever. I occasionally cancel a streaming service if I decide that it's no longer providing enough value to me, just like I'd cancel my current subscriptions if they started adding ads.
As a dental professional working with oral/maxillofacial surgery teams, I can’t wait for fMRI quality imaging in a portable affordable device. First to market with such systems will make a fortune.
I was curious what they had after ~1974 so looked at the file, and roughly 200 pages of the 270 total are a 2005 incident where a fan sold/uploaded bootleg recordings of her work. As an aside, it's amusing to see screenshots of webpages complete with ancient online ads that appear to have been printed out then scanned in the report. And another aside, I believe they redacted the soft drink offered to the fan during questioning, which the fan refused.

Besides that she played a show with Journey in a venue that supposedly had mob connections in the 80's.

I wonder if they ruled her harmless after 74 or a different organization took over/the documents have a different classification.
No. ICE was created in 2003 and largely overlaps with existing agencies. It's a bunch of post-9/11 security theater.
I didn't disclose specifics because it would reveal the company I was talking about, but it was in conjunction with the release of Windows Media Center. Many OEMs launched specific software packages associated with managing media on a PC with a TV tuner card.
Good news. I observed those AES cipher/lz2-v2 issues with dead tunnels on newer builds of OpenVPN, on i5-8265u CPU but not on R5 3600. Had to rollback on a previous release.
Did these changes cause performance issues? The original post doesn't really explain what the main problem was.
Facebook's goal is to extract as much information from you as possible. Apple wants to sell you a new phone.
Who would have thought that one thing that could unite Meta and Apple, two bitter rivals, would be an app for those frustrated with their ad-cluttered Instagram feeds, but not enough so to stop using the photo-sharing service? Yet, that seems to be the case. Last month Apple yanked a newly-minted Instagram client from the App Store for violating Instagram’s terms of use shortly after approving the app. The offending app, called the OG App, is, perhaps, too good to be true to survive in the profit-driven ad tech world anyway.
I first saw this come up about the Private Relay service. It didn’t make sense to me to worry about it then, because hiding Apple traffic from Apple achieves nothing.

If it’s affecting third party VPNs, I’d like to know more about why Apple made the choice to do this. I want to be able to assume that a VPN tunnel so configured is capturing everything in or out of my phone. If that’s not happening, I’d like to understand why.
> People who grew up with misinformation just laugh it off.

It does not make them immune to other types of disinformation or manipulation tactics. To think that you are so smart to be beyond that is just hubris.
I know this is more of an emotional response than a serious proposal, but I'll take the opportunity to point out:

Black-and-white thinking leads to very inefficient outcomes.

That is, it makes a lot more sense to reign-in, reform, and redirect intelligence and policing agencies than get rid of them.

I think we want to work on how to align their interests -- as individual agents, intermediate commanding officers, and agency-wide -- with ours as citizens.
Why would that matter? he's not president
I read stuff about crypto, don't understand a word of it, and laugh and laugh and laugh.
>Sweden seems to be a country with significant social pressure

I'm curious what you mean by this?
This is such an obvious point that I am now deaf to cries of incompetence and good intentions. Racial division can only be the end goal of such a concerted effort.
Pretty sure there's been talk on the Bitwarden community forums about them adopting support for using it as a provider. I assume once that's available you might start to see it move into Vaultwarden. But, that's sort of the risk you run with using a 3rd party to a 3rd party...
Another way of looking at anarchism(or at least how I like to look at it) is to consider that even though humans form structures and hierarchies all the time(e.g.: we make a group and I take the first in line position and the rest follows), this structure/hierarchy/authority can and should be allowed to be questioned, changed, etc(e.g.: You know that I'm going the wrong way and intercede, pointing out, maybe taking the position, etc). This "impermanent" nature is very important because then when you consider the effects of hierarchization, 'solidification', etc, their consequences look a lot like a lot of the problems we see everywhere. I.e.: I decide I'll kill whomever tries to take my position as if it was always mine by birthright or some shit and not a `socially built and agreed upon` one, and if you think of it, looking back, any human structure needs a social agreement otherwise there's gonna be a fight or break-up because humans are social creatures, BY NATURE. Plus, coercion isn't just when I threaten everyone that disagrees with me, if I make up a story/ideology/religion that says everyone must obey me, that's just another form of coercion too.

In this sense, Linux is anarchic because people follow the cool guy doing work upfront for us but at the same time since he's "opened it up" there's a statement that it's not his, and there's also mechanisms through which he's unable to take it away or that others could take his position if he does a bad job, like, shouldn't whats socially created also be socially owned? In Linux case I think it works because the answer was 'yes' from the get go. In this sense, there's just no contradiction at all between anarchism and the situation described, one of the conclusions you could get to is that humans are and have always been anarchists. From this we can also derive "anti-state" because one could argue that most humans didn't even wanted to form or become subject to states, that a lot of what went on there was coercion. The principle wasn't applied and challenging it should be no big deal.

Anarchism is definitely not disorganised, quite the opposite.
It's literally the same thing. The market for hardware in corporate telephony and video conferencing is massive. Think headsets, massive screens, Teams/Zoom rooms, special phones, etc etc.
this is just catering to the predominantly male audience of early tech adopters. I remember hearing that the landing assistant in soviet fighter jets has a female voice, because it has a soothing effect on the male pilots.
We do know that at least two FBI agents were found to have conspired against him during his first campaign.

We also know that an FBI attorney falsified information to get warrants against his campaign advisor.

We know that the FBI urged the media to actually censor negative news about his political opponents.

It would be difficult to them trust such an organization to them perform fair investigations against you after those occurrences, regardless of one's political party.
This doesn’t make sense. Of course you can decide whether to enable Apple Arcade or not. Obviously it’s a paid service, so you have to pay to enable it.

Who is ‘pushing’ you to do anything?
It's possible they're not! But I'm suspicious of this notion that prices have dropped by a factor of 5 since last year, and have reached Australia but not Just Catamarans in Florida; maybe they're doing the calculation differently than you are. Or maybe there's a fraud going on.

FWIW your US$320/kWh works out to US$89/MJ. (I try to use SI units when I can; it saves a lot of hassle.)

I think it's fair to exclude taxes, but not to include "the occasional special", since the retailer is presumably taking a loss in that case and will be unwilling to sell you an arbitrarily large number of batteries at that price.

A thing I wonder about is how big a Li-ion battery you really need for an engine starter. 200 amps at 12 volts is only 2.4 kilowatts; a 15C battery with 0.6 MJ capacity could do that, which is about a dozen 20700 cells. You do need a 200-amp BMS, but I think the cost of the cells is still the issue.
Spotify acquires firm that detects harmful content
waiting for the first group of people to speed run this
Wallet at least has a semi-plausible non-evil answer: Users who kick their VPN on to another country and try to use apple pay at checkout will unexpectedly get declined (because the purchase would appear to be coming from another country perhaps?).

Apple could fix that with proper UI though.
I think courting VCs already involves sacrificing your pride and doing a song and dance. Why not do a small easy thing to help close the sale?
Research links IQ and skill-based gambling