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No, we save that for the Hispanics.

Have you reviewed the article you linked? The Steele Dossier was compiled by a British source, and the one claim that's generally agreed on is that the Russian Govt highly favored Trump over Hillary. I'd recommend the summary to get aquatinted, then the subsection "Risk of contamination with Russian disinformation considered"

Millions out of us.

Right, and that figure does not mesh with any other given in the article

>But it's not just a warning for those who search for "stresser" and "booter" services which provide an easy way to launch a DDoS attack against a school's network.

I love articles that warn about the dangers of doing something while also providing a helpful starting point for those just now realizing that this was an option.

"SCOTT: Yeah. Well, you know, it's not just an issue of money; it's also about spending it well. I've talked to many homeless advocates who have been in this world for decades who argue that city officials misspending, even wasting, resources that they do have over the years is a big part of what has gotten LA to this point, with more than 40,000 people homeless on its streets."

at $25'000 per capita we should be seeing some improvements, but it's hard to know how much of that has disappeared to 'administration fees'. Also the article talks about how the main push for this was creation of affordable housing, that has a long lead time and with material shortages I would be surprised to find any new units built last year.

'Watching' is equivalent to bookmarking a project, to keep informed on any new developments. I'd say it's roughly similar to "a script that forced people to like a tweet that [he] created"

One Billion is 1.0E9, or a one followed by nine zeroes. so 6.0E45 is one billion to the power of 6, or six billion-billion-billion-billion-billion-billion, times six. At that point you can kind of just mad-libs each billion to be whatever you want "A billion Earths mining for a billion days, duplicated a billion times in a billion different simulated universes, and the odds of finding a hash after all that is still one in a billion, squared."

Or you can plug it into Wolfram Alpha and get it to find a comparison, in this case 6E45 is 0.011% of all possible chess combinations.

It does get worse than that though. A project I played with last year had me asking how many unique permutations there were for a 1920*1080 monitor. That number was around 10^10^77. I don't have any formal maths training and that one really threw me for a loop. To summarize 10^x means you have a number that's x digits long. So 10^6 means I have a six digit number. 10^10^x means that the number that describes how long my number is is x digits long. so 10^10^77 means that if I wanted to write out my number and count the number of zeros in it, that counting would give me a number 77 digits long. Math is weird.

I was interested in the idea too and dug further into the math. Assuming you could check hashes at the same rate as Bitcoin is currently mined at that's 202 Exa-hashes per second. If you had the world's hashing power working on guessing private keys, the odds of getting one on any given day are 1/6.70093E45

The blockchain model is designed to be immutable, a block of transactions are locked in place by the blocks before and after it. A traditional database structure wouldn't have that form of baked-in security, though I'm sure there are other models that could work.

There's three 0s before the last 1. That pushes it over the edge of what a long int can handle

Got curious, and it looks like it was Scott Adams, at least the source I found https://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/07/car...

Prostitution, got it.

Most (all?) US colleges should have reports detailing their intakes and graduation rates for all majors. Students can also look through BLS and Onet to see prospective wages, industry growth rates, and other information. Resources are there, the issue is that we're expecting 16/17 year old kids to make a multi-year commitment towards a field of study they likely have no real experience in.

See, I'm wondering why they didn't go that route and have these NFTs work across games. Haven't dove deep into crypto so bear with me.

In my head how this would work is you go into the game store and pay $15 in Ubi-bucks to get one of these NFTs. That gets you some pRNG seed value, and any supporting game can read that seed off the blockchain and procedurally generate some piece of gear. It might use that to generate a unique item based on preset patterns, it might just be an existing item off a drop table (maybe with a serial number stamped on like the article states). For some games the item is crap, for others it's awesome. Players can browse through already made items, (they're all on the chain after all) and trade through some cross platform auction house, where Ubisoft takes a modest 7% on each transaction.

Numbered helmets seem kind of bland in comparison.

So it's not just the social media. According to the slide deck published on their website[0] it's also a news channel and an on-demand streaming service, with a possible long-term play to compete against the likes of AWS and Stripe. In their own words this is being done to "End the FAANG monopoly".

[0] https://ir.tmtgcorp.com/company-presentation/

It's a ball bearing covered in dust

The use I see for it is in providing access to critical information in the event of injury or death. One key to family, one to friends, one in a safety deposit box, etc. Copies of legal records and sensitive info can be given to people without the risk it would be misused.

The other use is handing/hiding them out at a convention and making a big ARG out of it. Which sounds like a lot more fun

Tracking where it's created seems like a difficult process, many different sources of emission. I do agree that a penalty across the board would be a net incentive towards cheaper polluting power plants.

I'd propose instead a tax at the point of extraction. Our issue lies In the fact that we are adding to the carbon cycle faster than geologic processes can sequester it back into the Earth. Disincentivizing mining and drilling operations, and creating incentives for sequestration, are the only solutions that stick on the scale of a lifetime.

That work wouldn't be related to SIDES would it? If so hats off to you and yours for making such a resilient piece of software. I've been working with my states unemployment offices since the pandemic and just the interoffice differences have been causing issues with automation. I don't even want to think about making something work across state lines.

Christmas?

On the talk of reduced evaporation, can we replicate this at a fraction of the cost by running some plastic sheeting across a field? The solar is an investment that may not pay off in all farms, but reducing water usage is a major concern and stringing along some barriers could be a big help with that.

I think the simplest answer is that we put panels wherever it's easiest. With no existing infrastructure in a random field it takes more effort to get the panels to function, compared to mounting on a roof and wiring in to an existing grid. The upfront cost has always been a barrier to entry, so higher costs turn the average consumer away.

A third party doing support for Frontier Communications, among others. I wouldn't put too much faith in their practices being an outlier though.

I spent some time time as a tier one agent, and will gladly confirm that any complaints given to us were forgotten by the time the call disconnected. If you're rude enough we might leave a note in your file as a warning to the next agent, but that's about as far as complaint handling ever went. Same goes for wanting a manager. Floor managers have no special tricks that they can use to fix problems, just nicer bedside manners.

Tier one CS is there to confirm where a fault lies, teach you basic troubleshooting, and send out techs. If the issue isn't on your premise the best we can do is check that outage for an ETR, though most of the time the crews won't establish one because that creates a deadline for them to meet.

I remember a similar spike when the "hoverboard" became big. I assumed back then the cause was cheap batteries turned out fast enough to meet demand, is the same thing happening here?

I agree with smaller communities being helpful. Because of Reddit's massive userbase and breadth of topics I frequently append 'site:reddit.com' to my searches because I have much more confidence in a dedicated subreddit answering my question than some random blog or webpage that usually ends up being some SEO scheme.

That said, these communities don't represent Reddit as a whole. Looking at r/all, and in theory seeing the most trafficked pages on Reddit, gives an entirely different view than my niche group of subreddits. I think the biggest reason for this is that the thing that get promoted on r/all are the most engaging post of the most engaging subreddits. Sometimes that's something apolitical like a post from r/eyebleach, where people generally agree that cute things are nice. Other posts are things like this one [0] which are meant to inflame you regardless of your side in the matter. If the post's score is anything to go by, this one post gets more engagement then some of the subreddits I visit do in a month.

When someone says Reddit is toxic I usually assume they mean r/all. The platform itself isn't inherently toxic, but it's desire to funnel everyone into the same threads is.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/facepalm/comments/qpcaeh/just_your_...

Not OP and not my field of study but this seems relevant.

>Variations in the amplitude of the N400 showed a better memory trace for items presented in [temporal groups] of three compared to those in groups of four.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3959615/