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QUFB··on An LSD Trip “Off-Switch” May Be Coming Soon
Yes, or at least it blocks effects if you take it pre-exposure. Risperidone, an atypical antispychotic, is also known for this. Some idiotic big pharma startup will try and milk this, rather than examining cheap existing medications. Plenty of medications block 5-HT2A, I think the important requirement here would be rapid absorption and high receptor occupancy.
QUFB··on Show HN: Daily non-commercial blog posts which didn't reach HN's front page
I don't really appreciate the attempt to collect my email address. When clicking on a link, it's nice to see the content directly.
QUFB··on Caught on camera, police explode in rage and violence across the US
Keep in mind, the middle might be very narorw.

Just last year, in the official Christmas Tree in Minneapolis precinct 4 headquarters, discarded malt liquor containers and menthol cigarette packages were used as ornaments:

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/12/racist-christmas...

What perspective make you happy about taking a middle road around a police force, and society, that tolerated this? The police haven’t needed to hide their outright motives: it’s race, whether it’s killing someone or decorating a Christmas tree. Other officers don’t speak up. Enjoy the privilege, I do and am more than aware.

QUFB··on House cancels vote to renew surveillance powers after Trump threatened veto
Can you provide some recent actions that lead you to believe this? I'm genuinely curious.
QUFB··on House cancels vote to renew surveillance powers after Trump threatened veto
What? The ACLU has been consistent about FISA:

https://www.aclu.org/other/fix-fisa-end-warrantless-wiretapp...

They don't give a fsck about the political inclination of those speaking. They even fought for the rights of Nazis to march in Skokie:

https://www.aclu.org/other/aclu-history-taking-stand-free-sp...

QUFB··on Pantai Remis Landslide
That is an awesome trick, please let us know how! The account was created hours after the comments, and the comments no longer appear in the original commenter history.
QUFB··on Pantai Remis Landslide
For me, it isn't worth expending the mental energy editing Wikipedia. I'd be exhausted seeing the arbitrary deletion of articles like this; fighting Wikipedia policy warriors, who have all the WP:TLA and WP:FLA rules memorized; fighting PoV warriors, the successful ones who are also policy warriors; fighting cliques who take unofficial ownership of articles.

And maybe it's just me, but I don't get the impression that most very light editors of Wikipedia have even made a single proposal for deletion.

QUFB··on Pantai Remis Landslide
And the Wikideletionists have flagged it already (not already I suppose, the article is 11 years old)!
QUFB··on Show HN: Caddy 2
Caddy's TLS features are available in CertMagic (https://github.com/caddyserver/certmagic) for your daily Golang web app development. Highly recommended!
QUFB··on Would You Have Fallen for This Phone Scam?
If I can figure out the right button to press to get a human, I explain to the Chinese scammers that my Mandarin is really poor, but that I would love to hear what they think about the 6/4 Incident.
QUFB··on Supreme Court rules Georgia state law annotations not copyrightable [pdf]
This Amicus brief from other states aligned with Georgia attempts to explain the rationale:

https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/18/18-1150/114285/201...

QUFB··on Signal threatens to dump US market if EARN IT act passes
The lack of PFS is a big negative about keybase.
QUFB··on Google bans Zoom from employees' computers
Understood, it differs, I just made a very brief comment and mentioned a couple of obvious threats!

For those that use Zoom - consider spending at least a few minutes to make a mental threat model about Zoom. Who might go after you? What features does Zoom have that might be exploitable? What's the worst thing that can happen? The worst case for Google is not the same as the worst case for a professor or elementary school.

Maybe Zoom doesn't work for your use case - fine!

Maybe Zoom is good for your use case - fine!

Lots of people will be using it either way, so it's good to have Alex help lock it down.

QUFB··on Google bans Zoom from employees' computers
Some thoughts:

1. Google's threat model may not be your threat model, and it definitely isn't the threat model of my daughter's school. A corporation like Google may be concerned using native applications, written in unsafe languages, written by developers from other corporations in China. That said, Zoom isn't wrong for everyone.

2. Google is motivated to push their own solution for obvious reasons.

3. Tavis, or others, at Project Zero might know some things, maybe we'll find out.

QUFB··on Expanded access programs for Remdesivir
False dichotomy much? This is a nuanced issue, and the parent comment didn't suggest this at all.
QUFB··on The Results of the 1.1.1.1 Public DNS Resolver Privacy Examination
So APNIC essentially gets an "anonymized" firehose of DNS requests sent through 1.1.1.1? What is their retention policy?

From https://www.cloudflare.com/resources/assets/slt3lc6tev37/5xl...:

"A log of the DNS request, with truncated source IP address, is routed from Cloudflare’s edge data centers to Cloudflare’s main data center. The data first enters a stream processing platform that translates the truncated source IP address into the autonomous system number (“ASN”) of its originating network, and deletes the data within 25 hours of ingestion. Moving from the stream processing platform, the data flows into a database table, where the DNS data record is stored with the ASN instead of the truncated source IP. The DNS data records in this database table are deleted within 25 hours...

Cloudflare has an agreement with Asia-Pacific Network Information Centre (“APNIC”) that allows Cloudflare the use of the 1.1.1.1 IP address. In exchange, APNIC has access to the anonymized logs stored in the Public Resolver table in Cloudflare’s data center for research purposes. APNIC has access to this data through the use of a unique, authorized API key."

QUFB··on No Code Of Conduct (2018)
You're probably right, and larger projects need a more formalized framework for CoCs.
QUFB··on No Code Of Conduct (2018)
And that's the license I use!
QUFB··on Kubernetes 1.18
I've seen the cloud agnostic nature of Kuberbetes mentioned in many posts here. This is only true on the surface for a significant number of use cases and deployment models.

Once petabytes of data are out there in your GCP or AWS environment, "portability" will be costly due to extortionistic pricing of egress bandwidth.

QUFB··on Engineer who attended cybersecurity event contracts coronavirus
Meanwhile, CONEXPOAGG is on with 130,000 attendees:

https://twitter.com/LasVegasLocally/status/12371489198988369...

QUFB··on “I Don’t Think the Virus Can Be Stopped Anymore”, Says Harvard Epidemiologist
What do you think about Marc Lipsitch's analysis is overblown?
QUFB··on Nassim Taleb suggests Musk doesn’t understand risk in complex systems
Derek Lowe, as always, has some great insight into possible treatments and vaccine development (and drug discovery in general):

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/03/06/co...

QUFB··on Leaked doc shows how big companies buy credit card data on millions of Americans
SHAKEN/STIR is rolling out very, very, very slowly. Interoperability is poorly defined and carriers seem to be sharing on an ad-hoc basis.

Anyone with a prepaid credit card can spoof numbers, make calls for < $0.005/minute, just by running apt-get install asterisk with a minimal configuration.

QUFB··on How to Work During a Pandemic
> To start with the latter: this virus cannot be contained anymore, at best it can be slowed down. Which means that sooner or later we all will get it. So the extreme measures to isolate yourself from your environment in hopes of not getting contaminated are a waste of time and resources.

Not true at all. There is a great benefit to "flattening the curve" to spread out the infections over time, as a high percentage of cases for older individuals will require hospitalization, and there are a limited number of beds available. If reasonable isolation measure are in place, this could happen, as there would be fewer active carriers at any time to transmit the virus to vulnerable populations.

QUFB··on New Chinese study indicates novel coronavirus didn't originate in seafood market
Context: The Global Times is a CCP publication.
QUFB··on Ask HN: Should you use a fake landing page to validate your idea?
What does your moral compass say? Do you need ethical validation from strangers on HN, most or some of which you don't know?
QUFB··on For-profit firm seeking to run .org names makes concessions
> To address concerns, Ethos agreed Friday to limit price hikes to an average of 10% per year for eight years

    $ echo 1.1^8 | bc 
    2.1
Nice concession.
QUFB··on Trump administration backs Oracle in Google fight
For those commenting on the thread how Google hates Republicans, their PAC donates equally to both parties (technically a bit more to Reps):

https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.php?strID=C00428623

QUFB··on New AMD EPYC-based Compute Engine family, now in beta
Speaking of nested virtualization, are there any plans to support this on E2, or will we have to use other instance types?
QUFB··on Why Google Did Android
As a geek, the N95 was very amazing at the time:

1. Multitasking!!

2. Good maps app

3. 3G

4. SIP client

5. All the music you would ever need through Rhapsody

These came years, sometimes many years, to other mobile platforms. The downside with the N95 was the lack or touchscreen and the crappy crappy Symbian UI.

But in 2007, I could stream music from a subscription service while using mapping to navigate, then take a SIP call.

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