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Or he's just been craving some greasy burgers recently. Jumping immediately to health issues is a bit much IMO

cURL has above-average name recognition. It's like mentioning a Dremel tool instead of a handheld rotary tool.

HTTP exploit requests can be pretty complicated, and the use of cURL hints that it's a dirt simple exploit to leverage.

This is an arstechnica article, their target demographic is more technically literate than the lowest common denominator.

Nothing about the article implies cURL is responsible for the exploit, only that it can be used to leverage the exploit. It's relevant and good to know, and shouldn't be removed IMO.

The trouble here is that people don't become wealthy just because of luck. It plays a part, sure, but people have to play the game and know how it works in order to have even a chance of winning. The trouble is that many people don't even try because they don't know how to.

Becoming wealthy is all about making more money than you spend and investing the rest. Education absolutely helps make more money, especially if you are educated in an in-demand field. Then you have to develop the discipline to spend less than you earn and to know(learn about) how to use an IRA and save from an early age.

My personal finance class in high school was vital for this reason. While not everyone internalized its teachings, those who did have had significantly less stressful lives after they got an emergency fund saved up.

It's a divisive political topic, and he associated an individual post made on an internal Ycombinator forum with Ycombinator itself. Comments of individuals don't represent the company, and by framing it like he did, he publicly dragged Ycombinator right into the middle of a contentious political debate.

At this point in the US, anyone who wants to get a vaccine can get one. That makes getting it a personal choice.

Then you have this person try to damage Ycombinator because one of their founders spoke internally about the matter. Absolutely tactless. You'd expect future founders to be able to consider potential repercussions for biting the hand that's serving them.

One time, I fell asleep as a passenger in a car. I hit a bump, looked up, and screamed as I saw what looked like a car coming right for me.

It was a tow truck towing a car backwards. It was just enough in my half-asleep state to scare the shit out of me.

Humans have millions of years of evolution behind our visual processing systems. We have developed hacks that prevent our brain from getting tricked by unusual situations like traffic lights on trucks or backwards cars being towed. We only developed the first computers a hundred years ago, and only in the last 40 years have a small subset of people started learning about visual processing systems.

It's easy to look at this video and scoff because of how trivial it seems. But it's instead a marvel of our minds that we can pick up on context clues so quickly and accurately that such oddities basically never puzzle us. Given the pace of our innovation, it wouldn't surprise me if our computer systems match ours within a few human generations at latest.

USAA's new 529 company is absolutely horrible. Has arbitrary password length limits. It complains of good, complex passwords and you can't paste them in. I couldn't even log in because my account became locked. It definitely hurt USAA's reputation for me.

Any ideas on how to instill that do-or-die mentality in people who haven't gone to the military?

As someone who worked in a sandwich shop to survive while going to college($7.5/hr, 30 hrs/week), I can't imagine the universe some people live in where an income of $375,000 doesn't seem sky high. It's like there is a section of people who live in a different world.

I understand that it isn't much for an executive, but then that stuns me even more.

Edit: median US salary is around $70k. This executive's pay is over 5x median income. Those who say it's not a lot are disconnected from the way that most people in the country and the world live.

I find the concept of removing entrance tests so more black people can be accepted into college divisive too. Sometimes divisive issues just need to be addressed head-on in a way that avoids unnecessary flamebait or emotional amplification. I feel the article did an OK job at that, considering how sensitive the topic is.

Race is already a metric in deciding college admission. Asian Americans need significantly higher GPAs to get into pretty much any competitive program.

Nothing about the title implies it "is unplanned, unannounced / new intel, leaving for a bad reason, and/or he no longer will be involved."

The wanna-be gangster I spoke of was white. I live in one of the whitest regions of the country, but we still have gangsters, ne'er do wells and generally bad people here too. Everywhere does.

The internet has moved to be mobile-first, media-rich, and optionally asynchronous. IRC didn't adapt, though I'm still hopeful for matrix.org.

Your subjective statement pushes a narrative that racism from white Americans is the cause of the problem. It's reductive and unproductive, which is why it received comments so quickly. Pushback doesn't imply you're right, it implies a divisive comment or subject.

And tell them how to register the nickname, and tell them how to log in, and tell them how to list rooms and join them. Then teach them about op codes.

(Lack of) Ease of use is a big reason for IRC's loss in popularity.

This doesn't match my experience at all. I moved because I could afford a house in the suburbs, and the lower population density decreases chances of conflict.

Not everyone is racist like this

This. What I recall from living in the city was regularly hearing my neighbors stomping and occasionally fighting, asking neighbors to keep their music down so my wife could sleep(she works night shift) and getting in a yelling match, and having to deal with a psychopathic apartment complex who didn't respect privacy at all and exploited every situation they could. I remember going for a jog and a wanna-be gangster on the sidewalk grabbing at his pants(like towards a gun) because he didn't know I was there.

American cities aren't pleasant.

Newpipe's "skip silence" feature is absolutely incredible with lectures and public meetings too. It's just an all around better experience.

Such superorganism traits arise only if they are evolutionarily advantageous, and only when evolutionarily pressure selects for those traits. However, overpopulation previously was never really an issue, high population density was the exception rather them the rule, and various nation states clamored for scarce resources through war. This means that such forces haven't been part of our species for long.

In such an environment, wouldn't evolutionary forces be less likely than, say, ubiquitous xenoesteogen exposure from new chemicals like plastics or a vastly different diet and lifestyle from our evolutionary origins?

That's cool! Was your experience typical for the region?

Here are some fun anecdotes that may shock a lot of non Americans (and some urban Americans):

My dad first took me shooting around 6 or 7 years old. I shot my first 12 gauge shotgun at around 10 or 11 years old, and I kept a deer rifle in my room from age 15(I didn't have ammo). At 17, I bought an AK47 semi-automatic rifle, and got my first handgun at 19. I regularly conceal carry a 9mm pistol and I don't have a license, though I do have training from a very young age and plan to get a conceal carry permit just because. I plan to raise my daughter similarly.

I live in rural Missouri. Most kids and young adults don't get an AK47, but otherwise my story isn't unusual around here.

We have the same thing here in Missouri. We've had it for decades, and it seems to work fine for us. In the rural parts of the state, police response times can be 30+ minutes. While deer hunting one time, I had to call an ambulance and met halfway with them because it would have taken too long for them to reach us otherwise without a helicopter. In such an environment, ubiquitous firearms dissuade brigands and robbers from wreaking havoc.

Part of why this is such a contentious issue is because the needs of different parts of the country vary so drastically. (Ignoring cultural differences for now) Rural America is vastly different from urban America, Texas is different from NY or CA. We need to have the capacity to acknowledge and accept these differences and stop trying to force the other side into a box that works for your area, because it might not.

Thankfully, it sounds like the officers involved didn't apply such unusual laws in order to irreversibly damage someone's life when they were stopping a thief. Punishing people for trying to do good things while ignoring thieves and vandalizers would be a fantastic way to cause a breakdown in civil society and a dissolution of trust in the law and government.

> My point is that just because I heard an acid attack outside my hotel in London, it does not make me qualified to criticize London or those who choose to live there.

Yes it does. People are allowed to have opinions and express them. I've never been to SF, but I can just tell from what I've seen on sites like this that I would hate it. You can feel otherwise and that's fine, but other people will judge SF for their inaction on issues like ubiquitous homelessness.

I second this. File transfers between my phone and computer are seamless and quick. I can even use it to find my phone when I use it. It is rare to find open source software that Just Works, and KDE Connect is one of these rare gems that does so.

Small modular reactors are probably our best bet here. Centrally manufactured, fail-safe designs, short on-site construction times and time-to-first-power-output. It all depends at this point on if the regulatory environment can be improved soon enough for it to matter.

You would be absolutely amazed how effective flash cards and spaced repetition are at cramming arbitrary information into your head. Once you have definitions and jargon in place, it's significantly easier to learn the concepts and how things go together.