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>China

Its not totally fair to put this all on Chinese manipulation.

Western politicians and many "tech elite" all love the concept of CCP-style 'social credit systems' being instituted.

This is ultimately what vaxpass is all about.

Can't even sign up. Gives generic error about "payment / registration failed" - its a regular credit card that I use everywhere. Oh well...kinda glad to be honest.

Knowing Oracle it will eventually become a nightmare anyway (whoops, we accidentally billed you $70 for the free-tier, but you need to manually call this long-distance number between the hours of 9am-4pm to reverse the charge and this also happens to be our sales dept)

Imagine needing to get boosters every 3 months and being so insane you think its working....

You will never be fully vaccinated.

>In Derek's example the switch and the bulb are 1 meter away from each other and therefore the time is 1/c seconds, i.e the time light takes to travel 1 meter.

Perhaps I didn't make my example clear. Imagine loop with 2 switches...one switch 1 LY away...another switch 1 meter away.

Derek flips the 1m switch and light instantly turns on: What does that tell you? Derek flips the 1m switch and light doesn't turn on: What does that tell you?

How were you able to find out that information before waiting 1 yr?

Can someone answer the General Relativity concerns regarding this?

Imagine the same loop as Derek setup in the video, but where it extended into next galaxy (say 1 light year away). In next galaxy there is another switch - we don't know if the position of that switch is open or closed...

Now when Derek connects his switch and light nearly instantly turns on...this is obviously telling us information regarding the switch 1 Light Year away. How does this not violate General Relativity since seemingly that information is traveling faster than speed of light?

> As long as we ban IQ tests for employment employers are going to keep using this as the best practical proxy. I

Thats probably true to a degree, however I think the system will breakdown this decade. Given current inflation rates, anyone with an IQ >120 will soon see that the debt/benefit ratio is becoming unworkable.

The last 2 employees my company hired actually game via github - we were using an open-source repo that someone had made and eventually reached out and asked him if he wanted to consult for us and add some features to his code...that lead to an ongoing basic permanent consulting gig.

Its pretty otherworldly, I was an active member of a top 25 sub. Although the sub is decidedly non-political, the mod recently decided to post a politic-specific sticky as first post.

I commented in that thread "this sub is probably not the place for these overtly political posts"...the mod responded to me by banning me for "advocating politics / agenda pushing"...its literally orwellian newspeak site.

Munger is a real proponent of Chinese-style capitalism and generally praises the idea of social-credit systems.

It only makes sense that his architecture style would also favor brutalism. He probably repurposed some of the designs of the old commie-blocks from eastern europe.

The hubris of these engineers are going to kill lots of innocents. I wonder how long until regulators are forced to step in?

Self-driving has continually been proven to be a "not-ready" piece of tech...can't imagine allowing this.

>There's no way for me, a hypothetical person who wants to keep my Signal messages 100% encrypted in the Signal ecosystem, to opt out of my contacts using an Element bridge.

This sounds like a made-up concern.

How do you stop me from screenshotting your convo and posting on twitter, or just copying and pasting from one app to the next?

Thats something similar to what we are doing...

* Local RPI / Container connects to message queue in cloud * Web User inputs request to Web UI (cloud) * Local RPI / Container retrieves request via queue and access final device * Reports status back to queue which is then reported by Web UI

Basically the local device is your router using whatever message queue you want.

We're a industrial-control company whose traditional UI has been standard win32 applications - we've slowing converting our stack over to a web interface but as our UI needs to talk to lots of local devices, we've hit the problems you described.

Our solution has been to basically mandate that the user install either a small embedded device (ie. RPI or equiv) or manually launch a container. These essentially just serve as a local websocket / api router so Chrome connects to some local "device/container" and then that connects to all the local devices.

Although this is a logistical hurdle, its actually simplified other aspects of development since now this device/container has a bit of intelligence and can act as real middleware to simplify what the UI needs to contemplate. Basically MVC-style development using hardware bits as Controller.

Great points, a tangential thought:

MacOS and Windows have figured out that showing a GUI ASAP satisfies the user. Even if in the background its still negotiating networks, initializing sub-systems, etc.

I wonder why Linux has not yet taken that approach? That is move GUI far up in the init-queue and let it initialize networks, avahi, resolved, firewalld, etc as GUI is showing login screen...

>BBC's disinformation specialist

aka. Propagandist

moreover, you can also use docker digest instead of tags, that is: instead of docker pull postgresql:11 you can do docker pull postgresql@sha:xxxx....

I think what the parent is alluding to is: What is the practical point of using Nix when similar outcomes can be reached with more mainstream solutions? In other words, suppose I want to deploy a web app that depends on Nginx, PHP, and PostgreSQL.

I could:

(a) Run all as docker-compose type solution

(b) Run all as scripted Nix solution

(c) Install packages manually on general purpose OS

Lets ignore "c" for the moment as the goal is to avoid that exact scenario. Given the prevalence and widespread support for "a" why should sysadmins choose "b"?

You mean like if I would make a youtube video regarding safety data from the mandated you-know-whats?

Well, the nuance is not every consumer desires every transaction to have those things.

Trying to make blanket statements leads to incorrect conclusions...there are a myriad of cases where consumers prefer classes of transactions to be digital-cash like.

The idea "everyone should be their own bank" is a great idea, and most should endeavor to do that, but it fails often for a variety of legal and regulatory reasons.

Suppose you are a company, with a myriad of shareholders, do you: (a) Setup a crypto wallet and give Frank and Bill the keys, or (b) Outsource to reputable 3rd party.

I can tell you which your shareholders would prefer.

> Just wish inequality wasn't so fucking huge.

Printing money leads to greater inequality. Expect more of it.

>But also: Bake The Cake.

Thanks for entering this space. One thing I would love for you to add is the concept of "Folders" (or projects / songs / whatever you want to call it).

Here is the point: Sometimes I will record 14 different versions of a lick, chord progression, etc for a song idea. Typically its over the course of several days.

It does me no good to have 14 different files date named XX-YY-ZZZZ, etc. What I want is to group those into "Ideas / Songs / Projects"

So should have

"Song Idea 1"

  - 09-27-21 14:24

  - 09-25-21 11:24

  - 09-23-21 10:42

  - 09-23-21 09:17

etc

"Music Memos" was the perfect 'recording snippet app' for me. I honestly think they let a diamond in the rough escape them. The tempo detection and ability to overlay basic drum / bass backing was brilliant.

Its literally just a restatement of their 2017 pronouncement with no changes.

Its being hyped as "new" but its not.

Not arguing your point, because I believe its really valid.

However, the issue is, any moderately complex application will soon develop its own in-house Framework. Its the natural progression, very soon the head Dev will say "lets create a library to handle all our form validation requirements....lets create library separate UI from business logic...etc"

That's the real "slippery slope" from a management perspective.

Do we wind up developing our own in-house Framework which our current developers are very productive in (but new hires don't understand)? Or do we bite the bullet and opt for an already existing Framework that already has a dev community? I'm not suggesting its an easy answer as there are pros/cons to each. In the end for 90% of cases I think starting with an existing Framework (or at least "Framework-lite") is best approach.

>Lets strip mine 1000s of tons of rock to get lithium batteries and charge them with coal and claim the cars are climate friendly!

works about as well as their 'self-driving' shtick

Wow.

In recent years lots of his comedy centered on his fears of death and related religious musings...

The fact that he had been struggling with cancer really puts this in a different perspective.

RIP Norm. You were funny!

>Anecdotally, I know someone who has been infected twice

How does he know he was infected twice?

Saying that a PCR test returned positive values two times isn't a great answer - since by its nature PCR is only counting the existence (above the programmed threshold post amplification).

Serology is the only way to know for certain you were/are infected.

This highlights one of the bigger issues we have: PCR test are a very cheap and a useful way for getting estimates but their failure rate is high enough to make it pretty poor basis for doing large scale data analysis.

>Post a study where totals are not separated by age / gender even though thats the claim.

Sloppy job.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/06/israel-detects-link-...