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Ah, the 2 sides.. the rational side, and the conspiracy-riddled side.

Of course both sides believe they're the rational one, and the other side is the nutjob wacko one.. and both believe they're right.

Some time ago I read the tip that if you send them a data protection request to either completely delete everything on you or unban you, they'll unban you, because option 1 is too hard for them...

I wonder if they saw more traces from the theme park wastewater...

Business idea: device that you plug to your home wastewater output, scans it, and reports to you anything interesting.

Of course it'd need to be connected to the cloud and have a stupid subscription fee. /s . At least then "Internet of Shit" will apply to the name non-sarcastically.

I guess at least the courts are there to fix things... except when it's also okay for members of the highest court of the land to get sponsored golf/hunting trips, and even be caught dead in one...

Another question would be, what if someone got their first dose 6 weeks ago and their second one 2 weeks ago?

You mentioning visual languages makes me think of DRAKON, which was good enough for the Russian copy of the space shuttle project: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAKON

I wonder how much of it is similar to East Germany with their informants, it's possible that even overseas the students don't dare speak out because someone in their friend group could report them. And as the press release said, even the student's parents back home got harassed by the cops.

It'd be an effective way of control, "Hey why didn't you come to our student org meeting last week?".

I guess if the author/anyone was really bored, they could write a more realistic simulation, with an object that simulates the disk and its sectors/clusters, another that simulates the file allocation table, and even another that simulates the disk with the I/O seek/read/write times (even taking into consideration the time needed for the head to move from different places...).

My properties ensure that I won't face quotas that would be a barrier for emplyoment (well maybe my gender, I'm male), so, I'm just curious, so what if there's one position to fill, the male candidate scores 60%, and the female one scores 58% (using my hypothetical ranking system which actually works and is fair, etc, etc), so just slightly lower. Would your company pick the female candidate in this case?

I guess answering this question "the wrong way" would get a lot of butthurt people showing up to this thread, so feel free to not answer.

> The accident involved an off-duty taxi driver who had been taking his family to a restaurant, reports say.

There's a CCTV video of how fast the car was moving just before an off-camera crash: https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/tesla-die-sekunden-vor-dem-t...

Seems very insane to go that fast with your family in the car. Later in the video you see the wreck and all the airbags have been blown.

The car was already going very fast in that video, it seems if it was driver error, that's a very long time to be confusing the gas and brake pedals. It could still be a deranged person, who, if he's not white, will be called a terrorist, but again, why take the family?

Another possibility would be the driver suffered a medical emergency and couldn't control the car anymore. But if none of the above applied, then... stuck accelerator pedal?

Defrag with "telemetry"... sounds about right for "current" software.

"By clicking Accept, you agree to share the information about your files with us and any relevant third parties [read: anyone who wants to pay us money to get info on you]".

Needs the read/write arm noises for a fuller experience...

Some pics and video: https://www.leparisien.fr/paris-75/paris-un-grave-accident-d...

That's a pretty big crash, not a little fender bender.

Ah yeah, anti-vaxxers (I'm not calling you one) grasping at straws including calling the vax mandates racist because of the low vax uptake from Black people.

If it was a policy that's based on something that the Black people can't change about them (e.g. refusal to entry to a club based on your address, with majority black areas of town being in that list), and it disadvantages them, yes that'd be racist. But in this case, the Black people (or whoever) can easily change it by getting vaxed...

Currently there's an input limit because of this "buffer" (how full the waiting room is allowed to be), when I got my first dose 6 months ago there was a long line outside of the vaccination center (not in the UK), and people showing up at 5:20 for a 5:30 appointment was told to wait (the first limitation was probably only having x bookable appointments per time slot). The healthcare workers were going as fast as they can though, so I guess that's the real bottleneck.

I guess without the waiting area they can add more vaccination booths, but geez, that sounds stressful for the workers, imagine having a person every ~2 minutes for extended periods of time.

Which makes me think I should move my booster appointment to the morning...

Ask HN: Why are people turning HN to StackExchange?

Sometimes bandits are sloppy or have Dunning-Kruger, e.g. with pirated DVDs the sleeve art is just a hot mess of random words, but I guess if they were making fake chips they'd be a bit better at it. Or the guy they hired to do the Photoshop says he's real good but he's actually sloppy, and everyone else just sees random glyphs (imagine if you were having to copy an Arabic label, I assume you can't read Arabic).

Feels a bit like wanting to justify/excuse his air trips...

I'm no expert, but to sell this to the skeptics (if they'd even buy it), I guess an analogy would be, if you wanted to preserve an ice cube in a freezer where the temperature is -20C, incrementally rising the temperature won't matter, until it does: when it reaches the melting point of the ice.

Are we at melting point now? Or very very close to it?

As a leftie, but who can't relate to the many demands they now have (e.g. cancel culture), did Christianity influence the GOP? Or is it more the GOP saying "We are Christians" and what "Christianity" means to them is whatever they say it is?

> why such identity beliefs appear to be spreading

There's a loneliness epidemic (even before the *-demic words became used for something else...), my theory is that lonely people were looking for a tribe to feel a sense of belonging and found political tribes to be one.

It also seems to me people take a lot of political positions not because they believe it, but because "the other side" takes the opposing view. Anything the "enemy" likes, I don't support. But the root cause would be to find that sense of belonging. Or it'd be because of insecurity: if I think the other side have idiotic opinions, I can walk around having the smug feeling of supremacy, and hey, at least I feel better, right?

It's the same issue with second generation Muslim migrants in Western Europe who feel "lost" and then found Jihad, they'd start as troubled youths who were shoplifters, who end up in jail, find the charismatic hate-preacher/Imam there and then are inspired and find their lives' cause, which is sadly Jihad. IMO white supremacist terrorists go through the same motions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlbirlSA-dc or a text that's the same idea (by the same guy): https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2010/jul/19...

They should replace the physical wings with NFT wings...

/s

So, do they pay taxes? Funny to think how dirty NK money (e.g. proceeds from exporting meth, which NK is a big producer of) gets laundered as "restaurant profits" which they must then file taxes on.`

I mean, the precedent has been there for a looong time, and grandparent commenter certainly didn't set it...

As to the why, it's probably related to social status. In the old days people paid attention and listened to the people with status (who usually became leaders), nowadays with celebrity culture it's somehow inverted, a good looking person who can act or sing gets put on stage, and they get the attention (for singing, acting, or looking good), and they gain status.

Well, that's dumb, then. I wonder how they'll determine if your subscription has expired.. digital certificate that has an expiry date, and get the current date from GPS satellites?

On the one hand, try to live forever with this.

On the other hand, accelerate the burning of the planet by giving more people access to an energy-wasting ponzi scheme.

Your 2 goals are incompatible with each other, Brian and Blake.

Presumably this uses a SIM card, where Toyota is paying a network provider for connectivity. So... it seems reasonable to ask for a subscription payment?

Although, I think making a key fob with a SIM card makes it unnecessary complicated, I wonder if on the fob side it's Bluetooth instead, and requires a smartphone with connectivity, plus a Toyota app.

I guess it'd be better for them to add the x years' (x = average car's lifetime) worth of SIM subscription fee to the base price of the car, to stop this complaining.

> We obtained data for all members of Clalit Health Services who were 50 years of age or older at the start of the study and had received two doses of BNT162b2 at least 5 months earlier.

I'm just going to criticize the writing here, but the callouts are annoyingly distracting and useless. They're supposed to be context free, but "Does that sound familiar? It should. It’s the way Apple innovates." is not understandable without the previous sentence. The first callout is repeated in the paragraph immediately after it, geezus christ what's the point...