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Can someone edit the title of this to say “tornado cash“? As a one-time contributor to the python tornado web framework, I had a bit of a scare waking up to see this!

Agreed. Using a dongle is a terrible experience. I had to buy a few cause they kept breaking for me. The primary way I listen to music on my phone is while walking around with my phone in my pocket. In addition, the lightning port can get dust in it so sometimes it is difficult to maintain a good connection. The connection kept coming loose and causing the music to stop for me. I even had my phone’s lightning port cleaned at an Apple authorized repair center, but the problem came back after around a month. Never had that problem with a 3.5mm audio jack in my life.

I ended up having to buy Bluetooth headphones just to listen to music on my iPhone which has its own problems because they have to be charged all the time.

Or maybe it is a mixture of both? Are you sure they don’t have covert people in all the very same positions? Does the CIA have its own internal museums, mapmaking companies, architecture firms? What buildings do their architects design?

Employing an internal economist might be able to give you an idea of financial things going on in the world, but employing an economist who writes for a prominent media company or is on TV allows you to shape how the public THINKS about economics and financial markets which is much more powerful.

Perhaps the tweet is not an open admission of this, but it doesn’t take a lot of effort to connect the dots.

I’m glad people are finally catching on to this. The CIA has their tentacles in pretty much all aspects of society, and it has been that way for years. They have even admitted this openly:

https://twitter.com/CIA/status/1034866941587087360

> CIA officers work as scientists, support staff, engineers, economists, linguists, mathematicians, secretaries, accountants, inventors, cartographers, architects, psychologists, police officers, editors, graphic designers, auto mechanics, historians, museum curators, & more!

Curiously absent from that list is journalists…

Thanks. Output is here if you have any ideas.

https://gist.github.com/ccampbell/9a0118b0e3e607ec56a3a2cc59...

Yes, I agree, but it is a memory leak. It doesn’t START at 10GB. Also closing windows does not help much at all.

To answer your question, I have a total of 73 windows open at the moment. 11 of them are from applications with a single window open, 8 are from iTerm, and 54 are from Sublime Text. I am aware that is quite a lot for Sublime, but that is just how I use it.

Regardless, I just quit Sublime Text, and the memory usage only dropped to 8.9GB still absurdly high for having 19 windows open.

I too have the problem with WindowServer although for me it seems to happen with just regular usage. I have not rebooted in 48 days, and currently it is using 10GB RAM (I have a MacBook Air with 16GB). I have seen some people claim it has to do with using a display scaling setting other than the default (I use 1280x800).

Misinformation? What do you mean? One of the strongest ones? You mean they didn’t lose a lot of money as a result of the collapse? That is exactly my point. They were financing the lenders and offloading their own bad securities in secret while not touching the ones held by their OWN CUSTOMERS. Aka they KNEW the whole thing was a scam and knew the whole thing was going to implode and didn’t want to be caught holding the bag when it did. They still got bailed out along with everyone else.

Here are a couple sources if you are curious:

- https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/the-9-bi...

- https://thedailybanter.com/2015/06/jp-morgan-ceo-who-stole-b...

Gotta love when the Hacker News crowd sides with Wall Street kingpin Jamie Dimon just to own Bitcoin. This guy became a billionaire thanks to taxpayer subsidized bailouts after the 2008 crisis while regular people lost their homes, and while I don’t know that it is proven, it is very likely he was personally involved with or at the very least aware about the subprime mortgage derivative schemes that set off the entire thing.

> Sure, it's annoying that I'll need to use a VPN or change my DNS resolvers to use a pretty slick (and otherwise convenient) website archiver.

You can alternatively look up the IP address using something other than Cloudflare DNS and add entries to your /etc/hosts file for archive.is and archive.today.

Actually a sensitive product is exactly where this does NOT make sense. No matter how good their security is with their cloud version it will still be less secure than having a vault locally on your disk. That is a fact.

Subscription services to me are only justified if they are providing a SERVICE which they are with the web version and ability to sync through their own servers, however, using a local version with your own vault can be done without any service at all.

So to me this looks like them intentionally crippling their own software in order to force people into paying a subscription fee that is not necessary. They already hide the ability to purchase a standalone license for 1Password 7 trying to get people to pay the subscriptions so this is the next logical step.

I agree that running it on top of another ledger like ETH or BTC makes no sense.

That said, the idea of trusting a central bank that is completely unaccountable to the public or even to the Government is crazy to me.

The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it, moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live -- did live, from habit that became instinct -- in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.

> It’s really simple

Have you ever written a stateless transcoder like this? Of course it can be done, but saying “you could simply encode those chunks” and “It’s really simple” is pretty misleading especially if you are changing frame rates or sample rates or audio codecs during the encoding process.

That said, if there is someone that could do this at scale it would be Facebook.

Also this would mess up ABR streaming at least for the first people to watch the video which would not really guarantee “the perfect encoding always”.

Yeah. I agree that is not great, but it also is legal language and says “might be less”, not a guarantee. The way I would probably do it is always refund the equivalent U.S. dollar amount of the initial purchase. That may very well be what they plan to do in practice and this is just language to cover them incase they need to make exceptions.

One thing that makes the Tesla case unique is that they plan to hold the Bitcoin they receive _as_ Bitcoin whereas most companies who accept Bitcoin immediately convert it to dollars. So I think they have to have some leeway.

Similar to my other example, if you spend 1 BTC @ $50k to buy a car then the price of Bitcoin crashes to $30k and you ask for a refund, it isn’t feasible for Tesla to pay you 1.6 BTC as your refund cause then you end up with more BTC than you paid initially and Tesla didn’t gain BTC by holding your original amount.

This is a pretty terrible take. First of all it only applies to refunds. Second, if you are afraid of missing out on Bitcoin gains then DON’T BUY YOUR CAR USING BITCOIN.

I have spent Bitcoin on things like web hosting in the past, I paid probably $150 worth of Bitcoin on a server when the price of Bitcoin was less than $10k. If I had kept that Bitcoin it would be worth around $1,000 now. Does that mean I should be allowed to ask the web hosting company for a refund or should expect them to refund me the full amount in Bitcoin? Absolutely not.

If they did it any other way then the customer would be the one taking on zero risk. If the price of Bitcoin went down you would keep your car, and if the price went up, you could ask for a refund to increase the total dollar amount of money you already spent.

Shameless self promotion, but my testing library, Luna, supports testing Svelte components out of the box.

https://craig.is/testing/code

Full documentation on Github:

https://github.com/ccampbell/luna-testing

“Trust the science” in the age of Covid is more or less a euphemism for “Fall in line and don’t question what the ’experts’ say”. When you look at what has happened to people who have questioned things such as lockdowns and mask wearing, it makes it even less likely that more will. Some have been fired from their jobs, banned or censored on social media, demonetized on YouTube, etc. We should always encourage people to question things and think outside the box because that is the only way we make progress. The speed at which people shoot down competing ideas and ideas they don’t like in this day and age is very dangerous especially when the “experts” we are listening to often have financial incentives to keep things working the way they are.

This article is pretty good on the surface, but I wanted to point out that terms the author uses such as “climate change denialism” and “anti-vaxxer” are themselves derogatory terms meant to attack and demean people who question official established scientific narratives. For example, Robert F. Kennedy was recently banned from Instagram for his views on vaccines. It is the mainstream consensus that he is an “anti-vaxxer”, but if you actually read what he writes and watch videos where he talks, all he wants is transparency and accountability for big pharmaceutical companies who have rushed Vaccines to market with minimal testing, have legal indemnity against lawsuits due to emergency use authorizations, and stand to make many billions of dollars in profits. I urge people to read this post from him:

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/robert-kenney-jr...

I hope one day we will be able able to speak our minds once again without worrying about the repercussions

> Do we reserve judgment on these topics just because someone sued someone else over them?

No, but we also shouldn’t censor people for making those claims. It seems to be the attitude of many big tech companies that their users are too dumb to look at information and decide for themselves what is and isn’t true.

But the point that Palantir will still have a big pool of money to play with regardless of who is in power is completely valid. Over 80% of Democrats (in both the House and Senate) voted to approve the 2020 defense budget. I believe the numbers were similar in 2019 too. They may talk a big game about cutting funding, but I will believe it when I see it.

This is the sad state of VC funding in this day and age.

I can’t help but wonder if movie theaters could have exploited a similar loophole with MoviePass before they went bankrupt. Something like this:

1. Movie theaters buy up MoviePass subscriptions

2. They use those subscriptions to pick different movies to see every day at their location

If they picked 30 movies a month that would be approximately $450 a month in revenue (at $15/ticket), $440 of which would have been pure profit.

And what exactly is the “mission” here? Overthrowing democratically elected governments in other countries? Assassinating foreign agents? Starting coups in other parts of the world? Running global drug trafficking operations?

I agree there is a lot they left out, but as I posted elsewhere in this thread, I think the Times actually went extremely lightly on Bill Gates. It read to me like his PR team authored it. Seems almost like they are trying to get ahead of some new information that may soon come to light.

Haha. I clearly do not have any experience in that area, but I guess that does make some sense.

This piece reads like it was authored by Bill Gates’ PR team. The Times has to do better than this. They do not question a single assertion and take it all as fact.

> Ms. Arnold said Mr. Gates and the foundation had been unaware that Mr. Epstein had been seeking any fee.

> Some of the Gates Foundation employees said they had been unaware of Mr. Epstein’s criminal record and had been shocked to learn that the foundation was working with a sex offender.

> In March 2013, Mr. Gates flew on Mr. Epstein’s Gulfstream plane from Teterboro Airport in New Jersey to Palm Beach, Fla., according to a flight manifest. Ms. Arnold said Mr. Gates — who has his own $40 million jet — hadn’t been aware it was Mr. Epstein’s plane.

> Mr. Epstein complained to an acquaintance at the end of 2014 that Mr. Gates had stopped talking to him, according to a person familiar with the discussion.

Obviously, everyone is in damage control mode and looking to distance themselves from Epstein, but there is a very good chance that Bill Gates and others knew exactly what he was involved in and went along with it anyway.

How do you fly on someone’s private plane without realizing it is their plane?

Unpopular opinion: I think a lot of people use charity/philanthropy as a cover to prevent scrutiny against other less than stellar things they have done. See Clinton Foundation, McCain Institute, etc.

What would be interesting would be to have a poll of which forms of energy people think lead to the most deaths and put it next to this. I have a feeling nuclear would be the top.

The New York Times published an article that touched on this fairly recently too:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/06/opinion/sunday/climate-ch...

I have been using Duck Duck Go on Chrome Mobile since the end of January. Do a search on the site first then it will show up in the list.

I am not going to make the argument that Bitcoin is energy efficient cause I know that it isn’t, but it is designed to be inefficient on purpose in order to provide trust in a decentralized way.

Does that make it a good use of energy? That is debatable, but energy is used for all sorts of things. How much energy is spent producing weapons, bombs, tanks, etc.? How much is spent producing addictive drugs? Cigarettes? Non-recyclable plastics? How much is spent on illegal surveillance of individuals? Why is it that no one ever talks about these examples?

It is very likely that Amazon, Google, Facebook, Apple, Netflix, Microsoft, etc. each use orders of magnitude more energy than Bitcoin does yet no one ever talks about that either.

Bitcoin gets trashed because people believe that the energy used to run the Bitcoin network is wasteful, but the energy used for other things is not. I am sure that opinion is shared by the majority of folks here as well, but that is what it is. It is an opinion. Does Facebook really improve our lives in a way that can totally justify the energy needed to run it?