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> Again your comment is oddly dismissive. Evidence is showing that Ivermectin appears to be an effective treatment.

Disagree. The evidence is so weak that the creator of the drug, Merck, says it's not even worth investigating.

Why aren't insect repellents mentioned? https://ticksafety.com/removal-prevention/tick-repellents/

They're really effective for preventing tick bites

Swiss Policy Research is an anonymously hosted website known for pushing various conspiracy theories

> The Swiss Policy Research site has been criticized for spreading conspiracy theories including claims that QAnon was a psyop of the FBI.[4] and theories relating to the COVID-19 pandemic.[2][5] German public broadcasterTagesschau calls SPR a propaganda tool.[6]

Due to the persistent use of the German letter ß, which is not commonly used in Switzerland, it has been suspected that the creator is not from Switzerland, contrary to what the website title suggests.[7]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_Policy_Research

It has no place on HN

Liberals are busy trying to explain that it's not even what Republicans are describing because they're busy blasting lies about what it even is all over their captive media.

Nobody is teaching CRT. Nobody is going to. The outrage is completely manufactured by right wing propaganda as part of their "America Uncancelled" theme. Which is really just a revival of 60's culture wars.

Conservatives don't realize (or are willfully ignorant) that the vast majority of their media is driven top down by right wing billionaires and leaders of the Republican party. Their talking points are carefully molded before being broadcast on primary channels like Fox News and Trump's email chains. Then everyone else copycats. That's the only reason it seems like all the big name conservatives are talking about it. Because they always parrot each other's talking points. Not because CRT is anything but an obscure legal theory nobody had ever heard of before 4 months ago.

Liberals aren't talking about implementing it. They're trying to explain it's not what right wing media says it is. Just like this teachers union, the reaction of trying to explain the truth behind the lies is twisted into "liberals want everyone to learn CRT"

Look at the data, it's not natural outrage. It's all astroturfing https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge...

I've only gotten it to work on Windows with Chrome so kinda lame, but at least it works well.

HDR is great for lifelike scenes. Games and movie. For browsing, kinda pointless.

People don't realize that sunny days are 5000+ nits and regular screens only hit 300. HDR makes things way more lifelike

The current evidence against Ivermectin is pretty overwhelming, just look at the Wikipedia article. Merck, the maker of the drug came out months ago saying its not useful against COVID.

It's an old anti-parasitic drug with an unknown mechanism of action, just like Hydroxychloroquine . And if you look around it's being pushed by the exact same people. Anti vaxxers who want something to point at for a reason to avoid the vaccine.

My dismissiveness is because the vaccine will be widely available long before Ivermectin is. It will take a year to even know if it's effective. And it's a low-volume drug.

Anybody that can get Ivermectin can also get the vaccine. So the sole purpose for pushing it is to reinforce anti vax viewpoints. Ivermectin is only widely available because nobody is using it to treat COVID. The vaccines have vastly higher production rates at this point

Since people are mentioning current examples, putting message queues everywhere is a terrible modern pattern.

Looks great on the surface. Ride through transient failures. Easier load balancing. Even out load spikes. But underneath, you're adding bufferbloat to your system.

I've worked on systems where every service communicates with event queues. Debugging these things is hell. Problems with eventual consistency everywhere. Duplicate requests chilling in the queues where you can't see or get rid of them. Ordering issues. Bad messages/events clogging up queues. Upgrade nightmares whenever endpoints change.

Adding a message queue between your services instead of doing things synchronously is a great way to sabotage a project.

Haha you reminded me of AOP nightmares. It's great used for instrumentation. A big part of why Java has great monitoring tools is runtime code modification with AOP.

But as you said, devs find all kinds of mind melting creative ways of using it.

While I appreciate the drive to find more effective agents to treating COVID, we don't have anything approved and widely available that's more than mildly effective.

So get vaccinated.

I see Facebook anti-vax campaigns latch onto a new miracle cure every few months to convince themselves that the vaccine isn't worth getting.

The truth is, it's unlikely we will ever have a treatment anywhere near as effective as the vaccine. With how effective the vaccines are in preventing severe illness, there's little money or reason to persue other options.

Historically, viruses with effective vaccines rarely if ever have good treatments developed afterwards. And if we do, like with several flu drugs, the virus develops complete resistance rapidly. So don't count on it. Get vaccinated.

That was a bit edgey, but I have seen far too many devs recreate OIDC using JWT. Writing their own token parsing and validation. Doing their own token expiration handling.

These days, just use OIDC. It takes care of everything for you. Most of the time, you just point your OIDC library at your auth server URL and it handles everything.

If you go far enough back all of our technology arises from fire and the wheel.

There's plenty of room to debate how much of our technology came from the military, but I don't think naming is a big deal.

Take the word "screen" for example. The original meaning was a partition to protect from heat. Many of these were fabric, and led to "magic lantern" shows done with shadows. The word was repurposed again for the projection era. And yet again for tube TV's and beyond.

If you told somebody from 100 years ago to look at the screen they would have no idea what you're talking about because the original meaning is lost.

That's why I don't think it matters whether we use military terms for computer stuff. It doesn't have its original meaning anymore.

Eh, disagree. For space, you can use ellipic curve instead of RSA to halve the size of your token.

Sticky sessions are really hard or impossible on public clouds where you can't load balance by ip/port hash. And still hard when you consider that mobile devices hop on and off wifi constantly. One of the worst, shittiest third parties we use has IP based sticky sessions and it's utterly broken because we run 3 instances in different AZ's for HA.

"Users block all local storage" doesn't matter if you're doing something modern with React or Angular. The JWT is stored in JS.

"Implementations are not battle tested or don't exist". This is absolutely not true. Only morons use bare JWT. OIDC or OAUTH2 are the way to go. And these libraries will handle random things like token refresh for you too.

JWT IS more secure, because tokens are unforgeable. This protects you against a ton of attacks. And not using cookies adds even more protection.

Lack of token revocation isn't true either. You can use a Bloom filter with a secondary db lookup for blacklisted tokens with miniscule extra load.

IMO this article is just outdated. Before OIDC and a bunch of libraries and tons of mobiles switching IP's and multiple AZ for HA and elliptic curve support, most of this was true.

It has honeypot detection. It's built for spamming people. There's literally zero reason to avoid honeypots otherwise

IT overlap is mostly because computers and the internet are military technology. Mainframes, IC's and the transistor itself were bankrolled by US military money.

The internet and GPS, the core technologies of our time, are both direct descendants of the US military.

You may not like it, but the entire IT and tech field are built on US military tech

^^ bingo.

India has low vaccination rate and extremely bad outbreak of Delta variant that's undercounted by all accounts because there's simply not enough testing available.

It's prudent to ban travel from there. And it should be mentioned that most countries banning travel for Indians are also banning travel from the UK for same reasons, which makes this article fall apart.

For vaccine side effects, you're best off going straight to arxiv, biorxiv, or a well known site for free academic papers I probably can't mention here :)

Most of the vaccine skeptics are nutjobs just appealing to their base of terminally paranoid people. There's real stuff out there, but you're best off just searching for scientific papers because the signal to noise is terrible

Good example I guess. German rocket technology was a decade past anyone else. The space race and moon landing wouldn't have been possible without the Nazis. But I don't think anyone is stupid enough to argue it was a worthwhile trade off

I agree partially. But excuses for using dog slow languages, at least where I've worked, revolved around "it will be twice as fast in two years anyways"

It's clear that's no longer true, which gives less excuses for using say Ruby over Java.

Is it their job to protect Trump? Because they happened to release the emails on the same day as the most damaging info about Trump came out during entire campaign.

The delegates were exposed as disliking Bernie Sanders. That's it. There's nothing illegal or immoral about that, which is why there were no criminal charges or lawsuits even after Republicans won the election and both houses of Congress.

It was a smear campaign targeted at democrats, nothing more.

This is textbook whataboutism. "Stealing a hundred thousand confidential emails from political rivals is fine because look at all the bad things they said about Bernie Sanders"

Look at the even more outrageous event of Trump magically getting the laptop of his rival's son and parading it around in 2020. It's organized crime trying to corrupt politics that you're rooting for. The kind of thing that happens in Russia or deeply corrupt banana republics

They're also completely out of context and dumped on the media so close to election that nobody had a chance to go through them.

When they did, they found nothing wrong. But it didn't stop the pure FUD cloud around them from affecting Hillary's reputation.

When something is leaked, people automatically assume it's bad. Republicans rode that high through election day.

The emails got dumped the same day extremely damaging "grab em by the pussy" video evidence of Trump was release. The whole thing screams political hitjob.

It's like when Trump's lawyer magically got his political rival's son's laptop and paraded it around, even though nothing damaging was on it. Republicans are resorting to banana republic style hacking and theft against their political enemies, which should terrify everyone

You are right, but many of these colors are physically dim and much harder to notice than the HDR "pop" of extremely bright colors.

YouTube has surprisingly great support for HDR and Wide Color Gamut. There's some utterly breathtaking 4k 60fps HDR WCG videos of Japanese cities I've been watching. The only downside is you practically need a supercomputer to decode them in realtime.

Many games are also getting "definitive edition" remasters with HDR and they look glorious.

Getting a quality HDR screen was a bigger upgrade for me than 1080p->4k . There's simply a shitload of colors that older monitors can't produce

I can get 250k a year from a unicorn. Why would I apply anywhere else?

> "to be honest, I would not recommend it being optional," David Weston, partner director of enterprise and OS security at Microsoft, told TechRepublic. "Without a TPM, you're not going to have segmentation, which is what we want".

Well... At least they're being transparent about being terrible. Unlike Google who says everything bad is about security... Protecting your machine from yourself.

Don't take money until your customer growth looks like a hockey stick. The founders of most famous tech companies didn't take funding until it was clear they were riding a rocket.

If your revenue/user growth is high enough you can write your own terms. People will beg you to take their money.

Disagree. Releasing unverified slog about your opponent days before an election when there's no time to find out if the claims are even true is the definition of a smear campaign.

> I looked it up, and apprently this could be true

It is true. One of the findings from the Mueller report identified the very day that the emails were sent from Russian intelligence to WikiLeaks

You likely have a "fake" HDR monitor. To cover most of the new gamut requires very bright backlight. Most cheap HDR PC monitors are only ~400nits, not nearly bright enough. They bare bones HDR 400 spec most meet is... Not very HDR.

For proper HDR you need 1000+ nits. Only Apple monitors and a few very expensive alternatives can do this. On other monitors the gamut is compressed and there's little difference between the colors at the edges.

You can test your monitor with this https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NlAsAuBtmps When it stops getting brighter, you've maxed out your display and it can't display the additional range.

For whatever reason TV tech is way better. Even cheap TVs tend to be brighter than the brightest PC monitors. If you have the space, a 40 inch TV sitting farther away will be far superior picture quality than a monitor

Sometimes. But look at all the forks Amazon has done to various databases for instance. None of that work is ever coming back. And worse, they've fragmented the ecosystem by building incompatible features with the originals.

If those systems were GPL everyone would reap the benefits

His accounts have been suspended by spreading BS to make money. If he really cared or thought the vaccines were dangerous he would be doing scientific studies, not getting paid to show up on Tucker Carlson