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Having domestic vaccine development and production capabilities probably didn't seem that important to a lot of countries until recently.

I bet a lot of countries are going to try and developer their own capabilities as a result of this crisis.

This we very helpful for someone unfamiliar with Kafka. You could probably get a job doing this.

A normal dose can make you high or euphoric the first few times you take it. Eventually your body down-regulates and you don't experience a high, but if you read ADHD experiences on the internet you will often come across people who have just had their first dose and are clearly geeked up.

I'm also curious. It seems like the website has been around for 2 years and hasn't changed much. If they wrote 250k lines in two years, that is around 340 lines a day. That seems like a rather large project to build before putting it in the hands of customers.

Slightly tangential, but I can't tell if I love or hate the logo for swc https://github.com/swc-project/swc

Either way, I want to try this next time I'm using TypeScript.

It's difficult to pull apart Correlation vs causation. For example, European colonizers choose to colonize countries that they saw as economically valuable. India was very rich in gold and farm land pre-colonization, and the Europeans knew it. That's why it was the jewel of the British Empire. Ethiopia was ignored by Britain and France because it was perceived to be dryer and poorer. Some of the post-colonial success is tied to intrinsic value of the land itself.

Looked it up and apparently:

> Industry statistics indicate that creating an integrated circuit on a 300 mm wafer requires approximately 2200 gallons of water in total, of which 1500 gallons is ultra-pure water.

Neither the US State Department nor CIA have claimed there is genocide so I think there is still an open question. The groups claiming genocide are NGOs and a fake university, The Newline Institute https://thegrayzone.com/2021/03/17/report-uyghur-genocide-sh...

China has not restricted access to Xinjiang. You can visit if you like. Most western visitors report that security is high in some areas, but foreigners are allowed to visit. Just walking around won't necessarily tell you the whole story obviously, but the notion that you can't visit is false. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-xinjiang/wary-of-xi...

Edit: I searched "visit Xinjiang" and found this from 2021 https://www.lostwithpurpose.com/why-we-didnt-like-traveling-...

This is not an open and shut case. The organizations reporting this, The Australian Strategic Policy Institute(Aussie defense department), and The Victims Of Communism Foundation(!), are not unbiased nor are their methodologies uncontroversial.

This is one of the best pieces of software. It's really changed the game and I don't think it would be easy to safely use shell in large teams without it.

https://www.wildberries.ru/ the website is more responsive than Amazon, although that can be said about almost any website.

This was my first thought as well. Maybe it took that many people working in parallel to eventually find a vulnerability, but I personally just can't imagine 1000 engineers working productively on one hack. That said, I'm not a security researcher.

Maybe MS is just trying to cover their butts since they are being blamed by SolarWinds.

It isn’t mentioned in the article, but in a linked article it says the the conclusion seems to be based on a report by ASPI, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. https://www.aspi.org.au/

I take this issue very serious issue and I've spent a significant amount of time researching it. I think there is a settler-colonial project occurring in Xinjiang, but there are some serious problems with many of the western sources that undermine the credibility of this report.

Report https://14ee1ae3-14ee-4012-91cf-a6a3b7dc3d8b.usrfiles.com/ug...

The evidence for most of these accusations come from Adrian Zenz and ASPI. The report says:

> the works of Dr Zenz, ASPI and similar others would be accorded significant weight and would have probative value in establishing the relevant facts.

Adrian Zenz is the key source for almost all of the genocide claims but I think him and his claims should be scrutinized. The Grayzone did a very critical analysis of Zenz and his claims that is worth exporing if you are actually interested in this subject. https://thegrayzone.com/2021/02/18/us-media-reports-chinese-...

I think global attention could help the people of Xinjiang, but not if it’s hijacked by western governments who have an axe to grind with China.

Why not include an example of a new company that fits this category? Whole Foods is just part of Amazon now.

It seems like they may have their reasons, but it's odd considering NATO seems more and more like a relic of the Cold War that should be reconsidered. For example, Turkey is engaging in all kinds of activities that don't seem to match the goals of values of most NATO members, and yet officially they are backed up by NATO.

Taibbi's partner at the time posted a response to these allegations. https://exiledonline.com/about-those-exile-smears/

A brief excerpt from Ames' piece:

"How do you respond to something so blatantly dishonest? A number of media contacts have told me that Lally shopped this hit piece around to multiple publications, but it was rejected for this very reason."

It's worth noting that the women who worked for the Exiled are still around, and when this came out they confirmed that the events depicted in the Exiled book were satirical.

This was an attempt to hijack the #metoo movement without anyone actually making an accusation.

Maybe she is delaying applying for a position because she has to literally wear a baby all day? It's difficult to have a job and an infant, so why try and get an even more demanding job when you are in that stage of your life.

Not the point!

Fascinating. The end of the CNN article about this is incredible:

> Richard Harris, the Australian anesthesiologist, was one of only two cave-diving anesthesiologists in the world. "I didn't think it would work at all," Harris told National Geographic. "I expected the first two kids to drown and then we'd have to do something different. I put their odds of survival at zero."

https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/04/health/thailand-boys-cave-ket...

This video argues that the object was probably just a bird, and the apparent speed was a result of parallax. Seems more plausible than the alternatives. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfhAC2YiYHs

  "This seems, unfortunately, to have been an own goal by Silicon Valley.
  Though the people who run Silicon Valley are almost all independent-minded,
  they've handed the aggressively conventional-minded a tool such as they could
  only have dreamed of."

This comes across as self-aggrandizing and a tad elitist.

  "On the other hand, perhaps the decline in the spirit of free inquiry within universities 
  is as much the symptom of the departure of the independent-minded as the cause. 
  People who would have become professors 50 years ago have other options now. Now
  they can become quants or start startups. You have to be independent-minded to
  succeed at either of those."

This is happening for economic reasons. Jobs outside academia pay more than they used to, the US no longer have a high income tax rate like we did in the 1950s, and there is more competition for academic jobs. Maybe at one point deciding to become a quant was independent-minded, but at this point it's a well worn path. Also, I'm sure there are some ideas that would be off-limits in quant circles

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You can avoid burning the milk by keeping the milk moving with a large spoon. Nesting the milk in a second pot of water seems overly complicated.

Based on the blog post it seems like they are giving themselves a lot of wiggle-room to include or exclude whomever they like.

    If we determine that there are enough protections in place to ensure editorial independence, we will not apply the label. Publishers looking to prove their independence must be able to demonstrate at least: 

        A statute in the host country that clearly protects the editorial independence of the organization

        Established procedures, processes, and protections at the media organization to ensure editorial independence 

        An assessment by an independent, credible, external organization finding that the statute has in fact been complied with and established procedures have been followed

https://about.fb.com/news/2020/06/labeling-state-controlled-...

I'm going to be a little idealistic here, but I would rather see a greater emphasis on media literacy online. Provide the reader with some context and help them make informed decisions. No it won't work on everyone, but it's better than panicking.

Any media source can be illuminating if you know how to read it. RT contains the perspective of the Russian state, as well as a lot of western journalists who are outside the western mainstream for whatever reason. The stories are often embarrassing for western states, but that's fine as long as the the reader knows the intention of the source, and they are aware there is some propaganda mixed in.

Here is the blog post this article discusses. https://about.fb.com/news/2020/06/labeling-state-controlled-...

I assume that this would only work reliably for headshots/avatars? Still, if I were an artist whose income came from furry art, this would terrify me.

Since this is a US-centric article it's worth noting that the US spends half of all federal discretionary spending (i.e. everything except Social Security or Medicare) on the military. Almost a trillion dollars a year.

If even half that money were spent on an actual industrial policy we would be in much better shape. I maybe shouldn't be surprised the Vox article doesn't mention this.

The author gave an interesting interview on the War Nerd podcast https://www.krisnewby.com/media/radio-war-nerd