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Actually, there's no reasonable pathway for crystal healing to help here. On the other hand, it's entirely plausible and there's real-world experience to support (1) masks filtering harmful particles and (2) hydroxychloroquin being useful against an immune system run amuck, which is the way 'flu' often injures patients. So, no, only two of the three were similar.

Zero credit to those who would equate all three or who would dismiss either of the latter two without diligent, unbiased investigation and solid empirical evidence.

The mystery head trauma suffered by U.S. diplomats comes to mind when discussing active-scanning satellite technology. The commerical product seems not so above-board based on the use cases discussed.

> “And when it comes out,” one Colombo man active in the first film’s production admitted, “it’ll cost me three bucks and an hour on line to see.”

So funny to see a pre-Netflix reference to time "on line" watching a movie.

Accuweather will give you a 3 month forecast! I had to blink a few times to make sure I got that right. Their existing long term forecast goes to March 10, 2021.

https://www.accuweather.com/en/us/boston/02108/march-weather...

He showed up at the hospital 'uninsured' in an emergency and the 'nonprofit' doctors marked up their fees 110%.

Let's call this what it is. It's a racket and unethical.

Linux support for HP requires some HP daemon running at all times and in my experience fails in edge cases where a standard Linux integration would not. I also don't like their logo on my Linux task bar, no one else requires that to make a printer 'go'.

Recently got a Xerox, it's better.

You can integrate with Thunderbird for local backup, and anyway Fastmail customer service is capable and responsive.

The critique on the earlier post is a little like saying it's still a problem that you need to trust your local supermarket for food. Which is true, but still much better than relying to avoid starvation exclusively on just-in-time shipments from an automated unstaffed ACME Growers Warehouse in Nowhere, USA.

Would a grape eater be in breach if a grape seed sprouted from his or her poo a few days after enjoying said grape?

Are sanitation departments at risk of contributory infringement depending how they process and dispose of sewage containing grape remnants?

If API's are copyrightable, does this mean hypertext Internet links are copyrightable too? Uh oh!

GDP would suffer most from an increased lawyer count when the statistics are bloated by fraud and lies.

Not for those 8,000 would-be people .... And for their parents?

And the next beyond that is a sandbox that contains simulated data....

Both Bill and Warren were/are one-dimmensional paperclip maximizers in business. If they had been AI's they would have been banned.

What's funny is the original Vice article was very condemnatory of Amazon and AWS data and business practices. And then Amazon in response metaphorically requested ... wait for it ... that the author move a comma.

So, the rest of the article is good and on target!?

Was the Amazon correction request from an AI bot?

> - given this benefits a tiny fraction of people in the US, why doesn’t a particular party/politician take a stand on it as a policy to win a chunk of votes?

Because national politics in the U.S. in 2020 is big business. It's not about votes or public policy, it's about redirecting funds to party coffers, paid consultants, and ideally the office-holders themselves (or at least their advisors, family and friends).

(2017)

I bought a WD SSD recently and when I plugged it in, the firmware reported that is was actually a SanDisk, which is I guess a lower-end WD brand at this point. I saw an Internet discussion of other people having this problem with a July 2020 batch of SSDs, so I texted into Amazon support which promised to send a WD drive that didn't report itself as a SanDisk drive to the system.

I'm sure you can guess where this goes. The replacement unit arrived a few days later-- this drive also was marked WD on the outside and identified itself to BIOS etc. as a SanDisk drive. I called Amazon support again and they appeared to consider it a manufacturing defect and I returned it for a refund.

I'm not sure how much I care about whether the drive is SanDisk or WD, but it ought to be consistent. If WD can't get that simple step right I'm not sure why I should trust them to secure and maintain the integrity of a TB of important data.

The silliness in the statement about being "obligated" to the TikTok community.... It's contradictory, just like all ToS would be. Compare:

Public Relations Statement: "Put simply, we have a thriving community and we are grateful – and responsible – to them."

With: Terms of Service[1] ( hilariously, TikTok provides a read time estimate on the ToS of "279 - 354 minutes"):

  We reserve the right to disable your user account at any time ... in our sole discretion ....

  We reserve the right, at any time and without prior notice, to remove or disable access to content at our discretion for ... no reason.

  You further acknowledge that ... you (i) have no right to receive any income or other consideration from any User Content ... including in any User Content created by you, and (ii) are prohibited from exercising any rights to monetize or obtain consideration from any User Content within the Services or on any third party service ( e.g. , you cannot claim User Content that has been uploaded to a social media platform such as YouTube for monetization).

  By posting User Content ... you waive ... any and all rights of privacy, publicity, or any other rights of a similar nature in connection with your User Content.... [Y]ou hereby waive and agree never to assert any and all moral rights ... with respect to any User Content you Post to or through the Services.

I'm sure there's more, but the point is, as far as legal obligation goes, users are the junior partner for sure, and it's pretty silly to claim TikTok is "responsible" to the community for much of anything, as a result of the ToS and other behind the scenes manuvering.

[1] https://www.tiktok.com/legal/terms-of-use?lang=en

And lots of articles this summer about shark attacks too....

That sounds right. There's some inside baseball to this, but DRM doesn't always fit neatly in the big-biz, small-biz dichotomy. The market power of the FAANGs is at least partly from strip-mining the fair use exceptions, and using data at an extreme scale without compensating creators.

Kid bought an old crappy yacht. Years later he's caught in serial insurance fraud transactions for boats and planes. The dollar ripoff values go from $40k to $100k's rapidly within a few years, and a few years later he's in jail.

Guy is in this line of 'work' because he is an adrenaline junkie. It brings certain side benefits-- dealing in obscure obsolete aircraft and parts gives him means of leisure and more than a little swagger, without the pain of asset depreciation. Convinces himself, a romantic interest, and not many others, that he's James Bond.

Once his 'business' got big enough, it attracted the right attention and has given the guy an opportunity to remake himself yet again, this time from jail.

The CSO informed the CEO so ... this is individual concealment?

The better question is: If the CSO was not previously an AUSA, would the prosecutors have charged this conduct?

The article is about auto accident claims data, which is a great clue that HIPAA actually doesn't apply. From a different part of the Internet[1]:

"There are certain gaps [in HIPAA coverage], like if a person meets with an accident on a car; the health insurer as well as the auto insurer shall receive the medical bills of that person. The health insurer is responsible for protecting the health data of this person under HIPAA; the auto insurer on the other hand does not hold that duty."

[1] https://www.andrealopezv.com/new-age-security-solutions-to-p...

Golden opportunity for the taxicab industry to get its act together and compete on a semi-level playing field.

A central premise of this article is not correct. If an employer, for example, is using tens of thousands of background data points to deny employment to a person, the employer would need to disclose that to the applicant.[1]. If the things in this article are secret then the law may well be violated. Also, not really the best idea to apply secret proprietary algorithms to these kinds of decisions because you're eventually going to have to disprove improper bias, which can easily and "systemically" be baked into a background screening tool.

[1] https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/guidance/background-checks-what-em...

For SaaS like Strava or something, I'm agnostic whether the notice should come before the shut-off alleging a TOS violation. For cellular service though, SMS is integral to life. 911 even accepts SMS. Imagine T-Mobile silently dropping 911 SMS communications because someone texted the wrong word? Which isn't even in the TOS?

This is like dangling chum in the water, waiting for a big shark to chomp your leg, T-Mobile and whatever individual engineer came up with this.

Two words:

Health care.

The folks arguing this in Congress seem never to have faced the practical issues that come with loss of employment.

Plus, I'll gander that among the 32% who qualified for the benefits noted, but whose income was still not replaced during the relevant time period-- the shortfall probably was 50% on average or more. So we cut that benefit because many low-wage-earners are receiving too much? Really? Sometimes it's hard to believe political discussion in the U.S. has devolved to this.

Once in a similar management dynamic, at my manager's request I compiled a presentation of several key points for a one-hour discussion, that my manager immediately hijacked for the first 15 minutes to lecture about why in the world I had started the numbered list of issues with the numeral zero rather than the numeral one. (It was a gating issue that was background to the others!)

So yes, I buy the hypothesis that 1:1 management grouping promotes non-ideal management behavior.

You want to know if Garmin pushed malware/ransomware via its app onto 1 million smartphones? The apps seem to have been last updated July 21, and Garmin's systems were locked July 23, so.... ?

Raikes incidentally pointed out that tech business leadership is inherently unstable. Writing of Lotus 1-2-3 and WordPerfect:

> They were the leaders and they could have chosen to cannibalize themselves. But they didn't act fast enough and were scared that investing in the new paradigm would open the door for us-- ironically it was their slow pace that opened the door.

No business voluntarily cannibalizes it's core revenue stream. That snippet explains succinctly how monoline dominance in technology is inherently unstable, and also tends to explain the "Amazon" (ha!) approach from major technology companies of massively diverse investment and M&A to overcome this effect and maintain their core dominance.