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Absolutely lqughing at anyone who thinks the particular colors matter. Ugly green? Calming blue?

The specific color does not matter, the only thing that matters is that they are differentiated for the Star-Belly Sneetches hadbellies with stars and the Plain-Belly Sneetches had none upon thars...

No one is preventing you from going to a private clinic and paying for the test yourself. The doctor is not 'blocking' the test or preventing you from getting it, they are just not authorising it. Sounds like you have a problem with either your insurance provider or your wallet.

As an EC alum I can tell you that in the late 90s there was a lot of work on E to get both transparent remote objects and distributed garbage collection working. In fact, one of the first patents I remember us having approved was Arturo's garbage collector (https://patents.google.com/patent/US5991779A/en, yes same guy as the Meta whistleblower from a week or so ago) but it was still a bit wonky in practice from what I remember.

A good AI that can filter out the ads and product placement from the stream coming from a such a compromised AI is the next step. Let the AI phase of the advertising wars begin!

No, but an early wireless midpoint between nascent wifi deployments and really shitty WAP in a world before data over cellular networks was Ricochet Networks. Frequency hopping over the public bands of the era (900MHz mostly I think) it was able to give decent wireless internet in the mid 90s to those of us living in supported areas of Silicon Valley. When laptops were a new thing and public wifi still years away it was fun ‘work remote’ in some corner of a coffeeshop when everyone else was chained to office desktops.

The humans inside the suits and lander also provided some useful heat. For most spacecraft, once you put humans into them the problem changes from conserving heat to getting rid of it.

If you ever see something described as 'low-level nuclear waste' then it is sometimes talking about things like old reactor parts and mostly talking about items like gloves, bunny suits, used dosimeters, etc. Things that have been exposed to enough neutron flux to be mildly radioactive but which are not going to make other things glow in the dark are usually put into barrels and buried. Like toxic metals, for example, the only real risk here is having it leak into the food chain or water supply.

FWIW, we talked about using things like hashcash to prevent abuse and similar attacks for anonymous remailers back in the early 90s. Talking about it is one thing, actually making the commitment to do it is something else entirely. Given interest in cryptocurrencies there has also been a lot more effort devoted to considering the cost/feature tradeoffs of various PoW mechanisms (and a broader familiarity with the general concept among the target population), so it is possible that we are seeing a happy side-effect of years of cryptocurrency hype.

> No one is using Python like that in the professional world. The most complex you'll see are simple comprehensions.

It is possible that blub-Python and "let's code it in Java-flavoured Python" rules your particular slice of the profession, but in my world of getting shit done I see more FP and using simple built-in data structures in a >1 KLoc line script/module than I do of traditional OO and GoF styles. Most objects I deal with in Python are from libraries I call and not from our own code. Different strokes I guess, but I think you underestimate the breadth of Python usage and how much of it is semi-complicated scripting that picks from FP-style and OO-style depending on what is easiest to accomplish the task.

You think that a country that has a strong cultural history of venerating their elders is just going to pivot on a dime and decide to put grandma and grandpa onto an iceflow and cut them loose? Those elderly out in the hinterlands are also the people who raised a large fraction of the youth population while their parents were off in Shenzhen pulling shifts at Foxconn.

The other thing to look at in those population distributions, besides the upside-down age distribution, is the absolutely pathological gender imbalance. The number of surplus males under 30 should be keeping Xi Jinping up at night because if there is anything that is going to trigger another revolution it is tens of millions of disaffected young males migrating across the country who eventually get fed up with what they perceive as a dead-end future.

1.2 billion _old_ people. While quantity has a quality all its own, in this case the demographics are not what you want to see if you are predicting long-term Chinese growth just based on population.

I was never a huge Uber fan but would use them occasionally, especially when I needed to take a trip that did not start or end in zone 1. These days? I ended up nuking the app from my phone because the service had become useless. Back to black cabs (and tube/bus) for me.

And just like that I have my new favorite put-down for low-effort comments and mediocre posts. Thanks!

They are actually only good if the members of that crowd have some sort of empirical experience with the problem they are being asked to solve. Guess the number of coins in a jar? People know coins and have experience packing things in a limited volume to the crowd has a hope of being wise. Guess an obscure materials science and physics result? Not a chance, the crowd is worthless.

One could probably argue that Bittorrent identified a more actionable economic incentive on the part of the swarm participants (wanting access to a very specific piece of media) rather than the more general objective in MojoNation of participating in a swarm that stored some set of arbitrary files that you or someone else may or may not come back to retrieve at some future point. Incentive engineering was considered for both systems, but only one of them hit upon a way to make the data pools self-sustaining.

Python on the mac is no bother. Like most Linux distros, you simply ignore the existence of any system python and install what you need yourself. You manage your python versions with pyenv and use virtual envs for everything. Problem solved.

I would guess the gap between Iceland and the U.K. for the same reason.

> Those guys are pioneers, they are doing something almost nobody has done before, like going deep down 4 kilometres under the surface of the ocean.

They are rich tourists going down to look at a famous shipwreck, the same as hundreds of actual professionals have done. Much like the rich tourists who are mostly carried up Everest this does not take guts or ability, it takes a fat wallet and nothing more. Actually, it probably takes more ego than intelligence if you get into the craft they took down now that we have learned more about its potential safety flaws.

The nature of the event is why we are paying attention. The people trapped and how it happened is icing on the cake, but we would all still be watching if it was the Alvin submersible and some university researchers inside. To be honest we would probably care more if it was actual professionals who were at risk doing work to expand human knowledge instead of a tourist day-trip; I certainly would actually care about the outcome in that case, while I can't be bothered to care one way or the other if this particular group of tourists lives or dies.

And the Chilean miners trapped for a couple of months back in 2010? The fact that all I need to do to remind you of the event is mention 'Chilean miners' should be sufficient evidence to prove an exception to your proposed rule.

> It is possible that CIA or some other intelligence agency has infiltrated Mullvad and logs them but that is nothing that will ever be used in a normal court case.

Just so everyone is clear on a few facts, it is possible for a TLA or agency from another large government to just try to blackbox the VPN nodes and be done with it without needing to infiltrate Mullvad. Just pressure the network provider of the VPN instances to get flow data, and at that point they can match up traffic going in and out and the VPN disappears from the picture.

> The Sunday Times, one of the oldest, most reliable newspapers in the world,

(cough cough bullshit cough) The Times is not quite as bad as the Torygraph, but it is a paper that has clearly been run directly to push the political views of Rupert Murdoch for the past three or four decades.

For non-locals the suspension was assumed to be a given once Johnson received the preliminary report and decided to resign. The length of the suspension suggested is the committee clearly stating that Johnson did not just lie to parliament but continued to lie to the committee and any investigation. The consequences this is having on the running civil war within the Conservative party is also worth noting. Sunak is using this as a way to sideline Johnson supporters and they (and Johnson) are fighting back while Labour and the LibDems just sit back and watch.

Given the fact that there will be another general election in the next year at a minimum this will be a useful to observe as something of an exemplar to see what happens as various Trump crimes are prosecuted. It is not quite the same since the Tory party is currently in control of government, but the impact of scandal-related internecine warfare in the internet era will be amusing to watch.

It appears that the only thing that has declined here is the free money support for the fantasy valuation being claimed by the REIT. There are a lot of reasons that hundreds of billions in commercial real estate loans are going to be written off in the next few years and the original article mentioned none of them...

Given that it is mostly unsubstantiated bullshit it is not surprising that you have not heard of it before. The claims made are tenuous at best. While an undergrad Kaczynski participated in a psych experiment run by someone who worked for the OSS in WWII, that is literally the extent of the known truth here. It seemed to have not impacted his undergrad years, his graduate studies, his postgrad work, or getting one of the youngest professorships at Berkeley. The same people who claim Kaczynski's transition to the Unabomber was caused by the, otherwise hidden, trauma of this participation in an undergrad psych experiment will also gush effusively about Ted's manifesto and how profound it is; you are likely seeing people taking a person and set of events and pouring into it their own hopes/fears/expectations rather than anything of greater significance.

Either way, check the evidence before believing the claims remains useful advice.

I am expecting a lot of apps to be able to cast a window directly to visionOS devices by the time this thing actually launches or possibly a way to split out spaces into their own screens by the time this launches.

A new entrant in the "No wireless? Less space than a Nomad? Lame." race...

Rev 1 is going to do ok as developers figure it out, rev 2 is going to completely own the AR/VR space.

I have often wondered why none of the other VR/AR companies really keyed in on this. While it it not as sexy as 'immersive video games' I can tell you that I would have been on the AR/VR train a long time ago if they were offering me the ability to use the goggles as a huge chunk of screen real estate. I can imagine a lot of people in mac-friendly open office spaces hopping onto this as soon as it is available.

Edit: OK, just saw the Disney pitch for Vision Pro. They are going to sell a ton of these things to every sports fanatic in the world.

All without the Google privacy-suck. Pure win. I know you are trying to be snarky, but I could not name a single feature Chrome has introduced in the past five years that I give a shit about other than various attempts to kill off any privacy control users might have over their browsing experience.

Betteridge's law of headlines strikes again.

Easier to build something new than to tack on more cruft to the broken usenet model. At this point usenet has little remaining use other than being a low-profile warez distribution channel. It was great in the late 80s and early 90s but does not scale well as a communications medium and we already know better ways to manage the distributed data sharing layer.