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Not sure about U.S. SMBs but Amazon's influence on China small business is a rounding number. Only a relatively small number of vendors sell items on Amazon. They made good money but the good days is almost over given recent quality/piracy crackdowns.

Taobao (under Alibaba) has 100 times more influence on how small business in China conduct business. I know small store owners whose business were wiped out by the rise of Taobao. Amazon? They've never heard of it.

As you said, the problem is with the sellee. Apple is not the problem here.

I must be in the minority. I grew up poor (collected pop cans from my local Sun office as an office cleaner and sold them for deposits), so its scar will always be with me.

But when I was younger, someone once said 'money is not the thing; money is the thing you use to get to the thing.'

So now I can switch between being thrifty or being 'careless', depending what I really desire- and this requires constant self-reflection, a constant self-question of would spending this money do anything for my goals (which should include helping others.)

In other word, like that Japanese cleaner lady, I ask myself would spending this bring me joy?

>diminish all these voices that keep repeating everywhere that 'the man' is on it with him, that the media defend him etc.

Nah. Now they switched to "doing this fast to protect the big names/rich people".

You never win.

The difference is negligence and intentional fraud. SBF is obviously arguing for the former. The law is more lenient to oopsies than Enron.

That sound pretty fun, actually. No commitment, straight to work from first day of the job for 12 weeks straight.

Exactly. I've publicly face-to-face buttheaded with the CEO of a very large tech company (that you have 100% heard of) at a very large townhall meeting. I did it because it's an internal event so my chance of getting fired is significantly lower (but still not zero!)

But doing it in public, sharing internal data, and with the tone the guy used on a brand new owner? I don't know what he expected. Getting fired is the expected outcome.

The guy might be an asshole and a boarder line sociopath, but I would still choose SpaceX/Tesla over meta/twitter. At least the formers didn't help unleashed the modern hyper-polarerized society.

The job better come with a premium for the foreseeable job instability though.

Musk also seems to demand his employee to devote their entire waking hour to the job and be constantly switching contexts to handle different tasks. Some people excel at that but not me, so I probably won't meet the bar.

Is this normal? I would assume that no bank has 100% liquid assets against liabilities (same as stuffing all your money under your mattress.) So what is the "right" ratio for an exchange? Close to 100% since you are not supposed to invest an exchange's money?

You are right. Even though there were cases in 2008 they weren't significant contributors to the great recession.

>ponzi scheme

This is not a ponzi scheme. This is a good old "not firewalling your customer's money and your investment money" that everyone suffered from in 2008. The situation is cataphoric enough without people mis-using terms.

Playing Mankind Divided made me not want to visit Prague, ever. I guess in a way the game was well designed.

Note that this particular memory is often used by kernel exploits to store their shellcode. It's memory address is stable across different Windows version, the pages used to be executable, it's a huge address space, and it is seldom used for anything.

Even in the latest version, if you can get around SMEP and toggle the executable bit in its pages (or disable SMEP), you can still run shellcode directly from it.

I never thought I'd see vtuber doing a live stream coding in a leading edge language...I think if my professors were vtubers, I would have done much better.

Having deal with the same crowd in Vancouver, their think process is-

Build more -> Only luxury apartments will be built -> luxury apartment builders will make money -> morally wrong

Nothing else matters.

Tidbits- One of the city councilors for Vancouver is known to be a staunch NO voter- any development that is not 100% below market will get a NO from her. Her argument is that existing 50 year old apartments are being torn down and will displace the residents.

So someone found a news article from 50 years ago, showing the same activist, decrying that the buildings are being constructed and displaced the existing tenants from existing buildings.

But somehow 50 years later she is defending the same type of buildings she was fighting against 50 years ago, using the exact same argument.

You can't reason with people like them.

No need to doubt.

https://spacenews.com/spacex-adds-falcon-9-back-to-second-ge...

>LNP alone led to long-term inhibition of the adaptive immune response

So it's the lipid capsule, not mRNA, that has an unknown effect on the immune system. Make sense as many pathogens have lipid proteins on their surface.

> the resistance of mice to heterologous infections with influenza virus increased while resistance to Candida albicans decreased.

Better in some, worse in others

>mice pre-exposed to the mRNA-LNP platform can pass down the acquired immune traits to their offspring, providing better protection against influenza.

What about candida albicans (might be no effect?)

Yes but your Collora's rear diff(heh) doesn't cost $7500 to replace.

Also, morality aside, the resale-ability of your Collora is on the exact opposite end versus a used Land Rover.

When I was an intern a fellow intern got a 4 year old Land Rover.

In the next 6 months he had to

  - Check engine light on. Checked multiple time. Never went away
  - Replace engine gasket
  - replace rear diff
  - replace rear axle (did the dealership broke this?)

The forth one happened while he was returning from the manufacturer dealership for the 3rd issue, about half way to our town (about 90km left)

The worst thing was, he actually bought warranty from the car dealership, but they managed to weasel out every single item.

Pardon me if I am on the grandparent's side.

Yup I ran out of PCIe slots in my last computer-

1x Bluetooth+Wifi adapter (offload the USB bus)

1x Highpoint USB 3 controller (the only USB3 controller that is reliable for work)

1x Quad network ports adapter

1x Video card

Things I wanted to install but couldn't-

1x M.2 nvme adapter card

1x Video card

In an ironic way, yes. People who quietly OD in their house die while junkies are quickly noticed by their street pals and revived (and would often fight the paramedic for breaking their high.)

(Apparently it's now 6 deaths/day, up from 5/day in 2021).

As a Canadian I can tell you, no. This year British Columbia on average has 5 deaths per day from fentanyl OD, rising from 3/day from just 2 years ago.

The majority of deaths are normal people who used contaminated recreational drugs in their home, as oppose to street junkies that are quickly revived by ambulances.

>It's the opiod crisis

That's an bold statement to make. Canada is also experiencing a historic opiod crisis right now, but their life expectancy is dropping no near as fast as US. Something else is going on.

EDIT: I don't think the parent post should be flagged. The opioid crisis is real and has a noticeable effect on life expectancy. It's just not the whole story, that's all.

I didn't address anything except for the quoted line from the blog post, which is the binary PoC detection part.

From the blog post- >The PoC that has been sent to CrowdStrike was flagged as malicious. The msiexec call of the deinstaller was also flagged as malicious.

Everything else I have no opinion I wish to share. There are many posters in this thread that would satisfy your desire to engage on the other issues.

I am not defending CrowdStrike here (my work laptop, that I am typing this on, is molasse-like thanks to them), but their PSIRT team (they have one right?) is just another team in the corp machinery. What PSIRT team and the engine team decide to respond have no effect on what the analyst team decides to do.

Do no harm and cover your ass. No one is going to complain a false positive on a custom PoC binary....right?

Everything else, yeah those are pretty shitty.

> The PoC that has been sent to CrowdStrike was flagged as malicious. The msiexec call of the deinstaller was also flagged as malicious.

As someone who was once part of an endpoint security team, I wouldn't be so quick to judge.

If CrowdStrike operates like any anti-virus software company, there are multiple teams. There would be a small engine team, a team that deals with Windows integration, then there would be a much much bigger malware analyst team(s), then another team that deals with 'active machine learning' (CrowdStrike's bread and butter). Then some senior managers oversee them all.

It's possible that the engine team and the analyst team have a case of 'left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing.' They both got the report, and they behave differently as the engine team has a different goal from the analyst's team.

From the analyst team's point of view, their job is to detect all potentially malicious threat, sources be damned. While the engine team takes their sweet time, the analyst team just figures "hey this binary attacks our software. We don't know if the engine team would have fix the bug then, or if the bug is even real. We should blacklist it just-in-case or else when the binary in the public, some joker with an auto scanner will use this binary to show they got around our detection. Then our team would get blame for it. Better be safe than sorry."

Yes we all know detecting binary PoC are close to useless, but if you don't do it, then you'd get a flood of (useless) reports later...

>Tax those who can afford it to help those that can't.

So...tax those whose income is higher than Latty's income - 1 pound? I am sure you can afford it.

A new progressive tax regime requires a lot of research, consultations, political capitals, and most importantly, time. We don't have a lot of time right now.

I can run a Windows 95 app on Windows 10 and it has a reasonable chance of success.

Should Linux (userland) strive for that? Or is Year of the Linux Desktop only covers things compiled in the last 10 years?

Just because a car is high-end doesn't mean it will have less repairs. In fact, the opposite is true.

From my experience, no offense, when you pool together a bunch of also-ran teams together to catch up to the industry leader, you'd just get a larger also-ran team.

I also have reservations on whether the academia can surpass the speed of commercial R&D teams on semiconductor tech. I will believe it when I see it.