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Even the Irish, who can’t be accused of being pro-Israel, recognize that the genocide accusation is bunk. The Irish solution is to try to redefine the term to fit their agenda. About par for the course.

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/ireland-wants-expansio...

The US was a short blip to the Vietnamese compared to China.

The differences you are touching on are about interpersonal trust, and the concept of trust in society. Russia has a traditionally low trust culture. It's rooted in the most private interpersonal relationships, and is reflected in society as a whole.

The U.S. has traditionally been a high trust society. But not everyone in the U.S. is a person who can trust others. The recent political machinations in the U.S. represent the low trust segment of American society. The key to undoing it is to re-inculcate trust at a personal level, and at societal level. How that is actually done is a difficult problem with no readily obvious solution.

Apple support is amazingly good. It’s stark when most other companies have “optimized” customer service to discourage users from using or achieving anything through it. It’s also often an interesting glimpse into Apple’s behind the scenes tech support tools which are quite extensive.

If you want to enjoy the adventure I can't recommend Lutron Caseta switches enough. They are rock solid and work independently of any smart home setup (for when the smart home inevitably fails). I don't like smart bulbs but if you prefer them, Philips Hue is widely loved, as far as I can tell.

Whatever you do, don't skimp on the lighting smart devices. It usually ends in tears.

That the lead engineer of Home Assistant (HA) doesn't have an actual functioning HA setup, because he likes tinkering apparently, explains a lot about why HA is so awful to use for anyone who doesn't want to pick it up as a constant tinkering hobby.

I tend to believe it’s someone who self identifies as MAGA and didn’t like it being used as a descriptor. The edits were indicative of them not even really knowing how to define what MAGA is to themselves.

I assume she is paying for the billboards.

There were at least 3 edits. I think the original was something along the lines of it being a statement against a political party.

I don't think it is worth debating.

There are billboards on 101 directing people to Holmes’ MAGA-like post truth website that declares she is ‘proven innocent’

One more reason to ignore Coinbase’s weekly harassment email to update my information.

The biggest problem with burrito loans is that they are selecting for sub-prime borrowers. Someone who needs to explicitly finance a burrito is much more likely to be a sub-prime borrower. Just like with the sub-prime mortgage implosion, the product of securitized junk is junk. At least it won't be a systemic risk this time.

It was incontrovertibly approved as it is only installable via MDM.

A likely explanation is that the communications director (or the people informing her) wouldn’t know to distinguish between Signal the app, and a Signal compatible app that is nearly indistinguishable from Signal. A lot like Kleenex is a common term for tissue paper regardless of brand.

When the leak was first revealed, there was loud speculation about the legality of government chat messages being set to auto-delete. This additional revelation, about the use of TeleMessage, shows that someone with a security background has actually thought about these things. It makes perfect security sense to archive messages somewhere secure, off phone, for record keeping compliance while ensuring that relatively vulnerable phones don’t retain messages for very long. It’s also an easy explanation for why such an app was created in the first place. There is an obvious market for it.

I'm of the belief that fruit and vegetable packaging is often designed to hide defects, and to make it harder to visually discern how fresh the produce is (on top of not letting you touch it).

Some examples.

Red netting on oranges makes it hard to see imperfections on the skin. Green netting does the same for avocados. Costco sells corn in trays that are cling wrapped with a wrap that is unmistakably designed to hide the ends of the corn (the easiest way to discern if corn has gone bad). Other fruits, and veggies like melons, onions, and potatoes have similar netting with colors that seem to be carefully chosen to maximize visual clutter.

Why aren't all the nets the same color?

Costco sometimes sells pears in plastic trays with multiple creases that cause reflections that make it very difficult to see what the pears inside look like.

Exactly. Israel/Palestine comes up. But not Jews. It's a strange topic for a local neighborhood group. You can deduce that from reflecting on your own interactions.

Further, FB found it necessary to stop discussions about Jews on that group. Now, we can cook up any number of conspiracies about how any mention of Jews is like discussing fight club, or the Illuminati, and that's why FB instructed the group to stop discussing it. Or we can deduce the obvious. That the group, that would normally not be expected to be discussing Jews, had some fairly distasteful discussions about Jews.

FB is not a model of good moderation by a long shot. But given the strangeness of the topic in a local neighborhood group, we can deduce that FB probably got it right in this case.

This is not hard. In what contexts do Jews come up in your circle of friends?

In what context does your local neighborhood FB group raise Jews (or any other non-local ethnicity for that matter) as a topic of discussion?

To explain further. I can't imagine why anyone would post about Jews on my local NextDoor or FB group. It's just not a topic that comes up outside of Jewish community events, like holidays. There are certainly no Jewish community events in Bangladesh. If they are writing posts about Jews like were posted about Rohingya, then maybe it's not just "posts on Facebook".

You are the one who seems to be uptight, bringing up the topic of bombs (?!), and scolding me to relax. Maybe you should relax.

P.S. for those wondering, my flagged comment simply asked why Jews would come up as a topic at all on a local Bangladeshi group. The irony of it being flagged in a post about censorship is piquant.

Makes you wonder what kind of posts about Jews a local Bangladeshi group is posting... Or why.

The article is typical Guardian rage bait hit piece. It took the opinions of a handful of engineers and tried to paint a picture of an industry wide trend in an effort to show moral superiority. It was patently false. There was no industry trend like this, as was obvious to anyone in the industry a the time. And as we all know today, Facebook had no problem growing by leaps and bounds since.

You need counseling for your sad hostility.

I have a PowerBook titanium G4 from 2003 that I can boot but never bother because it's not worth the power consumption.

What do you think about this one, from 2017?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/08/ashamed-t...

I remember this one in particular for random reasons. But these kinds of articles aren’t particularly rare in the guardian. The guardian’s editorial policy appears to be to generate a steady stream of random human interest stories with the common agenda of finding fault with everything that isn’t British.

I would hazard a guess that it would make RSI worse because it minimizes the kinds of hand motions to operate it. Alleviate RSI with a keyboard by constantly changing the position of your hands on the keyboard - the exact opposite of touch typing dogma. Pecking at your keyboard is healthier.

These dark pools and private rooms appear to be a response to HFT. To get away from HFT. So HFT appears to be fragmenting the market which is probably not a net good. If that is not the purpose of dark pools and private rooms, then what other purposes do they have?

People are going out of their way to extol Harvard's supposed largesse, and how hardly anyone pays sticker. First, 45% do pay sticker according to the article.

Second, another way to look at this is that Harvard is putting a cap on a family earnings that it doesn't feel entitled to. ~$83K/year (post tax) is a massive amount of money for one child of a family making even $300K/year or $500K/year (pre tax).

The sticker price does matter, and this exemption is lipstick on the pig.

The problem with American higher education (and American healthcare, for the matter) is that they have persistently grown to opportunistically consume all the discretionary income of Americans.

There was also the AI that would handle restaurant reservations over the phone.

I used to believe that. Trump got elected twice. And now he's spewing the most ridiculous lies that are swallowed whole by the MAGA faithful (don't get me wrong, there are similar problems on the other side of the political spectrum. Each side occupies their own bubble). I don't believe it is bots anymore. Now even real people on LinkedIn are posting with the same characteristics.

There are some bots, for sure. There are disinformation campaigns but people are organically amplifying them. While social media is artificially amplifying them to maximize engagement. The social media amplification is why many of these people are so angry. Anger is the ultimate engagement hack.

> I am really amazed there are still almost half of the people able to twist reality to defend what is a direct attack against their own personal interests (they have proven already that other's interests do not matter for them). This sounds like self-flagellation seen from the outside.

They aren't thinking, really. If you look at the online comments from people who support these actions, you'll notice these characteristics: they are usually listing the same talking points, using the exact same collection of key words or "facts" (even in different languages, across different cultures) often strung together like chants, have a conspiratorial notion of a hidden puppeteer directing events or people they disapprove of, conversely they often have a messianic belief in their chosen prophet, and they are usually inexplicably very angry.

You will also notice that the vast majority of them very rapidly, and across cultural boundaries, start parroting the latest talking points. Talking points that didn't exist days before and weren't on anyone's minds.

It's a form of mass hysteria.

I've been wondering. What would happen if Tim Cook personally 'leaked' the notice on twitter?

How would the UK government reasonably sanction Apple?

The gold standard always fails. Whatever gold standard is established in history, it is inexorably debased.

The conceptual flaw with gold is that it is a desperate attempt to grasp at an absolute, because absolutes feel warm and fuzzy. Nothing is absolute in an economy. The relative value of everything changes constantly and trying to create an artificial peg to gold doesn't achieve anything useful.

In historical terms, by any measure you choose (monthly salary, purchasing power, etc.) gold is worth roughly 1/10th what it used to be worth a millennia ago and prior.

Adjusted for inflation, over the last 100 years or so, the value of gold has remained roughly constant in terms of salary and purchasing power.