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In that case, "The Weekly World News" has a lot of corrections to issue.

What does David Icke have to correct?

When did David Icke try to pass a gun range in Kentucky off as Syria?

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/14/business/media/turkey-syr...

If his methodology is not on point, his hypothesis should be waaaay off point, and very easy to debunk.

If that is the case, why are you attacking his lack of credentials and politics instead of his hypothesis?

edit: here is an actual paper saying the same thing the medium post is

https://chemrxiv.org/ndownloader/files/22129965

This modern tendency to purge instead of rebut is very disturbing.

If the man is talking nonsense, it should be easy to refute him. It would also serve as a great "teaching moment" to help everyone sharpen their BS detectors.

Good. For every elite university performing actual "brain drain," there are a dozen others importing a fifth-column of mediocrities for cash and prizes.

Now corporate espionage is off the charts, and our elite are too short-term and rootless to care about the long-term consequences.

i must concede that bailing out local bureaucrats who haven't been doing their jobs in order to help predominantly able-bodied dependents of the state is a slight improvement.

you make relieveing the government of its social obligations so it can do more wars / interventions / bailouts sound like it has some kind of humanitarian dimension...

Turing completeness in config files is a proven bad idea.

If it is truly needed, use/write a config generator instead. We have so many tools in the build chain now that config generation can be easily automated into the deployment process.

See m4, BPF, PDF, etc...

I heard about hydroxychloroquine here, 38 days ago--long before Trump, or this "simple country doctor" said a peep about it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22426143

Information is such a powerful commodity these days, and this dude probably had plenty of it. Have to wonder if this was ordinary suicide, or the Gary Webb two-bullet variety.

ps> suicide as safe guess

shhhhhhh! Be quiet, and let natural selection run its course.

One man's unsubstantive flamebait, another man's hope and optimism...

This is one of the very few times I wish jwz were more unpleasant than he normally is.

Leave it to some ivory tower nerd like Guelzo to make a moral and legal point of a hospital's responsibility to torture grandma on her way out, then loot the estate after she passes:

"52 patients were given non-invasive ventilation at ICU admission, of whom 22 (76%) required further orotracheal intubation and invasive mechanical ventilation. The ICU mortality rate among those who required non-invasive ventilation was 23 (79%) of 29 and among those who required invasive mechanical ventilation was 19 (86%) of 22."[0]

[0] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2...

macbook air is a good computer. put it in a drawer. it might still come in handy one day.

shitting it up and wearing it down with kubernetes is a guaranteed wrong move.

Get a degree in a real subject like math, physics, chemistry... The prereqs are probably the same.

Elixir. I don't recommend it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20660260

I think there's a little more to it than that, but just a little...

A most uncomfortable truth!

the basic math in his article wasn't undefined

Many of the older, business-driven mainframe designs have hardware BCD instructions--for faithful/performant implementation of grade-school-style dollars-and-cents base-10 arithmetic.

On the other hand, a great deal of PC evolution has been driven by games--where performance is king. Hard to beat IEEE floating point on performance & storage efficiency!

Then there are the rusty sharp edges of x86, but that is life...

I wonder if `-O0` would solve the inconsistency? I don't particularly trust many compiler optimizations--too much temptation for a compiler writer to go performance-crazy, and start treating this computer voodoo like it was actual algebra.

if i had reason to be this paranoid about doing something on the computer, i probably wouldn't do it on the computer... see what Ron Minnich amd Bunnie Huang have to say about the state of modern hardware and bios.

that, and i believe AMT is still a thing

perverse, yet not surprising

Amen.

Tell any given hall-monitor type about a seemingly coordinated effort toward a single goal, then watch them scoff and dismiss. It is so tiresome.

Then reveal the steady paychecks behind the effort--that the endeavor was ordinary commerce all along--and watch the same awful people hamster up even more fantastical conspiracy theories to support the original take.

You got me! Fair-and-square.

Why does astronomically priced remdesivir take precedence in most mentions when, from the chart, chloroquine seems to have a similar inhibition rate, a slightly lower cytotoxicity, and a much lower cost?

How many hundreds of megabytes for basic UI elements? I say this not an attack on Tailwind, but as an attack on web "standards."

the vulture approach to investing tends to be materially profitable yet karmically ruinous

New York Post has got you covered!

https://nypost.com/2020/02/22/dont-buy-chinas-story-the-coro...

PS> knew I'd have to scroll to the bottom to get some sense out of this place!

considering the strong rumors that this is an engineered biological warfare agent escaped from the lab, authoritarianism still isn't looking so hot right now.