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Prions persist in soil for years; elk eat where other elk have deposited prions.

This “silent is complicit” angle is positively poisonous.

Do you insist that your coworkers adhere to gender etiquette rules imposed by the trans community? Bathroom assignments? Etc.?

Maybe it’s a pornography company...? Maybe people should chill the fuck out with the constant thirst for being offended.

You'll likely see higher prices in the used market... which will almost certainly bubble up to the new market.

If nothing else, the PMBOK is valuable for PMs purely as a reference to the poisonous bullshit that is contained within it? Somewhat like the value of knowing about flat earth hypotheses and believers.

University of Minnesota is involved with the Confucius Institute... what could go wrong when a U.S. university accepts significant funding from a hostile foreign power?

https://experts.umn.edu/en/organisations/confucius-institute

Do you know if CCC supports regional chapters?

Is there a U.S. based Chaos Computer Club (CCC) or CCC like group?

Why are taxpayers funding remediation of Microsoft’s shitty vulnerable software?

It sounds like a great deal for Zoom... Zoom would have paid far more for this research in any other scenario.

The InfoSec community seems to be quite happy giving away their hard work, while the large security vendors make mountains of cash on snake oil solutions to enterprises. For context, Zoom certainly paid many multiples of $200k during any given month for firewall licensing.

Is it just me, or does $200k seem far too low for this? I understand that the reward was paid by the event, not Zoom... but it seems to me that Zoom should “pony up” some additional funds for this research.

Using NL as an example here is a major stretch... NL has been designed around non motorized transport; it’s like using Venice as an example for why gondola based transit is a good idea for North America <>

You know how many in the cycling movement view automobiles as being fast, dangerous, machines clogging up the roads? Many pedestrians view cyclists as a similar fast, dangerous (often rude and inconsiderate) presence on the sidewalk.

How will good be moved? How will the infirm get around? I admire the cyclist ideal that they are fixing the problems of the world by not driving/owning cars... but it seems like a very superficial, quasi-moralistic solution that's really not likely to have the impact that is desired/needed.

You going to shower at work? How do you get your kids to school? Are you going to put them on the handlebars?

Short urban commutes in winter are not an issue (or shortish commutes in Scandanavian high density population areas)... it's the idea of long commutes in rural areas and/or long commutes in rural areas during winter that is not just inconvenient but actually quite dangerous.

Cycling to/from work, grocery stores, etc. is completely infeasible for 6 months of the year in approximately 1/3 of the United States. In addition to seasonal infeasibility, much of the U.S. is rural... good luck commuting 15 miles each way to work.

You don't take issue with the bizarre and inefficient queries that it often builds? I've observed simple joins implemented using looping by Django ORM... I mean, WTF???

The ORM is horrendous.

“That war only made billionaires out of millionaires. Today's war is making trillionaires out of billionaires. Now I call that progress.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

Public interest in our national parks is the only reason these places exist... early robber barons tried to monetize Yellowstone and were only stopped because of people like George Bird Grinnell and the outdoorsmen/women he organized behind this effort. Without public interest in Yellowstone, the American Buffalo would likely no longer walk the earth.

I would love to hear you define what you mean by this statement regarding Amazon: "produces a lot of value to people"

Just selling cheap shit with no regard for those who produce and deliver your products doesn't equate to "produce a lot of value to people"...

Based on your comment, should we expect this vulnerability in comparable packages from other languages/communities? Or is this an NPM/JS maturity issue, i.e., “it’s not my fault, fix the spec.”?

Trump did in many regards, and the PC crowd lost their fucking minds over it.

Appetite is exceptionally low for ill advised forever wars... defending an ally against the CCP however is something that many Americans would likely be in favor of.

So doesn't FP make similar claims about mutation, i.e., "make state manipulation safe" through mechanisms like closures? How/why are closures considered more palatable?

How do you “know the requirements around it” if you can’t code?

Imagine managing a team of diamond cutters and not being able to cut diamonds yourself... you would only recognize poorly cut diamonds after they had been cut and you would have no idea of how to help your team improve with specific recommendations and guidance.

Don’t closures effectively break down this FP facade of local scope only mutability?

You’re points assume that OOP programs consist of a single god class stuffed full of nothing but mutable properties... which is obviously not sound OOP design.