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la6472··on After millennia of expansion, the world has passed ‘peak agricultural land’
FTA “ improvements in crop yields, agricultural productivity, and dietary choices are so important.”

and the biggest one imo is dietary choices. Our meat consumption has lead to pasteurization of forest land to raise and feed the huge amount of livestocks needed to satisfy our meat craving.

la6472··on The end of big data
What about unstructured data or is the realization dawning that there cannot be any data that is unstructured?
la6472··on Mental illness, mass shootings, and the politics of American firearms (2015)
There has been a 13.5 percent increase in children mortality due to firearms between 2019 and 2020.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2201761

la6472··on Amazon investors nuke ethics overhaul and say yes to $212M CEO pay
Over 10 years
la6472··on Mental illness, mass shootings, and the politics of American firearms (2015)
Right now it is hard to look at our kids faces and not feel the impact of this tragedy. I don’t know about everyone but for most people their kids lives are way more important than their right to bear military grade guns. If there is no perfect solution we have to live with a less than perfect solution. If the solution is to legally make it harder for people to access such guns then so be it.
la6472··on Luna Cryptocurrency Collapse: How UST Broke
I agree. What the hell is NFT Stablecoin and all the other snake oils been pedaled all this time .. could not make head or tails of them.
la6472··on Tech bubbles are bursting all over the place
Bubbles are absolutely necessary in an innovative marketplace. There has to be thousands of fail fast companies before a titan emerges.
la6472··on My journey through the American immigration system as a computer engineer
And this +1
la6472··on Your phone may soon replace many of your passwords
First thing that comes to my mind is “What happens if your phone is suddenly dead”? Will this FIDO alliance guarantee alternative means of access or that they will send someone down to your house to identify you positively and restore access to your online mail and documents?
la6472··on Apple, Google and Microsoft Commit to Expanded Support for FIDO Standard
I get that but I think OIDC could be extended to cover that too whereas the Authenticator or iDP is the local face scanner kr other biometric and then the rest ie exchange of token etc stays the same. That way there won’t be two completely separate path and that will defeat the purpose of SSO ie OIDC websites will authenticate with google or Facebook but FIDO enabled websites will work with face recognition. And it looks like there are already some implementation of this OIDC enabled face recognition https://www.bioid.com/facial-recognition-app/
la6472··on Apple, Google and Microsoft Commit to Expanded Support for FIDO Standard
Yes I get that but I think OIDC could be extended to cover that too whereas the Authenticator or iDP is the local face scanner kr other biometric and then the rest ie exchange of token etc stays the same. That way there won’t be two completely separate path and that will defeat the purpose of SSO. And it looks like there are already some implementation of this https://www.bioid.com/facial-recognition-app/
la6472··on Apple, Google and Microsoft Commit to Expanded Support for FIDO Standard
Why do we need another AuthN protocol? We should extend OIDC as needed instead of again trying to reinvent the wheel.
la6472··on Ask HN: Have we screwed ourselves as software engineers?
Wait until it breaks one day and no one can understand it enough to fix it !!!
la6472··on Keycloak: Open-Source Identity and Access Management
First of all it is not clear if it is stand alone OR SAAS product?
la6472··on I accidentally loaned all my money to the US government
Touché :p
la6472··on I accidentally loaned all my money to the US government
Any website worth anything would have done a real time check on the users balance and only allow the leftover amount to be used to buy the bonds I.e if I already have $2K worth of bonds then I should be allowed only another $8K worth of bonds. How difficult is it to build this simple business logic into the user experience? Not a lot specially with the resources at their disposal. But unfortunately I can guarantee that the bureaucratic mechanisms , the digital divide that exists in the govt departments will ensure that there is no quick fix for this. And on top of that some of us may think of this as a feature :D and don’t realize what is wrong with this picture.
la6472··on Things I don’t want to do to grow my side project
I agree with the author. I think one thing to try and do is hunt for cheap outsourcing of these non core items like marketing sales can be done via ffiliate marketing.
la6472··on For most Americans, owning a home is now a distant dream
If this https://tab.gladly.io/cats/ can raise 1 million then everything is possible
la6472··on Actual is going open-source
810 paid subscribers and he could not secure funding to sustain the business ??
la6472··on Airbnb’s design to live and work anywhere
Using tax to build roads , fund schools , maintain community parks , allocating to providing care for the poor and defense funding is not “slavery” and there is no “ruling class”. You can be a burecrat or become a politician if you want. The system may not be perfect but certainly better that half assed solutions that makes no sense.
la6472··on Khan Academy launches Khan World School online high school
There is some truth to it but teachers and professors who do not support online mode of teaching also work to undermine it for your own vested interest aka job security. I am sure a online school or class can do their own study and produce opposite results.
la6472··on Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private
No but the results are out:

https://nypost.com/2022/04/27/conservatives-see-spike-in-fol...

la6472··on World military expenditure passes $2T for first time
Very well written , thanks! And what I don’t get is how even in 2022 decision makers can take a decision that results in killing of innocent lives somewhere. When there is even the slightest chance of dialogue why don’t they seize it?
la6472··on Google’s AI-powered ‘inclusive warnings’ feature is very broken
And the new concept is property owner can be of any gender so change the word that points out to one particular gender. When did change become so difficult in this society? Ha!!
la6472··on Google’s AI-powered ‘inclusive warnings’ feature is very broken
Systematic and well entrenched problem require the first step of acknowledgement. If you do not even acknowledge there is a problem of empathy across the board today in our society then you are not even in the first step.
la6472··on Google’s AI-powered ‘inclusive warnings’ feature is very broken
No they don’t decide. They suggest. Are you also offended by the suggestions?
la6472··on Google’s AI-powered ‘inclusive warnings’ feature is very broken
To begin with you and your crew can stop downvoting comments you disagree with. Do it and you will have evidence of change.
la6472··on Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
Mr T will be tweeting again!!
la6472··on Google’s AI-powered ‘inclusive warnings’ feature is very broken
I support it and I don’t work for google. I like this feature that encourages more empathy in this strife and hate filled world.
la6472··on Magic-trace – High-resolution traces of what a process is doing
So one needs to upload the trace log to your website to visualize? Any way to do it locally?
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