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This sounds like a great direction for an advanced seminar in university.

When were Chinese shipping lanes threatened by the west last time?

A potential threat does not count. China potentially threatens the destruction of the west coast by nukes, so by your argument the US should have gone to war long ago if potential threats count.

Hmm. So far they only sold lifetime subscriptions priced at less than a years worth of monthly subscriptions. I would be scared to fail my subscribers if I run out of money and have to shut down.

Definitions (and axioms) are invented. Theorems are then discovered.

I don’t think this is true. I would agree that the aha moment was not for everyone at the same time.

But for most people that I saw accessing the internet the first time it clicked immediately and they were hooked.

The first half page finally made me understand the problem. I didn’t get it from the article.

While there‘s no doubt that earth’s clock is ticking there’s no doubt that the universe‘s clock is also ticking - although a few orders of magnitude slower.

In EU this is part of GDPR.

What if you reword it as copyleft-AI GPL. You may only use this code to train “open” models, that are themselves subject to the copyleft-AI GPL. In that case you would just spell out, that you consider the model a derivate of your work.

The tool is Google. The text is about how to use Google to search Mastodon.

It’s strange that in their examples they don’t show any I/O (apart from print).

I would expect support from such a language to support me with I/O while I concentrate on my program. For example by providing an event loop.

Of course, if I need a more performant approach I would switch to a low level language.

I was about to propose https://www.pygame.org/wiki/GettingStarted but then I saw that meanwhile there is https://docs.python.org/3/library/turtle.html

This also pissed me off. Why not start the day with a weather report, short news and some trivia. When I checked long time ago I didn’t find any way to integrate stuff like that together.

I tried googling for an example[1] and had difficulty finding a good one.

Do you have a link to a good one?

[1] https://elixirschool.com/en/lessons/basics/pipe_operator

> For students/professors, Mathematica is basically already free at most major universities.

When I was still in academia I avoided close source because I want my research to be accessible. It does make a difference if you need to go through some strange license portal to activate your university license or if you can just install it in one line.

For me that meant that my scripts run in octave as good as in matlab, if this was feasible (and of course many packages exist only for matlab).

Please keep Markdown simple as it is.

Feel free to come up with something new that supports Markdown as a subset or overlaps with Markdown.

In fact various Twitter accounts are already unavailable in EU today because they are censored for spreading Russian state propaganda.

I totally agree with you. But there is also the danger that you end up in a dead end.

Let’s say you are a beginner programmer and good with excel. If you are now doing a lot of excel jobs (and your manager agrees that you should do it) then you progress at excel and less at programming. So your buddies might get promoted to senior programmers while you stay the underpaid excel guy.

You should make sure that you get extra education to catch-up if people ask you to spend time on dead ends.

It’s not the fact that the government owes you that makes USD valuable. It’s you owing the government (taxes) that makes USD desirable for you - or go to jail.

How is it difficult to get USD access in Poland?

The follow up was recently discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32106467

And how would it be different from (La)TeX?

Why not keep commits as the atomic element and use (release) tags if you want a coarse overview what happened?

I’m not cherry picking the lowest number. You are shying away from giving a typical number. The 40% protection is actually much better then the anecdotal data I have. Two thirds of my vaccinated acquaintances fell sick with Covid19 in spite of vaccination.

If you’re honest the page for measles could be just as confusing as the covid19 page. But CDC is confident to simplify it to a single number.

But let’s assume that the Covid19 vaccines provides a solid 70% protection during the first year. That’s still ten times more people vulnerable than after the measles vaccination! The disappointment is justified.

I thought meanwhile everyone agreed that the vaccines are very weak at providing sterile immunity?!

When the mass vaccinations started alpha was already the dominant variant. When I was vaccinated it was clear that delta would matter most. So the vaccination for my age group was pretty pointless.

Also you didn’t cite a number of efficacy. Clicking through the many cases I come up with something less than 40% (protection against infection) within a year. If you compare that with the 97% for lifetime (measles) you can understand the disappointment of the people and why they don’t want to call it a vaccine.

The ancestral strain results were (naturally) also only of the kind: 95% protection for 3 months (or was the study period only 1 month?). Of course nobody could know for sure. But to many it was no surprise that the virus would escape any vaccine quickly just like the flu.

OTOH: From all data I saw, I agree that the vaccine improved the chances of survival of the elderly.

For measles the efficacy is apparently 97% [1].

What’s the number for Covid19?

And why wasn’t it in the sheets when I was compelled to vaccinate? If I remember correctly the sheet back then stated that it may not protect against Covid19 at all.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/measles/index.html

> Most people never want to acknowledge the sheer scope and scale of Paypal and Square's Cash app's usage as large scale money laundering, drug trafficking, and prostitution tooling. (and much more)

How do you arrive at that conclusion? How does it compare to other means of payment?

I don’t doubt that it is used for criminal activities. But I doubt that the scope is extra ordinary.

> conversations with Ex San Quentin prisoners

I heard Maddoff was involved with NASDAQ. Does it imply NASDAQ is a fraud?

> It cost me $502, it was FedExed to me in a USB, and I signed my program.

I’m surprised that it apparently had to be delivered physically. Did Comodo generate the private key for you?

Get a lawyer. Ask for an injunction by a court. Make smartscreen liable for the damage they do to you.

The gp doesn’t have a problem. He will make money by something else then writing the book.

His readers are at loss. Their book won’t come into existence.