Fear-mongering at it's best. The article's main intent is to scare into thinking that genetic problems are because of the cold that you had when you were little so that you might send money their way for "a new philanthropic foundation to focus on the intersection of neuroscience, psychiatry and immunology." 90% of the article is superstion warning you that infertility is because you've been sick for decades and just don't know it, and 10% is asking for money. The only inkling of anything helpful is at the very end, when they recommend vitamin D supplements.
That's true, but I just think it doesn't have to be that way. The only thing politicians care about more than money is being re-elected, so perhaps if more people took note of the good, populace-serving things that politicians at least supported and made it a point to say that that's the cause of their vote, then maybe politicians would be more inspired to do similar things. As soon as people begin to discount good actions as flukes and uplift negatives as the reason why they aren't voting for someone, both sides get jaded very quickly and lose sight of their purpose.
Voters exist to reinforce positive behaviors in politicians, and politicians exist to exhibit those positive behaviors. You can't teach someone with punishment alone.
I see a lot of people calling BS on the basis that you can't properly analyse dreams through a computer, or that dreams don't have value to begin with.
We know. Or really, we don't. Psychologists and biologists don't understand dreams, and dream analysis is a centuries-old practice based off of pseudoscience and pop psychology. No one is asking for directives in life from this bot, it's just fun to see what our dreams mean from a third-person perspective. At it's best, it will help someone to break down what their subconscious is feeling. At it's worst, it will give someone meaningless words of encouragement.
In the end, even if companies made their deceptive/evil practices abundantly clear, I'm not sure it would stop many people. If Microsoft told people setting up Windows 11 that every ounce of profitable data will be used against them, most people would still accept it because the alternatives are less convenient.
"Our customers’ passwords remain safely encrypted due to LastPass’s Zero Knowledge architecture."
A security breach memo is not the place to advertise how great your security is.
I do hope that you're learning good habits in tandem with your medicine. Stress-management and self-control habits start small but end up being just as effective, if not more than your medication.The idea isn't to make you dependent on a prescription to be productive, you're to learn how to manage your ADHD to the degree where you can lower your dosage.
As with any art form, it takes getting creative to make something amazing. It's super helpful to know what each part of the camera does, but also what you can do in spite of them. One of the best lessons I learned in my high-school film class was that lighting is important, but never a limitation. The beginning of this article talks about avoiding/using certain lights, but I would argue against the need of having the perfect circumstances for a photo. The combination of two flashlights in the dark or car sunshades in the sunlight are creative ways to make any camera take sharp photos with meaning.
Meteorites this large are rare, and extremely helpful to the scientific community, considering that going straight to the source is the only other way to retrieve samples. It's spooky because it could mean a huge discovery that's not being realized.
"The meteorite broke up over Kentucky and passed over West Virginia and Pennsylvania on its north-northeast trajectory before striking a parked 1980 red Chevy Malibu at approximately 7:50 pm EDT. After traveling through space at a cosmic velocity of 8.8 miles per second (14 km/s, 31,600 miles per hour), the speed of the meteorite at impact had slowed to 164 miles per hour (264 km/h)."
If I had to guess, it's probably because most people love a cute easter-egg and this story was someone excited to have had their project noticed and implemented by Microsoft, off whom it was based; and your comment on the matter is that easter-eggs are stupid and outdated.
Also, I'm new here: how do you downvote a comment?
With both the 16 billion figure being preceded by the U.S dollar sign, and FTX being an exchange for many different cryptocurrencies at drastically different values, they were probably adding up the dollars invested by stockholders and the dollars input into the website. After all, their FTT coin crashed and burned completely, and many other currencies are also dipping to record lows. If they valued the dollar based on current prices, then it would be multiples of $16B instead.
Either way, the inclusion of "astronomically overvalued cryptocurrency" as a descriptor definitely makes it seem more like a slight towards crypto than an honest question of the valuation. Put simply, a lot of people lost a lot of money.
Considering that "pretend money" is purchased with "real money", this distinction doesn't matter much. I guess it just depends on if you consider property valuable despite not having a green tint and dead political figure on it.
With all of the extra power we have in our components these days, companies feel like they need to utilize all of it, otherwise it's wasted. Thus the suite of horrible programs required to get a USB controller to have deadzones, or for keyboards to have custom functions.
The amount of background processes in one Windows 10 instance without having opened a single program manually is mind-boggling.
This story isn't a very new one, and overall repeats the same dated philosophical standpoints about both art and privacy, but man is the author's storytelling gripping. It was interesting to read about the secret service and how they didn't quite know what to do throughout the entire investigation. Or Apple, who opted to strong-arm blogs from allowing the photos rather than talk with EFF lawyers privately.
It's funny to think how such an unsolvable question of "What Is Art?" was the deciding factor in how each party handled a case that could have easily been fought for and against the project fundamentally.
I grew up in Albuquerque and can say confidently that no one minds having a balloon land in their yard. It's like if a fighter jet landed outside minus ~120 dB and the travel. It's a kind of childlike magic to help them break down and put their balloon away. The only issue is when they run into power lines and such, but they can control vertical movement so that's not common.
I use Geometric Weather. It's also on F-Droid, has widgets, material design, and a GPL3 license. You can choose the source for your weather, and it has just about any feature you'd ever need (wind speed, barometric pressure, weekly, daily, and hourly forecasts). It's very pretty, too.
I was very particular in saying "formulated". They didn't "make" the internet as we know it, nor do they "own" the internet. I just mean that the very foundation of American internet is the U.S government.
After all, my point wasn't against trusting the internet, It was more that everything built on the foundation is as trustworthy as the foundation itself.