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I've read it as "we'll stop posting silly updates to this incident until we actually know something", not "we'll stop rolling out updates to our services".

I'd wage that Microsoft practices had nothing to do with this, but I'll wait for RCA.

It is kind of helpful, but I agree that it should be an opt-in in accessibility settings.

I think that would be a good FBI case. I am sure it is a minimum of 2 charges, probably more (conspiracy to commit fraud over the state line, wire fraud).

I learned to code on MK-52. It was fairly cheap and accessible by the time i have got my hands on it.

After programming (and patching) in hex codes, any other programming language seems fairly simple.

And on the back of MK-52 there was a potentiometer you could use to overclock it.

I did not know the trick of re-soildering the BRP jumper though.

Ah, good times.

How about we talk about building infrastructure? The whole Bay Area is building like crazy, and yet the roads are getting worse (more building? more traffic lights!). Public transportation is a big joke around here. Caltrain from South San Jose to Mountain View? We have the tracks, we have the train... the train just does not go this route on weekends.

We have the same situation as a startup focused on developing a product. We have abidance of developers, and very few infrastructure engineers. When we start deploying what we have built, we are going to have a bad time.

Take a look at the graph: https://oceanacidification.noaa.gov/OurChangingOcean.aspx

~8.1% was not alarming 50 years ago, so why 8.3% should be alarming now? I would be more concerned about the curve slope and shape.

And the article provides a link to nice graph one can extrapolate back or forward: https://oceanacidification.noaa.gov/OurChangingOcean.aspx

This is a purely political statement. It is pretty easy to release cars on paper.

A market for political statements has always had a pretty low entrance barrier, all you need is a good PR manager.

Linked article says:

> “The server itself did not contain any user activity logs; none of our applications send user-created credentials for authentication, so usernames and passwords couldn’t have been intercepted either,” said the spokesperson. “On the same note, the only possible way to abuse the website traffic was by performing a personalized and complicated man-in-the-middle attack to intercept a single connection that tried to access NordVPN.”

> According to the spokesperson, the expired private key could not have been used to decrypt the VPN traffic on any other server.

> NordVPN said it found out about the breach a “few months ago,” but the spokesperson said the breach was not disclosed until today because the company wanted to be “100% sure that each component within our infrastructure is secure.”

Which part? The price? Yes, it is ridiculous.

The method of replacing entire MCU? Maybe not, flash is likely not the only component in there that has an age limit.

This probably replaces wifi mesh devices - eventually, or pretty soon, depending on some exec's ambition.

Every single router vendor does this. It is an issue, but it is not a google issue.

pg&e owns the grid. A lot of bay area residents generate their own power, but we all rely on pg&e for interconnect.

And without grid, solar panels shut themselves off.

I have upvoted op because it is an interesting topic. I upvoted your comment because it is more interesting than the op. I would use occam’s razor to say that the pattern you see is normal.

It is a pity we do not see enough posts on problems of public transportation though. All those articles about beauty of public transportation and biking in high-density, nice weather areas are highly misleading.

That is s a good interview question. Gills? Direct oxygen injection?

As a human being (that happens to be a US citizen), I find OP's comment really disturbing.

The whole comment is whataboutism, so maybe this was just an intentional red herring.

The author is probably an English major. He was waiting all his life to finally say 'you see, my degree is not completely useless'. He would, of course, be completely and utterly wrong - both in justifying his degree, and his analysis of relnotes grammar.

'Rich' is a relative term.

> living in a $1.2 million home and earning more than $250,000 a year.

In other words, you make enough to not qualify for any aid, bit not enough to have $60k/yr disposable income. I see where the parents are coming from.

I am horrified by an idea that eventually, I will have to vote for Donald Trump.

You are correct for weight loss. The only reliable way to lose weight is to consume fewer calories.

However, when it comes to supporting your current weight, it is fairly easy to hit equilibrium with exercise.

> If you live in a lyme-tick area

So, continental US, excluding maybe Nevada and New Mexico (because desert).

> you should have antibiotics on hand at all times.

So, here is a problem: in US, antibiotics are prescription-only. And no doctor would prescribe antibiotics preventively. They will prescribe antibiotics after a tick bite, but you need an office visit (or online office visit). The only way to get antibiotics preventively is to stash some after a tick bite, or simulate symptoms over a video call.

TL/DR: if you are in US, you're fucked.

More like 'without paying us first'.

Every 3rd party service has a dark (or grey) side. This is a trade-off for offloading some functionality onto 3rd party.

Are you contesting either of the meanings?

Interestingly, ergodicity has two meanings (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ergodic):

1. of or relating to a process in which every sequence or sizable sample is equally representative of the whole (as in regard to a statistical parameter)

2. involving or relating to the probability that any state will recur especially : having zero probability that any state will never recur

Nassim Taleb mostly uses ergodicity in the second meaning, while the article concentrates on the first. I find it utterly confusing.

In bay area, we call them mountain lions. Because this is what park warning signs call them.

Second paragraph defines it:

> Mountain lions as a species are not threatened in California, but a petition submitted Tuesday to the state Fish and Game Commission argues that six isolated and genetically distinct cougar clans from Santa Cruz to the U.S.-Mexico border comprise a subpopulation that is threatened by extinction.

I understand it lacks the 'We define extinction vortex as...' preamble, but you can easily infer it.

How many defrauded owners to we need to start a class-action lawsuit?

Yes, - and a lot of online communities on the internet has reached that scale. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Reddit...

In case of reddit, the problem is even more interesting. There are subreddits, so it is naturally segregated, and moderators and community are local. The communities can use downvotes to 'stone' an offender, and local elected moderators can enforce a ban. In case moderator or community mishandles the process, 'federal' admins can intervene. So we are pretty much at medieval level of justice there (much better than whatever constitutional dictatorship facebook and twitter have).

Well, duh. The problem is applying these policies - because blindly applying policies usually leads to mixed results (innocents banned, trolls using a loophole in policy and proliferating). But to quote the author -

> we have a way to prevent gangs of humans from acting like savage packs of animals. In fact, we’ve developed entire disciplines based around this goal over thousands of years.

We 'just' need to introduce institutes of online courts, judges, lawyers, and presumption of innocence (good thing that enforcement can be automated, so we do not need the execution squad). Also, you kinda need someone to write these policies, and approve them. Maybe an elected group of people - maybe even two groups, to balance the democracy/influence?

If you are not already doing it for your website, you are obviously an irresponsible moron.