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The media really went to town on this one, the reports that you might die using it lacked some real common sense, all of a sudden a drug that was approved in 1955, considered extremely safe (listed as an essential medicine by WHO) , and used on millions of people... is suddenly not safe.

The original anonymous hackers now have children and real jobs. Some random twitter accounts from 9 years ago are not anonymous, one of them was used as a kpop account. Anyone saying anonymous is back is either a dolt or using for political posturing.

Sorry but a citation is not needed, they have poured vast amounts of money into IT infrastructure, logistics, supply/demand, warehousing, POS, RFID, the list goes on. How do you think they became so large? Technology you take for granted everyday started out funded and developed by Walmart (usually in collab with IBM, TI, etc). They have brought money and the desire to the table in tech for over 40 years, often pushing the envelope of what's even possible.

Here's a better title "Journalist hucksters reinvigorate the fake message that anonymous is back ".

I understand how this might get traction on Reddit or Facebook, but Hacker News?

No sorry, but I can tell you it provides video/text/meta data archiving for many countries' parliaments and state legislatures.

It is a bit strange how the in-house and other competitor is also mentioned, Walmart are big on data warehousing and management, in a lot of cases they are pushing innovation and r&d, in some cases for decades. This article needs to show a more detailed analysis of when it does actually work, a fraud KPI ?, or something else besides some anonymous complaints.

You can trick any system, but that's not telling on it's overall effectiveness.

This happened at the first start-up I worked at, 3 years in and almost bankrupt, one large customer kept using the product for a different reason ( kinda hacking it all together), so we completely pivoted to survive with this customers needs and it became a huge success. That pivot was towards such a niche market that no one was really in the space, and no one outside it would have really even know about it.

Ya I agree, I wonder what happened to lavabit's dark mail server / client, they got funding but the development seems to have stalled years ago.

> Why does AWS use such convoluted language?

Because it's run by engineers (not a bad thing).

Yes it is, and with 20 years in the game it's generally true, there are always exceptions of course.

This isn't just a whoopsy mistake, this is a drastically stupid decision that brings the whole business into question. This wasn't really a technical mistake, this is bad leadership mixed with bad procedures. When you drive you boat into the ground because your "not thinking" as the captain, it doesn't remove the fact that you drove a boat into the ground. Irresponsible would be an under statement, it would be more appropriate to call this moronic.

So basically block 70% of all results from first and second page? Google has turned into a defective product.

Marketing can be a real struggle for engineers, they are often so focused on "proving" what works, they feel marketing or promotion somehow pollutes the purity of their invention. They are also REALLY bad at the aesthetics of design.

They are often dead wrong about this moral high-ground, good brand/marketing can be the difference between success and failure.

I've lived in this difficult world for decades, started out as a programmer, but the majority of my work is marketing and brand management. Iv'e worked with start-ups that 100% refuse all brand/marketing, and others that are completely misguided. But ive also worked with very successful companies that devote the time and money to marketing. After all what's the point of making something if no one uses it.

Car's sell because they have personality, it's not just about what's under the hood.

The reason given: Legit covid information was not getting through during the fist few days of the crisis, basically made an emergency move to disable the whitelist/blacklist functionality of the algo which reverted to how it worked years ago.

Google search is so sad these days, all results are media conglomerates, it's completely counter to the core reason why the internet existed. I really hope by catering to these mega corps that they are completely undermining their brand and someone else comes along and pulls the rug out from underneath them.

If anyone noticed during the first couple days of covid, google search was free from large media results, the algorithm reverted back to how it was years ago and it was such a breath of fresh air. Of course they fixed the algo immediately, it went back to only showing curated media results..there was an anon google employee who posted why this occurred.

I do find it a bit weird you released internal handles and employee names.

Giphy is worth an estimated 300 million, gifs are extremely popular on mobile and discussion boards, your comment is not relevant to the actual marketplace.

Dating? So they learned nothing about the dismal effects of reality TV's on culture and content creators? Here's a better suggestion, fire the person who thought moving laterally into a garbage dump was a good idea.

It's all about the hardware now, building out your own components isn't going to be easy, get a microprocessor that was build pre-1998 or try an open source hardware solution but who wants to do that..

Analyzing common sense seems to be getting more popular.

Article critiques data set and gives zero details on the CDC calculation methodology, and provides zero relevance to any new or interesting data analysis, but it surely mentioned Trump a few times.

A simple Google search will provide you with actual data sets, nationally, state wide, and even globally, by very competent scientists, some of whom have studied this specifically for decades.

There are various places you can research for example: FluView, FluMomo, Virologic Surveillance, Journal of Infectious Diseases, etc.

I recently read, Influenza-attributable deaths, Canada 1990–1999 Published online by Cambridge University Press , so this MD's Scientific American blog post comes across as pure garbage.

I know its's not thier intent but the promo video comes across as snarky, in my opinion the spirit of of the show was a true comedy in a sort or zen way with a flash of synchronicity, laughing in the face of tragedy and how rediculous everything is. Possibly just the voice actor that adds the odd vibe, but it seems to miss the underlying spirit of the show, its not just about Jerry's snarkiness.

Well China is pushing a narrative that the outbreak started in October at the Wuhan Military world games, you can bet that US intelligance was monitoring this event, and literally competing in the event..over 100 countries participated..things that make you go hmmmm.

You can find the full .pdf report by googling "Crimson Contagion Functional Excercise Key Findings"

I instantly closed this website because it loaded slow and then hit me with 2 pop-ups and a location request.

whoosh..

I've noticed this a lot on hackernews, there is an apprehesion to say certain things as though there is some sort of pedigree or gating when discussing topics, especially when it's personal...there isn't.

Case in point: The comment below mine...

Your missing the sub-text, a lot of Europe has crappy infrastructure, western countries should be able to handle this bandwidth without any issues. Blaming netflix is indicative that you have crappy IT.

Your old wife's tale might safe someones life at best and at worse do nothing, no reason to not say it, no one is going to mock you.

Protein is vital for your immue system and to fight viral and bacterial infections. Chicken soup with lots of potein and vitamins is a not just an old wives tale.

But unless your kid has an underlying health issue or vitamin deficiency, then not really. Eat well, get some sunlight if you can, wash your hands often, don't touch your face, follow the guidlines doctors are mentioning at your state/local or federal level.