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by _red 5y ago
>China Its not totally fair to put this all on Chinese manipulation. Western politicians and many "tech elite" all love the concept of CCP-style 'social credit systems' being instituted. This is ultimately what vaxpas
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by _red 5y ago
Can't even sign up. Gives generic error about "payment / registration failed" - its a regular credit card that I use everywhere. Oh well...kinda glad to be honest. Knowing Oracle it will eventually become a nightmare any
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by _red 5y ago
Imagine needing to get boosters every 3 months and being so insane you think its working....
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BBC: Vaccine Booster Schedule Accelerated to 3 Months(bbc.co.uk)
4 points by _red 5y ago|7 comments
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by _red 5y ago
You will never be fully vaccinated.
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by _red 5y ago
>In Derek's example the switch and the bulb are 1 meter away from each other and therefore the time is 1/c seconds, i.e the time light takes to travel 1 meter. Perhaps I didn't make my example clear. Imagine loop with 2 sw
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by _red 5y ago
Can someone answer the General Relativity concerns regarding this? Imagine the same loop as Derek setup in the video, but where it extended into next galaxy (say 1 light year away). In next galaxy there is another switch - we don't kno
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by _red 5y ago
> As long as we ban IQ tests for employment employers are going to keep using this as the best practical proxy. I Thats probably true to a degree, however I think the system will breakdown this decade. Given current inflation rates, anyo
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by _red 5y ago
Its pretty otherworldly, I was an active member of a top 25 sub. Although the sub is decidedly non-political, the mod recently decided to post a politic-specific sticky as first post. I commented in that thread "this sub is probably no
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by _red 5y ago
Munger is a real proponent of Chinese-style capitalism and generally praises the idea of social-credit systems. It only makes sense that his architecture style would also favor brutalism. He probably repurposed some of the designs of the ol
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by _red 5y ago
The hubris of these engineers are going to kill lots of innocents. I wonder how long until regulators are forced to step in? Self-driving has continually been proven to be a "not-ready" piece of tech...can't imagine allowing
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by _red 5y ago
>There's no way for me, a hypothetical person who wants to keep my Signal messages 100% encrypted in the Signal ecosystem, to opt out of my contacts using an Element bridge. This sounds like a made-up concern. How do you stop me fro
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by _red 5y ago
Thats something similar to what we are doing... * Local RPI / Container connects to message queue in cloud * Web User inputs request to Web UI (cloud) * Local RPI / Container retrieves request via queue and access final device *
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by _red 5y ago
We're a industrial-control company whose traditional UI has been standard win32 applications - we've slowing converting our stack over to a web interface but as our UI needs to talk to lots of local devices, we've hit the pro
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by _red 5y ago
Great points, a tangential thought: MacOS and Windows have figured out that showing a GUI ASAP satisfies the user. Even if in the background its still negotiating networks, initializing sub-systems, etc. I wonder why Linux has not yet take
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by _red 5y ago
>BBC's disinformation specialist aka. Propagandist
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by _red 5y ago
moreover, you can also use docker digest instead of tags, that is: instead of docker pull postgresql:11 you can do docker pull postgresql@sha:xxxx....
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by _red 5y ago
I think what the parent is alluding to is: What is the practical point of using Nix when similar outcomes can be reached with more mainstream solutions? In other words, suppose I want to deploy a web app that depends on Nginx, PHP, and Post
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by _red 5y ago
You mean like if I would make a youtube video regarding safety data from the mandated you-know-whats?
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by _red 5y ago
Well, the nuance is not every consumer desires every transaction to have those things. Trying to make blanket statements leads to incorrect conclusions...there are a myriad of cases where consumers prefer classes of transactions to be dig
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by _red 5y ago
The idea "everyone should be their own bank" is a great idea, and most should endeavor to do that, but it fails often for a variety of legal and regulatory reasons. Suppose you are a company, with a myriad of shareholders, do you:
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by _red 5y ago
> Just wish inequality wasn't so fucking huge. Printing money leads to greater inequality. Expect more of it.
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by _red 5y ago
>But also: Bake The Cake.
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by _red 5y ago
Thanks for entering this space. One thing I would love for you to add is the concept of "Folders" (or projects / songs / whatever you want to call it). Here is the point: Sometimes I will record 14 different versions of
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by _red 5y ago
"Music Memos" was the perfect 'recording snippet app' for me. I honestly think they let a diamond in the rough escape them. The tempo detection and ability to overlay basic drum / bass backing was brilliant.
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by _red 5y ago
Its literally just a restatement of their 2017 pronouncement with no changes. Its being hyped as "new" but its not.
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by _red 5y ago
Not arguing your point, because I believe its really valid. However, the issue is, any moderately complex application will soon develop its own in-house Framework . Its the natural progression, very soon the head Dev will say "lets cr
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by _red 5y ago
>Lets strip mine 1000s of tons of rock to get lithium batteries and charge them with coal and claim the cars are climate friendly! works about as well as their 'self-driving' shtick
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The Meaning of the FDA Resignations(brownstone.org)
5 points by _red 5y ago|1 comments
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by _red 5y ago
Wow. In recent years lots of his comedy centered on his fears of death and related religious musings... The fact that he had been struggling with cancer really puts this in a different perspective. RIP Norm. You were funny!

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