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A compliance officer is a theoretical example role (that was meant to be easy to draw parallels to) of a person tasked with checking compliance of some form. (Eg. that you're Isolating / no visitors, no contraband, your telescreen is on etc.)

Nazi Germany is used as hyperbole - because it's both that and historically true (demonstrating the hyperbole to be still tangible).

I agree there are some great things about living in a society largely free from gun crime and the risk of being unnecessarily shot by police. But in Australia we have basically no meaningful internal backstop should a tyrannical government sweep over us.

I'm also definitely not advocating using or displaying weapons when talking with your representatives. I think that's a dishonest and uncharitable interpretation of what I've written. I am saying however that any laws may find it difficult for broad enforcement in a society that is armed and displeased with whatever law is attempting to be enforced -- and that that is a deterrent to creating such laws in the first place.

It's the real and perceived threat of resistance. Do you think 'compliance officers' would be more willing/confident going door to door in a society that is armed or disarmed? A different approach might have been a used in East Germany if every house the Stasi went into looking for 'undesirables' had the potential for meeting a shotgun.

The evolutionary process is the same...

1) A population of virus or biotics has genetic diversity and mutations through generations when reproducing.

2) Some pressure is put on its survival (antibiotics, vaccines).

3) Those in the population that survive better (with the new pressure introduced) proliferate more than those in the population that didn't survive or thrive as much.

4) You end up with a population more resistant or immune to the chosen selective pressure initially used on it.

Nice looking tool! though personally don't like installing extensions requiring these permissions. Kinda surprised Chrome's newish feature of tab list/search doesn't even do some ultra basic fuzzy search!

>as always the real elephant in the room is that inflation is not bad per se, except for those whose wages don't grow as much as the inflation.

...Inflation affects savings too. So it doesn't matter that ones salary may increase at the same rate of inflation when the buying power of your savings in diminished by the rate of inflation. Tired of hearing the myopic view that inflation effectively does nothing if wages rise in step, it's just straight up incorrect.

We're going to have to work through some tough decisions as a society with this kind of technology developing... The likelihood in the coming years of child exploitation images being generated using similar techniques as posted here, I'd say is almost a sure bet.

It dovetails with the current news of Apple's client-side content scanning using perceptual hashes. I'm strongly against that, but with regards to opening Pandora's box with the situation above...It'd be interesting to hear peoples thoughts on what might be able to be done about these sorts of tech induced dilemmas. (Ban the tech? License it? Accept more and deeper blanket surveillance? Allow it all!?)

It's still apart of youtubes guidelines. [1]

YouTube doesn't allow content that spreads medical misinformation that contradicts local health authorities’ or the World Health Organization’s (WHO) medical information about COVID-19.

If your content violates this policy, we’ll remove the content and send you an email to let you know.

*Content that recommends use of Ivermectin or Hydroxychloroquine for the treatment of COVID-19

*Categorical claims that Ivermectin is an effective treatment for COVID-19

*Content that recommends use of Ivermectin or Hydroxychloroquine for the prevention of COVID-19

[1]https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9891785?hl=en

The thing also with the vaccines and ivermectin possibly causing an issue for big phrama vaccines is that - The COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson have all received an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) from the FDA. EUAs may be granted only during a public health emergency *and when there are no adequate, approved, and available alternatives.*

If ivermectin was found to be safe and effective and got FDA approval itself, the vaccines of Pfizer, Moderna and J&J would need to get full approval - meaning longer and more rigorous clinical trial and safety testing. (not that they haven't gone through a certain level of those things, just the bar is set lower with EUAs)

p.s. Sounds like you talked to your doctor about supplementing VitD - but you're mistaken to say there aren't any downsides (especially for regular high doses of D) --- It can cause hypervitaminosis D which in turn causes hypercalcemia (a buildup of calcium in your blood). Just saying as it may be worth double checking :)

Wide spread use of an effective prophylactic would help a lot in reducing case numbers and spread. This is about using a multifaceted approach to get covid under control. Wearing a mask or socially distancing today wont protect you in 6months either in a direct sense, but doing those things can assist in reducing the prevalence of the virus which does decrease your likelihood of contracting it.

I think you're coming to a strange conclusion in what you've said...Ivermectin is out of patent - far less money can be made from it. US pharmaceutical company Merck – one of the manufacturers of patent-free Ivermectin actively discourages use of ivermectin -- Also Merck signs $356M deal to supply US with experimental coronavirus drug. These are the financial interests you should be looking at.

https://swprs.org/merck-claim-exposing-big-pharma-lobbyists/

Vaccine prices have been increasing.

https://www.brusselstimes.com/news/belgium-all-news/health/1...

Additionally, 'one $5 vaccine' is just wrong. There is already 3rd booster shots being administered in Israel with the pfizer vaccine as its effectiveness is diminished with the delta strain (and Epsilon..no doubt till Omega) ...The possibility of these vaccines being used similar to annual/bi annual flu booster shots is far from 0.

Nor is your comparison a fair one...It isn't a split between use the vaccine or have everyone require days of medical care (that would of course cost more...Not necessarily to the benefit of pharma companies though) -- IF ivermectin was a effective (even just 5%) prophylactic OR treatment/therapy against severe covid symptoms (let alone possibly doing both of these things) that certainly would affect the profits of phara companies getting contracts and sales of their patented offerings.

The link you provided still stands behind the main claim... - "We retract the part of our article that relied on the data from Dr. Elgazzar’s study. But the broader point stands: There’s strong evidence of ivermectin’s efficacy in treating Covid-19."

For some balance --

[1]excerpts from abstract

" Background: Repurposed medicines may have a role against the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The antiparasitic ivermectin, with antiviral and anti-inflammatory properties, has now been tested in numerous clinical trials."

" Conclusions: Moderate-certainty evidence finds that large reductions in COVID-19 deaths are possible using ivermectin. Using ivermectin early in the clinical course may reduce numbers progressing to severe disease. The apparent safety and low cost suggest that ivermectin is likely to have a significant impact on the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic globally. "

[1] https://journals.lww.com/americantherapeutics/fulltext/2021/...

-- Referenced in below article

https://www.jpost.com/health-science/israeli-scientist-says-...

--Also related

https://www.wsj.com/articles/fda-ivermectin-covid-19-coronav...

( bypass paywall -- https://twitter.com/westmeeteast/status/1420470317005352964 )

Yeah, while it's disheartening to see that this research may have been fabricated a sizable amount, it also appears that places that may have leant on this information to justify using ivermectin look to now have a strong correlation between its rollout time and a reduction in cases and deaths from covid19.

India Graph - https://covid19criticalcare.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/A...

Mexico Graph - https://covid19criticalcare.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/C...

Slovakia Graph - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JQ-dev/FLCCC_charts/main/T...

Full link containing the above. https://covid19criticalcare.com/ivermectin-in-covid-19/epide...

These would also trade like other crypto - 24/7, 365.

The thing is, to put oneself in a position where they're able to get $100/hr takes a lot of early sacrifice. So it's a false equivalence to say they'd be happy to work for 100/hr rather than 11 - but because 100 isn't offered straight away, purely leisure becomes a reasonable choice. Regardless of how the media portrays it, I'd say it is a rather tragic situation for an able person to live in such a way, only through the support of others.

I find the Monty Hall problem becomes intuitive when scaled.

100 doors, 1 car, 99 goats. Pick a door. All doors open (with goats except 1) ... Do you think you picked the 1/100 door with the car, or that it's the other only one left standing.

The thing is though that most all of these crypto lending platforms only offer over collateralized loans, so the risk of them being screwed over by lack of payment from the person taking the loan is negligible. Meaning If I want to lend $100 worth of USDC I must give $200 as collateral worth of BTC to get the loan. Where if that $200 worth of BTC drops to a worth of $100, it's liquidated, paying off your loan, leaving the lender with no outstanding loan and the loan taker with the $100 worth of USDC still, but no longer their BTC. (this would trigger a Capital gains event too, as the BTC was effectively sold.)

These types of loans of course aren't useful for most people in the traditional sense where somebody needs access to money they don't have. These are mostly for 2 cases: 1) Exposure to other crypto when you think both your collatoral and the crpyto you want to be lent will both be worth more. SO you borrow $100 worth of USDC, give $200 BTC as collatoral, use the $100 USDC to buy $100 worth of ETH. SO if after a month ETH and BTC have gone up, you can sell enough to pay the $100 USDC loan and keep the profit.

2) Access to illiquid capital. If you have $1 million of BTC but don't want to sell it and trigger a capital gains event, you use that as temporary collateral to get access to something else, thus never selling your current crpyto holdings (unless they fall below the liquidate threshold of the loan)

I should say too, using these methods still has counter party risk regardless.

The ingredients list / packaging should say something like dried fruiting body... or if you're getting the rubbish = myceliated grain or mycelial biomass. The reddit link provided by NalNezumi is very good.

Here's just another link of some lighter details. https://learn.freshcap.com/tips/myceliated-grain/

Hericium erinaceus (Lion's mane mushroom) has isolates called Hericenones and Erinacine that promote nerve growth factor synthesis and a lot of other Neurohealth benifits being found to do with the compounds the fungi produces.

The influence of Hericium erinaceus extract on myelination process in vitro https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12675022/

Neurohealth Properties of Hericium erinaceus Mycelia Enriched with Erinacines https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5987239/

Protip: If/When buying supplements -- There's many that are just selling capsules of ground myceliated brf (brown rice flour - the substrate inoculated/grown on). Mycelium is the 'roots/pre fruiting stage' of the fungi -- The fruit body/ mushroom itself has much greater concentrations of the desired compounds.

You're just describing levels of privacy. Head's of state can of course have private discussions, where only the contents of conversation is private - but the fact the conversations took place are not private. Compare that to AnonA talked to AnonB - We're still aware two people communicated, but it's even more private as we can't infer their relationship (And probabilities about what might have been discussed - from other metadata of the conversation time,place,duration,frequency). And finally, perfect privacy nobody knows that a conversation took place in the first place and the contents are unknown too.

There is also still privacy in public communications when done anonymously, as you can't tie the information disclosed to the real identity (necessarily). -- Hence why for privacy purposes advertising data is often anonymized. (But again, less private of course, if ie I said I was a 2 fingered man in Poland and there is only 5 people fitting that description)

So I'd still say, perfect privacy cannot occur without anonymity.

30 mins for FINAL international settlement of arbitrary $ amounts between $0.001 - $100B IS fast - and the uptime for the BTC network is 100% since inception ~2011.

If you're really wanting to compare apples to apples - For traditional banks doing cross border transactions, it takes up to five days at most global banks, not counting weekends or bank holidays to actually settle with a lot more intermediaries involved.

Privacy encapsulates anonymity. Who you are talking to should be just as private as the contents of the message. Anonymity aids privacy.

This should bring into question even more Signal's implementation of using real phone numbers for accounts. It is NOT privacy focused.

Even if this 'hackability' is an issue only with the security of the phone/hardware - able to be hacked and thus reach the decrypted signal messages - That also means, that person's Signal contacts also have their real identities exposed. (Where they wouldn't be if the account names/ids could be arbitrary like eg. wickr)

It's not, and doesn't work. Firstly, it'll just get turned into something else (by spending/buying with it) that holds value and is sought after/tradable/fungible - Eg. Alcohol, gold, drugs, x_equiptment. Plus, if the money deletes after say 30 days it's worth less on day 29 than day 1. If it doesn't disappear after the transaction, it'll just be funneled through business for the 2nd tier 'money' described prev.

Reminds me of this - The Library of Babel. https://libraryofbabel.info/

Pages and pages of permutations of characters that contains every lyric that's existed, every novel, every poem, every word you've said to your mother in correct order.. (amoungst a whole bunch of gibberish)

All this exists here with a url that you can share to re display to book and page to anyone else.

For anyone interested in some more novel ways of reducing video bandwidth with neural networks using foveated rendering to 'recreate/generate' the high res frames client side.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTUmmW4ispA

So does this mean "using facial recog. tech on video footage taken in a public area (post capture)" OR "only banning integrated video + face recog. tech"...

Hardly seems likely they'd ban all video cameras; So sending footage off to a remote location (possibly diff country) to process the file for faces is a trivial side step... Would love to think there's a comprehensive solution to this but it's a difficult thing to just say 'it's banned'.

This startup is stacking concrete blocks as a 'battery'

https://qz.com/1355672/stacking-concrete-blocks-is-a-surpris...

I think the part that's thought of as 'crazy', isn't that it's all done as charity, it's that it's the only thing supporting it. Having an idea or project that can do some social good or meet some demand is great, but it's even better when that thing can sustain itself. It might,for a time, work on charity, but akin to the 'teach a man to fish' proverb - it's better something can meet it's own requirements than expecting to feed that fire for x years or Eg. to feed / find someone to feed a person for the next x years.

Don't get me wrong - All power to you, donating your time effort and other resources to things you believe to be a worthy cause is what people should be doing. But some of that effort may be wisely spent on finding ways to monetize those actions and set it up to carry its own weight.

Am I the only one who finds the vscode quick file search very very poor?

Ctrl p and finding a file on a massive code base takes forever in vscode whereas its 100ms in sublime. Vscode also seems to need to recache the file names each startup.

When using sshfs or similar to mount a remote fs to work on and have the file name search play nice is also in an unusable state. Using the remote's linters, git, etc would also be great.. But non existant. Easy enough to ssh in the inline term, but that's not integrated for the plugins etc to pass thru.

The file search really sounds like it should be easy enough to self fix. (so can partial search a path, parts of a name and all that factors for a refined search return.. As well as caching those result sets more persistently.)

What might be a good way to create a nice lookup behaving like below. (rtree hashmap knearest? Just a rb tree?? Idk)

  *Eg fs contains 10k files*
  Project root =/home/user/
  *all return top 20 of returned set

  / returns 10k files
  /proj1 returns 5k
  /proj1 .js returns 100
  /proj1 ab .Js returns 4
  /proj1 abc.js returns 1
  /proj1 ab.js returns 1
  /p2/js/ab.js returns 1
  /js ab.js returns 2
  ... 
  Eg.
  Ab.js is in the subset of /proj1/js/test/
  AND /js (that looks in /p2/js + /proj1/js)

Anyone working on this or with solutions to any of these issues, I'd be keen to hear from you...