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TeeMassive··on China's quiet energy revolution: the switch from nuclear to renewable energy
From the various graphics there is not data suggesting that. Its increase year by year is in line with previous pre-pandemic years.
TeeMassive··on China's quiet energy revolution: the switch from nuclear to renewable energy
I've always found these articles about China adopting green policies and shifting its industries towards green energy sources to be suspicious. If they were true then why are China's emission ever increasing year after year: https://ourworldindata.org/co2/country/china

If their share of renewables / nuclear energy were increasing then there would be a decrease in C02 emissions per capita, but that has never been the case even with the increase in announcements in "green" mega projects over the years.

TeeMassive··on Johnson and Johnson to pay $6.5B to resolve talc ovarian cancer lawsuits in U.S.
The problem with that, is that the company investigated itself and found no problems. And as others pointed out, the mines were known to contain asbestos and they continued anyway.
TeeMassive··on Teranoptia – a typeface that allows you to imagine chimeric creatures
Great for tabletop RPGs!
TeeMassive··on Eight U.S. States Now Have Plans to Ban Sales of Gas-Powered Cars
With smart disjunctors placed before every EV chargers. Source: I work on that kind of device.
TeeMassive··on Nix is a better Docker image builder than Docker's image builder
There are ways to properly build a nix container image so this kind of things doesn't happen. You'll find plenty of projects on GitHub dedicated to only that.
TeeMassive··on Nix is a better Docker image builder than Docker's image builder
Docker builds are not deterministic, I don't get where you get that idea. I can't count the hours lost because the last guy who left one year ago built the image using duck tape and sed commands everywhere. The image is set in stone, but so is a zip file, there's nothing special here.

Building an image using nix solves many problems regarding not only reproducible environments that can be tested outside a container but also fully horizontal dependency management where each dependency gets a layer that's not stacked on one another like a typical apt/npm/cargo/pip command. And I don't have to reverse engineer the world just to see what files changed in the filesystem since everything has its place and has a systematic BOM.

TeeMassive··on Elon Musk sues Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and OpenAI [pdf]
I didn't read the suit, but they used (and abused?) Twitter's api to siphon data that was used to train an AI which that made them very very rich. That's just unjust enrichment. Elon's money paid for the website and using the API at that scale cost Twitter money while they got nothing out of it.
TeeMassive··on FDA stands against using smartwatches to monitor blood glucose
Imagine we could have a near real time effect of what we eat and then we discover that high fructose products are really really bad.

Also imagine that the corporations that produce those products are the worse when it comes to corruption through lobbying.

TeeMassive··on Populist backlash against globalization: A meta-analysis of the causal evidence
They were demagogues and elitists (and dictators, actually literally). They made promises they knew couldn't be fulfilled or without nefarious consequences to the Republic.

They made exalted ridiculous promises to the public as an excuse to acquire more power for themselves. At the other end of the spectrum, Populism seeks to directly distribute power.

TeeMassive··on Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]
The lean mantra "Make work visible" is not only good at an organization level but also as professional feedback level. Although if used openly for promotions it will cease to be a good metric.
TeeMassive··on EU to make AI generated child abuse material criminal
No network traces. Can target offline PCs.
TeeMassive··on EU to make AI generated child abuse material criminal
What is to stop someone from making a USB dongle that generates CP to politically assassinate a target?
TeeMassive··on Italian hospitals on the verge of collapse
I never get how a healthcare system could "collapse". What could happen, and in fact what is happening in societies with stretched health care systems, is that people get triaged and wait, possibly until they die off.
TeeMassive··on More Americans can now get insulin for $35
I picked milk as an hypothetical example but it could have been anything that's essential in some way. Could have been salt, sugar, fertilizers, etc.
TeeMassive··on More Americans can now get insulin for $35
Threats or merely a deal. Remember, Big Pharma is to Democrats what Big Oil is to Republicans.
TeeMassive··on More Americans can now get insulin for $35
From the article it seems it's from self-imposed price caps. I wonder how long they will be able to keep this up or if they will use this as a moral capital to spike the price (non pun intended) of other medications.

It seems to me the main problem in the US healthcare is not the question if it's public or not but its large insane costs. The fact that other countries produce the same drugs for a small fraction of the price, sometimes pennies, is very telling of how rotten and inefficient the whole system is.

Imagine the price of milk slowly increasing to $100 per gallon over decades, due to greed, regulations, price cartels and speculation, and nobody noticing to ask why. People would probably being to ration milk only for those who need it the most like mothers who can't breastfeed their babies and there would be political pressure to create public milk banks and milk insurance and other public mechanisms. But all of that political energy would not solve the root causes of the problem.

TeeMassive··on Police get medical records without a warrant
In 2013 the IRS was successfully sued for doing the exact same thing:

https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/irs-face-lawsuit-over-...

TeeMassive··on EU opens proceedings against X over efforts to combat information manipulation
Which is an opinion and thus cannot be fact checked nor be determined to be false or true by nature because it is ultimately a prediction in nature.
TeeMassive··on EU opens proceedings against X over efforts to combat information manipulation
I've seen a lot of false posts on X. Most of them were corrected by Community Notes.
TeeMassive··on EU opens proceedings against X over efforts to combat information manipulation
Bad players from X can't fine and jail you.

This is why the state determining the truth is so dangerous.

TeeMassive··on Ousted propaganda scholar accuses Harvard of bowing to Meta
Because it implies of knowing the truth as a matter of expertise, which is just arrogance even for experts. Expertise is about knowledge, not truth.

There was also experts on lobotomy who won Nobel Prices. All of whom were assumed to be truthful and knowledgeable and yet was disinformation in its own right.

TeeMassive··on Ousted propaganda scholar accuses Harvard of bowing to Meta
Sorry but what you said doesn't mean anything.

Links can be "discovered" ad infinitum.

TeeMassive··on Ousted propaganda scholar accuses Harvard of bowing to Meta
"prestigious team of online disinformation experts"

Not being the devil's advocate here, but "online disinformation" is not a credentialed field. That's like calling yourself a "truth expert".

Also the prestigious part is bogus at best. If they are then they sure don't make the headlines often.

TeeMassive··on FTC authorizes compulsory process for AI-related products and services
This will most likely get thrown out in court. The executive branch can't grant itself new powers.
TeeMassive··on The real realtime preemption end game
It's an embedded system with two logical cores with at least 4 other critical processes running. Doing that will only displace the problem.
TeeMassive··on The real realtime preemption end game
It's kind of crazy that a feature necessitated 20 years of active development to be somewhat called complete.

I hope it will be ready soon. I'm working in a project that has strict serial communication requirements and it has caused us a lot of headaches.

TeeMassive··on Iowa teen grew 7k pounds of veggies, then gave them all away
Hopefully she won't get charged by the FDA
TeeMassive··on Rust without crates.io
Unless you build and release on your own dev machine the local cache will usually not help you.
TeeMassive··on Rust without crates.io
Lock files are only one part of the solution. Even with a lock file dependencies need to be fetched from somewhere and if a particular version of a package was deleted by its author then you're back to case one.

"People don't run Cargo update willy nilly."

We don't know the same people then. Most devs like to keep their stuff up to date. Auditing the dependencies tree before updating a lock file is like reading a ToS. Most people don't even if they should.The problem of securing the chain of production is not solved with a simple lock file.

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