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> This is a good way to escape reality, but not much more

The news have been biased towards negative stories for many decades, way before the internet so I wouldn't say watching/reading the news gives a good, balanced picture of reality. Ideally you need to balance a minimum ingestion of neutral, informative news with staying in touch with the reality around you, by meeting and getting in touch with local people and events. You might be surprised how big the difference is between how the news presents the world and the reality.

> This process can take years if the background rate of infection is low enough.

This is why the phase 3 trials tend to be organised in countries with high rates of infection, such as Brazil, South Africa or India. In locations with low rates of infection it's too likely that the people in the experimental group don't get infected simply because they don't get exposed to the virus.

I definitely feel the increasing apprehension and postpone updates for as long as possible all the time.

But the change to "mandatory updates" came after numerous incidents of "millions of users running unpatched software fell victim to the latest exploit". This kind of bad publicity started the trend of software makers forcing updates on users.

Separating security patches from feature updates is better but doesn't 100% guarantee there are no data-losing bugs.

People (especially online) have been shockingly dismissive of everything, in COVID context.

Worried about the economy? You probably only want to get rich on the stock market. Worried you might lose your job? You probably have one of those shit-jobs we've been hearing about, no big loss there. Worried remote schooling might affect children's long term development? Schools are useless anyway. Worried that art and culture like concerts, museums, theatres might disappear? We don't need them, just watch operas on Youtube and browse pictures of famous paintings. Travel? Just go to StreetView.

It's scary how quick people are to let go of elements of society and civilisation, some of which took centuries to build. Yes, nothing is perfect but these attitudes are not working towards implementing something better.

It's an even better deal: companies are replacing paid advertising with free exposure from being mentioned in news stories and bonus points for "standing up for what's right". In addition, plenty of people (and the news organisations themselves) share these news stories on the very same social media, with 0 costs for the companies involved.

Overall it means increased brand exposure for less money.

Unlike Scotland, Greenland is not part of the EU. The correct way to think of it is not as a part of Denmark but as a separate country under the same queen. Similar to the Dutch Caribbean territories or the British Channel islands.

Maybe like PGO? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profile-guided_optimization

2015 article

From the article:

So far, none of the women Prince stole images from have sued him -- but one of them, a user by the name of “Missy Suicide”, has done something even better: she’s begun selling (wait for it) photos of Prince’s photo of her original photo. While Prince’s version sold for $90,000, she offers hers for a mere $90; all proceeds have been donated to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit that fights to preserve digital content rights.

Launch is limited to selected users in Silicon Valley.

That's still not good enough. I've had recruiters look at who my current employer is then call the public phone number of the company (the reception) and ask for my name. I'm not joking. Happened more than once.

I stopped answering the phone to unknown numbers because of this.

Landing slots at airports have different fees. If you the A is a very expensive airport (e.g. Heathrow) the price of flying from and to A can be higher than the reverse.

Has anyone compiled a privacy checklist for Windows 10? What settings people have determined are best to use? I was somewhat forced to do the upgrade and didn't have the time to explore all settings (also they got more confusing since Windows 8).

The connection is probably at least used to crowd-source live traffic information. Most people would like this feature.

I believe it's not trivial to get a job there, especially if you come from outside the EU. And soon restrictions will be imposed on EU countries as well.

To me it sounds like it combines the disadvantages of video calls (the attention required, transparency - no lying about your whereabouts, the intrusiveness - no video call at the office because you might reveal something confidential...) with the disadvantages of texting (typing is more difficult than speaking and it's a more difficult way to convey ideas and emotions).

Probably this concert hall in Hamburg... terribly over-budget and late https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbe_Philharmonic_Hall

No, but it is the most expensive. It's the most expensive weapon program ever.

It's the same situation on both sides of the Atlantic. Both JetBlue and Norwegian are low-cost carriers and offer free Wifi while the big flag carriers charge for it, if it's even available.

Mobile phones can receive special emergency broadcast messages (for the US see http://www.fcc.gov/guides/wireless-emergency-alerts-wea ). Probably a more effective way of attracting people's attention as well, since we all have a compulsive desire to check our phones the second they vibrate.

Any ORM?

> First point is kind of hard to fight in my opinion, since a company has the right to publish its own services.

Microsoft was forced to include a browser choice screen and not use IE by default on Windows computers sold in the EU. The same happens here - you have different responsibilities when you're in a dominant position.

My point was: heterosexuals can be married. They don't need to make statements, they can just bring their husband/wife to the company party.

Heterosexual CEOs have wives...

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS#Timekeeping :

GPS time is theoretically accurate to about 14 nanoseconds. However, most receivers lose accuracy in the interpretation of the signals and are only accurate to 100 nanoseconds.

I believe a more formal way to do it would be by registered mail. In Europe at least. Mail gets a timestamp that is trusted.

So why is EOF in C defined as -1 (when it is)?

Any train's brakes work the same way. Use pressure to release, automatically brake when pressure is lost.

They say, versions earlier than 1.0.1 might be vulnerable, we're not sure, so upgrade to the latest (presumably a newer version than 1.0.2-beta1).