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The article gives a nice overview of the possible solutions for regulating Facebook, but it is not very optimistic.

I guess the EU is still our best hope here.

It's forcing developers into the Google Play store.

More details in [0].

[0] https://www.slashgear.com/android-app-bundles-are-replacing-...

Someone else did that already:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qmail

The authors appear to make some valid arguments.

However, there is an argument for vaccinating children that I have never heard. It is simply the standard epidemiological argument that it will reduce the fraction of the population that is susceptible to virus and thereby reduce its spread through the entire population. This will be beneficiary to the population as a whole.

If you add a better subject line to this submission you will probably get more reactions.

It is a very interesting idea. However, there are some big corporations for which harvesting personal data is the main business model, and I don't expect they will cooperate.

It is a real problem, but I really don't think these solutions will work. I don't think the rhyme is catchy, also you will need versions in many languages.

The cats might also have the opposite effect, these places have magical effects, we should definitely visit them.

In most cases what data scientists do has nothing to do with real science. So the earlier this job title disappears the better.

This might even have an application for real documents. There are police cases where some suspects have tried to destroy evidence. Manually reconstructing the original takes a lot of effort. I expect that the CIA and NSA already have software for it, but I have never heard of it being used in a police case.

On modern cpu architectures it can be very difficult to predict running times, due to instruction pipelines and caches. So I don't think this approach will work unless a lot more complexity is added.

If you watch the video you can see that that does not happen.

Blackbird works because of the friction between the wheels and the ground. On the water you don't have that, so I don't expect it to work.

And what about their shareholders?

In the last part of the 20th century, Shell had multiple research programs into alternative energy. These were all axed under pressure from the shareholders.

Lyme is a pretty nasty disease. I know several people who had it and some took more than one year to recover and some that still have residual effects.

In the Netherlands ticks are fairly common and approximately 1 in 5 ticks carry the disease. Which means that is probably less safe here to walk in nature than it is in most tropical countries.

Insurance companies generally try to minimize their risks. One way to do it in this case is to set security standards, to which their customers must adhere. Customers who do not do so could face lower (or no) payouts after incidents.

There are already some standards, e.g. PCI for credit card handling.

It depends on the journal. Anyhow it is probably useless anyhow because most scientist refer very often to their own work or that of their research group. If you have some knowledge of the research field, it is usually not too difficult to guess who the authors are.

Referees are normally anonymous. But once they start advising to insert some references to some obscure and/or irrelevant articles...

Journalists generally believe that readers will sooner relate to stories than to statistics. I am afraid that that is correct for large groups of readers.

> Why would I be reading cherry picked stories instead of studies if the vaccine was easily shown to be effective?

Infection rates drop rapidly in countries where a large part of the population is vaccinated. If you want to read studies you should consider other media.

LIGO was already a major scientific achievement, it is amazing that they are still able to improve it. Many quantum effects are destroyed by heat, so having large objects at such low temperatures will certainly open new areas of research.

> Perceus is an advanced compilation method for reference counting. Together with evidence passing, this lets Koka compile directly to C code without needing a garbage collector or runtime system. Perceus also performs reuse analysis and optimizes functional-style programs to use in-place updates when possible.

This seems to imply that they do not handle compaction, which is needed to remedy memory fragmentation.

Is attrition a "normal" English word in this context, or is it also GoogleSpeak like Black+?

Dupe

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27709057

Another good article from Ed Young.

The article contains horrifying pictures of the car. It took 3 hours to extinguish the fire.

With some browser plugins you can already avoid most of these banners, but it seems a good idea to have a standard for it.

It looks that they can do it with very limited hardware[0].

Amazing!

[0] https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/spacecraft/rover/brains/

The main problem with the article is that it assumes that all deaths after vaccination are due to the vaccination, which is nonsense. If 100% of the people are vaccinated they would describe all deaths to it.

Also they do not seem to correct for age. We started the vaccinations in the Netherlands with the oldest persons, who were already much more likely to die. So the LAREB results are not representative for the entire population. They will give an overestimate of the mortality by vaccinations.

The Israeli study [0] uses a large sample of people over 16. However they explicitly excluded persons bound to their home or were nursing home residents. This will give a low estimate for the effect of vaccination because the sample includes many healthy younger people, and excludes the highly vulnerable ones.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7944975/

> Also, the great thing about CD is that mistakes can be fixed really quickly: push another commit.

If the change messes up your database and you don't discover it immediately, it is not always possible to simply rollback the database.

CD to a staging environment is fine, but I would regard it more as a form of CI.

The main problem with emojis is that most people assume they have some universal meaning. It is similar to hand gestures, people assume they are universal but they can have very different meaning in different countries. The gesture for "you are smart" can actually mean "you're an idiot" in another country.

> Is the performance or user experience over web really that bad, even in this day and age to warrant shipping a 100MB package to the user?

On slow networks (mobile) it is really frequently bad due to the large number of URL's (mostly trackers) that must be loaded. Some web pages require many MB's just to display a simple page. In theory this approach could be faster because you could multiplex data over a limited number of TCP connections, so you can avoid the latency that is caused by setting up a lot of new connections. But they don't seem to use this approach.

It can be very hard to determine who is really doing the attacks. For example, we know that North Korea is surprisingly active in this area[0]. Even though they are probably using servers in China, the only nation that they still have somewhat friendly relations with, it is better for them if the attacks appear to be coming from Russia.

[0] https://www.wired.com/story/how-north-korea-robs-banks-aroun...