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The images/animations in this page are fantastic at visually explaining something quite complicated. I would not have been able to understand the difficulty without them.

No problems for me with Firefox 111.0 (64-bit). Upon clicking, I first went to a captcha page, then to the content.

The lock icon merely offers me this information:

> "You are securely connected to this page."

> "Verified by: Let's Encrypt"

Agreed. This isn't really a threat from the perspective of the animals. (Or, well, it is, but the magnitude of the loss isn't very high. Maybe it's like a death row inmate dying of covid instead of lethal injection scheduled for a month in the future?) The animals are going to die regardless. This is a ransomware threat to the profit-making which requires the animals to die in the "right" manner.

Granted, the article DOES NOT discuss this issue as the title (and your comment) suggests. The article talks about how ransomware is a sneaky threat to Canadian national food security. I'd not considered ransomware and food security too closely intertwined, so that's nice I guess. If all of the livestock in the country dies, there's probably not enough rice, beans, and potatoes for everyone .

Preparing food at home allows for making things "as I like them". I'm VERY picky about certain textures and tastes. I also have a very restricted diet and suffer (biologically) from some ingredients that like to sneak into foods.

Ordering a known meal from a known restaurant is definitely easier than home prep. Ordering a "probably fine" meal from a "probably fine" restaurant requires extra cognitive load over cooking at home. (Some days I struggle with simply selecting a new meal from a restaurant. On those same days, I can happily spend an hour cooking a new-to-me recipe without any problems.)

How is this different from a HomeOwner's Association (HOA) enforcing community standards?

I don't understand the linked article (or your) point about this being some sort of illegal collusion. Can you help me understand how this is fundamentally different from an HOA enforcing things like "no boat parking"?

You are correct and Euro comes with restrictions on creating currency for macroeconomic reasons. This was in the limelight during the 2008-2012 Greek debt crisis, and also came up around that time for other EU countries (Spain and Portugal at least). Additionally, Iceland, which does not use the Euro, had at one time pegged their króna to the Euro which caused issues in the 2008-2012 time period (though as I recall the main problem had to do with some other nation taking a major Icelandic bank into receivership post-2007 collapse).

Aside: I am not a fan of scroll-interactive stories with rare exceptions. Even though it is "just" an intro for this article, it sets up a very childish (?) framing for the article, which makes the rest of the content suspicious. If the data were good and the reasoning sound, would they still need a scroll-by cartoon of ingredients sneaking into a grocery?

Quite true. I was assuming that the incomplete snapshot was a transmission error or storage error. It's quite possible that the bug was an error of omission inside the data itself (e.g. someone accidentally removed an important key-value mapping from the data generator).

This article seems aimed to resolve the "Interesting Number Paradox"[0], but does so in a pretty weak way. The author concludes:

> So the split into interesting and boring numbers seems to stem from the judgments we make, such as attaching importance to prime numbers.

Given the context of the rest of the article, about what numbers appear in OEIS[1] sequences, I'd argue that the author has assumed the conclusion from the start. If you look only at numbers that people have deemed interesting, you....only find numbers that people have deemed interesting.

There's a much deeper (maybe-philosophical) question left unasked about the nature and structure of numbers. I was hoping the author would at least wave to that.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interesting_number_paradox

[1] https://oeis.org/

> During a routine update to the critical elements snapshot data, an incomplete snapshot was inadvertently shared which removed several sites from the topology map.

I wish this went into more detail about how an incomplete snapshot was created and how the incomplete snapshot was valid-enough to sort-of work.

I'm supposing that whatever interchange format was in use does not have any "END" delimiters (e.g. closing quotes/braces), nor any checksumming to ensure the entire message was delivered. I'm mildly surprised that there wasn't a failsafe to prevent automatically replacing a currently-in-use snapshot with one that lacks many of the services. (Adding a "type 'yes, I mean this'" user interaction widget is my preferred approach to avoid this class of problem in admin interfaces.)

I hadn't heard the term CAFO before. Here's a fact sheet from the Sierra Club about these "Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations": https://www.sierraclub.org/michigan/why-are-cafos-bad

I've done a lot of highway driving around the US and CAFOs are probably the worst part of it. They are depressing to look at, and you can often smell them miles before you see them. Central California, all of Nebraska, and Northern Indiana are three places that stand out in my mind for having outrageous "density" of abhorrent-smelling places.

How large is your composter? Many of the "bio-plastics" require high heat composting to decompose, and even then may require a large amount of time. Unless you've got a massive compost pile with adequate aeration and turning, almost no bio-plastics will truly decompose at home.

From the EPA[0]:

> If a plastic product is labeled “compostable,” can I add it to my home compost pile?

> No. Unless the label indicates that the product is okay for home composting, you should not try to compost it at home. Plastic that is labeled as compostable is generally intended to be sent to an industrial or commercial composting facility which has higher temperatures and different breakdown conditions than those found in a typical homeowner’s compost bin. If your community has a residential compost collection program, check with your local government or recycling company to find out if they will accept compostable plastic under this program.

[0] https://www.epa.gov/trash-free-waters/frequently-asked-quest...

"Stop using single use items" is a REALLY hard goal. Outside of extreme homesteading/off-grid situations, I don't think it's actually possible. At the grocery, I can purchase some produce and dried goods (from bulk food bins) without needing single-use items. But most of my produce has stickers or rubber bands, even at the farmers market, so I still cannot avoid them.

"Grow everything yourself and never interact with society" doesn't seem like a very fulfilling life to me.

California's Vehicle Code (VEH) would still allow for a DUI charge when riding a horse. According to urban legend (and a lot of dubious websites), there are cases where Californians have been convicted of a DUI on a horse, though I haven't been able to find reputable sources for those claims.

VEH 1.670 [0]

> A “vehicle” is a device by which any person or property may be propelled, moved, or drawn upon a highway, excepting a device moved exclusively by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.

VEH 11.12.23152(a) [1]

> It is unlawful for a person who is under the influence of any alcoholic beverage to drive a vehicle.

[0] https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio....

[1] https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio...

Well, parts of the US government engage in arms trafficking and drug trafficking (sometimes at the same time, as in Iran-Contra). I hope they don't do CSAM trafficking or human trafficking, but I wouldn't be surprised at the least.

Shallot donor means annual donations in excess of $100k USD. From the Tor website[0], it appears Mullvad is the only donor in excess of $49k USD annually (and possibly the only donor above $10001 USD).

[0] https://www.torproject.org/about/membership/

Thank you!

Can you provide sources for "the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is more or less rejected by linguists"? I took a university course in "Philosophy of Language" around 2008 and I was taught in no uncertain terms that language structures thought.

The wikipedia article for Linguistic Relativity[0] states:

> Research has produced positive empirical evidence supporting linguistic relativity, and this hypothesis is provisionally accepted by many modern linguists.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity

Strokes are well-established as a very time sensitive condition. The standard mnemonic device for stroke detection is F.A.S.T.

Face drooping

Arm weakness

Speech problems

Time to go to the ER

If you or someone you see is having symptoms, rushing to medical care is the best way to stay alive and minimize impacts of a stroke. This new treatment (EVT) as well as older treatments (TPA) all work to remove the source of occlusion that prevents oxygen from reaching parts of the brain.

It looks like archive.is backed up from that cache as well: https://archive.is/x7Gfz

Great article, thanks for sharing!

> Following the incident, LastPass has taken a number of steps to prevent future attacks and investigate what happened. The engineer was assisted in strengthening the security of their personal network [...]

I hope this involved something along the lines of: "This zoom meeting won't end until you update your router firmware".

> Musk did not specifically address the reasoning for returning Tesla’s headquarters to Silicon Valley. It’s unclear if the state offered any incentives for the company to return, or if Musk simply wanted to be closer to the Twitter headquarters, which is located in San Francisco.

The NLRB ruling can be found on the NLRB website at https://www.nlrb.gov/case/07-CA-263041 . (I find it interesting that the NLRB site shows nothing between the ruling on 2023-02-21 and a response to questions back on 2021-12-10. That's a really long window, but I don't know how this system works.)

The ruling itself spends a lot of space discussing how the union's non-involvement with the furlough process was illegal. This makes sense, as the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is supposed to deal with union stuff.

I'm not a lawyer, and I'm unconvinced by my cursory reading of the ruling that "companies can't shut you up using severance pay" is true in all cases, or if it is specific to unionized workforces. The Register is not an organization I expect to have legal expertise, though I could be wrong. Does anyone know if The Register actually has legal chops, or if there is a more lawyerly source on 07-CA-263041 ?

"Can" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. I do not find it a credible threat, and doubt any of these companies do either. Perhaps one could argue that the 2008-2009 TARP handling of some banks or automobile manufacturers was a "light nationalization", as the US took control of _some_ stock of the affected companies. (This stock was later sold off for a profit.) But other than that, and _maybe_ the creation of the TSA in 2001, there isn't a nationalization in my living memory.

The nationalization of railroads under Wilson lasted from December 1917 to March 1920. During this time, operation (including expansion and maintenance) of all railroads was organized by the federal government. When the nationalization was repealed in 1920, the US paid rail companies for lost profits.

> Before the bankruptcy filing, J&J faced costs from $3.5 billion in verdicts and settlements, including one in which 22 women were awarded a judgment of more than $2 billion, according to bankruptcy court records.

Around the same time as the LTL shenanigans, on 2022-09-14 J&J announced a $5billion stock buyback[0]. It's not that J&J didn't have the money which led them to do the "Texas two-step" and push liability to their soon-to-declare-bankruptcy LTL subsidiary. They just wanted to line their pockets with the money instead. Isn't that pleasant.

[0] https://www.jnj.com/:~:text=NEW%20BRUNSWICK,%20N.J.,%20Sept.....

Perhaps, but in that case there are no symptoms of schizophrenia in mice, correct? I suppose we might be able to deduce "feeling of ___" via behavior monitoring (e.g. hunger) or possibly even brain imaging (e.g. seeing "fear centers light up"), but even then it isn't "as experienced by the patient".

Thanks for sharing. Your article feels a lot more intimate (less analytical) than the OP's. In particular, I was delighted to read the "Harm: loss of 3D vision" section because I now realize that my experience of rarely perceiving 3D isn't just me making things up. In particular:

> I can pop in and out of 2D and 3D vision at will, it’s just that 2D is the default, and 3D always feels more real.

I _wish_ I could do this at will. Probably once a month or so I notice that I have 3D vision and become entranced with just looking at things around me. Usually the feeling subsides within an hour, but it's rarely a "pop out" and more a gradual decline in how 3D things are.

And now I'm off to the wikipedia rabbit hole to learn more about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereopsis_recovery

1. You completely missed the point of the article. The (formerly) HIV-positive patient RECEIVED a donation.

2. HIV is already screened for in blood donations. (Whole blood donations also come with a long list of questions which gauge for some things you might consider "risky behavior", like injection drug use or sexual contact with sex workers.)

3. With proper treatment, most HIV patients today have a non-detectable viral load of HIV in their blood. This doesn't mean that they absolutely CANNOT transmit the virus, but that the quantity of virus is vanishingly small. To quote the NIH[0]:

> While it is still possible to transmit HIV to others during [Chronic HIV infection], people who take ART exactly as prescribed and maintain an undetectable viral load have effectively no risk of transmitting HIV to an HIV-negative partner through sex.

[0] https://hivinfo.nih.gov/understanding-hiv/fact-sheets/stages...