chithanh

> But my general point still stands, COVID is far, far more dangerous than the vaccine.

It is worth breaking that down by age, sex, and other risk factors.

For an 80 year old male obese smoker, who lives in a country with high COVID-19 rates, I have no problem believing that COVID-19 is more dangerous than the AstraZeneca vaccine.

For a 25 year old female with no comorbidities, who lives in a country with low COVID-19 rates, this is much less clear and will now have to be determined statistically.

That is not entirely correct. Schmieden and Laugwitz for example developed in the 1950s a nonstandard Analysis which adjoins an infinitely large element (called Ω) to the natural numbers. The basic idea was a formula A(Ω) was true if A(n) was true for almost all finite natural n.

While it wasn't immensely useful going forward, it helped to clarify the use of infinity and infinitesimals in earlier work.

Given how malware has been demonstrated that infiltrates the Intel ME firmware, reads main memory and covertly exfiltrates data (through introducing packet jitter), I think it is safe to assume that Intel has the same abilities.

https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2013/Fahrplan/events...

Signal can at least in principle censor user content, because they control both server and clients. (And they do, for example you can "delete" your messages that are stored on other clients.)

With Matrix you have the choice to use whatever server or client you like, which makes it difficult to censor.

> Same thing is going on with Germany’s car industry at the moment with the attempted shift from ICE’s to Electric,

I call that BS.

The market was shifting to Android. Industry veterans like Jean-Louis Gassée wrote that during OPK era, he was approached by Nokia board asking for advice, and he told them to go Android. The board refused, and it was decided to bet the company on Windows Phone. Not for some technical or organizational/cultural reason, but purely for strategic reasons.

https://web.archive.org/web/20121225214448/http://www.comput...

German carmakers are waking up late to electric vehicles, but they are acting now to pivot to the winning technology, before their marketshare reaches 3%. Nokia bound themselves for a multi-year exclusive contract with Microsoft, that even Microsoft folks were surprised they would enter at such a minimal payment for MS. I remember reading reports that the Microsoft negotiations team was authorized to go considerably higher than what they ended up paying.

So it was overconfidence on Nokia's part to what extent they would be able to sell the turd that was Windows Phone, coupled with the lack of exit strategy if that didn't work out. And that's even before talking about Elop's financial incentives to run the smartphone business into the ground and sell it to Microsoft.

> I think the people who ultimately led to Nokias downfall worked at 1 Infinite Loop where the iPhone was developed.

I always found those reports about the iPhone causing Nokias downfall to be not credible. Nokia's vast majority of sales were in price segments where the iPhone didn't even compete.

The iPhone destroyed its North American competitors at that time, Blackberry, Palm, etc.

Nokia was clearly destroyed by Android. Surveys at that time found Nokia customers mass defecting to Samsung and other Android vendors.

> I think Elop's strategy was to win over the American carriers/market

A foolish plan, something Nokia never had accomplished even in the heyday of Symbian, when it dominated the rest of the world..

I disagree that caloric drinks like sugary soda (along with hyperpalatable food) are a small part of the problem.

From the standpoint of public health policy, it is a good idea to introduce simple measures that are effective for 90% of the target group. If it turns out necessary, you can find a (perhaps less optimal) solution for the other 10% later.

The price of products does have an impact for shoppers. Also especially with poor people, raising prices limits the amount they can afford.

"It was concluded that there is reasonable and increasing evidence that appropriately designed taxes on sugar sweetened beverages would result in proportional reductions in consumption, especially if aimed at raising the retail price by 20% or more. There is similar strong evidence that subsidies for fresh fruits and vegetables that reduce prices by 10–30% are effective in increasing fruit and vegetable consumption."

https://www.who.int/dietphysicalactivity/publications/fiscal...

The WHO found that the consumption of sugary soda declines when it is taxed[1].

> A 10% increase in the food budget of someone at or near poverty isn’t trivial.

The goal is to decrease the consumption.

[1] https://www.who.int/dietphysicalactivity/publications/fiscal...

It's not that insurmountable. Each release, large parts of the kernel get rewritten anyway. Lots of kernel code is copyrighted by companies now.

So yes, it will probably take too much time and effort and give too little benefit to be practical, but impossible? No.

> Even if they're dead.

If they are dead, their copyrights are held by someone else now who can be asked.

That moisture indicators are used as a way to weasel out of warranty claims is indeed common. But that was not what I was referring to.

What I mean with having fewer warranty claims is that the Macbook doesn't break in the first place. Condensing water is not a problem while the device is powered off, and will evaporate once it reaches room temperature.

As others pointed out, that was likely intentional. Apple designed this safety mechanism into the laptop, so they would not have to deal with such warranty claims.

Also the temperature change is not a problem while the laptop is non-operating. The alternative therefore is to wait for 10-15 min before turning it on.

Possibly condensing water caused some transient short circuit. If your laptop survived, you were lucky.

That the laptop shuts down when below minimum operating temperature is a Good Thing™. For example, the battery performance changes greatly (reduced capacity and discharge rate), and the battery may even take permanent damage when charged at low temperatures.

Also it is a very bad idea to bring a laptop indoors from the cold and immediately turning it on. Condensing water can cause short circuits (people who wear glasses can probably relate). Always let it warm up to room temperature first.

This is not a MIL-STD 810G rugged outdoor device. If you want that, buy a Thinkpad.

So you need a laptop whose operating range includes 3°C. How long it is exposed to 3°C doesn't matter because components can already take damage from the very moment they are cooled below the operating range.

I think the holdup for the iMac is not the CPU, but rather Apple's discrete GPU which is not ready yet.

For replacing the Xeon-W in the Mac Pro and iMac Pro, they will also need a higher performing CPU, sure.

If it is not covered by fair use, then it would be at most copyright infringement, and there the rights holders can use DMCA takedown notices. There was no necessity of Twitter to engage in pro-active censorship here.

In my understanding the policy was aimed originally at stopping the spread of photos like in The Fappening hack. But there was nothing hacked here in my understanding.

Twitter and Facebook are not just any domestic firms, they do control a major part of social media. They may not have a legal responsibility to hold every post to the same standards, but if they enforce their policies selectively on political grounds, that should surely raise some eyebrows.

Anyway, if Twitter/Facebook ever had the intention to stop dissemination of that NY Post article, it surely backfired.

But now that you have legal access to the book, you can publish citations from it under fair-use doctrine.

According to Google statistics, bit flips are encountered at a rate of 8% per DIMM per year. https://research.google/pubs/pub35162/

You want ECC in your desktop if you cannot afford your data to become (silently) corrupted. A single bit-flip in a JPEG image can totally ruin it. And you won't notice without opening it, because the thumbnail is unaffected. When you finally notice, the corruption has possibly spread to backups already.

For servers that is especially important, because data will reside cached in memory for days or even weeks. Also ECC is often the last line of defense against Rowhammer.

I was with you until the mobo cost. Wtf, $280 for a mobo?? A totally decent B550 mobo with ECC support can be had for less than half that price.

The only advantage of Intel Xeon at this point is RDIMM/LR-DIMM support on their Xeon-W platform. AMD supports that only on Epyc and Threadripper Pro.

> If there's any link between Vietnam and Rome, we'd have found traces of them along the Silk Road or maritime routes.

Actually, ancient Greek and Roman artifacts have been discovered at Óc Eo in the Mekong Delta.

> The list goes on - true, most cops certainly want to be good, but there are systematic issues emporing the bad ones.

No, I would say that most cops will follow whatever the culture is in their organization. If the culture is rotten, then they do bad things.

The Wikipedia article says how, you need a definition of real numbers that includes nonzero infinitesimals (IOW does not satisfy the Archimedian property).

So let there be an ω with 0.999... = 1 - 1/ω. Then a number between 0.999... and 1 would be 1 - 0.5/ω.

You are downvoted, but you are actually correct. 0.999... != 1 can be true in nonstandard analysis. So if using standard analysis over nonstandard analysis is a convention, then ultimately 0.999... = 1 is a convention too.

(The Wikipedia article even reproduces that argument)

> because the local political elites enable them to be assholes

FTFY

I think you might be confusing this with the 2D/3D random walk in a discrete infinite space?

Poincaré recurrence is about exhausting the phase space in (discrete or continuous) bounded systems.

>> Universities should not be responsible for both education and assessment.

> Easier said than done. In more niche disciplines, the only people qualified to evaluate student attainment are other academics in the same discipline.

It is actually done in quite a few places. And even when there is no non-academic alternative, at the very least the examiners could entirely come from a different university than the lecturers.

In Germany there is the concept of "Staatsexamen" where a government-run examination agency recruits examiners from representatives of the profession and academia.

There exist easier targets, such as the loudspeakers which can be turned into microphones.

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/woot17/woot17...

They can use the loudspeakers as microphone. Usenix 2017: Turn Speakers to Microphones for Fun and Profit

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/woot17/woot17...