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As the article mentions in a sidenote, a time-bounded revoked sessions table is small enough to keep in memory and can be updated via pubsub for the relatively infrequent case where you need to revoke one.

It's definitely more complex but at certain scales it might be worth it.

Absent the cell already being cancerous, wouldn't it eventually die off or become targeted by the immune system (I'm not sure if the synthesized spike proteins are free-floating or if the cell becomes some kind of sacrifice for the immune system to kill and dissect)?

Also there's the risk of someone being set up as the fall person for the mistakes.

Crappy payments isn't a tech problem, it's a market problem. Consumers and merchants can't be bothered to adopt contactless technologies that were introduced half a decade ago.

Companies have tried QR codes and other payment schemes long before that (including the unfortunately named ISIS), but again, no traction.

That sounds crazy to me too. By comparison, Microsoft paid $7.5B for Github and Google paid $2.6B for Looker.

Idaptive, another IdP (I don't know how it compares in terms of features or client base) was bought by Cyberark for a mere $70M.

In theory the correct way to send analytics when leaving the page is via navigator.sendBeacon, although it's not clear how reliable it is: https://volument.com/blog/sendbeacon-is-broken (note: read the comments for some rebuttals to the article)

The Obama White House did this, at least at a high level (basically as a education tool, not a detailed invoice): https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/2014-taxreceipt

I wonder if it would make sense for Tauri to support shipping a bundled webview engine for platforms where the native webview is outdated or otherwise problematic for your application? With the idea that you could eventually migrate to system webviews.

That way, you're building with cross-platform in mind but still have the option to pick a stable target if you need it, compared to solutions like Electron where you don't have that choice.

Light has a tendency to zoom off at, well, the speed of light, and colliding with objects causes it to lose energy. There have been some experiments in slowing down or "stopping" light although they involve some elaborate setups that almost certainly use more energy to trap the light than you'd get from storing it.

You could also store it in or orbiting in a black hole, but good luck getting it back in its original form! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photon_sphere

It wouldn't be particularly efficient, given that most of the day less than half the panels would be receiving direct sunlight.

I think a more practical option would be to put the solar panels above the road, such as https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/jun/06/tunnel-s... or https://renewsable.net/2017/06/28/south-korean-bike-highway-...

Or maybe something like what's being investigated for greenhouses on Mars (which gets less than half the sunlight that Earth receives) using mirrors and optical fiber cables to redirect light.

Pollen in particular is weird because simply being outside should expose you to some level of pollen, compared to foods like melons or peanuts that may or may not be part of your diet. I'm mildly allergic to dust mites and they're literally everywhere.

The only value of Bitcoin is its massive brand awareness. Everyone and their doge has heard of Bitcoin, whereas most people have not heard of any other currencies. That's probably worth a few billion in itself, but not more.

It's probably too early to say if the vaccines have had any effect on the mutation rate, since wide-scale vaccination has only just started ramping up.

You'd think it'd be easier to say whether people are getting reinfected after catching COVID the first time, but the testing data is sparse enough that there doesn't seem to be any confirmation on whether it's widespread or just isolated cases. Most notably in Manaus, Brazil, where one of the new variants has been spreading.

I'm definitely not qualified to make anything other than wild guesses on this subject, but everything I've read suggests that scientists are scratching their heads as well. Conventional wisdom is that the spike is the easiest to target, so whether the human immune system picking the N protein is a mistake or brilliant move seems to be up in the air. Some reading: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41577-020-00480-0

Mutating to a less severe variant: Given that SARS-CoV-2 already has delayed symptoms and a high percentage being asymptomatic cases, I'm not sure there's much pressure to make it milder. Also the overall spike design is what gives SARS-CoV-2 its higher infectiousness compared to the original SARS, so one would hope that mutations to it (to avoid existing antibodies) would tend to make things less effective, although unluckily the virus has been discovering some new configurations that are both more infectious and also less protected against by the existing vaccines (especially the 60-70% ones). Paper on infectivity of variants: https://www.cell.com/cell/pdf/S0092-8674%2820%2930877-1.pdf

It's not clear how much it'll continue to mutate. Since this is a brand new virus, it's had 100M+ people so far to experiment on, and clearly the early versions were not as efficient at spreading as the newer variants.

Once we have herd immunity through vaccination (since natural immunity is rather hit-or-miss) I would hope the rate of mutations slows down significantly.

EV batteries don't instantly die. After ten years, it'll probably be down 10-20% of its original capacity, which is still drivable but might not work for everyone's commute. In that case, the battery can be potentially refurbished or repurposed for energy storage.

Cars, not just electric ones, have gotten more complex and have software that may need special equipment to diagnose. EVs are simpler and more robust in a number of ways, and might eventually be cheaper to maintain than gas cars once there's enough of them on the road.

Also your load balancer stack needs to support it, which is becoming less of a problem these days but there's still some stragglers. You could also end up with an imbalance where some servers have a lot of connections and others have few.

I assume you meant rockets in your first sentence, as most satellites (other than spacecraft) don't survive landing :)

SpaceX/Elon hasn't gone into a huge amount of detail about what's involved in refurbishing the first stage. I imagine a lot of it comes down to inspecting parts and making sure they haven't been damaged or worn out, and replacing the ones that have. Maybe cleaning out soot from the engines. The stated goal is to not have to do any inspection or refurbishment between flights, but they aren't there yet.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1143195449425321984 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1313450351366873090

Apple disabled both Facebook and Google's iOS enterprise certificates because they were using them to collect data from external participants in violation of the ToS, although that wasn't the main app. And the access was restored once they took down the offending apps.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/31/18206020/apple-facebook-i...

If the violations were serious enough, I think Apple/Google would consider some kind of temporary shutdown for the Facebook app if they thought they could weather the PR storm.

I question if those people are actually bad workers, but I could easily imagine people being assigned to work on useless projects and just going along with it for a steady paycheck instead of leaving or trying to push the boundaries.

I've worked for 100-person, 1000-person, and 100000-person companies, and the biggest companies have so many resources that they barely know what to do with them all. Most startups would kill for a fraction of a percent of the "let's screw around" R&D money that the big corps have.

I think part of the problem is the network effect. Social networks want to maximize the number of users so that anyone can connect to you on Facebook, Twitter, etc. The lowest barrier to entry is free, and that usually means ad supported (and personalized ads for the most revenue).

Maybe there's some space for a freemium model (IIRC one of the questions asked during the Facebook hearing was whether they could add a paid ad-free option) but so far that hasn't happened.

John Oliver's Last Week Tonight bought and forgave $15M of medical debt for $60k (probably deemed uncollectible) as part of a segment about the debt collection industry. And because on paper it was a bigger giveaway than Oprah's "Everybody gets a car" giveaway.

I think I dumped a backup of my Juno emails (90s offline dial-up email for kids with parents too cheap to shell out for internet) but it's probably on some obsolete media like a Zip drive somewhere. Probably for the best.

I think the main thing Bitcoin has going for it is name recognition. Would be better if we could leave proof-of-work in a flaming trash pile and migrate Bitcoin to Ethereum (and rename it Bitcoin)

It'll take more than just belief in the government. We'd need people to actually care about making government better.

Most people just show up to vote once every 4 years (or less) and make their decision based on the party affiliation or the wedge issue du jour, and the rest of the time pretty much ignore what's going on or don't have the power to do anything about it, which gives a lot of leeway for special interests to slide things in under the radar.

I think there's some merit to the idea that huge corporate monopolies have the resources to accomplish undertakings that smaller companies cannot. But it's often a what-if, because we don't know what the alternative might have been.

Big companies can suck up all the air in the room by monopolizing talent and making it harder for startups to pay the kinds of salaries needed for top tier AI research. Xerox PARC came up with all kinds of groundbreaking inventions that were never commercialized (by them). For every invention that comes out of a big company, it's worth thinking about whether it might have actually come out faster if it was borne of competition instead of a side project. Or in the grand scheme of things, if corporate taxes were higher and the money was given to a university research lab.

I think the best results may come from the middle ground. Smaller/medium companies are so worried about staying afloat or hitting their quarterly earnings that they have trouble making long term investments. Large companies are diverse and profitable enough that they can afford to blow money on things that might not pan out, but they don't have the same drive -- and in fact have some pressure to avoid being "too" innovative because it could cannibalize their existing products.

A decade ago, I remember the experience from Monoprice being very fast. 1-2 days between ordering and having it delivered from Rancho Cucamonga to the Bay Area.

But earlier this month, I ordered something from them and it took 4 days to hand it off to some shipping company, 3 days for that company to deliver it to USPS, and another 2 days to get to my door.

I think this is one area where legal theory is not up to date with how society interacts with technology.

For example, I strongly believe that Internet should be considered something akin to a utility, because it's such an integral part of our lives. If an ISP were allowed to filter the internet however it pleased, it could have a substantial impact on our personal freedom.

Same goes for smartphones. Given that there's only two realistic choices, the Apple/Google duopoly means there are real restrictions on what kinds of apps/services you're allowed to access. Yes Google allows you to sideload apps, but if you use the same arguments about "they built the platform, they can charge/restrict whatever they want" that people use for Apple, what happens if Google takes that away and you're left with no real choice?

I would have a hard time defining a legal principle of which industries are so critical that they deserve regulation, but I would say there's definitely an argument for applying it to smartphones, and less for something like game consoles. Ultimately it comes down to political discussions to decide what is worthy of regulation; over time, we've decided that things like transportation, finance, communications, food, medicine, and so forth require regulation, while other areas are very loosely regulated if at all.

I think I get pretty bummed out at times, but I don't think I'm depressed. Just stressed out, low self esteem, imposter syndrome, and I'm sure plenty of other problems.

I think it highlights a distinction between Apple's past work and their recent work.

Google forked Blink because for whatever reason they were unsatisfied with the state of Webkit -- nominally because they wanted to take a different approach to multi-process, but there may have been other technological and project direction/pace disagreements. Since then, a number of browsers have switched from Webkit to Blink/Chromium as their engine, and arguably Safari is falling behind on new features and overall quality (weird quirks that require web devs to work around).