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MSP are so often the security vulnerability themselves these days, rather than being a security benefit. This isn't the first time this has happened and won't be the last.

How many people are affected this time?

SolarWinds Orion exploit was the basis of the US government hack. Kesaya here is ransomware. Is ConnectWise next?

If this happened to Trump it would be on all of the right wing news channels for a full news cycle and used to discredit all investigations/charges against him.

Different people have different levels of access to ensuring media coverage, in part because of biases in those media outlets.

This is just the larger question of AI personhood. If/when we get more advanced AI, especially if it shows some type of self-awareness, even if programmed in, this will be likely a rights issue/movement similar to what we've seen in the past for previously marginalized groups.

You are comparing currency (dollar) against assets (gold.). You are complaining that a currency is acting like a currency (inflationary) and not an asset (relatively resistant to inflation.)

I am so confused by this argument.

I think you are right though that Bitcoin isn't acting like a currency, it is acting like an asset. Although it is highly speculative, more so that gold, as evidenced by its wild swings.

Bitcoin is a crypto-asset, not a crypto-currency.

> How long will it be between the introduction of lab-grown meat until killing animals for food is banned? Is this a generational thing (so older people still consider eating animals to be acceptable, while younger people do not), or is it a country-wide thing (countries move to ban eating animals one by one, driven by a general shift in moral attitude), or what? How does this change in morality propagate through society?

Just because they ate meat? Maybe not, but they may not look kindly on those that did large scale killing with less than humane practices. I could see this individuals being more likely to be "Cancelled."

Maybe those that fought vegans or fought against animal rights activities?

Those opposing change for the better or were active participants in things we in the future see as bad.

Remember that most people cancelled were active participants, rather than passive bystanders going with the flow.

If you own Bitcoin, you have a major incentive to spin everything as good for BTC so that they price rises. You are also incentivized to convince others to buy BTC so that the your investment in BTC pays off.

Given there is no intrinsic worth of BTC, rather just the collectively belief it is worth something, these incentives are very strong with BTC.

Israel currently will use that as a public excuse, but Israel will clamp down on non-violent protect and violent protest fairly equally. There is always an excuse for why Israel has to take land and also why it has to have racist laws.

The problem is that if you look into it, it is a demographic battle to ensure that Israel keeps the West Bank and also that there is a Jewish majority in that region at whatever cost.

For example, here is a law that prevents family reunifications but only affecting non-Jews: https://www.adalah.org/en/law/view/511

And here is an Israeli ambassador making the case that Jews are reproducing more than Arabs and that is a great thing (although he excludes Gaza, which Israel hopes that Egypt takes over): https://www.jns.org/opinion/blinken-is-wrong-on-israels-demo...

Israel is a really strange nation these days. It is very racist and openly so.

The needle is intended to be incredibly hard to thread. That is the point.

What is the cost?

Free upgrades if you already have a properly licensed Windows 10 I assume?

It is also public if you google for it now.

Interesting fact. These lawyers won a case against the guys who are suing you: https://sabety.net/2020/01/patent-troll/

Maybe worth engaging with them?

As someone who has dealt with this I suggest you figure out a way to avoid the patent. Read through the claims, figure out what combination of features they have patented and then change your product to avoid those features in that combination.

You likely can either do something more advanced or something less advanced -- if you have the choice do the more advanced solution as you are then likely pushing your product even further.

Fighting patents is for rich, established companies. You do not have the luxury.

You should change your product immediately to avoid infringement, or even close to infringing. If you do this you can avoid damages/claims against you.

Because you didn't know you were possibly infringing, you can avoid all claims/damages by immediately changing your product.

When you respond to them, you should say you didn't realize you were possibly infringing as you were not aware of the patent, you should say that you do not believe you were infringing, but anyhow you have modified your product to clear up any possibility of claims of infringement going forward.

You do not want to admit any guilt in anyway (actually the rule is NEVER admit guilt, always claim you believe you are not infringing), and you want to get away from these people because they are not worth your time.

But if you do need to use this tech, you should try to license it, but while claiming you are not infringing and there are alternative methods you can adapt. This gives you the most powerful stance. Make sure they understand you are very small and thus not worth dragging this out. Offer them something for a one time fee if possible and get than done and move on.

But avoiding the perception of infringing going forward is best.

The rest of your comment makes sense, but this sentence is disconnected from reality:

"People El Salvador didn't get the $1200 checks that US citizens got from printing more USD, even though they both use USD in theory."

Are you seriously saying that 5% inflation a year, maybe a bit more worse case, is bad compared to Bitcoin just lost 40% of its value in the last 2 months? Oh no, better not use USD then and switch to Bitcoin!

Maybe we need a stable coin that is a mix of the major currencies if you are against USD in particular? It could be pegged to some ratio of Chinese, US, Euro (and UK or Japanese?) dollars? This would be quite nice and stable.

I understand the money transfer problem. Cryptocurrency seems like a good idea in that case.

I question though why choose Bitcoin? I guess a lot of people support it. But it is far from stable, so no one in the right mind, especially poor people should hold significant Bitcoins because it is speculative rather than stable.

I guess stable coins do not have the wide acceptance that bitcoin has? Why not USDC or similar to solve the money transfer problem?

Your respond suggest that Bitcoin is going to the moon, but that suggests you want it to stay the speculative instrument it is now. But if it is going to work in El Salvador you want it to be stable no?

Attacking the person without touching on what they are saying is called an "Ad hominem" and is a common logical fallacy:

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

That said, Bitcoin is almost purely based consensus reality for most of its existence. It is worth something because others feel it is worth something.

> Yes, except there has been a concerted effort by monied interests in the upper strata of society to convince those below that organizing to demand better wages is useless at best or un-American at worst. It's an uphill battle.

Then you have to fight against this by organizing better and more widespread. Sometimes I do worry that all this information on Fox News and others about bogeymen distractions us from trying to better the things we actually can.

It may be that we are too easily distracted / disorganized / disheartened to better our position. And then we will not better our position.

But if you believe you can not change your fate, then you definitely can not. So I do suggest being like Obama and starting with community organizing and solidifying ones position locally and taking that larger. There are effective strategies to engage in. But they are not watching TikTok or YouTube all day.

I think you are a bit more cynical than I am.

But I do agree you are correct that switching jobs every couple of years is an effective way of raising your salary often faster than if you stayed in the same place.

Theoretically possible yes. But the pyramid is very very bottom heavy at McDonalds and Walmart where 90% of all employees make close to minimum wage. It would be better to start in corporate at Walmart and work your way up there, rather than to start as a restocker or cashier or warehouse worker -- all of which are at risk of being further automated.

It never actually seems to come though. I wouldn't count on it.

I believe that getting something for nothing is usually not sustainable. Just because you serve no purpose to those giving the things away for free. Something will give (some type of resource constraint will arise, even if it is just competitive/alternatives) and it will fail if you are not providing value.

Working hard but doing so for someone else can often not lead to significant gains. Many services like Uber or InstaCart or even McDonalds or Amazon Warehouse or Walmart or Retail Sales or call center, you can work hard but there is no where to progress to. Your rewards are capped.

You need to find a way to work hard such that your rewards are not capped artificially. Startups were you get equity. Large companies where you can progress to high salaries if you are able to rise. Starting your own business and being competent at it. Working on commissions in an area where the commissions can be large -- true sales, or real estate. Being a professional, e.g. doctor, accountant, lawyer, has traditionally had high wages and you often run your own business.

You need to work hard in a way that has unlimited rewards, or at least high rewards possible, and that aligns with your aptitudes.

You need to not work hard at a minimum wage job if you can get something better.

And if you are stuck in a minimum wage job, maybe you can organize with your fellow employees to demand better wages and benefits? This is also another way of working hard in order to get more for yourself.

This is incredibly legitimate reason. Could these repacking be replaced with some type of just proxy/clone that is still the original source?

Would be better as a long graph, or as the derivative (e.g. year-over-year change).

Viewing decay graphics in this form is incredibly misleading.

I enjoy Fusion 360 actually. I think it isn't that bad.

I have tried the underlying library, MediaPipe/TensorFlowJS, and it is only okay. Once you try to use it for visual augmentation, I found it doesn't track that well and it has problems with scale.

So, while it may look good with the skeletons, notice they do not have useful demos, mostly just proof of concept demos that do almost nothing.