eternalny1

> Of course we don't even know whether this sense of self is really purely attached to the brain. That brain is still connected to the rest of your body, and who knows what the body chemistry of the body donor will do to the new brain?

Imagine just one aspect of this. A thyroid disorder.

If the donor body was hyperthyroid, the head transplant would result in someone with the symptoms of hyperthyroidism. Angry, irritable, racing pulse, etc. If they had hypothyroidism, they would be depressed, lethargic, etc.

And that's just one organ in the body. It could radically alter the "person" who they are presuming lives only in the head.

Fascinating that using a 0 (zero) instead of an O let them backdoor this.

function _setAdmin(address newAdmin) internal { bytes32 slot = ADMIN_SL0T;

    assembly {
      sstore(slot, newAdmin)
    }
  }

https://obelisk.medium.com/meerkat-finance-and-the-0-that-wa...

This is not true, they say they are switching from third-party cookies to FLoC.

The EFF calls FLoC "bad for privacy". More information here:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/08/dont-play-googles-priv...

This is a different paper.

The linked one is: received 1 Mar 2021

The PDF is: work in progress 31.10.2019

> Am I missing something? Is there some sort of heuristic to when it actually disables that I just got on the good side of by pure luck?

Yep, you are.

Chrome will fill in fields by not just looking at the autocomplete attribute, but also by trying to magically infer it based off the name attribute (and other heuristics).

For example, if you have a text entry box for a filename, and happen to set "name='name'" on it, even with autocomplete off you will get a pick list of people's names.

https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/design-and-ux...

I've been using Firefox since the Phoenix/Firebird days, and I fear the day that Google ends their search funding to the project.

They are absolutely on the right track with Mozilla improving the actual -browser- with all of these new privacy features and core improvements. This could put them in a position to create a revenue stream independent of Google, where people would actually be willing to pay to have a browser wholly decoupled from these ad companies.

> I don't know if it's jet fuel or what, but I am certain we will one day discover that the fumes cause all sorts of maladies.

A lot of it is oil and jet fuel. This is a known hazard, even to the flight crew.

In the industry these are referred to as "fume events" or "contaminated air quality events" (CAQE).

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-47740523

> I think with Windows 10 being the last version of Windows, ReactOS will eventually catch up.

Windows 10 certainly isn't the "last version" of Windows in the sense you are thinking.

Even if there is no new version number, they could likely just drop that and call it "Windows" from now on. I haven't heard of any plans to discontinue desktop development.

It will just be constantly updated, as we are seeing it now.

Like the major UI revamp in the works codenamed 'Sun Valley', due later in 2021.

https://www.windowscentral.com/windows-10-sun-valley-ui-octo...

> The reason Mozilla has not text-to-speech is because the guy behind RNNoise and LPCSpeech (JM Valin) has been bought by Amazon

That is part of the problem.

With smaller projects you are at risk of the "hit by a bus" problem, where major/complex technology is dependent on a single individual or a very small team.

> Saw a movie back in I think the seventies that involved a time traveler coming back to present day America. He's happily eating what was regarded at the time as a very unhealthy diet and is horrified at all the people eating what we all thought was the healthy choice. It was a comedic punchline throughout the movie.

You are probably talking about Woody Allen's "Sleeper".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeper_(1973_film)

I fail to see how this is different than a Wordpress private blog.

> Private. Select this option to make your site private. If you want specific people to be able to view it (and add comments, if you’ve enabled them), you’ll need to invite them to be a viewer.

To me, it seems like people just noticed something absurd in the market (a short % over 100) and were pointing it out.

It was a perfect set-up for a historical short squeeze if the right catalyst came along. And that catalyst wasn't simply the people on WSB, there were other catalysts such as the Chewey founder coming in, and then earnings reports.

Once those factors played out, the people who noticed the precarious position the hedge funds had put themselves in got to watch their exact predicitions come true.

I don't see how that can be confused with a pump-and-dump scheme or any sort of market manipulation.

Absolutely not, it's just an open discussion of ideas.

Straight from this post ...

> This is not fraud. There is no manipulation here. We aren’t forcing anyone to do anything. It’s going to happen with or without us. But I want to ride.

He posted his daily update today, he has not sold his shares through all of this chaos.

Talk about "diamond hands".

https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/l846a1/gme_...

SolarWinds themselves it claiming it.

https://www.solarwinds.com/securityadvisory/faq

> Our initial investigations point to an issue in the Orion software build system in which the vulnerability was insert which, if present and activated, could potentially allow an attacker to compromise the server on which the Orion Platform products run.

Under "With these processes in place how was your code compromised?"

It's not. There are genetic changes, including to the spike protein that it uses to attack.

> The new variant has mutations to the spike protein that the three leading vaccines are targeting. However, vaccines produce antibodies against many regions in the spike protein, so it’s unlikely that a single change would make the vaccine less effective.

It seems, so far, the vaccine is still relevant.

> Over time, as more mutations occur, the vaccine may need to be altered. This happens with seasonal flu, which mutates every year, and the vaccine is adjusted accordingly. The SARS-CoV-2 virus doesn’t mutate as quickly as the flu virus, and the vaccines that have so far proved effective in trials are types that can easily be tweaked if necessary.

They are claiming that their build system was compromised and the code was not under source control.

> Based on our investigations to date, which are ongoing, we believe that the vulnerability was inserted within the Orion Platform products and existed in updates released between March and June 2020 (what we call the “relevant period”) as a result of a compromise of the Orion software build system and was not present in the source code repository of the Orion Platform products.

Interesting tidbit at the bottom ...

> In an interesting turn of events, the investigation of the whole SolarWinds compromise led to the discovery of an additional malware that also affects the SolarWinds Orion product but has been determined to be likely unrelated to this compromise and used by a different threat actor.

I had something similar (but opposite) happen.

We hired a remote engineer to write a program to export to excel. He claimed it was done and the Excel "output" arrived every morning.

We asked him to submit his code for review, and after stalling, he produced some extremely obfuscated C++ code that turned out to do absolutely nothing.

He was staying up all night entering data manually into Excel to generate the final reports.

> Also, the take-off being easier, it's not conceivable that a machine couldn't do it. The reason there is no such machine today is exactly because it's easier, so pilots never need any help.

It exists:

"Airbus demonstrates first fully automatic vision-based take-off"

https://www.airbus.com/newsroom/press-releases/en/2020/01/ai...

385k BTC is $3.6 billion USD.

I doubt he made _that_ much out of his parent's house.

I tried numerous ways to combat motion sickness when I'd fly passengers in light aircraft.

Everything from those wristband-watch type devices that use pulses of electricity to stimulate nerves, to dramamine and other OTC options.

The most effective treatment by far was ginger root powder. You can take it in capsule form and it was the only really effective treatment I came across.

I was shocked when I dislocated my shoulder and they gave me IV Ketamine. I got that same experience, right there in the emergency room, sanctioned by the medical professionals.

The author's post has comments about this, apparently the best score on ACID3 is now 97/100 due to spec changes, but there is an updated version of the test.

https://web.archive.org/web/20200613124642/https://www.ekioh...

Many people suffer various setbacks in life ... take medical bankruptcy for example. You never know how it will turn out.

Good question, Amazon apparently is also curious:

Amazon suspiciously says browser extension Honey is a security risk, now that PayPal owns it

https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/9/21059083/amazon-honey-brow...

This one is great:

https://userstyles.org/styles/160459/hacker-news-readable-da...

The FlightRadar24 plot shows only one go-around attempt, with a climb to 2,000.

Check out "Hacker News Readable Dark" for Stylus as a possible inspiration, I find it works very well.

https://userstyles.org/styles/160459/hacker-news-readable-da...