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I thought I was going crazy: trying to start navigation by voice would answer "Let's go!" and then do nothing. It had to be my unit! Who would be so bad not to find an issue like not being able to navigate on software made to be used in a car!

Turns out: Google! There is a known issue - now ongoing for over a month - that prevents users from starting navigation using the assistant.

The workaround? Unplug the device, set the destination on the phone, plug it back in. Now, try that with wireless Android Auto.

I can: people. If you think that mass surveillance requires technology you haven't seen what, for example, eastern European regimes we're able to accomplish. Stasi [0] would be the first such example.

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

> where wave function collapse just means a contract that has different terms for a digital purchase instead of a physical purchase

That's not what the article states. The author is saying that the same transaction - IE: my 'buying' a track on iTunes, for example - is considered a license transfer, between me and the record company, and a sale, between the record company and the artist.

This superposition of license and sale for the same transaction is collapsed into a license - so: no transfer rights, no right to make copies, etc. - when the record company it talking to me.

On the other hand - when the record company is talking to the artist - the superposition collapses to a sale, so the artist gets 13% of the value instead of the 50% they would get if it was a license sale.

Link to the actual article: https://ionathan.ch/2022/04/09/angzarr.html

So - these are 1000 people you're talking about. You're saying that because of these 1000 people it's OK to invade a nation of 44 million people. And kill hundreds. Check notes Nope, still doesn't make sense.

/s AI finally reached the pinnacle of human intelligence: when asked a question it will now roll eyes and loudly declare: "Let me Google that for you".

About the being cheaper: checks are usually free. For Wells Fargo - a large U.S. bank - when you schedule payments online they will print a check and send it for free. If you want to transfer money via wire you are actually charged.

Coming from the EU I was shocked to find out that a lot of the B2B payments for small and mid size companies - are done sending checks in the mail.

Routing and account numbers are considered sensitive information, and normally hidden on online banking. My understanding is that these can be used to transfer money out of the bank account.

Would love to see the raw data, but from their own plots you can see that 2017, 2018 and 2019 show a trend that would make the 2020 and 2021 data consistent with the trend.

As they show data comparing 2020 and 2021 to the previous years, they could have shown a matrix to compare year over year across the data.

I will wait for someone to look at the raw data and peer review the paper before jumping to conclusions.

I'm not discounting that the COVID-19 pandemic has had an impact on child development, I would be surprised if it didn't, but I expected a bit more rigorous data analysis from this paper.

The data for the UK shows a reduction of both hospitalization and deaths in the vaccinated population [0].

[0] https://www.bmj.com/content/374/bmj.n2306

I find this comment quite odd - seeing that you're replying in a thread about a study that provides evidence that masks work. Not sure quite what to make of it, the most charitable interpretation is that you jumped in the comment section without reading the article.

I urge you to read the article and then review your comment to include some pertinent commentary on the study.

I have one of this toasters, it has a little knob to adjust how dark the toast needs to be.

I have also replaced the power cord.

Their patent is currently expired [0] in the US - but yes: it is a great example of overly generic patents.

[0] https://patents.google.com/patent/US6988138B1/en

That, though, is exactly how it works. Netflix pays for their traffic and infrastructure, the SK clients pay for access to internet for a given bandwidth and SK pays for the infrastructure and interconnections needed to give their clients what they paid for.

Netflix doesn't get free interconnections.

Short answer is: yes. Just remember to fill the Passenger Locator Form [0]. You may fill any time before getting to the boarding area, where they will ask to see that and your vaccination card or a negative test obtained within 48 hours. Technically is 72 hours, but airlines are stricter.

It will take a minute before the single EU countries will adopt regulations following the the recommendation.

[0] https://app.euplf.eu/

The OpenSSL RSA private key contains all the elements needed to recreate the public key from it. [0] Explains it in more detail.

You create the private key on the client side so that you can encrypt it with a custom password before sending it to Backblaze. Doing this makes they key recoverable from you - as long as you remember the passphrase to decrypt it - and unusable from Backblaze.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/a/26048132/2080636

The main point of the article in not about making good covers. It's about using covers that match - sometimes marginally - your interest even if it's not a main part of the movie, misrepresenting the content of the movie to make you click on it. Clickbait.

The Lebowski example was just that: he likes action and Netflix presents to him the "action" thumb for the movie - even if the movie is not exactly John Wick.

Archive Link: https://web.archive.org/web/20210825101027/https://www.nytim...

Back up now -- I guess they were down for some reason!

I travel to Europe a lot - being originally from Italy - and they will have to grab my original 30$ per month contract from my cold dead hands. I get - slow - unlimited data when travelling and free SMSs, saved my bacon more than once.

I think they have something similar for 45$.

The numbers were not looking good after a couple of days of Iowa State Fair. The solution? Hide them! The site created to report the official numbers has been taken offline. Problem solved!

As a minor version change that will break software currently running without problems? Not very reasonable if you ask me - especially since wire protocol is checked on the client side.

Did you actually look at the data? Deaths in Israel went from over a 1400 in the month of January to 20 in July, with a vaccination rate of [0] 67%. I would say that that's a pretty darn good result, wouldn't you?

Again, from the data in your link: 91.4% efficacy against severe Covid - IE: ventilators or death, 88% efficacy against hospitalization. I'll take those chances.

The kicker for the article is quoting an "epidemiologist" - Andrew Bostom - that is not one. His argument: Israel sees a high percentage of deaths due to Covid among the vaccinated, ergo the CDC data is wrong. Omitting that Israel deaths are less than 1/10th of what they were in January, while in the U.S. they are at 1/3. So - as you may guess - not really close.

You won't get scientific consensus if you reject the numbers that don't support your theory.

I have been fully vaccinated and I do still wear a mask in public - following CDC guidelines put into place because we know that the vaccine is not fully neutralizing.

Is the vaccine a silver bullet? No. Does it save lives? Yes - in 98% of the cases.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations

So - first of all you're admitting that the issue is not the Council of the EU, it's that your own country's representative can't be held accountable for his vote in the Council by you.

Political activism is about making these "small issues" big and visible. It's not easy, it's not cheap and it doesn't always work. Yet it's something that can and should be done at the local level. And I really mean: local.

Your country's representative is of a political party that - I am guessing here - also runs in local elections. Your town, your province, your region - and that's how you start. You possibly can't talk to your ministers, but you can talk to your local politicians. Make sure they understand that their local power will see the consequences of national and EU politics, let them bubble up the issue.

Will it work for sure? Probably not, maybe yes. Is it better than taking ourselves out of the equation? Absolutely yes! Making sure that the local politicians understand that their national counterparts will affect their local success is a way of making them accountable.

Nope - that's not correct: saying "there shouldn't be any pizza party" is a vote! If more than 50% of the people invited at the party say: "We should actually get salad!" - then, guess what? You would get salad.

Being silent - not voting - is NOT the same as voting against something. Not even close.

If the real reason for why over 50% of the people don't vote was because they don't like any of the parties then they could join up and create an alternative. But this is not what happens.

In the real world when you don't vote you're doing two things:

1 - you're saying you don't care because you find all the options not to your liking;

2 - you're also saying you can't be bothered with creating one.

As long as none is preventing you with addressing the second part: you are making a deliberate choice to not engage in the democratic process. You understand the consequences of that (in)action and you accept them. In no way that invalidates the choices made by the people who engage in it.

Saying that you CHOOSING not participate in the process makes it invalid is an offence to the people who fought to give you that choice and to the people that - to this date - are not given that option.

I'll say this one last time: this defeatist attitude towards the democratic process is exactly what the political establishment and the lobbies who enrich them are counting on, and this is why I considered it one of the main issues with democracy today.

The Official Monster Raving Loony Party [0] is doing more for the cause of democracy than people who decide that nothing is going to change, we are going to get anchovy pizza, so why bother with voting.

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

Edit: Fixed typo - twice

"If <50% people vote, then the vote is arguably illegitimate"

That's not how a democracy works. Unless you're forcibly prevented from voting - or are denied the right to - that's not the case. It is not an illegitimate vote if you decide not to vote.

In the EU Parliament elections it's just people deciding not to vote. As you yourself said: "is a kind of a vote too".

Let me make a practical example: we are having a pizza party and we have a vote for what pizza to order, you say: "I don't care - you guys decide!". When the pizzas show up you may say: "Dang, you got the anchovies pizza - I don't like anchovies!", but not "Why did you guys get anchovies? I don't like anchovies, you shouldn't have ordered that pizza!". They seem closely related, but they are not.

I am replying to all the posts pushing this defeatist agenda. Not only it's wrong, but it's also dangerous.

It is representatives of the countries in the Council of the EU voting these legislations through: hold them accountable as you would hold them accountable locally.

Don't fall for the narration of the EU as a third party where your local representatives have no say. If four countries veto the bill, the bill is dead. 4 out if 27 - all done by influencing your government representative in the Council.

EU citizens CAN block this! Make your representative in the Council of the EU accountable. If 4 members veto this the legislation will not pass.

If you can't move your country representative to veto the bill, then the issue is not the EU: it's your government.

As Europeans we have to stop this very sneaky campaign of "citizens can't do anything" - it's a self fulfilling prophecy and the sharpest tool the lobbies have in the EU.

Your country's government has a say on it, and you have a say on your country's government. Make them accountable.

I think that the fatal error is not going and vote for the European Parliament elections [0]. You don't get to complain when you decide not to participate in the democratic process.

Even if this was passed by the Council of the EU [1] it would be passed by ministers representing over 55% of the states - and over 65% of the EU population - and could be blocked by 4 countries. Now - we can discuss if a government is a democratic institution, but I guess it's a bit of a stretch to argue otherwise.

In other words: democracy requires information and education, either at the EU or at state level. That's not the issue here.

Your country is not a passive agent in this: your country has a say and you need only four countries to stop this. If you believe that somehow you can influence your government when it's emanating laws locally, but not when - the same government - is voting in the Council, you are just doing some magical thinking.

The EU has one main problem: it's local politicians stoking the fire of "It's the EU doing this, not us" - while at the same time passing legislation in the EU.

<Tyranny of the majority arguments go here>

[0] https://europarl.europa.eu/election-results-2019/en/turnout/ [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_the_European_Union

So - I guess ticket shaming on HN works?

Wow - I was re-reading the article, and it jumped on my face:

"The breakdown of daily Covid hospital diagnoses shows that of more than 780 hospitalizations dated last Thursday...with 13 per cent made in the days and weeks that followed"

Can we say that 13% was definitely tested in "days" not "weeks" since last Thursday?

So their:

"Experts said the high number of cases being detected belatedly – at a time when PCR tests were widely available – suggested many such patients had been admitted for other reasons."

At worst would indicate 13% misdiagnosed Covid cases, with the word "belatedly" doing a lot of lifting.

I thought this article was bad - but the more I read it the more it looks like a pile of journalistic manure.