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No but then the next step is "well we need a way to enforce it because people are just lying about their age".

I guess let me show a slope I found over here, just past the boiling frogs, watch your footing though, it's recently been greased and is quite steep.

Remember

Contraceptive companies are competitors to all other companies.

Until we meet again!

I have 4 kids (all under 12) and make quite a bit less than $200k with me being the only provider in the home and although I wouldn't say we're exactly where I want to be financially I don't think that were completely bankrupt.

I'll be honest my initial read of the headline caused me th think they were have MS Copilot act as the new head of Xbox, not the person taking over Xbox used to be the guy in charge of an AI product.

When I first started using the Internet there were 3 rules that were pounded into my head repeatedly.

1. Don't believe everything or anything you read or see on the Internet.

2. Never share personal information about yourself online.

3. Every man was a man, every woman was a man and every teenager is an FBI agent.

I have yet to find a problem with the Internet thats isn't because of breaking one of the above rules.

My point being you couldn't ever trust the Internet before anyways.

So my wife has a CGM and is stuck with a fancy pump that is supposed to "automatically" coordinate with her sensor to deliver or reduce insulin when it detects her numbers are too high/low.

I've always been suspicious of the yahoos writing the software that controls these kinds of devices being a security guy and all.

But I also would love to participate in, contribute to or help in any way with reverse engineering, open sourcing, or in some other way making it so that my wife's life isn't dependent upon the quality of software developed by the lowest bidder they could outsource it to.

If anyone knows how I could help please let me know who to reach out to.

"Over a year, we collected 4,900 summaries. When we analysed them, we found that six of ten models systematically exaggerated claims they found in the original texts"

So it turns out llms trained largely on Internet science articles make the same mistakes as are made by science journalists.

Just imagine how easy this pirate list could be turned into a "misinformation" list. Makes you think.

> Sometime in early May 2024, ARRL’s systems network was compromised by threat actors (TAs) using information they had purchased on the dark web. The TAs accessed headquarters on-site systems and most cloud-based systems

So someone was using the same password for the work and personal stuff and no one has ever bothered prioritizing 2FA got it.

Hey look at that it turns out their forcing it down our throats again even though we said we didn't want it.

To paraphrase the IRA "[consumers] have to get lucky every time, M$ only has to get lucky once."

> Why would anyone sacrifice, at the very bare minimum, 6 years of their youthful years for 3 children?

Most of the most fulfilling and meaningful things in life don't always make sense or are reasonable. But they often almost always have to do with serving and sacrificing for others.

I'm going to be honest it seems like a lot of the "data" obsession that has been all the rage among mid-level managers is really basically just a modern dressed up version of augury, or reading pig entrails to predict the future.

These enterprises spend a large amount of time and effort trying to collect data, often the wrong data, toa address a problem they don't understand and then hope if they do enough "data science" on it then it will magically tell them what to do. All without understanding or reasoning behind it, or any real connection to reality just "the data says X".

This results in ideas like "We did A/B testing and it runs out people stay on the page 38% longer if we use design B". Ignoeing the fact that the reason that happened was that design B involved the exit button randomly dancing around the page.

That is of course limiting ourselves to situations where people are actually trying to use data to get answers when much more often it is "I have already made a decision make the data say it was the right one." Which is a whole other can of worms.

> I mean everything in the universe is in motion and spins…

My understanding is that is a pretty open question as to whether or not blackholes due spin at all, or if they are all uniform apart from mass. Last I heard they do have temperature and electric charge and mass.

Another question is what does the concept of motion even mean for a singularity. How do you define the concept of distance in a non-euclidean space for an object to move through in the first place. What can the idea of movement even mean for an object that has a horizon beyond which it functionally becomes cut off from the rest of the universe.

Setting aside the shocking myopia of this comment (it turns out most of your food that magically appears in grocery stores comes from those useless rural yokels that use these roads)

A major driver of the interstate highway project was military in consideration because of the importance of logistics in being able to move troops around the country.

I love when people bring this up. I passively invest by which I mean I take a couple of bucks every couple of paychecks and throw them into an index fund or buy one or two shares of stock of a company. Not to mention my 401k. How about we hold the people making the decisions accountable all the way up and down the chain instead of letting the go with the whole "following orders" defence.

DevOps like Agile was a beautiful idea with a coherent underlying well reasoned philosophy.

DevOps like Agile was then hacked to pieces and had its corpse paraded around by sleazy consultants and idiotic management that was told "you can save all this money on all your infrastructure people by making your developers do all the ops stuff to." And who doesn't like saving money on those useless crusty old system administrators that don't seem to do anything except whine for "more disk space" if they were so smart they would've prevented that outage la da t week where the logging volume filled up.

Finally the toolmakers sold the idea that DevOps was something you could buy. Just like the vendors convinced management that buy purchasing Jira you were now agile, now if you have a CI/CD pipeline you are now doing DevOps. But you still can't release without getting approval from the release committee and you can't actually provision a new host in the cloud until you have filled out the requsite approval forms, but key for some reason we uprooted our monolith and threw it on kubenetes so we are doing DevOps.

It really feels like relieving the Agile cycle all over again in every detail. Just wish I could figure out the next big fad so I could get in on this money printer.

PS. If you use the term DevSecOps or DevSecFinOps unironiclly your living proof the Dunning-Kruger effect.

Wow what is Canada's end game here? First they tell the search engines. Engines they have to hand over part of their revenue to legacy media. Now they're going after all the streaming services. Like what is their actual end game? Rather than trying to do something to improve their own economic situation, their solution is just a parasitically leech off of other countries. Large businesses. I mean there's a case to be made for ensuring that massive conglomerates better than appropriate tax burden, but there's got to be a better way than just hamfistedly slapping arbitrary revenue numbers on every service offered in the country, especially when it's already more expensive than across the border. I guess what I'm really asking is who is John Galt?

Yes false rumours and unsubstantiated claims such as

- COVID came from the Wuhan virology lab

-The NIH was funding gain of function research in Wuhan.

- There are rich pedophile businessmen that are pimping out underage girls to be able to blackmail them.

I could go on and on, because those are all horrible unsubstantiated rumours and I am glad we hunted down people who shared them persecuted and hounded them and limited their freedom to share things like that.

I feel that something happened at Google gradually and over the past few years but did happen.

They initially paid a lot of money to hire the best and brightest minds, they created crazy algorithmic interviews and a lot of hoops and became known as the place where the best went.

Then it got inverted that the best go to Google so if you were at Google you were the best. Which led to people optimizing for the money.and optimizing to get into google. The problem was what was once a singal and a filter then became an objective and a goal.

Overtime the organization crew and people left due to culture changes from being a scrappy startup to being a F50 company, or retiring or just wanting something new.

The problem was the best and brightest had put together systems that couldn't be maintained by those that weren't also fantasticaly competent, after debugging is twice as hard as coding and all that, and so slowly over time the whole house of cards is rotting slowly overtime as more and more problems accumulate but the individuals left aren't competent enough to fix them or address them, and I don't just mean at the engineering level but the whole stack from engineering to upper management.

The Goths showed up sacked Rome for its wealth and treasure but can no longer keep the grain coming and the fountains running.

I love freenet as we continue to see the growth of authoritative bodies attempt to control the Internet I think it will become more and more important.

The other thing I love about freenet is it feels exactly like using the Internet in the late 90's in almost every way. Same speeds, same simple pages, same crazy whackos spouting conspiracy theories about how JFK shot first, it really is a time capsule that I love.

What state are you looking at it from?

I think this is important. At the end of the day you have to live with yourself, and it's easier to live with a person who is nice rather than one who is mean.

"Listen Jack making people have two factor introduces friction to the signup process, which reduces customers, which reduces growth and profits. Meanwhile if there's a security incident what are they going to do, they can't sue us we made a TOS change that prevents that, so all they can do is b** on the internet. It just doesn't make sense to waste money on security because it isn't our security." - The Roku CEO probably.

Once signed up for the WSJ. Took 10 minutes just put in my credit card and address, got a sign up discount, and boom was done.

3 months later I needed to cancel. It turns out you can only cancel by a phone call, during their business hours on the east coast. Of course that wasn't the end because then it was probably twenty minutes on hold and fighting with. "No I want to cancel. No I don't care if you offer me a discount, I am pissed you made me call in to cancel. No I don't want to suspend I want to quit."

Swore I would never purchase them again if they are going to do something like that.

Counterpoint against that. Because optometry isn't considered part of the "healthcare" umbrella when I went to get LASIK it was the easiest medical transaction that I've ever done. They explained what they would do, said this was the price, then said they could offer a discount and when I was still considering they said they could give me another discount. I got the upfront price paid for it got my surgery and went on my way. This wasn't some shady Nick Riveria place either it was one of the premier LASIK facilities in the world.

By contrast trying to do something as simple as buying a new medical device for my wife has been a Kafkaesque nightmare with random charges, wrong billing codes, switching companies, fighting insurance, demonstrating need, etc, etc for something I am willing to purchase. The device is also marked up several thousand percent to boot.

Part of the problem with the healthcare discussion is that we need to clarify what we mean by healthcare. When I hear people complain about healthcare they either are complaining about medicine, or hospital stays with crazy and confusing billing processes, and these 2 problems are completely different than each other and require a whole different set of discussions apporaches and solutions, but everyone just talks about "healthcare" with no nuance and it obscures any possible forward progress.

As a final question for pondering how much healthcare does everyone deserve? I think we'd agree it probably isn't reasonable to say a 96 year old woman should get a multimillion dollar experimental cancer treatment that will extend her life by 6 months before dying, on the other hand simply having access to Ibeprofun and Antibiotics means you have access to better medical care than anyone else at any point in history longer than 40 or 50 years ago?

So that has raised an interesting question in my mind. But as far as I know the only significant case of prion disease amongst human beings, excluding CJD which seems to be generically determined, was the instance of Kuru among the Papau New Guinea tribes; however we know other societies practiced cannibalism at a certain scale such as the Aztecs in which people were eating other people all over the place, yet we don't have widespread evidence of Kuru.

Is there something distinct about Brian tissue which puts it at a higher risk for prion disease formation?