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No admission of guilt

> According to spokesmen, two branches of the Sackler family noted that the settlement included no finding of liability or wrongdoing.

And no more lawsuits

> If Judge Robert Drain, who is presiding over the bankruptcy proceedings, certifies the plan after an August hearing, as is now widely expected, both the family and the company would be shielded from further opioid-related lawsuits.

Sounds like a good deal for Purdue Pharma.

Only if you leave out the paragraph directly afterwards, where they tested it experimentally:

> The researchers grew two types of famine weed, one invasive and the other non-invasive, and exposed them to the atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide recorded in 1950 and 2020. In the invasive variety, parthenin concentrations peaked at the highest carbon levels. The results suggest that modern levels of carbon dioxide have contributed to the noxious weed’s toxicity.

"Ask for forgiveness, not permission"

This hurts your point more than it helps. Why should anyone care about propping up a journal composed of glorified copyeditors and graphic designers, quibbling over Word formatting to fit their preferred in-house look and feel?

So this is the heavy-hitting work that's supposed to justify closing off knowledge except to those who can pay: because someone might see a paper that had insufficient formatting?

No wonder the reputation for closed-access journals is so thorougly poisoned, when this is exactly the kind of misdirected attention and gatekeeping that's killing it.

Yes, they are both spyware. Call a spade a spade.

Mexico (e.g., Guadalajara), the Caribbean (particularly adjacent to Puerto Rico), and northern Colombia and Venezuela seem to have pockets of CDMA as well.

A long-form piece about farming in the UK, from the perspective of a farmer, and their observations of the ecological collapse

He was hired as a Distinguished Engineer.

You might find Mark Handley's visualization illuminating: https://youtu.be/m05abdGSOxY

What's wrong with GitHub?

WGU only admits people already living in the United States. I'm not sure if it has a citizenship or residency requirement.

Humor me for applying some heuristics here. You're bringing up 43 year old studies and two decade out CIA reports as justification for the health risks of _extremely-widely used_ technology. Should I assume that this is the best we have on offer in studies of a systemic risk, or just cherry picking?

Also, why create a throwaway to post this stuff if you're stating an earnest and sincere belief? Surely credible views like these deserve to be held openly.

It looks like your link is broken. Is this the preprint you're referring to?

"Human Exposure to RF Fields in 5G Downlink" Imtiaz Nasim, Seungmo Kim https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.03683

Did someone forget?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I'm really not sure where your vitriol for Azure is coming from. If you want to respond to the point, you should -- if you can avoid going off because you have an axe to grind with Microsoft.

And the point about emails is a real head-scratcher. Most of us have been online for a long, long time. I expect there are quite a few people working at Big X with a @hotmail, @gmail, @yahoo, hell, @sbcglobal personal email that they use for the rest of their online life.

I had the same issue, but the Wayback link works:

https://web.archive.org/web/20191013203137/http://www.cs.col...

I was surprised to find a Spectrum notice tacked onto an unrelated HTTP site this morning. It looks like Spectrum are editing customer traffic to inject a DMCA notice page that loads their own unsecured scripts.

Other ISPs like Comcast have done this in the past[1], but this is the first time I've seen anything like it from Spectrum, who normally keeps their hijacking limited to ad-riddled search pages for failed DNS lookups.

I use HTTPS Everywhere[2] and rarely visit sites delivered over HTTP, so I can't say if this is happening only on unsecured pages or everywhere.

[1] "Comcast injects JavaScript into webpages to show copyright notices to customers" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10592775

[2] "HTTPS Everywhere" https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere

Albert Camus - The Myth of Sisyphus https://web.archive.org/web/20190808163312/https://www2.hawa...

Only the first couple pages are visible, the rest is hidden behind the "Extra Crunch" paywall.

I've only heard AOT used when referring to languages that are normally JIT'ed. If this compiles straight to native, why call it AOT?

Azure is by far the next biggest cloud provider after AWS. GCP is the lame duck playing catch up.

Square Cash is every bit as bad as PayPal during their early "paypalsucks" days, complete with opaque "security" policies and unreachable support.

I have had multiple Cash accounts (one business, a couple personal) which have been stuck in limbo for more than a year. At some point, a transaction must have flagged me because Square reverted all of my recent transactions, locked my funds, and won't process any incoming or outgoing transactions on ANY of my accounts.

I've contacted support over and over through their tool, and I have gotten ZERO response. Not even a formulaic "you're off the platform" email. There's no phone support for Square Cash, so outside of my emails going into a black hole, there is no way to get a human to review any of it.

I have given up. If the filing fee for a small claims case wasn't higher than the cash I still had left in there, I would have sued them long ago. They are every bit as shady and uncommunicative as PayPal and I would never trust them with my money again.

I appreciate the frank response. This is a topic that I don't usually see addressed.

If you're not familiar with STEEM or its currency, you can check the FAQ. [1]

[1] https://steemit.com/faq.html#What_is_the_difference_between_...

It's unclear.

"Presidents do have broad — but not unlimited — pardoning power."

"The framers of the Constitution put the presidential pardoning power into the founding document in order to correct unjust prosecutions or convictions — both of which had occurred frequently in England.

At the Constitutional Convention, there was a proposal to exempt treason from the president's pardoning power — the notion being that if a president conspired with subordinates to commit treason, he should not be able to protect himself by pardoning fellow conspirators." [1]

[1] https://www.npr.org/2017/07/29/539856280/could-trump-pardon-...

It goes with the adage: "Some people have 20 years of experience; some have one year of experience repeated 20 times."

Not the premise. This is an issue of taking a cheap, touch-tone chip and repackaging it as a more expensive product. The chip itself is not dialing out to anywhere since the final product wouldn't even work when installed. Just a counterfeiting scam.

I don't think equating LTCM with fraud is exactly right. They used an incredibly risky strategy and had their leverage blow up in a black swan event. A failure, but not fraud.

I went to open my calculator this morning and it told me it was in the middle of an update and to try again later. 5 minutes, 10 minutes, and 15 minutes later it still wasn't done. I ended up using Google to calculate some basic math! How does Microsoft screw up such a simple application?

We used Segment for application analytics and exception reporting in an enterprise setting. Their .NET libraries were abysmal and had some show-stopper bugs that we wrestled with, particularly broken dependencies. I eventually had to fork the Analytics.NET repo and fix them myself. It was months before I heard any response to the issues or PRs, although they did eventually get merged in. It was just disappointing overall. I don't know why they'd release .NET tooling but have it be broken out-of-the-box, or maintain an open source project but not respond to any contributions.

That's John Carreyrou of The Wall Street Journal's investigative reporting team. [1]

[1] http://www.wsj.com/news/author/1282