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Almost, it was Warren Buffet (the article says this). More: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/05/warren-buffett-says-bitcoin-...

Edit: apparently Buffet was referring to an earlier statement by Munger

It's on the App store right now: https://apps.apple.com/app/organic-maps/id1567437057 - the beta program is for testing new versions

What they might have meant is that many countries accept a positive PCR from >= 4 weeks ago as proof of prior infection (and therefore, presumed immunity), but not an antibody test. I'm not familiar with the error rates of the latter, but for the purposes of travel a positive antibody test is rather useless.

Where I live, you need to meet one of three conditions for things like indoor dining:

- proof of a full course of vaccination (2 weeks after the final shot)

- proof of prior infection - antibody test not accepted, only positive PCR between 1 and 6 months ago

- proof of an antigen test (rapid test) that's at most 24h old

Antigen tests (the rapid test kit, results in ~15 minutes, sample taken from the nose or thread) are not the same as antibody tests (blood test for prior infection, has to go to the lab). You need the former for travel. Afaik, the latter is not accepted as proof of prior infection, you need a positive PCR test from at least 28-ish days ago.

If that's your threat model, you should not be using any repair shop. And the attacks you describe are not just "a bit more sophisticated than Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V", they're most likely far beyond the abilities of most repair technicians.

Are you aware that you've been running a version that hasn't been getting updates since July of last year? If not, then having your OS actually get updates again might be a surprise. You'll have to update to 20.04 first, though, and then 20.10 before you can update that to 21.04. There's no direct update path (another known surprise, one might say). If you don't want to update every six months, just stick to the long-term support version (LTS, currently 20.04).

You're moving the goalposts. After being delayed numerous times and the first parts being of rather questionable usefulness, Intel's 10nm process is doing fine now and shipping in volume. Noone claimed that they had closed the gap to AMD with the 10nm Xeons, only that they're shipping. (They also significantly narrowed the gap, but it remains quite large).

Does Intel sell their laptop processors directly to consumers?

It's not "barely usable" any more, they're shipping Xeons with up to 40 cores at volume. Afaik everything except high-clock desktop parts is shipping on 10nm now. It took them an eternity, but it's not Duke Nukem late.

Yes, but the link I posted goes into significant detail why numbers as high as those in your link can't possibly be accurate.

I have two 24" 1920x1200 (16:10) monitors at work, one of them rotated 90 degrees. I previously had to 24" 1920x1080 (16:9) monitors in the same configuration, and 16:10 is far preferable imo. The 1080 pixel width is often just a little too narrow for comfortable browsing (causing mobile layouts to be used or horizontal scrolling to be necessary), and I haven't had any of that since switching to the 16:10 monitors.

My home (and home office) setup is 14" 1920x1080 laptop + 24" 2560x1440 screen (1x scaling), and I like that a lot, too. The WQHD screen is wide enough to have two things open side by side, which can feel cramped on FHD, while also having sufficiently many vertical pixels.

When is the last time you used it? Because I have none of these issues. None. Especially since "It doesn't sync with your mobile client unless you open the app on your phone" is architecturally completely wrong. The desktop client doesn't communicate through your phone. That's how WhatsApp web works, but Signal Desktop doesn't.

You forgot to change the name of the site before pasting your easy-to-see-through comment.

Less than bitcoin, while providing actual value? According to Netflix's 2020 ESG report [1], their hardware infrastructure used just under 95 GWh in 2020 (not including data transmission or your TV). All of which was from renewable sources, btw. Including transmission and the end-user's viewing devices, watching Netflix is estimated to use 77W of power [2], for a total estimate of around 1.2 TWh per year. Bitcoin is estimated at 140 TWh per year [3], or 1500 times Netflix's data centre power usage, or a 120 times the likely total energy consumption of watching Netflix.

Going further, all data centres in the world use an estimated 200 TWh per year, and data transmission networks are estimated at 250 TWh per year [4], for a total of 3.2 times Bitcoin's energy use. Maybe it's just me, but the value provided by the internet is more than 3.2 times higher than that of Bitcoin.

[1] https://s22.q4cdn.com/959853165/files/doc_downloads/2021/03/...

[2] https://www.iea.org/commentaries/the-carbon-footprint-of-str...

[3] https://cbeci.org/

[4] https://www.iea.org/reports/data-centres-and-data-transmissi...

No, this isn't beyond evil maid - it doesn't require physical access, it only requires root access.

Increasingly, root and kernel access aren't the same thing any more (if you enable lockdown mode). That stops root from doing a whole bunch of things. It's true that often, user-level access is enough (if you only care about the user's data). But if you want to modify syscalls or do some other thing that root may not do in lockdown mode, you'll need to get kernel access. And many other ways of getting there have been blocked in an attempt to strengthen the barrier between root and kernel (some dispute the utility of that separation, but I think it's because they fundamentally reject its goals). This is about closing another hole in the barrier.

How useful that barrier is against attacks of the https://xkcd.com/538/ kind is, of course, a different matter. In my view, the point is that it raises the cost.

Because you mentioned secure boot and encryption: Matthew Garrett wrote an interesting blog post a while ago on making hibernation work with lockdown mode, i.e. verifying that the hibernation image wasn't tampered with. Otherwise it might be possible to get around the whole secure boot chain by writing a compromised kernel to a hibernation image. It's quite interesting to think about, even if it isn't necessarily something you as a user should need to think about (distros should probably handle it): https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/55845.html

On GDPR, it seems HN has two completely opposing reactions depending on the time since a fine has made headlines. If it's been a while, the prevailing sentiment seems to be "the big bad EU will financially ruin me for my side project if I don't hire a full-time data protection lawyer", and when a fine is actually issued, it's "that's not even a slap on the wrist, who's going to care, lol". It's almost as if EU data protection agencies reacted proportionately to the severity of the misdeed. This is a leak affecting 4109 customers, after all, not a full compromise of booking's systems.

Your numbers are off by 3 orders of magnitude, the fine is just under half a million, not half a billion.

I mean it's not particularly pretty but what's so bad about this?

    std::cout << std::hex << my_int << std::dec << std::endl;

If you're a large retailer and have been able to negotiate good rates with a payment processor and are in a country where interchange fees are capped (e.g., EU countries), then I can see it. But I doubt that it's the case in the US where those fees have to fund 2% cashback programmes etc.

There are non-Adobe alternatives with ML super-resolution features that are much cheaper. For example, Pixelmator Photo can do it for $8 (iPad, no subscription). They have a Mac version as well but I don't use macOS so I can't judge that.

When investing the same amount every month (dollar-cost averaging), the difference becomes even larger. Using your portfolios, but adding $250/month in addition to the initial investment of $10k, you end up with $128k with gold and $207k with SPY (total investment ~$85k): https://www.portfoliovisualizer.com/backtest-portfolio?s=y&t... (with QQQ, it'd be $380k)

Comparing one-off investments is very dependent on the start date, and dollar-cost averaging more accurately models what people can actually do and which returns one may be able to expect. Who has a large lump sum laying around to invest rather than investing a portion of one's income every month/quarter?

Shelter accounts for 33% of the index, not 24%: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/cpi_02102021.htm - I'm not sure where your figure originates, but it's wrong.

That's a common misconception of how money creation works. If you want to learn more, this Bank of England article is a good introduction (pdf): https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-...

In the UK, iodine is added to cattle feed instead of salt, so it's contained in dairy products. No idea whether this can be a problem for vegans.

"Kosher salt" isn't a thing this side of the pond (at least in Germany). Even regular coarse salt is not something you can expect to find in an average kitchen.

In lots of countries, butter isn't sold in sticks, and using measurements like "sticks", "cans", or "packs" of something is annoying if the unit sizes differ between the author's and the reader's country. I can deal with cups or ounces - they're not intuitive for me, but they can be converted. But "cans" or "packs" are just plain guesswork. That makes it unnecessarily hard to try new dishes where I don't already know what the result is supposed to look or taste like.

If your surname contains an "a", say Gaddersby, you could also do "g@dders.by" to confuse people even more

Hinkley Point C has been delayed until at least June 2026: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-27/edf-sees-....

Another reactor of the same EPR model family that EDF is building in Flamanville, France, started construction in 2007 with commercial introduction originally scheduled for 2012 but now delayed to 2023 (no official statement with that date, but fuel loading is estimated only for the end of 2022 and it takes a few months after that). It's also five times over budget (€19.1bn, original estimate was €3.3bn, for one reactor with 1.6GW of electrical output).

Yet another one, Olkiluoto in Finland, began construction in 2005 and is also not finished, with commercial introduction planned for 2022. Its cost is estimated at €11bn, but was supposed to be €3bn originally.

The two operational ones, Taishan 1 and 2 in China, took 10 years of construction, too. It was planned to take less than 2 years.

There are photos of the fire suppression system in one of their data centres in this (French) forum thread: https://lafibre.info/ovh-datacenter/ovh-et-la-protection-inc.... They have sprinklers, with the reasoning being that the burning racks' data is gone anyway if there's a fire, and at least sprinklers don't accidentally kill the technicians.

In French but with pictures: https://lafibre.info/ovh-datacenter/ovh-et-la-protection-inc... - probably a different OVH data centre, but they clearly have sprinklers there. The argument they made against gas extinguishers is by the time they have to use it, the data is gone anyway, and it's only going to trigger in the affected areas. It's also far safer for the people working there.