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This is an oddly pessimistic view - what are you implying?

Actual title: "Pfizer is testing a pill that, if successful, could become first-ever home cure for COVID-19" - Edited down as best as I could to fit the length.

Disco Elysium is high art if there ever was any

PR fluff piece?

Rather disappointed with the low quality of comments on this thread. Is it because diet is something everyone has an opinion on?

I am not sure what you are implying. Can you elaborate? Are you saying Israel would go attack its neighbors and seize land? From Egypt? Jordan? Lebanon? If so, that's an absurd proposition with absolutely no geopolitical data points to back it.

Israel is not governed by religious law, and has full rights for women, minorities, and LGBTQ. Its basis for most policy is a blend of social democracy and neoliberalism. Its military is purely defensive. I cannot say any of those things about Iran in good faith.

Also, the what-about-ism is not a great defense of anything geopolitical btw.

Oh! Afterthought - If anyone reading this actually knows how I can get in touch with them, LMK! I am still interested.

I think this is not an interesting link drop. And I'll go one step further - I went out of my way to try to volunteer here. I emailed them, I added some of them on linkedin, I tried (pre-covid) various different methods of reaching out, and all were ignored. For all intents and purposes, this seems to have been abandoned.

Iran is a theocracy that has stated multiple times a desire to "Wipe X off the face of the earth", where X is another country / race / religion.

Zoos are bastions of conservation. They are usually only filled by rescue animals, and their funds are often used in conservation and animal welfare programs.

Why was this flagged @dang?

The silencing of dissenting voices

"it should fucking terrify you that a movement that’s been tasked with addressing pressing social problems is designed in such a way that any substantial criticism is met with aggressive punishment. "

Couldn't agree more. As someone very liberal that is also exhausted of wokeness, of the constant normalization of racism against whites, and against asians (as model minorities), this hits the nail on the head.

The reprehensible act is the tweet. Keeping records and archives of what people do in a public forum is not.

This is a wild misunderstanding of how the world actually works. Welcome to Realpolitik.

Poor waymo, having to pivot to selling peripherals it developed ever since dad cut the purse strings. I wonder how this bodes for their long term plan? From what I understand, Alphabet is getting less and less bullish on a lot of these moonshots.

Yes, please, I am very interested in what the OP meant here...?

> I guess they can’t afford to cover costs given current prices so they sell customer metadata to Facebook

This sentence, your thesis, is absurd. Where does it say they make money from selling data?

Furthermore, "I guess they can’t afford to cover costs given current prices" is a really strange foundation to leap from. Do you have any facts? Or are you just speculating on BackBlaze and making wild assumptions?

> now that other like-minded crazies can find each other faster than ever

You are right, there is nowhere else online where "crazies" gather - not 4chan, not reddit, not voat, not twitter, just Facebook?

Agreed 150%. I think a lot of older generation engineers like him because he is an asshole, and says things to women that they, in turn, feel. I think the sun is setting on the old, rude, archetype of engineer that cannot tolerate those different from them.

Why is that? Perhaps they get business value out of it?

This feels like an almost intentional misunderstanding.

The data from Rio de Janeiro. Did you read the article?

I worked on a product, in the IOT space, through a major Telco's research lab, that was meant for US Gov deployment. The things I saw...

What a toxic little website. Do not follow the advise here. Do not label your co-workers. Trust them, listen to them. If you see them exhibit traits you perceive as negative (and fall into these crude buckets) - talk to them, and give them feedback. Chances are, they will appreciate it, and your working relationship will improve.

This kind of comment is why every single project needs to be justified with "What problems are you solving?" and "What usecase are you supporting?". Because I could 150% imagine somebody getting excited about this and then:

1) Framing it as such with poor justification "a lot easier to manage"

2) "This would be a huge rewrite of some internals" Becoming a multi-year migration quagmire

3) The dawning realization that you have used a write-heavy architecture in a read-heavy system

In what way is Github not free?

You are all over this thread being snarky, and commenting in what seems to be bad faith. Please stop, this is not reddit.

> when Amazon swiped the rug from under them. Good.

> I have zero empathy for these companies and their investors.

Are you trolling? Or do you want to see all amazing open source tech move behind closed doors and payed walled gardens?

And why are you against PRISM?