"Masks are in the same boat. There is reason to believe *universal* masking is effective in even a high-covid environment like a hospital. But it becomes less clear that it's effective in a half-assed way where the waiter wears a mask but restaurant patrons don't."

It's this kind of extremist thought that has driven me mad in discussions about COVID-19.

Masks have been proven to help repeatedly inside and outside of hospital environments, but you choose to make a comparison between a setting that will almost always follow the safety procedure and a scenario that literally shouldn't even be allowed to happen. Two very drastic extremes that are not an honest attempt at discussion nor appropriate in any respect.

And by making that comparison, you spread doubt in the safety procedure and undermine a known effective effort to help address the pandemic.

"Major browser vendors are generally aligned about wanting to move the platform away from alert() and friends, even though it will unfortunately involve some breakage..."

There are three browsers left, Google Chrome and it's derivatives being the overall monopoly, so did they actually discuss this openly with all browser developers or only Chromium developers or only Google employees or what?

This is why everyone running on a library created by a monopoly is a bad idea.

Google is already use to dominating everything and they keep using Chrome to set standards that benefit them and hurt everyone else.

Perhaps aliens are stealing our cattle. Perhaps the oceans are full of mermaids. Perhaps the COVID-19 vaccine makes your fingernails grow faster.

Perhaps throwing out red herrings into conversations about the hypocrisy of a nation making rules after allowing the crimes to flourish in their borders and sphere of influence is not only unethical but foolish.

Perhaps.

You would need a monitor in either case.

A Raspberry Pi with FreeRDP is $30-40.

I'm pretty sure there are solutions that this service would be helpful. I have setup remote systems for people to get around certain issues (regularly stolen PCs, sensitive custom applications or data, etc.) and would not mind having the virtual machine and billing management handled by Microsoft.

This is on point. I wish I could give you mod points.

Thank you for taking the time to write this up. You did a better job than the article.

Wish I had mod points!

They guy even has the nerve to say "He also wishes Mozilla's Firefox would move faster." Chrome keeps pushing out non-standard features constantly, expecting everyone to just do what they want? Seriously, bunch of freaking arrogant jackasses. I'm glad he's leaving.

Stating that ALL bitcoin mining is being done on ASICs now is completely ludicrous. Some bigger miners use FPGAs as well.

But MOST of the bitcoin mining is being done on GPUs.

So long as it is still reasonably profitable to use GPUs, someone out there will be using them.

https://www.nicehash.com/profi...

Over $200 a month for a six month return on investment is what I would call reasonably profitable.

Unsubscribe?

Contact them to be removed from their lists?

Write a mail rule to automatically delete?

Add domain to mail provider's spam list?

No no, let's instead randomly make a comment on a NYT article asking. Yes, that'll solve the problem.

The state system for sending emergency messages that they allege she used has a single user and password for everyone.

Also, IP addresses can be very easily spoofed. They're not considered reliable evidence in many computer crimes so investigators need to find proof on the computers themselves.

Nowhere. I just found it weird that the company promoting the suggestion of bots on social media was also promoting Russia as a member of the G8 on their website, when Russia has not been invited back in seven years now.

https://web.archive.org/web/20...

Same page has the Olympics and USA's ODNI logos, seemingly randomly without explanation.

You realize that three hedge funds own more shares of Gamestop than all the retail investors combined, right? Percentage held be institutions is 105% and they've been reducing their positions lately (it was 122% two months ago).

https://www.nasdaq.com/market-...

Some of the big institutional holders are probably grinding retail investors out of their money using bots and high frequency trading to drive the price up so they don't lose money on their holdings, but all the retail sheep still believe in the anti-hedge fund narrative that was built.

They're hype the stock one week, drive the price up, sell a bunch of shares then buy it back. Rinse and repeat.

It's amusing to watch. I use to feel sorry for those being manipulated but I am running out of empathy for gullible people.

Also, you should take a look at the download link for this white paper that PiiQ Media is offering. The firm says they run phishing simulators, yet they require a "company" email address to download the paper. They also show a logo for G8, the economic group that use to exist but Russia hasn't been invited back since 2014. (It's called G7 again.)

Kind of suspicious that the company promoting a bot conspiracy is also acting like Russia is still a member of the G8 group and trying to harvest email addresses from the public's interest in the Gamestop hype train.

And five percent a month? Is that okay for you?

https://twitter.com/takkyun/st...

That's less than two years of lifespan on storage that's soldiered to the motherboard.

Imagine the wastage from all this.

I know most people will probably write this comment off but it is true.

Back in the 1960s mentioned by Scorsese, there were less movie theaters and less television channels which caused air time for both a premium that made producing unique content a hard sell for not only studios but publishers and theater chains or television networks.

The mediums out to the consumers were finite and narrow. A lot of what was produced was pretty similar with some variation while also tending to be targeted at the people making the decisions instead of what consumers wanted. It wasn't until the 1970s that more variety started to arrive and then 1980s that it started to explode because of home entertainment (Beta, VHS, cable TV).

Now that the Internet can provide an unlimited medium for the content, it also allows an almost unlimited variety for what is available as well.

Most people will see this as a problem trying to find something they like but this was inevitable. Because there is so much content and the variety has become insanely broad, many of the mediums had no way to manually curate/moderate it so the companies providing the platforms attempted to provide matches to content using algorithms.

But the reality is that we have been left to curate it ourselves and the algorithms could never get enough information to judge your mood and such, so we need to find a way to get back to curated content so not only can we find something for ourselves to watch but the people we trust with the curation can help guide studios and publishes to produce something we want to watch.