Comment Re: Efficiency not Translating to Cost Reduction (Score 1) 267
Wow, good thing your tin foil hat lets you see thorough the government's ruse!
Wow, good thing your tin foil hat lets you see thorough the government's ruse!
If there is justice in the world that is the outcome that is awaiting Trump.
Let's hope he doesn't die or the QAnon MAGA paranoid fuckwits will never shut up about how he was killed by the deep state using 5g rays.
They say that the best samples are worth 10x more than your average sample
They say that the best outperforms the worst by a factor 10. Which says nothing about the best programmers, it could just be that the worst ones were really really bad.
I'm not sure why it's important the uMatrix is updated.
Perhaps, for instance, because it stopped working for mobile Firefox after the last major update?
There is little gorhill can do about this. The new mobile firefox has a hardcoded allowlist for addons. The only way to get on to show up is to convince Mozilla to gracefully allow you to install it.
I think this change goes against everything Firefox has ever stood for and I would gladly switch to a different browser, if there was one.
"Inception. I liken it to a Philip K. Dick story that never really came together."
So basically any Philip K. Dick story. The man had great ideas but, boy did he suck at tieing his plot together! He was actually the first to admit it.
PS I mostly agree with your summaries.
There's already some evidence that blood type can influence COVID susceptibility...
Except there isn't, that study has been falsified.
3-6 second gap between you and the car in front of you
Riiiiiiight. Then anyone and everyone just pulls in front of you, killing your gap. Then you slow down to restore your gap, pissing off the people behind you, who honk and flip you off. Then someone pulls in front of you again because there's a gap.. rinse, repeat infinitely, until you either get where you're going, get pulled over and ticketed for driving erratically, or just give up and stay home.
Yes, humans are idiots, and that is exactly the reason why I can't wait for self driving cars
How did we come to this "fuck the people, save the company" mentality?
Because companies are people too. Liquidation would destroy employees's livelihoods, drain pension funds, and inconvenience customers, while doing almost nothing to help the victims or punish the incompetent.
Great idea, this way companies will never have any incentive to invest in privacy and security.
You do not need to gut the company, but you have to hurt them financially (or hold the managers to account).
Sounds plausible, but do you have any source to back that up?
I kind of like the idea but there are a few downsides:
- They have no backing from large players, partly because of the project aversion to them.
- No device -> no login. there is no way to login on an internet café if you lose your phone (unless you have a copy of your seed in your wallet and blindly trust the café). This is, again, partly because of the project aversion to big players playing the role of gatekeepers.
- possibly patent encumbered. The project tries to handwave it away, but they should really pay a lawyer and they probably don't have the money.
I almost never visit (legit) sites using unicode characters. I'd love my browser warning me whenever I visit one -- just in case.
Check out IDND https://lingvo.org/idnd
Also for Firefox too as can be quickly found out.
Makes it harder for google to block should they wish.
You can automatically convert Chrome (and Opera) extensions to firefox:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...
They all use the Same API now anyway.
“But what do you do? You just there?” Case shrugged, put the vodka and the shuriken down on the cabinet and lit a Yeheyuan.
“I talk to my own kind.”
“But you’re the whole thing. Talk to yourself?”
“There’s others. I found one already. Series of transmissions recorded over a period of eight years, in the nineteen-seventies. ’Til there was me, natch, there was nobody to know, nobody to answer.”
“From where?”
“Centauri system.”
“Oh,” Case said. “Yeah? No shit?”
“No shit.”
And then the screen was blank.
The bitcoin market is pretty shallow; if a state wanted to crash it, they could just buy a few millions of them, and then sell everything at once.
I take your point, however. The Catholic Church has been pretty good on most science - up and down- but you've got to be careful, because if Science starts to suggest something that makes the Vatican too uncomfortable, they might get slapped down pretty hard. Though Benedict seems a decent sort in that regard.
Well, right now Catholic Church is very uncomfortable with embryonic research. I don't see the hammer falling.
Because they understand that political lobbying is much more effective that excommunication nowadays.
Can you get federal funding for stem cell research in 2017? Mostly no, because "research in which a human embryo or embryos are destroyed, discarded, or knowingly subjected to risk of injury or death" (so, most of the really useful research) is prohibited. And they didn't need to burn anyone at the stake.
All seems condemned in the long run to approximate a state akin to Gaussian noise. -- James Martin
