BS, the virus isn't magic. Don't the let the utter failure of the EU and US fool you into thinking this thing can't be controlled and could never be controlled. Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Australia, and New Zealand have all shown that it is possible to quickly reduce spread to almost 0, and that with extensive testing and tracing it is possible to prevent an uncontrolled outbreak, and to work towards total elimination.

The virus is tricky and will spread rapidly if left to its own devices, but it is not magic. Asymptomatic carriers have a very low chance of infecting anyone and the vast majority of infections happen in households where people have prolonged close contact, and in healthcare settings where very high amounts of viral load are present. The virus doesn't survive long without a human host, and the hosts it has relatively quickly become inhospitable as the immune system kicks in and destroys it. If given nowhere to move to it will burn out. If the entire world had moved as quickly as Taiwan (a democracy) and had begun screening and quarantining travellers from China and other areas with confirmed cases then this would already be over and it would never have been more than a minor inconvenience.

Saying that Marvel movies are safe is really underselling the work of the people producing them (in particular Kevin Feige). If it were as simple as following a specific formula and throwing in some spectacular CGI then Hollywood would be cranking out equally successful blockbusters constantly. And yet when we see other studios and franchises trying it they frequently fail (see flops like Solo, Shazaam, various Terminator sequels, etc...).

Discoverability and trust are major problems for many small developers. I.e. you can throw up a webpage with your product but first people need to find it and then they need to trust you enough to enter their credit card details in some random webpage. Those are two major hurdles to overcome and it can be worth a lot of money to small devs to solve this. Of course right now the Windows store isn't a big player so the benefit is limited, but that's what MS want to solve here. By getting more devs on board they hope to make the Windows store the #1 place people go to buy Windows apps. Only time will tell if they will succeed.

8k monitors are also great for working on 4k content. That way you can view your content at 1:1 while still having room for the UI around it when working in Premiere/AfterFX/whatever.

People tend to bring up the "why would anyone work" thing in UBI discussions all the time. The thing is UBI is supposed to be basic (that's the B). A UBI where everyone gets $80k/year wouldn't work (not until everything is 100% automated anyway). Most schemes talk about something around $10k/year. Enough to survive but with very little left for anything extra. Want a nice car? Fancy vacations? Private school for your kids? Then you will work.

UBI just makes the welfare system simpler, ensures it is easier for people to get the help they need and prevents poverty traps where it makes more sense not to work because losing access to welfare would leave you worse off. It also removes the need for a minimum wage on top of that. Lastly it helps to take care of the ~10% of the population that has an IQ of under ~85 and is therefore pretty much impossible to employ in a way that is a net gain in productivity. Right now most welfare systems require you to look for work (if you are able bodied) in order to qualify, which leaves a number of unemployable people bouncing from job to job just to get fired over and over, costing productivity for no gain. UBI would also remove this inefficiency.

Why wouldn't they work? 40% tax would mean take home of $60k plus they get the UBI too. Meanwhile UBI would be set around $10k/year. You still come out way ahead if you work. In fact that is a key part of UBI, you should always be better off working unlike now where in many cases the way that unemployment benefits are structured often does mean that you are better off not working.

Even if it is around 100ms ping, that's good enough for most Internet usage (especially if the jitter is low). Outside of FPS/MOBA players, who really cares about sub 100ms pings anyway?

If it is cheap and bandwidth is high this could be a game changer for a lot of places. If you are currently on fibre of course you don't care, this (probably) won't beat that, but if you are living in the outback with shitty 1mbit DSL, then this could be huge. And that's a huge potential customer base that right now doesn't have a lot of great options, plus depending on just how good this is, there are also a lot of folks living in cities with poor connections due to contention that might be interested.

What baffles me the most is the fact that we know that there is a unicode whitelist. I get that allowing all of unicode causes all sorts of issues, but why is it so hard to add the few smart quotes to the whitelist? That alone would solve most of the problems. If you then add like maybe 5-10 other common used unicode characters to the list and it would probably fix 99% of the remaining problems. Is it really that hard?

No, this is nothing like the content-aware algorithms used in Photoshop (the function is the same but the underlying technology is radically different). A content-aware algorithm simply analyses what is left of the picture and uses that information to guess what should go into the missing parts. The algorithm described here is a deep learning system trained on thousands of similar images. It can then use this data to help it guess how to fill in the missing pieces. This means it is capable of data synthesis that is not present within the image being processed. That's huge.

All that said the example picture shown in the article had some rather obvious flaws. If that's a best-case outcome then I think they still have some work to do frankly (might just need training on more data).

Yeah, I fully expect Bitcoin to fade away over the next few years. It is pretty much useless for anything, but other tokens certainly look promising.

I had the same experience. Ran Vista for years without an issue and I found it a huge step up from XP (where simple stuff like alt-tabbing from a fullscreen game to media player window would frequently result in a BSOD). Of course I turned UAC off on day one, and ran it on a decent system (4GB+ of RAM).

What also gets me about this whole story is that they apparently didn't have a procedure in place for issuing a "oops, our bad, ignore the last message" message on the system. I mean the ability for an emergency alert to cause a panic is blindingly obvious, and no matter the safety systems in place there is always a chance that a wrong message might be sent out. It shouldn't happen but it can, so there should have been an obvious way to retract erroneous message.

Except Bitcoin is crap. It serves no useful function whatsoever. Other cryptokens like Ethereum are far more promising. Sooner or later bitcoin will crash and vanish and none of the bandaid fixes being thrown at it will save it. And I won't trust any cryptoken that can't be mined (such as Ripple), they all reek of complete and utter scams to me.

No, the problem is idealism of any form. Idealism is just intellectual laziness and the inability to process complex issues. The answer isn't communism, Marxism, capitalism and any other stupid ism you can come up with (except pragmatism). Problems in complex systems have complex solutions.

Exactly this. Anyone who thinks Bitcoin is an investment or store of value is an idiot. The only value Bitcoin could have is if it actually worked as a currency (except it doesn't). The underlying technology is actually rather impressive and I suspect some other cryptocurrency will eventually fulfil the promise of Bitcoin (despite what some of the extreme detractors say, because a currency doesn't require an underlying value, the value can be simply in providing a medium of exchange).