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>China Its not totally fair to put this all on Chinese manipulation. Western politicians and many "tech elite" all love the concept of CCP-style 'social credit systems' being insti…

Can't even sign up. Gives generic error about "payment / registration failed" - its a regular credit card that I use everywhere. Oh well...kinda glad to be honest. Knowing Oracle i…

Imagine needing to get boosters every 3 months and being so insane you think its working....

You will never be fully vaccinated.

>In Derek's example the switch and the bulb are 1 meter away from each other and therefore the time is 1/c seconds, i.e the time light takes to travel 1 meter. Perhaps I didn't mak…

Can someone answer the General Relativity concerns regarding this? Imagine the same loop as Derek setup in the video, but where it extended into next galaxy (say 1 light year away)…

Fauci needs to be charged - millions have died as a result of their experiments in creating super-viruses.

> As long as we ban IQ tests for employment employers are going to keep using this as the best practical proxy. I Thats probably true to a degree, however I think the system will b…

Maybe best to not use public funds to create bio-weapons to great reset the plebs with?

Its pretty otherworldly, I was an active member of a top 25 sub. Although the sub is decidedly non-political, the mod recently decided to post a politic-specific sticky as first po…

Hopefully no one ever funds "gain of function research" using this corpus of data...

At the recent COP26 in Scotland, they flew in 80+ EV to parade around in...however there wasn't enough charging stations to charge the vehicles so they had to find a fleet of petro…

Munger is a real proponent of Chinese-style capitalism and generally praises the idea of social-credit systems. It only makes sense that his architecture style would also favor bru…

The hubris of these engineers are going to kill lots of innocents. I wonder how long until regulators are forced to step in? Self-driving has continually been proven to be a "not-r…

>There's no way for me, a hypothetical person who wants to keep my Signal messages 100% encrypted in the Signal ecosystem, to opt out of my contacts using an Element bridge. This s…

Thats something similar to what we are doing... * Local RPI / Container connects to message queue in cloud * Web User inputs request to Web UI (cloud) * Local RPI / Container retri…

We're a industrial-control company whose traditional UI has been standard win32 applications - we've slowing converting our stack over to a web interface but as our UI needs to tal…

Great points, a tangential thought: MacOS and Windows have figured out that showing a GUI ASAP satisfies the user. Even if in the background its still negotiating networks, initial…

>BBC's disinformation specialist aka. Propagandist

>bullshit justification "The people who haven't gotten the you-know-whats are killing my kids from myocarditis" (redacted to prevent HN thought-crime violation)

moreover, you can also use docker digest instead of tags, that is: instead of docker pull postgresql:11 you can do docker pull postgresql@sha:xxxx....

I think what the parent is alluding to is: What is the practical point of using Nix when similar outcomes can be reached with more mainstream solutions? In other words, suppose I w…