abiogenesis

Social media platform X blocked the account of jailed Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, a rival to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan whose detention sparked nationwide protests.

No, a similarity between SARS-CoV-2 and other coronaviruses was expected but not this. Flu is not caused by a coronavirus. From the paper:

This finding is in contrast to multiple published studies in which pre-existing T-cell immunity is suggested to arise from shared epitopes between SARS-CoV-2 and other common cold-causing coronaviruses. However, our findings suggest that SARS-CoV-2 reactive T-cells are likely to be present in many individuals because of prior exposure to flu and CMV viruses.

How is this an excuse to spell "grisly" as "grizzly"?

I'm not sure about the accuracy of this quote. In git world branch names have nothing to do with repositories. If anything, the "source of truth" repository is generally called "origin".

Nvidia even offers dedicated mining GPUs: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/cmp/

In related news: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26192201

It's probably macOS doing something differently when run on an M1.

It must not be difficult to reach ~2K karma using a GPT-3 comment bot in a few days.

Amazon has another offering called Lightsail [1] with simpler pricing. It might work better for side projects.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/

That happens all the time. What's weird is that they look at me like I'm trying to rip them off.

I have already told you I am not going to charge you. I am just stating my rate if you were to pay for it.

It just needs to look like a bug, not a feature.

Nice one. I believe it was tried before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LinkExchange

I believe this is meant to be a joke [1]:

CAPTCHA that stops Humans

Yes, it stops bots too.

[1] https://repowcha.com/

Fair point. I just tested using tcpdump and the IP address in the response doesn't in fact end with a dot.

That doesn't sound right. A "tcpdump -n -s0 -x -X port 53" shows that the server simply returns "outlook-com.olc.protection", not a FQDN, for "dig mx outlook.com".

This is a solved problem and not very complicated. For starters the last DNS label of a hostname cannot be all numbers: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1123#page-13

Wasn't that CORBA?

Agreed, but we don't have to have sympathy for a company to be fair to them. This is their business model and they have every right not to change it.

Are they also used to transmit power from one gear to another?

Yes, and the same holds for self driving cars. I fail to see the difference.

True, but you have to opt-out from Facebook too if an end user shares the link. Their argument only works if the news outlet shares the link.

The law is not bizarre in essence (there are details that are bizarre though): You are free to ask money for your content. On the other hand, Facebook is free to not buy your it.

Blackmail is an exaggeration. The government is asking them to pay for news articles (that have been voluntarily shared) and what Facebook simply says is "we liked the articles when they were free, but thanks, we don't want to buy them".

Who would you blame if the algorithm could be printed on paper?

Who do you charge when the brakes don't work on your car? When the airbags don't activate? When your rain sensor doesn't work?

Believe it or not, your car is not that primitive when compared to a self-driving one in terms of the number of things it does autonomously.

We can't even explain all physical phenomena, so good luck with banning anything that depends on the gravity of earth to function, because we don't know what gravity is.

I don't think I follow. The point is a hardware wallet is not as convenient as an exchange as you can always recover your account if you forget your password. It's not as secure though, as the private keys are hold by someone else.

Google Search is inextricably intertwined with news and publishers do not voluntarily provide their content. On the other hand, publishers willingly choose to post news on Facebook, as it allows them to sell more subscriptions, grow their audiences and increase advertising revenue.

This is technically not correct. Publishers can opt out from Google Search if they want to, so one may also argue that they willingly choose to be on Google as well.

That's what the OP says. It's either security (your wallet) or convenience (exchange).

If you can get people to buy/use it (like BTC, ETH, and countless others did), yes it would be.

The number of coins is just a definition. Bitcoin has satoshis (similar to cents) that represent one millionth of a Bitcoin. You could have defined it such that Bitcoin is actually a single coin worth $1T, and BTC is 1/21,000,000th of it.

Are you suggesting that all miners with renewable energy resources are located in the middle of a desert?

Even then, we could have used the equipment (solar panels, wind turbines, etc) for something else. Unless the world is running on 100% renewable energy it doesn't make sense to say that something that requires energy doesn't cost (the world) anything because it's running on renewables.