duckfang

switch the letters of my username.

that's what I think of you.

In my opinion, the truly beautiful concept involved here is Euler's formula:

e^(ix) = cos x + i sin x.

And that right there, is the mathematical basis for a quadrature mixer... And all of software defined radios.

https://hackaday.com/2017/05/16/if-the-i-and-q-of-software-d...

But that's always been true. And companies are going to do that if they can, regardless if we WfH or WfW. More than a few of us have seen the mass firings, and training some barely-comprehensible foreign workers, whom wreck the place, and then the company calls and begs us to come back.

That's literally the same argument about the "Fight for $15" - the argument is 'yer gonna get automated'. That's going to happen no matter what.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/jaywalking-arrest-black-...

https://www.wxyz.com/news/local-news/investigations/stopped-...

https://www.aclu.org/blog/criminal-law-reform/reforming-poli...

https://www.redmond-reporter.com/news/redmond-police-arrest-...

EVERYTHING is political, when involving more than 1 person.

The DMCA is political, and is the basis in which most orgs allow public comment. Copyright is political. Patents are political. Cryptocurrency is explicitly political WRT being against governments. Most startups are political, in the way many break laws that the incumbents have to follow.

The people who "dont want to involve with politics" are primarily the ones whose needs are met, and don't care about others' needs. I would claim it's for selfish reasons.

I've refused going on WebEx calls and claim technical reasons why it doesnt work.

ANYTHING is better than Webex. Even smoke signals over IP is better.

     - Social chatter.

     - Making friends with old employees who I didn't know, and connecting with new employees.

     - Work Life separation (balance).

     - Sense of belonging.. team outing, weekday after hours beer.

     - Intra company sports and games, and then teaming up with office colleagues to play inter company tournaments.

     - (Not me but others) Meeting potential dates

     - Office facilities for breakfast, lunch. 

redtube you say? redtube.com is a porn site.

Its a poor product naming with google. I'd imagine that's going to make for some consternation.

It's not just VC finding.

It's YCombinator funding.

From https://tracxn.com/d/companies/platohq.com

Jun 01, 2016 : $120K : Seed : Y Combinator

How many predatory and scammy companies does YC have to fund, before we directly question YC itself?

I suggest you look up some reading on the subject, and try to shy away from the US propaganda.

No Choice but War: The United States Embargo Against Japan and the Eruption of War in the Pacific

https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvqmp3br Beyond Pearl Harbor: A Pacific History

And you'll find out that there was continual and worsening relations with Japan due to US imperialism. Hawai'i was only one such territory colonized and conquered.

And there were economic sanctions from 1931 to 1941 for various products.

But this is also out of the US playbook to surround an enemy or proposed enemy, pull out economic sanctions, and then pull out the single bad thing. For example, here's the AFB's around Iran https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-4d67205db3b8a9d820ca77... , but we're supposed to only look at Natanz nuclear refining.

Now, I'm not saying that Japan was honorable in combat. They death-marched Chinese. The "comfort women" were rape and murder victims. But really, all nations have similar horrific stories. Japan, alike the US, was no different in that regard.

Lets remind us our dates.

July 4, 1898, the Newlands Resolution was a joint resolution by the United States Congress to annex the independent Republic of Hawaii. In 1900, Congress occupied the Territory of Hawaii, despite the opposition of most native Hawaiians.

Dec 7, 1941 is when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, Hawai'i, an occupied territory.

August 21, 1959 is when they were forcibly turned into a state, after 60 years of occupation.

Note that Japan did not bomb native settlements and cities where civilians and natives lived - only the occupying force.

Edit: both posts are at -4. And indeed it's sad to see close minded nationalism take and keep hold. The world is bigger than from Hawai'i to Maine, and the USA is often the aggressor. I liken to consider myself a citizen of the earth, and not any one nation.

Same here, with their email AND vpn. Its been flawless so far, tech wise.

But yeah, they really need to control and focus their core message to a tech board. If you whiff that (which they did), there's a good chance in running off your core users. And that is generally considered a bad idea.

This line of discussion from Protonmail is making me greatly reconsider closing my accounts (plural) there for VPN and mail service.

This is embarrassing at minimum, and show negative interaction with customers.

s/backed MMO metaverse game //g

Fixed the title for you.

No. That's called bible-thumping.

In our world, it's trivially easy to get hold of any major religion's works, and only moderately difficult to get hold of smaller religion's works, primarily due to translation issues.

And in light of context, you weren't comparing the writings or showing different religions' thoughts on human longevity - you were implicitly stating that your choice of religion was the right one, by stating it matter-of-factly.

Sorry, but I dont base my worldview on what a bunch of bronze-age people said. It's a good mythological story, though.

We have science.

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Edit: I really don't understand the downvoters. This specific passage was written 6000 years ago, give or take. It's from a religious holybook that has no bearing on technology, medicine, or science. Germ theory was nonexistent, most forms of medicine were in their most rudimentary levels. They didn't even have the technology or know-how for basic ironworking.

If you're an adherent to a religion, good for you. Its simply that - a mythology, a belief.

And we should be bearing no credence to the writings of religion in our sciences, unless it stated physical fact (think anthropology, geology, architecture - sciences), or if you're a religious historian and trying to understand how human religions change.

I thought we worked with sciences here, not superstition.

Convenient that you ignore my link:

https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/press-releases/item/2...

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

ODNI News Release No. 11-20

April 30, 2020 Intelligence Community Statement on Origins of COVID-19

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Office of the Director of National Intelligence today issued the following Intelligence Community (IC) statement:

“The entire Intelligence Community has been consistently providing critical support to U.S. policymakers and those responding to the COVID-19 virus, which originated in China. The Intelligence Community also concurs with the wide scientific consensus that the COVID-19 virus was not manmade or genetically modified.

“As we do in all crises, the Community’s experts respond by surging resources and producing critical intelligence on issues vital to U.S. national security. The IC will continue to rigorously examine emerging information and intelligence to determine whether the outbreak began through contact with infected animals or if it was the result of an accident at a laboratory in Wuhan.”

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Stress on the quote: "The Intelligence Community also concurs with the wide scientific consensus that the COVID-19 virus was not manmade or genetically modified."

So, is it for scientific or political reasons you are ignoring this?

Of course it's political. The claim is "Chinese military virology lab was experimenting with highly infectious material, and it escaped into the general population."

And back in October 2020, this was published: https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/press-releases/item/2... . Is this right, or wrong?

This whole pandemic could have been handled as "We are following the medical and scientific establishment on best handling of the pandemic", but that wasn't the case. Instead, we have US states that have 'declared' Covid done, or worse yet have states that forbid companies providing proof of vaccination. The simple requirement of wearing masks, was rarely enforced. Quite a lot of assaults happened because workers at stores said something.

The politicians could have moved out of the way for science. They didnt, and they doubled down. And that got more people killed.

Easy to say that. But when you tear these claims down, they started with anything but factual or substantial.

1. COVID wasnt caused by 5G. Nor vice versa.

2. We've seen MERS, SARS, and other coronavirus diseases previously in the region. This isn't the only one, and wont be the last.

3. "Chinaman virus" is a point that comes from racism. It only highlights racist beliefs, and is no way any proof. (Why wasnt the "Spanish Flu" called "Kansas Kough" - it started on a Kansas military base?)

4. The most vehement supports of this conspiracy also loudly proclaim that masks don't work, and the vaccine is microchipped.

5. Masks work, of different efficacy depending on filter levels

6. No, the vaccine has no microchips.

And if you want to dig deeper, go watch the "Plandemic" video. That's an hour or so of conspiracy, including the elites infected the plebes to make more money.

When 1 conspiracy is chopped off, 2 take its place.

You can say that, but I've heard the diatribes that the "China virus" was because they were playing with 5G and viruses and it escaped into bats and those chinamen ate the bats and...(cringe). Just go look up the conspiracies if you think I'm out of line - this is the mild version.

Most of the mouthbreathers talking earlier about the "China virus" labs was predominately with pro-trump, anti-vaxxer, anti-masker individuals (well, starting with trump first). It was political grandstanding at its best, combined with 'us vs them' mentality, and a hefty scooping of conspiracy theory. So yes, the bulk of us thinking peoples justly figured this was what it appeared to be: yet another Anti-Chinese diatribe done by a white nationalist conspiracy nut (aka: trump).

The company was a shell company owned by Greetings, across from Peoples' Park.

They sell lots of novelty goods like this still.

feel free to come into irc.libera.chat #reprap and offer to pay us to go back.

I'll tell you where to put your money.

And this should be a sign to every founder-wannabe and capitalist:

You can buy hardware, trademarks, and DNS, and stuff.

YOU CANNOT BUY COMMUNITY.

YOU CANNOT BUY GOODWILL.

Mentioning Libera.chat was a ToS violation as of last night. The IRCOP bots that swept doing the de-op, de-voice, de-ban, rename-topic, rename room was the initial pass.

Then they updated their website to say that.

I work in this area. And yes, for any function that does malware, there's an infinity of similar functions that do the same. And you cannot catch them all.

What you typed is good for an academic setting, in the "wellactually technical correct" sense of the term.

I'm not sure they feel ashamed or should; USD 0.7 billion solves a lot of problems for the owners/employees.

Selling a company ALMOST NEVER benefits the employees.

It ALMOST ALWAYS benefits the owners who sell.

And giving the snarky AF comment of "What was your offer?" is asinine and you should be ashamed of even going there.

This sounds like dumb marketing material of "This is the only security software you need!"

Turing completeness means there's nigh infinite ways to convolute malware that will evade all scanners. And as long as users have capabilities to their data, they will be subject to attacks against data they have access to.

Tl;dr. Grandiose claims require grandiose proof.

Email validation :

Accept email from user.

Send email to that address with a link to verify.

Go/no-go test if link is clicked.

(If you're doing some fever garbage or otherwise trying to parse it, you're doing it wrong.)

Because a 3 ft by 3 ft by 7 ft upright locking coffin is a PERFECT place for timeout.

Be careful speaking about "everyone". You never know who the 10000 are.

https://xkcd.com/1053/