fivelessminutes

From Apr 11th

The scenario (from march 2021) simulates a monkeypox outbreak in starting in 'brinia' on 15 May 2022 that was an engineered strain for vaccine resistance.

It's some coincidence there is an actual outbreak in May 2022 in Britain.

Matt Levine at Bloomberg (always an informative and entertaining read) looked into that Apr 27

Musk does not have to close the deal if there has been a “material adverse effect” at Twitter. (Sections 4.9 and 7.2(b).) “Material adverse effect” is defined on page 5 of the agreement and it is long. Actually the definition doesn’t say much; it just says, tautologically, that a “Material Adverse Effect” is “any change, event, effect or circumstance which, individually or in the aggregate, has resulted in or would reasonably be expected to result in a material adverse effect on the business, financial condition or results of operations” of Twitter. All the action is in the exceptions to the MAE. As I suggested yesterday, there are lots of them, and it is somewhat difficult to think of an event that would cause a material adverse effect on Twitter’s business but not be covered by an exception to the MAE. If Twitter does badly due to all sorts of general conditions (changes in law, general economic and financial conditions, pandemics, etc.), that does not count as an MAE. If Twitter fails “to meet internal, analysts’ or other earnings estimates or financial projections or forecasts for any period,” that doesn’t count as an MAE; just having bad earnings isn’t enough. And, as usual, bad effects that result from “the negotiation, execution, announcement, performance, consummation or existence of this Agreement or the transactions contemplated by this Agreement” do not count as an MAE, though here they felt it necessary to spell out “including (A) by reason of the identity of Elon Musk, Parent or any of their Affiliates or their respective financing sources, or any communication by Parent or any of its Affiliates or their respective financing sources, including regarding their plans or intentions with respect to the conduct of the business of the Company.” If Elon Musk breaks Twitter by tweeting his plans for it, he still has to buy it.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-04-27/bill-h... starts about 2/3 down

From 2020, but still relevant unfortunately. Razr kiyo is quite decent if you don't mind autofocus hunting periodically.

The url seems it should be

https://www.pave.com/blog-posts/monthly-churn-continues-to-r...

On my deathbed, I doubt I will be regretting not bending my life out of shape more so someone would call me a 'good employee'.

The only thing that will collapse is russia.

"threat" ... thread

Eurolibertarian q-lite babble

Do you really have power at that wallsocket? Check with a lamp or so.

Repo contents abandoned for 17 years.

Soon people saying they're 'underwater' on their apartment will take on a new literal meaning in Miami.

Clean and extend it under their name.

Just mount your zipfile using fuse and serve as normal. You can also produce and edit the zipfile that way.

https://www.systutorials.com/docs/linux/man/1-fuse-zip/

They decided to shut down two nuclear power plants, then reversed the decision due to putin's war.

So they can make big inroads into their static gas consumption by rolling with that and shutting down some or all of their gas power stations instead... it seems they have options to trim their usage to the point they can prepare for winter without funding their own security threat.

'Better' than what?

What does it mean to 'incentivize' exactly?

Who chooses which projects and contributors receive this largesse?

There are other sources of power and gas... Biden said he will 'surge' supplies to Europe... in the medium term they can just write russia out of the equation and stop bankrolling the war.

They have to balance the certainty of russian blackmail over supply with the short and medium-term cost.

Only 20% of electricity generation in germany is from gas, even though russia supplies around half that, it's not going to be armageddon. Gas from other sources will take up the slack in the medium term. In the short term gas-specific consumers will have some problems.

Being 'taught' or following tutorials, working on what your manager was told is important for $$$ are all the death of joy.

The excitement you hear about comes from personal discovery around things of interest to you (possibly only to you) and the feeling that you really understand something not widely known, so that you could bring it out and use it for something.

Even esoteric cases are all connected to a single underlying reality underneath, as you improve and gain understanding by your own hands pieces of what underpins everything, you will find unexpected connections even in your mundane work-stuff.

But industries such as glass manufacturers say shutting down production facilities altogether is not an option as it would cause liquids to set and destroy the machines.

However this pans out clearly there should be norms for energy security and design requirements to fail safe, eg, always enough on site to shut down gracefully.

Aside from anything else, drinking is very time-consuming. You have a finite amount of time on the planet, you will regret burning it by only working, sleeping or being in a stupor making yourself ill.

To be fair the fact that's all we had to say, due to a character limit also on HN, proves the article author's point very nicely.

Yes, web3 sucks. But nobody needs the additional misspelt, edgy redpill commentary.

Even a little experience with it would raise the chance the three paras you wrote on the topic might be worth reading.

When did you last try it? Nobody can factor in 'usability issues' into their considerations, since one person's 'issue' may not matter to another.

From my perspective it has been working well for years, and the alternative stacks all appear to be dying off since Ubuntu has also blessed it.

Just a load of nonsense. Uber is not particularly at the forefront of autonomy and there's no reason to expect them or anyone else to break out in 2025... 2045 maybe.

The article talks about end-users purchasing autonomous cars, and replacement of taxis in one breath...those are two different things.

including the 40-mile “convoy” north of Kyiv, which has been better described as a linear prisoner-of-war camp to which the captors are not obliged to provide rations

Yes... and typically, get a raise so you can leave their crap in your rear-view mirror.

Could the reason it's 'really difficult' be that you don't have anything to offer these guys except high level of risk not matched by the reward?

They don't have to give you the time of day in the current market... they don't even have to give their current employer the time of day.

Brevity also helps. More than one page, possibly two... more than two sentences per gig is not getting read.

proteusisc.org dns doesn't resolve here.

Last commit 5y ago.

Only support xilinx and digilent (?)