lastres0rt

Don't trust the government, and THIS administration especially, with my account and routing numbers.

YES, another rickdate enthusiast!

I even made a little demo page to help calculate for me: https://lastres0rt.github.io/rick-date/

Exams performed by someone else? About once a year.

A self-exam once a month is one of those "good hygiene" things, though, and might be a decent idea to promote right now while people are getting cagey.

The best example is what happened when Alex Jones found himself deplatformed -- although I think the simplest answer there is "too little too late".

I'm sure the ability to download AAA titles helped this time.

"Just think of all the money you'll save NOT being surrounded by slot machines!"

The kicker is that in order to be transferred to the non-covid hospitals, you still had to be TESTED for covid and come up negative.

THAT'S why these hospitals were all empty in the first place. It all comes back to what a shitshow testing is in this country.

Considering how Google and Apple are basically mandating WFH for the rest of this year, these lockdowns aren't for them; they're for all the other people who need a way to take care of themselves without giving their bosses the finger.

3) We were wrong about the kinds of people who were going to catch this (e.g. poor folks, people of color, people in nursing homes, prisoners, people who work jobs they can't freely leave in meatpacking plants), who while they'll fill up a coffin just the same as anybody...

...are also all groups less likely to go to a hospital / ER even in GOOD times, and even when they do, tend to be treated like crap (e.g. assumed to be "drug-seeking", have their pain dismissed, often end up overlooked in triage, etc.)

This is the same old haves vs. have-nots story we've been telling, taken to a while new level -- if you're wealthy enough to be able to work from home, you've likely just been hunkering down and wondering what all the fuss is about.

It's not about fear-based leverage, it's about one group of people refusing to admit they're too insulated from the rest of society to see that the lower rungs that keep everything running are getting massacred.

Stop pretending this is just "the flu" either.

When we talk about flu stats: most people have some immunity to the flu thanks to flu shots (even if they haven't gotten one for this past year) and general herd immunity, which we DO NOT HAVE for this virus, and won't gain without either a vaccine or a few million dead from this thing running rampant.

The stats you're quoting are WITH the level of serious intervention we've had so far, which is why as certain states are reopening, we're starting to see the numbers ticking back up again and looking just as bad if not worse.

I'm an illustrator, and "Procreate" is the killer app for me.

If you're not calling that "real work" I'm not sure what else to tell you.

... but what about graphic novels?!

Sucker born every minute?

I don't know how much money it takes a podcast to support itself but I imagine it's still heaps cheaper than, say, your average billboard or 30-second TV spot.

It surprises me that nobody's mentioned Fiverr in the same vein.

I'd think "an Uber for creative work" is at least prone to the same incentives to cut out the middleman.

UBI is like any other government service: if you're spending more on [Service aimed at me] than I actually need to become a productive member of society (or at least not a drain on it), you're not spending your money right.

You can spend that government money on any number of services: Prisons, Childcare, Libraries, Transportation, etc. UBI is different in one major detail:

UBI assumes that people are, at this stage of human technology and society, smarter about how to spend that money the government is ALREADY going to spend on them than the government itself is.

Furthermore, to differentiate itself from mere "welfare", any attempt at means-testing to try and ensure that only "worthy" clients get UBI is just going to add further cost to the system. Specifically, it will cost more than simply distributing the money involved. After all, drug tests cost money. Paperwork costs money. Employing enforcers costs money AND office space AND equipment for them to do their job.

It's a radical notion -- after all, doesn't figuring out if giving out "free money" actually saves money still itself cost money? Still, we're not comparing UBI to a mythical "perfect system"; we're trying to compare it to the imperfect system we have right now, where the cost of NOT doing it gets reflected in things like crime, mental illness, drug abuse, preventable deaths, etc.

There is already a cost associated to continuing to do things "the way we've always done them". UBI is that same cost spent in a different way.

I mean, I question the value of keeping track of what porn you looked at that day, but as years go by the level of damns given about what other people think about you and your opinions goes down.

I also think the level of security available these days is far superior to what you had growing up (e.g. the 50c padlock your sister could pick with a goddamn bobby pin), so the odds your immediate family is going to find out things you'd rather they not know has gone down a bit.

I guess this article counts as therapy, what with the whole line of "The goddamn vaunted databases of the government are NOT the stuff of conspiracy theories. In fact, they're just as shitty as you would expect."

That's less of a carbon sink and more of a kick-the-can approach (no pun intended).

The Google employees that do their work over VPN can probably work from home.

Foodservice, janitors, and security, OTOH...

DashLane in the streets, 1pass in the sheets.

My 1pass vault is decentralized, and also includes a robust password generator for making stuff on the fly -- something Dashlane lacks. I'm not sure I'm using either service fully, but one of them is a work freebie and the other is from back before 1pass went to a subscription model.

... the idea isn't that either are perfect, but since password sharing and phishing are a bigger attack vector than whether my phone falls into the wrong hands, using 2FA as anti-phishing insurance is still better than not.

Well, you've heard of burner phones -- welcome to 'the burner hacker'.

Food deserts ARE a serious problem.

Growing [X] amount of produce locally would provide a much-needed source of cheap produce and/or revenue to the local community. There's also general health benefits of the added greenery consuming excess CO2. Even better, captured rain runoff goes back into the soil sooner rather than becoming further concentrated with toxic chemicals before it reenters the ecosystem.

I believe it's something more to do with the OP's (mistaken) idea that CS majors are somehow more likely to be "hackers" or people who exchange pirated software or wares -- when really there's only a handful of people who know how to crack the DRM in the first place (which requires some degree of technical know-how) and then those people distribute the pirated goods to others (whose technical literacy may be far less, even if it's still enough to distribute the pirated material on down the line).

It's a bit like thinking all painters are in favor of graffiti, or all musicians are okay with "sampling" and remix culture.

Well of course they do; it's not rape there as long as you marry the 12-year-old first.

My favorite quote from the Anarchist's Manifesto: "To Fix Anything, start Everywhere. To Fix Everything, start Anywhere."

It looks grim, and we're going to have to use the few things we've gotten right as a species to fix everything else we've allowed to go wrong.

Places like YC, Twitter, YouTube, etc. have been focusing on insignificant things like clicks and conversions and "content" for years. The public sector has been allowed to fester and become corrupted by people who understand they make more money through controlling the system than they do by actually running it as intended. Meanwhile, BOTH systems are run by a precariously small class of VC's and wanna-be VC's who have become further and further insulated from their consequences.

The real solutions will involve fixing both.

My first (and only!) game of GO was ruined by my deep understanding of Chess.

I applied chess-logic (focusing on gradients of control) and demolished my opponent, who refused to believe it was only my first game, and refused to play again.

Hey, I commute by train to work (about an hour each way once you factor in trotting to the station, waiting for commuter shuttles, etc.), and I'm happy as a clam because I can draw on my iPad or play on my Switch for much of that time.

Now, if you're DRIVING that same hour, then yeah, you're nuts.

The article implies that the 7 years he spent in the embassy prior to his arrest amounted to torture.

IMO, at best we could dub his deterioration in the embassy as "self-inflicted", or more accurately institutional neglect on the part of the governments involved.

VBox + Discord = Mac Kid who wants to play games only written for Windows.

Really top-notch logic there in the UK. Brexit's finest.

Way to bury the lede -- DISCORD is considered 1337 Haxor Software by these clowns? Really?