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When you're talking about changed laws, are you referring to the civil case against E. Jean Carroll? And when you are talking about "charges that the banks said weren't even an issue" are you talking about the civil fraud case? No banks were victims in the hush money case, which is where the felonies are from.

Twitter has a permanent outage reporting breaking news. Whenever something big happens now, the feed looks like any other day. This didn't use to be the case.

A more sensible way to break it down is by "something you have" (phone or YubiKey), "something you know" (password) and "something you are" (face or fingerprint).

Username and password are both something you know, so they count as just one factor. A card on the other hand is something you have, so combined with the PIN that's two factors.

To be clear, buying back stock is one of the ways they can invest in Waymo (and other business units).

Since Alphabet buybacks mostly just offset employee stock compensation, the main thing they are getting for this money is employees.

If I had missed the point I would have given a much broader list of examples. I specifically listed ones that make employees totally redundant rather than more useful doing other tasks.

When these people were made redundant, they may very well have gone on to make less money in another job (i.e. being less useful in an economic sense).

The chart is super misleading, since the test was obscure until recently. A few months ago he announced he'd made the only good AGI test and offered a cash prize for solving it, only to find out in as much time that it's no different from other benchmarks.

Before that, they did a bait and switch and added free videos to their package delivery service.

Beyond that, there's no lock-in to a video service beyond any exclusive show you're currently watching, so your decision to continue paying is on you.

Just use Postgres 2 years ago

It's literally 4 lines of Python code calling subprocess.Popen to start a PostgreSQL server for a given database directory and connecting to it via a pipe on the filesystem. However, you can't launch multiple concurrent instances like this.

Just use Postgres 2 years ago

It can be a process and some unnamed sockets also, which is the main difference between PostgreSQL and SQLite.

This is how we encourage migration to the US. Early access to software and video streaming, superior Amazon experience, and much fewer cookie warnings (though we still have a lot).

You'll have to say goodbye to BBC iPlayer though.

Prevention of HIV 2 years ago

The Wikipedia editor was a bit naive to think such a basic study could invalidate that whole claim. They measured the correlation between the list price, adjusted for use amount, and development cost. As far as I can tell they didn't take into account number of customers each drug would have, how long the drug would stay on the market before profits are cannibalized by competitors (see e.g. Wegovy), and definitely not the cost of failed drug development.

It's because reading and writing happen in separate processes, i.e. simultaneously instead of interleaved.

In general writing to disk is handled asynchronously by the kernel (`write` just copies to a buffer and returns), but metadata operations like creating files are not, so this should help the most for many small files.

Easier to fix is a lot more important when things are breaking all the time.

This reminds me of people putting water pipes outside the house to make them easier to thaw when they freeze, rather then inside the wall where they never freeze.