Majromax

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They'd have to issue a denial even if it were true. A sick-out would contravene federal labour relations law, and it would expose the pilot's association to legal penalties. The denial by Southwest management is more interesting,
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> I can't understand why otherwise intelligent people Intelligence isn't prophylactic against conspiracy theories, and crypto-cultism has all of the major features. It offers an alternative worldview where global elites are en
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> It also demonstrates a basic lack of understanding of how the energy markets work Which energy markets? It's not like bitcoin mining is legally or geographically constrained to countries with well-functioning energy markets and
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The problem is that the United States is relying on FDA approval for its recognized vaccines. As a result, AZ shots are not recognized for US-travel purposes, so a Canadian who received a first AZ shot and a second Pfizer shot has only one
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Evidently, Canada didn't prioritize Q1 delivery dates. From Our World in Data [1], Canada's total dose administration fell behind the EU during February/March 2021, as Pfizer's European production facility went offline
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For reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQHdFAm7g7E -- controlling a pipe organ via MIDI
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> Which is sobering. It's even more sobering than that: we already know that busy beaver functions hit the bounds of decidability. From Scott Aaronson's The Busy Beaver Frontier ( https://www.scottaaronson.com&#x2F
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> This site demonstrates no danger at all. Hash collisions like this are expected. Collisions are expected. Being able to create a preimage on demand is not. The entire scheme risks running afoul of Goodhart's Law ( https:/&#x
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> The fact that you can randomly manipulate random noise until it matches the hash of an arbitrary image is not surprising. It is, actually. Remember that hashes are supposed to be many-bit digests of the original; it should take O(2^25
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It's not quite a copy in the latter case. The assignment operator in Python binds names to objects, so it's more of a relabeling.
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> Here’s how I would frame it: would you rather take a chance on a vaccine or getting Covid? I refuse to get any virus that has not passed rigorous Stage 3 and Stage 4 safety trials. Worse yet, this so-called Delta variant has been rush
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Ah, I see. I had thought that the consolidation gave a batched update with a single ID, so 'h' + 'ell' + 'o' would have IDs of 1, 2, and 3 respectively. That would have made an editing conflict in the middle
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When you write: > Yjs does one more thing to improve performance. Humans usually type in runs of characters. So when we type "hello" in a document, instead of storing ['h','e','l','l,'o&#
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> If you lose at Starcraft, you only have yourself to blame, you can watch the replay and see exactly where you went wrong, and steadily improve. That's not really true. A typical player can watch the replay of their losing match
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> How would you shutdown Tether temporarily (2-3 months) if a bank ends a relationship? By refusing to take deposits for new Tether, and by shutting down redemptions if necessary while the banking relationship is sorted out. Tether doesn
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Secure how? Obtaining a public certificate from a well-known registrar requires Internet connectivity for the ACME protocol, and that's at odds with the other best-security-practice of isolating internal systems like NAS devices well a
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> What exactly is the breakthrough that has led to this recent spurt of warp drive papers? As far as I can tell the results are all purely theoretical and just re-arranging equations. None of them appear to rely on any recently lab disco
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To me, the question is how a common carrier status can coexist with content curation and promotion. Looking at the ur-example of the phone company, AT&T doesn't try to preemptively place calls that a household "might be intere
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> You are trivializing every bit of research and advancement gone into improving search engines in the last 20 years. I disagree. If anything, I think I give this research more credit, because I appreciate it as imposing a normative vie
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It is a conflation, but I argue that there's no bright line between the two. The ideology behind pagerank is that relevant results are better and that backlink popularity measures relevance. Another sorting objective is that "mo
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> I think most would call the original pagerank algorithm unbiased. I disagree: the point of the original Pagerank algorithm was its bias. In particular, its use of link weights gave the algorithm a strong bias for (a proxy for) relevan
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It sounds like any Internet use by children in schools would be a legal issue, then. If IP addresses are considered personally identifiable information subject to consent policies, then ordinary web logging is data collection that a chil
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> or fractional reserve banking Which is why deposit insurance exists, regulated and mandated by governments. Bank regulators also impose audited capital requirements, reducing the risk that an illiquidity problem (a bank run) becomes
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Perhaps the only reason a hedge fund hasn't tried this yet is the unclear legal status of doing so. One law blog ( https://restislaw.com/liability-51-attacks-cfaa/ ) argues that a 51% attack would violate the Compu
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Which is why a prospective attacker would probably seek to build its short position at the ordinary Wall Street level. Nobody will try to seize collateral for "winning" if you've sold Microstrategy shares short, for example,
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> when bitcoin is under attack, operating them could be a civic measure. Unless I'm gravely mistaken about the bitcoin protocol, you wouldn't know that bitcoin is under a 51% attack until it completes. The 51% attack succeeds
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> The only issue is convincing all those miners to go against their economic interest. That's the problem, isn't it? Bitcoin "longs" are very unlikely to profit from a 51% attack, since its success would destroy the
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It's best practice to use "coronavirus" for coronaviruses, and "flu" for influenza. While they can cause similar symptoms, they are very different diseases, caused by viruses that have no particular genetic link.
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> or what would happen Charges for fraud (in the case of false data) and disruption to electrical service at the state level, and charges for unauthorized radio interference at the federal level.
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> It’s more the effects of free circulating spike protein in the bloodstream than mRNA triggering ribosomes. The mRNA vaccines are designed to express the spike protein in a membrane-bound form; very little is found floating free. See

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