uLogMicheal
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We do not have another substance as effective as opioids for treatment of acute and chronic pain. Yes, Americans deal with chronic health issues and chronic pain, partially attributed to CCP chemical lobbying efforts. They were over prescribed, that practice has changed due to regulatory effort, and lawsuits were brought and won against the worst offenders. Some think that the addiction crisis was amplified or exported from China to begin with as an act of covert warfare.
Shipping mass amounts of fentanyl precursors to organized crime agents to flood our streets is a whole different matter, surely you can see the difference? Street pills laced or cut with fentanyl KILL people. Addiction to street availability causes mass mental health issues and homelessness.
What about... doesn't make for debate in good faith.
The one not partnering with terrorists and cartels while shipping mass amounts of fentanyl and disruptors across the US border.
> One can arrest me, one has no jurisdiction
One does not care about your rights or jurisdiction and can do much worse covertly.
An adversarial government having mass access to user data and social behavior information is worse because they can use it to compromise and recruit individuals to do real damage. Although debatable, the NSA is supposed to have the intentions to protect us, not inflict chaos.
> nor does there appear to be any willingness to correct errors
> Missed payments may be a feature, not a bug.
> not legally, and certainly not in a timely manner.
Bad faith magic wand waving, these arguments do not have substance. People/bots are on a bandwagon against change many have been calling for years for. Our treasury system NEEDS an overhaul and there are much bigger problems with this admin to make an issue out of.
We're talking about payment system code, not AI targeting for drones. Changes can be reverted, transactions can be stopped, payments can be made other ways.
The alarmist take is jumping to the conclusion that people will starve from efforts to improve the code behind this system. We can still print paper checks, probably with a simple script in the worst case.
If it's in COBOL you can probably count on one hand how many people have knowledge of the nuts and bolts of those systems and usually the new people talk to the old people.
People tend to forget that move fast and break things also includes move fast and fix things. No one will starve from this.
Having used a TP-Link ethernet over power device in the past, this is quite concerning. Most devices like this do not have an adequate replacement from domestic or allied manufacturers. Is there no government agency examining and reporting on these frequently purchased electronics?
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uLogMicheal on Thursday January 09, 2025 @08:46PM
from the ask-hn dept.
Having spent some time on branding and with relevant firms, I have learned that branding and design can have a strong effect on the culture of a company.This leads me to think the simplistic arrangement of six number 6s OpenAI went with is a bit strange given cultural connotations.Has any backstory been leaked or told regarding the thought that went into this logo choice?
The time, motives, and management were different, the essence of my point was that in today's world even a monopoly would cut research for profit.
This is not the mindset of monopolies, cutting research for the sake of short term profits is the mindset of Wallstreet's modern monopoly.
Studies more and more are showing that fasting is healthy for us but so many jump straight to eating disorder when they hear about someone not eating for extended periods. By your own research he seems to even be managing his body fat with logic; with the increase to 6%. More studies should be conducted but there's little profit incentive or people with the willpower for not eating so funding lags. Maybe we should embrace this kind of dedication rather than mock it?
Why even write this, by your own admission, cherry picking the negative and making assumptions about dishonesty?
Openai so open there's leaks.
Next will we find that there is an exchange of microbes between the brain and gut?
Couldn't one just program a linear word matching test to ensure correctness?
The ironic part is, it's humans leading the charge, with their heads buried deep in the sand to avoid thinking about how this decays society.
Who needs real comments any more? Make them look real and consensus is pushed not formed. This is why human engagement is at a all time low, it's mostly the bots that get the attention with their manufactured support and votes.
> Songbo Xie, also at Purdue University, says that the teleported energy is small and fragile, so using this additional storage qubit saves it from getting lost. “This was our goal, to save it for future use,” he says. The researchers tested the protocol by running it on an actual quantum computer. The results agreed well with what their calculations predicted.
Not the key to ZPE we are looking for but still cool!
Thanks for the insight! I'm sure it costs Datadog a lot to continue to query connected accounts even after the user has cancelled the Datadog service. I reported to them, hopefully they take measures to fix. It would also be nice if integrations could be blocked or de-authorized from the AWS side, but I guess we can't ask for too much in 2024.
Checked all regions, no services on the AWS side. It seems maybe our old Datadog was still spamming the GetMetricData API by default after cancellation. No logs are collected but they still seem to query the API for every service enabled by default.
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uLogMicheal on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @10:41AM
from the ask-hn dept.
Over a year ago I migrated one of my companies away from AWS and deleted all EC2 and Kubernetes instances. I recently noticed that regardless of these cancellations, AWS has consistently billed for "CloudWatch".The service team sent back a bunch of general information about costs and instructions to remove a "Metric Filter" which from my follow-up I can confirm does not exist on my account.The...
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uLogMicheal on Sunday September 08, 2024 @12:02PM
from the sciencealert.com dept.
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uLogMicheal on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @08:56AM
from the addons.mozilla.org dept.
Just a simple addon I made and want to share. I autoplay music a lot on youtube and wanted to be able to ban certain artists they throw into the mix.
code is here: https://github.com/MichealReed/TubeSkip
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uLogMicheal on Monday July 29, 2024 @12:41PM
from the show-hn dept.
https://github.com/MichealReed/TubeSkip
Hey HN, I auto-play music using the YouTube mixes a lot but occasionally certain artists are put into the mix that I no longer support. Being tired of racing back to skip a song and noticing the lack of ability to remove videos from private mode, I created TubeSkip!TubeSkip is a simple Firefox addon that will skip any videos containing a keyword on the addon's list.MIT License and welcome...
I would guess the number one source of PUFA in the USA is soybean oil. How does an industrial waste product become so ingrained in our supply that it's hard to buy most foods without it? I thought free market provided more choice?
Keep spreading awareness.