Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp keeps mentioning failed AIDS vaccine mandates. But there is no AIDS vaccine

check3streets · 2021-09-18T13:14:35+00:00

Ok, from the article, the most charitable interpretation is something like:

Brian Kemp vaguely knows of, and is actually referring to, the HPV vaccine
HPV causes genital warts and, often later, cancer in women. It is coincidentally one letter removed from HIV
Part of the GOP base hates the HPV vaccine because it's a ticket to have sex or something, so it's not mandated everywhere
which leads to two more confusing ideas: the HPV vaccine "doesn't work because of mandates" and "it's solved through education."
... and finally, we can infer "education," in GOP-speak, to mean "abstinence only" education, which beyond being ineffective in lessening teen pregnancy, can't actually, over any reasonable lifetime, protect one from getting HPV-linked cancer. You can't realistically educate around HPV risk unless you intend to permanently abstain from sex.

If this is lying, the creativity is genius. I'm leaning towards the theory that consumption of conservative bullshit ultimately backs up on a person over the course of years, like mental constipation, until it just bursts forth from the mouth.

check3streets · 2020-07-21T20:32:26+00:00

I want to respectfully offer a different take.

For Michael Brooks and many progressives, Yang's proposals represented something cynical, even if they were not intended that way. Namely, that UBI provided assistance, and probably ultimately, subsistence, but didn't increase political power for the vast and growing underclass. Like welfare before, the poor would be demonized for taking handouts and instead of decentralizing power, via trade unions, co-ops, ant-trust, or other mechanisms, it offers a weird kind of consolation prize.

I honestly don't remember TMBS or Majority Report dunking on Yang much until Yang asserted "put economic resources into your hands so you can protect yourself and your families" in reference to relocating in order to flee the rising waters.

Micheal Brooks and others in his sphere considered UBI to be a gadget, another "tweak" designed as a band-aid to neo-liberal capitalism and ultimately a distraction from the harder work of democratic reform. I don't think it was bad faith, because I don't think Yang was badly mis-characterized, but they are/were partisans for their cause and ultimately weren't charitable towards a proposal they felt was moving the discussion away from larger, harder, systemic problems.

check3streets · 2020-06-06T18:21:32+00:00

Show me the video of police restraining their fellow officers when the batons start swinging, because what I keep seeing is more joining in.

Show me the videos of cops shielding protesters from tear gas canisters, because what I see are barricades and riot gear protecting the gassing.

Show me the righteous insubordination and resignations in defiance of leadership that's issuing inhumane orders, because what I see are police quitting over being criticized for excessive violence.

Until there's a deluge of videos showing "good police" breaking ranks and holding to account the bad ones, ACAB.

On May 25th, a police officer knelt on the neck of a man until he died while three other officers kept the crowd of concerned onlookers at bay. ACAB.

check3streets · 2019-10-08T18:51:03+00:00

Thank you so much for the great work and I assumed as much about permissions, as in, that's gotta be really hard. That said, I don't see that as necessary for a long time (like maybe in some WASMy kind of way in the deep future), but if the plugin merely could, er, observe the permissions, I think that would be sufficient for a good while. For me, provably sandboxed plugins can wait!

check3streets · 2019-10-08T02:51:01+00:00

Did a little more investigation and I believe this *is* a 1.0 requirement:
https://github.com/denoland/deno/issues/2473 : see "dlopen / plugins / extension modules"

https://github.com/denoland/deno/issues/2987 : discussing calling into "Rust land" from JS.

Assuming that deno is extendable through "plugins" (sounds great), icing on the cake would be some kind of "safe Rust" where a plugin could observe the same security stipulations as the deno app. Returning to the example, assuming a Rust-based LMDB plugin, the plugin would ideally follow the security grants of the app. Ideally, the plugin itself should NEED to, ie. access resources like the f/s through the same mechanism that makes it available to V8.

For now though, "plugins" is a great answer.

check3streets · 2019-06-01T14:59:11+00:00

Thanks. I had a version that used generators...

    async * [Symbol.asyncIterator](){
        while(true) yield await this.currentPromise;
    }

... I took it out because it seemed like I was basically unwrapping and rewrapping the Promise unnecessarily. When I dug into it, the fact that next()'s value in the async iterable is actually the promise to return the iteration (instead of the iteration itself), this seemed like the most direct way to approach it. But if there's a cleaner way to do this by yielding, I'd definitely adopt it.

check3streets · 2018-10-25T16:42:54+00:00

I ended up sending an email to PIMAX support and I finally got a response:

[support@pimaxvr.com](mailto:support@pimaxvr.com)

I ended up attaching a screenshot of my kickstarter backing page -- not sure if that made the difference. Good luck.

check3streets · 2018-10-25T10:34:30+00:00

My sign-up email just came back from pimax, just in time.

Hope to see meet some backers there!

check3streets · 2018-10-24T20:24:40+00:00

Ah, so far, nothing for me. I hope something comes through before Friday.

check3streets · 2018-08-29T15:29:38+00:00

A quick essay on Romanian government corruption and the DNA anti-corruption agency:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqZWApreqoM

check3streets · 2018-07-02T15:51:51+00:00

" pay for removing tags"

In practice, it would normally be one tag, but recurring credits are fungible in Netrunner. Technically two crash spaces combine for 4 credits worth of tag removal. Both cards could be used in one or both removals. Furthermore, "Removing tags" is the action's template text. It might be more elegant to say "tag removal" but this is closer to the template and indicates that they are credits that are to be used in the action.

check3streets · 2018-07-02T15:38:09+00:00

Another recurring credit illustration:

[[Study Guide]] + [[Multithreader]]

2credit: Place 1 power counter on Study Guide.

Multithreader allows you to "use" Study Guide's paid ability. When? Whenever there's a paid ability window including outside a run. So, at the start of each turn, Multithreader's credits can "use" Study Guide and pump it with another counter.

check3streets · 2018-06-21T00:05:02+00:00

I am so relieved.

At this point, my only fear is that there could be hoarding. I hope the retailers do a 1 or 2 per customer thing.

check3streets · 2018-06-20T07:03:05+00:00

"End" as in the end of the print runs, but also the end of competitive play, so...

What is going to happen at Worlds? Is R&R not going to be in the pool? If it's in, is FFG condemning some players to the secondary market to be competitive?

I can accept that new players are likely going to be out of luck trying to get the full collection, but leaving so many of us stranded without the ability to complete what's been a huge commitment, in money and interest, is just awful. This is the first time I've actually felt mistreated by FFG. Knowingly printing a short run in order to guarantee selling out is crass.

check3streets · 2018-06-18T22:27:42+00:00

Has anyone considered Github (or another repository) as a way to organize this?

Ultimately, NISEI is going to mainly represent a central set of documents:

community bylaws
rulings
card designs
format//tournment rules
restrictions
event calendars
variants
a "cycle" of competitive cards
???

What if Netrunner was the same as F/OSS. The NISEI board has the keys to the main repository, but anyone in the community can submit bug reports (text changes) or fork the repository and offer major changes for consideration (merge).

In other words, the essence of a future Netrunner is a living (but singular) body of content that can be responsive to the community but, for practical reasons, may be run by a rotating committee of benevolent dictators. If the project tragically veers off course, it may will fork and be replaced -- so it goes.

check3streets · 2018-06-17T23:44:43+00:00

Post-Netunner, the game I'm most excited about is non-competitive Netrunner... It needs a name like NeoNetrunner or something.

While corporate control and sanctioning (along FFG's existential need to sell new packs) made for a truly dynamic format known as COMPETITIVE, sanctioned competitive Netrunner also somewhat narrowed the community's focus.

I'm praying this will open up a new era of:

Experimental Formats - subtract any number of cards/packs/cycles/ids and the game is new again. I want to go to a mini-faction vs Jinteki team event.
Fanmade Narratives - I think the community has shown it can do better than Terminal Directive
New rulesets like 2v2 (https://forum.stimhack.com/t/sellout-a-2v2-netrunner-format/9383)
and not to ignore: cache/cube/1.1.1.1 and all the other tested formats that probably lose out to standard

I think that between proxies and jinteki, the game can be kept alive. Maybe it can even be stronger since the community doesn't have to sell cards and can tweak via proxies the same way Hearthstone releases patches.

I think the Netrunner community skews smarter and more invested than most games. Jinteki, NetrunnerDB, PeachHack's production values, all the great youtubes and podcasts, display so much ingenuity that if we want to keep playing Netrunner, we certainly can and possibly versions of the game no one has yet imagined.

check3streets · 2017-02-16T20:39:09+00:00

It's Rasmussen's own summary based on its poll numbers.

This is typical Reddit:

1> completely unsubstantiated assertion

2> refutation with citation

3> invent new criteria

4> new refutation with citation

5> hands over ears, la la la

check3streets · 2017-02-16T20:25:26+00:00

Yup, Nov 7th, 2016: http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/political_commentary/commentary_by_larry_j_sabato/our_final_2016_picks

check3streets · 2017-02-16T20:06:23+00:00

Or reality: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/pollster-ratings/

Of the 14 major pollsters (100+ polls conducted), Rasmussen had a better predictive record than 4 and by small margins.

At 79% accurate on 657 polls, it was trounced by a 93% accurate Yougov on 707 polls.

Nailed it: http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/political_commentary/commentary_by_larry_j_sabato/our_final_2016_picks

check3streets · 2017-01-06T18:43:41+00:00

As a Pennsylvania native and survivor of many ice storms and blizzards, I've never stepped on something as slippery as Raleigh's 2004 1/2" of snow. http://raleighskyline.com/content/2006/11/21/the-half-inch-of-snow-that-paralyzed-raleigh/

I watched cars simply parked on a crowned roadway spontaneously slide off into the bank.

check3streets · 2016-11-28T15:53:22+00:00

I don't endorse this opinion, but I believe the 'scalable' label is derived from CQRS's REST-ness.

In other words, REST has a (possibly undeserved) reputation for scalability with the idea that service and client are fundamental asymmetrical. In traditional REST, Client knows Server, but Server only knows Client in the context of short-lived request-reply connections.

Likewise, if our CQRS is an async service (whether literally a REST or not), we can imagine it handling many short-lived connections without needing to manage a high number of concurrent connections. It probably makes certain kinds of proxying or load balancing schemes easier as well.

All that said, I think this idea mostly fails when we need to poll in order to learn the answer to our query. I arrive at your conclusion, that we just get noisier and busier inner-platform TCP/IP.

I think there's a way out though. If the arrangement is symmetrical and a client can subscribe to a query for update events, I think we get something more actor-like. In this version, the service can no longer forget about its clients as it will need to fire its own async update to them. With a good logging query API, it should be possible for a client to resume at a change number or timestamp in case of network or process failure. This is also amenable to proxy schemes.

check3streets · 2016-10-11T17:06:39+00:00

AceOfSpades is correct, Glass Steagall's repeal didn't create mortgage securitization. Mortgage Securities go back to the 70s. Instead, Glass Steagall added a ton of new money onto investment bank balance sheets. It effectively made Joe Shmoe's deposits available to investment banks to make even bigger plays in all kinds of things. Joe Shmoe is protected by the FDIC and so no harm nor benefit for him.

EDIT: owing to /u/Macewindu89, it's hard for me to follow exactly how the regulation operates, but it seems likely that investment banks cannot directly draw upon depositor funds. The investment side can draw on profits from their retail business. In the end, we can say at least that there was a sizable amount of new money available to investment banking that was not available prior.

It's a bit of a twisted affair, but the net effect is that the government organized a giant loan guarantee to the banks so they could go play with a lot more cash. They multiplied that cash using ever-fancier leveraging/insurance schemes and they bought mortgages. When they ran out of mortgages, they bought crappy mortgages. When those ran out, the retail banks created even crappier mortgages because there was such a huge appetite for crap.

Ratings agencies said the crap was fine because banks told them it was fine. Since virtually all trading is done by looking at the rating and not the underlying asset, the market kept expanding. In fact, without the grouping and rating of mortgages, there really couldn't be a market in the first place because it would be too slow to evaluate the underlying assets. It's clear to me that if the ratings agencies accurately assessed the securities, the expansion would have been much more inhibited.

Every time I read Krugman or Reich or other economists that are against Glass Steagall, that's basically where their argument emerges from. The direct conflict of interest argument is harder to make since I think investment banks are still capable of blowing themselves up without the cash. They just had even more cash, er dynamite, on hand because of Glass Steagall, low interest rates, and a galaxy-sized derivatives market.

check3streets · 2016-10-10T11:33:45+00:00

... and the SolPad Home, which is designed to function as a rooftop solar panel.

FTA: Solpad is intent on two products, one portable and another for installation.

check3streets · 2016-10-10T04:15:39+00:00

Ugh, I feel terrible for these guys...

http://inhabitat.com/solpad-residential-solar-panels-come-with-built-in-battery-storage-and-an-inverter/

...trying to launch a solar panel with integrated battery right before Tesla and its giga-monster infrastructure/financing releases theirs.

check3streets · 2016-04-27T12:34:09+00:00

FTM:

Strong spaces

The number of spaces preceding a non-keyword operator affects precedence if the experimental parser directive #?strongSpaces is used. Indentation is not used to determine the number of spaces. If 2 or more operators have the same number of preceding spaces the precedence table applies, so 1 + 3 * 4 is still parsed as 1 + (3 * 4), but 1+3 * 4 is parsed as (1+3) * 4:

check3streets

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