I think the last thing the US needs to do is drop bombs in or near the Middle East. Enough damage has been done by US weaponry and personal in the region for several lifetimes.
The article says the soil mixture is available to residents and being used by the city to restore damaged boulevards. None of this is being communicated as being sold to farms for growing produce.
It seems like they probably are doing due diligence and they’re not poisoning the people they serve.
They talk about the city using it for fill soil on their site. They do have a picture suggesting it might be usable in a garden but that’s it.
Nope, this would be the open source driver for a the GPU inside the M1 chip, which has to be reverse engineered. But it’s great news for anyone hoping for Vulkan support on M1 based GPU cores!
For external graphics support we would at a minimum need an open source thunderbolt driver to expose the PCIe lanes to an external GPU and then we would need to recompile the open source GPU drivers against the Apple Silicon or ARM64 machine targets. The good news there is that the AMD open source driver is very performant, the bad news is that it’ll require machine specific patches as I believe it has some low level assembly in it.
I’m sure we’ll get there with time, especially with so many smart people working toward Linux on Apple Silicon chips.
It absolutely is a problem of predatory companies spending money on lobbying against simpler tax code. An equal share of the blame is on the politicians accepting these “legal” bribes against the interests of their constituents.
Lobbyists were supposed to be for promoting the interests of small groups that might not have the representation among a politicians constituents to warrant paying attention to. Instead we have rampant and excessive spending by corporations that lobby to keep their monopolies over segments of the market that harm American citizens.
> In 2016 alone, Intuit, the makers of TurboTax, spent $2 million on lobbying, ProPublica reports. H&R Block spent $3 million, some of it on the same efforts.
I'm not convinced $5m a year would make such a big impact.
I strongly suspect that it's not the $5m/yr these companies are spending that's doing it; there's basically three other camps who push (directly or indirectly) for this:
* Special-interest groups whose preferential tax treatment might be threatened if there's a push to simplify the tax code (as having the government do the taxes for you kind of requires the taxes be simpler to do so).
* Ideologues who hate government spending but don't think that tax cuts count as spending.
* Anti-tax crusaders who want to make filing taxes painful so there's more grassroots support for cutting taxes. (Think Grover Norquist here).
I don’t think that comparison makes sense. A GM of a sports team isn’t a dozen levels removed from the team and their target isn’t an ever changing field of competing goals. Changing out upper leadership at a technology company isn’t analogous to a general manager of a sports team.
I'm also pleasantly surprised by this transpiler discovery.
4 years ago I was managing a Feed The Beast (A heavily modded and themed Java Minecraft version) server and in that mod packages was OpenComputers (https://ocdoc.cil.li/) which exposed a lua api and in game computers to the players. The OpenComputers Package Manager (https://github.com/MightyPirates/OpenComputers/blob/master-M...) became a limiting factor to my players as they wanted some ability to load from other sources so I converted the program to MoonScript (https://moonscript.org/) and maintained a fork with modifications for them.
MoonScript was certainly more pleasant to write and maintain (compared to Lua), but type safety would've definitely helped squash some of the weirder side effect driven bugs. That said, I still think MoonScript is a great middle ground for things that are written in Lua but need some extra organizational tools.
Plenty of evidence for the effectiveness of masks exists. The WHO published their guidelines on mask use with more than 16 cited studies from across the world[1]. Just because you feel like masks are stupid does not mean you should go spreading heresay without backing up your claims.
That’s a nice narrative, but for every one of those that died from C19 there are many that didn’t. Unlike a car accident, those that survived do contribute to the spread of the virus and expose people who are at higher risk of a far more fatal outcome. Additionally every person that contracts this has a chance of needing supplemental oxygen and an intensive care bed. These are already in short supply and the people to manage these intensive care facilities aren’t an infinite resource. It is just reckless to expose more people to this virus when we have vaccines on the way to inoculate the highest risk communities.
While people certainly have a right to be upset, they don’t have a right to willfully endanger others.
The thing is...if the vulnerable 20% of the population can't stay in quarantine... but 80% of the population is low risk...this is not societies problem anymore.. this is that 20%'s problem.
What's the upper limit on the percentage of people you're happy to throw under the bus? Are problems only problems if they affect 51% or more of the population?
You've got it wrong. The people being thrown under the bus are the people being sent into poverty because 20% of the population can't seem to stay in quarantine.
Would you put 100 million people into poverty to save 1 life of a person who wants to go to Starbucks to get a Peppermint Mocha?
I think the link describes this tangentially. The minimal 10mw - 15mw current that high-five allows on a cable that hasn’t completed a handshake is enough to charge the capacitor for secure boot and trident which then can handshake with 0x74 to receive 5v 1a source. When the kernel boots the rest of the handshake process can be completed to increase the current.
That’s at least my understanding from the document.
