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However, that the insurance companies will profile my family and decide I am a high risk based on my cousins, that seems like a scary and very real possibility. At least to me. What can I do about that?

Vote for candidates that support universal single-payer healthcare.

Canadian version of Breaking Bad

I got a present for you!

Reddit has dedicated streaming forums for all the major leagues. A few hours before a game starts people [sic bots] will begin posting links to live streams, sometimes you'll have to switch streams when it gets shutdown mid-game. But overall it's not a huge headache.

The stream sites are ... contagious ... use a browser with a condom: Adblocker+NoScript+uMatrix

NHL:
https://www.reddit.com/r/NHLStreams/

MBL:
https://www.reddit.com/r/MLBStreams/

Google the others.

I got a present for you!

Reddit has dedicated streaming forums for all the major leagues. A few hours before a game starts people [sic bots] will begin posting links to live streams, sometimes you'll have to switch streams when it gets shutdown mid-game. But overall it's not a huge headache.

The stream sites are ... contagious ... use a browser with a condom: Adblocker+NoScript+uMatrix

NHL:
https://www.reddit.com/r/NHLStreams/

MBL:
https://www.reddit.com/r/MLBStreams/

Google the others.

Steam was down about four hours ago for perhaps 30 minutes. So, no that wasn't it.

In one instance, I fear I will be physically attacked and harassed. In the other, I might get some jeers and scowling looks.

Guess you were never a Top Gear fan. The South has a long history of violence which you're willfully ignoring, and their intolerance and violence persist to this day. Are you a total idiot, or a useful idiot? There's no third option.

No. And don't expect it any time soon. You even still need to buy a license from them to enable the hardware decoder for MPEG-2 (and VC-1) despite all the patents have already expired on February 13, 2018 and can be used freely.

So if you want to enable the hardware MPEG-2 decoder in your RPi you must use a hack.

What keeps me from buying the far superior OrangePi is that LibreElec still doesn't support it.

It looks like the stainless steel spacecraft prototype was destroyed in a storm. https://www.reddit.com/r/Enoug...

I'd be willing to consider something else, but I really don't want to go back to Windows and there aren't any interesting Linux laptops available.

I'm running Linux on a Thinkpad T-series and I recommend it. There are several models, ranging from thin-and-light to the "performance" model.

I currently have a T460p, from the older generation that have a special docking port on the underside. The newest Thinkpads have a docking station that uses a USB C port on the left-hand side of the laptop, and I haven't tried that. I found some comments on Reddit that a T480s works great in Linux with the Lenovo USB C dock.

I'm running Linux Mint MATE edition, which IMHO steals the best parts of Mac OS X and the best parts of Windows. But if you want a desktop environment that works very much like OS X you do have options.

TL;DR A Thinkpad is a lot like a MacBook Pro that didn't get stupid-thin, and you might like one.

> It's the reputation of the perps that matters. In other words, if no one
> paid any attention to people who propagate FAKE news, then the problem
> would be solved. Right now the best approach I can imagine to doing
> this would involve MEPR (Multidimensional Earned Public Reputation).

Have you heard of "brigading"? https://www.urbandictionary.co... https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOf... SJWs use it a lot on YouTube to knock out videos they don't like. When YouTube gets enough complaints against small users, the video is taken down. Sure, it can be appealed and re-instated a week or 2 later. But for fast-breaking news stories, that destroys the immediate effect, and people are not interested in last-week's news. Imagine if CNN programs were tape-delayed by a week. What do you think would happen to their ratings?

Thanks for your reply, but I'm afraid I'm still not understanding?
I am *not* a statistician, but have a reasonable familiarity with higher math and statistics.
As I understand, the 1-sample Z- and T-tests still require things like bounds and means.
(http://www.statisticslectures.com/topics/onesamplez/ and https://www.reddit.com/r/stati... and fascinatingly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... (thanks internet rabbit hole))

In this specific case, the 'source' is nearly infinite, and there is no mean information that's not naked speculation. I confess this is well beyond my math skills, but logically it seems that if I walk up to a single person on the street, ask them "have you won the lottery?" and they answer yes, I absolutely cannot infer anything about the likelihood of the next person I ask answering yes or no?

Thanks in advance, if you care to help me understand better.

It was a joke.

It shouldn't be. Enthusiasts are an inquisitive and experimental crowd. You may have made a joke but your joke has been a very serious question asked over and over again on online forums.

People do all sorts of wonderful things such as using full sized car radiators: https://www.reddit.com/r/shitt...

I wish I still had the link to it but in the mid 2000s I remember seeing someone who laid copper tubing in a giant S bend under the foundation slab of his new build garage and cycled that through his CPU. Dirt and cement have a high specific heat so that apparently worked well enough that he ran into condensation issues in winter.

Also people with annoying voices like Linus Tech tips also get in on making jokes: https://youtu.be/EV6oYfcAwLM?t...

So next time you make a joke, add a smiley ;-)

?And Dunning–Kruger makes you believe you have the ability to diagnose psychological disorders?

No, not DK. The combination of dealing with two NPDs in among my in-laws (sister-in-law and niece's ex-husband) at the same time as DJT's rise has taught me a whole fuckton about NPD, sociopathy and machiavellianism. I was once like you, blind to what NPDs are, kinda thought that shit only happened in hollywood movies. It doesn't. Its real fucking life and is horrible. Go read the saddest place on reddit if you actually want to learn and aren't just a Jobs fanboi with low-grade flying-monkey syndrome.

Reddit thought the same: https://www.reddit.com/r/Uplif...

We all know: https://www.reddit.com/r/consp...

Unfortunately most of the damage has been down to people shit talking the game before it even came out and then continuing, the majority of whom have never ever played it but are merely regurgitating comments made by others.

If you cannot trust the game devs whos word can you trust? The following picture was tweeted out by devs and is completely unaltered: https://i.imgur.com/Yu2ms5k.jp...
Also those are not just their opinions, they included their personal biases into the game as well: https://www.reddit.com/r/Lives...

I never went to see what they actually have in the game after reading about the whole "saying 'white man'" being censored in-game. Is saying "white man" still being censored in in-game chat?

Never heard of that.

So you're saying you got no clues about what you're talking about? Never heard of this? Just look at what the developers published on twitter: look at top left corner: the image is unaltered. WHITE MEN! WHITE MEN! WHITE MEN!

Not being funny but you're the one who's decided they don't need to know anymore after learning of an issue with the chatbox of all things. I know about what is in the game now (apart from the chat box apparently). I'm not fully up on every single pre release thing that happened.

I never went to see what they actually have in the game after reading about the whole "saying 'white man'" being censored in-game. Is saying "white man" still being censored in in-game chat?

Never heard of that.

So you're saying you got no clues about what you're talking about?

Never heard of this?

Just look at what the developers published on twitter: look at top left corner: the image is unaltered. WHITE MEN! WHITE MEN! WHITE MEN!

Can you tell me how many made it into the final game? Oh yeah, zero. That shit was cut fast but you wouldn't be able to tell from all the people seemingly still frothing at the mouth over it.

Why should any of us buy a game made by literal racists to verify their racism? Just look at this image originally published by DICE developer: "WHITE MEN! WHITE MEN! WHITE MEN! (top left corner of screen)" The image is unaltered.

That along with this is a dealbreaker.

The responsibility is on the developer and publisher to communicate clearly. They dropped the ball big time on this.

They can't make your pings low enough for any sort of dexterity game.

You're wrong, and you clearly have never tried playing your games on a virtual system in the cloud.

The most popular games on GeForce Now are the FPS arena shooters that are so popular these days. People have been playing these games on virtual systems for over a year and having a great time.

Why are you so mad at the very idea of cloud gaming. I mean, you're just fuming about it.

Here's an Engadget review of the service from a year ago.

https://www.engadget.com/2018/...

And here's a thread of some people discussing the service on Reddit from a year ago. It's improved a great deal since then, too.

https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidi...

Whether or not cloud gaming succeeds is dependent to a great extent on the pricing model they use. Right now, it's free for those of us who use it, and as the guy on Reddit said, "it's glorious".

CNN makes mistakes. Fox is just trying to bullshit you.

Actually these days Fox seems to be trying to beam messages directly into the President's head.

CNN does a bit more than make mistakes, sarin is an odorless, colorless, tasteless chemical used in chemical warfare and yet this CNN reporter huffs a suspected sample. The kind of person who lacks critical thinking and impulse control and tries to huff death spray usually dosent make it to be a reporter so I'm assuming they knew it was fake all along. Even a non lethal minor exposure to your lungs can easily cause permenant neurological damage.

I mean, the graphics card controls the monitor refresh rate, and the 'start' sync (this is before freesync existed), and even then if you've not rendered in time then you simply don't 'flip' the buffer until you're done (and the monitor displays the last rendered image until you're ready to show the new one). Freesync seems to be re-inventing something that was already there, just instead moving the job to the monitor (for no gain that the user could possibly perceive)

What on earth is the point of freesync vs traditional vsync? I've seen the thread on reddit and that's just as stupid because the graphics card is the device that controls when vsync happens (which controls the monitor sync, directly). Even the DVI/HDMI spec has this facility in digital iirc and it's been there since 'forever'.

So what the f*ck is the hype? Oh yay we have something we've already had, but now we have to buy compatible monitors for it again?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Polit...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Polit...

What about KeepassX?

Or KeePassXC Password Manager? Question: keepassxc ... can we trust it ?

KeePassXC for Beginners says "Android users, consider KeePassDroid.
iPhone users, consider MiniKeePass".

entering the intersection a second after the light turns red! And yes, I've gotten caught be one of these in Tualitin myself, as I was hurrying to complete my right turn before the light went red.

You do know that one second after your light goes red, the light for the crossing traffic would have been green for around half a second (there is a half second both sides red during the transition)? If you think there is nothing wrong with entering an intersection not just after the lights go red, but a second later, you should stop driving before you kill someone. The combination of impatient drivers on a stale green and a stale red is likely to end up in a T-bone.

Red light cameras are triggered when a vehicle enters the intersection on a red light and normally take 2 photos, one immediately to show the license plate, and a second photo half a second later to confirm that the vehicle went through the intersection and not stop at the edge of the intersection.

Objoke for stopping at traffic lights

Per one of the better Reddit threads on this, the internal issue was pretty much the worst-case scenario for losing access to everything everywhere at once, and without alternate mechanisms for getting into places:

As of 2021 GMT

Tier IV Equipment Vendor Technical Support continues to work with CenturyLink Field Operations and Engineering to restore visibility and apply the filter to devices in Atlanta, GA and Chicago, IL. While those efforts are ongoing additional logs have been pulled from the devices in Kansas City, MO and New Orleans, LA following the restoral of visibility and the necessary filter application to obtain additional pertinent information now that the device is remotely accessible.

As of 1916 GMT

Efforts to regain visibility to sites in Atlanta, GA and Chicago, IL remain ongoing. Once visibility has been restored the filter will be applied to limit communication traffic between sites which was causing CPU spikes that in turn prevented the devices from functioning properly.

As of 1828 GMT

On December 27, 2018 at 02:40 GMT, CenturyLink identified a service impact in New Orleans, LA. The NOC is engaged and investigating in order to isolate the cause. Field Operations were engaged and dispatched for additional investigations. Tier IV Equipment Vendor Support was later engaged. During cooperative troubleshooting a device in San Antonio, TX was isolated from the network as it was seeming to broadcast traffic consuming capacity, which seemed to alleviate some impact. Investigations remained ongoing. Following the isolation of the San Antonio, TX device troubleshooting efforts focused on additional sites that teams were remotely unable to troubleshoot. Field Operations were dispatched to sites in Kansas City, MO, Atlanta, GA, New Orleans, LA and Chicago, IL. Tier IV Equipment Vendor Support continued to investigate the equipment logs to further assist with isolation. Once visibility was restored to the site in Kansas City, MO a filter was applied to the equipment to further alleviate the impact observed. All of the necessary troubleshooting teams in cooperation with Tier IV Equipment Vendor Support are working to restore remote visibility to the remaining sites at this time. We understand how important these services are to our clients and the issue has been escalated to the highest levels within CenturyLink Service Assurance Leadership.

.net core got some significant performance boosts at 2.1, and it seems kind of crazy to use the .net framework unless you have legacy apps or a windows-specific need. That said, .netcore 3.x is supposed to bring a litany of windows-specific enhancements to .net core to make the netcore performance enhancements available to a wider set of legacy apps.

First reaction: HA! Microsoft is at it agan.

Second reaction: Wait, did you say Lenovo laptops? Those guys who would brick your motherboard if you turned on Thunderbolt assist in _their_ BIOS? OK, maybe it's not Microsoft's fault this time.

Video games have a long and rich history of most winners being dirty cheating garbage.

Reminds me of this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/The_D...

For those that don't want to click:

People from the 60's: "I better not say that or the government will wiretap my house"

People today: "Hey wiretap, do you have a recipe for pancakes?"

There are still places where people don't lock their doors and leave their keys in their cars in case a neighbor needs to borrow it in an emergency.

Unrelated, but don't do this with the newer car keys which unlock the doors by proximity ('keyless entry"). They can sense when they're inside the car rather than outside, and will not unlock the doors when you touch the handle from the outside (otherwise a mugger chasing you would be able to open the doors you just locked). Many of these cars will also auto-lock the doors after a certain period of time (it assumes you're inside getting ready to go somewhere). Resulting in the key being locked inside with no way to get in unless you have a spare key. And calling a locksmith to break in to these newer car locks is either futile or a lot more expensive.

https://www.civicx.com/threads/locked-my-keys-in-my-keyless-entry-vehicle-smh.19760/"
https://www.reddit.com/r/mazda3/comments/3cd8ax/locked_keys_in_car_keyless_fob_sitting_in_the/
https://forums.tesla.com/forum/forums/car-locked-fob-inside-what-do-you-do

So the answer to government monopoly making mess...is MOAR government? Does that make ANY sense?

If you want to fix this problem? Open up the last mile to competition so that everyone can have multiple choices in ISPs again! People seem to forget when Ma Bell was broken up everyone had just tons of choices in ISPs, even in my small town we had a half a dozen ISPs to choose from. Some offered cheaper prices, some offered more services like web hosting and file storage, but because there was COMPETITION none of them could really turn the screws to the customer as you could just walk across the street and go to someone else!

The US taxpayer paid paid over 200 BILLION dollars for nationwide services we did NOT get so just like anyone else who gets paid and rips off the customer we should take them to court and they can either give us what we paid for or we seize the last mile. They want monopolies? They can have LIMITED monopolies for each new home they bring 100mbps Internet to for a set number of years, everywhere else? Any ISP can use those lines while paying a RAND fee for upkeep and maintenance so that we all get plenty of choice in provider again.

The answer to this is not NN because that isn't gonna mean shit if you don't do anything about the duopoly (or in many areas monopoly) controlling the last mile as without competition they have no reason to improve service or give a flying fuck. Make it easier for towns to start their own broadband, open up the last mile, and you'll see all this nastiness dry up and blow away like a fart in the breeze because if your ISP starts acting like a douche? Just walk across the street and go somewhere else!

A list of attacks on net neutrality that you've missed

Microsoft's updates are like a box of chocolates...

More like razor cakes.

https://www.reddit.com/r/nfl/c...

They can, but it costs money and time, and they are not willing to spend either.

It's just another cost / benefit analysis. Some companies do spent the money and time because they see it as worthwhile over the life of the game. For example, Blizzard made a lot of visual changes to World of Warcraft just for China because they have some weird aversion to skeletons and bones. Player skeletons on the ground are replaced with tombstones, undead models don't show bones, bones and bits of meat on the ground are replaced with bread, etc.

Sure, it may objectively be a waste of time, but if you want to sell in that market (and they let you sell, lol) then you just have to decide if it's worth it. As long as the Chinese don't start dictating how things look and function for everyone else, that seems fine (for a relative meaning of "fine" given the authoritarian society) with me.

Yes, Germany has a stream of bullshit changes to pander to their ridiculous Bundesprüfstelle to defend kids against reality (IIRC that's the most accurate translation), and in general they were hilarious. Top of my head I remember the suicide bombers in C&C Generals being gurneys with little bombs on them. But that's far from the most ridiculous change ever made in a game to get an a-ok from them.

But we're not talking about cosmetic changes here. If you look at the reasons given as to why the games were banned, including reasons like "rewards given based on rank", "distorted concepts of history and culture" and "game missions include fraud", this means that fundamental aspects of the game, its core mechanics and the story it tries to tell, are suddenly no-gos.

FactualNeutronStar writes:

It didn't actually leave the Solar system. It entered "interstellar space" which means the Solar wind is basically negligible, but it is still well within the influence of the Sun's gravity. It's similar to saying that a rocket has left Earth because it escaped the atmosphere, despite the fact that it is still very much influenced by the Earth.

Classified0 writes:

Voyager 2 is traveling at about 16 km/s
The speed of light, c, is about 299792 km/s.
Time dilation is t' = t*sqrt(1-v2 /c2 )
The factor then is 0.999999997
41 years is about 1293861600 seconds, and multiplying by the factor gives about 1293861596 seconds. So, Voyager 2 is about 4 seconds younger because of time dilation.

abacadabraupyourass writes:

“Voyager 1 will not approach another star for nearly 40,000 years, even though it is moving at such great speed. But it will be in orbit around the centre of our galaxy with all its stars for billions of years.”

For some reason, while pondering about our short time here trying to rip our planet to pieces, it hit me how insanely large the universe is. And particularly, how tiny we are in the grand scheme of things.

A) The president can issue executive orders. Republicans used to think executive orders were bad and unconstitutional, but now they are legal, and necessary undo Obama's legacy of unconstitutionality. Even if courts rule against the executive order, they can maybe just keep making amendments until the courts are satisfied (e.g. like with the muslim ban). Trump doesn't necessarily need to change the law to prevent the federal government from issuing reimbursements through the IRS. I believe the courts will ultimately sort it out, but that may take years for people to receive the reimbursements and be very costly to the government (i.e. taxpayers)

B) The president can ask the republican controlled congress to do just about anything and they will probably listen to him if he can manage to make his request somewhat coherent.

C) They have already attempted to change this law (i.e. end subsidies prematurely) when the last federal budget was passed. Some of the revisions contained clauses to remove these subsidies, but the revision that ultimately passed incidentally did not contain that clause.

Executive orders should be minimal for sure, we don't live in a monarchy. While there are areas clearly under Executive authority they have been abused. Obama used them illegally to enact programs like DACA and DAPA. DAPA has already been blocked by the courts. DACA lawsuits were suspended because the filers expected Trump to reverse it. He did, but that has been held up in court because the Judicial branch overreaches too. "Muslin Ban" was the spin, not the regulation blocking travel from 7 nations. This is one area where the Executive branch clearly does have the authority, and the courts ultimately agreed, The Executive and the IRS can direct changes in some tax policy where they clearly have the authority. Eliminating the EV subsidy outright is not something they can just do.

The president has asked congress for a lot of things. They have a poor record of delivering.

It's pretty easy to call the tax credit a git to the wealthy and eliminate it on those grounds. Here (via reddit) from the Tesla site is how much you have to earn AFTER deductions to benefit from the credits: https://www.reddit.com/r/tesla...

Even if you are in favor of it, the American manufacturers will soon be at the sales volume point where the credit phases out anyway. After that it's pretty easy to justify eliminating it. Even Elon Musk asked Congress to do it: https://seekingalpha.com/artic... . He's no dummy, he knows it will help his competitors more than him.

This. It's been a while since I last watched the movie, but IIRC we only saw Deckard perform a single Voight-Kampf test - on Rachel, and he most definitely did NOT shoot her. There's also a relevant fan theory that he may have done a verbal version of the test on Zhora (the woman with the snake) with his questions about holes, and while he did shoot her that was only after she attacked him and in doing so confirmed that she was the replicant he thought he was.

Maybe the author of TFS was thinking of Han Solo and Greedo?

visit /r/uber on reddit and see for yourself.

Using uber is risking your life:

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/new...

https://www.reddit.com/r/uber/...

Steam is a complete !_ing pile of shit running webviews based on chromium engine rather than designing their own application interface to interact correctly with the users system which DOES NOT BYPASS ANY AND ALL WEB EXTENSIONS that the user may have, such as adblockers and js killers. Steam is one step away from getting hacked, and all your steam games are belong to hackers. They already face a plethora of dodgy games within their own store.

And yet this user on the Reddit thread said they have a refund pending,

https://old.reddit.com/r/assho...

That's sort of correct, but the beauty of the Jovian moons is that they revolve around a planet that does have an atmosphere. So in principle they can use Jupiter's atmosphere to slow down to a speed that allows for slower passes around the moons (a la Galileo probe). I would think they'd be able to figure out how to get matched into a moon orbit so they can approach at a slow speed and only have to spend fuel to fight the moons gravity.

Jupiter's atmosphere is not as helpful as you might think. It will put you into a transfer orbit for a fly-by, but actually getting into a low orbit around those moons would require a huge rocket burn.

Its not the "moons gravity" that is the problem, but their velocity. Rocketry is all about the delta-V.
I'm no orbital mechanic, so I rely on reading the charts such as this one:

https://www.reddit.com/r/space...

You can see that even with aero-braking (on sections marked with red arrows), it is still far easier to land on Titan than the Jovian moons.
But don't take my word. NASA has so far landed only on Titan in the outer solar system.

Note also that it is way easier to escape the solar system, than to approach the sun, as the Parker Solar Probe is doing.

Let's see what the AI does with this.

FCC Telemarketer and robocall blacklist

Instructions as to how to "use" Lenny.

There are Safe Spaces where you can go and never be censored or bullied, nor have to hear anything offensive to your sensitive thin skin, and never have anyone disagree with you.

Let's see what Facebook does ban.

• Facebook banned independent media and activist pages like Free Thought Project, Antimedia, and Cop Block
• Facebook banned the Independent Women's Forum for ad targeting based on gender
• Facebook banned an Israeli news site for running an article on Hezbollah
• Facebook banned another journalist
• Facebook banned muslim Tarek Fatah for opposing extremist Muslims
• Facebook banned the founder of #WalkAway because he mentioned that he would be interviewed by Alex Jones
• Facebook banned a bunch of hippie new age alternative health sites
• Facebook bans a guy from ridiculing Hamas
• Facebook bans a guy from saying "This is a man dressed as a woman. This is not a woman."
• Facebook bans a guy from joking about eating Tide Pods
• Facebook shadowbanned the President of the United States
• Facebook banned the Venus of Willendorf

But an obviously scammy ad is "fully compliant" and meets all of their rules. Funny how that works.

It is a game. The world's largest MMRPG. http://reddit.com/r/outside

Sure, crows are smart with tools, but they have shitty social skills.

First time I read that, I thought you said cows.

Offensitivity.