I think you did enough due diligence by putting the random part first, but I suppose one way to stop someone from putting in a real BIP39 mnemonic would be to use a completely different set of words than those allowed in BIP39.
I think the disclaimer is the best an honest site owner could do in this case.
If the site was malicious, there wouldn't be any disclaimer, and once you insert a passphrase, BIP39 or not, in a text field, it's game over. No need to press Submit even, some JavaScript will send it wherever it has to.
Many of the things the author accuses Amazon of doing are troubling, but the logic the author used in the Chris Brown music buying example to tie it all together shows of a lack of distinction between types of cooperation with evil.
When an act has both a potentially good and bad effect Philosophers like to distinguish the morality of this act of "cooperating with evil" by analyzing the degrees to which your cooperation is:
- formal or material (do you want the bad thing to happen and that's why you're buying from Amazon?)
- immediate or mediate (are you supplying a critical component such that without your specific instance of cooperation the evil could not occur?)
- proximate or remote (Do you work for Amazon?)
Each of these dimensions should be taken into consideration because without such analysis one can easily become scrupulous about every act that one does that may have unintended side effects. This is how you get people who say things like "there is no such thing as ethical consumption in capitalism" and other extreme statements that would otherwise force you to be a monk in a desert lest your acts accidentally create harm.
To learn more about this principle of double effect:
> And yet... if you don't have fun, it will never get done
This was actually accounted for by the system of thought the parent comment is discussing.
Since virtue is the median between two vices, there is a middle ground between focusing on nothing and focusing on something to the point of exhaustion. The virtue of eutrapelia. Thomas Aquinas argues that just as the body needs rest when it is weary, so too does the soul when it becomes overburdened. And, like the body, the soul takes rest in a kind of pleasure we call 'play'.
Hm am I incorrect in my interpretation that what you're talking about is a kind of 'relaxation/rewarding oneself' after 'pushing oneself/working hard'?
What I'm talking about is a synthesis of play and work, where work becomes play, as opposed to playing, resting, or relaxing, after or as a 'reward for' work (which would not qualify as immediate reward. Immediate reward = in a fraction of a second.)
The 'work itself is the reward' if one carefully chooses what the work entails.
This is a great point because it presents the question of the relationship between one's perspective/emotional approach to a task and whether or not an act is intrinsically "playful", or "fun", and I'd have to think about that more.
The virtue ethicist would say that one should inculcate the virtue of caritas (love) which will enable them to approach any task with a positive attitude, such that something that would otherwise be annoying to do becomes meaningful or at least tolerable with a long-term goal of increasing the love of the other for whom you do the task for.
Catholic virtue ethicists (I can't speak for the others) do see one aspect of life as a combination of work and play: religious service. For example, the Sunday mass is both a liturgy (lit: "a work of the people") but also play: it is something to be done precisely because it need not be done. An omnipotent God doesn't need anything, including worship. It has no other outside purpose in theory than to be a celebration and is thus something meant to refresh in the way other forms of play refresh. In the Catholic tradition at least, this highest work is itself the highest form of play.
The Japanese slang terms for the NES/SNES are "Famicom" and "Sufami" respectively. HAL Laboratories may not have felt that those terms would make for a good protagonist name, especially since the characters are supposed to be American with American sounding names (like Jeff and Paula). But "Ness" is an anagram of SNES and is similar enough to other English names like Jess, Jeff, etc. But it's important to note that in Earthbound, the name Ness is not so much the default name as it is the first of the suggested names if you "Don't Care" what the protagonist's name is. In the Japanese manual in fact, the Ness character's title is "Me" and in parenthesis it says "Nesu" and Jeff, Paula, and Poo are named Friends 1, 2, and 3. [1]
So even though NES might not have been a term known to the general Japanes public, it didn't need to be. Ness is not the intended name of the character, it is only the most common suggested name and hence more like an easter egg.
On the contrary, that is exactly why it was created. Dog lovers forums aren't supposed to be compelled to allow cat lovers a platform to voice their opinion on the dog lover's private server. Private servers are not public forums in the legal sense. We can have a conversation on whether or not that needs to change, but basic US law on private property is very clear about this.
Law follows morals, so first we need to determine what we actually want.
Dog lovers forum is not at issue here because it doesn't matter to how society functions, giant twitters and facebooks on the other hand very much matter and should be re-evaluated.
I'm glad people are realizing that all this social distancing is merely a pause button on the virus. Once we press play on society, exponential growth will happen again and we will have effectively rolled back the clock until we reach herd immunity through things like the OP's suggestion.
At least this next time we'll hopefully have more PPE.
It's not a pause button, it's a playback speed button that slows down the contamination.
Remember #FlattenTheCurve.
What is true is that it would take waaaay longer to reach herd immunity this way.
Another thing that people usually get wrong is the her immunity concept: from what I understand, it doesn't mean we ALL need to be infected. We just need to be enough, so the virus can't spread anymore.
At that R0 herd immunity will be probably achieved when at least 70% of the population is infected. So it’s not all, but we are still speaking of about 5.5 billion people globally...
Statistically a disease reaches herd immunity if everyone except 1 / R0 are infected.
For a disease with R0 of 3 (such as covid) this would be 66%. To explain: If two out of three are immune then a disease which usually infects three people will run out of steam.
Isn't this why there is a 1918-related flu outbreak every generation and why bubonic plauge used to recurved every generation because there aren't immune?
What about people born after that point? As immune people die over time from other causes, and as people are born without immunity, the percent of the population with immunity from having had it falls.
I think the idea is that once there is herd immunity, the virus has no way to propagate and ends up disappearing w/o vectors. However, that would require global immunity.
The whole idea of herd immunity in this context is fucking nonsense. No self-respecting epidemiologist would even bring it up this early into a pandemic.
Herd immunity is the last resort for the immunocompromised or unvaccinated, not the foundation for public health policy.
The point of social distancing is to bring the number of cases down to a point where other measures are possible, such as test-and-trace. Social distancing is step 1, not the whole process.
I'd much rather live in a world where everyone is required to wear masks all the time than live in a world where we are all told to stay home all the time.
I believe it's also well established that any measures taken to slow the spread of a new virus will always result in fewer total deaths, in that sense quarantining is much more effective than just being a pause button.
"where everyone is required to wear masks all the time"
And this is what bothers me with such laws. No it does not make sense to wear masks all the time. (even assumed only outside) When I am running alone in the forest I do not need a mask. While driving a car alone, or with a partner, I do not need a mask. So the law should be, wearing masks all the time in populated public spaces.
"I believe it's also well established that any measures taken to slow the spread of a new virus will always result in fewer total deaths"
And this is only true if you look only isolated at the virus and do not take into account the various big side effects of a lockdown. Because you will get deaths from: suicide, domestic violence, other diseases, because staying home is not really good for the immune system and general health. Also this only takes into account the rich world. In india staying home is also required, but this is a really serious death risk, if your home is a metal barrack in the slums, with no AC, meaning you just get cooked. Before you starve to death, because you have no income anymore.
This is a false dichotomy. Masks or gloves as worn by ordinary people are nowhere near effective enough to mean lockdowns could end. They're very effective in clinical settings with proper ppe head to toe and procedures for taking them off outside the dirty ward, but there's no way most people can stick to those, nor keep their houses/shops clean enough.
I believe it's also well established that any measures taken to slow the spread of a new virus will always result in fewer total deaths
In the sense that they prevent a healthcare system being overwhelmed yes, in any other sense no, they are very much just a pause button for the spread of the virus, not a cure.
We wouldn't insist that people 'stop breathing' to prevent the spread of coromaviris. It's only somewhat different to insist that we all stop living and working.
Masks and gloves, plus generally keeping 6ft apart and routinely testing and contact tracing/quarantining infected individuals... what's the effective rate there? 95%? The modern medical establishment would move heaven and Earth, and incur thousands of dollars per person to get that last 5%. Most of us routinely ignore them in this regard, with respect to our own personal health, as we live our daily lives.
There just isn't a lot of evidence for the case that the choice is shutting the economic or killing millions.
Yes, although reality seems to be disagreeing with the models more and more. You have countries in southeast Asia with community transmission but no lockdown, and countries in Europe with the military enforcing a strict lockdown, and the latter are far worse off in terms of hospital admissions and deaths per capita than the former.
"fewer total deaths"
Yes, but not fewer total infections. You save lives by spreading out the infections over time, reducing strain on the healthcare system.
> I'd much rather live in a world where everyone is required to wear masks all the time
A properly fitting mask is uncomfortable. It hurts your nose, it hurts your ears. If you wear spectacles they fog up. People don't tolerate them, and so they fiddle with the mask, taking it off and putting it back, or dropping it under their chin.
Here's what happens when you wear a mask for a couple of shifts at work.
(I am not a professional, so what I write below might be wrong)
Having more time to develop a vaccine or effective treatments is essential, it doesn't have to be herd immunity. Plus in countries where covid19 rate is low enough, social distancing can be helpful for finding and isolating clusters to suppress the epidemic.
Of course, there are two ways out of this, herd or vaccine. The above is a variation of herd that may result in less deaths.
The real problem is that waiting until a vaccine is just not even remotely realistic for so many reasons that it's not even funny. We could end up causing more indirect deaths with social isolation than we could possibly imagine, worst case being a huge collapse in the economy results in a large regional or global conflict.
Indeed, CDC's numbers for March indicate that social isolation is reducing non-ncovid-19 deaths by twice as much as sars-cov-2 is adding them. That's short term, so not what GP was talking about, but very significant numbers nonetheless.
How many suicides? Guys losing their businesses that they put everything into. Can't even go fishing without their fellow man ratting them out to Big Brother.
"How did it end?
The most popular theory of how the plague ended is through the implementation of quarantines. The uninfected would typically remain in their homes and only leave when it was necessary, while those who could afford to do so would leave the more densely populated areas and live in greater isolation.
Improvements in personal hygiene are also thought to have begun to take place during the pandemic, alongside the practice of cremations rather than burials due to the sheer number of bodies."
This isn't really correct, and the proof is that most of east asia is relaxing restrictions right now without experiencing another exponential outbreak.
Testing, tracing and quarantine of infected people does work. It requires a bunch of infrastructure that we don't have yet (and in many places still aren't building, which is beyond frustrating). It also requires that the baseline level of the outbreak be small enough that you can catch most of the cases, which thus requires the continued lockdowns until we get back to that level. But it does work.
A country without other options might be more interested in the idea? I imagine that many first world countries would be too worried about the potential liabilities.
On second thoughts perhaps the idea wouldn’t work in countries that don’t have an effective lockdown. Could the infection wave of a less dangerous genotype overtake the number of infections of the more dangerous genotype before the population has been mostly infected already?
Yes if we act soon as we can spread the less dangerous version faster than the normal human-to-human spread of the dangerous version. For example if we were to send a postcard infected with the less dangerous version to 10 million people it would get out ahead of the dangerous version spreading normally.
good luck, we could have completely eliminated HIV by now but corporate profits are more important than that so the vast majority of the population who has the virus doesn't get the medication they need to not transmit it.
"It simply downloads all the files in your Google Drive into the current directory. After you make some changes to the local files, run grive again and it will upload your changes back to your Google Drive."
Not to mention that, if everyone does this, the water pressure will be decreased where the fire trucks need it. If the fire turns out not to threaten your property you’ll feel like the worlds’ biggest jerk.
Actually, no where does he advise against it. Did you even read the comments? He said "The sprinklers could have helped, but I just see solid defensible space. Trees are limbed up, grass is maintained, no dead veg on the property, no trees taller than the roof that would put litter into the gutters."
One of the more frustrating aspects of some clients like Gajim is that you can be in a multiparty chat, but there's no way to tell why OMEMO isn't working. You're probably missing somebody's keys, but unless you go spelunking through debug logs you're never going to know. And good luck if one of the members of the memberlist rarely signs in, then you'll never get his key thus rendering OMEMO useless!
What I think is even more frustrating is that OMEMO is not required by default. I try to communicate with a group of people without WhatsApp, but I'm not in a position to tell them each which options to check, and what to look for. That's too much hassle for them. That's why I think Jabber/XMPP is lost.
Encryption must be on by default. Better if there is no option of unencrypted communication at all. Go get a debug build for that.
Receiving receipts and reading receipts are a must. It must be on by default. Communication always goes two ways. I had enough situations where one couldn't be sure if the other person has read an urgent info and whether the situation needed escalation.
Account information must be hidden, if the system is not decentralized. People don't want to remember account names and passwords. Get device specific keys, or whatever. Just hide it from the user, unless they want to look at it. People don't want to hear about servers.
