Certain types of autism cause you to be unable to recognize faces. I might be using the word autism incorrectly here though but you get the point.
Some studies found about 2-3% of the general population have prosopagnosia (face blindness) compared to some 30-40% of people with autism, but a lot depends on where the lines are drawn, since there's wide variability in degrees of both conditions. Neurologist Oliver Sacks wrote that he had such severe face blindness that he couldn't even recognize himself in a mirror, leading to occasional embarrassing incidents.
So, no conflict of interest or anything, this is just fishing for publicity.
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To be fair, the summary says, "expeditions have concentrated overwhelmingly around waters near the United States, Japan, and New Zealand", so one of their points is that the sampling has NOT been random.
"The banks actually caused the economic crisis through their greed and the "subprime mortgage" scandal."
"The banks" used to be regulated, who is the champion of deregulation? And when did this crisis occur? Under a democratic administration or after 7 years of a republican one?
One key regulation was the Glass-Steagall Act, which prohibited banks from combining investment banking with commercial and retail banking. It was passed in 1933 and repealed in 1999 during the Clinton administration. This is one factor blamed for the crisis. Another is an intentional lack of regulation of financial derivatives. Some people also claim another possible cause is that the government (mainly Democrats) put pressure on banks to lend to people with relatively poor credit histories or assets, who also by no coincidence tend to be racial or ethnic minorities (as a result of the previous history of red-lining).
"Obama cleaned up only if you define "clean up" as actually bailing out the banksters to the tune of hundred of billions of dollars at the taxpayers' expense."
It's not clear that tax-payers actually lost anything: the TARP was funded for some $431 billion (which some economists said should have been much larger), bought up toxic assets that banks wouldn't touch, and eventually sold them at a profit. The government also engaged in "quantitative easing", a euphemism for printing money. If I recall correctly, about a trillion dollars a year.
More than that, though, the government gave the money to banks, which then proceeded to sit on it, rather than distributing it throughout the economy, so millions of people lost their jobs, many lost their homes -- which then sat empty, because they were owned by banks that couldn't sell them any more than their previous owners could have sold them, so they just turned into neighborhood blight.
And are we to pretend that this outcome was a bad thing?
Bad for people who lost jobs or homes or who couldn't get their first jobs.
Is your idea of "clean up" allowing major banks to enter insolvency and cause a global financial catastrophe?
There was already a global catastrophe. One alternative would be to reduce the moral hazard by, just for example, putting people in prison for fraud, nationalising the banks, and firing all the bank executives responsible for the mess. Sweden responded much more successfully than the US, even though it's a "welfare state".
We are lucky Americans elected a serious party after 8 years of Bush, whose incompetence is only now overshadowed by Trump. Remember the good old days when we could not even imagine having another President as bad as George W Bush?
George W Bush was successful in getting a whole bunch of people killed. Then Obama and Hilary destroyed Libya. [He Who Must Not Be Named] hasn't matched W's record yet but seems to be trending that way, between attacking Yemen, various economic sanctions, and cuts to funding of critical programs.
Libya now has two groups claiming to be the government, and apparently the US has plans to deport migrants to Libya.
To be clear, AWS egress fees are fees charged for any movement of data out of AWS, to the Internet, to another cloud provider, or to your own on-premise data store (or between different AWS regions or storage tiers). It doesn't mean a customer is leaving AWS. For this company, it means AWS waived the cost of moving their 18 petabytes of data from Amazon S3. Moderately opaque description.
Oh, how about that? Waiving egress fees for customers leaving AWS is now a policy as of March, 2024: "starting today, we’re waiving data transfer out to the internet (DTO) charges when you want to move outside of AWS.
So they aren't being exceptionally nice to 37signals. Learn something new every day, so now I've met my quota.
Text of the bill: "The term 'chip security mechanism' means a software-, firmware-, or hardware-enabled security mechanism or a physical security mechanism.'" Oh, all righty then. That clears everything right up.
"Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall require any covered integrated circuit product to be outfitted with chip security mechanisms that implement location verification, using techniques that are feasible and appropriate on such date of enactment"
What you describe was common in The Peripheral (2014), by William Gibson. The general idea has probably been used in hundreds of stories, including one of Vernor Vinge's books.
I have to note in particular "scratch input". What's a sound many people consider among the most irritating? Fingernails on a chalkboard? (If you can find a chalkboard.) Great! Let's use that sound as a computer interface! "The awful sounds generated by running fingernails down the chalkboard are separately pitch-corrected, resulting in a pleasant-sounding musical instrument." Sure. Maybe. If you like that sort of thing.
1: a person who has capital especially invested in business; broadly: a person of wealth: Plutocrat
2: a person who favors capitalism
There are venture capitalists. Apparently there are also some venture socialists and venture communists.
Much of the excitement we get out of our work is that we don't really know what we are doing. -- E. Dijkstra
