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I didn’t see any ads and nobody I know did. This may be a feature in ios26 (the next version in beta) that got leaked out to older versions? Ie a bug)

Ios26 specifically enables promotions in wallet which is viewed as a feature that can be enabled/disabled


Probably depends on where you live, or some other thing apple knows about you.

I saw the ad. iOS 18.5, in the Midwest, with notifications allowed for the Wallet app.

I didn’t find it too intrusive, but it was surprising. It’s probably not a road Apple wants to go further down.


Something like 70% of the store has some kind of coupon available and all that is needed is the UPC to scan. This site aggregates and provides a database of known coupons. Harbor Freight tools is a discount tool and hardware store based out of California, with stores nationwide. It does not price with regional discounts and the coupons will work at any store.


This game was one of my favorites! I recently moved to a Debian / GeForce / Intel setup and could not be happier with how Steam proton has been working out of the box. I’ve been able to run the windows version of Caesar III with proton enabled flawlessly. The distributed version has some really awful default graphics, so I ran the c3respatcher [1] in wine which also worked flawlessly. Linux gaming has come a long way.

[1] https://gitlab.com/Afdch/c3respatcher


Real estate often operates on margins and has long been considered a prime store of value. In the United States, the origins of cash used in real estate transactions are rarely scrutinized, and cash-only purchases have reached a decade high this year.

Why does real estate remain relatively strong in some countries? Likely because savvy investors either want to live there or believe others will.

Real estate prices in California are at their peak, and while the media might anticipate a housing crash, it's unlikely. With large amounts of money needing a place to go and states like Florida enacting xenophobic policies that deter investment, California remains an attractive option.

[1] [NAR Realtor Blog](https://www.nar.realtor/blogs/economists-outlook/the-share-o...)

[2] [CNN](https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/06/17/homes/florida-law-bans-ch...)


I live in, or did until recently technically now I live a little outside, a very competitive housing market. All cash offers have become the norm to secure housing in the most in demand areas even for those purchasing their primary homes vs investment properties.

How this often works is a cash offer financer completes the purchase from the seller and in turn sells it to the buyer once their mortgage has been secured. The buyer rents the house from the financier until this happens. Sometimes the agreement is the financier will only purchase the property if the buyer doesn’t have their mortgage in place by the closing date.


What’s the solution here?

We need to stop building houses out of wood. Every wood structure in Southern California has known termites or has them and it just isn’t known. It’s not just the foundations of structures either, drywood termites swarm yearly and cause just as much damage as any subterranean termites.

Personally, I’d rather not be treating my home with the termite fumigation chems unless I have to and have been diligent at creating a defensive barrier (6 inches) around my home and keep a tight watch over the entire structure all year. During the summer, when the drywood termites swarm, I pickup thousands in my pool and remain extra diligent.

I’d much rather just have most of the structure be adobe some other cementitious material than play a losing game of three little piggies every so many years.


Another option for killing termites is to heat up the whole home to around 125F.


I bet $1000 in iTunes gift cards (so I can pay off IRS debt collectors) that he will end up at Apple and lead one of the LLM/AI initiatives.


Mail (physical means of communicating in writing and print) and email (connecting two people with digital signal) are similar but not a great comparison when comparing consumption of natural gas. Technology literally created additional markets for the same material, by modifying it so it could be transported more efficiently over long distances. I think you could say the new methods of natural gas production and storage are more efficient just as easily as saying the old methods were simply inefficient (it would have been possible to pipeline gas from AU to markets across the ocean, but it didn’t make economic sense because it would have been terribly costly and thus an inefficient use of resources)


> Mail (physical means of communicating in writing and print) and email (connecting two people with digital signal) are similar but not a great comparison when comparing consumption of natural gas.

What?

You are missing the point. We're talking about "markets" not the specific "tech/substitutes." It could be any technology disruption. Such disruption doesn't mean the prior status quo IN THE MARKET was inefficient. The tech shock just resets equilibrium.

Further, your explanation is circular, and I propose it has to do with muddling terminology and concepts.

Here's one inconsistency. Either the markets didn't exist (You said they need to be "created."), or they did exist, but a pipeline connecting them was too expensive.

> Technology literally created additional markets

> it would have been possible to pipeline gas from AU to markets across the ocean, but it didn’t make economic sense


Google isn’t really worried about password entropy beyond a reasonable amount. The primary threat model is phishing. This is why multifactor is so important and once once you have that enabled, nobody gives a shit if you even rotate your password. Just needs to be long enough and not guessable because it’s not the sole means of authentication.

Probably not a good idea to have something as critical as one’s primary email account identity tied to only a single factor of phishable credentials.

Requiring App passwords seems better, but it bypasses requiring a MF.

oAuth, while a a beast, seems even better as the workflow still initially requires a second factor.


Avoided Covid until about three weeks ago. Kid brought it home from preschool.

4x Moderna.

Symptoms were sore throat, persistent cough, mild fever and sweats. No loss of taste or smell.

Edit: not sure why this was downvoted, I’m not complaining at all about my vaccine assisted recovery. I’m also immune compromised (in the last 6 months) and fairly happy with how well things worked out. I didn’t really even need to take time off and went to (remote) meetings. Covid was nothing compared to some bad drug interactions I had a few months prior.

I thought not losing any sense of smell or taste was most interesting and it was likely due to some combination of the specific variant, the Moderna vaccines and paxlovid that prevented that class of symptoms.


fully recovered now, I'm assuming?


The current variants seem to be much less severe.

Depending on age and health, it really makes it difficult to say if getting vaxxed was the “smart” move when weighing the risk of contraction vs the unknowns of any potential side effects.


Unless you had several co-morbidities, even the original variants of COVID weren't all that severe for most people.

Per the CDC:

> 146.6 Million Estimated Total Infections > 7.5 Million Estimated Hospitalizations > 921,000 Estimated Total Deaths

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...

If memory serves, most of the panic in the early stages was really about the risk of overloading hospitals (which mostly didn't happen) and a lack of ventilators (which it turned out that ventilators made things worse for most COVID patients). COVID-19 itself wasn't extremely lethal at any point.


> COVID-19 itself wasn't extremely lethal at any point.

On a population level, it's the most lethal virus in the last 100 years. A virus that infects everyone and that kills 0.5-1% of those it infects is almost a worst-case scenario for public health.


Not trying to troll, but why wouldn't a virus that infects everyone and kills 5-10% or more be the worst-case scenario?


The idea is a 5-10% fatal virus would have far more severe social distancing and thus couldn't infect everyone. Otherwise, a "100% fatal, infects everyone" disease would be the worst case scenario.


I wish I believed you, but sadly I think we learned nothing from COVID and if version 2.0 happens and is 5-10% fatal, we would make the same mistakes all over again: ignore it, downplay it, politicize it, and then finally half-ass the fight with the same weak uncoordinated actions.


The problem with COVID was that 70% of the deaths were in the 65+ range. So it didn't feel as severe to society as it would going by the death rate alone. We lost 3 years of life expectancy (it’s not clear if it will be recovered quickly or not), most people don’t think ahead that far so the problem feels abstract.


Emerging science supported by multiple studies suggests 4x boosters may have actually hurt more than they helped: https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/repeated-covid-19-vacci...


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When a publication has no credibility, it's entirely reasonable to point that out. This is the publication arm of Falun Gong, which is a cult that could be described as the Chinese version of Scientology.


Didn't know that. It does seem in this case, they are just reporting on the studies as far as I can see. Here is the source material from Science, Nature, Vaccines, BMJ and other peer-reviewed medical journals:

Extended SARS-CoV-2 RBD booster vaccination induces humoral and cellular immune tolerance in mice https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S258900422...

Class switch toward noninflammatory, spike-specific IgG4 antibodies after repeated SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccination https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciimmunol.ade2798

Assessment of avidity related to IgG subclasses in SARS-CoV-2 Brazilian infected patients https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-95045-z

Interleukin-6 blockade with sarilumab in severe COVID-19 pneumonia with systemic hyperinflammation: an open-label cohort study https://ard.bmj.com/content/79/10/1277.abstract

IgG4 Antibodies Induced by Repeated Vaccination May Generate Immune Tolerance to the SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein https://www.mdpi.com/2076-393X/11/5/991

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Naturally Acquired Immunity versus Vaccine-induced Immunity, Reinfections versus Breakthrough Infections: A Retrospective Cohort Study https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/75/1/e545/6563799?login...

Effectiveness of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Bivalent Vaccine https://academic.oup.com/ofid/article/10/6/ofad209/7131292?l...


This is literally how modern internet propaganda works: selective reporting that provides enough truth to be plausible but omits enough and/or distorts to avoid being comprehensive and accurate.

There's lots of studies that discuss both the pros and cons of this subject - this epochtimes article has pointed out the ones that on their face support their narrative, and (very very very likely, given their well-earned reputation) omitted those that don't, and may/probably have come to a conclusion that the study authors would not have.

This is why everyone's so stupid right now: we're all overconfident that we understand the small shreds of evidence we have and that they're the complete picture, and that overconfidence means we talk past each other in our separate realities. The only way to get around this is a) be an expert who has a comprehensive view of the range of evidence and what precisely it means (hard), b) be humble about what we can understand, select our sources extremely carefully, and get multiple perspectives (medium), or c) ignore the noise and wait for broad consensus (easy but slow and not perfect).


> Class switch toward noninflammatory, spike-specific IgG4 antibodies after repeated SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccination https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciimmunol.ade2798

This one was posted here at least once: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34147802

One-sentence summary: IgG4 suppresses the immune response, stopping the body from fighting back, so you don't have allergic reactions to things like pollen and dust.



this chart says msnbc and the new york times is far left of center, not sure how much value i'd put in it


It’s the New York Times opinion columns that it calls far left (which I’d call accurate), while it considers the news articles to be just left of center.


The NYT is far left if you define the center to be somewhere to the right of Mitt Romney.


I think it’s a fair assessment that NY Times opinion articles have a far left bias and their news articles have a left of center bias.

I think it’s a fairly accurate chart in my experience overall.


When is the last time you saw a far left columnist in the NYT?


I’ve never seen the NYT opinions section advocate for far left positions, like abolishing money for instance. Calling the NYT far left is like calling Joe Biden a socialist.


Left and right are loaded terms at this point. There’s left as in socialism and there’s left as in woke.


Also, does this mean they just aren’t going to allow fully routable ipv6 because of “abuse” or whatever (one of the promises of ipv6 whenever it’s realized probably shortly before the heat death of the universe is preciously what mullvad claims to be the cause of trouble)


Everyone having a unique globally routable IPv6 address might be less private/anonymous. Less ability to blend with the crowd. Personally I wouldn't mind ULA on a commercial VPN.


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