The FAQ in the google drive linked on the page tries to answer these questions.
Will this spread to everyone I kiss?
It’s very unlikely in non-immunocompromised adults. However, if you’re concerned, you should avoid kissing anyone taking oral antibiotics, or children.
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I was pondering about an idea for an app that will crowdsource prices of items and their development in the time. You know, to be aware when there is some product discount, but during the discount period, the original price is higher that usual which means customer is being mislead.
This practice, although prevalent, is not legal in EU [1]
The app would let you track prices for products in individual stores by scanning their EANs. You could see price development and website could show stores that use unfair pricing.
Seems doable to me but I may be missing some technical challenges that would come with implementing this approach.
It would be the easiest thing to give customers a csv table of the purchased items *directly* in the QR code on the receipt (instead of just a link to some website, where you can download the table as pdf of what). Then people could load it into their app or software and analyze their own data and shopping behavior.
Of course the retailers will never do this.
As Mario writes, the essential thing with this whole topic is:
> If I were trying to describe it in more flowerly terms: It's asymmetric information war fare. [1]
The way for companies to increase their margins is: remove price transparency so people effectively cannot compare anymore.
It's the same concept everywhere: the higher the complexity of the system, the harder it will be for the individual to optimize for their own benefit. Big entities on the other hand, such as big companies CAN deal with complexity and still optimize for their benefit.
Take away message: people should always be cautious of additional complexity creeping into systems. It usually benefits the big actors, at the expense to the individual.
Another feature that comes to my mind is setting up watches for products you are interested in. Especially for people who need to watch every expense, this could come very handy.
Im14andthisisdeep :) Did I ever say otherwise? Tools are invented to make things more convenient and not learning them properly is not an excuse to whine.
You are wholesale calling people ignorant over a technology decision.
> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."
Did you give Zulip a try? We use it internally (self-hosted) and very much prefer it to anything else. Devops-wise, once setup, it takes very little effort (~10 minutes every month, sometimes not even that, when there are no updates) to keep the instance running and updated.
In my experience half the reason people like Slack is for the ecosystem. We tried getting our company to adopt Google Chat but everyone wanted Slack because of integrations and apps (and they were just more familiar with it from using it at previous companies).
I reluctantly let the company switch to Slack. But 100% driven by employee demand/satisfaction. If as an IT person I recommend anything other than Slack, it will immediately get shot down if I do a poll of employees. Employees like slack for whatever bizarre reasons, even when comparing it to basically identical chat apps.
It’s almost like making a Mac person switch to Windows (or vice versa). People have a strange emotional connection with Slack making it hard to use anything else.
Curious about your setup: did you use their recommended install method or a Docker image? And, more importantly, did you encounter any serious issues during that time? I'm considering replacing Slack with Zulip and wondering what could possibly go wrong.
Not your parent but I did setup Zulip at two orgs now. Just used the official method. Never had a problem. Zulip has a very good Puppet setup that works very well.
Ubuntu Server, used their standard install instructions, no docker. So far all their upgrades went without any problems at all, including major version bumps.
As for running the server, I cannot recall any bigger problem I had, Zulip runs in our org for more than 5 years.
I play a musical instrument for a long long time, nowhere as good as a very good players, but sometimes I get a small paid gig and it is actually a fun thing to do. My life doesn't depend on the income from playing so I just enjoy opportunities when they come and go.
Yes, exactly. It's not that adding money to your hobby per se makes you not enjoy it. It's that when you have to make money from a hobby, you lose agency over how you practice the hobby.
It turns out the freedom to practice the hobby how/when/where you want, isn't just a nice to have, but an essential part of why you enjoyed the hobby in the first place.
You might enjoy being with your wife, but if she controlled every aspect of how you were allowed to, or must, engage with her, on pain of starvation and homelessness, you probably wouldn't enjoy her anymore. You'd resent her as a slave resents his master, even if she is a relatively good master.
Agency is essential to enjoyment of literally anything.
You can have TOTP as a browser extension. Not saying you should, just that there is a possibility. A bonus is easier backup of secrets so loosing your phone does not lock you out.
They won't. They'll find some bullshit "security" justification to force 2FA with 30 minute oauth tokens or something else that will make using IMAP too annoying for most, and which'll be difficult to automate.
That's exactly what they did with imap. I had scripts checking my gmail accounts using imap with password-based authentication, and for a while they allowed that as long as you expressly accepted that it was less secure, but not it's gone completely.
Curious question, why not use this approach for example with wind farms or solar farms? You'd avoid the need to build high capacity cables which are sometimes a reason why renewables do not spread that much. I can imagine that coming into contact with this beam is not something anyone would wish for.
You could beam energy up to a station in the orbit which would then redirect it to the place where energy is needed. You could then get "easily" energy from solar farms in Sahara, for example.
What would that satellite look like to enable meaningful power transmission? A bank of capacitors and batteries? Would have multiple smaller sats scale better and/or increase coverage?
Slightly off-topic, but because of farming we also started to have problem with mistletoe. Many small bushes of rose-hips, blackthorns and other food that birds usually eat disappeared because of smaller fields being merged to one, flattened. So what birds eat now is mistletoe, spreading it from tree to tree by wiping their beaks onto the bark of the tree, leaving mistletoe seeds there.
To clear mistletoe from that many trees is fairly expensive so owners usually don't do it, and we have alleys and alleys of trees full of mistletoe. Eventually the tree dies because of mistletoe parasitizing it.
