Sapere Aude
Month: June 2017
political views can experience overflow and do wrap around
many of the alternative-medicine ingredients in her products are sold on the Infowars store. Moon Juice is frequently recommended by Goop; it’s a favorite of Hollywood celebrities and others who can afford things like $25 “activated cashews.” Infowars, on the other hand, is a dark corner of the American right, heavy on guns, light on government intervention, and still very mad at Obama.
Better highways, more land for productive development plus a permanent fund sending checks to every citizen. A guaranteed basic income financed from public assets waiting to be monetized and put to work. You might even get the progressives’ vote. Have you ever made such a great deal?
proposes to auction off the highway system to pay for UBI. we need lots of ideas how UBI could happen, so this is a welcome contribution.
Created by UK-based pharmacy site, Treated.com, this New York City map shows the calories a person can burn by walking between subway stops. Taking a stroll between 14 St. Union Square to 8 St. NYU, for instance, burns a whopping 45 calories, while a leisurely jaunt from Astor Pl. to Bleeker Street cuts off 31 calories.
root cause: dummy companies not patching their systems. these things will continue until everyone in the world is on auto update.
A new strain of ransomware dubbed “Petya” is worming its way around the world with alarming speed. The malware is spreading using a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows that the software giant patched in March 2017 — the same bug that was exploited by the recent and prolific WannaCry ransomware strain.
this library allows you to use powerful linux fuzzers to fuzz windows, where fuzzing appears to be stuck in the stone age:
library that allows native Linux programs to load and call functions from a Windows DLL. the library will process the relocations and imports, then provide a dlopen-like API. The code supports debugging with gdb (including symbols), basic block coverage collection, and runtime hooking and patching.
this library has found 3 windows defender critical vulnerabilities in 2 months
special ops haven’t turned around a single conflict in 15 years, but no one is questioning their effectiveness.
Colombia is hardly an anomaly when it comes to US special ops deployments—or the results that flow from them. For all their abilities, tactical skills, training prowess and battlefield accomplishments, the capacity of US Special Operations Forces to achieve decisive and enduring successes—strategic victories that serve US national interests—have proved to be exceptionally limited, a reality laid bare from Afghanistan to Iraq, Yemen to the Philippines. The fault for this lies not with the troops themselves, but with a political and military establishment that often appears bereft of strategic vision and hasn’t won a major war since the 1940s. Into this breach, elite US forces are deployed again and again.
neil blokamp’s latest, could be read as a district 9 sequel
turns out raising the minimum wage isn’t the panacea you’ve been promised:
The numbers of hours worked by low-wage workers fell by 3.5m hours per quarter. This was reflected both in 1000s of job losses and reductions in hours worked by those who retained their jobs. this reduced income paid to low-wage employees of single-location Seattle businesses by $120m on an annual basis.” On average, low-wage workers lost $125 per month.
Below is a map of every place where brewing happens in New York State (yes, we even included Anheuser-Busch’s brewery in Baldwinsville, near Syracuse). A RED spot indicates a brewery that’s open to the public – with a taproom or a restaurant or another place where you can buy a pint or bottle or fill a growler. A YELLOW spot indicates a brewery that’s licensed but closed to the public. Many of these are small farm breweries that sell at farmer’s markets; others are just not quite ready to fire up the brewhouse or open their taproom. An ORANGE spot indicates a brewery with a pending license, meaning they’re most likely going to happen, but just haven’t finished construction yet.
In 40 years, Earth’s population will reach 10B. Can our world support that? What kind of world will it be? Those answering these questions generally fall into 2 deeply divided groups–Wizards and Prophets, as Charles Mann calls them in this balanced, authoritative, nonpolemical new book. The Prophets follow William Vogt, a founding environmentalist who believed that in using more than our planet has to give, our prosperity will lead us to ruin. Cut back! was his mantra. Otherwise everyone will lose! The Wizards are the heirs of Norman Borlaug, whose research, in effect, wrangled the world in service to our species to produce modern high-yield crops that then saved millions from starvation. Innovate! was Borlaug’s cry. Only in that way can everyone win! Mann delves into these diverging viewpoints to assess the 4 great challenges humanity faces–food, water, energy, climate change–grounding each in historical context and weighing the options for the future. With our civilization on the line, the author’s insightful analysis is an essential addition to the urgent conversation about how our children will fare on an increasingly crowded Earth.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 
