Searching for what excess mortality looks like in a "normal" (non-pandemic) year, I found this interesting statistic:
> By the year 2017, the United States was already suffering more excess deaths and more life years lost each year than those associated with the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020
> Kelly wrote to Sale on New Year’s Day, instructing him to direct the $1,000 to Heifer International, a nonprofit that gives away breeding pairs of animals. Sale puzzled him by replying, “I didn’t lose the bet.” Kelly assumed he hadn’t seen Patrick’s decision, and he had the editor resend it.
> But Sale had read it—and rejected it.
> “I cannot accept that I lost,” he wrote to Patrick. “The clear trajectory of disasters shows that the world is much closer to my prediction. So clearly it cannot be said that Kevin won.”
> Like the raging denialist in the White House, the cantankerous anarchocommunalist has quit the game after the final score left him short. Sale says he is seeking some sort of appellate relief, if only by public opinion, when in fact the rules included no such reconsideration. Kelly is infuriated. “This was a gentleman’s bet, and he can only be classified as a cad,” he says.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but this Sale fellow sounds like an asshole.
In order for this to work, one needs to jailbreak the Kindle. Is there a way to jailbreak a Kindle Oasis running the 5.12.x firmware? (My reading of the MobileRead Forums says this is impossible.)
Supposedly he got in trouble with the Church after appearing in the Bill Maher documentary Religulous. I looked up the video clip and thought it was refreshing how few fucks he seemed to give https://youtu.be/iTV-VgrbnZU
> We document that a portfolio that mimics the purchases of U.S. Senators beats the market by 85 basis points per month, while a port- folio that mimics the sales of Senators lags the market by 12 basis points per month. The large difference in the returns of stocks bought and sold (nearly one percentage point per month) is economically large and reliably positive.
Low aggregate demand. Note that when they talk about low aggregate demand they mean demand for stuff versus money.
So low aggregate demand for stuff (this includes consumables but also investments stuff such as factories) is the same as high aggregate demand for money (including money like instruments such as gov bonds).
What exactly are these passwords used for? The post mentions "controlling this object in the RIPE database" but I'm missing some context necessary to understand that.
Basically you can take ownership of their IP ranges, modify routing information, etc.
Even if you took a small percentage of the IP addresses in Europe, this could have a snowball effect. You take the IP addresses belonging to a popular mail service used by other domains, then you use admin email addresses to reset and eventually Europes internet is stolen.
It's not quite that simple. The RIPE database stores mostly administrative information, and doesn't _directly_ affect Internet routing.
In order to "steal" IP addresses (get them routed to you) you would need to buy a connection to at least one exchange point, probably several if you want all the traffic for the target to route to you and not just some traffic from some networks. You'd need to buy rackspace somewhere with a connection to the exchange point, install routers, establish BGP peerings with the exchange point (if they're doing route reflection) or with all the other major networks at the exchange.
There are multiple steps along the way where humans would look at the prefixes you were going to be announcing. This would include looking them up in RIPE, but anything more than a cursory inspection would likely reveal your ruse.
At this point it becomes more of a social engineering attack, and even if you got as far as announcing it, there are things like BGPMon that would pick up the fraudulent announcement pretty quickly and you'd likely find that the cable was pulled out of your router pretty fast.
Patrick, it seems like this latest episode isn't available on iTunes. Maybe it's related to the error message I see when I load the feed in my browser [0]
> This page contains the following errors:
> error on line 3559 at column 476: Input is not proper UTF-8, indicate encoding !
Bytes: 0xE3 0x81 0xA8 0xE3
It's in iTunes. Sometimes there is a delay for them to crawl the feed. Another issue might be that, if you haven't listened to me recently, your client might not grab updates. (Totally reasonable since nothing was published in several months.)
Powell corrects him in real-time. Worth watching given today's statement.