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I guess it's a wasm runtime. Basically a way to execute a wasm binary just like you use docker to execute a x64 binary


Except that would've been too easy to understand, and instead seems like they're using wasmedge anyway. Needlessly confusing, why do companies do this?


A reason could be standardised build/deployment/testing.


For some reasons I stopped reading after I saw it's about a fox news video.


It's the NY Post (aka Fox News print edition, same conglomerate) 'reporting' on a Fox News story.


Just FYI, this is a variation of the Genetic Fallacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_fallacy


Why would I spend my energy and time to investigate a story from a source with such a low credibility(i.e fox news)? It's like reading Russia Today to understand the reasons and the current status of the war in Ukraine. Surely I can find something of value there but who has time and skills to extract that value?


Care to elaborate what scams? I never considered someone could be scammed using uber


It happened a few times that drivers picked up the ride, then they’d simply not move. It forces you to cancel the ride and in effect they get paid for doing nothing. Usually this type of scam happens at late hours and in areas where people are known to have partied so they dont notice or dont bother reporting to uber.


>> That guy is bankrupt and homeless now. His medallion was worthless

Good riddance! The reason why people rushed to uber was that the taxi services were so bad. You can still see people near the taxi station/taxi cars waiting for uber. Wonder why... That being said it looks like, unfortunately, the taxi industry is not over yet.


Good riddance to that person?


Yup. My slavish devotion to “personal responsibility” means I can’t even understand how decisions made at a corporation, insulated from the very personal responsibility I care so much about and powered by unlimited piles of cash can run human lives.


Homeless is an exaggeration. That guy is just bankrupt now. I don't understand why it took so long for many of those medallion holders to declare bankruptcy, though. I suspect it's because they are often immigrants from cultures where bankruptcy (or the equivalent) is associated with shame... In the US, bankruptcy is (or should be) associated with freedom.

The real asshole is the $TAXI guy. I wonder what happened to him.


The broken system and the shitty service it provided to customers.


By the transitive property of riddance


Who thought people don't like to use a volatile "coin" to pay groceries?


A lot of people who have dealt with much worse volatility in their national currency thought it was a good idea. Many national currencies have performed so much worse than this.


You set a pin/password to unlock the webauth storage. That's the first "first password". For example if you use ios it kay require your phone faceID or pin to "login" into services just like they do on appstore installs


I think technology is the solution not cave living conditions. Nobody will signup for poverty.


Most of the world lives using far less resources and polluting less than the US. Not all live in poverty, far from it.


Why assume the only alternative to American overconsumption is a a primitive existence?


> Why assume the only alternative to American overconsumption is a a primitive existence?

did I fall asleep in class when they mentioned that it was the American pollution that was particularly bad for the world?

if blame-pointing is the primary concern here, doesn't China produce something like double the amount of CO2 emissions compared to the US?


Not per capita. Plus, the American army alone, which doesn’t need to adhere to any carbon limiting rule and isn’t counted into the US’s carbon emissions, is known to produce more CO2 than many industrialized nations.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2019/06/13/report...


>doesn't China produce something like double the amount of CO2 emissions compared to the US?

Certainly not per capita. And China and other developing countries have been emitting large amounts of co2 for only a very short period relatively speaking. We have gained the benefits of industrialisation but other poorer nations are beating the costs. This is why American and European pollution is different and must be addressed as a priority.


I don't think that makes sense. The only thing that matters is how much CO2 is emitted. The climate doesn't care about what is fair.


The climate doesn’t care about what is fair, but people do and this needs to be considered if we want to succeed.

Most individuals in China consume way less than most individuals in the US and emit less carbon. That they live under the same totalitarian govt is unlikely to make them sympathetic to the view that their personal sacrifice should be higher as we fight a global challenge.


>> is unlikely to make them sympathetic to the view that their personal sacrifice should be higher as we fight a global challenge.

I doubt they are willingly making sacrifices. They are just forced to do that...the poor people consume less because they cannot grab more.


The problem is that everyone plays this game.

The voters blame the politicians. The politicians blame the voters for voting wrong. The communists blame capitalism. Capitalism blames capitalism. The consumers blame the producers for producing the wrong thing. The producers blame the consumers for wanting the wrong thing. The east blames the west. The west blames the east. Cats blame dogs. Dogs blame cats.

In a sense yeah. They are all right, they are all right because we are all to blame. Each and every one of us bear this guilt. We all could have done differently. And if we keep sitting in a circle pointing fingers at each other, if we don't all own up to this responsibility, who is to blame won't matter, because there will hardly be anyone left to point fingers in a few hundred years.

We either fix this together or we all lose alone (although comforted by the thought that surely someone else was more at fault).


Historical emissions are still in the atmosphere, continually heating it up.

And per-capita emissions today are still vastly higher in North America and (most of) Western Europe than the rest of the world.


Sure, but history is immutable. The only thing we can change is future emissions.


History can determine who should have the highest remaining allowance.


What you will find is that everyone will have a reason why they aren't as bad as the other group, and forge on as though it's someone else's problem. There is always someone else who is more to blame, more at fault.


That sounds like a cop out. The historical data is accurate. And there is a historical basis for reparations being a thing that works. Similar things have been done successfully before. The best way to get countries to drop out and not participate is for countries to feel like it's not a fair deal. Make it a fair deal and you attract everyone to the table.


That's how it works though. What you end up with is different groups looking at different data to support whatever narrative is convenient for them. Then they call the other people idiots who can't see what is blatantly obvious.


That's not how it works and that's not what you end up with. See how easy that is? I'm stopping here because this discussion has far more noise than signal.


> That's not how it works and that's not what you end up with.

I'll invite you to consider the difficulty in getting people to agree in a question so trivial as to whether to wear masks i public in 2020.


Why does China produce so much CO2? Making products for Westerners hugely contributes to that, doesn't it? So yeah, the blame really does need to point to Western consumption habits.


>> Why did Europe become so dependent on Russian Energy?

For the same reason the U.S became so depended on China for manufacturing of electronics and most of the world on OPEC for energy. These bad actors provide good value for money, at least for the short term.


I assume there were not many interested to get the shots. Maybe they were ineffective for the latest strains too.


As all the other vaccines presently.


Except the latest bivalent Moderna and Pfizer shots, not yet bought by many governments.


The older Moderna / Pfizer shots also prevent deaths and serious hospitalizations, if that's what you're worried about.

It's not what I'm worried about.


U.S sells a lot of oil and gas and as it happens Europe needs both. A lot of capital is fleeing from Europe and other risky markets(China) to safe havens( the U.S). All this in addition to the fed rate cuts.


Did you mean rate hikes? Isn't US Fed raising?


Rate hikes indeed


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