From my research ‘Salt’ meant fool, ‘salt of the earth’ is like a ‘bless your heart sort’ of matter. The implications for Salary would mean that the soldiers were being fooled by accepting what they were given as payment. They also say the Lord works in mysterious ways.
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joenathanone commented on New PFAS discovered with novel testing method research.unc.edu/2023/12/... · Posted by u/adomasm3
How safe are these? It is cool science, but so far PFAS seem to be poisoning us. Are some PFAS considered safe? Or as a class are they all harmful?
Details: https://www.epa.gov/pfas/our-current-understanding-human-hea...
Good video on the topic here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8qGtEVh7oQ
This is what happens when the EPA's rules state chemical companies, can more or less, police themselves.
We've detected PFOAs in rainwater/clouds, in the artic, etc (See https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.2c02765)
They are going to lead to further health problems down the road.
This can lead to bio-death of the planet.
What calculus do you propose everyone uses to work out where the funds should be allocated? Who decides? How do we account for technology that was created as part of the war effort i.e. computers, jet engines, the internet etc?
Things that sustain life (intentionally) should take priority in my opinion.
Why did this study take so long? So much spent on war in the meantime
joenathanone commented on YouTube is now blocking ad blockers so I make ads run faster old.reddit.com/r/webdev/c... · Posted by u/znpy
What is the stance of the people who work against the revenue generation of the services they consume?
Should YouTube be a free service or what?
It's only a semi-ironic question. Perhaps someone has a vision for how it all works out.
Full disclosure: I work on programmatic advertising technologies.
If the USPS was never a public service America would literally look differently. Maybe social media(including YouTube) is the modern day USPS, the primary way Americans interact/communicate with each other.
Are we going to prosecute all long-tail problems in any product? Often it takes years or decades to unveil a problem and changing a chip design is multi-year task. So even if Intel knew AVX could lead to attacks, a timely fix might not have been possible.
> Are we going to prosecute all long-tail problems in any product?
Hopefully yes, if it’s proven the vendor knew but released anyway or didn’t disclose.
It seems you missunderstood me, I did not say they were for hire. But they were after money. And they got money by convincing students they can get internationaly accepted and sought for MBAs, while they were worthless in reality. And wikipedia was promoting that fraudulent school for 4 years, repeatedly deleting sources exposing the scam.
That was organized. And maybe they found new projects to work on after the old got exposed too much, or indeed freelance, sell out their wiki skills to other malicious actors. At the moment it is all not really clear to me.
This person made thousands of other legitimate changes, it seems a stretch to say someone would do all that just as a marketing tactic, that is a whole lot of effort for questionable results. I mean, how many people go to Wikipedia for college recommendations? How many people are going to attend a school they otherwise wouldn’t because they looked it up on Wikipedia? I’m sure it’s not zero, but we can’t be talking about many.
"It's not like they lost anything"
If you read about the original incident, linked in another comment:
https://www.newsweek.com/2015/04/03/manipulating-wikipedia-p...
it means they lost the power to use Wikipedia to promote another scam. The original account was no troll doing it for the lulz, they were after money and possibly actually a group of people. So either this revelation is now fake for whatever reason, or there is more going on. In either case, all of the activity of said admin (Lourdes) should probably be looked at with concern. Possible other scams to be found.
It seems like you are reading into it too much, the account only ever shilled for one company, not that it makes it okay, but that makes it more likely a personal affiliation rather than an admin for hire.
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