> The snowball grows passively over time naturally

Only if you push it down the mountain. Then it’s also susceptible to crashing and breaking down.

Normally what you do is you have to push the snowball manually. The bigger it gets, the more people you need to push it in a coordinated manner.

I think it’s excellent metaphor.

> vaccinating babies torture

it's irrelevant for this discussion, as it's not for sport but other purpose

It is relevant to the broader discussion about universal ethics, though.

This was headline news in Poland

I kind of did that back in the days when they released Worker KV, I tried to bulk upload a lot of data and it brought the whole service down, can confirm I was proud :D

what were your symptoms?

First year:

Very covid-like symptoms, to the point where I initially did a quick home covid test (or multiple tests if I remember) that was negative. Very distinct soreness around the crease of the hip/leg joint, probably a lymph gland.

Second year: exact same symptoms but less intense, still started antibiotics immediately

third: again same but less intense, I ignored it until general full-body joint pain occurred then immediately went on antibiotics, after a few months of that it started to clear up.

Glad that your lyme was temporary

Lyme disease and bacteria are always temporary. The long term disease/syndrome many people attribute to it is something else similar to long COVID and still debated.

This is the one area where the CDC actually does have accurate advice, Lyme is excellent at hiding itself from your immune system and tends to burrow into joint tissue where antibiotics have difficulty reaching. DON'T assume the disease is temporary, as the bacteria is well-known to cause lasting nerve damage even after it dies off completely. I have more than one friend who wasn't as lucky as me and still suffers with symptoms to this day.

Having done the research myself, it seems to be biofilms that the bacteria create leading to a "dormant" yet still metabolically active state that releases inflammatory byproducts throughout the body.

The recommended course of action seems to be disulfiram to bust those biofilms + antibiotics to finally kill it all off.

In my understanding (from some years back when I was researching this myself), Lyme takes multiple forms, and in some phase in their life cycle are able to hide inside red blood cells. Antibiotics work only for some of the forms.

Lyme Disease has existed for a very long time, it is always treatable by antibiotics and can be tested by tests. Antibiotics work.

Some researchers think that the difficulty in healing Lyme disease is related to the fact that Lyme changes form and antibiotics only target some of the forms. In some countries, doctors are forbidden to make long-term prescription for antibiotics based on the idea that chronic Lyme does not exist.

> Quality goes up by slowing down.

Not necessarily. You get biggest insights about quality after you ship, not before. Slowing down means you ship later, which means the insights are delayed. Unless you work in a rocket industry et all, slowing down will be detrimental to the quality.

IMO this is nothing more or less than a successful marketing stunt, I suspect once it gets the reach it can get, they will replace it with something less radical.

Very cool growth hack idea and I admire the fact that they were able to pull it off, as crazy as it is.

They did

N1 is just in 17 Air, no?

edit: ahh I confused it with C1X that is just in Air

I wish more laptop producers overengineered their products the way Apple does.

Expensive, complex, and difficult to repair?

Do not want.

Reliable (ie. can open after 2 weeks of sleep with full battery)

Has any attack like this been ever seen in the wild? Not saying it's impossible – but I'm just curious if this vector was ever successfully exploited.

I'm sure there are cases where the website CMS was hacked and then malware served instead of the normal install script. The `curl | sh` approach has been around forever.

And depending on what "interesting" IP address you are coming from, NSA/Microsoft/Apple will MITM your npm install / windows update / ios update accordingly.

Same in the linux ecosystem, if you look at the maintainers of popular distributions, some of them had .ru / .cn email addresses before switching to more official email addressess using the project domain - IMO this change of email addressess happened due to public pressure on russia after the Ukraine invasion. Having access to main package signing keys for a linux distribution, you can provide special packages from your linux package mirror to interesting targets.

All of these scenarios are extremely hard to prove after the fact and the parties involved are not the type of people who do public writeups.

If the website CMS is hacked, they can just swap the installable binary to one's that's hacked, too.

That’s why downloading and then executing is preferable — as the GP pointed out, you or your machine’s antivirus can have an opportunity to inspect the file prior to execution, whereas that is not an option when the bytes are streamed directly to the interpreter.