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console.log('first script start');
function sleep(milliSeconds){
    var startTime = new Date().getTime();                    // get the current time
    while (new Date().getTime() < startTime + milliSeconds); // hog cpu until time's up
}

sleep(2000)
console.log('first script end');

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Notes from Coed:Ethics conference, London, 13 July 2018

Cori Crider - "When data kills" / Weaponised AI

• Imam Salem bin Ali Jaber preached in Yemen against Islamic extremism; guest at a wedding of relative; hit by a US Hellfire missile fired from a drone. Relative Faisal made contact with Cori, went to Washington DC. No explanation ever made by government (although compensation was paid).
• Decision-making process behind the attack not known exactly. But there is significant evidence that such attacks serve to further radicalise people; attack results in ~3x more new recruits than extremists killed by attack.
• Most drone attacks are not on named individuals, but rather "signature strikes" — a euphemism for killing people the military doesn't even know, but who match a certain behavioural pattern (perhaps based on metadata — Hayden: "we kill people based on metadata"
• Skynet (known through Snowden relevations): use machine learning to try to find courier

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const parseLocaleNumber = (input, locale) => {
    const formatter = Intl.NumberFormat(locale);
    const [, { value: thousandSeparator }] = formatter.formatToParts(11111);
    const [, { value: decimalSeparator }] = formatter.formatToParts(1.1);

    return parseFloat(input
        .replace(new RegExp('\\' + thousandSeparator, 'g'), '')
        .replace(new RegExp('\\' + decimalSeparator), '.')
    );
}

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<details>
<summary>yarn@v3</summary>

```
➤ YN0000: ┌ Resolution step
➤ YN0032: │ better-sqlite3@npm:8.0.1: Implicit dependencies on node-gyp are discouraged
➤ YN0061: │ request@npm:2.88.2 is deprecated: request has been deprecated, see https://github.com/request/request/issues/3142
➤ YN0061: │ uuid@npm:3.4.0 is deprecated: Please upgrade  to version 7 or higher.  Older versions may use Math.random() in certain circumstances, which is known to be problematic.  See https://v8.dev/blog/math-random for details.
➤ YN0061: │ har-validator@npm:5.1.5 is deprecated: this library is no longer supported
➤ YN0032: │ fsevents@npm:2.3.2: Implicit dependencies on node-gyp are discouraged