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Stevia (the plant) naturally has kind of a slight bitter-ish anise aftertaste in the background. Not something I mind personally, but I'm sure others do.

Personally I don't know how much this taste is in the purified compounds themselves. I know many of the early "stevia packets" also exhibited these same sort of characteristics, but it seems to have lessened over time. (Then again, some of this may be due to reformulation. For instance, Truvia switched away from pure stevia-compounds to stevia-compounds-plus-erythritol several years ago if I recall.)
I think it's reasonable to give something 2 stars even if it has what the reviewer believes to be massive flaws...It seems to be a usable product, as long as the user is very technically proficient and/or lives off the grid...I mean, nice physical design should merit at least one star...

But I'm being mostly selfish here. The reason why I prefer these kind of reviews to be 2-star instead of 1-star-because-of-critical-flaws is because I usually don't read 1-star reviews, as that section is usually full of people complaining about shipping errors or personal grudges. The 2-star and 3-star reviews offer much more signal-to-noise.
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I haven't yet read it, but have been thinking about getting a copy of "Chemistry: a Very Short Introduction" by Peter Atkins

http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/2015/03/chemistry-very-sho...
For what it's worth, stevia drinks still taste icky to me, though they are not as bad as sucralose or aspartame based drinks.
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The number of cards open is less important than the average age across your cards.

https://www.creditkarma.com/article/credit-score-factors
So what's the point of saying it's not synthetic then?

Cyanide is a very good case in point; bitter almonds will kill you in a relatively nasty way (confusion -> vertigo -> seizures -> apnea -> cardiac arrest) if you eat 30-50 of them. At lower doses, chronic exposure causes paralysis, hypothyroidism and liver and kidney damage.
He is correct though, it's even in the sentence you quoted:

"...single-purpose functions that respond to cloud events..."

They are meant to react to events within your infrastructure, rather than being public facing application endpoints.
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Here US, some stores when using a chip credit card (not debit/checking account btw) requires a pin instead of a signature, not sure if they call it a pin but it's 4 digits to verify purchases . . . instead of signature.
I think you have to own at least a little bit of the child DAO to drain it, and presumably only the attacker owns any.
So what if it's illegal. They're disrupting the regulatory apparatus.

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Most Airbnbs that I've used aren't someone "sharing their apartment". They're dedicated Airbnb properties. It'd be interesting to see an actual breakdown.

Also, renting a space during a trip was something people were already doing. People were already paying money to stay in a strange place, like a hotel.

As far as I know, the vast majority of people don't currently rent clothing of any kind on a regular basis.
Yep. I worked for a company that "did" debit/credit card handling at the point of sale ( not clearing ) and the Smart Card guys were right down the hall. This around 1989-1995. The Smart Card guys mostly sold to Europe. It hasn't much caught on here, and I'd say that's mainly due to inertia.
Actually, zero calorie stuff is pretty much by definition stuff we haven't decided to "deal with". It doesn't get absorbed directly, and we never created a means to break it down into something that could be absorbed. The goal for a non-caloric sweetener is to be noticed by receptors on the tongue by chance while the rest of your body explicitly ignores it. Biological response is the "problem".
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It won't because usually your options are 50 Mbit line (maybe 100 if you're really lucky) or a 1Gb line for the same price.

I'd happily take the arbitration clause for 10x and probably 20x the speedup.
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> Saying it's natural suggests that we have atleast evolved with it in the environment, likely interacted with it at times and have developed biological means of interacting and dealing with it.

The post you replied to has already refuted your argument. We evolved with poisonous mushrooms in our environment and our body's "means of dealing with it" are to die. That's hardly the gold standard for biological responses, don't you think?
Agree. If Google and Apple can do per-app passwords for apps or websites that don't work with 2-factor authentication it seems like Visa should be able to kick out a per-merchant number for Comcast, Netflix, etc.

If the underlying credit card number is compromised, just change that and leave the virtual in place.
I really enjoyed all the wireless handheld CC terminals in Canada where the transaction felt like I was doing the work, and at my own pace. Much nicer than restaurants here as you describe.
Even ground nutmeg is poisonous (in doses of 2+ tbsp)
Yeah I tend to think if another answer has double the points of an accepted answer, that answer should come first.
But in turn, if a company is getting 20% profit, why do they need people to invest?
Since I picked the font, I'll take that as a compliment! Principled, I'll take. We try our best not to be stubborn.
Surely as a site, there's something you guys can do. At least help dampen the negative effects these articles push. These things are incredibly bad for private journalists without connections to wsj (or similar) who still have quality stories. See my comment below.
I've always taken the "natural is better" argument to be based on what else is in the product. The drug industry has a long history of taking a complex natural product and isolating out specific chemicals, then patenting a manufacturing process for those chemicals to sell them as drugs. Sometimes that's fine, but there are many cases where the drugs have side-effects that the natural product doesn't have and that's due to the other stuff in the natural product.

So your analogy really should be between lab-synthesized vitamin C and a piece of citrus fruit. The fruit is going to be better for your overall health because it's got more in it than just L-ascorbic acid. For example, it's got fiber, which is likely to slow down the passage of the vitamin through your digestive system, which will help you absorb more of it for an equal dose.
In the UK at least, contactless payment with your card is pervasive, so Apple Pay and "tap and hope your finger is correctly aligned or you look like a muppet" is a worse experience than my card's much cleaner "tap to pay"
Maybe; but it's been ages since I've seen a swiped card transaction go that slow, and the card swipe uses the same card reader hardware, the same network technology, and the same "and so".
There is an attack on chip-and-PIN cards when the ATM system hasn't been upgraded to chip cards. The problem is that the PIN for chip-and-PIN is same as for ATM withdrawals. The terminal also gets enough information from chip cards to clone the magnetic strip. The result is that compromised terminal can produce cloned cards that can be used to withdraw cash from ATMs.
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If you know of something we can do, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com. But please stop taking this thread further off topic.
I enjoyed the first couple of Yahoo/Meyer post-mortems, but at this point, it just seems like people are flogging a dead horse and taking potshots at Meyer while she's down.

She took on a hard job at a struggling company with minimal core competencies and a downward trajectory. Yes, she spent big and made a number of risky bets, which ultimately didn't pay off. Few people took a stand against her when she made those bets, but now that we know the outcome, everyone's suddenly an expert who knew better all along.

Yes, she wasn't able to save a sinking ship, and yes, we now know that she's no Steve Jobs. But that just makes her an average executive, in the same league as most SVPs/CEOs out there. It doesn't make her a failure or incompetent. Let's bury this dead horse already.
I don't consume sucralose if I can avoid - not because I believe it's toxic, but because I've observed that my short-term memory is significantly deteriorated after consuming it.

It might be the placebo effect, but I'm fairly confident it's not. Placebo effect or not, it has a discernible impact on my cognitive ability, so I avoid it.
Yes, thanks, I didn't think I'd actually need to be that explicit... lesson learned!
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This is why everyone who does carry a gun carries it concealed.
One important difference in practice is that zip files needs to be saved to disk to be extracted. gzip files on the other hand can be stream unzipped i.e curl http://example.com/foo.tar.gz | tar zxvf - is possible but not with zip files. I am not sure if this is a limitation of the unzip tool. I would love to know if there is a work around to this.
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You can make the same argument for poisonous mushrooms, but I wouldn't recommend consuming them.
>Also, why does the molecule look like insecticide or flame retardant?

Certain insecticides[0] and flame-retardants[1] are among the more infamous organohalides. Sucralose is also an organohalide.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDT
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrabromobisphenol_A
The post is over two years old and has a score of +892 (easily in the top 0.1% of posts). It's not going anywhere.
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This is a really weird place to post things about veterinary practice. It's like going to a veterinary message board and posting articles about running a software business. Doesn't make any sense and also comes across (to me anyway) as spammy.
I'm always amazed by people thinking it is possible for distant civilizations to pick up random radio signals (typically television broadcasts) that were transmitted on earth.

Any signals spreading out in space already has to deal with an inverse square law due to the wavefront being spread out. However, the amount of noise stays roughly the same all over the universe (as near as we can tell). This means that "pretty soon" (depending on the original broadcast power) the signal will be orders of magnitude weaker the the noise level in any receiver.

There are some techniques to pull up a signal from under the noise floor, eg using matched filters and the like. This is how GPS works. However, can only be done if you already know the signal that you are looking for. For GPS, this is not really a problem since it is well known what signal any given satellite will transmit at any given time. However, with TV shows (or any similarly information dense signal), the signal content is by definition not known already to another civilization.

This is not even going into the fact that high-information signals can be pretty indistinguishable from noise anyway if you don't know the exact modulation type and parameters used.

Pretty much the only way aliens will be able to enjoy our television broadcasts is if they come close enough to visit the solar system anyway, and by then they might as well land and look at cable TV...

(For more information, take a look at http://www.bidstrup.com/seti.htm or similar)
You also have to hit "yes" or otherwise agree to the amount. I do wonder what legal purpose a "signature" actually serves these days. The doodles definitely do get stored and sent to the processor. Sometimes they're also on the receipt.
I'm building a full fledged app. http://blog.improve.ai/ Once there is an Express type framework on top of Lambda and API Gateway, it will be a natural development model.
Well that's definitely not true. Many of the most potent toxins known to us are produced by living organisms – for an example, actually read the comment you replied to. You can find examples of substances that are spectacularly lethal to us from all of the five major kingdoms of life. Merely saying something is natural does not imply we co-evolved with it at all, and even if we had, it doesn't automatically follow that selection always gives us the means to "deal with it" in the way you suppose.
This seems similar to WalMart's recent decision to stop taking some credit cards in Canada.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11887469
I have an unknown autoimmune disease not sufficiently understood by the medical establishment (or anyone), and not well treated by more common treatments. The helminth thing (hookworm) didn't seem that risky seeing as how 50%+ of the developing world carries them asymptomatically, and they are trivial to expel.
Upvoted, but I'll add that I'm surprised at how small you found the effect of naming things a,b,c,... with no mnemonics at all. (I skimmed the shorter paper.)
It certainly should, and does for me. If it doesn't for you, that sounds like a bug.
I lived in the US then moved to Ontario. I find that about 70% of card readers here have "NO TAP" taped across the top. Since the insert chip, enter code, wait, and approve process actually takes longer than the swipe-and-sign in the US, I've found the time spent, averaged over my actually purchases, to be about the same. It probably has more potential to improve in the future.
Contactless is standard on the London tube now - you tap a reader on a barrier with your card or phone, and the barrier opens. Same on exit. The system works out the cost as you go, and the maximum cost of multiple journeys is automatically capped.

Chip and pin definitely would definitely be too slow for this. The barriers have to be fast enough to process huge numbers of people at peak times.

Contactless has eliminated all the usual queuing for tickets and/or prepay card topups - except for tourists.
I bought them using bitcoin from wormswell dot com. This was about 28 months ago. Buying helminths for self-infection from an anonymous and uncertified vendor seems crazy, but you can easily verify what you've done (after doing it) because every worm will cause a small raised bump and itch like mad. You can literally count them. I figured that the risk was mostly in getting a tiny vial of water, not in getting something more dangerous.
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Well yes but at some point in the pipeline the byte code is long gone. So you can use it for anything by using just the parts beyond that point.

But really we don't directly compile the IR. We have an interpreter for IR, and we JIT compile the interpreter, sort of constant folded with the IR. It achieves the same thing without getting more technical.

https://github.com/graalvm/sulong
Is Urbit some kind of performance art project? Every time I read about it, it feels like I'm reading Edward Lear.

Edit: Example from Reddit: "sensible reason there are so many four-letter words is that they are symbols in the kernel, and four-letter symbols fit into 31 bits, which lets us use machine ints as an interpreter optimization rather than calling out to GMP."

Sensible?! Hahahaha! This has to be comedy. They are bigint-encoding identifiers? There is no sane reason to do this.

OK, I'm just going to go through the website here:

"If Bitcoin is money and Ethereum is law, Urbit is land."

Wow, how expositional.

"A 32-bit ship (like ~firbyr-napbes) is called a "planet." A 16-bit ship (like ~pollev) is a "star." An 8-bit ship (like ~mun) is a "galaxy.""

Edward Lear on subnets?

"Much as all real-estate titles in England trace back to William the Conqueror, all certificates in Urbit trace back to ~zod."

All hail!

"As an Urbit user, these basics are all you need to know."

Really? Because I still have no idea what the hell is supposed to be going on here.

"A principle called "Zooko’s triangle" says that a practical identity system can achieve any two of these goals."

Disproved by Namecoin, FWIW.

"For more on Urbit's governance design, see our beliefs and principles and our interim constitution."

Oh great, so this "personal server" project (as described on the front page) has a constitution and a statement of principles?

Seriously, the only way I can interpret this is as some sort of abstract absurdist comedy project.
You've detached threads before, why not this one? :|
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> Agreed. If this soft and hard fork idea really goes through, it seems that now you are in fact getting the worst of both worlds: For your contract, you have to write code that apparently is very hard to get right and bug-free[1], while at the same time you are at the whim of a "community" -- whose decisions (sorry, "suggestions") can apparently be announced by one guy in a blog post -- not to deem what you are doing an "attack".

That's not really fair. His decree does not make it so. It still must be accepted by a majority of the miners, and this is and always has been a known property of the system. The collective will of the miners ultimately trumps the contract system. However, consensus there is purposely extremely difficult to achieve, and likely only possible in extreme cases like this.

Since this was a known property of the system, and since the agreement is inherently democratic, I don't see how this is a problem. Hard forks are simply another behavior of the network. Nothing more, nothing less.
Where I am in California only about 1/3 of merchants are accepting chip cards (even though I believe the deadline was October of last year).
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a very close friend who happens to be very petite (5'1") would always know when her equally-small roommate would wear her dresses and tops without asking - they were stretched out.

to my (albeit analytical) eyes, they looked the same size and could wear their clothes interchangeably. I've certainly wore clothing my 6'2 roommate has worn, and vice versa, being a few inches shorter.

Without women founders to address this problem in the first place, I have to wonder if concerns for fabric used in womens clothing ever crossed their minds.
That's a fair point, but in an interview she's also assessing you. If she sees no other women working there, then it could be a red flag.

From her perspective no other women could signal that all the other women left, or all other women interviewing noticed something bad that she missed.
Seems like https://www.renttherunway.com but peer to peer and for less affluent users. Rent the runway is still not cheap but it's much cheaper than buying a dress and only wearing it once.
Isn't pouring millions of dollars into new, unproven things the entire premise of venture capitalism? Great risk for great reward.

The outrageous investment in Ethereum/DAO does seem to highlight a desire for governance models outside of the corporatist status quo we live under today, though. Personally, I don't think it's bonkers to yearn for something better. But it's a hope that needs to be tempered with vigilance if people are going to avoid being duped.
I hate paywalls as much as the next guy but I've been asking myself this question of late. With newspapers closing down left right and center, with people constantly complain about to dwindling number of news sources, with users increasing unwilling to entertain web ads, how can we fund quality journalism?
> While I hate the idea of artificial sweeteners

Don't take this as a personal attack on your opinion, but I just don't understand this. The distinction that we make between artificial chemicals and natural chemicals seems to be whether it was invented by humans or invented by evolution. That's a fine distinction to make, but why are human invented chemicals seen as the _worse_ of the two? When evolution invents a chemical it's completely random and untested. When humans invent a chemical they vet it through rigorous study and testing. Given a random chemical from nature and a random chemical from human labs, I'll take my chances on humans.

Real-life examples of evolution engineering... heart conditions, dementia, HIV, anemia, etc. Anemia is a good example, because it makes humans immune to malaria. Just a few side effects though...

I feel like our track record is stellar compared to all the follies of evolution. So why are our chemicals viewed in such a negative light compared to these Loki designed chemicals? It's absurd.

Speaking specifically about sugar versus artificial sweeteners, all our studies to date have indicated that sugar is decidedly toxic at average consumption levels, whereas sucralose/aspartame is non-toxic. Again, it seems like nature designed a worse chemical than us.
It's relevant because being able to say you use a natural sweetener will greatly increase your potential customer base. Regardless of the actual merits of "natural," a whole lot of people believe in the merits.
Beyond that, your other options will also usually include arbitration clauses. If it's a deal-breaker for choosing Google, it'll be a deal-breaker for choosing anyone else.
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And I think the whole Yahoo story vindicated Google's decision to limit her rise. Of course back then everyone was too busy shouting sexist (not completely without reason) at anyone that doubted her management chops or her ability to save Yahoo.

The flamewars of the future after Theranos and Yahoo will be endlessly entertaining.
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I received a debit card from my relatively small credit union a few days ago. I was very surprised to see that it didn't have a chip in it.

It seems likely that the fees they earn from "signature transactions" must be significant enough that they don't want anyone using it as a chip card.

An alternative answer is that the cost of the cards themselves is so much that they don't want to do it. When I lost my wallet, a different credit union charged me $10 for a replacement card. And neither had a chip. The other banks did it for free.
Yes, and it would be nice if the compiler could produce such an annotated version automatically, instead of the programmer having to use the highly error-prone technique of typing it all out manually.

For a single function it's not a bug deal, but if you are migrating 10k lines, I'd view it as a near necessity.
You can't do that with a .zip file because the file header information is actually at the end of the file. You could work around that by sending the header first, though.
Amazing that someone who failed, gets such compensation. Top execs should be paid proportional to profit. Of course this would never happen, but one can dream.
Did it improve your condition? What was the strangest part? What precautions did you take and how did you record your data? How did you control for other things like mood, placebo effect etc.
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Does it? I don't recall it being much faster in Ireland or The Netherlands.

They do have the nifty portable readers, though.