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> "too many people are non-functional opioid addicts"

Part of the issue with things like heroin is that unlike many weaker drugs the highs are brief. Heroin addicts are as a result very often highly functioning if they don't have to worry about where to get their next high and can get highly consistent doses.

I worked with one years ago, and we only realised when a series of large busts drove prices through the roof and he started spending his time looking really nervous and on the phone until suddenly disappearing for two days once prices normalised and he "made up" for the stress by staying high most of those two days before checking himself into a hospital (which was when we finally found out). He was married and had kids, and neither his family or his co-workers had noticed a thing through years of addiction prior to that, despite having to struggle with an illegal supply.

There are lots of problems with heroin, but many of the worst ones are a direct result of addicts inability to meet their needs in a quick and "safe" way.
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Well then I suppose that's the question. Did the court specifically say that software cannot be used or did the court provide a minimum standard of quality that can be applied to any method?
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The tech used to dig the channel tunnel would not exactly be a zero concrete solution either. I would not be surprised if free-standing underwater tubes could be built with less per storage volume, e.g. due to very different safety requirements.

Opportunistic use of caves and the like could hardly ever be worthwhile because it does not scale.
Some time ago I applied for a job at a company that makes UAVs with combustion engines. They had Oberon on the "nice to have" list of skills they were expecting from applicants.
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Austria is laughing at Germany for not building reservoirs on top of hills (mountain range not needed).

I fear water based cells will be as damaging as salmon farms.
Basically. Or at least, giving stuff away was cool, because it cost very little. But once it becomes expensive, why divert resources from paying students?

Some wider implications are very alarming. Consider all of the video content that libraries hold. If it's not ADA-compliant, having it available to the general public is arguably discriminatory.
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I also love how the very people who can spend tens of hours on configuring vim, emacs, bash, zsh or their IDE can't be bothered to spend 5 seconds disabling the Office spellchecker if it bothers them so much :)
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A reasonable solution would be similar to what has traditionally (since the early 20th century) been done with books for the blind in the US via the Library of Congress.

See: https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-13-167/

The government, at public expense, provides Braille books and "talking books" to blind readers on demand. If someone requests a title that doesn't have a Braille edition, the (Federal) government will pay to have one made. They're distributed through the public library system and recovered after use to be lent out again.

A few years ago there were some articles around about the Braille and talking editions of the Harry Potter books, which were produced so that they could be released at the same time as the regular print editions for sighted readers. Quite cool. I think the government will also do periodicals (there are regularly Braille copies of national magazines at my local library, which they seem to get out within a few days of the regular edition).

Aside from the unwieldy size of Braille books, it seems like a pretty nice system. It's a trivial cost in government terms, and it serves a community that would otherwise not have a reliable source of content. I'm sure it's imperfect and could use improvement (though I think they now do talking books digitally), as most public programs could, but it's existed and been basically uncontroversial for generations.

What it does not do, of course, is it does NOT obligate traditional publishers to produce Braille editions. That would be ridiculous, and would vastly cut down on the number of books that could be published by increasing the cost, and would result in more Braille content than there's really a demand for anyway. It's a completely insane way to try to increase accessibility.
It's too bad this was written in a way to alienate half the country. The need for decentralized, robust preservation of knowledge and data is non-partisan.
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But is there a braille version of every book that they hold?
I based my numbers on http://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/30745/what-is-the-e...

Their breakdown is based around top of the line equipment. If you think 50mp can be pulled from film, I'd like to see how.
If you fill it up with water ~90% (percentage depending on concrete thickness and sphere radius), it should have a similar density to water, which means you can lower it with the same sort of winch used in underwater construction.
Is there some more technical description somewhere? They probably do not use the Bitcoin Proof of Work technique?
Trustless trust meaning that with a blockchain you don't have to trust any party involved to be certain data hasn't been tampered with. There's a huge number of agents involved in supply chain management not all of whom can be trusted.

There are third party institutes, tests labs and the like whose only job is ensure everyone plays by the rules. Making matters worse not all of these institutes can be trusted either in every case every time. It's turtles all the way down ...

The blockchain perhaps is not a comprehensive solution to all of these issues but it eliminates a significant opportunity for fraud right from the start.

I'd go as far as to say that supply chain management probably is one of the few truly viable use cases for the blockchain.
And both are the reason why German universities rank so badly in international rankings. They are attached to the universities, forming clusters, but their accomplishments are not measured anywhere.
That is entirely dependent on interpretation. Taking a comment saying "burglaries went away" at face value to mean ALL burglaries for all causes is just... diametrically opposed to any meaningful debate.

Its obvious that it means drug related burglaries went away, which is a claim we have fairly good evidence to support.
> too expensive to add

It won't be expensive once we have better speech recognition and NLP 10 years from now. Seriously, just make the content available. Not to mention that leaving the content up might even inspire volunteer and crowd-sourced efforts to caption some of the higher-quality content.

I'm all for promoting accessibiltiy but can we not do it at the expense of impairing others? Hiking trails in Yosemite are not handicapped-accessible; does that mean we should shut them down?
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Why don't more programming languages support numeric literals written with comma separators (or periods for europe.
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Ironically, it appears to be the laws specific to California that are putting Berkeley in a bind. In other states, they'd be able to cite administrative burden and tell the complainants to pound sand. But CA has a well-intentioned but terribly-used law that would still allow users to claim discrimination and force Berkeley to cut them a check for damages.

It is unfortunate that Berkeley couldn't transfer ownership of the archive to an institution located in a different jurisdiction.

The ultimate solution would appear to require a legislative change in CA, though, so perhaps by pulling everything down and creating some public concern, they are doing the right thing in the long run.

Good luck if you live in CA getting the law changed...
Maybe they could be forced to.
Would a cylinder be strong enough? The Germans are talking about operating at a depth of 700m, which is more than twice the maximum depth (300m) of the example analyzed in the paper you cited.
Blatant plagiarism of an anonymous press release. Dreadful! Mass circulation newpapers do this on a daily basis for rather obvious reasons. WUWT comes into this category as the world's most popular climate website.

The copy is not quite word for word: Watts deletes 'contact Urs Schaltegger, [telephone number]'. For which, I guess Professor Schaltegger is grateful.

The finding that climate warming is not the only explanation of global ecological disasters in the past on Earth is of course of minor interest.
OK, but what was the video created for? Not to put online, I bet.
Depending on the latencies and frame drawing speeds, a Zapper-type ("show a light on the screen, poll whether the gun sees it") might work, but probably not. A Super Scope-type (going off hblanks) definitely would not.
Which is a great story but it's a little terrifying if it's "System working as intended"

It seem to have only come this far because they doubled down on some already outlandishly scumbag behaviour. If they'd just stopped this might have all blown over for them.
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I think it's fair to say they are, although I included the "(and/or for fun)" to cover the usual kind of anarchy.
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I don't think that's really humour - that's an important piece of information.
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The cost of medical grade heroin is a tiny fraction of the costs to society of the crimes to support illegal heroin.

So if the issue is money, then the case is even more strongly in favour of legalisation.

We don't even need to give it away for free - just giving addicts the opportunity of buying medical grade heroin at cost would massively improve things.

Even better: Heroin addicts can generally function relatively well when they don't have to chase their next high constantly. Giving them a secure supply would let many of them hold down jobs and pay taxes and cover their own costs.

The economics are all in favour of shutting down the "war on drugs" for all but the very worst drugs. Incidentally, though, most of the truly nasty drugs are not drugs people tend to want, but synthetics introduced to circumvent drug laws. Most of them will largely have demand evaporate overnight if people could legally get safer alternatives.
That is merely an optimization though. You can simply

time sh -c 'foo | bar'
In Canada they are very strict.

After a minor operation I got exactly one oxycontin pill :)
Wait hospital admissions? Really, why?
It's not clear that there's really that much demand for captioning. There's a CA law that's created a perverse opportunity for aggrieved individuals to try and extort money out of public institutions who put content online; it's not clear to me that they represent a bona fide constituency in need of captioning. (I'm sure that such a bona fide need does exist, but I don't think the people pushing Berkeley in this case are it.)

Transcribing every video might be a terrible use of resources, unless there are other benefits of the transcripts (which might be the case; search would be a nice side effect).

A better solution would be to allow a user to request a captioned version of a video and then have it farmed out to volunteers. It would be a much more reasonable amount of effort (with some ratelimiting to prevent asshat behavior or scripting) and you'd be sure to transcribe the content that users actually want first. By chunking a video up, you might be able to transcribe it quite quickly, too. If I did need video captioning, I'd much rather have a system like that, vs. hoping that some multi-year effort to transcribe everything has hit the one video I need today.

However, it's not clear that such a solution would actually help Berkeley, because of the asinine way the laws are written.
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If you have ample and cheap/free storage space, keep all three. The only thing not "easily" fixed (not easily, but no magic) is the phosphor on the inside. All other components can be upgraded and replaced by competent people. Don't let them be a drag on your soul and don't feel guilty. Use the third with joy!

If you don't have space, throw them away of course, no worldly possession is worth hassle in itself. But if you keep them, their value as cultural artifacts will continue to increase. Also with time, more people will be willing to pay the (high) cost of rebuilding them. I predict there will be at least one canonical company in the US which will spend many, many years rebuilding CRTs for collectors, enthusiasts and museums.
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Also I'd be worried about pharmaceutical companies having an influence on the AI - as in making sure it doesn't know about generics and having it aggressively push their new drugs for any applicable cases. A human would be much more resilient to such machinations, on average.
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Depends on how you value the environment or human rights...
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At some point, StackOverflow is the place for user-to-user support, but with a small project, user questions would disappear in that vast ocean, I think. Github, sadly, has nothing for this.

I have a modest project with a growing user community (https://github.com/lwhite1/tablesaw), but it would be great if they could talk to each other. I would also love to be able to see what their issues are so I can address.

Suggestions greatly appreciated. (Also, I don't want to host anything, this thing is already eating my life.)
It's a good point, but there's also market forces to contend with.

If you make your new coin based on a functional language, there's fewer people who'll be able to jump in and code.

c++ looks similar enough to the other {} languages that many people will have the skills to give it a go.

Unfortunately it's different enough that you can really mess things up, but you already know that.
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Maybe not now, but they will be worth a lot. Not enough maybe to offset cost of storage if you have to pay for that kind of thing, but if you have "free" storage (which means your old electronics junk should not take a big chunk out of your other storage needs and life in general) it can definitely be worth saving stuff like that, even from a pure financial standpoint.
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ssh covers both of these cases.
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This got me intrigued, can you please explain? The accomplishments are note measured because they have a more practical/real world approach?
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If these are intended for the sea, the reinforcing bar would likely have to specialty(stainless).

Lot easier to create a skeleton in the shape of a cylinder(cassion[1]) as you said, versus a sphere.

[1] http://www.thebluebook.com/inc/img/qp/75476/rebar-cages-for-...
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Also arcade games were very often RGB, so games with artwork from arcade games could have been designed for RGB.

But I have to say, I don't think "designers" back then thought much about hardware setups different from their own!

It was different times and stuff had to ship fast, fast fast.
The "home security system" calls could be social engineering to find out if your home is protected or not. Just by listening to what they say and not saying you already have one is enough to tell the caller what they want to know.
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It also would give an unfair advantage to students of means who can afford tutors to write admissions essays, do there homework, or SAT prep programs that drill test taking strategies and rote memorization of common answers. Maybe it would be better still, when I was in school I just saw too much of this.
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Would you even have to put technology down there? I have absolutely no idea how good or bad humanity is at making very long pneumatic connections, but I would intuitively expect that the pumps and turbines involved would work on air, above the surface.
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I wonder how do those "free food" promotions make sense, business-wise. As this article shows, by doing such promotion you hit a completely different (and useless for you) clientbase - people just waiting for the promotions. This feel similar to the way most people seem to use Groupon - they're interested in using what's currently on big discount, and they won't be coming back to a place when it's on its regular pricing.
I really hope amateurs with "a {} is a {} is a {} is a {}" level skills aren't working on cryptographic or financial software in C or C++. Write Rust, though, which is {}, and at least the box of hand grenades you're giving them doesn't have all the pins pre-pulled.
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It sounds like an obsolete worldview when put like this, but it's worth bearing in mind also that "a comfortable superpower stalemate" is not really what it's ever looked like from the other side.

For the US, the decades of assorted coups, intrigue, proxy wars, military adventures, tinpot middle eastern dictators, oil crises, war on terror, drone strikes etc mostly happen somewhere off in another comfortably remote hemisphere, with US involvement small and limited to people who signed up for the job.

From the other side, all this stuff is happening near your country's borders and potentially affecting your conscripted kids. It's like the Cuban missile crisis ALL THE TIME. It's not "comfortable" at all.
What are the alternatives? Sealing Undersea caves?
I want to agree with you but in practice I can't really imagine switching -Werror outside of dev builds. The problem is that different compilers have different warnings and if your code is meant to be portable it's going to be a serious pain to avoid all the warnings all the time.

Having compilation break for a user because of a spurious warning due to a different compiler (or different compiler version) would make it a lot more painful to maintain.

For instance I started maintaining an old C++ codebase that generates a bunch of warnings when build with a modern g++, code like this:

#define M "toto"

const char *s = "tata"M;

Generates warnings like:

warning: invalid suffix on literal; C++11 requires a space between literal and string macro [-Wliteral-suffix]

Is it helpful? Sure. It is worth breaking the build for anybody using a modern g++ until I manage to fix all occurrences and release a new version? I don't think so.

An other example is building code with -Wextra which warns you when some comparisons become "nops". For instance:

int toto(int i) {

if (i <= 0xffff)
return 1;

return 0;
}

On most modern machines this will build without a hitch, but if you compile on a 16bit machine you'll get a warning saying:

warning: comparison is always true due to limited range of data type

In my experience this particular warning is generally not a problem. On the other hand the following code:

int i = 0xabcdef;

Will generate the following warning on 16bit architectures:

warning: integer constant is too large for its type

And that's potentially a lot nastier and should be an error IMO.

So I'd say the main problem is that C and C++ are way too permissive by default, things like comparison with no side effects ought to be errors, not warnings. And there are a bunch of others, for instance why on earth are these not errors :

warning: no return statement in function returning non-void
warning: ‘i’ is used uninitialized in this function

So -Werror is just killing a fly with a bazooka IMO.
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That's a great clip

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A dude on the Danish engineering society worked through the math, and indeed, rail cars don't seem feasible. Just too expensive.

I don't have too high hopes for the sphere idea either - operating turbines in seawater 700 m down seems too complicated compared to transporting the energy to land and storing it there, somehow.
Because:

a) comma has already defined meaning so it could be ambiguous - it would mean tuple (2,333) in python for example

b) even if its not the case, its easy to confuse it with floats, and you do not want apply local numerical conventions to code and discover one day that all your ints are floats because some setting was different

c) you can write it as 2_333 in growing number of languages
Global Uni rankings have a big bias toward research. What the poster is saying is that Germans do more of their research at these institutes than at their Universities so German Universities rate poorly on global lists.
I'm currently working on a DSL for manipulating tables. It's a cross the between smalltalk family (ST, Self, NewSpeak, IO), SQL, and vector languages like Q. The code translates into Java, where it executes tablesaw code. Tablesaw (https://github.com/lwhite1/tablesaw) is a very fast dataframe for java, with pretensions.

I'm mostly doing it for fun, but also to make it easier to use
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What syntax would you then use for calling a function with multiple parameters? Function f takes two ints and I call it like this: f(3,456,789)

What are its parameters?
When it is full of water, pressures are equal and drain could open from the bottom to eject water and sediment. The pressure differential could keep the valve closed when empty.
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They didn't use BTC proof of work technique.
Is a pump really that more efficient then a submarine on a elevator-cable solution?
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This undersea design also doesn't have to deal with losses in the piping system.
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- Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand

- V for Vendetta - Alan Moore/David Lloyd

- Heat: How we can stop the planet burning - George Monbiot

These are the books that quite literally changed my world view and interpretation of our place/purpose in it.
North Korea is China's laboratory for orthodox communism. They need it to remind party faithfuls what it would mean to return to the iron rice bowl (which sometimes lacks both rice and iron). Having some 25 million people occasionally suffer from hunger is preferable to losing stability in a country of 1400 million.

North Korea would collapse very quickly without China's support in fuels and food.
Oh yeah, let's have more of the ambiguity that CSVs have: is it a comma between arguments? Is it a decimal comma? Is it a thousands separator? Is my locale correct for parsing this? What was the author's intended and actual locale?

On the other hand, what improvement does this bring? ... "it is supposed to look pretty."
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