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The article makes only one tiny mention of switching away from lard for health reasons - the main thing mentioned is basically that creameries(which were Kosher) wanted to put Oreos in their ice cream, but couldn't because Oreos were not kosher at that time. I'm not sure how much health played a factor, vs the economics of capturing a large swath of the ice-cream-additions market
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This is so fascinating -

To a much, much lesser extent than this story (thankfully), I have a very distinct memory from my childhood of going to a live spaceship launch that to this day feels so vivid and real, but I have never been anywhere near such an event.

I remember even getting in "trouble" in school for telling my class that I had gone to see a spaceship's launch at show 'n tell. My teacher tried to correct me by saying I had seen it on TV or something, but I was convinced I had been there in person.

It's funny how over time, though, it blends in well with other childhood memories, it probably has compounded on itself enough times that my brain just stores it with normal memories. I guess I just have enough rationale now to understand that memories aren't always exact replications of events.
Not sure what you mean by active / passive solar.

There are some economies of scale, even for photovoltaics, so calling PV solar farms an anti-pattern is extreme. Then there's concentrated solar thermal, which has extremely strong scale merit and therefore requires farm-scale to be cost-effective.
Oreos still have HFCS and all kinds of unhealtly stuff. In fact more unhealthy than lard.
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> And of course that machine required interesting optimization, because it was a nice thing if the next program step were stored somewhere -- each program step had the address of the following step in it, and you would try to locate them around the drum so to minimize latency

Sounds like the RPC-4000 in the famous "Story of Mel:" http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html
Ha! That was my first thought too. Where is the information about terraforming Mars?
Yes, they removed it in 2006 and replaced it with a non hydrogenated vegetable oil when the harms of trans fats were becoming known.
Private education is not generally tax-deductible in the US (e.g., private high school). 529 funds can be used for post-secondary education, but even then it's only the gains on the account that are exempt from tax if used for education.
Technology changes that point, though. Much of the oil we're pulling out today in the US was considered too expensive to be worth the extraction costs just a few decades ago.
Which would have the bigger impact: encouraging more car-pooling, or the reduced car emissions from electric vehicles?

Although the book only looks at ride-sharing in the United States and Canada, it presumes pretty modest gains, so the benefits of car-pooling don’t even come close to the emissions savings from electric cars.

With the benefit of hindsight the question is more clearly phrased as:

"Which would have the bigger impact: simply asking people to do more car-pooling, or actually making the switch to electric vehicles from ICE vehicles?"

The question sneakily turns out to be about what's (assumed) easier to get people to do, not which action, undertaken on equal scale, has greater benefits. (But then why are wind farms preferred over solar on a later question, considering how much more frequently NIMBY opposition arises toward wind farms?)
Multiple other services are listed in the article: VRBO (a subsidiary of Homeaway) and Kijiji. Not to mention actual B&Bs.
By all accounts the free market HAS delivered and any nation that has attempted to circumvent the free market has essentially collapsed. So yeah, as much as short term rentals are creating some unpleasant situations I remain firmly in the free market camp.
It'll give a warning. Many/most MySQL drivers won't interpret it as an error, though.
„...buying a place just to put on Airbnb in Toronto is hard to do in a profitable way...“

So you are saying it is more profitable to rent out longterm than short-term? Totally not my experience. Hosts on Airbnb easily make 3x to 4x the usual rent (Munich, Germany), even far outside the city center. But might be purely city related...
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Not sure if ride sharing and home sharing are the same thing.

Ride sharing disrupted the cab industry, gives a large amount of the population access to cheap and plentiful transportation, and cars are plentiful too. The loser is the cab industry and the winner is the general population.

Home sharing is disrupting the hotel industry, but its customers are tourists and non locals, and housing stock is very limited. So city populations are going to be paying higher housing costs since they are now competing with entrepreneurs (serving tourists and non locals) for the same units. In theory, rents may continue to increase until they find a balance with hotel rates. Here the losers are hotels and long term renters and the winners are short term renters, property owners, and entrepreneurs.

Different economics at play here.
Read it again. The timeline was the other way around. First they switched away from lard for health reasons.

Later creameries saw that there was a possibility of putting in Oreos (since all the ingredients were kosher), so contacted them about getting the facility certified.

If (other than eggs) your product has no animal products it's usually pretty easy to get it certified. It requires mainly a very very intensive cleaning, and then careful record keeping and quality controls on sourcing.
Not exactly it. Oreo just wanted to sell their Oreos to the creamery market, which was already kosher, so they had to make their product kosher in order to make the sale. Also, it doesn't even need to be 25% of the market, even a small but dedicated minority can impose standards on the rest. See Nassim Taleb's "The Most Intolerant Wins": https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...
I've always had a soft spot for this distro, opensuse have been a quiet innovator over the years. top notch distro, really deserves to be more popular than it is.
Have you tried Terragrunt[1]?

[1] https://github.com/gruntwork-io/terragrunt
They can get lot of tech workers who are third world natives. The workers will be still lot better off in Canada as compared to going back to India/China or some such in case of immigration troubles.
This is about selling ice cream, though. Most of which had HFCS in it, especially in '97.
My goal is to reduce economic output. Of course that will make everyone poorer. Our climate can't support its entire population living at the level of wealth currently enjoyed by first world countries.

It can't even support the population of first world countries living at the level of wealth currently enjoyed by first world countries.

Electric sedans and solar panels are fine and all, but the vast majority of the crap we buy comes here on ship, and is hauled across the continent on gasoline trucks.

We can either make everyone poorer by taxing goods that require transportation (Which is nearly all of them), or by forcing everyone to do less work. There is no other solution.

Stopping deficit spending will slow down economic growth by single percentage points. It will also make everyone poorer - but by a much smaller margin. It also won't be enough.

We are currently in a situation where we can't just be happy with stopping the rate of emission growth - if we want to avoid catastrophic warming, we have to drastically reduce carbon emissions. Not fifty years from now, not thirty years from now, but within the next decade. [1]

We can reduce our GDP, or the climate can reduce it for us.

[1] http://www.wri.org/sites/default/files/WRI13-IPCCinfographic...
Another way to look at it is that we have cheaply accessible, ready-made source of hydrocarbon compounds buried in the earth. And we dig it up and burn it off.

It's basically the same shortsightedness that led us into hunting whales to (near-)extinction for lamp oils. At least less animal cruelty is involved, I hope.
A particularly expensive example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster_(spacecraft)#Launch_...
I am no expert, but my rough understanding is that China has 'trapped' itself in a tricky situation by relying on its export economy and on debt/investments to stimulate growth. Ideally, a 'healthy' economy is balanced between exports, local consumption, and debt/investment. But China has weak local consumption due to their high saving rates and their capital outflows. This means they have had to rely on the other two (debt, exports) to grow the economy. High debt normally isn't an issue because a healthy economy can always 'grow out of it' (i.e. over time inflation will make it more manageable). But because China is export driven, if their currency rises too much, that part of their economy will crash (because their exports get more expensive). Had they had more local consumption, the impact would be smaller because the stronger currency would mean increased buying power for local consumers. But because local consumption is weak, they have to hope that growth in exports outpaces growth in debt (which recently hasn't been the case).

The big question mark, is how actively the government will intervene if things go south. In a normal market, too much debt results in bankruptcies. This results in people losing money (all of those savers who have been socking their money away in banks). But a lot of institutions in China are state owned, so it's possible that they could prop up these institutions. No one really knows what that would look like, or how it would impact the economy, but the assumption is you will have a lot of zombie companies that only exist because the government is making good on their debt obligations.
If you were watching closely and knew what to look for in the first couple of months of 2000, the failures were there. But they were generally minor and easy to overlook as Y2K problems.

I spotted something like half a dozen failures in various systems I interact with which I strongly suspected, based upon the timing, were likely Y2K problems that slipped through testing. For example, I received duplicate bills for one of my credit cards for the January 2000 billing period, and then a subsequent apology for the duplicate bills. They never said Y2K, but the timing was very suggestive.

It's pretty much exactly what I expected from most companies...the big stuff had been largely been dealt with, but a few things slipped through which they could dismiss with some hand-waving. The thing that surprised me was that there didn't really seem to be any high profile disasters (like a company that couldn't ship products, an airline that couldn't issue tickets, or whatever) at all...I figured there'd be at least a couple.
Yeah, yeah, sudoku is easy for computers. That's not the point. The point is learning about neural networks. So yeah, "adding a neural net" does help with that.
Substantial amounts of overbuild in villages and creating new villages i.e. Apartment towers due to developers wanting to use credits offered by the government.

Source: was in mainland China recently
I've thought that Oreos don't taste as good as they did when I was a kid. I thought it was just faulty memory or taste buds going bad or seeing the past with rose colored glasses, but maybe they really don't taste as good ;-)
Excellent point--the pressure still came from religious dietary restrictions, but nabisco felt it from people who wanted to be in compliance with those.
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Any culture will exclude some people, because not all cultures are alike and not everyone tolerates a culture unlike their own. You can go for the blandest possible culture to minimise the exclusions, but that's a lot like having no culture and results in a virtually asocial workplace, which is neither the kind of place I want to work, nor what my experience suggests is productive. Not every workplace can be the right place for absolutely everyone; it's worth putting some effort into accommodating people and meeting them halfway, but socialising is too valuable to be worth giving up entirely.
I stayed in an Airbnb in Toronto last year. It was a beautiful new building in a trendy neighborhood. The unit was very clearly setup for continual airbnb rentals and wasn't anyone's primary residence.

Only after booking was I given very specific and careful instructions on how to avoid any interaction with other residents or building security, entering and leaving through the parking garage.

During my stay I felt like a criminal, even though I quickly figured out that this was a pretty normal thing in this particular building, which was known for loud parties and inconsiderate visitors.

What a terrible experience for me as the guest and the people who have to put up with strangers constantly coming and going.

Airbnb is cool when we're talking about a vacation home or occasional rental of your primary residence - not as a clandestine hotel. I'd be willing to bet that most people, homeowners or responsible renters agree with that, Airbnb's growth goals be damned.
The sad part is people are going to look at the lack of a year 2000 event and assume 2038 is going to be a "dud", when they fail to see all the damn work that went into making sure Y2K was a dud including a significant portion of IT hours and probably a lot of extra support laid in.

I expect 2038 to be a rare hell because of the nature of the devices. Y2K was an IT problem, but 2038 will be an embedded system problem and that's going to be a much more painful thing to audit. Moving from the server room to inside equipment and walls is going to be fun.
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Hehe, it's nice to see Tech leading the pack. Go Jackets <3
While Toronto does need to cut back on development regulations, we've been developing like crazy. A good deal of speculative money had pumped housing prices above what most people can afford in a very short period of time. AirBnB is part of that problem.

In Toronto they estimate you need to make ~130k / yr to afford a home (any home). Bear in mind that a software dev in Toronto makes ~80k / yr. Up until very recently, our lower wages matched a lower cost of living in the city, but this has been blown up by things like foreign investment, and locals taking out a line of credit on their main home to put a down payment on income generating properties. No other sector in Toronto has seen price inflation like this, it's only been housing.

The problem with the deregulation thesis is that you now have to compete with a lot more people for resources. In the housing case, you now are competing with people who live in completely different economies or have substantial economic advantage over you. As an example, a Toronto home is extremely inexpensive to a bay area software dev making ~150k / yr (CAD ~200k). As a side hustle, this might seem like a good investment, and locals simply can't compete.

(I realise bay area rent is insane and this isn't likely fair without taking bay area cost of living into account, I just wanted to use a relevant example).
There likely are in many cases. I don't know about software specifically but in other engineering professions, professional engineer licenses are often required when you sign off on drawings, etc. for regulatory boards. If you are responsible for a ship design, you absolutely need a PE.
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For SEPA-DD, 8 weeks is for no questions asked refund; in general for non-authorised payments you have 13 months to request a refund, but if it's 8+ weeks they can verify the lack of direct debit mandate before hand - but it seems to be the policy of most banks that they'll refund anyway immediately and let the merchant handle the problems.
A carbon tax would be very easy to implement in most countries since almost all carbon is extracted from the ground by just a handful of major corporations.
What you are misunderstanding.

1. The earth will still be inhabitable in the short run. Even with worst case global warming x10. It will be a lot different, and probably not better, but we can still survive here.

2. 99% of human history people lived without liberties or human rights that became a theme of anti-autocratic philosophies and cultures that grew out of The Enlightenment to make the modern day world possible. Alan Turing would have been tortured to death in earlier years. These last few hundred years may very well be an anamoly, and while we know humans exhibit a tendency towards immoral, autocraric leadership, we should take advantage of the fact we live in the best 0.1% of time in history to develop such technology. It may be that in the short run is the only foreseeable possibile time to become inter-planetary.

3. Competition is what propels human progress

4. Global warming bureaucracies have the same problems the War on Poverty, War on Drugs, and prohibition democracies have. All these problems could be solved by your standard intelligent young adult, but they aren't because of bureaucratic inertia and politics. They are problems of people and human culture of greed.

5. I don't watch Star Trek
So he wouldn't have tor installed? His computer wouldn't be encrypted? This is ridiculous, the laptop would be full of all the software required for being a leaker.
Do you actually think the transition to non-fossil fuels will be painless? Or do you think it won't be necessary? I'd like to see your math on how you plan to feed all the planet's people and give all the newly wealthy Chinese the cars they will want. Economic pain is a distinct possibility.
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with a short video about the monarchs and
#pollinatormonday during "pollinator week",
starting june 19th.

> https://www.instagram.com/p/BVQSmx7j6l_/
This is far to authoritarian for my taste.
Yeah, except for the facts that the leaky bolts that were the primary source of consternation last year (?) weren't part of the Chinese-built part of the bridge.
His internet traffic logs would also have lots of indications that he was encrypting all of his traffic.
> What was the profit motive for this?

Marketing mainly. To be Kosher certified requires very intensive cleaning, and strict quality controls on sourcing, ingredients, facility cleanliness.

The typical consumer associates it as a mark of quality and purity because of the 3rd party certification that only exactly what is on the ingredient list goes in the product. Even to the level of making sure employees don't eat lunch near production lines.
Does he know the two finger drag on keyboard gesture? This lets you drag the text cursor around like the keyboard is a giant trackpad - it's game-changing for typing on an iPad if you weren't aware of it before, and makes navigating text significantly better.
Depends on the energy required to run it.
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People complain about the "squeeze of the middle class" because salaries have remained stagnant while costs have gone up.
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> nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law

The 14th amendment's exception from prisoners is broad but kind of essential for the whole concept of incarceration to work at all it seems. Amendments are left generally broad because it's so hard to fix any mistakes and Congress can always put further protections in place should the need arise.
I'm assuming this is C/C++ so I'm wondering if there isn't some compiler pragma to have it warn people still building the code in 2025 or so?
I've found the Flow server seems to be much more stable these past few months.
>A seasteader would have to pay more than the rig's value as scrap (less the cost of scrapping it). That might turn out to be quite a bit of money.

I suspect that number is actually negative without the rig owner's input. Thus the bit about Shell "watching over" the process to make sure the breakers are dealing properly with chemicals and asbestos.

On of the reasons the US Navy has taken to sinking decommissioned warships is the various hazardous materials make the cost of breaking them up more than the value of the materials. Rigs can't be that different.
it worth 350M in modern money does not mean you can build it today with 350M.
Makes me wonder how many long ints haven't needed a char to store them
Why not just have an encrypted wallet file that you backup remotely? I wouldn't trust myself to not lose the hardware, or the hardware to continue functioning indefinitely. Just use a strong passphrase that you can memorize.
Even that's not quite true, Pichai's annual comp is likely much lower than that, since his 200m grant is over some number of years. (Which is to say, talking about compensation is confusing).
I remember liking Oreos as a kid in the 80s, but I tried one recently and it was chalky and horrible. I just assumed it was a combination of lossy memory and undeveloped childhood tastes.

But apparently I'm not crazy, and Oreos were more delicious back then! Curmudgeons everywhere must be feeling a little vindicated right now. I only wish I had a lawn to yell at kids on.
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It's vendor-agnostic? And CF is super slow and limited to a small number of resources (not sure if it's a 100 or a 1000).
Prices likely won't go up when taxis are gone. Uber doesn't consider taxis to be a competitor. Uber is trying to compete with car ownership. Liquidity begets liquidity. This is why marketplaces like stock exchanges and Amazon are natural monopolies.
Thanks, that makes it clear to me.
I thought the same thing, word for word. A spineless human being who smears a whole ethnicity to score virtue points.

Being white is the new Original sin, it's inherently evil.

> And they were all white, all young, all childless, mostly male. The women were in HR, or QA, or content creation. The dev managers were slightly older white males. The QA managers were slightly older white women. UGH.
There's a high probability that's my building. It's known for all of those things, and AirBnB stays have long been against building policy for that reason.

I could care less -- I'm a renter, not an owner here -- but the parties do get real stupid and leave the place a real mess. I'm talking urine in the elevators on a Monday morning stupid.

Most days there are people coming in and out with luggage. It's kind of ridiculous.
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i meant analytic in this sense of the word https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytic_language

I don't know too much about computational linguistics but it seems highly analytic languages could be easier to work with, but I'm not sure.
So, 'zoning' == 'communism leading to essential collapse'? Strangely enough, Europe appears to be full of countries that place all sorts of 'circumventions' on the free market and that have failed to collapse on schedule. More specifically, none of the 'free market' economies in the West have had anything approaching open slather on zoning and appear to have survived so far (not saying zoning policies are always good, just that they don't seem to lead to obvious disaster).

Suggestion: any time you find yourself having to lard statements with phrases like "By all accounts" and "attempted" and "essentially" you should strip out these circumlocutions and ask yourself whether the statement that remains is obviously untrue.
Nah, the strict Kosher market is too small for that. Companies want certification for marking reasons - it's a mark of quality and purity.

You will even see kosher symbols on products that are inherently kosher and do not need certification. Yet companies ask for, and pay for, it anyways.

So it's not about making the product available to those consumers - it's the mark itself that companies are looking for.