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The comment I was responding to was suggesting that we deregulate all drugs, including prescription drugs without addiction potential. I was mostly addressing that and using antibiotics as a good example.

With antibiotics, it's a bit like vaccinations. Vaccinations are as effective as they are because they provide herd immunity. Not everybody is vaccinated and the vaccinations aren't always effective, but enough people are vaccinated so that it provides protection for everyone, including those who haven't been vaccinated.

Antibiotics are similar, though the effect probably has a different name. Bacteria reproduces very, very quickly and the growth is exponential. We already have a problem where bacteria has evolved to be resistant to our current crop of antibiotics.

It's also important to note that developing safe antibiotics is extremely difficult. I believe I read that there are only two new antibiotics currently in the human testing phase and that no new antibiotics have made it to market in over a decade.

So, we already have a problem with antibiotics being over-prescribed and bacteria evolving to survive the attack. This is a known problem and an increase in people taking antibiotics is going to speed this up. This isn't something that's in doubt, it is absolutely what will happen if humans are given unrestricted access to antibiotics.

We will take more, we will see bacteria evolve, and that is going to result in stringer infections that kill people who may have, as individuals, never once abused antibiotic medications. It's not quite the same as herd protection, but it is fairly close.

I'm pretty much in favor of legalizing drugs. I absolutely believe we should be able to take drugs. I even believe we should be allowed to take drugs that have a good chance at killing us. I firmly believe the right to life should also include the right to die.

What I don't believe in is that the right to life includes the right to harm others. With all rights, there is a risk of harm to others. That is just a fact of a free society. The problem here is that these acts will harm many. Many, many people would be harmed by this.

I absolutely support the right to own a firearm. In no way do I support the right of an individual to own a weapon of mass destruction. I'm okay with someone owning a fully automatic firearm. I'm not okay with someone owning a nuclear weapon.

Does that make sense? I'm trying to explain it as well as I can.

It's not really protection from ourselves, unless you mean collectively. It's protection from others who would cause us harm through ignorance. From an economical viewpoint, healthier people are more productive - to touch on your last thoughts. Fewer diseases is good. Fewer diseased people is even better. Unfettered access is going to increase the number of sick and suffering, and not necessarily through the fault of the afflicted.
Yeah, I just disable their disablement. Super annoying.
I had to sign a paper in the bank swearing I did not withdraw the money and would help the bank as a witness if they found the criminal and then they gave me the equivalent amount of money in my account. IIRC it was kind of weird because they had grainy video/photos of the woman committing the crime.
Given their test and API documentation both refer to threads I'm guessing it must be using web workers. I might start offering it to desktop users, along with something like https://www.pollfish.com/, as ways to get rid of adverts on the site (I make sweet f.a. from ads, although I get pretty minimal levels of traffic, tbh - need to spend a lot of time on SEO, which is of course not the fun bit). I'm definitely steering clear of offering it on mobile though.
> that food is still MUCH LOWER QUALITY than the one sold in Western Europe

It depends where you shop. A Profi will sell low-quality products regardless of whether it is in a big city or a small town. On the other hand, only in the big city can you shop at Mega Image, which sells a lot of products identical to their Western European versions. Its distribution network is much better than any of the competition. Carrefour and Auchan's more expensive generic brands are identical to that sold in the West (their cheaper generic brands, however, are such crap I don’t even know who would buy it). Meat, I don’t know because I don’t eat it.
You get plenty of Lindt in the US. Can't get much better than that...
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Is there any scenario like this in any other developed country? (Im honestly looking for an answer)
Interesting proof of concept. I know that a bunch of former PayPal employees are working on a related/similar product. They've been struggling with moral and legal matters lately.
> guess we should have some faith in our legal system to ultimately sniff out frivolous lawsuits and dismiss them.

Hah. I'm not sure I would go that far.
I think some graphs would be great. ex. Current Bitcoin price and a graph for past prices
Here is how it would go... attacker gives a real answer, support says no that isn't it. Attacker goes, "oh, sometimes I give fake answers for the question... is it a really long string of characters?"

Or they could go through a few things like that, always giving the excuse that they give false answers until they stumble on the right one.
It took me some googling to figure both of those out. I'm still stuck trying to figure out what The Knowledge is. Can anyone help?
The google link you provided returns a snopes article about garlic roots, a blog post from McGill saying theres no problems with using human feces as fertilizer, and a bunch of natural/health food sites claiming Chinese garlic is filled with toxic chemicals. Is there any reputable source that says Chinese garlic is bad?
I don't think so, at least not from non-professional content producers. There will still be a desire to have an easily written, shared, and rendered document upon which you can give your thoughts.

HTML has always been best at that, and will still be good at that in the future. The only contender I know of would be markdown, which fulfills many of those needs while being even easier to write. Its greatest pitfall in a contest against HTML is that it is by design non-standard, as it is meant to be a pre-render stage document, and presumably your render stage will smooth out any non-standard markdown elements, giving you a standard document in a format like HTML.
What do you get for a dollar? A whole course or just one pill? And how much of a person's income is that price, is it really cheap or does it just seem so to those of us who are in rich countries?
http://browserhelp.me started as an aid for the impaired to control your Chrome browser via Amazon Alexa. The prototype won two awards in online Alexa contests, and even though the product is still very much under development it has about 500 people already using the skill. Learned a lot from that project!
Not only that, there is legal precedent where just the act of software developers discussing IP matters has a negative effect in cases. It absolutely is a matter for lawyers, as the reason they are around is to guard against such pitfalls - it is their domain of expertise.
Why one or the other? Learning to be a mechanic is probably more difficult, time consuming and requires a greater investment, but you could still do that and teach yourself PHP on the side.
The workforce doesn't have to bend over, but there is an inequality in negotiations when the company threatens to ship the work to somewhere where they can pay workers a fraction, even if the quality will be shit.

We don't exactly have a legal framework to prevent companies from doing this either
Funny Ceaușescu was considered "too progressive" in Warsaw Pact and wasn't invited to all top-level meetings. I've read he even built a highway on top of mountains to have an escape road in case WP's armies invaded RO.
If you want to convert from one time zone to another then you have to: remember the adjustment, remember if it's daylight savings or not, and if it's plus or minus. And then you calculate it. This is incredibly unintuitive and is designed so that everyone works nine to five everywhere in the world. There is no reason for this other than we decided to do it this way.
Alternatively I propose we would all just use UTC-0 and then everyone adjusts their day to the time. After an adjustment period there would no confusion over time zones because being awake from 3pm - 8 am means the same to everyone because they are on the same time.
The Knowledge is a test black cab drivers have to take. They basically spend several years learning various streets and routes in the city [1]. It essentially turns them into a human GPS.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxicabs_of_the_United_Kingdom...
It can't be that and that alone unless browsers somehow decide not to support the rest of HTML... which seems very unlikely.
That he didn't turn back to crime after spending that time of his life in the best school for crime is surprising. Good for him.
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Indeed, I've had the experience of trying to explain music notation to non musicians, typically engineers. You spend more time apologizing than explaining.

Perhaps another thing that saves standard notation from itself is that most of the time, we're not actually reading all of the notes. In my case, working within a particular musical genre (jazz), my brain knows what the next notes will be, even if I'm not looking at the page. And when working up a classical piece, you've memorized it after a couple weeks, and the chart is just a place to annotate special things like fingerings and problem areas.

There was an article about a famous piano concerto, where someone discovered a mistake in the accepted transcription, and nobody even knew about it because everybody just instinctively played the right note.
I think the best bet is to provide an actual name in that field, just not the real one. Grab a list of the surnames and pick one at random. Bonus if you hyphenate two.
It's easy to make something that looks like yogurt with some milk and yeasts, but consistently making something that is convenient and tastes as good (including texture and potential intestinal effects on people sensitive to it) is far from easy.

Try to buy 10 different yogurts (from a variety of supermarkets and specialty shops) and do a comparison on taste, texture, propensity to de-emulsify, etc. You'll find that there is a very wide range.

And try to reproduce that one great yogurt you had somewhere at home. I mean, I've done the whole comparison above (and many more than 10) in a quest to replicate the yogurt from The Yogurt Shop in Adelaide's (AU) Central Market (which, from what I've been able to find, is the way it is because of a combination of two different yeast strands as well as a specific straining method they use), and I've tried many, many different ways of making yogurt - and still fail to make something like it. I mean, I won't call myself an expert because I don't even have a degree in anything biology or food production related, but I do have enough experience to say that making (good) yogurt is not 'easy' - at least not in the way that it would make sense for people to do it themselves as anything else than a novelty.
Honestly it’s good to hear about the things ‘Mama’ is doing on Avalon ST. That’s some perseverance right there.
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> It depends where you shop

It does not.

You're not getting my point. You go to a Profi or Mega Image and you buy a Milka chocolate, it is the same Milka chocolate because there is only 1 distributor and this is the version of Milka chocolate that gets manufactured for Romania, Bulgaria, etc. And it's shit - it has less cocoa, it is 90g instead of 100g, it is filled with sugar substitutes.

You go to Germany, to an EDEKA or a REWE, and you buy the same Milk chocolate - it has higher % cocoa, it is 100g, it contains milk, cocoa and sugar, no chemical substitutes.

I can make the exact same point for soft drinks and pretty much all packaged goods. Hell, even things like laundry detergents are diluted compared to their western counterparts.
>Markets and naked capitalism as solutions go these issues have proven ineffective.

On the contrary. You're mostly making up that there actually is a huge demand for higher priced, higher quality products there, while the fact that no one has gone for that supposed huge and very available market speaks against that being true. That wishes of a small minority are not being catered for doesn't prove anything.
I misunderstood, and assumed femto refered to the board size, as compared to the original limesdr.
I think you are over generalizing. Local brands in Eastern Europe sell pretty high-quality food, but they sell it cheaper and don't make as much profit on it, than in Western Europe. Non-local brands, on the other hand, sometimes substitute their products with lower quality crap.
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The overall risk runs a few different ways. One is that you yourself will bee at risk, another is that there will be a high number of compromises.

There are about 300 in the U.S. of over 100k population (corollary: the other 34,700 locations have fewer than 100k people each, or are at most 10% of the population). A 1/300 chance of cracking a security question on any given transaction is pretty good odds. Particularly if the crack is then reusable.

Another 10% of the U.S. population (roughly) lives in the 10 largest cities alone. That's a 1% likely success rate based on just ten values.

The point being that "legitimate sounding but fabricated" may still not be a particularly good option.
I have lived at various points in my life in Slovakia, Czech Republic, Denmark and Germany. This issue has been discussed at least since 2006, but I have never observed a drastic difference between the quality of food, except maybe things like Salmon, but that seems very clear to me that there is no way salmon bought in Slovakia is going to be fresh in any sense of the word
If that was Facebook's intent, they could have worded their license in a more reciprocal way.

"We grant you a right to use all patents we have covering this work.

[1] If you sue us regarding a patent you claim covers this work, we revoke your right to use all patents we hold covering this work.

[2] If we sue you regarding an unrelated patent, you retain your right to use patents covering this work for purposes of this work.

[3] If you sue us regarding an unrelated patent, you retain your right to use patents covering this work for purposes of this work."

The entire point of people being annoyed about this is that Facebook specifically didn't include the [3] grant. Consequently, this was more about Facebook attempting to use React's popularity to make themselves immune to patent litigation (as anyone relying on React wouldn't have been able to sue Facebook for any patent without losing the React patents grants).
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You have cabs in NYC though - is it similar? In London the city controls the number of people that can operate black cabs, sets a standard tariff for fares and runs background and license checks. They can be hailed off the street (though also through some apps). And the drivers have to take "The knowledge"[1] a test which takes a few years to pass and means you can give the average cab driver any street name and they can get you there without a GPS.

[1]https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/taxis-and-private-hire/licensing...
The multional's products sold in western Europe I wouldn't call good quality food, I think the bigger issue is the produce and fresh goods are not very good. And honestly the produce isn't that great in Austria either.
Compared to $120k for the printer, getting a fume hood installed in your house would be a pretty negligible cost.
For the pure SSH/SCP example there is PSSH/PSCP:

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pssh/2.2

rdist I believe can operate in parallel as well.

Beyond this, devops tools e.g. ansible/puppet, etc. but they require a bit more or alot more setup, depending on the tool.
The whole point of going to a Mega Image is that you don’t have to buy a Milka. Instead, you can buy a Western European chocolate brand in its original Western European version, and for not significantly more money than that Milka would cost in a Profi or village shop.

Similarly, at a Carrefour or Auchan you could buy the generic-label chocolate, which is just the French version with a Romanian ingredients sticker pasted on it, for the same price as a Milka.

People in big cities have access to plenty of high-quality products if they just take advantage of that opportunity and ignore stuff like your Milka example. It is people in small towns and villages who are forced to buy shit food.
So London has "Hackney Carriages" ('black cabs') and minicabs. Black cabs are allowed to pick you up on-demand ('streetwork') or at taxi ranks (a designated place where you can expect to find multiple taxis just queued up waiting for you), minicabs you have to order. (Apps are making this a bit hazy, since ordering either via an app is just as easy).

The 'green badge' is your licence. There's green, yellow, and 'minicab' licences. Green is a citywide black cab, Yellow is constrained to one area, and minicab is no black cab, but dispatch-only.

'The Knowledge' is the test (and associated training) required to become a black cab driver. It's years worth of study. It's pretty much memorising an A-Z, but also knowing the best routes, at different times of the day, etc.

Three vehicles you can expect to see almost everywhere in London are red busses, black cabs, and scooters with a clipboard on the handlebars. The latter are drivers on their multi-year study of The Knowledge.

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/10/t-magazine/london-taxi-te...
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As someone who has lived in and around Detroit for their whole life, I found this article to be very insightful. By far, the best part of Detroit is a trend of extremely creative people being able to do whatever they want with their respective spaces. It goes far beyond painting a mural or erecting a sculpture. There are huge gardens[1], performance art spaces[2], puppet theaters[3], concert venues in industrial buildings[4], and much more. And these spaces are very cheap to maintain, relatively speaking.

[1]http://www.miufi.org/
[2]http://thehinterlandsensemble.org/
[3]http://www.puppetart.org/
[4]http://tangentgallery.com/Tangent_Gallery/Home.html
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> Local brands in Eastern Europe sell pretty high-quality food

any examples?

> Non-local brands, on the other hand, sometimes substitute their products with lower quality crap

change 'sometimes' to 'very frequently' and that would be correct
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Let's say there really is a consumer preference for the 'better', Western-style goods. Why wouldn't there be someone who would drive a truck across the border a few times a week, marking up his products say 5% (which would be more than the profits supermarkets make - retail grocers are one 2-3% margins)? I mean, if people are so desperate, they'd buy his stuff right out of the back of his truck, right?

The reality is much more nuanced than what you're suggesting. The reality is that people don't care as much, and that producers aren't as stupid/greedy as you make them out to be. Their buying patterns are what economists call a revealed preference. Sure, if you ask them, people will all say that they want the best-quality products. Turns out though (and not just there, but everywhere) that in reality people want a mix between quality, affordability, perception, and other things.

(oh, and suggesting that an article in the Guardian of all places is "evidence" of anything is laughable)
In Florida (and every other state that I'm aware of), a dead traffic light is, by law, to be treated as an all-way stop sign, so you're supposed to take turns. Traffic lights are so incredibly reliable that many people seem unaware of this fact, though, based on what I've observed. Perhaps the behavior you describe is due to people intentionally disobeying the rules?
It's funny how we have been trained into thinking a product is sub-par because the team didn't spend a lot of money on marketing material.
I don't recall the last time I used secret answers to get into anything. I don't perceive it as a valid way to get into an account. But the option cannot be refused... so to me it's just a security risk.
Absolutely. I'd also like to see an attempt to translate the output to the user's native language.

What I'm not sure of is if the signal will always be good enough to decode it. In fact, I suspect it won't always be good enough to decode it automatically.

Obviously, we shouldn't let perfect be the enemy of good and it should just fail gracefully when the signal is degraded too much.

But, it potentially becomes a support nightmare. While we may know that the trouble is the signal degradation, I suspect many people wouldn't and they would try to place blame on the developers. It may make identification of actual software problems more difficult to assess.

Still, I say it would be a 'killer feature.' I have pondered it before but I'm not a very good programmer. I am pretty sure that some of them would happily add it right to their site, should someone make it. There are a lot of great features that could be added along with it - such as outputting it to a chat room that was dynamically created for that specific frequency. It could even be tied into a social function where a group of people might select to all move to a different frequency together and it, the decoding software, would follow them along. Perhaps the channel could monitor multiple less-active frequencies. That sort of stuff.

I think it would be a wonderful idea and think that good is just fine, and that I'd not expect perfection.

That said, I'm glad I'm not the only one that finds the place to be a time sink. I've spent more hours there than I care to admit. I favor the site that I linked directly, but that is mostly because that is the one I discovered first.

Depending on where you live, you can possibly also find local feeds from people's scanners. You can listen to the emergency responders, police, and things like that. It's not quite the same, but it is similar enough to where I figure I'll mention it. I don't usually bother with it, because I have a nice scanner already set up. Still, it is pretty fun. Also, if there is some sort of major event, you can go listen and hear what is going on before it is covered on the news. That's always fun.
When I returned to the US after living in Western Europe, the hardest thing to adapt to was the quality of food in the supermarkets. I left the first two grocery stores empty-handed because nothing looked like food to me. It was all cardboard and plastic and sugar in all its various forms.

However, high quality food is available, but it requires time (to go where it is, since it isn't always distributed like the plastic-wrapped sugar stuff) and money, though not always more than the stores charge for mass-produced things.
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I think more people would agree that the economies of scale are not even close to software. And that's even in the best case with autonomous vehicles.
Ok. That makes some sense. I'll keep it in mind.