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It's actually very desirable. Fat is an important component in a lot of things we eat. For one thing, we need fat. For another thing, it's delicious. All of the things you really love to eat have a lot of fat in them.

There's a big reason that people breed animals to be obese. I grew up on a sheep and chicken farm. And to be honest, a lot of people would not eat those animals. They are lean, and gamey. Not like anything you would buy in any store.

Personally, I love it, and it makes me sad that I can't buy anything like it in NYC. Not even stuff that claims to be cage-free or organic or whatever. You just can't get that stuff here.

But it has a lot less fat than what you buy in the store. Fat is basically flavor for chefs. Whether it's butter or animal fat or vegetable oil, fat is where it's at.

The more obese an animal is, the better it's going to taste when you cut it up and cook it. That's just an unfortunate truth. When there's a market for something, people find a way to produce it.

The market is for massive amounts of white meats with a lot of fat you can render. That's what people buy, so that's what people sell.
The market for auto repair is also regularly cited as one of the more scammy, consumer-unfriendly experiences around - because consumers have a very difficult time assessing quality of service, and incremental charges often pop up mid-purchase.

This is why consumers love warranties and extended-warranties on their vehicles so much - it means they leave this problem to their insurer. It's easier to insure cars than people, though - your risk is essentially bounded by the market value of the car.
I'm just answering the question, not making a value judgement.
https://twitter.com/TheRealBuzz/status/627895978796916736?

See also, the joke "customs declaration" filed by the Apollo 11 astronauts.
Containerization - taking a deployment that previously was made of lots of apps running on one OS on one physical machine (or a relatively generous fraction of one, as a VM), and turning it into lots of apps each running on their OS on top of the same amount of machine. Containerization significantly increases disk usage for each container and probably increases RAM use a little bit, but to first order does not affect CPU or IOPS or network.
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C just pushes the complexity onto the programmer without help.
Boxing head injuries have been well documented as have head injuries from brain trauma in soccer players. Its not a far stretch to extrapolate that and wonder if football might have similar problems with my head.
Now +24hrs and it is at 79 / 801.
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>Except if you go in for a major procedure, you don't know what you'll end up needing off that price list, and often, neither does your doctor.

One of two things is going to happen here. One is I have a flat rate for a hospital visit, so the cost is known no matter what I need. Second, if I'm hitting my out of pocket max then that cost is also known.

>A few years back I broke my leg and went to the hospital. Halfway through the process I was offered a couple of Vicodin, which I would later be billed $1,000 for. Was I supposed to haggle about them with that, or take my xray and hobble out down the street to someone who would sell me vicodin cheaper?

The only reason they could get away with even pretending like they would charge you $1k for a vicodin is because of the distorted system we have where everyone pretends the money comes out of the insurance company's money instead of your own.
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I don't agree. How is this not interesting?

1. This is an open development effort, that's interesting.

2. It's moving very quick.

3. the code is really interesting.
amazon? WF has been selling bell and evan's air chilled chicken for many, many years. you have literally no idea what you're talking about, kiddo.
Ask HN: Any one aware of good side project TG/Slack groups?
Some of them have larger amounts of player interaction, at which point the game becomes "modify your strategy on the fly to deal with an ever changing situation".
Feudalism or fascism? Nationalism? check. Populist? check. Appeals to "good ol days of glory"? Check.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-feudali...
> If you claim to believe it is immoral to do something and then do business in spite of that, it directly puts the lie to your claim.

Not necessarily, doing business with someone means purchasing their services or products, it doesn't mean I agree with everything they do (with that money). Business is not charity.

Otherwise I probably wouldn't be able to buy half my black metal collection :)
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Docker. The size of your base image directly affects the size of application images that use it as a base layer.
Mann does pick the most optimistic ranges of estimates to try to paint a particular narrative, but he is also very frank that he is doing that, and he repeats this fact several times throughout the book. It would be wonderful if more books were willing to do that sort of guarding to emphasize how much the evidence really supports the thesis. Considering that pre-Columbian America tends to get the short-end of the stick in history, I'm willing to tolerate the constant pushing on the narrative to help emphasize that the popular view of pre-Columbian American is more often incorrect to correct.
I think we agree, but I think you misinterpreted what I said. "Mystical experiences" isn't the problem. It's that the things commonly described in "near death experiences" are overtly contradictory with Judeo-Christian teaching about the afterlife.
This is unconscionable. We must unite against employers who think they can treat workers like interchangeable resources. I think we should start organizing a solidarity strike.
can you provide details on your setup?
I often boot machines connected to the public internet or to a coffeeshop / other public wifi with the Ubuntu live CD, so I wouldn't like the live CD to have an sshd with a well-known password out-of-the-box. So if you're going to have to log into the machine to customize authentication anyway, you already have enough access to `apt-get install openssh-server`.

(It would be nice to have a one-click tool that builds you a customized image with your own SSH public keys baked in. Ubuntu doesn't have to run this tool - actually there's probably a cool project idea for someone in standing up a little website to do this, either by letting you paste in public keys or grabbing them from the GitHub public API.)
Probably true. But I wasn't positing an explanation for why they go broke. I was only suggesting that brain damage is a de facto barrier to successfully making that money last a lifetime, which most of them fail to do. The argument that, hypothetically, this is enough money to live on for life is rather specious since few of them actually do so. Being an NFL player for a few short years is not a well known path to permanent financial security and ability to cavalierly choose to not bother to work ever again.
Not being critical, only pointing out every time their is a big discovery like this, some level of time and effort is spent trying to align the discovery with the BOM. The wiki article has a lot of references in it that are related to the topic.
Yes we're open to sponsoring where it makes sense on both sides
This might be an unpopular opinion here, but I have the same problem with rust.

There are often multiple ways to do something remotely complex and out of all perfectly valid solutions I can come up with at most one is accepted by the compiler.

Go on the other hand has a compiler that reads your mind. or maybe its simply a really well designed language...
And yet all Western countries - especially those with single-payer state managed care - provide better outcomes at lower cost to consumers.

Are you sure you're not confusing the US insurance system with an oligopoly?

Markets don't exist to magically generate low prices for consumers through competition, because businesses compete primarily for investor and shareholder cash, not to make end users happy.

The most reliable way to generate shareholder value is to create an oligopoly, and then squeeze consumers as hard as they can be squeezed - which is exactly why the US system regularly bankrupts participants, while regulated single-payer systems don't.
Perhaps neural networks can help with filtering and segmenting the point clouds as well?
Players are employees of the teams they play for. It’s very hard even for high income employees to reduce their tax liability. Even Tim Cook pays about 50% taxes on his bonuses.

The median household income thing is also misleading. People earn much more with age. $30k is a good income for a 25-year old. It's in the bottom third for people above age 35. (It's even worse if you consider only college graduates, which NFL players almost all are.)
It's funny how it's so seamless on Linux when even on windows you now have to install it separately.
More accountability from those who govern as well as reducing a BIG central point of failure.
This isn't helpful, but I've had a surprisingly high success rate with cold outreach when I didn't have a need or expectation of a response. But then, I also tend to email researchers (and generally not the ones involved in some big breakthrough, just more niche ones that did something that I found personally very interesting.) And researchers are generally pretty happy to find out that anyone is interested in the topic they've poured their time and energy into, especially if you're not just asking the obvious followup questions. So I've mostly gone after soft targets.

I also have a habit of contacting higher-ups of the institutions I'm associated with (my company, my kids' school, etc.). Usually with jokes. Sometimes with complaints, in which I say things that I really shouldn't be saying if I value my job, but a little honesty and reasonableness seem to go a long way.

Quite a ways from what you're looking for, but the same rules probably apply: if you have something to offer, even if it's only your rapt attention for a topic of interest to them, then tell them up front in the first sentence or two. No tricks. Be honest. Make it easy for them to decide to not respond as quickly as possible (rather than eg hinting at things or being ambiguous, hoping they'll interpret things in the most favorable light.) Value their time, and express that in how you write the email (but not by saying "I know how important your time is" or whatever. That's bullshit. You value someone's time by being efficient and not wasting it.)

If you're just asking for their time, you're doing it wrong. Why should they give it to you? Tell them why they should care first, then put your ask after.

It's best if you really do have something of value to them. Then your email just needs to effectively and efficiently communicate that.
Wrong. Tables impart meaning to user agents (browsers, screen readers, google bots, etc) and as a side effect they have a default visual style that is useful for some layouts in some limited situations (but without any kind of fine-grained detail that most modern designs call for -- ESPECIALLY when making responsive designs that work across different screen widths).
CSS Grid, on the other hand, is a tool specifically for complex visual layouts which imparts no semantics on the content (so it is proper to use for non-tabular content).
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Market capitalization based weighting, the basis of the Nasdaq-100 index and $QQQ ETF, probably constitutes a baseline for what can be considered "unbiased". Any AI agent that measures market "sentiment" can only be conditioned upon the quality of the data it is fed. Which will vary across companies.

An example of one of the best algorithmic strategies I have seen is the following. During secular bull market eras. Simply buy and hold for a period of 24 months. Every IPO that comes down the pike. Regardless of sector. Backtesting this strategy yields annualized 50% rates of return. Which beats $FB performance the last four years :) No doubt, ML could further optimize selectivity, weightings, hold duration, etc. The central thesis is that growth in market cap is strongest during the growth phase of a company.

Of course, today is the day another great algorithmic trading idea: fading volatility spikes. Unwinds in most violent and consequential fashion. Be cautious out there!

Two Big Volatility Players May Be on the Loose as VIX Tops 15

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-02/two-big-v...
Which society is this? I'd be surprised if more than 5% of all people even know that the concept exists.
> I think this "conclusion" depends strongly on how you define "worse outcomes".

One example would be how the US has one of the worst infant mortality rates in the developed world.
The ethos of the creators is what led to both.
Ironically enough, Engelbart was often derided by his colleagues at the time who thought hard AI was just around the corner and so all of this intelligence augmentation stuff would be obsolete soon enough. Today we are closer than ever (always just 20 years away!), but still IA rather than AI is very much the way to go.
> MANY FATALITIES DUE TO FOOTBALL

> Summary of Accidents on Gridiron During This Season Shows Death Reaped a Harvest Among Players Nearly a Score Killed and 137 Injured.— Universities Begin Agitation to End Brutality Permitted by Present Rules.
New York.

Nearly 20 deaths in a single season. That's horrifying.
There's an urgent care place near me that I sometimes go to. They cater to a lot of people without insurance. The prices for all of their services are posted on a big menu board like you'd see at a fast food restaurant.

Here's a citation that shows emergency care is only 2% of all healthcare. Of course, that's the entire healthcare market, not just elderly care. I'd be interested in any citations you could provide that shows that system-wide preventative care is dwarfed by the system-wide costs of major incidents for the elderly.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2013/oct/...
What does it look like when a large group of people start selling a large amounts of stock directly into a buy wall?

Fear of an insolvent retirement can trigger this behaviour which then can compound on itself as other retirement plans are jeopardized. An entire new generation of wealth giving up on prior security and stock distributions in favor of new markets can also trigger this, such as what almost happened in South Korea with crypto currencies.

Hope none of this happens of course, but please be aware of the risks you are implicitly taking.
The implication is that the Elves lived in cities in the forests (perhaps like Guatemalan rain forests), Depending on if you are more of Tolkien fan or a Pratchett fan, Dwarves are more mountains/rocky types.

And of course there are neither Dwarves nor Elves (in the fantasy fiction sense) around today.
"Did the NFL stage a coverup" is only relevant to discussions of whether and how much to punish the NFL.

"Does football cause brain damage" is relevant to discussions of whether I should play football, whether my friends or family should play football, whether anyone should play football, whether it's ethical to watch football, whether it's more fun to watch football than golf, whether it's appropriate for educational institutions to promote or participate in football...

I'll also suggest that if it turned out that football promoted the better functioning of your brain, outrage at the NFL for covering up research suggesting the opposite would be pretty muted. If you believe that, you should also believe that what everyone sees as "the big issue" is the brain damage, not the coverup.
This is of course the technically best way, but the immense footprint of 18mb just for the FFI, and the constant c ABI changes in llvm was the reason we didn't do it so far also. You either ship the huge llvm libs or risk an outdated system llvm. But for proper LTS distros it's tempting.
You could use a password that you feel represents you despite being newly conceived.
How do you think that ancient indians figured out the speed of light, recorded it for posterity, but forgot how to actually calculate it?
Like Android, this is OSS.

Sure, Google runs the core development, but everyone will benefit from this eventually.
Thanks! Strange to be posting, as I've been reading HN for years.

As with most things, this turned out to be more complex than we initially thought. The regulations in F1 meant that there were no off-the-shelf options for sensors. That, together with the fact that we needed to make things at low volumes, and potentially custom for drivers, meant that we had to develop the sensor ourselves. Fire rating and interaction with other safety systems on the car dictated a lot of our design choices.

The FIA has been instrumental in making this happen, as they are constantly trying to improve safety. Testing something like this at F1 races was challenging, as teams have less and less time to get their car development done. Everyone has been very supportive of the idea though, as teams always want more data!

Most drivers have done a decent amount of track time last year with various versions of the sensors, and we've chosen a design which ticks the most boxes. It is still very early days however, and I'm sure we'll have improved in almost all areas (comfort, performance & integration into clothing) by the end of the year.

The device we've developed can be used on many sites on the body, but for now the glove presents the 'easiest' to implement across the various clothing manufacturers. Further down the line, we'll probably fit more things in the earpieces, but this will require more than just anecdotal evidence as to what happens with the earpieces during large impacts. We want this data to be available in the most extreme cases. So although the ear would be a great place for SpO2 99% of the time when all is well, we don't know enough about how the sensor would interact with the sacrificial systems (helmet, head rest) in the accidents we'd most want this to work.

Bluetooth: I personally feel that the BLE standard is heading in the right direction for our use case, looking at the 5.0 standard and onwards. Lots of the current limitations will be solved by wider industry, instead of us having to do the legwork. Each car will have an on-car receiver which drops the data onto existing telemetry systems. In many cases, these systems are no longer functional after large accidents (antenna gets knocked off, car powered off etc), so we'd like to access the data with consumer devices in the worst cases. We already have iPads mounted in the car for other data, so BLE is the best candidate for now.

RF interference is actually also a reason we chose BLE: the 2.4GHz band is relatively quiet at race tracks, as most systems are in the higher bands these days.

I'd happily do an AMA, not sure how best to go about it though.
Hell, when I was growing up (not that long ago!) the NFL used to produce and tout official videos of the biggest / hardest hits in a season.

Looking at them now, you can literally see the stiff arms sticking in the air that is a symptom of brain trauma, and people getting up concussed as fuck.
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That's not what's going on here. The government is saying: "give us Xkr" and then turning around and buying shares of the company. That's a two step process, but collapse the steps together and it's the same as the government saying "give us X shares of the company," which is nationalization -- the government taking control (even fractional control) of a company by force.

If nothing else, company officers and the board have an obligation to shareholders, which would would not want to see their shares diluted in that way. So no, it is not surprising that companies decided to relocate to jurisdictions that were not about to nationalize them.
I've been using the MinimalCD images[0] to install Ubuntu for years. (They are the minimum you need to boot, and they download everything else to install Ubuntu.) I'm guessing that these aren't what's being talked about.

[0] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/MinimalCD
In some hiking circles you see people posting pictures of basements or fallen chimneys in the middle of nowhere in a wooded area.

If you passed more than fifty feet away you might miss them.
ncurses isn't required as part of the configuration -- debconf allows command line setting (and reading) of variables, and if it runs in a headless environment things like "note" get emailed to root if they can't be displayed.

Our ubuntu builds are either
1) On real hardware, in which case it's a network boot which takes an IP address etc, and configured the partitions but allows you to override it (you have to press ok)
or
2) On KVM builds, where virt-install is used, network detail is specified on the command line upfront and partitioning is fully automatic.

Thus the majority of debconf settings are either default (a requirement of the package manager is a sensible default), or specified in the preseed file.
Yeah I was shocked when I learned that the Norwegian aquaculture industry was actually worse (at least lower guarantees) due to Norway not being in the EU ! I don't buy animal flesh myself but I bring it up occasionnally to consumer friends.
I understand it is about containers. But no disk space of the world is worth your container app crashing because someone wanted to save a few megabytes by ditching glibc or otherwise just pushing more work into each and every individual container. It's Java Enterprise all over, who cares it's always allocating tens of GiB of RAM, you have to get to the point of buying a lot of it before it makes an hour of an engineers time worthwhile.
Personally, I think it's really cool that anyone would post this on HN or even have questions about it!
I appreciate your point and I learned something new from it, but I disagree with the last part. By your GP's own admission, pesticide overuse doesn't threaten all of humanity like antibiotic overuse does. So no, they are not "as right as" someone trying to avoid contributing to the antibiotic overuse problem. Not all problems are equally important.
How exactly is Google getting power here? The code is totally open. They just seem to be giving themselves more flexibility and potential to build better products.

If anything, this will result in less power over the Linux kernel for Google. It seems like that’s something you’d appreciate.

(My response to s2g’s reply below because HN is terrible for commenting:

I see your point that they now unilaterally control how the kernel is engineered, but my counter argument is that I don’t think this meaningfully changes their control over the platform. They were already free to modify the Linux kernel at their whim. Having upstream control doesn’t make you emperor of derived applications.

As a separate point, don’t you think it just results in less efficiency and worst products if google isn’t free to steer the project in the direction that makes the most sense for the application? It seems they can more easily make zircon for their use case, and I think that will result in cheaper and better phones.)
The stack traces suck sometimes with the metaprogramming. I have never chased down exactly what causes it, but sometimes you'll have lots of library code calls mentioned, and nothing from the application.
"Refinements" are the "cleaner" version of monkey-patching.

These are (AFAIK) a big part of the magic in Ruby testing frameworks.
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