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> ...Judge William Campbell dismissed it on Wednesday. He ruled that even though it's undisputed that "the manufacturer of the hoverboard at issue is unknown"...

Would this not mean it's unknown to both sides?
How do you justify opposing Medicaid expansion or the children's health program (CHIP)? Cuts to Medicare? It seems to me that people who vote and sue against such things think that children, the elderly, and the poor don't deserve healthcare because not only do they vote against these programs and sue to stop them, they have no alternate proposals. Just let people suffer and die is their only proposal. You want me to empathise with people whose decisions will lead to the unnecessary suffering and death of millions? When they bring something, anything, to the table that doesn't increase suffering and death so more money can go to the rich, then we can talk. If they don't like the individual mandate, they should propose a different system that's does more than just leave people uninsured to suffer and die. Maybe then they might deserve some empathy but as long as they are actively fighting to prevent others from receiving healthcare, they deserve none.
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I got a set of counterfeit guitar strings that was fulfilled by Amazon. Ordered them on Amazon purely out of convenance only to realize someone had sent a fake set of $4 strings.

The counterfeit packaging was almost perfect and the strings where metal (just not coated like they should be). I literally don’t even know why you would fake those.
In my experience, turning an inexperienced C developer loose with C++ does not result in an improvement :-).
That first sentence crosses into personal incivility and so breaks the site guidelines. Please edit such swipes out of your comments here. They degrade discussion and provoke worse.

The rest of your comment is fine. If something doesn't add up or make sense, you can always express that without accusing someone of lying; for example, by asking a simple question.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You’re correct. My brain must have taken a brief vacation. I corrected it now.
Surprised Amazon even allows you to sue it, what with mandatory arbitration being all the rage.

Welcome to America. Corporate power rules.
I'd like to bring up a point about ReactOS that I never see. Why does this exist? Obviously the teams behind this are incredibly talented, but will it ever be worth it to use a blatant copy of Windows that just doesn't work as well? These developers could have spent the last 20 years working on something that actually moves the free software movement forward, instead of wasting time on a pipe dream with no practical motives.

While I understand that some would like to run Windows software without being attached to Microsoft, Linux exists. Linux is free and superior to Windows in many ways. For the few legacy programs that need to be run on Windows- JUST RUN IT ON WINDOWS. Then use the 20 years you just got backto develop something that protects user's data or helps developing countries or actually pushes the boundaries of the field instead of redoing an archaic platform on which no growth can occur.

Again, I'm not dissing the effort that any of these devs put into the project- it's extremely impressive. There simply exists no reason for this project to have procured the funding and man-hours that is has.
for a great primer on quantum computing see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/quantum/quantum-concepts-4-...
I think the author of the comment just has a subjective preference against the taste and texture.
Yes, nobody contemplates what the amazon-plankton thinks of the situation. Because they do not influence the development and outcome of the current situation. And if they all get the same burden put upon them, the price adjusts and nothing ever happened.
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If you think it's 30% likely to work and 99.9% likely safe, you're in the case where you believe it's safe and you don't believe it will be effective (different from believing it will not be effective). I'd suggest this may be a good risk, depending on how unsafe it would be in the worst case.
Other people don't share your passion, who would've guessed? This is not controversial or concerning.
One of my favorite quotes I’ve mentioned on HN a few times applies here.

It’s only a crime if it occurs on the street level anything above that and it’s called politics.
I just searched on Amazon for "Apple headphones". On at least the first page, all of the reviews stated they were fake.

Can you find a link for genuine Apple headphones from Amazon?
I work for the military, in which the labyrinth of acronyms and custom-made terms are extremely challenging to navigate. We constantly remind our peers to define acronyms when first used in document.

As I enter the computer science (CS) field, I find increasing number of pages (such as the subject page) riddled with acronyms that you have to search to define. I also find a host of improper terminology usage as well as "instructional" information that is simply incorrect.

As CS experts, trying to expand our mutual horizons, why do we torture ourselves like this?
Indeed. It's important to note that the DRC has an order of magnitude more doctors per capita than Liberia does. The border between Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone is pretty much disease containment hard mode.
4 of the 9 Justices disagree.

Minimum wage Workers do not have the time or resources to hire a Lawyer to chase down $100 in withheld overtime.

When theft has occurred at a mass scale, such as Amazon Warehouse Workers or UPS Employees... it is far less expensive for the Employer to settle the matter with one collective unit, rather than thousands of individuals.

Yes, the Lawyers reap the majority of the benefits, but the judgement takes that penalty into account.
I think so, since they are on the same frequency. Which leads to some really interesting ideas I would like to try.
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That was the entire point of my post: theft and robbery are not the same; robbery is theft + use/threat of violence.

And then you used the analogy of breaking into a house when nobody's home. And I pointed out that carries stiffer penalties than wage theft, despite not involving the use or threat of violence against a person.

Your attempt to split hairs to justify the near complete lack of punishment for wage theft is not succeeding.
The Complete Guide to Know about Cell Therapy from the Point of Standardization
What is cell therapy?
Cell therapy refers to the transplantation or input of normal or bioengineered human cells into a patient's body and newly-imported cells can replace damaged cells or involve a stronger immune killing function, so as to achieve the purpose of treating diseases. Cell therapy has shown higher application value in the treatment of cancer, hematological diseases, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, Alzheimer's disease etc. In general, cell therapy includes tumor cell immunotherapy and stem cell therapy. There are two cell sources for cell therapy, one from the patient itself and the other from the allogeneic tissue.

The Defects of Cell Therapy
The cell is the most basic unit that contributes to a living organism, however, it does not mean that everyone shares the same cells. On the contrary, there is a huge difference in each individual which can be compared to human-to-human differences, that is, two identical people never exist. The huge difference between cells and cell preparations is the biggest drawback of cell therapy. In this post, we will discuss several issues that need attention in the current stage of cell therapy.

Difficulties in the Standardization of Cell Therapy
Cancer cell immunotherapy cannot be standardized from the stage of raw material acquisition. The cell treatment materiasl for each paitient are their own blood leukocytes. The condition and physical condition of each patient are different, and the collected white blood cell growth quantity and kill activity are not uniform and cannot be standardized. As it is impossible to standardize raw materials, preparation processes, and product specifications, it cannot be standardized, industrialized, and scaled up. Each tumor cell immunotherapy laboratory meets the GMP level with the hardware environment, and it can be more like a cell preparation workshop. Researchers ranged in number from a few to a dozen and could not really meet the standards of division of labor of industrialized pharmaceutical companies. Taking stem cell therapy that using umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells as an example, which raw material is an umbilical cord, and one umbilical cord-produced cell can be utilized by many paitients. The standardization path is more advanced than the immunotherapy of tumor cells, and the raw materials can be standardized to some extent.
Inevitably, in reality, you don't just talk to HR. Anyone who interviews you is going to look at LinkedIn, look at other networks, and talk to people who they know who used to know you. Often times the management are well connected, at least on LinkedIn... it's not realistic to expect all of the people who interview you for a new job not to contact a former employer. AND... as soon as you say, "Don't do it..." that'd be a red flag, of course they'd want to reach out then.

The thing is, you'll never know what people say behind your back, or who they talk to... or if they honor your request not to talk to past employers. Only option would be to remove all traces from that company from your references / LinkedIn... and then what do you do about the gap year(s)?
Difficulties in The Scale of Cell Therapy Industry
At present, the production mode of the cell therapy industry maily depends on technicians. In the 10,000-grade clean laboratory, the cells are operated in a class 100 clean bench, cultured in a carbon dioxide incubator, centrifuged in a centrifuge, observed through an inverted microscope, and the drug reagents are stored in a medicine refrigerator. All of these devices are operated by independent biological laboratories of the individual and being linked together through the operations of scientists. This type of production model is small in scale and similar to workshop-type production. Although there are some large scales, the essence is a collection of many small workshops. Due to the small scale, the instruments used are laboratory instruments and many of the reagents used are scientific reagents, which will lead to the issue of low efficiency but high cost.
Autologous or Allogeneic cells
There are two kinds of cell sources for cell therapy, one from the patients and the other from the allogeneic tissue. Autologous cell therapy can not be standardized from the raw material acquisition stage, and its cells are only applied to the patient itself, the essence is essentially medical technology. The prevalence of autologous cell therapy as a medical technology is mainly due to the scale of the predicament. Allogeneic cell therapy, the cells derived from allogeneic. Taking tumor cell immunotherapy as an example, the cell source may be from cord blood, and the larger-scale cell source may be a filter plate for leukocyte filtration at the blood bank. Taking umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells as an example, the cell source is the umbilical cord, and one umbilical cord-producing cell can be used by more than one person. If scale can be cultivated, although the quality standards cannot be quantified well, the scaled products themselves have a certain degree of standardized properties.

The cell industry, as an industry, is not the path to the advancement of cell-based therapeutics. If the advanced technology cannot be mass-produced on a large scale, it can only stay in the laboratory and become the object of research for scientists, never have achance to become a drug into the majority of patients. For allogeneic cell therapy that using allogeneic cells as raw materials, the standardized properties of the scaled products can be realized if large-scale cultures are prepared, then scale and standardization can promote each other. The current progress in standardization of cells is not easy, but the progress in scale should be relatively easy to achieve.
1. A seller rents some storage space from a landlord to store the products he wants to sell
2. He uses a cloud provider to set up his website for customers to shop
3. He also uses a payment processor to process customers' orders
4. He then uses a shipper to ship them

In this case, should the landlord/cloud provider/payment processor/shipper be liable for defective products that the seller sells? There's a plethora of companies that play one or more aforementioned role(s), and it so happens that Amazon assumes all of them.
It's funny that people blame law enforcement's lack of interest or effort in white collar crime when for the last many decades the automatic response to every economic 'issue' or moral panic of the day has been to set up more and more agencies and more and more economic regulations.

Courts and law enforcement has evolved to become the very last resort for dealing with these white collar issues. It's become the cultural automatic solution to everything in American (or should I say western) government systems. Every time something goes wrong we're always told the solution is more new agencies to be formed and more complex - slow changing - laws. And these agencies and law always have little mandate to prove efficacy and ROI. They get put in place and stay that way for years. What matters was 'something had to be done' at the time.

So of course law enforcement hasn't been doing a good job at punishing what the rich do. Looking at law enforcement in isolation as the only solution of course is going to look like it's doing a poor job vs enforcing typical criminal laws, which tend to affect middle/lower class people far more.

As income is the greatest indicator of standard criminal acts (drug crimes, theft, violence, etc). Wealthy people simply don't get involved in such crimes and are far more likely to be involved in white collar crime, which thousands of US agencies have been set up to punitively enforce.

There may be serious issues in the justice system (in terms of sentencing, representation, law enforcement culture, etc) regarding the way the wealthy are treated in terms of standard criminal issues. But applying the same lense to white collar crime while ignoring the larger scope of regulatory frameworks and agency based intervention is to severely misunderstand the issue.

These non-law enforcement agencies play a massive role in the US economy.

Yes, the efficacy of always turning to agencies and regulatory frameworks can be honestly questioned and likely a source of many loopholes, but their pure effort and the subsequent costs they impose on the economic system in their efforts to stop this behaviour can't be downplayed... as if they aren't being pursued compared to 'blue collar' crime.

Involving more of the courts and law enforcement to white collar crime could legitimately be a solution here and the lack of real punishment for these actions is a real problem IMO. I'm merely saying the results today are a side effect of how things are done, the automatic political solutions being put in place every time something goes wrong in business, not that things are good as they are.
Natural cytokine supernatants with more standardized and standardized properties
Cytokines are a class of small molecule proteins with broad biological activity synthesized and secreted by immune cells (such as monocytes, macrophages, T cells, B cells, NK cells, etc.) and certain non-immune cells (endothelial cells, epidermal cells, fibroblasts, etc.) Immune responses are regulated by binding to the respective receptors to regulate cell growth, differentiation and effects. Cytokines (CK) are low-molecular-weight soluble proteins that are produced by various types of cells induced by immunogens, mitogens, or other stimulants. They have the ability to regulate innate immunity [1] and adaptive immunity [2], hematopoiesis, cell growth, and damage tissue repair and other functions.

Cytokines can be divided into interleukins, interferons, tumor necrosis factor superfamily, colony stimulating factors, chemokines, growth factors etc. Cytokines form a very complex cytokine regulatory network in the body and participate in many important physiological functions of the human body. Where stem cells and immune cells cannot reach the body, cytokines can easily reach target tissue sites because of their small size.

In recent years, recombinant gene cytokines have made remarkable achievements in clinical applications as a novel biological response modifier. A large part of the effects of stem cell therapy and immune cell therapy arises from the action of cytokines secreted in the body. The stem cells and immune cells in the body are introduced back into the body to secrete a variety of natural structural cytokines. Although the amount of these cytokines is relatively small, they are synergistic and act directly on the cytokine network in the body because of their high natural structure activity, lack of antigenicity but diversity. Because of the standardization, standardization, industrialization, and scale of natural compound cytokines, it is more cost-effective than cell therapy, allowing more patients in need to enjoy cell-like therapeutic effects.

Although natural complex cytokines can largely replace cell therapy, but there are still conditions that require the presence of cells to exert a therapeutic effect. We hope that cell therapy can break the current situation, become high efficiency and low cost with large scale, more standardization, and then be applied to more disease treatments.
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"Only sustainable for a couple decades" is , to a first order, the same as "sustainable" when you're looking at a 20 year time span

" Oh don't worry this nightmare will stop in about 2 decades"
More great Jupyter Notebooks in the AI field:

1) 16 notebooks from the book "Python Machine Learning" by Raschka & Mirjalili
https://github.com/rasbt/python-machine-learning-book-2nd-ed...

2) Linear Regression, Logistic Regression, Random Forests, and k-Means Clustering notebooks by Nitin Borwankar
https://github.com/nborwankar/LearnDataScience

3) scikit-learn tutorial notebooks by Jake VanderPlas
https://github.com/jakevdp/sklearn_tutorial

4) Lots of deep learning notebooks from the book "Deep Learning with Python" by François Chollet
https://github.com/fchollet/deep-learning-with-python-notebo...

Bonus) Jupyter notebook on AWS tutorial (when your local computer just won't handle your notebook requirements):
http://efavdb.com/deep-learning-with-jupyter-on-aws/

Please share your jupyter notebook recommendations.
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There mass surveillance back then was child's play in comparison what is possible today. There is a tipping point which is hopefully still in the future, where dissent is detectable and predictable enough that regimes are no longer at risk to collapse.

If you look at collapses of authoritarian regimes due to public pressure, they happen to a similar pattern. A small group of people start a protest and depending on how hated the regime is and how bad the living condition for most people are, others will join in, the more the less likely it becomes for them to be individually picked out.

This only works if the initial small group has enough time to motivate enough people to join in so that it snowballs. Earlier approaches were to minimize the time the small groups had to snowball with quick and hard actions, but with more and more surveillance, it becomes possible to target people even before they join. At a certain point it becomes possible to watch over every last citizen and target anyone who might be willing to start something like this in the future.
One possible line is that you can't have a vendor-vendee relationship between two parties if one of them doesn't know the other exists. It's nonsensical to claim that Amazon is facilitating a relationship between manufacturer and buyer if we take at face value the claim that they don't even know who the manufacturer is. At that point, Amazon effectively owns the product and is a reseller.
Man if only there was a mechanism where workers could bind together to increase their bargaining power.

Except Americans have been indoctrinated for decades that unions=bad. This is the result.

And guess what? Mandatory arbitration robs you of any judicial remedies.
That's correct. Due to the one-child policy and other causes, China is already suffering a worker shortage, and the demographers say it will get much worse in the future.
The AGI would feel that it is for the greater good, perhaps correctly. After all, as those mammals were giving birth to the next generation of offspring over and over again through the eons which eventually led to us, each successive generation was a little better than the last, and would ultimately supplant the last as the predecessors perished. And I'm sure the parents and offspring both felt that to be the greater good, as they always do.

If we someday hypothetically grasp the awesome power to create an AGI which is better than human, we may have a very real and ethical obligation to do so, even if it is a risk to ourselves. At least that's how I see it. An existential risk is cast under a different light if it also creates a new existence.

In any case, AGI is probably still a lot further away than we think. I feel that problem is going to be like fusion power. It's going to be ~15 years away for about 150 years, or who knows how long. This is a hard problem with monstrous complexity and many hidden, unknown factors.

But I do find it fascinating that in some future time there will be NIMBYs of consciousness fighting against the creation of a better being than us, for very understandable reasons. Yet ultimately it may be our greatest achievement to someday make ourselves obsolete and hand the future over to our offspring, as we do each generation, but in a profoundly different and more final way.
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