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Brute force is not required to damage/alter the brain. Food, aclohol, drugs or stress can easily alter brain chemistry in dramatic ways. Now, whether or not any government will do something like that is another question.
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> Are you saying I was not around during the time periods discussed?

I wouldn't presume. Such assumptions are the OP's game, not mine.

> most of it is just vague dismissals

That's simply untrue. I was quite specific about how trolling was different, about the distinction between what users should do vs. what administrators, and why they should be different. Far more specific than you have been. Apparently an imagined slight in one or two sentences prevented you from reading the rest before you replied, but that's not the same as it not being there.
For most random things, getting there and back aside, find the item in a huge store is a pain in the ass. On amazon, it's literally a 10s search query.

Also, for more common items such as shampoo or litter, grocery stores have literally 30 different types of them, which can make it hard to choose. By having ratings, reviews, information and q&a right there, it makes choosing the right product much easier.
Is it okay if my business only allows the expensing of meat, and refuses to allow carbohydrates for health reasons?

EDIT: Fair enough! Not contrarian, just finding the line. What interesting times we live in.
They’re not limiting people’s choices, they’re just limiting what they want to pay for. It’s not like they’re threatening to fire anyone who eats meat on their own.

I don’t see the problem here. Lots of companies don’t buy their employees food at all. (And I say this as a meat eater who would definitely be affected by this change.)
Yes, per Sartre killing oneself is a course of action available to us at (almost) any moment, which must be justified against by any supposed moral system. This is pretty standard.

We aren't talking about what the law dictates, we're talking about how some moral system might inform our actions. Two very different things, although of course the relationship between them is fascinating in its own right.
If only the white rhino had chosen to be eaten!
BAT is an interesting choice. I'm a fan of Brave browser and it will be intriguing if BAT is able to pull off its mission of monetizing the internet while protecting privacy. I really hope they succeed.
The list doesn't include Western laws.

- Common law

- Case law (popular in Anglo countries)

- Civil law (popular in Western European countries)
Amazon Prime Now, while not available everywhere, has worked fairly well for me, and maybe soon we'll have drone deliveries too.
BeagleBone’s processor the AM335x PRU processors by TI has two “PRU” coprocessors. They have “xin” and “xout” instructions that can copy a register bank in 1 cycle. Pretty handy for quick data gathering but tricky to use in C.
> One company with one decision making an 0.1% reduction on global CO2 annually sounds pretty darn good to me.

The point is that WeWork is being either credulous, fraudulent, or incompetent, because it isn't possible for this 2,000 person company to account for 0.1% of global CO2.
Of course.

Though you might find it gets even more resistance. Plenty of people eat burgers, but almost all of them would expect it to be served on a bun, maybe with a condiment or two. I hear french fries are also popular.
Instead of quoting the article, how about we quote the actual proposed regulation?

The proposed regulation provides that when EPA develops regulations, including regulations for which the public is likely to bear the cost of compliance, with regard to those scientific studies that are pivotal to the action being taken, EPA should ensure that the data underlying those are publicly available in a manner sufficient for independent validation.[1]

Seem eminently reasonable to me. And seems aligned with the "open science" movement to me.

And in terms of privacy...

EPA believes that concerns about access to confidential or private information can, in many cases, be addressed through the application of solutions commonly in use across some parts of the Federal government. Nothing in the proposed rule compels the disclosure of any confidential or private information in a manner that violates applicable legal and ethical protections.

[1] https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/04/30/2018-09...
Google may have started with AppEngine, but that's not how it is today.

Google now has a line-up of products directly competing with equivalent AWS services: VMs (Compute Engine), queueing (Pub/sub), key/value storage (GCS, which even has S3 API compatibility), SQL databases (CloudSQL, Spanner), Redis, document storage (Google Datastore), distributed file system (Filestore, like EFS), big data store (BigQuery), etc.
Eating isn't a choice. Please don't deflect from the criticism of your claim.

Downvote me all you like Andrew, but I'm going to call you out for espousing ideas that can literally kill people.
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You expect the company to pay for your drinks? That sounds ridiculous to me and I am no abstinent.
That sounds like a quick way to end up in prison for a long time.
>not harming sentient creatures

Plants are sentient creatures
Me too. Ironically the one thing I still buy on Amazon is books. I do try to support local bookstores but we don't have many other than B&N and it's not just a small markup, books can cost twice as much there. It's really hard to justify $60 vs. $30 for the same thing.
This is a false equivalence. It is apparently a matter of custom at WeWork for at least some employee meals to be paid for by the company. To dictate what employees may order in those situations is unconscionable.

Imagine your manager takes the team out for a working lunch, and you basically can’t order anything except for a garden salad from the menu. You have to be at the lunch, but you cannot order like a normal person. That’s wrong.
Yes, they should be forced to pay for the things normally required of an employer. Including reasonable meals during business travel. The individual employee can choose on their own to be vegan or vegetarian, or to eat meat.

Why should the individual rights of the employee be surpassed by the rights of the powerful employer?
BAT is cool and the ad blocker in the Brave browser works really well. I use it on ad-heavy websites which burn up my computer on other browsers (which is any news site nowadays...). I still use Chrome day to day though because of the developer tools. Hopefully the project has some success because I appreciate the ethos behind it - empower users to capture some of their value from the attention economy.
It's a hell of a lot easier to install a charger in a parking lot than it is to install a gas station.

Also, there may be perks/subsidies offered by the local government for installing EV chargers.
Like most fake vegetarians, the policy apparently does not include any aquatic creatures like fish, squid, whales, or dolphins...even though the latter two are intelligent mammals with more capacity to feel pain than any type of poultry.
The author is American so one would be safe to infer that “ours” means Americans.
We should certainly make sure that they feel the full effects of their decisions, in PR, the employment market, and in public praise or ridicule.
Even more obviously absurd: 15 million animals saved is how many per employee?
I'm also on a FODMAP diet - I've started bringing my own food in to work because I can't eat what they serve at work on this diet. I really don't see a problem. It's impossible to cater to every possible taste, allergy, intolerance and belief. It's nice to make an effort to cater for as many people as possible, but nobody's forcing anybody to eat anything here.

It is possible to go meat free on the fodmap diet, by the way (although people's definitions of the diet are admittedly inconsistent, and it is tricky). To be honest, meat is one the the things I find hard to eat because it's so often cooked with garlic.
which de facto excludes 90% of medical research because medical patients have privacy rights and researchers have legal obligations to respect those rights.

These rules are a hot political topic that are years in the making. The people pushing them are not scientists and have never expressed genuine interest in reproducibility outside of this one issue. And scientists who have spent years fighting for reproducibility have publicly stated they oppose this rule. And all the major proponents have strong anti-regulatory preferences.

These rules are not about reproducibility. This rule is an intentionally crafted Catch-22 designed to exclude medical research from consideration so it's easier to justify repealing or not implementing environmental regulations. Otherwise, the rules would find a middle ground; e.g., by allowing the EPA access to relevant scientific data and analysis without risking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De-anonymization by posting sensitive medical information about thousands of patients on the public internet.
My first adult .gif downloading all the way at 300 baud!
I think you are drastically overestimating the cost of legumes.
On the other hand, a policy of "you can expense vegetarian meals, but only vegetarian meals" is forcing you to be vegetarian at a much higher and more obnoxious level than that.
Yeah - my intuition is there is a correlation, but really I’d love to see any sort of research that relates to this.
It should sound good—unbelievably good. This is why the global comparison makes sense: it implies wework is already using at least 0.1% of the world’s C02 production. Which seems absurd for 1/4000000th of the world population.

Maybe they were just letting cows rot in their pantry, I dunno.
Not sure what you're getting at.
No one's going to get sued for a reimbursement policy. They don't have an obligation to reimburse, and this falls so far outside of fair employment laws. HN is going nuts on this one.
She also wrote a Python port:
https://github.com/donya/PythonEuterpea

(I don't know how complete it is.)
I agree. It's the users that pay up for gas.
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Just a sidenote, there is really nothing preventing that techically speaking, after cellular signals are OTA, and handheld tvs used to be a thing.
Your confidentiality agreement with a study can preclude them from even releasing the anonymized raw data, invaliding a study in the eyes of the EPA.

It also mandates reproducibility. It isn't exactly easy or even possible to reproduce a 70-year long study or a study of victims of a disaster which is the point of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and The American Academy of Pediatrics.

https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=EPA-HQ-OA-2018-0259-2...
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Which is to say 1:370
A for-profit business is moving levers under its control to increase its profits. Nothing surprises me about this.
Meat has an horrific environmental impact, so i can see why a socially conscious company would not want to associate itself to that.

Notice that employees are still free to eat whatever they want, its just that the company will not pay for ecologically unsustainable meals.

So the freedeom of choice of the employees is unchanged, they can still go out and grab a burguer but its out of their own pocket.
You are superior to a cow in so many ways, according to you, based on your criteria. The nazis thought they were superior to jews in so many ways, according to them, based on their criteria. One is just as objectively true as the other.
Paxful, localbitcoins and coinbase scammed of my bitcoins when i was trying to sell them a few weeks ago. I lost $3,000 worth of bitcoins to thos as*holes! Until I came across cryptoexmart. I sell bitcoins on their platform and I get paid almost instantly. Their website is cryptoexmart. com
I'm on an island with ~3K full-time residents, maybe twice that this time of year with tourism.

Being remote is a total non-issue as a rule, but depends on being in a company where this is part of corporate culture and processes. I've traveled for work twice in the last year, most recently for a hardware refresh.

In my case, home is a semi-rural yard, so I get some teasing if the rooster is heard during a conference call. Others do the same from urban apartments, but similar costs give me space, trees, and nearby ocean.

We have reasonable amenities on-island, more across a 10-minute ferry ride, and more yet within an hour's drive. Vancouver (BC) is a very short flight away, but far enough that real estate is reasonably priced.

When we wanted to make the move, my manager asked two questions. Do I have the internet, and do I have an airport? Those answered, I could do what I pleased. Now, I did have an existing in-person relationship there, but it didn't feel like a burden when I changed companies three years later (back to that corporate culture thing.)
Every category you purport to be causes for celebration are presently reversing themselves the world over due to ignorant, nationalist, neo-fascist governments like the one systematically dismantling the EPA discussed in the article.
Dhall's lists are homogeneous lists, meaning that every element always has the same type of value. This is true whether or not you annotate list elements with a type or you annotate the list with a type.

You only need to annotate the type of an empty list. Lists with at least one element don't require a type annotation because the type can be inferred from the type of that element.

Dhall does not have buit-in support for homogeneous maps. Dhall does have statically typed heterogeneous records (i.e. something like `{ foo = Bool, bar = "ABC" }` which has type `{ foo : Bool, bar : Text }` for example).

If you want to store different type of values in the same list you wrap them in a union. For example, if you want to store both `Text` values and `Natural` numbers in a list you would do:

let union = constructors < Left : Natural | Right : Text >

in [ union.Left 10, union.Right "ABC", union.Right "DEF", union.Left 4 ]

The closest thing to a homogeneous map in Dhall is an association list of type `[ { mapKey : Text, mapValue : a } ]` but even that is still not an exact fit since it doesn't guarantee uniqueness of keys. However, Dhall's JSON/YAML integration does convert that automatically to a JSON/YAML homogeneous map (i.e. a JSON record where every field has the same type).

In general, Dhall's JSON/YAML integration has several tricks and conventions that translate to weakly typed JSON idioms (such as homogeneous maps, omitting null values, and using tags).
Writing a load of consistency checks in the application layer sounds the opposite of agile to me. Unless you just want sloppy data.
I have no particular stance on WeWork's policy, but this argument seems pretty strained. You seem to be saying that if implementing the opposite of policy A would be unacceptable, then implementing policy A is hypocrisy.

That doesn't make sense to me. At the extreme end, take my moral stance against killing other people. "Imagine the opposite - having a moral stance FOR killing people - there would be outrage! Hypocrisy."

Or with a less extreme example, say as a company I mandate the use of electric cars on business trips (assuming rental companies had them available). Many people would think the opposite policy - say, mandating vehicles getting 12mpg or less - would be an outrage. Would that make the electric-car-preferred policy hypocritical?

It seems like our entire discourse now - especially our political discourse - is one big search for the big Hypocrisy Gotcha moment.
The desire to carry on working isn't an idiosyncratic personal desire. It's why you're paid to be there, why the space exists. How is that not supernova-level obvious? Can someone's sense of entitlement be so huge that it blots out even that? I wouldn't have thought so until now.
That's a pretty great analogy. Lots of businesses have a no-alcohol policy. No one even bats an eye when it's mentioned. I hardly see anyone complaining about such companies pushing a lifestyle agenda.
I think Jet.com tried this. If my memory serves, they were trying to be the Costco of online retailers where they generated a significant portion of their revenue from membership fees which would allow them to charge lower margins for their products.

I don't know if their acquisition by Walmart was considered a good exit or not but it seems to me that they at least didn't grow big enough and fast enough to be a direct competitor to Amazon. Maybe they are now that they're part of Walmart? I don't personally buy from them anymore but that's mostly due to my disdain for Walmart.
Java 10?
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My impression was that number was higher (perhaps because there was a time a few years years back when there was some mismanagement and significant incremental funds needed for the school system). But it's still about 65% and I'm not sure that accounts for all the transfer payments.

https://www.ci.lancaster.ma.us/sites/lancasterma/files/uploa...

It's a smallish rural town. There is police, fire, library, water, DPW, etc. but we don't even have services like trash collection which are private. Schools are significant.
I’m not confident it’s actually true that “phones have changed nothing”. They’ve certainly increased the variety of distractions one can access from a theater seat, as well as the ease of accessing them. But it’s also clear that most people have enough self-control to avoid using their phones for the duration of a musical, so it’s reasonable to blame those who don’t rather than blaming the technology. (This is distinct from the longer-term phenomenon of phone addiction, where there’s more room to blame the technology’s addictive qualities…)
It's not at all strange for many people, and exactly the opposite view is held by them.. that eating all vegetarian is unhealthy, and all or mostly meat is the healthiest.

I mean, we can provide some supporting evidence to support our claims, but certainly your statement is not uncontroversial..
I ordered a PlayStation 3 from Walmart years ago. It arrived in a smashed box. I took it into the store to get a refund. They treated me like I was a criminal.
This was probably the right thing to prevent insider trading. There was evidence of insider trading when Coinbase added BCH, so they might be just completely avoiding the risk of information leaks.
Amazon flagrantly sells counterfeits due to comingling. Repercussions? Zero. As long as you're outside of US jurisdiction, the chances of you being prosecuted are close enough to zero to round down.
Is there a academic language which focuses solely on performance and optimization- by building the program and data structures around the hot-loop and optimal cache usage?
Something Mike Acton would create if he wrote compilers?
I think that humans in the past have undoubtedly had to eat meat to survive, as do many wild animals, but now that most humans no longer need meat, there's no reason to inflict suffering on other animals.
If you mean "rights" in a legal context, nowhere does an employee have a right to be reimbursed. The closest governing law here is fair employment, and this isn't anywhere close to that.

edit: so long as work-related expenses doesn't sum out to a minimum wage violation
Or found the pub was using iPlayer too..
Interesting how the write api doesn't appear to invalidate/update the memory cache in the first diagram.

Still recommend people read Fielding's REST thesis - as it demonstrates a lot of possible architectures (eg fat client or what we today call SPAs) - not simply REST. Along with some trade-offs. (REST is mainly motivated by simplicity of a simple hypertext application coupled with easy multi-level caching).

https://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/top.htm

For a preview of SPAs before the prevalence of Javascript, see 3.5, in particular 3.5.3 "code on demand":

https://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/net_arch...

And keep in mind the text is from 2000. Early Ajax was introduced in IE in 1999, and late 2000 in Mozilla - but it took a while for Ajax to become standardized...
For South Korea it's not normal HDTV but a special broadcast for mobile devices, DMB [1]. It was only recently updated to support 720p in favor of 240p. They aren't picking up the domestic ATSC signals. The Japanese mobile video system is a similar separate broadcast.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_multimedia_broadcastin...
This is completely unenforceable.

Just claim that you ordered the dish without meat.
Could you point me to research regarding this? It sounds pretty anecdotal
Also: did therapy cause these apparently increases in negative characteristics or unmask them? It's possible that after therapy people were less in denial about their actual feelings.

Overall it seems like a fairly shallow study, though it does raise questions.
>Because the "a.b" is not a key, but a table "a" that contains an entry with key "b". If you write "a.b = 1" then that integer is not a table, and can't have an entry called "c".

Your explanation is perfect and I understand the justification why it isn't possible now - so thanks for that! The array alternative provided by xinau is also an acceptable replacement - maybe even better to be honest, especially in this particular scenario.

>It's probably best to think of TOML as convenient syntax for creating a JSON-like structure. What kind of JSON would you expect as the result of your config examples?

I came back from lunch and realized what I was trying to do didn't make sense while trying to convert it to JSON. Having name.first be both a value and contain an object doesn't make sense - unless it were to contain an array value but then why have the object and not just have the value? All very silly. So I guess my "only issue with TOML" is that I never sat down and tried to express what I wanted to express in any other way. It made a lot more sense in my head than on paper. :)
Common sense would say young adults with negative personality are more likely to start therapy. Logic says correlation does not equal causation. The authors argument about their renegade research/analysis, is not persuasive as to why correlation equals causation within the scope of their longitudinal analysis.
Neat, but unless I am missing something, a nightmare in terms of security. Assembly has a worse type system than even C: essentially no type system at all!

(Or rather the weakest, simplest, most dynamic type system you can imagine.)
Buying stuff on Amazon has just become second nature to me. I've gotten hard to find hot sauce, books, and laundry detergent despite the fact that I live literally across the street from a whole foods because of the convenience. My apartment complex recently installed an Amazon Hub as well. I've never really had an issue w/ the quality of goods or counterfeits and Prime is a great deal if only for the 2 day shipping and Prime Video.
Reproducibility in science means enough information is disclosed, such that the data can be reproduced. It does not mean it has to be repeated to be believed.

Reproducibility is a key part of the scientific method. I'm surprised people are so willing to toss it aside.
Let's just leave it to "power". We are immensely more powerful than the cow, seeing as they aren't having any debates about whether they should eat us or not, and can't do anything to stop whether we want to eat them.. it is simply our choice to do so or not.

I think that's pretty objective.