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>Taking taxis everywhere will be cheaper than owning your own vehicle.

People say this but it's very unclear it will be the case. Especially outside of places where the environment (salted roads for example) take a toll, most of the cost of owning a car is ultimately distance, not time.

A lot of factors could make pay-per-use fleet cars a bit cheaper or more expensive than owner but it's not clear that the economic difference will really be all that great.

I also see people expecting drastically cheaper prices than Uber but the overall costs (including those associated with getting the car to you) are still going to be 50 cents a mile or so.
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It is perfectly realistic that that stay out of businesses they can't competently run.

For most of history people selling things had an understanding of what they were selling. If Amazon can't meet that standard for some products, or for third-party sellers as whole, they can just stop.

Alternatively, they could set up a separate site. Something like "Caveat Emptor" or "Bezos's Dubious Flea Market". Something that doesn't trade on the Amazon brand and create confusion between responsible vendors and fly-by-night operations.

That you can't or won't think of a way to do something without harming megacorp short-term profits doesn't make it "unrealistic" to address a recently create problem. I leave it to you to figure out what it does mean.
Just to be clear, today's corner stores do not sell food. That is the problem. Sugary drinks and potato chips are not real food, they are garbage. This isn't exclusive to gas stations and other places like that. In San Francisco, it still holds. There is either no food or food of such low quality as to count as no food. I cannot go into these stores and buy a sandwich or ingredients for one nor do they have fruits or vegetables to cook a meal. Also they are overpriced and generally a ripoff that are mostly useless if your goal is to not be hungry. Like everything else in America, I'm sure there is some twisted economic explanation for this. I don't care too much because regardless of the explanation, the only way to get decent food in America is to drive a few miles and the only way to get good food, is to drive many miles. And I live in a city with a bigger city next door. This idea that we can all have walkable nice neighborhoods in America with amenities close by that this site tries to push is frankly delusional in our current economy.
What constitutes a "valid business email", exactly? I entered one, clicked "verify", and was warned to "enter a valid business email." I assure you, I did. What's the trouble?
How much mathematical vs. verbal reasoning is involved in systems programming?
Very real problem. TBH, this is the utility of conspiracy theories. Conspiracy theories aren't necessarily useful because they're true. They're useful because the vulnerabilities which are brought up in conspiracy theories often exist in reality, and they need to be accounted for.

Do vaccines contain substances which might be used for social engineering? Probably not, beyond the obvious disease reduction. Might unscrupulous government forces be WILLING to do such a thing, in collaboration with the oft-demonized private corporations? Absolutely. Especially given the recent news that the biannual reports which HHS was supposed to give to congress on the reduction of adverse vaccine effects have not been done since 1987, when they were first mandated. These reports were (presumably) mandated as a condition for allowing drug companies to avoid suits for vaccines. (Solution: easily available independent testing)

Might the telecom companies and USGOV be monitering everything we do electronically, as Alex Jones was telling us? Yeah. Are they? Ofc. (Solution: Encryption)

So if mental health care practitioners wished to intentionally change the behavior of Americans to a more subservient one, might they? Have they? Have not Psychoanalysis and Public Relations been exactly this (see: Century of the Self)? (Solution: IDK)
> I'm very confused by this. What is "historical treason" in this context?

Think of it like "True crime" stories. Some people take an interest in serial killers. Some are fascinated by war criminals, some by Spies. Where would you categorize a book about Benedict Arnold?
$4.7B verdict against J&J may open lawsuits linking baby powder to cancer
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I think this is due to overpopulation. Only so many seats available to pass?
Not to mention inventing MySpace!
You can use an electric unicycle to get around easily.
Are you talking about the touchbar esc? Serious question, how the fuck do you use it without tactile feedback?

My approach was to remap caps lock to escape as a press and ctrl as a hold, and then disable the touchbar as much as possible (whoever put unmute and siri next to each other should be taken out and shot btw, that caused me so much annoyance)
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Out of curiosity, do you have a sense for whether the restaurant's patrons are driving from other parts of the city, or from the suburbs?
SESS is tightly wired to use SES (AWS). We do a bunch of algorithmic checks to validate email/domain validity plus assessing the risk-factor of uploaded email list. If you have a clean list deliverability is closer to 100%.

Edit: Thanks for the note. I will make a mention of the deliverability on the site.
I've had them in an IV - they made me hallucinate, and tapered off with the same pills, higher than you had at first. I had no aggression, but was quite energetic and could barely sleep. I go soooo much done once I got out of the hospital Let me be the first to tell you that hospitals are quite boring when you have the energy between the doses and couldn't sleep. And sure, I felt effects, but I was warned about them as well.

We are both lucky to not have been lied to and have the internet. Pre-internet and the doctor telling me the vitamins do that? I'm not sure I could have known any differently without some knowledge of this stuff as an adult, and agreed - not as a child either.
There are requirements beyond that including that it's unrelated to anything your employer does. If you work at Google or a similarly broad tech giant, unfortunately that means they probably own the IP of almost anything you could do despite California's otherwise generous law.

I wish the law was worded such that it just had to be unrelated to the work that employee does for the employer, but it was not written with that forsight.
> micro-targeting Facebook adverts at the leader and his closest aides

I'm guessing they created a new target list by uploading enough peoples' email addresses to get past Facebook's minimum list length. I don't know how many that is but when I last had a look at it a couple years back the minimum was 20
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This proof is missing a step showing that the problem exemplified by the simple two-node system applies to all system topologies. This website only proves: "there exists a system for which CAP is impossible." I do not think the generalizing argument will be complicated, but it should be included.
Possibly, but it might simply be that systemd using the shiniest new features just for the sake of it is not the most performant or sensible approach.
Using fountain codes to build a decentralized file storage layer
I do not comprehend the actual point you intend to make.

But, remember the left chooses the hard road, not because they can but because it is moral.

Regardless, Trump is absolutely a fascist. It seems a bit futile to disagree.
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Perhaps I should not have been so hasty.

It's just annoying that the implication is that the 'reinventors' haven't done their research. It's almost as bad as my original feeling of "that's an new old thing", and assuming malicious intent/plagiarism.
America has a lot of land and in the developed world you wont get planning permission for residential property with out of street parking
crooks and con men have been doing as such long before digital computers.
wait, hold on. there's an effective drug that cures HHV-1 and alot of other things include the cryptoplasma cat parasite virus, and Herpies 2. There's no toxic limit (people take 4g twice a day with no side effect, way over what is needed to kill it) and it works within 48-72 hours. We don't need a vaccine. It could be sold over the counter. There are two groups that have separate method of actions, so if it fails there's another one.
Are you unable to pay a business for a place to store your car? What's the problem, exactly?
You have written your experience in detail.

If you don't mind. I would like to request you to have a look aah framework [1]? and share your candid feedback. I'm interested in your viewpoint. I'm the author of aah.

[1]: https://aahframework.org
It seems you think about partition tolerance in terms of whether the whole system tolerates a partition. Usually partition tolerance is intended as the ability of every single node to accept operations (e.g. new writes) even if said node is on the minority side of a partition, and still operate within specs (i.e. the database offloads consistency problems to the application, usually also guaranteeing some form of eventual consistency)
The good thing is that Purism has a track record. They have been designing, manufacturing & shipping privacy focused, FOSS laptops for years now.

A full FOSS/FOSH phone is new territory. They're still allowing pre-orders on their website if interested.

I'm hopeful that it will be a good Linux phone when production is done in January.
I wish. You people are a disgrace.
That already exists. If you click the menu icon next to an ad on Facebook you can select "Why am I seeing this?". You can also see all the advertisers who have targeted you on https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences/.
Blaming the patient for having a bad attitude just makes the profession of psychotherapy look ineffectual.

What sort of magic are you expecting from psychotherapy? You're paying someone to help you solve your problems. You're not paying someone to solve your problems for you.
i think microtargetting criteria should be disclosed the same way as who paid for the ad, be it commercial or political, doesn't matter.

"This ad targeting filters: 'white, male, xenophobe', paid for by Russian government"
Obesity is almost never genetic. There are a tiny handful of genetic conditions for which obesity can emerge as a side effect, but in the vast majority of cases obesity is simply the result of consuming too many calories. [1]

I don't think a source should be necessary for this, though I did bother to include one. Obesity hardly existed in e.g. the fifties, and that was certainly not for a shortage of food. And the individuals of healthy weight did reproduce, in great numbers. The sudden emergence of a massive genetic disorder makes no sense.

On the other hand people started becoming fat once quick, cheap, food that sacrifices healthfulness for flavor and price became ubiquitous. And in contemporary times we've subsidized the pants off corn resulting in things like high fructose corn syrup being in practically everything. And of course it would be remiss to not consider the great changes in the engineering of foodstuffs and the corresponding change in the status quo of herbicides with us also consuming trace amounts in massive quantities, as a generational experiment.

[1] - https://www.cdc.gov/genomics/resources/diseases/obesity/inde...
Social engineering is more two sided. You are trying to get something out of these people, like something very concrete. This is more propaganda.
If you can speak to me one on one and tell me why I should vote for you, and you convince me - then you deserve my vote. Microtargeting allows you to do that at scale.

If I care about a certain issue and you advertise to me in a way that matches up to the things I care about, and present ideas that I agree with, then you are campaigning correctly.

If a politician saw that I cared about the environment and argued for upholding the Paris agreement - that would not win my vote, because I don't think the Paris agreement is a good solution to that problem. In this case, they lose my vote.

If they see that I care about income inequality but tell me that they will solve it by taxing the rich, I don't agree with that either - so they lose my vote.

Microtargeting is a tool just like the newspaper op-ed or the campaign commercial or the stump speech. Banning it because people are using it well is like taking away the stairs because some people use wheelchairs.
I get a: 'e {code: "app/duplicate-app", message: "Firebase: Firebase App named '[DEFAULT]' already exists (app/duplicate-app)."' in console when trying to verify my email.
Which books for children?
You're supposed to turn around and go back on to ice that you know is safe.
This is disturbing for the following reasons:
1. It alerts us to the possibility of fake political adverts. Do I (hypothetically)see an ad purporting to be a Tory ad promising something that will damage me, placed by a non-Tory actor?
2. Are unknown actors placing adverts which cause discord and dislike?
3. How do we solve this problem? Where FB is not regulated it will be impossible to knowingly audit the materials on its platform.
4. Given FB’s lobbying power, is regulation even possible?
Yeah, inside the forests it is dry and one can really see how some plants are struggling. It is a dry heat, barely any moisture at all. Today it was near +30 C. The ground with pine/spruce needles and moss smells fantastic though, something resembling warm cinnamon.

When one encounters a field or an opening with grass, it is more likely than not burnt, yellowish ferns are a norm rather than an exception at this time of the year, and ditches which used to have a stream of water are barren.

If the upcoming winter is dry without much snow, the ground water levels won't be replenished and, with the lack of rain, next year will be worse.

The high heat creates local thunders with apparently do not carry much rainfall. Lightning strikes seem to have started at least a few of this years forest fires.
A valid business email is one where you should be able to receive and send mails. If you have a 'catch all' email id, the system does not accept that.

Having said that i must say our algorithm is deliberately a bit aggressive (so as to prevent spam).

Your email could very well be a false positive. Could you write to support@sess.email from the business email in question. I'll be happy to look into it and whitelist it.
(And an "Invalid Link" page at the email verification destination)
Arguable. For every London in Europe, there’s 10 cities that grew 3-5-10x since 1945. After all, the postwar boom happened on both sides of the Atlantic. London, Paris, etc. are outliers.

It was just policy decisions in many cases.
The men scared away from courting by the #metoo movement are exactly the kind that should stay out of the dating pool until they are ready to respect women. Good to hear the movement is working.
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Hmmm, I wonder if there might be some evolutionary reason why we shouldn't do this?

I mean it's not like a deferrence to authority allows human beings to coordinate and work together efficiently. Hierarchies are totally inefficient ways to work together and get things done.

/s

EDIT: A paper that is very much worth reading: https://hbr.org/1990/01/in-praise-of-hierarchy
Maybe that is it! This is propaganda to have the enemy work on DTDs and XML transformations.
What exactly are you researching and saving?

I feel like I read, remember what I need to google later, and I'm onto more.

Tbh, I pick topics and have goals in mind, even hobbyist goals are more fun than surfing the web.
You can't help someone who doesn't want to help themselves.
Could you write to support@sess.email with a screenshot. Im curious to look into whats happening here. Thanks.
Chase cards with very generous bonuses were advertised very agressively on sites like slickdeals, fatwallet, kk and others by JP Morgan itself.

No surprise it attracted power CC users.

My take on that is they wanted to show CC business growth on paper even by actually giving away money.

Similar thing was happening after Wells Fargo scandal.
WF pushed it’s WF Cash Wise credit card with $200 sign up bonus.
We've been doing that for years with adtech!
While I love OSM for the data and the free approach, one thing which annoys me with OSM is that their main map doesn’t support hdpi (retina) displays. That makes the map look ugly on iPad and MacBooks at least, I suspect on much more recent devices.
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> "There is an important element of social engineering going on with these victims," says Snezana Gebauer, K2's head of investigations and disputes practices, who has worked on the case with Kotsianas. "They know everything about their victims' personal lives and use the necessary pressure points, and they use publicly available information about the executives they are impersonating."

So it seems Google/Alphabet finally found how to monetize their new robocaller!
What technical means do you use to detect a catch-all address? I know of no reliable method for that purpose, since receiving server cooperation would be required and could not be trusted.
If whale-sounds and bird-songs are information, and human intelligence is the only thing that can create information, then the conclusion is whales and birds were created by some kind of intelligence.
What seems to constantly happen is that we are instead served up the porridge that’s specifically for us while we don’t see the whole picture and what all the other people have also been promised.

What I’m saying is that the narrative of a manifesto or even what a political party stands for is corrupted by being “all things to all people” in their messaging.
Any proof this is true? Sounds like conjecture to me.
Paying who enough exactly?

Dying malls get liquidated and repurposed if it's economically viable otherwise they just sit there as a giant husk of "what was" because it hurts no one for them to merely exist.
>> 1. Most people have already invested in the hardware and are therefore okay mining at a loss with the hope that the Bitcoin price will rise again in the future.

It doesn't make sense to mine at a loss, as in that case they can buy more bitcoins at market price, rather than mining them.
Calling sensible people who don’t live in a state of perpetual credit card debt “super-users” and blaming them for not falling for their scams is some high-grade FUD.
“The Spinner”: Creepy Social Engineering, Fraud, or Prank?
I am definitely not handwaving. I'm saying that the normal evidentiary standards for business evaluation should apply to Bitcoin. It's no longer novel, so the novelty exemption doesn't apply.

> They do use it for value transfer right now.

Money launderers do. KGB agents do. A variety of other criminals do. But I have yet to see evidence that a significant portion of ordinary people use it for value transfer in preference to either traditional means or modern, non-blockchain digital ones.

So yes, you are technically correct on a narrow interpretation of a single sentence. But you are so far wrong in terms of the meaning of that sentence in the broader discussion. For the purposes of evaluating Bitcoin's commercial utility, effectively nobody uses it. If you have data otherwise, let's see it.

The same applies for comparisons with the early Internet. Pre-web, lots of non-technical people used it for practical purposes because it provided superior utility over other options. That doesn't appear to be true for money transfer for Bitcoin. Even prominent Bitcoin advocates have given up on that. E.g.: http://avc.com/2017/08/store-of-value-vs-payment-system/
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Next you'll have morning tv shows specifically targeting world leaders who watch them.
Not only was the JVM java centric, the VMs were not high quality across all platforms, and OSs did not come with them.

Also the canvas, webgl, webrtc, audio and video IO APIs that can hook into it are much better than anything Java had to offer.
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In my mind it is defintely a male voice. Telling his victims he is a woman could be the very first con. If they believe it, it tells the scammer they are gullible. Like scam emails being obvious about being a scam so that if anyone seriously replies it must be a terribly gullible person … which makes a great victim.
This is true, but the idea of that law is to ensure you don't steal any intellectual property and don't compete with your company, not that you may not code at all under these circumstances.
The NYC subway system is not autonomous. Every train has a driver. Autonomous subways do exist though.
So are huge numbers of Victorian, Edwardian and earlier things now under some form of preservation order, in a museum, or having had a museum built around them. Same for much of the early years of flight, wartime structures and camps, the list is extensive. I guess the first manned space flights aren't significant enough to be considered "important"?
There's tentative discussions underway about providing a vector-based rendering on osm.org to augment the current raster styles, which of course would be resolution-independent.
That seems pretty cheap. How much is rent on a similar amount of space? Remember all the space needed for accessing the spot, administration (if any), too! Or are there different rules for storing cars than people?

(Incidentally, there very much are different rules, and for the most part US cities have worked very, very hard to make it easier to add cars than people).
The company gave environmental reasons.
What I would love to see in OpenStreetMaps are translated or transcripted place names. And since place names are extremely political, this should also be mentioned that a place has several names in different languages and cultures.
I did not think of that. Yes, we should not underestimate the fellow combinators in their ability to connect the dots ;-)
I know this is probably a stupid question, but please humor me. Since the Client node has bidirectional communication with both servers, why can it not be used as a channel to facilitate communication between the two servers when a direct link is not available?
I was really confused when reading about the text under title "Football". Then I noticed the title "Soccer". I guess I'll never learn.
Do we know unequivocally that cell phone radiation never has the same effect as ionizing radiation, or that none whatsoever is produced? What if, just for example, while the average particle/wave is in the radio frequencies, there was some minuscule far-UV or Xray spectral components?

Certainly by first principals of what we know, cell phone radiation should be harmless. But there's always the possibility we don't know something important yet, and given cellular radio's omnipresence, I figure it's worth humoring that possibility.

As for power output, I'm not a modem engineer but it sounds like GSM -> 3G -> 4G has progressively reduced power requirements by improving SNR & playing other tricks. Whereas with 5G, on the surface it sounds like the plan to increase bandwidth & performance is "take 4G and jack the frequency & power", so it's kind of the other direction and then makes sense why so many people are asking questions compared to the rollout of 3G or 4G.
If you want to get meta, John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight has bought ads during Fox And Friends to counter the show’s influence on the president.

http://thehill.com/homenews/media/360076-john-oliver-to-snea...

EDIT: Oof, tough croud.
This is the default law in most states. California and Washington both have the additional law that states the company cannot contractually take away this right where is most other states they can within certain limits. Of course the legality is moot if they decide to throw enough money at it as they will just bankrupt you with legal fees.