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I'm... not sure where we disagree? Except for your first and last sentences?

I mean, the whole point of granting a monopoly is to give incentives to investors to invest in biotech, so that they can reap the reward of it. You haven't explained why an investor will choose to invest in something at the same level, if they aren't able to get the same money back for it?

If a drug company didn't have a monopoly, the generics that drive down the price of the drug would be out the day after the drug, thus ruining most potential profits. Therefore, developing new drugs wouldn't be worth as much money, so less people will invest in it. You seem to completely agree with this point when you write: "Inventors may do it for fun but capital needs to generate an ROI to justify its existence and in a growth obsessed global economy, scientific and technological progress leading to spending power increases is the only reliable growth mechanism."

The whole (practical) idea of the capitalistic system in e.g. the US is to align private incentives with public incentives, so if someone develops a worthwhile drug (or e.g. writes a good book), they will be able to receive a reward for it. Just because scientific and tech progress is the only growth mechanism, doesn't give any one specific investor the incentive to invest in it (I forget the technical term for it, it's a kind of commons problem).

Again, I'm not sure I understand you, because you seem to be saying something similar, but coming to a completely different conclusion?
Best setup I've found was to run everything within WSL when developing on Windows and exporting emacs display to Mobaxterm's x-server for a proper emacs experience. Everything is extremely fast and I find myself using my Mac less frequently now since WSL is working very well for me.
maybe consider trying a static language?
I learnt everything I know about computers from reading Byte magazine cover to cover as a teenager. Steve Ciracia's Circuit Cellar was always the highlight for me.

My favourite project was the video camera he made from a 64kb DRAM chip from Micro called the IS32. Rather that the usual opaque cap, it had a transparent quartz lid. Photons accelerated the charge leaking from DRAM cells. So by writing ones, waiting a calculated period, then reading out the new DRAM values, you could get a binary image. Repeat for multiple exposure periods for greyscale.

As a 15 year old, I bought one of these chips, designed my own circuit board, drew the tracks with etch-resistant pen from Tandy Radio Shack, etched it in ferric chloride, hand drilled the holes, and soldered the components. Needless to say, it didn't work. And without access to an oscilloscope, I never managed to figure out the problem.

Part 1: https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1983-09

Part 2: https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1983-10

Here are PDFs,including circuit diagrams and code listing:

ftp://alvarestech.com/pub/electronics/circuit_cellar/BYTE_Projects/D-Cam1.pdf

ftp://alvarestech.com/pub/electronics/circuit_cellar/BYTE_Projects/D-Cam2.pdf

(for those interested in computer nostalgia, the first of those full issues was a special on portable computing. And the second is a mammoth 480 page issue with dozens of articles on all aspects of the Unix operating system).
You're right. It's better with a bit more contrast. I've lightend the main_text a bit.
I don't think vandalizing users work is the same as making a game buggy to take it to the extreme what if windows if it decided your key was illegitimate decided to corrupt your files.

You could say they had no obligation to you since you didn't pay for the software certainly they have no obligation to run for example or not to crash or lock the user out but it seems like once you start destroying user data you are violating the users rights to their own property.
Not sure about the accuracy of this (or even the original source) but interesting tidbit from what I've read was that driving on the left side of the road is a remnant of British colonial times which lives on in the modern Commonwealth nations (Australia, India etc.).
I’m not sure how well this works with lungs, but for less vital tissues (ligaments, cartilage for instance) it allows animal tissues to be used in humans. Instead of needing a human organ, you could potentially remove the cells from a pig organ and then be repopulated by human cells.
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yes, it should be possible to acquire a "blue card", see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Card_(European_Union) (would be our first time though). So to be clear: Yes, we take all the costs to get the blue card.
In practice DKMS works well and is automated in many distros. You just notice updates take a bit longer as the WireGuard kernel module is built.

I believe you can use wireguard-go on android, which doesn't require a kernel module.
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Cool, I will look into this.

The pre-built systems all cater to larger orgs that have no qualms at spending thousands on this nice to have feature.

If I can't hack it for fun in a day on spare hw it's not worth it to me.
a suggestion - loss aversion might be a manifestation of something else - namely poor decision making under stress.The loss causes the stress, which causes the poor decision making.
There are, but they are not state of the art.

There is also the benefit of the spam filter service being "live updated," e.g. if a new type of spam message comes up it will get flagged since lots of users.
It's giants all the way up, shoulder on shoulder.
Major virus infection shuts down factories of iPhone chip-maker TSMC
> The most surprising thing is how unremarkable the surrounding area is - geography-wise.

Salisbury plain? It’s some of the most commanding land in the south of England.
I managed to make a little more than 100km/h while skiing. It is terrifying and incredibly fun at the same time. The sheer inertia is very dangerous though, even in snow; so just thinking about having to put a clawed paw in firm soil and do sudden turns and stops... while looking at your prey and not to the floor... while barefoot... that sure is a recipe for at LEAST some sprained ankle. Cheetahs are awesome!
This is ridiculous. The only imperial measurements in the US are on road signs (miles over km), the weather, and some stuff in the grocery store. Almost all research done by universities (including weather and climate), the military, NASA, etc. is done in metric. I see a lot of crazy stuff espoused on Fox News but metric vs imperial isn't one of them.
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If reconfiguring a service to use a different crypto algo was easy then I’d agree with you. But it is often really hard and makes config difficult.

To be honest, when something like WireGuard becomes victim to a flaw in one of the primitives then I’d rather they release a WireGuard 2 to address it - keep as much config the same as possible but throw away any notion of backwards compatibility with vulnerable versions.
I really like the idea of writing the test for the higher level behaviour first, then iterating on satisfying it. I'm sure this will often save time by not building up to something that's misaligned.

“I made up the term ‘object-oriented’, and I can tell you I didn’t have C++ in mind” [Alan Kay]
And of course, you can safely substitute C++ with C# or Java here.

This is one of my pet peeves. I never really think of C++/Java as actual OO, in my mind they're 'class-based'. I think the other thing that's changed from original OO and what we have now is the the granularity. Objects were meant to model real-world counterparts. We still have those, but typically a codebase is dominated by 'machinery classes'. If we had smarter base objects, we wouldn't need so much of that.

Just wondering, Is there something that makes server-side 'component' units that combine a slice through the layers (controller-domain-persistence)? This is a much better organization than by layers.
I would suggest a hybrid: run your own incoming mail server, but use a trusted sender for outgoing mail. Fastmail is pretty good, but there are hundreds.

This doesn't solve any prying eyes business, but it does give you some agency over your e-mail. Meanwhile, your never have to worry about mail being marked spam. It just works.
In the UK, all ISPs are obliged to hold a log of all your surfing. I suspect it's every dns request made and every parseable http get/post. If you host your own vpn, even inside the UK, you sidestep the generic bulk data collection. Obviously, if GCHQ want you, they'll get you.
Why though? ForeFlight + iPad + bluetooth GPS module is all you need, doesn't have to be part of the panel/approved/etc.
> If these numbers sound totally bogus to you, maybe you should jump in to the publishing business and undercut everybody with superior service?

This process has begun in several fields:

- https://quantum-journal.org

- http://discreteanalysisjournal.com

- https://lmcs.episciences.org

The reason that these types of journals have not completely disrupted those fields is not that their business model is flawed (I don't think they are even for-profit), but that academics know that their future job prospects rely on the reputation of journals they have published in.
This reminds me of personal flying machines like the BlackFly. Obviously for most of them things like this are unrealistic, but this is part of why the Schengen Area is so important for example.
If you know how you are here, it’s easy to figure out what you want to do
> nearby motorway

There’s no motorways by Stonehenge - that’s the A303 you’re thinking of.
I like it. I'd love to see this in app-form fueled by push notifications.

Maybe it's in sync with HealthKit's SDK and figures out when user gets up or analyzes health data (sleep pattern, activity) to make app + tips more relevant to the user. Alternatively, you can skip this and just let the user set the time for morning wake up messages and manually input data ;).

Users upon first launch of app can be prompted to set goals/what they want to achieve out of the app in terms of productivity.

Maybe it could notify users at intervals during the day i.e., Morning, Noon, and Evening. Something like this...

Morning notification.alert = 'Good Morning! Motivational Quote';

Afternoon notification.alert = '12 hours left of the day! Motivational reminder/goal setting message';

Evening notification.alert = 'It's the end of the day. Did you achieve your goals? or Were you productive today?';

Or alternatively Evening notification.alert = 'See your productivity for today'

//user taps notification and app opens to display of how much time spent on phone during that day + tips for optimal productivity (maybe from a wellness expert etc)

I'll keep this extension installed, looking forward to tracking your progress. Keep it up and good luck! :)
While that's interesting, I'm having a complete lack of imagination fail on why one would be trying to solve this problem for higher dimensions, other than academic pursuits. Could you give a practical example?
More human sacrifice => less people => less pollution => less global warming.
The discussion is about loss aversion phenomenom as defined and used in psychology. It is not about what you intuitively guessed from how it sounded like to you.

But also, you horribly simplified military and soccer strategies too. Fun fact: army can decide for offensive strategy, because defense would end up in bigger losses. They may also go for defensive strategy despite bigger loss, bc some other reason.

Lastly, no not every kill to protect yourself is self defense. That is not how law and sentencing works.
> it's really not that hard to warm up by dressing warmer

I cannot use my keyboard while wearing winter gloves, so there are limits. Sadly, I have tried.
Had that with a bank & phone number I lost. Guess who got a OTP via snail mail lol
I've seen a few companies not just signal jamming, but actually hijacking the radio signal to take full control of the drone.

Still plenty of consumer models have full autonomous modes guided by gps, so I guess that's got to be part of the mix too.
Why don't they put solar reflectors or awning on the windows to prevent sun from getting into the office?
IMHO this is how self driving applications should start. Driving on the US freeways (say between LA and SF) isn't about your driving skills. It's mostly just about trying not to fall asleep. And machines are way better than humans at this!

Even outside the US, there are many areas (like UAE), which have amazing highways, sparse traffic and there isn't rail/air connectivity to some places. Self driving "shuttles" seem perfect for those applications.
Also great to recap my CS courses.
I wouldn't touch profit sharing with a 10 foot pole. You'd be surprised by how creative they can get at inflating expenses.
Would you say your proposal contributes to shutting off valid criticism and further reinforces echo chambers?
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Wildfires have changed. The technology to fight them hasn’t – yet
Interesting project. Would be interesting with a demo, or demo video or screenshots of how it looks like. There's the chicken and egg problem, right? Because:

"You can only send text comments to website owners and your followers. To everyone else, only stickers and GIFs"

This means text comments to no one (except for the blog post author), usually — since it's unlikely that one's Facebook connections have stumbled upon the same blog post. I'm thinking this means, that in its current shape, Chenchat will be restricted to stickers and GIFS, hmm.

(Any thoughts about open source or not?)
I have family/friends that visit often from Celsius using countries and every time the weather comes up, they ask me what xx F is in C. Tired of trying to answer them, I figured out a quick, ballpark conversion --

50 deg F = 10 deg C

For every 10 def F, there's roughly a 6 deg C change.

So (approximately)

40 deg F = 4 deg C

60 deg F = 16 deg C

etc.

I find that it works reasonably well for frequent requests from said Celsius understanding visitors.

*Edited for line breaks
> I mean, to be fair, you are essentially saying you are not tired of typing git commands only because you type shorthands you've created. It feels like you're raining on his parade a bit because he didn't do the same thing you did.

Well, it's not like I did something unique. The aliases feature of git is precisely to make commonly used commands shorter, so I found it odd that OP would make a whole new git front-end, apparently to solve the same problem. That's why I asked, "Are there many people that are?", because I wanted to know if many others also found the shell insufficiently efficient and maybe discuss that.

I didn't mean to rain on his parade, but I can see that he might not have expected his post's discussion to mostly be about CLI vs GUI or integrating git with editors vs not. I honestly did not expect this much discussion to come out of my comment, either. Then again, how a discussion develops within a community is not really in any individual's control.
I have used i3, awesomewm and Xmonad extensively for years so rest assured I wasn't implying anything like that ;)

I was more like pointing out that macOS does allow for the following in some way out of the box:

> Every OS should let you line up two windows side-by-side out of the box
100°C is a quite comfortable temperature in a proper sauna. And I believe I'm still alive...
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Hanabi is very similar. It's a card game where we have to work together to build card sets. Except the catch is that everyone else knows what cards we have, but not us.
The one I always find odd is that we all still use knots and nautical miles at sea. And nautical miles are not the same as imperial miles. And aircraft speeds are still measured in knots sometimes.
There have been serious academic archaeological suggestions that the original monuments were circles and lines of trees, and the stones were added to make the layout permanent.

I'm not completely convinced. Dragging giant rocks over open chalk land is hard. Dragging them through woodland is a lot harder.
> Do you think people were terribly uncomfortable at ambient temperatures due to their physiology before AC was invented?

Yes, absolutely. I grew up without AC and now I jokingly tell my fiance my entire career has been motivated to ensure I maintain access to AC the rest of my life.

I grew up in a very cold place (MN) compared to most - the cold didn't matter much to me. I'm a t-shirt in 40 degree weather sort of guy. The hot summer months were absolute utter hell though, even with fans and sleeping in the basement/etc. To this day I think this had a huge effect on my sleeping patterns and thus other health problems later on in life.

I do think one of the elephants in the room is the obesity issue. I certainly have noticed I get a lot hotter with 40lbs extra on me. When the average American is overweight I'm sure this has moved the "herd preference temperature" down a couple degrees the past few decades.
Excellent stuff!! It'd be great if you could flatten the shapes to printable A4 paper so kids can cut and build real models (and paint them, etc).
Plus, actually sane command names, and super powerful functionalities (for example, answering to another comment, you always could "hg blame (annotate)" an arbitrary version of a file without having to check it out first)!
In fact no one knows how the stones were moved. You will not find an archaeologist willing to put money down with a definitive statement - even for the sarsens, which are relatively local.

Whatever the tech used, it was beyond a Moon shot in neolithic terms.
Note that several of those proxies leak the client ip through error pages, even if they are marked "anonymous".

Additionally, some proxies don't even try to be anonymous and transmit the client ip in the "X-Forward-For" http header field.
That sounds like a self-justification.

Outside temperatures vary by a lot more than 1 degree (the difference between precision and accuracy?)

The place I have seen where Fahrenheit makes sense is for human temperatures - what temperature is a high fever?

I have never seen an aircon unit with half-degree Celcius settings, except in some cars which to me seems to be an anti-feature.

They are both hard words to spell, but Celsius is shorter, so a big win for °C there!
I would say "Don't even mix business with business with Amazon"

(not very) funnily enough, we have a business AWS account that is also used for Amazon (buying stuff for the office), as well as Amazon seller central. We've set up MFA on the AWS account, but it's in total conflict with the seller central account, which keeps asking for setting up MFA as well. If we set both, we're almost totally locked-out of our AWS. Somehow the MFA device gets mixed up or something. We can kinda squeeze-in if we try a few times with alternating between codes. Seller central seems connected to the Amazon retail, but not AWS. Totally bizarre.

We've contacted AWS MFA support several times, but there's basically no solution for this. They claim it's all somehow integrated, but something isn't quite well integrated as it should be.
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Kill off the entire species, probably not. Kill off a good percentage of us, most likely if nothing is done.

Thankfully there are enough people in the world that don't think like Scott Adams, and are trying to do something about it right now, rather than when it's far, far too late.

Because it's already too late to avoid major damage, at this point it's about avoiding cataclysmic damage.
> I prefer sticking to the Unix way. An editor is an editor. Why should it support git specifically?

Because it's convenient. IDEs work with files. Git manages files. Ergo, IDEs should support Git.
Abstaining from the general case truth frees up time for figuring out some interesting special cases.

I don’t know the best diet for the general population. I know roughly what works for me.

I don’t know how microwaves work. I know how my microwave oven works.
But a nautical mile is one arc minute of great circle - it's the only one that actually makes sense.
>Steve Jobs is no more, and its already showing.
It's interesting how many years people will still repeat that. He's gone for 7 years now. If Tim Cook wasn't fit for the job, it wouldn't have grown from $350 billion the year then Jobs leave Apple to where it is now.

>Macbook Pro already shows some of these problems
It really doesn't. Apple has their fuckups time to time, like Pippin, G4 Cube, Ping, Maps or 'you're holding it wrong' iPhone 4.
I only expect my editor to read some information from my git repository. Gutters displaying new/modified hunks and shortcuts to jump to them are pretty much the only things I find useful (for my use; I understand some will find other features helpful).

But any action I want to be made on the repository, I do it myself.

I have some exceptions though, like if I want to revert the hunk I have the cursor on it's nice to be able to revert (or even stage, but I still use `git add --patch` for that) it with one shortcut.
> Do IDEs show diff before committing?

Not as part of the same operation, but the usual workflow is that there's a pane in the somewhere that lists all modified and staged files, and you can click on those to see diffs (or just click "commit" if you don't care).
What other things to define a meter?

(1cm = 2.54in IIRC)
Not odd at all. Nautical miles are one minute of latitude which makes for easier nav calculations. :)
your title should be something like:

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Instinctively I always studied computer languages this way. Typing the code makes you also think about it, it is also much more easier to try your own versions.

I'd argue that it would be even better, if I wrote the program samples with pen in a real notebook. Using different colors and imitating syntax highlighting could be even better.

I've been planning to get a physical programming/cs notebook for years.
The UK still uses imperial for road signs I think
Thanks. Learned something new.
Yeah, I see how this turns an argument combative and that wasn't my intention. I don't think there's anything wrong with vezycash's point of view, in fact I completely agree with most/all of his points :-)

There is something to be said about "Did you read the paper?" though. We have here an article where an author has published a rather large article (59 pages) and done a substantial amount of research (quoting over 80 other published papers). I don't expect everyone to read all of that, but I wish people were more upfront about whether they're talking generally about the topic or discussing the actual story.

Like, I honestly wonder "Did you read the paper?" not because I expect everyone to read the paper, but because it means we can have a more constructive discussion. If you haven't read the paper and is confused about what the author means then I can try to find quotations that better explain the author's opinion. Or maybe we can discuss the general topic (ignoring the story).
Took me a while to figure that out until I remembered that our zeroes are not the same.

-40 is the same in both though, as far as I recall
> But, having lived in the U.S. and Europe roughly an equal amount of time, Fahrenheit is much much more accurate to estimate outdoor temperature with.

Of what use are the smaller steps with Fahrenheit ?

I can not tell if it is 30 or 31 °C outside.
LMFTFY:

The only meyric measurements in the US are in science.

And there's like 4 different units for pressure IIRC.
Does windows right? In our office (Berlin) we are not even allowed to open them.

It is funny people discuss 25°C. We had last week 36°C inside of our office, and a solution from the company? Work from home.