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Back when I was having trouble with overeating at restaurants due to a similar "clean your plate" mentality, I got in the habit of just packing a Tupperware with me. When the food came, I'd pack up half of it and stick it under my chair before I started eating.

A bit gauche, I realize, but better that than overeating. Rather striking to have such a concrete illustration that restaurants were giving me fully twice as much food as I really needed to be eating, too.
Even if true, I've never seen that advertised as an option, nor thought to ask.
I suppose GP used some Walmart e-commerce site, otherwise they would be comparing apples to oranges.
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If I broke into your computer and stole your browser history I'd probably face criminal charges under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. So why not Trend Micro?
Nationalisation was the alternative. Government acquires the failed banks. Manages the issue (even almost the same way the did). Profits flow back to the public. When happy, privatise again with a healthy profit. Maybe keep one as a public asset.
Starting an individual business is (normally) not an attempt to improve matters at the system level, unless by matters you mean the ratio of happy/unhappy workers and not the stucture of market incentives. It is a folly and he's absolutely correct.
Making money and wanting to make great products are not mutually exclusive. Nor does one necessarily follow the other. The latter does depend on the former, quiet often, though.
Suggesting that study participants use a drug of unknown purity, composition, and dosing would definitely not be ok or safe. Encouraging illegal activity generally is not ok. Interviewing self-professed users without instructing them to use the drug would likely be ok but of limited value.
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> I don't agree with that concept. I don't think it's possible to legislate morality...

We don't have to "legislate" the morality but we do have a responsibility for doing _something_. "Rule of law" means nothing if one class of people has subverted the law, enforcement and governance to their benefit at the expense of everyone else.
In US urban areas, rent is a dominant cost, so low end/casual restaurants are trying to keep purchases in the $10-15 range. A Chipotle in a business district may only be able to handle a fixed number of customers, so its difficult if people purchase items a la carte. The 'solution' is to provide larger portions than the average customer wants even though there's diminishing returns. At the low end burger restaurants struggle when people are purchasing off of 'value menus.'
If we're lucky, failures will compel voters and politicians to raise taxes to pay up and stop kicking the can.
So I didn't believe this statement (eg: more trees than 100 years ago), bc I'm the skeptical sort. You're right though. I looked at "US Forest Resource Facts..." page 8 and the numbers are higher for millions of acres across different types. https://www.fia.fs.fed.us/library/brochures/docs/2012/Forest...
You will have to attend community tournaments and compete locally for the chance to play against a Mars team over a high-bandwidth satellite array, possibly on a lunar base, possibly only during seasons of opposition between Earth and Mars.

Even then, you will be playing on a specially-modified version of the game that disables server-side anticheat systems, instead relying on human referees.
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I was at ATL 2 weeks ago. Many Delta's boarding gates were also equipped with facial recognition boarding cameras too.
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Interesting. I always thought AWS Lambda being a complete Linux environment with curl and everything is just supremely wasteful. What could be the reason AWS implemented it like that? To support many programming languages /runtimes?
It doesn’t appear the parent was explaining it as the “right thing”.
> unable to meet their current obligations

Things get tricky with governments where it's kind of trivial to raise more money by a) raising taxes, b) simply redefining your obligations (in the case of programs like SS or Medicare/Medicaid) or c) just making more money ex nihilo.
Has anyone compiled a list of alternatives to Amazon? I’m not expecting a one-stop-shop where I can buy everything like at Amazon. But a list of online retailers who are better than Amazon at specific categories of products. Because I’m at the point where I would rather pay a little extra and get quality products from a not evil company than continue shopping with Amazon.
Well, as the article points out, and other articles have pointed out, Metformin has a modestly positive effect on longevity. The diseases associated with diabetes type II (metabolic syndrome, syndrome X) pretty much overlap with the main diseases that kill old people. It would thus make sense that a drug designed to alleviate symptoms of diabetes could modestly slow down aging.
Exactly. As Adam Smith said:

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
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Except for the long period of paid maternity leave, there's no reason someone in the US couldn't have what the Italian woman has. I know several parents that live close to their extended family and get help watching and raising their kids all the time.

It's one of the reasons why I haven't moved to Silicon Valley after all these years, because I don't want to leave my familial and friend support network behind. It's resulted in much lower income for me, but that's the trade off.

Although it doesn't have to be necessarily. For example in my case, I could possibly find a well-paying remote job. I'm already working remotely currently, albeit for a company that's local and doesn't pay anywhere near as well.
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There was a time when fractional reserve banking [0] was considered simple fraud (it wasn't called "fractional reserve banking" at the time, it was "bankers using for personal gain assets that were owned by another and stored for safe keeping at their bank.")

So, as banking gets complex, the laws get complex. Once we decide fraudulent (fractional reserve) banking is legal, most of the rest can be whitewashed with enough handwaving.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional-reserve_banking
[1] https://www.mises.ca/the-economic-benefits-of-ending-the-fra...

I know the assertion that fractional reserve banking == fraud is extremely contentions, and most disagree with me. Feel free to explain why you disagree!
Why did you need to post 5 top-level comments to say that?
I have difficulty seeing the Iraq War (or Vietnam, or really any war since WW2) as a source of unity among Americans.
Some may have missed it, but the article casually mentions student loan debt as a driver of this change. Personally, I typically only eat out once a week to save money (and it's healthier).

If you peel back the curtain on a lot of ongoing changes in consumer preferences I think you'll find student loans are always a contributing factor to some degree - especially among younger generations.

And yet we aren't doing anything about it. Tariffs, tax cuts, etc. but rarely is it mentioned what a weight student loans are around the US economy's neck...
Probably using stylus to update stylesheets on those specific ad's classes. But, amazon changes things so frequently that someone needs to constantly always update these scripts/stylesheets
Chris Hedges thinks the same: https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-death-of-the-republic/
If photos are to be the top of every post, I'd try hard to make the photo the width of that column. The few that aren't, it throws off the layout.

The title of the article and the links are black, as is the content. Maybe change to a dark grey or underline or both or a different color - something to differentiate a link from body copy.

Something about the font makes it hard for me to read - either to small or the color, but it's causing me not to want to read the content.

The actual blog post - I would either try to center it on the page horizontally or make it full width or place related articles on the right. Something to fill in the white space a bit.

I get not wanting to look like the other 50 million blogs out there, but your content should differentiate you from them, not necessarily layout IMO. Your content is what will make people come back and read. Going back to the font - if it's hard to read, people won't.
He never said anything about "stuffing himself". He said he shouldn't leave the restaurant hungry. I don't see how this can be a controversial preference.
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Everyone confused about the fucked up laws around drug control and the like in the united states:

It is about locking up poor people in order to keep them from voting.

It is about filling our prisons with non-violent offenders so we can force them to work for slave wages, and line the owners of the prisons and the politicians they fund's pockets.

It's about political suppression, not about some moralistic crusade to protect people from drugs.

"The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did." - John Ehrlichman
No need to hypothesize. The rampup of the drug war under Nixon was largely to attack blacks, hippies (antiwar), and other counterculture figures. [0]

"We could arrest their leaders. raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did." (John Ehrlichman, Nixon's domestic policy chief)

In the interim, it became a wedge issue and via "tough on crime", an extension of certain party platforms, (also in that it has effectively become the status quo for some population segments) and I think persists largely as some combination of the above.

[0] https://www.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/john-ehrlichman-rich...
Thanks for a bit of added clarity. I do understand it is more than an app store model, good luck with making open source projects more sustainable.

I actually do wonder if some of your revenue should go on bug bounties too, rather than project income only (even though I know some of that will probably be put towards bug bounties), but regardless I hope it changes the ecosystem for the better.

The main part of the Elementary OS app store analogy was that it is all free software, and their intention was to encourage people to pay for it regardless, which is the only crossover with you - I think the guys there would actually be interested in this model too.
Most eBay sellers also provide free shipping, regardless of your order size, and it’s often faster than Amazon’s free shipping. If you’re looking for something relatively common, you can filter eBay results by distance to your home, and sometimes you can get your item next day for free shipping. eBay is surprisingly good as a buyer.

Understood, however, that as a seller eBay is a pretty tough partner.
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Empires can fall. They just take consumer behavior to change.
A big factor for some items is just price. I work full time as an engine mechanic and the price of a burger has gotten absolutely ridiculous. Arbys and Burger King both think their gods gift to meat, but at the end of the day its just shredded iceburg lettuce and mayonnaise between two thoroughly crushed sugary buns. Its not worth $15.

What ive started doing instead is shop-cooked fridays. I'll set up a crock pot of steel cut oats in the morning, and in the afternoon we grill in the back parking lot. everyone chips in a few bucks at the start of the week and its gone over well. Ive had guys from the body shop next door come over and offer to buy burgers instead of hit up the fast food chains along the strip. Its cheaper and easier than waiting for a crushed cold burger up the road.
Bingo.

Why are so many people willing to throw away the baby (capitalism) with the dirty bathwater (monopolies and others crony deviations.)
Because, combined with a police state and selective enforcement, its prohibition is an amazing tool for filling prisons with black and brown bodies.
Well yes of course, I understand the psychological tricks restaurants use to increase 'perceived value'. That doesn't mean I agree with them though, or that it makes the food any better. Maybe I'm atypical, but for me it actually decreases the value, because I know I will feel stuffed before my plate is empty, and my last memory of eating the food will be that I could hardly stomach any more of it before I stopped eating. This is not even considering the moral objections I have against throwing away perfectly good food, as someone else above me already mentioned as well.
For perspective, we spend about $1 trillion on means-tested welfare programs every year. So 17 years of war would cover about 18 months of welfare spending.

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In America, anything worth doing is worth overdoing. :)

(I live here too, I'm just poking fun at our culture)
Because my first one, with 12 posts in it, was flagged. And second one too.
Well, you may not be charged the tax but you probable still have a legal obligation to pay it. That you choose not to to fill out all the forms is on you. Each state and country is different in how they treat online sales re local taxes.
It's very hard for anyone who wasn't fully aware in the months following 9-11 to understand just how much support there was for both wars.

- American flags flying everywhere.

- Bumper stickers everywhere.

- Americans demanding that "something be done" everywhere.

- Nonstop media barrage favoring both wars.

- Utter lack of skepticism and rush to believe whatever was being put out by the Administration.

- Unshakable faith that the military would make everything right.

As a dissenter, I was afraid to voice my opinions (retribution, being labeled a traitor) and felt utterly helpless to change anything about the direction things were headed.

It's one thing to look back and wonder how we ended up in such a mess. It's another thing to see the conviction on the faces of nearly every person you talk with that the war would be over within a few weeks and a military response was the right course.

From what I've read about the early history of US involvement in Vietnam, my experience is far from unique. That part about the war being over within a few weeks in particular seems to repeat itself with disturbing regularity: the Civil War, WWI, Vietnam, Gulf Wars, Afghanistan.
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I'm wondering if franchising has something to do with this. There are just so many fast food restaurants along the highways and dotted around the sprawl of big box stores that surround towns these days. And they seem to always be nearly empty.

My (wild) guess is that some of this is that the motherships are permitting overbuilding. They get their franchising fees regardless, and don't necessarily have a whole lot of reason to care if their franchisees are bringing in enough business to turn a healthy profit.
>relate to male/female sexes, not genders

It is the same.
So essentially price gouging. What a great business model.
Except if no one has kids, then our society collapses. So if society wants to keep its little engine moving, it's GDP going up up up every year, houses being bought, Social Security paid for, etc, it needs to at the very least not discourage the decision to have children so much that hardly anyone does it.

It also seems that government that invest in children tend to have future generations of better educated, better adjusted, and better contributing members of society, which I feel is worth at least some investment.
Thank you.

I think that's a really key point and it gets missed because most recorded history is male history. Men operated in the public sphere and most history is about that public sphere. It's really hard to find records at all about what went on in the private sphere. So our written records wind up de facto being an ode to male power and male tactics and we completely miss the fact that there was this whole other thing going on privately and it was a very big part of the world, but there is very little record of it.

So we wind up discounting it entirely and not even recognizing that it existed. It's a huge blind spot.

There's an interesting book about the history of technology for doing housework called "More Work for Mother." It details how in the past 300 years or so, we have very much reframed work in order to divide up domestic responsibilities and paid work. With the rise of money, we needed to free up male labor from the domestic sphere in order to empower men to bring home a bigger paycheck so everyone was better off.

Historically, men beat the rugs. Then we invented vacuum cleaners and vacuuming was "women's work." Historically, men took grain to the mill to be ground into flour. Now you can buy flour at the grocery store.

There were countless ways in which men were involved in running the household that got handed off to women so men could do paid labor. And now women are also doing paid labor and there's all these problems. And people fail to see the connection in part because they don't know how labor was divided up 300 or so years ago. They think the way it was done in the 1950s was always the norm and this is absolutely not true.

So there's a huge piece missing and we don't even see that it is missing and we wonder why in the hell things aren't working smoothly.
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I agree with this, but it's also true that until recently Amazon usually had all those advantages and lower prices.

The change is meaningful both as a revealed strategy, and as a new datapoint about the fear of stores becoming "Amazon showrooms". For quite a while, it's been true that even after you're at Walmart or Target, comparing multiple items you couldn't evaluate well online, it was cheaper to drive home empty-handed and buy from Amazon - which is obviously unsustainable for someone. If that ceases to be true, we might see a more natural dichotomy where stores retain an edge on "see it in person" and "want it now" items while drawing back on their competition "any one will do, whenever" goods that are more convenient via Amazon.
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I think the author agrees with this. And they see the employee behind the customer service account as acting as a mouth of the company. Responding to what they say in that role is shaming the company, not the individual. Bringing the employee's personal life or questioning their individual abilities would be unkind, however.
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Yeah, this article may actually be worse than nothing at all, in that it conflates a lot of concepts, and gets plenty of things flat out wrong.

Also, does it even matter what the difference between a CNN and a RNN is? Maybe in the sense of "what problems should I consider using a CNN vs. an RNN to solve" ... ?

Also, all "difference between ..." lists should be required to have a 3 column table with "criteria, item 1, item 2". That's the densest way to convey distinctions between items being compared.
Exactly this. Given how a majority of JS devs tend to not learn from history and other languages, I would trust them with macros about as much as I'd trust a baby with a sportscar.
AFAIK Ventrilo, TeamSpeak, and Mumble each support this
I would suggest the middle class have figured out that fast food is bad - bad for your health, doesn't taste good, and is more expensive than cooking at home. Thus they are cooking at home even if they could afford to eat out.
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I've seen this tower energy storage discussed a few times, but ... what happens in a wind storm? Does the system dump all the blocks to the ground to protect against toppling? How about if a block at the base structurally fails? Are these storage facilities only suitable for wide open areas with nothing around the falling radius of the tower?
Wow, the Wii U is one? No wonder I had a bunch of Wii U users reporting my site stopped working when I started forcing HTTPS.

"Minority of a minority", maybe, but I still got around five tweets about it when it happened; more than most other changes I make.
Yeah, I'm with you.

It seems like many of these types of projects are sometimes forcing themselves in the middle when none of the parties involved invited them. Your example with brave browser is a great example.

They're like some kind of weird Man-In-The-Middle Attack brought along a marketing team.
I dug into campaign finance when a single state representstive tabled a bill to allow on-site sales at local breweries (the rep had received >$19,000 from AB-InBev over the past 10 years) and one of the things I noticed was that EVERYONE got pharma money. Lots of it. You can say campaign contributions don’t buy votes til you’re blue in the face, and then I’ll sell you a bridge.

edit: I should clarify that medicinal herbs one can grow oneself scare the profit-hungry pharmaceutical industry, and they will (and do) spend money to keep such plants illegal. There is also money from private prison companies who earn profit on the incarceration of citizens who stand to lose money if marijuana is fully decriminalized (I’m not going to pull a number out of thin air, but I believe it is a majority of inmates who are locked up for victimless drug crimes). State and local police departments love to receive federal grants to keep on fighting the war on drugs. There is so much money and effort against the legalization of a f’ing plant, and from so many sides, that even a well-meaning politician can look at the “evidence” and believe the public, as a whole, wants to keep Mother Nature illegal.
A "small" pizza in the US is for two or three people. If you are alone you need to order a "personal pan" pizza.

I don't know if it is still a thing, but last time I went to a TGI Fridays (a few years ago now) they had a menu option to make the portions smaller for a couple of bucks off. The caveat is that it didn't increase the quality of the food--and that's kind of a problem for a TGI Fridays.

Finally, if you're going to something that calls itself a diner, you normally aren't expecting fine dining. The expectation is a big old plate of greasy fried chow. There is an expectation mismatch that is going to generate a lot of complaints.

That said, I totally agree that way too many restaurants in the US subscribe to the "if we can't make it good, at least we can make it big" philosophy. There are certain establishments I won't even patronize because they're so ridiculous in this regard, like the Cheesecake Factory. "Here is your 4lb of spaghetti, but be sure to save room for the 2lb slice of cheesecake we are named for!"
Because they're fearful and they have support from fearful people who want to punish drug users for no reason. Moral panics are some of the worst things in existence. Leads to absolute garbage like the Convention on Psychotropic Substances.

I'm astounded that psilocybin mushrooms, mescaline, and LSD are all scheduled so harshly.
Please no, I'd much prefer the logic of taking nice things like types and new features and having them implemented by a central team that knows what they're doing as opposed to being implemented on a per-team/project basis by people have no idea what they they are doing.