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You haven't lived under a closed government, and it shows. Here's what happens in Russia (a far more "open" government, because it only controls like 90% of their press and not 100%) during elections. Citizens "can and do" monitor vote counting. The very same citizens (mostly government employees such as local administration officials, schoolteachers, municipal employees, etc) also engage in ballot stuffing, count rigging, and multiple voting, to the point where the vote percentages rounded up for the officially sanctioned candidates show up as prominent spikes on vote count distribution. I.e. if there's an "understanding" that the "right" candidate should get 80% of the vote, they round it up to pretty much exactly 80% by subtracting votes from other candidates. And if that doesn't work, the government controls the very electronic system ("GAS Vybory") which computes the final tally.

You can even see evidence of all of the above on Youtube, but nobody gives a shit, because nobody believes anything can be changed. Heck, most people don't believe anything _should_ be changed, because aside from the brief period in the 90s (of which the US "cured" Russia by directly and openly helping Yeltsin secure a win in a runoff election), that's the way it's always been there.

Heck, with the recent ballot-related shenanigans in Broward County FL and elsewhere, I'm not sure everything is 100% sanitary with this stuff in the US either anymore.

And in case the downvote brigade thinks I'm making this up:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=russia+ballot+s...

https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-meddling-in-1996-russian-el...
Having being born and raised in Malaysia, and nowadays frequently visiting Singapore (for business, but ostensibly to eat the food of my childhood again), I am still getting used to the subtle differences of names of same or similar dishes.

For instance, I really miss Roti Canai, but it has a different name in Singapore (Roti Pratha IIRC), so even trying to search for a good stall on Google Maps doesn't find the places that make it.
Singapore is without doubt my favorite place to eat in the world. I say that having lived and worked in the UK, Belgium, France, the USA and Australia.
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Not only do they generate trash by requiring a lot of small bags and such for the ingredients, they also create food waste by bundling together ingredients with different expiration times. I spent some time digging around in dumpsters behind a grocery store in Vegas which carries their own meal kit offering. They throw out huge boxes of meal kits with expired meat in them which contain a bunch of food which is good for longer, like rice, herbs, potatoes, etc.

It was great for me because its a lot of clean, unexpired food for free but the amount of waste it created blew my mind.
That's why we invented birth control. So we could be better at reproducing. When human decision making and the need to reproduce come head-to-head, reproduction is always the motivation, even if it results in less reproduction.

This is why your argument is nonsense. You're basically trying to define everything as sex. You're playing a silly word game so you can feel smug about this directionless and immature insight.
Great read. Only thing missing was the hardware. I am always interested to see what kind of hardware people are running on.
There are a number of curated recipe apps that put together a weekly shopping list, some even integrate with amazon fresh or instacart for delivery. Your weekly recipe choices are not infinite, but I really like the suggestion of novelty and not being overwhelmed by too many choices.
As a Singaporean, I'm a bit sad that the Peranakans (i.e. "Straits-born Chinese") [1] only got a passing mention in the article, since the Peranakans are quite possibly the best representation of the melting pot that is Singapore's local population. The founding Prime Minister, Lee Kuan Yew, was known to have Peranakan roots too [2].

The Peranakans also have a cuisine that they can call their own [3].

On the other hand, I've never had the "feng" curry mentioned in the article before.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peranakan

[2] https://www.todayonline.com/entertainment/arts/mr-lee-kuan-y...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peranakan_cuisine
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So.. odd question for everyone. Does this mean, all of a sudden, we, potentially, have full access pass to plain text version of everything ( including things various driver vendors do not want you to know ? )?
Well color me surprised. That's flippin silly.
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USB 3.X / USB-C / Thunderbolt 3, all of it together is confusing enough for those technical, add marketing speak to the mix and it's just going to end up with a mish mosh of different words that mean absolutely nothing and tell the end user very little.

Add to the fact that everyone is skimping on the actual USB 3 standards and a large amount of shitty products on the market that don't do what they say they do (due to poor quality control, making wires longer than spec expecting them to work to spec), we have to rely on guys like Benson to crowdsource working and non working products.

https://bensonapprovedcom.wordpress.com/
This is without images, which makes many articles that much less useful. A full point-in-time snapshot of English Wikipedia, with images, without videos, and with xz compression applied to all data, is on the order of 80 Gb.
> The funny thing is, you know Amazon has the data and must be optimizing in the short term.

Why? How do we "know" they have the data? How do we "know" that can act on whatever data they have? People here seem to ascribe a level of omniscience to tech giants that I'm not certain they deserve.
I think "needs adjustment" is reductive. Wikipedia could easily 10x pageviews and article count over the next 20 years. If Wikipedia doesn't grow content, coverage, and quality they could become irrelevant. Thinking donations should just go towards keeping the lights on doesn't sit right with me. An endowment that keeps Wikipedia running forever may very well need to be over $1 billion.

It turns out, the folks who planned out the endowment were very thoughtful. Check out this great read on the motivations, challenges, and plans of the endowment. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Endowment_Essay
I'm really confused by this comment. Of course Wikipedia isn't a replacement for a dictionary. It's not supposed to be. And I don't see why you view "Wikipedia editors are motivated by things other than money, such as altruism" as an inherent negative either.
That's not really the point. Shopping for a dozen individual ingredients for a recipe is time consuming, and is one reason why people are more inclined to try these meal kit boxes. Selling a pre-packaged meal kit in a store still keeps the time-saving benefits, and removes the shipping difficulty.
Agreed. I switched from Green Chef to Freshly. I love it. In three minutes I have a meal. With Green Chef it was always 30-45 minutes of prep and it got old.
As far as I’m concerned, the much larger and more reprehensible scams are perpetrated by religious/spiritual leaders. The only people this might come as a surprise to are the flock. The most flagrant frauds are committed by evangelical preachers, especially the “prosperity gospel” charlatans. The efforts to expose these crooks on a large scale have been weak and ineffective. The fact that these fat cats actually preach morality (their version, anyway) to their credulous throngs with one bible clutching hand held triumphaly toward heaven, while the other is pickpocketing them, is, of course, morally repugnant. These people need to be taken down. I could go on for hours with credible arguments for why this is justifiable, but I just desperately want to move this ball farther downfield where we can finally score one for the good side. Yes, I’m exercised!
Don't know if it's my dyslexic brain, but did anyone else have a hard time reading that article due to trying to keep sense of the different standards names?
I learnt about Hello Fresh a few weeks ago, signed up, and have been a happy customer since.

For me, not having to pick a recipe and do the shopping is the biggest convenience. The results range from meh to awesome (certainly sometimes due to me botching the recipe).

Price-wise, the service is between eating out and buying groceries myself, which I think is fair.

Shipments have been on time and usually okay (had rotten tomatoes once).

I’m not sure how long I’ll stay with them, but for now, I have no intention of canceling. I have eaten healthier food with more variety, and learnt a bunch about cooking and recipe tuning in the process.
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That's a load of shit, because prep work is a bitch, and clean up is a bitch. It's not just the part about the shopping list of commodity raw materials.

But, most eating habits are incidental to immediate cravings, when faced with a wide variety of choices.

So put a full catalogue of menu items in front of a person, and ask them what they'll really want two Friday's from now.

If you had to choose now, what you'll eat in exactly two weeks, on the dot, between sushi and green tea, or hamburgers and milkshakes, or soup and a sandwich, how do you know you'll even want it when it arrives?

And when it does, and you don't, how hard will it be to not eat it, toss it in the fridge, and go get the food you really want at that moment?

And then, what was all that planning effort for?
I perceived it as anyone can climb their way up to be a President of the United States.
I'm a very experienced faster, been doing it on and off for 17ish years; my longest fast was five days. It's not true (for me) that "the actual feeling of being hungry doesn't persist when fasting."

When I fast I'm fucking hungry, and that doesn't go away, though it becomes a bit more manageable; the intensity of the hunger waxes and wanes.

>It's fairly well known that operating in fat-burning mode puts one in a different head space... There's a mental alertness and clarity, in my experience it's accompanied by elevated energy levels as well

Definitely never experienced anything like this. Quite the opposite really.

Though I do enjoy the sheer uncomfortableness I feel when fasting in a weird sort of way, almost like feeling it makes the feed state feel so much better.
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> > What happens after we die? You stop being.

> You don't know that of course, and have no way of knowing that.

I'm a little surprised how many threads here "OMG YOU CAN'T KNOW FOR SURE SO HERE'S THIS OTHER STUFF YOU SHOULD CONSIDER LIKE SPIRITUALITY!!!".

When you turn off your computer, does its essence float away to computer heaven? When your car breaks down, does its soul get sent to automotive hell? I accidentally stepped on and broke my HP Calculator a few years ago, it won't turn on anymore, so is it in computation limbo? These questions are (purposefully) absurd, but where do you draw the line in "attributing spiritual crap to machinations?"
Which version are you using right now? I have the latest one and it does not allow me to share anything else than a white canvas.
Do you launch zoom somehow differently? For me it behaves like a regular XWayland app
> If a TLS 1.3 client will happily connect to an ETS server that isn't playing by the rules, doesn't that indicate a flaw in 1.3?

There is a way to detect this. Record the last ephemeral public key that server used with you. If it uses the same one again, refuse to connect.
I'm a former competitive MtG player. My playgroup found that with a bit of practice and a specific technique, we could roll 17+ on any spindown dice almost every time (try rolling the die with it starting in your hand with the 20 facing upwards with a sideways motion). While technically you can use any method you choose to randomly determine the start of a game, these dice have been proven to not be "random" thus cannot be used in a tournament. It doesn't matter at all in casual play, but in a tournament, you're just giving your opponent a chance to play first for free.
Hello Fresh levelled me up as a cook and greatly reduced the amount of waste we generate.

Our bin is emptied once a month now (from twice a month) - it would be once every two months if it wasn't for the diapers.
This just kicks the can one level down the road. Aggregator companies like PlaceIQ, Foursquare and Yelp will act as the intermediary and create more rigorous ways to detect spammy / useless location signals, and smooth out location tracking data.

Those intermediaries are the main worries, because brands or marketers may not trust every random Android app, but they will trust Yelp or Foursquare or something, and frankly given additional scale from data bartering and SDK pings that send back location from many other apps, places like Foursquare or Yelp really can provide targeting services that come close to what adtech has always promised.

To be clear, I’d consider this a bad thing, because places like Foursquare or Yelp, whatever they may say to put a PR spin on it, are quite literally preying on people who unwittingly share their location data and don’t really understand the terms, especially not when it’s some tertiary SDK traffic logs agreement causing some music app or hotel app or weather app to send them data tied to your IP address or device ID.

If those businesses can’t monetize their basic value proposition, like a app to search reviews of restaurants, it’s a signal to delete & shutdown the app... but unfortunately it’s become the reverse: a signal to abandon investment into the actual user and diversify all kinds of deceitful behind the scenes ways of getting user data and making users into the product.
I think the ~12k convictions includes police officers no longer active or that may just have been applicants. TFA says less than a third match police personnel records and that it is unclear which may just be for applicants. I don't think we should speculate with these ballpark numbers if we can count on the results coming out later.
I think it's worth pointing out, the way this firm is going about the research and working with the vendors is commendable.
When all other layers are secure, like wearing a bulletproof west inside a bulletproof car inside a bunker that can withstand a nuclear blast. And add to that some security by obscurity, like a bunker in a secret location, only accessed via a tunnel.
USB-IF has to be doing this to deliberately confuse end users, right? I get that it's a specification number, not a product name, but they have to know that this will only cause problems for customers trying to find the appropriate cable.

Incredibly, their language usage specifications doc https://www.usb.org/sites/default/files/usb_3_2_language_pro... begins with this:

> USB-IF emphasizes the importance and value of consistent messaging on USB product packaging, marketing materials, and advertising. Inconsistent use of terminology creates confusion in the marketplace, can be misleading to consumers and potentially diminishes USB-IF’s trademark rights.

I simply don't understand USB-IF's motivation to make this so confusing for everyone. Their board consists of Apple, HP, Intel, Microsoft, TI, Renesas, and STMicroelectronics, so it isn't like it's controlled by low end trashy cable manufacturers trying to make a quick buck from confused customers.
Good point. They mention felonies and list some very serious specific ones so it primed me to think the list was all felonies, even though it did say "felonies and other crimes that would disqualify them".

I'd still be very interested in knowing what the rate comparison is.
People confused with the branding don't realize that USB is by manufacturers for manufacturers, so anything that lets them claim on the box they support USB 420.69 while doing the least amount of work and spend is a-OK.

This is what happens when standards bodies have perverse incentives to confuse. See the SD Association for even worse branding.
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We're inspired heavily by Excel and visual programming. The idea is that business apps — even custom ones — all have the same building blocks for their front-ends: tables, buttons, dropdowns, textinputs, etc. And so we give you all of these building blocks, as components that you can use.

And most custom business apps interface with SQL databases or APIs, so we have native integrations with those. If you want to render a list of users in your app, for example, you could write the SQL query (`select * from users`), and save it as `users_query`. Then, you can drag on a `Table`, and have its `data` property set to `{{users_query.data}}`. Then you're done!

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Let me know if you'd be interested in trying it? I'm at david@tryretool.com if you have any questions / feedback! :)
How refreshing NOT to see faux 'Singapore Noodles' on that list. Having been born and raised in Malaysia, it is the street food that I miss the most, now that I live in Australia. Probably why I love going to the night markets in my town.
I've never met a single person that actually wanted to stay with Comcast. So would it really be stealing? /s
Yeah, but it's a means to an end, not the end.

The assumptions that TLS 1.3 is based around are in direct conflict with the requirements of the secure environment they operate in.

This isn't some evil thing... a cryptographic protocol is a part of a trusted system, and whether it is appropriate for a particular context has to do with the design of the trusted system.
So you're suggesting reusing a brand they've already used in the past except with a totally different meaning? And that will be less confusing?
I have long thought that there is an opening for local grocery stores to take a lot of this market. Many of my local supermarkets (HyVee, Walmart) allow for online ordering, but they all require the user to input items one-by-one. If they added a feature to add entire recipes in a single click, I think they would do very well for themselves. The additional cost of adding a recipe card would be negligible.

The customer's cost isn't increased over regular online ordering, and there isn't the issue of increased packaging. The food is fresh from the local supermarket and doesn't have to be shipped, beyond at most a local delivery.
Okay. Makes sense to me.

Now what are you going to do about busybody deletionists with power driving away every single new contributor - and most of the old ones?
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I haven't tried a prepared meal prep food delivery service before, but I would imagine that a successful "bulk meal prep kit" would need to be cheaper per meal than one that is pre-made.

I also think a major part of the appeal of meal kits is not really in having a "freshly prepared meal" as much as in helping people more easily achieve a level of satisfaction out of making something homemade. That, and the convenience of not 1) having to go to the grocery store to buy meal prep goods and 2) not having to find decent recipes for meals that fit your nutrition or fitness goal
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Recipe curation is a genuinely hard problem. I often go diving into cookbooks for recipes, and I've noticed that in general I will try 2-3 recipes for each one I might add to my repertoire. I think cookbooks are often just making stuff up to fill pages, and as a result the many of the recipes are just mediocre, with a few good ones sprinkled in.
"I think the ideal thing is the ability to click and say I want to make these four meals this week. It adds a list of perishables (meat, veggies, etc.) to my cart and a spits out a list of staples (spices, flour, soy sauce, etc.) for me to check to see if I have. Then I either have it delivered or it can print me out a shopping list.
"

I would like that too. For this a "smart fridge" would actually make sense if it could check what you have already.
> Perhaps, but the very nature of carjacking is that it's a violent crime against you, not just your car.

It is possible to use excessive force in response to a threat that would justify some force in self-defense, which supports prosecution for assault or similar crimes.

> These crimes should be treated as attempted murders

The generally are not factually attempted murders, and if we just decide to willy-nilly ignore the actual elements of crimes in deciding how acts should be prosecuted, then, well, it's hardly possible to stand firm that the case you are complaining about shouldn't be prosecuted as assault. Or genocide. Or conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Whatever.
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>This is a great example of a niche banking solution which is far better than any traditional bank can provide

Seems to me it is a traditional bank offering the banking services...only in authentic Silicon Valley style its being marketed exactly as you describe, a non traditional bank disrupting the status quo.
Food in Singapore was pretty amazing, but their greatest culinary innovation is those little plastic handles for carrying hot coffee.

http://viterbivoices.usc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/IMG_...
Fantastic discussion from 8 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17417593

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I'd be willing to bet that a lot of the people who jump into these things never really had a parent who cooked, or if they did were never really all that interested in learning until later in life and these kits may have helped them along in that regard.

This isn't meant to be passing judgement on anyone, btw, just an observation in general of how people seem to progress from these things. Either they do their own shopping and learn to cook for real, or they go back to mostly eating out.
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It's not just you — it's virtually everyone who will be purchasing a "USB 3.2" cable in the future!
There is a watered down version of org-mode for VSCode. I still prefer the Emacs variety, though. Especially once you tweak out org-capture and custom templates....
What would be a "small-government state" that doesn't give the police as wide a berth as the "big-government states?"

And which are which? I'm assuming you consider California big-government based on your comment, and as a Californian I'm inclined to agree. But it seems Alaska leads in "State FTE's per 10K pop"[0] and Texas and Florida both have large absolute numbers of state employees according to that source.

Intuitively, and subject to my own prejudice, I would guess those states that have vocal majorities against activist government also tend to let the cops get away with all kinds of things, from aggressive civil forfeiture to assault and murder; and that states like California perhaps counterintuitively do so as well, maybe (or maybe not) to a lesser extent.

[0]: http://www.governing.com/gov-data/public-workforce-salaries/...

[Edit: typo]
It seems hard to tell, given that private sector unions tend towards being at large quasi-governmental corporations. Unions do add difficulty to the firing process, which seems like it should be enough to fend off the employer firing you simply based on not wanting all of the harassing phone calls. But if management and union management still want to go through the process of firing you for what you said, then a government employee would still have the defense that doing so would violate their rights.

The prevalence of public sector unions itself is actually a good example of the trend I'm talking about though!