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>Don't understand how people can drink beer at room temperature.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000384v

Meanwhile, Cherry Healey is learning how four basic ingredients – water, malted barley, hops and yeast – can be manipulated to make dark, heavy ales, light, fragrant lagers and everything in between. She is also uncovering the secrets of the perfect pint in a scientific study which shows that drinking beer from a curved glass makes it taste fruitier, while a frothy head and a higher temperature also improve flavour. Which is a win for the traditional British warm pint.
If you are going to write that much, please use a better platform than Twitter.
OK pseudoscience like this needs to stop.
This is why dumbasses think Aliens have visited us, and angels are real.
Plenty of individuals who can make decisions for themselves live in filth and squalor, too. As long as they don't cause serious harm or violate other basic moral standards like the freedom of others, right to property, etc., people's life choices are not and should not be controlled by the state.

> Apparently, this is a human right - which is insane.

It is one of the most fundamental human rights and not insane at all. Some scholars would even argue that autonomy is a defining characteristics of being a moral agent.

Every human has a right to make mistakes, too.

Generally, freedom can only be restricted when serious harm would be caused otherwise. There used to be a consensus about this in every capitalist democratic society, and I still think there is one. That's why your reply is kind of surprising to me.

> are you OK with enforcing laws on the books against those individuals

The laws are the same for everyone, whether they are homeless or not does not play any role. otherwise the law is unconstitutional. At least that's how it works where I live.

To answer your question: Of course, I'm not fine with any kind of laws that would be specifically bad for homeless. Imposing fines on people who cannot pay them is pointless and there is something wrong with a law that does it. Replacing fines by incarceration when a person could not possibly pay the fine is equally stupid, and btw in many countries this is not how it's done. Where I live you can declare personal bankrupcy in a similar way as companies can do it. You will still have to pay off your debts once you have a job, though.

If your laws would put homeless in more misery than putting them into mental institutions against their will, then there is something wrong with those laws. Besides, people don't set up tent cities because they prefer to live in tents. This is simply false and where I live such tent cities don't exist. Ghettos and tent cities hint at deeper problems in your country, problems that will likely not be solvable by reforming laws alone.
While a PhD isn't necessarily "exclusively for academic careers", in practice this is the primary focus of the training undergone during one, including most of the career-oriented stuff. But it's a lie. The vast majority will leave during or after their PhD, or during or after a Postdoc. Which brings into question the entire premise of commencing one in the first place.

But the number of industrial scientist positions actually requiring a PhD is still much smaller, by far, than the number of PhDs coming out of the system. The vast majority are happy with an MSc or BSc, or equivalent industrial experience. Even accounting for non-academic careers, the number of current PhD students is unjustifiable and detrimental.
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They don't have to be objective or subjective. I've never understood the argument that morals are individually subjective. If individual people freely did anything all the time then where would morals come from?
Correct, but plastics and other non-burned uses only accounts for <10% of oil and gas. So you'd have to 10x the number of petrochemical products to make up for the decrease in burned product. Plastics are a pretty mature industry, so 10x is well outside the range of what's possible.
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F9 in Firefox to toggle reader view, which makes this quite a bit easier to read on wide screens.
Possible - sure. But the default state should be to assume FTL aliens would need to refuel.

Consider human civilisation circa 3000 years ago. People moved around on horses, with carts. Roads were usually poor or non-existent. We are incomparably advanced compared to back then. But:

• They had outposts for travellers and we have airports.

• They had to feed their horses, we have to refuel planes.

• They needed infrastructure to establish new towns and colonies. We do too although the Earth being inconveniently full of cities often hides this fact.

Whilst the technology has changed enormously the fundamentals of travel and colonisation haven't. If there's no refuelling process at all ever then that implies a violation of the conservation of energy laws anyway - even if you only refuel once when a ship is newly built with some incredibly long lasting energy source, that's still fueling.
> Right, a lack of regulations is why things are expensive.

You might guess right now that I will argue the exact opposite point.

> ou completely left out that Republican Congress specifically denied Medicare the ability to bring in cheaper drugs from other countries and isn't allowed to negotiate drug prices, oh and they've underfunded every single regulatory agency for ages to be able to claim government doesn't work.

Aren't you taking into the calculations that socialized medicine will have the same political risks?

> Why is it that other countries can somehow pay more for the same or better care of their public options and we don't.

The U.S. has a specific regulatory framework that is chaoticly expensive. Regulatory capture is grotesque in the healthcare market, and you can read up what health economists say if you want details.
You could aim to do a healthcare reform that just plain reduces the cost of care by 10, 20% easily by just doing less as a government.

> You're never going to have a cheaper private option with a profit motive on anything versus an option that doesn't require a profit motive.

1) Medicare is also more expensive than other countries socialized systems
2) Some of the biggest insurance companies are non-profits
3) The combined market value of the top insurance companies is less than half the yearly Medicare budget.
Has anybody ever seen such a thing in reality? I have seen quite a few consultants and nobody ever got even close.
Because the higher house prices are, the less people can afford to buy (to live). Those people then need to rent, increasing demand for rental, so rental prices go up too.

When housing bubbles burst, rental prices go up.

I really don't think it's a free market because people must live somewhere.

Further, banks only let you have one normal mortgage, so you can't buy multiple properties unless you're already wealthy.
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That is a sub-problem of the pharma industry, that while significant (15% of healthcare spending) is not the same debate as banning private insurance.

What people dont get is that private insurance fiercely competes to lower costs, while the government's only effective mechanism is to not pay anything at all. Socialized medicine in the us would usher a new era of Cash pay.
> ...because market forces will mostly solve only small "consumer" problems and cannot reorganise our society in a more efficient way.

Market forces have repeatedly reorganized our society from farms to factories and increasingly from factories to offices..

But we might need to tweak the incentives and refactor regulation.
>We exhale it because it's bad for us

Off-topic in the context of climate change, but that's an oversimplification at best. Not enough CO2 in the body will kill you just as readily as too much.
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Love this! I would totally use this if there were more cities in there.

FYI the `<article>` panel doesn't scroll on firefox
Think of it like this: The wavefront around a dipole is comprised of near and far fields, with the near field being spherical and the far field planar.

That near field has a reactive component (stored energy) that does not propagate, but falls off at 1/r^3 or faster.

So an incoming plane wave induces charge motion, which builds up the reactive near field over many cycles, generating that spherical wavefront.

So that seems to indicate reciprocity is only valid for a steady state, but it’s still valid. If your transmit antenna were fed a monocycle (i.e. not time for the near-field to build up), the receiving antenna wouldn’t have enough time either.
I regret not having had the opportunity to meet Joe, but my impression was always that he was that exceptionally rare kind of person who exuded not just heaps of wisdom and knowledge, but also heaps of humility and friendliness. Joe will be missed, but fondly remembered and - I would hope - exemplified and emulated as a positive role model. Even without me having met him, Joe made me a better programmer.

Goodbye, Joe. May your supervisor spawn new processes to carry on your legacy.
Capitalism is broken. Or rather, it breaks things.
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I agree. But it can be made simpler than that. If the owner actually wants his land property to be inherited, why shouldn't he pay for the property protection over his life himself? If he convinced the society that he really is the owner this way, I don't think the society would have found this private
land property or inheritancee unethical.

What they find disturbing though is that they as a society have to pay for all these property related services like internal protection (police, courts, law system) like external protection (army) and give these to the sitting and do-nothing landlords for free. While paying for them from their pocket through income taxes and receiving nothing back.. Actually the landlords are then so kind as to increase their home rents as a Thank you.
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please give us detail on how to achieve this.i have an old ipod that i will love to use again.
The role it plays is in how people may respond to evidence that runs counter to their perception of reality. The blinding happens when HR/management decides that rejecting feedback and evidence is the best route to resolving the contradiction of reality vs belief. If they ignore it, then no such conflict exists.

Obviously this isn't the ideal way to handle cognitive dissonance. However, it is a way of handling and one that you often see. Another bad way of handling it is when you see people "explaining things away" without ever really addressing anything of substance.

In my case, I saw it manifest in the sheer confidence they displayed all year despite our rollout plans failing. It did not matter how many market signals they received either. There was always another excuse as to why things will eventually go smoothly.
Sleep is only a part of it — avoiding burnout (which is the real goal here) requires taking time not only to sleep, but also to work out, do your laundry, cook and eat food, see friends... we’re not just our jobs. We need lives outside of work or we will burn out — often at the most stressful and least opportune moment. If you’re working 100+ hours a week, you’re almost certainly offloading all that extra work to someone — usually a romantic partner, which can damage the most important relationship in your life.

That leaves at most 60 hours a week to truly dedicate to work. The people who work more are sacrificing quality of life for productivity. While a very small minority of people really can maintain that, most of us can’t. We shouldn’t take advice from the outliers who can. We shouldn’t work for companies where a schedule that leads to burnout is the norm. It’s a signal that the company wants to suck you dry then toss you away.

Furthermore, with knowledge workers... we often never stop thinking about a problem. The thinking is “real work” — I’ve had inspiration about how to solve a problem strike during dinner. Whip out the phone, send myself an e-mail, then deal with it in the morning. But the obsession with maximizing individual productivity at all costs is literally killing us.
In Prolog it's not "easy"- it's implicit. You don't need to do anything
special, you don't need to combine different programming constructs, you don't need a library and you don't even have to write your code
in a special way to make your grammars work as parsers.

The trick is that DCGs are Prolog programs, which is to say, they
are logic theories that the Prolog interpreter proves true or false. Parsing a
string then is a case of proving that the grammar is a theory that entails
the string in its input (with some abuse of terminology!).

And because a Prolog predicate (including each rule in a definite clause
grammar) is a relation rather than a function, and so has no fixed
inputs and outputs, you can leave the "input" unbound, to generate all strings
entailed by the grammar.

Yes? You write a grammar. You get you recognisers for nothing and your
generators for free.
Thank you! Would be happy to add your city (you can post it here or send it via email to me if you don't want to reveal it publicly).

I'll take a look and fix the scrolling issue - thanks for the heads-up!
>I see no solution that doesn't infringe on their rights as human beings.

It's not that hard - give them a flat and maybe some daycare. The rest of the world outside the US seems mostly to manage that.
That’s an appeal to nature argument. Humans have the capacity to be better than their nature.
>We hoped you could...

Given you're positioning this app and article as a means to answer the question on buying a home and renting it out, you should disclose these items (liabilities) to the reader and let them figure out the scenario for their local market, rather than hoping for the reader to do something.

Property tax is a large expense, and insurance is also a required expense if you have a mortgage (in the US). Finally, income you generate from the house (Rental Income) is taxed at your effective tax rate, and this will be a Large Liability at the end of each year.

Although there may be deductions you can take to minimize some of the expenses (in the US), you will be required to pay taxes on the income you generate and I suspect that's the case across all countries.
"Keep your friends close and your enemies closer."

If you knew Joe, you'd know he was strict about feature-creep in Erlang. He removed Paramaterized Modules, even though it broke some popular Erlang projects -- including the Chicago Boss Web Framework. This was one of the reasons Elixir was created. To make it more "approachable" to people who didn't have the inclination to be FP purists.
I’d love to teach a university course where the students just build a gameboy or NES emulator as group projects.
Startup playbook covers all the basics, but not in detail: https://playbook.samaltman.com/

Product development is straightforward. Build something a few people love, not something a lot of people kinda like. Landing sites, sign ups, questionnaires, focus groups.. all that is meaningless. The litmus test is how much money they throw at you. The early adopters often have already hacked together a solution that is ugly and unstable, and if you can build something better, they'll happily give you money. Launch your solution early, take note of criticism, and quickly fix it.
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And here's the full CNN version which includes a handful of images: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/04/20/asia/japan-ainu-indigenou...
Don't encourage him. He obviously likes feeling morally superior.
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Or those Beaver [1] sea planes still in use commercially around the country, and by pilots in Alaska.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Canada_DHC-2_Beav...
These students could probably make a lot more on the open market. The Universities advertise it as a good deal, when in truth it is not
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I just watched that 10 part documentary on Netflix about the Vietnam war. They referenced several times how our M-16s were inferior to the AK's that were being supplied to the Vietcong. And that the M16s would jam and were unreliable...
I woodwork at a local makershop, I started out making random things for my home and when I no longer had ideas for other stuff I wanted I’d make things and give them away for free to friends.

Eventually other people wanted to know if I can make them custom pieces so I began doing it for money, mostly to cover cost of materials and a bit of time for labor.

Not making big money from it but it’s fulfilling work and good to know I could still have a place in a world with no technology. Surprisingly, woodworking shares some things in common with building software.
The problem comes in that these systems of government only ever work on paper. People lay out Communism, socialism and capitalism as though they're these absolutes and forget that they have to exist in the real world run by real people, warts and all. People will find cracks in the system, exploit them and widen them to make them better for their particular group. Whatever "ism" you conjure is no panacea for whatever ails you. The grass is always greener on the other side, is all.
Thank you for the thorough reply.
No, it's not entirely voluntary. It's a necessity to live. I might be able to pick and choose between several employers, but ultimately I'm going to have to choose one of them. There's a power imbalance between employee and employer, and that will translate into a negotiating disadvantage; the future employee is at a disadvantage here.
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I still play gameboy on a regular basis. At this point, all the games have "aged" as much as they're ever going to.

Some people enjoy the modern features or graphics of a game above all else. (and so from this perspective, there would be no real reason to return to Borderlands 1 after you have Borderlands 2) But at this point, those people would have left gameboy behind at least 15 to 20 years ago. A gameboy was already incredibly simplistic next to a PS2 in 2001, and was therefor limited to much simpler games, graphics, and music.
Ok, thanks for the explanation.
I've been doing audio mastering as a creative hobby for about 5 years but I've never done anything professionally. I was literally just contacted early this morning (EST) regarding an opportunity to do some work professionally for an indie record label so I am going to see where that goes. There is a "Full-Time Effort" clause in my employment contract that might require me to get permission from my company to do it, but I'm hoping it won't be an issue either way.
>In addition, some homeless people, offered safe shelter and food in a controlled, supervised setting, refuse, fearing loss of freedom or worse.
One of my Saturday-morning favorites; looking back, it certainly helped inspire me to go into the sciences. I think its environmental messages resonate even more strongly now than they did then.
Did you consider paying more than minimum wage? I wonder if a higher wage would enable you to expand your talent pool to folks who would enjoy slinging coffee a couple days a week on the side to improve their situation while actually finding it fulfilling work. The math does seem fixed, there is only so much time in the day and the inputs have fixed costs, but if you can get it all well tuned to the point where effort and time in is worth it then it can just run for a long time until some change in conditions makes you walk away instead of tweaking again. It always seems to me like spending more for a better product should be the first tweak attempted rather than the race to the bottom so many places undertake.
I've been enjoying some minor woodworking as a purely hobby. I agree, it's great fun, and I think there is some common idea along with building software.

Wondering what you've found to be a reasonable amount of income vs work for sale? I'm not really interested in making money, but covering costs and feeling satisfaction would be good.
Your comment made me think of the musician paradox who for some reason favors using a c64 for his live shows and it's not a gimmick like a 8bit music, you really don't hear it in the music.

https://youtu.be/2e0wg_618ac
I make and sell staff paper notebooks for musicians: https://www.themusiciansnotebook.com/

I'm an avid saxophone player and am taking evening classes in theory, so I made this to solve a problem that I myself had. Nothing else like it on the market!

Every part of this notebook is automatically generated with a bunch of python scripts: the cover design, the interior, the line placement, the margins. The program basically spits out a PDF which I can then send to print shops (which is the hardest part of the whole thing!)

The product is good, people like it, and the hardest part for me right now is sales - trying to get stores to carry it, or get traffic to the site to drive sales! If you know anyone who might be interested...

edit: Okay I've opportunistically created a coupon code THANKSHN for 10% off.
Take a picture of a phone number and call it.
It was hugely profitable but you had problems with people you were paying minimum wage?
Why? Is it inaccurate? Could you phrase it better?
I was thinking of situations like described in the GP, where most external commands would be unavailable. Aside from what was described there, screwing up the shared libc is also common. Where you're left with a functional shell if you were logged in, but no external commands, except for /sbin/ stuff.

The hack with echo mostly works, but will have issues with large files due to limits on arg length.
Apparently, it is available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lj8z28Mshw
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This article was pretty light on substantial criticism of the program. I suppose the most significant was the girl with epilepsy who was advised not to look at computer screens more than 30 minutes a day. That's definitely unfortunate.
Investing. It takes a lot of time to have an understanding of filtering the good long term stuff from the bad short term strategies, but it's worth it.
Most of the reliability issues had to do with ammo
A way to talk to and hear Siri when my phone is in my pocket. (Without headphones)
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Those are M16A1’s. M16A4’s are the current model, though if I remember correctly they are being phased out in favor of the M4.
What would you say the commonality is?
This school is so lacking in funds, they can't even guarantee ten minutes of time with a teacher per week? That's over 200 students per teacher. The new program likely has some problems, but I'd guess the change is just highlighting how bad it was before. Except the student with epilepsy, that's ridiculous.