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>It doesn't matter that it has never been tested in court--it's been generally accepted law in the US for decades (predating Quill) and it would take a court ruling for it to be otherwise.

The issue is there are arguments on both sides how to apply the general accepted law. Do you treat it as seller owned inventory, or do you treat it as consignment? Does commingled inventory belong to a seller, and if so, at what point does title transfer if the seller has not had a sale? If two people send inventory to Amazon, it's commingled, and Amazon stores one of the units in California, which seller has physical nexus?

Taking California's position on these legal questions may be the pragmatic approach if someone wants to avoid legal risk, but it's by no means clear that they're right under established law. You're entitled to your legal opinion, but so are others, and other tax lawyers have weighed in and believe California's argument is incorrect here. Given that the issue hasn't been decided in court and there are lawyers arguing both ways I don't think it's right to say that clearly one side is right.
Salty lemon water? Why would that be lavaging? Perhaps if the concentration is extreme. Otherwise I doubt it would have more of that effect than coffee.
Induction works fine. Our house is all electric. On the coldest winter days the heat pump needs some help using some resistance heat which isn't as efficient - but it does just fine. No need to have gas.
This is true for the general population though. The only reason why the term exists is because other engineers expect it not to apply to engineers. Really the concept says more about us and our expectations of educated engineers rather than the engineers with bad opinions.

You could even go so far as to say those wielding the term also fall under the term: outside of your expertise, you're assuming engineers shouldn't have bad opinions. There's evidence abound that this is wrong - engineers can have bad opinions just like the general population. Yet some still insist on calling it out as "special" despite presenting no studies showing they're more likely to have these bad opinions.
I think this is a very American view of things, because I hear you guys keep getting screwed over by old people's voting.

The way I view it is this will be good, because old people have lived long enough to be satisfied with life, and don't need short-term pleasures or have the ambition to build up huge amounts of wealth. They are also wiser. The old people I know live simple lives, tend to be open-minded and look out for the next generations.

Then again I'm from a place that puts more value on family and less in oneself or money than the USA, at least from what I can tell.
Ah, Battle Creek! Also where the Kellogg brothers got up to their weirdness.

John Harvey Kellogg was involved in the weird dietary movements of the era as well. Ran a sort of spa / psych hospital thing, recommended people eat super plain food and chew each bite 45 times, that sort of thing. Tried to make "pre-digested" food which led eventually to Corn Flakes.

Lots of weird health anecdotes out of there. Anything from one of the Kellogg brothers leaving the table during a meal and coming back with a pail of his own fresh shit, inviting others to smell it and describing it as "as if it were a warm loaf of bread," to recommending circumcision in young adults as a preventative measure to masturbation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harvey_Kellogg
I'm still highly skeptical. One rather likely scenario is that Nadella slowly wants to turn Microsoft into IBM.

IBM has free OSS labor and outsources to India. Choosing Nadella as CEO makes a lot of sense for that plan.
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accommodating a disability is different than a vow, though, right? it just strikes me as interesting.
Sorry for being unclear. The part about being hosted on GitHub actually referred to Nix. That's the point where I'm unclear about what seems to be the better solution. GitHub could take a turn for the worse but at least for now, GitHub might be able to handle more users than savannah.
What better way to give aid to our enemies than to conduct an expensive war on false pretenses and illegally classify information that would have likely led to public distaste for the war?

Giving money to our enemies would be a better way to give them aid. Or weapons. Or supplies. Or pretty much anything, really.

One thing which is not giving aid to our enemies is to fight a war against them, on whatever pretenses, which results in massive quantities of said enemy's soldiers dying. That's almost exactly the opposite of "aiding" our enemies.

You may disagree with the efficiency of our military expenditures, but inefficiency in prosecuting military action is not even remotely the same thing as providing aid to our enemies.
You are assuming that the groups we are told are our enemies are actually enemies, and that they are the most significant enemies.
For anyone wondering how this will affect the launch schedule, from the article:

Before this accident, SpaceX and NASA had been targeting early October for the first crewed Dragon mission to the station. Now, that will almost certainly be delayed by at least several months into 2020. At Thursday's news briefing, Koenigsmann said the schedule impact will depend on what the investigation turns up. "I hope this is a relatively swift investigation at the end of the day," he said. "I don’t want to completely preclude the current schedule, but certainly this is not good news for the schedule."
I think the disdain comes from seeing marketing outweigh science. What people really disdain are companies that offer snake oil in bad-faith, but they secondarily disdain the people who fall for it. The benefits of antidepressants are backed up with science; the benefits of faraday tents are not.

Of course, it's still not really right to disdain people for being overly-optimistic to the point of being gullible.
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You're arguing from a point of attacking the opposite instead of boosting your own point.

Do you remember Heroin Chic?
What you’re describing is what we call “society.” In a society we compel acts from others as they compel ours and in exchange we’re all better off for it. The whole “you can’t make me” argument in the face of death and suffering evokes a screaming match between a 10 year old and their parent over cleaning their room. It’s not a good look.

The fact is an individual in America who “made it all by themselves” was the beneficiary of myriad social service: public education, roads, water, rail, police, fire, the courts, the army, the regulators and the agencies like the EPA. Drawing the line at healthcare, sick time, and paid leave rules is just a truly arbitrary line in the face of all this.

> No ideological purity survives the myriad of real world circumstances...

Well said. In my opinion the default should be that you can live a comfortable life, and if you are successful you should be rewarded with outsize returns. In part because we as a society can afford to treat everyone well, and also because a baseline of comfort frees you to take risks. It’s how people who do well at a startup suddenly have money, and many more of them on average go on to start their own.
Really??

I can read it just fine, without an account. Maybe it's because I have JavaScript disabled (via NoScript)? If so, someone else's comment here that the paywall is porous is quite true.
For a lot of people - what they think is "hunger" is really just "boredom." That - or a carb addiction.

Once you start reading about autophagy, fasting doesn't really seem that crazy after all.
I say this to my kids all the time! They never stop talking... in fact, half of the people around me never stop talking. It's astounding they ever manage to learn anything, honestly.
When you pay for something, you justify to yourself why it's better than a free or cheap alternative. "I'm really glad I paid extra for USB-C, it's so nice to plug it in the right way the first try."

I can't remember the exact phrase for this, maybe "cost bias?" Related to, but distinct from, the sunk-cost fallacy.
The article is also dated from April 1… which makes it a little out of date on top of being suspect in other ways.
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Especially when the barrier to entry for a good college is getting lower and lower, and community colleges are getting better and better. The only thing holding up a lot of colleges now, is their low acceptance rate and their past prestige.
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this is kind of flippant, but I suspect that a big part of it is that remaining rational and skeptical, and trying to be belief-free is exhausting.

Rituals - even things like having morning coffee or an after work walk are things that I can say calm me down because they require little mental effort. The more you aim for variety the more effort it takes.

Beliefs are like the mental equivalent to acclimating to consistent and unvaried exercise. It stops requiring thought and no longer pushes you to improve.

given the breadth of ideas we are always exposed to now, I'd say that these semi-religious tendencies are defense mechanisms.
I grew up in Southern California. I can definitively say that INS was conducting workplace raids and detaining people hundreds of miles from the border long before 2003.
As someone with a firmly blue-collar perspective on the world, these weird sacred cows of the city that people elevate to the status of guru are as mysterious for me as they are asinine.

I read up on Gwyneth Paltrow after reading the article, and checked her website where I found idiotic products that made my heart stop with some of their claims. When my heart finally started again I cursed god for letting me live to see things like $300 leather sandals, a $75 candle to "clear my energy" and a $70 crystal drinking straw that radiates heart opening...whatever the hell that means.

Now theres a guy telling people how to eat in Silicon Valley, and I cant help but remember how this ended last time. Steve Jobs was essentially a station of the cross at the holy church of silicon valley who could do no wrong, speak no evil, and walked a path of enlightenment akin to a god of knowledge...

until he died from trying to cure a common cancer with fruit cups and meditation, instead of medical science. Thats the part we dont seem to talk about very much, and I feel like it would do wonders to scale the wind back from the sails of these quacks. Being directly attributed to the cause of death for a diet related disorder would give these self-proclaimed lords of the human body a chance to reconsider their podcast --or at least hire a lawyer-- before they click upload.
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How does it increase our knowledge, or ability to do new exciting things, or our ability to "push the envelope"?

It keeps resources from being wasted that would otherwise actually contribute to our ability to "push the envelope."

It doesn't. It's a waste of time and effort.

When something which really is impossible or impractical is called out, then huge amounts of resources can be redirected to genuinely beneficial projects.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obS6TUVSZds

Are you advocating that we never doubt? Should we just "listen and believe" and somehow our positive energy will make things happen? Sorry, no. Scientific analysis has predictive power. That's what Elon Musk is all about.
Could be, especially depending on how much salt you ingest.
> Deaths per mile are about 30x lower for bus/coach compared to cars

Per passenger mile. So if busses have 30 people on on average, the accident rate could be the same, just typically only one passenger dies.

That also makes sense with the vehicle characteristics. It's much harder to die by being ejected from the vehicle or by intrusions into the passenger compartment in a bus. Also, heavier, longer bus = more gentle deceleration.

Your statement might still be true (and I suspect it broadly is), but it just isn't backed up by the cited data.
Maybe you are in the KC area. KCP&L had $10k rebates in Leafs. I was going to buy a new one, but the dealers were total assholes, jacking up the prices to compensate for the rebate.

I ended up buying a used one. I’ll buy a Tesla next, or another used, just to not deal with scumbag dealerships.
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I'm struggling to put this more constructively, but I really can't find the words for it: this is incredibly corny advice for the privileged from the privileged.
One nice form of regulation would be a mechanism to let companies in this situation make a formal and binding privacy claim, that would then expose them to painful consequences if shown to be untrue.

Right now we just have to take Google's word for it, but if they were willing to pinky swear (figuratively speaking), it would let people trust them more, and possibly let them offer new kinds of services.
I've seen 3 general schools of thought on remote pay:

- its a global talent pool, so in raw dollars everyone should be on a level playing field (ie, compete for SF Bay wages no matter where you are in the world since that is generally the top wage market)

- market rate for your current location (ie, whenever you choose to reside, you get paid an amount that provides a comfortable standard of living there, somewhat influenced by what local wages for your role would be - we won't round down if you're in a place where dev salaries are unusually low relative to other industries, but we will round up a bit to be competitive if you're in a market where they're high)

- "remote is a perk" so take less pay in exchange for the freedom

Personally, I currently work at a shop who is doing the second version and everyone seems happy enough with it. I'd never work somewhere who was trying to pitch remoteness as part of the comp package, and I think there are only a handful of companies out there who peg their wages to the most expensive markets in the world (I generally see this kind of position pushed by self-branded "expats" who want to metaphorically live like kings in cheap areas).

Unfortunately there are a lot of companies who have decided they're going to go remote as a cost-savings measure, and that cost-savings mentality permeates everything about the business - including trying to sell being remote as a perk with value and lower wages to go with it.
There's a single Model 3 in my neighborhood and I don't understand the appeal aesthetically.

I'm glad there are so many adopters for EVs (Tesla or otherwise) willing to put up with all the downsides until the technology and infrastructure matures to a point where it is competitive (price, charge time, range, charging station at every gas station, etc.)
It's significantly more red than green, so I don't think it's your laptop screen.
Uber IPO investors should pay close attention to New York City
> until I manually switched to the text terminal and installed the latest NVidia driver

As an nVidia card owner, I feel your pain. It's a case of both sides (nVidia and Linux) digging their heels and refusing to cooperate.
Hang on. Stock market price is suppose to price in future earnings too. So, the price is always to some extend speculative and may look quite divorced from present circumstances. So, if during the Balmer era the price was depressed, it reflects the negative predicted outcome for Microsoft and if it is a bit lofty, it reflects expectations of better days to come for MSFT.
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You're right, my analogy is too simplistic. You're acting as an investor only in the sense that you're taking a risk, and paying to help make the product a reality. I think people often feel burned or contribute to bad projects because they're thinking of it like a normal consumer product, where the risk of getting nothing is basically 0
FYI, only way forward is core. Microsoft doesn't really invest much in older net and related (for example PowerShell 5). There may be fixes here and there but are mostly security.

It defies logic to support 2 frameworks, one of which is WAY BETTER then the other and x-platform.
For me, the catalyst was that I lived in a place with an average temperature well below 0°C, and then I realized that my cats smelled like ashtrays because I smoked inside.
It is something I have noticed, too. Engineers seem more likely to trot out their degrees and claim expertise in matters outside of engineering.

(this does seem to apply to "software engineers", too. But maybe I shouldn't elaborate).

OTOH, most of my fellow scientists are pretty chill and readily admit the boundaries of their knowledge.

See also: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Engineers_and_woo
I don't think it will make enough of a difference to justify the totalitarian aspects. I imagine relatives are already complicit in a decent amount of human trafficking cases.
Why not call it the obvious thing: GuixOS?

The scheme you have now is confusing for no reason. I saw this news on Phoronix and even after reading the article I couldn't tell if it was the pkg manager or the distro that had reached 1.0 (I guess it's both?).
If you live in the Bay Area, I think a quick dip in the ocean will do similar things for free.
From what I was told, around 2014 in China, there used to be a responsible-disclosure platform called WooYun that existed for a while (some of its articles has submitted to ~100 upvotes on HN). It was similar to HackerOne, and attracted a significant number of infosec researchers to hunt bugs and report it to the vendors.

Until 2016, when the government arrested its founders.

* WSJ: China’s ‘White-Hat’ Hackers Fear Dark Times After Community Founder Is Detained

https://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2016/08/01/chinas-white-...

* China Arrests 10 White Hats from WooYoun Ethical Hacking Community

https://news.softpedia.com/news/china-arrests-10-white-hats-...
An influencer doesn't invent, they promote. They adopt (or appear to adopt) some item, practice, or philosophy and promote it to others (not necessarily explicitly, perhaps just by juxtaposing it with themselves or other artifacts).
> Did you know that neither mpv or mplayer bottles ship with libdvdread support?

Maybe because Apple doesn't ship a computer with a DVD drive and hasn't for ~5 years?
Everyone is looking for a shortcut (even billionaires)

When it comes to health, there isn't one. The solutions aren't glamorous, or easy, nor do they guarantee you'll live to 100.

In general, eat less. Whether it's 1 meal a day, or 20, the amount of food you consume now is probably more than you need. When you do eat, eat more vegetables. Eat less meat. Eat healthy fats, less saturated, and trans fats.

Exercise, sometimes vigorously (as age permits).

Sleep well.

That's it. Lemon salt water and infrared bulbs aren't going to move the needle.
Satya is great because he saw the same things you did, and executed on them very well.
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Also written in Lazarus/FreePascal...

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A neural network capable of making generic inferences about the output of another neural network, in real time, just needs to be able to run a simulation of that other network. While we do not currently have the resources to do it with a human brain, it is in principle quite doable.

The critical difference between this and the Halting problem is that solving the Halting problem by running a simulation would require simulating in finite time what another system does in infinite time. This requires simulating in finite time what the other system also does in finite time. Which requires a better system, but not an impossibly better system.

Moving on, you are over-estimating the requirements of the system that I describe. Today, with humans, a system like Waze can provide warnings about the road ahead which provides a useful assist to human drivers. This with a very small fraction of humans using the program, and even fewer actively registering hazards like "object on road". And yet, it is useful.

Automated driving systems can participate in a similar system. Only they will be more likely to provide information, and their information can be more detailed. Such as what lane the foreign object is in. It doesn't take a lot of data about what is out of view ahead to improve driving by a lot. But humans are built to only pay attention to one thing at that speeds. Automated systems can integrate information from multiple. Which means that they can be better.

Yes, what they are doing is simply feature extraction/input output mapping/information synthesis - but in principle nothing more is needed to drive better than is possible for humans.

At the moment, humans are better. But it is not impossible that computers can become better. It is, in fact, inevitable.
I'm sorry, but Jack Dorsey doesn't look wholesome. True story, I saw a drunk homeless guy at my bus stop this morning and was like "wait, I recognize him..." for about 30 seconds before I realized I was thinking of Jack.