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Just finished the 8 hour march. That was insane.

But the law is even more insane. A North Korea-like totalitarian state that puts people in camps can just snatch any lawyer, businessman our journalist and take them away without trial and without revealing their location.

Imagine people at startups working in sensitive areas like DNA testing, biotech, finance or data mining can be taken away and forced to reveal data, trade secrets, or forced to collaborate, under threat to their families or themselves.
So you're pissed that you finally have to pay the true cost for your utilities. You've been subsidized for the last 50+ years. It's time to stop subsidizing your sprawl.
Fermentation and dry distillation.

Seaweed contains a lot of cellulose and starch, just like land-based plants. It can be processed with acids or enzymes to convert these into sugars, just as is done to convert corn starch into corn syrup. The sugary byproduct can be fermented to produce ethanol.

Dry distillation is heating biomass without oxygen. It produces a range of gaseous and liquid fuel byproducts, plus charcoal. Solar heat can of course be used.
I used to play WoW with a childhood friend on the other side of the country. Unlike MOBAs, I find that WoW is (or at least was during BC and WotLK) are mindless enough that you can actually hold a real conversation.
Then gather a group of like-minded people and just hang out! It worked for rationalists, surely it can work for other adjacent communities. HN meetups are a thing, right?
They can be trusted until they gain enough market share. /s
I am all for utility companies cutting service to rural areas, for cost savings or otherwise.

Living in the country side is supposed to be expensive, but for the past 40 years or so all of the population centers of America have been subsidizing rural life. My parents live 30 miles inland in Florida and recently wanted their 5 mile dirt road paved, total cost would have been north of $2,000,000... Even if that was split among everyone living there you are looking at $133,000.

Things don't get better once you consider their power lines, at $285,000 per mile you are looking at $95,000 just to run power to their home and all adjacent homes.

Then add in water + sewage, at $25.18 per foot, lets say to all the same houses getting power, that is an additional $86,619.

You also probably want modern internet connectivity (cable, fiber) you are looking at another $10,000 per household.

Assuming there is 5% maintenance per year for all this infrastructure, that is $16,230.95 a year.

Meanwhile in a city, the amount each individual is paying is a tiny fraction, probably less than 0.01%. Sure a urban home is probably more expensive, but given that a rural home should incur a near $400,000 premium, you shouldn't have been able to afford that rural home to begin with.

America stands to save hundreds of billions if we actually force the cost of living in rural areas to be what it is, rather than subsidize it.

People who live in the country side already use wells for water due to the cost of water + sewage, why is it any different for power?
Right ...
No, it's because insurance hasn't hijacked the system in India like it has in the US.

Watch pet health costs...with the recent advent of pet health insurance, it's just a matter of time before costs skyrocket for veterinary care.
Whether intentionally or no, Kate Taylor is doing the meat industry's work for them. Pretty much nobody seems to think that plant-based burgers are interesting primarily because they're healthier. See any other top-level comment for examples. Who benefits from a story putting plant-based burgers in a bad light by "refuting" a claim nobody made or cared about? There are many answers, but "the public in general" is not one. Even if the effect is not deliberate, this kind of click-bait seems a bit irresponsible.
Well, secret trials have a long history of working very poorly in terms of just outcomes.

Anyway, allegations can be made independent of a formal court proceeding.E.g. how would you shut people up from talking about things that have happened to them? Who would victims be allowed to tell and how would it be prevented from coming out, if its newsworthy? Or maybe you shut down the press so it's OK to talk about what happened to you but not publish it? It's pretty tricky.

Obviously, a system where you have to prove your allegations before you can make the allegation is not a system at all, so I think there inherently has to be a time of ambiguity between when an allegation is made and when it's resolved.

> ...what's the point of publicizing this until the case has been decided?

One very important reason is that it encourages other victims to come forward. E.g. in the Larry Nasser/Michigan State case, this guy molested hundreds of girls. At various points someone would speak up.. to an MSU coach or a parent, or up the line to USAG and the allegation was killed or ignored. Finally there was one girl who just wouldn't shut up and got something moving forward. As it progressed, more of the girls (many actually women by that point) were encouraged and were able to come forward again. It made a big difference to finally putting a stop to what the guy was doing.

In this case many of the allegations are of things that are pretty unambiguous and took place in front of third parties, so there should be a chance to get at the truth of enough of them to determine the general truth of the overall case, I think.

It's interesting the company is backing him 100%. Essentially betting the reputation of the company on this. (I think it's a private company, so maybe it's just the CEO backing himself? I don't know how much power various investors or founders have so I don't know how much they are backing him. Either way, the company will be seriously damaged if the allegations are found to be substantially true).
> I am not sure someone like the author with an "aggressive" riding style can be trusted with the extra power from an ebike.

Agreed. I have an ebike that peaks around 1250W (technically not legal). It's a mountain bike with a mid-drive motor, and it can reach 35MPH on a flat road. It definitely feels nice to have that kind of acceleration, but I fully understand the reason for software speed limiting. Past about 20 MPH, it doesn't feel very safe. At those speeds, I intuitively know that if I fall, I'm in real trouble because I'm not adequately protected. The ebike is also fast enough that the bike lane feels very slow. I definitely wouldn't want to put this in the hands of annoying teenagers who will try to race each other through the city, they'd kill themselves.
Safety limits are very conservative and are established through experiments. If the reactor can still be shut down safely and will for a few more years then it can run.
You can’t. With Catalina the device is activation locked, meaning you need the original iCloud credentials to install a new OS.
Whats an "approved list of varieties" for commercial crops? Sounds ominous.
I guess the UK NHS is run like a for profit business: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/feb/17/nhs-staff-qu...

> Health unions have been warning for years that NHS personnel are cracking under heavy workloads, rising demand for care and widespread understaffing. Many staff report routinely working beyond their normal hours to complete all their tasks.
Can second. I grew up in a Protestant Church like this, and it's a great community. Nice and welcoming people are sometimes rare these days.

I can't help but think that it's just not "cool" to be religious. It's seen as things our parents did, and every one wants to be an edgy atheist. For better or for worse, humans drew community from their churches (or other religious institutions) for a very long time. Churches were uniquely well-suited to "scale" with modern life and urbanization, especially compared to other traditional communities. I'm not saying you have to be any specific religion; I'm guessing many other religions are welcoming as well. But pick something where you can find a community of friendly people who share your values (this is possibly most important).

Edit: I see that the parent comment has now felt compelled to apologize for suggesting that religion could be a good thing. That's pretty sad. Just because you don't believe in God doesn't mean it can't be a helpful thing for others. Quite frankly, I also believe it's helpful for mental health. Believing that when you die you will just disappear is a rather depressing worldview, and I know people with serious health issues who are atheists and are struggling with that. Same with many aging people. On the other hand, being able to "offer something up to God" can be quite cathartic and an excellent way to relive stress.

Priests were the therapists of olden days.

Edit 2: For further clarification, here's my response to those who say "just gather like-minded people". It's much harder to do that without religion. The best definition of religion I ever heard was "an ideology that provides a comprehensive worldview". In other words, something that shapes your perspective on and understanding of every thing else. It is not easy to find such a group of people who share such basic understandings and values without the use of religion.
by what mechanism are genuine and well-written 5-star reviews removed if owners refuse to pay Yelp, in your opinion?
Blender 2.8 is literally the reason I am starting to actually learn 3D modelling. I have repeatedly tried 2.7 and could never get around that clunky interface along with the default mouse controls.
>How do atomic energy organizations succeed in doing this?

From my knowledge: they mostly don't. For example, in France, we have the Autorité de sûreté nucléaire (Nuclear Safety Authority, ASN) which is supposed to be an independent and transparent authority on nuclear safety and information.

However: it has been criticized many times since its inception in 2006 regarding conflicts of interest[1][2], and lacks in terms of safety issues reporting[3].

I'm glad my country invested so much into nuclear energies, I still believe it's our best chance at tackling the upcoming crisis, but we should not let nuclear in the hands of private interests. Governments _have_ to apply a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to safety, regulation, and transparency, regardless of how expensive and inconvenient it is.

We're not doing enough, in France[4], when it comes to safety, from within or without. On top of that: it's giving fuel to anti-nuclear militantism.

[1] http://www.observatoire-du-nucleaire.org/spip.php?article281
[2] https://www.cairn.info/revue-revue-juridique-de-l-environnem...
[3] http://mai68.org/spip2/spip.php?article1347
[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STjGOGkMz4k
Mining, refining and delivering uranium rests on fossil fuel powered operations. Building new nuclear plants is not carbon free either. Nuclear energy industry probably nets less carbon emissions per unit of energy than coal or natural gas industries. Yet it's factually incorrect to call it CO2 free. Solar energy industry is often criticised of similar greenwashing, when the initial CO2 cost of creating a solar panel and delivering it from Asia to Europe or North America can have great CO2 burden
I think there are lots of factors that collectively contribute to the price disparity—some cultural, some economic, some systemic. It's not black and white.
I see a ton of people talk about how difficult blender is/was to use, but what I found funny is some of those same people use VIM..

Blender took me almost the exact same amount of time to learn as 3ds, but honestly once I got used to blender, I actually find 3ds harder and more confusing to use and actually changed a bunch of keybindings to more closely match blender.
Share of employment in SMEs in Korea is highest in OECD, share in US the lowest
User interface, discoverability(That whole UX thing), and a new reasonable sane default control scheme.(Which can be toggled back to the old one.)
And they're really great with swiss and mushrooms with a side of garlic fries.

Speaking as somebody who isn't even the slightest bit vegetarian, at near enough the same price as a regular low-end-to-average burger, I'll order it instead because they taste better and have slightly better mouth feel to me.

It doesn't beat a really high-end burger yet, but those are usually more expensive than even an IF or BM choice.

To be honest though, I support them because I want to support the general concept of high-end science being applied to food. After all, if we ever get off this rock and up into the stars, this is likely to become the direction our food comes from.
Not a valid reason. Any business with integrity would not handle it that way.
If all livestock were raised in this way there would be nowhere near enough of them to feed current demand for meat (not saying that's a bad thing).

Allan Savory holds a very fringe view not supported by scientists in this field, which you wouldn't know from his TED talk.
The Digital Future – AT&T (1961)
On his blackboard the fourth line seems to say, "We have no god". Am I misreading? Seems a little incongruous for a restaurant to have a public position on such a historically controversial topic...
The prices may well rise somewhat, but demand for veterinary care is always going to be much more elastic. As much as people love their pets, they will also eventually decide it's not worth the cost.

You can't really do that with human health care.
Doesn't electron include the nodejs runtime as well?
> Whatever side you are on here just remember, Freedom of assembly is such an important right to hold dear. With the censorious nature of the Chinese Communist Party, I fear what the implications of a bill like this could lead to.

It's ironic that Hong Kong had even less freedoms when it was a British colony.
I've found it very helpful to know about the differences in latency between data in RAM on the client and data in a database connected to a remote webserver. It pushed me to reduce the number of API requests and think about what data is needed when.

These are things developers definitely should know.
wyzant.com is a good start
Hong Kong protesters demonstrate against extradition bill
The History of Random.org (2009)
Human-centric worldview and “only humans have souls” goes back to the dawn of recorded history. We often lived in closer confines with animals, often sleeping together for warmth, protection and to watch for predators.

However killing animals for food was the way humans stayed alive when food was scarce as we pushed further into habitats that weren’t temperate.

If anything I guess that the “only humans have souls” story arose as a necessary psychological protection mechanism for people who raised and got to know their animals and then had to slaughter and eat them. Same way people also try to dehumanize the enemy in war in order to not be crushed by the knowledge of killing another human being.

Then once we stopped spending so much time with animals it was easy to continue the narrative since we don’t spend time observing them close up anymore and getting to know them personally.
also.. for the record, my main complaint is that they're kicking off apps that they've already approved if the developer doesn't continue to pay $99 every year. I don't see how that's justified by weeding out spammers or their target audience for developers or anything else.
I don't really support it, but this exact method appears to be working pretty well for Ardour (and yes, they are using GPL 2). It has resulted in some awkward situations, such as Ardour being available in the package managers of some Linux distros, but only as outdated, poorly installed versions. I remember installing such a version and finding it basically unusable.

Nonetheless, this technique gets them patrons, currently at 3701 subscribers giving $8819.00/month.
Find the services and apply directly. These positions are contracted so they're almost always hiring.
I really hate that even the BBC is going down the route of making alarmist-ish sounding article titles which completely butcher the context of the article for the sake of getting clicks.
He's in the Bay Area, where that is the sentiment.
Reflection is the most important Java API
This is a wholesome version of that new Black Mirror episode. The one with the polar bear. I will say no more.
Could you please slip me in the bills at your next place? I'm currently spending less that 500 bucks a month.
It has been decades since I trusted anyone in the Justice Department, or Mueller specifically. Did you know he testified before Congress that Saddam had WMDs? Did you know that wasn't true? Did Mueller ever come up on perjury charges? Did you know that they send people to prison for drug possession? What kind of evil bastard does that?

I read the damn report. There is a lot of innuendo and a lot of broad "we found" without much specifics but not anything Mueller ever plans to have to defend in court. If any of the "Russian hacking" crap had ever generated a court case, a federal judge would be present to ensure that claims are examined carefully. As it is, it's just a bunch of Crowdstrike/New Knowledge-style handwaving.
Thanks for the book recommendation. I just bought it on Audible.
You would have to look directly into the camera, no? Why just below?
Articles like his do a great job of communicating change, but a very poor job of communicating threat. I'm going to be unpopular and say I still can't see why the metrics being listed here rate higher consideration than all the threats that could reasonably be imagined over the next 40 years. The risk of running out of fossil fuels without being prepared is much more threatening than the statistics listed.

I'm going to single out "Sea levels are rising." for special mention - entire cities can be constructed in 40 years (I'm thinking Shenzhen); 9 inches over a century isn't that scary in context of all the other radical change that has happened over the same period. There was a period in there where nuclear annihilation was an imminent threat. Nuclear annihilation is still a concern.

It is obvious the situation is changing, it is not obvious in this article that any of the changes are important over the timeframe given. There is always going to be radical change over a 20 year period that we have to roll with.
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Does it really matter? All that matters is what we perceive: from the perspective of both consumers and small business owners, Yelp looks like the bad guy--and that's probably only going to get worse. Nobody is ever going to be satisfied with their decisions.

Imagine if they allowed total anarchy and didn't police any of the reviews. Small business owners and consumers would be upset about all the fake reviews. Yelp claims they attempt to filter out these reviews; opponents claim they either go too far or filter as a form of extortion.

Who am I, as a consumer, to trust here? My only solution is to avoid using Yelp: then I don't have to worry about either of these problems. If I'm traveling, I ask the locals where they like to eat.

I'd argue that Yelp's whole business model is flawed; it doesn't scale for this very reason. No matter which path they take, it's going to be a PR nightmare. Unless they're able to both avoid filtering and disincentive fake reviews, somebody's going to be unhappy (and vocal).
The bike looks great! But why choose the low handlebar?

Especially since this isn't a sports bike or a mountain bike (without mudguards, imagine).

Do people really fancy being hunched over during their commute?
The underwater Indian village that emerges once a year
Religion combines two things and some people only want one: opportunity to socialize and build friendships with people who share values; and a belief in supernatural actors.
> You still take an enormous risk, staking all your livelihood, and the bank get a near free way to make money... middle class Americans who got screwed by "a low risk mortgage"

How are you staking your livelihood? Mortgages have no recourse apart from your home. Even then the foreclosure process takes anywhere between 1 and 3 years depending on the state and the bank is likely to offer you deferment or a modification so it doesn't have to go through the trouble and expense of foreclosing. The worst that can happen is your credit could be hit, but even that resets after 7 years. And since you seem so anti-debt I don't think you'd miss out on much.

The bank treats agency mortgages as quasi risk free paper, so the yields get bid down, so they don't make too much money holding this stuff
Salespeople, though, whether for Yelp or anywhere else...are generally motivated and creative. I'd be surprised if none of them ever used their own friends, family, or fake accounts to punish reluctant sales leads. You don't need admin access to screw with people on Yelp.
Some sugar is vegan. Most isn’t, though most vegans I know conveniently ignore that: [1]

[1] https://www.peta.org/living/food/is-sugar-vegan/
Yeah, definitely, $10 a year I would pay without complaint.
I disagree that a studio apartment is _extreme_ frugality. Not many years ago, it was standard for people to live on much less space per person than these days.

> I would honestly never live like this, regardless of my financial goals.

Yes you would. If your financial goal was to have enough money to put food on your table, you'd care less where that table was located.
This directly contradicts your original comment.

> Unlike every other phone platform, iOS does not allow a user to get their GPS location without telling Apple what it was.

> apps that build a history of your location with Android Location History turned off will build a history of your location on iOS and other platforms. It is not unique to Android.

The article that I quoted was to provide background to the comment that you claimed was spreading misinformation. I don't think that anyone in this thread has acted in bad faith and I don't see any benefit to the quality of the conversation in accusing commenters of dishonesty, being sinister or otherwise attacking the individual rather than the issue. I am happy to provide the information that has informed my opinions and I am happy to hear disagreements but a flame war is neither healthy nor helpful. Mobile devices are just tools and neither platform is worthy of this level of personal investment.
>Turns out they rejected me as I was `overqualified`.

I applied for a helpdesk position like this, once. Was required to take an IQ test and one of the questions during the interview was about what IRQ the keyboard was assigned to (you know, in the plug-n-play era, when IRQ and COM ports no longer were a "thing" to configure).

Got a response back, later, that I was overqualified.

I easily translated it to, "Wasn't willing to put up with our shit for so little pay."

Bullet dodged but there are some truly caustic employers out there, who will try to gatekeep every possible variance that they can think of, to keep the line toed[0].

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toe_the_line
> Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods are continuing to tweak their recipes. The Impossible Burger 2.0, for example, launched earlier this year and was designed to be substantially healthier (and tastier) than the original, with less fat and sodium.

The last sentence cancels the whole purpose of the article. Sodium is the main concern and new recipe use less sodium. Problem solved.
> plugins are available for proprietary software

I’m genuinely surprised that FOSS projects like Blender (or, for another example, GIMP) don’t offer ABI compatibility to allow the use of plugins made for the specific nonstandard ABIs of popular proprietary systems.

Anyone know why they don’t? Is it just a platform thing—e.g. having to support those plugins would mean having to compile winelib into your project?
And meanwhile, all of these rural services have a greatly increased environmental impact than in urban environment.

It sounds harsh, but some of these people will just need to adapt their lifestyles.
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