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> I'm referring to 'capital' in the economic sense, not financial sense.

But then your whole argument doesn't work, because it's possible to convert financial capital (e.g. land holdings or corporate shares) into economic capital (automation) by selling it and using the money to buy machines. The machines don't have to be diverted from some other use, they can be created when they wouldn't otherwise have existed.

> If the business has to pay $11 instead of $10, that extra $1 represents more resources being expended on accomplishing that task, which leaves less resources for other things.

You're assuming that money directly represents current-day resource allocation with a lack of flexibility.

Suppose there is a 25 year old guy who builds machines, gets paid a lot to do it, and currently works 40 hour weeks. If you want more machines, he has to put in more labor and you have to pay him enough for that. When you decide to do it, he instead works 60 hour weeks and gets paid even more, but only saves the money to put his kids through college or have a more secure retirement some decades in the future, or uses it to buy other labor instead of other capital.

You spent money, but that isn't an economic resource, it's a financial one. The person spending the economic resource is the person making the machines, and that isn't being reallocated from making other machines, it's being reallocated from going bowling and watching Netflix.

> That's an overly optimistic and unsupported assumption. The profitability of holding real estate will not go down relative to investing in manufacturing as a result of manufacturing costs increasing.

But that's exactly what you're arguing. You're currently making revenue equivalent to $15/hour on labor cost of $9/hour. You could make the $15/hour on automation cost of $10/hour instead if the labor cost rises to $11, and you will, because you still want the $15 which is enough more than $10 to be worth your investment.

The financial capital to pay for that has to come from somewhere, so it does, and demand for competing investments like real estate declines because the investors have to use more of their profits to pay for automation instead of having them to use for land speculation.
As a recent consumer of a mortgage. I read your comment and really the fact that this comes from a VC... I am filled with skepticism.

I think it would be better to say that mortgage industry is another place where a VC can insert itself to make more money.

I am not sure as a consumer I will ever see anything from this "disruption" ... I am certain though I see a VC sucking more money out of the system.

Or even worse some sort of subscription based horror of a startup that will let me monitor mortgage something or others.
In the past 200 years alone, ocean water has become 30 percent more acidic—faster than any known change in ocean chemistry in the last 50 million years. https://ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/invertebrates/ocean-acidific...
Key word there is "partners". They aren't just accountants, they are also business owners. Any field can give a good income if you own a successful business.
Fair point about bankruptcy.

I definitely agree with allowing people to file for bankruptcy to clear student loan debt, and agree it’s a much more practical step than changing the culture. That will cause lenders to be much more cautious and prevent people who can’t afford college and aren’t going into high paying fields from being saddled with enormous debts.

That being said, I don’t think we should ignore the cultural problem, as legislation tends to reflect the culture, whether that be through enforcement of the culture or abuse of the culture. There’s a complex feedback loop going on, and it goes both ways, but I think an approach that only looks at adding or reforming legislation, while maybe more practical in the short term, will eventually lead back to where we are now. A side effect of allowing bankruptcy will be a reduction in the amount of people going to college, since fewer will be able to get the loans to afford it. They will likely demand access to college and get us back to where we are now, or a future where college is “free” and everyone’s taxes start to look like student loan payments.

I think what people currently want is quite expensive, even if we could trim all the fat. Someone needs to pay for it. We could add roadblocks in the form of legislation to prevent lenders from abusing what is often an unnecessary want rather than encouraging it, but as long as that want exists, there will be a large incentive to take advantage of it.

I’m also not sure about the history of this problem. I think a lot of it stems from legislation rather a lack of legislation. Federally backed student loans seem to be a major part of the issue.

So to be clear, I’m not against legislative reform, I’m just worried that it’s not sufficient, and that the current public conception of post secondary education is inevitably going to be too expensive to sustain. In my opinion there are much cheaper and more effective ways of doing what colleges do. The most effective long term solution is to accept more of those alternatives and force colleges to compete.
>CO2-free energy

But this reactor uses tons of CO2 as coolant! /s
I really wanted to try to learn blender for 2d animation.

I think the new version in beta needs a few improvements on this front. Its so new that it will take a bit more time to get good tutorials made.

That being said, the UI in the beta version is much improved. I am looking forward to getting better at using it.
In your first example, you could just change your behaviour to signal even when you think no one is around (as I do).

Your second example (speeding) doesn't incur a fine because in this hypothetical example the automated enforcement is only used for signalling violations.

For your third example (self defence), maybe you are forced to change lanes without signalling. How often? Once per year? What if the fine were $2, and people like you had to pay it once per year, but people who persistently refuse to signal end up paying 1000s of $2 fines per year?

Seems like a reasonable trade-off.
> personal growth and future professional success

This is a very *unique" defifition of 'productive".

I would normally consider productive work to be anything that adds value to a product used by users of said product. Also include amortized benefits like reducing tech debt. V2 rewrites are often not productive--wait until v3 or later when you actually know what big changes are needed.
You don't have to believe otherwise to support this initiative as far as I can tell. It's not about restricting the rights of the patenters but rather giving farmers an alternative choice.
You're forgetting the best one!

https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn?utm_medium=android_app&utm...
It's the last of 4 lines of various "we have no <whatever>".

I'd read it like:

"Yes, we are godless heathens for not having lemon, ice, ranch, butter, etc. Get over it."
They could/should just license iDeal from NL.

Dutch banks are behind in many things, but this is not one.
If only there were a license that made the original project open but allowed you to license derived works in whichever way was most appropriate...
Currently plant-based burgers are not healthier but are nearing taste-equivalency, but surely it is easier to modify a plant-based burger recipe to increase "healthiness" than to modify a beef burger (make a healthier cow...?). [even mentioned at the end of this article]

So if they are health-equivalent, now compare the next variables: impact on climate, impact on animal welfare, etc.
If graphite cracked/crumbled to prevent the control rods from being re-inserted, that's some scary stuff. The article ending with a request for the safety limit for number-of-cracks to be increased was really surprising for me. The whole "risk VS reward" test comes to mind... the reward is power for 1.8 million homes, but the risk is total catastrophic destruction of the environment for (tens of) thousands of years. The odds may look good, but geez...just a huge gamble to take with other peoples homes/property/lives.
I used Blendle regularly for a while, and noticed that their painless refund option really mitigated this "decision stress" for me. There were a few articles that just turned out to be garbage click-bait, so at the end of the article I could simply click "refund me", and immediately get refunded for that article.
It didn't happen that frequently, but knowing it was an option made the decision to buy seem less final.
> "however if the number of cracks exceed a threshold the reactor would be decommissioned, as the cracks cannot be repaired"

This is the issue currently. The cracking in reactor 3 has progressed more rapidly than modelled, and has exceeded the threshold of 350 cracks. EDF are arguing that the reactor can be safely operated with more cracks, and want the threshold increased to 700.
I've noticed that any organization or process that serves as a "gatekeeper" inevitably has a lot of resentment directed at it. Business owners resent Yelp. Software developers resent the interview process. Aspiring entrepreneurs resent VCs. College applicants and their parents resent Ivy League admissions.

In all of these cases, people love to complain about the injustices and imperfect heuristics being used by the gatekeepers. A lot of these complaints are very valid, but a lot of them also seem to miss the bigger picture entirely. These gatekeepers and their heuristics serve a very valid purpose in society, which is why they wield so much power to begin with. The only productive complaints are those that suggest viable alternatives or improvements - suggestions that don't simply trade-off one set of bad outcomes for an even worse set of bad outcomes. It's hard to take Grotto's "burn Yelp to the ground" ethos seriously, because I've lived through the pre-Yelp era of Yellow Pages and tourist traps, and I'd never want to return to that world again.
It used to be mined, now essentially 100 percent of the ammonium nitrate used in fertilizer and explosives is synthetic. It's made by reacting ammonia with nitric acid.
You didn’t say this?

Correct but irrelevant. For aiding the registration of legit users, verifying an email address is beneficial as a way for them to ensure they are able to recover their password.

Why do you need to help them recover their password if you’re using a third party?
As a rule of thumb, multiple the RGB value of the average congregation member's skin tone, the number of grand children the average woman in the church has and the age of the church (so, like 1000-something years for catholic). The lower the number the more of a "social event" church is.

Edit: You people have no sense of humor.
Just be glad they didn't mix up kW and kWh ("megawatts per year")
How much of the administrative staff you mention is only needed because hospitals have to work as for profit organizations? And don't forget to add the administrative staff from the insurance companies themselves.
At this point I suspect that simply knowledge of a website means you agree to the ToS.

Or just existing does the same.
Sure vegan burgers have their target market, but if they were healthy in addition to being vegan they would appeal to a larger market.
I'm the opposite of religious, and there's no doubt that the political strength (and happiness, and comfort) of religious groups lies almost completely in the fact that they meet regularly at a dedicated meeting facility, and this while this meeting can be gotten out of, it requires some sort of excuse, and an individual's consistent absence is considered a mild crisis for the group. The group is also expected to favor its members, and to provide mutual aid, and as the group increases in size, that mutual aid is often delivered in a form mutually beneficial to the helper and the helped e.g. one member needs work, another member needs a worker they can trust.

Many/most religious people have a very loose idea of the orthodoxies of their own religions, but they know everything about what's going on at their church, and in the lives of other people who attend it. Secular traditions can't really survive over the long term without designing similar structures.

I doubt that individualist ideologies can do this at all, because they tend to feel that obligation without contract is not a thing, and even that the strength of obligation with contract is directly related to the ability to enforce that contract.
Please don't use codeblocks for quoting. This quote is unreadable on most screens (esp. on mobile) because the line doesn't break.

Just put a > in front of a normal paragraph to indicate a quote.
"Generic" people probably only come into contact with FLOSS principles when the plane reboots the entertainment center and they accidentally catch a glimpse of the Linux penguin in the boot screen.

On the near zero chance they remember the penguin and ask a free software zealot about it, they'd likely get an earful about how that is a symbol taken from the 2nd Presbyterian Church of Code, and please don't confuse that with the symbology from the 1st Presbyterian Church of Code across the street from it.[1]

The only FLOSS orgs I know that conceivably care about that generic person sitting in coach are Mozilla and Whisper Systems. And both are small time players compared to their proprietary competition.

Given that, it is extraordinary that normal people know anything at all about digital freedom and privacy.

[1] Just remembered that Linux is GPLv2 licensed, and that the religious zealotry would probably be about Linux not being GNU, but rather a "final" piece that was "good enough" to use in conjunction with other GPLvs licensed OS tools. So it's even worse-- this is like explaining to someone that they're reading the right book in the wrong wing of the right church. I love FLOSS so much.
once the wind dies down and the humidity rises, a fire becomes much less dangerous. The problem with these recent fires is when you have like sustained 50 mph gusts and 5% humidity. When I first moved here in 89, I never heard of a fire crossing a freeway (though no doubt it happened sometimes) because the conditions weren't typically so bad. Now it is commonplace.
Yep. Blender is impossible to use without instruction, but once you learn it it's perfectly usable.
Google vs Oracle is about whether an API can be copyrighted. If the API can be copyrighted, then Google can not write their own implementation. If the API can be copyrighted then Google can not.

The internet predicts disaster if Oracle wins. Because if an API can be copyrighted then all the software that uses an API suddenly becomes illegitimate. All kinds of terrible things can happen. Then web is built on APIs!

Blender has a plugin API. Plugin software uses that API. Blender is written with GPL and the GPL author believes that even DYNAMICALLY linking an API constitutes a derived work (copyright term) and therefore the dynamically linked software must also be released under the GPL.

However if Google defeats Oracle and it is determined that APIs are not subject to copyright protection then I don't see how dynamically linked plugins that are merely use an API can be blocked by copyright.

There may be a universe in which using an API is copyright protected but rewriting the code behind an API is not. That would be highly unusual imo. And I do not think that would be the narrow fallout of Google winning versus Oracle.
Well for one, not every religion purports an afterlife. Where I quibble though is for two notions. 1: I think the perspective of those either denying or being apathetic about the possibility of an afterlife is in fact life-affirming. Hume is like this for instance. One has to seize it while it lasts; this is not contingent on there being an afterlife. Whether you think there's an afterlife or not, life ends. The stoics and Buddhists and the like opt to navigate with an emphasis on self-mastery and acceptance of that which is out of control. If we're comparing anecdotes, I don't recognize them to be a depressive bunch. And 2: I expect the comfort of religion is far less so about an afterlife than the gamification of life, winning spirit "points", borrowing pre-cut meaning espoused from dogma to relieve the depression of a toiling, dull life. But it needn't be so. I think meaning is a personal responsibility, and not everyone has the wherewithal to decide it for themselves. That's a task. There's nothing inherently depressing about not knowing what happens when we die - it's misdirection, depression is about life itself. I am a happy atheist.
>> Cloudfront is the ridiculously-priced offering IMO. I don't really understand why people use it.

Companies that get their highly regulated product(health insurance, hospitals, government contractors) "certified" for use in the AWS ecosystem. Once they do that, they are likely to use it for everything, and pass the cost on to the customer.
Well, then the only other way is to assume the allegations are true, which also has severe consequences to the accused if it were actually false. Which is why, it's best we leave this to investigators to come up with substantial evidence to back up the allegations (or not).
>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.

True, the issue is I can't just decide to believe that magic exists and tomorrow I will believe it as a fact without any doubts, IMO it would be great if I could believe, I would know that justice exists and if I do good then I will b rewarded, but wishing to believe is not enough for some people that for some reason think more critically.

I am not against religion and I would never attempt to "convert" someone to atheism, if someone is happy with his religion and it is not pushing it on me then I am happy for them.
If LDL-c correlated with LDL-p, those two metrics would have been similarly good as CVD predictors, but they aren’t, LDL-c is basically useless. (Don’t have sources atm, can link later if you’re interested)
But why do you think the API would look any nicer?
Do the statin follow-up studies correct for participants seeing a doctor more often? Even if the statins do nothing I would expect mortality to be lower among the group that takes them just by having more interactions with doctors.
MangaDex serves very high resolution scans of comic pages (egress)
Why use tesla then? Nissan is generous about this and allows anyone to turn the heat in your car over the internet

https://youtube-nocookie.com/embed/PP9DgLUBMUM?t=2832
> The operational limit for the latest period of operation was 350 cracks but an inspection found that allowance had been exceeded.
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> EDF plans to ask the regulator for permission to restart with a new operational limit of up to 700 cracks.

Yeah, next time you exceed the speed limit, just ask the police officer for permission to double the fun...

No seriously, what the article is missing, is why there was a limit of 350. Was it just made up at some point to correlate with the expected lifetime? What real, increased risk is involved when operating up to 700 cracks?

Just telling they would have to get the power elsewhere and jobs would be at risk, is obvious and just one side of the medal. If there is no additional risk involved, there is no reason to condemn asking to raise the limit.
Fortune 500 company leaked 264GB in client, payment data
There is no indication dietary cholesterol impacts blood cholesterol. Watch Dr. Robert Lustig's "Sugar: The Bitter Truth" for more on the subject.
> Any medium sized graphics shop could have a full developer on the payroll for a fraction of the repeated licensing costs of proprietary solutions, that is, someone who works full time on Blender and whom you can directly approach, in-house, for features and fixes.

DIY is time-consuming, difficult, and doesn't scale. Small companies often start out with as cheap a solution as they can, but as they grow they'll find they're doing way more work just to support the DIY solution, and features are difficult and time-consuming to produce. If you have the money and you need a feature now, licensing makes sense.
Have you considered using Aurora Serverless? If you're trying to prove market fit, it can be an order of magnitude cheaper than RDS and you don't have to worry about management in EC2.
I would love you if you sent me that ebook (email in bio).
CSS Grid is intended to be a wholesale upgrade from <table>. Do screen readers actually factor in the semantics of table markup?

> It's also why it's usually a bad idea to abuse tables for grid layouts in other cases.

This isn't so much about semantics, it's about the way it kills responsiveness
There are plenty of super high protein vegetatian and vegan options available. Many nuts, and pulses are in the same ballpark as even red meat.

Consider that most people aren't strictly carnivorous, and are usually pairing a burger with 600 calories of fries, and a 400 calorie bun, which is all carb.
I’ve been part of similarly generalized ACL systems and it’s pretty straightforward and very similar to Zanzibar. Though we didn’t need n ACLs and could assume the list wasn’t too long, so we didn’t need a tree. If we did, then we’d have ended up in a similar place as Zanzibar I believe, there are a limited number of ways to solve that problem.
I wouldn't call solar 'micro', land use is one of its largest downsides.

> If we have a crack in our solar panels, it ain't going to make the BBC news site.

Actually cracking solar panels could be a rather large problem. e.g. Cadmium Telluride cells are gaining in popularity, if a tornado, large hail storm, or similar natural event hits a power plant built with such cells it could result in non-trivial release into the environment.
But reporting device A and B were in Bluetooth distance to lost device C. Therefore A and B were close together (like a few meters). It’s a huge improvement over A and B were in the same mobile cell.

You can then use the IPs to identify who are A and B.
> "PCSK9 inhibitors reduce all-cause mortality, and the long-term follow-up of the PCSK9 trials may or may not show the same for cardiovascular specific mortality."

Check the evalocumab trial I posted, ACM was actually slightly worse in the PCSK9 side of the trial.

> "LDL-c is bad. LDL-p (the particle number), LDL size, and ApoB (which is the protein part of LDL) are all very well correlated with LDL-c. So, while some people prefer one measurement or another, they're all proxies for one another."

Yes, this tends to be true, however discordance between them is possible - and generally not a good thing.

> "Cholesterol isn't the only risk factor for cardiovascular disease"

Sure, but I think the whole of the field has rabbit-holed on lipids for too long, ignoring actual causal factors.
What you're suggesting is what happened to MySQL. Oracle bought it and the community forked the last pre-Oracle version to a new project, MariaDB, where everyone continues on as before.
Before “Lion,” the story behind an unlikely family reunion (2017)
Is there any proof that they are actually removed? How many genuine and well-written 1-star reviews are removed alongside them? I enjoyed the story but policing user content is hard.
Doesn't diatary cholesterol not matter for most people?
Putting the Squeeze on Glaucoma
Per the article, which cites one highly dubious data point to support that claim.