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I do not understand why this thread is so against this legislation.

Issues with e-cigarettes:

1) they bypass laws regarding cigarette advertising: compare e-cig packaging with cigarette packaging; this is problematic, especially for youth (the non-users most likely to be vulnerable to advertising for such products)

2) contrary to what is portrayed, they are not interested in helping people quit tobacco usage: tobacco companies have a large stake in this business

3) e-cigs minimize the danger of tobacco, by making the "delivery mechanism" seem most problematic, and thus "solvable"

4) there are other methods to deal with cigarette addiction (nicotine addiction, in particular): they just aren't as sexy

As for the law itself, it sets a historic precedent (if it truly bans e-cigs outright, rather than just on city property/public spaces): tobacco products can no longer skirt flat out prohibition.

I find it ridiculous that:

1) Juul's spokesperson cites "thriving black market" creation as a problematic side effect of this law: the point of prohibition is not to stamp out usage entirely (as history has shown this is not feasible), but to make it more difficult than usual to obtain said prohibited product. Its all about probability. Furthermore, when it comes to habits, even small barriers to existing habits can go a long way in changing them (and conversely, removing small barriers to new habits can go a long way in promoting them).

2) Commenters claim that e-cig users can just go to other jurisdictions, making this law "pointless": again, its about introducing barriers.

The law is far from a perfect solution, and I doubt it was intended to be, but it's just a small step in the right direction.

Finally, I think substance abuse problems fundamentally come from a lack of satisfaction/connection with the world around us. There are a billion and one ways to handle this issue, and I think normalizing substance usage only works as a barrier to usage (e.g. Netherlands: remove the "sex factor" due to "prohibition") when the substance has already been commonplace for years. E-cigs are new enough that prohibition can send strong signals to people who might be considering getting into it, especially because as a society we have successfully built quite a lot of "energy" behind the idea that tobacco usage in general is fairly harmful/not sexy (c.f. the situation with alcohol, where it remains synonymous with "socializing").
Btw, it’s counterintuitive and morbid to think about, but the healthcare and other public spending is actually less for smokers than nonsmokers on average: they tend to die right around retirement age before social security and expensive healthcare is needed. See e.g. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1210319
You mean, the ones made with Melamine and given a nice white coating of lead paint?
Smokers, as in cigarette smokers, or as in e-cigarette smokers? I thought all the candy flavored tobacco cigs (minus menthols) were blown out of the water back in 2011 or whenever the new tobacco act was passed. Interestingly enough, the law led to clove cigarettes being relabeled to cigarillos in order to get around the law.
I can’t help but question if this is really how the forefathers intended the land of the free to solve difficult problems by simply banning them. All this hope for a better future is making a worse present with no real proof that will even payoff.
And forbidding something definitely makes it uncool amirite?
I f hate SF. Housing/homelessness crisis? Do nothing. Terrible roads which are worse than Chicago (which gets tons of snow): do nothing. Horrendous traffic? Do nothing.

But: Vaping! Freak out! NIMBY! Move fast!

Agree with all other comments, this is stupid. Vaping isn't great. But banning it without any other options is...ultra dumb.
Yet, you can have the same priced board that can do 200-800MB/s AES-128 encryption (per core), leaving much more time to the actual useful work, or idle (less power consumption).

https://github.com/ThomasKaiser/sbc-bench/blob/master/Result...

See PineH64 for example.
Played this as a kid (or it's predecessor FS1 perhaps?) with wireframe graphics only on an Olivetti M21 with monochrome screen.

subLOGIC also released another very addictive game, "Night Mission Pinball".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ttoAfg7Ehc

These two games were my first encounter with PC gaming, along with the Infocom games (zork etc).
"simply dragging Apple into it for clickbait headlines."

The headline doesn't mention Apple at all. It's about iPhone apps. Your desire to defend Apple ("...the only company...actions of an individual....Apple doesn't so this"). is causing you to lose sight of the point of this story. The story is about iPhone apps communicating with unknown servers. You're welcome to write your own story about how good Apple is at stopping iPhone apps communicating with unknown servers, but that isn't what this story is about.
E-cigarettes greatly reduces a lot of the ash related health issues with smoking and regular ash inhalation is quite bad for you and not limited to smoking - being immersed in smoke, even just from a bon-fire, isn't great for your respiratory system. Like most other health things it's moderation that counts for ash inhalation, smoking occasionally, going to a bon-fire once a month in the summer... these are going to instantly damage your lungs but it can add up. A properly tuned vape will produce only trace amounts of ash, but hot vapes can end up ashing the liquid - this is especially prevalent in vapes that have been tuned to heat up more quickly. And, just for reference, smoking other things like an mj joint carries the same health risks.

Aside from the ash related risks tobacco is highly addictive due to the nicotine and contains other toxins that can harm you in the long term. For reference, here's what Canada has to say about the chemicals[1].

[1] https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/smoking-toba...
Agreed. If Toys R Us could’ve failed on its own terms, without dragging all the play debt, I imagine their downfall would’ve come from other retailers moreso than Amazon. Walmart and especially Target are really good at serving kids of all ages.
+1 to Syntorial. I'd couple it with Serum where it's easy to implement ideas from Syntorial and build on top.
I don't know if you realize how mainstream smoking was. Everyone did it. Eeeeeveryone.

I have a feeling most of your college friends will grow out of vaping.
>Because the monetary economists work to improve the economy of their whole country

I'm really not so sure that can be stated as some universal truth when it comes to things like the IMF.
That begs another question: why?
This is pretty incredible work.

I'm curious to hear how well Platform Uno works in practice with real world projects. The demos are quite impressive.

I always thought that UWP was a much nicer platform to develop for than Android. It's a shame that Microsoft's mismanagement pretty much killed Windows Mobile as a viable platform.
1. I'd prefer to spend my money as I see fit through charity. Bureaucrats didn't distribute mosquito nets across Africa, Bill and Melinda Gates did.

2. If the government is going to take my money, they should be spending it on treatment of the underlying issues. Not putting a bandaid on the needle diseases.
Whilst I think 300mm is pretty punchy, I'm with a lot of commenters here that they make an excellent novelty gift.

We used https://www.celebvm.com/ (an English competitor that doesn't seem to have taken off in the same way) a few years back to get John Challis (Boyce from Only Fools, for the UK readers) to do a message for a relative. Which to be fair was very good and absolutely worth £20.

The relative was delighted - but I think a lot of that was "wow, how did you get him to do that". If Cameo becomes as big as the valuation, I think some of the magic sauce is lost. "Wow, how did you get that?!" becomes "oh, you paid X to get me a video from Cameo."
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Thank you for this service! It has brought peace of mind to me after a number of tick bites (they are nearly impossible to avoid entirely if you spend a lot of time camping in the upper Midwest)
Kudos for @jswift1729 reference!
This can vary between jurisdictions but in all jurisdictions i know, photographing someone in a public location is always legal and never requires consent. Whether publishing requires consent varies, in the normal case it does for commercial but not for journalistic purposes.

Note that laws written this way usually distinguish “taking photos” from “surveillance” - so mounting the camera on a street corner immediately changes the legal context. This may be why dash cams fall into the surveillance category in some
places.
> It's not a mistake. It's a... useful abstraction.

It is specifially a abstraction that is not useful.

> It's worth reading that document when deciding what you think the "right" thing to do with "len()" is.

Technically not - the right thing to do is return the number of characters[0] - but the character segmentation parts are worth reading when deciding how to decode UTF-8 bytes into characters in the first place, so the distinction is somewhat academic.

> a [character] can actually be locale-dependent, what's two characters in one language may be one in another

[citation needed]; ch, ij, dz, etc are not examples, but I'm admitted not exhaustively familiar with non-latin scripts[1], so I would be interested to see what other scripts do.

0: or bytes, but that's trivial

1: Which is why I hate Unicode; I'd prefer to pawn that work off on someone else and just import a library, but Unicode has ensured that all available libraries are always unusably broken.
You can write to them about your feelings.

- Board.of.Supervisors@sfgov.org

- https://sfbos.org/contacts-office-clerk-board

Or if you have thoughts about this particular issue, it is now in Mayor Breed's hands:

- MayorLondonBreed@sfgov.org

- https://sfmayor.org/contact-mayor-london-breed
Some of those vapers would have been smokers. And the smoking rate for youth never got close to being below 5%.

Huff post says that in 2011 it was 16% for youth.

So if you know 20-30x vapers than smokers that's incredible evidence that vaping is reducing the number of smokers dramatically.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cigarette-smoking-decline_n_6...

For some historical context when I started college in mid 2000's 20-30% of the people I knew smoked.
Yep. It'd be odd to call many of them "adult toys" anyway because often they are really intended to sell to kids, even when these companies are aware of the adult fanbase
Note that Permethrin is extremely toxic to fish and aquatic invertebrates. Do not wash anything treated with permethrin in a stream or lake. A big problem in Africa is people using Permethrin treated mosquito nets as fishing nets. This kills off a lot of fish.
Yes, they are vastly less harmful than cigarettes. Anyone who says different is misled, or misleading.

They are, however, still extremely addictive. Arguably more so than cigarettes, since they enable the consumption of much higher doses of nicotine.

A friend once told me, having quit nicotine and heroin, that while quitting heroin was 'like being the living dead', he could probably go through it again, but not nicotine.
The empathy gap explains why people fail to understand different perspectives
Requesting Mayday
Great. Now "the holy bible" is going to get dragged around for billions of years, as if 2,000 wasn't enough tedium. Oh well, at least now it's reduced to a pocket sized, machine readable glass wafer. Easily ignored and essentially worthless as ever.

But yeah. Who cares about non-standardized data format design decisions. Just because you can make bigger, pointier dots in a medium doesn't mean you should.

I can use a magic marker on multiple HDD platters. Does that make my scribbles optical 5D data storage?

Hey, look, one of my dots is bigger than the other, and it points in a different direction. And then I put another dot on this other platter. Wow! 5D! Incredible!
I'm not trying to be snarky or insensitive, but is it really that hard for a woman to find a casual sex partner who will use a condom when asked? Surely you could browse the profiles on OKC (where you can see much longer profiles and get a much better idea of someone's personality before meeting them) and find someone suitable. A lot of guys might not say right on their profile that they're available for "short term dating" or "hookups" because they think it looks bad, but they'll probably be happy to take you up on the offer if you ask directly.

Again, sorry for the unsolicited advice, and congratulations on becoming healthy again.
I'm not proposing a policy here. I'm giving my reasons why something is A Very Bad Idea.

>If your alternative is to take this or die due to not being able to afford the proper medicine you need, what is your choice?

I don't view it as "an alternative". Just like drinking battery acid is not "an alternative" to treating esophageal cancer because it happens to kill off cancerous cells.

>What solutions do you put forward for fixing the pricing problems?

I don't know of a market based solution that would do that. But you can have the government provide a single-payer system, and negotiate the prices. That's one sensible option IMHO.
> Once you really understand the typesystem, most of the time, types really are the best documentation --- they often tell you exactly what the function does, in a way that English comments never will.

Snake Oil.

Apply this claim to any set of real world functions, however well designed they are.

This is classic Haskellism. Obsessed with the lattice of types in the room. Door closed. Real world outside.
As a non-smoker who can't stand the smell, and hate smoking with a passion, I for one would rather people vape all day. At least it's only affecting their health then.

But yeah, banning all of it (with priority on getting rid of the real cigarettes that cause others' harm) in public spaces would be my preference.
Shhh, don't let the secret out
> About 4.9 million middle and high school students were current users (used in the past 30 days) of some type of tobacco product in 2018, up from 3.6 million in 2017.

[0]: https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2019/p0211-youth-tobacco-...
>see weed.

I'm not sure what you mean by this, without further argument. Marijuana usage went up a couple percentage points in Colorado after legalization.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-viz-met-colorado-lega...

Prohibition kinda works, kinda doesn't. I think it really depends. Banning something like alcohol that the vast majority of the population partakes in was very silly. Banning heroin? I'm not so sure it's as simple.
Dude, you're a fucking faggot.
I really don't think that this is a accurate statement at all.

There are a few dangers to vaping.

The biggest one is having a vaporizer that is malfunctioning and is burning things instead of heating them up. The complex chemical reactions are difficult to predict. But it has the side effect of tasting like shit.

The second biggest danger is the flavorings. However the community has been very good at self-policing and eliminating flavors that are found to pose a risk.

The last danger is a sort of being a idiot and using way too much nicotine.

On the flip side you can have zero nicotine. So peer pressure isn't really even a problem as you can get zero nicotine juices.
E-Cigarette Nazis fuck off
The moral panic regarding tobacco and nicotine is well past its expiration date.

Yes, the prevalence of smoking was a problem; yes, it's social acceptability in places people had to be (workplaces for example) impacted the health of people who didn't want it; and yes, some people still get addicted with sad consequences.

BUT, at some point you have to let people have their freedom to choose and not stop people using nicotine products who understand the risks and don't have dependence issues.

Vaping tobacco products is excellent for quitting because the nicotine delivered is less effective. There is not less of it, it has diminished desirable effects.

MAOIs are drugs which inhibit a kind of enzyme in the brain and among other effects have strong drug interactions increasing the potency of many psychoactive drugs.

Cigarette smoke either contains or has similar effects to MAOIs the effect which is significantly more addictive [1] nicotine.

1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16177026
> data you either don't know exists

It's quite easy to come across it with a Google search.

> lack the tools to parse

The only "tool" you need is the ability to read.

> bad information

Which is not "zero information" anyway.
methadone and vaping, while both used for cessation, are not comparable
And that is why Apple refuses to go bottom feeding on their iPad prices.

Whatever you may think of iPad quality versus the competition, you can't argue with them deciding to keep premium pricing.
Look no further than the CTO swap that happened a couple of years ago, after the Quip acquisition: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/22/bret-taylor-salesforce-ex-go...

Bret Taylor is a modern tech product guy. He led Google Maps, was CTO of Facebook, etc. He's completely altered the DNA of Salesforce and made it a modern tech company.
> instead your response is to ban only beer

More like banning near beer.
Because our government decided to play 1000 pound gorilla about our citizens hiding money in foreign countries.

Never mind that the big fish they are really after wouldn't have it in their own name and thus are basically unaffected. It's a lot easier for companies to simply say no US customers than have our idiots in Washington after them.
I was looking into buying that IP a few years ago, and the asking price was affordable (I just didn't have the $ at the time so I went onto other projects). Glad to see someone doing something with it, I think it's perfect for a remake.
Doctorow is an awesome sci-fi writer.

Imagine a world with DRM on Toasters. Doctorow will not just describe such a world, but also will get down to the tiny details. For instance describing at length the corny graphics on a jailbreak package for that toaster.

Few sci-fi writers are as culturally literate in tech and can simultaneously capture the absurdity of it all as well as Doctorow. If you want a good read and a good laugh, check out his books of short stories.
And now Tableau too
Those are things you have to account for in any zero downtime deploy situation though. It’s mostly minor changes in how you roll out schema changes.
>Right, you got yours, so you're rationalizing away your part of the cost burden.

No. I earned mine. And now here you want to come along and have it spent on something we all agree is a scam at $2000/mo/user.

I reject the premise that any money spent on the social good is money well spent by default. I argue that money spent wisely the goal, GP had no plan for wisely, just spend to spend. That is why ACA failed, it did nothing to adjust costs, just signed everyone up into a broken system.

At the same time most people here are just saying "it's been invented, patent expired and should be free now!" which is another way to say "I want remove incentives for new drug research by making it very high risk and low reward". So I disagree with that too. I wonder how many people understand why the USA is the center of pharmaceutical research and in general healthcare research?

Feel free to attack me for just not caring about people selfishly, surely I'm a greedy monster. That seems ineffective to me, but what do I know!?
Since we launched in 2015, tens of thousands of filmmakers and creators have safely rented gear to and from each other on KitSplit with incredibly positive experiences.

Recently, however, someone stole $3,500 cameras from two of our owners.

Approximately how many of your owners experienced thefts prior to these two recent events?
Yea, uploading undetectables via custom packers is what I would assume too.

I think I remember reading something about how dropbox was being used by security researchers where they were storing known-bad files, and how Dropbox mitigated this risk
I swear officer, I'm high. This is all weed! /s

I can understand wanting to control access to something that kids are getting into, but it feels like we're repeating some mistakes here.
Because kids love candy. Adults do too, but kids much more.
A direct democracy would be even worse. In California, prop 13 didn’t come from the legislature. It came through ballot proposition. And that law is the granddaddy of second and third order effects.
Why not? Heroin is essentially decriminalized in SF. I work in Civic Center and watch cops casually walk and drive past people actively shooting up every single day.
Ok, fine, so how much money does Eli have to give to the US government for his opinion to count, by your measure?

Because I give literally no money to the US government voluntarily, and I think the hyper-rich should be taxed more.

Why are we attacking the individual with ad hominem? His argument is sound. Philanthropy alone is not enough.

This whole time I've basically been arguing around the fact that lots of people are participating in the rhetorical fallacy known as Ad Hominem.
I think so, at least to some degree. Someone's certainly bet money on the theory that it works.

When I first saw this tweet, a search for "Dr. Paul Drago" (in an incognito window) consistently returned a glowing blog post first and the domestic violence article second. Hours later, those results are consistently reversed. Could be random, could be that people who saw this tweet are intentionally clicking the news article he's trying to bury.
If only Turing was alive to see this
Inspecting a finished product should answer this question?
Salesforce is awful to develop in. The worst designed language, terrible tools, poor feedback, inscrutable gotchas. An abhorrent mix of the worst parts of Java with the worst parts of SQL. Everything is utterly rubbish, there is absolutely nothing positive about it.

But it's great to put your sales process on for a slightly techy person. Sort of the modern equivalent of access.

Needless to say, that means no developer wants to touch it with a bargepole.

So if you're prepared to put up with all that, you can make a lot of money doing ridiculously simple things.
Scott Alexander: Now r/SubSimulatorGPT2 has gotten to r/totallynotrobots, which means we get to see a robot pretending to be a human pretending to be a robot pretending to be a human.
It's been adopted massively by teenagers.

That said, this is 100% showboating for the 'family friendly' schmoe vote. There is absolutely nothing they can do to prevent online purchases.
Wait, they are banning e-cigarettes but not normal more dangerous cigarettes? How does that even make sense?
And yet my Firefox with 48 open tabs and a bunch of addons is currently sitting at 1.2GB.

Chrome is awful with resource usage to begin with, which is why Electron is, it bundles and runs a headless Chrome for each Electron app.
Thats because most of the ElasticSearch data model is materialized indexes. You need to reindex (or use one of the other ops which amounts to building a composite index) to create different aggregates. Otherwise you need to use constructed JSON queries instead of adhoc lucene string searches to build the more complicated searches on those fields. Kibana provides tools that can help visualize building those if you don't do it from scratch, but its definitely a different workflow than Splunk or something implementing a more traditional query language.
She's made one now: https://blog.kitsplit.com/announcing-kitsplit-theft-protecti...