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> The fact that every single minority MUST be represented in every single movie—despite the fact that this makes the story less believable or even weaker is what's annoying. Not to mention changing established characters (like Ghostbusters, Terminator, Little Mermaid) to make them black women.

In what way is that particular story less believable because it shows minorities? Is it showing minorities in a context (geographical and time) where you have 100% information that it's very different from the reality of that context? Is this particular movie supposed to show a factually based representation of that context?

If an owner of some IP decides to change the racial, ethnic, etc profile of some character as they were represented previously in said franchise it doesn't take away from the franchise (imagine that they didn't release anything new), you can still watch the older movies that you enjoy. Similarly to how if a new video game is released in a series which is very different (or simply bad, quality wise) from the previous games in the series, it doesn't take away from you the previous titles, you can still enjoy the previous games all you want.

> Back when I grew up, we had Will Smith who was basically every kid's idiol in Europe, and he was black. We had Ripley from Alien who was a believable female role. We had Priscilla with trans protagonists. No one complained, all those characters worked. Now, every movie seems to be just an excuse to virtue signal. It's all politics. I want to watch a movie, not be indoctrinated by a corporation about whatever politics they're into.

I find that as a very naive and simplistic view of said movies. There was politics back then too in said movies, you just didn't notice it or cared about it, you took those things for granted. This is the essential problem with this type of complains, you assume that what was before/you grew up with was the "gold standard" and so making drastic changes to that is somehow bad (and I'm not talking just about minority representation in media, I see this in almost every context with people over a certain age). You should probably see how people complained the first time a black person was on TV, the complains are very similar.

I'm not saying that now there isn't a more active effort around introducing more minority representation into media, it obviously is so, I'm only arguing against that being a bad thing on its own and/or saying that didn't happen before. If this is more important to the studios than making good quality movies then obviously the quality will suffer, but that's not special in any way to the minority representation push.
Is this a positive service?

It sounds like adblock. Sounds great until you consider youre defunding things you want to exist (for free)...
I pay to read the news because I prefer to get information from high-quality organizations that I trust to hire skilled, relatively objective journalists who will work hard to accurately report a story.

So much of unpaid journalism is bloggers re-hashing the work of these big(ger)-budget news agencies, often with less clarity and more partisan slant. Not to say NYT, WaPo, WSJ and other high-quality paid sources are perfect but they are far better than the free competition.
Could you elaborate on that thought? My experience is that it is possible to create a storage element with arbitrary throughput and latency (within a fairly wide design space) by composing storage elements.
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If T is above body temperature anD there is high levels of humidity you can’t lower your temperature by sweating. Therefore, your body temperature will raise to match the environment T even if you don’t twitch a muscle.

On the other hand, if it’s dry the human body can sweat away prodigious amounts of heat
After watching the BBC documentary on Climate Change a key issue seemed to be trying to get across what the issues are, most people are completely lost. Is David Attenborough the Gandalf of our age?

I remembered how a previous BBC documentary on games noted the history of games to get issues across. Computer games perhaps, but are there any good boardgames?

Perhaps using the GNS (Gamism - Narrativism - Simulationism)theory of game play:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNS_theory

My mind is still jangling from the Geeks Guide to the Galaxy Podcast on the history of Tabletop RPGs

https://geeksguideshow.com/2019/07/09/ggg369-the-history-of-...
My vision of a language like Python would be only 1-way to do things, and in the event someone wants to add a 2nd way, a vote is taken.

By that standard, the walrus operator is not only acceptable but essential. Right now there are at least 3 ways to process data from a non-iterator:

# 1: loop condition obscures what you're actually testing
while True:
data = read_data()
if not data:
break
process(data)

# 2: 7 lines and a stray variable
done = False
while not done:
data = read_data()
if data:
process(data)
else:
done = True

# 3: duplicated read_data call
data = read_data()
while data:
process(data)
data = read_data()

There's too many options here, and it's annoying for readers to have to parse the code and determine its actual purpose. Clearly we need to replace all of those with:

while (data := read_data()):
process(data)

Yes, I'm being a bit snarky, but the point is that there is never just one way to do something. That's why the Zen of Python specifically says one "obvious" way, and the walrus operator creates an obvious way in several scenarios where none exist today.
The reaction of someone who moved from a desert to Georgia is always interesting. Everyone has a unique way of processing the huge puddles of water under their car. Sometimes it's "oh yeah, humidity." Sometimes it's panic.
Sorry, I'm not very familiar with charities, can you clarify what your point is here? I'm not sure what Cool Effect is or what you're talking about.
Business relationships with carriers, and similarity to iOS which disables tethering by carrier settings. Carriers strongly objected to tethering and sometimes still do because they would prefer every device register individually with the carrier on a paying plan. This has changed in subsequent years but carriers did and still do lock down their networks to prevent devices from connecting or billing different devices at different rates. Generally though it’s a profit motive, followed by a network protection measure.
This type of thinking is obviously silly.

People with opportunities to eat healthy food keep choosing to eat unhealthy food. This isn't a secret. I have personally annoyed all my friends and my girlfriend with my constant hypochondriac nudging about nutrition.

If you want to change eating habits you have to communicate with the consumers. You can't pull strings at the city-planning level and hope that the marionettes will march in tune. Even if dollar stores were prevented by magical aliens from selling produce (they're not), they still have freezers. They could still sell frozen vegetables. They could sell oats, beans or unsalted nuts in bulk. They could sell canned produce, high-fiber noodles, refrigerated tempeh...

They are not selling these things because people aren't buying them. Dollar General is not intentionally trying to kill people. That's not a good business model.

People are generally woefully uninformed about nutrition. People have been confused by the raging public debate about dietary theories that are almost never really practiced -- I had a friend tell me he didn't want to eat a mango because of the sugar content. The same friend had no trouble ordering soda at a drive-thru. That is how the average American thinks about food.

If you want change, put the Doritos behind the counter. That's how you get change.
I'm in operations and I've spent much of my career writing code for the Python that worked on the oldest LTS release in my fleet, and for a very long time that was Python 1.5...

I was really happy, in some ways, when Python 2 was announced as getting no new releases and Python 3 wasn't ready, because it allowed a kind of unification of everyone on Python 2.7.

Now we're back on the treadmill of chasing the latest and greatest. I was kind of annoyed when I found I couldn't run Black to format my code because it required a slightly newer Python than I had. But... f strings and walrus are kind of worth it.
Hey, this is very cool, and excellently-executed. It would be very neat to have clear cases on stuff like this, such as the game controller presented as an example.
> people (usually already frail)

This always makes these sort of dire predictions sound exaggerated to me. There’s always a population of (usually older) people who are nearing the end and we seem irrationally unwilling to accept “old age” as a cause of death. Any slight disturbance is then blamed and we get dramatic headlines about “hundreds die in 35C heatwave.”
Readability counts, though I agree Explicit is better than implicit.

Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules, Although practicality beats purity.
You've directly asked me to change your mind, and I'm saying it doesn't necessarily have to be changed. If you're just interested as a matter of public policy, I can tell you that you're going to have a tremendously hard time getting people to raise children properly through other arrangements.

> We keep changing..don’t we? And shouldn’t our way of life change too?

We haven't really changed much at all. This is actually covered very adeptly in Dr. Kacyznski's work cited above.
The Turing Machine programming language specification has been frozen for a long time, and it's easy to learn in a few days.

So has John von Neumann's 29 state cellular automata!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_cellular_automaton

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_universal_construc...

(Actually there was a non-standard extension developed in 1995 to make signal crossing and other things easier, but other than that, it's a pretty stable programming language.)

>Renato Nobili and Umberto Pesavento published the first fully implemented self-reproducing cellular automaton in 1995, nearly fifty years after von Neumann's work. They used a 32-state cellular automaton instead of von Neumann's original 29-state specification, extending it to allow for easier signal-crossing, explicit memory function and a more compact design. They also published an implementation of a general constructor within the original 29-state CA but not one capable of complete replication - the configuration cannot duplicate its tape, nor can it trigger its offspring; the configuration can only construct.
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Do we have an idea how could Wikipedia generate millions of web pages with no algorithm?
Super cool ideas here. It'd definitely be fun to offer consumer level carbon capture tech, but the main reason we're starting with established project partners is that they have verifiably offset carbon.

Can you elaborate on how this is a better startup idea than funding projects that are fighting climate change at scale? Curious to hear your thoughts.
We're big into tree planting :)
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This is a good solution! I don't directly use `iter` very often so I only remember it's simplicity part of the time. Sadly, this is not the idiom I see in most places.

I will say, though, that I was not comfortable using iterators when I first learned python; walrus strikes me as easier to grok for a novice (one of the ostensible Python target demographics) than iter. I'll bet this is why this simple form is not idiomatic (though you're right, it should be).
Sure.

And anyone who uses a VPN can get themselves limited, just like they were using a laptop, because the carrier thinks you're trying to hide something from them.
Big deal. People jumped on wooden boats and sailed around the globe looking for spices and opium, instead of discovering microbiology and curing the bubonic plague.

Have at it, bro.
What's stopping people from forking the language at python 2.7? Let the pythonistas add whatever feature they feel like while people who need stability use "Fortran python" or whatever.
Ivy walls are very beautiful. Might be hard to do at scale + also apparently difficult to maintain but I wouldn't know
Yes, I did. It's a bit lengthy but most definitely the best process I've been part of. You will find lots of posts from other people regarding their interview process. That helped me a lot during the process.
Yes, that was very confusing for me because nobody here uses km/L. It's always L/100km.
what about letting your users get a % of all the money from collected from users they invite?

They could either receive those as Stripe payouts, or further reinvest their earnings into curing global warming

i.e. cure global warming MLM style

This could also open up some nice customer acquisition strategies benefit from asymmetric motivation: teenagers/kids bunch of teenagers (who would spend hours persuading their rich parents /grandparents to donate $50/mo, such that in return the teenager earns $5/mo). This may be able to help mitigate the problem that older people are less likely to believe in the severity of global warming than younger people - in the same way that your grandma bought your magazine in 5th grade (so that you could win a prize, not because she actually cared about the magazine) as part of those gamified magazine fundraisers in elementary school
I gave trello a try a few days ago, just to keep track of some feature ideas in a side project. There was a bug in the android app where your unsaved ticket description would be deleted in unexpected ways. If I locked then unlocked my phone, it would be gone. Lots of actions that were not "go back" or "cancel" ended up deleting my progress.

I uninstalled very quickly, seeing that it was generally unfit for use, and have had no issues with something called labcoat (for gitlab).
My most recent dollar (really GBP) store purchases were superglue and sticky notes. Both were substantially cheaper than supermarket prices, with no obvious difference in quality. Both are commodity products that supermarkets only sell as expensive branded versions, which I refuse to buy because I don't like getting ripped off. The dollar store is actually less convenient.
No such conflation occurred ~ for a conflation, I would need to have said, "being an actor just is being a sex worker."

Words mean things.

What you are uncomfortable with is adjacency, and it points to internal work you need to do.
> Marriage is an ancient tradition centered around the realities of human pair-bonding

If it's based around “realities of human pair-bonding”, why is polygyny a historically common mode of socially accepted marriage?
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Most people that pirate stuff never would have bought it to begin with. If pirated stuff wasn’t available, they’d have just gone without or gone with a free alternative. I don’t expect it has much impact over all.
Produce isn't the main profit driver maker for grocery stores. The presence of dollar stores can keep actual grocery stores from moving in, leaving communities with no access to fresh foods.
My point is that mediawiki based sites look like web1.0 (https://blog.hallowelt.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Metrol...) vs lets say, confluence pages(https://marketplace-cdn.atlassian.com/files/images/0e313fe9-...) or (http://www.play-sql.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Specifica...)

Confluence for example looks like it is a web2.0 software(more space, better fonts, markdown support etc)
There are many subtle and less subtle differences, but the main difference is that TLA+ is being used in the industry to help design complex systems in various domains and of various scale, both hardware and software, while dependent types are still in research, and I am not aware of any project not done by a research institution or with the assistance of one to specify and verify a real world system using dependent types in any form resembling ordinary software development and with similar budgets. I am also not aware of any software deeply specified and verified with dependent types that exceeds a few thousand lines of code.
Logging in sort of defeats the point of private mode.
Privacy.com issues you a card that is coded as a prepaid debit card. Most payment providers expose this to merchants, which means that if they choose to decline prepaid debit cards for other reasons you'll get caught in the mix.
It's right. Expanded it's `int x = 0; ++x` and `int x = 0; ++y`.

The first case doesn't have any side effects. The second case does.
Maybe split the show into a family friendly part and an “after dark” part, to cater for those of us who like our tech sexy as well as those who don’t?
> Just because they are both packets over the network, they are different use cases and present a feature which can be charged for.

Charging people for different use case while the product is literally the same is one the most anti consumer things I can think about it, no idea why you think it's okay.

Imagine a eletricity bill that had different prices if your vacumm cleaner was being used on the living room rather than say, a bedroom, I see it as simply absurd.
https://www.xkcd.com/1667/
even worse: sometimes kids actually do chase leaves on the wind, or butterflies.
Have you seen the T series portable ssd’s by Samsung. Nowadays multiple companies make portable ssds that use the same nand in their internal ssds but in a smaller custom form factor. They’re exactly like what you described, about the size of a deck of cards and much much more reliable and cheaper than micro as cards.
Wasnt it the other way around? I thought the valley of the kings/queens/workers were after the pyramids and due to the fact the pyramids drew too much attention to the site from graverobbers (tomb-raiders? :P).
WaPo has been doing that for a few months. LATimes started doing that this week as well.

Use Firefox's reader mode. You might need to refresh once or twice to get the full NYT article in reader mode.
systemd didn't change much related to this. The seed file never got credited, at least not in Debian. So either you have the same problem on Gentoo, or Gentoo has other problems.
Obviously its going to depend on the context of your country/city/culture, but i'd point out that your theory of reduced housing supply is a bit counter-intuitive given that these tend to be the areas with the higher density of housing, ceteris paribus.

I think its much more straight forward in that car ownership is actually quite expensive, in both time, infrastructure, and money, density creates opportunities of scale, and employment is a net attraction.

Successful areas that favour walking/public transport over cars tend to have more jobs, higher wages, are net attractors, and people are able to substitute away the expense of other things to live there because of the economies of scale: thus their demand functions, budgets and competition to live there are quite high and people compete strongly for them.

Those areas that are dense and attractive start to increase demand for pedestrian/public transport over cars organically as well, so it sort of feeds back on itself to some degree.

There's also a bit of survivorship bias, if that's the right phrase. An area that is attempted to be designed for pedestrian/public-transport, but which doesn't thrive tends to become a ghetto/ghost-town, because there's neither demand/people there, and its not an attractor, and people will find driving there hard/pointless. These areas will either be abandoned or be primed for redevelopment: and if the later works, it will push up values/demand...
> Not really. It's obvious that Netflix or any other corporation doesn't care about minorities, gay rights, women, or what have you.

Can you back that up? Since it's "obvious" it should be very easy.

I'm not familiar with Netflix's internal benefits but I am familiar with another big tech company's benefits and they go out of the way to guarantee equal benefits to same sex couples, beyond what the state/federal law provides (which results in the company spending more money out of pocket to provide those benefits so they match what state/federal provides to heterosexual couples). Or how in interviews it's very strongly emphasized to avoid any discussion, question, etc from which one can infer marital status, sexual orientation, parenthood, etc.

That shows to me that the contrary is valid and I suspect Netflix to not be far from that since it competes for the same talent pool in the same geographical location.
> Sure that wouldn't have fixed everything but now instead of adding a couple of dozens or hundred millions to fund the fire warning system, we're now most likely looking at a cost of multiple billions...

But was lack of funds really the root cause of the problem? If anything, the overcomplicated nature of the fire warning system seemed to have all the hallmarks of having too much money thrown at it and too many "cooks in the kitchen" designing it.
This is the service that lets you create a virtual credit card with a specific limit. It doesn't "auto-cancel" - the service that attempts to charge, simply can't make the charge beyond the limit.

Check if your bank offers this kind of service. Mine does, and it's very convenient!
I'm Marcus one of the co-founders of Little Bird. Yup you can get some inks that are curable (primarily designed for doing cases), you can also get UV curing top-coats.
How many engineers do you have and what's your growth in manpower like?
Then why are there popular cities that aren't congested? (And coincidentally have lower costs of living)
Seriously, the attitudes of so many people on here are absolutely disgusting. Why don't we throw all the poor people in camps while we're at it?
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Why do you say so? Is this related to India specifically?
More likely they missed a "PAID"
Here's the info on how we built it — Landon posted about this a few hours ago:

> We use data + research from Berkeley's cool climate lab (https://coolclimate.berkeley.edu/publications) The main model is maintained by them, and is based on linear regression from a bunch of lifestyle variables that you input into the calculator. Our version is slightly different because we base it on country instead of zip code, so we scale most input variables by the country's per capita emissions to get a good estimate.

Some of the data might be a little tricker to find but most of it is based off of Cool Climate's model + World Bank per capita emissions data. Let us know if we can help with anything here!
Troy has spoken about that.

They are a known candidate, but they fall further down the list on some of his criteria than he would like. However, he doesn't provide any further details on this issue.

Meanwhile, he continues to look for other candidates.
> If so, then what is their responsibility

Pay taxes. Pay all employees a living wage. End toxic practices and policies. Don't undercut your sellers or engage in price fixing.
What load of junk.

If he is worried about saving the Earth. For the price of a single rocket, he could seriously change the politics of Climate Change.
Self driving cars can be had right now, as long as we lay down self driving roads.

When left on their own dedicated infrastructure, with specialized cues and signaling, they'd work great, right now, today.

Unfortunately, the quick defeat to this idea is trains.
There may be unintended results, including tasty brick oven pizza:

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-1n27coal23479-coal...

Koch Carbon is only 31 miles away. Just the name... it's carbon you can buy from the Koch brothers. Berkeley is supporting this local business.

More obviously, propane can be delivered by truck. It burns hotter than natural gas.
2nd 2
Totally agree on it being slow. Displaying a list of links should not be slow. Too many design and dev teams try to make these interactive JS apps in the browser that are terribly slow and anti-user.