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It's not a judgment call of the investigators, it's a crime that you can plead not guilty to. I think the burden is on you to provide an example of someone who was actually convicted of this crime despite not having "knowingly and wilfully" lied.
Your analogy is stillborn. I never ordered the product!
We are taught and continually retaught that discipline and hard work are the keys to success in life. Why would we not bring the same level of planning, anxiety and pursuit of excellence to our attempts to be happy? When you spend 40-60 hours a week trying to optimize your output at work it is difficult to not have an anxiety ridden vacation where you try to optimize your happiness.

I am sure many people can relate to the first 2-3 days of vacation being needed just to get into 'vacation-mode' where you can actually start to forgive yourself for 'wasting' a day.
> the difference between the work of actual five year olds and very abstract smeary work by professional abstract artists.

Or the difference between a professional and a monkey?

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

> the real point of art is the content - emotional distillation of lived experience, psychological reflection, even social commentary and satire.

Is Symphony No. 5 really psychological reflection, social commentary, and satire?

Or it is more accurately described as deeply, innately beautiful? A pleasurable combination of patterns, rhythms, and tones?
I think this is actually the exact problem the article talks about.

It’s possible to engage with mindfulness practices without buying into the entire Buddhist belief system.

This comment reinforces the author’s (I believe mistaken) point, that mindfulness sneaks in a bunch of Buddhist ideology. In my experience, it’s been possible to benefit from the practices while deciding some of the more doctrinal Buddhist beliefs (like non-self / anatta) don’t resonate.
Without more context it seems hard to make conclusions from the data presented.

In terms of the raw figures both Daily Active Users and Monthly Active Users are up. However Monthly Active Users has increased at a faster rate than Daily Active Users, therefore user engagement which is defined as the ratio of daily active users to monthly active users has fallen.

Is this because existing users have reduced engagement with the platform, while Facebook continues to signup new users, or is it because the new users Facebook is signing up are not as engaged in the platform, or a combination of both?

For example maybe Facebook is 'hacking' its user growth figures by signing up marginal users at the cost of engagement.
It might be more accurate that say that both are correct spellings, with different factions claiming that one is more correct than the other: https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/bury-the-lede-...
And a factor of 10 difference in linear size (radius, diameter, etc.) implies a factor of 1000 difference in mass.
Humans exhale something around 2.3 pounds of CO2 per day [0], 2.3 * 365 = 839.5 pounds per year, 4800 / 839.5 = 5.7 people per "surface area of a tree". That might be small enough that this can keep the CO2 level constant in a office...

The average american carbon footprint is 19.8 tonnes per year [1], 19.8 tonnes / 4800 (pounds / "sa tree") = 9.082 surfaces areas of a tree per person to eliminate their carbon footprint. That's a lot better than I expected really... somewhat doubt my numbers.

(All number here have huge standard deviations, decimal points on the approximation should not be read as indicators of variance).

[0] https://www.reference.com/science/much-co2-human-exhale-3f8c...

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/datablog/2009/sep/02...
Reminds me of hackmud, which is annoying as hell because you gotta use programming language styled commands to do anything, instead of a more shell friendly typing language... This isn't as annoying as Hackmud at least, since it's just username("") and send("") you use to talk / set your username.
Good idea, but I wish there was a less harsh method. I have been using my iPad a lot recently and the thing that bugs me is that it’s almost impossible to listen to Spotify uninterrupted as you use Safari because of auto-playing videos (not just advertisements).

It’s completely obnoxious and there is no way to stop it. Safari takes control of sound even if the video does not have audio toggled on and pauses your Spotify. Then if you use control center to start it again, it plays iTunes. I can’t believe this hasn’t been fixed.

EDIT: Just tried Brave Browser and this is pretty great so far. Seems to be the best compromise. Thanks!
The super market chain "Piggly Wiggly" was the first grocery store that gave customers baskets and let them wander around the aisles grabbing items off the shelves themselves.

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

https://www.southernliving.com/culture/piggly-wiggly-history

>Before Clarence Saunders opened his shop, anyone who needed groceries would hand their shopping list over to a clerk who would pluck the groceries off the shelves and hand shoppers a bag full of their items. Piggly Wiggly turned that model on its head. Shoppers were invited into the store, handed a shopping basket, and left to wander the aisles of the grocery store, filling their cart with whatever products caught their eye. It’s hard to imagine now, but no one had ever thought of self-service grocery shopping before. According to TIME, who dug into Piggly Wiggly for the store’s centennial, Piggly Wiggly was the original grocery store, who not only introduced grocery carts, but also “price-marked items, employees in uniform, and the supermarket franchise model.”

Officially, the mysterious story behind the name is:

>According to the Piggly Wiggly website, the name's origin is truly a mystery. Saunders never fully explained where he got the idea that naming a supermarket after a squirmy porker was a good idea. Instead, he let stories circulate and, like a politician, neither confirmed nor denied them. One story claims that he came up with the name during a train ride where he looked out his window and saw several little pigs struggling to get under a fence. That made him think of the rhyme “piggly wiggly” and that apparently sounded like a good name for a grocery store. Another original story floating around is that when people asked Saunders why he gave his grocery store such a funny little name, he’s reported to have said, "So people will ask that very question." It seems to have worked, because here we are over 100 years later asking still asking the question. One thing for sure, though: It’s memorable.

But my mom, who grew up in the south, told me it was common knowledge that it was called "Piggly Wiggly" because the frantically shopping customers acted like pigs wiggling around all over the store in a mad feeding frenzy!

If that's the real reason, that they named their chain after how their customers behaved, then maybe Clarence Saunders and the Piggly Wiggly Office of Public Relations were so coy and mysterious because they didn't want people to know they thought of their customers as wiggly piggies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmzP49KU75U
The 21st century belongs to China–but the 22nd will be Africa’s?
Forgive me, but the numbers presented in that graph look to be growing, it’s their relationship that’s changing. People are still using Facebook, they are just using it on a more reasonable frequency that is common to all things, after a certain infatuation period is over. It appears to me they are just reaching a steady state. If you look at any relationship between two events sampled at different intervals you tend to see this pattern.
No need to imagine - Boeing was selling the sane more-sensors solution as an extra, and just assumed - before the fact - that no airline would pass on the extra sensor. That would be insane. So, more money for Boeing, AND a lower list price. The airlines shouldn't have bought unsafe airplanes, but were crazy enough to do so. The buyers turned out to be even worse chancers.
Honestly what is being missed? I dont use facebook and believe i have not missed any important moment for humanity. At least none that I can think of.
Credit Karma, and many credit cards offer it for free.
I don't share the thinking behind that comedy bit at all. For me, self-service checkouts offer such added utility -- no tiresome social interaction with the cashier, no awkward moments when shopping in a country where you don't speak the language -- that it more than makes up for the burden of ringing up my purchases.
Absolutely captivating read. Great big-picture thinking (the biggest).
>Ever the philosopher of the pool, Igor smiled and said, “You are all confused! Speed is not the goal; it is the result of perfect beautiful technique.”

>What really mattered to Igor was excellence — the efficient stroke. Once you mastered that, he argued, speed would follow naturally. Speed was simply the welcome side effect of swimming well.

>I’ve been thinking lately that there’s a lesson here that goes beyond the pool. We all wanted to swim faster and the more hysterically we tried, the more speed escaped us. The same goes for happiness. Everyone wants to be happy, yet the more directly we pursue happiness, the more elusive it becomes.
Yes. Money can buy a lot of things that are more enjoyable to be mindful of, but not everything.
Safety regulation might be a burden for aircraft manufacturers, but it is what enables competition among airlines. The reason we can have low cost airlines are because safety isn't really in question. Of course you want to "optimize" regulation, but deregulation as in leaving it up to the participants frequently can't support a competitive market.
I haven't looked recently but several years ago I was shocked to discover the GNU libstdc++ didn't use strchr or memchr. It used a hand-coded for loop because it was a template for various kinds of character. There was no specialization for 8-bit char, either.

As a result std::string was disgustingly slow compared to C code.
Not allowed to date Facebook Kids (tm).
As he said though: monetisation is not as good as the core product.

From a media buying perspective, IG is kind of niche. It takes loads of work to produce content for it, but it’s really hard to measure ROI because it’s mostly only good for branding, rather than more intent driven stuff. Idk, it’s an amazing product on its own, and well monetised, but comparing it to the borg, and expecting to hold it up, seems like putting a lot on its shoulders.
The biggest problem I’ve had with Blendle is that I want to read an NYT article due to a recommendation, not because I go to their app. I just would forget to go there. There was no “open with blendle” option to move into my flow.
Palmer Luckey’s military startup will monitor US bases with AI
And how sluggish you feel, too. Digesting really takes a lot of energy!
I think it’s also possible that some people aren’t looking for altered states from their mindfulness practices.
You don't need to imagine, this mechanism was implemented many times in various countries.
We Need to Decriminalise Sex Work
I think the lowest friction way to do it is to just spend the interchange (the roughly 2% of purchases that credit card companies get from merchants that usually funds cashback/rewards) on carbon capture. With your blessing, I can talk to some credit card company execs about this idea. Credit cards are powerful signalling tools, I can easily see a "Green Card" catching on, especially if people don't see any additional fees on their bill.
That's not awakening, that's going to sleep. Dare to be human, to have desires, to have a will. Don't just "accept" the world, shape it. You have an eternity to be nothing, be something now.
Of course they also want to contribute to society. It is a great thing. And behind all this, someone has to pay for the other stuff. Its not only the content creator. On what hardware is this all running on? Who provides for electricity? Who is writing the software? Who makes sure, that we have internet cables deep below in the ocean. Someone has to pay for it. There are people having jobs. So of course i want that people can contribute. But it is only a part of the calculation, its a give and take. Everyone is in for something.
> Mainly because I support the idea of automation and want it to work well.

I must be missing something. Where is the automation? It's just the customer doing all the work instead of an employee.
A huge part of advertising is getting users to feel that they can trust in a product or service enough to spend their money on it. Spend a bit of time watching TV commercials and see how many methods of establishing trust you can spot.

This is why the way web ads are served is utterly farcical. How can you build a person's trust by invading their privacy in a hundred different ways just so you can be sure the ads they're seeing are a little bit more targeted than what's on TV?

People often say that they would be happy to have reasonable ads that don't interfere with website function and which respect their privacy, but it's been so bad for so long that it would likely be very difficult for an ethical, privacy respecting ad service to get off the ground. Many people have been burned too many times to believe and unblock such an ad service. EME shows that there is no interest in even trying this approach. They're just going to continue escalating the arms war.

They're going to lose.

Companies advertising on the internet need to wake up to the fact you can't support a war against the privacy of your potential customer base and expect them to trust you. Yes, you've dug quite the hole for yourselves over the last couple of decades. Why keep digging?
> What anthropology teaches you is that there is equal value to different cultural perspectives. And that is the best thing you can learn as an actor.

Mr. Eisenberg, if you can apply this to a white supremacist or a pedophile as readily as to a primitive cannibal or an ancient pharaoh, my respect. But you may want to keep quiet about it for the sake of your career.
This might be true if it was an outlet for human creativity the way MySpace or Geocities were, but Facebook has almost entirely lived its digital life as yellow pages.
The control group needs to be thinking they're doing something that works. If it's obvious they're in the control group, then it's no longer a control group.
War and the preparation for war is a feedback loop. The military industrial complex is a symptom of technology. The more tech we develop, the more things we have to protect and the number of ways we can be attacked increases non-linearly. Hence, this massive growing defense budget. If we stop developing new tech, history has shown that somebody else will gain an advantage and try to dominate us or an ally. Talk about tough nuts to crack.
> So we have "safety regulations" negatively impacting safety

No we don’t. Other companies have followed the regulations. Boeing chose to value cost avoidance over risk to human life. The owners and management of Boeing are culpable.
The Wild Sanctuary Audio Archive – a vast collection of habitat field recordings
> How do advertisers know the requests are coming from real users and not bots?

Leaving aside that this isn't the problem of end users:

Link to a site, use an ID for that campaign (analogous to an affiliate ID), and don't pay unless a purchase takes place. Bots can't fake that.
By "we" do you mean only people who agree with you? Or do you accept that in a democratic society there can be ads? Personally, I don't block ads on principle. I simply don't visit websites that feature blaring over the top ads or otherwise feature annoyances. When you block ads you are explicitly signalling that you are receiving something of value by visiting the website. I prefer to not send that signal.
Why would you want a current investment of yours to go down? It doesn't make much sense..
Bankruptcies among Chinese developers are up by a half amid slowing economy
Current crypto is possibly subject to attack due to implementation defects. You're throwing out word salad that you clearly don't understand on this subject -- but hey, let's take your statement as fact for a hypothetical second.

Since as you say, "Current crypto is susceptible to brute force via shor’s and quantum", then there's no need for backdooring algorithms, since they're all already broken.

I mean, none of that is accurate, but given your argument you're asking for something you don't need because you already have it.
I'm glad you get personal utility from the new method, but the rant is coming from a place where people are forced to use self checkouts and would rather not - eg stores where they shut all but one staffed register, creating a huge line.
If 850K is the amount of shrinkage for 21M of in-store sales then a store that delivers groceries can offset the cost of delivery due to the corresponding reduction in shrinkage.
Like I said it's a personal bias, mainly about Google. The only time I had to use it was with RH's cloud and if it wasn't for their good documentation I would have dropped the client. Everytime I looked under the hood it reminded why I hate being a developer around 35% of the time.
An object has to occupy a contiguous region in memory in order for dereferencing to work efficiently. We need both "this.baseField" and "this.derivedField" to directly access the desired bytes. If either of those has to chase through a chain of memory regions, performance will be much worse.
This article uses the word "power" a lot when it really means "status"
> I guess website will start findings ways to prevent copy pasting

This is already a thing in some places. I wanted to use a table of data I found on a website but found I couldn't copy and paste it into excel. Instead I downloaded the webpage and parsed it to extract the table and rebuild it manually.
A new tool uses AI to spot text written by AI
How carb-heavy is your diet? That could be the transition from your body using fat/ketones for fuel to using glucose for energy.
I've eaten really well for ages: particularly when it comes to low-fiber carbs, I just have no interest, let alone the intense addiction most people seem to have
The exception was my famous sweet tooth, the indulgence of which probably wiped out half the advantages I was seeing from eating well. Since mostly fixing a sleep disorder that I had, my sweet tooth has completely vanished. I had some sense of this, but I wasn't enjoying the sugar as much as I was craving the accompanying dopamine rush, in the same way that I was a more frequent drug user when I still had the sleep disorder.

We likely had it much worse than the average person, but I think about the same thing: most of my friends have sleep problems to some degree, and I can't imagine they're not getting a milder form of the psychological symptoms that plagued me
> I forget, what does ARM stand for again? :)

What do you believe is the reason that ARM does no market this acronym anymore? ;-)
Remember all the skepticism around here that scandals like Cambridge Analytica would affect Facebook and people using Facebook's positive press releases and financial results from like a month later as "proof" that the scandal didn't affect the company?

I said then it doesn't work like that. Give it a year.
Given the number of times facebook has brazenly lied to customers, journalists, regulators, and governments, it seems likely that the situation is probably worse than the picture painted by the article.
>I really like the self checkout machines and being in control of how long the transaction takes instead of up to the whims of which cashier I've chosen

But if there's a line for the self checkout machines, you're not at the whim of a cashier, you're at the whim of some customers who many not know how to operate the checkout machines well.
Lots of stuff is being missed. Here are two examples that I can think of off the top of my head:

1) There are Facebook groups not only for cities, but sometimes even for individual neighborhoods within those cities. People gossip with their neighbours, complain about local politicians, or announce community events. These groups may represent a goldmine for the study of local history.

2) A lot of the travel community has abandoned standalone forum websites like Lonely Planet’s Thorn Tree or Horizons Unlimited for Facebook groups. The way people have traveled in the past is something that tends to interest later generations, as one can see from books that still get published about 19th-century round-the-world travelers or the Istanbul-Kathmandu trail of the ’60s and ’70s. Yet much of the detail of travel in the last decade or so risks being lost if Facebook goes.
My guess is that expected payout would be too low to keep opportunistic shoplifters from doing their thing since most self-checkouters who aren't stealing would also get the discount. Otherwise this is a great idea.
Maybe there are techniques to shorten its half-life?
This will work until someone young and hungry comes around and says: "I don't know what I could do with the money. I'd just start another social networking site. I kind of like the one I already have." [1]

[1] https://www.inc.com/allison-fass/peter-thiel-mark-zuckerberg...
I think it's more a lack of long term thinking. Leaders that do not have a long term stake in the company but who can profit from a rise in the stock price in the short term.

What if executives could only sell their shares five years after they acquired them? What if they experienced losses when the company does?

Boards and shareholders need to get smarter. I'm hesitant to regulate it but I see no problem the SEC rating companies for their incentive structure. It should be updated whenever leadership changes or the company changes compensation.

Companies lad by founders who still have most of their wealth in company stock should garner the highest rating. Companies that don't require CEOs to invest and who allow CEOs to exercise options stock and sell stock whenever they want might get the lowest.

How executives can sell stock should be part of that rating. If executives can only sell an amount of stock gradually, say in 8% increments every month for the next year and can't change that schedule, that is safer for shareholders than allowing them to sell whenever they want.
Not that I want to interfere with your drawing practice, meaningful time away from the keyboard is essential. But have you considered raising the bar and stepping out of your comfort zone?

I've been writing code for about 34 years. Finding interesting problems to solve was a major issue for me until I started creating my own programming languages [0].

It's possible that I'll eventually run into the same problem again, having said everything I have to say about languages. I figure can always write my own OS if nothing else works.

[0] https://github.com/codr7/cidk
This project is very interesting and I think it’s great that this is being studied, but we already have a technology for reducing greenhouse gasses in trees and other plants. They do not have expensive and pollution-causing manufacturing processes, contribute to biodiversity and natural ecosystems and don’t produce lasting waste. Perhaps I’m being cynical, but it seems like the ultimate driver of this technology is still profit. There’s a lot of trademarks and business speak in this article.