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Another way to view it is that they encourage people to start smoking ("new hobbyists").

In addition, while they currently send out 4 cigars a month, from the article:

"We haven’t been extremely active in the larger cigar community because the hardcore fans generally buy in bulk cigars, which isn’t really our customer. Our customers are generally beginners/novices who are interested in getting started. This is an area we are interested in jumping into soon, however."

(Emphasis mine in the last sentence.)

It therefore doesn't seem like they are limiting themselves because of any concern about the health of their customers.

When would the disease risk be high enough that you think it would be unethical for you to sell/distribute cigars?
When you have a government, you have a control over everything, the only question is of quantity. Capitalism used to live with state - indeed, state is (also) a pretty old invention - so here is the proposal: let's have both capitalism - and a spoonful of state control over economy. This way we can have both goods, and the only question is to maintain a careful balance while still having it working.

Problem solved?
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The existence of ads definitely stops that. People were happy to pay for newspapers for decades before they appeared for free on the internet. They are still happy to pay for news that isn't available for free, as Bloomberg, the WSJ, etc show. It's only when there are "free" alternatives that people flock in droves to the "free" options.
> Why would I expect them any more qualified to set economic policy?

Well that's moving the goalposts. You'd made it out like a tradesman couldn't understand economic policy to begin with, that's a different contention.
I wonder whether the timing of this is related to DoorDash finally backing down on handling of tips.
Financial positions are not exclusively a function of your skillset. Your accreditations also matter (e.g. degrees or certifications). Wealth also begets wealth so if you have connections you can actually get a job without any skillset (not saying its right, but it is a reality). The real question is "what can people do to improve their current financial situation". I'd love to see a discussion on that.
No Rights Reserved -- this is great, all fonts should be public domain, but I would love to see actual CC0 attached, otherwise I can't trust it really being public domain legally, which discourages me from using it.
It takes longer than a month to finalize a $410M acquisition.
There is/was more oil in the UK controlled North Sea and England has nothing from the resource.

Australia is the largest exporter of LNG and gets about 3% of the Royalties that Qatar earns. it is simply incompetence and corruption.
Sure. Famous inventor, George Roby Dempster.
The Dempster Dumpmaster was the truck built to go with the Dempster Dumpster, using a hydraulic fork system that picks up the Dumpster and empties it into the truck. Dempster invented that, and sold garbage trucks and compatible containers.
Once the patents expired, it's was a de-facto standard.

A "dumpster" is thus historically a container that can be emptied by a standard front fork loading garbage truck. Long containers that are towed onto a tilt-bed truck are something else, usually debris boxes. But they now tend to be called "roll-on dumpsters".
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have you considered the obvious fallout from that? one example: bad actors use database of people's public actions to privately harass them (e.g. following them to work => ID employer => extort/blackmail)

what is your solution to this outside of panopticon?
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From the study:

> This finding appears to contradict an earlier report by Windham et al. [32] that showed that lower levels of oestriol in second trimester were modestly associated with a later diagnosis of autism in the offspring. However, our samples correspond to a slightly earlier time point in pregnancy compared to Windham et al. (mean gestational week = 14.9 vs. 17.2 respectively) (see Table 1) [32], which could potentially better capture the steroid surge during the PMW [14]. Furthermore, our samples are of different origin, as Windham et al. assayed maternal serum, rather than foetal amniotic fluid. Steroid hormone levels in maternal serum do not differ relative to the baby’s sex and do not correlate to amniotic levels during the PMW [42].

So, high levels in blood reduce the autism risk and in amniotic fluid it's the other way around? I'll wait for a replication, I think
That's a take...

1- This telescope doesn't need to be built here, right now. The world will not end if it isn't built, and all the "benefits" you might claim we gain from this are essentially marginal improvements over the existing half dozen telescopes in that area already. There is no reason that the previous expected agreement of "if you want to build new telescopes you need to decommission an existing one and replace it" can't be honored.

2- Do you know what "extortion" actually is? Do you know what the term "tyranny of the majority" means? Are you familiar with any actual sociological concepts in play in this scenario? Do you actually understand the hypothetical example I tried to walk you through previously, or would you like me to further break down a broad view of what this conflict is about rather than trying to go to snappy talking points and witty one liners? Are you actually just trollin son? These are all earnest questions.
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One billion dollars is spent per year on public defenders. The Justice Department spends twenty-eight billion dollars.

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/24/us/public-defenders-are-t...
I have recommended bandit to many people wanting to learn Linux tools and how the shell works: https://overthewire.org/wargames/bandit/
There is no empirical result because you can't actually play all sounds at the same time.
$8.6M for Cisco? What's the point? That is insignificant for them.
The blog post does directly says they listen regardless of users accepting.
Massachusetts created Gerrymandering yet we are not represented by a single glyph. Rewrite them!

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/where-did-term-gerrym...
IMO gene expression is very different than what layman like myself mean when we talk about our genes.
The "About the fund" page has a section called "The fund's purpose and history" which seems to completely contradict what you're saying.
See, this is really an example of what I'm talking about. You wouldn't need to learn about microtones if you didn't follow the twelve-tone standard before. I'm pretty sure that the brain by itself is pretty sloppy in regard to intervals and even more so with tones and keys.
Sounds like we might finally get more than 16GB of ram on the 13 inch MacBook Pro. Intel has been dragging their feet on supporting LPDDR4 for way too long.
Is it just me, or do all of the "personalized music services" only take a few next songs until they are playing you Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift or mumble rap? These things just converge towards popularity.
I think it actually probably would have been - not an ideal way to write code, but Python is certainly easier to read than your average Perl.
I get your point, but it doesn't work like that in the UK so your example wouldn't happen. However, if it did.. I don't think I'd be annoyed but that's hard to say until it happens.

In some respects, it would actually work in a similar way though. In their statement, they said that they'd forgive the student debt of those currently studying, but not those who had already finished (like me). For this I can safely say that I'd still be incredibly happy.

By the way, I'm not trying to paint American's in a negative light. I'm a big fan of America, but it is a difference as far as I can tell, although which line of thinking is right is incredibly hard to say.
Always do both.

If it matters, do both.

The email is for reference, the walk and talk is for communication, awareness and motivation.
The problem with this is that prosecutors have the discretion to offer more and more lopsided plea deals in order to fix the backlog of cases, and discretion to go after defendants that insist on a trial as hard as possible.

Are you really going to turn down 6 months if there's a very real chance that you're going to get 25-to-life through a trial? If insisting on a trial means you spend weeks in prison and lose your job and house?

The solution is to give money to people who insist on or get a jury trial. Enough to make the "wait in jail for a trial instead of getting released immediately" feasible for people with families, and enough to make the risk of greater sentences at trial worth risking.
TIL that EB Games is still a thing in Oz.

Before they were all converted to GameStops here (USA), as a joke I used to call the chain "Mo-B Games" because of the resemblance of the E in the logo to katakana 'mo' (モ).
It's still too broad. Byzantine chant is an entire discipline in itself, and so are a bunch of other categories included in "Church Music". There's a category for Anglican choirs, so why not for Russian "Greek" chant or Kievan/Znamenny Polyphony? There's a lot of territory here.
I was expecting a super obnoxious brown note of every noise ever playing at once...

...but it IS still pretty cool.
It’s also not absolutely necessary to use Bayesian reasoning to come up with a concrete final answer, but still allow for scientific style “we have a significant discovery, but it may not change our view from the status quo just yet” types of publications—significant changes in probability which nevertheless do not make unlikely things likely or vice versa.

So there is a very convenient way to view Bayes’ theorem by looking at odds ratios, Pr(A)/Pr(A'), where A' is the complement of A (the event which obtains precisely when A does not), which are equivalent to probabilities but span the range from 0-∞ rather than the range 0-1:

Pr(A | E) Pr(A E) Pr(E|A) Pr(A)
------------ = ---------- = ---------- x --------
Pr(A' | E) Pr(A' E) Pr(E|A') Pr(A')

In other words the odds after obtaining some evidence E are a multiplicative factor times the prior odds.

Taking the logarithm, one essentially can measure the impact of any new evidence in decibels as a linear result; the core of Bayes’ theorem can be stated as saying that evidence is measured in decibels.

For example in the breast cancer example in the original article, you have a +13 dB evidence—Pr(E|A)/Pr(E|A') = 20—but the prior log-odds are given as -20dB and thus the shocking conclusion is that after the evidence your log-odds are still negative, -7dB, and you likely do not have cancer. For a life-or-death situation, resolving the relative nature of evidence to a specific probability is clearly essential.

But in terms of p-values, if you have an experiment which gives +20dB evidence to something, I would say that this should still be meaningfully publishable as a relative increment even if it hits something whose prior is -30dB and therefore it still is only a ~1/10 chance that the thing is actually true.

Like, I think that the key is having a vocabulary for relative results versus absolute results and I think that the Bayesian language can be used to take one step towards that, but perhaps it would be nice if we could have a standardized way in our language to indicate that numbers are relative rather than absolute, the way that we do habitually with decibels and pressures and such all the time...
If you're gay, you should know the risks about going to Saudi Arabia or any place with similar laws and avoid going there. One does not usually "end up" in a different country unless they're kidnapped and at that point the homosexuality laws are really the least of your problems.
'SQL’s ORDER BY orders the output data. Similarly, the PartiQL ORDER BY is responsible for turning its input bag into an array.'

That is the most important thing for my uses. I deal mostly in time series data, SQL windowing queries are too slow. Turning the set into an array to allow indexing and support easy time series queries is enough for me the use it.
Thank you for that clarification, that is my rough understanding of mental health having been sent to a whole mess of shrinks.

I guess what my ultimate misunderstanding is:

> One complicating factor that I put into every thread about random things being associated with autism

How is that a complicating factor in discovering causes themselves? If someone has the Foo and Bar factors that cause autism, but has otherwise been able to work around it they are still "autistic" but just at a subclinical (is that the right phrase?) level. I guess I'm having some (pedantic?) misunderstanding around autism as a diagnosis vs. a disease you have.
Yes, transparency for all, and I mean all, is the only other way to balance the scales of power.

It's either privacy for everyone, or transparency for all, but this in between is the worst where some entities get leverage over others because they have access to information that others don't have about them.
This is one reason why proportional representation is a better system. Parties can form to represent different types of interests, and their power is proportional to the number of votes they get. Instead, in the American winner-takes-all electoral system, the Supreme Court decides which groups need representation and mandates that they get gerrymandered districts.
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People will start walking around with masks on at all times.
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Should we even be encouraging founders outside of the Bay Area and NYC from taking on large amounts of VC funding?

I'm hesitant to push middle America founders in this direction... their ecosystems don't have the infrastructure to truly support the companies. Taking on too much VC money is dangerous for them!
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And on the subject of what most not to do....

For pity sake don't send a picture of a log or an error dump..... send the text.

Please.

Pretty please.

With tears in my eyes.
We still have our thoughts, for now.

We should at least know when our face is being accessed on demand and in some ai process. Same with our data.

We'll get there eventually but there will be lots of issues along the way.
Yes, I can. Paper is the best form of asynchronous communication, requiring neither electricity or complex authentication schemes. By placing a piece of paper on the side of another person’s desk as quietly as possible, one would ensure that the person will be alerted to a necessary matter when they have the time to inspect their physical inbox.

It also indicates the matter is important enough for the original person to walk up and deliver a note.
The real question is how many of those random people could conclusively clear themselves with an alibi. If 20% of those people don't remember or can't conclusively prove where they were... You now have a ton of suspects that each are just as likely the criminal and obviously at most one of them could have committed the crime.

Yes if you can narrow it down to 100 people and then further confirm their identity with DNA or other real evidence that is potentially useful (and only potentially... It may waste your time). But for any sort of petty crime it seems like it will almost always do more harm than good.
Thanks, that was cool hearing about your use of itermplot :-)

https://github.com/daleroberts/itermplot
> The thing about busways is that the buses get to the end of the busway and can then go around different areas and pick people up in places it would be impossible or uneconomical to lay track.

This is only useful if you have a city geography and demographics conducive to this. A busway would be great in Pittsburgh, which is confined to narrow corridors, but not in Miami, which has a sprawling grid layout and the buses should reflect that.

The main problems with busways are that buses have lower driver/passenger ratios (so running costs are higher) and they require a lot more platform space and roadway space for the same capacity. The Lincoln Tunnel XBL in New York is an extremely busy busway, but even the current multistory terminal complex is not enough room to serve all the buses that go there. Likewise, the bus tunnel in Seattle has been converted to LRT because the LRT is much higher capacity. And so has the busway in Ottawa, and they're looking to do that in Los Angeles with the Orange Line as well.

You can have tree-branching LRT, like Muni Metro or Philly's Subway Surface or the Boston Green Line. It is more expensive upfront, but LRT also has advantages - being confined to rail, there's less lateral movement and smaller tunnel diameter requirements, and rail systems have lower ventilation requirements.
Houses appreciate while also having non-trivial upkeep costs that are often not factored in when people run the numbers on how much they "save" by owning.

If you want to become acutely aware of this, buy a rental property and see how close to just breaking even it usually is as a financial investment.
A problem we could pretty easily solve with event listings and maybe some subscription-based notifications. That would be both more fair and more effective than depending on the luck of seeing something that somebody with money wants to promote.
I wasn't involved in the talk so can't speak in detail to it, but as I understand it the purpose of it was to explore spaces other than messaging. For example, one of the applications they showed was making abuse detection more robust to URL cloaking.
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It used to be in a small town that your life was ruined by spurious rumors and salacious gossip.
What if they become tradesmen?
You need to look at the trends. For many decades China built up fossil fuel production and use as fast as possible, and didn't give a damn about the environmental consequences.

But then about a decade ago, the government suddenly realized it needed to get off fossil fuels, for a whole series of reasons (one of them being that, unlike American conservatives, Chinese governmental officials actually believe what their scientists tell them).

So China has been busy turning around the huge ocean liner of its economy as fast as it can, and the result is a great improvement in the first and second derivative of fossil fuels pollution (though a recent slowdown in the economy has also helped here).
> Unsure of it's intended or not, but the comment comes off really dismissive of what's been accomplished in the meantime.

I'm not trying to dismiss all the effort that goes into it, but from a, I suppose selfish, perspective it's a lot more important to enable humans to be a spacefaring species than it is to send probes themselves.

I guess I'm just too enamored with the Apollo missions and such.
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