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Oklahoma put restrictions in place after earthquakes threatened critical infrastructure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009–19_Oklahoma_earthquake_sw...

I believe the Netherlands is phasing out its industry because of concerns. I also recall reading about problems in China as they begin trying to frack.
we're not exactly talking about logical syllogisms. there is no specific implications; just an understanding of how people interact.

what if someone's whole team regularly attends these meetings, but that single someone never goes? even if they've never said anything, it doesn't seem unrealistic for at least some of the other teammates to wonder why.

how you get from wondering to suspicions really depends on a person's assumptions, philosophies, politics, etc.
If Ardan does not have something available, please reach out to me. We might have time available to accomodate in NL (not trying to steal stuff grom Ardan here, love what they do and offer!)
I lost count of the number of times that, say, some engineer 3 years out of college couldn't afford a 5 bedroom house

That engineer can probably afford a 5 bedroom house on their salary if they moved to a different city like Pittsburgh or Austin. So it isn't some abstract issue, it's just a concrete question of whether they would like to stay where they are, or move to a city where they could afford a 5 bedroom house.
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Blender has had a pretty incredible run. Their built in tenderer is so good (and open source) that a particle sim company ported it to Cinema4D
Driving has ruined quite a few lives, but we don't ban that.
> Hell, at that point the suburban areas could actually be net carbon sinks, given there's more room for big carbon-devouring trees in between single-family/duplex/quadruplex homes than there typically is between skyscrapers packed as tightly as possible (as is the norm in even small cities, let alone large ones).

This is absurd. If people move away from the suburbs, the trees will still be there, and more if we get into reforestation. Building a suburb generally involves cutting down trees. Humans living in a smaller area of the planet leaves more room for trees.
-> Many would say that any level of impaired is not ok
Many would also disagree, including the law which in my state allows a BAC of up to .08 to not be charged.

In general my opinion is that .08 BAC sounds reasonable and an equivalent of MJ "could" be also. But most cases that would be a huge amount of MJ, and still doesn't relate to the effects noticed at high consumption of alcohol. IE I have never seen someone smoke so much they black out and cannot control themselves. Whereas that's happening every night people go out drinking.

My view is that there is no good way to measure this universally among all people, and MJ "impaired" driving is a non-issue compared with Drunk Driving.

Should we test people for driving on caffeiene? What about after eating too much and being sleepy? These are effects on par and just judgement calls people need to make. If the officer can smell weed\finds it then that seems appropriate and enough.

EDIT: To the points below about people passing out or cops calling 911 on themselves that speaks to the incredible variety of experience people have and what someone might experience their first time with edibles. It's not comparable to the effects smoking has on regular users, and not something anyone should be doing while driving, but how do you test for that with a Breathalyzer?

Fair points but I think this testing is only about smoking? That would seem to give even less reason to support this kind of testing since it misses the most egregious cases of edibles. I think anyone would agree that people in that kind of state are in no condition to drive, but again in my experience way outside of normal usage and not something I have ever seen. If the test took that into account alright, but it seems like these breathalyzer would be detecting a far lower threshold

Double Edit: "Theyre working on it" when it comes to edibles....
This is not my experience at all.

I am more motivated to eat healthier, exercise, and so on when I smoke regularly. I spent most of my 20's sober and the opposite in my 30's and overall, my experience in my 30's was much better. I remember about as much either way - at least in the long term. I also learned a second language while mostly stoned.

Overall, I'm much more motivated.

And I'll state that overall, my life is full of wasted time. I don't have children nor much responsibility, really, and I'm over 40. I'm happy, though, and that isn't just the beer talking.

Edit: I can go either with or without and have taken semi-regular breaks from time to time. I'm mostly at weekends now, but that's mostly to save money rather than life stuff.
I concur. While I bring a "burner" phone and laptop, it's more so I have a scratch system I can play / experiement on than any real fear that a sensibly configured device is going to get pwned. I used my real phone and laptop during Defcon 27 last week, too. I do have bluetooth off, and I made sure I had no filesharing enabled, and the latest patches, etc.)

I've been to about 10 defcons, and I've never had a device pwned that wasn't a spare device I was playing with.
Watch Wizard of Oz with the sound off. Just as the MGM lion finishes roaring, drop the needle[1] onto the Dark Side of the Moon LP, and watch as the songs sync up to the imagery.

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[1] Or un-pause the CD/MP3 etc.
Even alcohol breathalyzers are regularly miscalibrated or defective and found to produce false positives. Legal pressure from manufacturers keeps this quiet.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/draeger-breathalyzer-breath-te...
My brother-in-law works at a very high end car detailing/film shop. He works on Ferraris and Lambos and McLarens and the like, but also Mercedes and Audi level of cars.

He also has to spend a lot of time detailing Teslas. Since his job is literally going every centimeter of the car with the proverbial fine tooth comb, he has come down hard against Tesla regarding the fit&finish compared to cars in the same price range. He geeks out hard over the drive train and performance, but when it comes to the interior and exterior panel fits, he's stated repeatedly how ... uneven everything is. Each car is extremely inconsistent, which he doesn't notice with the Audis and Mercedes and BMWs and such he has come through.

Even with all of that, I'd still be interested in a Model S. I would just like for the tolerance levels to be tightened before I do.
Are you looking for statistics with marjiuana or impairment in general?
Is someone driving high dangerous?
The complaint about "bringing in Node" and all the other dependencies is silly. Developers familiar with Node will already have it on their system - notch. Then the dependencies are just part of the ecosystem since this stuff ain't compiled. So, pointing it out is just being pedantic - that's all.
That's great assuming the device is accurate, precise, and repeatable. It's not clear that breathalyzers can achieve these either but the legal system loves using them as a conviction tool. This could be yet another addition to their dowsing rod toolkit.
That just sounds like a (very) elaborate troll. Write a three part book stuffed full of symbolism and then write an essay complaining how people read into the symbolism.

And surely what the reader sees in a work is at least as valid as what the author intended. If I see Mordor as Stalinist Russia, isnt that my prerogative? Its selling the art form short if the only possible interpretation is the authors own. /rant (against a dead guy)
IANAL: As I understand you can't use a breathalyzer test without a warrant.

Even when driving, you have the right to revoke it (other bad things happen, like taking your license away, but you can still refuse).

Taking a random standerby and breathalyzing him without consent or a warrant would be wrongful search and seizure.
> In this case

There are many examples in the article of insurance using misleading or faulty evidence, and people ending up in prison or homeless as the result.

> So the real newsworthy issue here, which the article missed, is why police departments in Pennsylvania don't investigate insurance fraud felonies unless someone in the private sector is willing to cover their expenses.

It is mind-boggling why you would think the investigators would be impartial when paid by the insurance companies. The examples from the article certainly point to the direct opposite of that.
Oysters can be eaten, but don't ignore the pearl.
Past that, if you've been awake for 18 hours, you're very likely to be impaired to the same extent as a 0.08 BAC.
For the curious ones, this policy change impacts slightly less than 10% of all potential claims (not claims that were made, but could've been made).

Quite large portion of these potential claims are short videos that are being re-uploaded from other platforms, like TikTok and Instagram.

Disclaimer: I run a company that monitors YouTube and other platforms for analytical purposes, some related to copyright. Our system is able to identify segments as short as 0.5 second which allows us to produce this kind of information.
It's weird though, if you look back at this week, yesterday for a few hours it was sunny _and_ windy in the middle of the day. That ought to depress the hell out of prices, most of the gas plants were idled. But for some reason a cold plant was fired up.

Did they lose money running that plant? Is there some setup where running the plant a certain amount (maybe on windy days when pollution effects in the vicinity are smallest) is just treated as a good thing even though we really ought to be burning less fossil fuels not more?

I don't understand the economics of coal versus gas in this space in a market like the UK. It seems as though with gas being cheaper it would just never make economic sense to burn coal when gas plants aren't 100% flat out. But clearly I am wrong somehow.
The police can slam your head against the pavement just fine without tools, and in any case usually carry sticks that can achieve much the same effect.
> Silence is a privilege

One could easily argue that having the freedom to express an opinion on topics for which only one opinion is acceptable is much more privileged position to be in.
Ya, but we are almost already their for rhythm games. The biggest problem with the experience is the latency between action and effect (slicing a block to feeling its impact), which seems to push 100 or 200 ms sometimes, the bottleneck seems to be in general processing ATM.
Given that only I can see that data (which is even stated on that very webpage), no I don't consider it intrusive. If the provision of basic services by Google to me without third parties is intrusive, then ios is intrusive in the very same way because it is 'apple's data collection apparatus'. Apple, like Google collects a vast amount of data on its users.

And in addition i'm sure you're aware that google paid apple 9 billion last year to make it the standard search engine in apple's safari browser. Just a week ago we learned that apple stores significant amounts of its icloud userdata on third party servers despite not disclosing that fact to its users. (related article: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/01/apple...)

So if shoving vast amounts of data through the Google ecosystem is your definition of intrusion, you can add apple to the list.
Studying the excitation spectrum of a trapped dipolar supersolid
Legalization is probably more likely to bring about good testing, with a bit of lag time, and hopefully lead to fewer people driving while high, which some people will do even when it's not legal.

Also, FWIW, if it's legal, in some places you can even order it for delivery ( http://dutchie.com ) which certainly beats being out on the road.
Cloudfare has 'NET' IIRC. Funny!
I'm a cyclist as well and impairment via cell-phone or hands-free call has been the most threatening for myself personally. And every parking lot ever is liking gambling with my life.
> Do I see systems like Content ID going away without a change in law? Absolutely not.

Considering the new EU Copyright Directive, especially with Article 17, if anything, the world is moving closer towards CID-like systems than away from it.
I have to second this. While overshadowed by the first, all of the Oz books by L. Frank Baum are excellent reads full of imagination and compelling characters.
Wireless mice that use their own little receivers and not bluetooth are also very susceptible to monitoring.

See: https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/14/20692471/logitech-mouseja...

I use a wired keyboard, but I also use a wireless mouse! I've been careful at DEFCON not to.
It can. I think Utah and North Carolina allow it today.

You can make a contract denominated in gold in those states, and I believe that the state won't levy capital gains taxes on Gold or Silver.
Wat? Both China and India are years ahead of US in terms of renewables. Not only they are already ahead, they also invest more.
Those ones use half-height blocks I think, which goes a loooong way already.

https://github.com/sindresorhus/terminal-image-cli

https://github.com/atanunq/viu
Wait, people are replacing so many components but systemd didn't do a great job at modularity?
There’s a Wikipedia link downthread, the one person in question is not the author of ‘Debt’
An hour? Jesus Lord. I’m pretty to work in C4D with lowish polygon counts for motion graphics.
It's not just the CO2 picture for emissions, keep in mind methane is a far more potent GHG and there is going to be some amount of leakage in the workflow of getting gas from fracking to the turbine. Colorado has the gold standard regulation for methane emissions, check it out:

https://www.denverpost.com/2019/04/24/colorado-regulators-ne...
Lol. Do really you think the American police just randomly think "damn i'm blood hungry today i'll kill some innocent people'? No.

They are violent because the criminals they are dealing with are violent. In Europe, the chance of a police officer getting shot at when approaching someone is closer to zero; in the US it's something that happens daily.
Looks like a kind of mass mania.
> We should be at a place where the conversation doesn't really change.

Sounds like some Harrison Bergeron bullshit. I'd rather people have different experiences and opinions but be able to calmly disagree about it.
Maybe equating 'conservative views' to racism and sexism _is_ detrimental to this conversation?

We're talking on an article where an employee interpreted _silence_ as racism! There is a valid point that (non-bigoted) conservative opinions are being silenced.

i.e. Say you think that we should reduce the immigration rate, and wanted to discuss your reasons with your coworkers -- would you feel comfortable discussing that @ a SF tech company?
Driving impaired in any way shape or form is dangerous.

https://www.dailycamera.com/2016/06/09/affidavit-teen-driver...
> The experience of sitting in a $70k+ Tesla is below that of a Honda Civic.

As someone who has owned two Honda Civics and now owns a Model 3 you are laughably off the mark here.

> Tesla is pretty much done the day BMW and MB and Audi get the hang of the electric thing.

"Netflix is pretty much done the day Blockbuster gets the hang of the online thing."

"Apple is pretty much done the day Nokia gets the hang of the smartphone thing."

It's astounding to me how a community of technologists and entrepreneurs still can't grasp the innovator's dilemma at play here. Tesla's lead is accelerating every year as a new Tesla killer has been perpetually "around the corner." Cadillac ELR, BMW i3, Chevy Bolt, Chevy Volt, Audi E-Tron, Jaguar I-Pace were all supposed to eat Tesla's lunch. Just look at the sales numbers. Not even close.
> Would it have happened with another auto manufacturer?

Of course. But other auto manufacturers have better service / warranty service.

When you're looking at a fleet-wide deployment of many vehicles, those warranty / service agreements become more important. No reasonable business expects perfection from any auto manufacturer, they just expect warranty / service at a decent rate for any given problem.
Email as a standard is a neutral vector for mass communication but email in it's real-world form as a service provided by large 3rd-parties is not. Email service providers have monopolized the market for personal emails for two reasons, the first being the difficulty of setting up and maintaining a personal email server, and second being the enormously difficult challenge of filtering "spam". Google's Gmail service has a near monopoly over the personal email market and their highly effective spam filters played a huge role in the early success of that platform (large amounts of free storage was the primary reason but their spam filters were also the best at the time). Yes, that's plausible but the context in which it occured does raise questions. On a more anecdotal note, I have noticed that particular emails (membership renewal reminders, specific call-to-action campaign emails, etc) coming from 2nd Amendment groups wind up in my spam folder whereas other, less activity inducing emails from the same groups pass through without issue.

The manner in which emails are classified as spam is something that will always be highly subjective, leaving room for malevolent manipulation to occur. I'm fact, there may be precedent for this dating back to the 2016 election. There was a brief period where all Trump campaign emails were being flagged as spam by Gmail's filter algorithms. Google had plausible deniability in stating that it was a glitch caused by their algorithm's ability to globally flag senders whose emails are overwhelmingly deleted before being opened by users.
Mind dropping that link?
Really? For like a decade they had a PLE (similar to Houdini's Apprentice). As a tech guy in vfx it was awesome that I could fire up a new version at home so I could quickly see if they fixed some long-standing bug or evaluate a new feature. They stopped 3-4 years ago. I remember schools still paying for their educational edition (10-20 years ago) and haven't heard of a free offering--only the discounted LT version. I've only seen the 30-day demo, which I avoid using in case I need it in the future.
Maybe the fix is to require the submission to include the timestamp start and end. And if there is also copyrighted imagery, that the submission include black boxes around the restricted imagery (for video imagery the would include the timstamp start and end).

Then, the resolution would be to wipe out the original audio and black out any imagery similarly. Thus if a car drives by playing something copyrighted, it would simply cut the audio for a few seconds. No loss of revenue to the original poster. And beyond that, provide the video poster a chance to edit the video without the original sound/images. If they re-upload it with the sound/images still included, then they can have negative consequences for their account. If they re-upload with everything "fixed" then they shall have no negative marks on their permanent record.
"The first shaft drives for cycles appear to have been invented independently in 1890 in the United States and Britain." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaft-driven_bicycle)

This basic idea has had over a hundred years to take off.

The particular design seen here appears particularly impractical.

The rear shifting mechanism has a poor selection of gear ratios for road use. The gear ratios are not sufficiently close.
In my bike I have a Shimano Claris (or Sora?) cassette like this: with 12-13-14-15-17-19-21-23 teeth:

https://i.imgur.com/BFFBYzj.jpg

Even if the drive train has a bit more efficiency, if the gear ratios are bad, that will be a deal breaker, because bad gear ratios wreck the efficiency of the human power plant.

The system has to be extremely rigid for the gears not to skip. If there is any flexibility in the system, it requires massive preload to hold the parts in contact. The chain solves this problem; its own tension binds it to the sprocket teeth.

The rear engagement mechanism has a kind of gear made up of a dozen tiny bearings. Once dirt from road spray gets inside those, they are done.

This is a basically a fair weather toy for yuppies who don't know anything about bicycles.
The science is actually pretty concrete regarding the impairing effects of THC. Because cannabis is a schedule 1 drug, it can be very difficult for researchers to get their hands on real world doses of THC. Instead, they use very low doses that are not relevant to what is actually sold at dispensaries. For a really good review of all things cannabis impairment, I would recommend looking through the following report by the Cannabis Control Commission in Massachusetts. A little long, but a lot of good information. https://mass-cannabis-control.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01...
There are going to be big bills to the taxpayer. Pensions, retiree health care, site cleanup, etc. The Black Lung Fund which operates off of a coal tax already has a ballooning deficit, we're going to be paying for those people for decades.
Unethical behavior is still unethical if other people are doing it too. In the case of Amazon there isn't a physical evaluation of a product if it's "on and end cap" and promoted like a typical brick and mortar store. I've purchased the Amazon Choice item many times as I didn't have time to read reviews on a dozen similar products and assumed the one they recommended was well rated, reliable, the best choice. If it was properly labelled "Featured by Amazon," I'd have assumed something very different and inspected the product carefully.

In a physical store, I have ignored the end cap because the product was visibly a smaller volume than a competitor at a similar price. I can also go to the aisle section and directly compare all the options the store presents vs products filtered down and advertised to me by Amazon's algorithms. There is bias but more transparency like bottom shelf vs eye level. Amazon is a black hole unless you still trust their review system.
I agree this is a tangent we need not go down, but this person is directly responding to this line:

> The whole "they're a private company, they can do anything!" argument is growing weaker by the day as these companies have more influence in our lives (with both good (e.g. anti-hate content) and bad (e.g. copyright holders stepping on small creators) consequences).

I think it's fair to mention that censoring hate speech can indeed be a gray area. For example, there are cases were atheists that were formerly muslims speak out against their former religion, and are subsequently branded (by some, not all) as engaging in hate speech.
Have you tried tubeless? I've run them on mountain bikes for yonks, and have now done so on my (non-racing) road bike for about 2 years now with very few complaints. (My race-race bike is fitted with tubs)

They can be messy, but I've lost count of the number of self-healed punctures I've had over the years. A small loss of pressure and off you go.
This has a strong undercurrent of "you're either with us or against us" where no one is allowed to simply be neutral. While I understand the theory that doing nothing means you support the status quo, forcing people to explicitly choose a side more often than not ends up pushing them to support the other side, which as a result grows stronger in power. Forcing someone who doesn't want to support you to support you generally breeds resentment and generates negative value for your cause. Those who can be pushed into support tend to be the first to abandon your cause when the opportunity arises. Welcoming those who are leaning towards your direction instead of trying to force those who are ambivalent has a much higher return on investment of your time and resources.
This is still reasonably true for Adobe and C4D (Maxon in particular seem to do virtually nothing to stop piracy)