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Not all consuming is importing, and not all production is exported. This distinction is actually crucial. The balance of trade is only one part of a bigger picture, the other is domestic production and consumption. You can't understand one without also factoring in the other.

If a country has a very productive, vibrant and innovative domestic economy, it can increase the value of it's domestic net assets. It generates valuable new technology perhaps, it finds ways to maintain it's standard of living using fewer resources, or simply increases it's standard of living at current prices. It becomes a wealthier nation, without trading externally at all. Maybe it even attracts foreign investment.

In 2018 the US trade deficit was $890m (10% higher than 2017, thanks Trump), but it's GDP growth was $1trn.

If internal activities increase the value of the domestic economy by more than the trade deficit, then the trade deficit really doesn't matter. It's already paid for.

Finally, the only way to buy goods abroad is for someone to sell your currency and buy theirs. If you're buying more abroad than people buy from you, the balance is exactly equal to the 'deficit' in trade of your currency. Well, nobody is forcing anyone to buy your currency but if they do that's implicitly an investment in your economy.
nothing like a dash of antisemitism and homophobia to get your extremely erudite point across
Are you familiar with the research on psychedelics?

Here is another extremely respected commentator who expresses skepticism: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/09/10/ssc-journal-club-relax...

Do you dismiss Scott Alexander as a false skeptic also?

Also - that dude in your video is presenting a false dichotomy and no true Scotsman fallacy in order to market himself an authority on personal development. I’d be careful with that stuff because it’s classic cult leader behavior. Having a ready dismissal for threatening ideas generally does not make us smarter.

Having looked at your bio I feel compassion for you, since I think you are sincere, and it seems like your desire for enlightenment and healing are being exploited.
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I know a lot of young people who would never smoke a cigarette (because cancer), the kind who only eat organic, but who vape "because it's perfectly safe and harmless"

I asked some of them "how do you know it's safe?". The typical answer is "it's just water vapor and nicotine"
Intellectual dishonesty is pretending that Trump's policies are identical to Obama's.

For example, at least one of the infamous chain-link-cage detention centers was indeed built under Obama. That's worth knowing, and it's also worth knowing that, by law, children were to be kept there for no more than 72 hours before being transferred to better quarters.

The zero-tolerance policy that separated children from parents as the norm rather than an exception, that resulted in children being stuffed in those cages far beyond their intended capacity and left there for weeks, in unsanitary conditions, was all Trump. The deaths of an unprecedented seven children in one year in ICE custody, despite the total number of detainees nationwide being lower, was on Trump's watch.

Sources:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/obama-build-cages-immigran...

https://www.apnews.com/fdfbafe1f2784a759bc7c3a8e8ddbcab

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/why-are-migrant-children...

Downvoters: I'm curious if you believe my facts are incorrect, or if you're just downvoting because you don't like my politics.
Still not going to happen.
Here's an anecdote: I'm a one man shop who has been planning, developing and deploying Django applications for six years. I have not got to the point where my deploys are automated because I am swamped with work just keeping my clients up to date and my servers ticking along. I usually deploy one client per $5 DO VPS.

I just deployed my first project to PythonAnywhere and I am blown away at how much easier is. I'm going to pass the cost on to clients and that's that. I'm going to be less stressed and can concentrate on what I want to do: build applications.

I don't know if it's "severless" in the same sense as AWS Lambda or whatever, but I can imagine many solo/small shops seeing less ops work as a godsend.
Many people are upset about the child separation and detention policies which were not standard under the Obama administration as opposed to deportation. Conflating the two seems to embody the same intellectual dishonesty you're railing against.

https://www.npr.org/2019/04/09/711446917/fact-check-trump-wr...
That further reinforces the parent poster’s point: if you’re the sort of person who learnt how to launder crypto and goes to TPB to save money, you are unlikely to be the type who will voluntarily surrender money for some sort of cause.
If what you are saying is true, then there is no way that TI would be able to maintain a $100+ price point on a $25 calculator. So that itself is evidence that the TI-84 is a requirement in many student situations. Even if something else can be used on exams, if you don't have the calculator that the text books are written to, or that the teacher knows how to teach against, you are at a major disadvantage.
"let us import 200 million of phones and we will totally make ~1 million of this overpriced computer in US"
It's not like it leaves the atmosphere and gets blown into space like Helium. I'm sure it collects in bones, plants, gets washed into the sea and it's generally just spread around.
Although there is value in trying to removing pain when doing so would be ethical, this thread mentions many situations where there is pain but no possibility yet of removing or reducing it. In these cases, a long-term general solution is to continue research on these situations. But the short-term solution per person is to learn the meaning and value of suffering. It is frowned upon in intellectual forums to discuss religion, as if religion were incompatible with logic and reason. But Jesus came to teach us how to endure suffering without failing in our duties. That is what he did, what he showed us how to do, and what he gives us the power to do through the Sacraments, especially Holy Communion. Because this is true power: to endure suffering without failing. And evil means failure because it is an absence of power to do what is both good and proper; sin is simply a lack of power. You will not learn any of this in any philosophy or world-religions class, or intellectual discussions over caviar. You will only learn and understand this through experiencing it, which can only be started by a humble trust that Jesus came into this world to suffer and die for our sake, out of love for us, and he will teach us how to do good, even in the midst of suffering. He knows our pain better than we do. He suffered more than we ever could.
Someone else posted a response to a similar point, higher up in this thread.

"They aren’t paying attention and when the light turns green they may either hit a pedestrian as they hurry to move , or not notice the green and be rear ended by a driver who expects them to begin moving."
I think this misses that it's easy to type some of the nastiest things you can imagine into a comment prompt, but it is substantially harder to set up a box on a college campus and shout them through a megaphone, particularly when you start getting nasty looks, jeered at, or harrassed.

Facebook is the perfect outlet for every dingus who thinks themselves transgressive for having a cruel opinion or two but who can't handle the the cost of social ostracism.

This outlet reinforces and radicalizes beliefs gradually because there is no obvious "cost" or "censure" for saying horrible things about your fellow man except, perhaps, being unfollowed. The most unwell in our society use sites like facebook and 4chan and particularly their say-anything mechanism as incubators for their paranoia and rage and then go kill people. There's an obvious cause and effect here, even if the person was unwell prior to engaging with the site.

So, no, it's not Facebook's fault that people think and say this stuff, but it has created a mechanism to amplify it. And the design of the system, driven by "engagement" (aka addiction), creates a negative feedback loop. The more awful something is, the angrier we get, the more we engage, comment, argue, and the higher it climbs in the feed.

They are definitely responsible for this algorithm, at the very least.
Hmm, if you're in a jurisdiction where it's illegal to be using your phone, I'm not sure how upset we should be about the police invading your privacy to prove you're breaking the law? I suppose you could argue that such a camera would also potentially capture the screens of passengers, though.
Honestly I'm not sure how to define "control" when dealing with languages in the abstract and not just compilation to conventional machine code.

Many control operators involve continuations with closures, and cannot be desugared to goto as such.
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In London the rules are really stupid. Using smart-devices while driving is allowed as long as the device is mounted. Woe betide anyone caught with a phone to their ear.
Thankfully it looks like Neocon days are behind us with the retirement of the Old Guard.
>> Why is vaping perceived as so dangerous? Compared with cigarettes its damn near harmless

Vaping is also much more expensive than cigarettes. If Juul contributes to getting huge amounts of young people addicted to nicotine what do you think they'll do when they can't afford e-juice? We've already seen the results with fentanyl being the trade-in of choice.
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Your above post was awfully inflammatory for someone not interested in discussion.
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> I'm pretty sure my calculus classes disallowed calculators and only stuck to magic numbers that were easy to manually calculate with

That's the key. There's two schools of thought that have their pros and cons. 1) using magic number means no calculator, but students can get by searching for clean answers and might not truly understand the topic. 2) using real world examples grounds the curriculum in reality so there isn't a gap applying it, and you're not used to the cleanliness in the future, but might be a bit opaque in the short term.

Both sides have pretty good arguments why they do better than the other teaching a number sense to students about the various transformations.
We always reach for the analogies that match our experience most closely. If this were 200 years ago, we'd say that the immune system was like a lock-and-key mechanism, or perhaps we'd say it was like a bank checking for correct signatures.

Indeed, I remember a kid's cartoon about our bodies when I was growing up that showed germs that had evolved the correct antigens as being spies passing through passport control with forged passports.
"Nicotine is one of the most addicting agent (sic). The US surgeon general (2010) has concluded nicotine to be as addictive as cocaine or heroin."

Is this really true? The last time I looked carefully into this claim, I found that pretty much everyone conflates nicotine and tobacco, and that the precious few studies on nicotine showed minimal addictiveness. E.g.:

"However, substantial evidence exists to suggest that nicotine's reinforcing effects alone are not sufficient to account for the intense addictive properties of tobacco smoking ..."[1]

If anyone has further references, that would be great.

There are also known health benefits of nicotine [2][3]. Probably, just like for every other drug, we need to better understand the risk vs reward tradeoffs.

[1] https://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/25/4/444

[2] https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xw7agz/four-surprising-po...

[3] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/will-a-nicotine-p...
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We're talking about two different things for two different purposes.

It is possible for people to eat meat and not experience any cognitive dissonance because they're mindfully aware of what they're consuming, what has gone into it, and the reason behind it. See Native Americans as an example. Yes, even the Dalai Lama consumes meat. I don't judge people for their dietary choices. I'm specifically talking about people who gorge on a diet carelessly at the expense of the environment and the economy as a point of evidence that we're unlikely to ever see antibiotics being diminished in the market in our lifetimes.

No offense intended but this is getting derailed a little bit because you seem to be using this thread as a soapbox to push an agenda unrelated to the discussion.
I believe that they dictate specific models so that the proctors can learn in advance how to verify that the calculator is not being used to bring in outside notes.

It's unreasonable to only allow models from one manufacturer, but dictating specific models for each allowed manufacturer is not unreasonable.
All of us face Ergonomic health hazards due to long hours at work
1. It might depend on your location. In Europe they are huge and it's impossible to miss the news. In America they might have no sales and no consumer business?

2. They mostly sell holiday packages, not much separate flight tickets. So in a way they are the previous generation competitor to Expedia. One reason why they have been in difficulties.
This whole thing has nothing to do with keeping kids off nicotine and everything to do with keeping people of all ages on cigarettes.

Vaping is safer than smoking.

Let's say I'm Phillip Morris. I sell Marlboro and a slew of other cigarette brands. E-cigs come along, offering a safer alternative that is importantly much more cost effective. They're eating my lunch.

How do I kill this industry? I buy Juul. I remove the fruity flavors (which people of all ages enjoy more than tobacco flavors) and I claim that I'm doing it to protect the children.

Juul is now much worse off; big tobacco gets to claim that it's looking out for the kids; last step is to manufacture a public crisis to have cover for over-reaching legislation that bans what would otherwise be the least harmful of all age-restricted products.

Keep smoking.
That’s not actually true. There more demand for liquidity than there are actual investments. That’s why government debt helps the economy. Same way poker chips help a casino.
They removed his name from everywhere _except_ the license notices. Which is kinda worse.
There's a lot the rest of the world can learn from Dutch agriculture:
https://www.allaboutfeed.net/Feed-Additives/Articles/2017/10...
cigarettes are a very close substitute for vaping and much cheaper
Apple’s scale is a limiting factor, not just a benefit. I’d be surprised to see MacBooks or iPhones made in Texas because the scale of manufacturing is so much higher than Mac Pro.
What I'm saying is that it doesn't matter what kind of GPS you're using. Set your destination(s) before you drive, and pull over if you need to adjust them. Telling drivers to do that is not "screw[ing] the poors", as you've suggested.
Check out Snowden's inteview with John Oliver. Snowden outright admitted he hadn't read all the documents. He said he was 'familiar' with them.
If you believe that inflating the debt away is a viable strategy then I have a 100 Trillion Zimbabwe dollar note to sell you for 40 cents. The Zimbabwe government tried that and look at what happened to their dollar! Also, I have a loaf of bread to sell you for $1,000.

Nowadays, America's largest export isn't soybeans or corn, it's the American Dollar. See this link for more info on the Petrodollar: https://www.thebalance.com/what-is-a-petrodollar-3306358
> I did pay via (prepaid) credit card so it'll be interesting to see whether I'll ever get my money back...

Curious: what card is both "prepaid" and a credit card?
Is Kafka a Database?
I did this.

Oddly enough in a computer science class we had an old professor. He accused me of cheating. He was right. However, he physically inspected my calculator like under the cover and where batteries are lol but did not check the programs. He apologized. I did well on the test.
> Vaping is safer than smoking

We don't have evidence for this. Vaping appears, due to its lack of combustion, safer than cigarettes. But we don't have the science to say it's safer.

This unfounded leap--from reasonable hypothesis to finding--is part of what is getting Juul in trouble.
So you were lucky to receive a system that just works without issues so you never had to contact their support in the first place. That way of reasoning would work for even the shittiest company on this planet.

I'm really glad I read this piece. The geek in me was playing with the idea of getting a Talos 2, but the pricing makes me really hesitate. Knowing that if I'd end up with a problematic unit their support will be absolutely worthless is important information.
Like Google ;P
Plus you probably learn more coding the algorithm into a calculator than you would learn regurgitating something from memory. That's a win either way.
> I think fruit flavors should be banned just like they are in cigarettes

Should this apply to vodka and other liquors as well?
I've been Rider almost exclusively for about 2 years now, ever since I've been coding Core. VS is fine, but VS w/Resharper is a dog. With Rider, R# is a first class citizen, which makes a huge difference. Not to mention that the vim emulation and other addons are solid due to being shared with the intellij suite of apps.
In an optimally functioning world yeah - in an artificial world, where all of them lose money and are propped up artificially, one failure will lead to the rest of them perhaps losing a little less money ...

or it could be that travel drops - fewer flights overall may mean fewer passengers for all of them - most flying is purely leisure
The root of the problem is bad driving. You can be stone sober, fully rested and have your phone locked in the trunk of your car, but none of that matters if you lack the skills needed to operate a vehicle at speed. Drivers education is woefully inadequate and the only driving laws I see enforced are the ones which have a clear easy to obtain financial incentive attached for the police.
I did the same in Racket when I made a Tor search engine. Here's the source code of the crawler!

https://github.com/torgle/torgle/blob/master/backend/torgle....
wow news to me, wonder how long that will take to catch on

onion like "layered" services
Kotlin has them too.
Perhaps why game devs don't call themselves software engineers.
>> Vaping is also much more expensive than cigarettes.

Are you serious? A pack is between $5 and $10 depending on where you live. You might go through that in half a day.

A bottle of e-cig "juice" is like $30 and lasts you for a month.

And I don't even understand the allusion to fentanyl...
Though there are fabs in Texas. The 2 that I know of for sure are Samsung is Austin about 5 miles down the road from the Flextronics plant that builds the MacPro.

National Semiconductor has a fab up in Arlington Texas.

I'm not sure if Texas Instruments still has their fabs open or not, but they had several at one point too. Sure there are more that I don't know about.
Kivy is a broken pile of patches. You must be trolling.
For one of my college trig class, there was at least one test that was "no calculator allowed". In this case, all the answers were symbolic, or used specific angles that had results that you can write out using whole numbers (or at least whole numbers under the sqrt symbol).

I asked the instructor, and was allowed to use a slide rule, however (my trusty Picket N1010-ES)
I've heard it's impossible to get smarter. The key is to stay smart and not get stupider, which I've heard is profundly easy.
Sure, but it perverts incentives when a crime is punished only when it is a certain level of severity but not when it's more severe than that. For the people who are looking at their phones at red lights today, what percentage of them will stop because of this, and what percentage will say, "Oh there's a camera here, I'll wait until I'm on the highway to check my texts."
I agree with your sentiment, but to answer your specific question comparing e-cigarettes to alcohol (or really Juul to Budweiser) - public acceptance. Alcohol, love it or hate it, is an integral component of human cultures going back millennia. Drugs (other than alcohol) are also important, but I would wager alcohol on its own is more important than all of the other recreational drugs combined (I welcome arguments against this unsubstantiated claim).

People love to hate cigarettes, especially cigarette companies. Juul just got an enormous amount of money (almost 11 digits) from what was formerly Philip Morris. For the most part, attempts to regulate cigarettes have been successful. Hell, arguably attempts to regulate other drugs have been successful (the war on drugs is a mess, but outlawing psychadelics did impact their availability). Alcohol, on the other hand, is accepted by most people. Attempts to outlaw it have been less than successful (contrary to popular belief prohibition in the United States actually did decrease drinking, but it was still very unpopular).

Taking alcohol away from Americans is like taking away our guns. Maybe it's for the best, but prepare for people to literally die fighting you. E-cigarettes however are still relatively nascent and could be banned before they'd be anything more than a footnote in human history.
Personally, I find the environmental issues & existential threat of climate change that livestock farming contributes towards is the far more motivating factor in reducing consumption of meat & animal products. It's a false dichomity to say it's impossible to 'love' some animals while eating others; it's bit absurd to claim since humans have been doing so for 1000s of years and that we've domesticated an entire species (dogs), in part, to help us raise livestock, etc.
Well this is fascinating but the notes run out and I don't have three hours to listen to a podcast. Does anyone subscribe to this site that can share the notes?
Very true. Just today, I had to use an old 3G phone tethered to my laptop for data connection and found my ping times to be in orders of 5-10 seconds and at sporadic intervals in between data was getting sent/received in bursts at much lower latencies. It wasn't fun trying to get work done on such a connection.
Old blog, now gone, sorry :(
Re: At the end of the day, we will end this debt by printing money.

Normally this risks runaway inflation, but inflation has been subpar of late such that some "printing" may not hurt. However, it's a bad habit to get into.

To force discipline, we need something similar to a balanced budget amendment that allows Keynesian stimulus when warranted. However, it will probably have to have a "timer clause" to kick in several years away and gradually, because the side-effects could be a dampening of the economy, hurting current law-maker's reelection. Spreading the bitter medicine out over time may make it more politically acceptable.
The problem then becomes complicated because Profits can not be calculated on a per country basis.

I am not against the idea these company contribute back. But there seems to be no obvious way of how to deal with it globally.
You make it sound like CSS Grids is a replacement for flexbox. They each solve very different problems, and they complement each other.