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> can't imagine doing anything social in the evenings after work

So this is key. Start using your God given high voltage brain and start imagining. Then plan. Then implement.

Looks? Effendi, you see the most gorgeous women with the most unlikely males all the time. I wouldn't worry about that even a tiny bit.

> I did, however, perform stand-up comedy twice last week, at two different venues. Both times went pretty well, but I don't feel compelled to do it again anytime soon.

A sense of humor is one of the most attractive qualities in a man to a woman. You are already set. You are smart, you are funny, you have a fucking job.

Have you considered you are ungrateful to the Universe or God or the Spaghetti Monster? :-)
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You should absolutely do it.

Here is my playlist.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjIYRqpIFecr00pZcfWM4...

Don't worry too much about the 60's. What you really want is an aesthetic which overlaps a lot (but isn't identically equal to) the 60's.

Try and find a tree swaying in the wind, or something which moves at similar speeds with difficult to track shapes. Fireworks are also nice.

Your sense of time is wrong. Set yourself a deadman switch. Use your phone to set a 20 min timer, and when it goes off acknowledge it and then reset it.

Stare at a bright spot or a lightbulb for a few seconds then close your eyes. The after image will look like it got chopped up in frequency space.

Do it with a friend.

Give yourself 8 hours. This is a whole day affair.

Ignore the old head and get on the darknet or find an in person broker.
A more specific case of the general principle that work involves conflict.
These incidents are making me reevaluate my views on the Cold War. Growing up after the Cold War was over, I always thought the domestic reaction (in the US) to the Soviet Union and Communism was overblown. Of course, growing up during the 1990s boom, it was inconceivable to me that any foreign country could have the slightest negative impact on me, or that there was any possibility that the future offered anything other than the American way of life for more and more people.
This is true for me. Public schools are so horrible that it drives me insane just to think about it. And people brush it off because of some vague notion that there’s no other choice. Look at billy eilish. She’s fantastic and very successful and she was homeschooled. Palmer luckey who founded oculus and is now worth something like 500 million dollars, homeschooled. “I can’t afford homeschooling. I have never even tried to assemble a budget or think critically about it but I just know it would be too expensive and would not work because nobody was ever successful after homeschooling. I guess I’ll just throw my child to the lions and hope they don’t become a shooter.”
I thought there were laws and regulations requiring automakers to reserve a certain number of spare parts for everything they make and support it for a period of time.
Rural US, right? Keep in mind that the providers in your area are also in areas where they compete with others on premium price. Just because you anecdotally don't see it doesn't mean the competition isn't happening.
Typically the CCO, the 'Chief Compliance Officer' of the company, and if that doesn't work escalate to the local data protection authority or equivalent.

Note that quite often privacy policies get 'lost' in website updates so usually companies will be quite happy if you point this out to them.
"They have been unable to migrate to AWS <pause> because it's not good enough." No, Larry, it's because database migration is hard and risky.
The TV in the 90s didn’t have a computer built in where you could download apps nor did have an internet connection. You unfortunately can’t buy a TV today that isn’t “smart”. The same video sources that you watch on your computer, are usually available on TVs - YouTube, Netflix, Hulu, etc.
The same people pissing and shitting on the sidewalks are going to break/steal the robots.
I think you're talking about letterboxing, which Mozilla stole as a good idea from Tor a while back, and is gated behind the "privacy.resistFingerprinting" config option. It was covered here at the time.[1]

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19323032
Does that solve anything though? Surely any such blog posts would get shared on Twitter, by some combination of official, unofficial, and civilian accounts.
> Arimasu and Desu aren't vocal-tics... It's just differing levels of politeness or formality. A character always using them can signify a lot of things like haughtiness, noblesse oblige (misplaced or not), deference, a failure to integrate with/judge the nature of their relationship with one's peers. It really depends on the situation.

But even then, Arimasu and Desu are abused to "catchphrase" levels by Wilhelmina (Shakugan no Shana) and Suiseiseki (Rozen Maiden). For example: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlk6RcSLrpw)

If you wanted me to point out a particular "Vocal Tic", then I'll choose Deidara's "Hmph" that is added to a huge number of his lines (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FU1LF-NnlvY)

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What I'm saying is: the original Japanese seems to lean extremely heavily on the use of catch-phrases and/or vocal tics. A lot of anime-watching (even in full Subs) almost feels like Donald-Duck or Loony Tunes level of vocal tics and/or catch-phrases.

I mean sure, we all love "I'm a Doctor not a X" (McCoy from Star Trek). Or Homer's "Doh". But its an issue of how often they say it IMO that kind of draws me out of Japanese Subtitles sometimes. There's a level of "campiness" whenever a character leans on a catch-phrase.

In the American Dub, the use of catch-phrases is almost always toned down. So there's less "campiness" and I take the result somewhat more seriously.
In a vacuum sure, but you are the product that Blizzard is selling to new players and to players who want to show off the cool skins they got from loot boxes. If there is no one to play with no one will buy.
I'm sorry your comment has been blasted to oblivion. There really is that level of Oracle hate out there. There's no way my top level comment should be 100+ upvotes, it's a pretty vanilla opinion. But man people hate oracle...

In reality, your experience as a dev might not be that bad from within the ecosystem.

But take the hate for what it is: learn portable tooling, be aware of the proprietary bindings, and architect to be more database agnostic.

It may save your job if the budget cuts are between ludicrous oracle licensing and auditing costs, or your salary.
NetEase, their regional publisher, made that statement. It was also posted before the controversy started.
> Imagine if one or two companies had sole ownership over all of the broadcast radio spectrum

umm .... that's true though. iHeartRadio and Cumulus domain the American radio market.
Blind is anonymous.
Hi talking_panda! I found myself in a very similar position four years ago, quitting my career at the time (the electric/autonomous vehicle industry) to find more fulfilling, meaningful, and ultimately tangibly impactful work. Along the way, I found a lot of answers to my questions from Effective Altruism — using evidence and reason to do the most good.

I like their framework of looking for cause areas that are large (you're already looking for this), tractable (so your work might actually result in something), and neglected (where your marginal impact is highest). That'll probably lead you toward:

1) Global poverty & public health: The evidence here is vast, and the marginal impact is huge in the developing world, where simple interventions like giving people money (GiveDirectly) or anti-malarial bednets (Against Malaria Foundation) save a life at the cost of ~$2,000. GiveWell does an excellent job evaluating these charities. This is where I ended up, but in the for-profit sector, at Zipline (flyzipline.com). We deliver essential medicines and vaccines by drone to the rural poor in Rwanda & Ghana. Some of our projects are funded by great organizations in this space like Gates & GAVI. I also donate ~50% of my income to GiveWell top charities, along with...

2) Farm animal welfare: Depending on how much you value an animal's life and well-being in relation to a person, the vast suffering of farmed animals is a huge problem that is also quite neglected and tractable. According to Animal Charity Evaluators (the GiveWell of this space), the most effective organizations are those like The Humane League (corporate outreach for improved standards) or The Good Food Institute (promoting and developing meat-alternatives, e.g. Impossible Burgers, or cultured meat).

3) Improving the long-term future: If you value the lives of future generations, then you might choose to focus on mitigating existential risks, i.e. those that risk extincting humanity. AI risk mitigation, e.g. OpenAI, gets a lot of focus in the bay area for obvious reasons, but there are many other opportunities here, e.g. reducing global pandemic risk, nuclear security, etc.

Hope this helps, and of course, I'd be happy to provide more links, articles, books, blogs, or podcasts on any of this! Or even better, put you in touch with some of the folks who work at these organizations
You are still engaged and eventually you will buy something. A hard boycott is best if you want results.
I wish protesting against Blizzard would have an impact on Chinese policy but there's zero chance of that happening.

I understand it's a long game (no pun intended), getting more and more companies to take a stand for free speech, but the impact on the lives of the people really affected by it is too small.

The US government has much greater means to make a really powerful impact but I don't see that ever happening.
Presumably this reverses during the opposite season.
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Can't you just look at the big logo on the front of the card that says "Halifax Bank" or whatever?
So does that mean he's "Disruptive?" He's the Uber of politics? The Ubermensch?
> By the way, while there also hasn’t been any increase in mean global temperatures during lifetimes of most of today’s high school students, Kevin Trenberth’s theories still get lots of attention.

Today's HS students were roughly born between 2001 and 2005. The earth has definitely warmed up since then[1]. I'm not going to fact check the whole article, but stating something so blatantly wrong (or, if you think it's true, showing some awareness of how extraordinary the claim is) really damages the ethos of this entire article.

Before I read that paragraph, I was willing to accept the previous statement that hurricanes were not stronger (though talking about landfall in the US of hurricanes was a red flag; Global Warming is, naturally, a global issue). Now I'm completely unconvinced.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_temperature_record#/med...
> By the way, while there also hasn’t been any increase in mean global temperatures during lifetimes of most of today’s high school students

What a bizarre choice of time span to look at. The article was published in 2014, so I'm assuming he means the 2000-2014 period. Looking at the first chart on https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/... ...maybe? Yet there's a clear upwards trend.

How odd he would spend so many words on the topic, and not include such a simple, relevant graph.

Even more odd - he must have seen that graph, or one like it, to make his 'no increase during' claim. Yet he chose to present only the narrow section of the graph that conformed to his narrative.

The only possible conclusion is that he is deliberately misleading his audience. I hope he's at least getting paid.
Pity you didn't spend any time behind the Iron Curtain when it was still up. Formative experience if there ever was one for me.
Well, let's hope the kowtow to genocidal fascist dictatorship option is clearly the more painful of two painful paths.
On this issue, I support China and Xi. This makes me like Blizzard for once in a long while. China has every right to put down arrogant, entitled brats committing acts of violence and property destruction on its streets. I have no desire to see my country entangled in more foreign conflicts, and the disgusting support of hawks and media entities for the petulant Cantonese brats in Hong Kong is yet another reason to support Blizzard.

Just reinstalled Overwatch, and bought a few friends copies.
Wow, OK, you win - you got a cheaper car than me. Congrats.

However, anecdote vs data:

"Used car payments hit record $400 per month as prices top $20,000" [0]

So I still think I've done pretty good with my purchase.

[0] https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2018/11/08/used-ca...
https://youtu.be/aTDkYFZFWug
If only she had consulted some marketing people before publishing the book! It might've been accepted by a larger audience.
1% is not that low, a typical poll has much less than that. E.g. a Gallup poll generally interviews about 1000 individuals to represent the whole of the US.

Selection bias is a much larger problem here.
Interesting perspective.

I have heard of much success regarding shrooms and LSD in curbing alcoholism. Perhaps it spawns a deep introspective process for the person.
You were one of the kids who didn’t fall through the cracks so good for you? I guess this means the cracks don’t matter? Never mind the blatant insanity? Shooter drills are on Wednesday’s, no bother!
This is Jeff Bezos calling out Larry Ellison on his bullshit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrzMYL901AQ&feature=youtu.be...
We're gonna need a box tightener over here, someone is thinking outside it.
Lol, well to be fair I know I do some of my best work on Thursday evenings with a good mate buzz going. : P
on a somewhat related note, I've discovered that youtube is somehow exfiltrating conversations I have during the day, to tailor content on my YT feed..

There does not seem to be any one app responsible for the data exfil, so I've been led to believe they're building models (or transcribing text locally) and sending it up whenever android phones home (constantly).

I've tried attempting to block data exfiltration (Netguard etc) but nothing seemed to have worked and I had to switch devices.

If they're able to do on-device transcriptions and the tech is mature enough that they're going to release it as a standalone product with a big launch, I can now believe they have some similar tech running on devices to support their core-metrics (engagement w/ YT content, which drives Ad revenue).

Play close attention to your YT video feeds and you may notice the behavior I've observed too.
It's a (clever) reference to an event that happens every four years.
What if they used different minerals because before they mined them out, different minerals were present? To what extent is our dependence on iron, copper, and bronze a historical accident because that's what was available to our ancestors, and to what extent might we have used different metals if easily-extractable ores for them were present?

Despite being the third most common element in the earth's crust, aluminum cost more than gold and was rarely used for industrial purposes before the Hall-Heroult process for smelting it from alumina and the Bayer process for smelting it from Bauxite.

Rare-earths display a similar profile: they are abundant in the earth's crust, but not in any form that we can easily mine and extract. What if a past dinosaur civilization mined out all the easy rare-earth deposits building iPhones and batteries?
Not really. All of these bugs only matter in a single scenario: You run untrusted code.

If you don't do this simple action you are not vulnerable.
Good forward thinking, and I agree. If enough companies do this, it will only reinforce the rising tuition rates caused by the government's carte blanche loan-giving.
I really enjoyed my public education, but I realize we happen to have very very good public schools in my city. I'm sorry your experience was so bad.
They say imitation is the highest form of flattery - thanks!
Strong privacy laws prevent them from doing that. I saw an interview with a police officer and they could basically not say anything at all. Most info comes from journalists.
The difference is that the USSR was a small market, so it was possible to crush it economically, which is what the West did.

This time around China is looking to become the largest market and if we let it to become one before China sheds its "communism with Chinese characteristics", it will crush the West.
Ironically, uBlock flags this site leaking tracking cookies to two third-party sites, getclicky.com and presidium.com. Who watches the watcher, eh?

But there's no denying that site is a good handy guide to things in Firefox that can be tweaked to suit one's privacy stance.
The red highlights are distracting. Why is "in-formation" spelled that way?
Oh, I think you're right. I misread those.

Also didn't know there were more than the first 10 because I browse with js off by default, which hides the "more" button.
That you know of...
How did this sort of thing work out for the NFL, in terms of kneeling players? Pretty well, all things considered.
I would be concerned about soundex matches too.
Religious freedom != hate crimes, at least not yet. When those are equal though, trust me Chick Fil A will be the least of your problems.
eat ass commie bitch
The hawk in this situation is the fascist dictatorship which seeks to stamp out the growing bastion of civilization that Hong Kong represents and substitute its superiour system of justice for the mere whims and fetishes of Jinping Xi.
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I don't know how much it actually costs, but taking the numbers here at face value, $1000 over 200,000 miles is half a penny a mile - that is clearly trivial compared to running costs of any car. One way to look at it, is if you assume $3/gallon gas and 50 mpg, then the cost of the battery is equivalent to reducing the gas mileage to 46 mpg, all else being equal.
I'm extremely oblivious to what the benefits to starting later are, and how stable the benefits will be over time. Anyone care to explain?

I'm particularly concerned that this will incentivize students to just stay up later, negating many benefits of increased sleep.
After this, if I lived in any non-US country I'd be wanting for them to register or face as much wrath as that country can impose on twitter. The EU should be able to make them feel some pain hopefully.

Twitter's rules are open ended with tons of room for judgement calls.

So now an anonymous, under payed SV employee (or soon an underpaid Indian) will be making decisions that affect the politics of a country? What if the employee making the decision against, say, the leaders of Palestine, is an Israeli? Or the other way around? Surely we can't consider those two impartial to each other. Will we ever know such a situation even happened?

With no public registry of these actions? Their promise to 'maybe' put out a formal announcements when a leader is shadow banned, is that really a promise or will they later reference the fact that they said 'may'?

There's no formal system of recourse? No local representation? And all based on a US system of values?

Seems very sketchy and to me it reeks of fascism. Literally the opposite of democracy and open information.

Doesn't matter if you hate the right or the left. Open and free societies benefit everyone. This is a big step in the other direction.
Have you considered that this traffic is impossible to detect or block because... it doesn't exist?
> A refrigerator also requires energy.

Yes. To move the refrigerant around and compress it. The real work of a refrigerator is done by the Latent Heat of Evaporation and its corollary the latent Heat of Condensation.

In the change of state between liquid and gas, the latent heat is the same, but in one direction (gas to liquid) energy is released, and in the other direction (liquid to gas) energy is required.

Note that since the heating-cooling both produces heat and 'cold', a heat pump is the most economical way of drying clothes. The energy in the hot air evaporates the water in the clothing into water vapor which then passes over the cold plates and condenses that water vapor into water which is drained away. The heat energy produced by the condensation of the water vapor evaporates the refrigerant which is then compressed, releasing energy to reheat the circulating air so it can evaporate more water. Neat, hey?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWqNmOLHwt0
"Knock it off"

That's what I'd rather be on the receiving end of.
Of course there are exceptions, but most homeschooled people I've met have displayed some sort of social deficiency. I wouldn't support a blanket statement that the solution is more home schooling.
I mean, the cost is not inherent to the ID itself: a piece of paper doesn't have to cost anything.

We also have passport cards, which is the credit-card sized version of the passport, and only works for travel to Mexico/Canada (but is still a national ID).

>they can't be used with a database to determine the person's local residence.

You know, I can Google my name and get my current address out of public databases (TruePeopleSearch, etc).

I can also see my current address on the voter record from the website by entering the VoterID number.

The passports have numbers. These can be used to pull/check the address from a voter record database. It's less than trivial.

The address itself doesn't have to be on the ID.

TL;DR: issue passport cards for free to all citizens, force the states to let anyone with such a card to vote with a federal law.
The flashbacks/flying/spider stuff was sarcasm. I was responding to this gem of a comment:

> Eh, I think it's pretty good that it's only really taken by enthusiasts. It's not really a party drug, IME it's for drug nerds who want to 'expand their mind' etc. If everyone and their dog was taking it on a friday night to have fun, the world would be a much worse place IMO.

It completely misrepresented my initial comment:

> It's a pity that such a powerful drug has been demonized.

What is untrue about that statement?
1. LSD is a powerful drug
2. The public has been taught to be afraid of it without understanding it.
3. For those who have experienced moments of "enlightenment" on it, could lead a reasonable person to think that there is value in the drug, they might reasonably concur that it is a pity that a powerful drug that could possibly change millions of lives for the better.
it's being downvoted just as much as it's being upvoted. talk about karma volatility
> We all kind of rolled our eyes and went along with the exercise. I now use it to great effect almost daily in both personal and professional relationships.

Reactions like that tell me once again that a lot of people really underestimate simple stuff like this. I hope that in the future simple and useful psychology topics will find their way into our schools so that the acceptance and understanding for the usefulness will increase (hopefully).
I wouldn't say passive aggressive because that has a specific definition which this doesn't meet but there's something about them that's off.

"Would you be willing to only eat the food that you buy?” isn't really a question because "no" isn't really an acceptable answer so there's something dirty about phrasing like a question but I can't quite put my finger on what.
Haha, same comment, same time. I missed the 2014 date on the article. If you use 16 for highschooler, ignore the trendline, 1998 was warmer than 2014. That's a way to at least claim the facts meet your story, though at best ignorant of how trends work and at worst intentionally deceptive.
It most certainly does something. I do it on a regular basis whenever I feel that the recommendations are getting too "fine tuned" and I want to have more broad recommendations.

If you are not seeing fully refreshed recommendations it's probably because you are still subscribed to channels or have liked videos or the other pieces of information that goes into recommendations.