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I bookmarked it, who knows. What I don't like about it is how wobbly it looks. Also, why me, as a software developer do I need those wheels to move in any direction. I just need to move back and forth and only when go or leave my desk. On my chair I removed the wheels and put static legs and I put my table on wheels that move only backward and forward. The wheels dig into the carpet, so the table stays put if you don't push too hard.

For me office chair is one thing, and software developer chair should be another.
You can't even get that close to the Mona Lisa, even without a crowd, there's a 4-6 foot cordoned off area in front of it if memory serves.

It's only 30" by 21".

And again, you can get within a foot of the 83" tall Venus.

You can touch the glass in front of the starry night at the MoMA, you can actually see the delicate brushwork.

Mona, not so much.
its not the sentence that's the problem, its the build up to the sentence and the heavy-handed arm twisting.

The outcome is just going to be that people won't travel to the US for these sorts of meet ups because they're treated as if they were violent drug barons (sentencing aside).
This isn’t a new concept; it’s been around for 60 years or more. And ageism hasn’t been the problem, because age correlates with valuable experience (tech may or may not be an outlier here); sexism is traditionally cited as the problem (the argument goes, “employers think a female candidate may have or want children and therefore be less flexible”) although to my knowledge there isn’t much evidence to support this (obviously 60 years ago sexism was a problem, but afaik there’s no evidence that links it to rigid work hours). That said, there is abundant evidence that women really do want to spend more time with their children (compared with men) and therefore prefer jobs with smaller salaries and greater flexibility.

In any case, we can’t function as a society by limiting everyone’s opportunities because someone might be discriminatory. We need to address the discrimination, and we’ve made great strides as a society.
Agreed. Listening and observing strangers carefully is a tremendous skill. Here's an experiment worth doing at Y Combinator: give some, but not all, your teams of entrepreneurs some active-listening practice sessions. Then observe the outcomes. Hypothesis: the companies with the active-listening training will do better sooner.
A short is just a method of selling first and buying later. This doesn't destroy a currency that is properly backed or a financial entity that is solvent. It only forces an organization that doesn't have what they say they have to eventually admit it.

The person replying to me was saying that it didn't matter if an organization was healthy or not - a billionaire could still 'destroy' or 'break' it, but they weren't able to give an example of how that would happen despite repeating the same claim multiple times.
Cars took off because, among other things, they require considerably less maintenance (especially cleaning!) and are more reliable (horse illnesses can be a serious problem). While they are self-replicating, it takes human time to train a foal to usefulness, and bloodline maintenance can get complicated and expensive if you're after something more specific than just "a horse". The methane emissions aren't great for global warming either.
Only If you keep your key and computer hardware separate and kept separate.

Some hardware keys are being built into devices, or are left in them semi-perminately (to be fair, physical attacks arent a real concern for most people)
People can also be duped about their political leaders, not just by them.

It's much easier to tell that someone else has been duped if you haven't been duped the same way. Until recently the main dupers were playing for the same team, so it was harder to notice since there was no mainstream "other". Now they've split into separate teams, so now there is a mainstream "other" that people can easily notice.
I don't agree. Magic works on a lot more people than you're willing to admit, and a lot less people truly believe in psychics than you think.

I also notice you didn't touch professional wrestling, another case where while many know it's fake, many others enjoy it as if it were real.

Or if we want to get political, let's talk about religion and Christian churches. Is it fraudulent to offer a religious service to people who believe it's real?
Resources? The real fight is now for people's minds.

We already have orders of magnitude more resources than 100 years ago and almost everyone can benefit from them.
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Someone who can read people that well won't have much trouble finding interesting work, I think.

I find this issue ethically interesting: she lies to people to help them. Or just to entertain them, but when people need something specific, she uses their irrational superstitions to convince them to do something that would be the rational thing to do.

It also touches a bit on the placebo effect: should a doctor be allowed to present a placebo as real medicine because that might enhance the placebo effect, which may still be better than nothing?
You can run this yourself without any help from them: show one group ads for your site, and show another group white rectangles. Compare performance.
So it's using a K-D-B-Tree under the hood? SP-GiST, that is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-D-B-tree
> find 1-3 bad non-ECC DIMMs

The problem of faulty memory is separate and can be addressed by memory testing (which can even be run while computers are online).

My understanding is that ECC's main purpose is to guard against corruption of non-faulty memory, due to ionising radiation for instance. It's rare for this to be a problem in normal scenarios (not in space or high-altitude), and use cases.
Probably 90% of the country know the story of Flint’s lead contaminated water. It absolutely dominated the news cycle for weeks, and continues to make waves. It must be the most highly reported incident of lead contaminated water in history.
Interestingly, Penn and Teller (although I've never heard Teller talk about it [har har] they seem to be in agreement) look at and talk about this sort of moral quandary a lot in the context of the tradition of magicians. For them, it's not enough to think think that "of course the audience knows" but to be honest from the get go.

Darren Brown did a stage show called "Miracle" (which was fantastic, but a different discussion) where he talks about his experience with faith healers and the like and says at the beginning that, which he doesn't like people getting suckered or lying, the experience is one that people should have, and goes on to spend the rest of the show "in character" as a faith healer.

The movie Leap of Faith also explores this moral dilemma.

I've never been upset at people doing whatever it takes to survive, but I don't think that it excuses you from the ethics of what you do. I definitely wouldn't consider what he did 100% ethical and it's OK to question what you do.

Do address something else:

> I think this guy needs to stop and revisit what he was doing. He wasn't a fraud. He was exactly what those people were paying for.

The cursed man didn't come in to see a magic trick or to be lied to, he came to have his curse lifted. There are many many people, whether ignorant or ill, who do not see this as some sort of entertainment or escapism, but actually how the world works. This is where the morally questionable part comes in. It's like casinos or the lottery: plenty of people go in expecting to "throw their money away" on entertainment, but nothing is done to tell people that it's not wise to expect anything to actually happen, and over-correlation can lead to addiction (and yes, addiction to psychics can and does happen)

It's far more grey than you think.
Stored fat in a teenager going through a growth spurt??

Their bodies (and brains) are doing a lot more developing than just growth spurting, which is why such a teenager can eat huge portions[0] per day and not put on any fat at all. Because their bodies use it all up, because of all the transformations and puberty things going on.

I would suggest, in that stage, just giving the body everything it craves, and worry about the benefits of fasting later.

[0] obviously doesn't hold in parts of the world where these are considered "normal" portions.
It doesn’t keep me up at night.
Of course, because however controlled is the environment it runs in, all sorts of unplanned things can happen. A tyre blowing out. A passenger pressing the emergency stop button. A person or animal entering the tracks after defeating the barriers. Flooding in a tunnel.

All of these events need a fast response regardless of whether the hardware detects the problem and stops by itself or not, even if just to evacuate the people that are inside the stopped cars.
I don't get it.

One seems to be a free trial, the other a paid service. Is the complaint that if you cancel your free trial it ends right away instead of running for a year?

They are canceling the trial - the user wants it to end!
These spot price contracts for end users do exist in many places (don't know about SA specifically). They haven't been particularly popular; I guess most people are scared about the other side of the coin, will I accidentally drain my bank account if I do my laundry when prices are at the roof limit?
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Having moved continents last year, I think this is very apparent. European morning stores are the day/evenings of the US, and then like you say, between 2 and 4pm the active stories are more highly variable, as the US wakes up.
..yes? What's the problem with that?
A wealth tax is rather similar to inflation...

A 2% annual tax on wealth causes my bank balance to go down by 2% each year. A 2% inflation causes my bank account to become 2% less valuable each year.

The only difference is property (land, cars, etc.). Thats super hard to value anyway, since without selling an item, you can't be sure what it would sell for.
I agree that's disrespectful if the water he was drinking was not actually Flint water, so I went looking. It appears that what he drank (an admittedly small amount of) was actually filtered Flint water (and he identified it as such).

I fail to see the disrespect or anything else untoward about his actions there.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/obama-drinks-filtered-ci...
So all jobs you personally dislike should be abolished?
I think there's value in it being a disappointing experience as a learning opportunity. Might encourage people to think about what makes something famous, what draws crowds, hype and substance, etc. And hopefully people spread out afterwards and see surrounding pieces (I liked the Charles Le Brun pieces that were, at some point, in a large gallery near the Mona Lisa crowds).
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Just as a side note, the photo in the article was taken from an angle that you can't see the "crowd". Even the parliament can be seen from between one of the participants legs.

Making it seem to be a large protest is a well-known deceivement tactic in politics.
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At least in the US, I think you’re mistaking controlled opposition in the form of a pseudo-left Democratic Party for things alternating. Post 1970s, the ideological continuity between the two parties (austerity for the people, largesse for the military, corporations, and ruling class) is quite obvious, but obfuscated in public discourse through various culture wars.
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I'm sure doctors (of all people) see the actual, real, progression of diabetes in real patients; not the hypothetical progression of the hypothetical diabetes patient who is able to never eat carbs again.
The proper test is to use viewthrough for both the experiment and control
When you are retired you are on a fixed income. One advantage of buying a house over renting is that you don’t have to worry about increasing housing expenses besides usually small increases in property taxes and homeowners insurance. Of course, there is an unscientific rule of thumb that you should set 1% of the value of your home aside for repairs and maintenance (no one took into account the rapid rise of house prices when coming up with that rule of thumb.)

Especially in retirement but even while you are working, It could easily come to the point where you are priced out of your own home because you can’t afford increasing property taxes. You can’t sell part of your equity your house to pay taxes like you can stock.

Not being taxed on “wealth” and being taxed on income and capital gains makes a lot more sense. Also, many counties don’t make senior citizens pay school taxes.
at least someone noticed, lol
Just don’t end up voting to privatize your water or appoint private administrators to take over a city like happened in Flint, just because you thought reading the news on Flint would just be needlessly competing with water treatment experts.
Then how is it that with drugs you could experience states that are "true but not good?"
There's a kind of ethos in magic and illusion: "being honest about dishonesty". MAny many magicians are very upfront about their "dishonesty" and have a disdain for people who aren't. This is why you see many magicians rail against psychics and faith healers. Yes, they basically do the same thing, but the magicians label themselves as such to be honest about the dishonesty. See Derren Brown's stageshow "Miracle" or the & Teller's Magic and Mystery Tour episode about the indian rope trick. It's a pretty big deal in the in the art.
Thanks for posting this I am currently building a prism scanner and quickly drafted some prior art in this field and did a quick patent analysis see https://hackaday.io/project/21933-open-hardware-fast-high-re...
Previous discussion:
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https://youtu.be/LNhcaVi3zPA?t=1100 Holy Crap this resonates with me. I went to college with people who said "I can code whatever you want, but I need someone to tell me what to code." ... Now I work with people like that.
Why couldn't we just increase the sales tax especially on the goods that are consumed by the upper/upper-middle class?
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> After all the help he gave all those people, he quit because someone called him a fraud and refused his help?

No, she quit because she she realized that the esotheric service industry, of which she was a part, was supporting and reinforcing that man's refusal to get medical help, which is what he urgently needed to prevent him from harming himself and possibly also others.
Here's one I worked on when I was at CogoLabs: https://venturefizz.com/deals/autotegrity-acquired-adp
"Honestly, it seems rather over the top legalism." In Australia? I can hardly believe it
/sarc
Random excuses presumed to be funny because they're wrong. I disagree strongly with most of them and I hate the oversimplification it promotes. I hate that it promotes this stupid attitude that companies are stupid and unethical because they don't care about infosec as much as they should.

People who think this is funny probably also blame users for being too stupid/ignorant for most security incidents. Haha,users management even other IT workers are dumb. Everyone is ignorant except the elite infosec hackers...you can see why it's difficult to listen to anything someone with this attitude has to say. If no one listens to you,you can't educate them. If you're not willing to listen and understand others' perspective they will ignore yours,even if your peers think you're the best hacker ever!
This is an discussion I've had plenty of times with my wife (who is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist). It's hard to articulate in words, but I will try.

What gets me about astrologists and psychics, is they are preying on peoples innocent stupidity. At best they are reading their clients semi-accurately, at worst they are swindling them.

But in both cases they are not actually helping the client understand what is making them feel this way, and helping down on a path that leads to a healthier self-awareness.

We have a friend who doesn't not believe in psychology, but believes in psychics. She refuses to go back to a psychologist because the psychologist wanted her to actually think on and feel her past traumas, to discover why she has some self destructive tendencies. The psychic she eventually went with and still uses today (costing just as much as the psychologist -- more if you have mental health coverage on your insurance) just told her she sees why she is doing certain things, and to call her if she felt these tendencies coming back (charging her of course).

My wife thinks that so long as it is helping, it isn't necessarily bad. She feels that people shouldn't see psychics or read too much into the movement of planets and stars, but that whats the harm if it makes you feel better.

I feel that the amount of good they could do is way less than the harm they could do. And that the dangers of allowing another person to give you untrained/regulated advise is a terrible path to go down instead of understanding yourself.
I don’t think that suggestion is going to prevent anyone from doing otherwise if they find it advantageous.
And there are apparently more across the nation, with a notable number in affluent CA suburbs.
Not a real story, but in theory a missing semicolon in javascript can lead to unexpected results. The semi-colon is optional but missing it will cause issue if the following line starts with an opening bracket (and maybe other chars too). For instance:

const foo = [['bar'], ['baz']];
[0, 1].forEach(x => x*x);

foo will be the array, as expected. But forget the semicolon and foo is assigned the return of forEach, a.k.a undefined. The syntax is valid, but is not evaluated to what you would naively expect.
"But it is far more likely that this was totally normal corporate ineptitude and will be fixed in the due course of normal engineering processes."

Normal engineering processes were built on bodies. We do not want to minimize outrage here. Public anger and pressure is the only way to keep engineering process going.
Only a portion of his shows gets demonetized, far from all
Someone with a net worth of $50 million should understand marginal tax rates, or at the very least be able to hire someone who does.
Really an honest politican is technically possible but only if and only if the inputs are guided to such via demands. A voter base which accepts the truth or honesty. It is just that it is expected and career suicide to be anti "anti-rhetoric" blunt with unsexy qualified stances and truths.
Saying "I will agree to just about anything for farm subsidies because despite less than 10% of the population working in the agricultural sector because my voter base has made it their identity." would be something from a brutal satire.
It seems telling to this reader that TFA leaves unmentioned a very important aspect of lying in modern times: lying to oneself. Perhaps this was meant to be ironic. Seeing irony where none is intended is just about the only way I can stomach the output of the war media.
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Alternatively, if you just want a quick at-a-glance comparison of RIs vs. Savings Plans, see here - https://www.prosperops.com/assets/img/blog/ris_and_savings_p...
Luckily, we have sanitizers now.
The issue isn’t that people wouldn’t try getting richer above 50 mln, the issue is that they would try to make it look like they have less than that to avoid extra taxes. Most obviously, a couple worth 98 million can get divorced and, voila, each of them is worth 49 million and they completely avoid the tax. These effects make it difficult to rely on the supposed revenue wealth tax is designed to collect.
That doesn't make it safe to assume minorities don't exist.

In this case assuming she's a woman is absolutely more likely than the opposite, but there are many cases where blindly assuming someone is representative for a majority ends up erasing minorities.
> Democracy is more tolerable because no people die (in the open) when the landscape of power changes

This isn't quite true. People are killed over regional political struggles in democracies. The difference is one of scale, not of absolutes.
You can offer to take the bullet for them. Win-win!
Ok .. but the user cancelled the free trial. Even then, if they didn’t, about a month before the trial ends Apple sends an email (for any subscription, even yearly non-trial renewals). Afterwards, about a week before, they send another reminder. The reality is they’re extremely up front with it all, so perhaps we should put away the pitchforks for once Twitter :).
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the David is in Florence, Italy. But other than that, I agree with your comment.
For wool nothing beats laying it flat under good old sun or wind. The tumbling of a washing machine or tumbler will just make felt out of it.
That won't do much to combat wealth inequality though, because the ultra-wealthy typically do not have high incomes, at least relative to their overall wealth.
This is a demo site to show how you can use TiDB-Wasm to run TiDB SQL statements your browser.

https://github.com/pingcap/tidb/pull/13069

Known Limitations:

- TiDB-Wasm includes TiDB server only. TiDB is the stateless MySQL component of the TiDB platform (check other components in the TiDB Architecture). Compiled to Wasm, this tool is only suitable for experimenting with SQL and testing out TiDB compatibility with MySQL queries.

- The Wasm binary file is close to 70 MB and compressed to 13 MB. The database and the data you create in TiDB-Wasm are written to memory, and therefore consume a lot of memory resources.

- TiDB-Wasm does not support most of the web browsers on mobile devices yet.

- The tool currently cannot demonstrate multi-node TiDB deployments. This means you can’t play with TiDB’s titanium-solid resiliency, test doing rolling updates, or online scale-out and scale-in.
If you don't care about contributing to society, then:

"shouldn't" -- according to who?

"desired" -- by who?

"freedom" -- with regards to what exactly?

I guess ... enjoy your old age when you're unable to work but not part of any society you contributed to, I hope people will care enough to spare some "freedom byproduct" for you.
They're taxed on what they paid.
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This might be various things, but “predatory” is not the right term for not allowing the user to benefit from a free promotion when he or she does not want to continue it. They even make clear exactly what will happen, no dark UI pattern involved.

I agree that this is a step back for Apple, we should keep the outrage for things that merit it.
There are over 5 minutes of ads at the start of every Joe Rogan podcast, as well as others throughout. One analyst suggests Rogan has acheived a net worth over $1bn based on the number of downloads & estimated advertising revenue based on those figures: http://www.insideradio.com/podcastnewsdaily/joe-rogan-podcas...