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Neat tech write up but ironically Grubhub has just lost 50% of its market cap due to poor earnings where the company has basically admitted its business model is indefensible and borderline unsustainable.
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The article states that Dream Market did not allow the sale of fentanyl.

Most of the time when you hear about fentanyl it's because an unscrupulous distributor added it where it shouldn't be.

I strongly suspect that the main thing keeping fentanyl popular is government policy.
The CPUC is directly responsible for the safety standards that PG&E has to meet.

"The CPUC meets publicly[15] to carry out the business of the agency, which may include the adoption of utility rate changes, rules on safety and service standards, implementation of conservation programs, investigation into unlawful or anticompetitive practices by regulated utilities and intervention into federal proceedings which affect California ratepayers."[0]

It is also their mission to assure access to reliable utility services.

"The CPUC regulates services and utilities, protects consumers, safeguards the environment, and assures Californians’ access to safe and reliable utility infrastructure and services."[1]

However, the CPUC does not regulate governmental utilities.

"The CPUC does not regulate the rates of utilities and common carriers operated by government agencies."[0]

I would prefer that my county was responsible for utilities as they are much more responsive to local demands and its much easier for me to justify rate increases for safety improvements.

[0] CPUC Wikipedia

[1] CPUC Mission Statement
Do the regulators set the price?

PG&E could easily fix the lines and pass the price onto the consumers. If anything, if their profits are limited to 10%, you'd think there would exist a perverse cost+ incentive on PG&E's part.
> So the market goes down 10.0% one day and then up 11.1% the next, an investor in the normal 1x is back to where they started. A 2x investor is still down and a 3x investor is down even more.

Can you explain why that is? I would have expected that your gain or loss from the leverage funds relates only to the difference in price between when you purchased and when you sold (multiplied by the leverage).
I thought the concept that PG&E is legally responsible for forest fires is a new development, hence the new power outages.
What Founders Should Consider When Distributing Equity in a Startup
Climate crisis: 11,000 scientists warn of ‘untold suffering’
> It doesn’t indent

I just use a carrot and make it italics, easy to see.

Though it should be:

> "It doesn’t indent"

• https://getitwriteonline.com/articles/titles-italics-or-quot...

• https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/14876/use-quotat...
You don't need a grocery store. You can live off a couple bags of legumes and cereals. People want meat, eggs and milk, though. I have very little sympathy. If it means less animals will have to die for some bommers' gluttony, then I hope more grocery stores go out of business.
Normally use of templates do break separate compilation but it can be recovered, and it is routinely done on large codebases, via explicit template instantiation. The ergonomics are not great of course and hopefully modules will improve things.
I was thinking recently that maybe we can use sound to control heat dissipation. Heat is a manifestation of kinetic energy. If you could pulsate pressure waves through an object you could massage the heat in a specif direction.

My application would be for CPUs. You would pulsate heat towards the heatsink using a tone generate on the underside of the socket.

A. I really don't have a strong mathematical grasp of the physics.
B. I imagine the frequency of the waves might damage the silicone lattice.
C. Other issues I don't have the knowledge to even consider.

This is just an idea that came to as I was walking home from work. I'm sure it's absolute hogwash.
At 15% the boomer could fully pay and own the property within 5-10 years. Then save or go on to buy a new one.

At 3% the millennial will still not be owning their property after 30 years.
"What is 'most cities in the US', Trebek?"

But it doesn't have to be that way. I'm in Munich now, and little Bavarian towns of 10k or less are nearly always much more walkable than US cities 20x their size.
I pay no attention to equity, since it usually ends up being worthless. Salary is all that matters.
Oh yeah this should solve all our problems. Once this happens they should hire the repair team that maintains the bart to work on our power lines. That team is the elite of the elite.
>> "A generation of lazy people who don't work hard"

>I am sorry for derailing, but how does that happen, did they come out like a faulty batch from a factory?

One generation is unlikely to be much lazier than the last. But the economic policy of post-war Britain was dominated by nationalised industries and, rules made by and for the unions etc. Workers toiling hard in make-work industries or workers refusing work that breaks strict demarcation rules are as unproductive as lazy workers.

This sort of thing the generally poor economy of the UK, and why the UK did not produce stuff people wanted to buy. That it translated into a series financial crises depended on other factors.
Well that is a rather fatalistic attitude that brooks no solutions.
If a company does not make a consistent best-faith effort to defend its trademark(s), the claim on those trademark(s) get severely weakened. Companies are thus legally incentivized to defend their trademark (at least in the U.S.). This is a rational decision that has nothing to do with being an asshole (or not). If a company does not have a consistent track record of defending its trademark(s), then their claim gets severely weakened from a legal standpoint. Period, end of story.

And yet, every month there is a story like this in the news of "big company with generic name sues small company with same name" because nobody likes a bully. The problem is, if they DO NOT attack, the trademark claim will become severely diluted and then THEY will become vulnerable to a trademark dispute from someone else down the line, and the other party will point to their lack of historical defense and make an argument that the claim on the trademark is weak.
>Another requested I email them from an email address they had in their records

so our email providers can get all this data? They can DKIM sign such a mail and simply never have the relevant emails show up in your emails.
If China has enough real money to bend the NBA and Activision doesn’t that imply that the bookkeeping isn’t fake - CN’s success is real, not imagined?
They paid dividends fairly regularly from 2011 to 2017.[1] They couldn't have used that money for updates and maintenance? You can't really claim to be profitable if you're deferring necessary maintenance expenses. Isn't that defrauding shareholders, in a way?

1. https://www.streetinsider.com/dividend_history.php?q=PCG
It's hard to claim they're cheaper when they have a fraction of the range of gas helicopters. It's apples to oranges, the flying cars now are equivalent to electric golf carts in performance.
A lot?

"About 48 percent of the population inside micropolitan statistical areas lived in incorporated places, while about 52 percent lived in unincorporated areas"

https://www.census.gov/population/www/documentation/twps0082...

anecdotally the pursuit of not being around "public services" is a large part of the motivation. Personally as I'm leaving my 20s far behind I realize all the neon and jazz of the city did nothing but pacify a deeper realization that a more clear seeming experience of mind was on hold or somehow diluted...convenience can be very distracting.

... hopefully this makes some kind of sense. different kinds of folks/values. a lot of my peers live right in the city, which makes sense. convenience of stores / hospitals etc for raising a family. for me alone give me 50 acres and a 2 bdrm ranch home. and an invisible driveway
:)
Certainly public colleges have public budgets.
People should call this what it is, a bailout of PG&E. The only people who lose in this situation are the people of California.

Granted, this is better than continuing to beat the dead horse that is PG&E for money. However, if this plan isn't accompanied by legitimate forest management and plans for controlled burns this would be like bailing out student loans without adjusting how the government guarantees student loans...
The California Public Utilities Commission(CPUC) controls how much PG&E spends on infrastructure and dividends. PG&E requested to spend more on infrastructure improvements but the CPUC decided to keep rates lower, pay out dividends, and spend money subsidizing alternative power instead.
Patagonia is basically the vanguard on ethical production, environmental impact, etc and they stand by (& repair, for free) their products.
Isn't San Diego populated by people who insist that others pay for public utilities that they do not benefit from predominantly?
Henry Kissinger Warns That AI Will Fundamentally Alter Human Consciousness
I have social anxiety disorder. My mental health has gotten worse since starting a new job with 100% pairing. I don't want to pair every day and I try to bring up that I would like to pair less but it does no good. I say hey I would like to pair less and the response is always "how can we make pairing better"? No one cares that I actually don't want to pair. I have gone from having panic attacks once every few months to weekly. I assume I will get fired at some point over this. No one at works likes me. Some dislike me but most are indifferent. At my last job I had a few people I was friends with.

My wife wants to have kids but I don't think it would be at all responsible with my mental health the way it is to have kids. Shit sucks. I have a great relationship with my wife and with my parents. I grew up in an upper middle class family in a stable home. I was never bullied.

SSRIS makes me super tired, to the point I fall asleep when taking them. I am already low energy, so with SSRI's it is completely unworkable. Besides I feel like a zombie on them. I am a runner, am not overweight, and have a good diet. Still energy levels are low. My most happy time is my daily run.

I went to 2 different therapists like 2 years ago. I left both of them because it felt like I was paying for someone to pretend to care and they didn't care about me at all. It is probably not at all true, but my brain views stuff this way. I should go to therapy again, but I live in America. I am scared they will put me on some kind of list, either government or employee blacklist if I do. Also it is expensive and I am terrified of being fired and becoming homeless.

I often write long messages like this, send it, and then panic about it hours or days later and delete them. There are random people at work that for whatever reason my brain got scared of and I can't even look at them. This makes things super awkward, because they just think I am an ass. I don't actually not like them, my brain just panics seeing them. They weren't mean to me or anything. My goal is to get into a top company, save a lot so I can retire or withstand any worsening in my mental health.

I get panic attacks in about a third of job interviews. I felt like I was fairly close to getting into one of the faangs, but my anxiety made me preform worse than I should. I will probably try to again, but the interview circuit isn't that fun when you are guaranteed to get a panic attack.

I feel like I am in the mental health closet like gay people used to have to be in the closet. I am not a danger to anyone. I wouldn't hurt a fly. I am just not as pleasant to be around as someone with no mental health issues.
Because access to capital matters. If you are a non-VC funded business, you need to generate a profit. How do you compete when a VC-funded business comes in and starts selling a competing product at a loss?
Wouldn't investing revenues into infrastructure be a way to lower profit on their balance sheet? It seems like the profit cap would be an incentive to reinvest.
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That was then.
Fentanyl is typically used as a cutting agent. Heroin, xanax, etc are all fairly expensive so if you can cut these drugs with fentanyl to provide a similar experience, then it may be in the dealer's financial interest to do so. From what I've read online, not a lot of users chase fentanyl itself unless it is the only opiate available to them.
I believe the idea behind "income sharing" is that there is no demand for payment when there is not sufficient income. This makes it hard to qualify for bankruptcy, which is based on your ability to meet monthly debt obligations.
In our case, it's not just 10 minutes. It's however long we want. In practice, it's about 30-45 minutes on Mondays, and about 15-20 minutes on other weekdays. We talk until nobody has anything to say, and then break up and go about our day.

Lunches never worked for us because we each prefer a different lunchtime. I was always about 2-3 hours earlier than the latest people.

Oh, did I mention that we set our own schedule? I'm the earliest. And now with someone remote, the latest is 4 hours later.

But I'll freely admit that Friday lunches might work better for many teams.

This company has monthly events that has the whole company close the doors and do something, and also monthly birthday/cupcake events where we just announce any news, birthdays, anniversaries, and eat cupcakes. I think that basically takes the place of the Friday lunch thing that you'd have.
LOL, Freudian, perhaps... Thanks for catching that! Given how much time I spent at school in Ames vs. Iowa City, I can't believe I made that mistake!
If we had great a battery breakthrough, I don't even think it'd be much of a question.
Centre is the standard for all English countries except the US, no? We use centre in Canada
Following up Finch's reply, which said: "a large majority of gun deaths are suicides."

Specifically, in the US, 60% are suicides.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/08/16/what-the-da...
Considering the posters of /r/wallstreetbets have a leader board going to see who can glitch the most leverage, it's well within the realm of possibility

https://old.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/drt5tr/guh_...
The OP is being sarcastic.
There are several kinds of FP:

There's FP as in, it isn't horrid C++/Java class-making with virtual functions and constructor boilerplate.

There's FP as in, hey we've got lambdas and are doing stuff with them (like chaining callbacks or using futures).

There's FP as in, a language that materially inhibits your ability to be non-explicit about what your code is doing.

So it might be good to be aware of what mechanisms by which FP provides a benefit. Much of it is, it's not horrid class-making and workarounds to do basic stuff the language should support. It's just half-decent language design. But then there's the matter of being materially or somewhat culturally being explicit about side effects. And these are two different aspects.

And many devs don't get the latter. They're kind of smart-sounding words and they'll agree with them if you say it, but they don't really get it.

And among people who don't really get it, there's also the FP people who cargo-cult it. I'm talking about the people that rewrite their for loops in terms of map/reduce/std::transform or what-have-you, because they're crazy people unwilling to make mutable local variables. (Kind of like how some will never make a function-local goto statement.)
Then it becomes a dog feeder.
translucent text is nearly trivial to remove
Well, their net profit would be higher if they hadn't spent over $25m in executive compensation in 2019. That's a healthy amount of money for some electrical line maintenance, even if it wouldn't cover the cost of all of it. With how poorly the company is being run right now you can't really argue that compensation is buying The Best Executive Leadership...

Keep in mind that even if PG&E is doing their best to keep costs low, the cost of wildfires is being passed on to the consumer anyway (in some cases the cost is being passed on as dead humans instead of higher electrical costs). Is it better for PG&E to be able to have a profit margin of 25%, or for their lines to not cause wildfires? What about a low profit margin stops them from maintaining lines?

If the state and/or counties are operating the electrical company, profit need no longer be an issue. If they aren't making enough money to cover maintenance cost, that can come out of tax dollars or state-issued bonds just like road maintenance does. It's not as if electrical infrastructure isn't important. Taxpayers may not like higher taxes, but they also don't like having their power cut off or their houses destroyed.
With C++, you have a lot of limitations on cross-machine, cross-library compilation. The library is not defined just by the platform, but by the compilation directives and macros.

Since headers can redefine macros, that also means that even including headers in a different order can change the meaning.

Older languages like C++ with headers are simply source files with a different extension, so your individual source file compilation is actually loading in and parsing cross-sectional subsets of your full project. Modern languages typically define the interface inline with the code, and export that interface to other modules which would consume it. The reason that you don't have intra-module distributed build is because the intra-module code dependencies are implicit - there is no developer-defined partial cross section of the code, all of the code needs to be pulled in and semantically evaluated as a unit.

You could hypothetically still do distributed optimization of the code after it is semantically evaluated, but TBH there is a lot of time wasted in evaluating headers for each file. Modern compiled languages usually have compilation time as a restriction on the implementation and design, and elimination of the need to repeatedly parse and semantically evaluate files is part of their design.
You're intentionally missing the point of his argument: eating more does not mean better nutrition.
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Thank you for your description of E Michael Jones' literature. Which has nothing to do with my post.
If you want to save the lives of poor people from climate change, the number one thing you could do is help them develop as fast as possible. When the temperatures get high, having access to dependable electricity and air conditioning can mean the difference between life and depth. Having reliable road and rail networks means that if the crops fail, food from outside can easily be brought in to stave off starvation.
Isn't it nicer once it's indented though? https://imgur.com/a/LR0Otpb

I'm pretty sure this is the reason people try to use code blocks for quotes—because they want it indented.
Very cool features for writing shorter code! I also noticed a small mistake in their examples: https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript-Handbook/issues/1135
Venezuela nationalized sugar factories with similar reasoning with little success: https://www.latimes.com/world/mexico-americas/la-fg-venezuel...
Please tell me that there will be no golden parachutes for any of the executives.

From the cheap seats it sure looks like they squeezed every cent they could out of the utility rather than ensuring it had a future. There may even be a breach of fiduciary duty, given how disinterested in a future for the company they seemed by doing so.
> somehow forgive 1.5 trillion in student loans

A more plausible outcome is that the law changes to allows student to end after bankruptcy.

Maybe lenders are made whole by the government; maybe not.

That provides relief to extreme cases, while not shifting an entire $1T+ of debt.
Ask HN: What Are You Reading?
I haven't seen one of these in a while so I figured I'd ask - what are you reading and what do you recommend?
I am slowly retreating from this school of thought seeing how ineffective states and provinces in the US and Canada have done with decriminalizing cannabis, resulting in an arguably more thriving black market that differs than the one pre-legalization. Call me pessimistic but I think as we decriminalize other drugs their black markets will mutate in a similar way.

In addition I am curious on your opinion and that of others on if a line should be draw and what characteristics that line is to be drawn on.
> > Why would you be surprised[...]
>
> The statement says DELETE and that is what I want, the rdms executes it and tells me "deleted 1" (yes, it does). What am I supposed to think?

Well, you know about triggers!!! So you're supposed to think that the expected thing happened, whatever the schema designer intended.

Whoever wrote that trigger did it for a very good reason, probably the one I gave earlier (namely: to prevent name reuse, and also because gee, you might create a new contract with that customer later and not want to start from scratch).

> > Your schema is an interface here, so read its docs!
>
> What docs?

Those written by the people who wrote that trigger, designed the tables, your whole schema.

> Why properly revoke the deletion permission and offer terminate_contract(customer_id) as an alternative if you can use a magic trick instead?

(I assume you meant to write "Why _not_ ...".)

Well, for one, because someone who doesn't understand these things might have enough privilege and ignorance to do a real DELETE and break your data.

Moreover, the logical operation here is a DELETE! Just because you mark the row deleted instead does not make it not a logical deletion.

You're choosing to take one aspect of SQL RDBMSes extremely literally while then also choosing to ignore or malign another part. That's not a recipe for success.
Darktable 3.0 RC arrives with new features, improvements and bug fixes
Author here. Thanks for the comment. This is a tough business to be in, but very exciting a the same time.

I'm trying to effect change by making meaningful contributions to our search pipeline by applying novel techniques from information retrieval literature.

For example, with this query expansion technique, we can service search queries in small markets (not a lot of restaurants) more completely by showing something instead of nothing. Or in big markets, we can service obscure, tail queries by fining something similar. This helps increase the overall recall of the search system, making it better!

Don't loose faith in GH yet!
> I'm not arguing that these companies be broken up, either. What I am arguing is that they open up their networks to interact with other services using an open protocol such as Mastadon or Matrix.

This is essentially a 'breakup' though, of the sort that's actually effective. It's isolating the potentially-monopolistic, non-contestable part of the company - the "platform" standard - and making it accessible to others on an equitable basis. This is the model that any "monopoly breakups" should follow, whether simply "opening up to a standard" is viable or not.
People in rural areas used horses, then horse and carriages, and now cars. If we didn’t use a faster mode of transportation we’d be stuck where we were born.

It’s not feasible to connect every single small town.
The forest fires (of this magnitude) are also a relatively new development, and they're partially due to poor line maintenance. The poor line maintenance is the real direct cause of the outages, not lawsuits - if the lines were well maintained they would not be causing fires and no shutoffs would be necessary. We don't see line shutoffs like this all over the country right now.