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It's an exploration game; the first of its kind.

I have been planning on writing a sci-fi epic for years, as you do. It's very nice to bounce half-baked ideas off the AI just to see how it responds. I would not subject a human to the cruelty of my whims in this way. People largely prefer the safe response of logic and understanding, even when I mischievously have presented them with nothing of the sort. The AI responds with chaos and creativity.

It seems to actually learn and I have taught it about shrink-ray guns, which it seems to make appropriate yet unexpected responses to. At first the shrunk items just disappeared. Then the ray-gun's charge started running out. Later, shrinking the place the ray gun was in caused paradoxes. Eventually the shrink-ray actually made things shrink, but putting my space ship in my pocket transported me across space and time to a desolate, ruined place. I decided this was a poetic way for it to tell me it did not know how to continue.

The AI is a free-form role-playing partner with a delightful lack of tact, but it is not immune to reason. If one can suspend disbelief and fill in the blanks it is even barely intelligent.
Hit piece.

Why would dentists support flouride if it actually helps? It would only destroy their profits.

Why do dentist cheer for flouride so much but there are ZERO loud campaigns from dentists to stop eating sugar, the actual cause of teeth rot?

Incentives. If flouride actually worked dentists wouldn't be pushing for it.
As with most things in Jira it's possible to do this, and largely a question of how it is configured. They have a Kanban template. You can usually define all your item workflows, status, and write custom hooks in state transitions. Nothing that couldn't be implemented with a little effort.
One example, FairEmail on Android. It supports Google Oauth but ONLY if you use the Google Play version -- not F-Droid -- due to other "security" features from Google.

Oauth may be an open standard, but it gives Google control over the clients you can use. If Google decides to one day ban your client of choice, you're SOL. Given their recent decision to ban specific browsers from accessing Google services, I'm not hopeful.
Between podcasts, international friends on Facebook/Twitter, and voice chats (Telegram is good for this, as lots of Esperanto speakers use it: see https://telegramo.org) I find a way to regularly use Esperanto in my daily life. I also attend a few annual events that run for a week in which 200+ people get together and use only Esperanto, so that obviously helps a lot. When I first started learning and it was only an academic pursuit for me, I lost interest a few times. But having made a bunch of friends through the language at this point, I now use it the same way I would any other language (and Esperanto has definitely been significantly easier to reach a useful level of fluency than my efforts to learn Hebrew and German). There are a few other posts on my blog about my experiences with the language, in the event those are interesting.
Always loved to watch it flying over the city. My old office in emporio offered some of the best views of beautiful HH.
Big factor too is that the 747s can be had very cheap now that a lot of them are retired from passenger service.
Needs Android. Desperately.
If those animals are treated, they then need to be pulled out of the food supply until the antibiotic washes out.

It’s not in a farmers best interest to use an antibiotic in those circumstances unless the animal needs it.
You might try CBSN - they seem to work really hard to avoid bias. Particularly anything Major Garret or Margeret Brennen do is really well considered and thoughtful. I was extremely sick of bad reporting and having to shout “except that’s not the whole story...” every time I watched the news - at very least Face the Nation is excellent journalism.
... so the machines would cost more up-front instead of being offset by subsequent repairs?
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Are you trolling or do you actually believe that's "reversing osteoporosis"?

It's just pushing it back a bit, of course she saw some improvement relative to a completely sedentary condition and that's great. It's not going to stay on that trajectory indefinitely, which is what's implied by "reverse".
What option was there to reform? The Supreme Court said people who weren't a danger to themselves or others couldn't be held against their will. I'm all for trying to figure out how to help the mentally ill, but that often comes in the form of treating chemical addiction, which seems to have a long term success rate of around ~10%, a number so low that in a hierarchy of responsible spending, treatment wouldn't make the top of the list.
from the client side, yes. but from their side, ASPs are a codebase they apparently would like to free themselves from. it's understandable, given that most client apps by far (by %use) support oauth.

oauth2 is definitely more annoying for a client to implement, much more annoying. but it's much easier for a user than ASPs.
The United States flies nuclear bombs around the world and parks them off coasts of other countries. I’d like to see an economist explain the impact of this in the stability of US currency as well.
There’s a good documentary from early 80s about this, The Colonel Comes To Japan. You can find it at your local library or (with dubious copyright status) your local YouTube.

The narrative in the documentary does not straightforwardly square with this article.
What if personal computers were a mistake,?
Nah be realistic 99% of people will give their work email to read it and not care.
Have you considered that it is rather the constitution and the laws that favor the interests of the powerful, and the courts (by design) rule according to the laws?
In this case, my phone is a Google product. Google can make available the drivers if it so desires.
I wonder if you could do this just by prepending information about the current state to each submission.

e.g.

Kill troll with sword could be submitted as either "I have a sword, so kill troll with sword" and "I have no sword, so kill troll with sword" That's obviously very hand-wavy but it would allow a more stateless setup.
You’re railing against a straw man. Homeless people are vulnerable and many have drug habits. How could a homeless encampment NOT draw drug dealers and related criminal activity?
See, that name sounds like religion-down-the-throat. When I was younger, and I volunteered at a food bank in (let's call it) Foo County, it was called "Food for Foo County". Ambiance matters.
> If this were the case, then rich people everywhere else would be speeding like crazy and just paying the small fines.

It's an issue, they call this affluenza.

> That clearly is not the case, because fines are not the only thing rendered as a penalty.

Sure but then if your deterrent are the others penalty, why is there the first penalty in the first place?
It tries to quantify how much better a mechanical keyboard needs to be before it is worth it, which is not much.
I would second this. CRISPR is a potentially hugely influential tool which has massively changed research already, allowing production of novel strains much more cheaply. Not to mention the possibility for in Vivo genetic editing.
I would say is the biggest technical advancement in genetics ever.
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> Because they did until very recently.

That's not an argument. Any regressive policy could and has been justified in those terms.
Exactly. This is very much an intended application. It’s also perfect for hospitals because of the density of staff with phones and tablets as they walk around. Not having to install readers and gateways, as you mention, is also helpful in reducing barriers to deployment, i.e. by avoiding the network security issues of connecting directly into the network. Re: Code Yellows — Interesting. One thing we’ve been thinking about is putting the labels on to those patient bracelets you get when you’re admitted. They’re almost the exact same size. The app would know where a patient is located in the hospital, as well as what doctors or staff, along with what equipment was also with that patient.
Have you given any thought to encryption over bluetooth?

I'm thinking specifically about the DOD/ITAR material traceability market. They would eat this product up at $1 per label.
How about the theoretical minimum one should know to be a professional programmer. Basic security principles would be included.
What you describe is essentially rent control. From what I understand (and I am far from an expert), most of these people have lived in SF/LA for a long time, surviving due to rent control. But it's greatly in the landlord's interest to get them to move out, and eventually it happens, and then they are stuck.
That's true but I don't know how popular conversions are compared to "true" cargo builds or "combis".
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is this the same Cockos that built Licecap?
I have had an Uber driver account for years and have never had an incentive (besides things like surge pricing which are paid by riders)

That may depend on the market, but the unit economics in my market (Toronto) are undoubtedly positive.
Have we simply given up on QA?

Determinism in a system has been a cornerstone of validation. Even outside of software circles (the term 'test fixture' originally referred to a contraption you fitted hardware into to serve as a mock 'environment' for testing, which could fake inputs and/or register outputs).
I think Deere has about 25-35% of the market, with New Holland and Kubota in there afterwards
I've found it useful to just google a particular study + replicated/reproduced. But some time ago I also found https://replication.uni-goettingen.de/wiki/index.php/Portal:... that links to a few resources (that wiki itself is for replication in economics).
A reminder: Poor sanitation in underdeveloped countries is part of what is breeding antibiotic resistant infections which then get exported to more developed countries thanks to the modern ability to get from pretty much anywhere on the planet to pretty much anywhere else on the planet that people typically reside in about 24 hours (or less).

The last time I said this, someone apparently thought I was being racist and classist and saying mean things about "those people" overseas. I'm not.

I'm saying there are other ways to tackle this issue and one is by supporting hygiene programs worldwide, including here in the US when the revival of sometimes deadly Medieval Diseases is associated with the homeless crisis we are having.
> Someone posts a video of Doom. I claim that they infringe my copyright on Mario. Invalid claim. No perjury penalty! (This is the scenario people think is prohibited.)

It is prohibited in some parts of Continental Europe, but not in USA.
Fedex mentions this is not a material amount of business. How Amazon operates it's last mile logistical network is unsustainable. These people will eventually churn out of the open air sweatshop that is delivering last mile for Amazon (Fedex's requirements are much less onerous on the ground/home delivery side, based on my conversations with both Amazon delivery drivers and Fedex ground and home delivery drivers).

Very similar to the high churn Uber and Lyft experience with drivers. It lasts only as long as you can find people desperate enough to work in these roles.
You say "Exploration game, first of its kind", I say extra flexible text adventure lacking any kind of internal consistency.

Don't get me wrong, it's cool as hell. But it's getting tiring hearing everyone trying to spin obvious flaws as innovation.
The individual that voted no runs an equipment dealership.
Deere could absolutely rent tractors to farmers -- it would be a different economic calculus. It is unclear what kind of pricing would entice farmers to rent rather than buy.
When are we gonna do away with the mag stripe?

I would think enough people have the chip that those who refuse to get a card with a chip should accept their consequences.
If you have a FedEx Office anywhere near you, you could ask to have the package delivered there and held. I know they did that a few years ago.
Esperanto doesn't have 'engineered perfection', it has either awful, awkward, or endearing flaws and irregularities depending on how you want to look at them. (Kombo - not a comb, but an act of combing something, even though it's a noun word ending; Norda, Suda the compass directions north and south instead of Norda, Malnorda, "kaseto" a cassette or a small "kaso", and so on, k.t.p.). They could be avoided in an engineered perfect language, and even the creator of Esperanto went on to make another language (Ido) using what he learned the first time to improve on some of the flaws he saw, which nobody took up and he later abandoned.

My layperson's view on it is that "everything is regularised" means "no convenient shortcuts" for the benefit of "anyone around the world can use it". That's a huge problem for day to day use when you and your friends have to willingly choose to say an inconvenient sentence over and over and over, just so that a person from a thousand miles away could understand you if they were ever here. It's a bit of a tragedy of the commons - you do what's more convenient locally in the short term, and the long term wider scope suffers for it.

Esperanto's original ideas were to have many compound words - make them up on the fly, to keep the vocabulary load smaller. It took off early in French speaking regions and gained a lot of French-root loan words, and then got compound word alternatives, so there ended up being multiple ways to say the same thing. e.g. eyeglasses are okulvitroj (eye + glasses). They're also okulvitro (singular) because imperfection. And they are nazumo, from pince-nez, which is nose+"related in a non-specific way" suffix. Then you get really weird words built up from suffix games like "estonteco" which is a "play with words" way of saying "the future"; there's no way I'm going to create or deconstruct that on the fly, possibly no way you'd work it out without learning it.
>> Amazon is reaching further and further into the economy, and I don’t see much stopping them.

Once the government makes them liable for the actions of their 3rd party delivery services, it will. Until then? I agree, there's not much standing in their way.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/05/us/amazon-delivery-driver...

I've stopped buying from them in light of all the articles detailing the horrendous working conditions and people getting killed because of their contract delivery drivers.
Have you tried Blinkist? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.blinkslabs...
He’s been dead for more than three days so I doubt he’ll be back.

Of, you mean Kalanick. I doubt it but who knows.
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The conventional wisdom on reddit is essentially the same things you listed, sans pots and pans:

"spend money on things that go between you and the ground" aka tires, beds, chairs, footwear, cushions, etc.
Pittsburgh is not that expensive, you can get two bedroom apartment in the middle of the city for $1k a month and they still pay huge salaries there. So the CoL adjustment is not that big, you get a little less in low CoL than in high CoL, the main driver of these large salaries is the company and not the location.
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Oh, I think the lesson to be learned is accountability of spending. California is now famous for spending billions on homelessness with very little to show for it. In one San Fransisco trial, ~$100k per homeless participant was spent, with none of them being housed at the end. The program could have literally paid for them to take a bus to a cheaper city off the coast, bought them a year in a nice furnished condo, then given them cash vouchers for tens of thousands of dollars, and been a cheaper more effective program.

And yet no one will dare admit complete incompetents are in charge of solving this problem.
That’s often irrelevant. If a cow is going to be slaughtered at 36 months, you can use antibiotics for 95% of their lifetime and still have a 50 days window at the end.
I can't find any. Can you help?
Specific farms may be able to take advantage of their position or specialization and use hand-tools to gain more value per-acre, but that kind of specialization cannot scale up to commercial scale where a farmer with a set of machines can profitably farm dozens of acres or more. They aren't putting as much care into each acre, but in the end it doesn't matter. And, if everyone was doing what the specialized teams are doing, then probably the market that feeds the specialization would collapse because now there's no restriction on supply and prices for the product would go down. This is just basic economics.
It has always tasted the same to me, once you'd scraped off the double dollop of mayo they seem to put on the Chinese version of everything.
I am... not sure about your grasp on the term "imperialism" here.

You hail English as "able to give the underprivileged greater opportunities". But the reason for that is that English is more widely spread, and dominant in the most wealthy areas. Which is... well... imperialism.

It sounds like you're simply dismissing Esperanto as a niche hobby for a handful of white nerds. Which, in terms of practical benefit, might well be accurate. But it is BIZARRE to invert the definition of imperialism to over-state this point.
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Because Mr. Krebs was doing so with good effect and as a private individual he did not face the legal firewalls in place to prevent LEOs taking such actions for corrupt or ill intent or blow investigations.

I would be interested in what legal firewalls in particular exist - anyone have references?

My own guess would be that "don't blow the investigation" would be the catch-all phrase used to explain this situation (even if there is not investigation at time X). It seems as if the institutional mandate of law enforcement is 99% catch criminals, 1% stop crimes without catching criminals. So no one wants to be tasked in efforts to merely stop a theft and not catch a thief.

This seems much in line with the push to "get tools to catch bad guys" by weakening encryption, even if said weakening would result in many more crimes.
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Thinking of who wouldn't vote for right to repair I can only come up with:

1. leaders of companies that would be adversely affected by right to repair
2. perhaps employees of same companies but that seems iffy as I doubt the adverse effects would be so great as to threaten employment.
3. People who actually think that although it would be to their benefit to have a right to repair there is an encroachment on a company's rights to make their products as they seem fit by enforcing it.

Have I missed anyone? Because I think at that rate the population would vote overwhelmingly for it if offered the choice.
The same issue would exist with any universal in-wall DC power supply -- if consumers buy a substandard product, it can destroy their device. Unless you want separate ports different voltage/power output then the user has to buy separate cables for each one.
> What "legal firewalls" would prevent them from walking a URL to see what companies are about to get robbed?

None there, but the moment they have a bank freeze a company's account…
Pasting a random article from 2007 with no other comment is not a great rebuttal of what they said.

A _lot_ has changed since 2007.
Forget the power, 1.5GWt plant of this design could make almost 5 party balloons per hour worth of helium!

mev_per_fusion = 17.59e6

mev_per_j = 1.602e-19

pwr_thermal = 1.5e9

j_per_fusion = mev_per_fusion * mev_per_j

fusions_per_second = pwr_thermal/j_per_fusion

l_He_per_second = 22.4 * fusions_per_second / 6.02e23

l_per_ballon = 14.1

ballons_per_hr = (l_He_per_second * 60 * 60)/l_per_ballon
I've had some utterly ridiculous situations, like having an CCTV capture a package being delivered, the driver taking a picture of the delivered package for tracking, and then the driver leaving with it.

I've also had them deliver packages to the wrong apartment numerous times, taking pictures of floor mats that don't even exist within a mile of me.
The only one of those that has a point may be liability.

In both the other cases, people will happily reverse engineer the documentation and create secondary supply chains. The company has to go out of their way to shut both of those down. Not to mention hardware-DRM measures.
Thanks -- we use Emscripten/WASM mainly for running command-line compilers/assemblers (like cc65 and SDCC).

Right now the emulators are all in JavaScript (except for MAME) which makes integrating with the IDE's debugging tools a little easier. It's performant enough for now, since we only have 8-bit platforms at low clock speeds.

Integrating a C emulation library like https://github.com/floooh/chips should be doable, since it doesn't have any dependencies.
A religion that has mandatory religious programs in order to receive help isn't being charitable, it's being transactional.
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Then why do they keep sending me stuff through Intelcom when the last eight have not been delivered to my address?
read the actual report instead of just the bullet points. the speed improvement is a function of cost on cloud hardware
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Very important point about the hardware check. Always have hardware fallback in case software fails;
The problem I've been having with this is that most of these alternative providers don't offer much space, even on their most expensive plan. My GMail storage use is around 300GB right now. Sure I could probably clean that up if I wanted to, but I don't. I'd rather just pay for 400GB of space, with options to go much higher as time goes on.

Fastmail's most expensive plan offers 100GB, and most alternative providers seem to max out in this range (or lower). Mailbox.org is the only thing that I've found that is (or at least claims to be) privacy-respecting that offers lots of space.

On a side note, given some of the anti-privacy and anti-encryption legislation passed in Australia in the last couple years, I'm not sure Fastmail would be my first choice to replace Google.