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You're right, the wikipedia article about smoke points says that it's the temperature at which oil begins to emit a bluish smoke, not flame. Well, I'm confused about that because I've never seen oil smoking, either. So I couldn't understand what it means for olive oil to "burn", even. Except if you deliberately set it on fire of course.

Olive oil quality can depend on many things: where it comes from, how it is made, who makes it, etc.

The one that's considered best is olive oil produced only from olives (i.e. no kernels) and only by mechanical means (specifically: no heat and no chemical treatments; so it's called "cold-extracted"). That's the quality that's sold as "extra virgin olive oil" though from what I understand there is no strict standard for what that means exactly.

Then there's provenance. Generally, Spanish olive oil is considered best with Greek second (unless you ask a Greek of course) and Italian a distant third. Other countries in the Med also make it, e.g. Morocco etc. Italian olive oil has often been found to be adulterated, substituted for lower quality olive oils or just to be a mix of non-Italian olive oils (primarily Greek, apparently) so it's a case of not knowing what you eat.

Anyway, I live in the UK where olive oil is imported and the good stuff tends to be expensive (£30ish for 25lt of Greek extra virgin but of course most people will buy smaller bottles that are more expensive). So my guess is that most olive oil consumed outside the Med tends to be of inferior quality, just because people don't know it well enough to justify spending the price.

So if you experiment with it- get the good stuff. To be honest, I just get the stuff I always do and I have never had to think about quality or smoke points, so my advice is probably a little vague.

Er. You won't set your house on fire just because some crazy Greek person on the internets said it's safe to cook with olive oil, eh? :)
Of course I am! But I don’t want to found a company just to found a company. We’re talking about attracting talent to small companies. I’m offering my perspective on why joining a small company doesn’t make tons of sense with the status quo equity packages and sub-market salaries offered. There’s some good discussion on another post about this exact problem and it seems, at least, that VCs are starting to come around as well and there is productive discussion about alternative early stage plans/strategy for capitalizing in a way that can attract top talent from big companies. I’m not founder bashing please don’t take my comment the wrong way.
i think you will get quite a few lists if you visit producthunt.com and search for marketing stack
"understand the data structures that make git work" - insert relevant xkcd.
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Mopidy does indeed still use libspotify through our pyspotify Python 3 bindings. Search and everything relating to playlists is broken in libspotify[0] so we use the Web API for this functionality in Mopidy 3 (just released). Spotify's newer browser-only streaming library is useless to us.

I believe that librespot (at least one of the implementations) now supports audio from Spotify's new HTTP endpoints, rather than via the 'Mercury' protobuf stuff that libspotify uses. The point being that it might still have a future after Spotify finally kills the remaining parts of libspotify.

Disclaimer: I'm a Mopidy developer.

[0] https://jodal.no/2016/02/18/guide-to-poor-api-management/

Edit: oh, and you do need an API key to use libspotify, which Spotify no longer provide. So that kills off any new users from adopting libspotify/pyspotify, even if they could live with the short-commings.
Which organization is physically capturing you and locking you in a box, here?
Deutsche Bahn, while having undergone preparations for going public like Deutsche Post (DHL), Postbank and Deutsche Telekom, is still 100% state-owned. The current political sentiment in Germany makes an IPO very unlikely to happen in the forseeable future, so those operations might just continue. Just recently a few laws passed, further integrating state and DB (soldiers travelling for free, state money as part of climate change prevention, VAT decrease, etc).

Edit: Writing this on a DB train and just got a christmas present. :)
Let me just remind everybody that Bioshock is a computer game, its plot is fiction, and it constitutes no evidence whatsoever tht a real-life scenario that start the same way would end the same way.

Sure, it is obvious when spelt out, but it is less obvious when it is a game of implications.
What does it mean in French-Canadian?

In Hebrew it is the modern noun for "fuck" (as in, the act of coitus) - perhaps you mean that? (And to add insult to injury, you used to "squirt" songs)
If you can live on 4% interest, you can live off of it indefinitely.
> FIDUCIARY duty to provide maximum value to shareholders

i’m not sure that’s exactly true is it? [0]
or at least it seems quite murky (case-by-case, state-by-state) [1]

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/04/16/what-are-co...

[1] https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=5dc3f206-0fcc...
The article is referring to the Nov 4th[0] test where only 2 of 3 chutes opened but was still a 'safe' touchdown.

[0]https://spacenews.com/boeing-performs-starliner-pad-abort-te...
In Germany, and I guess in most countries, almost no worker is legally liable, as long as they are not actively ignoring the safety regulations applying to their work. So to make a software developer legally liable, you first have to set up a clear framework of "safety regulations" by which they can be judged.
And a lot of them suffered in poverty to pursue what they loved. Is there survivorship bias there? Sure. You don't become great without taking some chances though.
Anecdotal, but I used to fly regularly with British Airways, and between 2000-2010 or so, they would frequently lose my bags - maybe 25% of the time, no exaggeration. As something of a blessing, it was always on the return journey.

But since 2010, I don't think I've had a single lost bag!
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> by providing power and thus building a silkroad all the way to Sihanoukville

Yes, China is why Cambodia has a GDP increase of 7% each year and so many are leaving poverty. Death rates are going down. College Education is going up.

Amazing what a country can do if it comes in and actually helps others rather than the West with its puritans values.

Japan is still helping though. I guess not quite the West but they still are doing infrastructure.
Someone reposted it on YouTube: https://youtu.be/bvebjL48f-w
Or a lifetime of opulent living somewhere sane with low out of pocket health care costs.
The article lacks substance, it just repeat « it’s a very complex system, it was not tested enough » 10 times. I was hoping some details.
if you don't mind, would you pls share the names of the tools you tried for reading articles and posting on kindle?
Wind and solar are not at the scale we need to replace all the coal and gas plants. Nobody has build enough wind and solar at this scale so we don't know how much it costs to permanently maintain that setup (a lifespan of a solar panel/wind turbine is pitiful compared to nuclear).

Decommissioning costs can be considered once the planet is carbon neutral, which it is not right now. Right now the goal is to build up carbon-free energy generation. That said, if you ask the right people [1] they probably can give you an estimate.

[1] http://www.japc.co.jp/english/project/haishi/decommissioning...
> Just to be clear, you are willing to say on the record that the Obama campaign and Manaford, a convicted criminal who is known to have worked for a mass murdering autocratic regime as their expert electoral fixer, are “essentially the same” in their use of the Internet?

In their use of the internet in relation to their respective presidential campaigns, yes. Do you have specific evidence to the contrary?

> If so, you’ll have to find someone else to engage in debate with you. If you are capable of believing such a thing, we simply don’t have enough moral common ground to have a productive conversation.

So, just to be clear, at the first sight of a challenge and request for literally any supporting evidence at all, you're backing away, while pretending to do so out of contempt?

It's become quite clear that you don't actually have any evidence to back up your claims here. Though feel free to prove me wrong.
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Just wanted to get into the top 0.01% axons. :>
> I know you're trying to sell your SyntEvo(R) [sic] SmartGit(TM)

That is a remarkably uncharitable comment.

If you have any evidence that I am a shill for syntevo, and not just a happy customer, you should state it.

Otherwise you owe me an apology.
Let's play this game:

If you assume that everything will turn out well, you're not going to be cautious

If you assume people around you are all good you're in for some surprise, not of the good kind , especially if you are a girl in a dark alley

Plus, I dislike optimism, I find it's childish, but I get a lot of rewards nonetheless from people around me for being honest.

The illusion of success is not success, believing in the illusion of something is called faith, and it's what killed the people who prayed together for the black plague to stop, spreading the diseases.
http://www.iana.org/assignments/registrar-ids/registrar-ids....

How many registrar IDs does DropCatch.com need

Interesting how many registrars have been terminated
For the chef in the kitchen (no poison in food) to construction worker (the building should not falling apart) or electricians (proper insulation and ground, etc)

Yes and no. Those people are all responsible for doing their own jobs to a certain standard. If a building falls down it is extremely unlikely that it was due to poor workmanship by an individual bricklayer. The root cause will be in the design and the bricklayer isn’t in a position to challenge the design.
Sure, but mind explaining how the fact that a woman beat a man in the World Darts championship (which probably has the world's top 0.01% of darts players) will make people less likely to mistakenly not hire a male designer over a female one because it helps to correct some supposed statistical confusion in their head?
Governments in almost all liberal democracies (and all other forms of governments for that matter) reserve the right to deport foreigners without cause or due process.

In fact many foreigners have been deported or denied entry without cause (no protesting necessary).

This practice predates W Bush era in the US. Anecdotally it has become more common since W Bush onwards. Hard stats are hard to come by as it is not publicly available data in the US at least.

This is an example of even American citizens being deported in the 1950s under President Eisenhower:

“ The short-lived operation used military-style tactics to remove Mexican immigrants—some of them American citizens—from the United States.“

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Wetback

A comedy on US citizen being deported in the 1980s:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_in_East_L.A._(film)
Sure, you can parse over huge amounts of data and find all sorts of bogus "patterns" that don't actually mean anything[1][2]. But you can't make a valid science with real predictive power out of something where there is no actual causal connection between event A and event B.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spurious_correlation

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_picking
I wish the TV industry can accept way of Spotify is the way to go. Instead, now we have dozens of streaming platforms with exclusive contents.
The large enterprise answer is simply analyse the risk and get the decision maker to own them.
Very interesting point.
It sounds a little bit like perhaps your original post required a more thoughtful answer than you could muster while at the gym. Perhaps it could have used a bit more patience as well?

Sure. Feel free to respond. I think everyone would benefit from you contributing more to the discussion, especially if your original post didn't fully clarify your position.
Why you might need to transport kids to after school / sports events - for example I regularly used to see a small kid waiting for the same bus as me staggering along with a cello that was bigger than he was.

And there is the psychological safety aspect of a big SUV with a higher driving position.
The sand mafia is real. It’s happening in India too.

Sand isn’t ‘renewable’ ..loss of river sand is just going to make things worse.

I don’t want to sound like a curmudgeon..but human extinction is imminent is we don’t protect our ecosphere and biosphere..this is assuming climate change can’t be stopped and so let’s not take that into account..lets assume that it won’t happen.

As a super apex predator, we need the underlying structure of our ecology and environment and all the habitats below us in the food chain..most importantly insects and frogs and birds...for us to survive here on this only planet we know.

The solution is just a severely whittled population with measures that will get us to a desired 2-3 billion in 150-200 years.

We have to maintain genetic diversity and dna code hygiene..it’s not genocide or eugenics if we don’t target a particular people or group for erasure. It’s for ALL of us.

This can be achieved by incentivizing those who subscribe to a non transferable quota of 1/2 surviving progeny. And preservation of their genetic material. Quality over quantity. The crush of human population will be our undoing.
George VI didn't have access to millions of books at the palm of his hand, George VI couldn't get a Chevy or a flight to Tokyo, he couldn't get decent anesthesia or a quality tooth implant, and George VI couldn't play a video game for all his wealth. So no, George VI could only dream of the riches you command in your day.

No, narrow distribution of wealth IS controversible. All of the "super-rich" are mostly rich in terms of investment and assets, not actual money (i.e. wages). Jeff Bezos can't get all the hundreds of billions $$ that are attributed to him, they're not on his bank account: instead, they're paying wages to all the employees of his successful company as well as driving down costs for Amazon's customers.

And that's where you're most wrong: wealth does get shared, especially in the realms of technology. Computers, smartphones, the internet, combustion engines, electric cars, airplanes, hydroelectric and nuclear and solar energy etc. are all now accessible to the widest swathes of humanity. The rich might hold most of the worlds superyachts, but smaller yachts are much more widespread, and the vast majority of humanity can get a ship or a plane ride. What was once not affordable to a single person on Earth is now affordable by over 50% of adult population. There's no reason to believe fusion energy will be any less so.
Can you give us examples where Alex "overhyped" the language? So far most of the promises he made have been fulfilled / currently work-in-progress.
Me, I'd rather have a bobbler. Plus the associated technology, of course.
Sure there is: CDDL. It requires one to give the changes back, as opposed to passing them to whoever they distribute to.
Right now? No. Could it? Sure. Minorities being 'accidentally' targeted for harassment in 'coincidental' yet statistically reliable ways is something many governments have a long history of doing.
It's nice, but I have a question: how different is this from a random drum beat? I mean, where is the intelligence? Which is the learning process?
>What places are they still widely used outsider of social media?

Is that not a good enough reason to begin with?

But really, URL shorteners are the direct result of:

1)Most websites not having human-readable URL's

2)Many places not allowing HTML-style links

Both (1) and (2) apply to this forum; e.g.:

news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=21870064&goto=item%3Fid%3D21867994%2321870064

As a result, we have URL shorteners. They perform the function of <a href="">link text</a>, with the advantage of the users being able to type them by hand, if needs be.

They are immensely useful as an internal tool: if you run one locally, URLs of the form http://link/useful-link-description will quickly become the norm.
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I just checked - the former CIO (who surprisingly is still there, but in a different role ) was a SMF18 according to the FCA, so he was personally liable for failures in his area- looking at the Slaughter and May report findings I would suspect they are working on an enforcement action and have been for some time.
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>Their P/E is absolutely insane for a hardware company (240!),

Yes, in a market today that is trading relatively low in PE~20 - 25ish.

AMD would have to grow 12 times its profits to normalise that price, as much as I am pro AMD in the Intel/AMD case, 12 times profit is a little over the top.
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The lack of testing is a symptom of a deeper root cause: cost cutting. The audacious thinking that you can just shuffle around developers that have been on the project for multiple years, outsource them to cheaper countries, count that as a win because the balance sheet looks better for that year, and then don't expect this to happen. Honestly, there is a lot of hidden knowledge that NEVER gets fully transferred in these kind of knowledge transfers and you'll only notice it once shit really starts hitting the fan.
I guess there strategy has been, “if no-one says its bad, just do it” (since no-one notice it)
Advice from health organisations is generally not "anti salt". Rather, it's "pro health", that is, those organisations are not telling you to eat less salt because they don't want you to enjoy life, or because they are idiots who don't know how to read the data. In fact, public health organisations have people who are specifically paid to read and interpret the literature, so it's very unlikely they'll be the last ones to catch up on the new information.

If public health advice hasn't changed with "recent data" the reason for that -other than the experts being stupid and not knowing their shit- is that recent studies are recent. You can't overturn a few decades of evidence with a few studies- not even a few meta-analyses etc.

And one should always remember that a study is a study, and not the word of the God of Science. And studies are flawed.

Take for example the study quoted in your linked article:

In May European researchers publishing in the Journal of the American Medical Association reported that the less sodium that study subjects excreted in their urine—an excellent measure of prior consumption—the greater their risk was of dying from heart disease.

Such surprising results have also been found for wine, for example, and the methodological error that produces them is as insidious as it is now well understood. In particular, studies on the effect of this or that on cardiovascular health often don't control for people with _pre-existing_ heart disease. People who already have heart disease are very likely to have reduced their salt or alcohol etc consumption _before_ the study, as a result of medical advice - but of course, they will still suffer from heart disease. If they later die of their pre-existing condition, the study will show an association between low sodium or alcohol etc consumption and death from heart disease.

That's very likely what happened in the study quoted by the article you link to- but of course we can't know for sure because bloody "Scientific" American never cites the studies it quotes.

Anyway, from my perspective (I have a relative with kidney disease and I've been eating a low-sodium diet with them for years now) the first I heard about salt being OK for you after all was a few years ago when a heart doctor published a book that caused a hell of a controversy - between expets, no less. Here's an article about it:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/aug/08/a-danger-to-...

My hunch is - if there's a controversy about it between experts, better stick with the advice that is _not_ controversial among experts, until things clear up.

And don't be prepared to celebrate overturned scientific orthodoxies so easily. If you have 100 studies that say A and 10 studies that say B, you trust the 100 studies that say A. See the green jellie beans XKCD etc.
Ayup. "Tale of Two Cities" is a wonderful book with a sub-par book sandwiched in the middle.
Flip burn?
Some are hard, other like asking about a Class C amplifier with OFDM are just lol.
Picogl looks like you still have to manage state, whereas ThreeJs and BabylonJs are both fairly high level iirc?

Seems like the framework used in the tutorial is somewhat in between, where you're still using opengl concepts but without having to do state management.
What about tacking a seriously "new boosted" and possibly randomized 10-30 submissions, clearly marked with different background to the end of frontpage, maybe after "next page" buttons? It would hardly make a dent to the load time, and people would in theory not feel as cheated since they know what to expect. It would still give "new" section a lot more eyeballs to find the golden nuggets.
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There are other ways to do that, too. For example, Git stash is my blind spot and I don't really use it.

A conceptually simple way (for me) is to: checkout "good" branch, cherry-pick the "wrong" commit, then checkout the "bad" branch and remove the "wrong" commit ("git reset --hard HEAD^").

Mixing and matching simple commands mechanistically means everything can in fact be remembered.

YMMV.