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> Does a company in general have to provide benefit to the society overall?

Is your question one of corporate citizenship, or legal obligations?

If the former, yes.

If the latter, then some countries have legal requirements, like https://ec.europa.eu/info/business-economy-euro/company-repo... regarding reporting requirements about certain social practices, for large companies in the EU, or https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=f2e36590-95bd... which suggests that Germany may "require businesses to establish a sophisticated compliance management system to protect human rights in their global supply chains."

> Airbnb seems to provide a service where their clients are fine with. .. Airbnb is just the consequence of ..

I don't understand your statement. Surely there's any number of organizations which provide illegal and/or immoral services, which their clients are fine with. That doesn't mean those services should be allowed to continue, does it?

In US history, the Pinkertons were a private detective agency/security force. Its clients hired them (among other things) as strikebreakers. Their anti-union activities included using machine guns, tear gas bombs, and clubs to break up union meetings.

Their clients were "fine with" their services, which were "just a consequence of a number of decisions made in the past" and which met "the current needs" of their clients.

I don't think these actions of the Pinks were beneficial to society, or morally correct, or something that should be allowed to continue.

While, if I understand it, your argument seems to accept that anything which happened (and was legal, and of benefit to its customers), should be allowed to happen in the future, rather than recognizing that some behaviors are so detrimental that they should be made illegal, even when they benefit some.
Health-insurance premiums could rise 40% or more next year
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Auto-self-DoS is what they were getting at!
You can get a lot of the benefits of static typing with mypy. I know it's not mandatory, my first sentence acknowledged that.
> How much time will it be over $30 before the shale producers start up again?

I think that depends on how expensive it is to "start up again." If it costs $10mil to turn the taps on, then it won't be economic to do so unless the operators expect oil prices to stay above the $30 level long enough to make up the startup cost in operating profit.

From that perspective, an oil cartel could keep unconventional oil out of the market by holding out a credible threat that they'll crash the prices if ever unconventional oil becomes too big.
They are, Common Lisp, Java/Android and .NET all provide very developer friendly graphical profiling tools.
Which puts a burden on the user because this needs to be tested. Also, it's not 100% safe because the user is still accountable.
The REA also basically killed the low-energy appliance and home electric generation industries (which were growing in the 1920s), and greatly accelerated suburban sprawl, all of which dramatically contribute to carbon emissions. There are always unintended consequences to the blunt instrument of massive programs.

As an alternative, if the government reduced the monopoly power of the telcos and allowed things like municipal internet, that might be a good solution.

I think we should seek first to remove the barriers and obstacles to progress before we use scorched earth to accomplish a goal.
It makes a difference in the absolute numbers, but it doesn't really matter for the trends, since each country's testing policy is relatively consistent with itself. In other words, the graph shapes & trends are stil comparable, whether a country's testing captures 1%, 10% or 100% of its cases.
Thanks for your reply! Unfortunately, if the answer requires such detailed knowledge, it won't be a viable solution, since I can't expect my participants to have such in-depth knowledge. It would have to be a low-friction solution. As far as I can tell, OBS is only one directional video (I can't see the participants), or no?
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That didn't exist yet when C* was started though. I'd be interested in how it compares to ScyllaDB, I suspect still not favourably.
Such is the risk of absolutes...

>> "nobody is arguing that there’d be a 100% purchase rate"

The typical case against things like this does multiply downloads by sale price under the assumption each one is a lost sale. I've seen authors (obscure and prominent) scream about how many hundreds of thousands of dollars they're missing out on because they found their book on some torrent site.
Density of human development also has benefits, though. The US lifestyle is especially bad at some of this. People think that their car-centric suburban or exurban life is away from chaos and closer to nature, but actually, they are driving their cars everywhere, increasing costs of getting goods to them, destroying the planet in the process.
It's not that changing output levels is too expensive, it's that shutting down/starting up is too expensive. The fixed costs are so high that it's far cheaper to produce at a loss (and stockpile if needed) than to shut down.
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"Kokoro" by Soseki Natsume. (What is inside you matters above all things)

"The Accidental Tourist" by Anne Tyler. (There is a crack in everything; that's how the light gets in)

"Dom Casmurro" by Machado de Assis (also his "Epitaph of a Small Winner") (The narrower the life, the more intense the obsessions)

"The Count of Monte Cristo" (get the Robin Buss translation from Penguin) ("Wait and hope")
Εxodus: The privacy audit platform for Android applications
How do you auto test that this actually works and continues working properly
A current coworker used to work at AWS and shared an anecdote. Makes sense but I’m surprised I haven’t seen it repeated:

nobody wants to work on the billing code because it’s a mess and the penalty for a mistake is very high.
It’s simply not true that you don’t know if the oil will flow again. It will. The subsurface pressure and fluid behavior is well understood.

One of the only scenarios that might lead to wells failing to flow when reopened would in wells that were freshly tracked without flowing back the frack water. In this case the frack water will soak into and damage the clay-like minerals in the rock and damage the permeability of the rock.
Fastmail already supports Sieve, so I'm not sure you'd need something like this.

https://www.fastmail.com/help/technical/sieve-howto.html
It allegedly hit $0.99/gal somewhere in the U.S. midwest. Driving through Oklahoma last week, I saw it as low as $1.28/gal.

I don't exactly have much sympathy for the fossil fuel industry, but like it or not they're deeply entangled with our economy, and these prices indicate a lot of upheaval.
> Good Omens: Gaiman and Pratchett team up, what’s not to love?

It's a good book, but aesthetically it suffers in my mind because it's a rewrite of Pratchett's earlier book Sourcery.
There’s a substantial number of big passenger ships cruising the seas. One would think this was a solved problem.
Mutazione is a game about the importance of tending to gardens and people (2019)
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I enjoy watching the DVD/BluRay bonus features on how films were made in the 1980s and before. Lots of interesting stuff.

Starting in the late 1990s and then progressively advancing until it is everything, all the special effects videos amount to "and then we used a computer." I mean, still a few interesting bits about how they got it into a computer (motion capture, etc), but it tends to homogenize.

Technically there would still be stuff I'd find interesting, but it goes beyond what DVD features will have.
The Spanish Flu is estimated to have killed around 50 million people worldwide (google) in 1918 when the world population was 1.9 billion. Just linearly that would be around 200 million today.
The article is giving you the answer to the question. The real world has this thing called uncertainty. There are a lot of different ways things could go, amd if the article said itll be uber in 4 months exactly, that would be total bull. If the only thing people consider "worthy" reporting is reporting that oversimplifies hard questions and pretends there no uncertainty to give simple, pleasing and wrong answers, and the reporting people consider "worthless" are articles that grapple with the complexity of a situation ultimately leading to unsatisfying answers but with a sense of why its unsatisfying, well, that would make sense with what news reporting looks like today.
- Anna Karenina: Tolstoy knows people better than they know themselves

- Brave New World: Aldous Huxley is a genius and a wordsmith

- Dune: a sci-fi masterpiece, highly recommended to anyone into sci-fi

- Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: not purely fiction but an amazing book I will surely re-read during my lifetime
Contact tracing was happening at the start, and it'll presumably happen again once caseloads become manageable. As you'd expect with such a quickly moving story, coronavirus predictions have a huge splintering problem; most people writing about it don't have all the facts.
I'm not sure if people realize, but "Copy" and "Paste" and "Cut" aren't just metaphors. There used to be entire jobs dedicated to people manually doing this with scissors, glue, tape, etc. to save time for senior execs who couldn't spend the time to rewrite their documents. And by that, I mean... the typewriters were pretty unforgiving of any typo, although the the IBM Selectix did have a key with whiteout ink, which was nice... imagine teachers writing tests and quizzes, though. Imagine procrastinating students making a last minute typo in a thesis... at 3AM day of the deadline...
beautiful story - grand scale and the ideas expressed, even though very pessimistic, make sense.
Contact tracing is great for diseases like SARS and MERS, but it just doesn't seem to work adequately for this coronavirus Even Singapore is being forced to enact stricter and stricter lockdown measures. Also, you're not even going to get it to work as well as it did in Singapore unless the virus is coming from a known, external set of sources that allow you to narrow down the pool of potential cases.

(Public Health England in the UK had a fairly competent, though not totalitarian-level, contact tracing program. They stopped a while back because it became evident that despite their best efforts, the disease was becoming so widespread that it was reaching the limit of their contact tracing resources and most of the infections were probably unknown community spread that couldn't be found via contact tracing anyway. Other countries are likely similar.)
I think the unstated assumption is that there won't be any more pubs, night clubs, and music festivals, as we knew it.
No. This is a nice benefit but this war just isn't about shale like the 2012 flooding was. This conflict originated from a spat between Russia and Saudi Arabia and will end when they settle their differences.
I use something like this that a Googler shared with me.

It's super helpful to get around the way Gmail doesn't really let you order rules.

This helps you generate mutually exclusive rules, so the ordering doesn't matter.

https://github.com/mbrt/gmailctl/blob/master/README.md#chain...
It’s interesting to think about how many other viruses would perish if there were no new hosts for them to live in. Maybe we should start doing this every year as a sort of cleansing of viruses? 3 weeks in February - quarantine weeks. Every year.
You don't need to have an answer before you ask a question.
Also most SQL based languages are strongly typed, which helps a lot when it comes to generate native code.
It seems like the basis for a numerical model to understand the phenomena.
Its non essential if you can get it shipped there easily in a resupply
I believe it's more to bankrupt Alberta's oil sands. US shale is barely a competitor on a global scale.
It's a very misleading sense of uncertainty. There's every reason to believe people gain long-lasting immunity, and no way to concretely prove it right now. No public health authority is seriously considering the possibility that survivors aren't immune.
I live in Spain. We've been in full quarantine at home for about two weeks today. The cases are still raising, and so are the deaths.

I think the two week mark is the bare minimum, ideally you would have two weeks for symptoms to surface, then additional time until you're healthy and then two weeks more. So one month and a bit more.

Which, seems to be the way we're going, as the quarantine here is seemingly continuing.
The technology treadmill: the impact of innovation on human life
For me: the ability to self-host and the ability to read through the code.
This doesn't directly answer your question, and many have replied already, but I thought you might like this:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-03/that-time...
Hands down: Papillon by Henri Charrière.
If you think you are going through a difficult period. If you don't know what resilience means. If you really want to change the way you see life. Read this book. Really.
TIL! Thank you kind stranger.
I think the vast majority of areas "without internet access" are an artifact of modern software.

I recently went over my "unlimited" cellular quota and was throttled to 128Kbps. I was amazed that I could literally not load the web page to upgrade my plan! 128K used to be high speed internet.

Trying to upgrade everyone so they can pipe the same amount of garbage as everyone else seems like it will always be a receding goal.

How about pass laws that say, not only must sites be accessible to the disabled, but they must also be accessible on low bandwidth connections?
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Adams
Discworld series - Pratchett
Foundation - Asimov
American Gods - Gaiman
Snow Crash - Stephenson
Next - Crichton
1984 - Orwell
> Like the flu, every year there are new strains (so surviving it doesn’t grant immunity)

Even if it mutates, the immune systems of people who recovered from it this year will still be able to fight it much better next year, because they've learned how to fight that kind of virus. This is why even though the flu mutates every year, it isn't particularly lethal: our bodies have learned how to fight that kind of virus.

If however one were to take the flu to e.g. an uncontacted tribe who'd never encountered influenza before, it'd completely devastate them, much as how viruses from European settlers were estimated to have killed a double-digit percentage of the native American peoples.
I don't really disagree with any of that. I've done both ways and I'm not sure I'd go with a traditional publisher again unless doing so fell in my lap for some reason.

Another thing I find for tech-related books--which is what I do--is that if I do things myself, I control the length whereas publishers generally have a minimum number of pages in mind which may be more than the topic really warrants. And a final point is that, as an individual, I have more flexibility in just giving copies away (especially ebooks) if I did the book mostly for promotional purposes.
Those “coasties” you seem to despise are the ones subsidizing your economically and environmentally unsustainable rural lifestyle.
14 days probably not but with perfect isolation per household for 1-2 months it is possible. so assuming we can keep all services running unattended for that period of time (electricity, water, internet) and that each household somehow stocks up the bare minimum essentials for that period and finally somehow enforce the curfew without potentially exposing the police to the virus its doable.

BUT.. not going to happen, this can't even happen perfectly in China where the government can get away with a lot more than any western nation.
The goal is to dissipate the waste heat from the condenser cooling water, or at least that part of it which is to be reused. The relevant parameters are the rate of flow, inflow temperature, and acceptable outfow temperature. As the performance of a cooling tower depends on the ambient air temperature and humidity, knowledge of the local climate is needed.

It is claimed here [1] that the hyperboloid shape is not just for structural efficiency, but also for aerodynamic reasons, efficiently generating an updraft from a relatavely small temperature difference.

They are not just for nuclear plants, but for any large steam generating facility lacking a large source of cooling water in its local environment.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperboloid_structure
Harry Potter!! The writing is simple but the wisdom is profound. Everytime I have reread one of the books in the series, I discovered something new.

One particular scene made such a strong impression on me about being calm in difficult situations. In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, when Harry is flinging Dumbledore's precious instruments around, Dumbledore remains monk-like still.
> “oops" away large sums of money on AWS, and for the most part they seem to have at least gotten a partial discount when they contacted customer support

As a counter-datapoint, we accidentally left a Redshift cluster up idling for two weeks before we started getting alerts, and after numerous attempts have failed to get compensated in any way. The reasoning was that, well, it was what we requested and they had to allocate compute power to it (which we didn’t use).

All in all a very frustrating experience and it makes me fairly cynical of all these “I got my money back without problems!” comments.

(For what it’s worth, it was about $4k of costs which was a lot for us at the time)
Are you saying that the majority of the speed up is from caches and then there's a secondary, much smaller, speed up from the vectorization? Or are you saying all the speed up is from caches and I'm off base here with vectorization.
Helps discover trackers and advertisement sdk's in Android apps.
Also appbrain.com provides detailed information about all apps.
> 10ms was mentioned as acceptable for musicians - but then someone said, even when musicians are in the same room, there can already be too much latency if it's a big room and they're distant from each other, making it difficult to play together.

Sound only travels ~3.4 meters in 10 ms, so it matches up that a large venue easily exceeds that quite a bit.
> You can do DNS over HTTPS through Firefox (sadly not on an OS level in Windows for example, but that's fine -- I'm sure OS level support works better on Linux

I'm using https://github.com/dimkr/nss-tls with https://github.com/dimkr/dohli on Linux and it works well. Everything, not just the browser, uses DoH and with endless customization, since I own the server.
Yeah, I never understood the HR reps approaching me and listing all of the technologies company uses.
After reading that I still have no idea what company is doing and why they would need someone like me.
German minister commits suicide due to coronavirus worries
How would you measure the cost of downtime for a toilet system? Number of people in the infirmary with constipation?
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy + all parts.

It's a common recommendation for exactly that - but I'm amazed by how much it's in the back of my head and gives me support. Especially in the current time.

I can't point to an exact quote.. but I'm listening to all audio books(as background noise) by Douglass Adam's for the last weeks and it just feels like there is a part in the books for almost every weird situation in life....

And it's not like it gives a solution for every weird situation... it's more like it supports to feel however you feel about it...
Instead of directly trading oil barrel options or futures, I'd suggest picking a long etf tracker. It's much lower risk to achieve the same goal.
> Chloroquine has side effects

see point #1

> without any scientific basis

see point #2, plus all the hindsight of using this drug since 1949

> during Ebola we were all convinced that drug by Gilead was going to work

You mean Remdesivir, a drug which is barely 5 years old in the clinical world? For that one yes, precautionary principle should have a much higher precedence over the urgency, but for a well known drug like chloroquine which is normally available OTC, sorry saving lives comes first.

I take it you are not on the front line and have no immediate responsibility of the life and death of those infected.
Hai wait. Did I mention that it is an autobiography?
Externalising your provider credentials with Terraform
Google cancels April Fools’ jokes this year
You're joking if you think 200k will get you someone who manages an entire group like Khan Academy. That's the amount of money new graduates make out of their college in FANG, and in no way is what Khan does comparable to a generic software developer.
To be clear, nextdns is a hosted service, whereas Maza and Pi-hole are local services.
The real alternative is using toolchains that offer both, JIT/AOT.
The Petro dollar isn't necessarily a bad thing. It doesn't necessarily require us to continue our presence in the middle East, and it ( among other things) ensures that that the dollar system is the most important system. Global dollar system is what allows the us to print so much money: there isn't any alternative safer currency.
What is going on with the sudden profusion of books on C?
21st century C, Modern C, Understanding and Using C Pointers?

Okay, I realize "profusion" might seem a bit overblown, but honestly, in C world (and in comparison to other languages), this is practically a publishing boom.

Not that I'm complaining; C was my first programming language (back some time in the mid-90s), and it's still my favorite. But I wonder why we're suddenly getting new books on it? The language itself hasn't undergone any substantial changes recently, and if anything, "memory safety" is all the rage -- a thing that C most assuredly is not.
Yeah I don't know. I guess I'd just prefer to give to the worthy causes out there that don't spend as much of the donations on the leader's salary.

Also, there's an abundance of free educational resources on the web, it's not clear that a marginal dollar is best spent on Khan Academy at this point.
> The market is broken because demand is way down, but production isn't being lowered to match.

Given these prices, shale oil and tar sands production is going to shut down at some point. This is good news in a way, because these are among the dirtiest sources of oil in terms of environmental impact. Saudi Arabia extracts "light" oil and it's a frickin' desert, so the environmental impact of that extraction is quite a bit lower all things considered.
How does the movie compare?
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Peak oil is the moment in history where people have the most oil available.

It came, and past. Production is down from the peak, and down from last month too.
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That depends on what you define as a market that isn't broken. In a perfect free market the oil producers make zero profits and this is a move towards fixing the market
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