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Please do something useful and fund a movement to dissociate the two. People are imprisoned to their employers that provides decent health care, especially those with family and children.

Health care costs should be completely 100% tax deductible.

When I go to the dentist, I have no clue what he is going to charge me. He could price a procedure at $1000 or $5000. I, as an individual, have no ability to negotiate with him about his price. I just know that I have a damn root canal, and I’m dying in pain, so fix it! And then, you’re slapped with the expensive bill.
A magnetic field can't do work by interacting with another generated field? If so how do electric motors work? I must be missing something here.
It's a function of the power dynamic. Being female and being lefty increases your chances of getting death threats.

Recent lowlights of this I've seen were "eating an icecream in a park while female" and "being the voice actor for The Last Of Us 2".
Yes, there are a lot of things that kill birds. We all know it.

Nuclear is still one of them, and the previous claim than nuclear doesn't kill any birds is still false.

In any case, a flood is safer for birds than radioactivity. Most of them can fly and will lay a second clutch of eggs. All ends in hours or days, not in 1000 years so, what is the point here? This is not a dichotomy.
Entirely off-topic, but the author's name when written without a space (i.e. Carolchen, as it is in the URL) just happens to be the diminutive of Carol in German. Except that Carol is not a very common name here at all, so rare in fact that I've not once met a German Carol. This had me very confused for a moment.
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McAfee's book primarily cites US numbers, so this represents a kind of cherry-picking. There's a whole lot of earth that's not yet caught up to be able to use less resources.

But no matter if we talk about the US only or about Earth as a whole, biodiversity is way down and the earth is much, much less greener then it was, say, fifty years ago. Much of the 'greening' that has happened are artificial woods (see; China's failing reforestation projects) that suffer from lack of biodiversity, falling prey all kinds of "pests". Like one single fungus killing wast swaths of wood within months.

Our environmental impact is not decreasing. It's still increasing and it will for a long time (until it all comes tumbling down like the house of cards it is).
Back when Peak Oil was a big meme (2008) I got in a long debate with environmental doomers who believed the world was going to spiral into complete and total collapse and depopulation within a couple of years. I was probably the lone voice of optimism on this particular board and I carefully debated them over a long period of time and learned a lot about research, persuasion, arguing and rhetoric even when I was getting flamed like crazy on every other response.

When you say "they are wasting your time", it's that you just don't enjoy debating. You want everyone to tell you quickly you're right and move on to whatever you're actually interested in, like art appreciation or shopping for home decor at antique stores.

Debating with someone who actually wants to get to the truth of a matter is a real pleasure for me. It's also occasionally fun to deal with fallacious arguers by using their own fallacy against them. There are debates I don't have time for, but I don't get angry at people who even propose a debate. What can be annoying is when the mainstream has weighed in on something and they're wrong and armies of people come in to a debate half-way through and completely ignore all the argument so far and just try and push through with their version of the truth through a denial of service attack on the debate by them all repeating the same thing they heard on mass media.
Your browser is a monster of a machine, even when loading a text-only HTML page. The browser UI itself is a web application, after all.

You cannot do anything lightweight with a browser supporting, and itself being written in, web technologies.

Fragmentation is intentional. Although, nothing stops a web browser from also gaining gemini/gopher support. Just won't be "minimal".
Wasn't it the goal all along to flatten the curve and gradually introduce herd immunity while softening the impact on hospitals?

No one estimates a vaccine any time remotely soon and even with one it would take years at best to achieve zero cases globally.
Michael Bloomberg is not running for president any more ... but yeah ... he definitely had a China "problem" and he might still be interested in a political position.
Huh. Interesting! How about a food truck with a kitchen that drives a pre-defined route to delivers pre-ordered food?
I'm confused. Lisp does 0-based indexing. Lisp predates C and C-like languages by decades.
That's a sick machine, to bad it's not running Intel Nics otherwise I'd consider it for firewall/NAT-uses.
I don't think this will happen, I also HOPE it won't happen too soon, in Bayern we still have restrictions on number of people that are allowed to meet. Austria got rid of masks almost everywhere, but you still need to wear them in public transport and pharmacies, so I'm pretty sure they will be with us for a while.
Those files are typically generated on each platform anyway, so just have the dot on platforms that allow it and not on platforms that don’t.
They're basically everywhere, there's a lot to learn, it's a valuable skill for a potential employer and you're interested. Seems pretty obvious that you should go deeper with distributed systems. Also, your lack of formal education won't hold you back as much as it would with ML. The idea that you should go do math for the next couple of years just because the field seems hot, doesn't seem well thought out.
Gruntwork is very good to generate your infrastructure as code, but in my opinion it misses the "user-friendly" part.

What do you think about it?
> But it seems like you're not interested in sticking to the rules yourself funnily enough.

Telling someone they appear to be breaking the rules and then asking them to clarify (something they refused to do or walk back) is uncharitable?

What is the best way to interpret that comment? I'd love to hear.
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This is a problem that claims more lives than Covid-19 probably will kill. Please forgive my cynism for putting both risks next to each other.

It is also not an indignation of doctors doing these mistakes. Aside from the human error, these are probably consequences of the workload in hospitals for doctors and nurses. It is estimated that 250,000 people die from errors in the US alone.

I wouldn't want to get operated on after the doctor in question already worked for 10 hours, would you?
I have watched almost all of them actually. And while I was ~10 in the late 90's and not interested, I have recently watched GPs from that era and none of the recent GPs can stand up to the Schumacher vs Hakkinen races. Many of the drivers these days lack character if you ask me, with very few exceptions. And some shouldn't be allowed anywhere near a race car imo. The Austrian GP was interesting simply because of all the mechanical retirements which is relatively rare these days. The only race with similar record in recent years was Hockenheim last year(also incredibly interesting) but it was mostly due to crashes.
Didi and Grab weren't M&A to Uber, Uber in their cities/countries were acquired by Didi/Grab via stock.
I am such a big fan. Ecstasy of gold in the final scene of the good bad and the ugly was so good.
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This is my point exactly.

They were willing to invest where we were no longer willing.

You can say that it is state capitalism and not free competition. But let there be no doubt; had there been free competition now and not a massive boycot led by the US government against Huawei, then Huawei would have been absolutely dominant.
I just meant that it's unwise, i.e. not a good idea, to suggest in passing that BLM is an inherently violent movement, as this kind of inaccurate and unnecessarily inflammatory statement is not likely to lead to a productive discussion. I am not sure why you think I meant anything else.
I wasn’t aware of these functions. At first glance, their addition to Python seems to be a significant violation of “one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it”.

What are the advantages of `read_text` over the traditional `file` read methods?
An industry is booming if you're buying their products, and people use the same books to play D&D whether they're doing it in person or using a virtual tabletop. I admit this is more true for roleplaying games than board games, because you don't really need to buy a board game to play it on Tabletop Simulator, but Roll20 definitely sells a lot of WotC products, with their own value add (virtual tabletop integration) on top of it bumping the price a bit. Which arbitrary point you choose to start considering them to be computer games isn't important when it's the same industry either way.
The ratio varies - I would say it depends on the car, teammates and team. But ultimately driver skill is what determines who gets to drive for Mercedes, Ferrari etc. So once a pairing has been made, either the drivers are closely matched, or one or both will be changing teams or leaving F1 all together.
I think that even if it did attract those who would be banned anywhere else, it would not necessarily mean it is not working - depends how you define "working". I see the problem with cancel culture in suppressing legitimate but unpopular opinions and polarizing society by promoting echo-chamberization. I would love to have a place where opinions would be discussed and voted down not because people do not like them but because they can find arguments against them in rigorous debate. But how to set up the system in such a way that it would distinguish and push to the most visible place the best reasoned opinions and not the ones most liked, that is the hard problem.
It is also very often used of outstanding creators who are incredibly productive. I have seen it used that way many times. If anybody is using it pejoratively they need to stop. I think it would be a terrible shame if we had to tip-toe round our use of language because of misuse by others. I'm firmly against letting a small minority who are abusing language set the linguistic agenda in that way, although I have to say I don't remember seeing that usage myself.
Electric fields do the work there. A charged particle in a magnetic field feels a force (Lorenz force) that act perpendicularly to its velocity. But work is only work if the force is applied in the direction of its velocity. Essentially it's changing its direction of momentum, but not its magnitude.

On the other hand, some magnetic fields (not all) can be transformed into electric fields by a change of reference frame. In that case, the electric field can be used to do work. But I don't believe that's possible on these scales.
That's beside the point. Insurance is basically just another way to invest wealth. An insurer simply needs to have cash somewhere safe to cover the possible payouts they might reasonably need to make. It still can be a single customer.
So many amazing moments in the Sergio Leone movies alone. One of my favourites is the pocket watch from "A Few Dollars More" which features on its own and also as part of the final duel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JPnR7C8mZQ

Such a haunting piece of music.
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What was the process of compiling your love to a standalone executable? I'd love to try out LOVE but I dont want to sink time in unless the process of packaging it up into something I can send my friends is painful or not well supported.

Also, are you using moonscript and SDL2 in this?

Great project by the way! The pixellated graphic effects are clever and unique.
Also, a good driver might not be a good team member which might put them in a disadvantage. Räikkönen was considered one of if not the fastest on the grid during his best years but iirc wasn't very good as a team member in the car's development phase which hampered his and his car's performance
That's the point. A web browser is a behemoth—the extreme opposite of minimalism and efficiency—and can only grow.

Creating an entirely parallel stack is the only way to obtain minimalism at this point.

Appealing to those liking web technologies would be counter productive, as they're part of the problem being mitigated.
This has made me sad :(

Metallica introduced me to his music and then I explored a lot. Had a privilege to witness his performance live once. Ennio Morricone is a legend! RIP Maestro!
>are hosted on source forge

Actually i like source-forge, it does not attract the twitter and facebookish folks as github seems to, aka

https://github.com/nikolas/github-drama
Hmm, perhaps Wall St M&A activities pumping stock prices isn't considered "core" to Main St's society and economies.

It might be time to divest it from society's operations to allow us to focus on our core competencies and comparative advantages?
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Improved components: nicer card stock, thicker cardboard, wood, metal etc.

Piece organizers, additional players expansion are also good stretch goals.
Overtakes shot up because of DRS, which was introduced because reliability had gone up so massively that races had become too predictable. Before DRS, the 2000-2010 decade was ending up producing "Monacos" on most weekends.

Pre-2000, reliability was more on par to what we saw this weekend (45% of cars not finishing), which made it much more exciting on average.
The two major problems with this are "values" and "forward looking statements".

Coronavirus in particular has brought out a lot of the usual arguments about the value of human life versus economic value. But an even bigger problem is "if we do X, then Y" where the causality is anything less than perfectly individual and clear. Hence a lot of the global warming dispute.

A surprising amount of the most vicious arguments are power-relations driven and collapse to "my convenience or freedom is more important than your or someone else's life". You can't rationalise your way out of that one.
I don't know about you, but he's one of the few composers I knew by name, so he was well-known
> Wasn't it the goal all along to flatten the curve and gradually introduce herd immunity while softening the impact on hospitals?

No, suppression was the goal. At least, the study that turned the tide on policy concluded that targeting suppression was essential.
Why does the choice of uBlock origin surprise you?
Will UK universities need a bailout?
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Refuelling actually hinders the importance of team strategies as once the car is fuelled, there's a fixed point at which a pitstop has to happen by. Without that, and with the degradation of tyres offering a similar performance hindrance as higher fuel levels, there's far more freedom in strategy, with similar consequences for the wrong call costing a race (or the right one sealing it).

Here's a current strategist's thoughts on it: https://www.reddit.com/r/formula1/comments/go6c9m/im_an_f1_e... (TL;DR fuel restricted racing is more deterministic)
I worked for five years at a grocery delivery company, and even there it was a nightmare trying to keep delivery routes profitable - that was with at least 5 hour's notice on what people had ordered, and pre-selected delivery slots, which meant we could peak at each driver doing 10-12 drops an hour if they were in an area with a high customer density. I have no idea how companies like Deliveroo expect to make a consistent profit when they get 25 minute's notice, no delivery slots, and therefore little to no ability to batch a driver's work. Everything I've read indicates a single Deliveroo driver would expect to do 1-3 drops an hour, which is just wildly inefficient.

Having said that, I do now wonder if you could make the model work by offering very cheap, or even free, delivery on the condition that you place the order a few hours in advance for a pre-selected delivery time. I'm not sure what the market is like for customers who want to order takeout food, but also know they'll want to do that in advance, but I think there's probably a niche there if anyone fancies taking a pass at it.
It's different context. If you're explainig why you write a piece of code the way you do, a comment is most certainly helpful. If you're explaining, why you're changing it the way you do, that's where the commit message shines. That's not to say you can't do both for intricate problems. And there are certain things you'll likely don't want to see inside your codebase (like references to bug tracker IDs and so on), which are IMO perfectly fine in a commit message.

On the discoverability: Do you use `git blame` much? Because in projects that live a long time, that will most likely be the way you'll discover commit messages the most. And it is very handy in one of those WTF moments to see why and how a particular piece of code was altered, as opposed to "update" or "improve logic".

Also: On your notion of "abstract what": That's supposed to be your commit's subject line. The rest of the message then will be the "why". I like to think of it as an email to some future maintainer (e.g. me in a year) on why it was necessary to change a piece of code.

Edit: It's also important to see the differences workflow between your project and Linux, which Git was originally built for. In Linux, your change most likely is an email to some maintainer. If it sucks, your code won't be merged.

And there's something to be said about being able to vocalize your reason for changing code. I still get the impression that many people who riff on the "return on investment" part of commit messages don't factor in that you're very likely not understanding a problem if you cannot describe it readably in text.
Yup, the rain...

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

"Most of Kazakhstan’s water supply has been polluted by industrial and agricultural runoff and, in some places, radioactivity".
Looking at everything as relative to each other is a slippery slope to zero sum mindset. Are things relative? Yes, absolutely (no pun intended haha), great to be aware of that. But focusing too much on your relative rank eats away from the edge that got you to wherever you are and pushes you towards groupthink. Once you start the measuring contest, you’ve already lost.

I think one of the Intel founders said something along the lines of “every new business sows the seeds for its own upheaval”. Yeah that’s true, but only once you start caring about the scoreboard.
Sandi is a he.
> Many universities were already starting to struggle to meet growth expectations

This sentence pretty much summarizes the sad state of the US tertiary education system.
This is all true, but personally I find it so boring to actually watch. The cars go around.

Maybe they need to improve the way it is filmed and presented?
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So very sad :( One of my all time favourite composers. Such emotive music that bring back so many memories, not least my wife walking down the aisle to me to Gabriel's Oboe. RIP.
A decade ago, I thought Lua would be where JS is today. But JS won...

A new text editor in Lua, why not: https://github.com/rxi/lite

(Rxi is awesome, see https://rxi.itch.io/)
If I buy from Domino's I pay the fixed price for my pizza + delivery fee + tip for the driver.

If I buy food from $local_restaurant via $delivery_service I pay original cost of food + whatever the food deliver service adds to the cost of the food + the delivery services fee + tip to the restaurant + tip to the driver.
Trying to predict the global social behaviour based on planetary movements.
automated cars would obviously eventually become faster than F1 drivers, it's just there's no interest in it (unfortunately).

The biggest interest to most people are the drivers and they strongly dislike driver aids. I'd prefer every driver aid under the sun and have a real engineering battle. I'm obviously in the minority here.

Formula E is under very tight budget constraints in order to lower the barrier to entry. I look forward to the day when the series is established and they can start to compete on things like motor construction and battery tech to drive the field forwards.
>send info to a restaurant to keep your food hot

I'm not sure what exactly you think restaurants can do with that request. A small subset of places will have a heat lamp, but that still doesn't really preserve quality, just heat.
>that was designed for something different

I use that machine for what i want to use it, i also use my C64 as a Webserver and my Leemote-Laptop as my Mainbackup.
Better having Hardware you can use for something then not...and you know, you can reinstall Irix later if you want.
Tyre changes are still absolutely critical. Case in point: yesterday Albon's last stint on softs would have likely pipped an otherwise-dominant Mercedes to P2 and possibly even P1, had Hamilton not "touched" him out of contention.

I personally didn't like fuel changes, probably because I started watching F1 before they were introduced and it made me mad that a less efficient, less-reliable engine could now win over more solid ones. They are also spectacularly dangerous for drivers and crew - as Jos Verstappen can attest.
Regards Plato, I'm curious if you've looked at Ernest McClain's book The Pythagorean Plato? (See my other comment[1] here for some details if not.)

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23746057
First of all! Nice post :)
Just some random things:
The first paragraph needs some commas, I think.
In the first code block you probably want to have `print(variable_x)`
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Bobak Ferdowsi, an engineer who wrote a lot of the operating procedures for the Curiosity Rover was a huge fan as well, and paid tribute in a tweet that encapuslates Morricone's spirit [1].
[1] - https://twitter.com/tweetsoutloud/status/1280043423429345280
Uber and the like already take a share of the profit, last time I chatted to a restaurant owner while waiting to pick up some food I'd ordered even Just Eat, who don't even provide delivery services, take a 15% cut of the order value. Uber/Delivery I believe are taking 20-30% of the order value, which given the margins on takeout food feels like its leaving basically nothing on the table for the actual restaurant.
I immediately recognised the Land of Lisp art style - looking forward to trying this. On a side note, this is one of the few things where I would like to be able to sign up for a newsletter.
Chain Bear uploaded a video just a few days back where he analysis this: [What's more important: The Driver or the car?] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMN0oB0Waqw
At that point you're not a food delivery service, you're a restaurant that only offers delivery.