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>Opiates in and of themselves are relatively safe, only slightly worse for you than caffeine, although clearly (arguably?) more addictive.

I've heard this claim so much but I can't possibly comprehend the basis of it.

Virtually nobody is out there overdosing and dying of caffeine (although it does happen). It's very addictive, yes, but if you deprived someone of their coffee for a month, they'll call you an asshole but they'll go about their normal life. With opiates, people are willing to live on the streets because they're more driven to put the drug over their personal well-being. I've known people who talked about having to empty their bowels with a spoon because they can't do it normally. Withdrawal is described as absolute hell and many people accept the possibility of overdose rather than the agony of going without it. People who built up a tolerance, quit using, then return often die because they took a little beyond their current tolerance. One major long term effect is that many people find it hard to find any joy in life as great as heroin.

It's not reefer madness. Thousands are dying and people are oftentimes knowingly sacrificing their lives for opiates. The argument that it's not bad when used responsibly and in small amounts is true of virtually every drug ever. In practice, many people aren't using them responsibly, and the nature of some drugs makes them even more apt to be abused than others.

People are desperate enough to see all the examples of people dying or otherwise destroying their lives for the drug but still deciding it's worth trying. The prohibition isn't the problem. The problem is people are struggling in life and opiates are providing an out. Making them more open and available will not help, and the oft-cited example of Portugal decriminalizing drugs doesn't mean every society should make opiates available. Drug overdoses recently increased in Portugal. [1]

[1] https://www.emcdda.europa.eu/countries/drug-reports/2019/por...
SQLite3 is one of the few pieces of open source software that has a very successful business model. The business model is this: SQLite3 is open source, including some tests, but the real test suite -the one used by the developers- is proprietary, and is one of the most thorough test suites ever built. That means that nobody can credibly fork SQLite3[0]! Thus the SQLite3 developers can and have formed a consortium that all the big players (Apple, Google, etc.) pay to join because they so utterly depend on SQLite3.

Consortia have been tried many times, but few as successful as the SQLite Consortium.

What a great model. Open source for the main thing, proprietary test suite.

This model does require building something everyone needs, years of patient care and feeding to make it wildly popular, and a fantastic test suite. So it's not exactly easy to pull off. But it is brilliant, if you can do it.

[0] Even just contributing is very difficult. Try to contribute anything other than a trivial bug fix, and you'll find that a) unless it's utterly trivial, the devs are not interested, b) they are dead serious about checking that the contributor has their employer's permission to place that contribution in the public domain.
Thanks for the post. I really enjoyed reading it.
Overdose is most common on illegal opiates due to inconsistencies in the product itself. It's gotten worse as fentanyl has made it's way into the supply chain which dramatically alters the potency of "normal" opiates.
A good salary in the UK is any over £40,000 and not all service workers are paid the minimum. Minimum wage in the UK works out At £15k-20k per year so yeah, not a good salary but a lot better than the $3 an hour I’ve heard US restaurant workers get per hour. If you have to rely on the enforced generosity of customers so your staff can afford to live you don’t have a viable business in my opinion, and that seems to be the model in the US.

If memory serves tipping used to be heavily frowned upon in the US until the Great Depression.
The article discusses how the filing cites deaths back to 1999. Over 20 years that's closer to 0.5% of yearly GDP.

> The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that the total "economic burden" of prescription opioid misuse alone in the United States is $78.5 billion a year, including the costs of healthcare, lost productivity, addiction treatment, and criminal justice involvement.

That totals $1.57T over 20 years and is purely economic, and doesn't include any value of human life.

https://www.drugabuse.gov/drug-topics/opioids/opioid-overdos...
Could you explain why? If you offer UBI for people who move into a new town, why shouldn't a huge number of people from all over the world take that offer?
Several restaurants have gotten rid of tipping in Seattle, either through just eliminating it or through the "we charge a fixed additional fee that goes to staff". Either way, I'm a fan (though I prefer the former) if the business provides a living wage, benefits, etc.
SQLite3 is one of the most widely used pieces of software ever. Every browser, every mobile OS, many many apps, all use SQLite3. It is absolutely essential.
Are all myths, parables and stories lies? Is every metaphor a lie? (All the world is not a stage! It's a terrestrial planet!).

If the category "Lies" is identical to the category "Not Literally True", then it seems to be fairly useless.
Thank you. This is crucial information.
You may think this is absurd, but it isn't a huge stretch from Amazon buying Twitch or Google buying YouTube. Oracle's management might be looking to buy a very potent "independent" anchor customer of Oracle Cloud.
From what I've read, that's not true at all. I'd imagine a whole lot of waiters and waitresses are earning a lot less than you imagine. £10/hour seems more reasonable, but our minimum wage keeps going up and includes holidays, etc. and we do not need to pay health insurance either.
TrueAnon
Thank goodness you've given up because your points were so incoherent that it was borderline spam.
>still hasn’t led to anyone competing with their App Store.

F-Droid.org?
Oracle Said to Be Weighing Bid for TikTok’s U.S. Business
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In addition, the amount a waiter is tipped is also often influenced by their race, sex, and physical appearance.
I've disabled all constraints, but I haven't removed indexing during loading. I'll look into doing that, with adding the indexing later
The fee should be whatever would the fee would be, if there were multiple app stores allowed on the iPhone.

I expect that number would drop to around 10%, for "premium" app stores, such as if Steam or the Epic app store were allowed on iPhones.

But also, I would expect there to be even lower priced competitors. Payment processors charge 3% of sales, so a competing app store could get pretty close to around 3%, if they wanted.

So the answer is 10% for "premium" app stores, and for the app stores that instead only doing payment processing, the price should be 3%.
Apple's 30% cut is not based on those other services (the services related to Mac, and the "services" involved in collaborating to make Apple devices more friendly to games). The 30% cut only applies to Fortnite. Epic would not owe Apple more than a few hundred bucks for all the rest, because Apple is doing that work to benefit themselves.
Registered with who?

Where do I register to get some of this free google money?

I've got some breaking news stories to share about corrupt bills being proposed.
Here's the thing, most infrastructures will be built in cities, even if those cities are not the most cost-effective or efficient location for such infrastructures, but that's how to secure fund and traffic. However, there are calculable locations where building infrastructures in those locations will create more efficient network of traffic, but rare anyone would do so because the huge cost and for the fear of their returns on investment, which hinders the growth and creation of new cities.
I wonder if you could write a program that scans javascript-dependencies for function-usage that could be replaced by suites like lodash, to find and replace "leftpad-style dependencies".
There are many, many forms of meditation, with many supposed goals. So to say that "meditation is..." is a reduction to absurdity.

If you do something and you don't like the outcome, you stop. Driving a car may also lead to ego-death ... probably much more likely than from meditation. Yet we do it. There are certainly forms of meditation that are risky. There are also forms of Olympic sport that are risky. People disappear simply while taking a walk through the great outdoors.

Are there many hucksters trying to cash in on 'yoga' trends? Sure! I understand from many very old and very-earnest- traditions that a -real- spiritual teacher would -never- charge for help. 'Cashing in' is, after all, pretty much the antithesis of 'uplifting'.

Jung often pointed out that our waking egos are like planets orbiting a Self that's Sun-sized ... and much more in control than we realize. Most spiritual traditions emphasize that there are many stages of realization. (In the east, chakras symbolize this.)

While our present culture places little value on compassion or wisdom, this time is unusual in that way. (We're born with both, but it's easy to get lost.) Many people over millennia have learned that if we make the effort - noone else can do it - there are definite rewards. One place to get an overview of this history (Western perspective) is in Huxley's 'Perennial Philosophy'.
FWIW, Canadian taxes are similarly quite uniform within a province.

Canadians also have a Federal GST, and provinces add their own tax, which gets added together into one Harmonized Services Tax (HST) in all provinces but Quebec and British Columbia, which have their own rules (QC collects an additional Provincial Sales Tax (PST))

Of course, there are fun additional taxes as well like the Environmental Handling Fee (EHF) on electronics.
> The company does not support running an Android phone without using Google Play Store, does it?

Of course running an Android phone without the Play Store is supported by AOSP.

Your bias is very clear, but even you have to admit the fact that Fortnite is still available to any Android user who wants it, thanks to features that Google intentionally develops and enables in Android for the explicit purpose of enabling alternative app distribution methods.
A huge number of security vulnerabilities are due to production mis-configuration rather than flaws in the development of the actual software. Software Engineers generally aren't trained in managing these production environments so you would probably want at least two different legal licenses to cover your bases.
What people seem to be looking for here is some kind of purchasing co-op which can then have greater negotiating leverage with developers than an individual customer.

The problem is, Apple isn't that -- it doesn't have a duty to the user, it has a duty to Apple shareholders, so what it does will be for their benefit and not yours unless they happen to coincide. Which they won't in enough cases that you don't actually benefit on net. It's not in your interest to have developers paying 30% and destroying the marginal developer and providing other developers with fewer resources to make better apps, or to have apps rejected just because they compete with Apple's, or deterred from being developed because developers become unwilling to risk their investment being wiped out by the opaque rejection process.

Meanwhile if you want the purchasing co-op, go set it up. So that it's using the market power of all the store's customers to get concessions from developers (and Apple), but is a co-op owned by and acting in the interests of the users instead of a for-profit monopoly acting in the interests of itself. Unless Apple is preventing anyone from creating that, right?
What should really happen here is that the Sacklers should be put on criminal trial for the deaths of hundreds of thousands. And every one of the executives, and even the management tier below the executives.

A fair trial will decide who is appropriately guilty, and who is not sufficiently deserving of criminal punishment.
Eh, without colonial cross-pollination and cultural appropriation, many of these works would never have been inspired or created to begin with.

You want to redress the past, invent a time machine. Otherwise, it is what it is (or, rather, was).
I do use CUDA, though not on my laptop. My usual workflow has been to fiddle around with the code on a minimal dataset which takes up most of my time. Once I'm happy with the logic and how things work, the heavy crunching (if required) is offloaded to CUDA workstations/servers.

The thing that gives me the most pause is how fractured the academic bioinformatics software scene is, and how poorly they're maintained once published. I've often run across requirements for GCC beyond what's included in the current Ubuntu LTS, for example. In my old lab I kept a CUDA workstation running the latest Manjaro for these eventualities, among others.
Are tips universally distributed? I would suspect that unconscious bias can impact tipping norms and result in certain classes of people getting smaller or larger tips. I don't have data to back up my hypothesis, however. Additionally, tips tend to go to front of house staff, where certain groups are more/less represented.
> It just creates a scapegoat to blame when things go wrong.

That's just how it works for other engineering disciplines; with the license, the scapegoat has the legal power to refuse responsibility until they're confident things won't go wrong.
No. You would be free to compile your copy of the Unreal Engine, but without the ability to use Apple development software, it would be impossible for Epic to continue developing the engine on Mac. The end result is that the engine would not continue to develop on Mac, and would eventually likely stop functioning.
There is also the reader mode but it doesn't work on all pages.
In case your not also joking, these are just comments containing braces.
> "GNU" is pronounced as one syllable with a hard g, like "grew" but with n instead of r.

TIL I learned "GNU" is somehow pronounced with one syllable ("gnew") and not two ("guh-noo"). (I know lowercase "gnu" is pronounced with one syllable.)
> It's just that "being in a superposition" doesn't feel like listening to the garbled sound of someone simultaneously telling you that the result was positive and that it was negative, or looking at a blurry instrument screen reporting two results at once.

It seems like there's regularly articles saying stuff like "QM implies that both outcomes happen, but it's a longstanding mystery why we only see one outcome", as if they seriously expect your hypothetical to be the consequence of QM. I'm so frustrated at that, because as you say, seeing one outcome is exactly what you'd expect to see from inside of a superposition.

It's almost as frustrating to see as it would be to see an article saying "Newton's theory of gravity says mass attracts mass, but it's a longstanding mystery why we haven't all fallen into the sun". The theory already has an answer for that if you follow the chain of consequences from it.
I will report you for giving advices on illegal border crossing. I hope github will block your account and you will "leave politics at home"
To bring up unfair issue, epic must first raise the issue legally, fight it in court.. NOT breach TOS first then claim got abused.
Cense is an Indian outsourcing outfit.
Around here? Price tag. That's all.
Pillmill docs and counties in the rust belt being prescribed so many pills that if split evenly would give each person in the county 10k pills a month is the issue. No one is denying that sensible opioid prescriptions are a good thing. The issue is Purdue Pharma lied about how addictive their pills were and encouraged over-prescription in pursuit of their #1 goal, not easing pain, but profits.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/opioids-inc/
The high school football players hooked on vicodin are definitely "in pain". Get your wisdom teeth out? Free opiates for you. Got injured during a game? Here you go, just one won't hurt.
In the era of fentanyl, the overdose problem is largely caused by the black market nature of getting the drug, poorly mixed inactive ingredients with opiates which can have orders of magnitude difference in effective dose.

Overdose on legally manufactured drugs being much overshadowed by the black market sourced drugs.

It is difficult to come to conclusions about how much of the reactions are showboating and how much are legitimate, but it seems clear that the net negative outcomes can be minimized if you teach people about the drugs they want to take, allow them access to a reliable source, allow them access to treatment for misuse and addiction, and target the sources of suffering that lead people to try to escape with drugs.

The situation though is considerably more complex than just these points.
WTF is in it for Oracle of all companies?
Do you mean Yaron Minsky? I don't think he was a co-founder of Jane Street. From what he's said publicly I got the impression that he was a hire (who obviously had a huge impact).
Equifax also comes to mind... amongst others, but you know.

I don't see anything changing as long as it's in money's interest to stay where it is (money rules this country point blank). Right now it's in too many business's interest not to change. There are also slews of developers earning quite a bit who might be forced into career changes depending on how licensing could be implemented.
That's optional and only for loading (not saving!) of additional filetypes outside the ones implemented by libvips itself.
Everything is wrong about your comment, including the words 'a,' 'and,' and 'the.'

Are you trying to be Zoe Lund 2.0?
The thing I don't understand that mandatory fixed service charges (in lieu of tips) are already standard for large groups in many if not most US restaurants, because negotiating tips and who pays what in this situation is even more complex.

Why is it so hard to just extend this existing, well accepted practice to smaller tables?
That’s not true at all for medical data. There are very strict data sharing agreement requirements in HIPPA, and there will likely be millions of dollars worth of fines for both parties, and it’s not inconceivable that someone could go to jail. HIPPA violations are taken really seriously.
Sure if they can catch them. Cense is based in India.
moving towards post scarcity economies where people aren’t struggling to acquire what they need and what they want so the motivation to do things isn’t sales numbers and profit margins
And in this scenario of technical and political incompetence, more so in some places than others, the Indian government has recently proposed to compile the medical data of ALL it's 1.3 billion citizens into a single database.

It's only a matter of time before the whole thing gets leaked out, not to mention that compiling such data in the first place ought to be none of the govt's business. Such data is simply too powerful to be entrusted into the hands of any single party, political or corporate.
> My guess is that Paul and Matthew were building something like a stealth Geiger counter.

The secret project doesn't seem to be a stealth Geiger counter. The custom iPod they created had complex data recording and storing features, excessive for a Geiger counter. The device was probably made to intercept WiFi data, which makes more sense to secretly record.
Gitlab has a similar project that will load google sheets as a dataframe.[1]

At my current company, we load google sheets into s3, then mount those files as external tables. There has not been a commit in years, meaning it has worked out well for us.

What seems to be missing in these solutions, and what Dropbase provides, is a UI to guide users through the process.

[1] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-data/analytics/tree/master/extract...
Check out this slide deck, it's full of interesting stuff, including recursive CTE, arrays, LATERAL, and practically useful complex examples: https://www.slideshare.net/pgdayasia/how-to-teach-an-elephan...
To be more precise, I think the technological advantage made a difference, but the role of Guns and Steel are overrated. European logistics and communications were in my opinion more important than Guns and Steel. Also:

1) Conquest was achieved with the help of local allies, sometimes in the order of hundreds of thousands.

2) A significant part of the conquest was achieved by fighting small nations one at a time rather than a unified force.
Don't forget the frequent electricity outages, especially given its the tech capital of the world.

I lived in Hayes Valley, across Warby Parker, last year and our electricity went out 3-4 times for the whole night. We paid our bills on time.
I agree with you. I've lived in the Bay Area over 20 years now. Heat waves are nothing special, it happens every year. OP is completely overexaggerating. Overall, from Peninsula to SF, you can survive most days without AC, except for about one week a year where it sucks. This year sucks worse because everyone is stuck at home, instead of an air conditioned office, if you're lucky to work. It used to be the case that you would just stay at work late until it cooled off but that didn't happen this year.

Yes, it got hot on Friday and Saturday but those were the first two very hot days all year. This year has been overall pretty average, if not a bit cooler than average years.
Hi, in response to #2, 5G allows for very fine resolution in location tracking. There are also concerns about the manufacturers of that equipment. I'll direct you to this link for more: https://www.brookings.edu/research/why-5g-requires-new-appro...

In response to #3, I have not posted any lies, and anything that disagrees with your narrative is not automatically FUD. There are serious doubts of 5G on many fronts by many experts, and these doubts should be discussed. However, as I've noticed here, there is a tendency by the group to form an echo chamber. Anything that's not in-group is not allowed, as we see here, where an expert has a serious concern about untested technologies. I wish we were able to have an honest conversation about this.

> It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Let's reverse roles: can you explain some concerns you might have about 5G? How about at the very basic of levels: why do we need poly-gigabit speeds for cell phones, and how could implementing it negatively impact people?
Yes, and SQLite is one of the few dependencies I commonly use in my own software (although, most commonly I use no dependencies (other than the standard library), I think).

Not only can you get a SQLite database (which can be used as a application file format, suitable for many uses), but there are functions such as sqlite3_mprintf() and sqlite3_str_new() and stuff like that; and furthermore, it can allow the user to query it too with SQL commands, even within the program, and to allow user customizability by the use of SQL codes, too, and it allows the user to deal with the file even without your software in some cases (not needing to write a separate decoder). Sometimes virtual tables are useful for doing some things. And, this is in addition to being able to use SQLite as a file format.
Using Zram to Squeeze More Out of Your Raspberry Pi
They’re chickenshits driven by win rates and overburdened courts so they don’t prosecute anything that isn’t certainly won before it’s even started... while also avoiding prosecutions that might threaten jobs.
Great summary. I don’t think people arguing for the right to sue company shareholders or company workers (without significant limitations) have thought this all the way through.
Have you seen the web lately?
Camera and screen is literally the draw of a smartphone isn’t it?