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Culture isn't fixed, but it can be slow and resistant to change.

To use your example, ending slavery took a civil war that almost ended the US. And we're still dealing with the aftermath (economic equity, police brutality, etc).
I don't think they're being unfairly scapegoated. Oxycontin was an epidemic in itself. I've seen plenty of evidence from a variety of sources that their pills were aggressively and deceptively marketed as non-addictive, and that their wide availability led to an increase in opioid abuse. That includes knowing people who started on opioid addictions with brand name oxycontin and having heard countless anecdotes of the same. I'm having trouble understanding the motive for minimizing Purdue's role. The deception in marketing and all its consequences belong to them. It's difficult to imagine they merely made a mistake in trying to be effective marketers as opposed to knowingly misrepresenting what they sold in a way that was likely to harm the public.

All that said, I generally favor your stance that ending prohibition would yield the greatest harm reduction.
Good sarcasm!

Sometimes it’s hard to communicate tone through text alone, but I really think you managed it there. Looking forward to more of your witty comments.
It can extract files to paths of more than 260 characters, without any extra tools or registry hacks, on any version of windows (even xp).
Winrar cannot.
As a bonus, 7zip can also delete folders with file paths that are over 260 characters from its file manager ui. It has been one of the only programs to be able to do so for many years.
When ordering on my site I have an option for "I dont know my size", in which case I send the customer a ring sizing kit. I've heard others say it's important to wear the ring for some time so thats something I should take into account.

One thing I've considered is adding an option to order a brass version of the ring first so the customer can see how the design will come out and test the fit for a few days.
Yes, I would. Thinking about that I will cease to exist sometime is most terrifying.
> Today's piracy is way more easier than piracy 15 or 25 years ago.

Not exactly... you still need specialist equipment to do it ... even something like the analogue hole is too inconvenient for the typical user. Even for me it’s just not worth the hassle. Downloading is easy enough for video and music but you still have to find the dodgy sites (in my jurisdiction thus requires some ducking and diving).

In some way it’s easier in some ways it’s harder. It’s an arms race and has been ever thus.
Same, Kotlin is a huge fail, if you can't get mobile friendly pages in 2020 it's a complete fail in my book.
> A serial number has always been an increasing integer ...

An unsigned 32-bit integer, to be specific.

While I've always preferred and used the YYYYMMDDnn format for the serial, I've noticed more and more zones using UNIX time for the serial in the last several years. I'm not sure where that "started" but my first guess would be some DNS server that uses something other than "BIND" zone files -- a MySQL database, perhaps? -- as its backend.

> ... with no technical meaning assigned.

To underscore this key point, consider the following statement from RFC 1982 (in the case where the serial is a 2-bit integer):

It is undefined whether 2 > 0 or 0 > 2, and whether 1 > 3 or 3 > 1.
Sadly the website is so slow as to be unusable in Firefox. :(
that might be a great idea, except this thread started with the blanket statement that we should all just steal it, not invest at all. Maybe cultural investment can be coordinated, but until then, I think the solution should be for the distributed act of paying for what you want will be preferable.

The less-than-optimal implementation of copyright doesn't justify theft.
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> But I really am beginning to dislike testing most code in a web app. If you have a pure calculation or some business logic, test away. For everything else some higher level tests give far more assurance, when you're moving fast those might even be primarily manual.

Yes, I completely agree!

It took me a while to get used to write code like this, but having the business logic completely unbraided from the interface/database code is probably the biggest productivity boon I ever had, because my tests run blazingly fast. People don't think it matters, but instant feedback makes a lot of difference.

This is also how things like DDD, Hexagonal Architecture, Functional-Core-Imperative-Shell are structured, so we're not alone. It doesn't have to be as complex as some of those: it just has to be easily testable...

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> A good rule of thumb I think is that a test using mocks is a bit of an anti pattern, they make you feel like you're testing code when generally you're testing your test.

Oh, I couldn't agree more.

My personal pet peeve is having to write unit tests for thin-controllers or Spring-style services. I take an hour to carefully mock 10 deep dependencies, and in the end all I'm testing is if the language is able to call methods in other classes.

Instead, if I just write the silliest integration test, I'll probably get better coverage and it will be able to uncover more bugs.
> As an artist, I find it incredibly sad that critics and other gatekeepers (such as museum curators and gallery owners) have any influence at all.

You sound like Banksy in the forward to "War and Piece".

I'm somewhat convinced that Art to a large extent is marketing. How some art gets noticed and into museums confuses me. (Piling things on the floor, no matter how clever the explanation, isn't great. Hanging wood boards on the wall is nice, I love wood grain but no..). Its frustrating to some extent because there is some fantastic art out there by relatively unknown artists.

I help out with a local open studios event (visit artists in their studio spaces). Very few of the 300+ member artists can make a living solely from their art. Under lockdown its even harder.
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The US (like every other country) negotiates agreements with other countries to handle crimes committed against persons or entities in their jurisdiction.

This is nothing new or unique.
You need a sponsor for most FINRA exams, but Series 65 (and the introductory SIE exam) allows self-registration with no sponsor.

I just reread the new accredited investor final rule, and as per footnote 102, people who qualify via Series 65 need to maintain in good standing a state-granted license or registration. No other requirements exist on top of that.
I don't think using cars for grid storage makes sense since you do want to limit cycles. Giving those batteries a second live as grid storage when they're down to X% of capacity might be worth it though. Also yes shifting charging to low demand times will be a thing.
Aren't all of these problems solved by just having the moonpool room airlocked?
I thought the 0% tax only applied on invested income in Estonia did it not?

https://taxsummaries.pwc.com/estonia/corporate/taxes-on-corp...

That is once you want to distribute the income then you do have to pay corporate income tax of 21%.
What percentage of people who would watch a 'cam', but not watch the movie legitimately later, would have paid? If I had to guess I'd go <1%.

What percent could, even if they wanted to pay, watch the movie legitimately in their country?

Does it matter if you watch a cam if you're not even able to pay for the movie?

The thing about movies is that they're also part of societal culture - in The West at least.

In my personal opinion copyright is all kinds of messed up, and limiting the length of copyright terms (to say 7 years from public release) first would somewhat legitimise such harsh actions.
Alternatively pass regulations to make private companies over a certain size report more.
I always love to see the "fancy public-market securities" lingo upfront :-). I'm interested to see how this plays out, even though I'm not sure I agree, but this may be the last time to make the information density argument. This time should be a good test of that, and it's one of these things that I hope (not too hard) might just inform some policy and take a policy hostage off the table.
Allowing alternate sources of apps is not at all the same thing as allowing apps to do whatever they wish on your device. iOS apps would still be sandboxed and heavily restricted. In-app privacy would be unchanged.

Apple should have the ability to "shut off" unscrupulous third-party App Stores just as they do today with unscrupulous developers.

Adobe would find it tough going if they withdrew from Apple's App Store, and I can't imagine keeping 30% minus whatever it costs to provide an alternative would be worth it to the, given how many people would just stop using Adobe apps.
Because I worked at Palantir. Can you point to sources specifically claiming that Palantir itself, not the organizations using Palantir, are accessing people's data? Because if so, this is news both to me and to a lot of other former and current Palantir employees.

Palantir the company doesn't have access to the data. The government agencies have access to the data. Palantir licenses its software to these organizations. The company doesn't have special access to any sensitive data.
I suspect a lot easier with modern graphics libraries and so on

Not sure I'd bother with MGR itself, but instead do something similar.

It's not as compelling now that we don't do much over serial links anymore.

The modern day version of this really is the browser/HTML.

I remember being intrigued at the time by the idea of using this protocol over a MUD (telnet / TCP socket carrying text) connection.
I think this falls into better education of the public, many times these incidents arise because people try to argue their case with the officer but the officer is not the judge nor the jury. Trying to argue your case with a belligerent officer is only going to serve their purpose. Whereas if people know that have an absolute right to remain silent and exercise that right, they will be better served, especially if the officer is issuing unlawful orders / abusing power. If the officer thinks you are guilty, you cannot talk your way out of jail, but you can certainly give them more ammo to charge you with. e.g Resisting, Obstruction charges.
Labor laws: There is an arbitrary division between airlines that fly B737 and larger jets and those that fly smaller jets

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

This is why "American Airlines" flights to smaller cities are flown by "Piedmont Airlines" or some other subsidiary. (eg. "United Airlines" runs ads and is concerned about their brand, they get people who work for their subsidiary to actually punch you in the face.)

If a company was trying to get the most of the E195 or A220 they'd probably replace some E145/CRJ200 flights with it and some B737/A320 flights but to do that the conflict between the real airline and the fake airline gets harder to reconcile.

Just as the B787 and B777 replaced the bigger B747 the E195/A220 should have been replacing the 737 in the last decade but the "scope clause" is a brick wall against that.
More to the point - if you accept strong verificationism, statements are only meaningful to the extent they constrain expectations as to future experiences. "I will die" does not, because being dead is not an experience. It's a meaningless statement. It's silly to be afraid of a literally incoherent "possibility".
I have heard that setting a very long MX TTL can be helpful if your domain registration is ever hijacked. The idea is that enough resolvers will have the original cached records so you can still receive email (and prove ownership). Anyone have any experience with this?
Many to many is almost always the right call. I've used an array on occasion when I knew we wouldn't be querying by it and didn't want the extra overhead. You can always extract it to a many to many later if needed.
I got into the UCSC grad program at the time you were there but didn't go. Funny how our paths almost crossed. I actually wanted to study with Haussler whom I met over lunch once. Yeah, I chose the SE life with family, kids myself. IMO there are too many scientists discouraging students from being scientists. Yeah, it is hard, but anything of value is going to be a challenge no matter what you do.
Dorms have RAs, security officers, cleaning staff, food courts, university police, and a wrap of social services that can nudge a person slipping back into line, or send them packing quickly. Landlords, rightly, shouldn't be able to send people packing with little to no notice. Without the security, social services, and cleaning staff I expect any project of the same scale as a large University to catastrophically fail due to public outcry regarding the inevitable decay of living conditions.

The unfortunate reality is that mentally ill people that don't know how to take care of themselves are expensive. Think cleaning feces off of every imaginable surface, thousand room bed bug outbreaks, all the awful diseases that occur in unkempt showers or locker rooms. How will we keep so many people in confined quarters happy and busy enough to not cause massive problems?

I fully support measures to take care of every living being on earth, but let's not make perfectly avoidable mistakes in the process.
My first thought was there could be an airlock separating the moonpool room from the rest of the structure. But putting the people through compression/decompression cycles would seem to defeat one of the benefits of having a habitat down there to begin with. Also, if the internal pressure was kept down to one atmosphere, how strong would the structure need to be to avoid being crushed like a soda can?
How about if we insisted you have 1,000,000 USD to buy guns or alcohol?
I was going to write something similar, but i think you have said it better than I would have.
Not true, as evidenced by Postgres, or Apache, or X11, to give just a few examples of GPL-free communities from the nineties.
Would this even be carbon neutral? It will require a lot of power to process carbon out of the air, and will go back in the air when they burn the fuel. Not to mention the logistics and manufacturing of everything involved.
To put it another way, consuming animals is neither good or evil in and of itself.
Yes, we fear the suffering associated with death but we also fear the permanent loss of contact with dear ones, the connection is cut forever and it takes some work on oneself to accept that and that it’s part of the cycle of life. Maybe our current culture also plays a role in us clinging to life and fear of death
I agree, I have more fear of the pain and suffering of a gradual (or not so gradual) decline in mental and physical abilities that leads to old age and death. Which of course could be a complete waste of time to worry about if I happen to get hit by a bus tomorrow and die instantly!

But the other real fear the article mentions which I also agree with is the fear of missing out. Will my significant other wither away in sorrow, or will they move on and find happiness with a new partner? Will my loved ones left behind remain financially stable without me - did I do enough to provide for them in the time that I had? It's easy to say "What do I care what goes on after I'm gone, I'll be dead!", but I have trouble convincing myself of that when it comes to loved ones.
My favorite "Pollock is easy" critique is The Connoisseur by Norman Rockwell.[1]

Of course, what Rockwell was missing is doing a Pollock-style action painting first. After Pollock, any paintings in his style are just worthless imitations.

It doesn't matter how "easy" it is, getting there first and pushing the boundaries of what is considered art still has a lot of value in the art world.

Norman Rockwell did not push any boundaries of art, and that's why he will always be a minor footnote in the history of art, no matter how much more technically accomplished his paintings in a realistic style are compared to some much more significant but technically "easy" abstract art.

[1] - http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3535/1896/1600/rockwell_s...
Salesforce is laying off employees in San Francisco.

"The cloud computing company, San Francisco’s largest private employer, is laying off four workers in general administration, 42 in sales and customer service and 119 in technology and product divisions, according to a state filing. The cuts span the company’s three downtown towers: Salesforce Tower, 350 Mission St. and 50 Fremont St." [0]

An ironic situation, given a quote from Benioff (CEO) regarding the recent profits: "This is a victory for stakeholder capitalism because I think, you know, that we did a great job for our shareholders this quarter, but we also did a great job for our stakeholders, as well." [1]

Although the layoffs may be delayed due to the pandemic, the market is and will continue to be flooded with people looking for work -- it really is an awful time to be let go.

[0] https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Salesforce-to-l...

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/25/salesforces-marc-benioff-cla...
That's ridiculous, there are other reasons for zoning laws outside of these things. Certain types of housing stock (i.e. condos and townhomes), need to be built to a higher quality than single family homes because it's much easier to tear down and replace a single family home or a rental apartment building should it move into disrepair. Over the long run this very regularly leads to housing units where the maintenance costs are far higher than the mortgage payment.

Multiplex homes also run a greater risk of falling into disrepair over the long term if you have a situation of split ownership.

The solution to our housing crisis cannot be more "missing middle" it needs to be larger scale projects with 50+ units each with strict standards around building quality.
The police often pay for shipping, maintenance, and kitting out the equipment. They might receive a free stripped-down M16, but they still use their own budgets to make it tacticool. Just an optic and light run $1k or so.
Why wouldn't the market solve this? If people want a parking spot with their new home, they'll demand the builder create one.
> People over 70 are the least-likely group of adults to have drivers' licenses

Not in the US! It's pretty common for them to continue driving until they have enough accidents that they're dropped by their insurance company.

https://www.businessinsider.com/young-people-drivers-license...
Hasn't Autocad been around since before TTD became mainstream?
"Whether it is bonds, or some other instrument, they all pay interest. That debt exists, is owed, and yet you're saying "Just don't pay that interest"?"

I'm saying it's wrong to create federal bonds with an interest rate that is far different from zero.

The rules are different between currency issuers (nations with a fiat currency) and currency users (citizens, municipalities, provinces, nations on the gold standard).

Currency issuers have a unique ability to guarantee that you will hold an exact amount of the currency on a given date. No currency user can make that guarantee.

Because currency issuers can guarantee repayment on debt in their own currency, the repayment risk on the debt is strictly and exactly zero. Thus the interest rate on that debt should always be very close to zero if not exactly zero.

The fact that Canadian government debt pays high interest rates merely tells you that the government did things wrong in the past.
I forgot where I heard or read that fridges were one the main factor driving post war urbanism, supermarkets/mall far away. Prior to cheap refrigeration people just bought local and ate fresh because they had no choice.
"Fear of death" and "fear of dying" are distinctly different. The article does a good job of examining the former but kind excuses itself from the latter.
The question isn't how a network grows, but how it maintains it's dominance.

How did Facebook, for instance, avoid the fate of every prior social network? Its pivots (Instagram, WhatsApp, newsfeed, etc) were uniquely successful.

Why? How?
Pirates should be lauded as heroes? Take that to /r/im14andthisisdeep
Not to mention the speeds and mass involved, and visibility that a cyclist has vs a driver (without even starting to consider the vehicles that are popular in the US).
AutoCAD is an interesting example because it is consumed by professionals much in the same way a library is used by programmers. I think you'd want to be a little slower moving in that space than you would for your average application.
To add to your point, even if you were willing to invest in a proper network it will take years to get going. People are set in their ways and so they won't stop driving, even the hard core supporters of the idea will drive everywhere for a while. Eventually something will cause them to try transport, but the first time they will fail to figure out how to ride and so be late to their... Eventually they will figure it out and over 10 years you can get a good ridership for the population density. Then over the next 30 years you can get density to increase to the point where there is enough population density to justify the network you needed to create to get there.
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https://www.wired.com/2014/07/homer-simpson-car/
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The notion of spending $1000/year just to keep a company in existence seems crazy to me.

According to my accountant, if you can't spend $1,000 a year to keep a company in existence, then it's not a business. It's a hobby.

She says there's some minimum level of commercial engagement required in my jurisdiction before the tax authorities get antsy and start wondering if your company is just a way to dodge personal taxes by shifting money around. I never looked into it, so I'm not entirely sure what she's talking about. That's what I have her for.

That said, the total of the yearly government burden on my small company is less than the $1,000 you quote. "The USA" is a big place with lots of different taxes. It's part of the philosophy of competition that keeps the place moving.
UPDATE: It's now been posted twice more. So I think we're on 6 now.
Epicurus is great. He represents a very life-affirming and to modesty animating philosophy. Unfortunately he was defamed by all the Christian moral philosophers. This is hinted at in the article.
TikTok is not software. It is a service that uses software. It is therefore not directly comparable with F/OSS projects.

I don't much care who contributes to an open source project. Let them inject their malware if they want to. Because it is OPEN source such efforts will be discovered and the bad actors brought to task. And F/OSS principals extend beyond the code. Because it is open, any user is free to walk away from suspect code. Fork the project. Create your own code. Use the version created by someone you do trust. If I suspect that the particular flavor of linux on my desktop has been infiltrated by bad actors, absolutely nothing is stopping me from switching to any of a hundred other distros. That freedom is the real power, the real safeguard against wrongdoers, not vetting who or who isn't allowed to contribute.
If you have a reference, I’d love to read about some of these success stories.
It'd be interesting to take a look at how much existing housing exceeds 2500 square feet, and how it is occupied. It's quite possible that not allowing new construction over that size would leave plenty of it available.
You do own the views in numerous cities due to historical precedent, and cities cant change these laws as it would be considered unconstitutional taking.
It's very easy to open a UK limited company online and it costs £12 plus £13 a year subsequently. If your business activities are simple you can file accounts through HMRC (tax authority) website without any software or necessarily needing an accountant. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/corporation-tax-use-hmrcs-free-f...
> being dead is not an experience

But getting there certainly can be. "I will die" is not the same as "I will be dead".