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You can always approach it as “just dipping your toes in the water”, and tune your expectations accordingly. There is really no correct way to use an online dating platform, though there are some wrong ways—e.g. harming yourself or others).

Yes, going into it with a healthy and open mindset is essential. But being depression-free is not a necessary condition, and I’d caution people against establishing that type of artificial gateway for themselves. My belief is that every human is of infinite value, and nothing that happens in the online dating realm can subtract from that (“you don’t do arithmetic with infinity”, so said my calculus professor).
Extremely glad to see your measured response to this article. Seeing the tacit approval of synthetic fertilizers in the article made me reel. It's a shame that farming methods like permaculture aren't a part of this conversation by default. For the reason they're not often discussed, I defer to your conclusion about needing to adopt a new perceptual framework and value system to effect certain kinds of change.

It's been several years since we last spoke Hosh, so I was very pleasantly surprised to find myself agreeing with your comment here. Hope you and your family are well!
They said "to protect the children" instead of "to protect the teachers". They lied. People don't have to come with that rebuttal every time someone corrects the lie that we do this to protect the children.
Agreed! There are a couple of really clever xkcd comics about this (google: xkcd lisp). And I also would rather use PATH than default-pathname-defaults and logical pathnames are, uh, crufty. But I see these as minor blemishes on what I think is as close to a perfect programming language as I have seen. Clasp is an implementation of Common Lisp and any differences between what it does and what the standard says is a bug in Clasp that we need to fix. But Cando, Clasp+computational chemistry code, is a superset of Common Lisp and we are adding things to make life a bit more convenient. We even added optional infix arithmetic as a standard part of Cando (I know! I'm going to burn in hell between the ninth nested set of parentheses as a heretic).
Not sure if these doctors have followed what has been happening in Melbourne, Australia.

We have been in lockdown since early June and went from 700 cases per day to 15 per day so it has technically worked. However, it has completely destroyed businesses and affected a lot of smaller retailers. Our premier has been called "Dictator Dan" by most of murdock media including WAPO but the support among public has stayed strong. Suppression is a good strategy when the world is devoid of a vaccine.
> Show me a consumer grade VSAT that's using 16APSK/32APSK...

Not that it matters, but, I could.

> How many Mbps is that? Not a lot.

So, e.g., Viasat offers 100 Mbps service.

> the aggregate throughput capacity of a single CMTS port on a DOCSIS3 or DOCSIS3.1...

Yes, you can get tons of traffic through a coax cable. There's more bandwidth and you can use higher efficiency modulations because the SINR is way better. Not sure how this is relevant, though.

I'll point out, though, that plenty of people see slowdowns on their cable modem networks during peak busy times. Even these networks have their limits.

> ... it becomes a very poor end user experience.

Again, I think some people would disagree with you on that.

> ... real world throughput needed to be a viable option for rural broadband. Because the link budgets are much better with small antennas and small tx poweer electronics, due to the LEO orbit. And the much lower latency.

No doubt about the lower power electronics (vis-a-vis GEO) and the lower latency, but even so, SL's CPE is around $1,000, and the reliability through rain, wind, and snow is unknown. Setting aside the reliability question for now, I think what it really comes down to is the price vs latency trade-off. In order to be profitable, SL will have to be more expensive than traditional GEO solutions because the CPE, the ground network, and the actual constellation all cost more on a $/bit basis than GEO solutions. It will be interesting to see if the lower latency will be enough to draw consumers.

The big X-Factor in all of this is how much more capital Elon can raise. He has an amazing talent for raising money and if retail investors don't care that SL is less cost-effective than other options, then it can go on for a long time.
Honestly I don't find it to be newsworthy that you can find 21 doctors to sign just about anything. They are people, and people believe all kinds of stuff.
> "contact sales" products

We need a Wiki-ish Chrome plugin that pastes in actual prices on all websites that have "contact sales" pricing. If you are the first to contact sales, you can fill it in for future customers to see without needing to contact sales.

This would also help expose price discrimination, in which companies give favorable pricing to people of a certain race or nationality or industry or location.

I hate it when I contact sales and they ask "may we know more about your application?" and my next thought is always "how about you tell me your price first, and then I'll be happy to share". "may we know your name" -> "why, so you can decide your offer price based on if I'm white or asian or something?". "may we know your location" -> "why, so you can decide your price based on the average income in my area?"
I took a tour of Pompeii a couple years ago. Two thing that struck me (beside just amazing) was a) housing hasn't changed all that much in 2000 years, and b) modular housing (of course made of stone).

Modular housing has been a thing for a very long time. So has extreme opulence.
I have two kids in private school and one in public school. My kids in private school are now going in person 5 days a week and have about 5 hours per day of school work. My kid in public school does everything remotely and may at some point go back for two half-days per week, she has about 3 hours school work per day (and has yet to be challenged by any of the work).

They were all home doing school remotely for a few weeks, that was really difficult for everyone.
Not to mention co-ops, flexibility (a parent is traveling some where for business, etc, take the kid and use it as a teaching opportunity, or its a nice day, nature walk this afternoon).

The amazing part is how much of a child (and the teacher's time) is wasted, especially as class sizes grow and resources are strained (https://greensboro.com/opinion/columns/christie-murphy-why-i...). Home schooling usually takes half the day to get through all the required curriculum, because of all the time saved not getting 30 students to be quiet, lack of interruptions, etc. So little is getting done now in schools kids are coming home with hours of homework. Not good at explaining a subject, or the kid is having trouble groking it from the material, pull up a video on Khan Academy, or Kurzgesagt, or even a presentation by an Ivy League professor (like CS50) or someone who is foremost in the field. Have a fellow homeschool parent whose an expert in a field, let them teach help. Want to teach your kid financial planning, investing, and how to do taxes, you can. One style or mode of learning isn't working, try another like Montessori, direct instruction, don't need to run it through an administration, school board, and state officials. In a school, few if any breaks are given with no concern for attention spans, or mental burnout, you have to DO THIS THING AT THIS TIME. If the kid wants to do his lesson in a fun way, like dress up as Batman, he can, as long as they're doing their lessons, etc.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/12/new-research-finds-th...

Are their parents who half ass it and their kid barely learns anything sure, but compared to the literacy rates most schools are producing they don't get to say much.

https://www.dailyinfographic.com/homeschooling-by-the-number...
Haven’t followed the D-Wave story for years... So, aside from quantum annealing vs “actual” quantum computing, has it been conclusively decided that D-Wave speedup is of a quantum nature?
EDIT: I reread the comment above and realized I did not adequately address it and I had misunderstood some of what the commenter was saying. I revised my answer below:

I disagree that we necessarily need to have synthetic fertalizers, pest control, etc.

There are a number of methods from permaculture that does not require synthetic fertilizers, weed killers, and pest killers. The whole site is analyzed together and designed in a way there there is a cycling of nutrients back into the soil, or amendments such as biochar or mycological growth help with that. (Synthetic fertilizers actually deplete soil fertility in the long run, so you have to keep adding more and more with every cycle). Interplanting, plant guilds, and "integrated pest control" (chickens, duck, goats, and developing habitat for the pest's natural predators). The maximum yield may be lower, but designing a site this way accomplishes two things. First, it is far more resilient than the industrial agricultural method. Second, it puts fertility back into the land faster than it uses it up, and as such, it has the potential to restore the ecology. These are things people are already putting into practice around the world.

Furthermore, what the Soviet Union had was still essentially value-extraction. That value was distributed in a different way, but it is still value-extraction. It is still stuck in the same paradigm, and arguably worse -- too rigid, too unable to adapt to changing conditions.

A regenerative paradigm does not put profit first, but it doesn't necessarily dispense with it either. (In the permaculture community, that is the third permaculture ethic: Fair Share). It is as decentralized as a free-market, but is not centralized like the way capitalization tends towards aggregation of resources. One key difference between a regenerative paradigm and the value-extraction:

Free-market is driven from profit motive, the selfish actor.

Regenerative living is driven by individual's own sense of what value they can contribute to the greater whole, and developing their own personal capabilities in order to accomplish it.

So one is a value extraction and the other is a value generation or value adding (not to be confused with "value-added", which is something from the value-extraction paradigm).

Even if we were to say, ok, this regenerative paradigm works, and let's shift to that, it is not something that can be done through policy changes.
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I think an argument can be made the government ordered lockdowns (stay at home / shelter in place) orders were appropriate in March when we knew much less about who was most vulnerable, and did not have a well vetted treatment protocol / decision tree or any known therapeutics.

Given the tremendous public health and economic costs of lockdowns, the fear of the unknown (e.g. predicted 2% demographic wide CFR) may have justified the multi-trillion dollar cost, and an unknown number of lives lost, due to lockdowns.

Forced mandatory lockdowns today would be unethical and actually counter-productive. Given our vastly increased knowledge of the highly stratified risk profile of SARS-CoV-2, the public health case cannot be ethically made to forcibly confine the general population to their homes; separating them from their livelihoods, their community, their ordinary healthcare, and their mental and physical wellness routines.

Anyone can always choose to self-isolate based on their own personal risk factors and risk tolerance. Government programs could better support at-risk populations which are self isolating by focusing on the minority of people who are acutely at-risk.

IFR Age
0.003% 0-19
0.02% 20-49
0.5% 50-69
5.4% 70-79
5.4%++ 80+

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scena...
In California, if you can sign up online they must allow you to cancel purely online as well.
Hello, on my actual account now that I'm on my computer. The answer to that is mostly I was overruled and leadership wanted to have a twitter and facebook feed on our website.

Hands are tied on those two things.
Hey man, glad to see you about! Hope things are going well. Send me some email sometime and let's catch up.
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Nice straw man you are attacking there.

He never said "capital is a scoreboard of unalloyed goodness". He said it's a coordination mechanism which, I'll give you a 100$ if you can find a economics professor who disagrees.

"concentrated capital is bad". It must be nice to see the world in black and white and hold the solution to how everyone should do things.

An orphanage is a concentration of capital. A hospital is a concentration of capital, often a truly massive one in a major city. Sounds pretty evil to me.

But seriously, this is cartoonishly naive.
SF is dense but it also never the less has neighborhoods with single family detached homes too (glen park, cole valley and others built around approx time). of course it's mainly multi-family low-rise mid-rise buildings.
Not the case in my area. A lot in a great new development can be had for $150K. Same lot with a nice house is $800K. I think one reason why the land is so cheap is because of all the rules about building on that lot. Often, for instance, you don't get to choose your own builder - and you definitely can build modular.
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The title is a little misleading... Subway can still call it "bread" but it cannot have the tax-exempt status of a staple food, because the weight of the sugar in the bread is 10%, which is above the 2% limit.

As a note, this is "baker's percentages", where the amount of flour is defined to be 100% and all other ingredients are measured by weight relative to the flour - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker_percentage

I have known Europeans to criticize American bread for being too sweet but if you live and shop here it's easy enough to find better bread.
The leaked code is XP SP1, still has bugs that SP2 fixed and a Firewall in SP2 is worth it.
Which part of "a good while" are you confused about?
Why do Indian IT students seem disproportionately represented when it comes to things like this? It seems like there is a strong culture of "getting ahead at all costs". This is seen in shitty YouTube tutorials, blog posts, open source submissions, all the way down the very bottom of the barrel with call centre scammers. Care to explain for us?
Yet here we are releasing self driving cars, e-scooters, drones and so on.
That’s clearly not happening in the US. Housing prices are high because so many people want to live in highly desirable areas with high paying jobs.

There are plenty of less desirable places with cheap housing and ok paying jobs.
> Both people and land have been turned into resources by which value is extracted and capitalized. This has lead to a wide-spread devastation in our ecology, in our communities, and our human potential. It's a process that is moving towards degeneration, and we see many of those effects -- from growing equality gaps, to the radicalization of angry young people, and so forth.

The problem with this kind of points of view like this one is that it never considers that the population are consumers too and are motivated to work and "extract capital" from themselves for themselves.

Once those who promote those ideas move from opposition to those who occupied it they are confronted to the exact same problems to solve but without the "evil" solutions.
Overall point: There is a potential solution to the housing crisis for almost every city. It is too early to tell if it will work. But it looks promising.

Steps:

1) Build electric cars (exhaust gases in tunnels kill people). (Completed 2020 - Tesla)

2) Build tunnels that are 1/10th to 1/1000th cheaper than current technology. (In Progress - Boring Company)

3) Build tunnels that connect cities and the infrastructure to make city to city commutes through a tunnel but walking on foot using tunnel bus-like vehicles, easy, cheap and safe. (In Progress - Boring Company)

4) Build a test town of 1k-10k condos and connect to a major city with Boring Company tunnels. Initial cost of a test would be $500mil to $5bil. (Not started - ?)

5) Reduce the cost of building towns through 10X or better infrastructure improvements and develop a franchisable business model around towns.

6) Franchise the towns.

Result: Housing supply goes way up near where people want it right now. NIMBYs can't stop it. Investors may lose their shirts or make massive profits.

Advantages over other solutions: This only works if the business model works out. It leaves the politics of land-use within cities almost completely out of the picture.

Disadvantages: Its never been done before. It will cost a LOT of money to test it. The investors must be in it for the longish haul: 5-10 years at least.
If the virus hasn't been stopped completely all you are doing are dragging feet indefinitely (with all the catastrophical damage that comes along with it).

It hasn't worked - literally nothing had qualitatively changed since day 1 when I said that exactly this would happen. All we have is better testing methods and a ravaged economy, yet fundamentaly we are at square zero.
Checkout Home Assistant. You can self host it, and as long as there is an integration available you should be able to do all that. Getting started with it is a bit of a pain compared to IFTTT but it's self hosted, open source, and free.

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/
Especially when they have another petition in the article arguing for the opposite.
Nobody is doing anything out in suburbia like:

Boston's Big Dig ($20,000,000,000)
Boston's Deer Island sewage plant ($3,800,000,000)
London's Crossrail (£20,000,000,000)
San Francisco's Central Subway ($1,600,000,000)
Seattle's SR 99 tunnel ($3,300,000,000)
New York's Second Avenue Subway ($20,000,000,000)

Checking the first against population, that comes to $28,877 per person. This is hardly the only bit of infrastructure. Residents also expect water, sewage, and local roads.
That's a very old ignorant view. It probably was more true for a time, many parents didn't wanted their kids thinking Jesus rode dinosaurs, etc. But ultimately even then, in a few cases that didn't hold them back, they usually got into adult hood figured out their parents were likely full of crap in college, but because they also learned math and reading, and did often better, which is actually something needed practically and were successful as a result.

Many modern home school curriculums are secular are taken from the same ones or follow the same standards/guidelines schools use. Majority of home schoolers I know are secular, and want better options, especially those to meet the learning needs or styles of learning they themselves or their kids thrived in. They don't believe either because their own experience or what they've seen with their kid that kids learn best in a very rigid, sit down, and be quiet and listen model of instruction that was designed for factory workers and has barely changed in 100 years.

Also, there's nothing stopping a parent from putting a kid a private Catholic/Jewish/Orthodox/etc school, etc that will do the same. Parents can indoctrinate their kids, home school or not, into a religion, they have them on evenings and weekends where the ultra religious just take the kids to their religious institution 4-5 times a week.
I also worked for an east coast company like that for several years, and I went to grad school because I couldn’t take it anymore. This wasn’t because of the politics, it was more because life should be better than plugging together two API layers so that a display driver can ship.
Subway's "wheat" bread also used to be white bread with caramel coloring. They changed it to be whole grain under the US FDA definition (minimum 51% whole grains) in 2014.

https://www.subway.com/en-us/menunutrition/nutrition/alwaysi...

Edit: Found the ingredient lists. Ingredients are in order of quantity from greatest to least.

"9-Grain Wheat" bread recipe in 2012:

> Enriched wheat flour (wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), water, high fructose corn syrup, whole wheat flour, contains 2% or less of the following: wheat gluten, oat fiber, yeast, soybean oil, wheat bran, calcium blend (calcium carbonate, vitamin D3), salt, rolled wheat, dough conditioners (datem, sodium stearoyl lactylate), yeast nutrients (calcium sulfate, ammonium sulfate), degermed yellow corn meal, rolled oats, rye flakes, caramel color, triticale flakes, parboiled brown rice, refinery syrup, honey, barley flakes, flaxseed, millet sorghum flour, flavor (yeast extract, salt, natural flavor)

https://web.archive.org/web/20120121203702/http://www.subway...

Note that the recipe contained more high fructose corn syrup than whole wheat flour.

Current "9-Grain Wheat" bread recipe:

> Whole wheat flour, enriched flour (wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), yeast, sugar, grain and seed blend (wheat, rye, yellow corn, oats, triticale, brown rice, barley, falx seed, millet, sorghum), wheat gluten, contains 2% or less of: salt, soybean oil, malted barley flour, cultured wheat flour, sunflower lecithin, dough conditioners (ascorbic acid, enzymes)

https://www.subway.com/-/media/USA/Documents/Nutrition/usPro...
The web components in Chrome and Edge are both implemented in the open source Chromium project. So, it is free for all to read, use and modify as they wish (in accordance with the terms of the license https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/LICE...)
While I exclusively use Github, I was wondering why CodeTriage only supports Github, why not Gitlab/Bitbucket? I was looking into the issues and Found this https://github.com/codetriage/CodeTriage/issues/613, but was wondering if it's true even today?

As Github has been acquired by Microsoft, I would love to see other alternatives being supported by more projects/sites.
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Wouldn't it be better to financially incentivise doing this, than simply force it?

That way, leadership positions can be an equation of balancing financial benefit from government incentives against financial loss from having a low quality candidate take up valuable space just because they tick a diversity box.

I'm all for diversity, I would know. I'm LGBTQ. But how CSR is often done in the corporate world is rather stultifyingly and 'token' at best.

I still think this is good - do prove me wrong - just saying it could be done better.
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> Anyone can always choose to self-isolate based on their own personal risk factors and risk tolerance

you forgot to include "provided they can afford to".
Yes that's right - but the point remains :-)

I think taking 150 years to squeeze the "value" out via taxes feels about right - it should not be a huge rush but should be something that is inevitable and at the generational level
It's worth pointing out that this would be a second lockdown, as Ontario has already started to loosen restrictions after the initial lockdown (where cases also dropped to <100 during the summer).
Similarly interesting case in the UK, about whether Jaffa Cakes are cakes:

http://www.jaffa-cakes.com/jaffa-cakes-biscuits-name
I think we agree.

It has become clear to me that my job is to babysit first, and educate second.

If all you really want are babysitters, then you can get away with paying babysitter wages. And you'll be supplied with babysitters.

Babysitting at scale is actually pretty cheap. I get about $1.33 per student per hour, if you only count the time I am in the room with kids.