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Caltech, like other private schools such as Harvard, absolutely does discriminate in the admissions process. They are a fervent advocate of “holistic admissions”, which is modern activist speak for “process involving discrimination, most often against Asian races”. Take a look at http://www.admissions.caltech.edu/apply/first-year-freshman-..., which says “We have always reviewed students within the context of the opportunities available to them, and we will hold true to that practice.”

Unlike Caltech, public schools in California are not permitted to discriminate and have different student demographics from private schools for this reason. Prop 209 from 1996, which banned affirmative action in CA, is unfortunately on the current ballot for a potential repeal as part of Prop 16.
$20!!

In Japan the standard variety of "coin drivers" are the local equivalent of $4.99 so they can compete with the humble $5 coin.
It is quite annoying to see that insistence on last names or family names in most places.

In India, which is a single country but has many different languages (22 official and nearly a 1000 unofficial, including dialects) and cultures, I see the same insistence on last name/surname. There are states and districts where mononyms are quite common, but governments insist on first and last name in many forms. I’ve come to believe that those who make up the rules and are in the majority decide everything for others. In India, it’s the people around the national capital who assume that everybody has a last name or that everybody in the country knows Hindi (India has no national language, much to the chagrin of Hindi speakers who seem to believe it is the one).

Funnily, I’ve also noticed that the U.S. consulates have a system where they deal with a last name not being available, even when the name has more than one word separated by spaces in it. In such cases, they add “LNU” (Last Name Unknown) in the last name field in visas. In some cases I’ve seen “FNU” (First Name Unknown) too.
By contrast some European countries, like Austria, drink a lot of coffee and smoke a lot of tobacco(they just banned indoor smoking last year).

National culture plays a huge role in what vices people take on.
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There are plenty of FBI docs that get released by journalists and others who are not FBI agents, so it's hard to take that as a given without seeing the tweets in context, which I did not see. The ruling does mumble something about the account passing itself as an FBI agent, as I've since had a chance to read, but it doesn't give any details and I didn't see any mention of that law.

Also, I'm surprised the NPR ran this article, given the disclaimer at the bottom that it's a party to it. Usually the lawyers just don't let you do that.
Doesn't it depend on what kind of plastic you use? You know there are many kind of "plastics". People who talk about recycling "plastics" while not distinguishing between different kind of "plastics" make me sceptic.
Waste of Pi. Probably. I learned on Haida Gwaii that Canada Government knows nothing of tides. Best predictor you make yourself, you observe the local High Tide and then make SIN-curve with six hours and 12.5 minutes cycle. You combine this with local sun SIN-curve, and when those oppose you have a MASSIVE tide and when they meet you have a HORROR tide. This is important because the bloody rainforest grows to the edge of the beach and little bit over. At HORROR tide you must camp in the forest with snakes, bears and snails.
I zipped through this to see what it was. Had to wait a bit since the server seems to be busy. No worries though:)

I like this concept. It was very relaxing. I did a far too rapid run through a bunch of feelings testing various inputs and responses. I like the way it cycles back through to help you focus on solving the problem that you have identified yourself as having. Very nice.

I did find one of your response options has an error.

There are a couple of options presented for answers - OK, NO, YES, ?, NOT YET.

Maybe a couple of others. One of the dialogs where you are offering a question box [?] shows up as "Question_square" or something very similar to that. I apologize for not taking notes. I believe that it was in the first group of negative Feelings that started with a "D".

I also found one sentence in the written dialog that makes no sense as it looks like a word was left out. This was probably in the positive feelings list. It was in the descriptive part with dialog that had a comma followed by a couple of words that looked out of place as they didn't fit in the sentence like some other thought was edited out and they are now an orphaned phrase. I am starting to feel sad for those poor words thinking about it. Might have to dip back into it if I can get back on the server! :)

I tried to get back to it but your server is evidently getting slammed by all the people curious for a solution to their problems.

Good luck with this. Nicely done.
You can turn off hitting with voice command in Tesla :)
I understand economics well enough to understand you basically asked me if I would accept Santa is real.
serverless.com is perfect for this use case. Easy to setup, but can scale infinitely in the future. Here is an example: https://github.com/mikestaub/slack-lunch-club
To be fair, Corvettes are well-known to be "plastic cars". If you buy one, you expecy to get the cheapest, biggest engine possible, and you know that the only reason it has any bodywork at all is because of some pesky law.

It sounds like you encountered a high-performance self-lightening model. They're very avant-garde in the racing divisions.
Between capacitor plague and then RoHS solder that was a fking terrible few years to buy electronics
> A hobby can cure depression. A better diet can cure depression. More exercise can cure depression

We are not talking about a mere feeling down here. Depression is a clinically defined term with specific criteria, and no nothing you can fix with a new hobby is clinical depression, and yes if you claim to be fixing it with any tool which you make available to public you need to be a licensed professional.

> Nobody owns the intellectual property to "the cure of depression".

Luckily intellectual property protection is not the only protection we have around medical interventions. No one has the intellectual property to tonsillectomy either, and you're free to try operating on your own, but you will get into trouble real fast if you advertised you doing it to public as a fix to some ailment.
Related anecdote.

Long ago, lot of forms from American websites wouldn't let me fill in my last name. As it technically contains 3 words. I had to concat "van der" to my last name to finish registration.
>If you think that "crunching the numbers" is an appropriate way of comparing the cost of living in two completely different environments - you must be insane

I'm under no impression the lifestyle would be the same. Just that it ought to be possible from what I can tell. Where I live in my home country I'm optimizing for a reasonable level of comfort / quality of life. If I'm dragging myself halfway across the world for the top salaries in the industry, I'm not optimizing for comfort or quality of life, I'm optimizing for as much savings as possible over a short duration.
Hi Brian! didn't know you also read HN ;P
Yes, I feel like a “bait and switch” has been pulled on us.
Like a lot of things, "it depends". Type of plastic, use case, source of the recycled plastic, and type of injection molding machine all come into play. In practice, it's probably less than 1/3 of post-consumer plastic by a decent margin just because processing god knows what plastic people put in the bin into something you can injection mold requires massively expensive sorting, cleaning, treating, and re-pelletizing.

An interesting point to consider here is that if oil production ever goes down for whatever reason and virgin plastic prices go up as a result, post-consumer plastic recycling becomes a more attractive business prospect.
Anki is nice but for exemple my wife is chinese too and we live in Hong Kong, I m having so much laziness learning canto, I just reply "I already have to learn english" when the rare troll ask me why im still an idiot after 7 years. And my wife isnt getting any better at French either. Our 2yo daughter however, she gets everything we all say in any language lol

If chinese was mandatory to survive, like maybe it is in China mainland, maybe I d have been able to learn it more.

But Ill check your site, who knows!
It’s not quite that simple. A garbage incinerator is not something you can turn on and off according to when you need the energy. It has to be kept going continuously, since it takes a long time for it to get up to the temperature required for efficient and clean combustion. There are similar problems with shutting down.
I don’t get why people still take it for granted that a woman should change her name on getting married and use the husband’s name. People should have the names assigned to them at birth or whatever they’ve changed it to as per their wish. I personally find the changing of names on marriage as an erasure of identity, even if the person is ok with it because of internalization or cultural conditioning.
I really wonder whether this is a US thing. Don't they separate waste? Don't they recycle their trash? To me, some of the other comments (that were posted a few hours earlier) read as if they were from the 1990s.
Oh good I'm getting downvoted because everyone in America is a private contractor.
> The point is dismissing anybody/somebody/everybodies' view out of hand or minimizing it down to complaints means you are missing when valid points are being made.

I'm not "dismissing anybody/somebody/everybodies' view out of hand," but observing that you can't make everyone happy all the time. Bosses will be unhappy with unions, because oftentimes unions go against their interests and reduce the power differential when they deal with individual employees. However, there's more than just the bosses' interest at play, so it's a mistake to focus on that.

This may not be a win-win situation, and it may be just for shareholders and business owners to lose a little.

> You are not showing a desire to discuss specific, measurable, realistic and timely issues. You and most unionists here have a view of a utopian union that is above criticism and does not need examination.

No, that's not true. I don't have a utopian view of unions, but rather an objection to their out-of-hand rejection based on a couple of cliched complaints about specific instances of the type. That's also a double standard, since if we'd applied a similar standard to corporations, that concept would have been rejected long ago. I think innovation in the area of unionization is possible and welcome, but I don't have all the answers.

At this point, were at the step of merely trying to get the idea of unions put back onto the table. It is not reasonable to insist that an idea (in this case tech worker unions) be fully worked out before the first step toward it is made.

> What problem of unorganized workers?

To be blunt about it: capital is organized. When a worker deals with it, they're almost always dealing with some kind of institution, not an individual, which means they're almost always in a greatly weaker position, with all that implies. Why is it such a problem for workers to have institutions of their own to create some balance?

> No none of that will work because it does not give totalitarian control of workers to unions. Nor will it allay feelings of jealousy.

Attributing desires for worker organization to "jealousy" is a far worse dismissal than anything I did in my comments.
the nut dispenser aisle in many grocery stores is unmanned and not a loss leader by any means. one need only bring their own vessel.
> drink less coffee

Really? Curious about this, because everyone around me (including me) drinks a metric crap ton of caffeine, either in tea, coffee, or energy drinks.
> It sequesters carbon, isn't too terrible for the environment (it just sits there in the ground), and it's not like we're going to run out of landfill space any time soon[1].

I could care less about the space personally, I think that’s a non-issue, but let’s not romanticize plastic as being harmless or somehow good for us. The danger of this argument is that, like recycling, it encourages more plastic use and more plastic waste, rather than committing to doing what we most need, which is to stop using so much of it, especially for single-serving, single-use convenience, where viable alternatives don’t just exist but have been widely used.

We can sequester carbon best by not pulling it out of the ground, plastic production and distribution uses a lot, and putting it in the landfill doesn’t exactly make up for it.

Plastic production has toxic byproducts, and leeches toxic waste into the ground & water. By “isn’t too terrible for the environment”, what are we comparing to? It’s pretty bad compared to a lot of the actionable alternatives we have.
a lot of engineers at FAANG make more than $400k total comp

This is the problem as I see it: $400k sounds like a good compensation, but we have no idea if that's as high as FAANGs would go. Maybe all those engineers could be on $800k if they'd negotiated better.

We don't, and can't, know the answer to this problem. And frankly it doesn't matter if those engineers are happy with $400k, and FAANG companies happy paying them that, then everybody comes away feeling like they've won. I'm just wondering if, as a whole, engineers are actually leaving a lot of money on the table because using the 'market rate' is really the average of all the negotiations that have come before, and if the average engineer is bad at negotiating that means everyone is basing their salary expectation on lots of previous low offers that people shouldn't really have accepted.

This is really a pricing problem, and everyone knows pricing is hard.
ZSTD seems to be relatively revolutionary in the field of compression, at least in most of the test cases I've tried. Binaries typically compress as well as LZMA2, averaging about a 50% compression ratio, with nearly an order of magnitude faster decompression.

ZSTD beats DEFLATE and Gzip seemingly in every metric. It decompresses faster than almost any algorithm out there, save maybe LZO or LZ4, and has a compression ratio comparable to much slower algorithms.

Arch Linux switched to ZSTD for compressing their package database at the beginning of this year, and only increased the overall average compressed size by 0.8%, while speeding up decompression several orders of magnitude compared to LZMA2.
I was unable to find the source. I searched the name "Ji-Woong Lee" of University of Copenhagen, I found his bibliography [0] and Twitter account [1], but I was unable to find any paper on CO2-enabled saltwater desalination. The only CO2-related paper was about its applications in organic synthesis, "CO2-Enabled Cyanohydrin Synthesis and Facile Homologation Reactions" [2].

But he did repost a press release on Twitter. Perhaps the paper is not published yet?

[0] https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=RplTooAAAAAJ

[1] https://twitter.com/theleelab_chem

[2] https://chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002...
Let's never assume we can know what anyone will ever legitimately want to do.

One of the use cases of preprocessors is to accommodate several versions of the language. Obviously, if the AST changes between versions, then no AST rewriter can help.

We have had to bake our own ad-hoc simple preprocessor for OCaml to accommodate various versions of its stdlib API, for instance.
A better solution is to have an even number of people, but have a tie-breaker vote token that is passed around between everyone in round-robin fashion.

In the event of the tie, the tie-breaker vote owner resolves it and passes the to token to the next person.

In this manner, the decision bias is averaged out between all of the board members.
A grocery store I used to live near had a hookup like this with a local dairy farm for their glass bottle milk. iirc returning the bottle also got you like $.25 off the next gallon at checkout.
One word names are called “mononyms”. Your example is again an example. You may have others around you with the same name but write it as Kumaran R (the initial derived from the first letter of the father’s name or the place of origin). Some may not even use an initial. These naming schemes, which are as valid as any other on the planet, have already caused a lot of trouble for people with PAN cards and Aadhaar (I recommend you read up on those if you aren’t aware).
This also inflates “market rate” and justifies higher prices for rent as well as government subsidized housing (which is just reduced rent because part of the rent is paid for from the market rate). By paying for “free months” themselves the rent prices never go down in the area and the market never corrects itself, leaving prices to either stay the same or rise always.
I believe marijuana laws are intentionally used as a tool for government/police to harass and commit injustices against certain people.

There is no metric for which marijuana does more harm than alcohol, yet alcohol is perfectly fine.
This Rust course is a better intro to these topics for undergrads.

It serves the undergrads who want to learn languages popular in industry so they can get a job and hit the ground running, while teaching them how to make higher quality enterprise/startup apps.

And it's also a good intro to safe systems language design for the ones who want to make a research career in PLT, who will go on to study your list in more depth.
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Why not now? This seems like a load of nothing. I bet in 3 years that “indefinitely” will have ended and the political ads will be back.
That’s an interesting take. I suppose what you are saying is that even if you don’t claim that you are FBI, when you write a document that purports to be from the FBI, during the writing process you are impersonating an FBI agent.

That makes sense logically. I don’t know anything about the legal argument though.
I mean you basically called me hyperbolic and goalpost shift-y
The buzzwords are strong in this one.
It would be utterly contradictory to attempt to apply the restrictions placed on the government in regards to "free speech" to private entities.
Oh how nice, I can take Amtrak up, load up, and go home!
I feel like the internet has failed me today. I legitimately searched hoping to find an example of someone growing weed from or in a gun. Sadly, i could not actually find this.
That is not people interact with kids. Most of these linguistic errors are ignored.
Maybe it’s like North Korea, they let I grow wild so people can use it.
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Unfortunately, I think for many in America, the conversation need not even advance to discussing efficiency, effectiveness or value.

Government propaganda, a good deal of it channelled through TV and Hollywood have so thuroughly established unrepentant drug users as villians that many people want it prosecuted on its face for its immorality.

Lawmakers find it difficult to let up on drug crimes because they are quickly painted as weak and enablers of other crimes. It's the same tirh the death penalty. The problems with it are plain for all to see. But lawmakers feel the need to signal the virtue of "justice" or "strength" and enough voters still respond to that signal. Even in the supposedly lefty stare of Washington where I reside, progress on criminal justice issues has been glacially slow.
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You choosing a door in the first place gave you 1-in-3 chance. But your 1-in-3 choice is deducted from the 3-of-3 choices that Monty could have had, so Monty only had a 2-in-3 choice: there's a 2/3 chance that the car is in the pool of doors from which Monty could select. Monty has a 100% chance of choosing a door without a car. Therefore, you inherit the 2-in-3 chances if you change your selection.

The first door will have the car 1/3 of the time. The second door's chances had been expanded to the remaining 2/3 percent thanks to Monty always choosing the last 1/3 door which is guaranteed to not have a car.
>Wait, you do understand that people are saying to get the flu shot so people don't get the flu, right?

For sure, but I don't happen to agree. It was on the news here in Japan this morning - flu cases have pretty much disappeared this season - presumably because everyone is wearing masks.

>Where do you get your data about annual influenza deaths? If you have a good source, I'm willing to take a look.

I can look for it, but IIRC the several 10,000 annual influenza deaths are a statistical projection. There was an article somewhere from someone in ER during the peak of the COVID-19 deaths saying they had pretty much never seen an actual influenza death - and that was the experience of other people in ER - so there was a mismatch between the statistical projection and lived experience.

>It's important not only so you don't get sick, but also so you don't spread it to others who may have a weaker immune system. We're all in this together.

The best way to do that is to wear masks. Here in Japan - nobody here ever said that "masks don't work for non-medics who haven't been trained to put them on properly". So we don't now have the problem with lots of MAGA folks running around saying "masks don't work".
LOL!! Dude, it’s semi legal here and it’s one pot brownie for $10! Be thankful.
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> “People are not really worrying about this, because it is inconvenient to act responsibly,”

Universal truth, it's now my quote of the day. Climate. Infrastructure. Technical Debt in Code. You name it.
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The state isn't prosecuting anyone. It's a civil lawsuit.
It's kind of ironic, because growing high-quality bud at home costs virtually nothing past maybe ~$60 in nutrients[0]. Growing cannabis just doesn't scale very well - you can't just double the nutrients for the same amount of water and expect to feed 2x the plants, in a similar vein you can't double the number of plants for a given space either, because the yield typically depends on the amount of light available. Even assuming you can double the amount of light, you can't automatically assume your yield will double as well, there's techniques required to maximize that return, which ultimately requires (sometimes significant) human interference. It's a remarkably fascinating plant in that sense, you can have two clones identical in every way, and they will still grow and flower slightly differently.

For what it's worth, automatic trimmers have come a long ways in recent years. A coworker at my previous job had purchased one for personal use, he had a ACMPR license for up to 35 plants. He said where it used to take two or three hours to trim a single plant, he can knock 7 or 8 off in the same time. Of course it doesn't come anywhere near the quality of a hand-trim, but you can get 90% there with almost no effort. To the older generation like him, it's still orders of magnitude better than whatever you could get just 10-15 years ago.

And yes, 10 brownies for $30 is a reasonably good price, even here in Ontario. Assuming they contain a reasonable dosage of THC (say 50mg), anyways.

[0]: Personally I use the General Hydroponics 3-part; two 1L bottles of "Bloom" and one bottle of each "Gro" and "Micro" is roughly $90 CAD. Using just those three nutrients and some pH adjusters I've been able to harvest roughly 25 lbs across 14 plants over the past 4 years. It's likely I will need another bottle of the bloom and micro components before starting another grow, but the Gro bottle should last another two or cycles easily.
As long as you got it on your own Accord it's fine.
Your explanation was great! You should become a teacher. It really nails the problem at hand