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Should we really put the kids back into situations like this?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9310079/Raped-toddl...

“ But Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, Alice Springs Deputy Mayor and director of the Indigenous research program at the Centre for Independent Studies slammed the decision.

'This is an ongoing issue with Territory Families being very quick to return children to circumstances that could potentially, once again, be very dangerous,' she said.

'Territory Families is more concerned with the reunification with family as opposed to, I believe, upholding the human rights of these children. Ultimately it’s race-based discrimination against children because they’re Indigenous.'”
> and changes take much longer to implement and activate on Bitcoin

That's a funny way of saying BTC doesn't innovate.

> Going from PoW to PoS in such a small timeframe is pretty aggressive no matter how you look at it.

It's been the plan for years. I first heard of it in 2017 and if I'm not mistaken I think it was also in the whitepaper. So it's neither coming out of the blue or an aggressive timeframe.
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In the case of the property I’m thinking of, it was land continuously farmed since the Dutch colonized New York. It had a barn built in the 1670s. The farm was prosperous until about 1997, when it ceased to be economically viable.

It seems strange to me that a “one shot” subdivision with a 50 year lifespan is the only viable economy use for that land.
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My parents grew chestnuts on their farm, when my father was still alive. They were mostly American, with a bit of Chinese for blight resistance, and did pretty well. I've long wondered if regular breeding might have done the trick, if we'd spent the past century trying. Keep back-breeding for more American properties, but resistant, too. For my parents, tent caterpillars were more of a problem.
> not necessarily representative of climate research at the time

If that's true it's hard to understand why the majority of the press was publishing information opposite to the state of the climate research at the time. Unlikely to me.
Once I paid a bill that came the usual 3-6 months after the appointment. A few months later they send me a check in the mail for the same amount as that bill. Then a few months after that, another bill for the same amount as the check.
200k land (1 acre in Tahoe area), roughly below 2MM construction. 10% might be lowballing, prob it will end close to 15%.
> "The winning approach is obviously in waiting for the other side to die off..."

Seems doubtful. Rural and poor areas remain strongholds for conservatism and that seems unlikely to change. The urban left may increasingly outnumber rural conservatives but that doesn't necessarily give them more power thanks to the way that the electoral system and government in the United States is structured.
I just got a $3k bill in the mail for my 6 month old son’s delivery. This is about 4 months after they incorrectly billed us for part of it.

I have the money, but am thinking of fighting it even though it’s such a small sum.

Either their accounting is incompetent or fraudulent, but either way, I’m annoyed enough to push back. I suspect they are trying to fleece as many people as possible to make up for the 2020 budget hit they took.
>Counterculture cannot exist on the site by definition, as anything prevalent on the site is there by consensus.

That makes no sense - consensus must exist within a counterculture for it to be definable, therefore counterculture and consensus can coexist.

Being "prevalent" has no bearing whatsoever on being a counterculture. It's entirely possible for a counterculture to have a subreddit and not be prevalent. The vast majority of content on Reddit never even touches the frontpage.

You could say that a counterculture can't exist on Reddit that runs counter to the platform's terms of service, and that might be true, but it's also conditional.
Hospitals' bar for reasonably afford is low, in my experience. They want proof that you make poverty line wages or below to write it off, below 300% of poverty line (around 38k) for reductions.
Every thread the first argument is whataboutism. like the fucking clock.
They said they pivoted from a video lecture platform which isn't a bad idea. There's plenty of opportunity in that space as well. I have kids distance learning and I have suggestions to improve things massively. That we have a vaccine now probably means that distance learning will end except in the cases where people like it. But there's a massive amount of opportunity around interactive whiteboarding.

So the question is what does the status bar enable? That's the opportunity. I think of and want zapier in my status bar.
I don't work for these guys but rather than dis the company let's figure out how to make them successful.

I'd give a basic product away for free and focus on integrations.
But I already know what happens next. We've seen it before
A recent CDC report says that mask mandates are less than 1.9% effective even after 100 days.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7010e3.htm
Ditto. The tone is what keeps me subscribed to his site. I don't know anything about physics, but I still enjoy reading his rantings.
It's humor. Lighten up.
You should really read more about how modern herbicides work. Glyphosate disrupts a specific enzyme that only plants use. That's why genetic engineering works so well for resistance to it, you can simply eliminate the vulnerability.

The issue isn't that it's cancer causing (there's next to no chance it is, the issues are with the surfactants). The real issue is that weeds are evolving to also have glyphosate resistance, as would be expected when such evolutionary pressure is applied.
I sometimes daydream about finding a mature American Chestnut while in the PA woods. I know it'll never happen, but it's fun to think about.
It's not Chrome. If I kill all programs and put my M1 and my 2017 intel to sleep... I can touch the finger print sensor on the M1, then touch the one on the Intel. The intel will be up and running while the M1 is still waking up. It's just a few seconds, but it's a noticeable.
You shouldn't move fast and break things
There hasn’t been a free market in US medicine in a long time.
Not sure if it's that simple. Chrome (89.0.4389.90 64-bit) runs the tests but leaks memory for me. Firefox (86.0 64-bit) runs the tests but every one of the tests fails. Brave (1.5.112 64-bit) doesn't even run the tests. I'm on Linux (5.11.4-arch1-1).
> They bill based on the procedures done and might not have that information until after the fact.

Quote a menu then. Something like:

If everything goes well, we'll do X, Y, and Z; which will cost $5million, plus an extra $200,000 for the Oxford comma.

Some potential complications are this and that and they cost even more, etc. All surgeries are risky, and you could require life saving interventions which will cost a stagering amount, and we won't be able to ask for consent.

The patient could say; well wait, I don't actually want an Oxford comma, please leave that out; and they could put that on the chart, and if it's added, it doesn't get billed.
More transactions are happening on BSC. Most traders only care about low fees.
30% is an arbitrary number, so if you find an example with or 29% I'd be happy to hear that too. I probably could find some examples of majority views in 2021 that would get you predictably fired if you expressed them as say an adjunct professor. Think "All Lives Matter" and such.

But if you have to reach down to 20% or 10% or whatever then yes that's a significant enough difference that I see it as conceding my original point about that this isn't like the 50s. It's also notable that the examples that you're reaching for seem to involve elite bigotry that eventually collapsed - do you think that cancel culture will collapse in the same fashion?
Similar here. Had a baby 9 months ago, the doctor took the insurance, but it turned out later the hospital didn't. Bill was over 100K and it wasn't covered at all.
Ok, it maybe describes the galaxies rotational curves, actually a few other theories about modified newtonian dynamics are capable of doing that too.. However it doesnt explain the bullet cluster, structure formation or the power spectrum of the CMB
I don't buy that, because of the unpredictability of the worst case, we can't ever be told how much anything costs, no matter how routine.
Similar to "egrep -x".
Censor almost any comment on Twitter with unknown exploit
I noticed something odd going on with twitter comments

Spammers have figured out a way to suppress comments on twitter by dumping a bunch of hidden comments in response to a comment. Think of it like negative SEO. Twitter interprets the influx of comments as spam and hides the post *which the comments are replying to. Because the accounts are private it is impossible to know what was posted, but it could be links to pornographic websites or contain vulgar language in order to trigger the spam filters and force twitter to hide the parent post.

But the point it, such censorship is possible. This can be used to suppress negative reviews, political dissent...anything, provided you know which type of spam comments trigger the post to be hidden. It can be done to anyone and you will not even notice unless you log out and check from another account.

Two videos showing that it is possible, but how it is possible is unknown unless you know what messages were posted and the type of account that posted them.

https://streamable.com/ucl5a4 (Elon Musk)

second video showing the same thing, but with spacex (not as detailed)

https://streamable.com/b3pol6

An Elon Musk spammer is using this method on another spammer. You can see how the comment vanishes after getting 12 of these comments. It is not visible anymore. This can be used on any comment in theory, not just spam ones.
A kitchen oil fire is a different effect. They're not hot enough to disassociate water molecules. What happens typically is that the water floats the oil, and the fire, remaining on top of the oil, spreads more rapidly.

Another effect is when the fire (and typically, the cooking vessel) are hot enough to vaporize the water. This rapid vaporization spreads oil droplets rapidly, allowing much more of the oil to burn at once. It can appear explosive, even though it's just rapidly-expanding steam spreading fine oil droplets.
Can you more specific with your question?
“Puts a small, bored cat, an enthusiastic dog, a feisty snake, or Clippy in your code editor.”
Hi everybody! Fabbrica designer here. If you have any question, or if you have any feedback, I would be super happy to hear.
As far as I can tell, IceCat uses the same rendering and Javascript engines as Firefox, so it'll have the same security issues as Firefox.
I would be shocked if career cosmologists don't learn about Landau damping in their E and M classes.
Am I the only one who thinks this is a an awful title? Or have we moved on to insulting entire classes of people?
Here's my take on it, I don't have a doctorate in physics so its really just my understanding having read the linked paper.

If you're a galaxy spinning around, as one does, and you use simple Newtownian physics to calculate the orbits, then there is a problem because at the velocity things are moving, they should be moving apart. And yet they are what appears to be otherwise stable orbits around the galactic center.

So to solve that conundrum, one postulation has been that there is more mass in the galaxy than we can see. Since we can only see things that either emit light, or occlude things that are emitting light, that missing matter has been dubbed "dark."

The paper, on the other hand, says "No, the force holding this thing together is the result of graviomagnetic forces generated by the masses moving around." (not something Newton ever considered, and really only comes into play at very large scales and very large velocities)

If you accept the mathematics and the model in the paper, then it means you don't need dark matter to explain galaxy shape, which would mean that a number of physics Phds work is incorrect in describing what is going on.
Wait a second, you are calling my comment out for snark but I'm not allowed to call the OP news post "indistinguishable bullshit". Oh wait, I did not call the post bullshit...

You can join the discussion about DAI, it'll take about 5 minutes on your end if you google DAI spreadsheet and you will be able to farm on the top end of every other DAI player. It'll also not cost you any money.

If you can not explain your crypto bullshit maybe it is my prerogative to call out your bullshit. Maybe I think smart contracts are dumb, digital signatures is something that has been solved in 1996 and your blockchain is just dumb.

Sorry my post wasn't pretending your bullshit is magic. Maybe go read about something else.

*EDIT: I mean look at my metrics...

https://imgur.com/ajLZL7w

Nevermind that there is no appreciable scale, that's not important.
I always like to mention the existence of gravitomagnitism as a pleasing example of symmetries being preserved. Would be neat if this worked out.
Healthcare is an inelastic demand service. Also a free market requires an informed buyer. Lack of price transparency coupled with inelastic demand makes it highly resistant to traditional market forces. You've got other forces working on it like high barrier to entry to be a healthcare service provider, high upfront costs for equipment, very heavy (expensive) regulation, higher likelihood of legal costs, etc.

It's like food. If you're starving, you'll do or pay whatever you have to to get nutrients.
Just JS for now since it compiles and runs entirely in the browser
Dropbox needs to think of what apps you can build on top of it and let people build those apps. They are a data lake. Enable advanced analytics and ML etc...

Easy peasy.
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There are many industries that have this issue and deal with it in different ways.

I used to do consulting and fixed price estimates were common. Even when requirements were unclear. The way I mitigated this was with multiple clients.

Hospitals have lots of customers. They don’t have to perfectly estimate everything, they just have to be good on average.

Here’s a podcast from Econtalk with Dr Kieth Smith from Surgery Center of Oklahoma [0] where he explains how his hospital does it. Basically he estimate the cost for an average procedure and charge that, they are good at estimating and adjust each year. Sometimes extra stuff happens, sometimes less stuff happens. If the shit hits the fan during the procedure they have that rare event factored in.

It’s such an odd argument because they certainly could if they had to. But they don’t, so they don’t.

[0] http://www.econtalk.org/keith-smith-on-free-market-health-ca...
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"a daunting number of phenomena"

Well, yeah, when your model is a fudge factor that is independently parametrizable at every cubic parsec of space, you'd expect it to be able to explain a ton of things.
I wonder how this new paper differs from this, from 16 years ago:

https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0507619
This is way over my head, but essentially one guy decided to include magnetic fields (in addition to gravity) into account when calculating why galaxies don't fling themselves to bits? Eli5
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> I drifted to tangents too quickly

My too my friend, me too.
> I think there's a mentality that if we just "crowdsource" something, somehow the work just goes away. It's a little like hand-waiving "the cloud" or "serverless" -- just because it's not your problem doesn't mean it disappears.

Yeah, and this has been proven time and time again over at least the past 20 years. Crowdsourced moderation is also usually founded on the fallacy that people who are popular contributors will also be effective moderators, which isn't true.

Though certain crowdsourced features, like flagging, can definitely be moderation force-multipliers.
I enjoyed reading the source for https://github.com/c4milo/gitd, also in go, as a way to simply wrap the go utilities, add your own auth, and get heroku-like deployments.
Maybe "not a lot of money" was a bit misleading. It really depends on what you want to achieve. I agree that it feels like a lot of money for spending it on a gaming PC (I have the same debate with myself). But since you are a head of something, you probably know how much it costs to hire people to get anything done. So 1000$ does not seem like a lot for investing in a project, for example - even if you don't pay any money for anything, you'll rake up 1000$ in opportunity costs quickly.

If you want to achieve anything, you'll need a lot more than 1000$, so in relation to that 1000$ seems little. And I don't just mean for projects, but in general, if you want to change things in your life (get an education, have kids, whatever).

And it also is not a lot in terms of how much money people need and earn. I think most people will spend more than 1000$ on rent, food clothing and so on every month. Especially if you have children.

I wouldn't spend 1000$ every day just like that, but I would spend it for special occasions (like going on holidays).
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Yes, the author appears to have overcome some limitations in existing models of galaxy rotation that incorporate gravitomagnetic effects (yes, others have thought of this before unlike Scott Locklin suggests and the paper even cites them). The claim is that these existing models were over-simplified to make them solvable: the less-simplified model proposed in this paper is much harder to solve but the author is an expert in mathematically similar effects in magnetohydrodynamics and appears to have found a solution.

There are other astronomical observations that we still don’t have as good an explanation for (e.g. certain gravitational lensing observations) but this is a step in the direction of being able to dismiss the need for dark matter from our cosmological theories.
I disagree in factually but I agree in optics and I think him being so active makes it easy to get that impression.
There could be something wrong with your unit.
> Do you use keyboard shortcuts in the apps you use?

Not really. If they're presented to me via the Touch Bar then yes.

> How does Ctrl-Alt-Shift-V hit you?

Never heard of it! Doesn't sound very intuitive! What do all those keys mean and why are those in that order and how do you discover them? If it was on the Touch Bar I could just see the icon and discover it and learn the muscle memory.

> What about vim or emacs bindings?

But I don't use these editors. And why do they need special bindings anyway?

> We memorize a large number of things that are just as 'meaningless' as F6, so I'm struggling to get on board with this take.

Seems like it should be the computer's job to memorise things, not mine? I don't want to rote learn F6 = step-over in my debugger. That's not a good use of my time. I want an icon I can see when I look for a function key, then learn the muscle memory to keep hitting.

'F6' means nothing to me. Where am I supposed to look that up? In a manual? I don't want these kind of context-switches.

> As a touch typist, the changing context of a position on that row means I can no longer rely on my memory of the position of the key.

The keys don't move on the Touch Bar. If you're using muscle memory they're in the same place each time so you're fine and there's no problem!
> if you can't reasonably afford to pay it.

It's true you can negotiate, but it's also true their bar for "reasonably afford to pay it" absolutely can include emptying your savings and other assets.
Iirc Lambda cdm fails to explain how two galaxies could wind up colliding like that in the first place, since under lambda cdm the likelihood of such collisions is vanishingly low.
At what point can we select offspring, or engineer them, with specific hair and eye colour?
I agree... so many times I click on a zoom link in the location field and it opens apple maps..
This reminds me of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor meltdown. They put out the fire by dumping boron and sand on the core from helicopters.

https://www.livescience.com/65515-chernobyl-in-modern-times-...
It's interesting to me that people have such different reactions. I'm much more concerned with mute/unmute than with volume level. Not sure if that makes a difference. I don't mind a slight delay to change the volume of a youtube video or something, but when I need to respond on a conference call, I want to be able to instantly mute my volume.
It seems to me like timers and multi-threading make these things possible, so why couldn't the web site ask for access for those resources from the user? Most web sites don't need these.

HN should work without reading timers at all for example.
Indeed. Being able to lose your source of income for posting something that contradicts the mainstream narrative counts as vulnerability in my book. I wanted to post a few examples of potential comments that would very plausibly get one removed from one's job, but that might risk becoming trollbait etc, so I won't give specific examples and just trust that we all have a decent pulse of the kinds of things that you can't say publicly without risk of losing employment or some other punishment.

Indeed, if someone can post their more-or-less unfiltered thoughts on a big social media platform like Facebook, Twitter, etc without ever getting banned, that's a great indication that that person is not part of a "vulnerable" faction, at least in the sense of being part of a counterculture.

So - I guess I'll risk giving one example - if you post a gross exagerration of the risks of SARS-CoV-2 with respect to death or serious illness, or recklessly speculate that recovery from infection does not produce immunity, you're allowed to do that as much as you want. But express the opposite opinion (even if you're literally echoing WHO recommendations such as [far too late] lockdowns being too blunt an instrument or that immunity passports shouldn't be a thing), and you'll be quickly suspended or banned with only a vague reference to "community guidelines".

And then of course you have the irony of platforms like Parler and Gab, which arise in large part due to the phenomenon of deplatforming voices of (primarily) a certain side, and then the mainstream will turn around and criticize these platforms for having a lot of "extremists" or supposed "crazy people", despite the fact that by definition such a platform is going to be populated by those who got booted explicitly or implicitly from the mainstream systems. As a further irony, it's commonly said that "nobody is preventing your ability to speak, you're just not allowed to speak on [insert platform]", and then when you go to that other platform that permits largely unrestricted speech, that platform is yanked from AWS and there's tons of news headlines about how they shouldn't be allowed to platform voice X or faction Y, etc.

So...yeah, the dismissive "how dare you declare these people vulnerable" is very naive and myopic IMO. I think we all know more or less what the current zeitgeist is and roughly what happens when you run afoul of it, and it's not pretty.

I hope I made something close to a coherent point there, I was mostly going stream of consciousness mode :)
Looks like the author got banned from HN for that tone: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=scottlocklin

I find him hilarious but I suppose it's a cultural thing and I understand that lots of people find it degrading.
Lend up is probably the nicest one. But I agree.
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Yeah I'll pay more for a TV that doesn't collect data or show ads. I'd probably also be willing to buy the cheaper model, open it, and remove the wifi antenna/hardware if blocking its MAC at the router doesn't work.