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No, for ratios less than unity most people would use a shorter, more convenient fraction ("nine-tenths") or percentage ("ninety percent") which has exactly the same meaning as the decimal ratio ("zero point nine times"). For fractions the word "times" may be implied rather than explicit; for percentages it's always implied, whereas for decimal ratios it's necessary to distinguish ratios from absolute quantities. These forms are nonetheless all equivalent and substituting one for another should not change the meaning of the phrase. "X more than Y" means addition, even if X is expressed as a ratio ("three times more than Y" equals "300% more than Y" equals "Y plus 300% of Y" equals "Y plus three times Y"). Analogously, "X less than Y" means subtraction, not division, whether X is an absolute quantity, a percentage either less than or greater than 100%, a fraction, or a decimal ratio.

This is human language, of course, so you can be as over-complicated, inconsistent, and ambiguous as you want and generally count on sufficiently smart listeners/readers to decode the resulting mess into something intelligible based on context. It's not good style, and it encourages innumeracy and presents math as being more complicated than it should be, but it will usually get the job done.
Fred Astaire's original audition allegedly was noted as: "can act, can sing, can dance a little."
Is it possible in the future that incremental compilation methods will become basic compiler knowledge? I think it would be an amazing step forward if the default compiler design would always result in IDE-inspectable code. Language Server Protocol is amazing, but it's only half the story.
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>Fake videos may not show up in recommendation feeds, but they still appear in search results don't they?

Use report button
> Maybe in a whitepaper. In the real world, it's mostly about speculation and enabling crime.

That’s the same line authoritarian governments used to demonize encrypted communications.
I'm not seeing any evidence that eradication of a virus like this would have been at all likely, even with extreme measures.
If I had to choose between Google and Microsoft on which company I trusted the most to more good, I'd choose Google time and time again.
We already understand exactly how cells and DNA "work", the problem is methabolic networks are very large and hard to simulate with sufficient certainty.
I don't care if it was headlined by four white dudes - the "dialog" was crap, the plot was a lazy rehash of the original with zero lack of comedic timing or skill.

Neither gender or race has anything to do with it being a lazy, uninspired and un-funny movie - but people are sure as hell desperate to use that as a shield from criticism :p
if you’ve moved abroad and intend to stay there long term, secure citizenship there and renounce your American citizenship to avoid double taxation

That should be "intend to stay there forever", since renouncing your USA citizenship is typically permanent, once you renounce citizenship, it's difficult or impossible to regain it.
Look, I get this. I'm not saying it's not a little bit tricky to depose a despot once he's got his grip on power.

But I see Westerners go to places that are culturally different, and ignore all those differences, and assume that the only reason the government isn't "non-authoritarian" is because the population need help deposing a despot. Sometimes it's not that. In Myanmar it is totally that, and we should be doing something, because the army are shooting civilians every day. In Cambodia at the moment, not. In China, probably not.

In Cambodia I was a CEO. Khmer culture means that you never contradict your boss. I had some really candid conversations with colleagues that I knew well, and who knew me well, I'd call them friends. They would still never contradict me, even if they knew I was wrong, and knew that I knew I was wrong. It's a different culture. You do not question authority there. That's not because authority will punish you, but because (as far as I get it as an outsider) social harmony depends on social stratification, and social stratification means not questioning those above you. It all sounds problematic to westerners, who go there and try and impose western ideas of justice, free thought and free speech. But they just come off as White Saviours, tone deaf to thousands of years of Khmer culture.

In Cambodia all this lead to the Khmer Rouge and a genocide. I see lots of parallels with what's happening in Myanmar. I think there comes a point where we do have to step in and say "I know you are an authoritarian culture, but this is too far, you're shooting civilians". Don't forget, this is Myanmar people enlisted in the military who are shooting other Myanmar people. The same was true in Cambodia - a lot of the trauma of the genocide was "how could we do this to ourselves?". It's a very complex situation. There's a huge difference between this and China.

I don't know enough about the situation in Belarus to comment. I don't trust Western media enough to present an unbiased view of it, and I don't know any Belarus folks to give me their view. I'd like to go visit - I hear it's beautiful there. But pandemic.
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Yes, what you've written about broadcast vs. publishing rights on the radio is correct, but what I wrote "In the US a performer still receives nothing when the song is played on the radio, all the royalties go to the writers" is still 100% correct (I made no mention about the source of the rights), so I'm not sure why you started your comment with "No."
Not exactly. It was free for years but due to the program struggling during the pandemic, they implemented an ISA. In other words, you only pay if it works out for you.
I wonder if there is any YC company that failed to even raise Seed Round.
Oh if you're going back that far, then yes, it definitely still exists, though I don't doubt it used to be a lot worse. (I phrased my first response carefully in case there had been changes in, say, the past few months that I hadn't fully noticed.)
I want to clarify the idea here.

1) We don't know how life originated on Earth.

2) We don't have a full idea of what happened during the Cambrian explosion.

3) We don't know how human consciousness manifests itself in the brain.

4) Evolution by random natural processes is not possible without deliberate nudges.

Is the claim here that 1-3 is simply not possible without an intelligent entity intervening in the natural laws? If so, I'm personally fine with it. God (who is the most popular potential Intelligent Designer) has always been a God of the Gaps. In the future, I am pretty confident we'll figure out the explanations using just the physical laws of the universe.

But if the claim also includes 4, then I think it can be discarded with a high confidence. We can already observe how evolution works at the virus and bacteria level. We have found the transitional fossils [0]. The science of evolutionary development biology [1] is already giving us great insights into how organisms translate the genetic code to build our complex bodies. It also shows how the same genes have been reused across species (e.g., the genes for eyes in the house fly and humans are the same). We don't need the Intelligent Design hypothesis to explain evolution.

(EDIT: I see from another comment that you already agree to the above point.)

The claim Intelligent Design supporters can make at best is that God created the first cells, perhaps nudged them a little during the Cambrian explosion, and perhaps again intervened before the evolution of Homo Sapiens. But all the rest happened the boring way, following the natural laws.

> we have never seen life come from non life.

Does not imply we never will. Given the countless other times this argument has been used to justify an Intelligent Creator when we didn't know something, I give very low credence to the idea that /this/ time is truly it. Unless someone can show mathematically why life cannot possibly emerge from the natural laws, naturalism remains the best hypothesis.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transitional_fossil
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_developmental_bio...
Yes. Starting from the bottom, we might in the process discover that 90%-99% of cell components are cruft/inefficient, and discover how to make cells 10 or 100 times smaller. Imagine being able to inject neurons in the brain that are 100 times smaller.
if you're just starting out, you wanna start with the top 5 compound exercises. I'd recommend "starting strength" by mark ripetoe. There's thousands of exercises you can do at the gym but you'll get 80% of the output with just these 5 exercises.

squat

Hits everything from the legs to the core to the upper back.

deadlift

alos hits everything as well as the pulling muscles so it really builds your back

pullup

works your upper back muscles and arms

pushups/dips

works your arms and chest

plank

the ultimate ab excercise.

Honestly, the best advice I can give is to hire a personal trainer for the first few sessions. Get one that knows strength training specifically to watch yoru form and make sure you have that mastered BEFORE you start lifting any serious weight

BACKSTORY:

so a few years ago I sheared my knee. I could not walk more than a few yards before my knee started grinding. I had resigned myself to eventually need a knee replacement. a few months of working with a personal trainer on the squat fixed that. Its like the injure never happened at this point.
I'm from Eastern Europe and Huawei isn't popular because the prices are simply the same as comparable Samsung/LG/etc devices. They used to be lower, but as I said, they stopped competing on price quite a while ago.

Instead, it's Xiaomi that's offering good value for a lower price. And they have Google Apps on their phones. Is it a known brand in North Africa? Their accessories at least are good quality and cheap.

I'd never buy Apple, don't fall for their trap haha
Do you have a better explanation? I wouldn't say that's the entirety of their reasons but part of a bigger picture ideology they want on their platform.

Obviously, views aren't enough. There are multiple channels that get demonetized/de-platformed that have a lot of viewership but they don't fit in with the YouTube/Google agenda.
It's ... it's ... possible to get cancer in the teeth. If it somehow breaks off and gets into other parts of the body. :|

Also don't google teratoma, or "giant neglected ameloblastoma" :(
Two rats were discussing the covid vax. One rat says to the other, hey are you going to get the covid jib jab? And the other rat replies. Are you completely mad in the head? Sure they have not finished with the testing and the human trials yet.
https://brandnewtube.com has lots of eye opening information for those inquiring minds who have discerned that with regards to the covid story, something does indeed smell like a rat.
Broadcom's firmware seems to be just absolutely terrible across the stack, NIC included. They seem to have solid product design / engineering chops, but firmware just defies them.
That's exactly why we are approaching the problem with open source. It changes the dynamic of how it gets adopted. we've been in your shoes where a tool is being pushed Top-Down and now you have to deal with a super complex, super expensive, rigid & half working product.

Instead Airbyte gets adopted by engineers, data scientist... to solve one problem and then the usage expands from there. We can improve the product based on the feedback we get from the real users.

And if a feature, a connector is not there, anyone can actually add it!
"It's been posited by researchers that tiny discrepancies in the spacing between words or even the kerning of letters could be used to encode information."

I know some DTP types that this technique would drive them crazy. They spend so much time adjusting the leading/kerning to get the text appear in the layout they way they want. Having that thrown out the window by the printer would absolutely drive them insane. For science, I want to try this out now. It would be awesome to do it as an April Fools joke.
> But banning cryptocurrency would be much easier since the majority of the population doesn't own any and it can be framed in very positive terms.

How exactly do you ban or confiscate bitcoin? New bitcoin wallets are created without even touching the internet! It can be done from the middle of the Mojave desert without any proof of it ever happening or existing. Internet access is needed when sending bitcoin but not when receiving bitcoin. By the time someone sends it, it’s too late, you can’t confiscate it because they don’t have it anymore. If the government bans or too heavily monitors the bitcoin network for activity, people can still send slips of paper through the mail with the private and public key to one of their wallets and trade around pieces of paper instead.

Combine that with a brain wallet and you can literally store bitcoin in your brain and pass through borders carrying nothing on hand. Try doing any of that with gold, Euros, Dollars, or Chinese Yuan.

The only thing stopping bitcoin is exponentially higher transaction costs but paradoxically higher transaction costs make small bitcoin holders effectively illiquid. This reduction in supply further drives up the price infinitely until most bitcoin is rendered illiquid or until people think slow cryptocurrencies with high transaction fees are stupid.
What a hopelessly naive perspective. Android has always been about ensuring the Google surveillance operation doesn't get shut out of mobile. The whole OS is designed to enable snooping on the user not just while in the browser, but at all times.

The fact that they've had to build actual hardware that functions at times, and includes things like driver stacks is purely incidental to the main mission. Try seeing how willing they are to add support for chipsets on phones that don't include Google Services.
You've got a lot of "I do not care" and "I think" in your reply -- I'm not necessarily trying to convince you, I just saw the misinformation and wanted to move it more in a direction that the Church actually holds.
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> but the nlrb is a supposedly neutral organization

You must be kidding me. NLRB has known pro-union bias, which becomes especially acute under Democratic administration (it was a bit different under Trump but that has passed).

https://www.hrdefenseblog.com/2021/02/non-union-employers-be... https://www.nexsenpruet.com/insights/national-pro-union-poli... https://www.politicususa.com/2021/01/20/joe-biden-just-fired... https://www.labordaysblog.com/2021/03/are-unions-primed-for-...

> You have to choose some cut off for security over cost and time

Nobody asked for 2000 National Guard troops and Fort Knox security on it. What was asked for is one puny webcam. A school kid wouldn't have trouble setting it up. If anything isn't acting in good faith is pretending this is about costs.
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No. A lot of job posts out there that highlights the language version. For example, I saw a lot of job posts for C++11, C++17 so on. Heck even, some jobs directly mentions Modern C++.

https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/FireEyeInc1/743999738511776...

They can also look at the creation date of company and make a educated guess.
Thanks @davidbuniat.

The libraries offer a rich vocabulary of consent mechanisms that our users can piece together to form consent flows.

Here is a really great example of how the pants build system integrated with Bugout: https://www.pantsbuild.org/v2.4/docs/anonymous-telemetry

Fulfilling a GDPR request for access takes a single call to our API and fulfilling a request for deletion is also a single call.

Finally, we have a short circuit in place that any developer can use to turn off Bugout reporting globally. All you have to do is set the environment variable:
BUGGER_OFF=true
Is was very widely and publicly known. I usually hesitate to say things like this, but the conclusion is unavoidable: either the whistleblower and the people working at the Intercept are colossal idiots, or the whole narrative is fake.
I honestly don't understand your comment. You're comparing two completely different things. Bitcoin mining protects the currency.

Meanwhile you talk about the USA securing its access to oil by using a potent "weapon" called the US dollar, delivered by the US military. The dollar isn't what's being protected, what's being protected is the entire economic system of the USA that is dependent on oil. If it was really about the dollar then the USA could protect it within its own borders. The US dollar is already strong enough as it is.

Comparing these completely different things makes no sense. There is no Bitcoin nation.
Even "pushing propaganda" is a bit higher minded than social media seems to be.

It's all about the money. ALL about the money. How do social companies make money? They sell ads.

How do you make more money selling ads? Either you show more ads (increase ad density, or increase eyeball-time-on-platform), or you make more money per ad (I used to see plenty of scam sites - new Kobota tractor for $1500, free shipping, domain registered last week - and far as I can tell, Facebook only cared that their credit card number was good).

More eyeball-time-on-platform requires "engaging" users more - weaponizing psychology, notifications, and A/B testing against them.

Facebook's guiding principles are simple: "What's Good For Zuck is Good For Zuck." The rest are no different.
> lots

You're deluding yourself.
I'm not sure bad videos are any harder to digest than bad tweets. Maybe a bit more time consuming?
I spent five years in this space (in a small consultancy that was acquired by GlobalLogic last year). I think this is how one of our salespeople might describe the process.

The reality tends to be somewhat messier. I especially disagree with the "personal chef" analogy. A personal chef is an expensive, dedicated, long-term employee - much closer to a full time SWE than to a consultancy. It's more like hiring a catering company for a wedding.
There are a lot of rock singers whose talent isn't actually singing. Neil Young, for example. His songwriting and arrangements are so good one doesn't notice he doesn't have a good voice for singing.
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Got a Keyboardio Model 01 [1], switched to the Dvorak keyboard layout, and started doing exercises, all at the same time.

I also recently switched from GNOME to the keyboard-centric awesome window manager [2].

[1]: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/keyboardio/the-model-01...
[2]: https://awesomewm.org/index.html
Individual cells might in theory be modular, but Tesla for example is gluing them to their battery packs which makes them much harder to reuse at the individual cell levels. The battery pack it’s self is becoming a structural element though it can still be removed, but unfortunately it’s proprietary.

On top of this EV batteries are getting very close to lasting the normal lifetime of the vehicle. Car manufacturers are likely to tray and leverage this as a form of built in obsolescence by making replacing the battery unappealing under normal usage patterns.
Aside from the language features, some of the libraries in Julia make it really useful for statistical computing. One really cool library I am trying to use more and more in Julia is the Measurements library [1]. With the multiple dispatch system in Julia its super easy to integrate into most problems and can let you estimate error bounds on values programs produce. Super important for scientific applications.

I am hoping in the future that I can mix this in with some auto-diff problems to get uncertainty bounds on estimation problems with minimal fiddling with covariance matrices. Right now the performance is the only problem in integrating the library into pretty much any problem :(

[1] https://github.com/JuliaPhysics/Measurements.jl
It is what it is - it is popular for a reason. It doesn’t require effort from the listener and as you pointed out it lets people identify with a culture, etc. there’s a reason most people stop seeking out new music in their mid-20’s. Popular music is mainly a youth product which lets each cohort draw cultural boundaries from previous generations.

What’s great about modern info tech is it makes it easier to explore artists of your youth that you never knew about. You can get really deep which makes it feel like now music is still being made for you.

It isn’t like there aren’t infinite other styles for people that want it. Jazz is a great example of “musicians music” - lots of interesting ideas get explored there and dissonance is used which you rarely find in pop.

They actually have software that helps crank out hits nowadays. It’s an interesting time to be a songwriter in Nashville.
It's not unless it's a trademark violation (e.g. if the name collision might cause confusion).
Companies are only interested in user behavior that increases engagement. Everything else is on the chopping block.
Oddly enough, my family went the other way. If you live in a hard water area, soap causes soap scum. I banned it from the showers because I was sick of scrubbing out the scum. And it has become impossible to find detergent based bar soap, I think because there's a glut of tallow and lard. So we use liquid body wash now.
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I promise you the AI toothbrushes ARE coming. Just wait...
I would for anything truly extreme (like some horrible shock footage in the middle of a supposedly innocent video). But I don't know if all of these videos actually violate any rules; often they are of the kind <title: THING YOU'RE LOOKING FOR>, where the content is actually someone talking about the thing I'm looking for.

edit: Or another relatively common type, not necessarily fake or even strictly misleading, just cynically low-quality: a video made by pulling some text content from the web, feeding it through a speech synthesiser, and playing that over over the top of some 'relevant' images.
I've done plenty contractual work on larger code bases that has C++98 to some extent. I will tell you what you will never truly understand the whole code base.

Sourcetrail does amazing job at explaining larger code bases. Check it out.
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Give yourself 6 months and find several people who can show you expected work. Read code until you see how it can be done better. Most corporate code is pure garbage, so don't sell yourself short.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333388187_Sex_Drugs...

https://blog.chainalysis.com/reports/darknet-markets-cryptoc...

Anecdotally: people buy lots of drugs using cryptocurrencies. Not that I would ever do such a thing…
No malice aforethought is required for careless words to perpetuate harmful and ignorant stereotypes that help make already hard problems all the more intractable for people whose lives already suck.

When your words are not received in the spirit you intended in a text only environment, working on finding the right words is typically the most effective approach to remedying the matter.

I wrote what I wrote previously because I'm on your side and a writer by trade. I still blog about homelessness at times. Searching for the right words to adequately convey meaning is something I spend a lot of time on and put a lot of work into.
Knowing how something works is not at all the same thing as knowing enough to make significant improvements. It's just a first step.