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Thermal insulators (air) conduct heat poorly. Thermal conductors (metal) transfer hear rapidly, but "hold" onto limited amounts. Thermal batteries (concrete, earth, water, marble) balance heat storage and transference.

Geothermal systems use the ground as a sort of battery- drawing heat in winter, dumping it in summer.

Smart designs will use concrete floors in front of windows to store and release heat from the sun in winter (and rely on overhangs to keep sun out in summer).

Presumably, the concrete foundation (or a really big block) could serve a similar purpose with a hydronic system transferring heat in and out of the block to and from radiators in the rest of the building.

During summer months, run water from the radiators through an evaporative cooling system, to the concrete block, back to radiators. The concrete will cool down when the evaporative system is at peak efficiency, and siphon heat off when it is not.

During winter, instead of going through evaporative cooling, the water could ve pumped through solar heating panels to the same effect- the concrete warms on sunny days, storing excess heat, and bleeds it back to the water on cloudier days.

As you can imagine, the system would be very difficult to get correctly sized for a commercial building, and require backup heating and cooling for anything but temperate weather.
Ironically I find a literal casino to be more honest to patrons than a lot of the shills on YouTube trying to pump random tickers.
This isn't so weird. I needed to send a picture of my id to coinbase to unlock my account, and needed to use my SSN to create one at all. Monetary fraud brought that on us, to they're probably thinking of social media as "societal fraud" or something ...
No it is not 'literally gambling'. They have a legitimate purpose for risk management.

Ofcourse if you know nothing about risk management, options, or finance in general, you can just use them as a gambling instrument.

Robinhood and others have been irresponsibly pushing options onto clueless individuals.

I'm concerned this will lead to more regulation, taking away this option for us commoners and leaving it to only the 'responsible educated betters' who run hedge funds and such.
Interesting. The water never got warmer than about 100-105 with the device on. Perhaps it was defective.
I'd argue that options trading is worse than gambling. At least the one-armed bandit only gives the house a slight statistical edge.

Option traders - real ones, mind you - are sophisticated armies of statistics PhD's. I suspect their statistical advantage over Robinhood option warriors is probably a lot more than "slight".
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Gene Bylinsky already wrote in the same vein in 1981 in his popular science book 'Life in Darwins Universe'.
You may find some info about it here:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1764276.Life_In_Darwin_s...

So there is something new in Kershenbaums book that wasn't known back then?
Based on my reading of the decision, this doesn't change anything to do with robocalls, as I understand the term: i.e. an unsolicited, automated call where you hear a recording when you pick up.

Those would still be illegal under TCPA, because either the use of "an artificial or prerecorded voice" or "automated dialing system" establishes the illegal action.

This case only deals with the definition of "automated dialing system".
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I've never once experienced this at a dealership.
>Except now, with fractionals, everything can be a "penny stock". The difference is in the volume required to make big price moves.

It's not quite the same thing. You still need to own in lots of 100 to sell contracts. Fractionals are basically just a money making scheme for brokerages taking advantage of naïve retail investors.
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Wow: reading 1GB disk quota reminds me how far we have come: when I was in university we got a base quota of 1 MB (plus additional amounts of varying sizes for each course we were registered for, depending on how much space we were expected to need, but typically totalling less than 5MB).
Because brands have a value. And probably VW doesn't really care that much if some people call them wolkswagen instead of folkswagen (even if they could pronounce the latter).

Also, I don't think FW would look better than VW ;). And well, Toyota didn't change their name to look better in English (or rather, written with the Latin alphabet). At least not according to wikipedia. Quite the contrary, it was about how it was written in Japanse:

"Vehicles were originally sold under the name "Toyoda" (トヨダ), from the family name of the company's founder, Kiichirō Toyoda.

[...]

In September 1936, the company ran a public competition to design a new logo. Of 27,000 entries, the winning entry was the three Japanese katakana letters for "Toyoda" in a circle. However, Rizaburo Toyoda, who had married into the family and was not born with that name, preferred "Toyota" (トヨタ) because it took eight brush strokes (a lucky number) to write in Japanese, was visually simpler (leaving off the diacritic at the end), and with a voiceless consonant instead of a voiced one (voiced consonants are considered to have a "murky" or "muddy" sound compared to voiceless consonants, which are "clear").

Since toyoda literally means "fertile rice paddies", changing the name also prevented the company from being associated with old-fashioned farming. The newly formed word was trademarked and the company was registered in August 1937 as the Toyota Motor Company.[31][32][33]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota#1920s%E2%80%931930s
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I meant the content of the page, which shows running processes on the system.
Kana are not alphabets; they are syllabaries.
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> Of most import, it means that the act does not ban the use of now-dominant predictive dialing technology that can call or text targeted customers

This seems incorrect. "Predictive dialing" sounds like it should meet the definition of a sequential dialer.

This ruling seems a little odd but also I understand why the court ruled the way it did, even if the grounds seem like an excessively tortured reading of the statute. (Like, there was probably an easier way to get this ruling.)
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Yeah, I admit it does use some of those elements. However this is reality. Trying to provide to those less fortunate is a luxury. The idea of creating an equitable society is only possible if the members of that society are ever-learning and hardworking. In our reality people like this are drained from two sides 1) the less fortunate and 2) the greedy. This is pragmatism. The main difference between my views and what you are referencing is that I'm not picking the membership arbitrarily. Competent people HAVE to come first BECAUSE they are needed. You can't drain what you need and give to less fortunate. You can only build your civilization until you can afford to help out others. We are not in that situation currently. Harsh reality cannot be ignored forever.
Same company. Very sleazy under the most recent ownership.
> The experts in baseball for a long time thought baseball should be played a certain way. Bill James starting proposing radically different approaches that were later put into practice by Billy Beane (described in Moneyball) and later by Theo Epstein (who led the front office for the Red Sox and Cubs organizations when they won the World Series the article mentions). The story of baseball over the past 10-15 years has been about ignoring one set of experts as the industry has developed a new set of experts.

The emergence of analytics in sports is an example when the old prevailing thinking was displaced by new and better approaches rooted in data. I think a lot of people struggle with the idea that science or experts can be disproven over time by better science and approaches. Sports is easy because the results are very easy to evaluate. But in other areas it can take a very long time for the results to an approach to be apparent.

Still, the problem being discussed is not that there's a competition of experts and scientific approaches, it's that sophistry and ignorance is being promoted to the same level of experts.

> Another problem with experts I would have like to see this article address is when experts overstep their area of expertise. Experts can tell us facts from their area of expertise, but when we have complicated problems that involve trade-offs from areas outside the expert's area, that can lead to bad decisions.

This is true, and he touched a bit on this with his Vietnam War example.
IMO, still too easily to legislate. I would require at least 3/4ths of both houses for all bills and give governors a 51% veto power.

The US constitution was supposed to limit the power of the federal government. It has failed to do that in a meaningful way.
>it feels like a chore to be driving somewhere

Of course, it's a minivan. Buy a car that handles well and it doesn't feel like a chore anymore.
Positive values are a particular case of signed values, you can still use signed ints to store positive values. No need to enforce your semantics through type, and especially not when the values of the type are trivially particular cases of the values of another type. For example, when you write a function in C that computes prime factors of an int, do you need a type for prime numbers? No, you just use int. The same thing for positive numbers, and for even numbers, and for odd numbers. You can and should do everything with signed integers, except bitfields, of course.
> legislation is practically impossible

To add some color, federal legislation affecting fifty states equally is hard to pass without broad consensus. I agree that was designed in as a feature, not a bug. It means when the nation doesn’t feel in the mood to compromise, the status quo holds more weight. The federal legislature has certainly had no issue passing laws in its time and certainly will continue to do. I think we’re still wrestling with the impacts of social media on politics though, trying to incorporate that dynamic for good or ill.
Financial regulation has many goals. At least two of them are protecting the naive from thinly veiled fraud and mitigating tax evasion. Even if governments had no other objectives I imagine those are enough to produce a lot of regulation.

Tax evasion alone looks like a continuous game of cat and mouse. Where governments are always playing catch up as less ethical legislators slip more loopholes and pork into incomprehensively large budget proposals.
Ever since installing a BIOS with AGESA 1.2.0.0 (and now 1.2.0.1) my machine locks up on multicore loads. It also will lock up while navigating in the BIOS. My original BIOS that supported Zen3 was 1.1.8.0 and I had no problems whatsoever, and I was tinkering with it then far more than now, since the build was new and I was excited for it. The problems started immediately upon the newer BIOS being installed, and they put a read/write lock in the 1.2.0.0 release so I can't flash back.

I normally don't update unless I need to, but they advertised so many fixes that I felt compelled. It's reproducible, I can lock it up immediately upon starting Prime95, and it'll occasionally crash running CBR20. I would hope over time, probably take a year or two, they'll get this sorted out.. but I may just order an i9-10850K and a Z490, and be done with this. I run bone stock UEFI BIOS settings, no PBO or other overclocking.

I run a small business off this machine, and it has to be reliable, performance doesn't matter if you have stability issues.
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You can think of "acting on the world" as resolving questions about the world, like "what happens when I do X"?

You could observe the results of others acting, but it means that the questions you're getting answers to are outside of your control. So if you need to know the answer to a particular question, you either need to test it yourself, or hope that whoever you're watching will test it for you.
Both the article and the paper mention interventions and refer to Pearl’s work, so I think we can assume this is just a matter of poor phrasing and a child’s observations of its own interventions aren’t meant to be excluded.

But for the purposes of machine learning, it seems like it should be possible to learn from observations of someone else’s interventions?
Yes. Also, for a person with the requisite piano tuning/repair skills, a free piano can be a great thing. And this person can identify which free pianos are great things and which are likely to be unsalvageable. For someone who has no clue about pianos, or on how to work on pianos, not so much.

A lot of open source software is intended to be used by developers, or, in other words, by someone who knows what they're doing. Not all, of course. There's plenty of open source stuff out there targeted at end users, or at admin-types, non-developers. Much of it is excellent. (In fact, much of it "runs the internet".) Much is not, or is really in a semi-developed state where it needs to be improved by actual developers.

None of this is anything new. You need to be aware of how "ready for use" the open source project you choose is. By the very nature of how open source works, projects are available "in the wild" when they aren't really ready for general use.
Isn't that what unchecked capital accumulation is too, where trickle down is supposed to protect the little people who would mess things up if they had more decision power (represented by capital)?
Once I realized that The NY Times represents the establishment class, their writings suddenly made sense to me. Heck, they own a skyscraper in one of the most expensive cities in the world. How could they not be the establishment?

Established entities always prefer regulations, as it makes it harder for new competitors to join the market.
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>"They have a legitimate purpose for risk management."

Of course they do. And those little plastic roses they sell in a glass tube at the gas station also have a legitimate purpose. But we all know that's not why they're being sold.

The vast majority of retail options trading is just straight up degenerate gambling. Especially in communities like WSB. And honestly, is there anything wrong with that? It's a much more equitable situation than lottery tickets or a roullette wheel.
> issue involving it and a ruby gem used by Rails

I hadn’t heard of this, I assume you mean https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26566925?
Good analogy. Think Cloudflare (shovels for tech) versus AirBnB (end user facing bet).

Either way it’s a very specific bet. Diversification is your friend.
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I would add from my experience that writing and thinking are not mutually exclusive. I am constantly sketching out thoughts and ideas, which I later come back to and reuse or rewrite. Writing can be used an extension of your working memory.
Long call options 6+ months are a great way to make money if you believe the stock will increase. Especially in growth sectors like cannabis, long calls can make you some significant money.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12611721 (2016)
It is why banks persist despite fintech.

Banks attach almost 3% of fees to a credit card transaction, and some percentage of that is management of fraud of various kinds including "merchant defrauded customer."

It is a core competence of a bank to deploy capital to manage risk and to send lawyers to court to demand payment, etc.

If you paid somebody $1000 in cash you could take somebody to small claims court and maybe you win. Maybe you collect. If you can't collect the worst you can do is put a black mark on that person's credit report.

It's a hassle.

You can dispute the credit with the bank on or with a phone and probably never hear about it again. They might just take the money out of the merchant's account and let the merchant sue if the merchant has a problem.

Some of that money finds its way to the political system to maintain the privilege of the banks to conduct business as they do.

The small merchant feels resentful about fees because they pay them directly. Yet, the merchant is a source of risk in the system and owes something to the banks for insuring it.

A big merchant feels the same way times 10^5; since the Clinton years Wal-Mart has wanted to own a bank so it could self-insure risk. Congress did not allow it and has not allowed it.

If Wal-Mart had been allowed to do so, so would have Amazon and Google and Facebook not to mention mundane retailers and direct-to-consumer brands, etc.
Glad I don't live there, sod that.
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Then why has it taken this long to see a global pandemic? Surely it must matter to some extent how likely any given mutation is to increase transmissibility or resistance.
>Options trading is literally gambling

To the average ignorant trader, sure. Otherwise this statement doesn't hold water. You should really do some research before making such silly uninformed claims.
I've come to accept that there are certain pieces of imagined software that I could not reasonably expect to write myself, regardless of the amount of time given or my own meager brainpower.

As the difficulty of writing a piece of software (or coordinating the components thereof) increases, the tradeoff invariably tips back toward trying to make somebody else's software work.
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If history is any indication, we are still in the early cycle of the current bull run. I think they have delayed their IPO long enough, they were founded in 2012.
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if they're bots, it would only help them to increase the engagement metric.
I looked into it, but the added cost isn't really worth the effort where I live. They have such a narrow effective temperature range that it would hardly see any use as such.
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I'm not actually thinking anything about your comment or the parent comment. But I wanted to share that the characterization of the "elitism of center-left liberal elites" makes my gut reaction to dismiss your comment. The same thing happens with I see something like "right extremist Q" or whatever the vernacular is.

Is there a better, perhaps more clinical, way to more narrowly describe these kinds of groups? Or is that the right way to say it and my own bias is being applied?
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It would be like 1999 again, where a junk company goes public and raises $20+ million, the collapses in 2 to 3 years.
Most of the inquisitors would be using a proper UNIX hadn't been for him, see how far the BSDs have done and how much gets given to upstream.
I don't agree with the parent comment either. But if you're going to critique it, you might as well levy a substantive criticism rather than a driveby dismissal calling it a "logical fallacy"...
My new startup uses machine learning built on Quantum Blockchain technology (patent pending).

I'll take my VC money now, please.
This isn't wrong, but there is a counterargument: bad chases out good.

If you let scams run rampant, eventually the whole ecosystem becomes associated with scams and the good money and good players just leave.

This is the #1 risk to the largely unregulated cryptocurrency ecosystem. Many people already associate anything cryptocurrency with scams, or even equate the two. Legitimate value creating industries and legitimate players tend to avoid the whole space. Many people refuse to even look at cryptocurrency and block chain oriented technology for fear that being linked with the term will make them look "scammy."

A major objective of all this regulation is to retain US dominance in global finance by protecting US markets' reputation as (relatively speaking) solid and safe.

A good analogy is a "bad neighborhood." It takes only a small percentage of residents in a neighborhood committing street crime (far less than 1%) coupled with police neglect to label a neighborhood "high crime" and "bad," a label that will stick for decades and depress the whole area. Once a neighborhood carries such a label it often takes heavy handed police action or a complete tear-down / rebuild of the area to shake it.
Here is another one which relates it to the passing of our solar system throught the galactic plane:
"Sun's Movement Through Milky Way Regularly Sends Comets Hurtling, Coinciding With Mass Life Extinctions", 2008

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080502092145.h...

``The Cardiff team found that we pass through the galactic plane every 35 to 40 million years, increasing the chances of a comet collision tenfold. Evidence from craters on Earth also suggests we suffer more collisions approximately 36 million years. Professor William Napier, of the Cardiff Centre for Astrobiology, said: "It's a beautiful match between what we see on the ground and what is expected from the galactic record."

The periods of comet bombardment also coincide with mass extinctions, such as that of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. Our present position in the galaxy suggests we are now very close to another such period.´´

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Edit:
There are also papers which relates it to passing through spiral arms (different cycle).
Is there something like the PinePhone that is manufactured in a place with substantial political freedom (however you wish to define that)?
If you believe in crypto, you can't go wrong with either one, one advantage of their stock is that you can invest through traditional means.