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The air resistance is at max. I move forward until my knees are bent almost as far as possible, my arms straight, elbows extended and then pull back until my legs are nearly straight, my hands at my chest, my biceps tight and the chain nearly at the limit.

I'll try what you suggest. Maybe all the machines I've used (about 6 of them) at various gyms are mistuned/broken in some way. These machines don't get the best of care in a gym setting.

I didn't say it wasn't a good workout or that it doesn't work me out well; in fact I said the contrary. But it doesn't challenge me in any particular way while it does seem to challenge some apparently healthy persons(i.e., trim, muscular shape, young, etc.).

I've read the machines' instructions, seen others use the machines, live and on videos, and, while rowing is not difficult for me, it does provide variety. But I was wondering why rowing wasn't more difficult.

Contrast with my recent return to swimming: I swam much of my life but left it about 15 years ago for other sports. I'm trying to get back in swim shape and, while my heart has no problems, I badly want more air faster! Rowing is graceful b/c air is readily available. But in swimming you have only a moment each stroke to breathe. And parts of swimming are anaerobic (sprints, first ~10 seconds of a race). So in swimming I see a clear personal limit to extend.
This is a simple tool that lets you search a video semantically with machine learning. For example, try a natural language search query like "a person with sunglasses". You are not only limited to searching with text. You can also search with images (think Google's reverse image search) and also a combined text + image.

The querying is powered by OpenAI’s CLIP neural network for "zero-shot" image classification and the interface was built with Streamlit. Some example search queries: https://twitter.com/chuanenlin/status/1383411082853683208
> If you pay in part in equity (or performance-based bonuses), you can balance that somewhat.

that reminds me of a post i read some time ago...

Basically anon was in the middle of a job interview with this startup. the founder/ceo was willing to pay an important part of the salary in stocks, arguing that the stocks grantet for first year alone would have meant anon would get at least one million dollar.

Anon asks if the boss/ceo would be willing to pay no stock but sign an agreement to just pay out one million dollar in one year. After all, it should be the same amout of money, if not less, since the ceo was talking about "at least one million".

Needless to say, the CEO did not agree.
I don't see how autopilot was involved here. This was a tiny cul de sac (the address is in the article). Autopilot simply won't achieve the kind of speeds needed to cause that collision.

Frankly I agree with other posters here that the most likely scenario is that there was a human driver in the seemingly-undamaged drivers' seat who fled the scene. Absent that, you'd have to play games with launch mode or some kind of device to press the accellerator. You just can't do this with autopilot as I see it.
I think the world is far less sexist, racist and discriminatory than what we hear on the internet. Most people are nice in the world.
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The code does not draw lines between the options that didn't pass the quorum or majority test (drawn in pink), because they are dropped before the Schulze method is used. But it then adds the options again, to show all the options.

When multiple options are in the Schwartz set, the weakest defeats are removed until only 1 option is left in the Schwartz set. I think it only draws the graph after there is only 1 option left. But that didn't happen in this vote.
This is basically just linear algebra.
I can't speak for them but for me it boils down to my perception that I am not at significant risk of complications from having covid. The age-stratified data seemingly supports this view.

On the other hand, it's hard for me to quantify the risks of the vaccines.
AFAIK the only trials were performed by the companies themselves who have less than stellar track records and have no liability exposure. And while mRNA technology has been around for some time, AIUI, it's never been used en masse for vaccination purposes and we aren't really sure what to expect on longer timescales. While I suspect it's probably fine, I don't currently assign a lot of trust to public health officials due to their behavior over the past year. They've reversed their opinions/prescriptions multiple times and have proven themselves to not be above mixing politics with their health advice. It's an unfortunate reality.

My plan is to wait and see how things progress and if we get more data about both the efficacy of the vaccines and possible side-effects from more objective channels.
The whole article is about the political impact of the proposal, but did not discuss the technical details. What the hell is the New IP? How is topdown governance achieved under this new protocol? That is what I want to know. Not sentences like CCP is evil.
The idea that otherwise well-behaving members of society would resort to rape without sex workers is, first, pretty fucked up, but more importantly not backed by any reputable scholarship that I'm aware of.

And plus I mean even if it were true that's not a solution to anything. If some significant portion of the population has an apparently uncontrollable urge to sexual violence (not a worldview I share!) then sacrificing our most vulnerable to them to ensure the safety of the rest of us is not a position I can support.
The John Lewis Partnership[0] in the UK (which owns a chain of department stores[1] and the supermarket chain Waitrose[2]) has more than 80,000 employees and operates like a cooperative.

Technically it's a Public Limited Company (albeit one wholly owned by a trust for the benefit of its employees), but it does run an internal democratic system.

Profits are distributed to employees as bonus, which is a uniform percentage of their salary. 2021 is the first year they won't distribute a bonus (because of Covid), but historically it's been between 5% and 20%.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lewis_Partnership

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lewis_%26_Partners

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waitrose
Trading cards have different qualities and actual scarcity though--X number of one card is made, and X is quite low. Crypto is one of thousands of references to imaginary numbers held in a distributed data structure.
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You should read up on how they conduct votes. Every voter essentially gets a chance to rank every option against every other option. So the number of options should not impact the vote totals.
You can’t kill the oldest profession in the world. It will never happen.

You know what FOSTA/SESTA did? Push it deeper underground.
The goal is to maximize immutability, not minimize energy usage. Energy expenditure is what roots Bitcoin in reality and what protects against changes (you would have to expand even more energy to change).

Other blockchains are relatively easy to mutate and hence not good candidates for the World's reserve currencies.
Kind of like the way standard contracts have been available for many common needs for many decades? Remember, there’s no reason why you can’t have open source contracts now - the challenge is that knowledge of the law is not trivial and liability is a very real concern (want to risk being charged with practicing law without a license?). Adding a separate source of problems might distract from that but it doesn’t make the hard problem go away.
How do these laws affect companies like SquareSpace[1] (companies which provide a site builder and hosting)? If someone builds a site which violates these laws is SquareSpace held responsible? Is it up to SquareSpace to police the content on their customers sites (comments sections, content, etc.)? Or do they have some sort of immunity or contractual immunity from these laws which places the responsibility of content on the end customer/site owner?

[1] I'm using SquareSpace as a placeholder. I think netfliy, wordpress builders and hosts, and other similar companies could also be impacted(?)
Appreciate the thoughtful questions!

1. This is one of my favorite things about the platform we're building. Creators want to encourage their audience to sell their tokens on (almost) any NFT marketplace, because they get royalties(!) whenever their token is sold. This system we're helping to explore along with our token contract researchers :)

2. That's a good question that I don't have a perfect answer for. You could observe the community to see reports of other people using the access token. I suppose it's the same problem that most online markets have anyways (try before buying).

3. This is a complex question. Technically, just like DRM, you can always make a copy of some data. However in practice, you just have to look at the rising market of 'art NFTs' to see that there's a real tangible value to a creator's audience that they are the ones issuing the access.

Hope this helps a little- and let me know if I can further clarify. If you'd like to chat in person about this, send me a DM on twitter: @jadbox
And on this particular issue, FSFE disapproved publicly: https://fsfe.org/news/2021/news-20210324-01.en.html
Sweden bans the purchase, but not the sale of sex because all sex work is exploitative https://archive.is/CsMX4
This.

We haven't had real news reporting in the US in a long time. The family and I watch BBC America for something more akin to news here, as the major "news" orgs in the US, are spittle inflected hyper-partisans. All of them.

This deeply saddens me, but I suppose it was inevitable.
This is a fantastic read in terms of the tech it touches upon, the personal journey, and the products.

> My next job was at Factual, a more established startup that had built their product using Java and embedded Javascript, and were beginning to adopt Clojure. Their product was an index of all the places in the world, generated by applying hundreds of different heuristics to web crawl data. Each entry had a canonical id and various properties like name, address, and hours. More interestingly, it also had the equivalent ids from different platforms like Yelp and Foursquare, and we offered an API that could resolve an an incomplete (or even partially incorrect) set of properties to the corresponding entity in our index.

This sounds amazing like a dream job. So many possibilities. It's hard to face that in a capitalist society capitalism prevails. The best that can be done in the setup is to align capitalist goals with a 'good' one for as long as it lasts.
> I'd really rather this be either something that's totally not understandable by the user (e.g. ?saf=1), or something that is clearly understandable (e.g. ?appshareafact=1).

I guess they decided to go with "totally not understandable."

Also - is this mailing list something that anyone can participate in, or only wikimedia office staff?
Is it just me or is Elixir being talked/written about more in the past couple of months?
> I wonder how much the public vote itself will divide the community and damage relationships.

Participating in a democratic process is an implicit endorsement of it, whatever the final results. It would be very strange for people who have participated in this process to fight after the result. The whole point is to settle an issue.

Now, maybe external actors will use the public votes to harass participants. There's lots of idiots out there. Maybe the full vote results should have been communicated only to the participants.
This is a great response, thanks. I didn't see them as doctors and lawyers but it makes sense. I guess, then their fees should be just hourly or per consultation such as doctors and lawyers? 3% of a million dollar house is $30k!
Thanks for this post. Just turned off all animations on my android phone and you weren't kidding, the difference is pretty incredible.

For anyone who doesn't know, the setting is in developer options on android 9 at least. There's several animation scale settings, they can be increased, decreased or turned off. Turning them all off removed the animations.
The stock market is backed by over a century of use and ownership in a profitable company, so we can at least assume it will trend upward. Bitcoin is backed by the idea that it will be more valuable in the future, we have no idea if a permanent crash will occur.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_fool_theory
The only way legalized sex work can fail to reduce trafficking in sex workers is if there's insufficient background checks on sex workers. I'm familiar with the facts you're citing, and that's the only thing that makes sense. It makes precisely no sense to imagine it's a reason to keep sex work illegal.
It's part of their recent NY settlement:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-23/crypto-ex...

>New York officials, who originally began investigating Bitfinex in 2019, will receive quarterly reports on composition of Tether’s reserves for the next two years. The companies will end all trading activity with New Yorkers.

That starts in about a month
Yep, that about nails it. Your OPEX for closing everything up and running it all yourself is pretty high. Undoubtedly using "the cloud" and lots of OSS stuff (that your company probably doesn't fund or contribute to either) is great for business. Unless the company's pocketbook is affected more and/or some folks at the top lose their jobs over it, I don't see anything changing.
Or look at it this way, 8 billion gives you a lot of buying power if you're going 10x+ long. How much of this market is propped up by these speculators
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Because all of the money and users that you hope use your killer mainstream app have to come from somewhere - a brand new blockchain makes your app that much harder to launch.

In addition, your killer mainstream app may only be useful inside of an existing ecosystem. Ex: Uniswap is pretty useless if you don't have any assets that people want to trade.
Agreed. But are you saying McKinsey is better at that?
That's a great way to ensure diseases spread through sex work due to the legal implications of saying you caught something from a sex worker. It isn't exactly a good way of doing things.
You have to wonder how they use corporate logos in their customer lists. I am sure that there is no meaningful sense in which Google uses Codecov, but their logo is on the codecov marketing site.
It's a politically controversial topic, and preference falsification is a well-documented sociological phenomenon in such circumstances.

If you want to know what people really think without the possibile influence of preference falsification, it needs to be an anonymous poll.
China and the US will never give up monetary policy, it's one of their most powerful economic tools.
S&P500 did about +100% over 5 years. Bitcoin did about +11500% over same 5 years (would have been over +13000% before this crash).
> Did you personally write the legal contract for the last place you were a tenant of without any involvement from a lawyer? No

When I was renting my apartment in Sweden, the contract was literally one page long. It was written in such a simple language that I could understand it even with a rudimentary knowledge of Swedish.

When I was buying my apartment, the contract was four pages long, and the language wasn't much harder.

Now, with an Ethereum contract I would have to learn an esoteric programming language, look at the contract's source code, verify that it actually corresponds to an actual contract that we already agreed to.

And all that even without getting into the question of who's going to enforce this contract, and how.

And don't forget, in many jurisdictions an "IOU $50" written on a napkin is a legally binding contract requiring zero lawyers.
Luck of the draw. :) It's random so you can choose multiple times.
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It's not totally clear to me how you're using some of these words and their meanings can change a lot depending on context.

Like I would consider both the republican and democrat parties to be conservative, in the sense of generally resisting change, and liberal, in the sense of generally believing in market-based solutions to most problems.

The degree to which they're devoted to those things differs, but I think what differentiates them from each other is not their stances on these items.
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There have been many situations like this, including cars reigniting days later. Also a few cases of cars randomly catching fire while parked:
https://www.businessinsider.com/why-tesla-cars-catch-on-fire...
> 2/3+ of voters in Debian supported calling for RMSs removal

2/3+ is overestimate.

About 52% (228/439) preferred one option from 1-4 (anti-RMS) better than neutral options (7-8).

If we ignore winning option 7, then 63% preferred 1-4 to default option 8, while 20% preferred 5-6 (pro-RMS) to option 8.
Bullshit, Facebook was found around 2015-2016 to be draining iPhone batteries with background audio sessions. While they may have gotten more efficient with their methods it wouldn't be surprising if they were still recording audio.

There's a moral hazard that incentivizes any company that can do so to bug user's homes for advertising purposes. IMO it should be illegal.
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That's also the case in several (most?) European countries.
> The hypocrisy of the society is that they don't care if the product they buy was made in a country that don't respect human rights and was probably made by forced labour or children. As long as they don't see the exploitation, then it does not bother them.

I care, but the situation is much like conflict minerals. China is going to be relevant in the supply chain of almost any technological product, or at the very least, the tools that went into making it.

Personally I would pay double for products to avoid China, but I do not believe most people can even afford that trade-off if it was practical (and didn't require heaps of upfront research when buying everything from washing machines to batteries).
Is this context, wouldn’t lean protein be the smarter choice over carbs or fat? It has lower caloric density than fat but doesn’t increase ghrelin like carbs
You sound very intolerant of said "intolerance".
> Please provide a very specific example of something that happens now that a smart contract would fix. I can't think of anything.

They already did, asking again isn't going to get you the answer you want.

You described the renting market as having a high threshold for bias in order to be ineffective. I don't really think this is true, it's quite difficult in most states to go to court to seek damages for rental property. Even the eviction process is not straight forward and requires the participation of both a court and a marshal to serve notice. What smart contracts replace is a lot of the court mechanisms that are low hanging fruit. It takes some stress off of the system, but certainly not all, and that seems like it could be "good enough".
I was confused by the term 'sex worker' used throughout the article. Through context it seems like they simply mean 'prostitute' ... 'sex worker' sounds to me like an umbrella term for anyone working in sex industry.
Is the word 'prostitute' not pc or something?
Just wondering why you’re removing it?
It's probably just coincidence. This week I was only thinking about something and there was an ad about exactly that product on Facebook, like 5 minutes later. I laughed out loud, since it was impossible.

There were two explanations:

- they are stealing my thoughts with 5G.

- random things are random and I don't remember 99% of the ads where I couldn't correlate them to other events.

(yes, there's a middle ground somewhere that they know the subjects that I'm interested in and sometimes someone throws a bullseye)
Ah yes. The tired old "3rd world countries".

Even in 3rd world countries you will need someone to understand programming and contracts to verify that the smart contract actually implements what you've agreed on.

So you're replacing "government agents installed through corruption" with "saints beyond reproach because smart contracts"?
Indian elites have evolved over the millennia so categorizing them as forever being Anglo Saxon vessels seems to be both improbable and a useless assertion to make.
Of course, you can always do better. And it is good to try to improve. But it sounds like some unreasonable expectations are sneaking into your thoughts. Like it or not, you are only human :)

For me, meditation and practicing self-compassion helped with stuff like this.
ANY bonus card is basically paying you to be tracked.

It’s the core mechanic.

Even here in privacy conscious Germany the largest bonus card, payback Punkte, is simply giving you a 1% back just to get you to log your own purchase.

Why else would they do it? Because they like you?
How is it negligence? Are the parents not negligent for letting their kids play with dangerous equipment?

I thought young child and big machine was a no brainer
Once in my live I would love to work at a tech driven company.
Other blockchains using proof-of-stake over proof-of-work are not ‘relatively easy to mutate’ for any definition of easy. Can you point a single occurrence of this happening on a top 30 market cap PoS crypto, such as Cardano, Tezos, or Algorand?
I fail to see how any of this is intolerant, or transphobic. You might not like these opinions. Or disagree that there is good reasoning behind some of this. This does not make the one you are disagreeing with intolerant.
sounds like a false dichotomy to make a naive point. define two extremes, label them bad, and label the middle good.

i'd note that it's hard to go wrong delivering value to the customer first ("product-led"), then trying to capture some of that value for yourself later, because the key to the whole system is that there is some new value created that can be shared. the main danger is not being capitalized enough to eventually capture some of the value and sustain the business.

sales-led tries to capture the value first, then deliver (some of) it to the customer, which can create misaligned incentives and a potentially antagonistic relationship, as it's hard to predict (and agree on) value in the future, and it's tempting to cheap out on the delivery.

but importantly, both can work depending on the market dynamics. it's not strictly an either-or situation, which is the domain of the false dichotomy.
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Nope it isn't! I bet the manual warns ya it's for adult use only
This.

Worse is watching otherwise intelligent friends parrot the crap you see coming out of the propaganda arms of each party or party faction.

They accept what they hear uncritically, as it feeds into their own beliefs (confirmation bias), without questioning the basis/interpretation.

I've found for me, the lowest anxiety manner in which to consume news, is generally, to not consume it. In most cases, news in the US is propaganda (left, right, doesn't matter). It is a set of partial observations passed through ideological filters and summarized according to the desires of the presenters. There are no US based "news" organizations that do not have stakes in the outcome of their blather.
If so the investigators on the scene are wrong, from the article:

“Herman said authorities believe no one else was in the car and that it burst into flames immediately. He said it he believes it wasn’t being driven by a human.
Harris County Constable Precinct 4 deputies said the vehicle was traveling at a high speed when it failed to negotiate a cul-de-sac turn, ran off the road and hit the tree.”
Instead of framing this as a free speech issue, maybe the US should get its act together and make clear what its stance on pornography and sex work is in general.
I may be misinterpreting or misapplying how they do a "passes majority" check, which seems to indicate 222 for and 166 against for option two.

So it might be more correct to say ~3/5s?