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With the billions amazon and apple sell you think they would be automating their warehouses more. Ie, pick steps at least - particularly given the description of Amazon warehouses as "hell holes" relative to other warehouse and physical labor jobs (small owner run construction / warehouse / autobody can also have horrendous discrimination / harassment etc stuff, but perhaps better than the amazon alternative?).

I've seen restaurant owners hire folks to hit on them in particular. Maybe an industry thing? Music / film ideally doesn't have that issue but less exposure to that world.
It's a huge improvement over where we were. I remember being told that picking fruit at all was very hard/impossible for robots even in a lab.
British regulator cites 41 more blood clot reports following AstraZeneca shots
To add some stats. In Au and NZ we had a big drop in flu cases https://info.flutracking.net/reports-2/new-zealand-reports/

Not sure what that did to the death rate.
Em yes!

"The European Parliament has voted in favour of an amendment (no.171) which would place further restrictions on the use of dairy food labels for plant-based products. The use of dairy terms, such as "cheese", "yoghurt" and "milk", for non-dairy products is already banned within the EU, following a decision by the CJEU in 2017, however, under the new amendment, these restrictions would go one step further by also prohibiting terms that liken plant-based products to dairy, eg "yoghurt-style", "butter alternative" or "cheese substitute"."[0]

0. https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=588638a6-879c...
Decreasing levels of antibodies for example, which makes re-infections more likely for endemic diseases like colds/flus.
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> even people spending their own money on their own housing often can't define their own parameters

I can't believe I'm spelling this out. A person picking out their ideal home has trouble figuring out exactly what they want. Ok. We all don't ever know exactly what we want. It's the human condition. But I don't want to live in grinding poverty. I don't need to look within to figure that one out.

I don't want my home to be dilapidated, overcrowded, full of pests and toxins, or to not exist.

If you're still pretending to have a hard time with the definition of "decent," consult a dictionary.

This line of argument is absurd word chopping. "Oh my, I could never in good conscience try to lock down a subtle word like 'decent' into a singular meaning, guess drivers will have to stay earning a sub-living wage forever. Sorry! Definitions are hard!"

No.
I'm not a professional airplane designer so bear with me. This is drawn from my reading of the textbook "Aircraft Design: A Conceptual Approach" by Daniel Raymer.

The challenge is you want something that can linger and pick at targets on the ground with ease. This necessitates a low stall speed, requiring the use of a straight wing. The aerodynamic characteristics of anything resembling supercruise demand a swept wing, which would destroy the "lingering" aspect. So you can't get a good CAS with an airframe that works well for a fighter role.

The gun on the A-10 is useful for strafing runs against infantry, not just concentrated fires against MBTs. To do that, you need a substantial round + LOTS of ammo. The F-35 just doesn't have enough internal storage capacity to service this need. So you've got to keep the gun. It also has barely any external mounting capability for bombs, rockets, and missiles.

So, I'd say it would be something that looks a whole lot like an A-10 but with CAD assisted fuselage shape changes to minimize RCS + new materials + new avionics.

I have no idea how to mitigate MANPADs as I'm unaware of what they use for targeting solutions. The distinct twin-tail on the A-10 was picked to provide a shroud for heat emissions from the engines (c.f. Raymer) to mitigate those types of attacks but I imagine that near peers have increased their capabilities.
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Vegan cheese is junk food. When you bake it into mac & cheese or melt it on a hamburger it does a great job. When you want to actually enjoy some cheese it's not even close to equivalent.

It also has approximately zero nutritional value, although the nut-based cheeses I guess have some fat and protein.

It's not really meant for regular people to enjoy. It's meant for vegans, people with dairy allergies, and other people can't or won't eat cheese to have the ability to enjoy the memory and suggestion of cheese.

I personally am very very deeply grateful for the existence and excellence of Daiya in providing me with a melty cheese-like food product that reminds me enough of real cheese that I can have fun eating it. But I'm not about to suggest that vegan cheese is and equivalent for real cheese made of milk from a cow, goat, sheep, etc. It's a substitute.

It's like Impossible meat. Yes, it makes a good burger, but you aren't going to get an Impossible Steak any time soon, and no it doesn't really taste like beef. It's still just chunks of soy protein (and it sits in your stomach the way you'd expect chunks of soy protein to sit).
Ha. Even the current packaging isn't that hot.

Leave it to Wal-Mart to screw that up. I bet they were so focused on sticking to the "Great Value" graphic design manual that they ended up deciding that clearly conveying all the critical information on the label would have ruined their branding consistency.

For what it's worth, I can tell just by the ingredients label that that stuff is gross. Potato starch, coconut oil, and some unspecified "natural flavor" that's somehow more than 2% of the ingredient bill? No thanks.
What kind of education?
C# / UWP / Visual Studio 2019 + Resharper

- Compile time sucks big time (that's related to WinRT/UWP).
- I really need it to be 64bit, to handle large projects. Apparently, it will happen on Visual Studio 2022, which is awesome news!
> Why should we assume that poverty would be the normal condition of man today?

Because if it wasn't for a complex network of trading & specialization, we would be in poverty. That network uses trade & profits to organize itself. Those machines and computers you cite are created and maintained by people who are seeking to make themselves wealthy. None of this is a given.
Free trade and specialization is what gives us the abundance we have today. Your average North Korean or Venezuelan standard of living is what you would observe if you forced people away from free trade & specialization.

I don't think people appreciate how delicate supply chains are, or how much starving and poverty would happen if trade was disrupted.
human workers don't work 24x7.
If your concern is the ability to get jobs, I can see the point of that question. Keep in mind (I think) that it's increasingly difficult to pull off a full career of any kind of programming.

One thing that happened in embedded, and bear in mind that it ain't just low-end microcontroller stuff, is that it tends to be tightly bound to hardware. Hardware tends to be built in Asia (which I remember ramping up in the mid 1980's). Successful/higher volume products tend to be built in Asia. Engineering tends to follow manufacturing over time.

For fun, it's hard to beat specialty companies that build complicated gizmos with software in some sort of sexy business, but they are hard gigs to track down.
How long before Uber starts assigning mandatory job hours (as inconveniently as necessary to suit their needs) for drivers who have not opted out of employee status? I'd guess a maximum of two sprints.
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Yep, you do have to download the DB on every deploy. It's negligible for my deploys because my database is a few MB, but if it got to be in the GB range, I'd have to find some way around that.
Living in a metropolitan area in Germany I can attest, that this isn't an American phenomena. I think it is a human (or at least "civilized" human) phenomena.

My SO has a very strong emetophobia and she is very, very clear to not touch any food without having washed her hands very good. Even at home. I learned a lot from her and have not been sick for ages. I also don't eat out in flu season. I just don't. I worked in gastronomy during my time at university. I know why I (at least in flu season) just don't eat out. as long as people need to earn money and don't get sick pay, people go to work when sick. At least I did during financially desparate times. So I don't blame the people doing it at all - I just don't buy food from them.
> that you're arrogantly presuming that everyone

Gp didn't claim that. You're putting words in their mouth and lashing out for things they never said.

A reasonable interpretation of their claims is that even if not everyone can hole up, government policies that are intense encourage everyone to hole up as much as they can.

It's also worth mentioning that many, many working class people did not enjoy the fact that they had to take on risk in order to survive. Pretending everything is fine simply offloads even more risk onto those people.
You can do a LOT. I haven't been sick once in 6+ years because I do the following:

1) Almost never eat out. Home cooked meals that I've prepped / washed. This was single handedly the biggest factor that completely removed "getting sick" from my life.

2) Hand wash before touching face, or food.

3) Avoid sick people. If I hear someone coughing or sneezing, I move away from them. Call me a germ freak, I don't care, I've had 0 sick days in 6+ years since I started taking these simple precautions.

You don't even need to social distance... just avoid people if they're sick. SOME of this is impossible (on an air plane for example). Turns out, I very rarely travel so have likely just gotten lucky avoiding the dip shits that fly while sick.
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Presumably you need to pay every time you want to update where the domain points, no?

https://docs.unstoppabledomains.com/domain-registry-essentia...

From the docs it seems like you can "hardcode" IPs or...a traditional dns cname.

At $40/domain, if you update your DNS records once every two years, you're really only just breaking even.

Also, from the FAQ:

> Trademark holders with proof of ownership can apply to claim ownership of trademarked names. If a trademark name has already been sold, then it will be refunded. Note - this process ends once domains have been distributed. Unstoppable Domains does not have the ability to move a domain once distribution has occurred.

Seems like a less-than-agreeable policy for most folks. Unless you're a scalper.
I think GP meant forward compatibility. New code will use new features and won't compile on old compilers (like other languages)
Yes, there are many definitions of fair.

One is 'ability to pay': https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/ability-to-pay-taxation...

> One idea behind "ability to pay" is that those who have enjoyed success should be willing to give back a little more to the society that helped make that success possible.

The idea of 'ability to pay' rubs some people the wrong way. On its face, some view it is "take more from the rich" without any underlying principle, much less any notion of fairness.

However, there is an underling principle that (imperfectly) justifies ability-to-pay taxation. It goes like this:

1. People profit from society unequally

2. This profit is often largely to rule of law and societal spending (i.e. public education, infrastructure, etc)

3. Therefore, tax the people who reap the benefits at a higher rate

To be fair, a moral philosopher should be prepared to defend why a higher rate is warranted -- as opposed to simply a higher total amount. I'm going to skip this aspect for now.

There are many ways to implement a tax based on whatever fairness criteria you choose. For example:

> Most taxes can be divided into three buckets: taxes on what you earn, taxes on what you buy, and taxes on what you own.

https://taxfoundation.org/the-three-basic-tax-types/

I'd like to see more public debate about asset versus income taxes -- however; tracking assets tends to be viewed as more difficult than tracking income.

Also, one could add 'taxes based on what you do' ... but these are often called 'fees'; e.g. driver license fees.
Note that the The China Study book a few years ago (and its accompanying cookbooks) brought some people to adopt a solely plant-based diet, but without necessarily referring to themselves as "vegans". Of course, people following such movements may still be a minority of all plant-based-diet eaters, but they are out there if you search beyond fora calling themselves specifically vegan fora.
Weren't delivery and taxis mostly (or at least a major portion) contractors before this as well? And can't uber drivers use the car they want as long as it meets some criteria?
>I’m not saying it’s all terrible

I'll say it then - it's all terrible. There's so many great vegan foods out there, fake cheese is not one of them.
Categories aren't just graphs; they have additional properties, the most important of which is composition (ex. function composition). They can also be thought of as a type algebra, like groups or rings, but again with different properties.

Edit: these extra properties allow you to reason about a wide class of problems when they're represented as categories, not just round trip them from unencoded to encoded to unencoded. For example, Pijul uses a category of patches to model file patching and prove certain properties of the version control system.
We already see this on PCs with competing game distributors (Steam, Origin, Epic) - we'd see the same on iOS too.
Electricity can come from whatever source you need. You're not tied to a specific fuel with batteries like you are with an ICE or would be with the alcohol/generator system you proposed. You can charge a Tesla off of an alcohol generator and have it drive the same as if you charged it with a diesel or petrol generator. The same can't be said about alcohol- or petrol-powered vehicles.

Global catastrophe blocks out the sun? Fine, charge off nuclear. Nuclear generators destroyed by war or terrorism? Just use wind. The flexibility is what makes electric cars superior, and being able to store energy is what makes intermittent renewables like solar and wind viable when it's not sunny or windy outside.

Most importantly, in a perfect world you'd only have to make the battery once. Some means of recycling dendrite-ridden lithium back into usable material would go an exceptionally long way as well.

We gotta store excess power somewhere, though.
The Forbes assertions are trivially confirmed.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15325026/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18434036/

Studies demonstrating mask efficacy are just as easily Googleable.

You might not want to be throwing around "trash publication" slams here, given your cite.
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It is actually a problem with the language as well because it is still missing a lot of important things, so releases actually change your productivity and you use the shiny new features because they solve real pains. And this is far from over because there's still a lot of pain in rust development and a lot in the work to fix it. The same could have been said about JS/typescript where so many things were annoying that people rushed to use the new features. This is getting a bit calmer now because the new annual features are less life changing.

Eventually maybe in 5 years Rust will have it's major pains solved and things slow down a bit. Maybe then the release schedule will actually change as well? Who knows
> Why wouldn't her employer let her opt out of insurance?

Is this... a thing? I've never had that option in any of my jobs. Sure, I can choose not to take the employee sponsored health insurance, but then I'm just opting out of my share of the monthly premiums the company would deduct. But in general, a company pays more than that. I've never been able to opt out of company insurance and recover their share of the premiums! I assumed that wasn't legal for them to offer.

Oh, and to be explicit about the connection: that's why an independent contractor would be paid more. If an employee's wage is $x, a company generally pays something like $(2x), and so an independent contractor would expect to be paid something closer to 2x than x. (Usually because they* then have to pay certain taxes, and worry about their own benefits, etc.)
You asked for examples and so I gave them to you, and then you dismissed the first because you didn't like it and then completely ignored the other two.

I'm discussing this in good faith and am assuming you are too. Please update your reply or erase it. Thanks!
Most employers aren't going to pay you more for opting out of insurance. Many employers would try to keep your hours low so they don't have to offer you insurance.

"When you say it like that, you are describing an employee not an independent contractor."

This doesn't make sense to me. She has more autonomy than an employee would. They give her that level of autonomy by not making her an employee. She does not get a W2.

"But your layer comment, about setting her own rates, makes me think that she is working as an actual freelancer, not as a gig employee."

There's a lot of overlap between those terms, except replace employee with worker. I would say she's a freelance gig worker. Freelance tends to mean that you are just independent. You can work on an individual project for a company and move on, but it's usually larger pieces of work. As a gig worker, I see it as being more of a repetitive task for various customers. You can be a freelance driver and work for both uber and Lyft, or even uber and a taxi company. The gig part is that they are always individual tasks you get paid for - each ride. This is very similar to what she is doing.

So I see gig workers as freelancers, but not all freelancers are gig workers.
One, at this time - https://cinematicstudio.app

When I used to also work as a contractor, I usually juggled 6-7 at a time. Not that funny, but it was a must.
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I am still pretty new to Rust (about a year of usage), but I think there are ways to have this "forward compatibility" problem be a less significant impact in real world usage, though.

Node.js went through similar rapid development of the runtime as Rust is with the compiler. Node's package.json includes an "engine" field to indicate which runtimes are supported from which version, so NPM could immediately tell you if you were trying to use a library for a newer Node version than you have installed, and could automatically downgrade to an older version that still supported your Node version, if one existed.

That eliminates much of the pain of using libraries by others that are sticking to the latest release of the language.

But it also encouraged library authors to try to push that supported version number down as far as they could, because that would juice adoption of their library in the wild, further making forward compatibility less of an issue. (This isn't exactly apples to apples since most of the advances in Javascript the past decade have been syntactic sugar, not new powerful features, and there is a hard split on async/await versus callbacks as that was more of a feature than just sugar.)

In Rust, if libraries could broadcast their minimum Rust version in their crates, and treated changing that as a breaking change (major version bump), and were open to backporting features onto prior majors (for the bigger, important libraries), there can be a rolling drop-off of older versions of Rust instead of hard, unpredictable dropoffs.
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Priority Pass is great internationally. In the US, the lounge access is usually fairly mediocre, but the airport restaurant access they have at some airports is great - up to $56 credit for food and drink each visit if you're there with another person (e.g. https://www.prioritypass.com/en/lounges/usa/los-angeles-ca-l...). It's been a while since I've last been on a plane thanks to the pandemic, but I was generally getting a few hundred dollars worth of value from the restaurant access alone each year.
> you're treating this like a generalized business pitch, when it's a specialized hardware project someone did for their own grandmother, and gave it a cute name based on their language.

Ok, fair enough, I accept your argument.
Unless of course you look at the city level, where different policies and different levels of compliance correlate quite clearly with cases: look at San Francisco or San Jose compared to Miami or Los Angeles.
It's because you're thinking "it does X! it's not ambiguous!" but still missing that the question is over why it SHOULD do X instead of Y, not over whether it does X or Y. To a user, it sure as heck doesn't make sense to fork a process and still end up with one window for both of them. For lots of processes the process is its windows as far as the user is concerned.
Robots don't need VISAs, either.
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I literally explained that healthcare should be separated from corporations and that people are missing options to choose from in the first place. Hospital overcrowding is an entirely different issue. Did you reply just to argue?

And yes, I do want to choose my healthcare. I want to select the plan that best fits my needs. If you want a larger simpler plan that covers everything then you can choose that.

Me having choice does not take away from you, it only provides more for both of us.
It's not a "shift in policy". It's what US labor law says. It just hasn't been enforced properly.
This comment seems to contain a non-sequitur; you argue in favor of one thing, then make a tangentially related assertion (that Uber drivers are employees) with no argument in its favor.
Maybe in the Facebook app, but not necessarily in the Facebook SDK which is integrated by other apps for ads/auth/analytics.
Define advertising purpose. Rust affiliated organizations are advertising (for example conferences are being advertised).

Is only serving ads or also using ads not allowed?

Given that almost every single company in the world is using advertising then it becomes a hobbyist tool.

With serving - how about if I have a page/app that includes ads served by third party (like most of the world does). Does it make it also off limits?

Statements like that sound pretty cool, but ignore real world complexity.
Yes! Hope it stays that way for a long time. The continued popularity of Python is probably good for this. Mostly only the right people move on from Python to Julia.
1% mask usage in Sweden and we also have extremely low flu numbers.
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That is correct. I'm talking about Taiwan defending itself. US air would come from Okinawa, Guam, and aircraft carriers parked outside China's hypersonic missile defense range (which, BTW, can travel that far only if they have a firing solution, which at such distances will be difficult to establish).
That advice was intentionally deceptive. It was based on not having a mass run on PPE needed by healthcare workers, not medical science or safety.

It also likely led to more deaths due to the revelation that it was a lie, and people treating any further advice (which was actually medically sound) with the same kind of cynical skepticism used for liars. Rejection of masks wasn't much of a thing before this happened.
Yup. ESPECIALLY once you start considering the 3rd world. That's the entire reason Andorid started to surpass IOS in marketshare years back; because android had very low cost of entry devices into its ecosystem. For that kind of environment, they may treat their 4" phone the same way my family treated the AOL-age family computer (including arguments over visiting a website vs. needing to make a call. good times).