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Some of the richest people in the world do no work at all. Their parents give them an immense fortune, which is moved around by employees in such a way that earns in a day what most people get in a year. They consume to their heart's content, without ever having to actually work. Breed, die, repeat.
> UB

Undefined behavior? As in, you can confine it to `unsafe`?
I didn't mean to misrepresent the Catholic Church's position.

I have no idea if that helps the poster's parents decide to get vaccinated, but it's very clear that the Pope wants them to take the J&J shot if they don't have an alternative. And they currently don't have one they will accept.

None of the other vaccines are available to the poster's parents (held up mRNA technology fear, even though they are available via distribution), so the Church's logic should still hold
> Why do we pay so little for water, when it's so essential?

Because the government says water has to be cheap? There are quite a lot of places in the world where water is not cheap, but where I live there are laws that govern how much it can be sold for.

There are certain things that people will pay literally anything for, such as water, food, healthcare etc because they'll die otherwise. Usually the government will step in and set a maximum price for these things to try and make sure people don't die because overall that's bad for the economy.

No one's going to die from a dirty toilet though

> Why do we pay so much for diamonds, when it's basically useless cept for being shiny?

I read a really interesting article about the "diamonds are a girl's best friend" advertising campaign but I can't find it now. The summary is "because the people that own the diamond mines say they're worth it and everyone just goes along with the lie because it makes them feel nice"
True, but there is significant pressure to have a LinkedIn profile and fill it out completely. Employers and recruiters might prefer prospects that have a profile picture.
You seem like someone who could write the blog post I'm looking for.
Is anyone using dot and/or graphviz in earnest for something like this?
Studying science isn’t what makes students less religious
Having used Visio and Diagrams.net, Visio really is the least productive one. Constantly fighting with the unpleasantness of applying little tweaks made it my 3rd choice. 1) Diagrams.net 2) PlantUML 3) Visio
I have a citation[0] that disagrees with your characterization, suggesting (the obvious) that while it may technically be possible for humans to live in harsh environments, they tend not to, they tend to live in a small subset of all places, and climate change will move those places everywhere, even in the first world.

"We show that for thousands of years, humans have concentrated in a surprisingly narrow subset of Earth’s available climates, characterized by mean annual temperatures around ∼13 °C. This distribution likely reflects a human temperature niche related to fundamental constraints. We demonstrate that depending on scenarios of population growth and warming, over the coming 50 y, 1 to 3 billion people are projected to be left outside the climate conditions that have served humanity well over the past 6,000 y."

Unless you are cheating by saying 'first world' without noting that the places constituting the first world will likely migrate rapidly in the coming century.

[0] https://www.pnas.org/content/117/21/11350
Well, titles are hard.

All of those things are possible in Rust. But they're not easy or approachable.
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WSL1 only has to reimplement the Linux syscalls. Wine has to reimplement the entire Windows API.
Outside of nuclear reactions, elements are not created or destroyed.

What happens in old batteries is the physical structure of the lithium metal is damaged so it does not function as well as a battery, but you can separate out the lithium from the old battery, melt it down and reform it into a new battery (or whatever else you want to do with lithium.)
They can certainly do it for any "ASIC resistant" coin
> Note that we don't have minimum wage here

I'm curious how your UBI actually does compare to someone working a low paid job. For instance, what's the UBI payment per week vs how much would someone working in retail for 40 hours?
20 years is far too short.

The introduction of UBI divides society into the "pleasantry", who live modestly on the UBI, and the "workers" who aspire to a higher standard of living, study to get qualifications, and then work. Take home pay has to be high to get people to work at all, taxes have to be high to fund the UBI, therefore gross pay has to be very high. Let us assume major advances in automation, so that the sums work out.

In the next generation there is a class divide. Children of workers get brought up with a set of expectations about studying in school, getting qualifications, and working twenty hours a week at a very highly paid job (perhaps repairing broken down automated systems - endless one-off jobs that are ill suited to modern statistical artificial intelligence). Children of the pleasantry grow up with a different set of expectations around being thrifty and enjoying simple pleasures (simple is perhaps a euphemism for cheap, but there is also an aspect of living a gently paced life that passes copious spare time enjoyably).

I anticipate a two-way flow. Some of the children of the workers struggle academically and see no prospect of ever learning to trouble shoot a broken down robot. They give up and grow up to be members of the pleasantry. Other children of the workers just think that the pleasantry have the better deal and drop out of the working class. Meanwhile there is traffic the other way, as children of the pleasantry query why other children have expensive toys. The adult world is explained to them: the children with expensive toys are the children of workers. And so some children of the pleasantry learn to aspire to more, to study, work, and have luxuries.

The key issue is the numbers. If 50% of the children of the workers join the pleasantry and 10% of the children of the pleasantry join the workers, then the working class will shrink and the pleasantry grow.

For example, maybe the first generation sees an even split, 50% workers, 50% pleasantry. The proportion of workers falls to 30%, then 22% then 19%,..., solving for the equilibrium, we only have 17% workers, even though the 20 year trial had the proportion of workers holding up reasonably well, above 30%.
The OP wrote it as if it were that, but the refugee bombing was done by Israel, so I think they were pointing out how Israel is just attacking soft targets
> In C++ you (usually) do this with `const`, which is fairly low friction, very statically analyzable, and I'm a little unclear what bug hardcore borrow-checker static stops me or my colleagues from making that `const` can't catch?

Rust catches the bug where you forget to use `const`, because the C++ compiler doesn't force you to use it. Your argument boils down to "I don't need Rust's borrow checker, I just have to remember to use a dozen tricks, follow various patterns and guidelines, run several static analyzers and runtime checks, and I'm almost there".

This is not meant as an attack against you. I used to program in C++, and I'm mostly using Rust now. The borrow checker frees up those brain resources which had to keep all those tricks, patterns, and guidelines in mind.
Sorry I down voted you by accident. Meant to up vote.
I must say that I dislike TikTok with passion - but this one was actually very creative and funny.
That is false. Wages have increased significantly per the chart for median real weekly earnings from the fed. Real means it has been adjusted for inflation and median is the middle wages. Median is better than average because it accounts for uneven distribution of wealth that you claimed is occurring.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q
Can you give an example of noisy syntax? Is it in relation to the type system?

I'm writing Nim every day recently; I haven't experienced it being noisy, but I also don't have extensive or recent experience with Python.
When they tried a much smaller version of that in Australia, it went very poorly for them - I doubt they will attempt a similar maneuver anytime soon.

https://www.ft.com/content/cac1ff54-b976-4ae4-b810-46c29ab26...
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The "myth" of spiritual decay? That seems rather dismissive both of his perspective as an outsider looking in and of the general observations of those Americans who somehow have preserved or gained some measure of perspective. This is not an unusual or even original analysis of where we are. Tell a fish he's swimming in water and he'll ask you "what's water?", so I am not surprised that some might not understand. But the culture is truly stupid.
Works for alcohol too; keyword "butt chug". Can result in alcohol poisoning if you dose too much.
> older examples of these blatantly false theories from other eras

The Salem Witch Trials comes to mind
DNS shouldn't be responsible for this.

Also, why can't we just have new.docs.google instead?

There should be a web API that lets you register typing-based shortcuts.
The vast majority of current lithium supply comes from hard rock mining, not brines. Brines were about half of lithium supply ten years ago but as the industry took off the amount of hard rock mining in Australia has radically expanded (by 500%).

An EV battery pack does not contain a spectacularly high concentration of lithium. A state-of-the-art battery pack might by 2% lithium. That's higher than subsurface brines, but not miraculously high. Brine mining also throws off lots of valuable products other than lithium. You can get potash, boron, magnesium, and other valuable ores from the same brine, so it can be hard for recycling to compete economically.
Missed my chance to grab the first "production" PineTimes, glad to see another batch is coming soon. It really feels like the ecosystem they're building is starting to come together at this point.
No, I'm disagreeing, you know.

What "dumb regulations" are you referring to specifically?

Tons of things aren't profitable even with zero regulations. That's my entire point -- not profitable even before any regulations.

Though regulations also exist for some pretty important reasons -- like prohibiting cheap child labor, requiring worker safety protections, etc.
Static typing aside, I don't find it any more verbose (noisy) than Python. In fact I find it strikes a perfect balance.
Fighting with the borrow checker is just a phase you have to get through, it will click. The need to write anything that can't be done without unsafety is rare (probably never unless you are writing a data structure library).
How can you justify blowing up a building as a war target, if you're going to tell everyone to evacuate; what was that supposed to accomplish? They say there were targets in there, but if you told them to leave....what?? It is disgusting our country is blindly supporting this
We're solving the wrong thing here. We should be going directly to the source: The mis-behaving (for whatever reason) IP and the ISP that owns it. We should be fostering an ecosystem that solves that problem, not one that results in a CloudFlare popping up. Which proverbially just throws spaghetti (money, technical-expertise and infrastructure) at the problem, and then using that accumulated power to shape (or manipulate) the web to its liking, and to kick-off anyone it doesn't like off it, of course.
It's missing one of the biggest improvements: HTTP2 Push. It saves a lot of back and forth.

You can also limit how many variants you use. On my website, I dont have bold + italic text, to avoid loading a font. My secondary font is only loaded in one variant.

I also realised small performance gains by inlining my CSS (although HTTP2 Push negates the benefits). This only makes sense for smaller stylesheets though.

Even then, fonts are one of the last performance bottlenecks on my tiny and fast website. That's only visible on absurdly slow connections.
The NHS isn't incompetent, at least here in Wales. It has however been hobbled by years of cuts and lack of investment by successive conservative governments in England. Here the government continue to invest in it and everyone I know receives great care. In that regard, yes maybe you should move to Wales, it's pretty nice here, and the NHS was a Welsh invention in the first place.

In reference to taxes, the English, frankly, owe the Welsh reparation. Hundreds of years of oppression and exploitation of the people and landscape of Wales, and they are repaid by killing entire industries and throwing a nation into poverty. Villages removed to flood valleys for English drinking water. Children beaten when they spoke Welsh. UBI might help repair some of the lasting damage that has been inflicted upon them. Or it might not. But they deserve the right to try.
Do you have examples of what you mean with unnecessarily noise?
For me it's the JSON operators. `@[]` for sequences could also be a thing, but it's really minor(for me).
There's a big difference between "don't have an alternative" and "don't have one they will accept." I don't think the Church means that it's okay to take J&J just because you don't like the others.
The housing market could use some regulation.

Against price fixing and other anti-competitive practices.

Against using housing as investments, generally.

Against free money for homeowners but not renters.

Against redlining.
Denite resolves Unite's problems. https://github.com/Shougo/denite.nvim
What's there to hate? The company behind it, said company's past conduct, and the links it's got to CCP.
The predictions from the 2000 decade using the major models was so far off the mark, as a layperson (who is not working for the oil and gas industries, by the way), why should I take these new predictions at face value?

Bluntly, I think it is high time we take a deeper look at the funding behind this body of research and identify any financial conflicts of interest, both in terms of grant money given to academics, and entities and individuals who would benefit from a global carbon tax.

Does anyone else follow suspicious0bservers.org? It’s a great resource for alternative views around climate change.
It just cements the idea among consumers that there is only one service, where they can't even name one alternative.
P value less than 0.05
The main issue with such a test is that it doesn't test the effect on those who would be footing the higher tax bill.
> Colonial says it has strengthened data-loss-prevention defenses with three different software tools that provide alerts when data leaves the network.

So they hired a consultant to produce a report. Then they purchased enterprise software. In my experience, this will not lead to a good outcome.

Ideally, it shouldn't be the case that Colonial needs to have information security expertise on staff, just like ideally, they shouldn't need to have physical security expertise on staff.

But in the real world, that obviously isn't the case. In 2021, every company is a tech company, and information security isn't something you can outsource. I wish that weren't the case and that we did a better job building software and designing systems to be secure by default. But we're nowhere close to that world.
The package management point is completely on point. CMake blows and mixing in autotools makes it worse.

I think I consider the need to run under ASAN in a configuration that gets code coverage a feature rather than a bug. It's stupid monkey-brain stuff, but the forcing function of needing to be able to drive your critical path at will in my experience leads to better outcomes.
Indeed! Fecal transplants are fascinating in their results too.
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I think that yes some people would work if they got to keep their UBI but there’d a considerable amount who would be okay to scrape by and do nothing or work part time instead of full time. If I understood my high school cohort, this is okay but it’s an unproductive part of society. Some people are just not motivated.
I actually have an approach here: ASCII diagrams, so i can embed them in code or a README.

It keeps things simple - you can't have a super complex ASCII diagram; even crossing lines look terrible - and there's at least a fighting chance that when someone changes the code they will at least notice the diagram is out of date.

To prevent insanity, I use a tool to help draw them: Monodraw in my case.
> If Lithium is chemically changed what prevents it being chemically changed back?

Thermodynamics. It is also tremendously difficult to get your gasoline back after you burned it, or to un-cook an egg.

It is not difficult to recover lithium from a battery, but in general do not assume that physical processes are easily reversed.
> The problem is that that doesn't actually mean "chiropractors are useless"

That's true. A blind pig does find an acorn from time to time. :)

Look, you found a chiro that basically did physiotherapy for you for a problem you were experiencing. Great! I'm glad it worked out!

But that doesn't change the fact that the profession at large is 1) founded on a fundamentally pseudo-scientific basis that has no grounding in reality, 2) is absolutely riddled with charlatans who claim to cure basically every human ailment, and 3) the professional associations actively defend those who make these claims rather than insisting on rigorous, evidence based, ethical standards of care.

If chiropractors want to be taken seriously, it's pretty easy: expose your treatments to the rigors of the scientific method, only support those treatments that have demonstrable benefits, and take away the licenses from the fraudsters who prey on those who are desperately suffering and looking for a way out.
It's not something I ever gave conscious thought before now, but yes, the depletion assumption sounds a bit silly in retrospect.

If the lithium has changed chemically, presumably the feasibility of changing it back depends on the nature of the change.
My attempt at nuance wasn't intended as a rebuttal. I'd pick a random doctor over a random chiro any day.
> No, the welfare state doesn't receive "the largest fraction" of your taxes. Thinking this is a bit of a meme in the UK. The largest category of spending is actually the state pension (which is partly funded by direct revenue), this isn't welfare. The actual amounts that go towards helping people who actually need help in the UK is relatively small.

Hmm. On my tax breakdown from HMRC, "Welfare" comes top at ~22%, whereas "State Pensions" comes third at ~12% (Health is second at ~20%). Are you saying HMRC is wrong, or am I misinterpreting this? It does say this is just for income tax and NI, but I'm not aware of income/NI being specifically ringfenced and spent in a different way to, say, VAT.

> The NHS has pretty poor outcomes for a developed country. It is provided at low-cost (interestingly, about half the size of the public health system in the US) but the results are very poor (politically, doctor's unions have had very strong lobbying, so when spending increases it has typically gone into the back pocket of doctors with output unchanged). Private healthcare is better.

I'm not sure there's a consesus on this. The most charitable interpretation I can gather from skimming the research (e.g. https://www.bmj.com/content/367/bmj.l6326) is that "It's complex. The NHS does some things badly, and it does some things well, and it generally spends less than its peers". If we accept that, then the next question is naturally "what do we want to change" and "how do we do that". Maybe if the NHS spends less than its peers, we need to fund it more to get better outcomes (I wouldn't be against this)?

I also don't disagree necessarily that "Private healthcare is better" for some things, but as I said elsewhere, they're not the ones who have to deal with emergency trauma cases, so it's not a like-for-like comparison.
True, at best he was talking purely cynical and out of frustration. Still handled really very well by not adding any more vitriol but rather talking about the facts. Eventually the OP even got promoted.
There's a video of a Gaza paramedic breaking down after being at that scene, posted to Reddit, where reported only a single child was found alive there. If you scroll down thread comments there was a NSFL description of photo of the remains of a blown apart toddler based a photo of the scene that was posted to Twitter.
I agree, most of senior management at places like this are ageing country club members who know how to maintain their monopoly by wining and dining regulators, but are incompetent at running a business.
I've been looking into what problems NFT's are trying to solve, and i can't figure it out.
Oh, right! Thank you for bringing it up, I'll fix this.
In (some of) the proposals here, UBI is paired to a much lower minimum wage (a form of compensation, as taxes for corporations will rise). But very few people are going to work for €1/hr or €2/hr, when you get €11/hr from UBI. Instead, they'll probably start a little hustle on the side, or work black. So, if a company wants to keep its employees (and shops etc. really need them), they'll need to raise the wage. This will have a effect on prices, and most likely, prices of food will rise, taking away much of advantage the poorest segment would have, while forcing those who didn't/can't work to take a job, until there's a new balance, where many people will be off worse (because the plans require abolishing all personal subsidies and welfare to pay for UBI). So that's paying a lot of money to make life worse.
You've said that a fine-tuned mask mandate is too hard to write and enforce. You didn't address the underlying question of what the harm of a mask mandate is. Like, suppose I grant that it's difficult, and 80% of the time isn't needed. My question is then "and who cares?" My insurance isn't needed a far greater percentage of the time, nor is my wearing a seatbelt.

What I'm getting at is if it were just a permanent law like "wear a shirt (if female)" or "wear pants" what's the harm?
When you are transporting cargo worth $X, and your fee for doing so is $X/100, it really matters if a small percentage of clients take more of the goods than they should...

In many cases, the client might not even have their own records of volumes - they just run the pumps till the tanks are full, and then wait for the bill from Colonial.

If Colonial can't produce said bill, they have made a massive loss.
> If your baker gets his UBI, why would he want to get up early and bake your bread in the first place when there is no incentive?

This is why I'm asking. I actually know two bakers, and can guarantee that there's no way they would go to work if they had exactly what they were earning but didn't have to get up and go to work.

Extending this out, no baker would consider working unless their pay was above and beyond UBI. And the only way to pay them more while having the same profits to the bakery owner would be to raise prices. This is a direct example of how UBI would definitely cause inflation.
Turgot Map of Paris
If you read the article: “The building also hosted offices of civilian media outlets, which the Hamas terror group hides behind and uses as human shields”
That's a fair-sounding point. Java had this (but also a bunch of other problems).
I'm sorry, I don't see what you see in that article and I don't think you understand it either.

Graphs showing increased cancer risk since glyphosate was introduced is almost zero evidence that it does anything. Lot of other things have happened in that same time period such as increases in obesity, etc. The real way to study it is to give an animal glyphosate and see if it does anything to cancer rates.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4819582/

Evaluation of carcinogenic potential of the herbicide glyphosate, drawing on tumor incidence data from fourteen chronic/carcinogenicity rodent studies

"There was no evidence of a carcinogenic effect related to glyphosate treatment."