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> I don't think it's on my to find a better implementation for YouTube, but with all the smart engineers they have access to, I would think they could come up with something less intrusive.

So you don't even have any idea what a better implementation might look like, not even a completely technically infeasible one? And the thousands of smart YouTube engineers, whose jobs revolve around making access to content frictionless to the point of being accused of making it addictive, just haven't thought "we should make this not suck?"
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It's definitely affecting at least some US users some of the time.
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Just feels like it would be nice to have some syntactic sugar to convert these expressions.
How's does it stand legally stealing people's Internet connection and selling it to people who don't have the password.
You could speculate that. Then you could ask yourself why a climate activist would create a situation where cattle starve at the plant and are put down and not used economically.

There are thousands of cattle in transit to just one of these facilities every hour of every day. Most are not equipped to feed incoming cattle - they arrive hungry and with minutes to hours to live. If you’re annoyed about the climate, forcing a manufacturer to throw out and waste hundreds of tons of perfectly fine beef does what, exactly? Send a message?

This isn’t spiking trees. You’re dealing with live animals. I have a hard time believing an activist environmentalist would be fine with exacerbating an animal welfare situation they already don’t like. Putting thousands of cattle through even worse experiences than usual. Yeah, no.

Source: One degree removed from a foreman at an impacted plant. What I’m describing is already happening - plant I’m aware of has 14k head on hand with about 24 hours to figure it out or kill and discard. The administration is already involved and aware of the details, too, and everyone should be vigilant regarding speculation as to who’s behind it (this is likely misdirection, given who it actually is).
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> However, it wouldn’t surprise me to learn that the group drinking a six pack of 90-calorie light beer over the course of a day is healthier than people like me drinking a six pack of Dr. Pepper in the same timeframe. Cirrhosis on one hand, diabetes on the other. Pick your poison, I guess.

Most people choose neither option.

Drinking a 6-pack of beer every day and drinking a 6-pack of sugary sodas every day are not normal behaviors. We shouldn't try to normalize things like this when they're clearly unhealthy and definitely outlier behavior.
It's always interesting to see how they solved problems in the '90s that people still don't seem to get today.

Also, it's amazing to see an HP URL that works!
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MySQL doesn't need the auto-vacuumer to be tuned, as it doesn't have one. I've had Postgres servers crash due to excessive stale rows...
It's still in early stages, but I'm excited for Intl.Segmenter[0], which will let you do locale-aware text segmentation. Maybe not useful for a typical webpage, but probably has some cool niche applications.

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Those are two different datapoints. The assumption being if they went back to context ads we would have rates similiar to 2005. The consumer has changed and is smarter than the group of who joined aol and discovered the internet. Clickthrough rates have been falling since so it doesn't compare well.

People will pay more to target fewer because it costs them less to get sales.
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In this context, it's something that requires a lot of work for little reward. I think it's similar to "dogging" something.

It actually has a context in marketing for products where you will have a small stake in a shrinking market:

https://www.marketingstudyguide.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/...
>>The government is telling you that as a provider of homes to people, you cannot make them homeless during a global pandemic

The government didn't tell the mortgage companies that.

And the govt didn't stop collecting taxes.

Call me crazy but expecting the landlord to care while the govt and mortgage companies don't have to care... thats not fair.
> Why does paypal/stripe have a fixed minimum fee of $0.30 for doing a database update?

That's Visa + Mastercard's network fee.

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Y'ever noticed how no-one has ever actually disrupted the online payments industry? It's because Visa and Mastercard own the very substrate of e-commerce through their private inter-bank networks. You cannot get anything done without going through them - and their minimum fees.
I guess the immuno-compromised and those who currently have a mild respiratory infection now feel they have “permission” from society to wear a mask. A non-East Asian person wearing a mask two years ago would have attracted a range of unwelcome behaviour – quizzical looks (mildest), questions, comments, verbal or even physical abuse (worst-case scenario) – depending on who they encounter.

Personally, I hope our knowledge and scientific understanding improves with regard to the effectiveness of mask wearing in a non-medical environment to mitigate either spreading or being infected by pathogens.
> I believe my views will be contrarian as long as I live under a large government. The biggest issue for me though is being told to obey without being convinced. The more persecuted I feel, the more I have a desire to backlash.

I understand how you feel, although I don't personally relate. I'd urge you to consider that whatever truth exists in the world is independent of your government. There are countries with more free and less free governments, places with vaccine passport systems and places where vaccines are basically nonexistent. The truth of whether mRNA vaccines are safe and effective is the same in all of these places.

> the degree of cooperation between tech/media/government on this messaging has me actually terrified

Again, this is understandable, but at the end of the day this is just, for lack of a better phrase, how the world works. It's capitalism, basically. Tech/media control the vast vast majority of marketing. Government wanted to do marketing to make people more confident in the vaccine or encourage people to wear masks or whatever. Obviously the marketing was not effective on you.

But at the end of the day the truth of whether these things were effective, useful, or needed is completely orthogonal to the fact that government got buddy with tech/media to promote them.

> that's not at all considered when people are requiring a card to eat at a restaurant or go to a gym

Is this happening for you? Just wondering. Where I am, pandemic rules are gone entirely except for requiring masks on public transit and in medical settings.
I think there's value in consistency in terms of setting expectations (both for my family and for my colleagues) the the flexibility to determine what that consistency looks like is key.
remember back in the 90's that there was talk about building out a business focused Internet.

They exist. Radianz, BPIPE and several more.
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The government edict didn't appear in a vacuum, it was a response to a massive crisis affecting the entire country. Ultimately, from a financial perspective, this is no different from any potential crisis that could have caused a downturn in the rental market, and those risk factors are what you take on when you make rental investments.
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welcome back to the olden days...not at the bottom yet, heheh.

We used to rely on networks of contacts for B2B marketing. Maintained via junkets to conferences and retreats at exotic locations.
It's probably not possible. The devices runs on LoRa wireless protocol, which measures bandwidth in single digit kilobits a second.
It’s not just FATCA either, if you’re an ordinary US citizen living abroad, and you want to start even a trivially small business in a foreign country, the IRS will fuck you. You have reams and reams of compliance paperwork to do, 5471s etc, aimed at multimillion dollar multinationals, even if your annual turnover is less than $1000. It’s hugely chilling to Americans living abroad
Genuine question: what do you drink instead? Do you stick to water or do you order any kind of soda/lemonade (or something I’m not thinking about)
Grants encourage early R&D, Purchasing Commitments encourage Product Development and Capital Investments. We can do more of both.
Impossible Meat is delicious. My trips to Burger King are now entirely vegetarian.
Ropes is a performance improving technique, not a conceptually new model to think about strings, isn't it?
It's because the US and Europe have shown there aren't any repercussions to defrauding their governments or their citizens.
I suspect you're choosing the parameters of this venn diagram to most efficiently reject viewpoints you disagree with without having to engage with them.

It appears at least that your perception of others as being for increased government control, a property you infer about them rather than how they describe themselves, has meant you haven't had to think carefully about the merits of lockdowns, emergency FDA approval for novel vaccines, or other measures seen in the past year. They're suspicious machinations of the government therefore we can reject them out of hand, evidently.
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Looks like I'll end up having to pull brisket off the menu again this summer (I own & operate a BBQ food truck).

Before this latest blow to the supply chain I have already seen a 66% increase in brisket prices in the past 4 weeks ($2.99/lb about a month ago, current price is $4.99). The restaurant industry is already running on low margins so it will be interesting to see how this is all going to shake out.
The U.S. isn't empire building. It's mainly a policy of retaining superpower status for world peace.

Containment of China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea is largely the defining policy of the last 70 years.

Of course tons of blunders like Vietnam and Afghanistan. Tragedies. But there has not been a World War III nor have there been large scale wars killing a sizable portion of the populace such as most wars pre-WWII.

For further evidence that the U.S. isn't interested in empire building is the fact that in wars over the last 70 years, the U.S. hasn't gained land and tried to turn the countries into vassal states like in classical European wars or like USSR did. The U.S. aims to build allies not an empire.
just use dokku instead, it's much easier. Why bother with docker compose?
Given all vaccine passport programs necessarily need federal acceptance and co-ordination for them to be portable outside the province, it is a test for a program by the federal government. Few people have any exepectation that Quebec will conform to national social norms and this is why it's being used as pilot project for what appears to be a national attack on civil liberties.
It appears you may be from NZ?

I meant to summarize Calculus and Analysis as basically the same subject matter. Mathematical Statistics definitely requires Calculus / Analysis as pre-reqs (many textbooks make zero attempt for review) and Linear Algebra is a well-defined course at the undergraduate level, even if every other university has its own 20% difference on what it chooses to emphasize.

Linear Algebra at the undergraduate level can be considered a replacement for Euclidian geometry; it is the formalization of that space. As for the actual course of Geometry in the US, it is an isolated anomaly in the HS to undergrad curriculum in that it is never really touched again. Its proof-heavy style and construction from geometric primitives will not be continued upon.

If you mean Statistics as in the introductory undergraduate stats course, that would murder most children's interest because it involves memorizing distributions as collections of facts, and it most definitely doesn't involve understanding cause vs effect. And Stats AP is generally not trusted by universities.

I talked about linear fitting as an example for data science, and I pointed out that without understanding Linear Algebra, linear fitting means to use your eyes and draw a line, and the "linear" part will literally mean a line. And what is the difference between a correlation and a linear fitting?
There’s no reason to believe that the plants that produce vegan products are any more secure; if veganism became the norm then the infrastructure required to process that food would be as valuable a target as meat processing is today.
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The author of the book is Tom Murphy, a Caltech-trained physics professor at UCSD, author of the Do The Math blog https://dothemath.ucsd.edu. The book compiles that blog into a textbook for a course for non-science majors.

I've had him as a guest on my podcast https://joshuaspodek.com/guests/tom-murphy, but otherwise my only stake is that I consider the book valuable on the issue of our species. The link is to my review of his book. You can download the book itself free: https://escholarship.org/uc/energy_ambitions.

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Here is an excerpt of the review:

He taught a course to non-science undergraduates on the subject, called Energy and the Environment. He used the course to compile his posts, polish them, and make a self-contained comprehensive book. As far as I know, the only one like it, possibly because mathematics is the language of nature, so equations abound, but he explains them, so people who haven’t taken science or math classes since high school can follow.

Showing the math means we don’t have to take his word for it. We can do the math too and think, judge, and act for ourselves. No matter our politics, age, industry, etc, we can access this book equally. The environment involves many branches of science, including physics, astronomy, chemistry, biology, systems, and more, as well as fields including engineering, history, politics, philosophy, and more. Murphy brings them together like no other resource I’ve found. Many will shy away from devoting the time that the gravity of our environmental situation demands, but for enabling and empowering every reader to understand, think, judge, and act for themselves, I consider Energy and Human Ambitions on a Finite Planet the science book of the decade.

I’ve read and watched a lot of books, videos, and articles. For reference, I consider Sustainability Without the Hot Air by Caltech-trained Cambridge physicist David MacKay the science book of the previous decade, and Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update, the science book of the decade before that, by Donella Meadows, Dennis Meadows, and Jørgen Randers. (A video of David MacKay after his book led me to avoid flying, not as a burden but to increase my enjoyment of nature and connection to humans.) Read these three books, and you understand our environment.

But wait, there’s more. Murphy has acted on his findings in his personal life. He didn’t just use an electric car or unplug appliances before doing so was cool, he measured his results and shared how doing so affected his relationships with his wife, peers, and students. He shares his life and profession. This book doesn’t teach raw information, it shares a lifestyle.
Defense is business in an abstract sense. DaaS is desirable for many nations instead of building domestic capability which would be far worse due to scale/reinventing-the-wheel. Look up US defense treaties with various nations across the world - this is a mutual agreement in exchange for IP, defense sales, assurance and guarantees, soft power, etc.
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Although not a cyberattack it reminds me of the massive supply disruption and culling that occurred in the UK because of the mad cow disease

Still a form of information warfare attack, perpetuated by none other than Neil Ferguson, operating in plain sight. If he was a hacker he would be in prison but he does incalculable damage again and again and gets away Scot free every time!
Those all sound reasonable and unbiased to me. That's exactly what most ads and cookies do.
I don't work in ad tech at all and never have. I'm just interesting in trying to work out what's doing on and what might happen. I also try to avoid moral panics and hysteria.
> Why Doesn't Google Maps Use Its Own Subdomain?

It did, for a long time. It was at maps.google.com for quite some time.

Then, sometime about 2 or so years ago, it was moved to www.google.com/maps and the old maps.google.com became a redirect to the new location.
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