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> One of my family members is in his late 70s, loves dining out, and only owns a flip phone with no internet connectivity. He’s already excluded from much of our increasingly digital society;

I remember reading a Sci-Fi short story where the main character was digitally excluded; I forget if this was a criminal sentence or a matter of "backwards living" [no offence to Amish and similar]. I remember a scene where the main character had to interface with a digital menu type of terminal and he couldn't -- either because of ignorance or legal incapability. A child noticed and offered to help him out.

For about 15 years I had a flip phone, well into the "everyone has a smart phone now" age. I felt the limitations of no internet, no QR, no this, no that. Phone calls and texts only.

I switched after I lost my phone at ... get this ... a Sci-Fi convention. And I waited a year between loss and re-acquiring//upgrading. Yes I got the "You don't have a cell phone?!?" shaming, just as I did the Gibbs flip-phone shaming beforehand. Nowadays I "pass" like normal.

Rambling Point Being: This QR Code Menu deal going on... I've encountered it, I don't like it either, I've been able to deal with it only because I lost and replaced a cell phone.

One physical menu please. Thank you. Sorry for being an cartoon alien crab and here I am.
Not the whole population has cars either, specially in cities.

Adding Level 1 charger to outside parking spots is not very difficult and is already happening in many new developments.

Lots of people in cities park in parking garages where adding charging is easy to add any often still exists.

Charging at work places is also very possible and industrial area parking are adding these.

For people who drive long distance often in cities, going to a supercharger once in a while is also quite possible. Specially as Tesla and other increasingly add DC chargers in cities.

Its overall one of the bigger problems and that does limit EV however we are at 2%, nowhere even remotely close to be limited by that. However overall I agree, this is actually the area where states, cities and so on can actually make an impact.

This will solve itself when people start to want EV and try to figure out what the solution for their situation is.
These people are routinely winning long distance races on offroad and unpaved surfaces using these tires. That is evidence that the tires are indeed durable, regardless of whether they would prefer other tires.
true :), currently a sentence from the movie The Giver 2014 lingering in my head --- "precision of speech", "precision of speech" :)
By including a description of your supposed hat, you kind of pre-negate the content of your post.
It’s not your business to verify anything. It’s up to the individual to do what is best for their own situation. Focus on decisions for your own self and family.
Fun, useless fact: a single structure, Three Gorges Dam, has more concrete in it than half of all living people.
I believe the research, but I doubt the ACA slowed down increases due to competition. The studies you linked don't show evidence of it either.

Most people do not get to shop for insurance. Individual market plans are all similarly and eye-wateringly expensive (last I checked). And people getting health coverage through work are lucky if they have even two insurers to choose between.

Therefore I don't see any reason why insurance companies would uniformly lower their "baseline" premiums when given access to more information. If they were all competing for your business like car insurance, homeowner insurance, etc. things would be very different.
I took extra classes and worked hard in college to get a CS degree because I loved it. I was so excited to start a career because the internships were fun and exciting. I graduated in 2001 right after everything dried up. The only place hiring was Raytheon, there was no way I'd step foot back in that place to work on weapons. I asked a friend what to do, "Why don't you move to MT and snowboard", so I did. Seven years of my 20's in MT, the first five snowboarding and climbing, the last two figuring out how to get back into tech while snowboarding and climbing. I'm now in my 40's married to someone I met in MT with two beautiful kids and good career in tech. I don't spend much time thinking about what I might've been able to achieve had I spent those years in my 20's working hard in tech. I'm just very grateful things ended up the way they did. We need people who want to achieve great things, especially now with the urgent problems we've created for ourselves. But it's just fine to not be one of those people.
See https://developer.chrome.com/blog/renderingng/ for some idea of the scale of investment being made.
The top-level post was about combined rates in the US, so I think they were commenting on that. Type II rates in the US is about 20X that of Type I
> You can do both. The thing is, you can backpack 1 month per year and still work really HARD for 11 months of the year. 1 month is enough to visit 3-4 countries, and have 20 something night out. Over 15 years, that's over 300 night out. Way too much. And you still worked very hard for most of your youth.

Wat. 300 nights over 15 years is way too much? That is utterly insane to me. That means on average, you only went out 1 night every 2 weeks. If you had kids, I'd understand but for someone in their youth - that is nearly shut-in status.

What you're thinking about doing over the period of 15 years, I've done in about the span of a year. Life is too short to spend it inside working. You won't get your youth back - once it's gone, it's gone.
That includes the lag time. A single dose is supposed to be about 80% effective once immunity develops. They don't know how long that will last and thus have the second shot to increase effectiveness and hopefully longevity.
Concrete is strong in compression, but weak in tension or shear forces. To solve that you reinforce it with rebar (basically steel bars). But concrete is porous to water, and steel rusts. When it rusts it expands, which damages the concrete. The only ways to escape that is with coating the rebar (hard to do well) or reinforcing with something else (not many options we know of). You can try to prevent or patch cracks in the concrete to slow down the process, and you can use more rust resistant steel. Both of them prolong the lifetime a lot, but they only delay the inevitable.

Wood is simpler, because it isn't a composite material. You have to prevent it from rotting and from being eaten, but on a timescale of a couple decades we can do that quite well. Also with wood structures it's often easier to replace small parts as soon as damage occurs, which prolongs the overall lifetime (similar to steel structures, but unlike reinforced concrete).
What ability is required at a factory, you know, these useless workers producing means of subsistence, like food, homes, equipment? I think these workers make awesome things, well, because I need food, etc for living. It is only thanks to them you able to do what you want - what you call work, while they work 12 hours a day for very little. There is huge difference between their work and what you do.
With all respect, but I will recommend you changing the subject to something else, but not "hard work". May be "making profit hardcore XXX.".
That was not the main argument of the parent comment, this was:

> There's a class ceiling where only a certain type of person gains entry

It is true that working hard alone is not going to get you into a VP role, but working hard on the right things has a much higher likelihood of accomplishing that. Impact != hours put in, and vice versa, and frankly this is where a lot of the hard working people find themselves. Doing a difficult, but low leverage activity (relatively speaking) really well does not automatically entitle one to a role that is intended to be high leverage, all the time.
Last year, Minnesota passed the Alec Smith Insulin Affordability Act, which requires the major insulin manufacturers to provide 30-day emergency supplies of insulin for no more than $35, and 90-day supplies for no more than $50, for anyone meeting the program guidelines[0].

The law was modelled around the companies’ existing patient assistance programs, and despite assurances from industry reps, PhRMA sued the state anyway just hours before the law was due to take effect[1]. This spring, their lawsuit was dismissed[2].

This law isn’t a great solution if you think that insulin should be free to all, but it is at least something that other states can use as a model to try to help their citizens access to cheaper, high-quality insulin.

[0] https://www.mninsulin.org/

[1] https://www.minnpost.com/state-government/2020/07/why-so-man...

[2] https://www.twincities.com/2021/03/16/alec-smith-insulin-aff...
Hi Ben, as the person who initially flagged your question as a duplicate, I'm sorry. I can see why this was frustrating. I'll try to provide a more detailed answer here.

According to a 1948 paper by Bekesy [0], a human ear can detect sounds through several mechanisms. In a gravitational wave, since the whole head would vibrate, sound would reach the ear by bone conduction through the skull. Fortunately, this also happens to be the most sensitive mechanism. The smallest vibration amplitude detectable by bone conduction is about 4 x 10^-9 cm at around 3 kHz. If a typical skull is about 17.5 cm from front to back, that gives a minimum detectable wave amplitude h (the fractional expansion and contraction of spacetime) of about 2 x 10^-10.

The frequency of the gravitational waves produced in a collision between a neutron star and a small black hole turns out to be pretty close to an optimal match for the human ear. To estimate the amplitude, the first black hole collision detected at LIGO produced a strain of about 10^-21 at a distance of 410 Mpc. (The events in the article were smaller, but within the same order of magnitude.) Thus, since the amplitude scales as 1/r, the gravitational waves from the collision in the article would have been theoretically audible at a distance of about 400 AU or 40 billion miles.

Alas, attempting to test this calculation experimentally would incur certain practical difficulties. Notably, you would be vaporized by gamma radiation from the collision several seconds before the gravitational waves became audible.

[0]: https://asa.scitation.org/doi/10.1121/1.1906433
Interesting, all of the wood frame homes going up in WA/OR/CA that I have seen use cement fiber siding.
The article says that this is one of the newer ones distinct from the formulation they already sell.
> Because this old style insulin acts slower than the more modern version and requires a rigid eating schedule.

Good thing the article is about Walmart now selling 'analog insulin' ie. modern version of insulin
By definition, currency uses fixed point arithmetic not floating point arithmetic.
Kinda makes you want to transfer all your cloud ops to Azure doesn't it.
Haha yes of course it's easier for developers, but they write the software that I have to deploy and manage on my server!
I mean this question is the most empathetic way possible, from a curiosity-based perspective, and feel free to tell me to shove off if you don't want to answer it.

How do you gain employment in the event you decide you need to leave your current place of employment?
I'm not convinced that code snippet in the screencast had never been written. It's fairly generic React, no?
Everything is insider trading.

Everything is Securities Fraud.

https://www.google.com/search?q=matt+levine+everything+is+in...
Okay, and I'd argue that a good portion of programmatic wrangling is simply trying to do Y with Z. Something that's probably done 10,000 times over by others but in the silo'd confines of that single developer's workspace; an utter fucking mystery to them.

What's the carbon displacement for wasted time on those tasks? It might be brow raising.
Their point is, Project Zero is a very public Google project to hold other companies (and yes, themselves too) accountable with disclosure policies Google (as a company) presumably stands behind. Thus it is quite ironic for an issue to not be fixed in a year.

Yes, sometimes other Google teams miss the deadline set by Project Zero too. That's not the point.
The Rails migration example doesn't follow the rails convention with prepended datetime :p
Having gone back and rewatched Moonlighting in recent years, wowsers was that show sexist! How did I not see that at the time? Same with Remington Steele, as well as Scarecrow and Mrs King. Turns out I watched a lot of shows that I would have sworn weren't full of overt sexism but actually very much were.
Wow, exactly, and at the same time looking at it braking my brain, I hope it will clear up in my dream :D
I think a patent violation with CoPilot is exactly the same scenario as if you violated a patent yourself without knowing it.
They require a mask at the door and at any time when not seated. Some places even require you to put the mask back on when the waiter comes to the table. It's all just theater, and I won't be a part of it.
Was it, essentially, a video card -- before video cards existed -- in a big box?
My brother in law said: I have two feet and they are working now, not sure about later. Quit his job, and my sister did the same. They sold their house and staring working at a wildlife refuge in Alaska in summers and traveling by camper in the lower 48 in winter.
I'm sorry, but you have no idea how vaccine economics work. Why do you think that researcher had so many problems at Pfizer getting funding to work on mRNA?

Drug companies want to invent things like Viagra or Harvoni, not vaccines that are given to everyone a few times.
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Because the government doesn't have a history of reducing property taxes when house values decline. In Fairfield county, CT many of the local municipalities left property taxes at 2006 levels straight through 2007-2010 even though real estate was worth less if it were to be sold. Other areas did the same thing.

Think about this - I have un unrealized appreciation in an asset, and I am a normal person, the only way I'd be able to pay the taxes on my $10m rock would be by selling the rock. Wealth taxes can force a sale to cover the taxes. Practically, this is not something we want. In fact, most cities have laws designed to help people NOT be forced to sell. If every long time owner of an apartment in Oakland had to pay taxes on their real-estate appreciation, the majority would be forced to sell. Net: Wealth taxes are strongly regressive, and pro gentrification.
I was raised catholic. 13 siblings 67 first cousins.
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My comment wasn't very clear. What I was getting at - and perhaps this is a China-specific issue - is that the QR code style restaurants are imo a symptom of gentrification and are contributing to the "blandification" of local cuisines.

In China restaurants can go under very quickly - you might see at a certain location two or three different restaurants in a year. The mom and pop operations tend to be eaten up by the national chain restaurants and "hip" (i.e. QR code ordering) franchises, and when one of these restaurants moves in then not only does the food quality go down, but the prices go up too. I think a lot of young Chinese techies like the change because it seems more clean or more hygienic or more futuristic, but if you just want to sit down and get some local food made by a local person, that experience is harder and harder to find.
I wonder if this breaches any of the open source licenses or copyright?

To some extent, it seems like this could suggest code chunks found somewhere else verbatim, which sounds like a copyright issue, but I also don't know if open-source licenses inherently allow you to train on their code in the first place?
Even if true, do you think that you are trapped by that? Personally, I think that you can choose to cultivate more conscientiousness, whether or not you have that as a personality trait. (This is true of other traits, too. You can also choose to cultivate, say, honesty. Or kindness.)
Could someone elaborate why this particular comment is being downvoted? Or I guess in other words, is there something unique about the mRNA vaccines that make it unnecessary to require "booster shots" (if "booster shots" equate to yearly shots we are used to with the flu variants)?

(I legitimately don't know and I am curious. I see the article does reference protection against a variant during a study, but it's unclear to me if that means all future variants as well.)
I would want something that lets me take notes on the meeting live, then sync them up with the video and transcript after the fact.
This hack includes inferred salary, facebook username, mobile number, geo location...

None of this is publicly available.

None of this can even be downloaded by myself when I get a copy of all my data from linkedin...

https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/50191/download...

So I have no idea what information about myself was leaked in this hack
But they are selling both under their store-brand ReliOn. The less effective original formulation for $25, and the analog is the more effective one being sold at $86. Still an absurdly high cost in my opinion, but to get the higher quality analog insulin for like a quarter of the price of the name brands is going to be life saving for a lot of people.
Vinyl is the best selling in the US according to a couple of searches, and it is definitely very common in the eastern US.
I wonder if wood construction is more forgiving than concrete once you get to a point where it was neglected for some time. Wood will rot and need replacing, but if your concrete is ignored and the rebar starts crumbling, you can’t just slap fresh concrete over it and call it a day, right?
If the reduction of developer wages led to the increase of wages for other workers, sure. But of course that won't happen. The reduction of wages for any class of worker will simply lead to further consolidation of wealth.
The one the article is talking about unveiling is the new style ($86 at Walmart). (The old style can already be found at Walmart for $25.)

Walmart sucks in a lot of ways, but this article does not demonstrate that.
I’m not understanding your point - wouldn’t an antibody test or a positive Covid test be easy enough to show? Not sure how that’s any different than showing proof of a Covid vaccine
No, they aren't. Micro-dollars do not exist, so this method is guaranteed to cause errors.
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Don't forget:

- Constantly nagging about using browsers other than Edge
Most ordering-apps I've tried allow customers to customize items and make special-requests. It's often easier to do these things on an app, and these modifications are automatically reflected on the receipt.

I guess an app could give people access to a webcam to engage in discussion with a cook as they prepare the food, for people who really want to watch the process and talk to the cook.. is that a feature you'd be interested in?

I mean, obviously, that wouldn't be right for a lot of places -- many eateries don't want people bothering the kitchen staff -- but if you've been going to places where people can interact with the kitchen-staff as they work, and if that's something the customers value, it'd seem like that process could be made more available.

Edit: Actually, when you were talking about engaging kitchen-staff, were you thinking of places like Subway? Or did you mean actually talking to people in a separate-kitchen, like you walk back there and chat with them while they make the food?
We went through the same hype cycle with self driving cars. We are now ~15 years out from the DARPA challenges and to date exactly 0 drivers have been replaced by AI.

It is certainly impressive to see how much the GPT models have improved. But the devil is in the last 10%. If you can create an AI that writes perfectly functional python code, but that same AI does not know how to upgrade an EC2 instance when the application starts hitting memory limits, then you haven't really replaced engineers, you have just given them more time to browse hacker news.
Humans are more than pattern matchers because we do not passively receive and imitate information. We learn cause and effect by perturbing our environment, which is not possible by passively examining data.

An AI agent can interact with an environment and learn from its environment by reinforcement learning. It is important to remember that pattern matching is different from higher forms of learning, like reinforcement learning.

To summarize, I think there are real limitations with this AI, but these limitations are solvable problems, and I anticipate significant future progress
So... I actually have a theory. He had kids. His kids are precocious and bright. And if you watch him on twitter he loves to talk about how smart they are. Which is hardly weird. But read back through his early writing: PG's school experience seems kinda traumatic. He hated it, he has an essay likening schools to prisons. So he's projecting his anxieties onto his kids.

And modern educational thought (be it "woke" or not), has very much moved away from a focus on the Best and Brightest students and onto a theory of education that prioritizes the needs of the disadvantaged. PG's kids just aren't what people are talking about. Educators tend to assume they'll do just fine given their existing advantages.

But PG didn't do fine, in his mind. He thinks society is moving in the wrong direction.

Which is ironic, because if anything modern educational environments (my kids are almost the same age) are much MORE inclusive and benign and much less likely to produce the kind of anxiety he experienced. His kids will do better than he did BECAUSE the school brings everyone else into the discussion and doesn't drive a competetive prison. He just can't see it.
Boilerplate is only easier to read and analyze if you can be sure it is consistent, so you can tune it out. Usually though, there is this one getter method that is not quite like the others and you literally will not see the difference until it bites you.

We'll need more IDE enhancements, to highlight interesting pieces and desaturate standard boilerplate...
Your vaccination status impacts the people around you.

There are folks who cannot be vaccinated (or who are not able to develop immunity from the vaccine). It is dangerous for them to be around unvaccinated people.

So no, it is not just up to the individual to do what is best for them.
Cargo cults concerned me too but I realized that cargo-cult programming flourishes when it's enabled by a culture that doesn't care how the sausage is made. If the culture seeks full stack truth, it's not likely to get fooled by bad generated code, no matter whether it's generated by copy/paste, metaprogramming, or AI.

I'd love to know what Donald Knuth thinks given the history of literate programming.
Does mixing of one mRNA vaccine with another mRNA vaccine for the second does create the same effect as if it's one brand of vaccine was used?
I just made an account with neeva and it seems likt they have their own browser for iOS, quiet likely just a thing wrapper around safari but with their search engine integrated.

It seems to me that if neeva just had an open url to do searches it wouldn't really have a way to track registrations unless there's some complicated process of generating a unique search URL with a token or something...
Carrying strucuture is mainly reinforced steel(classic pillar + concrete floor/ceilings design), walls are usually bricks.
What about your job hunt status, openings you've applied to, DMs?
Every single one! The cloud is a trap.
> MIT is the gold standard of education

A complete tangent, but its somewhat amusing that this idiom remains popular when the literal gold standard itself is no longer generally considered a figurative gold standard of anything.