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Adults should be allowed to have any mind state they want, as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else.

If someone wants to have fun skydiving and risk crashing their head in to the ground, let them. It's their choice. If overindulging in whatever activity interferes with a person's life, that should be a medical issue not a criminal one.

The War on Drugs is an abject failure and hurts much more than it helps. People are going to be doing these drugs anyway, only with the War on Drugs they're going to be doing so in much more damaging ways (from playing Russian Roulette with mystery drugs, and from the harm that arrests by police, imprisonment, and destruction of families and these people's futures cause).
If you’re buying that kind of vehicle you want to be seen and HEARD. It’s a conscious decision by both buyer and manufacturer.
I'm hosting own MySQL, Mongo and Elastic clusters. At the beginning it takes more time to setup than cloud providers solutions and require more knowledge and tooling to do some ops(upgrades, backups etc). But you know which version of db you are running and how it is configured. Additionally cloud providers own solutions are binding with one of them.
ALL drugs. ALL of them. It works. It has been done before and it was wildly successful.

https://time.com/longform/portugal-drug-use-decriminalizatio...
Sometimes I feel like I'm the only person who doesn't want 15 different companies telling each other what I just ate for lunch.
The US system is a heavily regulated market and roughly 50% socialized.
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As a counterpoint, QR code menus work very well in China. I've been to places where you scan the code to open a menu that lets you place all your orders. You can also pay for your table via per table QR codes.

As a side note, you don't customarily tip in restaurants in China, so a non high-end place with good food will typically have rushed and curt wait staff. Ordering through the phone will give you a better experience!
Without that business, there wouldn't be all the awesome tech the Web is now.
Ask HN: Free custom website builder suggestions?
I am working on a project to build a website. Is there an option to use drag and drop features to build front end in one week? I need sign-up form and a custom workflow catering to my product for this website. Please suggest.
I would like to note that even with algorithms/datastructures "best" is USUALLY not the word (even assuming that all algorithms/structures are discovered/known). "Good enough" / "fits in my multi dimensional budget" is reality:

(0)
It is easy to order two real numbers. 1 is greater than 0.
But can we order points on the cartesian plane (1,2) or (2,1) or (0,100000000000)? Already at 2nd dimension not all points are easily ordered. There is solution "just give priority to 1st coordinate", but can you really completely disregard memory usage and focus solely on cpu?

(1)
Theoretically, to get "best", one needs to evaluate not only O(n) of avg cpu usage, and avg memory usage, but also worst and best cases, while using knowledge of input data distribution (e.g. maybe input is almost sorted). Memory access patterns, cache locality, battery life, suitability for your hardware also must come into play.
(many dimensions)

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Practially one has to do profiling on real hardware with real configurations / inputs / workloads. Different workloads may favor different algorithms/structures.
(again results with many dimensions)

(3)
Due to constrained time people will not even go over all algorithms. Real people will immediatly rule out really bad ones, then pick 1 or 2 algorithms that theoretically are good enough match, and see if their profiling results fit in cpu/memory budgets.
(even if budget is not on paper, but just part of intuition)
No, employee only so far, but still earlyish in my career. I just mean I've worked at about 10 different companies for about 15 years and I've been a part of some solid teams with 6 companies that have exited successfully.
I think the parent is suggesting that by this logic, tests are also useless, but almost no engineers would argue against tests.
Me: Uh, could I have a printed menu please?

Waiter: I'm sorry, we don't use printed menus anymore. You'll have to scan the QR code with your phone.

Me: Actually, I need a printed menu as an ADA accommodation. Are you refusing?

Waiter: Give me a minute and I'll get you a menu.
From the photos, it looks like it's pretty bog-standard liquid chlorination via a Pentair Intellichem controller.

https://www.pentair.com/en-us/products/residential/pool-spa-...

https://www.miamiherald.com/latest-news/28th3w/picture252421...

Notice the feed line marked 'chlorine' on the wall, and it doesn't look like there's any salt chlorine generators in-line with the plumbing.
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I think you may have missed the only portion of their argument that wasn't cherry picking:

"10-15 years ago you did not need AC. Today every summer you're in danger of a heatstroke if you don't have it."

I would count this as a decently statistical argument, anecdotal as it is, because it's an economic observation, that if true, signals that the market is lagging behind some environmental change.

Also, PDX did record 117F, by far the highest record in recorded history, by like 10F.
India's Covid-Hit Hospitals Ran Out of Oxygen
They say: the history of safety regulation is written in blood.
totally agree.

also here's the thing: the war on drugs was never about drugs. It was about controlling the masses and about marginalizing certain categories of people. Rich white people could and can do ANY drug they want with virtually no consequence. Let that sink in for a second.

If you want to be really outraged look at how crack and cocaine are treated as far as law goes and as far as punishment goes. https://drugpolicy.org/drug-facts/cocaine/difference-crack

> Despite the fact that the chemical structure of powder cocaine and crack cocaine is nearly identical, the punishment for crack possession or sales is far greater than that of cocaine. Until 2010, this sentencing disparity was 100 to 1, which means that while just 5 grams of crack would carry a 5-year mandatory minimum, it would take 500 grams of cocaine to trigger the same 5-year sentence. While the law was changed in 2010, there continues to be a disparity of 18 to 1.

This sentencing disparity has had a disproportionate impact on poor people and people of color. Statistics show that Black people are more likely to be convicted of crack cocaine offenses (even though the majority of crack cocaine users are white) and white people are more likely to be convicted of powder cocaine offenses. This means that Black people continue to receive far harsher drug sentences than white people even though powder and crack cocaine are nearly identical substances.
Duolingo is great for me as a complementary tool of formal education.
> Look to the commercialization in US states like Colorado as a better (but not perfect) model.
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Sounds crazy, but one of the best models in the United States right now is actually the state of Oklahoma's.

It's fairly straight forward, easy to apply, and barrier to entry is low. Fees are low. Not a lot of red tape. It's working well.
were those promises made to FTC specifically?
I gotta say, I disagree with this piece. I, for one, love QR code menus. I can pinch zoom rather than squint at a menu with small/unreadable fonts in dim lighting. I don't need to badger the already exhausted wait staff on a busy night when they forget to drop us a menu or two. When orders are taken online, rather than awkwardly force a friend to not go to the bathroom (or take their kid to the bathroom) until a server can take their order, they can just order and then go. I do think restaurants should handle payment themselves and have the option for paper menus or menus posted on a wall if needed, but otherwise I'm a fan.
Make sure to flip on the feature though, it's not on by default last I saw spinning up some droplets a few months ago.
> I would advise a) keeping any biases in check

They are in check. I said you seem like a rich person. I didn't say you ARE rich. I would still wager a guess that although you grew up poor you currently are quite well off compared with your past.

What is influencing my reasoning is not bias. You support free market policies that encourage wealth inequality. This benefits those who are rich. Hence my guess is you must be rich because than this would benefit you.

It had nothing to do with power generation but more to do with how you're stating the corporate interests of companies like big tobacco/oil were fair because of "consumer choice."

That is a logical deduction of the situation to formulate hypothesis. It is not a hypothesis derived from bias.
> It’s expensive to lose someone who knows the business, and expensive to hire someone.

That's not true. Letting people go is a great business strategy because it means companies don't need to give salary increases. They will right after that hire someone with less experience and making less money.

But what about the business knowledge, you ask? Well, any company that knows what they're doing won't ever let important business knowledge in the hands of only one person. They will automatically distribute responsibility for important things into a group of people, so that if one of them leave the company it is not a big deal.

Moreover, in the rare case that someone is really important for the company, by necessity she is just one out of several hundred. What I said continues to be true for everyone else.
> Adults should be allowed to have any mind state they want, as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else.

You cannot know in advance what mental state a given drug will put a specific adult in (in general, at least), and thus you cannot predict whether there will be harm to others or not.

This is not an argument for prohibition; it is an argument against a "legalize all drugs" position.
If you are a shareholder, why would you sell on a loss?
If only we could upload the food more efficiently. Then we wouldn't need restaurants at all.
I've sent out almost exactly this message recently. Obviously I can't decode what your particular manager means by it. In my case, yes, it's a check-in, or an invitation to have a conversation, because I've noticed something isn't working and my job is to figure it out and make it work better.

I prefer to know when somebody doesn't like some aspect of their job. Sometimes I can do something about it, sometimes I can't, but either way I can't do anything about it if I don't know what the problem is. There are people who are perfectly happy doing the same thing every day, in fact they prefer it. Sometimes those people have personal problems that are affecting their performance and maybe there's an opportunity to provide some short-term flexibility to help. If someone has gotten stuck with mundane work and they aren't a good fit for that kind of work, that's important to know.

For me, a message like that is never a prelude to a termination. That's pretty much the very last thing I want to do. It sucks. It might be necessary, but I'd rather avoid it. It becomes necessary when there is no other solution available and the organization can't just absorb the loss in productivity. Getting radio silence or a non-answer from the employee takes a whole lot of other solutions off the table.

But let's set all of that aside for a moment.

A more critical problem here IMO is that your friend is doing themselves a disservice. Being stuck doing something you hate for half your waking hours is a bad way to live. Sometimes you need a paycheck, but your friend should be trying to figure a way out of this situation ASAP. Talk to the manager, or start job hunting, or start making other decisions that allow them to not need that specific paycheck.
QR codes are fine.

What is varying quality is the menus served by the links in QR codes. Some can be great, some can be terrible, and everything in between. Same thing with paper menus, except they are also bulky.
Anecdata but my house is near a road that has a particularly bad section where sound bounces and I can tell you we can’t hear the EVs that drive by but standard ICE rumble a lot.
Right, that seems to be the common thread for fever dreams: something that feels intellectually taxing somehow. For me, it's usually some form of problem solving that can be more or less sensible (from solving chess puzzles to nonsense math to kafkaesque administrative processes).
The title reminds me of the sci-fi book The Dark Forest, whose premise is that the galaxy is full of life that stays silent for fear of being annihilated. In retrospect, not a whole lot different from an actual forest.

I sometimes subscribe to the spiritual view of the author, that space (in this case a forest) is part of a larger intelligence that communicates with us. It's not something I bring up a lot, for fear of sounding unhinged, but it lines up with my experiences.
162M revenue in 2020 (vs 71M in 2019)
15M loss in 2020 (vs 14M in 2019)
It’s usually just a menu, not e-shoping at the table. Why would they even implement that, if a waiter has to greet you, bring orders and clean up anyway?
(Everything that follows is my personal opinion.)

I'm technically working on a competitor to Duolingo (for Japanese), so I'm definitely biased, but personally I'm a little sad with how much success they're having considering how bad their system is (for Japanese, can't comment on other languages, but I can't imagine it's a lot better?).

There are a lot of considerably better options for learning Japanese (and I'm not even talking about my own app as it's still a huge work-in-progress), and yet for some reason I see posts from people using Duolingo on forums everyday. It's really popular.

I make a point of trying out most of the apps/websites in this space (since it's always a good idea to see what others are doing better than you), and (to me) it's apparent that Duolingo is definitely on the bottom of the barrel when it comes to actually being an effective learning tool. It might be okay-ish for a total, 100% beginner, but it breaks down very very fast.

I guess you don't need to have a good product as long as you have solid marketing, flashy UI and heavily gamify the process? That was somewhat eye opening for me.
Who where they interacting before decriminalization to get their fix?
AWS makes around 26% margins (not broken out, it’s markets best guess). At a medium size it can make more cost effect sense to run your own……with the understanding that you have to build a cattle farm, and pets are forbidden. If you every allow a pet, then just go to AWS, et.al.
I know what it's like to see the sun shining outside and lose all motivation to work.

I know it's well-meaning, but whenever someone suggests that I work outside when I feel that way, I feel like they are missing the point. I don't want to be outdoors on my computer, I want to be outdoors experiencing and engaging with the world.
I don't care what the name of something is so long as it does what I want and has a form that I can understand and utilize.
In order to opt out of a data broker, you have to submit PII to them to tell them who you are, otherwise, they won't know who to opt out. The exception to this is if the data broker is using an anonymous identifier, like that stored in a browser cookie, in which case you would need to submit that anonymous identifier to them, or somehow give them access to it (e.g. via a browser request).

The People Search Sites we submit opt outs to all transact in raw PII, therefore, if you want to opt out, either you have to submit your own raw PII to them (or a hashed version, where you and the data broker share the key so the underlying profile can be matched) to the data broker so they can identify you, or you can utilize a third-party opt out service (such as Optery) to do this for you. In either case, submitting raw PII to the data broker for them to identify you and opt you out is required.

We only submit to data brokers the minimum amount of information necessary for them to locate your profile, and then remove it, which, in the majority of cases is: First Name, Middle Name, Last Name, City, State, and an email address. If you do a few manual searches at data brokers, you'll see all of this information is already out there.

Note that we never share our customers private email addresses with any third party, including the data brokers we submit opt outs to.
>Morabito Consulting did a survey almost 3 years before, listing repairs that needed to be done.

It had more money budgeted for landscaping than actual replacement of anything structural (which was just 2500sqft of garage decking). Even that would probably better be described as waterproofing.

There was a lot of waterproofing, electrical, and HVAC work, as should be expected on a building that old.

But there was nothing in that proposal that would have done anything at all to prevent this.

The best case would have maybe been to uncover the real problems earlier, but most of the structural and waterproofing work was near the pool, which we know survived. So probably not.
Another issue that is not discussed, when I type

“sudo ufw status verbose”

I expect to see open ports in my system.

It’s an issue that ufw doesn’t show some open ports (all relevant iptable rules).
What you do with yourself does not always happen in a vacuum. Maybe if you are in the cabin in the wild growing your own pot who cares, but for the rest of society I think we should consider second order effects. Society does already dictate what you can do with your body. You can’t drink and drive. I don’t think we want a society that encourages or turns a blind eye to people to harming themselves.
The worst thing about QR code menus is that they're often just a paper-sized PDF that you have to pinch and zoom around. If they could design QR code menus like responsive mobile sites inspired by food-ordering apps this wouldn't be an issue, they'd be even better than paper menus.

When I was in China I enjoyed using their mobile menus.
A common layout I saw was a narrow vertical bar on the left with categories(appetizers, main, drinks, etc) and cards with photos + details on the right.

https://www.smartshanghai.com/uploads/articles/2019/06/63615...
Haskell, and OCaml/Reason
the GOP does not have the House, Senate, or White House right now. Several of the states recently legalizing it have been GOP controlled states.

The Dems have passed absolutely nothing to move legalization forward.

Sorry, but this is squarely in Biden's hands now, and we have all seen how his track record on drug policy has been - a disappointment.
A lot of parks in my city are no smoking and no drinking. There's always one or two people who ignore the rules, but compared to how many there would be otherwise it's good. If someone is doing it near the kids playground I kindly remind them and ask them to go elsewhere while my kids play.
you can. it's called research. it can be done (if it hasn't already been done) on virtually any drug.

education + choice are key when it comes to deciding if you want to try drug X. this should be a personal choice not something big brother decides.
As long as it's only a small percentage of their portfolio, seems safe enough. The max loss is the put premium. Are you getting it mixed up with selling puts, where your losses are unlimited?
Maybe ban smoking in parks and beaches and other places where people usually take their kids?
But then who would profit from it‽
every restaurant and bar I've been to in Brooklyn in the last week now also has the menu, ordering, and payment entirely through the QR codes. most using the Toast platform. I don't see this trend going back the other way.
Gamifying is an important feature though, as it makes it easier for students to maintain motivation to keep learning.
Yes, to get approval for the acquisitions, Facebook made certain promises to the FTC.
Great point! Just one quick question: how do you decide what is “garbage”?

Would it be heliocentric models of the solar system? What about hand washing as a way to prevent disease? Perhaps a bit more recently the sars-cov-2 lab leak theory?
Yep. This exact interaction between UFW and Docker had me stumped for a while too.

Totally unexpected outcome.

Luckily I discovered it in testing, so didn't make it to production. But annoying that those issues still remain for so long.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51007636/how-javascript-...
How many of those companies exited while you were still working for them?
What's crazy to me is almost 70% of Americans are in favor[0], with about 50% of Republicans being on board (48% Republicans, 72% Independents, 83% Democrats). It is insane to me that the Democrats are not pushing this forward. It is an easy win. It creates more jobs. It is the only think you can say "we're going to put a 30% tax on the sale of" and people will rejoice. I just don't get it. It's roughly the same as support for gay marriage is _today_[1] (I 'm not trying to use the comparison as a human rights issue but because it is another controversial topic where people can guesstimate how controversial the opinion is)

I can understand how they are more hesitant with other drugs and possession (though I'm with you on full decriminalization like Oregon did), but I at least understand this one. I _do not_ understand how weed isn't legal yet. It's very popular, profitable, and will help reduce issues in South America.

Edit: I think there even is a double win strategy. First you reschedule the drug. Second you legalize it. So even if you want to play political games there's advantage. The numbers above were for full legalization but they just rise when you include medicinal (less people are ready for full legalization but in favor of medical and rescheduling).

[0] https://news.gallup.com/poll/323582/support-legal-marijuana-...

[1] https://news.gallup.com/poll/350486/record-high-support-same...
we're getting philosophical here. but I believe that your freedom should be YOUR freedom.

Does that mean you should do stupid things and ruin your life? Probably not. But this is not about doing stupid things. It's about having the option and the option not being constrained by arbitrary things (ie who gets to decide that A is good and B is bad, A is okay, B is life destroying)

also, one thing to consider: It's mostly non-controversial that pot is harmless nowadays. The more you go back in time, the more pot was painted as wrecking your life, a gateway drug, etc. So a lot of what the effect of a drug are can (and is) hearsay + fear-mongering.
Yikes--it looks even worse on Google Street View.[0] That appears to be bridge P-03-023.[1] According to MassDOT, it was built in 1959 and "reconstructed" in 2010--which apparently meant "replacing the bridge decks, ... and upgrading bridge and approach railings,"[2] not fixes to the part that appears to be disintegrating. It was last inspected in 2019.[1]

[0]: https://www.google.com/maps/@42.5194293,-70.9935589,3a,75y,3...

[1]: https://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?url=https%3A%...

[2]: https://hwy.massdot.state.ma.us/ProjectInfo/Main.asp?ACTION=...
I believe alcohol is already pretty destructive. It’s been shown no level is really safe, it causes brain damage, although as to how much it’s not clear. I think weed is fairly similar. Tobacco gives you lung cancer. I don’t think we should just let people destroy themselves. We want a caring society.
It would be lovely if we could move closer to the Chinese consumer model re: QR codes in general. Wechat pay/Alipay are incredibly convenient.
A big thing is that this also happens on your dev machine with "docker run".

(Unless you know to use -p 127.0.0.1:1234:1234 instead of just -p 1234:1234 like all the examples on the web tell you.)
> Earlier Monday, Right Wing Watch said it had received a notice of a permanent ban related to rules violations in the video clips that it posts, which often show examples of alleged hate speech, conspiracy theories and other prohibited content.

So it sounds like that's the type of hosting provider they might want.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/youtube-reinstates-ch...