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"Making all drugs legal is only the first step to solving the problem, but if it was legal we wouldn't be dealing with homemade meth, fentanyl, overdoses, and death by involuntary withdrawal..."

I'm 110% for legalization, but we need to set realistic expectations.

Legalization will make drug use way, way, way safer and lots less people will die and have their lives ruined (both from safer drugs and because they're not getting arrested, separated from their families, imprisoned, or killed by the police, etc..).

But overdoses will still happen because some people will still:

1 - intentionally overdose to kill themselves

2 - mix drugs, which is usually way more dangerous than using a single drug, and (depending on the drugs) how they interact might not even be known, so no safe dosage can be ascertained even if both were perfectly legal.. incidentally, mixing any of a large variety of drugs with alcohol is one of the deadliest combinations

3 - while on drugs people tend not to make the most carefully considered decisions, including whether to take more

Of course, all of this is still possible and still done even when drugs are illegal, and making drugs legal will improve almost all of these outcomes (except intentional suicide), since at least the drugs in question will be of known purity and dosage.. but there will still be overdoses (just a lot less of them).
Just because you have good eyesight doesn’t mean everyone else does
If I dump a bunch of wasps in your house, and I say, “hey, watch out for the wasps”, and then you get stung by some wasps — well, it’s pretty damn obvious what’s happening. Can you prove it? Eventually, maybe. And often times these extreme weather events do get properly studied and officially linked to Climate Change. Years later, after people make the same tired points about how you can’t prove this is linked to climate, yada yada yada.
MySQL/MariaDB have a completely open root account too... although default firewall rules should prevent public access too, unless Docker likes to punch that hole open too.

Yes, root account password and access permissions should be changed upon a fresh install, but the real issue here is Docker's "helpfulness" by opening ports without explicit permission. That's absurd, and has no reasonable excuse.
Best John/Cavil quote of BSG!
As someone who has learned and is learning multiple languages this rings true to me. Duolingo is very good for getting started and acquiring the basic vocabulary. but it plateaus rapidly. After that you don’t get much from it and you should use something that uses mini stories with a larger context and preferably audio read by natives (Small aside: Duolingo has awesome mini story podcasts for Spanish and French which they should incorporate into their app). The best tool I found for the mini story approach is Lingq, which is not so good at getting you started though. You’re also right about the gamification. This is something Duolingo absolutely nails. A friend’s mother is addicted to doing her English lessons and has a 2 year streak. But she also barely speaks English yet, which is unsurprising to me given the fact she only ever uses Duolingo.
I mean, at some point, success is the definition of success. Perhaps you're misinterpreting what the average consumer wants in a language learning app.
We self-host a postgres cluster in k8s (AKS).

The main reason being that the Azure postgres offering was not fit for (our) purpose.

We did start with the Azure offering, and our default is generally to use the cloud offering.
Something that drives me bonkers about current tree shaking is that there’s no good way to see what got shaken.

I want a graph that shows me all the branches that got culled.

Even better would be a dependency graph that shows me what is causing things not to be culled.

I had an issue where Antd was pulling in 200KB of icons and I couldn’t figure out why until I spent hours bisecting it by commenting out entire sections of my application.
Digital menus can work when they are made for the digital format. Most Qr codes are just the menus that were made to look beautiful on paper and suck to look at on your phone, I don't want to have to open up my phone and jump between pages on two separate documents on my phone. It's also terrible that I have to waste my battery life to order food every time.

The ideal situation is isn't the China situation people are describing of scanning with their phone and opening an app or custom made site, it's the situation in Japan with a small tablet on the table everyone just puts their orders into and food is delivered as the orders are received when combined with a call bell for refills or asking questions. I don't have to install anything or worry about tracking.
> The condo association officers are likely volunteers, elected by the condo owners, and indemnified by the association.

Indemnity tends to have limited scope, and whether a particular claim is within it is a question resolved in a lawsuit.

> They are just homeowners like everyone else

No, they aren't, because they are differently situated.

> unlikely to have any expertise in engineering or understanding engineering reports.

Special expertise is not required for culpabale negligence or culpable non-, mis-, or malfeasance. Whether, for instance, the reports they received provided sufficient notice of danger that they should, under the duty of carr applicable, have acted differently and their failure to so contributed to the harms to persons and property in the collapse is...precisely the kind of question resolved in a lawsuit.

> And possibly also now dead.

Death does not erase legal liabilities, generally. Its true that, after published notice of death, there is usually a limited time to file claims against the estate (which, with a live defendant, might have more time under applicable statutes of limitations, etc.) But that just adds urgency to identifying and acting on potential claims here, where, yes, some of the potential defendants might also have died in the event.
I had no idea such a project was ever undertaken elsewhere in the world. In any case, I wish some examples of lessons or facts learned during similar studies elsewhere were presented. It sounds fascinating!
Yeah, I agree. Even if a tool is effective if you can't motivate the user it's all for naught.

I just wish that concentrating on this aspect wasn't so disproportionately rewarded by the market; after all an educational tool should primarily be judged by how effective it is in actually educating, and the "fun" factor should only be a bonus, where with the current state of affairs it kinda seems like it's the other way around.
I'd consider them like mustard and brown mustard, some broad differences but ultimately both versions of the same concept.
I suppose my premise is that engineers often delude themselves into thinking that they know it well enough to implement docker when they dont. Id much rather prefer that the regular developers focus on the coding and leave those decisions to actual devops folks who can focus on getting this stuff right. But the simplicity of dockerfile lulls many into thinking if they run something with it it's production ready.
Why do you assume he's built a straw man and not just had a different experience from you? Service levels vary across the planet. I used to live in Europe and restaurant service was always dreadfully slow, it could take ages to get the menu and order and pay, having a digital system in many of those restaurants would be fantastic
That's not correct. If you are market cap weighted and Tesla prices crash, that lowers the market cap of Tesla thus making it a smaller percentage of the total market cap of the index. Or, if some of the other companies were to take off and increase their market cap, same thing, the fund will need to sell Tesla shares to redistribute the fund by market cap.
Isn’t that 2% of CFR (particularly also hospitalizations), not IFR? Still many people (and thus is the reason that historically regions of the US, dating back to George Washington, mandated some vaccines), just not the whole world.
anecdotal evidence: in WA state where weed is legal, I have not heard of anyone buying weed on the street. Why would you risk it when you have good quality stuff that you can buy in a safe location?

so you decriminalize it first and after that you make it straight up legal.

Organized crime is going to move to other things in response. There is a risk/reward curve.
> Criminalizing it just leads to absolutely ruined lives and misery on a much worse scale than just an unpleasant smell.

Not really. If you can't sleep in your own bed because a pungent smell of shit permeates your home that's not acceptable.

You might be happy to live like that but civilised people are not
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I'm not really clear about what you're describing, but a few thoughts...

log(t(A, X)) * log(t(A, X)) is log(t)^2, not 2log(t).

Not sure if "split memory not by halves but by interleaving fragments" is crucial, but splitting by anything other than halves leads to complexity > log2. The more unbalanced the splits, the worse the complexity. The upper bound is O(n).

It seems you're proposing the creation of a (merkel) tree which maps algorithm A's domain (inputs) to its co-domain (outputs), and then inverting that tree to map the co-domain to the domain. If that's the case, the problem is that creating just the initial tree is O(2^n); I think this is implied when you specified "infinite memory". Then you have further operations to invert. Once you have the inverted tree, any particular lookup is indeed O(log n), but you have to amoritize the initial setup, and you wind up with O([k * 2^n] + log(n)), where k is 1/number-of-lookups-performed.
Isn't this the same thing? Companies want to extract the last drop of life from they employees, and they don't think it makes sense anymore. If companies wanted to keep them, they would just let these employees work less (which is basically the same as paying more per worker).
How is it not controversial? Most studies seem to suggest the effect is not known.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4337025/

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4827335/

Definitely seems to suggest there are potentially harmful side effects.
Well, IMO, that's not entirely true. The idea of a hash-based unalterable ledger is still unique (what's a comparable strategy?), but is still finding its footing. I think a blockchain has applications, and maybe cryptocurrency will be one, but this is all in its infancy. Applications are still being considered, and implementors are learning that hard way that the intersection of monetary systems, economic feasibility, and security is nontrivial and some brogrammer can't just knock out a coin in a weekend and have it be meaningful. I think it will take at least another few decades for a real cryptocurrency to emerge (if one ever does) and even then it will probably be small-scale (bank interchange?) or for some other application and not a global consumer thing. It just has too many issues that no one has figured out yet (transparancy, insurability, privacy, energy cost, scalability, transactional cost, etc.)
I like the idea, nice implementation, but I was hoping to be able to answer the door remotely.

One alternative I've been looking at is the ubiquiti doorbell, it allows answering the door with 1 way video and 2 way audio, without involving any cloud services.
They won't, they actually just want a monopoly on the harassment and negativity. They're either pretending or they have a serious case of cognitive dissonance.

Very weird that the "harmful people should be banned" crowds ALWAYS makes an exception for self-admitted pedophiles. It just goes to show that those clout-chasing liars don't care about making communities safer, they're harmful sadists who want to control and manipulate others so that they can freely abuse people themselves.
> I mean in many cases the product is still profitable for them at the reduced rate, but why settle?

Because for a customer who would pay nothing if their only choice was to get the drug at full price, settling for a reduced price (especially when you also get a tax deduction, and some PR benefit from advertising the discount for the needy) is more profitable than not settling.
FFS people - we don’t need a peer reviewed study of every extreme weather event to tell us it’s Climate Change. It was 115 degrees in Portland Oregon today. Beating the previous record that was [checks notes] … yesterday.
A power or connectivity loss may happen. A DC does not need to be destroyed or something, just a backhoe acting up somewhere.
Its like choosing to be a water molecule surrounded by 2 billion other water molecules vibrating away in a jar and someone puts a spoon in and throws out a few molecules from here and there.

They claim specific high energy molecules must be targeted to prevent temperature rising in the whole jar, possibly leading to some unpredictable phase transition event such as everything evaporating.

I have no problem with this. I only think it should be random. Once you choose to be a water molecule, why have delusions of control?
That also sounds like it would pull in salt water, which as I understand it is a problem at least in Jakarta: a lot of previously fresh-water wells in the area have become salty due to ocean water seeping in to fill the void.
So the notice period is up to 30 days.
Tiktok ?
It's a beautiful quote. I truly think what the quote describes is the endgame for our species. This short story conceptualizes the beauty of such an idea really well: http://www.skyhunter.com/marcs/GentleSeduction.html
Why not just shield everyone's phone and email records? Is Sen. Wyden going to start a journalist registry so the domestic spies know who is shielded?

The Protect Reporters from Excessive State Suppression (PRESS) Act ensures reporters cannot be compelled by the government to disclose their confidential sources or research files, and also protects their data held by third parties like phone and internet companies from being secretly seized by the government without the opportunity to challenge those demands in court.

https://www.wyden.senate.gov/news/press-releases/wyden-relea...

(1) COVERED JOURNALIST.—The term ‘‘covered journalist’’ means a person who gathers, prepares, collects, photographs, records, writes, edits, reports, or publishes news or information that concerns local, national, or international events or other matters of public interest for dissemination to the public.

https://www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/HEN21909.pdf

After 85 days in jail, Miller was released and testified before a grand jury that prior to the Novak column, she had several discussions with Scooter Libby in which he talked about Plame. On November 9 of that same year, Miller announced her retirement from the Times after a 28-year career with the newspaper.

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/reporter-judith-...
That doesn't work. In particular in modern buildings there might be 600+ residents with very few apartments per floor.

The vectors for spreading of air between apartments can be varied. Internal, external, air intakes, communal infrastructure etc.

How this relates to the unavoidable and highly pungent smell of weed I do not know
Seriously, I want this in my retinas, along with the sixteen mantis shrimp photoreceptors. And dog ears.
I think you missed my point. If this misbehaving is a competitive advantage, you will have a hard time convincing shareholders that they must stop.
It is unlikely that we will be able to use IP as a way to create a single network between Earth and Mars much less outside the solar system.
look, if someone wants to kill themselves they will find a way.

IMHO, education is the key. With great power (access to drugs) comes great responsibility (you need to do the right thing). Nobody will mix things they know will get them killed. Nobody will overdose on purpose. Education and Personal Freedom.
Reduces tracking vectors too.
The way to become a really good chess player does not involve building a chess-playing algorithm. Of course, the efficiency of the work you put in matters a lot but that’s whay gives you an edge: the ability to work hard is a hygiene factor.
I'm missing Quectel, which does excellent Cortex-M4 combos with radio chips (eg MT2565 + Broadcom's)
yeah but "lower the tax rate" is a lot easier of an incremental policy change than "litigate the tax rate on cannabis before legalization even happens".
If you have something that can read a QR code you also have something that can magnify text.
Perhaps I'm getting into semantics, but I've heard the distinction made between legalization and decriminalization. Based on my understanding, 'decriminalization' is essentially "don't prosecute someone for using drugs," which can shift funding away from police and toward health care, focusing our societal attention accordingly. Contrast this with 'legalization', which I would phrase as having a sanctioned way to legally sell to the general public.

Am I wrong here? When I see people saying, "Legalize all drugs," I interpret it to mean, "make it so anyone can sell drugs and pay taxes on them" which seems pretty extreme to me. But "decriminalize all drugs" makes a lot more sense in this context. To be clear, it seems logical to me that we stop arresting people for using drugs, but it doesn't seem reasonable to go a step further and allow retail sales of opioids. (Again, it's complicated by the catchall term 'drugs', where retail pot sales are much less problematic than the example of opioids.)

Edit: Recognizing that exceedingly few people are likely to wake up one day and say, "I think I'll try heroin," maybe there's less of a difference between these two terms than I imagine? If legalization means regulations on the quality/purity of the product, for example, then 'sanctioning' retail sales would provide a benefit that 'decriminalization' wouldn't have.
Thanks for the tip! Ads in Duolingo have become so obnoxious I stopped using it (I have better language apps that I pay for so the plus plan doesn’t make sense for me). This is probably the biggest risk for this IPO. You spend almost as much time dismissing ads and popups as you are learning the language. I can’t imagine this is helping them attract new users or converting users to the plus model for that matter. And no I don’t want notifications especially if you ask every 2 minutes.
> Just wanted to check in

It sounds like you already know this is a firing email.

The best thing is to reset your career. Graduate school is a very good way to do this. Get some wins, it will pep you up.

> how can a company expect to retain employees/contractors if the only work available is the same tedium over a long period of time, and no way to change that?

Getting fired sucks dude.
I am guessing you then ask for a paper menu and they give you one. You can probably just do that even if you don't have any issues. I've done that a few times when the online menu was annoying.
Definitely not looking forward to it whenever I get to travel internationally again and am relegated to free 2G or 3G networks and trying to load a restaurants heavy website just so I can look at the menu.
I have nothing against Julia, but most of those examples could have been written with singledispatch in Python. Seems a bit disingenuous to just completely ignore it. (not to mention the "In Python, this is solved with" type examples aren't representative of how anyone would actually write it)
Nope. Different countries have different rules. Invoking lease breach contracts in my country requires a high court judgement. That would take potentially years to achieve and a lot of money and multiple stakeholders involvement.

Unfortunately keeping weed a criminal substance is the best option as police enforcement can be sought to counter anti social behaviour.

Furthermore, noise is regulated by local authorities in my jurisdiction
You understood mostly right, but see my another comment for more detailed proof that does address this issue by ignoring zero-filled fragments of INFINITE memory.

There is no "n".
Opening statement is doing a disservice. Most parts of the world racism is defined on language/cultural maps, not literally black and white skin. For example the Rwandan genocide, is based on ethnic clashes where all people there have the same literal skin color. But they are part of different ethnicities.

Then you have the bosnian genocide, same skin color and even language. But culturally they were different enough for some other humans to target.
Yes, sorry about typo and thanks for the link.
Maybe I am being simplistic, but the article’s many points basically seem to suggest that Amazon is run well while Google is not, in part because Google can afford to be undisciplined with its high profit margins. The person quoted even plainly says the employees produced by Amazon’s culture are better:

> If I were to be hiring, I'd follow Amazon's method and hire ex-Amazonians over Google's, by a significant margin.
No kidding! I got in the habit of not taking my phone with me everywhere I go, and suddenly QR codes and beer-tap menus are all online? Great.
More detailed proof of P=NP with errors corrected:
https://math.portonvictor.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/pnp...
It really depends on where you’re based and what level of trust you have in the manager.
In some countries a company will go quite far to keep their employees - it’s expensive to both hire and then train new ones. In others, the manager gets measured just as much and he needs his bonus (or simply just his salary) as much as you do.

Either way, there isn’t much you can do if the burnout is real, other than being honest. Explain why you’re feeling burned out, perhaps even come up with suggestions to how it potentially could be mitigated. A good manager will try to accommodate you in some way. If they’ve been with the company for a long time, they might even have experience with dealing with burned out staff or have the option to shuffle some tasks around to give a tiny bit of variety.
If he can’t and just lets you go, then the deadline just moved - if you were burning out, it would eventually have come to this anyway. Hard to hear, harder to experience but nothing to do but look for something new with more meat on it :)
Setting up a scam payment processing account for that doesn't seem worth the effort when it's going to be reported for fraud basically immediately.
Well, https://math.portonvictor.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/pnp...
I think Youtube requires 25,000 subscribers to get your account monetized now.

Then for each video, you can't use disputed backrground songs.

And you can't trigger the YT SJW staff - one of the most popular YT content creators is NTD Media, which is totally demonetized across their 20 or so channels, for no valid reason.
> Staying away from it is still not the best strategy

There's a whole generation of sysadmins that use docker so that they can stay away from foundational knowledge. We interview experienced devops who do not know/understand how to build basic packages from source (e.g. they don't understand the ./configure, make, make install chain) and who only have basic knowledge of the underlying operating system.