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You're completely right - SF is not about the future, in the same way that Narnia is not about wardrobes. It's an allegory about current society. Not trying to predict the future, but taking current trends and seeing where they go. The point is not really about guessing right or wrong, but making commentary on our current society and getting us to consider choices we may have to make.

Banks himself said that the Culture has no chance of being created by actual humans, that people would need to change in order to create it. But as a thought experiment for "what would a technological Utopia actually look like?" I think it's a very valuable contribution. There are very few Utopias that I've read about that I would actually want to live in - the Culture is probably the most attractive of any of them.

In this respect, the advent of lab-grown meat does pose the question of whether it's morally acceptable to eat animals. As far as I'm aware, only SF authors have considered this, because that's the kind of thing they do. A technological change has triggered a moral conundrum - this is the stuff that good SF ponders. It's not necessary to get the details of the technology right, or to correctly predict it. It's enough to get us thinking about this stuff before it happens.
I think we all understand that Type II is preventable but I don't think that's the main focus here. There are plenty of folks who have Type I that can't afford Insulin and have to ration it causing harm and additional costs in healthcare. It's slow mass murder for Type I diabetics who can't afford their medicine. If you believe that it is a supply and demand issue why does the same Insulin cost 80% less in a country like Canada and before you say it's subsidized, it isn't. An American can buy it for substantially less if they can get a prescription from a Canadian doctor.
As someone who has worked in a dev office in Beijing for a bit - no. Devs routinely took up to 2 hours for lunch breaks, and took numerous breaks in a day. I didn't blame them, mind, because the reason was obvious - for most people, it's just not possible to be completely engaged and invested for 12 hours a day, 6 days a week, forever. I'd estimate there was about 4-5 hours a day of properly productive work going on.
What you can look up is the MMM portfolio, Canadian Couch Portfolio and https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2014/02/worlds-worst-market...
That's not the right way to increase people's confidence in vaccines. It's not normal for journal board members to resign in protest at a paper even if they believe it has methodological errors, and their argument in this case is especially weak, consisting as it does of:

1. Only virologists and "vaccinologists" may express opinions on the safety of vaccines. This is argument by authority and especially bad given the obvious conflicts of interest both groups have, along with the fact that many virologists were just exposed as engaging in a massive conspiracy and coverup re: lab leaks.

2. A complaint that classifying a post vaccine death as a vaccine-caused death is not OK. Where were these people when COVID deaths were defined as any death at all within 28 days of a positive test, regardless of comorbidities or age? Are they resigning in protest at that? No? If not, why not? Isn't this massive hypocrisy? And wouldn't they be concerned at the risk of inconsistent classification by doctors given the extreme emotions attached to the topic, as evidenced by their own response?

Real scientists would respond to a paper they thought was wrong with another paper explaining why it's wrong. These "scientists" are refusing to do so and demanding retraction on the basis that the paper is being referenced by "anti-vaxxers". In other words, the conclusion itself is considered sufficient grounds for retraction.

How can anyone believe the scientific world is on top of the vaccine safety topic when clearly un-scientific behavior like this is occurring?
> Thank you for clarifying that your downvote was definitely not an emotional overreaction. :)

Smileys don’t turn snide into humour, so now you can add “naked ad hominem” to the litany of downvote attractors.
I was already a daily consumer of Sriracha before I saw the awesome 33m documentary film. Brand "loyalty" is, I think, the operative term.

https://vimeo.com/ondemand/sriracha#_=_
To be fair, they aren't (at least not yet). You can still set up a local account.

As for why/whether Microsoft should decide that, it's kinda their call. Plenty of other apps/services/devices require an account of some type. (effectively) All require agreement with their terms of service.

By your logic, why aren't you irritated that Microsoft requires any type of account at all for Windows (same for any other OS)?
Should clarify that Madsen was kicked out of Copenhagen Suborbitals years before he murdered someone.
I don't see remote work necessarily helping introverts since communication and online social connection is even more important when it doesn't happen by simply being in the same physical space. There is also even less social context to draw upon which is a problem for people who struggle in understanding social nuance. Introverts can very easily not make the extra effort to stay connected with co-workers which will put them at a disadvantage in terms of promotions and so on.

I can see it helping those who have things like social anxiety with in person communication but that's very different from being an introvert.
Will the two ever provide different values?
I can't tell if this is a joke or not but the example of moving gold between non-friendly countries (do you mean smuggling?) is probably the least algorithmic thing out there... It's something where you absolutely will fail if you don't have tolerance for faults and flexibility to recover potential losses or change course while transacting...

The parent comment's real point was that the world isn't run algorithmically. An enterprise which tries to smuggle goods may not be able to reverse transactions if they transfer too much, but they should be able to react to an overcharge and shut down operations before they lose everything. Or they should be able to stop a shipment before it reaches the border. Or they should be able to change the rules of their trade if government rules change in between.

That's the kind of stuff smart contracts tend to ignore or forget about. They have little flexibility in them in a world that's constantly in flux.
> Clean high touch surfaces daily.

A checkout belt isn't even close to a 'high-touch' surface - I don't think I've ever touched one, and neither do the checkers. And the difference between 'daily' and 4-500x daily is dramatic.
More likely it’s not stable or no way to synthesize it. Complex molecules have internal “stress” that needs to be weaker than the individual bonds. Making explosives is often maximizing that stress while still making a viable molecule, kind of like a mouse trap.
If that's actually the case that puts all the "You're literally killing us with expensive insulin prices" people in a very negative light. At best they're ill-informed, at worst they're being intentionally deceptive to achieve political aims.
Naive q: would solutions like GUNdb[1] relieve the synchronization issue or are there special considerations with flash cards that favor some other strategy?

1: https://github.com/amark/gun
While there is definitely a real notable shift to be described here, I wouldn't want to go as far as saying that being an introvert is a true advantage over being an extrovert now (similarly, I wouldn't describe people like Bezos and Zuckerberg as 'quiet' - they are definitely spending their days communicating with a lot more people than I do, rather than programming alone in their bedrooms. Sure they're not taking interviews from journalists all day, but why would they?).

I make this comment because the largest mistake I made in my adolescence was continually being too quiet, which later on I realized made just about any goal I had harder on myself, whether it was basic networking, meeting potential co-founders, customers, partners, or whatever it may be. It took me many years to realize how to be extroverted in a much more effective way, and even longer to become comfortable with things like cold-emailing people to ask for things.

The skills and mindset of an introvert may be more valuable now, but knowing when you should put on your extrovert hat is still one of the highest ROI skills that one can learn (and also can be pretty difficult for many introverted mindsets to become comfortable with).
How much of that is preference tho? When you make coffee for yourself it’s easier for it to be what you like.
> "Queue meeting my now asian wife..."

wow, what was she before she was asian? (i kid!)

i like sriracha, but i don't really get the craze, personally preferring sambal oelek (garlic chili sauce) and tapatio more.
> Factor in the Bond-villain architectural aesthetic and it's really just too much to take seriously.

-- Sith admin
Congrats! Checkout the book “The barbell prescription”.
I don't know what they'd have to do with it. It's the CPU, not the motherboard, that's being blacklisted by Microsoft. I could upgrade to a Threadripper 2950X without changing anything else, and it'd be supported. I just don't think a "free" upgrade to Windows 11 should force me to spend $800 when there's no technical justification for it. I have a 3-year old enthusiast/gamer system, it seems crazy that a high-end CPU introduced less than 4 years ago would be unsupported.
I would argue that its those restrictions that make trees a useful simplification, but also a simplification
I wonder how much other traits and attributes that previously had high benefit have fallen off due to the increased amount of remote work.

For example, there is some correlation with being tall and being successful. Probably similar for attractiveness things that don't show up in a video of just your face.
> The world does not turn on elite cultural panic.

Hear hear! I feel it should be said as a bookend: elite media discourse _does_ turn on elite cultural panic.
Is this poster allowed to post their thing for us to see?
Please post your biz.
Coming from someone who was close with them, both near and byuu are appropriate, and as for gender pronouns they did not prefer any "they/them/he/she" are all ok
Apple has 1.65 billion active devices (iPhone, iPad, Mac). 1 billion active iPhones alone.

That's neither here nor there, though, and I would hardly say that means that Apple "reigns supreme", or remotely close. It seems like they're an important player among important players.

Microsoft, Apple, Google (with a subscript of Samsung), and to a much lesser degree Sony dictate our digital life now.
If UTC is corrected to match GMT: what's the difference, aside from conceptual?
It's not Safari. It's worse than Safari, because it misses some API to match a proper Safari.
If you have concrete accusations, share them. Otherwise you're no better than a troll.
It’s a little more complicated than that. Bread is ingested through a system optimized to absorb nutrients from outside the body.

Insulin must make it into the bloodstream intact, typically through injection. It’s also incredibly potent, a unit of insulin dried to crystalline form weighs less than 40 micrograms, so it much be administered in a sterile carrier fluid.

Lastly the penalty for overdosing is generally called insulin shock or diabetic hypoglycemia, and ‘it is rare but possible for diabetic hypoglycemia to result in brain damage or death. Indeed, an estimated 2–4% of deaths of people with type 1 diabetes mellitus have been attributed to hypoglycemia.‘ [1]

That’s with pharmaceutical insulin, not DIY.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diabetic_hypoglycemia
Not to be a party pooper, but that’s part of their threat model. They expect some % of users to mislabel, intentionally or not.

To really cause problems, you would have to incentivize a large number of other web users to also mislabel the same images.
Where does the legality of a contract get determined?

The execution of a contract seems distinct from is legal validation.
computer usage is very different outside the US
Google to reopen California offices on voluntary basis in July
I think it's the powers that be trying to scare the unvaccinated masses into getting a vaccine. A much easier approach would be to give $100 to anyone who gets their vaccine.
Those same people are way less equipped to use crypto. I have been to shops in rural areas in third world countries which have credit card machines running over telephone lines. Broadband internet and fancy tech is still a decade+ away for a lot of parts of the world.
> High-paying careers favor those with the stomach for deep, solitary work.

Where can I get some of this high-paid, deep, solitary work? These days software engineering is ultra-collaborative, and I doubt anybody would say that doctors/nurses, managers, finance people, or lawyers are doing deep, solitary work.
Solar panels are mostly sand. If you somehow run out of some of the trace elements in PV panels you can always build mirrors for solar-thermal. That has the added benefit that it produces power at night, but the drawback that it costs a bit more than PV.
I mean just take a look in any book of algorithms and think for yourself how many have inherent parallelism.
Republic Wireless mobile numbers often look like voip because it's a MVNO run by Bandwidth.com (a large wholesale voip carrier). It's apparently in the process of being sold to Dish Wireless though, so that may change.

I think the IRS may have access to customer names associated with mobile phone accounts to confirm identity, but not all carriers have identity information for their customers, and I'd guess smaller carriers (or privacy focused carriers, if any exist) may not provide that access.
American chocolate is probably a bad example because what makes it bad is the lack of cocoa.

If we sold "American coffee" that was 99% chicory and 1% coffee, it'd also get a lot of hate.
InnoDB: Converting old atomic code to C++11
Why not go all they way and let everything run in ring 0? Then Intel can prefetch beyond kernel entry calls again! And we also can see how AMD will performing under the same conditions!

With Intels wave of TSX disabling patches going over all the previous CPU generations, AMD apparently got it right by never bringing their own version into production at all.
Well then, C++ doesn't have encapsulation, therefore C++ isn't OO. Hell, even Java isn't OO if you allow JNI.
I would not call this "stickiness" - it is about having control over your customers. The latter is hierarchical, not on eye's level. Stickiness could imply a quid pro quo status though.
It’s unjust for a government to regulate what enters its borders from another country? So you’re suggesting that the U.K. should allow assault rifles to be sold from the USA, in spite of the fact they’re outright illegal to own inside the borders of the U.K.

Why is it unjust when literally the entire U.K. population is in support of this position?
To add to dragonwriter’s response, I raise you Sir Kensington’s [1]. They’re popular in San Francisco (used at Super Duper Burgers, for example) and available at Whole Foods and on Good Eggs.

Even Heinz offers its own organic variant [2], but IIRC it’s not particularly different from the regular.

Finally, the category also includes tomato “jam” (and some might include tomato chutney), tomato-based BBQ sauces, and even tomato-based salsa (commonly used for egg dishes in place of ketchup).

[1] https://www.sirkensingtons.com/product/ketchup

[2] https://www.heinz.com/product/00013000008990
You are not addressing my main point which is that these MCO's distort their "net margin" stat using accounting tricks. And yes PBM's are INCREDIBLY profitable. Express scripts made 4.5 billion in net income in 2017. They have never produced a drug that has saved a life.

PBMs are important but they should not be able to put a gun to these pharma companies heads because they control the formulary.

CVS net margin includes their retail business. You can't compare AWS's margin to Walmart's e-commerce margin.
> I've been considering making the switch to a Linux distro full-time

I forget what my last straw was, but I went full Linux for all of my home computers around 2012 or so. At the time it bricked a piece of novelty hardware for me which I later ended up selling anyway, and that was not a hard choice to make.

My life has been so much better.

I segregate my usage of Windows and Mac OSs to work. I enjoy my OS sanity when at home.
Exactly. Windows Defender comes with Windows for free, and does a pretty good job protecting home users. However, ransomware is still the most prolific cyber threat for home users, and Defender can't do much against it if the malware executes before Defender can stop/detect it.

Integrating OneDrive automatically for Photos, Documents, etc, can seriously aide in protecting those important files for end users, since the un-encrypted versions of their files will still be available on OneDrive after a successful attack.

What if Defender was only an option for Microsoft account users? Then it'd be "look at these greedy assholes that just want to collect all your data", when really it'd be an effort for them to protect the reputation of Defender by forcing full functionality by default.
You cannot renew a patent in the US. They get a new product patented, but anyone is still free to come along and make the older one. However, I bet there is a ton of expertise and cost required with doing that, and that is what is stopping others.
its what plants crave!
I guess the question is, do countries with socialized healthcare provide the cheap version or the expensive one?
Because most YC companies aren't growing. They are dying a slow death by being a zombie company.
Much of the world literally does run algorithmically. Literally every day you trust your life, privacy and money to algorithms that make decisions without human intervention. The financial system trades trillions of dollars in automated systems that make split-second decisions in a way that precludes human supervision. Hedge funds and banks already trust algorithms that if broken could lose billions.

The existence of flawed software does not mean that it’s impossible to make reliable or trustworthy software. If you’ll never trust your money to a smart contract no matter how vetted, then I’d recommend you never fly a plane or store personal data in the cloud.
Why forever and not terminated at the author’s funeral (or 20 years after publication, whichever is later)?
I honestly don't understand why this coin even makes the news. At $250K it was less than a microcap penny token. It's insignificant and not worth a print.
The Romans destroyed the Jewish state and renamed the area. I don't celebrate that but I'm sure that there has not been a Jewish state since the 10th century. That is the difference.
"Censorship" has become incredibly tiring as a topic lately. Sure, freedom of speech is important and all, but in video game circles, if the skirt-length of a female character is increased by a few inches, you'll get a bunch of trolls calling "censorship" of said character.

Case in point: Dead or Alive 6 vs 5, or Guilty Gear Strive vs Xrd. Apparently "Sony" is the big bad and is forcing developers to cover up more female characters or something. I honestly don't care but... really, this sort of thing is coming up these days. (Actually, the newest costume change was Pyra & Mythra's costumes in Super Smash Bros Ultimate, now that I think of it).

Its gotten ridiculous, and I can't trust the face of these "censorship" complaints very much anymore. Its like "Censorship" is used as a complain for anything and everything these days.

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I think there can be a discussion about the appropriate amount of sexuality / sexiness in video game characters (especially the female characters). But as soon as the "censorship" trolls enter the discussion, its all over. Its just trolls all the way down, and the discussion dies.

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Anyway, I realize this is completely tangential to the discussion on this particular science blog. But I'm more of a video gamer, so I'm seeing more and more of this "censorship" talk around video game sites.
I'm a crypto head but I don't think it will ever replace traditional systems in any way. For me, DeFi is its own cyberpunk universe where this stuff is part of the game.
Bullshit. He was never bullied on site, and it is against the site rules to harass lolcows as well. As a matter of fact, he was even praised in several posts for his skills. I did criticize him as well, but it was about him bloating the fuck out of the Bahamut Lagoon translated ROM. He was criticized for his stupid actions and drama, no personal attacks. If anything, the finger is being pointed at his surroundings, the troons and furries that coerced him into taking some DIY hormones that were made by some gipsy in the back of his busted-ass Yugo. They never thought about contacting the authorities about his condition. It was actually Kiwifarms member that attempted to do something, based on the little information that was available.
And now the troons are probably scalping their hormones to other troons so they can pay for DDoS botnets.
Fair Code: adding Commons Clause to OSI-approved licenses
So... sending money to where your own government forbids you to send it? It sounds like you're admitting that the point of cryptocurrency is simply to break the law, while pretending like the purpose is much bigger.
They also tend to have a more reliable absorption curve. I take both Novolog (short acting) and Lantus (long acting), which are the newer insulins. Lantus has a more predictable long acting curve than the older L did, even though I take it in a 12 hour cycle. It rises not so much like a bell, but more like a plateau, I guess it a better analogy. At least for me. The L really was a pain for planning, especially when physical activity was involved, as it would shorten the bell curve.
There is a cancer called CML, it used to be fatal, now there are targeted chemotherapies that work by inhibiting a tyrosine kinase. The test for the cancer is detecting the fusion gene Bcr-Abl. People with CML take a pill daily that targets the protein that is made by that abnormal gene.

The DNA paradigm explains this very well. How does the book explain this treatment?

How about a stem cell transplant? Why do they cure certain cancers? Does the metabolism of the person donating their stem cells get taken up and adopted permanently by the recipient?
I don't know enough about Django's API to speak intelligently, but I have 15 years of Python experience and (except when APIs require it) it's perfectly easy to write Python code without using inheritance (and your code base will be better because of it). If Django or whatever requires using inheritance, you have my sympathy, and I'm not arguing that you should go to great lengths to avoid it--I'm arguing that from a language design perspective inheritance is a mistake.
Queue meeting

Cue meeting. We have to trie to do better.

https://grammarist.com/usage/cue-queue/