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I was curious about whether dollar stores are really a magnet for crime based on this article. Just looking up the stores on Wikipedia to get their location counts I found that there were 15,115 Dollar Tree (Family Dollar) stores and 16,278 Dollar Generals. When I looked up a Dollar General in St. Louis on Google Maps I saw there was a McDonald's right next to it. Wikipedia says there are 37,855 McDonald's - which isn't great because that number is worldwide locations. Statista says 14,339[1] locations in the US as of 2014. The article also mentions Wendy's which has 6,711 locations according to Wikipedia. Walgreen's is a store that's kind of like a Dollar Store in that it isn't a restaurant, you walk around and buy things from shelves. There are 9,277 Walgreen's according to Wikipedia.

The author's method of counting gun crimes in dollar stores seems to be using the Gun Violence Archive[2]. "The Gun Violence Archive, a website that uses local news reports and law enforcement sources to tally crimes involving ﬁrearms, lists more than 200 violent incidents involving guns at Family Dollar or Dollar General".

I searched the GVA for "Family Dollar" or "Dollar General" and found 465 incidents with 126 deaths. With 31,393 combined locations this is 0.015 incidents and 0.004 deaths per location for the 7 year time period.

I searched the GVA for "McDonalds" or "McDonald's" and found 534 incidents and 148 deaths. With 14,339 US locations this is 0.0372 incidents per store and 0.01 deaths per store for the 7 year time period. Approximately 2.5 times the incidents and deaths per location of the Dollar Stores.

I searched the GVA for "Wendys" or "Wendy's" and found 104 incidents with 27 deaths. This is 0.0155 incidents per location and 0.004 deaths per location. This is approximately equal to the Dollar Stores.

I searched the GVA for "Walgreens" or "Walgreen's" and found 180 incidents and 53 deaths. This is 0.019 incidents per store and 0.0057 deaths per store for the 7 year period. This 1.3 times as many incidents and 1.4 times the deaths of the Dollar Stores.

My interpretation of this is that the Gun Violence Archive is probably not a great way to estimate violence. For example, I also searched the GVA for "Advance America" - one of the largest payday loans places in the US and found only a single incident whereas just Googling "Advance America shooting" turns up more than 1 distinct incident. Generally, it seems implausible to me that McDonald's or Walgreen's, which are widely distributed across the US, has 2.5 or 1.4 times the incident and death rate compared to the Dollar Stores or to Wendy's. If that's accurate, maybe it should be the next article!

Regardless, given that the GVA is the author's tool of choice, from my use of it, it doesn't seem justified to call out Dollar Stores as being especially violent. Wendy's is seemingly just as bad and McDonald's is worse. Unless I'm missing something, I think this article was interesting to read, but ultimately misleading.

1 - https://www.statista.com/statistics/256040/mcdonalds-restaur...

2 - https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/
I try to keep extensive documentation for our standards and processes, and I've recently also started a weekly internal blog describing challenges, updates and tasks. Handing over this whole thing along with a few face to face sessions has seemed to work with new joinees.
Slightly OT, but what is the best practice to store (archive) email locally after they have been read from a remote imap server?

3 Gb is plenty for a few months of "live" email but after that what should we do to keep those emails -- and still have them searchable if need be?
You know what would make bugs even less prevalent? rolling releases.

The fact that people think that slowing down release cadence would make MacOS somehow more stable seems to be missing the core fact that "changing 100 things at once" _is the problem_!

They give this stuff out for free, and I know there's marketing associated to OS releases, but stuff would be a lot more stable if they just shipped stuff over the year instead of deciding to break everyone's computer consistently once a year.

Have people on a rolling-release beta track or something, at least.
"Speech recognition software" responds in a very humanly voice. It's the very reason people want software assistants to have human voices, even female voices, because it makes them feel more at ease. And we don't have those sat-nav assistants saying things like "you made a mistake and missed your turn", even though we know they are robots and that might be a fact. So we are making computers behave like humans, but you then need to know the difference... how?
" Using a low-cost and free-of-salt accumulation TMSS architecture, we experimentally demonstrated a record-high solar-to-vapor conversion efficiency of 385% with a production rate of 5.78 L m−2 h−1 under one-sun illumination, where more than 75% of the total production was collected through condensation. "

Abstract is available here:

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2020/ee/c9ee0...

The original journal article is available here as a pdf:

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2020/ee/c9ee04122...
There's still the issue of what you do with all that salt
So you want to compete with Roblox
Honestly what a mess
If anyone is interested in a more informed and modern take try https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kindred_(book)
.. Reported Side effects and effect on Platelet Counts of AstraZeneca/Oxford and Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines.

More about risk of ITP and about safety of vaccines:

https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-study-...
I've used Python since 1995, so I should be biased, but switching from Python to R is a huge productivity boost - like switching from Excel to Python. R is just years ahead.
Why 0? If you remove the substance at the end point (e.g. water evaporation by trees) you should have a non-zero flow.
"Dark Mode" in the settings menu might have a double meaning here
Migadu is fantastic. No complaints. Their support is very responsive -- they even gave me a 50% student discount!
put it back into the ocean where it came from?
We aren't talking about engineers making advertising algorithms then washing their hands of them. It's quite common for engineers to develop a product using some code name, then hand it off to other groups such as marketing who decide what to call it after the fact. The engineers would have no idea whether it will be called "Alexa" or "XJ47B" and may even be long gone by the time it is decided anyway.

I think the question as I posed it works just fine. One simply needs a reasonable standard of what it means to have input. By your standard, everyone on earth had input since we all could have personally hounded Jeff Bezos with tweets or thrown ourselves in front of Amazon trucks as they tried to leave the warehouses. But certain employees were responsible for making these specific decisions on behalf of the company and those people may or may not have accepted input from employees. I suspect you already know what process is most likely to be in place at a large company like Amazon.
I had a IBM PS/2 286 with, IIRC, 4MB RAM, 30MB HD and one 3.5" floppy disk, bought 2nd hand in 1992 where I played Monkey Island 2 and several other games. So, maybe it was ancient but newer PCs were so expensive back in the day that there were people still happily using it.
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Unit testing was born in the Smalltalk community, good tooling is orthogonal to having tests.
R absolutely dominates some of the life sciences. For example, most of the state-of-the-art bioinformatics tools are in R.
> In production, they think a system built to serve the needs of a family might be built for around $100.

I think this is much more important to a great many people than the theoretical efficiency of reverse osmosis. Percentages greater than 100% always do well in media reports about these topics, but they're not necessarily the point of the exercise. If the goal was to produce a system that's as efficient as possible, the researchers wouldn't have used household-style supplies but more expensive, advanced materials.

Reverse osmosis is great for a central area such as a large city in a place with reliable distribution, but in many places around the world, an independent, affordable system that can turn seawater into drinking water for a family or two has much more value.
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That’s under federal law. A few states add some restrictions. 5 of them disallow listening to police frequencies on portable radios without a license (but a ham license is acceptable). Florida and New York are the biggest states with this restriction.
But there are limits to how much of those are beneficial to companies. It's not like doubling the amount of them will double the number of companies you have, there are limits to ROI there. As long as their employees can get to work in the morning, aren't feeling unsafe, the courts aren't corrupt and so on, the corporate need for rule of law is rather limited, and too much rule of law can easily turn into abusive lawsuits or stifling regulation that nails down whatever the status quo happens to be at the time.

As for generic infrastructure, most companies need roads, but other infrastructure is often handled by the private sector e.g. airports, ports, telecoms.

Realistically lots of countries can meet this minimum bar and it doesn't require high tax rates to do so. The countries that have lower corporate tax rates than this new attempt at a minimum standard do have working rule of law, stability and infrastructure. They aren't Somalia. So it's unclear how much scope countries have to compete in this area. On the other hand, efficiency provides scope for more or less unlimited competition. Minimum global tax rates are pretty directly an attempt to end competition on the axis that is both very important and also has most scope for improvement.
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"BEN: Now, take my case. They hung me up here five years ago. Every night, they take me down for twenty minutes, then they hang me up again, which I regard as very fair, in view of what I done, and, if nothing else, it's taught me to respect the Romans, and it's taught me... that you'll never get anywhere in this life, unless you're prepared to do a fair day's work for a fair day's pay! "
Monty Python

From my point of view the purpose of the American "justice" system is to teach some criminals a lesson.
I'm not sure about the descriptions of Neanderthals presented in this article, but the idea that old tales of orcs and elves originated many millennia ago as descriptions of other human species or other primates isn't that far-fetched.
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The relative impact of these upgrades is seriously impressive: install a FPU or upgrade your CPU Cache.
Thanks! Have you looked into source code escrow for this situation?
Your initial comment would have been a lot better if you had actually included that part ("The biggest impact we could make is to hold China accountable because 50% of their electricity ..."). As it is it looks a lot like whataboutism as another commenter remarked.
But that would affect all customers of Amazon SES because the IP addresses would score low by other email servers.
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That's a good point, but! I wonder if it couldn't be more efficient overall, if you look at it globally. Is an equivalent reverse osmosis installation cheaper or more expensive to produce, in terms of embodied energy that goes into manufacturing and maintaining all equipment, including control equipment?

Also, I wonder which system would be easier to slap together in a garage out of leftover junk. Not everyone can rely on access to commercial-grade, turn-key solutions to a problem. A design that could be reasonably DYIed could be better in certain contexts, even if less efficient.
That’s why you use a huge piece of brown paper. That way you can also roll it up and save it for another day.

It’s actually a methodology taught at Danish MBA schools called a brown paper exercise.

Experience will quickly teach you to tape the post-it’s to the paper before rolling it up though.
Let's hope, they're wrong. This corrupt idiot will destroy anything and everything. He just signed a paper to make building wind turbines A LOT harder and even wants to prevent people to take legal action against it.
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First, HN includes more than hacking and startups. Quting from the HN guidelines, "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity" can be submitted. Instead of posting a dismissive comment, you could also ask yourself - or the community - what others find interesting about this topic?

Here is my take: Mudras are an elaborate form of encoded symbolism with a long history in culture that influences a large part of the world. People trained in classical Indian dance will be able to decode a story based on these gestures, whereas someone who doesn't know much about it won't get the meaning. If you think about it like that, it's quite similar to code. At the end of the day, computer code is also just symbolism - so we as practitioners of this particular kind of symbolism can always learn about other forms of symbolism to improve our craft.
> Good luck teaching a 3-5 year old that when they keep receiving jokes from kids/adults they've just met.

3-5 yo kids are not yet smart enough to bully other kids with phrases like "alexa play disco". Many of them barely speak at 3 years. They just take other children toys to bully.

> those giving jokes out are probably just finding it funny that the kid is named like their smart assistant (when it is the other way around, actually). But for kids on the receiving end, it gets old really fast.

When they mean no harm, the receiving end will perceive no harm. In that case, yes, will just get bored. And while it is harmless, might be even a useful experience. For example, getting used to be in a centre of attention, which will greatly help with career in the future.

Like when a new kid joins the class, everyone says, hey, we have Alexa! And she gets a popularity point just for having a name.

> Kids would learn to deal with it themselves, sure: by not introducing themselves to new people, or by not wanting to go to places where there are people you need to introduce yourself to.

Then become a nun, and then live alone on a deserted island. That's possible, but unlikely.
Well, they say it will be non-biased, so I think the suggestion is to spam it with woke, LBTQ, pro-BLM content while it's still trying to get traction.
I'm 1.70m tall and living in the Netherlands with exactly the opposite problem. Most pants and other clothes are for taller men. I used to buy my clothes in River Island which had a good fit, but they closed the store last year. Buying men's clothes outside the norm is a pain.
I can remember when they were the hot thing in fast fashion, but they were pretty much crushed due to the horrendously bad PR. Grim company.
But there is inflation, it's just not in consumer price indexes. It seems to have mostly flowed into financial instruments of various kinds.

Also remember that inflation is compound. 4% a year inflation isn't a steady increase.
Same here. I used XML + XML Schema as input and transformed with XSLT + XML configs (UI layout metadata, validation rules) to HTML output. Even though the XSLT was huge in the end it remained rather well performant.
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Email is unencrypted by default anyway. Just encrypting your mailbox is not enough, because ultimately you are sending your email to someone else, and their mail server will have access to the email. For conversations where privacy is important, I would setup PGP or use another method of communication like Signal.
> Below a certain size, everything fuses, joins, or accumulates. But beyond a certain size,everything collapses or explodes

I suppose that (quasi) monopolists like Google, Amazon, and Apple are still to small for that thesis?
Not really. Backwards poor countries don’t get into wars in the Mediterranean Sea. You underestimate how much relative wealth and power the US had when it seceded. Frontier sure.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_Wars
Your custom domain pricing is weird. Is it really important to squeeze the extra $20/year out of the first user? It ends up being $50/year for the first user vs $12/year at Zoho. Why not just put custom domains in the basic tier?

DMARC reporting could be a huge value add if you could build something in. That whole industry is a massive ripoff and too expensive for small businesses.
Yeah, had this happen too. Whenever I try messing around with my ST folders, I make a backup copy just to be safe.
Facebook set to finance regional Australia newspaper fund
> Yea, they say as much in the data privacy FAQ. I think my recommendation is that if you're worried about being explicitly targeted by state actors, don't use email. (Not even Protonmail.)

Protonmail (and Tutanota, which I went with) both offer E2E encrypted email via open-source client apps, so they should be fine even against state actors if you use their encryption. In the case of Tutanota, this has even been tested in court.

Of course, if you use them to send or receive plain ol' unencrypted email, this largely goes out of the window regardless of the provider.
Very interesting indeed. You seem to know about this. Do you have any links where I can find more details (which is not easily Googleable?
isn't infrastructure an investment, not a cost, tho?
" if you use the jammer generally you are found. Occasionally pops up in the news." - only people who are found pop up in the news. Your logic looks faulty.
It is not really a war though is it? Some people prefer visual tools like Alteryx, Knime or Easy Data Transform. Other people prefer R or Python. And some people will alternate approaches, depending on the problem at hand. Also, many 'visual' tools include the option of text based programming, for flexibility.
If it only goes to 50 miles, that is short of the 62 miles where space begins...
Could there also be a sugar connection? Alzheimer's is referred to as "Type 3 Diabetes" where insulin resistance plays a role in a person developing the symptoms.

Do the populations of richer countries consume less sugar per head than poorer nations?
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The device itself would not be "on" the sea, it would just get water from it with a pipe/pump. I don't really see any reason it wouldn't work the same way by the sea: the main problem seems to be how to remove the salt, efficiently, not how to get water into the device, which is easier. Getting enough sun might even be harder than getting sea water.
Looks like it can even run bash, Python and Perl scripts so maybe we're not going to need Automator anyway.
The sea is a big place. I could imagine perhaps some very localised effects near the plant, but even this isn't obvious.
Do you know the climate impact of your food product?
Ah ok. Even so, Aviation is much more heavily regulated - compare getting a licence to drive a VW to getting a licence to fly a Cessna. And likely to stay that way, for these safety reasons.
You are not showing me empathy in interpreting my comment :D

I did not ask for people to show empathy to machines, but to communicate in a way they would with humans they do have empathy for, to ensure they do that with other people. Because software is increasingly made to behave like humans (there is this soft female voice responding in natural sentences), it is getting easier to confuse the two.

As I said in another comment, it's quite similar to how machines do not correct us with "You stupid human, you missed the right turn there. Now I have to recalculate the route to your destination again wasting energy and polluting the Earth some more. And it'll be 4km longer!" (which I would love as a "hilarious mode" on my sat-nav) — at best, it's just "recalculating" or more usually, just silently accepting our stupidity.

Even simple "You missed the turn again" would frustrate half the drivers, I am sure. But they are just software stating facts, right, and they can't have empathy for us, so that should be ok?
That might be the shortest Wikipedia article I have ever seen. Here[1] is a review from NPR that provides more info.

[1] - https://www.npr.org/2020/10/27/927772107/kindred-dismantles-...
I think of it as taking the combustible fuel energy required for a car's motor to drive it somewhere, divided by the energy required to turn the ignition key and press the pedal.
Marketing emails are actually against the terms of service, although there are grey areas- like a user personally reaches out to offer people a service, and some occasionally end up marked as spam. If the rate is low enough, it might be acceptable.

I'll make a note to make that language stronger.
https://faq-uk.uniqlo.com/articles/en_US/FAQ/Do-you-offer-al... :)
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It really depends on your usage. It can be a security feature for many contexts, but otherwise:

- docker - you need to be able to bind any folder

- IDE - you need to be able to edit basically anything

- office software beyond "I have some things in 'Documents'" - same

- python, ruby, any other interpreter - same

- brew, or any other package manager - same

etc. This simply doesn't work well for many developer workflows. I tried to use a dedicated app for per-app security control like that (can't remember the name anymore) - but for development it was a disaster. It just makes you click "allow" on a popup 10 times a day until you stop paying attention. Now, macos is not at that level yet, but the direction towards that is the complaint usually.
That seems like a very interesting attack vector. Compromise a key, have a replacement/fake ready. In the ensuing confusion you trick people to install your app.
Not really, but I'm fine with more alignment. Having the designs closer together is fine, being able to run iOS apps can be handy, shortcuts moving over is great news. As long as I don't start loosing access to the terminal, or the ability to load apps from any source then I'm pretty happy.
What do you mean you had to close your account for work?
This comment is the absolute pinnacle of... I don't even have the words to describe it.

"I've slogged through it and, after much trouble and time spent, have come upon the golden path. Here is the map of it; deviate from it at your peril."

Sometimes when I try to do this, people don't take it well; perhaps they think poorly of me for what they feel is me infantilizing them. I hope nobody feels that way about your comment.
Habe you seen an aerial view of Birmingham's "spaghetti junction"? ;0)
> As an aside, it is curious to me that many programmers are heavy PC gamers as the one true way to game and don’t complain about the mouse use there but will throw out all sorts of complaints when using it to program

Are those definitely the same people? Mouse use is certainly one of the reasons I gave up gaming. (The other being that an X hour working day is quite enough time to spend in front of a computer already).
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I'll probably weight that warning as "might be ml interesting". Seeing that what I like (the old Web) is dying a slow death under the weight of modern privatised censorship, what they're marking as bad might become signal, of sorts.
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