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This looks interesting. More like a conjunction of notion and metabase, I often use metabase and always want to write and share posts with synced data charts. Tellery looks like a solution for this. Will give it a shot.
Do you refer to the minority Disneylands in the Han ethno state?
magit with emacs: C-x g, c c y, <message> C-c C-c

git over command line: Alt + Tab(shell), git commit -a -m "<message>" RET

You see the problem. Even assuming the message is short and typed on the command line without invoking the editor, the number of keystrokes is more. Of course number of keystrokes is a minor thing, when you compare rebase and other operations.
What exactly is the question that you think I dodged? I guess I must have missed it because that wasn't my intention. However, I disagree that "better means nothing when we're talking about two really bad choices." We are talking about the two superpowers as they exist today, not a hypothetical reality.

I don't appreciate the personal attack about the education system and myself being affected by it. I said what I meant RE global spying, I can back up my reasoning with a much longer argument but I didn't think it was that important or necessary.

I don't understand your points about the last two (treatment of black people and war on terror). I thought it was pretty clear I thought those were awful... also not to get too personal but I am part black and grew up in a small rural area, don't think I don't understand what exactly racism is.
What rules did Uber break? I was under the impression that the startup model was to do things there are no rules for yet, and grow fast enough that you get to influence them when they're made.
> There were so many studies for example about cancer along the lines of "eating apples reduces cancer by 5%" and then you see people start eating apples for this reason. Somebody wrote a paper to get a publication with questionable results and people blindly believe in the power of science.

This is the problem with interpreting results... you can set up a study witn n=100k people, and find out that people who eat apples die 5% less from cancer, correlation is shown, and somewhere in the conclusion "more research is needed to find exact cause".

In practice, people who eat more fruits probably take care of themselves better, eat better diet,... etc.

I understood the parent as people believieng in something, without actually looking at data itself, thinking about it, considering other posibilities, and of course, declaring others (opposers) as heretics... for example, spring, last year, my government (and our scientists, and probably yours too, depending on where you live) said that masks are useless for fighting covid, even detrimental, so "believers" called the people who bought and wore them fearmongering paranoics.... then a random saturday came, masks became mandatory "from monday on", and those same people called the "antimaskers" conspiracy-theorists and worse for not wanting to wear masks.

Reality is of course a mixed bag... cotton masks prevent you from spitting everywhere, but don't actually block a lot of virus in the air. Surgical masks were practically impossible to buy back then. Masks outside, away from people are useless. etc.
In mfg., every time you double production, average cost goes down 20%.

So if you're playing the long game, you corner the market on production, then raise prices later.

BRI is a variation on that: use excess steel and cement in other countries, and give them loans to pay for it.
> One investor they met in a cafe walked out in the middle of meeting with them. They thought he was going to the bathroom, but he never came back. "He didn't even finish his smoothie," Brian said.

Wow. I'd love to know who this investor was, and to hear from him what his thoughts were back then.
In your very last sentence there; you summed up what I meant. I don't know why you expect me to come up with a solution on how to manage societies in a comment section.
If it helps, about a year ago I was replacing a UniFi setup at home and I was trying to decide with pfSense or OPNsense. After poking at both in VMs for about a week I settled on OPNsese.

My main reasons were that it did everything I wanted pfSense to do, something about the UI felt a bit smoother to me, and it didn't have the smarmy/wonky feeling that pfSense does (aggressive company behavior, closed-ish stuff, and then post-switch the Wireguard stuff happened).

I'm running this on a Protectli FW4B and have been quite happy. It's still doing exactly what I wanted, updates have been good, a bug I reported got fixed quickly, and it's... just working.

Also, by going to open hardware (and not the Netgate stuff I was originally thinking of) I can switch to another platform (eg: Untangle, OpenBSD) if desired.

But, for the forseeable future, OPNsense seems to be working just fine. <shrug>
It’s pretty hard to find a journal with an impact factor below 1 considering how frequently scientists cite their own work. Heck just look at the special edition papers and see how often they cite each other.

Edit: but I also don’t want to argue this point too much because impact factor is not a good measure of the quality of a journal
We don’t know that vaping is harmful. It’s addictive, yes, but not necessarily harmful.
> "I can't tell you to vape but I can tell you to keep doing what you're doing".

> Should non-smokers pick up vaping? Probably not

Yeah, I imagine that its a lot better than smoking cigarettes, but still worse than not smoking at all. So for your father, its a benefit because its something he finds sustainable (I assume quitting would be even better, but maybe rather difficult), but for a non-smoker, they would do themselves damage (even if not as much as smoking cigarettes would). So definitely good for smokers, but maybe not the best for non-smokers (although I'd love to know how it compares to other common unhealthy things we do like alcohol or fast food)

I have heard some negative things about vaping, but I assume its like you say: the quality and health effects vary widely between the "juice".

In any case, regardless of overall "good" or not, it seems to be a benefit for smokers, so that's a good thing!
More on this:

> When Russian hackers do target victims in Russia, Moscow’s response is swift and harsh. In 2012, eight men were arrested by Russian police after stealing some $4 million from several dozen banks, including some in Russia. According to security blogger Brian Krebs, “Russian police released a video showing one of the suspects loudly weeping in the moments following a morning raid on his home.”

https://carnegieendowment.org/2018/02/02/why-russian-governm...
For me it became an invisible part of the keyboard. I barely use it (volume, muting) etc. Everything else done without that keyboard.
> In February, oil giant Shell trumpeted a scenario in which the world pulls global warming back to 1.5 ˚C by 2100

Which was deemed not enough. Shell lost its lawsuit in May 2021; In A Landmark Case, A Dutch Court Orders Shell To Cut Its Carbon Emissions Faster [1]

[1] https://text.npr.org/1000475878
> the arguments against the flavored juices are hysterical/hypocritical given the variety of flavors of liquor one can find.

I would assume a significant difference in impact between putting flavor substances in your lungs and putting flavor substances in your esophagus/stomach.
Doesn't seem plausible that stress causes a factor of x10 or whatever number of OGs. Were there a huge number of OGs in all the other tournaments as well?

Stress just doesn't seem plausible. It would mean that WC/Euro/Copa/UCL/etc final stage games would be flooded with OGs, even without Covid.
I wonder how far away are we from governments mandating SIP and equivalents to be turned on to connect to the internet.
My girlfriend switched to vaping 10 years ago.

It saved her thousands of Euros and she is much fitter, and her breath smells delicious, haha. But she doesn't use big brands, she mixes her liquid at home and tries to lower the dose over years.

But every time she can't vape, because her machine broke, or she lost it, or whatever, she get's quiet angry and smokes a few regular cigs.
And if you do decide to do single-commit massive style changes, add the commits to an ignore revs file:
http://git-scm.com/docs/git-config#Documentation/git-config....
Impact factor 2 is bad.

Nature Scientific Reports has 5-year impact factor ~4.5 and it's very low quality megajournal with tendency to publish junk science. The peer-review is designed to be very low quality (scientific importance is not criteria for example).
I can't speak for Juul but I credit my smoking cessation entirely to vaping. I've not had any nicotine since 2020, vaping or smoking!

I think there's a real attitude among a small number of non-smokers that quitting without some form of sustained suffering is "doing it wrong" and that addicts of any kind deserve pain to atone for the sin of being an addict. This attitude is extremely unhelpful and should be condemned along with all other types of moral puritanism in my opinion.
It seems the studies are mostly observational, I didn't see any randomly controlled trial in there.
The data can't be linked untill it is. With DNA, you can guess approximative physical appearance and some medical properties. Once your database is rich enough, you can build family tree.
"Bruce Lee's movie fighting style" then, which has little to do with his proper fight training, like Jean Claude van Damme's fight choreography has little to do with his fighting background.

Apart from that, I do take issue with the for some reason increasingly popular notion of Bruce Lee's fighthing being some sort of proto-MMA. MMA is not just taking something from various sources and calling it "<first name>-fu" or "<first name> tang doo". The essence of (old school) MMA/Vale Tudo is about finding out what works and what doesn't through literal trial by combat, it's not about the mix and match aspect.
“Lying flat is standing up, horizontally.”

Gotta love the creative ways people will find to retrofit some artistic meanings to grow it into something stronger.

The people who wanted to just lay flat were not really trying to make a statement, but now it will inevitably be perceived as one. The whole article is a disservice to these folks, who'd be better left unknown.
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You mean like https://www.theburnin.com/technology/artificial-intelligence... ?

If one of the three largest record labels uses their own catalog to train an AI, copyright seems less important to discuss. I suspect the discussion would be a bit different if a company scraped youtube and used that as a training set for AI music and successfully sold it.
Yeah there's the interesting issue of popcorn lung, which comes from inhaling a certain chemical, diethyl. I don't think it's in juul.
That's fair, but they don't seem to have a great track record with the resellers either.

https://blog.pimoroni.com/why-we-wont-be-selling-genuino-ard...

https://hackaday.com/2015/04/15/arduino-vs-arduino-the-resel...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2017/08/02/arduino-federico-musto-...
> I individually and respectfully tried to address every point you asked/made.

Oh come on, look at your comment above mine in this thread. You're splitting hairs and trying to find minute flaws in the arguments against you instead of actually arguing the points. It certainly makes it look like you cannot defend your actual arguments.

> Yet, you are the one doing unbased accusations of fraud ("stablecoins are essentially fraud")

I never said all stablecoins, but some certainly look like they are.

> I'm done here, but I do hope you have a nice day. And, don't worry, I won't bite your bait ever again.

Oh I'm not worried!
Ah yes, the true and tried "my martial art is too deadly to be tested" argument.
As it happens, this article is also pointing out that the country is not a monolithic mass of CCP robots executing orders to increase production.
I don’t understand this comment. Do you mean they need to expand into their current unoccupied land, or do they need to claim territory adjacent to them belonging to other countries? Are you referring to Taiwan here?
> Fertility rate in Spain and Italy is below 1.3 and we have no clue how to address it.

There are alredy too many people in this world... we don't live on farms anymore, so that we'd need many kids to help work on them... the only problem currently is, that our pension systems and some of the economic systems depend on more and more people producing and that we have yearly growth (instead of sustained business).
And you know the tech geeks in VFX tried this type of thing concurrently with the research, and probably have in-house mature tools already. I know from my time at R&H, back in 2005 there was a ML effort to support compositing and color timing TDs.
> I am quite confident my arguments are sound.

Ah, yes. Like the argument that "Tether is being investigated for fraud" thus "every stablecoin is essentially fraud". Seems like a water-tight argument you have there.

> However you are posting from a brand new account,

So, instead of addressing my actual arguments, you're concerned about going through my account history? Great. Note that my account is not "brand new", though: I created the account days ago, to participate in discussions that have nothing to do with "blockchain". You can check it out in my history, if you haven't already.

> continuously splitting hairs rather than confronting the argument head-on

Point one one single argument that you have made to me, that I did not respond to head-on. Just one. I'll wait.

In the meantime, while you look for it, and as a proof that you are indeed argumenting in good faith, feel free to respond head-on to the question I already made 5 times: What if I choose to get my returns in some asset that is pegged to USD (e.g. DAI, USDC), am I still speculating on the value of BTC?

Until you do, I'll keep assuming you are discussing in bad faith and refuse to reply to anything else you write.

> and generally engaging in bad-faith argumentation tactics.

There is exactly one such comment from my side (or one that could be seen as bad-faith, if you consider "pedantry" to be a sign of bad-faith), and it was not directed at you, so I'm not seeing where your complaint comes from. I re-iterate: point out a single example of me engaing in bad-faith argumentation with you. A single actual example. And then, maybe, we can continue the conversation. Until then, and as I already said, hope you have a nice day.
I had rare occasion to compile a Rust application recently because a prebuilt binary didn’t exist for my platform. It took just over two hours! Coming from primarily Go development recently, I was astonished.

How do you get anything done when the cost of testing an idea is several hours?! I’d feel like the sunk cost fallacy would kick in for even the most lackluster of changes just because you took the time to try it.
> Why learn how to use git with Emacs/magit, vim, IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse, Visual Studio / Code, ... when you can just master the official command line client and forget about the rest?

Because it is faster, has great visualization and most importantly magit has great fallbacks. You can still use the command line from magit! Pressing "!!" in a magit-status buffer will get you there, while still showing you all the nice info in the other buffers. I use it for "git submodule update --init --recursive" for example.

I have seen people struggling with git log and understanding which commit is on which branch and all that. Of course you can use something like "git log --decorate --graph --color --oneline --all" or even alias that. In magit I do: "mag-stat" (Emacs completes this to "magit-status") which one does usually anyway, to see where the repository is at and whether there are uncommited changes and so on. When I need the graph, I do: "mag-log" "-" "c" "b". Then I can go to any line in the graph and check it out, because it becomes the default for when I type "mag-check" (completed to magit-checkout) and press RET. On command line I would be copying commit ids and branch names and would remember to use my alias for the long git log command.

Edit: Another great feature is how easy it is to commit only some hunks, instead of everything that has changed. Commiting hunks on command line is tedious afaik. You would have to specify row numbers.
Electron capture indicates conversion of protons and electrons to neutrons and electron neutrinos.

The core of a star is already very hot and further collapse raises the temperature, so we’re probably talking about photodisintegration of any heavy nuclei into alpha particles, as electron capture process runs.
> the cigarette companies responded by a smear campaign, disinformation and panic, that was then used to regulate in a way that benefited only the cigarette companies

That and the cigarette companies just bought into the industry. Altria (AKA Philip Morris) owns 35% of Juul.
Gotta ask: is this gravity example real? You really have friends who have some sort of mystical commitment to the idea that gravity is somehow entirely epistemologically self-grounded?

Almost literally every physicist since Newton has believed that there is some sort of underlying theory which explains gravity. Its hard to imagine how anyone could get the idea that the matter was somehow settled.

I'd love it if you could share more context.
What value does crypto bring to you that a artist running a shopify store does not? It sounds like the NFT is entirely irrelevant in this transaction other than possibly providing a socially acceptable route that is better than a PayPal donate button.
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Gibraltar has seen as many as 12M yearly tourists in its prepandemic peak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourism_in_Gibraltar

For comparison, New York used to get 66M yearly tourists https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/13/nyregion/nyc-tourism-covi...
Any source for that claim? I can only say from the personal experience that people I know and I used to be addicted to nicotine (not only in tobacco products)
For languages with Hindley-Milner typing, like SML and OCaml, it has long been known that type-checking is even worse in the worst case (DEXPTIME hard) [1]. But the programs where this matters aren't what one would write by hand, typically.

[1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/96709.96748
Covid masks + sunglasses were a great thing for surveillance.

Otherwise, "think of the children" will always prevail in western cultures, and parents will sign everything just to protect their kids, even from nonexisting harm... sadly.
We have pretty reasonable models for how gravity might work.

A suggestion that there may be a yet undiscovered mechanism for gravity isn't useful to science. It's imaginative perhaps, but without a piece of math, or a suggestion for an experiment by which to test it, it's just science fiction. Ideas are cheap.
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The killer feature for me on IntelliJ Idea Git is:

* that I can reorder the (local) commits

* mark with the mouse and right-click to squash them

No other git tool I know has these features.
> And SAT is rather easy to determine for this form.

Gave me a chuckle, as that's quite an understatement, as the decision procedure is only: is there a single clause and is it just "False"?

> The catch is that taking a logical formula, and placing it in Disjunctive normal form is actually a rather arduous, non polynomial process.

Basically writing out all assignments that make the formula true. Potentially exponentially many, as there are 2^n possible assignments of n variables. So this transformation is basically just solving and writing down all models.
Probably the people who don’t fit the demographics for companies like Door Dash. Oh excuse me, my mistake, we call that “team fit”
Rarity of example os irrelevant. Producers have no need for that, because IRL stores generally do not have 50% markup on mass produce.
Yes, they do show things. When freak events happen over and over, year after year, that's a bad sign, and shows that things are changing.
I don't know (not my area of expertise), but aren't there some reliable meta-analyses on the effects of vaping?

I would be surprised to see that inhaling any kind of smoke or non-water aerosol is good for your lungs, so I'd expect at least a minor harmful effect.

This study, for example, claims increased risks for heart disease [1] (disclaimer: I'm not a medical doctor and cannot evaluate its credibility)

[1] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40138-020-00219-0
And cost is sure not a proxy for efficiency.
This is all fair game for Juul, and merely serves as a distraction by the media. Modern capitalism enforces no moral responsibilities on companies besides enriching its shareholders. The academic system has long been exploited by these same players and left standing as a shell.
I'm a little surprised you didn't mention the production cards that pop up when you start a game. Those are the worst offender; especially the ones that are unskippable or require a separate button press to skip each of the multiple title cards.

Anything other than a single button press to reach the start screen is excessive.
Lots of people on HN (and in the tech industry more broadly) live in China or have family in China. You can ask anyone you know who lives in China or who has family/friends in China what the situation has been like over the last year. Public spaces like restaurants and theaters have been open, nobody is coming down with CoVID-19, and the hospitals aren't overflowing.

This would simply be impossible if there were community spread of the virus inside China. With open restaurants, theaters, etc., the virus would spread like wildfire in China's dense cities, and everyone would know about it. The strict lockdowns in early 2020 worked to bring cases very near zero, and they were followed up with mass testing campaigns (for example, nearly all 11 million residents of Wuhan were tested in June 2020) to find the last few infections.[1,2]

The common reaction among many people, to deny that China eliminated SARS-CoV-2 within its borders, simply isn't tenable.

1. "Post-lockdown SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid screening in nearly ten million residents of Wuhan, China": https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19802-w

2. "Comprehensive large-scale nucleic acid–testing strategies support China’s sustained containment of COVID-19": https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01308-7
> The more you do to help people, and the more lives you save, the angrier they get. The people are the happiest if you let 10% of them die. It doesn't make any sense

Reading the discussions on various Czech news sites, it actually makes perfect sense: "we have to learn to live with it", "only the weak will not survive", "let's ditch the face masks already!", "just look at Sweden" and more. People hate the restrictions way more than they hate the virus. People want things to be like before and if they aren't, they're angry at the most visible threat to their wellbeing.
Sorry, that was needlessly aggressive.
Glad we agree then.
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It seems to me the technology is one of the contributors/facilitators in both those cases, rather than the cause. Surely the main scourge in your first paragraph are the fossil fuel power plants? Do you think either of these problems would be resolved or even significantly mitigated if cryptocurrencies were banned?
When I wrote "since the data can't be linked to people's identities", I was talking about 23andme research partners. They don't get any PII, and I presume neither does BGI as there is no reason for them to have it, unless they offer tests directly to consumers.
Oh I’m sorry. What was your point?

And I don’t think it’s a lowbrow straw man to point out that stock has some fundamental value as the present discounted value of future cash flows, and Bitcoin doesn’t.
All of the above, plus space exploration. Not condoning, merely pointing out what’s already in motion.