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Corporations are absolutely involved in oppressing people at the behest of government or other ruling class, yes. If you were deluded into thinking otherwise.

You're okay if the government privatizes certain "problematic" services it provides and allows the now private organization to violate peoples' rights?
I will argue that monopoly on violence is more often than not a block on the society's forward advancement.

There is a certain limit of outrage past which not taking things to violence would itself destroy any functioning society.

People have morals, not only laws to follow.

It's very naive to always defer to comparisons to "authoritarian hellholes." Sometimes you need to judge your own actions yourself.
> I think that there are not enough jobs at the moment for the western people. So we create them, and handout "fake" rewards for them.

What nonsense is this? The purpose of work is to generate material wealth, so that the population and civilization can survive at a high standard of living, without the system collapsing.

> Since we haven't yet found a stable social solution for people not working and having purpose

The historical solution advocated by earlier U.S. politicians and economists was to maximize long-run wages by investing in agricultural productivity that had the potential to raise the net-product at the margin of cultivation, then to eliminate land speculation to bring the margin of cultivation to cities, then to give the unemployed free land.
I had a friend who spent months measuring the power output of all his appliances and lights trying to figure out where half his electricity bill was going. He finally realized it was the hot water recirculator.
This ling-academy looks promising and I like your philosophy. After playing with it for a few minutes, I looked for a way to create an account to save my progress -- is that not implemented yet?
> not particularly thrilled at the prospect of one day owning a car that is actively managed/controllable by the manufacturer

Ditto.

So many examples of companies shoving half-baked software updates down our throats... and worse... companies with half-baked security that are compromised with no consequences/little liability and effect the consumer.
Damn this hits close to home. I've been convinced I have some debilitating neurological condition even since I saw my finger twitches a little with my arm stretched out. On top of that I've been having really bad sleep starts. Talked with neurologist and doctor who didn't seem worried at all.

Around this time I had a few migraines and was recommend to take magnesium. Not sure if that's what caused the sleep starts but I also noticed my leg started to occasionally twitch inwards when I'm sitting. The sleep starts have kept me up for hours at night. Going to try and add more calcium in my diet to see if that helps the problem.
> Unpleasantness, and yes, pain is as important a part of being as any other part.

That's not really an argument; that's just "pain is an important part of being because pain has always been a part of our being". It's not hard to imagine a world where we can live without pain but still live meaningful lives.

The one thing I'd worry about is losing pain where it's useful. If I touch something hot, I want to know immediately (through pain) so I can quickly pull my hand away. But perhaps there's a different mechanism that could replace that.
I don’t think it’s actually tied to stress. That’s not documented anywhere. I think it’s more or less random, albeit you have to already be sitting still to get a notification.
Indeed, "thematic sparring", usually focusing on some weakness or simulating an ordeal (being cornered, being unable to use an arm/leg...), and the "don't spar to win" rule are key. There is IMHO no known way "to get better at fighting without fighting".
> perhaps an option for a preview of the data being transmitted for full clarity

That's on our roadmap.

> It's vulnerable to implementation changes in the browser network traffic API, though, because the "firewall" isn't a real firewall (just something intercepting fetches and such).

With CSP, we can ensure a certain level of network compliance. It's not perfect but it provides useful browser-enforced protections against non-consented data sharing and exfiltration. CSP isn't a panacea but it's getting better over time. For example, navigation (e.g. clicking on a link to navigate to it) rules could be enforced through CSP's new `navigate-to` directive. Our consent manager's patchers don't yet regulate automated navigation but that is also on our roadnap as well.

We do regulate automated form submissions (e.g. used by the Snapchat ads SDK) to comply with user consent though.
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I mostly just do LP & MIP (MILP), but will write this down in case I find a nonlinear need. Thank you!
I never understand to what end.

Is it simply power? What is the point of it?

You cannot crime or human behavior to misbehave.

I wonder how long it will be until China's citizens start to crack under the pressure.
I knew I'd get this. Yes, true, but 1898 was the date of "annexation"[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newlands_Resolution
I believe the Egyptians also got the 12 sunlight periods and 12 dark periods from the Babylonians.

While sunrise-to-sunset (and its converse) were divided into equal twelfths each day the duration of those divisions varied each day as the amount of sunlight varies each day.

And the 60 minute hour did not originate with the Babylonians (though they used a sexagesimal counting system and inspired others) but be came de facto, with the invention of the mechanical clock (there was little need for such resolution before that point). The wikipedia does discuss some academic usage of that fraction, but its influence was presumably only conventional in regards to clockmaking. The more common divisions, which we still commonly use today, were "quarter past" or "half" which are of a viable resolution for a sundial.
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Heat pump water heaters mentioned in the article are better for efficiency. They typically use half the energy of a normal water heater.

And they cool the air around them, so if you live in a hot area they save more.
You could technically buy real shares and sell synthetic shares on the blockchain, harvesting the price difference.

This would generally have the same effect as the blockchain user buying the stock directly, but through an intermediary collecting premium.
> That ends up having a huge impact when inflation and interest rates drop.

How so? The chart in question is for 30 year fixed rate mortgages. You're going to be making the same payment every month regardless of what direction interest rates move.
In yoga, this kind of deliberate, deep, controlled breathing is called Prānāyāma, and literally means "breath control" or "life-force control"
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I do not understand why this could be regarded as a relevant response to the post you are replying to. You say "it’s unreasonable and incorrect to expect a full commercial solution to come directly out of a set of lab experiments", but the post you are replying to did little else but point out that this is essentially what the article is claiming. If you do not think the article was making such a claim, then that is a point you could have disputed, but so far have not.
I use TS every day on multiple projects.

1 is almost a non issue. Most libraries have decent types and TS has features for adding types yourself in your project.

2 - I've never had to disable strict mode to get a library working. Worst case you can use things like `any` as an escape hatch out of TS but it is usually tucked away in a black box that is nicely typed. Do you have examples?

3 - Correctness is important for most professional software not just billion dollar NASA projects. Runtime errors cause crashes which wrecks UX.
Any good non-subscription mediation app out there?
>I don't know if marketing people will approve mentioning such a thing.

Thought to mention so that user know but no one will wait till that day or may be that day never comes.

> And yes it's a big project to adapt a SaaS platform to self hosted or on premise. I don't see that happening after the death of a startup.

Yes, that the fear that although some people may have the confidence but majorly of them will not be able to do anything with that code.

We would plan to keep the price open so as to gain the confidence. The user will know that this is also an option going forward and they also know the price in advance, so that whenever they want to switch, then they know how much to pay. Obviously the price will be dependent on the plan and the app usage, so simpler apps will be cheaper to export and vice versa.
Would love to know the dosages they are using in the trials. Obviously, we're not talking McKenna level doses, but are we in milligrams or even as little as micrograms?
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As I read this the first thought that came to mind is if I were a kid, I would be very angry about it, and dedicate myself to defeating the system. I can’t help but hope the kids playing these games feel the same way.
The idea is that 99% of Java devs have no idea what volatile does, if they even have heard of it. Their vocabulary is mutex, semaphore, deadlock, and they might think atomic word64 is simply like a low level efficient lock around two 32 bit words.

Ergo, when they come across the consideration of whether a static bool needs to be locked before reading and writing from separate threads, they fall into one of two invalid schools of thought:

1. "It doesn't need a lock, because it can only be true or false, it is essentially atomic."

2. "It needs a lock, because it is accessed by multiple threads and my teacher said concurrent data needs to be synchronized with a lock."

This isn't just about Java devs though, it applies to all languages with "the memory model". Literally the only reason you'd know better is if you read specs, or are into playing with raw hardware / assembly / C (I'd say the situation is better in C, about 50% instead of 99%. I meet C programmers all the time who think they can poll a variable without any additional code).
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> The only handheld generation where Nintendo didn't do this was the GBA, so it's very common.

Since we're talking things that affect portability/battery life in general: The GBA SP, aside from being their first foldable handheld, was the first with an internal light and a built-in rechargeable battery (instead of taking AA or AAA batteries).
> you'd think colleges would bend over backwards to make sure these concepts are learned as succinctly as possible rather than add a curve to a test that makes a 23 out of 100 an "A" grade

School is not about learning. It's about money. Seating as many students as possible for as long as possible to suck in as much student loan money as possible. For this you need to be a prestigious school. Of course they want to boost their grades.

These are the people who have the gall to claim a moral high ground when they find and punish "cheaters".
This is the best news I've heard in years.
Cool. Thanks for your feedback. Planning to build this feature to gain confidence of people like you :)
I’ve downloaded a lot of mediation apps and they all seem same. Throw rhythmic breathing (maybe make it configurable, but not too configurable), mix in some simple animations, and the same Creative Commons gongs and bells, and call it a day. Hire some people to do some voice overs for “guided meditations”, and charge a $50 monthly subscription fee.

I even started to make my own until I discovered you couldn’t get haptics to work in your own app like how haptics work in Apple’s Breathe watch app.

So my question is simple: in a crowded space with low barriers to entry, how do you plan differentiate your app?
> timer or grid controlled water heaters are old and busted (especially with bacteria concerns due to a lack of in tank convection)

This is literally the first time I'm hearing of this as a concern. Our local recommendations are to keep tank temperature above 70C and you should be fine.
Wow, that is not the way I remember 1979...
> how is a right fundamental?

They are inalienable and bestowed by their Creator. I.e. they are part of the innate nature of human beings.

Governments can either protect those rights or abrogate them - it cannot invent them.

And yes, they stretch back to when humans became human. Though it took a while for people to formally recognize them.
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They are not closed loop, they just push some water from the hot water line back down the cold line, where it will wind up back in the water heater and be used. They are no more prone to disease than you existing system.
If governments bestow rights, then the citizens have no business revolting against an oppressive government.
The team is very transparent and clearly talented. The community is light-hearted and welcoming. Not to mention the projects in the pipeline are very promising and solve current issues in the crypto market and are set to take over some unoccupied niches.
Netflix doesn't run ads for anything but their own content, right? It would seem to me their best customer is one who pays their monthly sub and then never uses the service.
Well, one carrot for Spain was the assistance it received during the last financial crisis[0], and France probably likes being able to project its influence onto neighbouring countries through its position in the EU.

Less reductively, I think that a major benefit of a political union is that it gives some degree of democratic legitimacy to decisions made about difficult region-wide issues like trade policy, consumer protection, immigration, the environment, and anti-trust law, to name but a few.

All of those matters could in theory be settled via multi-lateral treaties, but they would probably be hard to reach flexible compromises over while still being overseen by representatives voted for by the public with a mandate for deciding on those supranational issues.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_debt_crisis#Spain
Yes I think that's very likely. The closer DeFi gets to traditional markets the more likely enforcement is coming.
There’s several that if all you want is a breath timer. Sometimes that’s even unlocked on the subscription apps.

But there’s a lot of crappy apps out there.
Congrats! This is something I'd love to do one day if I find myself not tied to a location by social connections.

This stuck out to me:

> I decided to focus on building a meditation app as my main project. I came up with the idea because I saw others around me struggling to stick to meditation...

Do you expect another meditation app to help with this? I think many folks interested in mediation quickly find a good beginner/handhold-y app like Headspace. Yet, like language learning w/ Duolingo, few people actually stick to it. I think Duolingo and Headspace are awesome and to be honest, if I can't make something stick with these two I'm not sure how an app could be "better" at making me stick to something.
China is doing the Marshall Plan in Africa. We in USA can't even improve our own country, let alone another nation.
The real clever kids will eventually realise you can just tape a post-it note to your head with "ADULT" written in sharpie.
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> there is no reason to believe that, in the absence of a centralizing force, the weights should standardize.

In the absence of trade there would be no reason for them to stabilise, but with trade there is every incentive for them to do so even over long distances and between people groups who don't know of each others existence.
In a car centric environment such as the US, there is a large burden society pays for when it comes to under age drunk driving. The harm from a car related fatality is felt immediately. It’s hard to compare that to the delayed and difficult to measure societal impact when kids play too much video games.
Another type for thermal battery: ice thermal storage. Instead of running AC, it’s a freezer that makes ice during the night (using off-peak electricity and taking advantage of the cooler nighttime air) and then melts it during the day to cool large buildings. They’re a ridiculously good idea if you’re running a large enough HVAC system - they can even lower capital costs compared to traditional systems. Unfortunately, many building operators don’t use them because they’re unfamiliar with the technology or because they take up more building footprint. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_storage_air_conditioning
This isn't the same thing but I do think companies issuing stock for crypto is the next logical step and it will happen at some point. Not derivatives or any sort, just company stock directly listed on a crypto stock exchange. I imagine it's a long road to that point, but certain companies like Tesla just might be willing to do such a thing since they own a decent portion of crypto as is.
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>>>“I am puzzled. I don’t know why the press is not more curious about these very curious little stray sightings and a short video clip and nobody speaking for attribution.”

Come one, are you really puzzled..... Follow the Money...

US Media (and they are Media not journalists) is a for-profit business tied to entertainment, we have seen all manner of entertainment from movies to sports bow to the directives of China. Why does anyone believe the "news" media would be any different than these other entertainment outlets?
Don't upend his leftist religious beliefs
"these people" don't have a single opinion, life isn't that simple.
And if you live in a cold area, you get no efficiency advantage, pay more, and probably eventually leak coolant with a GWP of 2088.
We have an under-sink unit that has hot water ready 24/7. After hooking it up, I noticed it increased our monthly bill by about $15.

I bought a used Wemo plug for $10 and set it to only be on for 3 hours in the morning and 3 hours at night. Now we have hot water at any of the times when we actually would want it, and we aren't wasting money/energy to keep hot water on tap 24/7.
> the idea is to keep prices of the synthetic -- or “mirrored” -- equities in the ballpark of the real thing by offering incentives for traders to arbitrage price discrepancies and manage the actual supply of tokens. Users can create, or “mint,” new tokens when prices are too high by posting collateral, and destroy, or “burn,” tokens when prices are too low, driving the price up or down.

How does that work? What prevents me from "minting" tokens and running away?
You consent to a scope of work. If you want line item control over exactly how the work gets done, what tools the workman gets to bring, what creature comforts he is and isn’t allowed on the jobsite, that’s something you can negotiate.

Like if you’re Amish or under some weird historic preservation regime or working near a delicate billion-dollar scientific instrument. Perhaps you really need carpentry done with hand tools. You can find a contractor who wants to do that. You don’t hire a normal firm and then get mad that they failed to seek consent before plugging in their table saw.
https://patents.justia.com/patent/20180290899 provides background on the topic. Keeping your hot water tank at or above 50-55C constantly is a reasonable mitigation, anything hotter can cause scalding.
Weather is a 12 month phenomenon though. Where do you want to walk in March or november?
Staged in what way? I don't think so. (I've seen just about all his TV shows and read his books, including the 2 meant for magicians only, which give away as much as his other books and verbal explanations conceal)

How does he guess what card Stephen Fry mentally picks here? It seems kind of impossible, but not when you know how it's done—combining 3 different elements/techniques.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI5-NDiY7IM

Marc Paul doing the Berglas Effect seems probably faked somehow. It seems impossible! I read a book with 200+ pages explaining how this one trick is done, The Berglas Effects. It's hugely complicated, and was even much moreso the way Berglas did it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdXIVQ-asqU
How do we know what those fundamental rights are? By observing what happens to societies that have various formulations of rights. The societies that thrive are closer to the mark than societies that are mired in misery, despair, and death.
I would love to know, too! Oh. A search engine. What's this?

"Eighty participants, ages 21 to 65, who meet Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) criteria for major depressive disorder (MDD) will be stratified by study site and randomized with a 1-to-1 allocation under double-blind conditions to receive a single 25 mg oral dose of psilocybin or a single 100 mg oral dose of niacin. Niacin will serve as an active placebo."
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> we chose to use 1 mg/kg – the inflection point of the dose-dependence curve – to assess psilocybin’s effect on structural plasticity.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.02.17.431629v1....
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They don’t hype up anything, they deliver then announce their product/listing. This is definitely a coin you hold and forget for a year, I believe it’ll blow up within half a year.
Yeah. If you can futz with the hardware, pretty much any security can be circumvented.

Desoldering a SOC and replacing it with something similar enough but different in its trusted boot config is somewhat less trivial than "manipulate the firmware" though, at least in my opinion...
I read a verse translation of the Aenead decades ago, and I remember best the fall of Troy, as Aeneas carried his father out of the burning city. Knowing little of Homer before I began reading, at last I had found the fate of Troy.

Memorable also was "Turnus fleeing to the unconsenting shades below," the abrupt end of the Aenead.

Perhaps, some day, I might read it again.
Author here. I've watched a lot of international films, probably between 250 and 300. These are pretty much the only films I watch nowadays -- you're right that the American lens on film gets tiresome. Nonetheless, I still have many of the same issues with international film, given by constraints of the medium.
> Isn’t pain a signal the brain uses to alert you about a detected problem?

It's a controversial topic, many believe that some of the pain your brain generates is for a problem it thinks you have, but don't. Usually this comes up in the context of back pain.

When you start reading up on certain types of chronic pain, there are quite a few "Doctors cannot find any physical problem causing the pain." Usually no treatment works for these people, as there is no problem to solve, except perhaps a brain anomaly.

Of course, disabling all pain would be a bad idea.
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They definitely think outside the box
That is not the study referenced in the article. That's an older study.