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Started using emacs this year and org mode is awesome.

I am using `doom emacs` config and `spc + X`
> Why does any one thing have to be a "standard"? That's part of the problem.

Economies of scale and network effects.

Nothing has to be the standard. But if 80% of people are familiar with X, choosing Y incurs friction.
I hired a contractor and I paid him when I failed. You should be hell bent on not paying a dime. Otherwise you are doing it wrong. If it goes for charity then your mind will sniff out an escape route. Instead give it to causes you don't believe in. The goal is to be afraid of failing. You should be kicking yourself and feel the pinch when your hard earned money is going out of pocket. Otherwise you are doing it wrong.

Here's the deal. Even when you fail you still will win in the end and that the beauty of this approach.

I lost 30 lbs over the course of 4 to 6 months. I lost around $200 - $300 and it definitely stung. But it was worth it for now I have a strong and fit body.
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It was debunked by some scientists, but nowhere near all, and there was no consensus.

https://www.npr.org/2021/07/15/1016436749/who-chief-wuhan-la...
> Guess it contradicts the official position of the current administration (not reality). So will my drive content be removed?

Below is the actual policy. What term do you think your blog post violates?

> Do not distribute content that deceives, misleads, or confuses users. This includes:

> Misleading content related to civic and democratic processes: Content that is demonstrably false and could significantly undermine participation or trust in civic or democratic processes. This includes information about public voting procedures, political candidate eligibility based on age / birthplace, election results, or census participation that contradicts official government records. It also includes incorrect claims that a political figure or government official has died, been involved in an accident, or is suffering from a sudden serious illness.

> Misleading content related to harmful health practices: Misleading health or medical content that promotes or encourages others to engage in practices that may lead to serious physical or emotional harm to individuals, or serious public health harm.

> Manipulated media: Media that has been technically manipulated or doctored in a way that misleads users and may pose a serious risk of egregious harm.

> Misleading content may be allowed in an educational, documentary, scientific, or artistic context, but please be mindful to provide enough information to help people understand this context. In some cases, no amount of context will allow this content to remain on our platforms.
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Why don't you be the change you want to see, and contribute constructively with your own opinion to facilitate curious and interesting discussion? Complaining about it is also not that interesting.
Maybe it time we make it easy for people to host thier own clouds… Like Nextcloud. All in one at home server with Owncloud Plug-N-Play. While we are at it, have it ready to go for hosting emails and Federated Social Media.

To be honest, it would be a challange, but totally doable.

Decetralize the interenet once again!
Blue is my favorite color and it seems like whenever I call something blue somebody tells me it’s green. I don’t like green.

I have no idea what to make of that.
It's worth noting that the Limits to Growth didn't talk about climate change, just generalized 'pollution'.

One now obscure reason for this is that back in the 1970s people didn't believe in global warming and the term "climate change" didn't exist as we know it today. Climatologists were worried about global cooling instead. At that point their records showed a generalized decline in temperature from the 1940s onwards and they believed it might continue indefinitely, leading to a new ice age. This was taken quite seriously, as newspaper records from the time show.

These days it can be hard to understand why they thought that, because if you get a modern graph of the long term temperature record it doesn't show this cooling effect. The reason is that climatologists have repeatedly issued new versions of the historical time series, each time reducing the extent to which this cooling period can be seen. The differences between versions are the extent to which models are allowed to modify the raw data. The climatologists do this because they are very certain in their theories, but a long period of cooling in the 20th century is not compatible with them, and thus they look for reasons why the data must be wrong. When they come up with such a reason it gets merged into the model and the next version "corrects" for it.

Modern graphs show basically no cooling, leading to some people concluding that the belief in global cooling was some sort of fringe belief, or even an urban legend, because obviously, how could they have thought that when no such cooling is visible.

Given the long track record of educated people having near unshakeable confidence in models even in the face of failed predictions (of which World3 is a salient example), this progressive replacement of measured historical data with synthetic data is well worth pondering deeply.
>"large segments"

>links to two hn comments

really?
This exactly my take as well. Multi-Paxos and Raft seem very similar to me. Calling out what the exact differences and tradeoffs are would be good blog/research fodder.
Greenland suspends oil exploration because of climate change
Took me 30 seconds to find this

https://www.pnas.org/content/113/5/E500

> Among twin pairs discordant for marijuana use, we assessed intelligence quotient (IQ) score changes while adjusting for the effects of genetic influences and other factors shared by members of the same twin pair. Results suggest that familial confounds underlie the association between adolescent marijuana use and declining IQ scores

So we are back to my initial suggestion that it's environmental related more than anything.

Yes I do have an opinion, because I think saying shit like 'just like with alcohol' when we talk about cannabis, or generally suggesting that cannabis leads to a school dropouts and what not are old ideas that should not be so present in a modern, scientific, society

Edit:// adding the conclusion

> In the largest longitudinal examination of marijuana use and IQ change, using two samples to replicate results and a genetically informative design, we find little evidence to suggest that adolescent marijuana use has a direct effect on intellectual decline. Although marijuana users showed greater decline than nonusers in areas of Gc, the presence of baseline differences before marijuana involvement, the lack of a dose–response relationship, and an absence of meaningful differences between discordant siblings lead us to conclude that the deficits observed in marijuana users are attributable to confounding factors that influence both substance initiation and IQ rather than a neurotoxic effect of marijuana.
>If everyone is to be judged by the worst sentence they've written then literally everyone ends up in the junk pile.

I disagree.

I have no doubt written things that are wrong, including things that are very wrong. But I very much doubt that I have ever packed that amount of wrongness into one sentence.
The main source of lithium now is extraction from subsurface brines, mostly in South America (e.g., under salt flats in Bolivia, which is a major producer). Demand is expected to outstrip what these countries can supply as the EV and grid storage markets grow, plus countries with no lithium brines want in on the action, so there are various efforts to find economically competitive approaches to extracting lithium from other sources. Both the story you linked and this new patent are attempts to do that, but harnessing from different sources (seawater and lithium-rich clay, respectively), and using what appear to be unrelated chemical processes.
CP is already illegal and google doesn’t need to arbitrate whether its illegal or not. Blocking CP is neutral and a basic.

It’s when google decides to block things that aren’t illegal that they get into the weeds, and companies framing opinions they disagree with as “Dangerous misinformation” is itself dangerous misinformation, and a net negative on society.

Google should not be arbitrating truth. They are not qualified, not capable, and not honest enough to do it, and they will never be.

I don’t know a single person in real life I would trust to censor what I can and can’t see, and I trust google much less than those people I actually know.
Does this apply to google workspace (paying)customers too?

If so google is actually scanning what is supposed to be private information.
Join one of these companies and what you will find is that:

> Not a peep from our young Silicon Valley activists.

are the ones pushing FOR these changes.
For some time many graphics cards had a 16 bit "hi-color" mode with 5:6:5 bits for RGB (SVGA, etc.). Most graphics card modes that used only 8 bits per pixel used that value as an index into an 256x(8x3) bit color palette (MCGA, VGA, etc.).
I don't see how what you've said is related to what I said?

If republican voters aren't willing to replace their politicians with ones that are willing to vote and make a single payer solution, then they don't care about single payer healthcare that much. It has nothing to do with any specific implementation. Republican politicians have never put forward any sort of single payer healthcare implementation
No, I'm not assuming any particular encoding of an algorithm. I'm just assuming by "algorithm" you mean a computable function, and we know there are only countably many computable functions. This is not a cultural notion.

And yes, which particular encoding you decide to use is arbitrary, but the point is that you can enumerate the set of all algorithms, and thus you can select one without needing the axiom of choice.
> That means that it is totally okay for the police to shoot everyone they don't like.

there's what people can do, and the consequences of it. rights are just a statement about consequences, but just a statement, which is why cops don't have the right to kill without consequences, but in practice they kill without consequences.
> Figure 44: The Planckian locus visualized on a CIE 1931 chromaticity diagram

Visualized... using broken code. Note the Planck curve isn't going through white. Imagine your surprise at setting your monitor to a 6500K or 5000K white point, and finding it green or yellow.

> (source: Wikipedia)

Sigh. WP has Article and Talk, but neither has served as a "writer's notebook" for long-term memory. So when there's lots of brokenness out in the world, and there's been lots of broken color code over the years, WP has difficulty remembering to avoid it.
Not sure if related, but for the past 2 months, on a daily basis, sometimes 2-3 times per day, I get a Drive notification about someone "resolving a comment" with me tagged, and the document is naked ladies and other pornographic ads.

Generally by the time I get to the document, it's gone, and otherwise I mark it as spam, but it hasn't put a dent in the daily notifications I receive...
> It's a slow, steady decline, not a "this goes from fully potent to useless at this moment in time" kind of thing. Yeah maybe you'll give yourself four units and it'll actually be effectively 3.5; that's still better than zero.

The process of flocculation itself is autocatalytic and therefore ~exponential. Though the k factor might be low enough and minor deviations in the exact mechanism that are formulation-dependent might to make it look quasi-linear for quite a long time, followed by a precipitous drop.
The depressing part is the realization that it was supposed to be Costco, the good guys in retail, but we will end up with Amazon universities instead :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8zNsUTWsOc
Yeah...if it's about suppressing revolutions then it's a bit weird the FCC is letting a lot of people run around breaking the encryption and bitrate regulations.
Yes, it is working out great, as shown by the millions of people who risk life and limb to come to the US and the billions who would move here yesterday if they had the chance. Things not being perfect here doesn't mean they're not better than a lot of other places, at least in some if not all ways. Comments like yours completely trivialize the much worse conditions that exist in other places. South Korea isn't perfect either, but it's still a way better place to be than North Korea.
This is also probably why Google is advocating for the privacy sandbox and banning third-party-cookies, and staying ahead of the law tech-wise. Such that when the inevitable regulation of the playing field does come, they are sharing drinks and chuckling with the referees, while the other players are still struggling to figure out what their game plan is.
Once you put the structures in place you don’t get to choose what gets censored. You’re arming a terrible weapon that will already be used against you on the pretext that it will only be used for these two things - and it won’t be only used for those things.

Terrible short sightedness.
> Collapse is not inevitable

Of course it is not inevitable. I remember reading Elie Wiesel, and particularly one remark "this thing can't happen in the middle of the 20th century". Almost a century later, and we feel a bit detached: there's nothing special about the middle of the 20th century. Well, guess what, there's nothing special about the middle of the 21st century either. Atrocities similar to what happened 100 or 200 years ago are still possible. Weird social dynamics are still possible. 6th of January '21 is just such an example.

I'm personally thankful that in my lifetime there was no world war, but I don't take it for granted that a worldwide calamity is impossible in the next few decades.
What's funny is that most mammals can't distinguish between red & green.

For example: the reason why tigers have red camouflage is that their prey cannot distinguish them from the background green of the forest, combined with the fact that mammals cannot create green pigment for their fur (yet).
both sides think the propaganda they consume is closer to reality and truer than the propaganda others consume.
> "but the idea that they are not (or at least no longer) contributing to the better world that I think we need"

If I can ask this in a non-snarky way, did you ever honestly[1] think working on ads was contributing to a better world? If so, how?

[1] 'honestly' contrasted with "it pays well so I'm not going to think about that" or "I say it does in public but I don't believe it".
I don't really use (or trust) mine for disk backup, but the print server in our blended environment with the 20+ year old HP 1200 LaserJet (hooked up via a parallel port to usb cable) is a key piece of our household infrastructure.
This isn’t true anymore. Premiums cover a small fraction of unemployment benefits during Covid.

Firstly, the additional federal dollars are paid for by the federal government, not the states. That is printed money.

Secondly, the federal government also paid large portions of unemployment in assistance to the states - something it also did in 2008.
In Tolkien's case, that's not just obscure stuff. The Silmarillion is widely considered "canonical", but it was published after his death, with countless editorial choices by his son. In most cases, later writings explicitly contradict the ones Christopher chose.

He chose them because they were the ones most compatible with the other published works, because his father could never revise them. (Unlike The Hobbit, which as revised to make it more compatible with upcoming The Lord of the Rings.)

He was specifically chosen for the job by his father, who may not have agreed with the choices but was unequivocal that Christopher was the one to make them. Christopher himself has said that he'd change some decisions if he were to make them again, but that's true for any author.

To me, I'd just as soon The Silmarillion bear Chrisopher's name. Not as a matter of honor, but as a matter of clarity to fans who want to know what's "really" Tolkien.
If you're not doing your authorization properly, then no, basic ID obfuscation is not an extra layer of security.
If anything, the fact that some people might gloss over the glaring security issues because "well its random ids so I never decided to check" is worse, an incremental id can at least be easily tested while developing to make sure, or a nice white hat hacker might notice and let you know.
I wouldn't want to be the undercover actor involved in that. There's a non-zero risk of serious injury, or death.
Chances are that your created_at timestamps reflect transaction start, not transaction commit. That would leave you open to issues as described by GP as well
To avoid Google Drive/Docs/etc you don't have to boil the ocean. Buy a Synology DiskStation and just use the included software

It's a solution that works for anyone with basic IT skills. Offer your extended family access, and use the provided software to control permissions etc
maybe soon
Good points. I'd also add that the server would need to send enemy positions (albeit not with the same precision) for the audio system to play sounds (gunfire/walking/etc) even when player models are not visible.
> What I don't understand is why there were no nations giving away n95 masks

Don't know if you remember last march/April, but there were no N95 masks to give out in a lot of places...
Patently false that this a both-sides type of scenario. One dabbles with conspiracy theory and order of magnitude more than the other.
Rachel Maddow calls for "non-violent" direct action against the Arizona Audit.

https://rumble.com/vjxj0g-the-left-calling-for-dangerous-dir...

When will someone lock up this commie bitch.
> the risk of a recurrence is highest during the period immediately after the initial seizure.

This still isn’t helpful in determining whether the seizure itself makes another seizure more likely, or whether this just means that whatever caused the first seizure is still present.

If there is an external factor that triggered the initial seizure, presumably the closer you are in time to the presence of that factor, the more likely it is that another will be triggered by the same factor.
I just wanted to let you know that "mundane" is an excellent pun when talking about space projects, because it means "of this earthly world rather than a heavenly or spiritual one". The original word is "mundus", meaning "world" - "monde" in French today.
That really depends. If you're the ELCA and trying to get people to call Congress about the latest SNAP bill, you'd love to get your message in front of liberal Christians.
Is totalitarianism when you don't let your servers be open relays for antivaxxer propaganda during a pandemic?
Can say from my professional experience, that this is definitely a problem worth solving.
Love this. Well done and good luck.
> "Free markets" require a perfect knowledge of all things about those products that is constantly kept up to date. As soon as a company is bought out, some brand decides to change their ingredients, or any number of other events, then you're back at square one.

As mentioned in a sibling comment, while this is theoretically an issue, it doesn't happen often enough in practice that it causes a burden

>Ethical consumerism is a constant treadmill. Even knowing which brands are owned by which corporations is an absolutely exhausting affair.

Why are you mixing ethics into this? We were talking about making healthy purchasing decisions, not boycotting [insert brand here] because they punch kittens or whatever.
If you file for unemployment in my state right now, you'll get around $650 every week. Some states such as Massachusetts were paying as much as $1800 weekly with the federal bonus added in.
The government should offer a similar reward for information on US corporations who run critical infrastructure, or hoard personal information on US citizens, and don't maintain proper security.
Just a friendly reminder that if you use "google" for all of your logins...then if "Google" bans you, you will lose access to all of your logins.
I went through the "beta" version of this back when Dan and Maggie were developing it and it was great. I'm no JS expert but I've been working with it for many years and the mental models they teach have helped me intuit the language a lot better.

I'd pay for it in a heartbeat, just wish that they released even more episodes in this format.
> It’s a system where day in and day out, almost everyone you encounter is a really shitty human being.

This is categorically not true. Police have to deal with some very problematic people, sure. But bad days are far more common that bad people, and most interactions aren't even that.

Every police force has its share of assholes too, who are net cause of more problems than they solve. The most effective ones I've known have been aware of the systemic problems of thinking like you suggest, and intentionally work against it.
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Thanks for sharing the lite. link.
Fairly quick, depending of course on the weight of the page(s) and how many archive methods you enable (I have several turned off because they are redundant for my purposes). The "adding to archive" interstitial still tends to time out which is a little annoying, but the actual archive process is backgrounded so it doesn't matter.

The recommended install includes a search engine that works well, aside from a few false positives due to being fuzzy search. I don't have much in it yet so I can't say what the performance is like once you reach e.g. thousands of pages, but I imagine it would still perform well except maybe for mass operations like rebuilding the entire index.
Given the relative emptiness of observed space, im not convinced that a civilization A would try to annihilate all life but would maybe war with others in their light cone who threaten civA goals/expansion. If you can traverse interstellar space you can probably make home most anywhere further reducing the amount of potential conflict.
This is the logical conclusion to your statement: that someone making a personally beneficial decision can and should not be considered detrimental to society.

Since you obviously _dont_ think that's the case, then it becomes a question of whether this is detrimental to society, not whether it's prima facie justified just because it's in each individual's personal interests.
Right now, we demand companies that use minimum wage labor to over-pay their workers, as a form of corporate-sponsored welfare. Wouldn't it make more sense for Walmart to pay employees market rate, and the tax base as a whole ensure that nobody goes hungry?
I’ve been using bitlocker virtual disks on Google Drive for years. I wouldn’t be surprised if Google eventually decides to delete anything encrypted.
I love the simplicity of “I just wanted to see what a long bass string sounded like”.
There's more to hosting than just spinning up a fleet of containers you know (not even that that is necessarily trivial...).

Also, how would you be generating revenue from these users? Just do what google does and run ads on the side? Then what's the difference?
You can't host anything you want on somebody else's public file hosting service, surprise.
Also, people lie to themselves. Few people would probably want to see themselves as turning down a job simply because they already get enough from unemployment benefits.
evolutionary biologists Weinstein & Heyer argue that it has the fingerprints of GoF all over it
For some reason you keep skipping the qualifiers in what I write. It does not say "some metaphysical notion" but "some metaphysical notion of truth". In other words, what matters isn't whether an axiom is "true" or not in some way that is external to mathematics, but what use could be made of that axiom. You did the same above; I didn't write "from a philosophical perspective" but "from a philosophical perspective where ..."