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More like one part idea and 9,999 parts implementation.

Nearly all raw ideas are unworkable. It takes considerable engineering to turn it into a workable idea, before implementing it.

For example, the idea of running current through a wire to heat it up till it glows, and voila! You've invented the electric light!

No, you haven't. You'll need to determine:

1. wire size

2. wire composition

3. how much voltage to apply

4. how much current

5. how to keep the wire from melting and burning up

6. how to supply voltage and current

7. how to keep the filament for setting nearby things afire

8. what kind of fixture to put the wire in

9. how to manufacture it for a reasonable cost

10. how to manufacture it in quantity

and probably a number of other things, too.
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I live in New York City where apartments are small and rents are high. I don't live alone. What remote work essentially does it makes the shared space in our apartment smaller since there are more people in it more often. In effect it shrinks your apartment.

If I am working for someone else I think they should bear the cost of renting the room where I am working in. If I'm not in the office they can use my share of the office-space to something else. They won't need so much space and thus will pay less rent.

So I think remote work is in many cases in the interest of the employers, at least financially. I do believe that in-person contacts are valuable. But I haven't seen it discussed much that remote work in effect shrinks the place where you live.
we need to free associate and disassociate from groups.

we focus so much on the former and pay not attention to the latter. we delude ourselves into believinf we can all get along.....we can but away from each other....
Hmm, so by adding extra electrons (and ions?) to water, the water gains reflective properties.

From a bit of googling, I'm reading that reflectiveness comes from having small "band gaps" (gaps between allowed electron energy levels) for electrons to cross. Metals have small/no band gaps, while non-metals have larger ones that (if I understand correctly) don't match with the energy levels of visible light. So I assume this means that adding electrons to water changes its band structure and reduces the gap.

So is it generally true that any non-metal which gains electrons is able to absorb and release visible-wavelength photons more easily, i.e. is reflective?
How long did it take them to replace them?

Or is the problem that the replacements were on shorter buildings, with less signal range?

Probably the latter: https://www.tvtechnology.com/opinions/rebuilding-nyc-tv-tran...
The large agency forecasts have underestimated the growth of renewables for I think about a decade.

But, concerning your optimism — one of the reasons that renewables have gotten better and cheaper faster than predicted is that smart people decided to work on it. There’s a lot of opportunity in clean energy and climate tech, and working on it full time is a great way to manifest your optimism.
Drug testing by employers may be broadly accepted in the USA, but not in Europe.
I agree, building the mental map of written characters->translation was certainly difficult early on.

Duo is not going to be as good as institutional schooling or immersion but I don't think it has to be to be considered a net positive for all of us. It has lowered the barrier enough to allow people to get started for what is essentially free. I remember 10 years ago I saw rosetta stone cds being sold in barnes and noble for $179+ for just a single level. Sacrificing the time of just 170 SWEs for something like this just seems like a no brainer to me, valuation aside.
I wonder, hoping it doesn’t, if it works as a fuel additive. Someone must have thought of that in the 50’s and 60’s.
> I think in 10 years there will be so much progress made so fast in renewables that we will look at all large agency forecasts and think how bad these were.

No need to wait for 10 years, it's already pretty obvious. Look at any solar projection from any major institution 10 years back.
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wfh is not all roses either.

sometimes i have difficulties "leaving work" when I'm in the flow. so i started wearing "work clothes" to remind myself "i need to go home" and change into home clothes.

meetings are more time consuming and annoying in general. "can you hear me? can you see my shared screen?"

i'd prefer a 2/3 or 3/2 days wfh/office arrangement.

sometimes the office environment actually helps me to focus better. and i miss the ping pong table..
An Op-Ed is definitely going well when people bring up that the NYT has also published the Taliban unbidden to contextualize it.
I think it depends on what you want. I don't spend a lot of time dealing with my manager. He leaves me alone. But he also deals with all the stuff coming down from above so my job is just coding. To me that is a win as I don't want to have to deal with anything on his schedule.
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Well Americans always explain why they pay more for drugs is that they subsidise the rest of the world(drug companies). One could say the US economy is based around the people(government) giving money(subsidising) to the rich(drug companies).
So the terms may not seem unreasonable in the us but are in other countries. Since the condition is effectively the government covering the risk rather than the drug company paying for insurance like they should in a market economy
I pointed out you likely need to look to du Châtelet to discover the derivation of what Coriolis refers to as the "old usage".

As to the "1/2 is a mistake", one question in physics is, is gravitational mass exactly equivalent to inertial mass?

You can omit the 1/2 and continue with the old definition. If you do so, then your system of physics will have an inertial mass which is half the gravitational mass.

As such, it's a difference only of philosophy. The main advantage to the 1/2 is the math is cleaner if we assume inertial mass = gravitational mass.
I’m pretty sure this is the case in the UK too - Pfizer basically immune from any claims resulting from side effects etc.
Partly agree with you. It's look like analogy with smoking in my country. Government put taxes into stick and cigarette and many people stop smoking because of insane prices by pack
You’re uncomfortable if cameras are off. I’m uncomfortable if cameras are on.

Someone has to lose.

Are you really going to force everyone else to look straight at the camera and pretend to be engaged for the entire meeting? Even if that means they’re shutting off their brains? Just to make you feel comfortable?

How many more people are you going to inconvenience with your demands that everyone turn on their camera and pretend to be engaged, versus me turning off my camera so that I can actually focus on what is being said?
I read the article, doesn’t mean I can’t leave an anecdote and reiterate the same point.
You could edit files that you just found and renamed. And when you edit files, then there is RCS integration and… linting, spellcheck, printing, you name it. It’s just a unix way. Is broot ISO/IEC 9945:2009 compliant?

/s
I guess that would depend on the tree, wouldn't it? How is a tiny little seedling going to clean as much carbon as a tree that took 40 years to become anything substantial?
The problem is that language learning is inherently about putting your brain in tricky, slightly painful situations. You have to decipher confusing sentences, handle unfamiliar words and wrestle your brain into thinking in a different language.

You can't really make a fun game that does this. Therefore Duolingo makes a game that focuses on translating the foreign language to your native one. That's great for starting out, but eventually you gotta start composing sentences and ideas in the foreign language.
It varies widely by company culture. At a previous job we had a Slack channel called #dumb-questions, specifically for exactly this type of thing; a no-judgement zone where everyone could share the job of filling in each other's mental gaps (one problem with finding just a single friend to ask questions of is that you start to worry about bothering them too much; this way no one person was a choke point)
I sure hope so, but at least here in Germany NIMBYs are highly organized and effective at preventing more wind turbines. It doesn't help that many politicians do their best to prevent wind turbines too.
Monaco is up and down, right ?
Send authenticated mails. Send an email or two to your own Hotmail/Gmail address each day (or at least regularly), and make sure to interact with the email (read/reply/forward/put in folder/etc.). Personally, I use Hotmail for reading my shopping lists.

If you end up in your own spam folder, "Not junk" is your friend. If you don't get through at all, do the escalation dance with Microsoft until the situation improves.

Once you reliably hit your own Hotmail inbox, start sending mails to A FEW others as well. Verify that they receive the mail, and ask them to add you to their trusted sender lists, press not junk, etc, and keep bugging Microsoft if they just discard your emails silently. Once you have a few people doing that, reputation should improve quickly.
That doesn't necessarily indicate whether or not she's a better swimmer than she would be if she'd started later than 6 months old, though - maybe the first months were entirely pointless or maybe they're why she's so great already at 3.
>If a small but militant group insists in putting everyone at risk by intentionally and systematically violating basic health and safety precautions then the only hope society has is to mitigate this risk.

Who is militant? And they aren't putting "everyone" at risk. They are putting themselves at risk surely, but the risk doesn't really spread to people who have been vaccinated.

>You need to prove you are vaccinated when you travel internationally

I also need permission from the government of the country I'm visiting to come at all. They can add conditions if they want and I can choose accordingly.

>So why yes, obviously yes. Don't you agree? Or do you actually believe that an individual's whims and irresponsiblr and reckless behavior should simply put everyone else's life at risk just because?

I don't agree. I think people have lost perspective and have very little idea what the risks of various situations are and can't tell the difference between a risk that could kill millions and a risk that could kill hundreds and are happy to charge forwards to try to prevent any risk regardless of how small because "doing something" has become as a religious mandate.

>I mean, if you really valued freedom then wouldn't you be doing your hardest to ensure that everyone around you should, say, not risk death by an easily preventable disease in spite of everyone except you taking basic precautions?

Freedom is not trying to force everyone around me to do what I determine is best for them.

>do you feel the measles or tetanus shots violate your freedom?

Tetanus basically only spreads through deep puncture wounds with soiled implements. I guess if I didn't seem like I was out of my mind I would want my doctor to accept refusing treatment for a painful and life threatening disease that could only ever effect myself... The question "do you think shot violates your freedom?" really shows that you don't understand my point at all and will continue arguing past and around whatever I have to say.

I am opposed to de facto licensing of public activities based on a choice that should be mine to make. (I did indeed get vaccinated) When there was significant risk and incomplete vaccine access, different rules were acceptable, but only because of the large and temporary risk. Now that that risk is avoidable by anyone in the US who wants to avoid it, continuing to enable and enforce restrictions on everyday activities has gone too far, and normalizing the "papers please" activity does serious harm to our future freedoms.
Kind of a neat idea, but I guess I thought the questions posed are ones the FSF should be writing its own position on?

Separately, is $500 a good rate for a position paper?
I was a cryptologic linguist for the army and went through a 16 month course of 6-7 hours of classroom instruction per day M-F, native speaking instructors, tons of immersion, and a couple hours of homework each night and left still feeling like I hardly knew the language that I was supposed to be interpreting. Unless your major in college is a specific language, you probably won't achieve any sort of fluency in your target language from taking a course in it, either.

Language learning is hard and a multifaceted thing that no single application is going to adequately prepare you for. Speaking and listening are related skills yet speaking is much harder than listening, and both are much harder than reading (for the vast majority of languages). Rote memorization is necessary. Immersion is necessary. Comprehensible input is necessary.

Language learning apps like Duolingo sell the idea of learning a language which is an extremely attractive idea to a lot of people. They also make it a fun activity and incentivize engagement with humor and gamification. The problem is that you can't possibly become fluent in a language with an app like it and there isn't any single app that will.

I suppose in the end Duolingo's valuation is more a reflection of people's desire to learn a language rather than people actually learning a language, though.
You’re that object to the other humans on your team, so perhaps that is not the best thought out strategy
Your explanation is completely correct as far as I can tell, but you can see how someone who's unfamiliar with the details might be skeptical. "You're telling me the FDA already knows the vaccine is safe and effective, and they're just keeping it a secret for 6 months because the rules say so?"
Immersion also creates connections between the language and other stimuli (visual, emotional, etc). Connections are powerful for creating reliable memories.
Thanks for your comment. I don't have a success story yet, but I'm optimistic. I've learned a lot, and hope to leverage my 'trial by fire' to help others.

> Carl C Pfeiffer

Pfeiffer "considered himself a founder of what [Linus Pauling] named orthomolecular psychiatry" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Pfeiffer_(pharmacologist)

> he blames the substance abuse on the histadelics

hmm? Searching for histadelics: "If youre lying in bed at night hoping for sleep, but your brain won't stop, this can be the chatter of histamine expressing itself. Histamine is metabolized through methylation. When histamine levels increase, the pool of available methyl donors can be depleted..." [0]

Oh, how helpful. Thanks, I hadn't really looked into this a whole lot. The old anti-histamine drug cyproheptadine is also an anti-serotonin drug, many people have problems with "serotonin syndrome" that are really helped with this safe prescription. Serotonin and histamine must have some important interaction, I'll have to look into this more.

Another interesting quote from [0] (my comments are sometimes my notes that I go back to...):

"An interesting and illustrative anecdote on folate and histamine was observed by the late Carl Pfeiffer, M.D. who was a leader in this field. He reported that he and his colleagues were puzzled that so many histadelic patients relapsed in the summer months. Eventually, the reason was found to lie in the increase of dietary folate that was found in green, leafy salad vegetables that people ate throughout the summer months."

[0] https://www.natures-source.com/blog/post/histadelia-a-primer...

> I'll try this levomefolic acid.

This site seemed useful when I ran across it a few months ago: https://mthfr.net/
Productivity per hour, or productivity per week?
> Every company at this stage loses money.

... why are companies still getting a pass with this 10 years in? No, this isn't an acceptable excuse here.
OK but what about the excess deaths due to the air pollution created by the extra cars on the road?
I'm with you except for the sentence about virtue signalling and SJW's; no need to bring the entire culture war into it. (In fact I'm usually on the side of those you call SJW's.)
I hate you need to trick the compiler. Reflection can't come soon enough.
I can't believe there is so much money in this app, it's basically flashcards. There are so many mistakes in it when I was using it for Indonesian.

Something like HelloChinese is such a better app.
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That sounds like a hell of an investigation, and now my curiosity is running. 100k domains sounds like an huge amount of logistics on their side to keep it all running. It would be interesting to read about how a spam company manages that kind of infrastructure compared to a "legit" company.

Legit company will always have internal struggles between dev/sales/marketing, so things just take longer and are much more draining to accomplish. I'd imaginge spam org just needs to have bare minimum stuff up to satisfy whatever need it is they have knowing that humans won't necessarily be perusing those domains, yet it's 100K domains. I could almost see something like this running more smoothly. I can also see it being run by small number of people that let things lapse and it's just barely hanging together. So many questions...
Were they willing to do a handshake deal under the table on the day of or did you not try? Just curious, no judgement either way.
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I'm just gonna assume you're being sarcastic for the sake of shitposting.
What they have, more importantly, is a centralized record of your activities.
Yes, I've found that the most significant improvements for me came with bash aliases, a few little scripts, and nnn for anything that has to do with folder navigation or file browsing. Its search-based navigation speed is unmatched.

Another big upgrade was dmenu. Just slap it in some bash script and now it's interactive. Combined with xbindkeys you can even bind those menus to keys, and it'll work on any Xorg-based desktop.
Your entire rant hinges on on the premise that Bing and DDG ranking are the same. They are not and you can easily check that for yourself.

Especially not for terms that would have a personal vector, like an ambigouous 'Ruby Gems' or controversial 'effectivity of mouth mask'
> What is the point?

It affects the balance of propabilities, and that is everything in the current situation.

Shifts in probabilities make the difference between large scale disease (a wave growing exponentially) or not (decaying to zero).

They CDC have always acknowledged that vaccinated people can spread COVID-19 with some probability. There is no "admission" because that's not new. What's changing the advice is new measurements, modeling, social behaviours, vaccination levels (or hesitancy), and the delta variant all update the balance of probabilities.
> I also think “Autopilot” is a wilfully deceiving name for a barely functional “copilot”

I'm confused by this. Generally, "autopilot" has traditionally referred to a relatively dumb computer that is capable of keeping a vehicle/craft on an arbitrary heading.[0] Whereas a "copilot" is generally a human with similar skill and training as the pilot. If a vehicle manufacturer called their system a "copilot" that would surely be far worse than Autopilot.

(Or in the colloquial sense, "autopilot" can also refer to a person who is performing a task without conscious cognitive awareness. "I started getting ready to go to work this morning like I was on autopilot, but then I remembered today is Saturday.")
What is the big opportunity in Duolingo? Are there lots of people learning languages who haven't heard of it already? Is it so essential & useful to language learning that they have a lot of room for ARPU growth? Do they have some way of inspiring a lot more people to begin learning another language?
I don't know. I've tried reading the GPL2 & 3, and a lot of it just sounds like lawyer gibberish to me that could easily be attributed to GPT
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Well this is happening in all countries
> strange that US power consumption peaks in summer

We heat with gas. We cool with grid-powered A/C.
A that's good to hear. It's basically the last missing feature that hold my company back from using matrix. BTW, Discord does have threads now.
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These people place more importance in their dogma than they do in human progress.
That sounds like more of a problem with the patent system than with free markets.
Agreed on concerns about long-term effects! But I don’t believe FDA approval includes that. If anything, I suspect long covid, mRNA surprises, and similar issues will only be truly apparent in the multi-year timeframe. Again though, FDA approval doesn’t seem to address that. So I understand, “I want to understand the long-term side effects”, but not FDA approval versus emergency authorization.

I had originally hoped that Europe’s use of AZ might have avoided the concern over new methodology. But ultimately the various problems during production, testing, and rollout, “seem” worse than the newness of mRNA (in my circles).
> mixed on-site/remote meetings are terrible

for me this is the trickiest part. A lot of people and companies are looking at hybrid as a sort of compromise but the brutal reality is that hybrid may be hellishly bad and lead to far worse outcomes than all on-premise or all-remote. I feel like there is a high risk of a lot of dumpster fire disasters and not sure which way it'll go in the end.
Direct link to the research article -

https://www.pnas.org/content/118/31/e2103605118
I agree that the bulk of human communication is non-verbal. The human brain devotes an immense amount of tissue to the processing of visual information, either directly or indirectly.

But a lot of that gets lost in a sea of tiny postage-stamp size sub-screens in a video wall.

What is the remaining percentage that is valuable?

How much mental effort do those people have to put into looking at the camera and pretending to be engaged?

Are you going to force all the lefties to write in a right-handed manner? Are you going to force all the females to adopt male pronouns? Where along that spectrum do the video-averse people rank compared to those who are video-craving and at what point are you costing the company way more money by forcing everyone to adhere to your particular preferences that may not be widely shared?

I’m not saying I have any answers.

I am saying that this is a problem that is more complex than a lot of people think it is, and a lot of thought needs to go into whatever standards you choose to set.
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Is the heating included into this power consumption chart?
This is the evolution of oppression and control. Just add money to make it seem like everyone has freedom.

No longer are people going to stab you with something pointy and drive you out of your home if you don't accept control, they'll drive you out of your home by giving you the "choice" of accepting control or losing your salary. Feudalism is back but disguised as real estate investment and trillion dollar corporate overlords giving you a salary.
Whether it was global cooling fear in the 1960's, or the current actual climate crisis, a lot (maybe unconsciously) know they'll always somehow find ways to eat, be mobile, and find a power source for their AC.
Some unions did some bad things, therefore everything unions did is bad. That wasn't my experience with unions, I see kids now being treated very badly by dictatorial management, things that just wouldn't happen with a decent union presence. Sure unions need to be kept in line, but no unions isn't a good solution imho.
Success is relative. Tesla sold more Model 3 in one year (2020) than Nissan sold Leafs in a decade (2010–2020).
Oh, just let The Free Market Fairy, solve our problems, eh? https://bitworking.org/news/2008/01/the-free-market-fairy/