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I'd like to start by saying I respect your arguments.

Freedom is a very multifaceted word. On one hand, it means being free from coercion from others to do or not do what you want. On the other, it also means being free to do what you want without being forced into it by your own mind.

Most people have no freedom over their own minds, they would be slaves even if no laws applied to them and they had infinite money. Restricting physical freedom to guide those people even makes sense, as I would say those people are the majority.

But why the fuck would I accept that? I choose what I do and what I feel, why should I submit to others rules "for my own good" when my own mind has shown itself capable of choosing the correct option even when it hurts? Why should I limit my potential so every idiot who can't go 5 seconds without his little dopamine hits won't find a way to kill himself by the time he's 40? Why are the lives of the unaccomplished masses more important than my own?

Admittedly, this isn't a huge problem in my life, since to quote the New Testament, "if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move". Yet I feel like this kind of paternalism stunts the growth of those who would one day learn true freedom from themselves too. If you are shepherded into behaving, you do not learn why one must behave that way.
Right, the fractional ownership model has been around for decades. We are making it more accessible and streamlining an otherwise complicated process.

As you can see from this thread, the assumption by many is that we are a new take on a timeshare. But like your linked article demonstrates, there are many important differences between fractional ownership and timeshares. So while it rolls off the tongue easier, we want to distance ourselves as much as possible from a timeshare. Appreciate the feedback, we'll continue to refine how we talk about our model!
If only we could <i>change</i> our SSN just like we can name, address, and bank accounts
Generally hospitals don't test for specific variants. Instead they forward a sample subset of patient specimens to regional or national infectious disease centers which then perform genetic sequencing. That way we can monitor the spread and evolution of variants.

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#monitoring-varaint...
Wouldn't it be ironic if, despite the high-flying idealistic rhetoric, Elon Musk ends up denying everyone access to space, for a time, due to StarLink triggering Kessler syndrome?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome
The comparison to being paid in scrip you could only use in the company store is spot on.
Didn't know about this. How does it work technically? Does it convert the call from speech to text internally, and opens the keyboard when it hears PIN?
In a perfect world where all people are rational, and the media is largely truthful and professional, politicians are incorruptible and bound by laws, and businesses love to take care of their clients - sure, it may work that way.

In a real world, where people are prone to moral panics, the press is driven by clicks and agendas, politicians are corrupt and routinely abuse power, and businesses love to cover their asses - a single accusation in anything sex-related could cause a lot of damage to any business, whether truthful or not.
“We were bored doing the housewife thing,” recalls Ely today. “I was ready to be something.”

Sounds like the approach Edward Bernays would take
To elaborate on this with a concrete example: if ALL rows were created between 2020-01-01 00:00:00 and 2020-12-31 23:59:59, going to the index is pure overhead.
I was thinking of signing up for them, but this gives me pause. Any other recommendations in this space?
The caveat of course is that battery measurements are only good if the battery is under load. I had a dead battery that was confounding me because every time I measured it the battery would show 13.5v but then the car wouldn't crank.

This is why shops have battery testers with a big resistive heater on the bottom. The good news is you can diagnose this with a pair of jumper cables easily enough.

In general though electrical problems are the hardest to track down, especially when it turns out to be a corroded or missing ground strap somewhere.
In the US, prepaid is a much cheaper option for all but the highest volume users. The drawback is that you get deprioritized on the cell towers making mobile data nearly unusable in many cities or at large gatherings like sporting events.
> Can you imagine a human saying “I can mostly drive just you know not when there are people around, left turns, or any place other than my home area?”

This is a false anthropomorphization. Yes, it would be weird if a human were in this place, but computers are not humans. They can do things we could never do, and things that are straightforward for us like reading a text CAPTCHA, are borderline impossible sometimes. Still, my phone is way better at remembering the story of my life than I am.
Thank you for sharing. <3
The eviction ban is arguably contributing to the shortage in rentals - people aren't interested in getting locked into a tenant who can stop paying rent at any time and who can't be evicted. A lot of landlords are eating the cost and staying out of the market, which restricts supply and drives prices up.
I can't speak for you, either. But I'm not talking about individuals' stories here. That's one of those, "the plural of anecdotes is not data," situations. When it comes down to empirical data, it seems to be a bit like the situation with acupuncture: it works just well enough to ensure that there's always someone who will show up and say, "It worked for me!" when the subject of its poor performance in clinical trials comes up, but not well enough to demonstrate practical efficacy under scientific scrutiny.

Perhaps that really is because basically nobody is assiduous enough about their calorie counting to make it work. But, even if we take that as true for the sake of argument, insofar as the point I'm making is, "This advice has a terrible track record of helping people lose weight," it doesn't work as a counter-argument. Quite the opposite. It works as a supporting argument, by showing one possible reason for why it has such a terrible track record.

I also don't think that it has legs as an idea for how best to reduce the obesity rate. If it were really that easy, then you would expect the population's average BMI to be much higher back when people didn't have the means to effectively calorie count, and it would steadily go down as the means to calorie count more accurately become more widely available. Instead we see that the opposite is true.
There were some (lost?) patent disputes afterwards which could have an impact on openess.
See https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants...
Sorry but could you please give a definition of creativity which is not a weaker or more limited version of mine:

> Creativity is the preference for low(er) priority edges in a graph

There is virtually no difference between an algorithm and a human except that the human may have better heuristics for what "works", which by definition is a form of bias and an algorithm can assess many orders of magnitude more nodes.

If Lee-Sedol the world champion at Go could be left dumbfounded by what he claimed to be a creative move, a move generated by a laptop performing monte-carlo tree search with an ANN doing pruning, and have his world shattered, then I don't see how anyone else could claim that algorithms can't be creative.

If we go by something like this [1]:

> Creativity is defined as the tendency to generate or recognize ideas, alternatives, or possibilities that may be useful in solving problems, communicating with others, and entertaining ourselves and others. (page 396)

Then the tendency is reweighting of priorities of heuristics, the generation of ideas is walking the varius edges, recognizing is nothing but an evaluation of the new state, and alternatives and posibilities that may be useful is nothing but searching deeper within the graph.

[1] https://www.csun.edu/~vcpsy00h/creativity/define.htm
Ah, thank you. One follow-up question: if I don’t cash out my $1,000 USD worth of Robux can I spend them in game at their full $1,000 USD value?
If you stop using them they shouldn't. The swelling is to reduce the pressure to make a fire less likely. I think that if a swollen battery is disconnected, self-discharge should eventually drain enough energy that it's safeish
> My response was to that. Maybe sharing it, rather than concealing it, might actually make his life a little better (there is a soft joy in giving), and bring him closer to the needs of people around him.

It would sure be nice to think that. But that's not how the world works. From the link I posted above, and very abridged:

> Jack Whittaker, a Johnny Cash attired, West Virginia native, is the poster boy for the dangers of a lump sum award. In 2002 Mr. Whittaker (55 years old at the time) won what was, also at the time, the largest single award jackpot in U.S. history. $315 million. At the time, he planned to live as if nothing had changed, or so he said. He was remarkably modest and decent before the jackpot, and his ship sure came in, right? Wrong.

> Mr. Whittaker became the subject of a number of personal challenges, escalating into personal tragedies, complicated by a number of legal troubles.

...

> Whittaker quickly became the subject of a number of financial stalkers, who would lurk at his regular breakfast hideout and accost him with suggestions for how to spend his money. They were unemployed. No, an interview tomorrow morning wasn't good enough. They needed cash NOW. Perhaps they had a sure-fire business plan. Their daughter had cancer. A niece needed dialysis. Needless to say, Whittaker stopped going to his breakfast haunt. Eventually, they began ringing his doorbell. Sometimes in the early morning. Before long he was paying off-duty deputies to protect his family. He was accused of being heartless. Cold. Stingy.

> Letters poured in. Children with cancer. Diabetes. MS. You name it. He hired three people to sort the mail. A detective to filter out the false claims and the con men (and women) was retained.

...

> Whittaker's car was twice broken into, by trusted acquaintances who watched him leave large amounts of cash in it. $500,000 and $200,000 were stolen in two separate instances. The thieves spiked Whittaker's drink with prescription drugs in the first instance. The second incident was the handiwork of his granddaughter's friends, who had been probing the girl for details on Whittaker's cash for weeks.

...

> Whittaker invested quite a bit in his own businesses, tripled the number of people his businesses employed (making him one of the larger employers in the area) and eventually had given away $14 million to charity through a foundation he set up for the purpose. This is, of course, what you are "supposed" to do. Set up a foundation. Be careful about your charity giving. It made no difference in the end.

...

> Today Whittaker is badly in debt, and bankruptcy looms large in his future.
I'm still trying to understand "algorithmic bias is an algorithm problem". Does that mean, if I select L1, I'm training a network which is less accurate against examples that have rare features, because the weights on those features will be forced to 0?

I just want to understand if that's the rough idea or I'm far from the point. If my thinking is approximately correct, then I have a series of further questions and comments, but I think I must be understanding what shooker is saying.
Facebook hacker beat my 2FA, bricked my Oculus, and hit the company credit card
That kind of precision was commonplace 40 years ago, not just today.
oh nice! I grew up in El Dorado Hills, off of Highway 50
Nostalgia and/or familiarity.

Lots of us grew up with 6502 based machines.
I used my credit card a few times and got burned, there is no way I give my number directly to anyone now. Especially Google was running my ads for a week after cancelling and I ended up paying almost $2000 more than I had planned (yes, this is in their ToS). Paypal is a decent intermediary that makes it easy to cancel any subscription effortlessly. Your startup doesn't offer Paypal subscriptions? Too bad for you, I won't use your service. It is completely unacceptable to shift the burden of dealing with this crap to the customer. This kind of hostile behavior shouldn't be tolerated even in the 90s when you were trying to cancel your NYT subscription, and there is no place for it now. In order to convince me to buy your service, you need to attract me with good conditions. "Free trial, credit card required" is not one of them. I don't care that much about free trial, what I want is to be able to cancel my subscription without your kind permission to do so.
Near water does not necessarily mean near an Ocean or Sea, or lake large enough to have similar properties with regard to the horizon.

There are in fact many benefits to living next to a river or lake instead of the coast. A large one is that the water is mostly potable, instead of largely not. I would hazard a guess that most ancient coastal communities were actually ancient coastal river communities, and that rivers are actually the thing humans lived next to (there's some indication in the abstract here[1] that this is the case). If that's the case, proximity to water is a poor indication of how many people would have seen ships sailing over the horizon. As to how obvious bases of trees would be over large lakes, or how likely large lakes would be compared to the norm, I don't know.

1: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-08366-z
Can someone eli5 why some variants are substrains like Delta AY3 and what or how much has to change to have it declared as a new strain?
Do you have links to documentation on the Apple Pay requirement?

That sounds like Apple Pay is encouraging certificate pinning, and I suspect the Apple Root Program may have opinions to the contrary, given how it puts Apple users at risk to encourage pinning.
These large international payment processors, with their almost mafia/cartel-like rules and influence, have a long history of being used by powerful entities do enforce policies that would otherwise be (and in many cases actually are) illegal.

Their behavior certainly goes way beyond their legal mandate, if not in the USA then for in other countries. Certainly arbitrary, within international context all but certainly illegal. Considering the impact that have had around the globe with their abuses, arguable even covert state terrorism.

However, they are essentially untouchable. Any substantial threat to these companies will have several huge economies instantly through all their persuading power at whomever may cause pose that threat. I don't see that changing as long as these companies are such a convenient tool, in a system where literally everything is ruled by capital (how conveniently).

But the system will erode itself, step by step. Until it does come to a collapse. Good luck with that day, for I hope to not live to see it happen (it won't be pretty).
I was expecting a lot more damning points about TV but this legitimately reads like the man is a luddite rather than someone thinking about maybe the value of deep thinking. His cited evils on TV: "You will see a procession of game shows, formula comedies about totally unbelievable families, blood and thunder, mayhem, violence, sadism, murder, western bad men, western good men, private eyes, gangsters, more violence, and cartoons." Yet in the paragraph above he gives the newspaper as well as the theater a pass, when you can see many of these tropes outlined in this quote from just Shakespeare.

Old Old media also was a "vast wasteland" of sponsored radio programs, poorly written syndicated stories meant to engage readers to see other advertisements in newspapers (literally the social media model), and billboards adorning theaters and most aspects of public life, even more than today. I was hoping he would get into something about devoting ones efforts towards improvements, personal or otherwise, rather than endless consumption that leaves you in the same place as beforehand, but that wasn't really his mark and probably not even in his capitalist head given the opining about 'tyrannical communism'.
A significant chunk of the Philippine economy is fueled by remittances from overseas workers (in absolute amount, it's comparable to Mexico and behind only India and China). So it is pretty common for people to "share".

On the other hand, there are people like my father, who worked until he died because he didn't want to rely on his kids for support. He even got mad at me when I got his bank account number from my mom, and did a test wire transfer of $1000.
Kessler Syndrome isn't optimal, but it won't be the overly dramatic Earth prison we hear about in worst case scenario stories. PBS Space Time did a video on this recently...

"The (Slow) Crisis Of Space Junk": https://youtu.be/LkeTk-Fi_c8
Absolutely the same effect is seen in humans when working in large organizations vs startups.
Photoshop can save/open them and the performance difference is insane. You’d think on a modern high end computer both would be instant, but you’d be wrong.
I guess in the near future we'll be having partial blackouts to power the emergency "cool shelters", where everyone will have to go to, to keep cool...
> He capitalized on the turmoil to advance his own career. However, the department’s progress has ground to a halt and they haven’t had a good software release in years now. Doesn’t matter much for him, because he can now pivot to another company and show a track record of rapid advancement.

That's a genius move. He can also use his new position at the company to pivot their tech stack to mimic the one used at the place he'll be applying soon.
>>like half of all active satellites in LEO? It's not surprising that they would be half the encounters.

Half of all sats, not objects. These close encounters are not just with other satellites but any other tracked objects in the database, of which there are many more.
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Thanks for the feedback, this is an embarrassing oversight and was not meant to mislead. The testimonials are from actual Ancana buyers but we did use the Wix stock photos. Andres and I are non-technical founders and tried our best to stand up this Wix site as quickly as possible while we worked to develop a new website. Getting customer photos is a challenge, but we should not have made it look like these were our actual buyers. I've removed them while we fix this and apologize for the misrepresentation. And it won't happen again.
I just learned they really sent Buzz Light-year into space. It somehow passed me by.
> It's incredibly hard to hire for my team because we require polyglot programmers at a minimum. I do know that it wasn't "me" or anything that I had control over on the team (mostly technical things).

Have you tried paying more?
According to the article the minimum working hours isn't 20 hours a week, they are forcing their employees to block off 20 hours during core working times to be available in case Stitch Fix wants them. If Stitch Fix guaranteed those 20 hours were paid I'd be more understanding.

> While the new policy requires that stylists be available at least 20 hours per week, company guidelines reviewed by BuzzFeed News said they can be scheduled for as little as zero hours as “availability does not guarantee a certain number of working hours each week."