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Every major city in southern california dumps raw sewage into rivers and oceans with regularity. There is too much of it to even keep track of. Here is massive one from not even 30 days ago: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-07-12/la-me-po...

There is no municipal grey water systems or mandates. No reasonable person would say anything about southern california's water policy or water history is "responsibly managed". I don't know enough about northern california's situation first hand to offer comment but I would be shocked if it's any better. Oroville remind you of anything?

It is completely true that agriculture consumes many times more water than residential use. California is a complete disaster there too. 25% of irrigable water is diverted to the ocean for the delta smelt, and another 25-40% is controlled by the resnick family's holdings and the sham of the kern county water bank.
Let’s be honest, “we had to destroy evidence because a riot was happening an hours walk away” is obvious nonsense. There’s genuinely no reason to treat that as anything other than undiluted bullshit.

There is a lot that MPD could’ve done, and instead they decided to destroy evidence at a precinct uninvolved in the disturbances. Given how bad of an excuse that is and their history of misbehavior, it is perfectly reasonable to not give them the benefit of the doubt here.
Given the way transport costs so much, I'd expect other English speaking countries could do it in 20 years for $4B, non-English speaking in 10 for $2.5B, down to Spain in 3 years for $.8B.
But the comment you’re replying to is exactly correct. NIF is not LIFE. Ignition is far from net power generation, by a few orders of magnitude.
I think the view that we “just need more market-rate housing” is simplistic. Blindly building lots of housing doesn’t necessarily mean that people are going to move there. In Boston, for example, many of the luxury condos that have been built are being used as investment properties:

https://ips-dc.org/report-towering-excess/

I think the 61% of people who want affordable housing and homeless housing recognize these failures, which is why they want a more direct solution.
They get it from places that are an hour's drive away, not from an entirely different watershed.
For people from the EU that hate techcrunch due to its cookie banner spam fatigue - here's the source:

https://datenschutz-hamburg.de/pressemitteilungen/2021/08/20...

(Note that DPA means Deutsche Presse Agentur in German, so we don't use that term over here)
Syndicated version at Ars Technica:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/08/whatsapp-shuts-d...
My point was that both the original statement by the GGGGP "we often get quite different Ford's to the ones sold in the US" and yours of "exclusively sold in Europe or later sold in America" were for the most part only really accurate pre-2011. That the names were different in the different markets isn't really relevant in my opinion, as while there were major differences in the past that accurately describe those statements, that situation wasn't really true for a decade (for the most part, this is somewhat less accurate given information I found after I wrote this part, see below), until very recently, and the recent situation doesn't really match them either (where they've stated their desire to sell almost not cars and focus on trucks entirely in the US).

I just thought it was worth pointing out that the perception didn't seem to match reality on those points, and for an extended period of time, as they seemed to more closely describe the pre-2011 period.

That said, I've looked into this more, and there was some split during that period, from what I can see, just not in the direction from Europe to the US, and not in any of the models people are bringing up like that. The Mustang wasn't offered in the UK as a right hand drive model until 2015, and I'm not sure the Taurus ever was. I still think people's perception of this is slightly doscordant with the reality for a large chunk of time that's being ignored, but I'll readily admit at this point that it wasn't quite as unified as I was presenting.
I doubt it's bots. Unfortunately being a tech enthusiast doesn't preclude one from being an awful person. Spend some time on Blind for additional proof.
> or find the easiest problem whose solution would be useful (like identifying Kenyan names),

Not sure if that would have been possible for the OP but maybe he/she could have tried to match the incoming names to a known-database of Kenyan names, like a Kenyan phone-book or something?

I had a similar problem to solve in one of my personal projects when I wanted to put on a map the buildings nationalised just after WW2 by the communist regime from my country, buildings which belonged to Jewish citizens. I had a big list of nationalised buildings with a name attached to each of them, I needed to know if that name was Jewish or not. In order to do that I just matched that list of names to the list of names from Yad Vashem [1], list which contains only Jewish names.

[1] https://www.yadvashem.org/
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You might not get the exact same code, but it is certainly possible to generate C/pseudo-code from the binary.

IDA Pro and Ghidra can identify functions and generate the equivalent C code. I know that this is not the original code, but it does help a bit when you are trying to get an idea of what a large function doing.
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Getting a theory that proves its own consistency isn't what's being discussed here. What's being discussed here is just weakening a theory to remove a particular inconsistency after an inconsistency is found.

Trying to make a usable theory that also proves its own consistency is probably also a futile goal, per Gödel, but it's a separate one, and not one that people would likely go for if an inconsistency were found in Peano arithmetic.
Nice idea, but no chance it works in London. It’s faster for me to go the long way round the northern than anything overground, even a taxi.
“We don't have non-auditable voting systems because someone likes them. We have them because they were all we could afford in 2003, and because we haven't since been able to afford to replace them.”
When I was growing up, we talked about fitting a 5 liter v8 in an MG-B and stuff like that. Now, we use heart-throbbing music and prose to talk about fitting monster CPUs in what used to be laptops. Times change.
And it's been in every ANSI & ISO Fortran standard from F'66 through F'2018.
That'd be a very large cheeseburger. I burn more calories in a typical 50 min workout (weights, not cardio, it's easier with cardio.)
An important thing to keep in mind with the "safety third" idea is also the distinction between true safety and low liability. A lot of "safety culture" is composed of things like checklists and hazard warnings which are more geared towards shifting the blame for accidents onto somebody else than actually preventing those accidents, and that many people saying safety is a top priority are just going through the motions. The major impetus for Mike Rowes' safety third thing was when a member of his camera crew, despite the many safety procedures in place, was horrifically crushed to death. It's not so much that people should be less risk averse, but rather that our judgements should be made based on efficacy instead of emotion. I disagree with Mike Rowe on a lot of things, but people often unfairly malign his stance to be opposed to safety when really it's the opposite, and I think that's a disservice to healthy discussion.
Very suspicious number of fresh accounts in here with nothing but excitement.
Which UX problem do you think it fixed? If I had to rate by the ability to successfully start a call and not have technical issues interrupt it, I'd rank Zoom, Teams, Slack, and Google Meet roughly equivalent — the quality isn't as good or robust as Facetime but that's also not designed for meetings or cross-platform.

I'd accept Google self-selecting out of the market with their incoherent messaging strategy but that has nothing do with UX other than not needing to tell people to uninstall the old apps and install the current one.
It isn't that all convenience should be banned. All these items should include the actual environmental cost to produce the product.

We've been selling timber from somebody else's forest for too long. It is time to charge for the trees.
because I do not believe it is meaningless??

Why do you think learning a skill, providing value, and learning how to function in an economy are "meaningless"...
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You read that out of context. We’re talking about apps, web apps, SPAs, and specifically situations that bring you to mix HTML and CSS into a JavaScript module.

That situation most likely requires HTML (DOM) generation in the browser, which can only happen in JavaScript.

So, I reiterate, the HTML is generated by JS in these interactive modules.

You could generate the HTML on the server and then use jQuery to toggle elements… or just create full-JS components that take care of everything, giving some input data, instead of separating the HTML from the JS.
Ah, so I wasn't imagining it. I know little about font history, but I know that Arial is a Monotype thing, and Arial is a metrically-compatible Helvetica look-alike, so it seemed strange that Helvetica would be under the same brand.
Complex computers break down too. It might well be true that any computer capable of approximated human intelligence is even more fragile than normal human.

I don't think we are capable building computer system (and that includes power system for running it) right now that would last few hundred years without any maintenance, even here on planet.

Or it would at least be very non trivial to build it
Nice find. Anyone have a way to search for old versions "math.h"? The 1989 version of ANSI C had atan2:

https://web.archive.org/web/20161223125339/http://flash-gord...

...but I wonder when it first hit the scene.
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Sometimes you get lucky and debug information is left in the binary.
It makes no sense to take that vaccine to me. But I'm watching the absolute majority go and inject it into their bodies.
Just came to post the same link. It's a pretty interesting listen not just of the history of prosthesis but also the not always upside of high tech.
Not to stir the pot but: Wasn’t this controversially brought up as a signal among startup founders by PG?
I’m not sure how that changes the question of whether the US joined WW2 as an aggressor or defender.
Well, no, it's realistic. I find myself going to Google Fonts more and more these days, even for serious brand work. This is mostly due to Google and a few other companies sponsoring the making of great open fonts.

However, the free market situation is pretty yikes. A few giants and a bunch of boutique foundries (check out https://klim.co.nz/) still make it work, but the open source monetisation problem that we find in software is a lot worse when it comes to fonts, because there is no sustainable product/service to sell with your free font.

Maybe the age of great font making is coming to a close. After what must be hundreds of thousands of great fonts (and so many people still just opting for Helvetica), maybe we got all we need.
I wonder if it would be possible to setup a multi-agent reinforcement learning scenario where a few of those play tag over a complex terrain.
You are severely underestimating (or understating) the power of big data.

You really think their stalkertech amounts to: user#=1337, likes=dogs???
Makes me want to kms honestly.

We are going to be replaced by unaccountable artificial systems, which will surpass us in economic usefulness, then intelligence and finally material power.

We are going to be living in an I Have No Mouth But I Must Scream world of our own design.

Better that we destroy this technology before it is too late.
Sadly this is impossible for game theoretic reasons.
Nature hates us and demands our replacement.
Yet the net result of all this "waste" is to employ billions, to incentivize productivity to the point of surplus bringing much of civilization into a luxurious life - rather than scrimping bare sustenance. Remove the smart speakers, entertainment UAEs, luxury drinks, screen time, etc and the economic ripple effects will stop funding essentials that near all currently enjoy.

We've driven world abject poverty from >90% to <10% in half a century. End the products you mention (and the like), and those buying them won't themselves have customers enough to fund their own work. End Starbucks etc, and coffee farms worldwide will crash.

Money is the ultimate arbiter of value. Many deride whatever as "trinkets and gadgets" etc, but they're not putting up the sustenance calories to support life otherwise.
I don't understand, why we don't put more money and energy into weather modification? Not cloud seeding, something more advanced.

It seems obvious we're going to need more rain or snow in many parts of the world.

It also seems like a tough thing to control, so we might as well get started studying it now.
Is it common for companies to buy gold like this?

Where does someone (or in this case some company) store a big pile of gold bars?
Mistakes were made.

https://images.app.goo.gl/Fa4xagd927eGo2wf7
> People genuinely do not want more density in their neighborhoods.

I'm happy for them. That's all well and good, but when you buy a plot of land you buy that land, you don't get controlling interest in the whole neighborhood.

These shenanigans are starting to get cracked down upon at the state level, because of course local fiefdoms are going to craft self-serving policies. In aggregate, however, they ultimately strangle the economic potential of the state. There's a great writeup of how the state of California is bringing discipline to the (lack of) statewide housing development here[1].

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/LosAngeles/comments/nqpc91/lets_tal...
I wouldnt be able to write anything if I worried too much about regretting what I wrote, so I agree
> Not sure exactly what you mean with social conservatism

"This is also why social conservatives don't like it when scientific progress makes sex safer or better. Sex outside of their ideal scenario (in marriage, at the husband's wish, for reproduction) should be punished, and steps to mitigate that punishment (STD prevention, pregnancy prevention) should be discouraged or lambasted as immoral."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/oct/16/conser...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/why-the-pol...
Put the script in a comment at the top of the code. It looks kinda funny and people tend to dislike that kind of thing in pull-requests, but I always just ask them to hold their breath and pretend the script isn't there. If the script isn't still useful the next time that code has meaningful change then remove it. I've never seen such scripts get removed - in fact they tend to evolve as the code they test/generate/modify does.
What natural immunity? He implies that he's already got two vaccine shots, and would rather lose his job than get a third...

Will his vaccine-induced resistance to the virus result in a more robust protection, after the immune system successfully fights off the Delta infection he'll surely eventually get? Or will the immunity fade, leaving him at an unvaccinated-like risk some time in the future? Given the chance of the latter, and given that he's likely already gotten two, I just don't understand the logic -- unless one's willing to venture into slightly paranoid territory, as I note above.
we currently have at least 2 functioning computers in interstellar space that are 44 years old. I think we are already at a point that we can make centuries-lasting computers
Looks good, great website as well. Linux has come a long way from the early nerdy days and is a competitive desktop OS
Interesting choice, gold has lost 5-10% of its value measured in USD over the last 10 years. One of the most inflationary periods ever and it hasn't even kept up with fiat.
I have very mixed feelings on this.

First of all, it feels like a patch for latent discrimination. I'd rather strive towards a world where accents matter less than fixing accents. Sure very thick accents can hinder communication but I feel like improving that a bit is enough. There's no need to perfectly emulate the native accent (and let's not forget about the differences between say Jersey, Oklahoma, Boston and L.A.).

Secondly, I'm not sure an app is really needed for this. Someone dedicated enough to install an app for this might also be dedicated enough to turn on Netflix and just speak along until they sound similar to the actors.

Either way, good luck to the team.
I use bare Linux servers. I do not see any differences installing docker on ubuntu vs almalinux
A good hedge against inflation, I suppose? People are desperate. If learning to code, check out https://www.codehawke.com
Palantir is unprofitable?
I don't see anything wrong with this situation. People who exhibit profit-seeking behavior (entrepreneurs) can make much more money than people don't exhibit profit-seeking behavior (PhD students). That sounds like a reasonable system to me.
At that point you should just turn on your IDE’s time travel debugging configuration or at the very least its full execution trace configuration. No point fumbling around trying to figure out what happened if you are rebuilding anyways.
Same location as where they bought it from.... stored in bankvaults, just earmarked to new owners.
The actual gold hardly ever moves physically.
This is General Fusion's approach.
Should the death penalty be on the table for executives in particularly egregious acts of pollution? Environmental destruction irreparably harms public commons, including the lives of millions of future humans.

These people are making millions and it doesn't seem like current enforcement has the desired deterrent effect. Slaps on the wrist with small fines don't seem effective. How often do executives get prison time for serious pollution?

Is there a fair legal test that you believe would justify the death penalty for egregious acts of pollution where an executive knowingly participated in the cover up? Currently it feels like the commons is being exploited without consequence. I can't help but think that executing just a couple of the worst offenders would make violators much more cautious and curtail this destructive behavior.
This assumes a binary world of safe and unsafe. If jumping off tall bridges provided a protective effect against death from lightning strikes, by the same reasoning we should jump off the bridge because nothing is safe.

Safety is probability-based and thus continuous. We can reason about one action being less unsafe than something else, so the analysis is still relevant.
I can COMPLETELY believe it was a lazy analyst at an insurance company. Boss: where's the data that Bob wanted? er... Here! (Source: been inside many insurance companies.)

Hanlon's (and Ocham's) Razor all the way here. Laziness / stupidity wins.
if i've driven through arizona, it's been 25+ years. is there a lot of rural agriculture?
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> I don't see a difference between switching between files and switching between positions in a file which is longer than a page or two.

Exactly! By putting everything into one file, you give the reader the option of splitting their view if they want, or looking at the file all in one pane; with multiple files, you have to have each file open independently. Editors give pretty nice ways of navigating to specific functions/methods/points within a file these days, so traversing a large file is not really an issue IME.

Personally, I don't understand the fascination with splitting everything into super small files; given the large number of files I generally have open in my editor, I'd rather look at one file with 1k lines of code than 3 files with 100-500 each. With separate files, if I'm trying to debug something that touches three different components, I need to have 9 files open instead of just 3.
This dark pattern may benefit some users, however there is a trade-off between video quality and data security. Different users have different preferences/needs between these two aspects of a video call service. Tricking people into selecting one option is rarely done out of concern for the interests of the end user.
I would personally be much more convinced that I am benefiting from installing an app that has a history of data security issues if they gave a clear and up front explanation of why this benefits me.

FWIW, my work uses Google Meet running through Chrome and it gets the job done for remote collaboration.
I would actually be curious to see some figures on the difference in performance between Browser and Desktop. I imagine that you can do a few tricks for compression and buffering on with a native app that would not be possible on a browser, but I haven't seen a big difference in terms of my ability to have a meeting.
I mean, it’s a pretty common media story that these cheap imports are hated by the local textile shops. Weird you claim
It like it’s your discovery.
In this case, maybe Peter Thiel's underground bunker in NZ?
With Spring games, and their open source AI and widget system, if you wanted to you could basically have an assistant AI playing for you... but the hard part (and most likely why after 16 years it still isn't the dominant way to play and/or didn't result in high-profile scandals in tournaments) is probably to do it in a way that you don't keep hindering each other !
Many of the rapidly growing Phoenix suburbs are projected to find themselves in trouble with regards to water resources in the future. These suburbs have met their 100+ years of water requirement using the Central Arizona Groundwater Replenishment District (CAGRD), an entity created in the 1990s tasked with replacing pumped groundwater by finding renewable water supplies and injecting that water back into the aquifer.

However, the current drought and temperature projections going forward show that it will be increasingly difficult for CAGRD to find water to inject back into the aquifer to meet its obligations. In the end these suburbs will either need to pay super high rates for water to inject into aquifers or will need to slow growth.

https://www.hcn.org/issues/53.6/south-water-rapid-growth-in-...
Please let us know how well (or poorly) it works for you.
In a functioning environment that is what ought to happen - success in investment is not guaranteed (except if you are a congresscritter of course who can make the weather and can profit from it at the same time). Instead he's asking for bailouts. The cost of housing needs to come down, it eats up far too much of people's paychecks.
The media freaking out is because they get payed to freak you out. Not only will you watch what they are saying - you will also be more open to getting the vaccine.
It is artificially created virus. It is not difficult
to create another. New pandemic will be every decade.
I started park.io and ran it myself for 5 years, growing it to over $1m/year in revenue.

It was an exciting and enjoyable time for me and my family. I loved the freedom to do whatever I wanted, and to move quickly. I loved taking good care of the code, because it took care of me :)

Eventually partially because I started to get tired of it and also to de-risk, I brought on a partner, which has worked out really well.
yak shaving a fist pump, awesome
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