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To my read, the arguments you are making are not different from the ones made about marijuana legalization, and medical marijuana.

> that doesn't have the effect they're using it for

Similarly, the FDA claims that marijuana has no legitimate medical use.

> when there's a better alternative

Many people consider alcohol or tobacco to be alternatives to marijuana. Further, all of the conditions treated by marijuana have alternatives for treatment of some kind.

> which is freely available

Alcohol and tobacco are freely available. All of the alternatives to marijuana are available via a prescription.

> AND the knock-on effects are harming other people

Watch Reefer Madness. Take a look around the moral panic where marijuana has been legalized in regards to driving. "Since we can't tell accurately how high someone is, they could get stoned and be a risk to everyone on the highway!". Or what about "You are funding terrorism/organized crime!". I can't also neglect to mention the "think of the children" card that is often played, "If the drug was more available, children might get their hands on it!". If I had chosen a less benign drug at the start of this, I could talk about people overdosing, or the harms of addiction, or people accidently killing themselves while having drug induced hallucinations, and so on and so on.
I just love those fake O'Reilly book covers. Wish I could order the actual books :-)
Many years ago I worked on a test editor with a data structure like VI, where each buffer was a list of strings, rather than emacs where a buffer with two strings where point implicitly is between them, but written in pure style and scriptable in Clojure.

It’s a great book - a gem amongst code books.
2.1m service members, over 700k civilians employed by the military directly [0]. Then you have the endless stream of military contractors, and you're looking at almost 1 out of every 50 working age people in America benefits directly from the federal military activity.

So yeah, of course people are taking pride in a big military since it provides so much of their community income.

0: https://www.governing.com/archive/military-civilian-active-d...
So raising a child in very suboptimal conditions is high chance of child turning criminal later on. Or parents dropping put of school to provide for the child. It can well be argued both ways.
It doesn’t have to hold up in court. If you are sued and get good representation, they just drop the case. You are not entitled to attorney’s fees under the law. If you do not have good representation, they get a $10000 minimum award. Because there are thousands of officials who individually decide cases who don’t work for the state government, you can’t just sue the attorney general to stop enforcement. The law is designed so it doesn’t have to hold up in court — it’s designed so that no one has standing to challenge it or authority to be challenged on it. No recourse equals maximum enforcement.
Technically speaking, the law says "knowingly engages in conduct that aids or abets the performance or inducement of an abortion."

Thus you have a case you didn't knowingly do it. I'm only speaking technically though.
It’s mind-blowing to me that he was alive during both the American Civil War as well as both World Wars. Those events seem so far apart because of the technology differences in how they were fought, but when you place them in the context of a single man’s life it’s astonishing how close in time they actually were.
Perhaps it’s only that, for the first time, they got some time to reflect on their job and actually notice the impact it had on their lives and health, realised it had never been worth it, and want to find something else?
Camila Cabello's 'Cinderella' Finds Its Modern Form as Musical Ode to Girlbosses
Flowers are relatively easy to grow in a greenhouse. Is really it economically feasible to fly them from other continent?
You're correct, I was referring to vanilla WoW which is all I played. It has definitely evolved since then, thanks for the info!
Biologists Unlock the Secrets of ‘Invisible’ Animals
I'm not really sure about the python aspect in this article however I've been using beancount and Fava for nearly 3 years now and it's one of my favourite pieces of software. Outside of installing it I've never had to really think about python.

All of my financial history is contained in a text file processed by beancount and long may it continue!

One thing I do wonder though is how well it scales, I'm a single man so tracking everything isn't too much effort but if I had a partner it suddenly becomes at least 50% more things to track
it’s gonna be interesting to see the lawsuits from this and covid mismanaged cases
There is a vast community who thinks it's bad, and unsafe (with examples on how to detect direct piping to bash in order to serve malware) and a few ones condoning it. That seems like saying there is currently a debate on the roundness of the planet Earth.
> Does that mean that multiple people can sue a single person?

Yes, the bill enables thousands of suits to be filed, even if frivolous, against abortion providers.

> If the person proves that there was no abortion, who covers the legal fees?

The bill explicitly covers the fees of the person bringing the suit, but provides no means for the person being sued to recover legal costs.

The combination of these two facts means that operating a clinic that even is abortion adjacent will no longer be economically viable.
Just to clarify, WorldQL is hosted-only software, right? No on-premise? If I tie my game to WorldQL, do I have any options if WorldQL goes under (other than re-engineering everything)? Not to diminish the impressive work on display here - I've just been wondering this since I saw your r/gamedev post.
Well, I think one could plausibly argue that the early small mammals which liked to be around flowers were more likely to survive because they could eat the abundance of insects attracted to the flowers. That effect compounds, and in general, places with lots of flowers (in the ancestral environment) tend to be pretty busy ecosystems full of things to eat.

Which is not to say that this is in fact how it came about, but it's plausible enough that I wouldn't be comfortable asserting "it's pure coincidence".

(By the way, David Deutsch asserts that flowers are, in some sense, objectively beautiful. I think he's wrong, but The Beginning of Infinity contains quite a bit on this subject.)
It shouldn't be

Yeah, it definitely shouldn't. But that's me, hacking together whatever I could to see that unsatisfying rocket launch and finally get the game out of my head. So I'd build something new and supply it from a steel conveyor that had a supply buffer, under estimating how much it would actually use. Then it would eat too much and cause a shortage, which meant other components somewhere else overflowed through lack of use, and overall progress would slow down until I ramped up steel production some more. That sort of thing.

So, ideally, everything would go smooth. And plenty of the time for me it did! But a tiny flaw could also be magnified through the system and suddenly I can't produce yellow research bulbs because I was two steel furnaces short of actual demand needed to for servo arms, and production would have peaks and valleys until the additional supply smoothed things out.
As a former Lyft/Uber driver I feel positive about this, but I'm still not risking it because they're not paying me for my time in court.
And soloing that's $50-ish in gas in a Prius, maybe $80-ish for a conventional sedan. 80 is competitive to the train fare; when you take into account last mile costs (Muni and bart, la metro); plus in a car you can carpool, cut it half, thirds, or quarters, but public transportation costs scale linearly by passenger.
Doug DeMuro just reviewed an Autozam AZ-1, which is a supercar-styled Kei car by Mazda produced under its Autozam brand.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn-Z5FHXcBA

If you want an NSFW review of the AZ-1 RCR reviewed it a few years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBVy1ciP_ik
Not contradicting just genuinely wondering, what do you mean by windows doesn't? I have different permissions setup for various users on different folders on ntfs volumes in regular windows 10 installs. Or do you mean another sort of permissions?
The new songs are definitely "ABBA" - Agnetha and Anni-frid are sounding great, and Benny and Bjorn providing that wonderful bouncing accompaniment as always. But I do wonder whether the ABBAtars are crossing that "uncanny valley". You do get a feeling from the fellows that they were so caught up in their look as a band, that maybe they great rejection from an audience watching septuagenarians dancing around on stage.
Even in the EU, couldn't there still be a privacy benefit? Set aside for a minute what's legal and illegal, and just consider what entities are capable and incapable of. By using a DoH provider (that sees what domains your client IP is looking up) other than your ISP (that knows that your client IP goes with your real-life identity), there's now no single entity capable of associating your real-life identity with which domains you've looked up.
amtrak has right of way over the freight trains, but that does not seem to matter to the freight companies, as they never get fined over it.

see http://blog.amtrak.com/2019/05/why-are-amtrak-trains-delayed... for more context.
> If you can’t write expressive code why would you assume your English is much better?

Because English is optimized for communicating human intent?
Does the NSA/CISA advice differ significantly from CIS? KubeBench does a great job of CIS assessment.
New Call for K-12 CS, 'Particularly for Students Facing Systemic Barriers'
Unearthing the City Grid That Would Have Been in Central Park (2016)
They never hunted witches in Texas. Brujas maybe, but they definitely hunted Indians.
> The real problem those on the left have with this law is that it is a major advance against abortion, pure and simple.

I haven't seen anyone deny that the main issue is unreasonable restrictions on access to abortion. It's certainly valid to discuss the recklessness of the law's coercive mechanisms and their broader, negative side effects on unrelated groups.
Freedom of speech is in a fragile place in our culture if we start seeing certain words or opinions (even bad ones!) as "unsafe".

This is not a criticism, just an observation of where we're at and how dramatically attitudes have shifted.
It’s more than that. Culturally they US has a big population that is anti-large government social benefits, except in the concept of the military.

By joining the military you gain access to federally paid education, health care, social services, housing etc. that has broad political support. If you yanked those funds you’d decimate one of the foundational social safety nets in the States.
Once mental diseases became a virtue, faking them quickly became a vice.

Vast swathes of the West are stuck playing status games under the guise of social justice.
I only saw it in a presentation from a high end board house. And then only for limited use and probably wide tolerances? But the idea is still in my head and makes some sense. Imagine something like a silk screen laying down passives. No, they didnt say how they do it, that was just my thought.
I think that would only work if the freight trains were not allowed on the Amtrak owned rails. even now, amtrak has legal right of way, but the freight companies ignore it because there is no recourse.
Their command line interfaces to Google Cloud Platform (e.g. gcloud/gsutil) is 100% Python. Is that not considered a “production level project”?
'I think Anandtech's team are now simply a content writer with Future Publishing handling everything on the hosting and software side along with Ads.'

We're not an independent site anymore, so we have little control over how the site works and integrates into Future's back end (to be fair, compared to TH, we're not that integrated several years later because of a custom CMS and hosting setup, but it means Future won't put any $$$ into it until we transfer over).

Simply put, with the big publishers, writers are writers, publishers deal with the publishing.
It's time to take the batteries out of the internet and put it up on the top shelf. The kids need to go outside and play in the dirt.
The Keto FAQ ( All questions about Keto diet)
It's less about USSR and more about Trumps trade and tech war.
What? He was talking about site layout and uptime, not content.
Comcast flaw could have turned remotes into listening devices
Does that imply that the fathers should be always financially liable for paying for the ongoing pregnancy or are you just speaking your mind without thinking of how that can affect women?
>My "proof" is the fact that every academic I know in history

Gosh..you must be einstein of sociology ;)
I think you too are talking past each other because both of you are focusing only on the money, and not the obligation, and just looking at the money, and who owns it is not how modern finance works.

Modern finance is essentially the Art of I.O.U's.

Before Grimm1's instance of someone else getting hired on, your hypothetical employer has their affairs set up such that expected payroll is met. Payroll is calculated as a function of headcount, and often, the business owner/primary equityholder are the end eater's of any financial shortfalls. They get paid last. Payroll must be paid first, vendors generally fall somewhere in between, and are somewhat more flexible in how you can accommodate them, as long as you make good on it.

Grimm1's scenario would therefore properly play out as the Owner doesn't take home as much (honestly any profit if things have deteriorated to the point you can't meet payroll).

The courts do not look favorably on not paying your people, and in bankruptcy, your payroll obligations take primacy(I think).

You (dataflow) don't necessarily paint the most accurate picture in the sense that the liability does in fact exist in a materially fashion. You can "call it" in the same way that a bank can do a "margin call", which usually requires getting an agent of the court involved.

The sad thing is, legal representation/effective litigation has such a high barrier to entry, that most people don't even realize they can. The other problem is the additional legal costs may jeopardize a business to the point it death spirals, ensuring you never get made whole.

USPS is an interesting case, because I'm not sure what else might be in play due to it's quasi-public nature. A federal institution cannot go into arrears. (Literally, a lot of Federal managers won't even be comfortable letting you do volunteer work in my experience). They have to furlough on budget shortfalls. But USPS is not "Federal" like most Executive agencies, as they are still technically private, or have been operated that way, while also being Constitutionally mandated to exist.

USPS as I recall, is also one of the only employers required to pre-fund their pension liabilities. Unlike everyone else in the private sector who apparently aren't.
A hash is a string comparison. No details (privacy) are leaked during that comparison.

When your phone tells you it only has 1Gb of storage left, do you consider that “on device scanning”?
This law accomplishes a few things that people are missing:

1. A stark reminder that pro-lifers aren't giving up, and that 48 years of fighting later, they are stronger and getting stronger over time. And that the pro-abortion side should take notice.

2. A law that, even though it will almost inevitably fail, in the eyes of pro-lifers, several dozen children will be saved (due to inability to get abortions) and thus it is worth throwing the curveball regardless of the method.

3. A law that does a great job at getting pro-abortion women into placing blame on the Biden administration as inept and unable to stop Republicans effectively, hurting morale among his voter base, while boosting morale of Republicans to have gotten an even-temporary win after, what, 48 years of fighting? It can also be a political tactic.

4. Remember that ~50% of Republicans are women. This isn't all just angry men who like controlling women, and the pro-abortion side isn't very effective at reaching them.
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The problem I see with electric is the energy density, and the difficulties that come with that. Battery tech has come a long way, but it still has a long way to go.

The other trouble is the longevity. I like buying used cars for ~$3k with 100k+ miles on them: pick the right one, and it'll last you another 60k+ miles for the cost of tires and DIY oil changes. From what I understand, current battery tech requires you to buy replacement batteries well before that point, and those batteries are ~$10k. Back of the napkin, that's $1k more than the cost of the ICE car, its maintenance, and the gas to drive it.

It's not just cars, either. Welding - fairly fundamental to construction these days - depends on the availability of cheap power, usually in the form of gas generators. We'll be in a bind of gas isn't available anymore. Not to mention all the other applications for grid-independent electricity generation, which generally depends on gasoline or diesel.

You may be right, and we'll hit that tipping point. If we do, though, I think we'll have a lot of second-order effects that bite us hard.
Is there any way we could make this more hyperbolic?
> How would the driver even know the women is pregnant or going to get an abortion? It's not like there are clinics that ONLY do abortions.

Ah, but that's the point. Any clinic that even thinks of performing an abortion will become a social pariah out of fear of repercussions.
I wrote that comment and stand by it. I will soften it up a little and change it to giving them a dark grey tab. Meaning those people do not get treatment until everyone else gets treatment. And if they are getting treatment and someone who is not an idiot comes in, the doctors and nurses should IMMEDIATELY stop treating the idiots who take ivermectin, or are anti-maskers, or anti-vacciners. Put the idiots in the hall on the floor, or get some tents outside of the hospital and put them in there. Whatever, I don't care.

However, those that are vitriolic anti-maskers and anti-vaxers should have the MORAL COURAGE to not go to the hospital in the first place, since it is their mindset that put them there in the first place. They should live by their convictions. But time after time, you see those who spout this bullshit, like radio hosts and everyone else who are the "anti's" go into the hospital and cry like the little babies that they are, saying everyone should take vaccines.

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Why should these people even get a hospital bed? Where is their convictions, that Covid is not bad? Cowards.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/24-year-old-who-needed-double-lun...

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/phil-valentine-conservat...

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/former-cia-officer-calle...
Pretty much no video game engine scales with cores. There are too many dependent systems. There's no game engine that I'm aware of that effectively uses more than a couple of cores for gameplay simulation.

Distributed physics is a well understood problem with no "solution". Just different trade-offs. This solution is cool, but it's not novel or anything. Minecraft is particularly challenging because the entire world is highly mutable.

There are no general solutions to any of this. Just a bunch of custom one-offs. SpatialOS is trying. My opinion on it is extremely, extremely negative. And I'll leave it at that.

Unity and Unreal both have primarily single-threaded gameplay. Writing multi-threaded gameplay code is extraordinarily difficult. Unity has been working on their DOTS/ECS system for years, but it does not appear to be close to ready for the mainstream.

So I think the short answer is "it's really really hard. Like, radically harder than you are imagining. Even if you think it's hard. The value of that work is likely not worth the cost. If most players WANT to play on small servers with close friends then the mountain range of work to effectively support a 1000 player server is not worth it".
As said, they have no problem going 80, so they're fine on everything except expressways.
It's certainly a failing of the flawed US democracy, but fortunately there are much better ways to implement democracies.
Exactly right, but the military services haven't even started to implement the changes that would be needed to grow and maintain a cadre of digital talent.

Fred Brooks (a name some of you might recognize) recommended in a 1987 report for Defense Science Board on problems with DoD software that DoD needed to improve its uniformed and government software expertise. Even there he said such personnel would likely have to be heavily supplemented by contractor help -- but at least they'd know how to do the technical management.

Fast forward 30+ years and there are pockets of talent but if anything the problems are larger as digital products have become more important to business operations around the world.

Recent example from Reddit on DoD IT: https://i.redd.it/dyp2nyaca5l71.jpg
Could you source Apple’s explanation, that you read?

It’s pretty common knowledge that most of iCloud (including Photos) is not E2E encrypted; in fact, here’s the proof right from Apple - https://support.apple.com/en-ae/HT202303.
Old-growth forests were largely cut down a long time ago. There's some still left, and the majority (but not all) are protected.

The area of 2nd level ("gammelskog"; forests older than 150 years) continues to increase.

Overall, Sweden has a higher amount of forested area now than in 1900, and it's not just planted young growth.

The "save the forest" campaigns of yore were pretty misinformed.
Mexicans/Mexican Americans as well. The history of the Texas rangers is pretty sordid.
I don’t know about that… Recently I installed Ubuntu on a laptop, said “meh” and then replaced it with the stock Debian stable which has been working flawlessly. (Also, I feel like I trust Debian more than Ubuntu, although I’d have hard time explaining exactly why.)
In 2009 maybe but for the last 10 years there have always been competitors to Apple who have cheaper phones with more ram on them.
Three West Coast Main Line operates speeds up to 125mph/200kmph, so very much high speed rail in US terms - faster than the Acela if I recall correctly.
Debian has a rule that precludes the distribution of non free software by default. They also select older versions of software than you might like due to their release cycle.

That includes stuff like firmware for peripherals. So distributions further down the chain tend to include that stuff, so if you prefer to be on the cutting edge and aren't a purist about your distribution, you pick something else.
I bet this would gather some attention: http://www.piaggiocommercialvehicles.com/it_IT/modelli/ape/a...
GPUs are made from silicon.

Other chips are also made from silicon.

Manufacturers will use said silicon to make whatever chips make them the most money per manufacturing run.

Which, right now, is GPUs.
Does anyone know what confluence of events or motives made this land now? I'm grateful for their work--just curious why a commercial software company decided to make its main capability available for free.
Hey, thanks for taking the time to explain so in depth. I definitely get what you’re saying, and I don’t know that I’ve thought about it like this before (to be fair, I’ve only ever been with my wife, so it isn’t a situation that would ever be relevant, and probably that’s why I haven’t).

Best of luck!