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> What is the correct & concise definition?

There isn’t one. “Species” is an abstraction, vague when you look too closely, and increasingly meaningless when you move from animals to plants to fungi to bacteria and archaea.

There’s just no way to decisively say exactly when two closely related organisms transition from one species to two.

You will find debate and varying methods but in the end for the professional scientist, it’s mostly an unimportant question for most because it’s obviously just vague and never possible to be perfect, and you have to ask “what’s the point?” of the really fine grained labeling which seems to only be done for the purpose of labeling.
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The replies to this that slag the post office would make more sense if Amazon didn't rely on the post office for last mile in so many places.
> EDIT: I find it interesting that 90% of the responding comments in this thread are seemingly against the parent comment's ideas yet all are being heavily downvoted now with practically no answers to justify the downvotes

I think that's because many of the comments are posting regularly debunked misinformation.

Personally, I like the USPS more than Amazon. Because while Amazon frequently gives me great service, they can terminate that relationship at any time and then I'm completely stuck. Because the USPS is quasi-governmental, they can't just decide I'm no longer allowed to be a customer.
It's worse. Everyone thinks your lazy when everything is running smoothly.
In general Pine64 seems really terrible when it comes to providing shipping notifications and tracking.

I have no idea why that is, or why they won’t try to fix it up to at least meet what I consider the general industry minimum-standard, really.

That said: So far all my orders with Pine64 have come through none the less. There’s probably no reason to be worried.
I was asking weego why they consider ajsnigrutin lucky to hold the binary view you outline.
> The X4500 “Thumper” storage appliances were pretty bad ass back in the day.

When you dropped it on your toe

I think the instructions suggested a 4 person (5?) lift into the bay. Even with a hydraulic trolley to get it to the right level we used three people.
I did some basic research looking around and see that low-code/no-code platforms with the likes of mendix.com, microsoft powerapps, appian and others are quite matured platforms. I will not be surprised we start seeing low-code replacing traditional approach of building business applications
I'm sorry to hear you couldn't make it work, but I can assure you that this approach works in practice. You don't get a child in 4.5 months, but you can get 2 children in 9 months.

I agree that not all environments are good at managing developers though (and that is probably a huge understatement).
Presumably it's a hell of a lot more similar than the Allwinner A64 in a regular Pinephone is.

The RK3399S being a new and even less mature variant of the RK3399 found in the Pinebook Pro doesn't encourage me to expect better results.

Again, honest firsthand accounts welcome.
> can execute like Amazon does

We'd have to be willing to let the USPS operate at a significant loss for a decade, kinda like Amazon.
>there’s no reason to believe the Post office would be even half as effective as Amazon.//

I never understand this argument, take Amazon now. Pay everyone the same to do the same job, but don't pay dividends, reinvest profits (or pay them as if taxes). How does it suddenly become everyone is incompetent and can't do their job?

Why is it capitalists think people can only work if there's a rich person creaming off a profit?

Explain, please.
I’d have tried to learn to study before college. I aced high school with almost no effort and arrived at college completely unskilled at actually studying or working in a course, so I got my ass kicked by the coursework.

Secondarily, I mildly wish I’d done more off-major exploration into subjects that were impractical or unrelated to my major. (That’s 180° from other advice below, so maybe it’s just a grass-is-greener issue.)
Baudrillard's going to laugh in his grave for this one.

Our modern society has tried so hard to defeat death that we have essentially surrounded ourselves in it. Once we've made machines that try to defeat death, the only natural extension is to make machines that do the exact opposite, since there is no longer a distinction between the two.

(I highly recommend reading Chapter 5 from Baudrillard's Symbollic Exchange and Death, which elaborates about how modern society has ripped apart the symbolic exchange between life and death and neatly partitioned it, and as a consequence death becomes an immortal force that we cannot deal with.)
Sounds technically interesting. However, it seems that they can't accept credit cards and transactions take some time, so I guess that most users will end up flocking to centralized exchanges for a better experience.
I think he’s writing more about where the sea people came from rather than where they ended up afterwards. But yes, the Phoenicians, and hence the Carthaginians, being descendants of the Mycenaean Greeks does provide yet another example of Greek/Italic conflict.
> I think zero points would be a very harsh grade given that an understanding of how to do an inductive proof was demonstrated and one minor error was made in an otherwise correct proof.

Who says the question was to demonstrate an inductive proof? Being able to prove that all horses are the same color if all pairs of horses are the same color isn't particularly useful, as typically that would be the definition of all horses having the same color. All that humbug didn't add any extra information to the problem at all, it didn't make things clearer it just made them harder to understand.
How Can You Destroy a Person’s Life and Only Get a Slap on the Wrist?
This is the correct answer imo. There's a huge rift in this area of biology on how to organise things, with multiple different ideas.
how gdpr-compliant of you
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I see what you're getting at, but this is a bit of a motte-and-bailey argument. While it is literally true that widespread acceptance of racism and sexism was (and is) motivated by a desire to avoid being wrong in the eyes of prevailing politics, that's not what the specific term "political correctness" popularized in the early '90s referred to.

The NYT opinion article that popularized the term said:

> Affirmative action is politically correct. So too are women's studies, gay and lesbian studies, and African-American studies, all of which are strongly represented in the scholarly panels at such professional meetings as those of the American Historical Association and the Modern Language Association. [...] Biodegradable garbage bags get the p.c. seal of approval. Exxon does not.

And Bush Sr. gave a speech shortly thereafter decrying it:

> The notion of political correctness has ignited controversy across the land. And although the movement arises from the laudable desire to sweep away the debris of racism and sexism and hatred, it replaces old prejudice with new ones.

They and all the other media figures and conservative politicians and so forth in the early '90s would have all looked at you confused if you claimed that racism and sexism, themselves, were forms of political correctness.

If your argument is that public pressure to conform to racist and sexist cultural consensuses was bad for scientific research, it does not actually help the cause to defend opponents of "political correctness" who advocate for the freedom to express now-unpopular racist and sexist viewpoints.
Because it's naive to think a person wanting to end their own life is going to be deterred by a law?

Like what are they doing to do, throw your body in prison? Hand your body a fine?
I'd have gotten my GED, left high school early (ideally just avoiding it all together), taken my sweet ass time getting basic prereqs out of the way at community college (instead of trying to finish in 2 years with 6+ classes per day like everyone else), figured out what I wanted to do based on what I'm good at, and then go from there.

If I had done that, I would have become a professional software developer much earlier and have saved tens of thousands of dollars and nearly a decade of my life.

What actually happened was I spent high school learning to hate the system for its prison-like qualities, ended up rushing into an education for something I ended up discovering I didn't like and wasn't good at thanks to typical societal pressures of getting an education and "keeping up with your peers", and eventually I had to start my life from scratch in my mid-20s.

I'm just glad I didn't have to start over in my 30s or 40s.

If I could go back with what I know now, I'd be working full-time by age 19 and earning more than any of my peers, and my self esteem would have been much better by not forcing myself to do a bunch of work I hated in a short period of time for a goal I really had little aptitude or passion for.

Oh, and if we want to talk about education broadly, I would have played a lot less Halo and read more thought-provoking books about useful occult knowledge that no mainstream schools will ever teach. These are what I wish I had been reading by the time I left high school:

- 48 Laws of Power (and pretty much everything by Robert Greene)

- The books "Influence" and "Presuasion" by Robert Cialdini

- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F** by Mark Manson

- Left of Bang (Van Horne, Riley)

- No One Ever Told Us That (John D. Spooner)

Those books alone provided way more value than my entire high school education (which was really a retread of everything learned in middle school), and I'd have been way ahead had I read them much earlier. I'd have bypassed a lot of strife and wasted time which resulted from believing countless non-truths from the media and elders.
we could check those findings by replicating them in other related animals
> after being in the military around people who put so much effort into getting things right

I met some really bright, hard working people when I was in the military. But I met a huge number of slackers doing the absolute minimum required to skate by. I don't think the military has any particular monopoly on driven individuals.
Twitter’s heads of engineering and design will leave in a company shake-up
Thanks! You should be able to install the .net core runtime and then use `dotnet build` with its various arguments (see --help) to build it on macOS. But to make it easier I've also added a binary for it here: https://github.com/GSGBen/t2md/releases/tag/v1.0.0
Prompted some memories of using another trackball. Back in maybe the late 80’s/early 90’s the Microsoft Ballpoint Mouse[1] was my preferred pointing device. It didn’t require a smooth surface like a normal mouse, was very portable, and attached to the side of basically any laptop.

However, it included a pressure collar of sorts, which increased the ratio of static vs. kinetic coefficient of sliding friction. Basically any time you started to move the mouse the pointer would jump. Fine movement was very difficult.

The solution was to unscrew the retainer ring, remove the pressure collar, and reassemble. Problem solved; after that it was a joy to use.

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/buxtoncollection/detail.aspx?id=22...
Looks like the package in question only has packages from the Go project itself.

The only external dependency is OpenBSD specific and used on that operating system only.
Facebook Messenger seems to rule the roost here in NZ, WhatsApp probably a close second.
A OS in perl, ha! Lights my heart
it's not about the website content, it's about the content served from Cloudflare network.

Your website can be anything you want, but if CF bandwidth usage gonna be 99% for videos, you're not using it to serve the website, you're distributing content.

Which is not the use case they're servicing (with their "CDN" service)

They have a new service for that: https://www.cloudflare.com/products/cloudflare-stream/

Which may be expensive too or difficult to compare (they bill per minute/instead of data)

For huge volumes, it's certainly better to find "specialized" providers or budget options like bunny.net
that should put the argument to rest, then. the bus factor is not a problem, the data shows that software developers survive being hit by a bus
You know, if Tesla can figure out object detection well enough, they're likely to be the company that helps automate the rest of the planet.

As far as I can tell, there are a thousand hurdles, but object detection is the major one.
Thinking maybe. Execution is hard, the extra truck overhead may make it a non-starter for many
Let's ban all bakeries, should bread be federalized?
The government would find a way to fuck it up - most likely through forced diversity hiring. Look at truly innovative companies - every year they can can 10% or so of the lower performers - if you're not doing your job your fired - doing that in a gov ran business? good luck. everyone would claim wrongful termination so it becomes cheaper to keep the lower performers which leads to our current situation w/ the post office.
My friend's mom used to make peanut butter and tomato sandwiches. Sliced tomato, some salt and peanut butter. I can remember thinking they were pretty good for a while, but after a few encounters, the thought started to kill my apetite.

This was in Illinois in the 70s, I never knew whether it was unique to that family, but I checked around and it's a thing:

https://www.clermontsun.com/2011/07/08/the-origin-of-the-tom...

http://mormonfoodie.blogspot.com/2011/04/peanut-butter-and-t...
If it's repeatable, why does it deserve to be censored? Science is empirical, if it can be measured, measure it. If you can re-create it, do so. The very nature of it being "replicable" means it is worth publishing and discussion.
I'm not sure what connection you refer to.

The Phoenicians are not referred to until ~1500BCE, by which time the Mycenaean and Minoans had been doing their things (mostly trading) for a few hundred years. The Phoenicians didn't peak until after the Late Bronze Age Situation (~1200BCE).
The Canonization of Saint John Coltrane
The project I work in has almost zero knowledge sharing beyond code review and I can tell you it is super ineffective.

Oh, and we don't do ownership thing either.
Sure, but publicly, and I had a response (as I was thinking the same thing).
Sure, this is just pooling your resources; the front page of Ethereum's PoS site gives this as an option if you don't have 32ETH. But this is like millennials pooling their resources to buy a house, except in that case you get a house. What do we get if we pool together to run an Ethereum node? The ability to run a slower payment system than the one we already have? The ability to launder money simply and effectively?
Amazon is obviously behind the new Covid virus and the smash and grabs.
Gotta shop online.
This is pretty amazing (not for the brokers, I’m sure). Amazon just seems to be a hyper optimizing machine, logically stepping through all possible options to every decision.
I would guess they do die early compared to people of the same activity levels, they just tend to get so much more exercise than average that the effect is overwhelmed.
I couldn't say without confirming, but the Solidity ABI memory format is very standard. At the time Fe was founded, there were no plans to use anything else. I don't believe that has changed.
> arbitrary, arcane rules to protect their donors.

like what? The ones I heard of were prefunding the pension plans, but I’m not sure how that benefits any of “their donors”
My wife just had exactly the opposite experience. She ordered something from Amazon and it came in a Walmart box, directly from Walmart with no mention of the Amazon seller on the shipping label.

Against Amazon's rules, for sure.

Interestingly, the price was lower on Walmart.com but my wife had not checked first. But it was only $2.50 less. I have no idea how that worked out as profitable for the 'drop shipper' (in quotes because this kind of drop shipping is IMO not legitimate).
That's not nationalism it's racism.
I actually have fond memories of the jelly soaked bread in my brown bag lunch as a child.
What's tricky is some old classics are probably still worth playing, but some are unplayable by modern standards. I was looking into old games, and Descent just seems too hard, Myst-style point-and-clicks don't work. Older RPGs feel like too much work. I also have zero interest in playing the same level for two hours because of some especially hard gameplay element.
This article sounds more like a PR piece for Amazon. At this rate, I wouldn't be surprised if in the coming weeks Amazon singlehandedly saves Christmas.
What about Arch Linux or GuixSD? (now GNU Guix System)
You've got to listen to Dan Carlin's Hardcore History episode :
"History Under the Influence".
(In case you don't know, Dan Carlin hosts a series of amazing, breathtaking almost, history podcasts. Series ranging from ancient times through WW1 and WW2. He truly brings history alive, and is addictive. Especially great for long road trips.)
Why? He quite clearly states that " All modern humans are clearly, morphologically H. sapiens." Do you suspect that further research along this line will disprove this?
Cline mentions a goodly stack of other explanations, including migrations into the region as well as out of the major civilizations of the area.
hmm, wonder when this is going to get an update like Space Jam got.
This is actually part of the shipping failure. Does Amazon have different ports and different workers unloading things? Read the article and you will see the answer is no.

What Amazon has bought is priority within the massive shipping complex (with ships and port both controlled by the 3-4 cartels). There's nothing they've accomplished here except get an immunity to the problems that actually means the delays get shunted onto other organizations trying to get their stuff. Basically, the very largest monopolies are protecting each other and screwing the medium-sized and little guy operator.

Is Amazon using the Port of Oakland when LA is ultra-busy? No, Amazon stuff is going quick through LA and this automatically means other stuff is going slower.
The amount of trust will be limited to trusting that the bank is showing your balance correctly and that nobody stole their SSL keys.
It doesn't make their experience or suffering invalid.

If we are to allow suicide for chronic physical pain, then why not for chronic mental pain?
What are they selling it for?
> And you'll need some kind of "coupon code"

Which you would have been given if you had registered as a qualified developer earlier on.

For the rest of us, we just have to wait it out until these developers have proven the hardware somewhat.

Pine64 is in the business of selling hardware, not software nor bundled HW+SW appliances after all.
That's like saying that spaceships are extremely efficient, because "all they have to do is accelerate at the beginning and decelerate at the end." It's not the trip that gets you; it's the delta-V (or in this case, delta-p).

Also, cargo shipping voluntarily uses fuel ("bunker fuel" — the dregs of the petroleum distillation process) that's absolutely awful for the environment per watt generated compared to any other fuel (including any other petroleum distillate.) They do this because it's the cheapest [liquid] fuel to buy per watt generated, and because they "can" — cargo-ship engines are designed to deal with the low quality of bunker fuel, and ships at sea under most of the common charters [e.g. Bermuda] aren't subject to any ecological regulations restricting them from burning it.

Bunker fuel shouldn't be marketable for sale as a fuel at all. We (= OPEC, in this case) could still sell it to chemical companies, but the rest, we should just be sticking back in the ground. This would reduce global greenhouse gas emissions by such an extent it's not even funny.

This would naturally make shipping more expensive, since their next-cheapest fuel would be slightly more expensive. (Probably not for long, though; some capital investment into ship engine design, using modern engine technologies like Cylinder Deactivation, could probably claw most of this cheapness back.)
Why not have even less moving parts? Nearly every SMS/MMS address is backed by an email address. Look up email to sms gateway list and go for it, sans dongle.
> What? Surely, everyone is thinking of this?

Exactly my thought. Amazon hardly has a monopoly on good ideas. They may have a culture that rewards impulsive strategies, though.
Those people are in theory at least, elected by the American people. Meanwhile Amazon is beholden to whom, wealthy board members and stock holders? How is that better?
ha, he must've had a pretty visual imagination
Fascinating. I know the ancient Romans prized Willow groves, presumably for their medicinal value. I wonder whether this is the reason?..
It's been an honor and a privilege having a difficult dialogue with an enlightened stranger.

I hope you stay safe, healthy, and have a wonderful holiday this year.
During the gold standard central banks would engage in sterilising operations to prevent large fluctuations in the money supply, which was the equivalent of open market operations in modern central banking (what some people call "printing money")
> One interesting side note: I noticed that when wearing noise canceling headphones, it was very hard to tell the worn-out Omron mouse buttons from the Kailh mouse buttons. The difference really is mostly in the sound, not in the feel when pressing the button down!

I truly do not understand why people seem to like loud switches so much. I want my input devices to be inaudible. Am I in such a minority?
Screenshot are cool! I remember someone had maintained the open source implementation of turbo vision. I don't hear about it for a long time, so I think it was abandoned and it had to make a few changes to workaround turbo vision unsafeness. This one seems cool!
two words: visit Switzerland

Also, absolutely agree with anyone suggesting that we eliminate “bulk rate”—unsolicited mail should cost as much as first class—both to avoid real world spam, and to save trees.

I pay extra for my carrier to block spam calls—I world gladly pay the post office to do the same—like PaperKarma.com but last mile…
> You mean to tell me that horses are actually different colors? Really? /s

Right, the goal here is to find the logical error in an obviously wrong proof, not how to fix this proof as the proof is obviously wrong from the start. You trying to argue how to "fix" it is the one side-tracking the whole thing.

If you say "B wouldn't be wrong if you changed A, so A is wrong!" then that isn't how you find errors. If A is a correct statement and B is an incorrect statement then B is the wrong statement. If you can make B correct by changing A, then B is still an incorrect statement.

If this was a memorization question where you were supposed to find a particular A and B, then you could say that A is wrong even if the statement is correct, since you knew what A and B are supposed to be. But it isn't, we are just here to find the error in the statement to prove that the proof is wrong, we aren't here trying to find a correct version of this statement.
I'm equally agog at your take, for whatever it's worth. The Post Office is wonderful, and it boils my blood to see legislation that aims to destroy it. I would love to see the Post Office handle banking.

I'm also fascinated when can this sentiment expressed when there are so many posts along the lines of {Apple,Amazon,Facebook} deleted my account with no warning or explanation, and I can't help wondering if the folks saying this is why you're an idiot if you don't run your own email server are the same as the ones saying you're an idiot if you don't trust Amazon to be your sole postal provider.