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> Contradictions are sometimes the key to understanding deeper concepts and connections that are not immediately clear or "logical".

Fascinating. Can you provide one single example from the Bible where a contradiction is intentionally employed to unveil a deeper concept or connection that is not immediately clear?

> Also, the Synoptic Gospels were written first, and intended to be used to catechize new Christians and teach them the basics of the life of Jesus Christ. The Gospel According to John was intended to be used to teach newly baptized Christians what it means to be a Christian and what it means to have a mystical relationship with Christ.

The author of John's Gospel sourced from a "signs" gospel, possibly the Gospel of Thomas, and seems to have known about Gospels Mark and Luke, but not Matthew, as well as Jewish scripture and non-Jewish sources, such as Greek philosophy. The Johannine community were messianic Jews excommunicated from the Jewish community on account of their belief that Jesus was the Jewish messiah.

> To say "they don't agree so they're all wrong" is a very simplistic and dismissive take.

Unless such a claim was made, this is a straw man.

I disagreed with OP's claim that the Bible is coherent, because it could not possibly be coherent, and I explained why. Is it necessary that the Bible be coherent? I'd like to know why, because it isn't, and it can not be, because it literally is not possible for it to have been intended to be coherent, mostly due to it being a collection of works from multiple ancient authors that lived in different centuries.

> But if you are hung up on how much smarter you are than traditional people, you will never get over how apparently dumb they were for contradicting each other.

Another straw man and an ad hominem. Your argument is twice fallacious.
Rates have gone up and down (down overall at the federal level), but inflation-adjusted revenue is way up, and spending has increased even more than that.[1]

[1] https://annualreport.usafacts.org/articles/43-government-tax...
Everyone owning their own car or bike doesn't make much sense either from a resource utilization standpoint either, but given the choice...
lol at all the downvoting.

You're totally right. Depending on one's standards and expertise, yes, there are alternatives to the mainstream dumping grounds for your files.

The most basic is to just store files on external drives. This is what I do because, most of the time, I'm not actively sharing or using all my photos and downloads. I've scattered them between drives for well over a decade and only had a problem when one of my magnetic drives began to fail, but I ended up not losing anything. Even if I lost all my photos and stuff I really wouldn't care that much. That's why I can't be arsed to trust The Google or Zuckerborg or whomever with my files or using Dropbox. I'm more likely to wake up one day to be hard locked out of all my Google accounts than to lose anything meaningful because of physical on-premises storage.

There's also network drives, and plenty of off-the-shelf ones exist. My parents have one and it's exactly what you'd think; a device with a ton of storage that's accessible through a Dropbox-like web interface.

And if you're really geeky, you can hack together a way to shove files into S3 or whatever storage service of choice.

Yes, the average person won't have the motivation or wherewithal to do anything besides my first option, but that's really the kind of thing you'll always get by being average.

And obviously those who believe they need all the bells and whistles of Dropbox or Google Drive may also believe there are no practical alternatives outside of Silicon Valley Big Tech, in which case it's entirely up to them how comfortable they are with that. Personally, I would rather rely on services as little as possible.
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Is this… NNTP?
This may sound like a big deal, but Germany only currently consumes about 12% of its electricity from nuclear power, according to:

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-energy-c...

Solar and wind have increased, while hydrocarbons are neutral to declining.
>In my personal opinion a free financial course should be required before you first get your SSN and then no higher than a $500 credit limit for 6 months after.

While I appreciate the sentiment, SSN is required for anyone to be claimed as a dependent. My Children had theirs issued shortly after birth. I rather see something alonog a required class before you can open your first credit card. I got mine in college and had a $25k credit limit by the time I graduated. It was very easy for classmates of mine to get into serious debt.
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Then that's the problem. Unsustainable loans distort the clearing prices for goods and services. College tuition is a great example.
How can city life be both mundane and craziness?
> There's no impersonation involved; the analogous email would say that the sender would notify authorities about the recipient based on the answers.

No, the analogous email would say it would notify the authorities if they didn't answer in the legally required timeframe (which doesn't exist). Honestly, it's a fairly tortured example that doesn't fit well.

First, the person requesting in reality is the person making sure their own rights are being honored (whether erroneously or not) based on real laws, while your example is some random person asking others about information that is not really their business.

Second, which is based upon people presenting somethign publicly. It's more analogous to going up to someone that has a shop on a public street and requesting info on their current health inspector rating, which is required by law to be shown (for restaurants). A public website is public. You get something be being public, but that might also expose you to liability.

> It's unclear how this would be more or less random than the e-mail to websites.

Hopefully it's not unclear anymore.

> And you'd be just as quick to defend such an asshole, right?

I'd be just as quick to say that yes, that person is an asshole, but I don't think you can necessarily attribute all the lost time and money to looking into their request as wasted, unless it's the short amount of time it takes to tell them to go to hell.

If someone is unhappy because they wasted hours or money on an attorney because some random person asked them their immigration status, well that's probably something they should have worked out already, if it was that important, so the time isn't "wasted".

In other words, it's entirely possible for an asshole to accidentally cause you to do something beneficial for yourself that you should have done long ago. That doesn't make them less of an asshole, but I also wouldn't consider it their fault them for the time you spent finally getting your shit together.

Notice how I'm not really defending someone being an asshole, just making a note about outcomes? Perhaps you should look at that and my past statement before continuing down a path of accusing me of "defending" someone.
The UK has 275 inhabitants per square kilometer, the EU has 102 inhabitants per square kilometer.
I worded that poorly, sorry. Businesses will contact the troops chain of command.

The military exercises a lot influence over troops, they can bust you down or remove your security clearance. They can also push you into payment plans and reflect these situations in your performance reviews. The military, for all intents and purposes, acts as much more than just a simple employer and lending services (among other businesses and people) exploit that.
In northern countries where the primary need is heating (and there is very little need for cooling), heat pumps at current electricity and gas prices are 2x more expensive per kWh of heat put into the property. They are also about 3x more expensive to install.

They only make sense in places that need cooling too, or when electricity gets cheaper.
Well said. But the major problem is vetting the source of your research. Even academic studies are subject to bias or are simply statistical outliers (e.g., type 2 errors).

You can only go so far down the rabbit hole of research before you're wasting time. It's a lot like signal detection theory: Where do you strike the balance between effort and accuracy in research?
The "cannot travel abroad" claim might refer to one of two things:

1. China requires extremely long quarantines when entering the country. 14 days in a quarantine hotel + 7 days at home is standard. Some jurisdictions go as high as 28 + 28.

2. China has recently restricted issuances of new and renewed passports. This is being done locally, so enforcement is inconsistent, but generally one needs a strong reason ("studying abroad", "international business") to get a passport issued now.

China allows transfer out of the country for the purpose of buying homes, but cash transfers are restricted to a certain annual limit. The restrictions on transferring currency out of China and on exchanging currency are a huge problem for expats leaving the country. Until this year, the recommendation for expats leaving the country was to use bitcoin.
Asynchronous circuits are very hard to design and prove correct unless they are very small, though there are abstractions that work for specific cases. Debugging race conditions and metastability problems, or proving that they can't happen, is no fun. But there's massive support for synchronous logic design, it is a well-understood discipline.
I am dumbfounded (or just dumb), it seems like some entity said that it is the governing body of the English language, trademarked the English alphabet, and now everyone that wants a T-shirt containing a letter of the English alphabet have to pay royalties. Is this correct, or am I missing something obvious?

PS: It looks worse really since looks like the concept of emoji predates what is usually called emoji these days, so it is more like some guy said yesterday he owns letters™, just for collecting rent on everything that uses letters.
0.8% compounded for a year is ~1830% APR
In Europe I got approved for up to a 180k mortgage at 1.9% with no history (as is common here). Same goes for auto loans and leases. Nobody asks you to build and pay debt on a credit card.
Umm, it's not the safety regulator's task to promise the results will be sufficient if you use a specific methodology: "Scrum methodology is fine, so the resulting software quality will be fine too."
Why is it an anti pattern?
Condos in Canada are surprisingly small, expensive and badly insulated compared to ones in Eastern or Southern Europe. So indeed it's easier to have a dedicated work/hobby room in US/CAN suburbs than in the city. Buy again cities in USA/Canada are not at all the same as in Europe. "Not Just Bikes" is more about West European living vs Canadian living.
server-sent events (SSE) likely also improves battery life, more via https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Web/API/Server-sent_event... supported also: https://deno.land/x/oak@v5.2.0/docs/sse.md https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/server-sent-events.ht...
>" Isn't maintenance capacity linked to taxes, which have been decreasing in the US for decades (or so I hear) ? Also: manufacturing moved out of the US so everyone can buy off shelf Asian parts and products so more money is left in people's pocket and that money ultimately go to landlords who can raise prices ?"

From another of my comments: Rates have gone up and down (down overall at the federal level), but inflation-adjusted revenue is way up, and spending has increased even more than that.[1]

>"I am really stupid with economy stuff but I have the strong feeling that we - in the west - are living off of cheap credits and cheap debt and it gives the illusion of being rich because we can buy obligations and financial products and balance spreadsheets between tax-payer's money and private sectors and welfare states and debt payments etc. but at the end of the day when we need to work on our infrastructure our money is not worth the paper it's written with since our workers and our tools are not up to the task or we need to pay a huge premium to get some quality work ? Something like that. "

I don't think you're stupid at all; the reduction in purchasing power are complex and hard to measure.

[1] https://annualreport.usafacts.org/articles/43-government-tax...
What I meant is that heart disease is largely avoidable for most people through relatively simple / nearly free solutions like good diet and exercise, yet it’s still pervasive as OC pointed out.

I guess “poor decision making” was a misleading phrase on my part because I think I get your point that individuals could put greater value on enjoying the present, future be damned, and who’s to tell them that’s not the best way to live life. Life on average will be shorter, but I guess that’s not fair to project that as a success metric onto other people who might not care as much about their projected lifespan as they do about enjoying some more indulgent foods.

And further to your point, there’s a very reasonable debate about the value of the individual vs. the value of the community in decision making that isn’t universal. So yeah I take back that earlier comment.
Except in 2008 many people did not understand what their actual monthly bill would be with an ARM in a worst case scenario, and banks were more than happy to handwave away any concerns.
If we speak about what's available in laboratories, Lithium–sulfur battery gives around 550 Wh/kg with up to 1500 charge-discharge cycles ([1]). Not available commercially, but there are a few companies that try to commercialize them ([2], [3], [4]).

I would not bet that these batteries arrive fast enough to save Lillium.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium%E2%80%93sulfur_battery

2. https://lyten.com/

3. https://oxisenergy.com/

4. https://www.thebatt.com/news/lithium-sulfur-battery-startup-...
Sure, that's the problem. The question is how do you solve it. Ideally you implement a different solution before removing the existing workaround.
Android has a sophisticated algorithm for line breaking, including hyphenation. It's similar to that of InDesign (both were strongly inspired by the Knuth-Plass algorithm used by TeX), but tuned for mobile use. In particular, it's pretty shy about adding hyphens, but if a well-placed hyphen will prevent a two-line sentence from spilling to three (in which the last word is by itself), it will do so fairly aggressively. I'm quite proud of that.

Unfortunately, I don't have a good writeup of that, but some of the details are in this ATypI talk[1].

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8LD0BM-Vjk
Sure... but then you also need to make sure you are close to them. I used to belong to a hackerspace, but it was a 30-45 minute bus/bike ride from my place and eventually quit. It was and is a great resource, but nothing beats just walking into your garage/basement to do the work you want.
I researched Intentional Software for my PhD. The concepts were very ambitious, the tools tweaked to the needs of various enterprise clients. The project was entirely proprietary closed source. Had it been developed more openly it might have gained a greater breadth of researchers and contributions.
I studied a lot of psychology in undergrad, and psychologists do study neuroscience and brain physiology. Many psychologists are responsible for making physiological discoveries about the brain and the functions of its parts, and for designing and executing experiments to study the physiology of the brain.
Is Progress Possible?
Maybe because those of us in that subpopulation aren't treating it by sticking our heads in the sand, and actually doing the stuff that works - not going out, wearing a (good) mask when we must, getting our shots...
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I mean, I have. I've been to a few provinces and seen small towns and big cities. It's way better than I was led on to believe after reading daily reports about it being hell on earth--the low expectations made it way better. I'm not saying it's utopia or anything. Just not even 5% as bad as the wild stuff reddit or news sites would try to make me believe.

But people on the internet are way too into the Red Scare Part II and think literally anything against their personal opinion is someone paid by a state actor specifically to attack them on the internet. It's, quite frankly, nuts, and an unhealthy way of looking at the world and seeding visible increases in racism.
I am quite sure that not sending enough vaccines is not the problem in Africa.

https://www.euronews.com/2021/12/22/nigeria-destroys-around-...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-24/s-africa-...

Providing vaccines is just one part of the solution.

Instead of wining and again trying to destroy the credibility of science and doctors (like happened with masks), WHO should step up and help to deploy vaccines in Africa.
"daily rates are now around 10 to 20 times what they were last year around the same time"

Really? 10 to 20x? That's 1,000 to 2,000% Here in the UK we've had suppliers collapse due to some "issues" involving not buying with fixed prices and end users like you and me get bills that are about 150% last year but not 1,000%.

We have (had) quite a lot of innovative suppliers that offered "green" tariffs that were backed by variable suppliers. Unfortunately the shit hit the fan and the price charged back in the day wasn't enough to cover the current rate plus enough profit to cover admin.
Great point that it's unlikely for the US to become significantly more urban such that public transportation takes over car reliance (although that would be great).

More walkable small cities/towns would be extremely welcome! I don't enjoy living where I can't walk for coffee and groceries. But I'd love a cheaper cost of living.
A friend of mine (Chinese student studying abroad) has a BoC account which automatically transfers money to a foreign account, and it has a relatively low annual transfer limit: around $10,000 per year.
> Gavin Wood, who coined the term Web3 in 2014, believes decentralized technologies are the only hope of preserving liberal democracy.

Pushing the idea that the fate of liberal democracy is tied to the fate of “web3” is so incredibly cynical, it makes me nauseous.
but it's solving one part of the problem, and doing a good job at it.
I've been making diagrams using graphviz, but setting the positions and edge curves manually, pulling the nodes and edges out of a list in excel

https://github.com/mathew-j-davis/boxesandarrows

I've been setting the 'waypoints' for more complex curves (curves with many bends) manually (typing the bezier numbers in by hand), while I try and figure out how I want them routed, you're right it's not easy figuring out rules for where edge should go, let alone implementing it
> strings.Cut, where is the doc for this? How can this not be Googled?

https://pkg.go.dev/strings@master#Cut
> including radically improved analytics (for those who opt in!)

Thank you so much for making analytics opt in. :)
If there is an existing workaround no one will look for a different solution.
I haven't tested runj but just from looking at it, it seems it is not fully compatible with everything that runc does because the OCI itself specifies a lot of Linux-specific functionality.
Or you just draw stright lines and save yourself some trouble.

Because they are eaiser to stack without getting garbled!

http://move.rupy.se/file/logic.html
I don't think it's entirely accurate to say "ignore this evidence of a failed system". My point in highlighting it is there's an opportunity to fix it and experiment on a small scale. Imagine if you made that system work, how much you'd learn, and how much support you'd garner.
https://www.oise.utoronto.ca/mt/UserFiles/File/Master_of_Tea...

So to become a teacher you have to complete either 36 or 72 hours of math education over a single 6 month period, even teaching math in grade 12. That's it. That's less than 2 hours of math per week over 6 months.

More scary is that it DOESN'T mention exams. There seems to be no need to actually remember anything. You have to complete "practicum" which seems to be 2 months of helping out a teacher in a classroom, and "more" in the second year.
I love having public transit over owning a car, but sometimes I start looking at houses in the Midwest and think about the massively different life I could have compared to my tiny city apartment.
How Big Tech Is Reshaping Governance
Really loud white noise.
Cache Poisoning at Scale
That's not what that is at all. It's more equivalent to going up to someone and asking (privately, I might add), whether they have any domestic violence complaints against them, if there were a law requiring people disclose that on being asked within a certain time frame, and noting they have the legally mandated period of time to reply.

Kinda an asshole thing to do, but any person subject to that law (or being asked, even if that's not a law they are subject to) should know how to deal with a request such as that, and if they don't, spend the time to learn how to deal with a request such as that. That might be "fuck off, that's a law from somewhere else" or it might be "I have no complaints"/"I have one complaint".

There's a difference between whether someone is being an asshole or has a right to ask something, and whether learning how to deal with that thing if you don't already is a waste of time and money.
"The idea of objective metrics for social categories falls apart under the slightest scrutiny"

This is definitely false, even from the most socially progressive perspective.

That some categories are not perfectly defined, that we don't always agree, that some are 'self-defined', and that definitions can overlap - does not mean that those objective definitions do not exist.

This "There is no Black or White because there are Infinite Shades of Grey" is not reasoning, it's just postmodern rabbit-hole rhetoric.

Whoever you are, you categorize all day, every day.

Literally when you walk out the door you are making concrete, objective assertions about all sorts of categories, including, and especially gender.

You're a living breathing counter-example to your own argument.

I understand perfectly well the current Western ideology around 'Gender and Sex' so you can save the ad hominem.

Gender is so deeply and broadly rooted in human culture across cultures and time, that it almost doesn't matter how we want to argue about in 2021 in North America, because time will prevail and leave these arguments in the dust.

People will generally accept Katlyn Jenner and frankly, accept her moderate views on Transgenderism, but people will never accept the opposite of gender essentialism i.e. 'Gender is a Pure Construct' without overwhelming thought programming.

Those fighting for the 'Gender Is a Construct Absolutism' are like Violent Angry Puritans trying to stop people from consuming alcohol, a few battles may be won here and there, and they may be able to keep people in their cult with a lot of constant programming, but the war will definitely be lost eventually.

That said, we may be in for a pretty nutty ride for a couple of decades as the Justice System rolls over itself trying to cope.
Is anyone even seriously claiming that a disease that spreads twice as fast is going to infect twice as many people? As long as the effective R0 of a disease remains greater than 1, it's eventually going to infect the same amount of people — everyone (over the long term). Greater R0 rate just means it spreads faster.

The real concerns about omicron are that: 1) A rapid initial spread will overwhelm the healthcare system and 2) that if its basic R0 rate is sufficiently high, then even after remedial measures are taken, we will still be left with an effective R0 rate above 1 for quite some time.
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You always have human capital. Always. (Unless you're in a coma or some such.)
The mutual market favors Germans heavily in this situation if you take a closer look at how that price comes to life.