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SerpApi dev here. I've requested, reviewed, tested, and deployed this upgrade of gems.

I want to clarify some things. This code was running on staging for three weeks before the deployment to production. There were four application errors on staging that were related to the problem with subscription renewals.

I and the author of the pull request have made three mistakes:

- haven't carefully read code in all methods from the backtrace of four app errors on a staging environment

- upgraded several gems at once

- didn't review the changelog of mongoid gem

As multiple people commented here, integration tests for renewals should've been caught that bug. We hadn't a test case when all user's subscriptions are checked after the renewal of a specific test user.

So the lesson here is to not yolo minor upgrades of dependencies and avoid mistakes above.
Anyone can report anything to VAERS. It's exactly as scary as the boogeyman.

A severe outcome from COVID is hospitalization. You seriously know multiple people who were hospitalized as a result of a vaccine? (X) Doubt.

The "othering" is because people who opted out of getting a vaccine have endangered the rest of us. It appears you've continued to participate in society, as evidenced by your reinfection. People generally shouldn't be surprised that they face social sanction when they act in an antisocial way! If you drive recklessly, you go to jail. If you don't get certain vaccines, you don't get to enroll in school. You can't smoke indoors, or even close to doors, in most parts of many countries.

The fact that your "informed choice" is driven more by gut feelings, selection bias, and an innate opposition to any and all authority further underscores the point.
Well, if you attribute soviet and chinese atrocities to communism you should also attribute colonial empires atrocities to capitalism. And then it's basically arguing about the estimates.

> And if capitalist countries do this to each other, it's not capitalism per se to blame, it's other aspects of politics (imperialism, colonialism, Neo-colonialism etc.) that can be separated from capitalism

That's just the branding decision I was speaking of. You chose to brand the sane modern version of capitalism - still capitalism, but sane modern version of communism - socialism. That way you get the conclusion you want cause of your political beliefs. I don't really care for branding, but lets be honest - it's not some universal truth, it's just a consequence of your decision of assigning labels to political systems in a particular way.

BTW famines were pretty common before Haber-Bosch process. Usually caused by natural causes + mismanagement. Sometimes also by bad intentions. None of these are political-system-specific. See the famine in Ireland for capitalist example.

> This should over time reduce the amount we spend on social programs, which is in line with what I believe as a liberal that wants less taxes.

As I see it in future most of the productivity will be concentrated in top 1% of people assisted by global empires of AI and automation and protected by IP laws [1]. And the rest of us will pay almost no taxes because we will provide almost no value so there's nothing to tax. If the rich fear the revolution and state control enough to pay for everybody else - we get post-scarcity. If not - we get a dystopia. Possibly both in different places or for different groups of people.

As for the mechanism - I don't really care. Make it UBI or make it 95% employement with most people doing useless jobs for 8 hours a day. End result is the same.

[1] thought experiment - in a world with self-improving general AI and IP laws but with no political mechanism to force someone to give up his IP to others - how do you prevent a world-wide monopoly
> DMCA can not superseded the 1st amendment, sorry

You may think that but unfortunately in several cases either the plaintiff attempts to scare off the defendant(s) with the prospect of a court case, offering a blanket settlement to discontinue certain actions of the plaintiffs choosing, or if the plaintiff is about to lose the case they may drop it entirely to avoid setting a precedent against themselves.
That's a much more complex engagement than a simple flip, so most of the scalpers are not going to bother with such an arrangement
https://archive.ph/2kiw8
I think we're balancing the risks of screwing up kids with vaccines that have shown themself to be broadly safe in other humans with the risks of screwing them up by closing schools on and off, having them develop phobias of germs or humans, have learning delays, etc. It's not like the choice is "live and teach a certain way and vaccinate or not".
The problem is that a bunch of urban hipsters will always be willing to pay a ton of money for stuff they will never need, whereas the people who do need such a vehicle are straight out of luck.
Is it different? I just did it via app without a second thought.

If you only get the badge via app I think it's better even if a chunk is taken by the app store, because then people ask "wtf is that heart thing?" and then I can tell certain contacts what it is get them to do it too.
Yeah no one talks about the cost of engineering. Most quality engineers are looking for $150-$200k salary to start. So a team of 5 is easily $1m after benefits, not to mention any equity grants. And that’s before the founders take a salary, before they hire any designers, or marketing, or sales people. The cost of starting a tech company is still low relative to other fields, but it’s increasing drastically.
I doubt PG is hastily rewriting all of YC's investment agreements as we speak to resolve this loophole!

This very much depends on the contract that was signed between the company and YC. Most likely, the founder has a fiduciary duty to represent the stakeholders' financial interests. By maliciously diluting their equity, this would breach the contract, opening up the founder to lawsuits.

A very relevant case is that of Eduardo Saverin's equity in Facebook getting diluted [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduardo_Saverin#Career
I'm just talking factually about the capital market. Plenty of funds would accept a deal of automatically funding all YC-accepted companies at a $5M valuation. I would take it myself as an angel investor. And now YC is taking it instead of lowballing.
I don't disagree. The sooner people can get wise to the idea that all relationships with government, employers, etc. are at least moderately adversarial by nature, the better. Power dynamics, etc.

The one problem is that people use this "everyone is terrible" argument to justify selfish libertarianism. "All politicians are bad anyway, so I voted for the one that appeals to my personal beliefs." This seems to be more of a "right-wing" and/or "libertarian" phenomenon, to the point where it seems to be used as a dogwhistle in some circles. So I'm hesitant to promote it.
Friend of mine had a week long migraine and felt like she had the flu for the first 48 hours.
Nope. As we already discussed, Signal has no idea who sent messages with Sealed Sender. The recipient finds out who sent them a message, but Signal does not.
I already gave one example of a way to enforce it in my original post: require any resale to be mediated by Ford/dealerships. That is exactly one pivot table harder to enforce than the no resale provision itself, right?

You could do a bunch of other stuff, too. E.g., require Ford to be notified of all sales. Again, this involves the impossible difficulty of one extra pivot table.
The marshmallow test has been largely debunked by recent follow up studies. It largely acts as a test of socioeconomic conditions at home if anything. The analogy to COVID probably holds but not in the way you’re suggesting.

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/06/marshmall...
And moving your mouse around made Windows 95 faster!

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/294907-why-moving-the-...
But why structure it that way? Does anyone know?
Does this mean Verizon and t-mobile are also blocking all VPN traffic?

Also, how can the "land of the free" not have net-neutrality laws?
I would be in favor of a two week shut down to act like a short circuit breaker for Omicron. But I have no trust in local authorities, who let "two weeks" turn into months of restrictions even when hospitalization rates were low in 2020.
Amphetamine is so much better. And I know that people claim it's addictive but I haven't used it in a month and don't really feel an urge. I usually just use it when I want immense task focus but I get pretty good focus manually myself now that I remember the amphetamined feeling.

I got into caffeine about six months ago and after the first week I got a headache when I woke up so I quit it because that's not okay.

I recently restarted with a drink of coffee about thrice a week (irregularly) and have found that I get no withdrawal when I stop on this cycle.
For me, this new policy will be reason enough to switch away from T-Mobile at the nearest opportunity.
Moxie - thank you so much for building Signal for the world.
Hearing about Wikipedia's deceptive fundraising messaging [0] made me question all donations to large non-profits -- but I guess a 30-people org is a different matter. Plus, Signal doesn't seem to be aggressive about it.

[0] https://www.dailydot.com/debug/wikipedia-endownemnt-fundrais...
It's not Apple, it's any closed-source hardware. The moment the vendor no longer supports it, it's dead. Not counting those few rare cases where fanatics reverse engineer it.
So people can learn about what other people are experimenting w/? Seems pretty straightforward to me.
> Vouchers don’t work. The vast majority of parents don’t have time to shuttle their kid(s) outside of their district.

So put a drop off point in each district where a bus takes everyone from there to a school in another district. Or build more, smaller schools so they compete with each other without being far away from each other.

> Removing housing prices from school funding was such a disaster in California that they reversed the policy

Politics was involved.

> You cannot build more housing in major cities which is where the vast majority of people want to work. There is no more space. We used it all on housing.

We know how to build hundred story buildings. No city on earth is comprised entirely of hundred story buildings. We can build more housing anywhere.

> Making more doesn’t help anyone as long as foreign investors are allowed to come in, buy it up, and effectively remove it from the real estate market by turning it into an AirBNB (to say nothing of Zillow inflating prices beyond affordability to begin with).

People do this because they predict housing prices to increase in the future. They predict housing prices to increase in the future because they predict that zoning will constrain sufficient housing from being built.

Build enough housing that prices actually go down and see how many speculators it attracts.
That doesn't sound right at all. All of Verizon's unlimited plans aside from the lowest one come with hotspot data.
Also, and I think this is part of what you were saying, if 1% risk of death is unacceptably high, it takes more than 99 "positive" anecdotes to "cancel" one "negative" anecdote (of dying from the pill).
Fair. As I said, a lot of what I say is aimed at what I'm feeling in public, not necessarily what someone else has said here.

Please give the /r/nursing topic I posted in as an edit a review.
https://www.quora.com/What-happens-when-you-tie-a-solar-pane...

https://www.lgenergy.com.au/faq/solar-panels/after-my-solar-...

https://www.synergy.net.au/Your-home/Help-and-advice/Solar-c...

https://www.solarreviews.com/blog/pros-and-cons-of-buying-di...

The old spinning disk meters can run backwards, but newer electronic meters are apparently dumber unless they are specifically made to be bidirectional (so called "Net Meters").
> For now we think only immunocompromised people will need them, but we can't really rule out other options

Oh no no no.

This is probably the absolute worst possible wording. Any time a government agency has had to chance their stance on something, they get accused of lying.

They have to be careful with how to present preliminary information. If they state anything "may" be true, then news outlets will treat it as true, and then hells breaks loose when they discover it was wrong.

Of course, if they wait until they're absolutely certain of something, then until then, they get accused of incompetence and of doing nothing, while some news outlets just make up bullshit.
Thanks that is good to know. PG&E put out some stats...

System Average Interruption Duration Index (SAIDI). This index is based on the amount of time the average PG&E customer experiences a sustained outage (being without power for more than five minutes) in a given year. In 2020, the PG&E SAIDI was about 153.2 minutes per customer.

System Average Interruption Frequency Index (SAIFI). This metric represents the number of times the average PG&E customer experiences a sustained outage in a given year. In 2020, the PG&E SAIFI was about 1.179, or slightly more than one per customer.

Customer Average Interruption Duration Index (CAIDI). This index represents the average restoration time when customers are impacted by a sustained outage. It is determined by dividing SAIDI by SAIFI. In 2020, the PG&E CAIDI was 130.0 minutes.

Momentary Average Interruption Frequency Index (MAIFI). This index is based on the number of times the average customer is interrupted by Momentary Outage events each year. Momentary Outage events are outages that last 5 minutes or less. In 2020, the PG&E MAIFI was 1.317 per customer.

https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/outages/planning-and-p...
We still don't know if the omicron variant leads to "long COVID".[1] We'll know some time in February. That has a big effect on what to do next.

Omicron-specific vaccines are in test. Moderna's should be out in Fall 2022. Pfizer claims March 2022.[2]

The next generation in vaccine technology is the US Army / Walter Reed Medical Center broad-spectrum vaccine. This should protect against all COVID and SARS variants.[3] That's in Phase I safety testing, with about 75 volunteers. If that works, the problem is solved.

[1] https://www.infectioncontroltoday.com/view/-omicron-the-pand...

[2] https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-deta...

[3] https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2021/12/us-army-create...
When you create a project it makes like 100 files that are all automatically executed somehow. Nothing really includes them, but you know it works. These files arp part of your project, but they is also a bunch of rails stuff so it blurs what is and isn't a dependency for your project.

With node projects they typically keep all of their dependency neatly under node_modules/ and you can clearly see how things are included and how things work.
I do too. I'm sick to death of scalping.
I'm curious if there are a lot of people like this that really feel some extreme effect from caffeine like this.

I've read articles about people drinking too much, too little, being addicted, or having withdrawal symptoms, but I never really experienced any of that during my coffee-life so far. I also don't often meet people that do, but sometimes when I do meet someone that has a really intense relationship with caffeine it does tell me that there must be something to it.

You'd think that if this is such a potent 'drug', it would affect everyone at last at some base level, and others even more. But in my variations of 1 to 8 cups each day, sometimes none for days, sometimes only espresso, sometimes only filter coffee it's never really done anything 'different'. Granted, the larger quantities of coffee were the crappy kind which probably never really got a good extraction anyway, but even 2 or 3 proper cups of filter coffee would have a caffeine content that should create the same symptoms or dependency I would think. But it doesn't (for me). I'm not really more less sleepy depending on the coffee quantity. I can sleep minutes after drinking coffee (if tired), yet not drinking coffee doesn't make it 'hard' to stay awake.
It makes me nervous too. However, I will continue to use Signal but without using MobileCoin. I hope Signal will do what’s right.

[In my region we already have a good system for mobile payments: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swish_(payment)]
people don’t seem to realize just how good we handled the pandemic.
Of course, we handled the pandemic awful compared to what we could have done. But in hindsight there’s always a better way.

In early 2020 we significantly altered society, cancelling major events, moving things virtual, and creating new apps and services to handle the pandemic. Then over the course of late 2020/2021 we created more apps and services and developed new technologies to treat Covid-19.

In just 1 year, we created and started widely distributing a vaccine which, while it doesn’t completely prevent the virus, makes it very mild for the vast majority of people. So far, at the second-year mark, over 2 billion people have been vaccinated. Along with monoclonal antibodies and other technology, we’ve significantly lowered the death rate, hospitalization rate, and likely the risk of long covid.

Imagine what an outbreak like this would do in an earlier time. You don’t really have to imagine because it’s happened before - the Spanish Flu outbreak and the Bubonic plague. Look at the population (not raw count because our population is much larger) of casualties those diseases caused. We failed to prevent covid-19 infecting everyone, but with vaccines and modern medical care we have made the infections significantly less harmful.
All those public health decisions are taken behind closed doors, we are never told the full story. I suspect the point of the vaccine passports is really to protect the unvaccinated.
Plenty of people in my country - where part-time-by-choice work is normalized - is to set your message to "I don't work on Fridays".
> I do informal surveys of new laptops -- I wander around computer shops bashing out a sentence or two into Notepad or TextEdit.

I do this as well but I type in hello world in C. It helps me get a feel for what the keyboard is going to be like while programming.

Most are atrocious, but not as bad as rubber-dome desktop KBs.
Your point is, if it had a bunch of error (but not too much!) in one particular direction, the lifetime would be even further extended. This is true, and is probably worth a mention in the article as it is an interesting fact of the mission. My point is, the 10-year lifetime was designed with the worst-possible underboost (opposite) error scenario in mind, so it's not at all untruthful to say that the accuracy of Ariane extended the mission.

Ariane performed remarkably well, and that fact should be recognized and praised in the media. It's not exactly wise to hope for "errors in your favor" - much better to be more-precise-than-expected, as it allows them to plan more daring maneuvers with less margin in the future :)
Some are willfully ignorant of the optimizing nature of a free market.
So you are choosing between two things

A) Hasn't been around long, we know it can have some horrible long-term effects.
B) Hasn't been around long, have found almost zero long-term effects, yet.

A has at least 100x chance of dying than B, and at least 1000x chance of hospitalization.

And you think it is sensical to choose A? I don't get it.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine

https://globalnews.ca/news/4283526/john-cena-ford-settle-law...

Ford's done this before, and if a settlement is the best that John Cena's team could reach rather than disputing it on First Sale grounds, it makes me think Ford's reasonably certain it's on sound ground.

Not a lawyer.
We aren't short on 'resources', we are short on doctors and nurses.

It doesn't matter how much money you throw at things, the number of doctors isn't going to change drastically. You can pay them 10x and the number won't change. We only have so many medical schools, and so many people willing to throw themselves on the sword to get through them.

Nurses are a little more flexible in that more money might mean more nurses, but only up to a point.

In either case, throwing a ton more people into a long term career to deal with a short term problem (I don't see hospitals needing the same capacity in 3 years that they do for the next wave) will cause other problems down the road.
'False Prophet': Lawsuit Claims Marcus Lemonis Preyed on/Destroyed Sm Businesses
Okay, but still. It seems like a stretch that the guy is secretly evil but voluntarily gave up almost $1 billion to deceptively prove he's not actually a bad guy. You can claim to be a good guy and wait a few months to cash out - leaving money on the table IS a real signal, even if he's already rich.
They should find a way to remediate such problems then, including being able to sell it back to the dealer.
Powering up an original Apple I after three decades in a museum
Historically conscientious objector status was not just given out to anyone who asked for it. In general you needed to be an active member of a religious community with clear theological beliefs about war specified well in advance of the war. Even the Quakers didn't get a free pass - they still had to serve the country in some non-violent capacity as medics or the like.
I picked arbitrary time frames in my question because at some point people are going to give up, regardless of the conditions on the ground. A massive amount of people have already given up.

I wanted to know if they were prepared to go on for 1, 3, 5, 10, 20 more years of mask wearing in public, travel restrictions, remote learning, testing, etc. if things stay the same.
Apple Card account verification considered harmful
Thank you for your insights. I will try that next vacation.
In northern places you get the long days in the summer, it's surprisingly good: https://pages.mtu.edu/~raman/SilverI/MiTEP_ESI-2/Solar_energ... - nice fit for eg cooling systems.
So it looks like munificent is right and everyone that has downvoted should upvote and think better next time.

To add another link to the one Bumby has http://blog.danwin.com/don-t-forget-the-plural-of-anecdote-i...

which actually it makes a lot more sense to me this quote than the misquote because
>You can’t collect a couple of anecdote and pretend it’s data.

sure but you can collect 10000 anecdotes, put them in a spreadsheet with some information about the people who said it, and suddenly you got data.

I mean that is basically what I thought to myself every time somebody said the plural of anecdote is not data but bit my tongue because not wanting to get into a war over it, and now I find out the original was actually exactly what I thought it should be.

Thanks munificent! Your name certainly applies for me.
Bullshit. By any objective measure they are responsible for huge evil.

I'm sure drooling morons, enablers, and the complicit will screech otherwise, but they're badly wrong.
I stopped drinking coffee 20 years ago. Mainly because I suffered a lot from IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome). After I stopped drinking coffee that quickly improved. And an added benefit was that I finally understood what sleeping and waking up properly really meant. What a difference! Later I worked hard to learn how to deal with stress. That further improved my IBS. My health has improved enormously. And still, after all these years, small amounts of caffeine, think chocolate, black of non-herbal tea, cola, etc., have an immediate effect.