skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A message can be handled many ways, and a reversal payment protocol wouldn't put the customers funds directly in control of the merchant until the reversibility period is over.
How did humanity ever survive without AC and internet?
I will say I'm impressed that you secured the domain name. That word was precisely what came to mind upon reading this question. A tontine is precisely insurance against living too long.
Sure it's not an algebraic object; but it's still a well-defined mathematical notion.

Nah, it's just an informal concept. A game theoretic "rational agent" in general isn't assumed to have any limitations on it's computing ability, for example.

[Game theory is] trying to solve a partially-observable Markov decision problem

Not according to standard texts on game theory. In fact, this is just can't be true in any usual interpretation. POMDPs are "single agent" problems whereas game theory nearly always deals with two competing players/agents each assume attempting to optimize their returns - it's the difference between a single optimum and a saddle point, maximum and minimax.

This actually references the work of Marcus Hutter, who added an extra axiom to these established definitions: that agents and environments are (Turing) computable.

This is my point. You can't "add an extra axiom" and be referencing a standard mathematical object at the same time.
Feels like the perfect thing for a Bill Gates, Elon Musk or other rich guy to bankroll. I know it's not the job of billionaires to do but it should be a government thing. But the Southeast Asian countries probably wouldn't do it and neither would the US do it for another country. The amount they're trying to raise seems like it would be tiny for a billionaire type.
This is an authoritarian mindset common on the left but is antithetical to liberal values. Having a desire to control how other people prefer to care for their children usually doesn’t end well historically.
The only thing in common with Grim Fandango is universal lack of human noses on all the characters.
Seems worth exploring. few links:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_battery

https://sumitomoelectric.com/sites/default/files/2020-12/dow...

https://www.powermag.com/flow-batteries-energy-storage-optio...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/flow-batter...

https://www.science.org/content/article/new-type-flow-batter...

http://www.cei.washington.edu/education/science-of-solar/flo...
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Being someone who DIY repairs, I’ve had very good experience with cars well over 200K miles. My wife’s daily is a 227K mile CR-V that’s needed rear brake pads ($21) and a pair of H1 headlight bulbs ($5) and a $30 oil change in the last year.

You are right that lots of people don’t want to buy a car after 175K miles, which makes them cheap for me.
>I think I fundamentally disagree with the premise that anyone "can't afford" something that the state provides for free.

It makes more sense when you step back and realize it isn't provided for free. If you don't pay taxes, it was provided by others who could afford to pay for it on your behalf. Someone else could afford it, and you got it. If you otherwise could have afforded it on your own or paid the tax that represents at least the free-market rate at which you would have got it, then you could have afforded it.

>Would you say that someone "can't afford" to use roads because they wouldn't be able to afford to have them constructed if the state hadn't already done so?

The unsubsidized cost of the road for an individual isn't the cost to construct the road, it's the free market value of the utility the road provides them. While not perfectly reflected, a toll charged by a private toll road will give a ballpark of what that cost is.

Similarly if you earn nothing, have no money, and use the roads freely provided to you then you cannot afford the roads. But you're still provided use of the road. Someone else was able to afford the roads, and they paid for it instead. You're completely dependent on the charity of the public to allow you using roads you yourself didn't pay for -- and that would be pretty much the definition of being unable to afford something you were provided. Whereas if you paid taxes commensurate with your use of the roads, then it's safe to say you can afford to use the roads.

In this manner, people often have kids they can't afford, and instead others who can afford to pay (at least partially) for them do so in the form of Medicaid / WIC / EBT / Section 8 and other benefits.
Don't use warn, either info or error nothing in between.
The US overthrew the democratic government of Sukarno and killed up to 3 million Indonesians funding the terrorist movements and proxy wars till the US backed military took over as “saviors”. The CIA considered this a successful playbook and named it as the Jakarta Method.

They attack democracies that they don’t like labeling them autocratic and dictatorships. Then install their military juntas. See numerous examples like Chile, Ethiopia, Iran etc.

Stephen Kinzer has written extensively on this in the book Overthrow:

https://www.amazon.com/Overthrow-Americas-Century-Regime-Cha...

On overthrowing the Iranian democracy and installing the Shah:

https://www.amazon.com/All-Shahs-Men-American-Middle/dp/B00S...?

On the Jakarta Method:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jakarta_Method

https://www.amazon.com/Jakarta-Method-Washingtons-Anticommun...?
This also depends on the definition of "performance". A top performer at one company may be considered useless at another. It all depends on who they hired.
Then of course you can have poor management - someone may not be great a context switching and if manager keep asking to look at different stuff every day or if there is a ton of junior developers needing help with everything, then you may not have mental capacity to do quality work on the stuff you are measured by.
Caveat: I'm kinda dumb and this is a Cunningham's law situation.

tl;dr
Because in a DC situation the current is always high so the temperature through the air is always high so the air remains a plasma and remains a good conductor the whole time.

OK I = V/R is how we talk about currents. Current (I) equals the potential (V) over the resistance (R).

An electrical spark is where the potential across an air gap is high enough that the air—normally a good insulator and thus a poor conductor—breaks down into plasma. In that state, the air is hot enough that the electrons that would be bound to the atomic nuclei can flow the way electrons in metal do. This means that the resistance of that air gap goes from being a high number to being a low number.

In the case of a DC spark, we have a constant high potential and with the plasma state a low resistance, so I = V/R = big/small = big current. Since we are putting a high current through a conductor, the temperature of the conductor goes up, and the plasma remains a plasma. It stays a good conductor the whole time.

In the case of an AC spark the AC potential goes from some big positive number of volts, to zero volts, to some big negative number of volts, to zero volts, to some big positive number…you get the idea. At some point I=V/R goes from being big/small to zero/small, which can be long enough for the air to cool off and stop being a plasma and be a bad conductor. So when V is a big (positive or negative) number again in 1/4 of the period of the signal (probably 1/60/4 = 1/240 seconds) the air might be too cool to conduct the current. Then V/R would be Big/HUGE = effectively zero current.

Remember: I'm just some weirdo online. This is not advice. Don't mess around with electricity.
Thank you! I'll take a look and try to find a more up to date source if possible.
Mark indicated that WhatsApp was next for growth/monetization and then VR, when he last appeared on CNBC's Mad Money.
> So if I write an article about say the North Korean government stealing money, or murdering, I’m using an emotional trigger word and an “out group”?

Yes. "We are psychologically predisposed to view group X as terrible" and "group X is actually terrible in real life" are in no way contradictory. It's almost as if humans are products of natural selection, and our psychological instincts serve a useful purpose
As I said in my previous reply, you're more than welcome to stick a beta tag on something that isn't ready for prime time yet. Take a look at Rust and their releases as an example of the ultimate in building a stable foundation that people trust.

I'm not asking you to never ship a bug. I'm saying I don't trust you or your language and giving you an example of how you might regain my trust. Feel free to ignore my advice, but if your goal is to encourage more people to use your language instead of encouraging more people to fight you, maybe you could at least give the impression that you were willing to hear someone out instead of telling them their opinion doesn't make any sense at all.
CEO can jump ship.
Do any of those things publicly in the average US city and let me know how that works out for your career (and therefore ability to afford housing and healthcare).
Still 5x pre-covid March 2019.
1972: UN Climate Barker - "We only have 10 years left to fix the climate"

Looking at today's calendar, someone should tell the four horses of the climate apocalypse that they are 50 years late.
What happened to Russia post "liberalization" in the 90s was very influential on Chinese elite's views on liberalizing. Russia basically got shafted and fed on by a combination of politicians & Western consultants.
lol plenty of frothy public cos you could have shorted down 80-90% since beginning of the year don’t need to find private ones…
It does take some effort to knock down, but I think the failed war on drugs will mean that there will be little to no effort to knock anything down and therefore we will have the worst of both worlds.
I think lithium batteries currently range $50-$100, $132 seems pretty high.
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Why is this fortunate? Miyioko makes nut paste and calls it "cheese". It's fortunate that she can keep selling her product under false assumptions?

To be clear, the false assumptions are that her product is cheese, when it's not, and that it tastes, smells or feels like cheese, when it doesn't.
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They don't need a prize for you dying old. But you yourself would benefit from insurance against outliving your savings.
Smart contact lens prototype puts a Micro LED display on top of the eye
The US really only dominates in a specific flavor of consumer technology, I doubt that will last much longer anyway
What about sausage dogs? are they salted? We use the word 'sausage' in that case to refer to it's shape.

Language is a function to allow us to understand things and communicate, it evolves as the world evolves and these words are the best words we have to describe these vegan and veggie products as long as the word 'vegan' or vegetarian is used along with them.

The word 'vegan' or 'vegetarian' in front of the word is a modifier that allows you to understand what it is, how can you not know what a vegan sausage is? You think it's still meat?

A vegan can easily understand what it is and so can a meat eater, calling it anything else just becomes confusing, maybe that is the problem, you are not a veggie or vegan so you don't care if they are confused, but because your too set in your ways to be okay with a modifier that clearly shows what the product is you are upset. Things change and veggie sausage is a term used for many many years, I don't know what is confusing or wrong about it.

Everybody knows what type of food a vegetarian burger is, but what about a veggie disc? it's just confusing, we don't need to invent new words here, we just have to adopt what we already have.
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Perhaps counter-intuitively, big complex CPUs are incredibly bad at real time control. Instruction latency and jitter can be huge when dealing with complex caching systems, deep instruction pipelines, etc.

If you have serious hard real time requirements, you will be using a very simple 8bit mcu.
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One of the biggest problems with jarred garlic is the fact that it is often wet, and in a preservative with a flavor that imparts to the food. Because it is not fresh, it will not have the same health benefits either.

This means in order to prepare it, you need to rinse it, dry it, before it is ready to go. Doing these things will mute the flavor even more for what is an already mute flavor compared to fresh garlic.

Given these issues, I would vastly prefer using the garlic tubes more commonly found in Europe, than I would a wet can or wet jarred garlic. Garlic tubes are fresh, preserve well, and in many cases have that pungent ajoene and allicin still present that give it a zing!

To add to this, I would prefer using a dried garlic spice over a can of jarred garlic if forced into deciding between the worst of most garlic options.
Hackernews comments are basically a concrete instance of "the dogs bark but the caravan moves on".
> Guitar pedals are aesthetically gorgeous.

The writer lost me here. Sure, some have beautiful artwork. But pedals themselves are perhaps the ugliest contraptions I have laid my eyes on. Just look at the form of BOSS pedals. As always, there are a few exceptions. But in general, guitar pedals are an eyesore. To make matters worse, musicians put them on pedalboards in all sorts of kitsch arrangements. When you couple that with the pathological American dislike of feet and everything associated with feet, you end up with an object only worthy of contempt.
Sharing and selling the data? Or sharing products built with the data?
Given the large impact from venting to the atmosphere, it's almost certainly better from a carbon impact standpoint to ship it:

Every time he does this with a single air conditioner, it has the same effect as burning 250 gallons of gasoline, which is more than enough to drive from SF to NY and back

It surely doesn't consume 250 gallons of gasoline equivalent to ship the collected gas.
> Of course if my yak had already been shaved maybe it could have tolerated the heat.

So many questions. r/BrandNewSentence
You can't simply long for regulation. Many legislators have no idea how harmful these cryptocurrencies are and would rather not regulate in case some world changing beneficial innovation comes out of it. Some, like Ted Cruz, are cryptogrifters themselves and won't regulate accordingly. You have to contact your legislators yourself and explain why it is bad, why nothing useful will ever come of it, and why it should be regulated.
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Not disagreeing with you, but I still think that it doesn't go hard enough to the point of "strong leadership." And I consider leadership here to be not just the CEO but all of the top-level management.

Wouldn't strong leadership have prevented the need for layoffs at all?
I’ve started to get emails followed by text messages which include my name.

“Hey James, just thought I’d should you a quick text in addition to my email…”

I already mark any unsolicited email from a vendor as spam. The text is way too far.
Possibly carcinogenic. Some things we know for sure are carcinogenic, but even then what we know is that exposure increases risk in a population by so-and-so percent. It's much harder to work backwards from one individual case of cancer and finding out what the cause was.

It's highly irresponsible and downright cruel to accuse the husband of killing his wife by botched microwave repair based on so little evidence.

What was the location and extent of the original microwave injury? Did the cancer originate in the same spot? What is the proposed mechanism of action? How long is "a few years later"? Can it be ruled out that she didn't have cancer at the time of the microwave incident? What other causes has been considered, other known carcinogens, or a family history? Who made the claim in the first place, did the oncologist blame the husband?
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It's worth considering the existing form of "reverse life insurance" that already exists, which is simply selling life insurance policies. The counterparty in a two-party bet is always the reverse bet.

Think of whether it's worth it from the perspective of the seller to insure only one person? Short answer is no, because that's extremely risky. When you sell insurance policies to thousands or millions of people instead, you can use actuarial statistics and finance the policies with bonds in such a way as to ensure you will make money, with the scale limited only to how many policies you can sell, independent of whether any specific person lives or dies.

So why is life insurance worth it from the purchaser side? Many people will argue it isn't. You're virtually guaranteed to lose money. But the argument in favor is that an early death can be disastrous to others who depend on you and can't support themselves otherwise. It can be worth losing money to gain peace of mind. But really, that is the main argument. It's not a good investment. It's protection from disaster.

The only real analog on the other side is the possibility that a person lives much longer than expected without being able to support themselves, leaving loves ones on the hook. But the best form of "insurance" against that happening is pensions, social safety nets, and the individuals themselves simply saving and investing well as long as they're still working. Whatever money you might have allocated toward reverse life insurance, just allocate toward appreciating assets that will generate income when the person you're reverse insuring stays alive.
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