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Your Life in Blocks: A concept inspired by Tim urban's Your Life in Weeks and by my weekly poster which I write a few blocks of text in.

I wanted a way to track significant things that happened in my life, and looking back at the physical poster, it has quite the impact on my perspective but I noticed it's a hassle carrying that thing around.

Angular, Firebase, Sass, NGRX Store: The MVP was functional for this stack but only for one account and without Firestore rules written. It has since been defunct and I've been stuck on scaling it to work for more than one user without public database rules.

Site: https://yourlifeinblocks.firebaseapp.com/user

Git (open repo): https://github.com/mannanj/life-in-blocks
We may have different games in mind. The game I'm talking about is geopolitics/global power. The topic of the article is how they're turning Hong Kong, which used to be one of the main financial hubs of the world, into a police state.

It's not only about Soros, he's just an example the other guy brought up. A theoretical billionaire who only has investments in the US would also have skin in the game, that would be a clear stance. Not sure if such a person exists, when you have that much wealth it's generally globally distributed, at least to some degree. Some of it for tax reasons, some because there might be a good opportunity somewhere, but in the above mentioned case it's clearly political. We could also look at someone like Jack Ma. He quite literally risked his skin speaking out, and ended up losing most of his wealth. In a way he's lucky to only have lost his money.
What do you mean? Pytest rules! Yes there is some magic, but if you let it take control, it is very convenient to write and run tests with it. Just... you need to trust it and it will do its job.
It’s an old fashioned sports league lock out. Players salaries too high in fed’s opinion. Labor’s cut approaching 60%[1]. I think the owners prefer it at 50% if not lower.

1. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LABSHPUSA156NRUG
> Large Corporations are powerful and will do everything they can to
get what they want.

In the scheme of ethical philosophy there is, pretty much by
definition, the most extreme position of "might is right". The
principle text on which is attributed to one "Ragnar Redbeard" [1].

The philosophy is simple. I may rob you, rape you, vandalise, ransack,
lie, pillage and kill, for the one simple reason that I am stronger
and you are the weaker. And the "rule of law" (insofar as it can
exist) must recognise that as my legitimate right. It is obviously an
infantile fantasy. Yet I see it echoed in various forms within these
pages.

First of all, it is something that nobody of sound mind believes,
other than as a pose. It is an anchor point, a strawman from which to
develop real ethical positions.

But most of all, it's a fantasy we occasionally wish as true, because
if it were, these so-called "powerful corporations" would be reduced
to dust and ruin within days by those the real powers in this world
who exercise patient restraint.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Might_Is_Right
> I'm convinced that junior high and high school, at least in the US, amount to mass child abuse. Like, structurally, that's just what they are, almost unavoidably without totally changing how they work.

> Even decent school experiences are, by the standards of the adult world, crazy-bad.

Why is that? What is different about US schools?

I (nor my spouse) have any experience with US mid & high school but I hear things like this so I worry, having a young child now in the US, still many years away from high school.

In contrast, I can't think of anything bad about my (non-US) high school days. As a math geek I certainly wasn't in any hip group, but everyone was nice and it was a good experience. Now 30+ years later we're all still in touch and have reunions and meet whenever paths cross and remember those days fondly.
Did something change between when this was posted and now?

The website is up for me, however the content is stripped down relative to the previous version ( https://web.archive.org/web/20220406221134/https://nissan.co... ). All of the anti-Nissan content is gone and it simply says "Contact Us"

Given the events, I wouldn't be surprised if his estate is moving toward trying to sell the domain and collect any possible proceeds.
People seem to confuse RISC-V as open source when really its an open standard ISA.
Cause i was modifying the shoddily built codebase of the feature we were modifying.

Turns out "move fast and break things" doesn't make for maintainable code.
My Reddit Post Got 540k views in 24 hours, what did I learn?
Example of litigating over something that can't typically be trademarked - "Nissan" is a family name. There are plenty of articles online discussing the nissan.com case from the UDRP perspective, which is the typical remedy, and one Nissan can still pursue - you can't escape the UDRP due to the ICANN mandate.
> is pan-boiling a term?

Confused. What else would you boil them in? (Brit here so maybe there's a language difference at play)
That is true of most scams. They're tuned for one group of people over another. Everybody has weaknesses.

Having been on the internet a long time, I have seen a lot of people on forums, this one included, do the how-dumb-are-they routine about scams. I suspect a notable fraction of those people have gotten taken in the meantime. Look at how much of the cryptocurrency space, for example, plays on people's wanting to be seen as smart, superior, and technically savvy. That motivation drives a lot of learning and technical exploration, but it also makes people vulnerable.
A scoop of instant coffee in a mug and 60 seconds in the microwave is good enough for me. Coffee is a drug delivery mechanism to me; I drink it when I don't have caffeine pills handy.
An android solution is to only ring/notify the phone for people in your contacts. It's easier than giving individuals a ring tone as unknowns get the silent treatment by default. Basically just whitelist instead of blacklist.
You're not really tasting what's mixed in; it's actually the garlic that is different. Cutting or crushing garlic starts a chemical reaction between two chemicals in the garlic called alliiin and allinase, which produces allicin. Allicin is the characteristic flavor of garlic that's somewhere between fragrant and overpowering. Using pre-cut garlic means that these chemical reactions, and other reactions, have had a lot of time to progress.
>I agree judging based on peoples' superficial choices isn't great. But I think judging people based on things they can't change or that are close to intrinsic is even worse.

An excellent point. And I agree.

That said, I didn't distinguish between those types of "judgement," because they're both dick moves.
Elitism is cooking is why I rarely engage with people about it. I violate a lot of culinary "rules" because I just don't like it that way. It is kind of deflating to be publicly ridiculed as being ignorant or naive because you use iodize salt, you boil rice like people make spaghetti, you think cast iron sucks, you like drip brew coffee best, or you use flour slurries to thicken soups (I guess some people assume this only works with corn starch). Fuck'm

I use the garlic paste that I find in the Indian sections of the grocery. It's not the best for dishes with raw garlic, like aioli because it's too spicy, but in cooked dishes, it tastes like garlic.
Thanks for the response.

Is your use of ‘website’ intentional? As opposed to web application?

Website -> generally static so use classic web tool (which jamstack is alternative)

Web app -> classic user app with need for writing to db?
Copays, deductibles, revenue from providers, etc.
This is a good guess and if true, pretty damn smart.

Essentially reverse engineering the spam model by brute force.

If they are doing this at scale they can experiment with # of conversations, length, and other variables to see what is needed to bypass spam blockers with high probability.
Layoffs seem to be up, but that's a questionable chart if ever I saw one. I doubt they have had representative coverage of the market for that whole period. With those numbers, looks like it's as much a chart of the increase in their data collection on layoffs as it is a chart on layoffs.
Me: We should be able to choose the types and potencies of the substances we put in our bodies.

You: HELL NO

WTF, really?

Not that it matters, recreational stores solve this problem entirely.
Peloton feels like the 2020's GoPro
I've got an open-source Homebridge plugin (https://github.com/thenewwazoo/homebridge-lutron-caseta-leap) that has a bug in its client-handling code. There is some problem with connection handling that is causing user pain. I am an experienced developer, but new to Typescript, and absolutely cannot chase it down. I would love the help of someone with Node socket coding knowledge willing to take a look.
FYI, that only works for up to a week.

> stored in the refrigerator at 40 °F or lower for no more than 7 days

At temperatures above 38°, the toxin can be produced, and no amount of cooking will make it safe to eat.
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Educating someone requires expertise.

Being exposed to different education styles is far better than just having one teacher (the parent).

There's no way for a parent to have sufficient breadth and depth across a range of topics, never mind generic pedagogical expertise.
Sorry, overlooked your question.

First, I have not been actively involved in Fastly, apart from telling Artur to "go for it!" :-)

With respect to Flash technology I have noted elsewhere in this discussion that today our SSD devices effectively contain a filesystem in order to pretend they are disks, and that stacking two filesystems on top of each other is ... suboptimal.

But as I also just noted, flash isn't just flash, some properties are very hard to generalize, so i tend to think that we will have to let the people who decide what to solder onto the PCB provide at least the wear-levelling.

If I were to design an OS today, I think I would stick firmly with the good ol' UNIX name-hierarchy model, but I would probably split the filesystem layer horizontally in a common and uniform "naming layer" serviced by per-mount "object stores".

If you look at FreeBSD, you will see that UFS/FFS is sorta-split that way, but I would move the cut slightly and think in terms of other primitives which take SSD and networks better into account, but see also: Plan9.

The service I would want from a SSD device is simply:

A) Write object, tell me it's name when written.

B) Read object named $bla

C) Forget object named $bla

Then I'll build my filesystem on top of that.

(The NVME crew seems to be moving in the right direction, but it is my impression that some patents prevent them from DTRT, just like Sun's "Prestoserve" patent held up development.).
Why would you compare such different businesses profit margins?

Anyway I just think saying a 5% profit margin is small because other businesses have larger profit margins is kind of naive. I mean if through competition insurance companies' profit margins dropped to 2%, then the current status quo of 5% would seem crazy.

It's all just a matter of perspective. Saying 5% is low because other businesses have higher profit margins doesn't make much sense since the businesses are totally incomparable.
Yeah, I won’t deny that it can work well and produce well-rounded, socially capable adults, but it’s dependent on the parent(s) getting a lot right in doing it, which is anything but a given. Homeschooling isn’t a decision that should be taken lightly, and I think that parent(s) considering it should be honest with themselves in evaluating their ability to pull it off well.
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I've got a friend in the UK who during covid decided to write a sort of allegory, sci-fy, children's story with heavy references to British culture - it's been one of the funniest things I've ever read. Anyway, in his story there is an "Isle of Fray Bentos" and he has a character named "Vesta Curry" so it makes me laugh to see it referenced here.
This warms my heart! I'm going to start pretending like I know them, sending Wikipedia links to those topics, and asking what they think.
add a little bit of bacon and it's an amazing combination. 3 very different aromatic ingredients combining wonderfully.

(lots of other aromatic things work great too)
This is a good question and the answer is absolutely yes.

It could raise prices. Consumers have some incentive to care how much they are spending on health care, but they aren't generally the claimant on savings they realize for their insurance plans. (Obviously the incentives for uninsured or self-insured patients (to the extent that there's anyone in the latter category) are quite different, but those populations are small.)

On the other hand, every hospital has a strong, strong incentive to care a lot about how much their competitors are getting for the same procedures. (Much more than consumers, for example.)

It's possible that these disclosures lead to prices falling as hospitals seek to undercut each other. However, most US hospital markets feature a small number of competing hospital systems in an oligopoly. The price-cutting pressures in such markets are much, much weaker. There is a "mutually assured destruction" aspect to price competition in such markets which may keep prices from falling.

The latter incentive can raise prices too. IF you know your competitors across town are getting an extra $5,000 for a knee replacement and you know that the two of you are the only game in town for hospitals, you may raise your prices rather than lowering them.

On balance I think this is the right policy, in part because I want this data myself as a researcher. But it is not unambiguous that this will lead to price reductions.

Source: am a health economist.
I unfortunately got a technician who was so busy ranting against vaccines that he broke the schrader valve and vented a whole bunch of R22 into the atmosphere, while missing the real root cause of the failure i.e. the safety switch was triggering due to a clogged drain and preventing the compressor from running.
I can't tell the difference between the types and have had anxiety with weed labeled as both. Individual strain and thc, cbd and other canibinoid percentages have a bigger effect then anything ime
A company I worked for between 2008-2011 had rounds of layoffs. Every person who was laid off had another - better paying job within a month. They reached out to former coworkers who referred them to where they landed.

Once the entire company was acquired for scraps, everyone was let go. We all had lunch, hung around the office and joked around and called recruiters. We all had jobs lined up because we knew the end was near. I had actually unofficially talked to one of our clients to get a contract if the company folded.

How hard should it be for software engineers working for one of the leading game engine developers to find a job?
Can you support that claim? I couldn't find when CEO pay went public but it sounds very likely like one of those causes were correlation definitely doesn't imply causation.
S&P 500 average profit margin is typically around 10%. So, yes, 5% is low profit margins.
I've gotten a few in the last couple months, with a US cellular number that I've had for over 20 years. At least two are "I missed you at the gym today!" via text and another was from a Vermont area code via WhatsApp to a "Dr. Jack":

> Hi Dr. Jack! My cat is very slow and does not eat cat food. Can you make an appointment for me?

> Sorry, you have the wrong number

> Sorry, I just checked, I entered a wrong number, please don't mind. hope I did not disturb you.

> Best of luck with your cat!

> thank you for understanding. You are a kind person. where do you come from.

And then I just moved on with my day, because as nice as that sounded I wasn't looking for a conversation.

The contact profile image is of a young, attractive Asian woman, I think at a restaurant. No reverse image results on Tineye or Google.

[Edit: I’ve had this number for over 20 years (not “nearly 20”) and now I feel old.]
There is something charming about the use of "realistically", a discovery the CEO just had that "bunch of people at the company who shouldn't be here" as if this had nothing to do with him.
I eat as much like it's 1930 as possible, but have no issue with garlic in a jar, as right now it's a 'thing' and quite versatile. This, too, will pass though and I'll be back to real garlic soon enough.
I'm considering doing that to my personal email. Default deny, whitelist known contacts, auto delete the junk mail folder. If I didn't have friends and family using them, I'd just outlook.com and gmail.com outright. It's frustrating how much spam they send.
It's kind of strange. I rarely play games except a few best sellers maybe once or twice a year when I binge them (eg Horizon or Resident Evil). Because I see them so infrequently perhaps, whenever I play a new game I am astonished at the level of detail and amount of beautiful and well thought out content and feel lucky to be given such a large gift so cheaply (amortizing the hardware costs of course...).

People that play more frequently I think have higher expectations because they are so tapped in they know what's new and what's old but it takes so much effort to create a novel experience that game designers have created a kind of red queen race for themselves.

This isn't too say there aren't pointed critiques that can be made of the industry that mainly relate to profit seeking behavior (gambling, excessive grinding, lack of variety, etc) but it would be good if gamers could back off the intensity to these more important areas.
The "enormous scoop" refers to their incentive to drive prices higher so their "scoop" (the 5%) is bigger in absolute terms, I believe.
Not the person you asked.

I want my medical providers to be local to me so they’re liable to my local community. I also want to keep my organs and have insurance cover the costs.
Right, but then does McDonalds the burger place get priority, or McDonalds Plumbing, which has been in business longer than the restraunt has existed?

An Even better example is what if Apple Music had registered Apple.com first? At the time, many, many more people had heard of the beatles then computer company in California.
> for the adtech giants nothing matters except the number of clicks

Yet another example why advertising is a cancer on society.

In a market not corrupted by advertising, this kind of garbage content wouldn't exist because nobody would pay for it since the content they show is false and misleading.

But with advertising, the payment is automatic, non-refundable and happens preemptively even if the person doesn't consume the majority of the content (sometimes a single click is enough), therefore it becomes more profitable to mass-produce fake content designed to solicit clicks rather than content that provides true value such as information or entertainment.
Are you saying a “necessary” bureaucracy is necessarily not a sprawling bureaucracy?

In any case, if the function invested in the government is a misapplication of public money then the bureaucracy servicing it would also necessarily be unnecessary. If the function is necessary, that does not mean the bureaucracy servicing it isn’t sprawling. The military has what could be termed sprawl, but that’s a function of the broad scope of its missions and global reach.
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It’s called medical loss ratio (MLR), and insurers are required by law to spend 80-90% of premiums on medical care.

They can get there by overpaying for care or by refunding money/charging less. But they can’t get there with increased internal administration spending.
> Part of my hope by raising expectations and having more aggressive goals, and just kind of turning up the heat a little bit, is that I think some of you might decide that this place isn’t for you, and that self-selection is OK with me.

That it's so employees will quit is the truth of the matter. We shouldn't assume that this is to target "dead wood underperformers". Facebook has a ridiculous performance review scheme that, whatever else it does, is effective at firing people.

They already push people out to sea as a matter of course -- what's happening now is that the economic outlook is unfavorable, and they need people, including decent employees, to quit. They declared a hiring freeze and have announced a policy of attrition. These are normal things that happen during a downturn. It shouldn't be framed as somehow making their workforce more excellent, or as if the people who'll lose their job were "dead wood" anyway. The economy is going to put a lot of people out of work this year, of all sorts.
It helps if you already did that once 30 years ago and only got slap on the wrist settlement where you just had to pretend to pay ~1 $mil back after being caught. https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/347558/interesting-...
Snobs have always existed, and they love to hate on things the "common man" likes. But McDonalds and Budweiser continue to make millions, so it's pretty obvious that the snobs are in the minority.
there are exceptions, but typically, if you see a mountain lion, the mountain lion decided to let you see it.
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