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I'm not religious, but I appreciate the consideration nonetheless.

It's not people's lives I worry about so much as their agency. Suffering shrinks one's horizon. If someone's suffering can only be ended with death, then I see no reason they should be prevented from ending their life. I just think that's not often the case. A lot of things get better and a lot of things can be treated. Suicide attempt survivors rarely try again.

If someone has Issues like bad gympie gympie tree sting or radiation burns or something and they're not responding to treatment then I certainly would not prevent them from suicide. I don't think a government should either. But if a someone gets a bad grade and climbs up on the roof or has a bad breakup and tries to jump in front of a train, I'd hope a parent or friend could restrain them. I'd hope a stranger could too.

> What is wrong with our society that so many people feel that suicide is their best option?

> Can we focus on fixing THAT?

I think we should all agree on that.
I guess the key was to realize it wasn't utf-16 and to Google the original hex. Cool rabbit hole.
> This is happening already with PatronScan which is being pushed agressively into schools, and bars

The linked article mentions bars, where does the school bit come from?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controve...
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Have you ever bought or sold a home? Unless the buyer is buying in cash, or at least has large cash reserves to give to you at closing, they can only afford up to whatever the bank approves them for, and lenders don't hand out $400k loans for properties valued at $350k just because "the seller made a hard bargain and the buyer agreed". If they did, they'd be upside down the second after closing because a foreclosure means the lender/bank can only sell the house for $350k less than what the buyer owes (and they don't tend to stake their foreclosure sales on whether or not they find another oblivious buyer willing to pay way over market for a house that they could go across the street and get for much cheaper).
https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/logicalfallacies/Proving...
...which is a good thing! we should stop taking $20 teflon pans, nonstick fast food containers, and $40 raincoats with negative externalities for granted.

We did fine without PFAS, we'll be okay with expensive PFAS (where externalities are internalized and built into the cost) too.
I'd like to see a new Constitution with a Bill of Responsibilities, one of them being to know how to live without certain modern necessities for proscribed periods of time.

Jury Duty, but a couple Weeks a Year of Camping in the Wilderness with your Family.
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Contain possible evidence? How do you know that?
That's an interesting question; if stress alone impacts executive functioning skills you'd expect to see similar reductions in high-stress jobs like surgery, finance, war, extreme sports, etc. Of course one doesn't necessarily consent to the stress of poverty as one might the stress of a career; I suspect that the threat of violence and the fear of being evicted or moved would cause a different stress distribution on the brain then that of performing surgery or flying a fighting helicopter.

Ultimately, I think it's likely that stress impacts everyone's executive functioning, not just poor people, but poor people may have a higher stress burden and also probably had lower raw "executive functioning" ability to begin with. In Western countries, where the economies are primarily based on rewarding jobs that prioritize extreme logical abstractions, there is a clear casual relationship between measured intelligence* and lifetime earning potential. I believe that this (unsavory) point is too often left out when proposing solutions to poverty because it implies the existence of an inherent, unfixable difference in human ability. To me this difference is obvious and should simply be planned for, but to many others it's a myth.

I do feel passionately about this subject because one of my family members is developmentally disabled enough that she cannot live a normal life but not enough that she's obviously impaired, and the rate at which her decisions lead her to live the life of a pretty run-of-the-mill American poor person is astonishing. If we didn't pay for everything she needed she would fit in perfectly with the behavior and lifestyles of the people in the slum areas of my city, and in fact she's already done some stints there due to some friends she made when she was unwilling to live at the family home.

(* = I am not saying "poor people are poor because they're dumb" or "if you're smarter you'll make more money" or that "IQ is real", only that "when you select a random adult, the less well they're able to perform on western-style intelligence tests the less likely it is they'll have a lot of money".)
"Next step intelligences"
And yet; if those characters were public domain they might be alive and well in the imagination of children today.
> I lost 50 pounds in 2020 with this one trick: I counted calories and stayed under 2100 per day.

Same here. I lost 30 Kg since Jan 2022 when I suffered a heart attack and was installed 2 stents (one more necessary but too risky at the moment). Still need to lose some more weight, although it is becoming more difficult, but counting calories does indeed work. I succeeded only because my soon-to-be wife helped me immensely, or I would have failed miserably if left by myself.
Of course there are fireflies in Europe.
Yeah this is the book I was talking about
What people do outside ... somewhere else should not matter if you feel your own opinion is secure. In other words, ignore the site if you must.

If people arrive here with dubious intent, then no doubt they'll suffer the same fate as anyone else acting like a JERK.

If your opinion is being attacked, well everyone is entitled to an opinion, and nothing is stopping anyone replying so long as it abides by the TOS and etiquette -- of course sometimes a reply is a fruitless venture and Jerks and Trollers alike can mistake a few lines as having seriously annoyed that person.

As a side note, I used back in the mid 00's hang around and then mod at a site where pretty much focused on discussing various online communities ... most members sat around with popcorn and posted links to other forums where people were losing their sh't. We had Brawl-Hall arrive once ... but few squeaked, though there was one mod who did something disappointing but otherwise they soon got bored and left.
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You need a balance diet: beans, rice and potatoes are good for carbs/energy, but lacking in lipid, protein and vitamin. For a cheap meal, the majority of it should be carbs, but adding 1-2 egg improve it a lot.
Over our globalized economy I don't see how local government legislation can work (unfortunately).

Long are gone the days governments around the world coordinated to banish CFCs, for instance.
It's a shame he blew all that up, then. Whatever he might have been before, it doesn't really matter now.
Then we just get super-sized patent trolls who pay the copyright fees for everything they can get their hands on
How does this argument not apply to everything? The counterfactual (where 3M continues to produce these) is ... obviously bad? Producing materials that are bad for the environment and human health! Now less is produced, at least in the short term.

An example where your argument doesn't play out like you say: many chemicals manufacturers decided to no longer sell chemicals that would be used for administering the death penalty via lethal injection. So many did this that states _had to basically stop applying the death penalty_, and basically try and trick companies to sell them the materials. A win for those who pushed for that to happen (mitigated by the endless cruelty of the SC but..). Alternative companies didn't show up to "fill the gap".

At one point doing things actually matters. Especially when we look at how large conglomerates own many parts of the value chain, at one point the end result is simply that these chemicals stop being used.
> It is about paying more for the same thing because of various factors like whether you can afford to transport yourself to a better store

What's a "better store"? I've heard people say Target is better to shop at than Walmart, but Target's prices are usually higher than Walmart's.
That reminds me of the quote from David Copperfield: “Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.”

Translation for those unfamiliar with obsolete English currency: 19 pounds 19 shillings 6 pence is 6 pence short of 20 pounds. 20 pounds 0 shillings 6 pence is 6 pence over 20 pounds. The point is that the very small amount of 6 pence over or under your income makes all the difference.
I have a Toradex Colibri with 4GB of eMMC formatted with ext4. As part of a system test I've been cutting power on it every 12 hours for two years now and haven't lost a byte.
This looks incredibly cool! Crazy to think there were many good things on the internet that i just missed because they came before my time and I'll now never get to experience them.
I read the whole list and found it to be largely unenlightened, bordering on boring and uncool.
Warren should propose a bill that outlaws government workers stealing from taxpayers ... and paying their salaries through letting the Fed inflate away the value of the US dollar.
Unfortunately probably not much - the relevant properties come from the element itself (fluorine) where there literally doesn't exist an alternative. It is possible that some alternatives will come to light, but there is a limited design space and it's not as if people haven't been looking for cheaper[0] and better solutions.

I'm curious as to the scope of this, and what end products are effected. A lot of the best-in-class greases (krytox) and orings (FFKM aka kalrez) rely heavily on fluoro-components. FFKM orings in particular are head and shoulders above everything else by ~100C worth of working temperature range. FKM 'Viton' orings are also incredibly popular and are widely used in automotive applications for temperature and oil resistance in addition to having major industrial uses.

[0]Fluorine is a real PITA to produce and make derivatives from - environmental issues aside functionally equivalent non-fluorine compounds would almost always be cheaper.
How did the 2600 host any programming language at all? It only had 128 bytes of RAM!
Is this the discussion you're referring to? https://github.com/reanimate/reanimate/discussions/210

It's actually pretty interesting to read. The author makes a not totally unreasonable argument as for why it uses unsafePerformIO.

Now what I'm really curious about is why the very first example on the site I clicked into the source code for, a simple 59-line example, is using unsafePerformIO. That actually worries me more because it suggests that as a user I might have to use unsafePerformIO. https://github.com/reanimate/reanimate/blob/d4d3898831edb4aa...
And here’s where the problem comes in for me - when I reach that level, where weight loss begins to be measurable, I am so miserable I can’t think about anything but food 24/7. It’s like being in a staring contest where the other person never, ever blinks.
yeah just switch to Chase.

been banking with them my entire life, literally 0 problems

their mobile app aint amazing, but hell, I can overlook that
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It will need an international effort, like the Montreal Protocol for banning CFCs and HFCs. Legislation need to ban the end-use as well as the production of these chemicals. I was involved with a study in the late 80s early 90s about the economic impact of the Montreal protocol in southern Africa and there was huge resistance against it from major car manufacturers (the biggest consumption were car air conditioners at the time, more that the use of CFC-11 in foam packaging). Dealers stock piled stocks and rogue manufactures continued producing for many years. It takes 5-10 years for alternatives to be developed and 20-30 years for wide adoption before they disappear all together.
For context - bride "kidnapping" on wedding day is also wedding tradition in many European countries, though it's just pretend of course.

And the "real" kidnapping is not just Kyrgyzstan thing, but plenty other countries:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bride_kidnapping
I don't understand why Latino would be problematic but actor wouldn't
Or koreader, both of them have much better formatting than Apple's and can be tweaked freely.
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What stops people from buying 1000 copyrights, then using the profitable ones to pay the ongoing fees while also buying more?
APL can branch on conditional to a specific line or label, or fall through to the next line.
And don't forget unattended OTA firmware updates, security patches (are you really going to ride an insecure motorbike?!) and so on.
I was about to ask about what prompted you to drive across the Sahara, but after checking the map for possible routes, understood that you meant Lagos, Portugal and not Lagos, Nigeria.
What do you say about the timing of the extensions?
> Write more best sellers then.

Come on, that’s flippant response to a valid point. Best-sellers are a function of luck. Copyright laws are intended to encourage more creative output by offering original work some protection. Suggesting that individual authors should have less protection and pump out more work and just get lucky isn’t realistic.

> Why should society subsidize this absurd rent seeking?

Calling it absurd and being outraged and incredulous weakens your argument here, when this has been established over centuries (millennia arguably) by many many smart people.

The rent-seeking, as you call it, provides two functions: 1) to allow time for authors to collect returns on their creativity and time investment, and 2) to act as a force to encourage more creative output from society. The limited time monopoly that authors enjoy is the reason that it becomes an incentive to create new work. It should be attractive to author new things and unattractive to steal and publish others’ work. If you make the protection period too short, it won’t work, it won’t be an incentive, it will become a disincentive and we’ll get both artists going broke and less creative work and more stealing. (There are countries in the world today with weaker copyright laws than the US that already exhibit high rates of IP theft and low rates of original creative output.) I don’t know what social contract you’re referring to, but since copyright is the law, it is the de facto contract today.
Pretty much all the food you mention are extremely expensive when your basic caloric needs arent met. $1 for broccoli that will give me basically zero energy is a really awful deal. If you have enough calories, then yeah, buy the broccoli.

Beans are great, but require time to cook that not everyone has, especially when very poor. They also cost money to cook, require a kitchen, time to clean dishes, a place to store em if cooked in bulk, etc.

Bananas though, are wonderful, sent from heaven.

To some of your other posts, it’s not really sufficient that this food merely exists. otherwise, yeah, problemo solved, trivial.

The bridge that has to be gapped is:
- foods gotta be accessible
- people gotta have enough time to cook the food, this is a biggy
- people gotta have time to clean up from the food
- people gotta have enough of the healthy food and with enough macronutrient diversity to not get sick. $1 worth of bananas ain’t gonna hold you like that $1 cheeseburger.

Somewhere in all of this is that eating healthy is way more cognitive overload when you’re poor than when you’re stable. Now that I’m stable I have enough time on a Sunday to cook a weeks worth of meals. I don’t really have to scrunch to do it, I’m not cutting into sleep time to do it. Lotta folks don’t have that luxury.
Growing up poor, my house and the houses of my friends basically had three options – milk, sugary drinks and water. And milk was rationed like it was war.

Sugary drinks are cheap, shelf-stable and dense with calories.

When you don't have a lot of better options for calories, they fit the bill. It's not preference, it's survival.

We know that despite the difference in sugary drink consumption, obesity doesn't vary in population sets [0]:

"… evidence from 4 nationally representative US surveys has shown that populations who frequently consume sugar-sweetened beverages do not have a higher obesity rate or risk than populations who infrequently consume these beverages."

… which makes sense if sugary drinks are replacing calories that would otherwise be found in better foods.

I'd recommend spending some time with working-class people before adopting any belief which treats them as fundamentally different than higher-income people in terms of preferences.

[0]:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2957908/
I wonder what Siegel and Shuster would say
Its not impossible. That's not the point
What i mean is real estate taxes as they are today are not a factor to seriously dent foreign or corporate wealth from vacuuming all properties available.

10k year in property tax is a pittance to a Sheik, a shenzen factory owner, an indian tech entrepreneur, your average venezuelan govt bureaucrat, or a REIT.

10k is not peanuts to the average wage earner in the US.

The former all buy in USA to keep their wealth safe from confiscation and leverage the US justice system and FDIC. Because back in their home countries they are 1 election away from communism or a bank collapse.

We have no adequate means to raise the cost of entry for them, and mentioning change to favor local purchases, is almost taboo.

Meanwhile, we say "tax the rich" here. Yet foreigners keep loading up on real estate and US citizens end up renting forever..
If you enable optimizations it gets reduced to 200 lines. C++ -O1 reduces it to 30 lines of ASM. Both are awful, just do normal Rust or use something else entirely.

I also believe they would be much closer if the C++ example used shared pointer.
I think it's referring to the Safari bug they mention, where the cue gets readded without the old one being removed.
Do you have a source for rainbow tables are surprisingly effective?

I was actually under the impression that they're generally overhyped and not useful in most situations.

Even if most IoT companies don't use per-user salts, Ring is one of the most respected ones, since it's run by Amazon. So it likely has salts.

Actually, thinking about this more, I don't think rainbow tables are useful here even without per-user salts. The purpose of rainbow tables is to be a storage optimization, so that you can use less storage than a hash table, while still having a lot of the benefits of a hash table. But this specific use case discussed here is "passwords compromised in non-Ring breaches", for which there is enough storage for a hash table. So a rainbow table provides no benefit over a hash table.

For more information on what rainbow tables are read this (note that the first page doesn't even explain rainbow tables, you have to click part 2 at the bottom to get to the actual explanation of rainbow tables):

https://rsheasby.medium.com/rainbow-tables-probably-arent-wh...
> The loan industry really enables a life of debt.

It really does, and I've seen so many people fall into it, especially at the beginning of their career. Financial responsibility should be something taught early on at schools. With cryptos today, maybe even with the risks behind investing.

That said, I'm glad I live in the majority of countries where someone more privileged than me cannot judge my financial decisions to give me access to housing. I consider myself financially responsible, and credit scores aren't a thing here anyway, but I find it very disturbing.
Better solution ?

Let's take one example. Teflon coated cookware. As an alternative there are cooking sprays, butter, oils, or stiring the contents of the pan more frequently.

In this case it's not a nessacity but a convenience. Why don't we start by restricting the use of PFAS to those products in which there are no alternatives and are a nessacity.
I didn't know what a "mimic panel" was. Twenty minutes later, I just emerged from a "mimic panel" image search rabbit warren. Satisfying. Thank you!
Would be nice. Need wildlife bridges and culverts over the highways. Just, a general commitment to modern, nature friendly infrastructure in the US.
I remember that story. I’m definitely in that group although older. For reasons I don’t fully understand there is no meaningful difference for me in watching foreign media or media in my native English, and in both cases I require captions to understand dialogue. I am not hard of hearing in any way and don’t have problems in conversation, but I just can’t understand what anyone is saying on movies and TV. I rely nearly entirely on captions.
Yep, it's been a psyop since the beginning, designed to get us all to be eating disgusting bugs. He first came up with the plan with Hillary and Obama on Jekyll island, same night they founded the Fed.
This is true, it's a vicious cycle but it's not only about poverty. It's about human life in general. When something goes wrong other things follow it.

Having health problems directly implies that your career will suffer that your dating life will suffer that your finances will suffer. It's all connected.

The good news is that it's not as bleak as improving one area improves the others as well and people just don't need as much money as is advertised to lead happy lives. When I had very little money I was much happier. I've been utterly depressed in a 4 star hotels and happy as a clam in a single room crap-hole with very poor heat isolation. What I've learned is that if you aren't happy living modestly you are compensating for some deeper issue by throwing money at cars and things.

Whenever I see a Westerner concerned about money I realise they have much bigger problems that aren't being addressed. Yes, US is a place where it's really bad to be poor but all you need to get out of the cycle is for a single time to get lucky. And that's it suddenly you are on an upward trajectory with compounding success. I think everyone should experience at least once in their lives how it is to be poor. If they don't get traumatised by the experience and become misers constantly scared of losing their wealth then they win if not then it's really sad. Rich people who are petrified of losing their wealth look utterly miserable.
This worked beautifully for me when I was in my 20s. Now that I’m in the second half of my 40s it doesn’t work well at all. My body requires a starvation diet before I see even a little weight loss, and I can’t keep it up while remaining productive in my job.

This is one of the useful lessons of age: you essentially get to experience living in more than one body within your lifetime. Younger-me would have posted the same confident advice as you did, and it would have seemed just as intuitively obvious - how could it be wrong when I experienced it myself! But in practice for someone with a different metabolism (at any age) it’s deeply unhelpful, even demoralizing.
A ban does stimulate innovation, as the banning of CFs shows (See Montreal protocol), It spurs innovation for alternatives as there is good money in it and it also spurs innovation by end-users. It is a long and slow process though.