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> Why do you want teenagers thinking that having sex before you are 18 is normal?

Having some form of sexual interaction with peers certainly isn't universal but it is well within "normal" for teenagers. The mechanisms of our legal system require us to treat majority as a binary state that people just switch on one day at age 18, but actual development doesn't work like that in any way.

If you enforce on actual people the legal fiction that no one under 18 has ever encountered sexual material in the world or in their own mind, you're creating all sorts of vulnerabilities for them when they do reach 18 and have minimal awareness of their own boundaries, right to have them, and practice enforcing them.

> The only people who would be opposed to that sort of thing are groomers.

"Groomers" is very commonly used in this context as a homophoblic slur, conflating queer people with child abuse and pedophilia. If that's not your intention I suggest you don't use it in this way in conversations like this. Grooming is certainly a very serious form of child abuse. Coincidentally I'm sure, depictions of it are also banned by this restriction on books. You are not going to help youths realize they are in this situation if you prevent them from ever engaging with the stories of others who have been.
If Amazon has good fraud detection, they should consider using it on sellers.
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That sounds like lawsuits waiting to happen for Deel and/or their customers. Either people are employees of Deel or they are your employees, Deel can't have their cake and eat it, too.
Wildly anecdotal, this is like thirdhand info, so take with a bunch of salt. But I have heard before that heroin/opioid addicts have begun to deliberately seek fentanyl because it's cheaper and more potent.

It makes at least some sense given the common narrative of the pipeline from painkiller addiction to heroin (i.e. it's the same relationship - people who are addicted to painkillers may transition to heroin because it's cheaper and more powerful).
This is a motte-and-bailey fallacy [0], using the (easy to defend) argument "we shouldn't give obscene material to 8-year-olds" to justify the (indefensible) argument that "no material that any parents find ideologically reprehensible should be made available to any children through the school system".

Note that nobody in this thread defending the policy has been able to name any of these porn books that have been given to children, and that none of them attempt to defend the ramifications of the policy as implemented.

[0] https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Motte_and_bailey
I read of Nix now and then. Seems its more than a fad. Why should I invest time? What makes it stand out?
Imo, it's a good idea we are not putting all our eggs in one basket when it comes to renewable energy. To determine what works best requires testing, and testing all the possible options out there is probably a good thing. Who knows, maybe with enough development hydrogen will be a good alternative. We won't know until we see it in practice on a large scale though.
If the books in the school library just appear there with no influence by the school staff in charge of the libraries then I guess we can just fire the library staff. Then there's no one there to risk a felony. I didn't realize it was completely non-curated and unmanaged in Florida.
Hate politics need an underclass to target and oppress. In the US that used to be Black people, but then Black people became too popular and too well supported; and then for a while it was gay people, but then then gay people became too popular and too well supported; and now the target is transgender people and gender nonconformists.

Consider the quote from Lyndon B. Johnson: "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." Now just swap out the hated group. That's why people are okay with it.
OP mentioned a teacher shortage, not a student shortage.
What specifically about Colorado is the issue? If you're already employed, I'm not sure why the law would apply to you?
I think it's a subtle form of white nationalism and American exceptionalism when you pretend that the most racist, backwards, destructive, Country on Earth couldn't have come up with every single one of these policies all on their own
You know, sexually explicit material can be pretty beneficial for teens. The book that your ridiculous panic-mongering "news" outlet—and I am truly sorry that you have been exposed to a publication as rotten as this one—uses graphic depiction of a sex act to show how an adult couple—not "child pornography" as your Western Journal bozos claim—work out that one person wants to try a sex act that the other person does not enjoy. That's an important thing for teens to learn!
Payments infrastructure in India is years ahead of those in the US or Europe. Amazon uses it's own Amazon Pay here in India.
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I never said it was a well run business. You’re also going to have to untangle Elons antics, laying off the account managers and laying off the engineers from the downturn in revenue.
Yeah I agree with you, let me rephrase, I hope everyone I deal with switches to stripe then :D
I am glad someone is doing this. There's lots of things in nix I want to try and use but the tooling and docs are just a bridge too far for me, if someone's going to give the initial ux a do over then I'm down for that!
Fair. As someone who grew up with physical maps, using them is pretty intuitive but I can see how it wouldn't be for everyone. And, of course, some aspects of topographic maps take some education.

With respect to compass, I'm not sure how critical real orienteering is for most people. It's more about not being totally turned around and/or being able to make sure you hit some feature like a road.
It really does look truly weird from out here. I mean, I'm living in the UK, where some seriously bad shit is going down, but even given all o that, stuff in the US looks pretty dark...!
They know that the second they name any specific books that were actually present in classrooms, we'll all realize how ridiculous the outrage over such innocuous books actually is.
A quick search suggests that other third-degree felonies in Florida are things like: felony battery, aggravated assault, carrying a concealed firearm without a license and resisting a law enforcement officer with violence.

All rather mind-blowing to be honest.
And that still works. But in recent times it’s very overused.
> Do you think it is somehow "anti-white" to point out ways in which white supremacy harms and oppresses non-white people when it is used at the level of state and federal governments?

It can be. Take your example for instance, where you said:

> "As for whether US itself is a white supremacist state, on one hand you could say that it has allocated a massive amount of resources in systematically rounding up black men (1 in 3 will be arrested in their lifetimes) without addressing the factors used to justify that, and many states systematically disenfranchise their vote."

You may not realize it, but this statement immediately dismisses the millions of non-black victims of the same thing. By making it all about one race, you have essentially set up a white (bad) vs black (good) dynamic where it doesn't actually exist. Instead of looking at fundamental issues affecting people regardless of race - namely, an authoritarian government that is primarily used by the privileged class against the unprivileged. For example: whereas Sasha & Malia Obama will never face the brunt of an authoritarian government, white Appalachian families know it all too well.

You saw the same thing with groups like BLM. If you never looked at the data you would assume this is an issue that only or primarily affects black people. And yet, the majority of people killed by cops are white males. And although per capita black males are more likely to suffer that fate, white males are also over-represented as victims of police violence based on their demographic cohort. (black, Hispanic and white males are over-represented; Asian males and females of all races including black, are under-represented.

Using the police violence issue, the largest over-represented demographic cohort is actually males which make up 95% of the victims. And yet it's not presented as a male problem. It's presented as a black problem despite the data that shows black females are far less likely to be hurt or killed in police interactions than white males are.

This happens a lot when trying to take a complex issue and assume it's based on race.
Yeah, I personally find ChatGPT to be easily 1 to 2 orders of magnitude better than Copilot, specifically for generating code or transmuting code from one language into another language. Really powerful.
Regular reminder that:
- WFH is a thing now
- school from home was tried and found to be shitty if pretending they're still in school except by Zoom - but functional enough to be a point on the Overton window.
- ChatGPT is a thing.

I wouldn't even attempt to save the current educational system. At all. Just lobby for legislation that facilitates getting diplomas by exams, then wait at most a year for completely new alternatives to appear.
Conceptually, if the government defines the teaching, at what point do the people run the government and at what point does the government run the people?

Also, politics in America are way more messy than that. The choice becomes "People you agree 50% with or people you agree 20% with?". I would bet that if this were put to a statewide vote, it would not pass.
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Banning the sale of guns doesn't hurt the specific out-group they've been conditioned into hating.
"No one in this thread knows a damn thing"

Hahahaa. Well, I can't argue with that. I concur.
So they already have the worst teacher shortage, and they're determined to make it even worse by making it a crime to encourage children to read.

This is completely insane. How can this be even remotely constitutional? Please tell me at least the current Florida legislature is deeply unpopular because of their commitment to censorship and opposition to education.
Most people in the world are sexually active before 18. Your teenage years are you prime years of curiosity. Now, yes, they shouldn't be engaging in sexual activities with older, more mature people. But there's zero problem in late teens just being teens and discovering themselves. The more information they have on how to do that safely, the better. This law (and your puritan line of thinking) does the exact opposite. Expect to see a rise in teenage STDs and pregnancy.
You do not need to worry about the axiom of choice because:

(1) Provably so in a very weak (and hence trustworthy) metatheory, assuming the axiom of choice does not result in any new inconsistencies. More precisely: The systems ZFC (Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory with the axiom of choice) and ZF (ZFC but without choice) are equiconsistent; if ZF is consistent, then so is ZFC.

(2) There is a mechanical procedure for transforming ZFC-proofs of number-theoretic statements into ZF-proofs. That is, appeals to the axiom of choice can always be mechanically eliminated from proofs of number-theoretic statements, even if those proofs rely on results in other areas which crucially depend on the axiom of choice.

You should worry about the axiom of choice because:

(3) Assuming the axiom of choice imposes an undue restriction on the scope of your results: Any theorem proven without the axiom of choice and without the law of excluded middle (which is implied by the axiom of choice) automatically also applies to continuous families. For instance, the theorem "every real symmetric matrix has an eigenvalue" has a proof avoiding AC and LEM. Hence it also holds that for every continuous family of symmetric matrices, locally on the parameter space, there is a continuous eigenvalue-picking function.

PS: One could also wonder whether one should worry about the law of excluded middle. One should not because: (1') The systems ZF and IZF (ZF but without LEM) are equiconsistent. (2') There is a mechanical procedure for transforming ZF-proofs of number-theoretic statements of the special kind "for every numer x, there exists a number y such that some equation holds" into IZF-proofs. On the other hand, one should worry because of (3).

PPS: The axiom which one should truly worry about is the inconspicuous powerset axiom. In contrast with ZFC, ZF and IZF, which are all equiconsistent, removing the powerset axiom results in a drastically weaker system. The proof-theoretic strength of Kripke–Platek set theory (ZF without powerset) is a reasonably large ordinal, whereas we are lacking the technology to even fathom the ordinal calibrating the strength of IZF/ZF/ZFC.
I've seen these studies before and done some testing of my own and found this to be true to some degree. I've used PMSA003I and BME688 sensors to check for particulate and VOC's. I didn't notice any significant increase in PM1 or PM2.5 (which is probably to be expected since the particles emitted are probably <1um and lower than I can detect). I did see some increase in VOC's but nothing alarmingly high from baseline. Roughly equivalent to lighting a candle.
This is not an issue of windows. This is an issue of display settings.
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This is my first PC build. Im NOT a Youtuber and there are no affiliate links. Photos here: https://imgur.com/gallery/GpHvYAB

Parts include Ryzen 5600x, rx 6650 xt and 16GB of 3600 c16 RAM.

Slightlky faster thans a PS5, Uses less watts, can be upgraded in future and runs quieter than PS5.
“Back in my day…” there was a crusade against Christian prayer and what not. Keep things neutral - to the point that teachers who were otherwise obviously religious would completely dodge the topic when my intellectually curious atheist self asked on topics.

Now we’re back at teachers here-and-they’re wanting to assert their belief system in the classroom and activist parents seeking to eliminate this issue… only the script is a bit flipped.

So, the question becomes should we keep schools neutral or not?
Agreed it doesn't matter much in this case, but it is a common misconception that employees don't cost nearly as much to employers as they actually do, so I wanted to step in and correct that.
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Nix and NixOS have had a similar sort of effect on me as Gentoo and FreeBSD have in the past. They have helped to expand my consciousness in the realm of systems administration and have helped me achieve new heights with my low latency audio configuration. For this reason, Nix and NixOS have become indispensable to my workflow.

NixOS introduces a new form of declarative configuration, fusing Gentoo's highly configurable nature with BSD's unified configuration file approach. For me, it's absolutely perfect until my own laziness bites me in the butt. If you want to do a gentle dive into Nix, resist the temptation to go full "NixOS" and learn the Nix build/environment system first. It will make things a lot easier for you in the long run.
That means absolutely nothing to billionaire control freaks.

If OpenAI's products become the next Googlie thing (and here I was worried about Cloudflare <smack head>) then these are the future influencers. This is society mainlined on TikTok levels of manipulation.

Surely you have adapted to ChatGPT's requirements for interacting, have you not? There is a name for this: social engineering.
Overused? Not at all. If anything we've got a critical shortage of real public action over real issues.
Can’t seem to do that while the thing is down… wonder why they didn’t choose to separate the payment UX from the actual product.
Have you ever went on a vacation only to have your laptop crap out on you? You can self host your code and access it anywhere using Code Server.
obligatory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Core

who broke it this time?
I listen to two types of podcasts - short form news (under 20 minutes) and long-form educational/interesting (over an hour). Discovery is a big problem with podcasts - and when I do end up finding something, if I can't click with something in the first 10 minutes, I end up turning it off. I only listen to perhaps 6-7 different podcast creators.
If the government doesn't have the assent of the people is it not illegitimate? I thought the whole presumption under our system was the representatives have the assent of the majority.
If the end game is suppress salaries and increase control (by forcing people back to offices), maybe the morale hit is worth it over a couple years.
I recently wondered if one of the reasons for Google shutting down Stadia, was to quickly ramp their GPU server stockpile to redirect the resources at GPT modelling, to help catch up.
When I read the title "Spotify reducing employee base by about 6%", I thought Spotify was reducing the base compensation of all employees instead of laying people off. How wrong I was.
Netflix only lost to Blockbuster because Blockbuster didn't believe in online anything strongly enough to properly fund it. Blockbuster had the better network and better penetration, and even had equally good technology. But corporate didn't want to fund them to hire the next set of engineers they needed.

Blockbuster would have won if their board had been just slightly more forward looking. And Netflix knew it.
Market cap is not a measure of past profits.
This. Scrum is not adequate for this.

What we used to do (while growing the SRE team from ~8 to 30) was having dedicated teams on specific projects. Each had their own scheduling system as they saw fit. AND a weekly rotating support duty which took precedence: teams had to allocate someone from their own capacity to this duty.

The importance was to adequately rotate everyone, to pair a senior and a junior in the support team, and to be available to them to debrief, or to reallocate high priority/criticity tasks to more expert members, if required.

Also, if the support queue was empty, they could do maintenance/exploratory work, but NOT their own team project work.
You _do_ understand everything we've seen from OpenAI Google already showed us they have? Not to mention OG research and being the primary r&d force behind vast majority of AI you're seeing. They haven't put it in hands of users as directly yet though, reasons to be speculated upon.
Completely in earnest.
What’s the legal definition surrounding “book”? Can the teachers hand out a “leaflet” with a QR code to the unapproved text?
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Cool story about Netflix growth and growing pains.

I have 0 knowledge about the subject so can not judge the correctness.
CEOs will never really take the same responsibility. They're all rich. Even if they resign they'll have another job easily.

The problem is the system. With an adequate social safety net, these layoffs matter much, much less.
British boy who taught himself to read aged two joins Mensa
What is list of books? Understand zero tolerance for removing anything.
> and then for a while it was gay people, but then then gay people became too popular and too well supported; and now the target is transgender people and gender nonconformists.

This law explicitly bans discussion of Gay people.
I have no bone to pick when it comes to Joe Rogan (love Newsradio) but to continue the sibling post:

> wildlife conversationist

As host of the Extinct or Alive series, Galante has been seen negatively by ecologists for being a "parachute scientist".[46] Galante's website stated that he personally captured the first video footage of a Zanzibar servaline genet,[47] which is contradicted by Zanzibar researchers.[48] Galante has also claimed that he personally rediscovered the Fernandina Island tortoise [49] and the Rio Apaporis Caiman,[50] both claims which have been contradicted by the leaders of their respective expeditions,[46] the latter of which published their findings and exploration prior to Galante's trip to Colombia.[51] As of 2022, Galante has not outlined his claimed discoveries in any scientific journals.
This is part of an ongoing conflict between schools and parents.

E.g. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/22/us/gender-identity-studen...

While banning books is creepy and unproductive, the schools have exceeded their warrant and it's no surprise that the pendulum is swinging back.
Those parts are actually super compatible with Linux and Valve's Proton layer for gaming. Give it a whirl if you get the chance, after all the PS5 is based on a UNIX-like OS as well... ;)
Or you can simply never rebase and always merge. I still don't understand why people think history-destroying rebase is a good idea, but that's just me.
> Japan got trapped in the 90s, the fax era, and it is difficult to change

The fax machine in Japan is always treated like it's proof they're stuck in a timewarp, an earlier age, and just haven't moved on.

But I think it makes sense. Japan was introduced to fax technology early on. Japanese is traditionally written vertically. It is written with Chinese characters. In handwritten Japanese, people actually invent/modify characters on the spot. (Much as how Engl. text might be littered with randomly-invented abbr'vns.) They're not going to be able to enter those into a computer easily.

Some Japanese newspapers were using traditional typesetting techniques right into the 21st century because vertical text support was, and largely still is, an afterthought in most publishing software. Software has only recently gotten to the point where it can replace a fax machine and handwriting, for reproducing Japanese texts in the manner the Japanese expect. Besides scanning/taking a photo of a page and emailing it, which isn't enough of an improvement to motivate the change. (Particularly as business faxes just end up digitized and emailed anyway.)
I oppose “progressive” censorship just as much.
> when people say "infinity is not a number" they generally mean aleph-0

Sure, maybe. I think saying "infinity is a number" is wrong regardless. I'm happy with aleph-0 being a number, and I'm happy with it having a label of infinity. I'm just not happy with treating infinity as a single thing. We're totally on the same page in every way that matters though. I'm also certainly with you on questioning Retric's comment for a number of reasons, haha.

edit: Actually...I'm not so sure they mean aleph-0. I think frequently they mean the infinity of the extended real line. Maybe it depends on the context of the conversation.
Revolutions podcast was too in-depth for me (think, hundreds of episodes for each revolution). But I've been listening to his podcast-closing appendix (12 appendix episodes, that tells you something about being verbose), and it's fun :)
Using other blockers along uBO leads to worse results than using uBO alone -- and this may be why you have some sites still showing warnings about blockers. I have been warning people against using other content blockers along uBO since a long time now, see <https://twitter.com/gorhill/status/1033706103782170625>.
> Whatever you think an employee costs based on TC, double it to get the rough cost to the employer.

Hardware/Software expenses, office spaces, health insurance are fixed cost.

$150k employee vs 200k employee will have the same amount of fixed cost (assuming both are in the same function).
There’s nothing magical about the age 18. The age of consent in many states is lower. Hell, the age at which you can join the military is lower.

People under 18 have sex all the time, and they should absolutely be reading stuff about sex before then.