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The current prediction, when all votes are counted, is it to be just below the record turnout, which was 4 years ago.

It not even guaranteed that Trump will win the popular vote, it depends on how the California votes land.
> We're going extinct.

I think that is hyperbole, but I agree with your general take.

Maybe we are just at the top of the human population sigmoid curve and this is a normal collective correction. We've hit the carrying capacity of the post-industrialized world. Food isn't the limiter as much as an unconscious 'perceived opportunity for growth'.
> What they've done lately is assume they could ignore one of their largest ones, that it would always support them no matter how much they despised it and insulted it.

You were doing OK until you got to this part.
I have three reasons: when using a good encoder (Core Audio, FDK or Nero) it's a quality-wise better lossy format than MP3, it's smaller than FLAC which matters for storage footprint, and unlike Opus and FLAC it's supported pretty much everywhere. At some point Opus will reach the same level of adoption and that's the point where I'll make the switch from AAC, because Opus is evidently a better lossy encoder per same bitrate.
Outstanding !

Looks like all that would be needed for users to select streams podcast-style from the server(s) the files are stored on.

I would think there should be a direct way to then deliver the stream over something like Superstreamer or VLC.
I'd love to have them now as I'm stuck in JS dependency hell at a startup that doesn't have the resources to resolve them.
If spotify use the coreaudio daemon for the decoding it can be spotify's fault for this CPU usage, don't you think ?

Maybe they are using it "wrong" but Apple Music isn't exactly light on ressource either...
Sorry, which of those measures were effective? People really live in completely different world is amazing.

you know that everyone is still getting Covid over and over and over again every year, right?
A central tenant of the mainstream LGBTQ community is to "live authentically". That tenant cuts both ways, in that nobody in the trans community is going to force someone to be trans — they wouldn't be "living authentically" if someone were forcing them to be trans. I've seen this point expressed in the LGBTQ community countless times outside of political discussion, usually to someone who is self-questioning, and asking someone else if they're gay/trans/etc., which is community, more often than not, will respond to with "we can't decide that for you."

As for hatred of trans people: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/cpac-spe...

The last political ad I saw, and it was endorsed by Trump, featured a segment furthering the conspiracies around Imane Khelif, implying she was a man, etc.
> Against a bounding rise in prices, [...], one can fight only under the slogan of a sliding scale of wages. This means that collective agreements should assure an automatic rise in wages in relation to the increase in price of consumer goods.

Leon Trotsky, 1938. [1]

Automatic rise in wages to counter inflation effects on ordinary people is literally a socialist plan. What they're asking for is socialism. Right-wing Americans (supposedly) hate socialism, at least when it benefits people other than themselves.

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[1] - https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1938/tp/tp-text.htm...
Did you link the wrong chart? The slope is clearly positive over the last four years. Ergo people are getting wealthier, on average, even accounting for inflation. If you want to make a point that "Trump won because of service economy price increases, whereas cheaper good and fuel didn't help Harris as much", that's a rather more complicated thing.

Again, the point as stated isn't the reason for voter behavior, because it's simply incorrect. Voters didn't vote because they're poorer, because they're not poorer. QED.
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Would you call all options and futures subsidies? Are airlines subsidizing oil companies when they purchase oil futures in order to hedge their oil costs?

There is no indication that these commitments were underpriced by the government, so to call them subsidies is at best baseless misinformation.
The divide is real and very noticeable in meat-space, not just online. This is also happening in the rest of the western world, and has been brewing not just since the Internet but since WWII.

There was a study done on bipartisanship in the US senate, where senators were mapped into a 2D space and pulled together slightly if they voted together, and pushed apart if they voted against each other. 50 years ago the two parties were mixed together, then slowly but surely drifted apart. The animation over the years was like watching cell division. There's now only a couple of senators left in the centre, everyone else is far apart in two blobs.

I have zero in common with people that make their hatred of transgender people a substantial part of their politics -- but have never talked to one and have never been influenced by one in any way.

It's like talking to an alien species that singles out green eyes. Not blue, not brown, just green, but with a seething hatred that goes beyond anything I have ever felt. "You need to also hate the green-eyes or you're bad." is not something I can wrap my head around. Not now, not ever.

The Internet has nothing to do with me feeling this way about green-eye-haters.
No small portion of US economic dominance is spending more on the military than he China, Russia, India, Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, South Korea, Japan, and Ukraine combined. Sending money to Ukraine wasn't out of the goodness of US hearts, it was to fight a low grade proxy war with Russia. Every dollar the US spends in the Ukraine destroys many times the amount of Russian equipment and spills no US blood. I am not endorsing these actions.
Bernie definitely would have defeated Trump. He had unique crossover appeal. Trump was extremely unpopular in 2016 and it took a historically disliked candidate to lose to him.
This hits home. I've been taking care of my father for years. He has dementia, COPD, and a bunch of other issues. In a lot of ways it's like the pandemic never ended for us. I barely leave the house other than for trips to the grocery store and doctor's visits. It's brutal.

Sadly, I'm also recognizing that as a man pushing 50, I'm not very good at asking for help. I don't. I'm also not good at maintaining strong social ties. Both of these are things I hope to get better at. It sounds so easy, but I struggle with both. Especially while managing the ups and downs of my mental health and taking care of my father.

That said, I'm very grateful that none of this triggered a relapse of my drinking. That would not be good. For the most part, I use meditation and exercise to hold myself together.

Sharing this doesn't excite me, but maybe there are other caregivers out there that feel the same way. And for those of you with children, please plan for how you're going to handle your late life care.
To me, this sounds like ordinary investing based on typical cash on cash returns (e.g. dividends). This is most investment and often local — the sort of thing a town’s entrepreneurs put up money for — or a place for institutional investors (e.g, insurance companies placing reserves).

Venture capital is not that. It seeks returns from increases in the value of equity. The strategy is that all revenue stays in the company and the company uses that money for growth.

That’s why there is not a lot of VC investment relative to investing by doctors and bankers anywhere and particularly in Europe where a larger percentage of capital exists as family/hereditary wealth and consequently is managed more for wealth preservation rather than home runs.
I find the starship news exciting, but given the incremental nature of starship development, it really isn't the most exciting stuff happening today with space exploration as there is all kinds of other cool stuff happening and being discovered.

One example off the top of my head:

https://earthsky.org/space/final-parker-solar-probe-flyby-of...
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Are they going to replace all the tiles before it can relaunch? And what about the engine nozzles? They must be taking quite the beating.

No doubt SpaceX has very smart people working on this and I'm not an expert in material science, but I just find it hard to believe that same day turnaround could be possible. If true, that would really make us a confirmed space faring civilization. We could actually start colonizing Mars.
Disagree. We need to build unions back up.
"The only real way to bring down housing prices is to drastically increase the housing supply and find a way to prevent companies like Blackrock from snapping them up and leaving them empty to keep rental prices high"

This is exactly the change that needs to happen - the fact that entire subdivisions of housing are being built specifically so these multi-national conglomerates can use them as an investment vehicle, AND all the existing homes are being snatched up by them is criminal in my eyes.

The most impactful thing anyone could do to improve the housing situation in this country is to prevent these operations from using single family homes as investment vehicles. I don't know the 'exact right' way to achieve this - but I'm certain the exact legislative language could be hammered out to make things better for EVERYBODY except the bottom feeders.
It's definitely the case for Fortnite, but it still doesn't sit well with me that a service bought on specific hardware can just be taken away with no recourse. I'm not sure what if anything can or should be done about it, but it's weird knowing that many of the most popular PS4 games will be straight up unplayable in a few years
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When it comes to China, it's not entirely fair to single out Apple here given that non-Chinese companies are not allowed to run their own compute in China directly.

It always has to be operated by a sponsor in the state who hold encryption keys and do actual deployments etc etc.

The same applies to Azure/AWS/Google Cloud's China regions and any other compute services you might think of.
I've always wondered what etc refers to.
this was great. i hope someone just recuts video with exactly this soundtrack
Taking vitamin D3 daily should help, particularly older people.
"Thus, a healthy vitamin D3 status may help prevent viruses and bacteria from gaining a foothold in the body." https://scitechdaily.com/study-finds-vitamin-d3-important-fo...
As an aside, post-2000 research like your link really makes me wanna dive into notoriously-crunchy sci-fi RPG & wargame systems and validate/update their construction rules to account for advances in the science. Mostly thinking GURPS: Vehicles and Traveller's Fire, Fusion, and Steel....

https://boardgamegeek.com/rpgitem/49409/fire-fusion-and-stee...
Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.
Your reply absolutely disgusts me even more. There is a lot of evidence that RFK is nuts. See: https://www.npr.org/2024/08/05/nx-s1-5063939/rfk-jr-central-...

> The conspiracy theorist-turned-third-party candidate’s campaign has weathered a series of increasingly improbable-sounding scandals in recent months, from Kennedy’s admission that a worm ate part of his brain to his denial of reports that he once ate barbecued dog (he said it was a goat).

> Kennedy just happened to have an old bike in his car, which he said someone had asked him to get rid of. He recalled that the city “had just put in the bike lanes” after a number of serious accidents, and decided to stage the bear in Central Park as if it had been hit by a bike.

Never vote for crazy. Simple

> This sort of discourse does not belong here. Shame on you.

I'm sorry, it is obvious. Shame on you for not just reading the evidence and making a rash judgement that this guy would be fit to run the country. He makes Trump look like an actual very stable genius.
One really good source I’ve found is Steve Ballmer’s* USA Facts and YouTube videos Just The Facts

https://usafacts.org/answers/how-much-does-the-us-federal-go...

*What he did to open source while CEO at Microsoft is atrocious - but he’s putting his money to some good content and I’m all for that
> Who's praising the engineers who are grinding their souls to accomplish?

I always credit the SpaceX team for their accomplishments, fully aware they are successful despite Musk, not because of him. He’s good at getting attention and funding.
Dems are the only ones pushing antitrust. The Republicans taking over is dominated by CEOs of large companies. How could you possibly say its Reps that are skeptical of large corps not dems. Antitrust is probably gonna die now because of this outcome

Also, thinking that Republicans aren't just as, if not more, bought by the military industry complex is just sticking your head in the sand. The GOP is more adamant about funding Israel than Dems are
They literally did if you just call everyone you don’t like a Nazi over and over again eventually they stop listening to you
“Anti natalism” is not a genetic trait that gets inherited. Any woman can look at what another woman goes through during pregnancy/childbirth/infant rearing and think they might want to avoid that. Or avoid doing it multiple times.
Find me a republican voter that will sign off on the government building the new housing stock.
> Do people selectively credit the engineers when a musk company has a success, then blame musk when there's a failure?

Yes
The article doesn't mention Patreon once. What a gig is, has changed.
I know serious businesses using Hetzner for their critical workloads. I wouldn’t unless money is tight, but it is possible. I use them for my non critical stuff, it costs so much less.
Ahh more Chicago fear mongering. I've lived here for almost two decades. There's good and bad parts, almost like every other place.
In part, maybe. And at the very end of the list of proposal, after you've explained how you're going to fix the problem, you can, if you have time to spare, defend that you were not entirely responsible for the whole of the problem.

But, realize that any time you spend defending yourself is not spent explaining how you're going to fix the problem. It may be unfair, and that's one of the nicest aspect of democracy : given that people in power keep changing, at some point they don't feel bound to the choices made by previous governments, even of their own party, and can spend time trying to fix problems.

No chance of doing so if you start by arguing.

Also, some of the problems are _hard_.
>The Dems failed on this count massively

The Dems failed to communicate inflation is a global phenomena and that the US has faired far better at reducing inflation, unemployment and GDP growth then the rest of the developed world.
>But that's not good enough?!

It has never been enough, in at least 70 years, for democrats to do good enough. They are graded on this insane curve compared to perfect, and they always fall short since they haven't had serious (more than 60 senators) political power in decades, so they can't do much.

Consider the Palestine issue. I wonder how many young progressives stayed home because Harris refused to say "I will ban Israel from buying US weapons", despite it being clear from polling that doing so would lose her some votes and undeniably increase republican voter turnout. But nope, they refused to see that reality, so they didn't vote for her "maybe we will tell them to kill fewer babies" tactic.

Oh well, in just a few years the problem of Palestine will probably be solved for good. I hope those voters are happy.

Meanwhile republicans can say "I have a concept of a plan" and say that harris should be shot by 9 guns and they get 70 million votes.

My brother is the weird conservative that thinks "Trump didn't win the election in 2020" and "maybe we should regulate companies a little", but that didn't stop him from voting for the one shouting for violence. Maybe that's because he has, even during bush's term, been of the opinion that "all democrats should be shot", which he says right in front of me. I bet he wonders why we don't have a better relationship. It's always for something absurd too, like he said democrats should be shot because of Michelle Obama saying children should be able to eat healthy food at school, which for some reason made her responsible for the decline of school lunch programs since the 80s (a time which he did not experience). It's just another nonsensical thing republicans believe about their country because fox news said it every day for a year even though it's objectively untrue. Our state's school lunch program was better under Obama than it was when he was in school and yet he is sure that Michelle Obama, who has no powers as a first lady, was personally responsible for decisions our STATE made about it's school lunch program.

I don't know what else to say. They believe lies, when I tell them that they believe lies they tell me to my face that I should be shot, and when I say "fuck you" to that, they insist that I'm so divisive and partisan. It's just absurd the reality they live in. It seems so stressful to believe that the government is going to send a liberal twink to steal your guns and shit in your litter box and trans your kid.

But when you can go in front of a judge and say "nobody rational would watch our news program and believe it" and "we literally made up out of whole cloth a story about how the democrats stole the election, despite the fact that many of us were not so sure about pushing such a total lie" and suffer no consequences, what the fuck else is there to do?
If the cornflakes had been sitting in old milk for a week, then yes, I would believe you could tell by how they walk, either hunched over with a cramping stomach or with shit pants. LLM text is quite similar.
that would lead to more inflation.
Jives with all the trades in general. Sometimes you have people being insulting who are genuinely trying to have fun with you, other times it's just people using that as a cover to be assholes. Often you are expected to just take brutal conditions with a smile even though they aren't safe and even though everyone knows you should say no, but no one wants to be "that guy". Customers can be condescending and mean, often for no real reason other than that's who they are and the trades in general put up with that kind of person because they don't have the draw of higher end gigs.
Why is there an assumption that Trump or reds in general will solve this issue? He was a president already, what exactly did he do to fix the situation? The system is built to segregate and separate people into classes efficiently, making the rich richer and the poor poorer. After all the one who has more resources at the start of the game will win. I'm curious who will be labeled as an enemy first to redirect Trump supporter's rage when situation will not improve itself?
did I say prod went down? I just said it failed in prod. it was a logging change and only half the logging went out. To me, that's a failure
I suspect it's going to become increasingly normalized for people to put some fraction of their retirement accounts (perhaps 3% - 10%) into crypto, now that there are ETFs. I'm not saying the supply of new money won't eventually get exhausted, but there's still a ton of untapped boomer wealth out there that has yet to flow in.
This is a fork of VScode, which means people can’t use the extension store anymore right?
It's a mandate for the next Artemis Mission. [1]

The HLS (Spaceship) will need many refuels at orbit in order to get to the Moon and back. That means at least a dozen of fully-loaded Heavy launches to LEO just so each one of them can load a bit of fuel into HLS. The fuel in orbit can't sit idle for too long, or it deteriorates; I haven't found a limit on days for that, but a week-long launch window is considered a dealbreaker, we're talking a dozen Heavy launches in a week.

It's either a short launch window, or at least 6 Starships built and launched twice in ~10 days. Don't count out on SpaceX building 12 Heavy Starships just for that Artemis mission.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_III
All that I can add of value is summed up in the phrase "Sweet hood, you go girl!"

Personally, there are many jobs that people just don't understand because they just don't interact with them. Welding is one example, but there are many.

My Uncle died with a well deserved lifestyle after doing "large pipe" welding. The definition of large, in this case, was pipe you could theoretically drive a car through. Just to weld the pipe together from plate steel, one would have to weld together a rig to hold the plate, as well as a roller press to bend the plate correctly.

People would be astounded that I, a software developer, would hold a welder in such high esteem, but while I might be (my own, probably faulty estimate) in the top 10,000 he was in the top 100 (again my own, probably faulty estimate). I've seen him walk into a job that took three "lesser" welder (mind you, these are family members, so please don't call them out as such) six hours and complete it in 20 minutes.

I'm what one might call a 10x programmer. That said, he was at least a 100x welder. Alas, he died due to a lung full of chromium, which is a real risk when welding the exotic metals that generally the top welders are asked to work.

I miss him dearly, and Lon (Lonnie) if you can read this from heaven, you're still the best damned welder I've ever seen, and a true master of your craft. You inspire me to do better than I do. I only hope to become as good in my field as you are in yours.
> Israel's diplomatic position would be much weaker if they didn't believe that the US would keep supporting them no matter what they do.

Why do you feel that Israel's diplomatic position needs to be weaker?

And how would the Palestinians' diplomatic position be, without the support of Iran, Jordan, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Turkey, Lebanon, Libya, Tunis, and the USSR and now Russia?
Let’s see how the next four years play out. I’m not optimistic about US’s prospects.
Honestly? I'd first prefer he hadn't gone off the deep end. I feel the same sort of sad that I did when Notch (of minecraft) turned out the way he did.

I obviously don't have any person relation to him, but Elon seems to be deeply disturbed. He went from a pretty normal somewhat eccentric millionaire 5 or 6 years ago to his evil villain arc. Maybe he was like this all along, but I feel like he's been too stressed and too us vs them for too long that he no longer has a grounded view of reality.
> How do you convey ideas to voters when the basis of the idea is feeling vs fact, outlier vs median?

That's the best description of what good politicians can do that I've ever heard.