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Perhaps I'm being uncharitable but this line "each person will be more load-bearing" reads to me as "each person will be expected to do more work for the same pay".

Cellphones used to operate on a frequency band that was very close to the same band used by ground proximity warning systems, so theoretically they could interfere with the safety systems on a plane. Modern phones use different frequency bands now.

Remember, the product is the stock and the customers are the shareholders. And oh boy do the customers want AI.

Honestly this feels like a better policy than most AI training - Meta actually has explicit rights to the content it is using. Sure it was EULA click-through but at least it's something that the content creator ostensibly agreed to.

Of course I'm sure Meta is also training their AI on content that they scraped from the internet/other sources without permission...

Branching in Subversion was fine, but merging was quite painful (at least at the time I was using it, around 2008ish). From my recollection, SVN didn't try to figure out the base commit for a merge - you had to do that manually. I remember having a document keeping track of when I branched so that I could merge in commits later.

And even if I was using it wrong or SVN improved merging later the fact was that common practice at the time was to just commit everything to the main branch, which is a worse (IMO) workflow than the feature-branch workflow common in git.

But you're right, SVN was largely fine and it was better than what preceded it and better than many of its peers.

Edit: Forgot to mention - one of the biggest benefits to git, at least early on, was the ability to use it locally with no server. Prior to git all my personal projects did not use version control because setting up VC was painful. Once git came around it was trivial to use version control for everything.

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I still can't get over the fact that Trisolaris is actually a four body problem, not a three body problem. I've heard some explanations that this is because you can ignore the mass of the planet. While I'm not an astrophysicist, I'm not sure that's true given that the entire point is to figure out how three suns affect the planet.

Food is heavily regulated though, in a large part because markets failed to prevent food-borne illnesses.

Perhaps I worded it a bit poorly - I don't think most workers have a purely non-financial agenda. But most workers have multiple agendas for working, the financial agenda probably being the strongest.

But it's not a purely transactional agreement like you make it out to be.

Most workers do have an agenda other than enriching themselves though:

* Self-satisfaction

* Sense of identity

* Belief in the company

* Desire to improve the world

* Puritanical work ethic

* etc

Fortunately owners will forever remain entitled to the profits of others' work.

It was my understanding that many of the studies on moderate alcohol consumption included people in the study who could not drink for medical reasons (or were former alcoholics) which skewed the results for the zero-alcohol groups.

Studies on red wine included people whose only source of fruit was red wine, which similarly skewed the results.

The best way that I've thought about it is like this:

You pick a door, then Monty let's you switch to the two remaining doors and if the car is behind either of them you win.

Obviously choosing the two remaining doors is better.

The trick is to realize that Monty showing you the contents of one door and letting you choose the other one is identical to Monty letting you choose both the remaining doors.

The `ac` in `actime24` probably means `arrival city`.

I do like this (and the way you phrased it!) but I do think it has a dark side - there will come a time in your life where your skills plateau, and another time in your life where your skills start to decrease. Actually both of these will probably happen many times in your life!

It's important to recognize the ebb and flow and to be kind to yourself.

A lot of addiction is caused by social issues or mental health issues, but it's really hard to deal with those issues when someone is also dealing with the effects of addiction. A drug like this could provide an opportunity to fix the underlying issues causing addiction in the first place.

And for some people they will have to take this for life, which isn't so different from many other medications.

You are correct, the US has very few rights for workers, at least federally. Different states have different work protection laws, California has a lot of well known work protection laws.

49 states out of 50 are what are known as "at will employment" states (Montana is the only exception). "At will" employment means that the worker or the employer can terminate employment at any time with no notice. There are some restrictions on this, for example an employer can't fire someone because of their race, gender, sexual orientation, etc. Additionally there are laws about how larger companies have to handle mass layoffs.

I would bet that the majority of non-techies couldn't name a single discontinued Google product.

Outside of the tech world Google still has a stellar reputation. Most people don't seem to care/know/notice any of the privacy issues, support issues or product continuation issues.

So I think your statement has some merit for certain types of products - ones that are targeted at the tech crowd - but overall I don't think it's generally true.

I feel like this would end up with a bunch of interns in prison for the crimes of executives. It would be too easy to find a scapegoat.

I worked for a New York based company once, and I was moving to Washington State and planned to continue to work remotely. I told my manager, he told his manager, everything was approved...until I sent out my goodbye email - turns out they never told HR. They had just assumed it would be fine since another employee was working remotely from Montana. However WA requires companies to pay WA taxes if they have any employees there (or something like that, I forget the exact details).

The solution was to make me a contractor and it more or less worked out in the end.

The point is, hiring remote workers can have all sorts of legal and financial hurdles, even when the remote workers are in the same country. Larger companies often have global employees and are used to and capable of handling these issues but smaller companies may not be so well equipped.

A friend of mine built a device specifically for using a digital camera to "scan" 35mm film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEDWeAbd6J4

I worked for a while on a dating app (that was never released). It had over a dozen gender options and allowed selecting more than one gender. In the case of a dating app allowing multiple genders wasn't just about inclusivity, it was also practical - a non-binary person might want to also be classified as male or female for the purposes of a dating app, for example.

But in any case, it's the context that matters. Most of the time you don't need to know a person's gender so just don't ask. Many other times gender is just a proxy for something else, such as a person's title. It's better to just ask for their title than their gender.

OCaml isn't indentation sensitive, BTW.

I doubt I'm going to change your mind on this, but I think you are under-estimating the difficulty of getting ID in certain parts of the country, for certain people. For example, people living on reservations often have difficulty getting ID because the DMV/other agencies are hundreds of miles away, many lack transportation, many lack the necessary documentation required to get the IDs, some states have put legal hurdles in the way (many homes on reservations don't have legal addresses, for example).

Doesn't sound like they controlled for it or even considered it. While they did have a control group that excluded non-drinkers and heavy drinkers, that was solely to control for bias at the extreme ends, and not to control for sober alcoholics or health problems that preclude drinking.

Our analyses comprise models that include two different sets of control variables. The standard set includes standardized age, standardized age squared standardized height, handedness (right/left/ambidextrous; dummy-coded), sex (female:0, male:1), current smoker status, former light smoker, former heavy smoker, and standardized Townsend index of social deprivation measured at the zip code level62. To control for genetic population structure, the models also include the first 40 genetic principal components63 and county of residence (dummy-coded)62. A second set of extended control variables includes all standard control variables and in addition standardized BMI, standardized educational attainment64, and standardized weight. To determine whether observations at the extreme ends of the drinking distribution bias the estimates of the relationship between alcohol intake and IDPs, we also estimate a model that excludes abstainers and a model that excludes heavy drinkers (i.e., women who reported consuming more than 18 units/week and men who consumed more than 24 units/week), both with standard controls.

Here they talk about the different groupings:

we bin participants in the following six categories based on average alcohol intake: (1) abstainers, (2) individuals who drank less than one unit/day, (3) individuals who drank between one (included) and two (excluded) units/day (recommended maximal alcohol consumption based on the UK Chief Medical Officers “low-risk” guidelines32), (4) individuals who drank between two (included) and three (excluded) units/day, (5) individuals who drank between three (included) and four (excluded) units/day, and (6) individuals who drank at least four units/day.

Again no mention of sober alcoholics or health problems.

This study: https://www.massgeneral.org/news/press-release/large-study-c... found that while moderate drinkers had better cardiovascular health than non-drinkers, this was due to other lifestyle factors associated with moderate drinking, not the drinking itself.

I think the major problem with CICO is that advocates for it present it as if it is a diet when it's actually just an explanation for why diets work (or fail).

I've seen a lot of threads with people asking for advice on losing weight and inevitably someone chimes in with "Calories in, calories out." Great, but that doesn't provide any strategy or guidelines for actually losing weight. Calorie counting and tracking is a strategy (and so are many other things, like intermittent fasting, the potato diet, etc. As long as at the end of the day you are at a calorie deficit).

Additionally CICO ignores the reasons why people overeat in the first place. There are a lot of physiological and psychological reasons for that. Maybe someone is overweight because they eat to cope with trauma. Maybe they have a hormonal imbalance that doesn't properly regulate how full they feel. Dealing with those underlying issues is often more beneficial in the long run.

Maybe, but it might be inversely correlated. I have an expensive bike, but I also have the means to replace it if stolen. When I was younger and had less disposable income, the theft of my less expensive bike would have been more devastating.

This can get sticky with employee contracts, that may (and likely do) forbid an employee from doing contract work for another company, at least without permission.

I know this isn't your point, but I actually did lean too far back in a chair and crack my head open on the table behind me. I had to go to the ER and get sutures.

Perhaps I'm being a little pedantic here, but NYC is not bounded on all sides by water - the Bronx is part of mainland NYS. But yes - for the most part NYC is geographically constrained.

I have started subscribing to the believe that it is not about motivation, it's about discipline. There is only so much you can do to motivate yourself to do a tedious or onerous task. But if you have discipline, you don't need the motivation.

I still struggle a lot with procrastination, but I find this reframing to be helpful.