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There are plenty of React dashboard libraries. They seem to be useful in building a top-level overview of a database with many tables. Can someone list a few real-world examples (web sites) where the dashboard is more than 10% of the work in building the site? The cases I know, e.g. wise.com or quickbooks.intuit.com would be much less than 10%.

A British judge named Alfred Denning was Posner's spiritual predecessor in the last century. Unlike Posner, Denning made it to Britain's supreme court.

In law school, student's were warned early that while Denning's opinions were regularly published in casebooks because they clearly illuminated the law, he was often on the wrong side of the result.

I don't think bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme. But if it becomes the "last man standing" in crypto, the scammers will just use it as the backbone for their scams, instead of promoting their own standalone coins. Smart contracts, NFTs etc. all grafted onto bitcoin just like the lightning network has been (I am not saying the lightning network is a scam, just an example of something complex grafted onto bitcoin).

I don't think the NIH is the only source for this type of data. Don't 23andMe and other DNA data companies have millions of genomes of individuals along with their names and addresses? These can easily be (or already have been) linked to much more personal, financial, and other information than is in the NIH data.

We know these companies have used their data for law enforcement purposes. Do they also allow academic researchers to use it (anonymized, of course)?

Unfortunately, Jones lost both his cases by default -- there were no trials. The jury trials were only on the amount of damages. So if the unvaccinated start suing everyone who defamed them and worse, this case sets no precedent. But it might indicate a ballpark figure for their damages. If 30% of Americans are unvaccinated, their Jones-damages could be 100 Million x $50 Million. That could cause a few bankruptcies.

We pay all the monthly family bills (including joint purchases like cars, vacations or home improvements) in proportion to our earnings/wealth. We do not have a joint bank account. Any personal items like clothes, golf clubs, or suborbital space flights are decided on and paid for individually. If both people want a suborbital space flight but only one can afford it, the richer one would probably pay for both [if they intended to return home after the flight]. As long as both people have a reasonable amount of savings, this works fine.

Why I left Pine64 4 years ago

At best, the Pinephone is buggy software on low priced but mediocre hardware. It has always been like this, and it is not going to change. There is nobody willing to spend the millions of dollars it would take to make it otherwise.

Meanwhile, AOSP is fully working, open source Linux-based phone software that runs on lots of modern hardware from a variety of manufacturers. Distributions like GrapheneOS have put huge effort into de-googling, privacy and security. Cameras work. SMS works. Phone calls work. There are lots of apps. I hear there are even a few phones that can do wireless charging!

Why waste any more mindshare on the Pinephone?

It seems as though the authors of this paper were vocal critics of the government response to Covid-19, and faced the full "obsessive" wrath of criticism (although, unlike many others, they don't seem to have lost their jobs). The same thing happens to non-conformist scientists in other highly politicized areas like man-made global warming. I think it is similar to what happened to Galileo 400 years ago.

The paper says "The highest food sources of magnesium are leafy greens (78 mg/serving), nuts (80 mg/serving), and whole grains (46 mg/serving)..."

So five servings every day of nuts and/or leafy greens would do it, but that doesn't sound like anybody's typical diet.

The paper shows that it is essentially impossible for an adult male to get the recommended DI of magnesium (420 mg/day) by eating vegetables alone. As far as I can see, the paper does not resolve whether that target is too high, or whether it can be reached by eating meat or taking supplements.

Wooden crafts (turned bowls, cutting boards, small sculptures, etc.) typically rely for their uniqueness on features of natural woods that this 3D printing method can't replicate. That includes unusual grains and burls, live edge, and gluing up multiple species.

From the few examples in their store, it looks like their main esthetic tool is lots of piercing. I wonder if their minimum hole size is small enough to improve on hand-held sandalwood fans?

The title understates the authors' actual claim: "We found ... that this event would have effectively been impossible without human-induced climate change."

If someone wants to take the time to read the whole 35-page study, it would be interesting to know whether "human-induced climate change" is now just a synonym for "climate change", or is part of their research.

He makes/sells on average 250 to 300 dozen bagels per day. The bagels sell for $10 a dozen, so that's over $2500 revenue on the bagels alone. He's open 6 days a week, so that's $15,000 per week, or $780,000 per year.

His bakery is also a diner/deli, and I'm going to make the assumption that the revenue from that covers all his non-bagel costs. The ingredients in a bagel cost less than 10 cents each, or about 10% of the selling price. So he could net about $700,000 per year.

Not a bad gig, if he could cut back the hours a bit.

Up for 17 hours and I'm the first commenter. Is the AI Winter so obvious it's not worth remarking?