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Not surprised. I’ve seen a lot of the smart home platforms sold to consumers use shitty proprietary apps. I would never buy them, and I feel bad for those who do. It doesn’t mean a nice, Home Assistant setup is bad.

But they’re right about the setup costs

Yeah, they could've made the size decrease less impressive and boasted of a 24 hour battery life if they really wanted to.

No, copyright violation.

Libraries are able to loan under the first sale doctrine, that is to say that the copyright holder exhausts their right to control the distribution of a copy after the first sale. However, they retain a monopoly on the production of copies.

It’s not as bad, true. But you have to consider the amount of money wasted in the phase 3 trial, resources which could’ve been put to better uses.

I disagree with the premise that this even counts as automation. Automatic nagging doesn’t make the actual tasks any more automatic. Simply buying a Roomba would accomplish more than what they did.

I'm not at uni anymore, but I let new students use the flashcard decks I made, any thoughts on the strategy I'm planning to recommend? Our university has the first two trimesters dedicated entirely to education with the last dedicated to exams.

During term time if you set the retention to like 70 % so you don’t spend too much time on it daily and then increase it to ≥ 90 % when the holidays start.

I would think they would be *if* said program was included with the system, which makes sense. The manufacturer cannot be responsible for user-supplied programs, but they surely must know what they include with their system upon install.

I have seen this claim, but what I don't understand is, then how does the body actually fuel the exercise.

Surely someone who sits at home for a all day would burn fewer calories than someone who exercises?

I can understand, that if someone does exercise for 1 day and then quits, that day the body may compensate for the extra energy requirement by reducing its own metabolic activity, but I assume that couldn't last if someone exercised regularly.

I know you asked about UBI, but you’re asking a socialism-adjacent question so I’m going to recommend a socialist book. This book talks about how to establish a computerised planned economy. I recommend reading chapters 5, 6 and 8 of http://users.wfu.edu/cottrell/socialism_book/ (free download).

I like the book for because unlike a lot of more modern socialists, they make comparison all the time between their system and the USSR to explain why the latter failed and the former won’t.

Looking at the list of requirements: 0. Only 1-2 years of dev effort to implement. 1. Predictable, explainable performance. 2. A small, embedabble runtime. 3. Support for repl / incremental programming (ie adding one function shouldn't require stopping the process and re-compiling the entire project). 4. Support for debugging and profiling.

Lisp satisfies 1, 3 and 4 I’m pretty sure, and maybe 2 depending on your definition of small. Idk about 1 though.

That’s not the point, there’s no claim it cancels out. The point is about the risk tolerance. We all take risks in our life, and the risks posed by aspartame are lower than that of alcohol.

It’s implied.

I drink diet sodas. I have received many emails/calls/texts from friends and family telling me about the "news" of them being a possible carcinogen. To every such person I say: Alcohol is a KNOWN carcinogen. Drinking alcohol causes cancer. So don't lecture me about drinking diet coke until you have given up on beer

The poster compares the risk of aspartame being a « possible carcinogen » to Alcohol, which is a « KNOWN carcinogen », specifically comparing the different classifications.

The point is relative risk, in particular the poster's friends are warning them about Aspartame, while drinking alcohol, which has significantly larger confirmed health risks. If they believe drinking alcohol is safe in the quantities that they do (and given that most health authorities now point out there is no safe level of alcohol to drink), then it's irrational to worry about Aspartame.