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Black Friday has been like this for as long as I've been aware of it existing.

The old people in my family usually get the shot. When I'm old, I might start to get it as well. Until then, I don't bother.

> And people do know the deal value, when they see it.

This is contrary to all of my experience with the sort of people for whom shopping is a hobby or who get excited about black friday. They all love to "save 50%" on some junk that was marked up 200% and will end up in the thrift store before the year is out.

Also why many people don't take it at all. Not worth the constant hassle for something that doesn't bother me in the first place. Flu shot efficacy is usually in the gutter anyway (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza_vaccine#Effectivenes...).

Elephants can walk underwater using their trunks as snorkels. Maybe they would be too buoyant for it in sea water. It seems a fair thing to wonder though.

> but I guess that's very much nothing to do with Java, but the un-optimized code

You guess right. There are some few fan made mods (optifine, sodium/etc) that often improve performance by an order of magnitude, from tens of frames a second to hundreds.

Become an "artist" and buy NFTs from yourself?

I haven't seen any actual evidence that Taylor is giving kickbacks to McDonald's. I've only a lot of insinuation and accusation of such a kickback, because the accusers don't seem to consider other possibilities. One possible reason other than a kickback: McDonald's wants the machines to error on the side of food safety and don't trust their own employees to not fuck it up.

Irresponsible? I don't know, maybe? What responsibility does Taylor have to Kytch in the first place? Certainly no obligation to say "Their product is safe to use on our machine."

Defamatory? I don't think so, but I guess the courts will decide.

What sort of argumentation is this? You know full well that something broken in one regard can be further broken in an unrelated regard.

If McDonald's want's to error on the side of caution, isn't that their prerogative?

Maybe because McDonald's and/or Taylor think the average McDonald's employee is less reliable than the industry average restaurant worker. Or maybe McDonald's simply tolerates less liability than the rest and requested the machines be configured in this way. As far as I'm aware, McDonald's hasn't sued Taylor over this, maybe because it was their idea in the first place?

Considering they are connected to each other electrically, yes!

> standard high-school Algebra

I didn't take Algebra in highschool, so.. maybe? 5th and 6th grade were called Pre-Algebra. 7th and 8th were Algebra. 9th was Geometry, 10th was Trig, and 11th and 12th were Calc.

If Taylor hasn't certified the Kytch product to safely integrate with the Taylor product, it seems reasonable for Taylor to say it could cause problems. If they said it will cause problems, that seems a bit different.

They support oppressive regimes with their products and services, thereby suppressing public revolts and preempting civil wars that doubtlessly would claim the lives of many. Very noble of them. /S

> most people taking the GED have some sort of problem preventing them from completing a regular high school diploma.

Don't assume it's an academic problem though. My grandfather beat my father for years, until my father ran away from home when he was 15, consequently never finishing highschool. He got a GED years later, then eventually a masters degree. There are unfortunately many people in circumstances like his or similar, unable to finish highschool for non-academic reasons. It's important to keep this in mind because otherwise GEDs will be associated with poor academic performance, which is unfair.

Absolutely, a high speed ferry could have great throughput; it seems like a great choice if they're going to put a few dozen or more people onto one of these rockets.

Good grief, how can that even work? If I had gone a full one or two years without any math class, I would have lost the habit and floundered when it came time to take a math class again. Are they deliberately setting kids up to fail in California?

> This policy has nothing to do with the topic of algebra. This is code for advanced math, because algebra is typically considered advanced for < 9th grade children.

I sincerely hope you're not serious about this. I took algebra in 7th grade and I was considered a remedial student with habitually poor grades. If you're telling me I was actually 2 years advanced by present standards, then the situation in California must be deteriorating severely.

For reference, this was in an underfunded rural American public school. I was 12.

Regular helicopters make more sense to me. They're already used extensively with offshore platforms, so why invent the wheel? The jet fuel they burn is a pittance compared to the hydrocarbons being burned by the rockets. And they have a much better carrying capacity; a Sikorsky S-92 can carry 19 passengers in one trip. Electric helicopters could do what, two or three per trip? Maybe a few more with future battery tech, but I don't think conventional helicopters will be phased out anytime soon.

It's not very complicated when you remember that seafood kitchens don't hire anesthesiologists to drug up crabs.

Listen, I'm no vegan, I eat meat and I don't condemn others who do the same. But "X animal can't actually feel pain" is blatant cope and I don't go for that. If you can't stomach the reality of animals feeling pain, then stop eating them.

Trains huh? I'm pretty damn skeptical of that; those sort of semi-submersible platforms move around a whole lot more than your typical train station. Helicopters are the obvious choice, or ferries if you need a greater capacity. I'm more skeptical of trains to offshore platforms than Starship itself.

I've been using OSMAnd almost exclusively for close to ten years. I would describe the app itself as rough but adequate. There are a lot of settings you can poke at, and the way you navigate through the menus of the application to poke at those settings has never been particularly streamlined, however it gets the job done for me.

The map data itself is superb though, with the single exception of having inferior (relative to gmaps) data about businesses. Many businesses aren't mapped, or don't have their open/close hours listed or up-to-date. For this sort of information, I use a web browser and search engine to look up the business's website. For gas stations or restaurants while traveling, I do it the old fashioned way. I look for signs along the side of the road using my eyes. The same way I used to do it when I first learned how to navigate using AAA road atlases. It may seem old fashioned but it's just fine for me.

In other respects, the OSM map data is very detailed and I love the aesthetics of the OSM tiles. In particular, OSM maps are far superior to gmaps in places like parks. In places where gmaps simply says "Whatever Park", OSM will have park benches, water fountains, picnic tables, etc all accurately mapped to within a meter. It's earnestly impressive and very useful. I think gmaps excels at mapping businesses because that's where the money flows, but doesn't give a single damn about useful things like water fountains because water fountains don't buy ads.

It was created by Texans, and will continue to be created by Texans. Asking them to defer to the opinions of dead French philosophers is beyond inane.

But the head and guts is the best part.

"Feeling pain" has never been a particularly intellectual experience to me. Pain isn't some sort of abstract thought, it's a raw sensation that the harmed flesh itself seems to feel. When I step on a lego I feel it and flinch away from it before I even realize it. I guess that sort of reflex is what you're calling "experience structural damage" but I say it feels like pain.

These aren't desperate people trying to feed their starving infant babies; it's organized crime. Their get away vehicles are often nicer than my car.

You can't drive a car safely without a catalytic converter (unless the thief has been kind enough to patch up their damage with a straight piece of pipe, which never happens.) With a damaged exhaust system under the car, the driver is at substantial risk of carbon monoxide poisoning. And with a driver so intoxicated, everybody else on or near the road is at risk as well.

Those links don't contradict me.