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I doesn't physically cost any practical amount of money to read an article, a tiny amount of processing power and data transfer. A physical meal costs orders of magnitude more.

I understand why we should pay for articles but if you enforce payment then you'll see a flood of poorly written click bait and a race to the bottom.

When I was young I remember pay TV being marketed in Australia as "TV with no ads". It's slowly shifted to a premium content with ads model that I find hard to justify when I have access to ad free online services.

As a parent this is doubly so. I know everything my children watch and I don't want them exposed to excessive advertising. I also don't let them watch content on YouTube that has excessive advertising in the show itself. I'll gladly pay money for ad free content that is designed to both entertain and educate.

Normal could be defined as a range if you use the English usage of normal.

The way I'm reading this code is that the cases aren't that distinct. Look at lines 4367 to 4390 and you see 23 distinct cases that could be handled by a range and Mod 3.

I'm a second-year CS student that is still learning in this realm. Is there a general way that most developers would rewrite lines 5261-5284? My assumption is I would look to find some rules I can apply to simplify the code but I'm also aware a CS course is a bit of a bubble and what I've learnt so far might not be the way things are handled in industry.

For example, line 5284 has a 8 inequality operators checking every 4th element (140. 144, 148,...). A single "blocks[1][y][x] % 4 != 0" would remove them all. There also appears to be 3 main segments in that huge block of code (111-118, 119-126, 137-168) which would allow it to be simplified.

A second question: Why is there no comments? Is this common?

Name, date of birth and contact details (phone and address) are often enough data for a fraudster to commit some serious damage. If I call up my phone company or bank that's probably going to cover the questions they ask me to prove identity. Someone transferring my phone can then get past any 2FA I hold.

At what point do we hold NAB liable for the potential damage they have caused?

Neither of my parents finished high school and didn't value education but they did value hard work and they encouraged me to get a trade. I joined the military, got a trade there, and now in my early/mid 30's I'm completing a CS degree.

Working for others isn't such a bad life if you have the drive to establish a life that you want for yourself.

Depending on the size of the effect, 11 participants can be very valid in an experiment. For example, assume you have 11 participants having a hormone measured after an experiment. If normal readings are 300 with a SD of 30, and at the end of the experiment their mean is 520 with a SD of 40, then you've just shown a strong, significant effect.

A decent amount of your electricity bill is related to supply. Modern countries have a lot of rules around the reliability of their energy supply so companies spend a lot of money to guarantee that infrastructure is up to scratch. You're not paying for just the energy but for the transport of that energy.

A home system that uses its own electricity has the advantage of reducing the demand on the grid. A commercial system doesn't.

I'm sitting here considering the possibility of making my own bot to play low stakes online poker ($1.50 sit n go). Run it on 6 tables at once and I imagine it would be facing really poor opponents and would have a steady flow of cash.

Success isn't the best possible outcome vs worst possible outcome scenario you're describing. I made a decision at 30 to improve my life and three years later I'm reaping benefits.

Consider an obese man looking at a fitness model and saying "I want to look like that". He might never reach it but if he loses weight and becomes fitter and healthier then his effort paid off. He might think he failed but he's landed in a better position. I often remind myself that when I'm doing something I don't want to that I'm paying it forward to a future version of me.

How could someone sell shares in an asteroid? Wouldn't it be shares in a mining operation? If another country or business finds a way to mine that asteroid then they won't care about your paper claiming ownership.

How does it feel to use? It's unfortunate but tin + lead solder is just better than the other options on the market.

Aren't planes horrible for climate when compared to other systems?

In terms of long distance travel can bullet trains compare with flights, especially if they shave time off with an easier check in system?

It could be related to gameifying it. Finishing a task isn't simply a task, it's an item moved along the kanban board!

Are you doing this solo or do you have a partner? My experience as a single dad is that I can go entire days without having a single conversation with another adult. My adult friends aren't too interested in hanging out parenting. They are also demanding enough that I'll get zero time to do anything I wish to do while they're awake.

My point is she thinks it would be great to have no one expect you to be a decent parent and she passes it off as men having it better in her article. I'm saying, that for a dedicated parent, it's worse.

Thanks. My two children are doing amazing. My long term goal is to raise them into healthy adults with a good chance of being happy (nothing is guaranteed).

I made the opposite choice. I'm a single father and I've prioritised my children over my career. I'm not going to pretend it's an amazing lifestyle. If you're intellectually driven then looking after two young children isn't fascinating. However, I love them and they rely on me. I made a choice to bring them into the world and I'm not going to neglect them. I have the kids more than their mother does, and I also pay significant child support as I earn far more than her.

It's affected my career choices. I started studying Comp Sci, as I felt it's a field where I can have more flexibility than my current field. This degree is getting closer and closer to completion and it's looking 95% likely that my career will be changing in January.

It's affected my love life too but I won't go into detail here.

One thing this article misses the mark on is the quote " I also remind myself that if I were a dad, I would be getting accolades for all the times I scheduled a doctor’s appointment or arranged a play date.".

My experience as a dad is that people simply don't trust my parenting skills or assume I'm simply helping the mum out. It's incredibly sexist and somewhat hurtful. There has been times I've been battling with my workload and then people drop innocent comments which feel like a knife in the back.

He was also only 16-17 years old at the time, completing an exam for university graduates.

EDIT: This was his second year, so he was 17-18 years old.

Also note this qoute: All in all, I probably only did about two weeks’ worth of preparation for the generals, while my fellow classmates had devoted months. Nevertheless, I felt quite confident going into the exam.

How was it full if you had booked? Do they sell more rooms than they have available?

In the 2005 era when I was a young video gamer I used to play World of Warcraft. There was a site, Thottbot, that players would use to find out information about things in game. I picked up a keylogger malware from their adservers. One of the advertisers had been hacked and was serving Malware every few thousand ads. Since that day I've used an adblocker and I'll always continue to do so.

Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information, on the basis that such material is considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or "inconvenient".[2][3][4] Censorship can be conducted by a government[5], private institutions, and corporations.

That's the first definition I found when I googled the word. Reddit, a private institution, considered the content harmful. Seems to fit the definition.

I'm actually sort of scared with the way that censorship of different views is becoming the norm. I'm predominantly left leaning but I'm seeing more and more moderation where the only allowed opinion is the correct one. I seem to recall that a lot of horrible things were started with good intentions, ie Nazi book burnings were censoring the wrong views.

It's also incredible divisive. In my country we had a football star doing a GoFundMe for legal fees after he was sacked for a religious and homophobic cartoon on his social media. GoFundMe blocked his campaign, as it's against their views, and now he's making more money than before through a private donations drive.

The banning of The Donald is going to drive an even bigger wedge between the two sides of the political spectrum. For a political movement obsessed with power/privilege, the left seems oblivious to its own power/privilege. They wield the cast majority of the societal power currently and they're throwing it around like a hammer.

It's not just going. It's nearly any word ending in a g.

Ending = endin Surfing = surfin

In Australia "Gonna" = "Going to"

I'm not actually sure how I feel about this. Australian English is distinct, and one of its key features is heavy use of shortened words and dropped letters. For example, the word "going" becomes "goin".

Imagine an easy mode planet in a system with multiple habitable planets. Now that I've typed that I'm also considering how Mars would look from 12 light years away.

Is establishing a colony 12 light years away easier than transforming mars into a habitable planet?

Some guy in the UK did this. It's fairly hard to manage however, because there is a lot of regulations around his legal requirements i.e. needs to disclose that it's a paid number, etc. He make a bit of sidecash off it and a surprising number of spam callers are happy to pay.

Even with that house analogy, I'd argue that you shouldn't store large volumes of other people's sensitive personal data in a house that has the bare minimum security.

The issue is organisations being reckless with our data and then blaming hackers when they lose it. It should be common sense that if you have sensitive information then it needs an appropriate level of security but someone companies have convinced everyone it's not their fault