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Just going off of this one thing the worm can't survive is high temperatures and spice. I find raccoon meat goes particularly well with east asian cuisine, a cuisine which is far more open minded regarding nontraditional meat sources. My raccoon ovary drunken noodle is to die for, and packs a lot of heat! No parasite survives the wok!

thing about tips is I'm sure a large portion of tipped people just pocket the cash & don't report it - missed tax revenue. So if they just say, "pocketing it is legal", what tax revenue was lost? Some, but not as much as say a salaried tax cut.

since this is YC, maybe to understand oral-B's business model which is avante-garde, you could consider this great piece on their main competitor (SmartPipe): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJklHwoYgBQ

for me the most salient difference, harris is gung ho on the environment. expect limited oil and high energy prices trump is the opposite - if nothing else he understands "cheap oil good"... doesn't really care either way about the environment, seeing as last EPA chief he appointed had a history of battling the EPA.

the party that controls election infrastructure is the kingmaker thusly, if one observes the king that was made, one knows the party who decided see: GW Bush victory in FL see: Biden victory in >100% vote cities

exactly, that's what it is as we hit the end of moore's law (which we won't, but we'll hit the end as far as feature size shrinkage)... one of the optimizations they will do is rote trivial process optimization. So if the chip failure rate on the assembly line is 40% they drop it to 10%. Costs will drop accordingly, because there are x-fold more transistors per dollar, thus ensuring moores law.

Exactly - they are political ninjas, yes, but they ethically view themselves as the feudal lord super-samurai whose job it is to defend and develop all the young paduan samurai under his watch. Nothing wrong with politics if done in a kind, ethical, "win friends and influence people" kind of way

Okay, guys, come on now. back off here. Beta carotene. Vitamins. Shortage in food. The thesis is along the lines of "near-perfection but non-perfection flaws that people miss are important, OH NO, they're not important because everything was fine when they weren't perfect" -- but AHA! what about tomatoes with suboptimal vitamin levels! you couldn't even taste that! Honestly this is ridiculous, tomatoes, seriously?

Guess what. There's a lot of ADEK vitamines (fat soluble) out there. There's a lot stored up in our bodies. So much so that you can get a disease by pumping up the stores too much! Typically: TWO YEARS worth. And if that didn't set off a flag in your mind "oh, you mean vitamin A, of which two units are metabolically extracted from beta carotene" than you need to shut up right now throwing around beta carotene as an essential nutrient because you don't even know fundamental human metabolism!

Long story short, you know what else is really good at handling sloppy near-perfection-but-not-perfect differences -- -- -- biology. We've got 30% or so of our genome made of self-replicating viruses that snuck into a germ cell a billion years ago, yet somehow it all works, we've got 10 gorillion cells made from a single cellular machine at one point, building a functional reproductive-worthy body, and somehow that all works. People understand gusts and ideas as to what it's all doing, but do we know all of it, maybe not even most of it? No, we don't even know. It's like how magnets work, nobody knows. But big picture, the body has some capacity of adaptation and ranges of acceptable conditions, yet this TOMATO HYPOTHESIS seems to view the body as some sort of formula one engine that requires micrometers level clearances so it can go 20,000 RPM instead of the typical 6,000, and oh the medical castastrophe that should happen should someone eat a tomato of diminished nutritive content.

Now, I don't know what kind of world we live in here. Do we live in TOMATOLAND where people eat with every meal ketchup and marina sauce as the main dish? Are we worried that in TOMATOLAND that a 90% drop in essential amino acids of our favored cuisine will cause problems in population health? Because I'm pretty sure if a damned tomato comes up 90% short on beta carotene, that said food eater has TWO WHOLE YEARS to eat NON TOMATO FOODS such as CARROTS or FORTIFIED FOODS WHICH IS MOST FOODS which will easily replenish their vitamin A levels.

in fact I would say >90% of -internet users- who are motivated to do so would figure a way to bypass the block. And they don't need to know DNS for that. They find some board that gives them the steps necessary without needing to understand how it all works. Or they know a guy. Why are they motivated? Probably for games, videos, netflix, social media, etc. The walled gardens would motivate them.

Thing is here, only a minority are going to be "into" the pirate site scene, so way less are motivated in the first place. And a lot of them probably have a perfectly fine way to get their stuff from non-blocked pirate sites.

When I look at my grandma use the internet, she knows very little about it, but if she's motivated to do something with tech she always seems to figure out a way.

price controls is rent control. SF. see also: NYC "you can raise rent by X% per year AT MOST, no more than that" if inflation / supply/demand is >X%, the landlord eats it. Thus landlording might be for some, more appealing elsewhere.

Cali also has prop 13 i.e. rent control on real estate taxes. So if I bought my house in 1955, I might pay $100/year in property tax, the guy who just bought a completely identical house next door this year might pay $15,000 a year in property tax. On basically the same house. How is that fair? kinda a boomer "I got mine" type mentality. Also part of the bay area real estate problem, in addition to zoning/byzantine planning, borken process - why would anyone want to move out?!? Moving out would mean +$15,000/year tax, every year. Just stay put.

Of note in Singapore there's not really the concept of "apartment building" business and it works fine (very dense NYC tier housing there). The reason why is the more "units" you own, taxes become progressively more brutal, an apartment building would be tax armageddon. So most rentals are a person who owns a few condo type units and rents them, few enough that taxes aren't bad. Most people aim for owning, and for owning there is a private sector but a public government sector that provides home at more reasonable prices with various perks and incentives. That's how to handle housing when you've got tons and tons of people and almost no land.

It's 50/50. Yes, ideally it gets punted to the states, the states can mark their preferences (see abortion). What's great about that too is you can move to a state that matches your believies.

The 50/50 part of it - still there is federal vs state jurisdiction. If there's stuff on federal jurisdiction that's just a mess as far as congress never fixing it (say - immigration), states can do this and that about it somewhat (sanctuary city) - they can manage some rotten branches - but they can't touch the rotten root of federal jurisdiction

there's the ad element but also one notes social media seeks hegemony over an individuals political beliefs and values. UPvotes and downvotes may be used to reward rightthink and punish wrongthink. No reason why AIs can't (or don't already) upvote or downvote. I could well see radical liberal ideals pumped into these AIs. (so as to boost corporate ESG score, which boosts the stock price, which boosts the CEO's bonus)

yea it was cool dual CPU hardware: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeBox those two green lights on the front were CPU load per each CPU. and the geekport reminscent of Raspberry pi only later did they port it to x86, similar to NeXT.

Here's a protip for dealing with impulsive / aggressive big truck drivers.

Big trucks go max 30 mph uphill. It's their achilles heel.

Cool your jets let them cuck you and be in front of you going slow all they want. When that big hill comes up, with that sweet passing lane, just pedal to the floor.

Now, if you get in front of them, or any car, and have the balls, and it's hilly country, you do this. Imagine they're tailgating you hard. You're going down a big hill. Put your gas pedal to the floor, downhill, You're max-accelerating. BUT .. ... LIGHTLY touch your brake pedal. Brake lights on. The tailgater will now back off because brake lights, as you rocket ahead at maximum acceleration. Aha! The tailgater catches onto the ploy and puts their pedal the floor as well. Now they too max-accelerate. Now you're at the bottom of the hill. Now you let go completely of the gas pedal, and the brake. You are now going uphill and you are slowing down quite aggressively, just from the uphill consuming momentum.... ... BUT your brake lights are now OFF! Thusly: you have maximally accelerated while braking, and maximally braked while accelerating. This will melt in anger the mind of any aggressive tailgator and they will either back off believing you're a total psycho, or shoot you (also believing you're a psycho). But it is a lesson in non-impulsive tactics & strategy versus impulsive driving. Patient strategy wins every time.

I think the whole thing is quite subjective and certainly in part the subjection would depend on that particular officer's mood on that particular time on that particular day at that particular place.

The subjective assessment would be along the lines of differentiating between "driver slowly and casually accelerated to 10 mph over the limit, passed the car with a wide berth, and merged back with a large buffer" versus "driver suddenly accelerated from 10 mph below the speed limit to 3 above, spitefully passed closely to another car before dangerously cutting 2 feet in front of them"

I think most officers have been driving long enough to tell if someone is driving like a dick or cruising at 10 mph over and being chill. The latter will still get you a ticket, sure, but the likelihood of getting excoriated by them is less than say, 5 mph over the limit and you're tailgating and cutting people off. Some of those things maybe the cop can't legally write you up for, but the cop will see, can tell, and will make sure that you'll get written up for some thing or another. And hey that's a good thing, nobody likes a douchey driver.

Yes. It indicates there is one. If you review the numbers, it's clear they are cheesing the numbers. It's a bit like national debt. In national debt, if you owe $100 today, you will owe $200 tomorrow, $300 the next day, and so on -- debt accumulates in a cumulative manner.

So for unemployment the plan is to cheese the numbers, to accumulate, in a similar fashion. When Kamala wins, and Trump triggers the riots, they'll have a snatch & power grab and punt all the job losses to the other team. Then, thusly, the employment debt is eliminated.

Have a data structure for CPU registers. Have a data structure for memory. Have a data structure for i/o. Read a series of instructions that are being emulated. Create a series of rules as to how those instructions interact with CPU, memory, i/o, in a mutable fashion. A long if/then/elif/elif/elif/elif/else type loop, or switch case type loop, if you will. Create bridges between particular pieces of memory and system output: video, sound, controllers. That's most of it in the classic case at least. Now you have an emulator.

The "big league" emulators work differently. They may be simple compilers. Instead of compiling C code or java code, they compile machine code from system A to system B. A transpiler. This affords speed beyond the simple case. Speed, however, is only necessary if the machine running the emulator is weak, or if the machine being emulated is strong.

I hope that one day metal 3D printing becomes cheap, advanced, reliable and widespread. I hope you design an amazing epic car, the best ever, which everyone suddenly begins downloading, 3D printing, and driving around here or there. Only then would you know the pain of having your car downloaded, I put that pain on you.

10 cents! I'm 100% sure

We must think of the lessons of docker, the lessons of conda. Why, what with the web environments, so many, is there not a way to unify an environment? Of course! A virtual environment of python, on a virtual environment of the docker machine, on a virtual web browser, and there can be JIT throughout to make it only painfully slow and not excruciatingly slow! Abstraction is a Good Thing (TM) and the more abstraction, the better. There really ought to be an object oriented abstraction layer factory generator factory using Java OOP best practices, also a good thing (TM). If all goes well we may even be able to reach abstraction tier 17, which is two more layers of abstraction than the industry standard 15.

See: https://www.corporate-rebels.com/blog/cia-field-manual

It's a fine thesis, google the humble search engine, easy to compete against. Sure. That argument stands. But.. ... google is not a search engine. There's the google duopoly with facebook (ads, user data). There's the google duopoly with apple (phone operating system), there's the gmail system not exactly the same as search. There's google the web browser, duopoly(ish) with firefox. There's the youtube (duopoly with netflix? monopoly?). Probably a bunch of other various duopolies.

Then there's all these other giga-sized "side projects" which seem small proportional to those mega-businesses - google home type stuff, google nest, waze, consumer electronics etc. Arguably the google nest and assistant is duopolistic with amazon alexa.

Which is the state of tech, there's like 5 big companies that share some portion of pies of 20 major duopolies and 100 minor duopolies. And they're all like "SEE! SEE! We're NOT a monopoly". And there's two of them saying that, pointing each at the other one as evidence of their non-monopoly status. To me that's monopoly by another name, and that other name is duopoly, and as such it has many of the same problems as the monopoly. And duopolies all every damn place, not just tech - NYSE and NASDAQ stock markets. Sony and xbox (sorry nintendo). Boeing and Airbus. Visa and Mastercard. Pepsi and Coke. Intel and AMD, AMD and NVIDIA. Windows and Mac. How many "gentleman's agreements" must exist in those duopolies, too many methinks

And so if you ask me it would be quite natural to shatter all these companies according to their duopolistic silos, with the hope being that the duopolies exist in part from the synergy and deep pockets of the whole organization, and so by breaking apart the duopolistic strings to the rest of the org, perhaps there can be a third and fourth phone operating system, home consumer electronic, web browser, youtube, and so on. Because the point of capitalism is an efficient market to serve the public, not to serve the megacorp coffers

Does the public demand same day results? If we're tapped into the psyche of the public and able to channel the public's collective mind, the public also demands unhackable results, so there's that. You can't hack an paper. The public also demands that people stop declaring what it does and does not demand.

I personally think the way to deal with this hacker that goes by the handle DEFCON who is coming for the elections is to bring in an even more powerful hacker, yes, I speak of the hacker known as "4chan"

Specifically: Eric Schitt used something known as "The Conjoined Triangles of Success" which is a compromise between Sales and Engineering triangles. His principle was the beginning of the end - when I was at google (long after Eric Schitt had left), I would call it "the conjoined cube of sales" because google had become more of a sales and marketing type organization as opposed to its engineering roots. So that's all to say Eric Schitt's assessment of the culture was quote anachronistic versus the real culture, particularly on the engineering-sales axis of the conjoined triangle of success

there's a great audiovisual piece called "One" by the moviesong band "Metallica" about the song is about a guy who blinks in morse code, "kill me" because he has locked in syndrome and all he can do is blink

I want a very thick laptop with many fans. It should be chonky and with personality like an old sun tadpole unix labtop, not svlete and artsy liek a 2000s macbook. I like the white noise and if it helps preformance all the better.

on this point, the disease "diabetes" comes from an old latin word "diabeetus" which is Spanish for "urine which tastes very sweet with a hint of cinnamon". Now.. .. one can imagine how physicians of the time would go about diagnosing this disease, "diabeetus"

"half of infinity is still infinity" -Cantor on hispanic reproduction rates

he sure was asking that, and the reply sure was, "none of your business"

For sure, they accept Stanford grads for example, and Harvard or Princeton sometimes have a shot

This came as a surprise to me but San Jose is actually one of the top 10 largest cities in the US.

Just saying, maybe south bay isn't SF, but it ain't idyllic peaceful suburbs either