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UVA/UVB radiation definitely causes cancer, and it's non-ionizing.

Would it be big news? Forgive me for asking but why does UVA/UVB radiation cause skin cancer if it's non-ionizing? Especially from controlled sources like tanning beds. There has to be some pathway of mitochondrial dsyregulation/dysfunction induced by non-ionizing radiation that leads to DNA damage that leads to cancer that we don't fully understand.

We don't understand what causes many types of cancers so I don't get the chemistry-knows-all stance.

"There are exceptions for new buildings used for certain activities, including manufacturing, hospitals, commercial kitchens and laundromats."

Want to take bets on who consumes the most natural gas, households or the exceptions?

Thanks for posting! Having watched this version there's no way any human driver paying attention would hit that truck. It would have been more visible in actuality as the dynamic range of video doesn't compare to eyesight.

"the only diets that work, work because you take in fewer calories than you burn."

Yes, but how many calories do you burn?

It's determined by your metabolism, which is influenced by what you eat. It's not a simple equation.

And, how many calories do you "take in" when consuming a unit of food? As another poster pointed out it depends on the unique characteristics of your body. Also influenced by what you eat.

The article says "prevents stateful Heisenbugs." The key word being stateful -- state is reset when a crashed process is restarted.

They acquired the entire company in 2015. You are probably thinking of Epic Games.

> the more polite way to phrase it is that the rich benefit from societal structure 1000x more than the poor

"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal loaves of bread."

> This reminds me of an interesting philosophical question.

Also known as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus

> This bias is pretty interesting since by that definition we all die multiple times, as the particles that constitute our body are literally interchanging with the environment over time. But we don't feel uncomfortable about that fact.

I've wondered about that, is it strictly true? Aren't there heavy metals and other elements that are accumulated in the body over time? Or at least, they are eliminated so slowly that you'd never rid yourself of them completely before dying. I guess bones replace themselves every 10 years so any incorporated metals would have a chance to be eliminated on that timescale. But what's to stop a few of those elements making their way back into another structure after being ejected into the blood stream? Maybe we've all got a few persistent cadmium or lead atoms hanging out in our bodies from birth to death. Ship of Theseus crisis averted!

> The main finding from an admittedly quick look is that drinking artificially sweet soda may encourage people to eat more calories and gain weight. If you're controlling your calorie intake then that's irrelevant.

It's relevant because controlling caloric intake without relying on the bodies natural hunger signals seems to be close to impossible for most people. The alternative is to ignore your gnawing stomach all day and carry a food scale to every meal. Only the most dedicated athletes can sustain a routine like that. Everyone else eats until they are satiated and will gain weight.

There's an obesity epidemic in the US and discounting mounting evidence of a substance modifying our eating habits in a potentially unhealthy way as "unsubstantiated woo" strikes me as counterproductive. We should be taking a very critical look at the American diet as something is wrong.

PE of 15 is unrealistic; 2 to 3 for an unproven business at that scale is what you would likely receive when pursuing a sale.

> High fidelity operational metrics have a useful half life measured in days or weeks.

It depends on how high fidelity you're talking but in my experience retaining these metrics can be valuable, not only for viewing seasonal trends already mentioned in another reply but for debugging problems. It can be helpful to be able to view prior events and compare metrics at those times to a current scenario, for example as a part of a postmortem analysis. I do agree that the usefulness of old metrics falls off with time. Metrics issued from a system 3 years ago likely have little in common with the system running today.

"2.8 Limitation on Serving Non-HTML Content

The Service is offered primarily as a platform to cache and serve web pages and websites. Unless explicitly included as a part of a Paid Service purchased by you, you agree to use the Service solely for the purpose of serving web pages as viewed through a web browser or other functionally equivalent applications and rendering Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) or other functional equivalents. Use of the Service for serving video (unless purchased separately as a Paid Service) or a disproportionate percentage of pictures, audio files, or other non-HTML content, is prohibited."

In other words, as soon as you start using significant CDN bandwidth for images, video, audio, etc. they will contact you and ask you to upgrade your account.

I'm not very familiar with the C++17 and 20 changes, how do they address the errors-during-constructor/destructor issues that the article mentions?

Curious, do you have a link to that game? ARC isn't very Googleable.

So if I operate a website, Brave can remove my monetization and replace it with their own, without my consent? How does that work?

Aren't SEC whistleblower awards setup to combat the scenario you're proposing? The first individual to defect would presumably earn vastly more money than continuing with the scheme.

Reminds me of the rebrand ConvertKit did to "Seva", which they quickly realized was an enormous mistake and unrebranded.

https://growthlab.com/convertkit-founder-nathan-barry-on-und...

Push different code to production, either the last-known-good commit, or new code with the issue fixed.

I imagine that much larger operations likely do feature flags or a rolling release so that problems can be isolated to a small subset of production before going wide. But still the same principle, redeploy with different code.

This is amazing, thanks for all of your hard work! It's very encouraging to see continual effort put into the Erlang ecosystem. I haven't used Erlang in around 5 years so this looks right up my alley for getting up to date with the latest best practices.

As an aside, it's been a little bittersweet seeing all of the attention and momentum going into Elixir. Yes it's great for BEAM and Erlang certainly benefits from those contributions as well. But there's just something so beautiful about Erlang, it deserves more attention than it gets. Thanks for keeping the dream alive!

I wonder how Adam Neumann is feeling through all of this. Stressed out? Checked out? Calculating? Defiant? Worried? Embarrassed?

What's it like being the public face of a company under such intense scrutiny?

Yet another interpretation: text message notifications provide a larger a dopamine response than a spoken conversation.

Steam Charts shows concurrent users (CCU), not MAU.

How do you structure your database schema and handle things like upgrades or versioning? Also curious how the game instances interact with the database and at what frequency and granularity.

Thanks for taking the time to write up that overview, very cool to read!

> When people talk about simplicity in software, they don’t necessarily refer to ease of use or number of lines of code, but instead it’s about how understandable a solution is given their shared knowledge.

Rich Hickey gave a great talk on the topic of "simple" vs "easy": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI8tNMsozo0

> one example where I think the stability/quality of the software really did play an important role is WhatsApp

The interesting part is, WhatsApp is built using a dynamically-typed language whose guiding principle is to "let it crash." Your code will have bugs so plan accordingly.

That's what I was suspecting but couldn't find any claims of that on their site. Is a per-gb plan different from Enterprise? How much do they charge per gb?

> Cloudflare: the best all-in-one solution, as long as you don't go above the Business tier

Do they require you to go above the Business tier for high CDN traffic levels?

> As a long-time pthreads programmer, these systems feel like skittish concurrency.

I interpreted "fearless" to mean the opposite of "defensive programming." You have to be pathologically defensive when coding with basic synchronization primitives. These languages provide an alternative that frees you from that mindset. I only have experience with Erlang/OTP but it has been mind expanding when it comes to writing complex, robust, concurrent code. In fact one of the core Erlang style principles is "do not program defensively." Try that with pthreads!

> Facebook is just another website.

Strangely this website comes pre-installed on every phone I buy, and I can't uninstall it; the best I can do is deactivate. How do I get rid of this "website"?