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>I draw a line on advertising for myself

the typical phrase in English, "I draw the line at advertising for myself" would mean that is the thing that has gone too far, something you will not accept. you used a slightly different phrase, but it is still where I draw the line.

there are different flours available which vary in suitability for different purposes and in cost. King Arthur Flour has a computer controlled mill and they offer a service to bread makers to let them specify their own "recipe" for the flour they wish to order.

https://www.cooksinfo.com/flour-grades

excerpt:

"French bakers will use straight flour in their bread making; North Americans and British generally don’t.

"Straight flour is separated by sifting in other grades. The straight flour is passed along a roller over different sieves. Different grades fall through the appropriate sieve along the roller. In the percentages given below, the lower the percentage of straight flour that falls through a particular grading sieve, the more desirable the flour."

>It's hard to argue that it isn't an optimization, because it doesn't affect the semantics of the program

it is guaranteed in Scheme, and it affects the semantics of programs in a completely positive way.

Much of computer science is "pure" and "abstract" like mathematics. However, programmers are still taught to use loops to calculate factorial rather than recursion in order to avoid stack overflow. In Scheme you can use recursion without flinching. That is a semantic difference.

>People in these jobs don't live long enough on average to get diagnosed

not to mention the other devil in these studies: some professions are statistically going to have the lowest rate of every possible disease. you can't just cherrypick outliers and declare "causal!"

>I take the point

interesting, because if you want a steak medium rare in France you order it "au point", "at the point"

>Cooking even an excellent steak is actually not that hard. In fact, I'd argue that it's among the easiest things to master... and knowing about reverse searing is about all it takes

but discovery (or rediscovery?) of reverse searing was just a few short years ago.

"not spreading infection between patients is easy, just wash your hands" was a huge discovery, not an "oh, everybody knows that"

the reporter was "hacked" in cooperation with the hacker in order to write the article

humans evolved to have risk seekers and risk avoiders. some people try it, the other people watch.

even if you "scorch" a field with too much manure one year, that field is going to come back with a vengeance at some point. There are all sorts of natural disasters that scar the forest (like fire), but it is a renewing process

>everyone else flies to whatever country offers the best tax breaks for them to film

once people are arranging plane tickets/charters, then they fly to the best place financially.

But LA/Hollywood.gov priced themselves out of the market first.

marine life is unphased by salt; this fish sauce is former marine life

it is sitting right next to the ocean, which is where all that salt came from, just put it back

>I've seen two pound jars of it in Costco.

I took pictures of empty 100 lb (45 kg) MSG containers in the trash outside Bao restaurant on St Marks in NYC

I grew up in a seaside port and fishing community. 1st thing, what landlubbers think is stinky is not operative here, your thoughts are moo, like the opinion of a sea cow.

The seacoast smells like rotten fish all the time, it's called low tide. The most vibrant sea biomes are shallow coastal waters. The capacity of the North Atlantic, rich with oxygen, to handle fish parts is basically limitless. Hell, you can probably sell this stuff to lobster- and shellfish- men. The quantity here is one whale carcass (yes, that's a mammal, but you get the idea) and whale carcasses happen all the time.

Dump it in the Bay of Fundy, one tide will get rid of all of it. Worrying about the environmental impact of dead fish is like worrying that dumping manure on a field will leave it fallow.

What you are really smelling here is a govt funding boondoggle.

also, allergies pride parade https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhaUKnt1Zmw

>If a company is violating no laws and...

according to the article, he alleges Apple was doing something "without required customer releases"; there's at least the implication that a regulation is being broken, do you know something extra about this?

>Jacobin is more like social democrat

they always tell you who they really are: look up les jacobins in the French revolution.

yeah, and imagine living without decameters and hectometers, unthinkable!

bean counters are better at establishing asset value than you are, and as I mentioned elsewhere, income streams are assets also

you're describing risk that's a future worry, you don't get debt in the present without assets

contracted revenue streams and subscriptions are also assets. Having first claim on those has tangible value.

bankers do not engage in "impossible to evaluate", they simply don't. bankers are reductive.

the rest of your post says "there's risk". equity and debt investors understand risk, and either engage or don't. If they do a poor job of understanding risk, they either get lucky or run out of funds to participate.

no, today's hollowed out husk of internet is what is cringy and self conscious, as well as namby-pamby. the attitudes of those who created the internet cannot be called cringy.

you won't get debt if you don't have assets that can be repossessed, so having debt means these AI companies have assets: that's a strong thing, not a weak thing. interest rates are what they are, and they go up and down for reasons exogenous to your industry; debt regardless of interest is always "cheaper" than equity, and the shareholders expect to make their money from equity, paying interest on debt as a type of impedance matching and cost of keeping more equity.

so everything is going according to plan, and nobody knows the future, and predicting collpses has never been a profitable business.

I didn't have to read past the first few confusing contorted and convoluted paragraps of this article to decide to come over here and explain it, this is all straightforward corporate finance 102 and the article is fluff

you are correct in what you say, but the other thing you need to do is hit the flippers, not to impact the ball but because they rotate the lights that are on and off (your goal being to light all three) so if you see the ball rolling toward an on-lite, rotate them till it's an off light. nudging the table is bit more useful to get repeated bounces off the bumpers near by

>Does the radiant heat not increase the room temperature, thus affecting the indoor temp sensor?

if that was true, I would not feel the need to adjust the thermostat, i'm basing this on the pattern I've noticed wrt feeling discomfort, and I remember temperature numbers. In general, I find A/C chilly below 75ish and warm (in a humid way) above 77ish so it stands out to me when i feel the need to push the system harder just to maintain comfort

>HVAC equipment does this with standardized thermostat terminals.

yes, they standardize thermostat terminals, but they should allow additional inputs such as a measure of radiant heat entering through the boundary surfaces. I have to change my thermostat far more because it's a sunny day than I need to because of different outdoor temperatures. Bear in mind, I shouldn't have to change my thermostat at all† (except perhaps between summer and winter)

† perhaps my biggest pet peeve, and I have many, is that 99% of the population—including engineers from top universities—believe that if you feel warm you should imediately max-out your A/C thermostat, and when you get cold you should shut it off. It's a thermostat, its job is to turn on-and-off to maintain a temperature. I never touch the one in my car and it works great. (as mentioned, I need to change the house thermostat, see solar radiance‡ above)

‡ I once had the pleasure to work with a great mechanical engineer, he designed climate systems for art museums and other public and billionaire buildings, and I described my radiant heat problem and he said "that would be super advanced, I've never heard of any systems that do that."⹋

⹋ another one of my pet peeves is footnotes. In general, they require a massive context shift, as if it's not a problem to keep your place while you look in another place. But notice how I've threaded mine so they do not require congnitive leaps.

>Let's pick one. Why is the BBC trash?

i don't agree that I should do all the work to prove something while the person (GP) whose naked opinion I was responding to is not asked the same about his opinion. This leads me to believe on the basis of evidence that you are selective and share his bias.

so yeah, let's pick one, you: How are you not biased?

screen sharing is not a static screencap that you would need to email or something

BBC, CNN, and al jazeera are complete trash.

Economist always was good but I have not read it in a while so I can't speak to it. If it has not changed, that would be great.

if mainstream media has gone downhill, why would somebody have a preferred outlet? What's your preferred outlet?