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youli.io is doing it, steadily gaining traction. Disclaimer: I built their mobile app.

You forgot to mention the part about the restaurants that can't afford to raise wages either cutting hours or shutting down for good.

I'm switching from Gmail to Protonmail so I don't have to worry if Google thinks my messages or those of my friends are misinformation.

This is evidence in favor of the hypothesis that consciousness happens in microtubules. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchestrated_objective_reducti...

YouTube is left biased and you can easily verify it.

My comment is still true without those.

Interesting how the article doesn't mention any game of whac-a-mole to root out leftist extremism.

I prefer to think it's antigravity.

If it's just light bending then why don't we also see the surrounding water elevated in the supposed mirage?

Even this didn't do it: https://grahamhancock.com/ancient-cataclysm-hancock/

Life will be so much better after we erase our history so we can repeat it.

"""the low end eats the high end: that it's good to be the "entry level" option, even though that will be less prestigious, because if you're not, someone else will be, and will squash you against the ceiling. Which in turn means that prestige is a danger sign."""

Maybe this is usually true, but I can't help thinking Apple is an exception to this rule. They make high end products, but they sure don't seem to be getting squashed against the ceiling.

It's actually really nice to have the good quality error messages that Go encourages when something goes wrong.

And now they shut down Trump even though he called for a peaceful protest on Jan 6.

rumble.com is better about free speech than YouTube, although they don't yet support live streaming as far as I've seen.

I bought a model 3 about a week ago. This is a fantastic car, best I’ve ever owned. No problems yet. My favorite things about it: great acceleration at all speeds, charges to 80% in usually about 30m, cruise control that keeps a safe distance from cars ahead.

I needed a layout algorithm for a video app I'm working on, so I wrote this.

It's bizarre considering that the autopsy itself does not appear to contain any evidence of homicide.

Edit: They took the autopsy document down from their website. The link used to be hennepin.us/-/media/hennepinus/residents/public-safety/documents/Autopsy_2020-3700_Floyd.pdf.

> that he simply died of an overdose by coincidence at that time, and that it would have been equally likely that he dropped dead during the five-minute period before Chauvin showed up

I'm saying that's a real possibility that is suggested by the county autopsy.

Thank you for the additional context on the drug levels. If you are right about this, then I am not sure how to explain what happened.

The neck restraint is described as "Compressing one or both sides of person’s neck with an arm or leg, without applying direct pressure to the trachea or airway", consistent with the county's autopsy finding of "no injuries of anterior muscles of neck or laryngealstructures". See page 9 of http://www.mncourts.gov/mncourtsgov/media/High-Profile-Cases....

Here are some more details about what happened. Have a look starting at page 15. http://www.mncourts.gov/mncourtsgov/media/High-Profile-Cases...

> The manner of death was ruled homicide

Nowhere in the Hennepin County autopsy does it say "homicide". https://bit.ly/2YQiNSG. The title is unclear.

I said "independent" in quotes because I was talking about the autopsy that was commissioned by Floyd's family. Of course I do not think the one commissioned by Floyd's family is independent at all. https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/06/01/george-floyd-family-m....

> [The county medical office] have a clear financial and reputational incentive to find that Derek Chauvin did not intentionally kill George Floyd.

Are you saying they made up the meth and possibly lethal level of fentanyl in Floyd's system? Those would explain why he was reportedly "not in control of himself". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_George_Floyd

Fair question. I think Chauvin knew he wasn't restraining airflow with his knee, and probably assumed Floyd was lying to get out of it.

It is not necessarily the case that Floyd died from a knee on his neck. His official autopsy (not the "independent" one paid for by his family) shows that he had a potentially lethal level of fentanyl in his system (11 ng/mL) in addition to 19 ng/mL of methamphetamine (https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:bPUNU7...). That combination of drugs is one variant of what's known as a "speedball". It can cause death by respiratory failure. https://www.addictioncenter.com/drugs/heroin/speedball/. The autopsy also says "No life-threatening injuries identified", in particular "No injuries of anterior muscles of neck or laryngealstructures", so it is unlikely that the death was caused by Derek Chauvin putting his knee on Floyd's neck.

There is also the problem of motivation. What possible reason could Derek Chauvin have to murder George Floyd? Surely he understood that doing such a thing could cost him his job, risk imprisonment, and make it very hard for him to find employment. Much more likely is that he believed the hold he used was nonlethal, and, given what we know from the Hennepin County autopsy, that it actually was nonlethal.

It's a terrible waste of time if you can find a good alternative. Luckily Elm-UI is exactly that.

Edit: of course it's worthwhile to learn enough CSS to understand more or less what it does since it's so pervasive. I mean that using it as the main way to lay out pages is a frustrating experience in many cases.

He did show concrete examples of how relational DBMSs force you to model and query in an unintuitive way.

I'm not expecting anything. When my roommate's daughter comes into my room while I'm on the computer, she tries to interact with me a for a little while but loses interest after she finds there is nothing for her to do. When I'm in the garden, I can usually find little things for her to do to help me out, like evening out the soil in a raised bed or putting flower bulbs in a bag. She happily does them and it holds her interest. Part of the difference is that the computer doesn't lend itself to collaboration the way the outdoors does. Part of it is that what I'm doing on the computer is far more obscure than what I'm doing in the garden.

If you can provide contrary anecdotes, why don't you?

Edit: Maybe a child can't hunt right away, but gathering can certainly be done by a child. For example, this morning my roommate's daughter was up in a tree picking mulberries.

No, but my roommate has a five year old daughter and my girlfriend has a five year old son. I have plenty of evidence for what I’m saying.

Kids used to be allies of their parents; now they are adversaries. If you are sitting at a computer all day, your kids will probably annoy you unless they are watching cartoons. On a farm or in a hunter-gatherer setting, your kids can learn by watching you and they can help in more useful ways over time.

I had been avoiding bundling due to its effect on development, but this looks well worth a shot.

I do wonder though if it would be enough to turn on CloudFlare's minification for prod.

One big advantage viruses have in terms of being a mechanism for variation is that they can replicate themselves and cause the same variation to occur in many individuals within a population. If that variation causes those individuals to be unable or unwilling to mate with the uninfected, those individuals can still mate with each other. Specific mutations are vastly less likely to be present in even two individuals within a given population.

So, even if most of the modifications that viruses make are deleterious, as you say, if a virus comes along that confers some advantage, it is much more likely that the resulting change will be in play in the descendants. A beneficial mutation on the other hand would have to somehow be happening in some sort of Genghis Khan creature with scores of offspring to have the same reach as a beneficial virus. So you can see the probable relative importance of these two bases of variation.

Hey downvoters, I invite you to express your disagreement with actual arguments.

Sure, but that doesn't imply that the means by which it happens is what Dawkins says.