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"If the male won, mating was achieved in 58 percent of all encounters. If the female won, she almost always cannibalized the male without him getting an opportunity to mate. "

Seems good for evolution. Weak males serve as a source of food for the females and don't pass on their genes. Strong ones get to sire young with multiple partners instead of getting eaten after one.

What about starting with the premise that "a successful corporation offers goods or services people want for less cost than competitors" whereas a successful government organization "exhausts their budget every fiscal quarter and successfully demands more". Which is doing more good for the people? I've worked for both and know which I'd choose.

1) Google doesn't want any humans in the loop. Humans are expensive. Would sending a warning first result in more humans involved or less? More. So not gonna happen.

2) Google claims any information given to exploiters of its rules and systems aids the next attempt. So they don't like to give out any information about what AI rule you tripped to get banned.

Some stock traders try to buy stocks based on news/rumors, other based on analyzing fundamentals about the company, others by looking at graphs and predicting patterns. They all hate each other.

You are right, in modern times, carbs are generally considered bad. But some people trying all protein diets do report diarrhea. Doctors don't generally refer to it as too much protein, though. They refer to the problem as too little fiber.

Also, some arctic explorers tried living on all meat, and suffered vitamin deficiencies such as scurvy. So, while meat is a complete protein, unless you are eating fresh liver meat from a fresh kill, you are going to need some source of vitamin C at the minimum. Except for liver, meat isn't actually a great way to get fat soluble vitamins either.

Why not just slap the thing on a cooling stand? As a developer with XCode maxing my CPU 90% of the day, I consider any Apple laptop unusable without additional cooling. Whenever I'm plugged into a monitor, I also have two fans to go by the vents. Runs better if you download a program like iStat Menus and force the fans to always be high too.

Does it suck? Yes. Are fans only $10 to save a $2000 machine? Yep. Apple simply doesn't design their kit to run hard and run often. It's like those internet services that sell higher speed than they can actually give every customer. They depend on you not using it all.

So what about during war when the enemy may have shot down your sats? Your soldiers are still going to want to buy goods on base during their down time and morale will suffer if you just tell them the internet is down.

Nintendo Switch. Still play boxing fitness game 2 player with my gf every day. Despite the fact that we have VR systems, PCs, and smart phones that all cost way more.

No.

Already had covid, was dizzy for like a day or two and breathing was a little tougher than normal. Doubt I could get sick again or that it would be much of an inconvenience if I did.

The calorie restriction one says: > increased expression of genes encoding proteins involved in mitochondrial function such as PPARGC1A, TFAM, eNOS, SIRT1, and PARL

Meanwhile SIRT1 has been proven to be life extending via genetically engineering mice to have it: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6291425/

So the claim of https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3901353/ that this is just shifting damage from one type of damage to another and can't prolong life doesn't seem to hold water.

> chamber inducing a state of hypoxia, or oxygen shortage, which caused the cell regeneration.

Might actually be related to life extension through calorie restriction in this regard. This paper re calories restriction mentions:

> caloric restriction improves whole body energy efficiency by inducing the biogenesis of mitochondria that utilize less oxygen and produce less reactive oxygen species (ROS). https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jo...

Starving the body of oxygen might trigger some of the same genetic pathways as starving it of food, basically.

Maybe they tried and the yield isn't there. There could be more memory and cores in the design right now and they are just having to disable some of it, for example.

Is it true the Aztecs didn't get anything, though? A religion sacrificing people is a show of power likely to keep any common citizens rebelling against the priesthood. In modern times we have police kneeling on the necks of people until they die from lack of air. Both are just a means to kill powerless people to keep the powerful people in power. Our modern rulers put non-religious names on things, like "The War on Drugs", but it's the same thing.

That's not true at all. This whole thing started when Epic released a direct pay feature in their iOS app that gave a 30% discount for direct pay straight to the users. You can argue whatever you like about the big corps legal departments, but it's inarguable that users using the direct pay feature are paying less right now.

> They couldn't send "extra" packets with the key somewhere else without someone very easily detecting that anomalous traffic not being generated by the system itself.

Why would it matter if the traffic is detected? The companies owning the hardware are usually working with the NSA or compelled to do so, so the extra traffic is expected: https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013...

You can see part of the budget is straight out putting the backdoors in the VPN/web encryption chips design.

Did that just now and Chrome is still happily hiding them...

> parody articles with no substantial points

Personally, I found this article super useful. We've had long discussions at my company about what Facebook's announcement about not supporting IDFA opt-in means: https://twitter.com/rjonesy/status/1298662658934222848

This article made it much more clear. It's one of the only ones that addressed why Facebook says advertisers have to create a separate advertising account for iOS 14 ads, for example.

What Facebook tells you: " To help preserve the fidelity of app install campaign measurement, we will require the creation and usage of a dedicated iOS 14 ad account "

What the article explains: " Unfortunately, however, it will require them to set up a completely new advertising account to run campaigns for iOS users, because it’s not going to apply Apple’s new privacy protection measures any further than it has to "

Makes sense. Facebook's recommendation to apps showing ads is to implement Facebook login or uploading hashed user information (Advanced Matching). Apple is already cracking down on those approaches, like saying any app that has social login must also support Apple login.

That's called contextual targeting: " If iOS 14 users opt out, they will still be shown ads, but they’ll be based on other methods like contextual targeting rather than based on their IDFA. " https://clearcode.cc/blog/apple-idfa/#apple-skadnetwork

That works so poorly Facebook doesn't even bid on showing ads for those users currently: " And Facebook doesn’t even bid on iOS users that have Limit Ad Tracking (LAT) enabled " https://www.adexchanger.com/data-exchanges/what-do-apples-pr...

Facebook's announcement recommends Facebook social login or uploading hashes of user data: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/app-events/advanced-mat...

> I'm also not concerned about running software on telephones since doing so requires obtaining authorization from Google

That's not actually true. Fortnite has an APK download many users download straight from the internet and run on their Android phones for example. There's no requirement to run Google authorized software as long as you are willing to check a checkbox in the phone settings.

It's probably more virtue signalling than actually being upset. Complaining is a way for the complainer to show off they know the actual pronunciations.

It's a bad thing to do for attention, like hacker elite speak using numbers would be, but is that why the author did that? Did you read the article? It's about a file that can be read by all Unix, Windows, and MacOS. Part of how that happens is one OS mistakes some other text for executable code while the other OS doesn't.

Therefore the title of the article written in multiple language letters and somewhat readable in one language despite that is a good introduction.

It isn't done in Europe. Some OSEA countries think it makes you look poor as well.

I do it every outing here in the US, though! Our portion sizes are ridiculous.

That's actually an advantage in the remote work world, because you can stare at the camera and people will think you are looking them in the eyes. They'll trust you more thinking you are, and if you can't read their face anyway, there's no loss to you due to looking at the camera instead of their face.

> Probably the worst part was that the expectation was that always had one eye on Slack instead of, you know, focusing on programming

Haha, yes, my job is exactly like this. If I turn off Slack for an hour to write some code, I get a lot of angry emails from management about why I'm OoO without notice.

Co-workers love to complain to management if you don't respond to them immediately as well. One guy slacked me 6 times in the morning asking for help, I gave him a clear next step of adding a certain formatted section at the bottom of his spec for legal to review privacy concerns, then he never even did that work and Slacked me 13 more times that day which I ignored to get some work done, and management went ape shit.

Now I just double all my coding estimates because I know my real job is to be on Slack 8-5 answering questions.

There have been layoffs, like ClassPass fired 50% of staff, but there's still work too. The author is a little strange, quitting a job to go on six week retreat instead of taking a leave of absence, but if he is acting that way, he clearly wanted to switch to a new job anyway, had plenty of money in reserve, and likely won't have trouble finding one. RC doesn't seem to have any value beyond them acting as a recruiter for you at the end, but recruiters are free and happy to help you find jobs without that anyway.

There was a couple long lived stories about it. General consensus was they should concentrate on Firefox and stop wasting money on other stuff. Later ones were probably just flagged as dupes.

> Mozilla has shipped successful products other than Firefox. Rust being a strong example

Isn't Rust a language? https://research.mozilla.org/rust/

How is that going to keep the lights on? Doesn't seem like it contributes to the bottom line in any way, so they would have been better off allocating those people to keeping Firefox competitive. Seems like they need a "more wood behind fewer arrows" moment like Google had. Or a "sell everything but consulting" since consulting is the only thing making money moment like IBM had when they sold laptop, storage, printer, etc. divisions.

To be fair, the OP talked about home gym equipment like he's talking about weights, but that's not what the Forbes article is about: " Trainers have gone online, video-based workouts are the new normal, and high-tech home gym equipment is making its way into more homes than ever before. "

And even following the link to gym equipment has: " From companies that strictly provide a software platform that enables video workouts to hardware companies that facilitate live group workouts, the wide range of options available to consumers is plentiful.

Peloton, one of the more notable names in the industry, experienced a 66% surge in sales earlier in the year as more consumers became willing to shell out thousands of dollars for hardware that connects someone to live classes and other riders.

Tonal, another in-home hardware fitness company, told reporters back in March that the company’s sales tripled at one point in the early days of March when people were being encouraged to stay home more regularly. "

So really the article is more about remote classes and training and tech to facilitate them, not home gym equipment. So comments about this lifestyle appealing to new people or not are more on topic than topics about buying home weights.

Definitely not my experience. I was going to the gym regularly before: lifting weights and cycling. Post pandemic I've lost 5 pounds thanks to cycling outdoors, swimming outdoors, lugging heavy bags camping in the wilderness, Ring Fit, Just Dance, Box VR, Audica, Beat Saber, yoga and pilates TV shows, and first one set of resistance bands and now a second more advanced set. Started doing acroyoga with my girlfriend, which is a blast.

Similarly, one friend is double my level in Ring Fit and we send photos back and forth egging each other on, and another friend is constantly sending me YouTube videos of how to do perfect plays in Just Dance and showing me her score and has hacked the group play mode to work remote by streaming the host screen by video call.

How could someone not find a schedule that works for them now that they just need to turn on YouTube whereas previously they had to go visit a gym or a trainer? It's way easier now, as the Forbes article states.