throwaway76543

No, because spirulina isn't widely consumed.

Depending on people deciding to eat healthy is a surefire way to fail to meet public health goals.

Another linked Forbes article fingers the UPU, a UN agency, as the source of the rate schedules: https://www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2017/11/05/how-the-...

Wikipedia on the UPU: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Postal_Union

The weight is an important feature: Cast iron has higher heat capacity and won't lose heat as fast when food is added. This is why cast-iron should be your go-to pan when searing a steak, for example.

The downside is that they take longer to heat, of course, so other pans can be more suitable for some cooking tasks.

Tap water doesn't necessarily have any more or less mineral content than bottled mineral water. The variation between mineral water brands and the variation between tap water sources (mostly: well water vs surface) is much larger than any difference between bottled and tap.

If you live in an area with hard tap water you're essentially drinking "mineral water" out of the tap.

Here's some data for ya:

Mineral Content of Tap Water in Major North American Cities: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1495189/table/t...

Mineral Content of Selected Commercially Available North American Bottled Waters: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1495189/table/t...

You may not have paused to consider that an open source minecraft server is free to implement a better administration system.

It is not necessary to have mod compatibility in order to provide an extensible, powerful alternative.

Drag. Recall, wind resistance is proportional to the square of velocity. The vast majority of energy goes into overcoming drag, even at regular highway speeds. Remember when we capped speed limits at 55mph during the '70s energy crisis? We did so because fuel efficiency really starts to drop off at faster speeds. 250mph is very, very far up this curve.

Wikipedia has a nice graph to illustrate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chart_MPG_to_L-100km_v200...

We've come from far, far worse. To suggest that global trade is a dead end is an absurdity -- founding the UN and fostering trade has brought enormous and unprecedented levels of progressive prosperity across the globe.

Dead end? Only if you're ignoring the last century of history.

The best way to bring countries into the fold of western civilization, to convince them to adopt our beliefs and values, is to engage with them in trade.

Exclusionary tactics have not had great results, historically.

No, it wasn't. They also used to ask for high school transcripts if you didn't graduate college -- even for senior folks with decades of experience.

Google's interviewing process used to be extremely absurd. They have reformed it somewhat since around 2013.

PeopleSoft came by my high school to solicit two folks in our computer class for internships. One was me, the other a friend of mine. I suspect our teacher played a part in setting it up; my friend and I had basically completed the coursework way early and were goofing off writing video games. This would've been in the late 90s.

I was a huge dumbass and turned them down.

They can't really verify, because many have large non-salary compensation structures, comprising somewhere from 10% to 1000% (or even much more) of their base salary.

Repeat after me: "Well, taking into account my current schedule for divestiture and estimated market positions I would need X to match my total compensation package."

And most surgical stainless steels.

The phrase you object to is an invitation to consider the points which were raised in the paragraph just above. I think a reasonable person can immediately see the error.

You declare "there is no flaw" and then you proceed to describe it in detail.

Surely you can see the flaw in this new line of reasoning as well?

Atherton, California is a well-defined region with a rather fabulous level of wealth. Are you suggesting that the town of Atherton ought to be able to vote for independence, in order to avoid paying state and federal taxes? May any geographically delineated group opt out of the local government structure?

Surely you can see the flaw in your line of reasoning.

I think he's asking what grounds authorities might have to demand destruction of the information.

Is there a legal pretext for going after information like this?

Even in cities there are extremely good odds that the person will be known to the local law enforcement. The local police knew the perp in almost every encounter I've had where I witnessed a crime.

Whether or not they care may still an issue, unfortunately.

Sorry bud, the guy you're arguing with is correct about what I said.

I stand by my original statement regarding correlation. Your assumption that there's a causal claim is your own mistake. This has been made clear; there's nothing further for us to discuss. Especially given your uh, personality.

Goodbye.

No, I did not. As the quote you've excerpted clearly illustrates I noted a correlation only.

You've made a mistake.

Nah. I'm a millionaire and I wouldn't risk prison for 200k.

Wealth is indeed a proxy measure for certain behaviors, but you're ignoring other even more important behaviors like impulse control and an eye for risk analysis.

Most of us aren't wealthy because we engage in unethical practices; we're wealthy because we understand long term planning and self control.

Here's a related article you might find interesting about the link between self control and wealth. Note as well the negative correlation between wealth and crime, which stands in opposition to the association you attempt to draw above.

http://healthland.time.com/2011/01/24/the-key-to-health-weal...

Thank you, good to know. I limited my claim to California as that was the scope of my certainty.

Facebook interns are paid, and paid quite well.

It is, in fact, illegal to not pay an intern in the state of California if the intern performs beneficial work.

Your entire rant is predicated on untrue assumptions.

The recruiter did mean UNIX-like systems. There exists no useful set of experience which is common among pedantically defined "UNIX" and which excludes UNIX-like systems. The pedantic definition-lawyer type responses you've gotten are absurd.

A role might specifically require extensive AIX experience in particular -- and if it did you would say you needed "AIX experience" -- never some vague umbrella family of "UNIX experience."

It is entirely unbelievable that the requirements for this role would exclude your experience. Doubly so as they're recruiting from interns. Triply so if you know anything about Facebook engineering teams. "Production Engineer?" "Frontend Engineer?" At Facebook? Yeah, those teams run Linux.

ps: The folks telling you not to language lawyer are correct. But your initial assumption that the recruiter had made a dumb mistake was also correct.

No, because the heat is radiated through infrared -- not conduction and convection. Any heat transfer by conduction/convection is going to be warming the thing you want to cool and will be working counter to the purpose of the device.

Conduction, convection and radiation.

"You cannot be over protective when it comes to fire safety."

Ridiculous. There are obvious examples of overestimation of risk, why not prohibit electricity in homes entirely for example? Should I get rid of my kitchen stove?

This kind of absolute rhetoric is banal, obviously absurd, and is not helping anyone.

Effective safety measures involve accurately quantifying and balancing risk.

Yes, and the lack of an acrid urine smell in the air would be a fantastic quality of life increase.

I'd be happy to pay triple my current commute expense in return for two things:

1) A vehicle that picks me up on-demand from my home and which goes exactly where I'm headed, so I don't have to commute to and from BART.

2) A vehicle populated only by other paying customers, with a mechanism to eject bad actors from the system.

Certainly, but keep in mind no one suggested it was either impossible or illegal.

The suggestion above is to merely take note, as it is unusual.

New tires won't have been seen on a previous license plate.

Because they generally shouldn't change, unless someone is illegally swapping plates.

Yes, that is my point