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I'm responding to your other claim further down that got downvoted into oblivion with no responses, and therefore no explanation. You are quite wrong, but you deserve to know why.

"It's basic school knowledge that any population will recover, as long as you have a couple organisms left who can reproduce and the environment itself hasn't fundamentally changed."

I just recently took a biology class, and that is fundamentally not the case. One of the major causes of population collapse leading to extinction is lack of genetic diversity once a population is small. Once diversity is too low, even if conditions are relatively favorable, a population is much more vulnerable to disease or seemingly small changes to the environment. One of the ways biologists try to "rescue" populations these days is by introducing genetic diversity where possible.

They gave me opiods after an invasive surgery that had me on crutches for a month. That stuff was strong enough that I could not safely crutch to the bathroom, I was too dizzy. Switched to low dose edibles and had no problem falling asleep, they didn't make it impossible to get to the bathroom safely, and I didn't have to worry about addiction.

Not everyone bought the homes they lived in back then.

I don't know, but I suspect we will find out if we end up having these "lakes" distributed all over the world

Overall what I understand of NuScale's approach seems to account for most everything that can go wrong. But what happens if there is a natural disaster that causes much of that water to leak away quickly? Is there a failsafe for that as well?

I use my phone extensively throughout the day but modern phones are good enough for most things. All I want is an excellent camera built in, the higher optical zoom the better. It can be the most boring thing in the world otherwise. I hate that I always must shell out for a flagship phone to get this. Sure, I have a really nice camera too, but the best camera is the one you have on you and it’s not practical to lug around something extra at all times.

This is true, but while that is annoying for an able bodied individual, it can be a crisis for someone who is not. The one time I successfully called an Uber WAV only to have it be a crazy long wait, I canceled not because of the annoying wait because by then I had no faith that I would ever be able to hail a ride back, and I was trying to get to an area with steep hills in every direction.

Good luck! But I would start calling friends to see if someone can pick you up. My hospital explicitly said they would not discharge me to Uber, too

I was recently in a wheelchair for a few weeks. Uber's ADA issues go beyond the scope of this lawsuit. Uber would consistently lie about the availability of a WAV vehicle, showing one as being nearby with low wait. Then when I would order it, either nothing was available or the wait time was completely insane. I never successfully hailed one.

Is there any data on this 6% of global emissions claim? Do they mean 6% of CO2e emissions? (in which case the "2000x" claim is redundant and makes this statement overblown, as it's already factored into the CO2e calculation)

I think there is a big difference between supplementing and replacing. Near total control leaves them sheltered, naive, and probably more rebellious, and of course it's silly to think that you can do a better job across the board than a bunch of professionals.

If you have the time, getting involved in your child's education is probably a huge win. Fill in some gaps you see, correct some biases. Help them get ahead in areas they are doing well in, help them catch up in areas they are not doing so well in. But just because those things are helpful doesn't mean that replacing their education entirely is going to be an improvement.

I was homeschooled from 5th grade on. The reasons people have for homeschooling their kids varies widely, from hyper-religious to anti-establishmentism to the-schools-here-suck. The types of kids people have also vary widely. So my experience is not necessarily reflective of what your kids' experience might be. That said, here's my story:

My options were home schooling or a Christian school affiliated with my parents' church. I chose to be home schooled. My mother is high school educated, not a teacher, and frankly weak on most subjects. But she loves to dig in and research options, so she did a reasonable job of finding curriculums for standard things like math. I always had a strong thirst for knowledge of certain subjects, so she left me to my own devices on those things (this was pre-internet so I think this was an especially bad strategy. How's a kid with no money going to find the best resources to learn about these things that would normally be classes?). In general, I have always loved learning, so I was relatively easy to homeschool. By 8th grade I was scoring at the 12th grade level, 99th percentile on the CAT across the board. I had more free time than my peers and more flexibility in my schedule. Field trips were a breeze. By high school I was taking community college classes and tutoring the adults, which was extremely helpful to have those credits when I went to college - I got to skip some intro courses and had the flexibility to take a year off of school when financial hardship hit.

So far it sounds great, but I would not really recommend it. If you don't have access to quality schools for your kid, you should move if you can afford it at all. There were a few major issues: - Social isolation. I had little access to kids my own age, mostly my parents' friends' kids, who were, frankly, shitheads. (Not that the Christian school was better. All but one girl in what would have been my class graduated pregnant or with a child, and therefore married or engaged to be, shotgun style) - College Admissions. I was enrolled in an online high school program at an accredited school (the first one!), but even with the transcript + 4.0 GPA in a year's worth of community college credits, colleges were deeply skeptical about homeschooling and made me jump through extra hoops. I'm fairly certain my top choice rejected me because of this. - Misinformation & bias. I know this is an issue in school too, and my alternative option of a religious school would not have been much better, but I had to unlearn so so much of what I was taught - Extracurriculars. Opportunities to participate in extracurricular activities are extremely limited. Many things are associated with a school and not open to non-students.

It's also worth noting that while I did relatively well in this setup, I have siblings who were also home schooled and never finished high school or got their GED.

If you do go down this path: - Have a strategy for how to socialize your kids beyond "well, some of my friends have kids" - Find good curriculum - Have a strategy ready for when a kid does not want to learn something - Make sure you or your spouse will have a lot of free time to supervise - Enroll them in a program that will get them a HS transcript from an accredited school. - Find ways to expose them to extracurricular activities of their choosing, beyond your own interests.

A fine is a cost. It's quite possible that Twitter made more than $150m in doing this.

Maybe not the landfills once they are buried. But certainly from waste transfer stations or unburied waste, seagulls and other birds will pick up trash because it smells like food or may have some food in it, and then drop it outside of the landfill/transfer station.

Correct, landfills are not a miracle technology. Landfills leak.

https://www.clf.org/blog/all-landfills-leak-and-our-health-a...

https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs-040-03/

As a user, Airbnb is hostile. The price you see is never the price you pay. It's impossible to tell which listings are actually the cheaper or more expensive than others. The only reason to use them is selection, they have properties that VRBO & others don't. So focusing on improvements for their hosts is smart, but feels like it will still bite them in the long run. I already avoid Airbnb when possible.

Pseudoephedrine helps with some sinus issues but isn't an antihistamine. There are a cocktail of allergy meds that help, but are not fast acting so I need to be on them all the time to account for one-off exposures. They don't stop the allergic reaction entirely but they do make it more bearable and buy me time - with those built up in my system I can generally be around animals for about 4 hours before my allergies become unbearable.

I have severe animal allergies. I used to get really frustrated by people bringing their pets onto the plane. There is generally no way to let the airline know ahead of time that I can't be seated next to an animal, and no guarantee that there will be a place they can relocate me to. Now I always have an n95 mask on me, so it's not a huge deal unless the flight is super long (itchy eyes are still a thing). Wish I had thought of that sooner.

Chrome on Android as well

Yes. Otherwise this might as well be an article speculating on what caused the extinction of the unicorn.

I had the pleasure of meeting the CRO of Bento[1] last year, and one thing she said has really stuck with me. She said that guilt is an attribute she looks for in team members. It shows that you care, learn from your mistakes, and want to do better. As I've grown as a manager, I have a lot of guilt over how I (mis)managed teams in the early days, but I had never thought of the guilt itself as a positive thing before. Anyway, good on Eric for fully owning what went wrong here, and vowing to do better.

[1] https://www.trybento.co/

Am I in the minority in thinking that we should stop trying to optimize for huge monorepos? The problems created by them seem far worse and more expensive than the problems they purportedly solve.

You might want to put supported languages more front and center and not buried on a hard-to-find faq page. Might also want to allow folks to sign up to be alerted when their favorite language is supported, which will also let you gather data about where there's the most interest.

What would you recommend for someone who a) wants to see something as small as mushroom spores, and b) would like to take decent quality pictures of them? DSLR or smartphone mount if there's one that's not super fiddly?

Given that cars already kill people en mass, there's no real advantage to slowing down something that will likely 10x the number of cars on the road, or making those cars smaller and safer? Sure, let's get to L5 as quickly as we can...without killing lots of people unnecessarily.

The graphic showing the platforms from Austin to SF shows a disturbing trend of these autonomous platforms getting bigger, and therefore more dangerous for those of us on the outside of these vehicles. I would love to see regulations capping the size and speed of these autonomous platforms to minimize the danger to the public. Sure, eventually they might be proven to be safer than having humans behind the wheel, and then we can consider relaxing those regulations, but even then perhaps the standards should be higher, since they are likely to increase the overall number of cars on the road significantly - traffic will not discourage people from driving as much, if they are not in fact driving. (FWIW, I would love love love to never have to drive again. I just want us to take a measured approach to getting there for safety.)

My thoughts exactly! But from watching the video it seems real, they've actually built at least one of these...

While this should be fixed, I think it's always a bad idea to rely on implementation details for safety. By which I mean those filters exist for something other than protecting a system command from injection. Even if they did work properly today, there's nothing saying that this couldn't change in the future because what's considered a valid domain changes. In this case it seems like escapeshellcmd would be more appropriate.

Tracking down a rehabber is far less effort than raising a wild animal. Most of the time there is not much difference in outcome between leaving it to die vs taking it in and raising it yourself, except the suffering is prolonged. Find a wildlife rehabber or find someone who will. I know that is not nearly as fun as raising a wild animal, I always dreamed of having a pet raccoon as a child, but it's the responsible thing to do.

Please don't do this. Habituating wildlife to humans is not doing them any favors, it usually leads to their early demise. First make sure they are truly abandoned, most of the time mom is nearby. Second, if mom is truly not around, take the animal to a credentialed wildlife rehabber as soon as you can.