IntrepidWorm

End stage CAPCOMalism

The ball is. At least it was considerate enough to leave it's fire behind.

It sounds like you have some stories built up - if you're looking to share, I've observed HN to be a very tolerant place for people looking to reminisce about their glory days of dubious home chem sets, pharmacological experimentation, electrical fishery, and other mischief survived by dumb luck and happenstance!

In 1800's United States, fire departments in many large cities (Chicago and New York, to name two) were private for-profit industries. If a homeowner did not pay what was effectively protection money, the fire department would refuse to extinguish your property if it caught fire, and would sit around as the dwelling burned, in some cases with people still inside.

Fascinating idiom, thanks!

Yes, though their selection is usually more limited than other supermarkets in the same locale.

Bears are also not obligate carnivores, unlike big cats which nearly exclusively eat meat.

Speaking strictly of mineral removal this rings true. However, processing large volumes of seawater can still have a detrimental effect on the local ecosystem, because pumping large volumes of seawater is extremely stressful to all of the seawater-loving organisms that get pulled along for the ride.

To fix the system, you have to hate both.

Oddly enough, cows seem to enjoy big band and jazz.

https://youtu.be/lXKDu6cdXLI

Now that's some cultured dairy!

Perhaps - I would think in many cases, an equilibrium would be reached. Comparatively few people in any industry are wholly irreplaceable. Still, should something like this just pop into law tomorrow, one could expect a large group of experienced specialists at the top of a wide array of fields to decide to retire, to disasterous effect. Given time to settle in though, I'd wager it likely that talent would filter up to replace any losses at an equivalent rate.

Ultimately, people as a whole like to work. They dislike working under poor conditions or doing jobs that don't feel rewarding. A law like this would generate a lot of change, but I just don't see that change being disasterous given sufficient adjustment time.

404 - Croatoan.

Do the work because it's enjoyable. If it's no longer enjoyable, enjoy your wealth while you have it, and retire.

The AI researchers will be the first to go.

They actually just issued a retraction: apparently it was just Tom Cruise.

One of the issues I see with this sort of reasoning is that it fails to contend with the elephant in the room: people are commiting suicide. The major difference here is that it's occuring in a medical setting.

To clarify, if a person is suicidal and seeks MAID to end their life, they are electing to undergo a lengthy process to reach their chosen end. This differs drastically from a spur-of-the-moment decision to (for instance) leap from a tall building, in that it requires weeks of premeditiation and must still withstand a medical consultation. Many people who enact suicide and survive later express regret, and characterize it for varying reasons as a split moment decision, or even a sudden compulsion, rather than a long resolution. (I can find the study if anyone is interested).

If somebody truly wishes to die, they will find a way to die. We can (and should) certainly discuss providing people with better mental health services, and improving the quality of the lives of people who are dealing all manner of illnesses, but that won't change the fact that a certain percentage of people will choose obliteration rather than a continuation of their suffering.

If the threat of secession requires going to war over, it would seem that no, secession is not a legally supported process.

You mean... YouTube?

Witicism aside, im not sure your critique holds any water. Runaway growth in any context is something to pay close attention to. In fairness, the superset of examples chosen is not objective (nor could it be, practically) - plenty of datasets could be made to show aspects of life increasing or decreasing linearly, or quadratically, or with some weird quasi-sinusoidal period.

That doesn't take away from the impact the chosen data has. It's not that all life follows a hockey stick curve in time - its simply that we're in the process of beating the planet to death with a few of them.

In my experience, the best way to load data into pandas is https://www.atlassian.com/software/bamboo

Right - coral diversity is still way down, and the reef health as an ecosystem whole is still the worse for it.

Could it be: https://xkcd.com/1643 ?

I adore Randall.

The effective result of GDPR has been less than ideal, but was a step in the right direction. Abolishing it entirely in favor of a vacuum would carry a more weighty cost.

I am told it comes as quite a shock to the unititiated. I usually don't think twice about the giant billboards of bible verses and sermon snippets as I drive to work (Northeast US) but when do notice them I am struck by a small pang of dystopian dread.

Interesting - is it still faster when the artist endeavors to correct the AI jankiness where it occurs? Or at the present day is it more trouble than it's worth?

And yet time and time again, chess streamers and content producers run across people with newly formed accounts and perfect win records playing the best engine move at regular measured intervals.

If you are cunning enough to hold off on the best move for a few extra seconds to appear unaided by an engine, or if you blunder X% moves in your game (or simply play the 3rd or 4th rated move which still probably wins against most humans), chances are you'd do fine learning some chess strategy and playing the game unaided.

People keep asking why one would cheat at chess. I'm sure there are some bad actors who aim to disrupt the game, in a manner consistent with cheater motivations in other games. I'd imagine many cheaters are simply looking for some quick dopamine after being frustrated by a plateau in their skill.

Crediting him with bringing about desegregation is giving him a bit much. He merely stopped pissing down the leg of his secret service detail long enough to sense which way the wind was already blowing.

Your point made, however: it takes a true monster to survive American politics.

To be clear, there's many different socio-political doctrines that are inherently anti-governmental in nature, and supported by the above. Libertarianism is merely one of them.

Don't stick your neck out for them.

Can you clarify the aversion to lithium? I was under the impression from multiple friends and family on it that out of many of the other drug cocktails prescribed to manage bipolar disorder, lithium was one of the tamer and more effective medications.

Right - work on the wording, but absolutely keep the sentiment. You are clearly valuable to the people using your skills for their own profit. You deserve compensation and respect for the time and effort you put in. Regardless of how well intentioned they seem, be incredibly insistent on payment for your work. Ideally, negotiate pay before any work is done. If they resist this, you need to walk away.