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Are there countries where guns have been banned, and mass shootings increase? Are there countries where banned guns have been allowed, and mass shootings increased?

Check out this blog post: https://blog.metaobject.com/2022/08/native-gui-distributed-s...

To be fair, banning guns seems to also ban mass shootings.

The Sahm Rule real time recession indicator, which has been a pretty accurate indicator of recessions since the '60s, is saying that we've come out of the pandemic-induced recession, and not yet started a new one.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SAHMREALTIME

Text ropes: https://iq.opengenus.org/rope-data-structure/

How many calories in a pound of chicken, pork, or beef?

$4 for a day's worth of calories? How much do you spend on food every day?

I just bought some cheese: 1pound of sharp cheddar for USD 3.65, listed as 1760 calories. Not very expensive.

Everything except health care.

Quite a lot smaller than the EU…

How often have Count Days been snow days?

One of my favorite t-shirts has the motto: "I'm not delusional. I'm an entrepreneur."

From the gapingvoid group.

https://www.gapingvoid.com/?s=I%27m+not+delusional

The Wikipedia article has over a dozen references, including a number of online books.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_theory

Back in 1960 I learned Boolean algebra from Suzanne Langer's Symbolic Logic Dover paperback. In '63-'64 I learned calculus from Johnson and Kiokemeister's Calculus (with some tutoring in the summer of '63 from a future MacArthur grantee).

https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.523033

The pandemic isn't over. Assuming that it is will lead to rather unpleasant outcomes.

> food scarcity

How much food rotted at the Texas border after Governor Abbott's PR stunt held it up? Estimated to be over $4Billion.

US economy grew at a 6.9% rate in the fourth quarter last year.

I ran "The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak" through the meat-grinder a few times, till it hit a fixed point at "A group of animals".

How many got COVID?

Even better: Adventures of a Bystander.

The building I live in has an online payment option, but the only payment option that the organization doing the collection takes is PayPal. Fuck PayPal, I can go to the bank and get a check (I haven't personally written a check for decades).

It's not just state level, the same thing happens at the municipal level. There's a trip I take a few times a year, and I always notice the transition from one town to another by the sudden deterioration of the road.

M2 family Mac Pro upcoming…

Imagine the Russian soldiers' parents reading this, and then getting a phone calls from their sons, now POWs, but still alive.

Click the "past" link under the article title above to search for previous discussions.

Just reading an interesting SF novel (Ken Macleod's Beyond the Hallowed Sky) where one of the geopolitical plot points is that America has returned to democracy (although still having a substantial crazy demographic).

Fourth quarter of 2021 they had positive free cash flow. In other words, they're not really bleeding money any more.

Many on HN would say that Apple's 30% cut on App Store sales is perhaps unfair.

Is Amazon's 75% or 60% unfair, or is it highway robbery? Not to mention what they actually pay instead of the contractual amount.

I just determined my next hobby project: a Bendix G15 emulator (basically an IDE for G15 assembly/machine language, and a REPL simulator for TTY I/O).

The G15 was one of the first computers i was exposed to, and I never got to finish the one program I started to write, back in spring of 1964…

The article pointed to a site where I found a G1 programmer’s reference manual!