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You want complex conversations? Try listening to Ezra Klein's podcasts, Kara Swisher's podcasts, Lawfare's podcasts, PopeHat's podcasts, and there are many more.

But DJT lies a lot more than any of his predecessors, and hires a lot more incompetents, and fires a lot more competents, than any of his predecessors.

"Point of view is worth 80 IQ points."

Make that ±80…

I wonder if this is by any chance the same Michael O'Connor who wrote the Mac application CompuServe Navigator back in the '90s?

Those interested in A.A.'s official position on atheism and agnosticism should check out the pamphlet[0] Many Paths to Spirituality published recently by AA World Services, the legal entity responsible to North American A.A.. The link is to a product page - click on the picture of the pamphlet to download a pdf. There are sober atheists in AA. To anyone who gets a bad reaction to professed atheism in an AA meeting, remind the offenders of AA's Tradiion 3: "THE ONLY REQUIREMENT FOR AA MEMBERSHIP IS A DESIRE TO STOP DRINKING". If they persist, find or start another meeting.

[0]https://www.aa.org/assets/en_US/aa-literature/p-84-many-path...

The thing is, there are probably some people who won't die, no matter how they're treated, and some who will die, no matter how they're treated. There are also quite a large number, probably about 4-5% of the population, who can be saved with correct treatment, from not very aggressive to extremely aggressive - up to running the blood through artificial lungs.

Well, if you look at civilized countries that ban or highly regulate them, and those that don't, what's the verdict?

They missed me in 1990 and 2000, when I was unconventionally housed (living in the office).

This topic was explored in the science fiction novel Psychohistorical Crisis by Donald Kingsbury, an unauthorized sequel to Asimov's Foundation series.

From the article:

"These are views that tell you when a model changed last. Watcher Views are light enough so that you can continuously call them to know whether you should fetch recent data. They're far less complex than WebSockets and avoid the performance costs of continuously polling unchanged data from the API."

They used to offer it, but found that more people were hurt by loss of passwords (i.e. fail-secure backups) than were hurt by hacking. People who lose all their family photos because they forgot their password get very angry and sad, and it happens more often than you might think. I believe they switched back in 2015 or so.

Why are they calling themselves NAS? No reason suggests itself except deception. Name another?

Just listened to a podcast with a VC who applied this pattern to nuclear power. The big problem, which almost nobody was investing to solve, was nuclear waste. He went out, attended a number of nuclear power events, and found some people who thought they had a productive attack. They did, and after he threw some money at them, ended up with a 40 or so X return.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2019-08-16/josh-wolfe-d...

I bought the book (used), but I can't find it right now, so I borrowed it from the library, and this article just prompted me to do an online search for it, and I just downloaded a pdf copy.

No, just good insulation and a heat-exchanging ventilation system. See Amory Lovins's banana trees in Snowmass, Colorado.[0]

[0]https://mountaintownnews.net/2017/11/21/amory-lovinss-long-s...

Flagged as seizure-inducing flashing is dangerous.

I wonder how my mother did it: she was a one room school teacher during the Depression and moved to Manhattan for WW II after getting divorced (where she met and married my father).

What I would like to know is why I have to go through an f'ing CAPTCHA every bleeding time to read an f'ing medium article.

Towards the end of the article there is discussion of coming factors that may eliminate the negative price shutdowns: a) construction of grid interconnects to New South Wales, and b) new pumped hydro storage to enable time shifting (i.e. using daytime power to enable nighttime generation).

Well, look at the Institute for Advance Studies in Princeton, and its siblings.[0]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Some_Institutes_for_Advanced_S...

Stewart Brand on Twitter "This is an outstanding book on long-term thinking. It makes the case for a much stronger role for historians in the public discourse and policy."

It wasn't removed, merely didn't get upvoted.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21415204

Gresham's Law hits the sharing economy…

A few links that may indicate in which direction Facebook is biased:

https://twitter.com/donie/status/1188593050546855937

https://mashable.com/article/facebook-false-green-new-deal-a...

https://popular.info/p/the-republican-political-operatives

https://popular.info/p/facebook-allows-prominent-right-wing

Ditto.

Actually, it may well have been a dark pattern. Did you go to Amazon via an affiliate link? I believe that Amazon pays a lesser commission on smile orders than affiliate linked ones.

A few links found by following up:

https://xenaproject.wordpress.com

http://wwwf.imperial.ac.uk/~buzzard/one_off_lectures/msr.pdf

http://aitp-conference.org/2019/slides/KB.pdf

https://galois.com/blog/2018/07/the-lean-theorem-prover- past-present-and-future/

https://florisvandoorn.com

https://florisvandoorn.com/talks/JMM2019formalabstracts.pdf

https://sites.google.com/site/thalespitt/

https://jiggerwit.wordpress.com/2014/05/21/27-formal-proof-p...

https://jiggerwit.wordpress.com/2016/10/18/elliptic-curve-ad...

https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.05278

Listen to about 2 minutes of this podcast, starting about 55 seconds in: U.S. forces have begun withdrawing.

https://overcast.fm/+LHycEbYIU/00:55

Purchased by Amazon after being nearly run out of business by predatory pricing.

Or as Lord Buckley always said "If you must tell the truth, be sure to leave them laughing!".