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It took me a bit to get it, but this is an excellent explanation. Thank you :)

Oh, you're right. That is a good point. And after looking at your detailed breakdown [0], your original line breaks do make sense. It does work better singing as "Baa Baa Black Sheep" with different lyrics than as "The Alphabet Song" with backwards lyrics.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36373590

This works for me:

Z, y, x, w, v, u, t...

S, r, q, p, o, n, m...

L, k, j,

I, h, g,

F, e, d, c, b, and a.

My math profs warned us that, while the overall contents and concepts included were the same, the different editions of the textbook sometimes had chapters in a slightly different order and problems slightly rearranged. This meant it was possible to learn from any edition, but only the required edition was guaranteed to work for assigned problem sets.

A construction crew completed a retrofit on Citicorp Center in NYC over a few months, and the project was kept secret for almost 20 years after its completion.

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

TLDR: HIPAA doesn't apply because reasons. (I am neither a HIPAA expert nor a lawyer.).

"Who must comply with HIPAA": https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/faq/190/who-must...

"Is a software vendor a business associate of a covered entity": https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/faq/256/is-softw...

For example, the GoodRX [0] and BetterHelp [1] settlements were both due to alleged violations of the FTC Act and Health Breach Notification Rule, rather than a violation of HIPAA.

[0] https://www.hipaajournal.com/court-approves-ftc-settlement-g...

[1] https://www.hipaajournal.com/betterhelp-settlement-ftc-healt...

In my online credit card account, I can expand each purchase and "show digital receipt" to get information about what app/subscription it was for. For all App Store purchases, Apple will also email the account that made the purchase (even if it's me) to let them know the purchase details were requested. That seems reasonable to me--the payer knows what the payment was for, and the purchaser knows the info was accessed.

Obviously I didn't go to most schools. But none I attended were in a big city, and none were in New England, so it's not just a "big city" or "New England" problem. Regardless, I have never personally seen an example of on-campus room and board being <= off-campus room and board.

> The [median] student loan debt for a graduating undergrad is 23k. If college costs were truly 100k that just wouldn’t be the case.

I fail to see how that necessarily follows because:

- many students and families save for college, so there's a cash downpayment

- many students work to cover part of college costs

- many families work to cover part of college costs

But this seems an unproductive rabbit trail from the issue of letting kids get their sleep.

While students need somewhere to sleep and eat, the cost of doing so on campus are much higher than anywhere else (in my limited experience). For example, the cost of on-campus room and board my junior year was 4x the cost of my off-campus room and board the following year. Some schools don't allow for off-campus housing for some or all students, or still require commuters to purchase a meal plan. So perhaps while it's not sensible to include all room and board costs with the cost of college, it's definitely fair to include some or even most.

What's the difference between a road and a street?

> Content that shares location information related to a public engagement or event, such as a concert or political event, is also permitted. https://twitter.com/TwitterSafety/status/1603165967453868032

Does that include group selfies from the invite-only afterparty because it's "related" to a public event, or no because it's invite-only?

What about sharing location information related to a virtual public event? Or location information of an individual who's only virtually attending an in-person public event?

And more practically, what about live-documenting crimes, police brutality, war crimes...?

Ice and snow are both less dense than liquid water. Depending what type of snow and whether or not it's had a chance to thaw and refreeze, snow might even weigh less than 5lbs/ft^3 -- an order of magnitude less than your napkin math. I'd venture a guestimate that most snow people are shoveling sits somewhere around 15-20lb/ft^3, which is for snow that's settled for about a day, with wind, in below freezing temps.[0]

That having been said, you are not wrong. When we're talking about tarp-sized areas, any significant snowfall (i.e. anything not more quickly/easily cleared with a quick broom sweep) will get really heavy really quickly.

[0] There's a chart near the bottom of this page that describes types of snow/conditions, and lists imperial and metric measurements: https://roofonline.com/weights-measures/weight-of-snow/

To add on to your "helpful sometimes":

As someone else with ADHD, I've found that one of the downfalls of "body doubling" is that it works both ways. Productivity can lead to more productivity because the body double can help me overcome the urge to research woodgas vehicles or the history of bread in Mesoamerica. But the double's lack of focus (e.g. being social, or forced meetings) destroys all focus because it's already enough of a task to manage my own executive functioning in a good environment.

The best balance I've found is remote work (so I am my only distraction), maybe with occasional in-person focused work sessions (à la hackathon), and occasional remote "body doubling" sessions with a friend or internet stranger.

TLDR: Solo remote work is better than attempting body doubling in an office environment, but remote "body doubling" is also occasionally helpful.

oh! I've never had Kohls as an option before--just WF and UPS.

Did Amazon buy Kohls too? What do Amazon returns have to do with Kohls Cash?

To add on to this comment, many public benefits are based off of financial households (who shares bills), rather than physical households (who happens to live under the same roof). For example, SNAP eligibility calculation is based off of who purchases&prepares food together. If you purchase and prepare food separately from the family you live with, then your SNAP household size is 1 (just you) and is based off of only your own income. Even if you don't think you'll qualify, it's worth applying because a) the benefits you receive are based off of application date and b) your caseworker may know of unobvious ways to adjust your income so you are eligible.

If it's not insurance or drop shipping, what does GoodRx do that results in cheaper prescriptions for customers? For awhile, they were saving me $100/mo.

Websites are like a special kind of book that everyone everywhere can read at the same time, if they want to.

> Did anyone say CI and CO calculation is simple?

Yes, I have seen and heard plenty of people say CICO is simple and "all there is to it", often along with some "laws of physics" snip, as included in your previous comment.

> Are you seriously telling me your could gain weight when you just eat air?

That's a straw man if I've ever seen one.

CICO is nonsense in the sense that it simplifies something to the point of being unhelpful. Similarly to if anyone claimed "garbage in, garbage out" is all there is to producing good code.

Personally, when I reduce CI, my body responds by decreasing CO: I don't think as clearly (problematic for being a functional adult), and I'm even colder than normal. With no reasonable way to accurately measure the change in CO, it's difficult to balance the equation.

tldr: what's simple and obvious with spherical cows in a vacuum is not so simple in the real world

I'm not sure there's "change your values" type money for everyone. Though for me, $1MM is enough to consider working for Amazon to attempt to change it from the inside. Perhaps we're saying the same things with different words.

> And yet when they got hit by ransomware a while back their mobile and web apps were rendered useless. You could neither add new activities, nor view old activities, nor sync with other apps.

Isn't that to be expected, if you're using their cloud services? The point is that Garmin is (or was, I've had my watch for a few years) designed in such a way that the cloud services are not a requirement for full use of the device.

Yes, you can access the .FIT files directly via USB and then sync with other apps, such as TurtleSport, GPXsee, etc.

>> Garmin is the only one I actually trust currently, as they've shown 0 willingness to monetize your health information.

> What about the concern that the company is bought out in the future? Or that it may be sharing data already, with government agencies, etc? Or companies that it works with? > It boggles my mind, that people ... come to the judgement that its ok for corporations to have this personal data!

I'm not OP. I chose Garmin precisely because I don't think it's ok for corporations to have this personal data.

I chose Garmin because I can use it without needing to share any* of my data with a third party, including Garmin itself. I save the workout files to my computer via the same USB cable I use to charge the watch. There are various non-cloud apps I can use to view and analyze these workouts, if I actually cared to do so beyond the "fastest 5k" etc that the watch tracks automatically.

For this, it does not matter to me whether Garmin is bought out in the future because my watch works just fine as-is, and cannot update its OS without my explicit permission. I'm unsure what data Garmin would be capable of sharing because I have given it none.

* of course, speed/time/location data is obtained by pinging GPS/GLONASS satellites, but the watch can and does record my workouts quite accurately in non-GPS pedometer mode.

(not the person you're replying to)

There is no soup kitchen here. There is one food bank, which is only open once a month for a couple of hours. I haven't been, so cannot say whether they attempt to provide a month's worth of food or not.

The last food bank I went to operated twice a week and attempted to provide a week's worth of calories in pre-sorted bags of goods. Recipients were limited to 2x/mo. Obtaining a larger bag (e.g. for a family) required providing official state-issued photo ID for any and all additional recipients, which was then logged and counted as part of each individual's 2x/mo limit.

It's so frustrating to not be believed by care providers. Thanks for sharing your personal experience. I'm glad you found a solution.

I'd like to learn more about this (pinched spinal nerves causing anxiety) but am having trouble finding anything helpful online. Most results are along the lines of the pain making the patient anxious about their condition, with some hypochondria thrown in. Can you elaborate, or do you happen to have a relevant term or two I could search?

> One person could have enough to give every American $1M without first taking $1M from every American. Did you and everyone you know buy $1,000,000 of Washington Post or Wallstreet Journal subscriptions, for example?

Once net worth is that high, the majority of it seems to be attributable to stock market and other similarly intangible $, rather than $ someone has literally directly taken/earned from others. It seems unfair to expect humans to contemplate big numbers (something we're known to be bad at) by also thinking about imaginary $ as though they had a 1-for-1 tangible source.

That being said, you certainly aren't wrong to think of it this way. For example, Bezos' net worth of ~$110B / ~333M Americans = ~$333/American , which sounds like a reasonable ballpark approximation of how much _profit_ the average person has spent on Amazon + Audible + AWS + WaPo.

Thanks for giving examples of logical ways to process large numbers. These are good ways to double-check quick maths.

I'm much the same. Coworkers and roommates tell me to add layers and drink tea, but layers and hot tea make no difference if it's consistently 20ºC or below. My brain just does not work for anything more demanding than deleting junk mail. Thank goodness for space heaters.

> Being able to say "I'm out" does not guarantee happiness.

It doesn't seem to me that anyone was saying it was a guarantee. Rather, that being able to say "I'm out" is in something along the lines of the "necessary, but not sufficient" category.

> Everyone just needs HEPA filtration in their home.

HEPA filters don't filter NO2.