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I heard about a similar trick once in the framework of a scam, which may be the same (I'm not willing to watch this much youtube for the payoff), where out of the 1,000 people that reached out for answers to a 50/50 bet of some sort, they provided 50% of them one answer, and 50% the other. Out of the 50% that won, they provided 50% one answer and 50% another. Leading to a situation where eventually you had a small group of people who had received correct "lottery" or whatever answers five or six times in a row, priming them to believe the scammer had some major advantage. Then the scammer charged that last group of 15 or 30 some large amount of money to receive the last answer, and so on with the winners of that bet.

I think that they’re saying that the concept of a social contract does not refer to a literal contract or legal document, or document of any kind, but rather simply a way of treating each other implicit in society.

Notably neither the Constitution nor its Amendments is the “social contract.”

I heard about this. The famous celebrity chef, someone everyone here has heard of, traveled all the way to Sardinia to learn the intricate technique known by only three women, who presumably have spent a lifetime learning this technique. After a full two hours, the chef declared it impossible.

Mind bending.

Yes. This was more like continuously jerking my weight backwards with all my might while holding a front corner to maneuver the TV inch by inch into a diagonal orientation, until on the last jerk it went an inch too far.

As a child in the early 90s (maybe 1993), I nearly got crushed under one of these trying to connect my Nintendo to the AV cables on the back. It was against the wall in an alcove and the only way to access was to rotate it slightly and lean it forward to reach the connections on the back (which I couldn’t see, only feel). It tipped off the shelf and onto me, partially supported by the shelf and partially by me.

I didn’t want to get in trouble because it was so nice, so I just kind of squatted there pinned under it trying to lever it back. Thankfully my dad walked by, noticed, and kept into action. And here I still am today.

I searched Google maps for Latam but could only find an airline. Where is this?

I’ve found that the rise of Apply Pay as a payment mechanism on random sites has been helpful in getting me off of Amazon. Often it’s just as easy to order something direct if they have Apple Pay (or ShopPay, but I have other issues with them) and the same price as Amazon. Plus discoverability is awful on Amazon anyways.

Still don’t get the Whole Foods return ability when not shopping from Amazon, but not punching in my credit card number to random sites has been enough to get me to move 50% of my shopping to retailers direct.

This is pretty cool, lots of fun.

I don’t know in this case specifically. In the typical case though I’ve seen corporate charters enhance fiduciary duties, I’ve seen them specify auction procedures, I’ve seen them give certain classes certain rights, and most importantly for this case I’ve seen them define corporate governance during the auction sale.

So potentially has massive implications for the auction and its fairness.

Yep! This is all correct. The point remains, however, that Delaware law does have a substantial amount to do with bankruptcy proceedings in Delaware, which is really the point I was responding to.

They typically file in the United States Court for the District of Delaware, a federal court located in Delaware. Delaware law plays a significant part in these cases even though they’re in Fed court. Corporate charters, filings, fiduciary duties, property rights, choice of laws, etc etc etc are all determined by Delaware law and used in the federal court.

Federal Bankruptcy Law provides the procedural framework.

So, Delaware law does in fact have nearly everything to do with it.

The creditors agreed to and supported the Global Tetrahedron plan to purchase Infowars and settle the bankruptcy. Seems like the judge is overstepping given Delaware law on this matter.

People do blame the politicians, but they rightly also blame anyone who has a hand in and nexus to furthering the rotten system. CEOs, AI algorithms people who write algorithms to deny coverage, software developers who ship it to production, etc are all culpable to some degree. The bigger the nexus, the more the culpability.

Night janitor? Probably not enough nexus to be blamed. The Tech Lead on the “Deny Healthcare for Corporate Profits” initiative? Probably as culpable as the CEO.

Super weird coincidence but I spotted a UUID in here that I had previously used!

The WiFi board unfortunately lacks the polish that the rest of the unit has. It’s like minimally attaching a bare raspberry pi to your Flipper in the most awkward way possible. They really should have built this in, particularly considering plenty of ESP-32s come with Bluetooth and WiFi for very, very cheap.

> I'll never understand the reactionaries. Did they really believe that there were terrorists out there who'd build bombs and then put a Lite Bright on it?

Lots of wild stuff happening at that time. Would you believe that there was a little reported incident where someone put a bomb in their SHOE?? People were very on edge, so I can completely understand having an additional layer of paranoia about seemingly normal things being potentially dangerous.

> Was it that they were all dumb millennials who never heard of the toy?

In 2007 most millennials would have been late teens to early 20s. According to the 2015 City of Boston Workforce Report, the median age of the city workers at that time was 45.25.[1] So I’m guessing it was probably people over 30 who responded to the calls and did not call the panic off.

> When reporters interviewed cops about it, they should've started giggling, telling the cameraman to "pack it up, these cops are r***".[sic]

Again, it’s likely 18 year old Millennials weren’t reporters or police officer or firefighters, it’s probably people who had played with this sort of toy as kids and knew what it was on its face.

I think the main thing I would point out is you should consider having some grace for people at this different and distinct time in the world, and that zeitgeist.

[1] https://www.cityofboston.gov/images_documents/2015.04.14%20F...

I tried Thunderbird for a while recently. Maybe 2-3 years, my only desktop email client, mostly because everyone talks highly about it. However, I ended up going back to the regular Apple mail, which has its flaws but I still find substantially better.

This is awesome and very historic. I’m hoping it ends up in a glass case at Meta HQ though so many people can appreciate it rather than in a closet in Palo Alto.

Just a caution for future clickers: This caused my mobile browser to spawn a bunch of print windows and was pretty annoying to exit.

Not without more data.

I was really excited to get mine! It is neat. I got it and it has been in my drawer almost exclusively. I have done exactly two things with mine:

* Opened my friend's Tesla battery charge hatch from a distance for fun (it closes again on its own after maybe 30 seconds)

* Recorded a lamp's IR remote on/off/up/down toggles and used the Flipper to turn on the lamp, rather than using the IR remote, to try to debug whether the remote was going bad or if there was a problem with the lamp (it was the lamp itself)

And I tried, unsuccessfully, to:

* Read my dog's microchip data

Otherwise, I haven't found any use for it. I really wanted to like it. I did a search to see if there was anything interesting to do with it that I was missing, and basically it's what I did (or failed to do) above. Some people also use it to change TV channels at restaurants as a prank it looks like.

You're both right. It is used in low concentrations in some food products to give a wintergreen flavor (wintergreen gum, for example), and in topical analgesics (like Tiger Balm, for example) because it absorbs through the skin and acts as a counterirritant to potentially relieve pain, though studies don't see to support this use. It can be deadly if ingested directly (salicylate is the same thing found in Aspirin) in the form used in the video, and I presume one could absorb enough through one's skin that it would also be harmful in strong concentrations as shown in the video.

If nothing else, it seems like having that much concentrated methyl salicylate would irritate a lot.

Wow, you're right. Every link I follow on the posted article leads me into a fascinating wasteland of other articles from the site, each better than the last. This is some extremely high quality content.

Looking at the list of removed stories makes me really happy with the moderators here. They're all sensationalist, advertising for some company, clickbait, way off topic, or some combination of above. In fact, I don't see a single story that I personally feel should not have been removed.

Thanks, mods.

This article from 2014, predating all of Boeing's recent failures, claims it is a regular occurrence and is also not always reported because it's a relatively minor thing to happen:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20140507001219-90103575-crack...

Can you share a source for your summary? It's not in the link you provided and I don't see anything searching Peter's site directly on point (though may be contained in podcast episodes or something).

Google has been inundated with SEO spam, and sometimes I want current things so LLMs don't work that well. One example is I was buying a ... wait, actually I was putting together some examples for you to compare Kagi (I am an unlimited subscriber) to Google directly, and none of them work now. My Google results for things like "best running shoes 2024" or things like that returned basically the same results as Kagi, pushing sites like Reddit and Wirecutter and REI blog and other known-good blogs to the top. Tried this in Private Browsing as well.

This is definitely a departure because when I subscribed to Kagi a couple months ago, all of my Google results for similar searches were SEO spam blogs filled with Amazon affiliate links that look like they had just sucked some Amazon reviews automatically into some poor facade to generate affiliate revenue.

These results were a surprise to me. Not sure what changed.

Looks like the links aren't clickable:

React Tetris Source:

https://github.com/a12k/react-tetris

Tetris on a Plane Source:

https://github.com/jstimpfle/tetris-on-a-plane

React Tetris Playable:

http://react-tetris-app.herokuapp.com/

This is great! Some of the frameworks/libraries are great, but not always. I've been systematically pulling unnecessary libraries out of plugins for use in my own projects. Here's one I just did, where I pulled jQuery out of the plugin:

https://a12k.io/reallysimpleweather

It's too late to edit my own post so I'll just reply again. I went ahead and started work on the Weather Underground API. It generally works so far, and will automatically use the WU API if a WU API key is provided.

Work in progress:

https://github.com/a12k/reallySimpleWeather/tree/wundergroun...