It’s much more of a poison to some of our primate relatives. iirc the genes that facilitate alcohol metabolism evolved in great apes millions of years before homo sapiens, and we inherited them; we’ve been boozing long before we were even human.
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I think this is marketroid for “we don’t limit them” not a statement about physics
Stripe is a credit and debit card processor (and also a card issuer). They are NOT a bank, but do control some BINs (notably 4242 which is used for the famous test card 4242x4)
is this a tautology?
Don’t they save backups to Meta? Even if not, they can read whatever’s (unencrypted) on your phone if they really want to.
If it’s close to good, and you need a little more brightness, there are newer screens that reflect much more light. more reflective = pricier, but there’s a decent value/sweet spot.
Frog is OpenAI staff
Toad is the rogue agent
you can find the full story with a search for “frog and toad cookies story pdf”
And Frog didn’t even bother to tie up the box or put it on a high shelf! The moment Frog’s back was turned, Toad opened the box and ate the cookies. Frog feigned surprise.
This building is at Market & New Montgomery, and was built in 1907, and has an award-winning elevator.
For some years I worked on the same block, at the corner of Market & 2nd St. That building (605 Market) was built in 1917 and if that elevator wins any awards it’ll be for slowness and low-availability. It was constantly out of service, and when it did run it was so slow that it was faster to take the stairs, even to the top floor.
I was once in the elevator room, among other oddities was the most monstrously large mechanical computer I’ve ever seen, managing the elevator.
I wonder if it’s finally been replaced.
sure, for an upper bound.
how many of those 340M people are actually employable? how many are children? how many are retired? permanently unable to work?
subtract those out, it’s a better upper bound but still a swag
then add in all the self-employed, your swag is a little better, still a swag
your throwaway name is apt and funny
the analogy to Ehrlich was strikingly apt
iirc there was a story in The Onion about someone who “accidentally deleted The Internet” on their Windows system and the whole Internet stopped working. They were so sorry, maybe it was in the Recycle Bin, there was still hope for the world, lol
Pluto is the Princeps of Kuiper Belt Objects, the First Among Equals. It is the most honored KBO, even if it is not a planet.
Eris is bigger than Pluto, so if Pluto’s a planet then so is Eris. So you have 10 planets.
And then how many other Erises are still hiding? How many planets do we have then? It must be some very large unknown number!
Holding the true number of planets to be a large unknown number was anathema to many.
The demotion of Pluto was primarily motivated by a desire for the word “planet” to refer to a fixed, never-changing number of large bodies orbiting the sun.
That’s not an option for the kernel. It’s hard to read the cat-and-mouse account with any hope today. I think the flood abates someday but not sure how it happens.
But if you pass enough well-meaning regulations and strangle all the small businesses with good intentions, it’s much easier to overthrow a crony-capitalist oligopoly of megacorps, which is exactly the end game.
The “Inception” graphic was hilarious and made me wonder if perhaps the site itself is served by some SELF binary (is it?? that would be insane)
It has always worked this way:
1. if you can sell the ads yourself, you get better rates and better, relevant advertisers.
2. if you can’t sell ads yourself, you use ad networks and send your audience the worst of the internet.
All the major pubs do this. It’s impressive that a smaller outlet does it.
I can think of a couple of counter examples:
Civil asset forfeiture: your property is charged with the crime, you have to petition the government to get it back or else they sell it at auction.
Similar: When products deemed unsafe are ordered to be destroyed; it’s the same end effect as the deodand although liability sits with the manufacturer.
I sense that the checks-and-balances & record-keeping around mass-force-push SMS in the US are now extremely stringent especially after the Hawaii incident. And I'm OK with the current situation here.
OTOH, the checks-and-balances/transparency situation around LPR camera networks is... basically non-existent. I am not OK with the current situation here.
Both of these situations in the same (relatively) high-trust US. The difference is one has some serious regulations around it, and the other is cowboying shit.