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I've really loved having jq at my disposal ever since learning about it, but I feel like it took the combination of it and gron [1] to really transform my debugging and JSON workflows.

1: https://github.com/TomNomNom/gron

I've also found the documentation tough to use when I need to jump back in and answer something like "how do I _____?" It feels like one of those sets of docs that's better approached by just reading the whole damn thing, working through some examples, etc. Studying the docs as opposed to referring to them.

You're right, it isn't really utility/functional CSS - it's more akin to BEM [1] at this point. But having used both...I think it's pretty much six-of-one, half-dozen of another; you can write good or poor CSS both ways! :D

[1]: http://getbem.com/introduction/

I believe they're saying that it _doesn't_ have negative returns. The fine is under 1 billion dollars, and the poster you replied to is saying they're "reasonably certain that [Amazon] earned more than $1B by using this targeting information."

So the poster is saying that they believe it was worth it for Amazon to break the law and pay an $888 million fine.

I really like that line, "advice is a form of nostalgia." I think I already have internalized it a bit but I'm gonna try and be more mindful of that when I give advice!

Agree with this. I really like having video on for everyone but some meetings don't have that vibe and if people have it off then turn yours off as well. Not everything has to be your way!

Nothing is, so that's exactly the approach I take with them! I recommend it! My response is to absolutist positions like "delete your account" and "well it's not a /necessity/ so they should be able to do whatever they want."

You're getting downvoted rather than replied to which is a bummer, because I understand your POV but have recently changed my stance on this.

I used to be the standard kind of user of FB and Instagram who had friends and occasionally posted, etc. Then I realized it makes me feel like crap being on there and hated their business practices so stopped using it.

Lately though, I've had a few experiences that made me rethink how optional it really is. I recently sold a car and FB Marketplace has /so many more people/ along with a higher degree of trust than Craigslist. I got a bunch of offers from FB and none from Craigslist despite the same listing.

But even more significant is how businesses interact with the platforms. Because a bunch of people use FB/Insta, a lot of local businesses post new things or updates or specials there. Lately, new businesses are not even bothering with a website and just setting up an Insta. If I'm looking up what a store's hours were this past holiday weekend in the USA, then I know it's most likely going to be best to look it up on their Insta page. And just go ahead and see what the experience is to do that when you're not logged in!

Sure it'd be GREAT if those businesses didn't do that, but the alternatives aren't great and I'm not going to pressure them into reforming social media when they're just trying to make money off of selling an ice cream cone; they've got it hard enough!

This is true, but there's also a murkier middle option. I used to work for a company that made a lot of money from its software patents but I was in a division that worked heavily in open-source code. We were forbidden to contribute to the high-value patented code because it was impossible to know whether we were "tainted" by knowledge of GPL code.

You can be in favour of major surgery on our civilisation to get to net-zero in order prevent climate change, and still think that this event was likely not caused by climate change.

Self-selection bias. Clearly those who love the saying are predisposed to move fast. But they move so fast they haven't had a chance to understand the saying!

It's the market rate for a live-in butler. If you can't afford that, maybe just get the cleaning staff who comes in once a month and order pizza once a week.

I'm not American, but the core flaw that I've never had explained away for me in voucher or "school choice" systems is how "bad" schools get better.

E.g., school in my district is bad. They don't have enough resources, or their teachers are bad. People begin taking their kids out of the school which means the school now has less money. Assuming they could fire teachers at will, they can't even now afford the "better" teachers who would likely cost more. They definitely can't afford more learning resources or an expansion to lower class sizes.

So how do you prevent schools either going into a vicious or virtuous cycle?

How confident are you that you'd pick out the Spaniard? Or Belgian? Or Canadian?

Generally, people overestimate the variation in their own compatriots and underestimate that in foreigners.

Do you smear gasoline on your skin daily?

Generally it's the hassle of getting it because in car-centric American cities, the rent-for-a-day renting process isn't streamlined. Rental companies aren't convenient (or possible) to walk/bus to so you need to get there somehow. Which means you need a main car already, or you have to bug a neighbour/friend and do it on their schedule and not yours. The ability to be like "oh, I've got a spare hour here, I'm gonna go grab that lumber I need next weekend" isn't possible anymore.

So at the end of the day, you need a car, period. I live in a midsize American city after living in a major Canadian downtown and wish we didn't need the car (we both bike a lot), but I really do. And personally, an electric pick-up is gonna be mighty appealing for my next car in however-many years because it removes the main reason I've never gotten one before: gas. I can only imagine how big a win the lack of gas is gonna be outside of America where gas is hilariously cheap.

This is the tongue-in-cheek point that the post you're replying to is making. :)

The market makers are making _bank_ right now off of the premiums. They're the last people to request a halt.

WSB is not buying the stock with the purpose of pushing the price up beyond realising that by buying and holding, it makes covering short positions more difficult to cover.

It is not illegal.

But most people would never up/down the ad, which means the ad would be targeted more randomly, which means it wouldn't be as effective, which means the website/content owner wouldn't get as much money for displaying it.

I don't think that solution works in the current environment, unfortunately.

Yes but it's a touch difficult to keep living expenses below $0, which most people in the developed - let alone developing - world would need to do on their salaries to save the extra $80k/year.

A lot of /specific/ food cravings aren't actually carbohydrate-related but tend to be (more often) mineral or (less often) vitamin cravings. That said, women's cycles /do/ result in cravings for macronutrients, but those are definitely not something brought about by big sugar but rather an evolutionary byproduct.

Then they wouldn't be transcripts...

What's the "best" ordering app to use these days if I want to prioritize how well they treat restaurants? I've tried looking this up recently to no avail.

I know at the end of the day, "call and pick-up directly" is going to be it but occasionally I just don't want to go pick it up.

If anyone is new to his blog and finds this series entertaining, his series on Sparta is amazing and incredibly insightful: https://acoup.blog/tag/sparta/

Hmmm, I spy an opportunity for Amazon to use their home drones to offer discounted prices if there's ever only one person watching.

Page 7: Beef production is the leading cause of deforestation and land clearing in Australia. A recent GIS analysis undertaken by the Wilderness Society found that 73% of all deforestation and land clearing in Queensland is linked to beef production.16 This figure is likely to be an underestimate of the beef industry’s contribution due to the conservative methods used throughout the study. That result is consistent with the Queensland Government’s official tree‐cover reports which regularly attribute over 90% of the state’s forest and bushland destruction to replacement by ‘pasture.’17 Similarly, Australian government data ascribed 72% of national deforestation in 2016 to grazing.18 There are numerous scientific articles that identify cattle grazing as a key driver of deforestation, particularly in Queensland which has the largest cattle numbers in Australia.19

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I will note, I've noticed people sometimes saying "well, you can't grow anything else on that land!" as a defense for animal agriculture. Maybe /we/ can't grow any /crops/, but nature can thrive in such spaces. I think given what we know about Climate Change, it should go without saying that we shouldn't bulldoze every forest and bushland and farm on it in any way we can.

Probably because not enough people care enough. If you want to start one of those, here's a good starting point: https://newgtlds.icann.org

Well, that was because developers demanded it. Apple initially didn't allow in-app payments for free apps.

If you’re trying to classify images as whether or not they contain something, you need a bunch of images that you already know don’t contain the thing (got it), and a bunch of images that you already know /do/ contain the thing. We lack the latter, so there’s nothing for the algorithm to learn based on.