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This usage of "grandma" is sexist as well -- it's much more common than "grandpa".

> Nothing is worse for an airliner than a grounded jet.

Those airlines clearly think the probability of this is pretty low or they would have make the call to ground those planes on their own, but a jet that smashes itself into the earth and disintegrates because of a faulty sensor is probably even worse than a grounded jet.

I don't know enough about the production of nuclear centrifuges to say for sure, but it seems probable that the damage intentionally inflicted by Stuxnet[1] may very well have put some lives at risk. Triton looks more like another step down this path than like a watershed moment.

Mike Hayden, 2012 [2]:

> We have entered into a new phase of conflict in which we use a cyberweapon to create physical destruction, and in this case, physical destruction in someone else's critical infrastructure.

Still, an alarming development.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet

[2] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/stuxnet-computer-worm-opens-new...

Cosmicomics is also pretty great.

> The biggest drop is in the very desirable 12- to 34-year-old group.

12-34 is a very wide range. While I do know a few people toward the high end of that age range who did have FB accounts and deleted them, I wonder how much of the drop in this bracket is because younger people are simply never signing up for FB accounts.

Facebook's business model is 100% incompatible with really preserving user privacy.

> usually featuring separate exterior entrances to each suite

Having recently thought a lot about this after being tricked into staying in a place listed on booking.com as an "inn", but which upon arrival was clearly a motel, this is definitely the defining feature of a motel: if I can access the room through an exterior entrance without passing through the interior of the building (a lobby), it's a motel and not a hotel.

This is still one of the beneficial places in the country for Amazon to have a new HQ, but NY will be just fine without Amazon there. Why should NY have to bribe one of wealthiest organizations in the world with billions of dollars to set up shop there?

You may find this short article interesting:

https://foreignpolicy.com/2012/12/06/we-were-pirates-too/ We Were Pirates, Too Why America was the China of the 19th century.

Your Step 3 is the hard part.

For Steps 1 & 2 have you looked into generating markup and using Pandoc to convert to, e.g. Word files? https://pandoc.org/

10% on gains, plus 5% on withdrawals: https://predictit.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/5...

The volume may be too low to do much arbitrage.

Specifically, https://www.predictit.org/markets/detail/3352/Will-Donald-Tr...

Currently about 73% yes

Pretty much every year on that chart is a low point for cigarette smoking compared the years that preceded it.

Note that 2015 is not when teens started vaping. It's when whoever collected this data started paying attention to vaping.

I'd rather teenagers weren't using any tobacco products whatsoever, but I'm pretty sure inhaling vaporized ecig juice is much better for people's health than cigarette smoke.

> vaping/Juul has undone a decade of progress in reducing teen smoking

How much of that reduction in smoking is because of teens who would otherwise be smoking but are now vaping instead?

I write my python interactively in a repl, and often end up with deeply nested list comprehensions as a result. I always need to break them up to have any chance of understanding it even a day later.

> [Amazon's] customer service is fantastic in my experience.

Try not having Prime. I tried that once, for a short while. The difference in service was striking.

> some people going far beyond just in match flaming to harassing with death and rape threats in direct messages long after the match is over.

It sounds like your company needs to fire these toxic individuals ASAP before the company gets taken to the cleaners in a lawsuit for allowing this to go on.

https://disaster.radio is a neat little project that might be helpful for building something like this.

> I feel like we are repeating similar mistakes we made with the tobacco industry.

Pot is so much less addictive and damaging to health than tobacco and alcohol, that it makes perfect sense to have it legal and as readily available as those things.

"Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say face-to-face. Don't be snarky. Comments should get more civil and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Education is not about memorizing information. It is about learning how to think. If anything, this is of much more value now that we're drowning in so much information -- and so much misinformation.

Matt Parker's "Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension" is a good one too: https://www.amazon.com/Things-Make-Do-Fourth-Dimension-ebook...

I am reminded of the Choose Your Own Adventure Series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choose_Your_Own_Adventure

It's hard to understand what you're objecting to. 1) This is pop sci, not a "scientific article", and 2) the text you quoted links to another article about the most famous primatologist in the world making exactly that comparison.

The best way to become convinced of Monty Hall may be to grab a buddy and some playing cards, and run a simulation. 30 rounds or so should be convincing.

Thank you for the information. I have no connection to the charity I linked (except I think I may have given them $50 once), and I don't know which charities, if any, are effective at preventing malaria. Maybe they should be giving out fishing nets as well. It's telling that for the communities receiving these nets, they see starvation as a more immediate threat.

Anyway, my point is just that if you're looking to make optimal use of money to save or improve human lives, there are many things that should be higher priorities than stopping people dying "of old age" in the West.

Here's some info pulled right from https://www.againstmalaria.com/:

* Half a million people die each year and 400 million fall ill [with malaria]

* 70% of them are children under 5

* #1 killer of pregnant women

* Malaria is preventable

Malaria nets cost $2. Antimalarial drugs are dirt cheap in the developing world. If you want to impact human suffering and increase human health, this is a good place to start. Not with trying to extend the long and already pleasant lives of rich people in the West.

These analogies involving valuable physical items are way off base. If I'm walking along the street and see a diamond ring lying there, I can only assume that it belongs to someone else and they've misplaced it (because it's very valuable and, crucially, there is no way for the owner to make use of its value if they've lost possession of it). I may not have any way to locate the owner, but I still recognize that it belongs to someone else and that for me to take it and keep it would deprive them of their property (probably, I should take it to the police).

If you insist on analogies involving lost rings, this situation is more like taking a picture of a ring someone lost in the street than it is like taking the ring.

> "tricking the HTTP server,"

I don't think you understand the web. I'm not anthropomorphizing anything. He literally sent a request for each document he wanted to look at and the server sent a response.

You keep referring to this hypothetical "reasonable person" who doesn't understand the very basic facts about technology, but the opinion you attribute to the "reasonable person" is just one you invented that happens to match your own.

> I think most people would assume that documents that can only be accessed by editing an ID were not meant to be accessed.

How would anyone know if the documents could only be accessed by editing the URL? Others in this thread have pointed out that some of those documents were indexed by Google, so actually, editing the URL is not the only way to get to them.

These analogies are not helping. Here's what actually happened: the accused allegedly sent requests to a web server asking "may I please look at the document with id X?" for various values of X. Each time the web server had the option to say "no, you may not", or even "no, that document doesn't exist." Instead, it responded each time by sending the requested document.

That's all that happened: someone used HTTP in the way it's intended to be used, and inferred quite reasonably that the people who set up that web server knew what they were doing and meant to set it up that way. It turns out those people didn't know what they were doing, and they got embarrassed about it.