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I'd say React has reached boring by JS standards.

I think a good measuring stick would be the distance you'd need to drive in a car to generate the same level of risk to your life. Driving is seemingly mundane but I think one of the riskiest things we do on a daily basis in the US.

Thanks, this is one of the tools that makes the Python experience so usable.

A lot of these players are young, almost children, that have dreamed of playing in the world cup their entire life. If they're lucky and incredibly talented they can expect to get another opportunity, but I don't think it's fair to put the onus on them to boycott.

It's not undeveloped, there's a park and music venue there now. I don't think it is a leap to say it is now used by many more Chicagoans than the airport for private jets ever was, even if most Chicagoans are unaware.

The Spanish flu was over 100 years ago and was detected with fewer mortalities than covid. We haven't suddenly developed a new value for human life - 50 years ago, people still cried when their grandparents died.

> I don't think that captures the full detail of exactly what a transcendental is

I completely agree but I think it captures the spirit of what a transcendental is succinctly.

100%.

The context has changed, we live in a different world and have different expectations. If you've spent years studying philosophy you'll understand Kierkegaard, if you've listened to music from the 50s you'll understand why the Beatles were so revolutionary, if you watched sitcoms from the 80s you'll understand why Seinfeld was so off the wall.

We as a culture have absorbed these great works into our expectations. Most people couldn't explain existentialism, pop song structure, or postmodern humor but they understand it now at some gut level.

Writing all of my business logic in triggers and stored procedures seems like a high cost to avoid writing crud. All the value comes from business logic. Making the business logic easier to read and work with is usually my top priority.

If you value money more than your kids.

> the journal PLOS Biology published a paper arguing that some exciting conclusions from aging research are caused by statistical error (from bad data if not outright fraud)

Errors as a primary cause of late-life mortality deceleration and plateaus

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jou...

Acknowledging that the most significant part of being pregnant is everything that comes after the birth and not the physical act of carrying a baby. We expect fathers to be parents now too.

The basic principle at work is the square-cube law. The mass of an airship enclosure grows 2-dimensionally while the volume and lifting power grow 3-dimensionally. If you use any 3-d structure to support the airship you will have problems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square%E2%80%93cube_law

> Looking at the top 5% most rainy hours of the year in Dublin, usage rates dropped to 81% of the average. In Seville and Valencia, those numbers were 79% and 74%. In Chicago, though, it was down to 47%. In Melbourne it was 46%, and in Vancouver usage was as low as 22% of the average.

> Again, you’d be forgiven for thinking this can all be explained by acclimatisation. Folks in Dublin, say, are used to miserable weather, so it makes sense they’d be happier to ride in it. But according to Dr Bean and co, it’s more complicated than that.

> Seville and Valencia are both rather dry, and yet rain in those cities doesn’t make that much of a difference to cyclist numbers. Why? Well, as the researchers speculate: “The difference could be that Seville and Valencia have large [bike share] systems and safe cycling infrastructure whereas Melbourne only had a small system not useful for commuters.”

> It might be that good, safe cycling infrastructure is enough to encourage people to ride even if the weather is bad. But when bike share infrastructure is bad (e.g. like it was in Melbourne), and the weather is bad, that’s a recipe for lower cyclist numbers.

I think this is just a matter of variance masked by their use of relative (vs absolute) units. I'll bet Chicago had storm/flood/tornado warnings on many of those days. Is the weather in Dublin, Seville, and Valencia as extreme as Chicago, Vancouver, & Melbourne?

You don't need to know what the pandemic is specifically to plan for a global market shock. Knowing that you have a critical component with a long inelastic supply chain is enough.

I don't think this is very insightful. Using the first half of books for training data and the second half for testing data is still training the model specifically for these texts and authors. Not quite as bad as testing on the training data, but not great.

I don't think that's too surprising, I doubt you can play chess at a high level with early stages of Alzheimer's.

This is similar to the German Tank Problem - given you have found N numbered tanks, how many total tanks are there?

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

Public transit, walk, bike, ... Nobody bats an eye if you can't get somewhere easily by public transit but the prospect of not being able to drive somewhere is incomprehensible?

> "I have worked with and written with some UNREAL artists who let me into their lives to create with them who deserved their credit and publishing, ..."

I think most people think she falls under this category.

No, it means you can quit and get severance. It's acknowledging that this isn't what people signed up for and taking responsibility

Guinea pigs are social animals, I'd get the second asap. The insecurity may be from being alone.

The conclusion was that exercise can help with appetite suppression. These people have not struggled with their weight but do struggle to RTFA.

This is different though, his husband can't get the records himself.

I think you're conflating two points - the granularity of targeting and the auction method. Everything will get simpler if you reduce the number of targeting variables. The auction method seems less relevant to me, that's simply a financial matter.

The amount they spent in the first place is irrelevant, that's the sunk cost fallacy. They sell it for three dollars because that's their best expected return (weighing in factors like opportunity cost of keeping the box on the shelf).

Yeah. It's all left over from the fact that double entry bookkeeping is older than the use of negative numbers. Start with the rule that every account has to be positive and you get all of the inane rules.

CPAs are the OG Luddites, refusing to use negative numbers to make their jobs simpler and easier to understand.

Ritual kind of does what you're describing without the delivery. They're targeting offices. One person orders and the rest of the office is alerted. The first person picks up orders for anyone else that puts an order in within a few minutes.

Right. The old adage - if you smell shit all day, check your shoe - seems to apply. If you think virtually every organization is toxic, then the problem probably lies with you.

A more specific and concrete than the culture and process answers is someone should have reviewed and approved the code.