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Why would I ever trust a notary?

As a person being notarized it sounds like I have to give that business more personal information about myself than I usually have to do to get an online identity, as suggested by your subpoena statement.

As a service trying to verify accounts I now have to trust a third party. Maybe the notary has a business that sells fake IDs in the back that are then used in the notarizing process. Maybe my competition set up a burner notary node in order to flood my service with malicious accounts. It sounds like an attack vector.

Not only is sh so widespread that it won’t die, but my own backlog of sh scripts, code snippets, config, and muscle memory is so deep that I refuse to use anything that doesn’t have good compatibility with sh.

I also hate it. It’s not the worst piece of software I use everyday, but every time I need to do something more complex than completely routine I find myself fiddling much more than I should have to.

Anything that either

A. Improves the transparency of the process

B. Improves the entertainment proposition of the gamble aspect of hitting the jackpot.

Maybe with a live event you can do both at once.

Was that really the case? Netflix delivered DVDs for a decade before it started online streaming.

If I remember correctly Netflix’s original business model was more like a gym membership than brand building for an online platform that was a decade in the future.

I’m highly skeptical of jackpot generation, as there has been multiple high profile examples of corruption in this process. Yotta would have to insure me this is fair before I consider saving with them, but to be fair I’m probably not their target market as high earner that already has established savings practices.

It sounds like what you’re describing is what is commonly referred to in the HN crowd as a lifestyle business.

They generate a good life for their owners, although less than billions, are self sustaining, are privately owned, and often times the brands are known for quality, uniqueness, or exceptional user experiences.

Wolfram Research, author of Mathematica and Wolfram Alpha, is a great example of this type of business as a software company.

There is a scene in Shrek where he compares himself to an onion because he was emotional layers.

If you need to do air travel, these larger airplanes are better then smaller airplanes per passenger.

Their two systems one county deal with China is being taken away, which effects not only Hong Kong people, but British honor.

I’m a software developer, that commonly talks about software development with a diverse group of software developers.

I’ve never had a conversation with a software developer where they didn’t know what vim or emacs are.

It’s a little annoying, but you can do the math with a spreadsheet and a scale. Also many online resources has nutritional information for an item per 100g, and adjusting measurements of weight to other measurements of weight is much easier than adjusting measurements of volume to measurements of weight.

Weight watchers will allow you to scan a barcode of some food and it will tell you how many “points” it is, and someone in weight watchers has a limited number of “points” they can consume in a day.

This is an example of an existing solution to quantifying intake without adjusting packaging.

> The problem is that people are latching to the idea that such-and-such diet allows you to eat however much you want, and you'll lose weight.

This argument is often used not to say you can literally eat an arbitrarily large amount of food and still lose weight but to say if you eat this diet you’ll most likely lose weight without having to feel hungry.

> My preference is to get the government out of the nutrition science business, but that's about as unlikely.

It’s critically important that the government is in the nutrition science business and it does nutrition science correctly. Think about all of the ways the government is implicitly taking a stance on nutrition. The farm bill, school lunches, checkoff programs, government cheese, prison meals, snap, and many more.

The problem is one of incentive alignment. For example, the FDA is responsible for both the agricultural industry and the health of the population, which currently are at odds as the agricultural industry producing a lot of junk food.

Democratic systems can work by increasing the transparency of the government and by increasing the education of the voting population.

This article suggests that internationally speaking government warnings begin at 200mg of caffeine a day, which you are almost certainly going over. I seriously suggest you do your own deeper research on the health effects of coffee as it is a bit of a mixed bag of health benefits and health risks.

https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/10/11/1772/htm

The abstract says that the majority of the benefits of coffee probably comes from phenolic phytochemicals. This implies you can receive all of the same health benefits like lower risks type 2 diabetes by eating other vegetables.

Is the western diet really so weak that coffee is a major source of our vegetable intake?

Assuming the company has to pay the employees for their vacation time I don’t see how this saves the employer a significant amount of money in any situation other than paying out vacation during a mass lay-off.

Am I missing something?

> a mechanical difference

Insurance and gambling have very different legal regulations in almost every jurisdiction.

> Are wind and solar just vanity projects?

Solar is great for lots of non-grid applications, such as places without a grid connection or satellites. The entire technology isn’t vanity.

I think you missed the main point. The most important part of root comment’s advice is networking —- to meet and work with other devs. If you start your own open source project there’s not guarantee people will work on it with you.

> Most cops should be issued a radio and a bicycle, so you attract people who want to look like [1] instead of [2].

Having police on the roads is having a huge positive impact on drinking and driving. Let’s be careful not to over-correct when demilitarizing our police force.

PepsiCo products are typically very unhealthy options. Giving consumers more access to them is bad for public health.

I typically support the free market, but I think most of their products are addictive and harmful enough to have their costs increased and supply limited similar to Tobacco and Alcohol products.

Each token is worth 1cm^2 of the painting.

A significant portion of social media posts are filled with simply false information. I recently got into an argument with someone on Facebook, but stopped when they admitted they weren’t confident Covid-19 is caused by a virus.

The level of misinformation has reached a point where I wish I could pay for a service to fact check my Facebook feed, Twitter feed, YouTube videos, etc. I wish these platforms would allow third party filters to plug-in to their platforms and modify feed content and search results. I can imagine many more uses for these filters such as checking for inappropriate content for children or avoiding triggering content for trauma survivors. I can imagine a mix of AI and Humans being involved in these filters, and large number of people subscribing to popular filters.

I can imagine a hundred products that can benefit from 5G, and I’m just one person. WiFi is great for high power products that stay within trusted networks, but not everything does stay within a trusted network. 5G can also offer a convince of being pre-configured out of the box to work.

I think it would be painfully slow to have it learn in real time, especially if a grad student had to put the ball in between every game like what is demoed.

I imagine if Uber hadn’t pushed so hard for growth most local markets would still be using their old taxi system.

> The idea of making conscious AI scares me, because we could potentially create an AI that just experiences constant suffering

People choose to have babies with the knowledge that their children will suffer, and that their children might suffer a great deal. It seems like the same sort of ethical problem to me.

In the United States most motorcycle accidents involving more than one vehicle the motorcycle is not at fault. It’s really common for a car driver to not use a blinker, or not see a motorcycle and cause an accident with a motorcyclist.

I’ve seen plenty of elderly people use trains.