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>These types of disclaimers are anti-intellectual

They are, but it's a habit gained from forums with a broader audience, like Reddit, where a single mistake or unacceptable association can have your voice removed from the discussion.

What are the chances that residential electricity, gas or water get shut off as a result of an outbreak in North America? I live in a mid-sized town and we have enough dry beans and cereals to last a few months, but without hot water it would be a week at most.

Here's a sample of different "clickable" URLS you can find in an email from the NSLSC, the Canadian student loans department:

  click.csnpenslsc.ca
  csnpe-nslsc.cibletudes-canlearn.ca
  nslsc.ca
  app.studentlending.ca
  protege-secure.csnpe-nslsc.canada.ca

Important to note that this is a department that manages tens to hundreds of thousands in loans per user, asked users to recreate an account multiple times, on a variety of domains, by providing critical personal info (including SIN), and sent threatening notices demanding payment for nebulous charges that later resolved themselves.

Bill C-309 is the law in question [1]. It should only affect "unlawful" assemblies, but I'd be interested to see what the functional criteria are, how much warning is appropriate, and whether a protest's status can be changed retroactively.

>Harper years

The Liberals were also supporters of this bill, including the current Prime Minister.

I tried renaming the "kingdom" and found it to be oddly consistent:

You are , a wizard living in the kingdom of Larion. You have a staff and a spellbook. You finish your long journey and finally arrive at the ruin you've been looking for. You look around and see that it's not much different than when you left it. The only thing is, there's a large hole in the ground where the road used to be

> rename the kingdom to Snabba

"I don't think I like this name," you say aloud. "It sounds like something from a cartoon".

The people seem surprised by your choice. They all ask what you mean. You explain that it's an old word meaning 'stupid

> what is the name of the kingdom?

"Snabba Nul", you reply. Everyone seems to like the new name. You decide to stay here for awhile until you can find another place to live.

> Admiral: Restrict the inclusion of a % character.

I guess the password is being used in a query template? Seems like a very bad idea.

You wouldn't have to go as far as bartering. I didn't see anything in the article about banning other currencies. People would just adopt the next most stable/integrated currency, like USD.

Dang's response to a similar (but slightly more confrontational) comment from me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19459658

While I mostly agree with what he said, I think there are some things they could do to give users more control without "gutting" threads.

1. Allow accounts to be deleted, with all of all their comments and submissions reverting to a [deleted] author.

2. If conversations require author continuity, anonymize the author per-thread to something like the Google docs anonymous usernames

3. Include a deletion request with clear guidelines for reasons why something can be deleted.

Of course they won't do these things because 1) it's only two people and these features will require development and maintenance 2) an opaque and uncertain process ensures that they'll only receive requests in the most necessary cases 3) people might think more about what they write if they can't easily take it back

What they could really do is add a warning to the account creation, submission and comment forms telling users that their submissions are not retractable past the grace period.

I think living state, score and x,y position is all you would need to train a player. Is there any advantage to consuming the state of nearby cells if the game is entirely deterministic?

It would have to be higher dimensional properties observed by someone who doesn't have mathematical experience relayed to and confirmed by someone who does.

> Edible marijuana takes time to absorb and to produce its effects, increasing the risk of unintentional overdose

No citation for this. Do they mean a larger than intended dose or a dose that results in a serious toxic reaction or death?

Better source:

Median lethal THC dose for a 70kg human estimated to be 4g [0], which is slightly over 1300 full joints (at 3mg per joint) [0]. I won't link them here, but a cursory web search showed me stores claiming to sell edibles with up to 1000mg of THC.

Also a good read [1] [2]

0. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3109/0095299930900161...

1. https://www.nature.com/articles/srep08126

3. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/cannabis-overdose-tox...

Would this replace income and capital gains tax as well?

What about using plastic or some flexibly epoxy. Would it have some adverse effect or is there a cost issue?

Everything from the UI, to the movement, the blurriness and the intro message is reminiscent of the original Assassin's Creed. Not surprising that the credits show at least six people from the original Assassin's Creed team in addition to Patrice Désilets:

- Jean-François Boivin

- Philippe Debay

- Alex Drouin

- Frédéric Laporte

- Luc Tremblay

- Sacha Viltofsky

>only 1 out of 250+ submissions was from a woman

Mark didn't cite a source for this, which is what I was looking for in the Twitter thread.

I saw Mark's point about 1/250 but I couldn't locate the statement from the organizers. Larry says a number of speakers offered to swap their double sessions for more female speakers, but would those new speakers be the single applicant or other speakers who hadn't applied.

Regardless, the conference organizers are at least partially responsible for lack of diverse applicants if their speakers were able to find candidates on short notice.

I'm reading through the Twitter thread, but I can't decipher the exact issue(s).

Did the organizers select a lower ratio of diverse speakers than applicants? Were there very few diverse applicants and the organizers decided none of them qualified?

>Therefore, if you borrow £100 from the bank, and it credits your account with the amount, ‘new money’ has been created. It didn’t exist until it was credited to your account.

If that £100 is spent into the economy but is not returned, did the total volume of available £100 not increase, reducing the buying power of any £ stores? Perhaps it is not a tax because it isn't used directly by the government, but it is a burden that such a lender can enforce upon currency holders with the authority that is given to it by the organization controlling the currency.

>entrepreneurs who think they can do better are free to launch competing financial services.

Entrepreneurs cannot lend out money they never had. How difficult is it for a new company to obtain a piece of the volume of money that the currency regulator deems available for creation within a timeframe?

>let the same free citizens start their own competitor.

Except that starting a competitor often requires far more capital than the incumbents needed to reach their position. I don't support protectionism, but "true free market" economics are an illusion used to prevent and tear down regulations.

It's very possible that they are not being manipulated, simply that most people who use the internet are more left/right wing. That's the amplification of the majority.

So the bank levies a micro tax on all holders of the currency with the expectation that their investment in the receiver of the loan will yield a better return?

>The internal discussion could really be hard to read for me (I'm black)

Was it a minority of people who had views that were hard to read or the majority? I was under the impression that most people at Google were not supportive of his acquittal.

That could be the case if the distribution of views were evenly stratified, but they are not. Even the application of very simple mechanics can subtly amplify the views of the majority.

Search is one example, as is jury selection.

Built in containerization.

I think OC is talking about operational costs, not research.

>rescue or purchase a pet as a potential strategy to improve their cardiovascular health as long as pet ownership led them to a more physically active lifestyle

I wonder if they tried to correlate this with the dog breed. I don't see it mentioned in TFA.

I thought about something similar in a previous post [0]. What if you ran a service that floated a large number of accounts and circulated logins for a larger number of users? At the moment it looks like sharing accounts is legal [1] but I'm sure the services would clamp down on it they thought it costs them money.

0. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20732231

1. https://www.androidauthority.com/netflix-account-sharing-100...

And they're not perfect either.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/06/a-reaso...

- Innocence Project doesn't take on cases where DNA link was established

- Man served four years for sexual assault after his DNA was found to be “consistent” with samples from the victim

- Turns out the DNA testing failed to establish a match between two of his own samples

- This evidence was not presented to the jury

- Lab tech makes numerous errors but is cleared because their lawyer demonstrated that here errors "were a product of systemic failures that included inadequate supervision".

Just one of the many sectors where budget cuts are going turn into huge losses down the line. The consequences of cutting healthcare and education are (going) to be much worse.

>Human groups don't reproduce in pairs and undergo selection, but individual humans do.

Under a sufficiently low population density, genes among splintered groups will diverge. Groups with genes that promote expansion and/or adaptation will eventually out-compete groups that don't. Does this process not occur?

>It's hard to find any examples of genetic material of a group being lost when that group was outcompeted by another group.

Isn't the extinction of other human species an example of this?