saganus

What happens if I publish the code under a restrictive (non-open source) license?

Even though the code is available, that does not mean you can use it however you want, no?

Don't all permanent members do the same though?

It seems to me like that is the point of beingn a permanent member, above everyone else.

Otherwise, what's the point of being one if you won't block things that are against your interest?

Not saying I like, it but nuclear weapons tend to give a lot of leverage.

Oh yes.

I am both amused and annoyed at their abilities.

I am convinced they can also phase-shift out of this plane or something...

You can be following a mosquito with all your attention, and suddenly they just dissapear and no amount of looking around, even with a bright flashlight, will be enough to find them.

Until you give up, go do something else and they come back.

Funny that in one of the info cards it says "MILITARY-GRADE SECURITY" and then inside that same card: "Your account is protected by bank-grade encryption and authentication."

A unique marketing model nevertheless.

> And throwing off $150B in operating cash flow (6 months). I think stock buybacks are lame but what can they spend this on really? A moon launch and base?

It would be great if they could spend a bit of that (dunno, 20B? 40B?) in fixing bugs and improving documentation.

It's not cool or fancy, but would surely help cement Apple as an even greater development environment, no?

How so?

By "most players" you mean excluding the very top, right?

I suggest you go to https://www.ipata.org/ to find pet shippers and then write or call them to figure out what you need.

Haven't yet shipped my dogs as I'm still doing some research, but that site has helped having a place to start the research.

Interesting

What happens when there's no immediate "physically hurting them", but instead long-term damage that is not immediately obvious?

I ask because dumping waste could potentially be "not hurting others" in an immediate sense, but still e.g. contaminating the dump area.

What happened to you is clearly not your fault, but after having similar issues with big institutions, I've realized that doing more than one "important" operation on a " big business/bank" account is always finicky.

So now I do things one at a time.

E.g. To cancel a card, first move all money (or debts) from acct A to acct B. Go home. Couple of days later, pay any outstanding fees of acct A. Go home. Couple of days later, request cancellation. Inevitably find that something else needs to be done, so do that thing. Go home. Couple of days later....

You get the idea. It sucks big time, but I've found it's better that way, since the probability of error is somewhat lower (and even then it happens!)

I think I was still asleep. You are correct.

I don't think you could prove that.

Wouldn't our current understanding of chemistry be enough to prove that turning water into wine is not possible? Or viceversa, be able to prove that it is possible?

I.e. if we had the capability to transmute elements (which I think is theoretically possible, given enough energy and technology?), could we turn H2O molecules into all the other molecules needed for wine?

I don't think I understand how are disproven ideas a subset of unproven ones.

Disproven means, "proven to be false", while unproven means there is no proof yet, either positive or negative, right?

How can one be a subset of the other?

> Its also not acceptable to downvote because you disagree.

Not really. There isn't a specific guideline on what downvoting means or what is acceptable to downvote.

Some people downvote comments they disagree with, some do it for comments that don't add anything meaningful to the dicussion, etc.

Interesting, thanks!

Definitely will need to read more about it before considering trying it.

I had a friend that liked the effects of Modafinil, but would complain of bad headaches every time they took some. Even less than 1 quarter of tablet would be enough to produce the bad effects.

Is that something that happens just to some people or is there a way to avoid the headaches?

I'm curious about trying, but since I used to suffer migraines (not anymore fortunately) I am worried that I will have headaches or trigger a migraine.

I think I've seen them before, but very rarely.

I guess I'll need to look harder. Thanks for the suggestion

I never realized how strong caffeine actually is, until I cut down my 5-6 cups a day intake to just 1 in the morning.

Now very occasionally (perhaps once every couple of months) I drink another cup after lunch (but never after 4PM, or I won't be able to sleep properly that night).

The problem is that I _really_ like the flavor. I've tried decaf as well and while it's not bad, I do prefer grinding my beans just before brewing my cup.

I also hate that whenever I have quit cold-turkey I've gotten those nasty migraines. It's impressive how can a drink that we don't really think about much (Starbucks everywhere) can cause such strong effect on people.

very interesting. Thanks!

Finer flour in the sense of finely ground, or in the sense of higer quality?

I suspect it's the latter but am curious.

Also, what would make flour be of higher quality?

I had no idea!

Pretty funny actually.

How does this service work?

It seems to have all the look and feel of AWS, and somehow has more up to date info than the official AWS status page?

Ah, I see what you mean by "simply".

Yeah, I guess there's definitely a ton of side effects depending on which way you go.

However, the optics of giving banks more "free" money at the expense of "the people" is not good regardless. I wonder what would happen if the government extends almost-free loans to whoever has a mortgage.

I imagine a lot of people would use it to pay it, but probably a ton more would just use it to get a bigger TV, a car or something similar.

No way to win either way it seems.

The government could ask the banks for their list of debtors, and then transfer an amount of money equal to the sum of all debts, on the condition that the banks write off said debtors, no?

Not sure what side effects this could cause but it seems possible in principle.

Holy cow. That's pretty scary!

1 in 35 is a lot.

Thanks for that!

Do you have any links about that?

I've never heard of this correlation and have friends that became parents at 50 so I am curious.

I know that the older you get, the riskier it is to have children, but had no idea it was a linear correlation.

Any idea why would they put the latrines next to, or apparently even _inside_ the kitchen?

I get that they might not haven been aware of germs or correlated bathrooms with disease or whatever, but just based on the odors alone, it seems a strange decision...

That's the point of touchscreens I think.

Being able to offer users a myriad of config options without the need for tons of knobs.

Not saying I like it, but a lot of people seem to.

I guess the ideal setup would be knobs for essential stuff like volume, AC, etc, and then a touchscreen for the rest of the stuff.

Perhaps it would be useful to have a sort of different shade of green/yellow/red (perhaps striped?) indicating it's a value determined by automatic processes, not yet confirmed by a human.

At least that way, as a user of the service, you can make the assumption that it could be broken, and act accordingly, or at least take certain precautions while you wait for the human-confirmed status value.