throw_away

If this is the same study,

https://www.recoveryanswers.org/research-post/alcohol-sales-...

then, I think it's even worse than that. I believe the stat you are referencing meant that the amount of alcohol sold to people in excess of the health guidelines (14/wk) amounts to 44% of total alcohol sales (that is, if everyone merely stuck to the guidelines, alcohol sales would drop 44%).

In the same para, they say if you segment the population by drinker level, those who consume over the guidelines represent 68% of total sales. 23% from those men who drink > 50 (> 35 for women) drinks a week (!!) and 45% of sales are from hazardous drinkers who go over the 15/wk guideline.

3-4 drinks/wk people like OP only represent 32% of sales revenue, but they are more than twice the population of the hazardous or harmful drinkers combined. So if the >15/wk set simply turned into 3-4 drinks/wk people, alcohol sales would crater >44% (but presumably <68%).

But it's also the sort of thing where you don't have to change the whole system all at once in one go. There are now two states that will use RCV for federal elections as well as many more local municipalities (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranked-choice_voting_in_the_Un... ).

With any luck, these reforms can stick and hopefully expand— necessary steps if we're ever to end this political duopoly.

Simple Server-Side Storage Service IIRC

Interesting, too, as the unreleased pre-cursors to S3 were called first S5, and then S4.

Even entering the airspace of a hostile country isn't safe. Two incidents off the top of my head:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Protasevich#Ryanair_Flig...

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

You're worried about unfair competition with banks advertising "0.1%" or "0.2%", but with a must rule like this, there wouldn't be any of those competitors. Anyone with the same rate would advertise "0.10%", and anyone who wanted to beat would say "0.20%" (or more likely, "0.11%").

> > If I travelled at one percent of speed of light, same distance, i suppose 100 years would elapse for me, how much would elapse on earth?

> I don't know how to do the math, but a very, very long time would have passed on earth.

Eh, at .01c, not so much: https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/time-dilation?c=USD&v...

(=100.005y, not even two days extra)

(1) https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/food-matters/honey-make...

(2) https://www.angelesinstitute.edu/thenightingale/daily-sugar-...

By (1), 20% of a 2000 cal diet (assumption) would be 400 cal, or 100g sugar. By (2), average US sugar intake is 71.14g/day

you will also need a quart-sized ziploc:

https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/whatcanibring/...

This week's 99% Invisible talks about this in the context of the Hanko, the personal stamps used in Japan for signing contracts and recording Nemawashi consensus. It talks about how one may join the 100% consensus, but still not be 100% bought in, which may be what Iv was getting at.

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/hanko/

His Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology is good and short and findable on the internet as PDF if you're looking for an amuse bouche of Graeber's ideas before tackling Debt

This very article says the same, if read past the headline:

> Japan’s often-cited conviction rate of over 99 percent is a percentage of all prosecuted cases, not just contested cases. It is eye-catching, but misleading, since it counts as convictions those cases in which defendants pleaded guilty. If the U.S. conviction rate were calculated in a similar manner it would also exceed 99 percent since so few cases are contested at trial (in FY 2018 only 320 of the total number of 79,704 federal defendants were acquitted at trial).

I was curious why I kept seeing this article coming up as an attack on Japan when the text clearly doesn't come across that way & yep, this link is the first google result for "japan 99% conviction rate"

Imagine a company paying people what they are worth rather than what they can get away with.

> paying a single rate would create a very lopsided team in terms of geography

> the incentives would lead these places to be dramatically over-represented relative to higher cost of living places.

vs. the not-at-all-lopsided and equally-represented status quo, where everyone lived in the same high-cost-of-living city?

no oil

Worst possible ranked choice alternative, not worst possible voting method (i.e., still better than FPTP, but not without its weaknesses). Frustrating as there are more straightforward, and objectively better mechanisms which are ignored in favor of IRV. It's hard not to feel conspiratorial that maybe the Powers That Be want worse voting mechanisms.

This page is a good explainer of IRV's weaknesses and shows some of the alternatives: https://ncase.me/ballot/

Not even a coupon, a raffle ticket.

I worked at a place where re-auth was required every twelve hours, which was a convenient reminder of when you'd been working way too long.

The US does this kind of research, too. And, it seems like it even funded the Wuhan research at least to some extent. Would the US need a threat of economic retribution to reconsider this research? Or to change a practice of their food supply suspected of causing significant harm? Writing that out, I guess maybe it would.

Maybe after 2020, the other side of those arguments have a bit more weight for everybody. Were we to focus more on those things rather than war and reparation, maybe we can survive as a species. But yeah, probably not.

It was also political because of the punitive measures sought by those pointing fingers to China— ranging from 10 trillion in reparations to war. Rather than saying hey, maybe this gain of function business was a mistake & we should just do it in the supercomputers like with nukes or something.

Personally, I don't really understand the focus on pinning down the exact reason this happened. Stop GoF research and shut down wet markets. Stop encroaching on wilderness as best we can while we're at it. Do all the things.

They get different answer by asking a different question and moving the bar and then pass the entire thesis off as envy? Dismal science, indeed.

Nobel created the prize pool to atone for his deficit of imagination (or at least, to improve his posthumous image) upon reading scathing obituaries of himself mistakenly published when his brother died: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Nobel#Nobel_Prize

If Satoshi does something like this with his cold wallets, or Mr. Keurig does the same with his k-cup loot, then we'll think about it.

try also, popcorn

Oh wow. Did not know that there was an ISO standard for pen refills: https://unsharpen.com/pen-refill-guide/

Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Laundry_Files#The_Jennifer...

links to some vids:

https://www.drewexmachina.com/2017/12/17/a-history-of-deep-s...

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