Euclid’s lost 6th Postulate:
“To draw a line from any point to any non point”
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“To draw a line from any point to any non point”
That’s cute, but not the way the Law works generally. Maybe you can point to a single state where the law is different, until then I’ll just say the general rule is if the merchant makes of $x they are required by law to collect sales tax. Where or not the merchant does, they will be liable to the state for payment of the same, not the individual consumers.
If the law worked the way you represent why would any merchant collect and pay sales tax to the states?
Well merchants and consumers aren’t the competitors of visa/MC. Maybe they should cooperate by lowering the fees. If cooperation is the way to maximize profits...or does that only work when two companies collude to price fix?
That is there is more than you win/I lose or I win/you lose but there is win/win.
It’s definately conceivable two algorithms or two ai would be capable of concluding the same. In fact it may be even easier because what’s the actual dilemma/self interest of such a system without the selfishness of human nature?
That’s pretty funny how well settled that area of Law is, and yet again Amazon thinks it’s pretty special in that regard also...historically they haven’t paid those taxes either (state or local) and there was just a Supreme Court case confirming that in fact amazon isn’t special and that all this time they themselves should have been paying taxes where they had been selling/shipping goods.
In my proposal I did know the real hologram (if it worked) would be “inside out”/“depth reversed” but I left that part out. These are very difficult concepts to try to visualize and when googling them I tend to come up with academic papers (like this very interesting article) or cartoonish representations of the concepts as opposed to say pictures/video of the specific hologram properties.
I did not know setting up the hologram using two lasers to mimic the original reference source (with one from the back of the plates would give both real and virtual from the single plate (though it makes perfect sense). It just creates more fascination and questions. I really need to get my hands on some master plates and start playing to satisfy these curiosities.
However, I think very shortly the sec will be publicly supporting a legal framework for using ICOs/Blockchain to raise funds without having to register and not limited to the current exemptions (reg. D).
Say I have a transparent hologram plate and shine a laser into the “front of the plate” to get a virtual hologram (the hologram appears “inside” the plate). Now let’s say we break the plate in half (or otherwise have a clone) and we place the duplicate in the same plane (like dominos) only the 2nd plate is facing front out (so laser, plate 1 front facing laser to get “virtual” hologram, an inch of space then plate 2 with back of plate facing plate 1/laser) what happens? Does plate one give the “virtual” hologram and plate two give a “real” hologram (project)? So in other words, is this right:
Laser —— | (virtual hologram) | (real hologram) ?
It’s compounded by the facts as the litigates previously sued and Uber moved to have the class action litigation compelled to arbitration individually, wherein there were representations Uber made to the court (which now appear to be lies) and a court order of arbitration Uber also appears to be violating.
A clever enough lawyer may even circumvent any waiver of class action provision on the same legal arguments for all such litigants with similar claims.
It’s anerobic activity (sprinting or bodybuilding/Olympic lifting) where there may be a slight detriment in performance.
I’ve run marathons in both ketosis and running on glucose. I won’t go there because it’s anecdotal but marathoners, body builders and Olympic style lifters are not the norm and have different requirements especially competing for records. No doubt it’s one thing to live in a natural state of ketosis and treat yourself to a performance boost with some fruit when you are about to burn any glucose than what almost the entire modern world does and spikes their insulin levels all day every day and their body/cells basically not even familiar with how to use ketones as a fuel.
So yes eating fats is an issue while eating carbs and spiking insulin. You won’t find a single medical case of T2D where the subject hasn’t repeatedly spiked insulin with carbs/sugar.
The resistance (type 2) is built up over time (historically it was “adult onset”) to insulin spikes. I don’t believe saturated fats introduce sugar into the blood, so they don’t cause insulin spikes, which means they don’t contribute to resistance (at least not directly).
In a roundabout way they may contribute to a surplus of calories and the storage of fat, ultimately causing obesity, which does seem to speed up the resistance to insulin. But all things being equal the same surplus of calories on a high carb diet will be more detrimental because there will be insulin spikes and the insulin will also enlarge fat cells allowing the body to store more fat (ie become obese more efficiently).
A lot of people counter argue that the body/brain run more efficiently primarily on glucose and glycogen rather than ketones. While it is true if you introduce sugar (glucose) into the blood, cells will generally begin to produce energy/atp primarily from glucose over ketones. However, it is not because the glucose is more efficient, in fact ketones are smaller making them the a more efficient fuel source of the cells. For example, bc they are smaller they cross the blood-brain barrier more easily and are more efficiently used by brain cells to be converted into energy/atp (in the mitochondria).
I think there is a reason we call it “getting knocked out of ketosis” because that is our natural state. That is forget high fat/low carb and abstain from all calories and drink only water to stay hydrated and the body will go into ketosis, which is what we are talking about when we discuss “fasting” as a metabolic state (vs say a culturally/religiously defined “fast”).
Maybe instead the economy should be redesigned so the haves vs have nots isn’t so extreme and force social interaction amount the two groups. But most importantly this would combat the stress (cortisol) such a large segment of society has as a result of financial burdens and debt.
It allows them to continue to make the representations of growth to future investors, the more buy in have from investors, the more you can continue these market/marketing manipulations (e.g. the fyer festival).
Of course the entire SV ethos encourages this behavior: move fast and break things, growth hacking, and fake it till you make it. It’s also built into the system that 9 out of 10 of these scams will fail, but every 10th scam can be offloaded to the public through an IPO.
I think you mean “cola” taste...it comes from a kola nut.
Water, kola nut, and high fructose corn syrup.
People hold these companies and their employees in such high esteem (to the point some people don’t thing articles should be published about their bad behavior, rather articles should be published about other firms hypothetically engaging in the same behavior if the companies in question didn’t).
At the end of the day the worlds biggest companies are willing to knowingly take money from foreign governments to illegally spread propaganda to influence elections, help firms sell drugs that literally end up killing people, and sell their own investment clients toxic assets while offloading their own position on the same assets.
You are right others may have engaged in the same behavior, but: 1. That’s not news worthy and 2. other firms likely would have actually suffered real consequences. Certain firms like Facebook and others continually receive bad press because they continually engage in bad behavior but keep on like it’s business as usual. In other words, the article is focused on McKinsey not because there is a grand conspiracy against McKinsey, but because McKinsey actually committed the bad acts the articles is about.
[HN user proceeds to post his outrage at outrage culture]
That’s awesome, reminds me of the movie PCU, where the students protest protesting.
You “could” but that will also not help, and actually hurt, with the natural inflammation from running. If you ran the marathon in ketosis, you really wouldn’t be in a “glycogen depleted State” - even though that’s what ketosis generally is - because your body and brain are primarily running on ketones and internally producing all the minimal glucose the body/brain actually require.
In either case after a marathon your muscles will be catabolic, so protein is good, and of course water/electrolytes. But really it should be telling your example of using sugar responsibly is after running a marathon.
There would be nothing wrong with having two uber drivers with two legitimate uber accounts splitting the car...not allowing an unlicensed person driver for uber under someone else’s account.
Come on down to Miami, where it’s not unusual for the actual uber driver to be different than uber drivers profile.
You can’t really get more shady than exploiting undocumented immigrants who can’t get a DL, and having them illegally without a DL by driving under someone else’s uber account for a fraction.
Intended according to who? The founders? The central banks? Creditors?
It’s all an experiment. Capitalism is. Consumer debt is. To think anyone intends the economy to work as it is (government shut down, debt across the board at record highs, defaults at record highs, economic bubbles, mass fraud, etc...) is pretty crazy...but that’s my point, good luck finding a politician to speak that way, much less being able to mobilize the government to correct these issues.
It’s pretty easy to get caught up in the idea it’s working for you. I take it youre not one of the federal government employees living paycheck to paycheck as a political pawn? Is that the way the economy is really intended to work?
Only 5.4% of Americans make over $100k. I believe 20% of students graduate with over $100k in student loans. The problem is the Pandora’s box and unwillingness to admit we tried an experiment and it failed, it’s great we wanted to guarantee loans to pay for secondary education, but we have to admit the American economy sucks and overwhelmingly can’t support this student debt (good luck finding a politician who will say that, much less be able to take any action to remove guaranteed student loans.
Other interesting facts:
More Americans hold student loan debt than the population of over 200 countries
Over 7 million (>2%) of the U.S. population has defaulted on their student loans
Student loan debt is the second highest form of debt in the U.S., second only to mortgages
Almost 30% student loan borrowers move back in with their parents after graduation
Over 34% of borrowers have delayed starting a family because of their debt
Over 47% of borrowers have delayed buying a car because of their debt
Over 73% of borrowers have delayed saving for retirement because of their debt
Around 63% of borrowers have delayed buying a home because of their debt
Almost 28% borrowers have delayed getting married because of their debt
Almost any comment in a discussion about diet/nutrition is bound to get downvoted (at least on HN). People are probably bound to downvote anything about the microbiome for the same reasons. Yet we know the microbiome is responsible for turning (at least some) genes on/off, and otherwise our study of the microbiome is in its infancy.
I’d rather have someone reply about the jelly fish microbiome, if any, than explaination of HN social norms. The cool thing about HN is you might get some expert, in this case a marine biologist lurking, not the social norms.
I bring this up in threads about diet/nutrition (and always get down voted).
But the idea is humans have about 20,000 protein coding genes and something as simple as wheat has estimated 150,000 to 334,000.
Where I get downvotes is the concept/hypothesis (not mine) that the explaination rests with the microbiome (which we have and something like wheat doesn’t).
I’d be interested in learning if complex creatures like jellyfish with simple genomes have a complex microbiome.