For those not clicking through, DOGE doesn't refer to Dogecoin, it stands for "Department of Government Efficiency."
Readit Newsfallingsquirrel commented on Could DOGE cut $2T? The legal and practical reality of government reform thedispatch.com/newslette... · Posted by u/wrineha2
"Tesla didn't account at all for what happens ..."
Tesla might not have, but you can. Always have a glass breaker and seatbelt cutter in your vehicle. Doors get crumpled and can't open regardless of make/model.
> Always have a glass breaker
Isn't this advice becoming dated now that most new cars have side windows with laminated glass?
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a28422725/car-windows-glas...
> Yes
Thanks, not interested then
There are only two inputs to BMI, and height is one of them.
That's a complete non-sequitur. If you cut off your feet and get shorter, it doesn't mean the human species has physiologically changed. And if you eat more calories and get taller, it doesn't mean the human species has physiologically changed.
> - human physiology has not changed much over the past century
With improved nutrition, people are several inches taller than they were a century or so ago.
That isn't a change of physiology, it's a change of our external environment. AFAIK there's no evidence to show humans living 100 years ago would respond any differently to modern nutrition than we do.
If the cause of being taller were internal, such as genetic changes: that would be a change in physiology.
Candidly, this makes me question whether we've correctly identified the "normal" weight.
Considering:
- a century ago a greater percentage of people were "normal" weight
- human physiology has not changed much over the past century
- our current definitions of overweight/obese correlate with negative health outcomes
I think the classification is largely correct even if you can haggle over some of the smaller details.
(EDIT: That said, people shouldn't be downvoting you just for asking the question, sorry that happened)
fallingsquirrel commented on Interview with gwern dwarkeshpatel.com/p/gwern... · Posted by u/synthmeat
That works in reverse too. While I am in awe of what humanity already achieved - when I read fictional timelines of fictional worlds (Middle-Earth or Westeros/Essos) I am wondering how getting frozen in medieval like time is even possible. Like, what are they _doing_?
They're probably doing the same thing humans on our earth were doing for centuries until ~1600. Surviving. Given how cruel nature is I think we're lucky to have the resources to do more than just survive, to build up all this crazy technology we don't strictly need to live, just for fun/profit.
There's no way to implement a hard limit without getting in the middle of your system in ways that (a) alter the system design, (b) in ways you cannot correct for, and (c) not for the better.
Of course there is. If someone hits their spending limit, asynchronously shut off the services (using the same API call that your customers can use, so no need to alter the system).
Then apply the hard limit in the billing code. If it took a minute or two to shut off all the instances, maybe the customer's bill should have been $1.001M instead of $1M, but cap the bill to $1M anyway. Given their profit margins of x,000% I think they can afford the lost pennies.
It's been mentioned several time in HN comments that the AWS billing code is a giant pile of spaghetti and there is generally a lot of fear around making big changes to it.
That's been one of the more interesting inside baseball facts I've learned here.
And yet somehow every time they launch a new product they have no problem adding it to their billing code.
>You completely ignored the substantive part of my post, so I'll restate without distractions.
I ignored those parts because you're moving the goalposts way past my original comment[1], which only objected to the claim that people were somehow coerced into having their location sold because the apps doing the tracking were providing "basic necessities". Is the fact you're using an iPhone, are visiting from an IP address that suggests you're in Kansas and using Verizon an "information leak"? I guess, by some definition. Is that anywhere close to getting your location tracked? Hardly.
The reason Apple and Google continually patch and change their rules is because they have been playing a cat and mouse game with bad actors who, for decades, have continued to find ways to siphon personal data off devices despite the technical restrictions in place.
You seem to have an awful lot of confidence that "iPhone" and "Kansas" are the only pieces of data any app can get from a device.
So can we say that you agree with #1: after decades of playing cat and mouse with advertisers and spyware authors, these latest updates from Apple and Google are the magical updates that finally completely solved privacy once and for all, and there will never be any bugs or mistakes or security holes ever again?