Right, but getting fined in this situation means the government is incompetent. They should just tell retailers the "right" thing to do and not fine any retailers that follow the guidelines. The idea that this is…
Yes, but a large component of worse health outcomes is due to bias on the part of healthcare workers. Overweight people frequently have their problems ignored or downplayed, or given treatments for issues that they…
The "registry" is signing your name on a sheet of paper on a clipboard - less than 1% more work for the pharmacy employee's overall job, approximately 0 new jobs created.
I don't understand the distinction you are making: two couples (4 people) meeting at a restaurant is, to me, equally social as one couple going to another couple's house to eat dinner.
You aren't arguing against what I wrote: an investor currently pays no tax on their own stock going up. I'm suggesting if an investor in NVIDIA uses their $100 Million in stock that they bought for $10 Million to get a…
Not really, nobody goes "ooh, the stock price is up 5% this year, we can hire 5% more employees!" Most stock wealth isn't doing anything for the company. If the stock price of Apple went down by 90% tomorrow for no…
Getting a loan against assets is another way of "using" it, so why not make that a taxable event? Just like now your stock value would not be taxed while it is invested. But now it would be taxed if you use it as…
Calling any of this "radical" is rather dramatic and framing it as "obedience" misses the point. If someone says "My name is spelled e. e. cummings" then writing it "E. E. Cummings" is weird. It feels either uninformed…
Right: most systems with paper ballots are simple enough that the vast majority of the electorate, including those with lower-than-average IQ's (50% of the population), can understand and could participate in if they…
If you have a decimal then you should store it as a Decimal type, not a float nor an int. This is why Decimal types exist - the fact that most programming languages don't have a native Decimal type baffles me.
"x is worth more than gold" means the price per unit of weight of x is greater than that of gold. What are you trying to achieve by arguing that a common turn of phrase doesn't mean what everyone else thinks it means?
Why? That would be expensive and the cars are designed to understand the lights as they are.
The possibility of "character" is always my biggest dread when getting into a taxi or an Uber. I just want to get from point A to point B without having to make small talk or delicately navigate a political discussion…
The biggest reason people loose muscle mass as they age is due to lack of use, so a built environment that encourages walking is going to help keep people in shape to walk as they age.
If we truly listen to the pronunciation of small children they often substitute easier sounds for difficult ones for many years. We just expect that from children so it seems normal.
Very true when it comes to antisemitic views: only 1 in 10 Russians would be ok having a Jewish friend. "In a Levada Center poll, for instance, 45 percent of Russians said they had a positive attitude toward Jews in…
Statistically safe maybe, but speaking for Manhattan the streets have plenty of unsavory and seemingly-unsafe people around. I have a close friend who worked at an office a block away from a methadone clinic (in a busy…
I'm glad they do: the more people drive electric the cleaner the air is that I breathe.
Where do all the trained doctors go though? If 1 person trains 6, then in a few years you now have 7 trained doctors who could either train 42 more or, if given half the workload, could train 21 more. If the training…
Tesla is still years behind Waymo: "FSD 12.3 seems superior to Waymo’s technology circa 2018, it’s not as good as Waymo’s technology at the end of 2020" https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/05/on-self-driving-waymo-i...
What does some people not filling out paperwork before moving to another country have to do with how the society treats 5-year-olds?
If a non-native English speaking 5 year old said "I goed to school today" people would say they are native level. (Even though they used the non-word "goed" as the past tense of "to go" instead of "went") If a…
I would actually argue that if a child and an adult spent the same amount of time engaged in language learning and were graded on the same metrics the adult would get farther. I don't think there's a magical cutoff…
Right, but the parent comment is comparing children to adults. Even a native speaking 3.5 year old actually speaks a language very poorly compared to a native speaking adult.
Sorry to be a curmudgeon but I get tired of all these claims about how well young children speak second languages. A young child saying "Vanilla ice cream please!" often sounds more like "Ganiwa ishe! cweam! pweese!". A…
Right, but getting fined in this situation means the government is incompetent. They should just tell retailers the "right" thing to do and not fine any retailers that follow the guidelines. The idea that this is…
Yes, but a large component of worse health outcomes is due to bias on the part of healthcare workers. Overweight people frequently have their problems ignored or downplayed, or given treatments for issues that they…
The "registry" is signing your name on a sheet of paper on a clipboard - less than 1% more work for the pharmacy employee's overall job, approximately 0 new jobs created.
I don't understand the distinction you are making: two couples (4 people) meeting at a restaurant is, to me, equally social as one couple going to another couple's house to eat dinner.
You aren't arguing against what I wrote: an investor currently pays no tax on their own stock going up. I'm suggesting if an investor in NVIDIA uses their $100 Million in stock that they bought for $10 Million to get a…
Not really, nobody goes "ooh, the stock price is up 5% this year, we can hire 5% more employees!" Most stock wealth isn't doing anything for the company. If the stock price of Apple went down by 90% tomorrow for no…
Getting a loan against assets is another way of "using" it, so why not make that a taxable event? Just like now your stock value would not be taxed while it is invested. But now it would be taxed if you use it as…
Calling any of this "radical" is rather dramatic and framing it as "obedience" misses the point. If someone says "My name is spelled e. e. cummings" then writing it "E. E. Cummings" is weird. It feels either uninformed…
Right: most systems with paper ballots are simple enough that the vast majority of the electorate, including those with lower-than-average IQ's (50% of the population), can understand and could participate in if they…
If you have a decimal then you should store it as a Decimal type, not a float nor an int. This is why Decimal types exist - the fact that most programming languages don't have a native Decimal type baffles me.
"x is worth more than gold" means the price per unit of weight of x is greater than that of gold. What are you trying to achieve by arguing that a common turn of phrase doesn't mean what everyone else thinks it means?
Why? That would be expensive and the cars are designed to understand the lights as they are.
The possibility of "character" is always my biggest dread when getting into a taxi or an Uber. I just want to get from point A to point B without having to make small talk or delicately navigate a political discussion…
The biggest reason people loose muscle mass as they age is due to lack of use, so a built environment that encourages walking is going to help keep people in shape to walk as they age.
If we truly listen to the pronunciation of small children they often substitute easier sounds for difficult ones for many years. We just expect that from children so it seems normal.
Very true when it comes to antisemitic views: only 1 in 10 Russians would be ok having a Jewish friend. "In a Levada Center poll, for instance, 45 percent of Russians said they had a positive attitude toward Jews in…
Statistically safe maybe, but speaking for Manhattan the streets have plenty of unsavory and seemingly-unsafe people around. I have a close friend who worked at an office a block away from a methadone clinic (in a busy…
I'm glad they do: the more people drive electric the cleaner the air is that I breathe.
Where do all the trained doctors go though? If 1 person trains 6, then in a few years you now have 7 trained doctors who could either train 42 more or, if given half the workload, could train 21 more. If the training…
Tesla is still years behind Waymo: "FSD 12.3 seems superior to Waymo’s technology circa 2018, it’s not as good as Waymo’s technology at the end of 2020" https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/05/on-self-driving-waymo-i...
What does some people not filling out paperwork before moving to another country have to do with how the society treats 5-year-olds?
If a non-native English speaking 5 year old said "I goed to school today" people would say they are native level. (Even though they used the non-word "goed" as the past tense of "to go" instead of "went") If a…
I would actually argue that if a child and an adult spent the same amount of time engaged in language learning and were graded on the same metrics the adult would get farther. I don't think there's a magical cutoff…
Right, but the parent comment is comparing children to adults. Even a native speaking 3.5 year old actually speaks a language very poorly compared to a native speaking adult.
Sorry to be a curmudgeon but I get tired of all these claims about how well young children speak second languages. A young child saying "Vanilla ice cream please!" often sounds more like "Ganiwa ishe! cweam! pweese!". A…