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I was under the impression that corn ethanol was effectively solar energy because corn turns sunlight and carbon into biomass then we burn the biomass back to atmospheric carbon. Isn't that the fundamentals? Is there a big, basic reason it doesn't work or is it lots of little side effects? Thanks for weighing in.

Why are they so adamant about destroying whatever goodwill they have left?

Counterexample: Suppose I'm selling a product with zero cost and I've determined the profit-maximizing price to be $1.00. This means profit as a function of price is maximal and therefore the slope is zero, i.e. raising the price by 1% makes sales go down by 1% and vice versa.

Now suppose my cost to produce goes from zero to $0.99 per unit, which drops my profit to $0.01. Now that 1% increase in price that only drops sales by 1% is well worth it because my profit per unit doubles. The profit-maximizing price is now likely well over $1.

I think if I'd have thought of these expenses as "buying physical fitness" I would have spent more. Thanks for the perspective!

How do you mean you spend money on physical fitness? It does sound like a great investment.

Wouldn't your pretrained model be lacking in neurons that react to human features though? Seems like a poor choice if your ultimate goal is human images.

For comparison, the entire internet averages on the order of 50 Tbps*, so this is about 0.5% of that. Residential internet might have a max rate of 1Gbps in the best conditions but if you use even 1% of that consistently you'll get overage fees. Steady bandwidth numbers are typically much lower than max bandwidth numbers.

* Based on 122,000 PB/month in 2017 from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_traffic, if my calcs are right

Yes! I couldn't get into the instant pot either but the air fryer changed my life. I eat so much meat and vegetables now.

If it had been called a "high-speed toaster oven" or maybe a "digital grill" I probably would have bought one sooner.

It's like how the visual neurons of blind people get repurposed for other senses. Turns out this happens so quickly we can start to lose visual function in just the 8 hours our eyes are closed while we sleep.

Can't remember source but heard this theory on a podcast.

Books by John Gottman. He seems to be the leading authority on the topic.

These two parts seem contradictory:

> "Most implausible-sounding ideas are in fact bad and could be safely dismissed. But not when they're proposed by reasonable domain experts."

> "The lowest form of all is to dismiss an idea because of who proposed it."

I feel like he's prematurely dismissing the idea of dismissing an idea based on who proposes it because of who he's imagining doing (proposing) it, if that makes sense.

I run out of cognitive energy for coding faster than I run out of time. Sometimes the slow and stupid way is optimal because it saves cognitive energy.

I suspect coders "forage" more than this time-based model predicts because it's cognitively easier than deciding where to "navigate" or how to "enrich".

I wonder how much of the problem here is solo developers and big tech developers exchanging advice in the same places.

As a solo dev I relate to this frustration with over-engineering but I can imagine its benefits for big teams.

I hear this complaint a lot but I find those argument orders completely intuitive.

You filter (1) an array with (2) a function. You map (1) a function over (2) an array. You reduce (1) an array with (2) a function.

It follows exactly what I'm thinking when I type it. To reverse the orders would be, what? "Mapping an array with a function?" "Filter a function on an array?"

"All models are wrong. Some are useful."

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Sadly there is disincentive to report bad workers on MTurk. You can block them through the MTurk system which rightfully puts their account at risk for termination. BUT Amazon sends them an email identifying you as the blocker, which causes them to go write terrible reviews of you on worker sites, which reduces the supply of workers for your HITs. So the ideal way to handle it is block them from your HIT server so at least they can't do YOUR HITs again and never report them.

On point 2: people forget which service they signed in with, accidentally make multiple accounts and think their data is gone, and sometimes APIs are down (mostly LinkedIn) or throw errors, all of which lead to customer service headaches without an email/password reset backup.

On points 3 & 4: I've seen more fake Facebook and LinkedIn accounts than I can count. Some users have dozens. I haven't looked into how they create them so easily, but they do. While it's certainly more hassle to get one than a fake email, there's still a ton of them.

The Video Speed Controller browser plugin changed my life. With the key bindings you can dynamically adjust the speed to the complexity of the content and always be watching at exactly the rate you can process it.

I prefer pitching to customers because they really do get more value out of your product if you better communicate what it does and how it helps them. With committees it sounds more like playing a zero-sum game.

So, what's gross profit look like? Edit: My mistake. Already said it.

If you have decent filters set up you can only get notifications for emails that matter to you.

So they're calling "finding Zelle already on your phone" a "signup"?

Anyone else find these numbers ridiculous?

- Google Play Zelle app has ~500k downloads and a 1.7 rating

- ZellePay.com U.S. Alexa rank = 6,505; Venmo.com = 757

- $75B/247M payments = $304 avg transaction??

You're right that third-party trackers aren't that reliable, and I do my own log analytics for the easy/important stuff, but I'm not about to roll my own New Relic.

This also seems bad for early-stage startups, where developer time is severely limited.

This is blocking Google Analytics, Facebook Connect and New Relic on my site. How would DuckDuckGo prefer that startups measure traffic, ad ROI and site performance? What's the "right" way?

Thank you! That makes a lot of sense.

We have very different ideas of "easy". My phone died last night after a day of heavy use, so I pulled the battery out and swapped it with the spare one in its wall charger ($14 for both, shipped) and I was back at 100%.