purpleblue

I'm in the US and was asked to join a waitlist.

For $212M I think keeping the floppy disks are worth it.

The sheer unadulterated racism from the past is horrifying and sickening. Sure, we still have work to do, but I'm glad we've come so far in the last few decades.

I have been a member of /r/natureismetal and I can tell you without a doubt that most prey are eaten alive. Even baboons and chimps eat their prey alive.

I also read it when I was 16, and throughout my 20s. I haven't read it in 10-15 years now. It's something that speaks to you as a teenager more than it does as an adult, because at least for me it put into words what I hated about the world, ex. phonies, and how I wanted to hold myself to that. I'm in my 50s and I'm not a phony so it won't hit me as hard, but I still remember how much it meant to me.

Catcher in the Rye was the right book for me at the right age. It really set a North Star for me as to what I wanted to be when I looked at myself in the mirror.

Funny how as I grew older, I found myself understanding more and more about what the older characters were saying, without me sacrificing what made what Holden Caulfield ring so true to me.

Fun fact: in university at the bookstore they had a written poll as to what your favorite book was (before the Internet). I was one of the first ones and wrote down Catcher in the Rye. A month later I read in the school paper that Catcher in the Rye was the winner that year, and it was the first time that the Bible didn't come in first place.

Can you cut the fuel into small pieces and keep them away from each other so that they don't reach such a high temperature?

I love gambling. I go to Vegas 4-6 times per year, and I play poker at the local casinos/card houses almost every week.

I've NEVER liked sports gambling because it's so hard to predict and I also believe that it's rigged by Vegas and the Mafia. The NBA has already been outed as rigged via referees and the insane actions of refs in last year's Super Bowl by ignoring obvious penalties makes it even worse. The games are obviously tainted as this point. And the fact that none of the leagues want to implement rules that correct wrong penalties only solidifies the fact that they want these things to occur.

I wonder how many prions will be accidentally created by this, or if it can even predict if a particular protein will have prion-like effects

They don't like the rulings that the Supreme Court has made, so now they are talking about limiting the term of justices, and packing the court with more judges. That is strengthening the integrity of the Supreme Court?

Perfect example of Whatabout-ism. I'm not talking about China, I'm not a citizen of China and I will never even visit that country. Why are you mentioning China when this is about the US?

I would say the exact same thing about the Republicans if they were in power. Right now they aren't so they aren't committing the same offenses. I think they are just as capable as being corrupt and fascist like the Democrats are right now.

It's only doomed to fail because we have a strong Supreme Court. All the efforts by the Democrats to undermine this will only make things easier for fascists to take over the US.

Thank you Zuck for having the courage to say this.

My feelings on him over the last 10 years has changed substantially. At least he's showing some backbone, like Elon, unlike other tech CEOs. Whether I agree with Zuck or not about every other thing, I am a freedom of speech absolutist, and I admire anyone who fights for freedom of speech. It's absolutely insane that the Democrats are now the ones who are pushing censorship, when in my youth it was the Republicans. I'm sure the Republicans would do the same thing but right now it's the Democrats that are committing the offense, so it's fair to hold them accountable for their fascism.

I love gambling. I play poker every weekend and go to Las Vegas several times a year, sometimes for less than 24 hrs just to gamble.

Even I think that gambling is ruining sports. I like it when it's off to the side, when people are betting in Vegas and gathered around the sportbooks, but when it's factored directly in the game with TV ads, it's really offputting and highlights how easily sports can be manipulated by corrupt people that want to skew the results.

I think your reasoning is flawed. When you are aiming for targets with a gun, there is no utility in that. That's like saying a basketball is a tool. Neither guns nor basketballs are tools.

Also, I never once implied that killing is bad. For example, killing animals for food is not bad. Also, killing someone who is trying to kill you is not bad.

I'm very pro 2nd amendment, but guns are not tools and it's a fallacy to say that.

Guns are used to kill something. In hunting they are used to kill animals, and otherwise they are used to kill other people, or yourself in the case of suicide. You don't do anything with a gun except kill or attempt to kill something.

Were you paying for it?

I guess I don't get it. CockroachDB is decidedly an enterprise product. There's no need for even a medium sized company to require distributed database the likes of CockroachDB. If you're a small company using it, you're just using it for fun, and you're probably not paying.

If you're using it and paying for it, then this doesn't seem like a problem. If you're not using it, then it shouldn't matter. If you're using it but not paying for it, then maybe it's okay that you have to start paying for it.

Unless you're willing to become a software development company, I would strongly strongly suggest NOT writing the software yourself.

1) Can you acquire this company?

2) Can you talk to other companies that do something similar and migrate to their platform? Or threaten the current company with them losing your business if they don't get their shit together?

> And given that biodiversity is what got us to where we are

Mass extinctions also is what got us to where we are. If dinosaurs were still around when humans started to evolve, it might have been a Bad Thing.

Many species are supposed to go extinct, all the time. That's is how nature and evolution works. If we become extinct, then it paves the way for human++. This is neither good nor bad, it's just how life has evolved for billions of years. I think if we try to stop this and maintain status quo, that is ethically and morally wrong.

Shouldn't machine learning be easily able to decipher animal communication at this point?

Do you need to manually fix all your windows boxes? Or is there a way to update it remotely?

Do all the machines need to be manually fixed? It doesn't seem like an automatica update will work here...

What is "data discovery, governance, and data observability"?

Do anti-inflammatories like ibuprofen offer the same protections?

Should Puerto Rico pay back the benefits it received from fossil fuels, like increased tourism from airplanes, and for allowing cars and combustible engines on the island? Are they going to get rid of ICE vehicles immediately now?

Are we going to start filing lawsuits against sugar manufacturers for all of the health issues they caused? What about manufacturers of fatty foods? Oh wait, are fatty foods good for you or bad for you? Fatty foods were bad for you in the 80s and 90s but now the science is showing the opposite.

This entire lawsuit is nonsense.

It's an open and shut case to get a judgement in your favor on recovery of the fees. Just anticipate two small claims court appearances (or maybe recursive appearances if they don't pay the recovery fees) and it will be fine. Eventually they will just pay.