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That is an ethics violation. Even in the pre-AI era, getting caught billing for hours not worked was seriously punished.

It’s mildly contrarian, I suppose. But dipstick-less engines have been around for 20+ years and there’s no evidence that they are problematic.

When you say “teenage” refs I assume you are meaning kids 16or younger. A lot of adult-sized college-age teenagers ref games and you probably don’t realize it.

You’re right about the scheduling aspect. If you’re in a healthy area and the leagues are playing according to US Soccer rules (using the IFAB bible plus approved grassroots modifications), the scheduling system is good and makes sure to keep refs assigned to appropriate matches (pro-tip: they keep track of the worst teams for abuse and only schedule the most grizzled refs. If none are available, then “sorry no refs are available for your match”).

Also, I don’t know if it’s US-only thing or a worldwide FIFA thing, but for the past few years refs with less than 2 or 3 years of experience are supposed to be wearing a special armband that coaches are supposed to recognize - if the ref gets abuse from fans they tell the coaches and the coaches have to go deal with it. If it’s not dealt with, the match is abandoned.

If you don't like calling them "Trump Accounts", you can call them 530A accounts (that's the "real" name). They're actually a really great thing. Aside from the free money being given to babies by rich folk, they enable any American family to do something for their kids that wealthy business owners have been doing but you can't.

Seriously, just call it a 530A and smile.

There was a fairly convincing discussion on HN about a month or so ago that argued that this is enabled by the large difference between the monthly subscription costs and the API costs to access the very same models. That the primary purpose is not distillation but pricing arbitrage. Data collection for distillation is just a bonus side effect.

Bringing the prices of monthly subscriptions much closer to API rates would kill the arbitrage business and make distillation a much more expensive (and harder to hide) activity. Raise one, lower the other - whatever.

The speed of the ship makes a huge difference in fuel consumption. Cruise ships/ocean liners usually go as fast as practicable, which leads to terrible fuel efficiency. Reducing speed from 20 knots to 15 knots may cut fuel consumption in half or more.

One thing I’ve noticed is that a lot of comparisons you’ll see will have, for example, a 5-day journey by cruise ship compared with an airline flight covering the same distance. Usually measured not in fuel consumed but carbon emissions. Ok, but shouldn’t the more accurate comparison be a 5-day cruise compared to an airplane trip plus 5 days in a hotel?

> Doesn’t Chicago have a bunch of people die every time there’s a heatwave because of lack of AC and such?

There was a heatwave in the 1990s that killed thousands in Chicago. Since then, the city has done a lot to handle them. While people still die during heatwaves, not as many as would have prior to all of the planning and effort. I guess it depends on how you define “a bunch”.

The growing risk factor for Chicago is flooding and dangerous storms. So far this is causing economic damage but not really killing anyone. Who knows if that holds.

(Part of an episode of an American TV show from about 25 years ago)

A large component of the price of fuel is taxes, which are then used for roadway construction and maintenance.

Here in the US (and probably Sweden too), those taxes are not sufficient to pay all of the roadway costs, so tax money from general funds - income taxes, sales/use/vat(?), etc - get diverted to help cover costs.

In reality, the overall cost of fuel is probably very similar. It’s just that the overall cost is more directly reflected in the price shown at the fuel station in Sweden than in the US.

Yeah, North American chefs will generally call the base a mirepoix, but it’s got different names in different languages. It turns out that this soup base concept is remarkably similar across cultures and continents (though the actual vegetables used are based on what’s grown locally).

Nasdaq becomes more and more like a “normal” exchange every year. Historically, they’ve always just done their own thing for their own purpose, so it makes sense.

** for those that don’t know: NASDAQ stands for “National Association of Security Dealers - Automated Quotation (service)”. It was forced into existence by the SEC. Prior to that there was only the NASD, who traded blocks of shares amongst themselves so that each individual security dealer could meet the needs of their customers. As the trading amongst themselves grew larger and larger, the SEC added progressively more regulation until finally the had to build the NASDAQ computer system, which nobody would even recognize today.

So again, they were always separate from everything else and did things that made sense according to their own needs. They were very different until they were no longer allowed to be different.

Installing software on a normal computer has always been a straightforward process and nobody has claimed any IP rights on the process.

Installing software on the iPhone is not at all straightforward. It requires interacting with proprietary Apple software and rights management interfaces. Had the DMA been written 20 years ago, it is possible that they could have prevented Apple from implementing things this way. But they didn’t. It’s too late.

Anyway, once you understand how software is installed on an iPhone, you can plainly see how nearly all of WIPO applies.

The EU has signed and ratified the WIPO treaty. There’s nothing they can put into the DMA that can cancel out the treaty.

Installing software in iOS uses Apple intellectual property and WIPO guarantees their right to charge a commission.

If you don’t like this, get rid of WIPO!

> increase in used EV sales prices and gas guzzler repo rates over the last 90-120 days.

Obligatory:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F04MXepYiBs&ra=m

Go out on the interstate, or even the parkways and byways of your city. Fuel may be more expensive than it has ever been, but it still isn’t expensive enough to change behavior. You can see it with your own eyes.

The electric utility in Northern Indiana is spending essentially all of its money on modernizing, but state regulators are forcing it to refund “excess” money back to ratepayers. So it literally can’t go any faster.

There was a severe storm warning at least 48 hours in advance, and as the storm moved eastward the warnings got more specific. Essentially, everything worked as designed. The TV stations in Chicago went to live coverage more than an hour before it hit Indiana.

There were small, weakish tornados west and south of Chicago, but by the time the storm got to Indiana it had morphed into a 20-mile wide derecho with 100mph wind. Since there has been a TON of rain recently, it was easy to knock trees down, and as you said that area has a lot of power lines above ground.

There really isn’t a lot of damage to houses and buildings, it’s just that there are downed trees and power lines everywhere, all at once.

The Navy has helicopters that can do in-flight refueling. If an aircraft carrier is close enough it might be called upon (1).

But if not, this is what they do:

> the plane’s crew dropping a bundle of medical gear into the water near the ship, and then four pararescuemen from the 131st Rescue Squadron jumping out themselves. Once in the water, they swam to the Franz, boarding it and treating the fisherman.

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/air-national-guard-parachute...

(1) https://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?do=main.textpost&id=88E4...

No. The stupid-ass law [1]:

> "Internet-enabled device" means a smartphone, tablet, or personal laptop or desktop computer that provides cellular or wireless connectivity, is capable of connecting to the Internet, runs an operating system, and is capable of downloading and running applications.

Enumerate all network interfaces. Are any of them cellular or wireless? No? Then the law doesn’t apply.

[1] https://my.ilga.gov/documents/legislation/104/HB/PDF/10400HB...

I would like to take a break from all the complaining and point out how hilarious it is that this law does not apply to any computer that can only connect to the internet via an Ethernet port.

The ultimate boat-log-as-a-book has to be Two Years Before the Mast, published in 1840. It has some great descriptions of the California coast, and does a pretty decent job of giving you an idea of why Los Angeles became the biggest city despite having the worst natural harbor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Years_Before_the_Mast

> there are still US laws on the books to this effect. That children may be obligated to pay medical bills or other support, if their parents cannot make ends meet. Adult children are sometimes blindsided by this responsibility

In most (if not all) states, this responsibility is permanently and irrevocably severed if the parent abandons/disowns the child, refuses to pay child support after a divorce, etc.

Even if you later make up and re-establish a relationship with an adult child, there is no way to re-establish that obligation. It is gone forever. Being a bad parent can have consequences!

I have started to see this argument being made more often, and wonder if it is a trial balloon: we know that discussions are starting to happen about how to deal with the impending US social security trust fund depletion and the cut in benefits that are going to have to happen.

You already know that your social security benefit depends on the 35 highest income years during your career. You (probably) also know that each of those years get an index number that is used to adjust your income for the purpose of dealing with the effects of inflation when looking at a 35+ year career.

When you file your taxes, you are already reporting the number and ages of each dependent you have. That data already exists. So what if that information is now used as an added indexing factor for each year of reported income? The result would be that the more children you have and the earlier you have them increases the calculated social security benefit. Or rather, since the index would be a floating point number from 0-1, not having a bunch of kids would prevent you from gaining the maximum possible benefit. And it would all be so opaque that it’s hard to notice or understand!

Note that I’m not saying this is what should happen, just that it is strange that we start seeing this kind of argument at the same time we see that discussions are happening about making changes to social security…

In the case of English-language books, they’re just working to legitimize the stuff they already obtained via, um, dubious methods.

Public domain books - no need to bother, they’ve scraped PG and any other source and can do with it what they like.

Used booksellers should raise the price of used books that are of no interest to any real reader.

The ICE version of the new vehicle uses a 2-liter turbo 4-cylinder engine and an 8-speed auto transmission, both straight out of the Ford parts catalog. Calling them gas guzzlers is a bit much. They will be significantly more fuel efficient and cleaner-burning than what they’re replacing. Not to mention cheap parts and service everywhere in the US.

(Yes, they would have been better as EVs)

Oh sure, I can help.

1000 acre feet is approximately 40 hectare meters. Or, you know, about 1.2 billion liters.

Over on this side of the ocean, we’ve got freshwater lakes larger than entire European countries. There’s a lake over here, it has an island on it. That island has a lake, which has an island in it. And there’s a lake on that island.

We need units of measurement that represent large things. If you don’t, that’s ok.

> traveling east of the Mississippi for the first time.

The author probably means “east of the Ohio [River] for the first time [since the restoration].”

Worst is now New York. Should make that “association football championship” match they’re hosting tomorrow in an outdoor stadium with tickets costing many thousands of dollars quite “interesting”

Looking through the analysis of the legislation [1], I really don’t see how it makes much of any impact. Places where it’s hard to build on purpose have little incentive to change, and places where it’s easy to build on purpose can make some minor adjustments to get a little extra free money from the government. But since it was already easy to build, nobody will build more. Sorry to be so pessimistic.

[1] https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/R/PDF/R48732/...

It’s federal regulations. If the reverse camera screen doesn’t appear quickly enough, the car gets recalled and fixed. This has happened to many manufacturers.

Ford, Toyota, Lexus, etc. This notice from Tesla actually specifies the regulation:

> On affected vehicles, upon vehicle power up, a certain software configuration may prevent camera streams from being sent to the MCU for up to 11 seconds, causing a loss of rearview image for up to 11 seconds for drivers who shift into reverse during this time, which does not comply with FMVSS 111, S5.5.3.

https://www.tesla.com/support/recall-loss-of-back-up-camera-...

> you'd save $3149 USD flying from London to New York City

Hey, Infantino was ahead of the curve! For the same price as an English MBP, you can get an American one and see the Three Lions disappoint against Panama!