I did this, and I went through the support process to totally delete my account, including purchased content. Sometimes I wish I could still play SC2 with friends, but expressing support for freedom of speech in Hong Kong and the sinosphere is more important.
LEED sucks. This has been known for a long time. But instead of bashing it, we should be asking: is there an alternative? If not, how could we create one?
You're correct, but it is different. There is no free way to accept payments. I personally pay with a 2% cash back card myself. I just hope people have a full picture of the costs and benefits of each approach. Crypto transaction fees are expensive but there are also a lot of hidden costs of the credit system.
I lived in Taipei for a year and almost all transactions there are cash, debit, or bank transfer. You can do a bank transfer to anyone instantly for pennies. Really puts the ACH system to shame. Some things are better than getting 2% back.
To everyone saying "my credit card pays me 2% to use it", no, your credit card charges the merchant 2.3%+ to use it, that gets bundled into the price, and they give you 2% of that as a kickback.
Not true (source: I recently did a bunch of car buying research and a used Leaf was my number 2 choice; ended up not getting it).
These are electric drivetrains (simpler transmission, etc.) so there are fewer things that can go wrong relative to an ICE car. Obv range is limited with a used Leaf but that's not a problem for most city trips.
Metaprogramming Ruby by Paolo Perrotta has the best explanation of Ruby's object system I've seen.
It's a must-read for anyone working with Ruby, even if you have no interest in metaprogramming. Despite the title, it's a very approachable and widely-applicable book.
This is a special case of a general class of vulnerabilities in AI models, where an adversary can cause undesired output from the model by constructing input data not represented in the training set. However, it is legit much more concerning than, e.g. the issue of image classification models mis-identifying well-constructed noise as "panda".
This is currently a research frontier for AI so us non-experts likely won't be able to say a ton about it.
Even with targeted ads how often is it that someone actually (1) wants the thing and (2) buying the thing is net good for them and for society?
I'm sympathetic to the argument that ads could reduce information asymmetry, make the market more efficient, and thus count as a social good. The problem is that advertisers' incentives aren't the same as society or the consumer's.
Look at it this way: Google exists. If you know you want something, it's not hard to find online. Ergo, if you often find yourself buying something because you saw it in an ad, what does that say about your rationality as a consumer?
In practice, corporations buy ads to manufacture demand because their products are neither things consumers or society actually wants, nor things consumers rationally choose to seek out.
It's partly biological but there are still many existing cultural attitudes that discourage husbands from performining traditionally "feminine" roles/tasks when caring for their kids.
The author's point about being over-critical of sexism is well-taken, but by reducing the sexist attitudes towards, for example, stay-at-home dads, it may be possible to help more women in STEM have fully productive careers.
Related: How To Change Your Mind is worth reading. It covers the history of psilocybin & LSD research including the early parts of this recent resurgence in interest.
On the positive side, I do think that if we repeat this truth enough times we can decrease the "cover my ass" value of consulting and help more orgs make change autonomously.
Thanks for pulling out the data! One problem is that "somewhat", "very", "completely" don't give a good picture of how dissatisfied these 2.7% of patients are. It's possible some of them developed serious dry eye which can be totally debilitating.
This doesn't mean the procedure shouldn't have been approved, it most likely means that folks need to do better patient education and qualification. Not everyone needs to be a good candidate.
It's also possible that these results vary a lot between LASIK docs. I'd expect that some qualify patients more thoroughly than others. Risk for developing side effects can be assessed beforehand, to some extent.
I mean, it's worth asking, but anyone with a good niche would be smart to not post it publicly unless the benefits of publicity outweigh the risk of competition.
All good points. Haven't read the code so I don't know how deep the similarity goes but the new React Concurrent UI Patterns is at a surface level conceptually similar to Ember's interruptible route transitions, though more fine-grained.
Also really like the new <Suspense> Component! I created a {{render-on-resolve promise=foo}} Component for the app I worked on in Ember back in 2016, and we got a ton of use out of it. If you set up your data layer right, and use it well, it completely removes the need to ever manually manage a loading spinner again.
I can think of selection bias effects both in-favor of more defects and against it.
On one hand, Haskell or Clojure probably attract more academic types who have a reputation for (consistent with my experience) on-average worse-quality code.
On other hand, the barrier-to-entry for these languages is higher so they tend to be programmed by more experienced folks. I assume that people pick functional languages in part because they believe the functional paradigm leads to higher-quality code, so the sample probably cares more about code quality to begin with.