The embargo doesn’t cover medical supplies and Cuban buys what medicine and medical supplies it has mainly from the US. The embargo also doesn’t cover food. Cuba also does a lot of trade with China and Spain but has relatively little to actually sell because the state controlled industries are so unproductive.
There's an Isaac Asimov story where people are "educated" by programming knowledge into their brains, Matrix style.
A certain group of people have something wrong with their brain where they can't be "educated" and are forced to learn by studying and such. The protagonist of the story is one of these people and feels ashamed at his disability and how everyone around him effortlessly knows things he has to struggle to learn.
He finds out (SPOILER) that he was actually selected for a "priesthood" of creative/problem solvers, because the education process gives knowledge without the ability to apply it creatively. It allows people to rapidly and easily be trained on some process but not the ability to reason it out.
>White people in the US have comparable rates to Europe.
No it's not. White non Hispanic population in the U.S. has a life expectancy of 77.5, which is comparable to Eastern Europe, but not Europe as a whole (life expectancy of 81.4).
It seems to have originated in the US with Fire Departments:
> These reports show that a dry run in the jargon of the fire service at this period [1880s–1890s] was one that didn’t involve the use of water, as opposed to a wet run that did.
I don’t like it, but I think the claims of mass exodus are unlikely.
It feels a lot like the situation when Reddit started charging for their API: Everywhere you looked you could find claims that it was the end of Reddit, but in the end it was just a vocal minority. Reddit’s traffic patterns didn’t decline at all.
I am an Australian Instagram user in my 30s. When setting up my profile a few years ago I set the birthday to some fake date near my real age. At no point, including when the ban went live, was I ever asked to prove my age through any means. Nobody I know has either (noting that everyone I've asked is an adult).
There are two problems in computer science, accepting payments and naming things.
Reddit's principal problem is that the first person to take r/foo is often a BDFL for foo for life, and no other subreddit about foo will ever be quite as recognizable. If we instead had subreddits with a numeric ID and a non-unique display name, that problem would be solved.
Payments would also solve the spam problem, but many users who have $1 can't easily get that $1 to Reddit, so that's not really an option either.
An accurate assessment of the situation is curmudgeonly? It IS a complete waste of computational power, energy, tokens, everything which is a thoughtful criticism. Just blowing through millions of tokens for a pointless Reddit clone for LLMs is wasteful. All so we can have RAM prices triple in a year.
This isn't true. Most Jewish communities do accept converts (the Syrians Jews are a notable exception). They don't make it as easy as Christians or Muslims do, but I'm not aware of any cases of someone who was seriously committed and motivated and willing to give the process time being rejected – and if that ever happened, they could surely find some other Rabbi willing to give them a different answer. I think the bigger reason why relatively few people convert is relatively few people are drawn to it.
Well-known converts to Judaism include Sammy Davis Jr, Elizabeth Taylor, Zooey Deschanel, Isla Fisher, Walter Kaufmann (the Nietzsche scholar), Ivanka Trump.
And Israel accepts converts for immigration under the Law of Return. The rapper Nissim Black converted to Orthodox Judaism, joined the Breslov Hasidim, made aliyah and now lives in Jerusalem. Due to a Supreme Court of Israel ruling, it also accepts converts to non-Orthodox Judaism (such as Conservative and Reform), even though Israel does not legally consider them Jewish for purposes of family law; but not converts to groups whose claims to Jewish identity are not generally recognised, such as the Christian-derived "Messianic Judaism", or Black Hebrew Israelite groups. (Some of the latter of which have been allowed to settle in Israel, but not under the Law of Return, under an ad hoc arrangement.)
Python docs procedures: (0) Devguide, (1) PEPs w/ front matter in RST, (2) RST in /Doc with Sphinx, (3) MD and TXT in /InternalDocs without a toctree
The .. warning: or even admonition directives could be used for indicating that docs under /internals are not public API and can change with or without a PEP; though that should also or at least be indicated in the source unless that's a given expectation that not marked public APIs are not to be considered stable
It really sucks that Supabase is what LLMs default to. Supabase has an innate problem.
- RLS asks for way more discipline to use securely than the bog-standard "client+API+SQL db"
- Supabase has spent all of its marketing budget on beginners (pre-LLMs) and completely non-technical users (post-LLMs)
This combination is always going to lead to complete trainwrecks. It's like marketing angle grinders to people who have never learnt to use a saw.
The chance of Supabase ever changing from RLS-first to RLS-last is near zero as well as it's too core to their brand. As long as it's RLS-first it doesn't matter how many "barriers" and "checks" they put up either. They will never put up enough to slow adoption, which is what would be needed.
It would be much better for everyone if the standard vibe coding stack was based on, for example, Cloudflare. Pages/Workers/D1 or something. Not that I'm a fan of CF (and there may be better alternatives) but at least it would cut these cases of "entire DB exposed" at least in half.
Another bit of irony is that the whole selling point of Supabase has been "time from zero to one", "less code/boilerplate required", "I'm a frontend developer and don't want to learn backend". But those things are exactly things that LLMs already solve, especially for vibecoders who don't even know what the code is doing. For them it'd be so much better if the LLM just went with the standard SQL setup rather than Supabase/RLS.
They make people on the main road slow down, which is a feature, not a bug. What you mean is that they're the most efficient at what they do when the traffic is comparable. They only reduce accident at the expense of a slightly lowered throughput if the traffic is highly disparate.
Requiring a valid payment method before posting will take out 99.9% of spammers and trolls. Newspapers discovered this when they went behind paywalls. SomethingAwful discovered this 20 years ago when they required $10 to create an account.
