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I assumed this was more that the robust system survives. Oxidative phosphorylation is complicated, requiring many participating proteins in the pathway. If any of them are broken, that is it. Glycolysis is comparatively simple more likely to survive random mutation. Any cells which break glycolysis will die off.

  If a card swipes in Chicago and seven minutes later swipes in Los Angeles, one of those swipes is fake.
How does this work with online shopping? When I am sitting on the couch and buy from Amazon, where does the address get registered?

Can also imagine an edge case: couple shares an online account, one is traveling and purchases with the saved card details.


Swiping a card (or inserting, or tapping) is a "card present" transaction. Online shopping, where you type in the card number, is a "card not present" transaction. Retailers and banks can tell the difference.

Also, a Apple/Google/Samsung tap has a different DPAN to the physical card, so it's "card present" but a different card.

They can tell based on transaction metadata. Source: I worked at a cc company

I believe the system distinguishes between card present and card not present.

If I use a decompiler on existing binaries, then some machine translation utility to turn that into a different language, that still feels like a derivative work, even if no human were reviewing the specifics.

The idea is to make it so that the parts of the output that are derived from the existing binary are not themselves eligible for copyright protection. I.e., factual descriptions of the file format, without any implementation details from the binary.

One of the few powers of the board is to fire the CEO. I do not see why there is any need for codified reasons. If the board thinks the CEO should do better, that is all that matters.

The CEO can be drunk, liar, cheat, steal, and be incompetent only as long as the board thinks it is ok.


I have been told (but not confirmed) that is mandated by the HDMI mob. If you want HDMI on your TV, it cannot also have DP.

This can only be true for consumer-grade stuff. Even then I just guess the manufacturers kind of cheap out.

I have a dumb-ish Samsung Hotel TV / commercial TV at home. It has DP.


I want a TV with DP. Do you have a recommended source for where to pick up commercial TVs?

I live in Germany and I got mine from https://www.visunext.de/

Which is kind of funny. At least, to my mind this has associated HDMI-only with the budget option (TVs), and DP with the premium tier (monitors).

There is already free energy. In 2024, California curtailed 3400 GWh of solar. Hydrogen is one of the easier ways to load shift that to winter or processes which need something denser than batteries. I actually prefer synthetic methane (worse efficiency) because it is more immediately usable.

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=65364


Looking at the charts[0], load shifting all the way to winter seems unnecessary. You only need to load shift until ~6pm, in which case there are plenty of better options out there like grid-scale batteries, flywheels, pumped storage hydro, etc.

[0] The 2nd chart on https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/images/2025.05.28/chart2.s...


It depends on your energy mix. The more solar you go, more load shifting is required. Winter solar production is relatively crummy and you need to offset that loss somehow for the entire season.

That chart is showing some curtailment in winter because the grid knows to expect less production. It is already tuned to spin up more gas because solar will underperform relative to Summer.


This is a rare circumstance where I would actually assume incompetence vs malice. (Unlike big tech, which has weaponized good will)

I would hope that anyone medical adjacent would be more deliberate in building a service, but I can easily imagine following the same ad-infested path as everyone else. “Start with this Google/Facebook/Microsoft/Draft Kings starter template that bundles leftpad so you can save time for the hard work”


If you go to a bigger school, they have multiple graduation ceremonies. Split the rental amongst anyone who does not share a time slot with you.

That’s what I did and people acted like this was a genius move. No, I am just broke.


I skipped the graduation ceremonies for my BA and my first master’s degree. For my second, apparently the cost of a cap, gown and hood was included in the tuition so I have academic regalia sitting in a box somewhere should I ever find myself in need of such, a scenario I cannot imagine ever coming to pass.

Yeah, I skipped mine too. I was not (and am not) at all proud of my box-checking degrees.

I had a blast in undergrad, not at all because of the classes.


Same here, walking across the stage in a dress is for the school, not for you. Got my paper, bye

It’s also for the families, but mine wasn’t available for the BA and I told them not to bother for the first master’s. The second, I only went to because it was a low-residence program and the ceremony took place during the final residency and being one of less than 20 people in the cohort, my absence would have been conspicuous.

Lol yeah, still pissed at my family for having me walk for high school grad, didn't walk for college because I got a real job instead of wasting my time graduating. What a stupid tradition; mandatory accredited higher education deserves the death waiting for it. Paid for a dumb "class ring", too.

Halloween costume? Or perhaps you could donate it to someone who would otherwise have to pay the fee.

There was no additional fee for it. The program was shut down in 2020 so there are also no later graduates to receive it.

Halloween costume?

I just did online school and didn't bother showing up to any kind of ceremony. I was 30 when I finally finished school, I didn't really feel the need to prove anything.

You can just not participate in the ceremony and then you don’t have to spend any extra money at all.

How many lights are there?

… four. There are four lights.

That sounds like too much effort. Better to have the AI write you a 20k word manifesto about how much you love your employer and then include that in the context of every request.

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