People not wanting to buy them seems like an entirely normal reason to be lukewarm.about making and selling them.
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You treat it like any other traffic accident, except if a self driving car is responsible, that responsibility lies with the vehicle's owner.
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City of Heroes tried the same basic thing back in the day. They figured it's an urban environment that has billboards and posters as part of the general clutter, why not get paid to switch out a fake ad for a real ad?
selling nearly-expired meat
For most things expiration dates are bullshit that's more about profits or product flow than safety. Most things are usually more than fine for at least a few days after, and freezing meat extends it's safe life by months.
To give you an idea how much expiration dates are bullshit, if you've ever been to a Sam's they sell these enchiladas, pasta and the like that are just throw in the oven for a bit and eat and they're all made with shredded chicken. They make these things in house, and they're all chicken because the chicken comes from unsold rotisserie chickens that have been out too long that they pick all the meat off and shred. Because the expiry on them isn't actually about food safety, and pulling them off the shelf, shredding and repackaging as chicken enchiladas or chicken pasta alfredo or whatever lets them invent a new mostly bullshit expiry date for the same chicken.
As the size of the pyramid increases the obvious algorithm (walking all the routes down the tree) is going to fall afoul of the time limit pretty quickly, as are several alternative algorithms you might try. So a pyramid 100 or 1000 levels deep very rapidly falls out of the time limit unless you choose the right algorithm because there are 2^(n-1) paths for a n-level pyramid. I'd suggested a...much bigger dataset as one of the judgement datasets One that took my reference implementation about 15 seconds.
This was a contest for high school kids c. 2001 and was going to involve 4 problems across 6 hours. The prof making the decision thought it was a bit much for them to figure out why the algorithm they were likely to try wasn't working in time (noting that the only feedback they were going to get was along the lines of "failed for time on judgement dataset 3 with 10000 layers", that it was because it was a poor choice of algorithm rather than some issue in their implementation, and then to devise a faster algorithm and implement and debug that all ideally within 1.5 hours.
For example, the algorithm I used for my reference solution started one layer above the bottom of the pyramid, checked the current number against either child it could be summed with, replaced the current number with the larger sum and continued in that fashion up the pyramid layer by layer. So, comparison, add, store for each number in the pyramid above the bottom layer. When you process the number at the top of the pyramid, that's the final result. It's simple and it's fast. But it requires looking at the problem upside down, which is admittedly a useful skill.
Your claim of two pounds of pork for $6 does not line up with Kroger’s meat pricing.
You could easily do this if you buy on sales or close dated and freeze. Last time I bought pork it was pork loin on sale from a Piggly Wiggly at $1.89/lb. Buy several, ask the meat dept to cut them into chops if they will (or do it yourself if they won't) separate into single meal for the household portions, bag and freeze. They'll last even longer if you use a vacuum sealer.
We do basically the same with ground beef - buy a bunch when there's a sale, pre-prep some of it into taco meat, meatloves, chili, etc then portion, bag and freeze.
Meat is obviously only for wall street investors
When you need to cut your food budget and still want meat, you watch for meat sales, buy a bunch and freeze it. A vacuum sealer is fantastic for this since it lets you split stuff into single meal portions and seal it. Most grocery store meat departments will also willing to cut roasts and the like into pieces for you if you ask and that doesn't change the price - usually buying a pork loin and asking them to cut it into chops will be cheaper than just buying chops, for example. For quick meals pre-prepping a bunch of taco meat, meatloaves, chili or the like and freezing it is a great time saver.
Around here ground beef and pork loin go on sale pretty often, just a few weeks ago we had pork loin for $1.89/lb and discounted 85/15 ground beef.
the Citizens United case - which gave corporations First Amendment rights
SCOTUS has generally defended the idea that corporations have first amendment rights since Grosjean v. American Press Co. in 1936 - a case where a Senator pushed for a tax designed to target papers critical of him and tax them into submission.
To quote Wikipedia on the case:
The case is often cited because it defined corporations as "persons" for purposes of analysis under the Equal Protection clause.
The Citizens United case was that a corporate entity or nonprofit distributing political messaging about a candidate is not considered a campaign contribution (even when it costs them to do so) so long as the entity in question is not attached to or coordinating with the campaign.
Which is exactly why I mentioned it. He has never faced consequences from criminal charges, only civil court.
You don't face consequences from criminal charges until you are convicted, which hasn't happened yet. Or someone is trying to make an example of you ala Kevin Mitnick.
He would have done that regardless of whether he “needed” funds or not. Like most obscenely rich people, there is no such thing as “enough” wealth.
I mean yeah, he's absurdly rich and greedy but I don't think he would have gone the route of Bible salesman like that if he wasn't pinched for funds. Or he would have back when he posed for that photo of him holding the Bible upside down. It's not a coincidence that the Bible sale started less than 48 hours from the bond being reduced.
Which doesn’t really contradict my point that he effectively hasn’t faced any real consequences.
He hasn't been convicted of a crime yet. Until he is, he's not going to prison. That's pretty fundamental to how the criminal justice system works. He's got damages levied against him that he's going to challenge and probably have reduced some (that's how it often goes), and had to put up $175M as a bond that will immediately go towards said damages after his appeal.
He’s a criminal. He shouldn’t be afforded the same security detail as his predecessors that weren’t. We don’t “have to” do anything. It was just decided as a society that this man, and others like him, should be given privileges that others don’t have.
You'd have to legally revoke his security detail, and even then you probably don't want to - as a former President he's a valuable asset because of what he might know despite his seemingly poor retention. As well as the sway he has over his cult. You ideally want to imprison him separate from all other prisoners with his security detail living on site if possible. I've said before the easiest way to make that happen is to convert the SHU at a medium-large prison into a sort of "Presidential suite" to house Trump and his security detail. No one else enters or leaves the unit, anything going in or out goes through both prison security and SS security.
It's a side bonus that it prevents inmates from being thrown in solitary at the same time. And a proper prison is easier to defend from "protesters" than most jails are, and which prison he is sent to should take the possibility of an attack by right wing nutters into consideration.
This should never ever ever factor into what his punishment is. A functioning society needs a justice system that doesn’t cave to mobs.
It does, but only because you have to plan around it happening. Most jails aren't really set up to deal with that sort of thing, and contempt sends you to jail, not prison. So you have to figure out how to do that without causing a bunch of innocent people to be injured or killed as a consequence. Ideally before you put him in the jail. And where to send the people you'd normally jail there, because he's going to take up excessive space for the same security-related reasons he will in prison.
That's the thing where you bleed yourself down and transfuse the blood of a young person, right?
something about the liberals making Twitter delete it?
That would be impossible, as he didn't post it on Twitter. I'm not sure if this is you not being aware of the actual post, or you taking a jab at his followers being dumb enough to believe the liberals could make Twitter delete a post Trump "thruthed" on Truth Social (aka a Mastodon instance).
the only real consequences for what hes done were in civil trials and even that was monetary.
Civil trial consequences are always only monetary - you can't go to prison for a civil case. That's part of why civil cases get away with having a much lower standard of evidence - essentially the plaintiff wins a civil case if it's even slightly more likely than not but a prosecutor has to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
They didnt even make him pay the bail bond he was initially “required” to pay.
The purpose of that sort of bond is to prevent you from using funds you should use to pay damages on lawyers to fight the case further, not to prevent you from being able to fight it at all. By the point the bond was reduced the court had their eyes in his accounts and knew exactly what he could afford and could make some rough estimates based on the shakier parts of the assigned damages where damages might end up on appeal (it's pretty common for damages to be reduced on appeal). I'd be willing to bet that the reduced bond was either close to what Trump could actually get without selling slow-to-liquidate assets (aka real estate) or close to where the court thinks damages might end up. You'll notice he started hawking Bibles almost immediately afterward, likely because he needs more liquid funding in the short term.
He’s been threatened with consequences for contempt of court over a dozen times now.
I believe he's been fined for it several times now, but the fine is set by law and is an amount that's a pittance to Trump. Jailing him is an option but complicated since most jails don't have remotely the capacity or security of a real prison and you've still got to figure out how to work his Secret Service detail into the picture. And also the protests from his cult if/when that happens.
By all rights Trump should have been kicked out of office and be sitting in jail right now but he isnt.
Blame the Senate, kicking him out of office was literally their job.
I don't think anyone was surprised that this was coming, more or less regardless of which judge it was. The original court date was a week and three business days from now, it's entirely possible Trump will literally still be on trial for the hush money case when the trial date for the documents case was set.
I'll be more upset if a hearing to set a new date for the documents trial isn't scheduled shortly after the hush money trial concludes.
That's because there aren't many Denuvo crackers out there (most notably Empress) and unless it's a huge title or a new title it's not going to be a priority for the rare few that do it. Empress has her followers vote on what to crack next.
Related to why FitGirl doesn't generally do repacks of games using Denuvo, as FitGirl and Empress have a sort of ongoing feud that leads to FitGirl not using Empress cracks.
See, when I was a comp sci undergrad 20-odd years ago our department wanted to do a programming competition for the local high schools. We set some ground rules that were similar to ACS programming competition rules, but a bit more lax - the big ones were that it had to run in command line, it had to take the problem dataset filename as the first parameter and it had to be able to solve all datasets attempted by the judges in less that 2 minutes per dataset, noting that the judgement datasets would be larger than example ones.
Some of the students were asked to come up with problem ideas. I was told mine was unfair, but mine was entirely about choosing the right algorithm for the job.
It went like this - the file would contain a pyramid of numbers. You were supposed to think of each number as connecting to the two numbers diagonally below it and all paths could only proceed down. The goal was to calculate the largest sum of any possible path down.
Sure sure, but we're talking ease of use for a typical end user. Also, Firefox isn't mandatory for the other app, so you technically don't need to add that step even if getting away from Chromium in general and Edge in particular is a good idea as regards avoiding advertising.
Maybe, but Windows has the advantage of being preinstalled on the hardware most people are buying (meaning they get to skip the install the OS step for Windows).
So, Judaism?
But seriously, most of the bloodthirsty bits of the Christian Bible are bits carried over from the Torah. Hell, a lot of them are specifically about Joshua conquering everyone around.