Yes, but you *can* tell the difference if you play the recordings on the original vinyl with a tube amp. That's how Stradivarius intended his instruments to be heard. He even held the wood close to a fire for a few minutes, to give it that warm sound.

Drugs and prostitution happen in SF units regardless. Marijuana growing operations happen too. The motel tax and licensing does nothing to prevent those activities. It's already illegal to do that stuff. Airbnb just attracts more attention because it's the kind of thing that most people assume is OK. Many people naively think that we live in like... the land of the free or something, where you can use your property as you see fit as long as it doesn't harm the neighbor. Of course running a saloon or a baudy house would harm the neighbors; but my understanding of most Airbnb transactions is that it's like having your relatives or friends visit once in a while. I do that. My neighbors do that. Nobody minds. They could be doing Airbnb and I probably wouldn't even notice except to think they have a lot of friends.

What is the logic behind that?

Protection for the incumbent providers, sold as protection for the consumer

Typical pitch: don't rent from an unlicensed provider. There could be bedbugs or poor service, or it might be a fire trap or something.

Typical reality: You are lucky to escape alive with bed bugs and food poisoning when the licensed provider burns down.

Kinda funny this is what became of the original gold rush town, where anything went. Airbnb, lyft, etc... kinda like Napster and YouTube in meat space. They know their business model is an attack on the incumbents. Everybody is just shuffling the shit around, hoping they can shovel it onto somebody else and get out of town in time. OK... maybe it really is still a gold rush town on that level. Anyway, I'm not directly involved so I'll just pop the popcorn.

No. Don't torture them. On day 1 of class the teacher explains it, perhaps like this:

"Programming languages are keys that open doors in the computer. Some open more doors than others. Some open them in a different way. Some computers come with keys and some don't. There are a lot of choices on how to solve this problem. The way I've chosen is.... (teachers tells them what, perhaps even why.)".

See. No big problem, really. The students learn that a language may or may not come with the system, and that you can chose languages. The concept of components is important in software, and they learn it right up front.

The atheist believes the sun will rise tomorrow and acts accordingly. This is a very well founded believe but it is a belief nevertheless and acting upon that belief is to act as though the other possibilities will not obtain.

Wouldn't any other setup be unstable? M/A collision leads to burst of energy. Energy gets converted back into MAtter via some other process. Does it get converted into M or A? If there's a bias on one direction or another, that one wins; but if it's a 50/50 split than you just need a little push in one direction or another and one side wins because the "wrong" side keeps getting hit with stuff that kills it and pulls it back through the energy cycle.

Of course IANAPhysicist and this seems like a very obvious PoV which means it's almost certainly wrong.

Everyone is religious. Its just that some call their religion their "belief system".

All belief-based acts are acts of faith. And all actions are based on beliefs.

As far as colon cancer is concerned, there is a lot of common sense here. I doubt a tiny little factor like anti-oxidants on your beef is going to make much difference if you're an overweight smoker in your 50s. Having beer around might encourage you to drink heavily, which is listed there as increasing risk. So. If you already like beer marinade then great. If you don't, then there's virtually no reason to use a recipe you don't like. Concentrate on the elephant in the room before addressing the mouse.

No, just rebuild the kernel. It should be a build option for text or QR panics.

I think the winning strategy is to randomly throw 50% paper to cover his rock. I'm just guessing though. No idea how much to pay.

Sorting proponents into governments that test them is the penetration of the Enlightenment into the social sciences. This allows the social sciences to progress beyond "correlation doesn't imply causation" to perform ethical experiments on human subjects that, because there are experimental control groups, permits much stronger inference of causal laws in human ecologies (human societies) than do mere ecological correlations.

So what's not to like about locales, like the Mozilla Foundation or Google or even Silicon Valley, excluding from their midst those who are incompatible with the social experiment that most people want to perform on themselves? After all, it is only by consent of the governed that a jurisdiction can be deemed legitimate.

Here's the problem:

In the modern zeitgeist it is considered the moral equivalent of Satanism to practice what is called "the politics of exclusion". Why? Because it "discriminates".

These fuzzy tropes forget one thing, however -- and it is something that anyone who is involved in technology should understand in their gut:

It is only by "excluding" various hypotheses that we can "discriminate" between truth and falsehood in the real world.

But no one wants to admit that their religion might be false -- including those whose religion is the de facto state religion that enforces "inclusion" and prohibits "discrimination".

A child will find bugs than an adult will miss, because an adult will only do reasonable things, while kids will try things that don't really make sense. Developers sometimes use little programs that just click things at random to try to catch these kinds of weird bugs, sometimes called "monkey testing."

LOL, that's good too. It's my understanding that a good Forth program has simple words with relevant names. I can just imagine giving them misleading names and/or merging them into long functions. I love concatenative language and point-free style; but just like anything else they can be abused.

Of course. They wrote it in Scheme and used call/cc wherever possible. Now nobody can get in because nobody can understand it, not even the guy who wrote it.

LOL, Now if CBS had dubbed the pocka-pocka-pocka sound of a Model T over the Tesla, that would have been "Airplane!".