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This is beginning in the wrong end IMHO. One of the big problems today is that products are:

1) Not made to be repaired.
2) Not made to last
3) Repair manuals are not easily and widely available
4) Manufacturer have monopoly on replacement parts making them extremely expensive.

I would instead create tax incentives which encourage manufacturers to make repairable and durable items, and pass laws which makes it easier for the competition to make compatible replacement parts so they are cheaper.

How many products don't we have where one stupid little plastic thing breaks and it becomes useless. Getting the part is difficult, expensive or hard to install.
How is it acceptable to call big people revolting and wave off their condition as "suicidal"? You know nothing of these people, or why they are big. They aren't here to look pleasing to you, they just want to live their lives. People are not always big by choice. Do you blame all alcoholics for their condition?
This is exciting news for all .NET folks. We're running our Platform in .NET on AWS, so we'll need to wait for AWS to support Windows Server 2016 before we can leverage Docker.

For Windows Server 2012, AWS supported it [1] a little under 2.5 months after release [2].

1: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/windows-server-2012-now-ava...

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Server_2012
over the last 10 years of being on a computer for at least 10 hours a day my distance vision has been obliterated. i used to have 20/15 vision and now i have 20/50 vision.

I'm positive the screens are the issue. My toddler nieces stand a foot away from tvs and every time i see it i beg their parents to not let them subject their developing eyes to that.
Joe, you're the one who brought up shipping.

The article says air travel already accounts for 2% of global CO2 emissions, and the absolute amount is set to triple between now and 2050. Hopefully other sources of emissions decrease over that time, so air travel will be >6% of global CO2 emissions. It needs to be addressed quickly and globally, even if it is relatively clean.
Actually the important part is buried: the human saw the van and tried to brake, but was too slow.

We can certainly imagine that future AVs will look further "ahead" sideways for this kind of thing and be less prone to the accident.
It works both ways, but once people doing FMT realized that transplanting feces from an obese person to a thin person makes the thin person gain weight, they stopped doing that. All of the stool banks now screen for obesity and won't accept donors with high BMI. So now you should only see weight loss after FMT, or no significant change.
There was a time when browsers had no tabs at all. I remember clearly Internet Explorer 6 had no tabs and Microsoft added it in version 7 to catch up with other browsers.
I may need to do this. I've become extremely intolerant to ~80% of food types. I'm told it's "IBS" but it's accompanied by neurological symptoms. I've seen dozens of doctors and gotten nowhere (the most "promising" diagnosis was abdominal epilepsy).
Funny story about datacenters, I worked on optimizing algorithmic performance for 4 years at one the big 4 but I was never allowed in a datacenter because I didn't have a green card. So my team would go on and explore whilst i had beers in the lobby.
Could we get away with calling it "Lich King", ya think?
Yeah, there's clinical backing for at least some of it.

The 20 seconds, 20 feet part is closely matched to eye exercises for people with certain types of nearsightedness or eyestrain. One example for nearsightedness is "close, middle, far" practice, where you cycle your focus across three visually-adjacent objects at different depths, which forces quick refocusing without saccades.

This has been pretty consistently shown to help strengthen muscles and improve refocusing speed. I haven't seen CVS-specific results, but for now I'll trust that treatment for older syndromes is a good start.
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I want the West to prosper because individual has more personal freedom here than in Communist China.
> The standard does not guarantee order is preserved

Are you sure about that? The standard does not guarantee which order transform will actually run and apply the function, but that is a different matter than the order of the final result. I'm pretty sure the standard guarantees that. If you have side effects and require application order guarantees, for_each is the one to use.

edit: this SO answer from a Google engineer suggests I am correct: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34167638/stdtransform-ord...
You probably just discover that the key factor was how much they get paid.
> This is a direct demonstration that C++ is the right tool.

Well, it's a demonstration that C++ can be made into an adequate tool. The right tool? That might be a bit of an overstatement...
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Well, working support for software company where we often do just that sometimes, the reasoning is different. Often times update to latest version is simply the fastest and safest solution to many problems, since why bother with fixes and workarounds when the underlying bug has been properly resolved elsewhere? We still are required first to identify that upgrade is the right path

Software support isn't exactly analogous to healthcare since the upgrade requirement often is trivial and troubleshooting past that checkpoint is instantaneous. It's also generally not potentially life threatening, despite what angry DBAs might threaten

I would say that weight as a checkpoint for some things is mildly arbitrary and not nearly as useful as most recent patch. With most recent patch, you at least can see what fixes have been incorporated. Losing weight doesn't have the capacity to immediately resolve the underlying issue like a patch does.

I do agree that obesity is a personal thing, but a patient being obese is just part of the considerations as they troubleshoot. It's a major problem but it's also integrated into the patient, and it's the unfortunate reality of what doctors need to deal with.
Basically every monitor with a LED backlight controls brightness by PWM. It only causes problems if the frequency is too low. (Contrast with fluorescent lights: every single fluorescent tube in existance flickers, but only some flicker slowly enough that people can notice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjyhFyUN_zQ Ditto CRT monitors, back when they were still used. Refresh rate of 60hz is flickery and annoying, refresh rate of 72hz is totally fine.)
It's generous to the customers who currently have existing, valid WoSign or StartCom certificates. It's not very generous to WoSign or StartCom as continuing profitable businesses, because if I were paying either of these companies for certificates, I'd be looking for someone else to pay when it comes time to renew. This is exactly what you want.
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I've been wanting this for ages. And more simply, I want brightness controls that go all the way down to zero.
But "retarded" is in fact a different word than the alternatives you posted. Different words have different implicit and explicit connotations. So word choice and style of communication are entirely valid factors when evaluating whether an opinion is worth one's time given that we now live in a vast sea of opinions.

I suspect that people who think that how they communicate is distinct from what they communicate have not thought very carefully about the problem of communication.

What the word "retarded" communicates about the person who uses it is something I think you can work out on your own. It's one of many similar words that I often use accidentally when I mean something more precise.
My experience, having been both a very obese person (100 lbs overweight) an an almost normal-weight person (10ish pounds overweight) is that obese people get worse _everything_.

I expected to have an easier time talking to the opposite sex when I lost weight, and this ended up being true. I had no idea how much better talking to everyone else would be. In customer-business interactions, job interviews, and really every interaction you have with other people it made a remarkable difference. I was an avid cyclist before I lost weight, and I still am now, but people are nowhere near as dismissive when I tell them I rode a half-century the previous weekend, even though I did so before as well (riding a recumbent helps a lot).

This is anecdotal inasmuch as it was just me, but over the course of my life thousands and thousands of data points suggested the idea that people are just extremely prejudiced against fat people.
From the article:

"But there should not be blanket refusals to operate on fat people, the committee wrote. Those with a body mass index over 40 — like a 5-foot-5-inch woman weighing 250 pounds or a 6-foot man weighing 300 — and who cannot lose weight should be informed that their risks are greater, but they should not be categorically dismissed, the group concluded."

It's really simple. You can inform people of the increased risks and possible outcomes and let them make their own decisions about their bodies. The article here is not saying that doctors should ignore weight as a factor, but that they shouldn't make decisions to deny or provide care based solely on BMI.
With a "play by the rules or you're out" attached.

It's more lenient than some might want, but it avoids the decision being controversial and perhaps lessens the chance that it is seriously challenged.
How do you know it was computers and not just age in general?
But they're not internet connected, are they? I tried `ping 8.8.8.8` from each of them without any luck.
You're right—the author doesn't really address this. If a business is unable to price discriminate by adding or removing features, they will end up having to pick either (1) high price or (2) low price. [Stylized example, of course]

If they pick High Price, then they will include lots of features, but only people with a high willingness to pay and high ability to pay will end up purchasing the product. This means that people who would have been willing to purchase the low-end version of the product do not have that option and will instead purchase no product.

If the company picks Low Price, they will not include as many features because (in many cases) there is not sufficient profit incentive. This means that even customers who would have been willing to pay for these features cannot purchase them.

Ultimately, the assumption is that if customers are interested in making a purchase of a "crippled" or "feature-enhanced" product, and the company is willing to make that exchange, then the exchange makes both parties better off. This is what economists call "gains from trade."

Does this mean that everyone customer is better off with price discrimination under every circumstance, or that one cannot imagine a way in which a company could operate altruistically in order to make some customers better off? No. But generally they won't, and this is typically tied to the company's duty to their shareholders. (This is why B-Corps are nice—they give more flexibility in this regard.)
The problem is that the insulated cabinet portion of the fridge could easily last 100 years, just by replacing the door seals every now and then. Why would you want to throw that out with the parts that should be upgraded every 10 years for energy efficiency reasons?

Those old cars could be made as efficient as new ones by replacing every part in them other than the chassis. That's prohibitively expensive now, but mostly because there's no standard for engine compartment size and mount point locations. If I could order a "Type 2A" replacement engine instead of a "year T brand X model Y" replacement engine--or even get a 5-years-used-and-refurbished "Type 2A" engine from someone upgrading their "2011 Brand M Model N" commuter sedan, and put it in my "2001 Brand X Model Y" commuter sedan--that would solve a lot of the vehicle obsolescence problems. Moving mechanical parts wear out a lot faster than fixed structural parts. Why throw them all out at the same time?
The solution that we use for this is to have a separate domain for dev with its own wildcard certificate, like company-dev.net.
I was shocked to hear recently of a local business owner who I knew that died suddenly-- still young in his mid-50s. Super sharp guy, a systems guy. He had a contingency plan in place.

Folks speculate that he must have known something. But his wife insists he was always a planner. The business appears to be busy and humming along fine. In many ways a tribute to what he built. Certainly a huge relief to his family, employees, and customers.

Here's good link on contingency planning> https://partners-network.com/2013/10/17/contingency-plan-for...
As I said, it'd be incentive to switch to Firefox (or actually set up that Mozilla devel dependency stack and fix the 13-yaer-old bug).

For referrer in Chromium, I think there's a flag?

https://cs.chromium.org/chromium/src/content/public/common/c...
I don't know that I'd call FMT a dramatic treatment. It doesn't seem any more dramatic than a course of antibiotics, which we know wipes out most of your microbiome and tends to lead to IBS and weight gain, or taking probiotics which are intended to introduce bacteria strains into your microbiome.
I didn't read the article yet, since I opened the comments first... and was shocked by them.

I have a thyroid problem, the first symptons started to show up when I was 13 or 14, including my hair starting to get white.

I didn't knew, it was a thyroid problem, my mom, for some reason (that back then offended me, I told her I didn't wanted to go to a "fat people doctor") took me to a endocrinologist, suspecting something was wrong.

The endocrinologist made no tests, only said I was fat, and dismissed me.

The thing is: according to BMI, I was only slightly overweight, not even really "fat" yet.

But I worsened over the years, and became obese, no matter how hard I tried to not to (including having strict diet and going to the gym, and having medical help from cardiologist, physiotherapist and nutrition).

A random friend of my mother then commented I had obvious thyroid problems symptons, including a obviously enlarged neck.

My mother started to take me to endrocrinologists again... and again, they just kept telling me I was fat, and refusing to help.

I ended researching my own problem, figuring on my own what I needed to have tested, and spending lots of money and time looking for a decent endocrionologist.

I found one that is half-decent, and started at 25 years old my treatment finally... and only then, the treatment is kinda half-assed, my current endocrinologist mostly don't believe me, and don't really want to help, in fact I ended mostly treating myself by myself, buying whatever medicine I wanted, and informing the medic after the fact (where if I made the right choice, the medic would inform me that I made the right choice, so far I always made the right choice, according to improvement in symptons and blood tests results).

I am currently trying to drop my weight until I get obviously "not fat" so I can then save some money, and go to a expensive endocrionologist and hope he will treat me correctly, instead of telling me I am fat.

I even tried to go to the most famous endocrinologist in my country, I spent a entire month salary in one single visit, and the guy just told me I was fat and refused to ask for any tests, despite tests being kinda straightforward (I have a autoimmune disease, a test to see if I have anti-thyroid antibodies would already be enough to diagnose me, yet not a single doctor ever wanted to test that, the single one that did, was a doctor that was going to retire, and that I was very "persuasive" in convincing her to ask for the test, that indeed proved I was correct, and indeed I had a huge amount of anti-thyroid antibodies destroying my thyroid).
This is a very detailed investigation - the parts that appear to be new are the specific serial number patterns, the times/dates of manual issuance, and the case of the Tyro SHA-1 cert.

It's a little unfortunate that Mozilla's option here is to rely on WoSign and StartCom continuing to be honest about notBefore, or really, on Google detecting further abuse of notBefore via Certificate Transparency. Mozilla should really be participating in CT themselves so they have more options here. Is there anything the community can do to help (e.g., run more log servers)?
God how I hate the reputation these people give us. They are Roma people from Romania. We are drowning in them in Norway as well. We pay Romania a shitload to help them, but all the money disappears in corruption so Roma people actually find life easier begging for scraps in Scandinavia than living in the country where they have citizenship and their government is supposed to take care of them with Scandinavian money.

We can't just shelling out money and benefits to people who have no legal status in our countries. Then millions would pour in.
Completely and utterly fail your job, lie about it and use deceiving tactics?

And all they are getting is a 1 year suspension and none of the certificates are becoming untrusted. The auditors got a bigger punishment by being banned completely from Mozilla's trusted auditors.

Should just revoke them completely. Such incompetence and/or malice should not be allowed on such a crucial piece of infrastructure.
I've noticed the liberal media is pretty big on the 'fat rights' bandwagon right now. I imagine its profitable considering the number of fat people in the US and fits in with the largely SJW editorial narrative bias the press is fond of.

As a chronically 25-50lbs overweight person with knee problems, just dropping 10lbs was like night and day for me. Suddenly my feet and knees didn't hurt as much and I felt and slept so much better. There's an ugly narrative here that few press outlets want to sell because I imagine fat rights groups will be offended, but there's a real personal responsibility argument with weight that too often gets brushed under the carpet. Victimization naratives are popular now and get significant ad impressions. Consider the two headlines, which one will get you more clicks? "Doctors biased against the fat patients; thin patients treated better" or "Losing weight is your responsibility when it comes to your health." Obviously, the former will get all the clicks.

I really hope fat rights groups and the liberal media stop with these narratives. Losing weight isn't terribly difficult if you actually care about your health. Its a small investment that significantly pays off. Yes, I get a little offended when my doctor brings it up, but he's right every time. When my weight hits a certain number, my body just falls apart. Suddenly sleep apnea kicks in, I'm sore all the time, I get winded easily, and my back and knees hurt. We shouldn't be fighting against this kind of advice. Its still good and often life-changing advice.

Sadly, this forum being mostly millennials means the comment section is leftist victimization responses straight out of /r/fatlogic. I pity the generation growing up with a 'no one is ever at fault' and 'personal responsibility doesn't exist' philosophy. Its a disservice to them and ruins lives.
Veterinary medicine always does dosing by weight. Why doesn't human medicine?
Time outdoors is my best cure for this. It seems to be some combination of doing less active, narrow-target focusing, and having the option to look longer distances. 20 feet is doable indoors, but focusing 500 feet away is often out of the question.
> Equating automated behavioral analysis or ad targeting with willful communications-spying, like NSA does, is retarded.

Implying my two statements, one about spying and the other about consumer propaganda are the same is pretty dishonest bullshit. We know google spies on its users for the NSA and other agencies and we know Google makes its money from consumer propaganda. It's pretty simple.

> Equating automated behavioral analysis or ad targeting with willful communications-spying, like NSA does, is retarded.

Google is essentially an NSA partner when it comes to spying.

> How is this Google's fault in any way? Google owns a lot of those ad networks, but beyond that they're not responsible for news quality.

Of course google is responsible for what content it shows in its search engine and other products, and which content providers they reward.

> Aka every other private corporation in the US? You really seem to be grasping at straws trying to make them out to be as bad as intelligence agencies.

You seem to have one goal here - defend Google. Somehow other corporations doing wrong is what absolved google (and probably all other corporations) in your eyes. Nice try.

> They're dedicating their network resources to preventing independent news websites from being censored by oppressive governments or DDoS'd by hostile entities, pro bono, and it appears to be working quite well.

Nope, they participate in censorship and will remove and website or content from their results if some government (like the US government) as them to.

> I am no Google fanboy.

You wouldn't need to state that if your post wasn't just blind google defense based on false information.
Idk why this is being downvoted, its Cal-in,Cal-out... this should have been taught in that health class we took in highschool. I'd argue it should be taught in elementary.
It's infuriating. HN commenters will fall over themselves to rail against discrimination, real or imagined, against women and minorities, but it's perfectly OK to insult, demean, and minimize the problems of big people.

They know nothing about their lives, why they are big, what their health problems come from, what they've tried to lose weight. It's easy to dismiss them as weak willed disgusting blobs of fat, ignoring the human being underneath that is trying to live their life as best they can.
How convenient they don't mention the name of that survey, who conducted it, how it was formed, or link to the actual survey itself. The idea that nearly half of doctors would outright say "we do this to cover our ass" is laughable. That sentence from the article would also be "technically true" is they gave a checkbox of options for factors in that BMI cutoff, one of of which could be "concerns over the overall success rate of surgeries for myself or my employer" which is totally founded and reasonable and could have nothing to do with having some egotistical or financial stake in ratings.
Then I'll just run a prettifyer with the same sample data and name functions in my malicious macros from that.
There's not much incentive to not do that simply as a freelancer instead, and being open about the having multiple clients.

3hours each and you could be totally productive (and not burnout)
> Plus, you suggest that because the way to lose weight is clear (it is), that makes it easy.

> > There are safe, reliable, and well-understood ways to lose weight. They're not easy

The poster you are replying to specifically said it wasn't easy.
AirTrain is also responsible for getting you around the terminals. You can't expect the subway to have a stop at each terminal. $8 is steep, but it is essentially an airport fee.

Who pays airport-related taxes is relevant to this conversation - you were talking about residents getting tax-gouged when they had to go to the airport.
I wouldn't expect it from a dev of 3 years either. There may be a few out there but its not the norm.
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I propose a scorched earth tactic. Refuse to run unsigned code.
Maybe, but what if Apple believed he had left his job at Verge? There wouldn't be any real reason to not take that at face value.

Anyway, this theory is getting too convoluted, hence almost certainly false :)
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