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> 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.

Ugh, you're just wrong, and I can only conclude you didn't read the article. They mentioned who conducted it and linked the actual survey, which has all the information you mention.

From the article:

> "There is a perception among some surgeons that it is more difficult, and certainly some felt it was an added risk,” to operate on very obese people, Dr. Yates said. He was a member of a committee that reviewed[1] the risks and benefits of joint replacement in obese patients for the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons. The group concluded that heavy patients should first be counseled to lose weight because a lower weight reduces stress on the joints and can alleviate pain without surgery."

> 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.

Again, I think that it's reasonable to have BMI cutoffs as a requirement for surgery, but let's make that argument based on facts, please.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/278060582_Obesity_a...
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>Is that whole business going to go away?

No. It's just going to look different, with the most successful vendors selling flexible, nearly white-box hardware with good long-term maintenance terms.

> if you think a lot of infrastructure will be moving over to the cloud (because of cost pressures) over the next few years

There's certainly going to be a TON of infrastructure moving to 'the cloud' in the next 5-10 years, but cost isn't necessarily the strongest driving factor pushing cloud adoption. Big, established Enterprise-with-a-capital-E type businesses are often quite capable of continuing to run infrastructure in-house with better bang-for-buck in terms of raw capacity than what is presently capable with public/hosted private cloud solutions.
When you're working with a platform that has native JSON parsing, it generally doesn't support streams as described... so you either count braces and quotes, create a stream processor or use a delimiter... a delimiter is an easy enough solution, also allows for easier viewing in a text editor. It's about being pragmatic.
I haven't seen them myself, but the TrueTone displays in Apple's newest iPad pro seems to put a lot of work into this, particularly in automatically matching the color temperature of the surrounding light.

Some HN discussion about that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11546490
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According to these slides from Sqlite founder, Sqlite was a "spin-off" of Postgres: http://www.pgcon.org/2014/schedule/attachments/319_PGCon2014...

According to this, "SQLite was originally written from PostgreSQL 6.5 documentation" https://www.pgcon.org/2014/schedule/events/736.en.html

So, "fork" wasn't the right word. Apologies.
eastdakota (CEO of cloudflare) posted this:

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Yes, you can see Brian's critique of us here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW5vJyI_HcU

Skip to minute 19:35. Then skip to the Q&A at minute 45:00 to hear my response.

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He repeatedly badgers Krebs on "why didnt you respond to my emails to meet", to the point they nervously laugh/cough on stage.

"Who needs to actually ask questions, as a journalist?", said eastdakota (https://youtu.be/wW5vJyI_HcU?t=2887). This was what got me. I expect better composure from a CEO than childish and churlish jabs.

(edits were purely for formatting and separating eastdakota's writing from mine.
> "You say Uber offers a solution to this - what is it?"

Drivers don't get to pick and choose their fares, and canceling a fare after assignment counts against the driver - do it too much and you get kicked off Uber completely.

Uber does some incredibly dodgy things, but on this front they are an absolute and unalloyed improvement over the previous status quo.
> I must be missing something, given the "reverence" SO seems to get.

I suspect that the part that you are "missing" has to do with the following belief:

> answers supplied by random internet people and "graded" by other, less-knowledgeable random internet people

You've inherently discounted the quality of content on the site, so it's no wonder you find nothing valuable there. The fact is that "crowd sourcing" actually can work, and "random internet people" are able to curate and raise visibility of quality content.

I think Stack Overflow is one of the best examples of this. Despite being inundated with terrible content, the system is able to consistently identify quality and float it to the top while mostly keeping the trash out of sight.
3. We had, it was called IRC and Pidgin.

But then the "normies" had to ruin everything.
Before bash was the world's default shell, it was csh, then tcsh. At my university, if you switched your shell to bash, the sysadmins would put you under extra scrutiny, suspecting you were a Linux user and thus likely to cause trouble.

We switched to a default shell with incompatible syntax not because of network effects but because it was much better than tcsh — initially just for scripting, later for interactive use as well.

zsh already existed at that point, btw.

As for mastering bash? Nobody masters bash. Brian Fox hasn't mastered bash.
While most of the doc focused on StartCom/WoSign, I thought this bit at the end was interesting:

> no longer accept audits carried out by Ernst & Young (Hong Kong).

To reject audits from E&Y.... It makes me wonder about the transparency and trust we put in the auditors as being a key part of CA validation process.
There are companies trying to use this type of thing for game content generation. I recall some guy at tech crunch disrupt won an award last year (two years ago?) for something along these lines?
Diagnosis works on Occam's razor most of the time. Yes it could be a tumor or degenerative bone disease, but its probably just a sprain (because you twisted it hard while playing basketball). In fact Occam's razor describes medicine perfectly.

As for the 2nd part - my back hurts and I'm fat - weight-related for 99% of the patients. Fixing weight fixes the back (and the feet and the knees and on and on). Any other treatment is palliative but doesn't address the fundamental cause. It would be irresponsible to keep giving obese patients 'crutches' (treating the complaint) when the cure is weight control.
It's pertinent in this matter that one of the authors of the report works on the Chromium TLS stack.

But it's not clear to me whether Chrome has an independent CA program. They use the Microsoft CA store on Windows, and at some point were using NSS (and hence the Mozilla certs) on Unixes. I presume they can always just additionally block this CA in Chrome, though.
They paid $9k/month for a T1 in 1995, in NYC? Sounds very high. Either that or my reference point of paying $3k/month for a full T1 in 1994 in a small Wisconsin city is low.

Anybody have more numbers from that era?
For something like the AV receiver's three capacitors or the TV's convergence IC's, how did you track down the problem and source replacements?

Are there debugging manuals for that level of electronics failure, or was it just "hmmm, that capacitor probably shouldn't have all the goo around it"?
Not only is it a year without revenue... I imagine this will devastate their revenues in future years as existing customers up for renewal during that time will likely permanently migrate to another CA.
"The critiques of AI from Hubert Dreyfus have stood the test of time..."

This is the guy who in 1965 said "no computer can play even amateur chess". He was right. It took a lot longer than expected for computers to get good at chess. But they did. Now they're better, a lot better. Chess.com now says "any decent chess program could easily beat the world's top humans". No need for a supercomputer; Komodo costs $59.96 and running on a laptop will trounce any human.

Dreyfus is too much into "humans are special snowflakes", and he writes book-length arguments which assume you agree with that.
Counter-anecdote: I've had an NYC cab driver stop in the middle of the interstate trying to figure out which way to go next to JFK. It was pretty scary. The driver quality in both services seems very low to me.
Another thing to look into is FL-41 tinted glasses. I learned about them from a local vision therapist, and just ordered a prescription set about a week ago. There have been studies (e.g. [1]) indicating its usefulness for light sensitivity, migraines, and circadian disruption from using computers/TV at night. I don't have my glasses yet so I can't speak personally to their effectiveness.

[1]: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2701948/
This is mostly caused by CO2.

PS: First line "When carbon dioxide (CO2) is absorbed by seawater, chemical reactions occur that reduce seawater pH, carbonate ion concentration, and saturation states of biologically important calcium carbonate minerals." http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/co2/story/What+is+Ocean+Acidificati...
Citation needed for virtually everything you said. Reputable sources, please.
I think it illustrates that people can disagree with what constitutes unethical actions - the higher the requirement that everybody agree on what is unethical, the more heinous the crime has to be. So most of us will agree on the items in your list, but eating meat or using Chrome will be harder to get consensus on.
I find terraform's git log to be more readable. You can get a quick overview for which commits corresponds to which feature by following the first-parent chain.
I'm sure they picked the point they're zooming in on intentionally, but I thought it was interesting when it started being radially symmetrical.

I wonder how they chose the point; trial and error, or was there some mathematical way of guaranteeing that there is something "interesting" at that point?
For arguments like this, it is easier to look backwards than forwards.

So let's take a 20 year old car, and pretend it was future proofed to take more upgrades. Would you want it today?

* The style wouldn't be right at all. So let's pretend that we are globally willing to accept out of style things for the sake of the environment. Which is a big if, but let's go with it.

* The steering wheel may or may not have airbags. The doors and seats would certainly not have side impact airbags. The doors and seats would not be designed to take these advances. You would need to basically replace the doors and seats to upgrade these new safety features. But what if these new safety features made the door 2 inches thicker? Since you aren't replacing the frame, you now lost 2 inches of internal space. Maybe the driver would still fit, maybe it wouldn't.

* Engines were much much less efficient 20 years ago. New engines have all kinds of things that a mechanic can better explain. Things like carburetors are gone, things like computer controller ignition are in. Would the upgradable car have known about all these future changes? Maybe, maybe not.

* Frames have gotten much stronger / more crash proof in the last 20 years. Think of better crumple zones. So if you wanted to upgrade that 20 year old car to be as safe as a modern car, how would you change the crumple zones within the frame itself?

* Metal itself rusts over time. Things can slow it, but there will always be some rust. What do you do if the frame has rusted in ways that can't be fixed?

* Crashes can permanently damage cars. Say your frame is bent in a crash. Insurance companies write this car off as totaled, and declare it no longer safe to drive. Can you always fix this kind of thing? Perhaps sometimes. Would you want to drive a frame that has been welded back together after a crash? I would not.

This is not an exhaustive list but it partially proves a point. In a field where innovation is happening, it is VERY hard to future proof your hardware. If you disagree and are a programmer, show me an active codebase that has never had a refactor. By going down this path, you are basically saying the contents of a given method can be swapped out, but we can never refactor the codebase. So show me a 20 year old C++ project with no refactor ever done, just methods being swapped out like your replaceable car analogy.
This is often what happens with meta-analyses: many people have convinced themselves there is a pattern based on limited-but-good data, have asserted so in the literature such that it's almost accepted as fact, and then a meta-analysis actually crunches the numbers and finds little to no statistical support for the claim. A recent well-documented case is that of jellyfish blooms in the oceans:

http://theconversation.com/how-time-poor-scientists-inadvert...

Just to clarify, I'm not saying these people are stupid. But rather that Feynman was very right when he said that the easiest person to fool is yourself.
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FWIW I agree with you. Anything forced on a group is apt to be resented by its members, including the "token whatever" who feels that she has to represent "her kind" instead of winning or failing on her own merits.

Instead, groups benefit when they themselves work to expand their own membership. It's _really_ easy for all of us to look for people who share our outlooks and opinions, a "mini me" in some way. But we grow only when we insert new ideas.

I've been exceedingly lucky, in that I've worked with diverse groups of all sorts. They include people from varied backgrounds (rural vs city, money vs poor, race, gender), and in every instance I can think of a time when that "differentness" caused us to think of a better and different answer. For a lame example, someone who grew up in a rural area is more likely to think about how an online application works in a region with lousy connectivity. It's not that other team members can't think of such things, but the background ensure someone does.
A simple way to be introduced to like-minded and interesting people. Through a genuine email introduction. I have already got over 100 people joined including Dave Kerpen himself! Others include a doctor, several entrepreneurs, a large site owner, and a young "maker"! I created the site in a few hours last night.
Here is what I used:

Squarespace: Super easy to make websites! You can make them look pretty good with limited design skills.

Unsplash: For free awesome stock pictures.

Typeform: To create the membership form to collect data. Provides a better way to collect info and data.

Twitter: Tweeting Dave Kerpen.

Reddit: Posted it on r/entrepreneur

What is the point? If you have any idea, get it out there ASAP and see what happens.
Email hasn't exactly kept up with web standards for a few reasons, but mostly because Microsoft Outlook decided to use Microsoft Word as the rendering engine for email instead of a web browser. For the longest time, emails were built using tables and, for the most part, still continue to be constructed using tables. Some HTML elements are fine but there's nothing that works really consistently well to make sure that your emails show up the same way in Outlook as they do in webmail clients or other desktop email clients. The solution up until now has been to include all this extra stuff in a section of the email and then trick Outlook into reading a simplified version of the email while still allowing other email clients to read the full version. It's basically a trick that lets you do some of the fancier stuff in email while making sure that the content is at least readable by people using Outlook, even if they don't see the fancy stuff.

This same situation happened on the web for Internet Explorer. Nearly every modern browser supported a set of standards that IE just wouldn't deal well with and so people did the same thing and made the websites work for all the other browsers and then used various tricks to get IE to play nice. Media Queries on the web were one such case. IE couldn't really deal with them and so people would make media queries for their sites and then create separate styles just for IE. It was a huge pain. I'm just curious to see how this extends now that we're back to a change like this in email. Outlook is now web-based and Microsoft is way better at keeping up with the rest of the industry but I can't help but think that there are still crowds of people using older versions of Outlook.
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I wasn't talking about the awards specifically, but rather about the state of mind. And I'm sure working in such a restaurant is not for everyone. But it's nice to see people who actually enjoy the challenge.

Are there companies that take quality, perfectionism, innovation, workmanship to that level in the tech industry? And do they succeed more than other companies?
It looks like Mozilla and Google have created a set of circumstances where the rational next step would be to wind down WoSign/Startcom and just start a new company.
>Water efficiency regulations also appear to have forced modern washing machines to use inadequate water for rinsing. There are numerous stories of hypoallergenic people who find that their new washing machine leaves significant detergent in clothing.

This is because people always use way too much detergent. Stop it. You don't need that much detergent. Get the "he" detergent and follow the directions. You don't need a giant amount of detergent to get your clothes clean.

This is exactly like all the stupid people who always adjust the side mirrors on their car so they have a great view of the sides of their car, instead of trying to minimize their blind spots.
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In the last 10 years I wouldn't have bet on C# to be the language to be the most excited about, and yet here we are. Kudos for dealing with fragmentation
why a 3rd party plugin ? Cpanel released an official plugin already about a month ago. See this:

https://features.cpanel.net/topic/provide-support-for-lets-e...
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Any other CA?
My gut says distrust of Catholics has gone down in the past 30 years, but I could not find data to back it up. But yes, many things factor into things..
If you write off Let's Encrypt, I think your options will be limited to "pay for a certificate".
Yes, Chrome generally uses the OS trust store as "trust roots", however Chrome layers on additional validation and pinning in the Chrome code:

CRLSets: https://dev.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/crlsets

HSTS Preloading: https://hstspreload.appspot.com/

more: https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/security-faq...
I believe one of the features of StackOverflow's design is that people quit the site when they become burned out answering repetitive/uninteresting/homework/etc questions. Because the alternative is that they hang around the site and entertain themselves by treating people badly...despite the design, I believe that the way in which 'homework' questions are used as an excuse for unhelpful behavior illustrates the general problem that concerned Spolsky [1] when designing the site.

[1] and perhaps Atwood to a lesser degree based on their difference of opinion regarding 'how do I move the turtle in Logo'. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1003841/how-do-i-move-th...
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That's somewhat unfair don't you think? It's perfectly possible to incrementally evolve code using TDD towards a particular destination determined by upfront thinking.
I was thinking about that when I wrote my comment, but decided to only include my own experiences. I think you're right / what you say makes sense, though. Particularly for popular and fast moving projects (like everything web related), a lot of people are going to run into the same problems, and either the documentation is poor/doesn't exist, or they don't have the time to learn X the hard way.
Assuming you missed it the first time around, I'd recommend taking a look at Virtuality, which gives an idea of what early 90s VR looked like.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=L60wgPuuDpE
To the other observations, I'd also observe that in a world of corporate entities, there isn't a meaningful way to permanently eliminate a CA. Bad actors can always dissolve the old entity, form a new one with the same policies and any of the same people you'd like, and do the same thing. Banning the existing corporation for a year is about all you can do; the more time that goes by the fuzzier it becomes as to what exactly that "entity" is.

By far the more important element here is not that the specific corporate entity gets nuked, but that it be demonstrated to all and sundry that the CA standards have teeth. That is what will keep the bad actors from "just" doing anything to get around the problem, not psychologically-appealing vengeance.
You wave away so many reasons a person could be big and put them all into the "they are asking for it" box with a nice big bow. From your comments elsewhere you claim to have been big and since lost the weight. That's great for you. I wish you'd stop making yourself feel better by being vile towards others who haven't been able to make that change.

> No one wants to be around people who don't take care of themselves and ooze of negativity and desperation.

No one wants to be around hateful people like you.
>Monocultures, almost by definition, encourage groups to think alike.

Why is that bad? The barriers in regards to language, religion, customs are close to non-existent and the possibilities of conflicts over gender/race dynamics are greatly lessened. The time that would otherwise be wasted on sorting out these differences can be used to perform actual work.

>That means the group doesn't invent anything new

Really?
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> they'll still have their office gear like SMB, firewall, WAN, etc. to lean for a while.

A while? More like forever. Short of corporations abandoning the notion of shared physical workspaces (which isn't likely to happen in the foreseeable future), corporate MDF, IDF, and edge gear will always be around in some form or another.
I also have health care professionals in my family, and I've heard the phrase "shit through a pipe" used to refer to patients on multiple occasions. Doctors want to help, but primarily because helping is part of their job. If some aspect of a patient's situation makes the job harder, doctors respond just like anyone else does. They don't inherently care more about their customers than e.g. the wait staff at a restaurant.

ISTM that many of the complaints of fat people echo those of elderly people. The medical community has somewhat responded to those by creating the specialization of geriatric medicine. End-of-life care, especially for elderly patients in pain, still sucks, but they're trying to do better. When fat people have better politics, perhaps they'll be able to pressure the doctors into providing less egregiously poor care for them as well.
Combine it with healthy fats and healthy carbs.

Muscle loss is unavoidable. But you can't use it as an excuse to not lose weight. You just try to minimize it by having a balanced diet and performing some basic exercises.
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I built Empirical to address 2 major inefficiencies slowing down modern science: discovery and reproducibility of experiments.

I'd be happy to answer any questions.
Any concrete examples for such a boutique consulting company?

Can't a product company have these characteristics?