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I kind of share your perspective, but to be honest, my theory about the appeal of the communities you're referencing is that people are not in control over their care, so they do what they can to achieve it. They're stripped of it by medical regulation and lack of choice over who to go to. So they're forced to go to some alternative, totally outside the system, to get any kind of traction in personal autonomy.

The choice, at least in the US, is (1) traditional, science-based medicine delivered in an oppressively regulated system, full of monopolies, regulatory capture, patriarchical, patronizing attitudes, and restrictions on how you care for yourself, or (2) untested, unscientific, but free approaches to care where you are the active driver. This is a bit of an oversimplification, but not much.

It's absolutely no surprise to me that we have so many problems with lack of engagement in preventative self-care when the entire system revolves around deference to authority. Your question "should you trust an authority?" is a bit misguided, because in the end, if you say no, what choices do you have?

Expertise in the medical system is based on hoop-jumping and guilds as much as actual rigor of argument and expertise.
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Depends on how much of the original work is still usable, I'd guess ten years after funding it.
It is GPLv3/LGPLv3 licensed. Any company, at any time, could fork all of Qt (and the QML part), do whatever they want, release it however they want (as long as they obey the source availability requirements of the license used, and in the case of the GPL license the final work under the GPL) and Digia could not stop them, because the GPL licenses all include the same patent protection language like how Apache does, and once released under the GPL license a company can't just say "no I take it back you can't use it anymore".

You can restrict future versions, but what exists now is absolutely free to use by anyone. If browsers wanted to adopt QML according to its current API, Digia could never, ever, ever do anything to stop them as long as the products obey the LGPLv3 source version.
Some of the HBO ones from Silicon Valley had to be sponsored. If they weren't they're missing out for sure. Definitely, think tv shows and movies are the way to go here. A McDonalds gif just doesn't feel right. Almost all of my friends just share clips with captions from shows.
> Now why do we need unions if their mission has been accomplished?

To ensure that those protections are enforced. To ensure those protections aren't rolled back. To advocate for their membership in a changing economy where their work won't remain static for 40 years.

Maybe it's because I'm not American but is it really so hard to see why having someone to advocate for the people in the economy is a good thing? After all, companies are just 'capital unions' that advocate for their members.
Easy for China to threaten seizure of Apple's manufacturing capabilities. Shareholders won't like that. When something doesn't make sense, follow the money.
> If you have no robots.txt file then it's an open question.

Only for definitions of explicit I must be unfamiliar with.

If the presence of a robots.txt makes one's intent for a given resource explicit one way or the other, the lack of one (and the lack of some communication in some other channel) must mean there is no explicit permission.
Texas has early voting for about two weeks prior to poll day, which makes voting convenient. That said, the recent attempts at voter suppression and gerrymandering abuse are saddening.
I thought the gears are done via a simpler sintering process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-K6_wbBnXmc

Is that still considered MIM?
I'm reserving judgment until I get my hands on parts - which aren't yet publicly available. I've heard that their parts have passed rigorous materials testing, but until I get make some, machine them, and physically test, will I start to believe.

With $200M+ they better be doing something new! So far, we know they are very good fundraisers and marketers, but I do think it could be different this time (i.e. maybe they'll crack it).
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The medical concierge job you're talking about sounds like a private patient advocate.
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And the balance is skewed way more towards German unions than American ones.

It's clearly not about the unions.
They add stuff to it because it's very important to be able to detect when it is present.
> Confront the candidate, essentially troll them a bit. For example: Describe fictional homemade crypto system build in PHP. Judge their response.

I would respond I have no idea about your fictional system if I had never heard of it before. What would be your takeaway from my response? Please do not ever interview if you want to just "troll" candidates and waste their time.

> Instead of comfy 30 min BS talk about their previous experience you will have a better picture of the person if you put them in the hot seat.

Oh boy, I bet you believe in those high pressure interviews designed to see how the candidate performs under difficult conditions.
The ailments you describe though can certainly be debilitating but require no underlying diagnosis. Me and my mother have horrible migraines, no one knows why but it doesn't matter because I was prescribed a medicine, didn't work. I was prescribed a second one and it worked and it is frustrating and it sucks but quality of life is the same.

For all those ailments, we can treat stomach aches, dizziness, headaches. But when one day you're relatively healthy and 3 months later you can't walk then you NEED a diagnosis. Its like when you get stomach aches vs stomach aches plus throwing up for 99% of the food you eat or bleeding stools and frequent constipation then you get a diagnosis to figure out what is going on, usually a colonoscopy/MRI for IBS or UC.

For most things we don't need a proper diagnosis. A ligament tear grade 1,2,3 can be treated without any radiographs. Often similar conditions can be treated with the same exact splint or therapy. There is no need to further diagnose if quality of life can be the same with less than 6 months of treatment and medications.

But when you can't work or do normal daily life functions al of a sudden, you can't just give up and say too bad. Unfortunately if I had Medicaid that is exactly what would have happened. Doctor classifies it under a broad diagnosis requiring little tests and you're screwed for life. Since I had ppo from work, I went to a bunch of doctors until I got a clear obvious diagnosis. Now that I have a diagnosis I can improve.

Also, if problems aren't certain as they are chronic, widespread or hard to diagnose you see certain specialists who are trained to diagnose. You don't see a general physician
It just depends on how you do it. Just because you have more money than the liquidity of the market doesn't mean your buy and sells are market manipulation.

I have bought things on the open market 100% above the prior market price, when I wanted them. Moving the asset's price 100% and sure enough many out of the loop people started FOMOing and buying more. Its the same principle for bearish positions too.

In the securities market you can talk about your bullish or bearish rationale, and avoid sanctioning from regulators or private persons by disclosing your position. Ackman doubled down on that logic and did it very publicly. Although this is more a problem for bearish positions, the statements can't be lies or "intentionally misleading".

In the past there were many naked shorts, where fake shares were sold into the public market causing impossible selling pressure. That is illegal now, for the most part, and as long as you aren't doing that it helps make sure you aren't manipulating the market, by the legal standard.

Again, just because you can have an outsize affect on the price of the market and the mere presence of creating an advantageous circumstance, doesn't make it market manipulation or securities fraud.
At some point you start edging out of the realm of medicine and into the realm of expectations.

So you're feeling bad, and you go to the doctor. The doctor listens to your symptoms, and does some tests -- blood tests, MRIs, listening to your chest, whatever -- for the most common causes. They come back negative. So he talks to some colleagues, reads his old reference books, Googles around a little, and comes up with a longer tail list of possibilities. Runs some more tests, they come back negative.

Now what?

Well, what do you want to happen? The doctor doesn't know what's wrong with you. Maybe someone else does; do you want the doctor to refer you to someone else who might be able to figure you out? Maybe no one does; there's a lot of things that go wrong with people and we haven't even identified them all yet, let alone figured out any sort of treatment.

A lot of people really, really just want a name for what's wrong with them. So you take a constellation of symptoms and slap a name on it, like CFS. But does that help? With no known underlying cause, CFS is as likely to be a variety of different problems, with similar, overlapping symptoms, as it is to be a single disease or condition. Some people "diagnosed" with CFS may actually have the same, currently-unidentified problem; some may have a different problem; some may have an atypical presentation of a disease or condition that we know about, and can treat.

That last one is especially troubling: by labeling a constellation of symptoms, you have created a monolithic condition, in peoples' minds. If you tell someone they have CFS, because they match the constellation of conditions, they will stop looking for any other answer. If what they actually have is an atypical presentation of a known condition, they might never be diagnosed with it, because they miss the significance of new symptoms as the condition progresses.

That's why a lot of good doctors treat unknown conditions in such a way so many patients find so unsatisfying. They rule out the likely problems, make sure you don't have anything unlikely that would kill you if left untreated, and then ... wait for more information. Wait for you to develop new symptoms, wait for new well-defined diseases to be discovered, and try to manage the symptoms as best they can be.
Yeah it's pretty obvious what's going on...
Not all doctors but it is common practice at Urgent Care centers. I've never gone to an UC and not gotten antibiotics and a steroid prescribed (or attempted). This combination will definitely help you to feel a little better by the next morning but they are over done. I also never fill the steroid as then I can never sleep.
>But trying to tech/math your way into a better democracy isn't very likely because people are assholes

That's ridiculous. So we can't do anything, whatsoever, to improve our society and our systems, because eh people are assholes or whatever? That's nonsense. Of course we can improve our systems, our laws, our government, and of course mathematics and technology can help. For example, our voting systems are woeful because they are holdovers from a time when nobody thought about these things from a mathematical point of view (and nobody still does: "let's just vote for people and let the person with the most votes win" sounds perfectly simple and correct for 99% of the population). But we can do much better, and it can objectively improve our democracy a whole lot.

Will applying mathematics and technology to democracy fundamentally change and transcend human nature? Duh, of course not, but nobody claimed it will. There's plenty between implementing an utopia and going nothing at all.
If you already have a G-Sync display, you're kind of locked in. I had super high hopes for Vega (if only to apply downwards pressure to NVIDIA's pricing), but ended upgrading from a 980 to a 1080TI a couple of months ago as the launch was dragging out.

With the numbers I'm seeing, I'm glad I chose the TI, and didn't wait. I don't see NVIDIA reducing their pricing over this.
> In those two stories, regulation is unenforceable or downright dangerous. Having a private, self-regulating industry group like FINRA might work. Especially if they own the vast majority of patents on anything related to AI.

[mild spoilers ahead]

it's been a while since i've read neuromancer, but i've read it twice, and it's maybe my favorite novel ever (a strong contender, at least). i did not get the impression that the point of neuromancer was that AI regulation was unenforceable. in fact, it took an all-star team of break-in artists to circumvent the AI regulation in neuromancer. right? this is why molly and case were hired, and why the flatline construct was instantiated? or is there another plot point that i'm forgetting that showed the regulation to be meaningless?

just because regulation is not 100% enforceable, or because it's circumventable with extreme effort, does not mean it is "unenforceable". this would, IMO, be analogous to saying that laws prohibiting bank robbery are essentially unenforceable, because banks do sometimes get robbed. but i don't think that anyone would call laws against bank robbery unenforceable in practice. they are, in fact, enforced to the point that bank robbery would not be a lucrative career for the vast majority of those considering it. that does not mean that a given bank robbery will never be lucrative, or that the incentives never line up such that a person or group would attempt one.

AI regulation seems vastly harder than bank robbery regulation, both practically and philosophically. but it doesn't strike me as absolutely impossible, and i think it's something that society should give serious thought to, and now. if only to give it real consideration before dismissing it.

and i think your comment admits this: if an industry can self-regulate, it can be regulated externally. plus, industries that fear robust external regulation are usually pushed into better self-regulation. industries that don't fear real external regulation usually just do whatever the fuck they want. e.g., does anyone think the financial industry is actually a paragon of self-regulation? a good example for how regulation should work in society? to me that's an example of society being hurt by a lack of well-crafted and robustly enforced regulation.
I third this.

An invoice is enormously easier than making a donation. Most large scale organisations give even low level managers an authority limit (up to X amount) where they don't need to engage the full Contracts and Procurement process. If you're asking for less than $1k per annum, you'll find a lot of large scale organisations will happily pay. And the people using these tools are often very supportive of open source, and want to support these projects. It's in their interests; you maintain the library, they get the benefits of having bugs fixed.
None recent? I would beg to differ. Here's one example: https://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2015/10/c...
I think your rules will fall apart if you start looking at specific edge cases.

What if your job is working for the government on space tech? That seems to break your classifier.

Or if you work at a company ineffectively run.

Or if you have 50k in cash but not enough runway to accomplish what you want to do.
However, he was less comfortable jumping into [and] thinking about a problem outside of an area of expertise.

These kinds of snap judgements I find very problematic. As if anyone -- even if they're an "industry leader", even if they've interviewed hundreds of candidates; heck, even if they're a truly towering figure in their field (or otherwise a truly brilliant person that no one knows about yet) -- can make that kind of an assessment from a (highly contrived and stressful) 45-minute or so interaction with someone.

Maybe after working alongside someone for several months, you could say that. But from their off-the-cuff answers to your made up puzzle problems (or even from unstructured conversation)? I just don't buy it.

BTW you should be doing a lot more to anonymize these profiles. Blurring the school name is a good start, but you definitely should not include company names either; and the gender should be obscured, as well. Even from just a small tuple of attributes like these, it wouldn't be too hard to identify, and perhaps cause considerable harm to some of these candidates.
Herbalife was too rich for the FTC to find it an illegal financial scheme, subsequently and simultaneously Bill Ackman got squeezed pretty hard on that and several of his other bets.

He still has a group of followers because he's rich and has a nice pedigree, but he has fallen from glory pretty hard and his calls don't matter anymore.

One of the best short sells these days is to short everything in his portfolio when you think he is about to get a margin call. Because that will force him to liquidate several large positions in different stocks.
The problem for me is that currently the choice is between accept definitions of "authority" as it is decided for you, or "you've crossed into arrogance and idiocy." And the consequences ultimately are most severe for the patient, who has more skin in the game, literally, than the provider.

I'm not talking about quack authority figures, though, either. Let's say, for example, that you, as a patient, have been reading the literature on inflammatory systems and have become convinced that some immunology PhD has a very convincing scientific case that's been made for some etiology and treatment. Why should you, as the patient, have to get the approval of a physician to go through with it? It might be a good idea to consult with people of different backgrounds, to get competing opinions, but what if the medical literature has already done that? What if you ultimately disagree? What if the experts disagree?

My experience is that GPs do not always know better, because there is just too much to keep track of. Patients are the ones whose condition is most salient to them, and they're the ones who are spending the most time on it.

Honestly, I think the best solution to alternative medicine is to just deregulate the whole thing, so people don't have the excuse of regulatory capture for a particular decision. When there's nothing "alternative" anymore, and everything is just alternatives, everything is medicine, just good or bad.
Explain to me the case that it could be considered as such?
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That argument works, insofar as it does, only for more recognizable bots and browsers. If I write a client of some sort that identifies itself as:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Snackmaster Pro/666.0.666

What do you do?

I also tell my browser to lie about what it is sometimes, due to sites that are malfunctioning, but whose owners choose to document the errors instead of fixing them with "Use Chrome" (or IE, or whatever) checks.

Is that 'kinda' illegal or morally wrong (two very different things)?

If so, that seems like a belief that all sorts of browser defaults are 'kinda' wrong and/or illegal to change. Javascript? Lying about installed fonts/screen dimensions/whatever? Refusing to keep nonsession cookies between sessions? That slope would seem to get pretty slippery...
Marak It sounds like you are working with private repos. With git-ssb currently a repo is either public or private. Private repos are encrypted to a fixed set of recipients so only those keyholders can access it. Public repos are unencrypted.
I wouldn't be too fast to jump to conclusion robots.txt legally enforceable. You would need to cite prior case law's. Without any case law's it make decision on a law error prone at best.
One watch out here is patterns that encourage developers to do the wrong thing.

With golang, for example, it's common to see applications that don't set reasonable cache control headers, content type and length headers, handle head requests properly, compression, and so on.

It's not that golang can't do those things, but the libraries, documentation, and examples don't encourage it. So you see a lot of minimal http implementations that "work", but not well. It's like every (less experienced) end user of the library has to learn all the basics by trial, error, bug reports, etc.
>If someone has made a project in TensorFlow to paint in Picasso style then you should hire them regardless of education.

Hmm, I definitely don't agree. Once the Style Transfer paper was released, it's pretty trivial to implement it in a DL framework. Certainly a good indicator that someone knows how to implement deep learning algorithms, but it's a pretty small facet of someone's skill. You can implement Style Transfer while still writing ugly, buggy, mediocre code. You can also copy most of the code from different open source DL repos, even before anyone had implemented Style Transfer.

That said, someone taking the time to implement Style Transfer does show that they're reading recent research and are curious about deep learning, which are definitely good signals.
Think about the magnitude of what you're saying. Look at how well dart and webp are faring despite a giant behind them...

QML in the browser doesn't fill an actual need, and because it's unknown to most web devs even if perfect support magically appeared in all browsers tomorrow, it would not actually be used right out of the gate.
Surely you think an employee should be able to quit his job, become a contractor, and charge the company more money. A union is just all the employees quitting and starting a consulting group.
That's not being particularly generous. If there is no evidence of a physical problem, you get kind of stuck. Doctors have tried hard to find a physical cause for a number of these illness.

As an example, the CDC spent years investigating Delusional Parasitosis, despite evidence it was mental illness, precisely because the sufferers were so insistent they were truly sick (See bottom of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delusional_parasitosis). They didn't find anything, and the treatment remains antipsychotics, which do appear to work.
That doesn't help for damage already done. Imagine our culture of political leaks right now, and then consider that leaked information could be real or synthesized and there's no way to tell the difference.

Generate a few images of a politician in a compromising situation with a minor and accompanying synthesized "hot mic" recordings.

It's a recipe for interesting campaign seasons at the very least.
tmate is fantastic for exactly this. You can share a session on your local machine, the pair doesn't need tmux, and obviously you don't need a remote machine setup for development.

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> The HTML that browsers accept is loosely defined

This has changed since the advent of the HTML5 specification, the primary purpose of which was to retroactively describe existing browser HTML parsing behaviours and to document and specify them comprehensively in all of their complexity.

The wisdom of this abominably complex approach may be questionable, but it's certainly no longer "loosely" defined.

I'd be curious as to whether this implements HTML5...
Isn't this how things always go? Technology often trickles down from military until someone makes it accessible for others. In this case it was Apple, Microsoft and to some degree IBM. Bill Gates seems to be a master at grabbing the opportunities given to him. I don't see a fault in that, as opposed to later business practices.
The commenter to which I replied seemed to be extrapolating the idea past Chronic Fatigue Syndrome to all cases where patients are not successfully diagnosed for reported pain. Thus my argument was not specific to CFS.

I agree that it seems unlikely for years of fatigue to be psychosomatic, but we won't know the numbers until there is a test.
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i dont think climate change is considered probablistic anymore.
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