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My dad got diagnosed with high blood pressure when he was 30.

For the past 26 years, our family has maintained a low-salt, low-oil diet. There is regular exercise and walking. Low consumption of alcohol and also junk/saturated fatty food, meditation and breathing exercises.

I'm damn proud of my dad and the way he's maintained his blood pressure problem throughout his life. As a by product, the entire family is health conscious. Props to my mom for making sure we always eat well and healthy. It wouldn't be possible without her constant effort.

As a result of growing up in this household, I'm extremely sensitive to salty, oily,and junk food. In the sense that, it doesn't cause a reaction or anything, but I can TASTE the HIGH amount of salt and oils in All the food that's served around me, and I see people gobbling it up without even realising.

Lifestyle diseases.
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Its terribly easy to be prescribed these drugs by doctors. I feel like you feel less responsible and even coy by pushing the discussion off onto the "See your doctor" rails. But what good is that when any psych will hand these drugs out like skittles?? I have 4 boxes of unused adderall sitting in my cabinets from a script I was given. Acting like doctors are going to solve whatever explanation you are obliged to give is just silly. Lets hear the whole story..
Why are cops killing innocent, unarmed people?
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Regarding people not thinking about the consequences, I’d say that mistake typically falls in lawmakers. Lawmaker: “hmm, motorcyclists without helmets put too much of a financial burden on hospitals, so let’s outlaw helmetless riding.” Instead of infringing on civil liberties why not target the problem at hand? Mandate specific insurance, or self-insurance, etc. in order to ride in that manner.

Same could be said here. If there is a specific financial bidder you’re trying to solve, then create a focused law that specifically aims to resolve the point at hand. I really hate these broad-stroke lazy regulations. I’d like to think professional lawmakers would be experts at this.
Could you point me to a paper where they successfully segment random webpages in the wild semantically? Or other kinds of documents?

I expect that to be significantly different from the task of segmenting objects in a photo, because most of the boundaries are not revealed by texture differences, but implicit in the arrangement.
Sure, that might be true.

Or, as is more common, the people working on a game have way more of a perfectionist streak than is worthwhile given the audiences.

What I always say in these situations: if two weeks worth of work would be the difference between a smash hit and a bomb, then who the fuck screwed up so bad to prioritize those work items to the last two weeks before launch?

If someone really messed up that badly, they should be called out. More often, those last few features really don't matter, and shipping is better than waiting. My experience is all with games that have digital updates, to be fair, shrink wrapped stuff may have different constraints (but similar questions about prioritization).
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Hey, this article isn't news! US median income has been stagnant since 70ies, while mean income has grown steadily. The gains obviously accrued to highest income earners. We should talk about it. But we shouldn't think of it like something new.
Awesome! I’ve got a great mint condition Curta and it’s simply an amazing piece of engineering. Love to see renewed interest in the design.
Per https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curta “The Curta is a small mechanical calculator”
It's almost as if wealth doesn't follow a Gaussian distribution and the Pareto power law applies to a few extreme cases.
Today in Oslo it was -5C and had 6 hours of sunlight. There may be other reasons that the Nordic countries are hostile to outsiders.
If the employer can find enough people willing to do it for $202 a week, then that is what the job will pay.
If Microsoft could have blocked all 3rd party browsers, they could probably still be coasting on IE6 2017 Edition today.
Also to add: Economic growth comes from producing more. "Mean has grown, but median has stagnated" means top earners are producing more (e.g. better software & hardware), while below-median earners aren't necessarily producing more (think of the services sector). If efficiency doesn't go up, incomes may and do remain stagnant.
What I can't help thinking is that when in Las Vegas Paddock was shooting people, it took the police more than an hour to get in (shooting started at 10:05pm, police entered Paddock's room at 11:20pm). But when the police sees a regular citizen, unarmed, without any signs of anything bad going on except a report on the phone made by unknown person, the person gets shot almost instantly.
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There is actually a slightly more damning view of the situation here than the moral issues around police safety.

The police had complete control over how they approached this. Why then are they even in a position where they feel threatened?

When we look at the outcome here, they just killed some dude for no reason. If this is acceptable to the police force; why not have them call out to the room with a megaphone? What is the worst case scenario then? Hostage gets shot by a criminal instead of a policeperson?

In this day and age, they could just fly in a drone in with a microphone and and a speaker while they sit 200 meters behind a bullet proof screen. Instead they proactivly put themselves in a situation where they felt at personal risk from ... turned out to be some dude sitting in his house. How could they have come up with a worse plan?
But capitalism has imbibed the thinking - growth over everything. The environment is dying? Who cares, produce more, free markets will take care of the environment.

Now apply this mindset blindly to a person with $10mn, $100mn, $1bn and so on..

Technically, they have "enough" to live comfortably for LIFE (and a few generations after them). But capitalism says GROW, so they will put their money somewhere that returns more than bank interest rates or government bonds etc. Because growth is imperative.

So, despite the extra wealth having zero marginal utility, the rich try to become wealthier because they are of the MINDSET that growth is the highest goal and nothing trumps growth.
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> You realize that judging acts is not within their domain and sphere of interest, right?

Wat? Judging acts is in the "domain and sphere of interest" of any person.

Please note (if you can avoid shooting from the hip) that I'm making this point to criticize police overreach - even a perfectly "clean slate" cop with no peer pressure will develop a bias towards thinking of everybody as a criminal! Similarly, a cop that lives in a White community and works in a Black neighborhood is going to find it awfully hard to not develop a bias of thinking Black people are more likely to be dangerous. (and, in case it's not clear, vice-versa)

If you cannot bear to entertain thoughts like the above, then you really aren't interested in analyzing the problem. Because all of the "training" in the world isn't going to counteract a bias that is reinforced every single day!

What is needed are actual real incentives to not murder people, but fortunately this is a pretty old problem. Apart from responding to a rare overt attack (eg aiming a gun or charging the cop), any cop that shoots someone is themselves committing a crime (somewhere between voluntary manslaughter and second degree murder) - undermining that very "law and order" that police purport to uphold! The routine and casual corruption that allows these crimes to go unpunished needs to be rooted out.
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A suggestion for the section - “Computer Science - Great Readings”. How about “Readings in Computer Architecture”? While I’m aware it’s a tough book to read, and there are already books like “The Elements of Computing System” (NAND2TETRIS) and “Computer Organization & Design : The Hardware Software Interface”, which suffice in getting acquainted with hardware architecture, Readings in Comp Arch will take reader to the transistor level. Any other book suggestion that takes reader to the transistor level would be appreciated.
I decided to scratch my own itch as I like to play music via YouTube with friends when we're together and usually this involves switching between two open tabs on YouTube. It was also a nice project to warm up again after a long sabbatical and to try some things I've never played with before (Front-end programming, Responsive design, Hosting static site via AWS).

I've got some ideas on how to improve it if there is interest (to be honest it scratches my own itch so well I'll probably make the improvements anyway :) ).
>What then, does he need to prove?

That he has been to the summit.

Just for the sake of argument, the reason is pretty obvious: sponsor pressure. You think Salomon is ponying up for him to get to 28,500 and then turn back?

Also, didn’t Kilian get DQed for cutting switchbacks in a race after being told repeatedly to knock it off? I know he’s a beast and GOAT but he’s still human.
> the same people who argue for that liberty also ask govt to go search when someone goes missing in the mountains

You posit a valuable and worthwhile hypothesis. I would appreciate it if you could show conclusive evidence that any solo climber of Everest who died requested as you claim that "government go search" when they went missing. Thank you.
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Well, this is a surprise! ReCurta had been in a bit of a holding period for a while; we did all the drawing translations and the conversions to Solidworks, but then hit a wall when it came to finding a way to actually make the thing.

Last month, I bought a lathe and mill and started teaching myself machining, with the goal of making it myself. It's going to take a long time, but it's pretty amazing making brand new Curta parts.
He really wants to have that Streisand effect. /s

I had no idea about what he was trying to hide before reading this article.
Agreed, a ponzi is just another scheme (where scheme doesn't have to be a negative word). The gamble with a ponzi is whether the person entering the scheme is the last person or not. If not last, they make make money. If to far at the bottom (too near the end, when not enough new people join to continue funding the process), then they lose.

There are people who make a living "playing ponzis", estimating which ponzis will be big, how long they'll last, and when to enter and exit.

What does make ponzis particularly bad is that they are almost always promoted as something else - some kind of magical investment (and now using tech terms that are either nonsensical or will otherwise confuse their potential investors). That is the fraud aspect, and is no different than promoting some investment fund as being typical while privately just deciding who to pay dividends to.

If you bought a McDonalds franchise, and the next day the world decided that fast food made them fat and ceased buying it, you would experience the same outcome as if you had joined a very expensive ponzi. But you know that going into it, and you believe that is not a likely outcome. With a ponzi, unless you know who's operating it and how good the promotion is, you're going to have a much harder time determining entry and exit timings. (I don't recommend playing at all!)
Indeed. Yes, there are people that have very high incomes. However, there aren't that many of them. The gov't has no choice but to increase the burden on the middle class if they want to raise serious revenue.

It reminds me of an interview with a candidate in the Canadian election back in the 1990's. This was the NDP party (left wing).

The candidate said his platform was to raise taxes for the rich. The intrepid reporter asked "what is rich?". The candidate in a moment of honesty said "A family of four making more than $60K per year".

People went apeshit with that comment.
Also low salt can result in muscle cramps.

https://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/heat-cramps#1
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It's worth keeping in mind that riding a bike isn't necessarily better for climate change. Presuming that you aren't actively losing weight, you're eating extra calories in the form of food to power your bike. And the ecological impact of that food can easily be greater than that of biking.

For example, buying 1kg of beef has the same ecological impact as driving 63 miles in a car[0]. However, that 1kg supplies you with only 2,500 calories[1]. At ~50 calories per mile[2], you get 50 miles of biking out of the beef--less than what it took to get the beef to you. It feels like you're saving the environment by not driving, but you're actually doing the exact opposite!

Of course, most environmentally conscious people aren't going to have a diet that meat-rich. But it's something to keep in mind if you're trying to reduce your carbon emissions by biking.

[0] http://www.greeneatz.com/foods-carbon-footprint.html

[1] https://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/search/list?qlookup=23568

[2] https://www.livestrong.com/article/135430-calories-burned-bi...
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And they're everywhere! Our daughter's school bought an old golf course to create some athletic facilities and a nature preserve for the kids. (We're not talking a football stadium, but a few fields surrounded by parkland for a non-sports-oriented K-12 school with less than 800 students). They were tied up in litigation for years. http://www.capitalgazette.com/news/schools/ph-ac-cn-key-scho.... After losing at trial, the resident group appealed it all the way to the state supreme court!

Residents gave the stupidest reasons for it too:

> But that doesn't go far enough for Geri Nicholson, who lives on Carrollton Road and across the street from the park.

> "The roads aren't safe, and the project as planned is not going to make them any safer," Nicholson said.

> Association President Tom Bodor said a price can't be placed on safety.

> "How much is safety worth? It is priceless," Bodor said.

This is the "unsafe road" we're talking about: https://www.google.com/maps/@38.9497613,-76.4821034,3a,75y,5.... It's idle suburbia.
Noisily thumping along is also a way to get people who are walking slower and blocking your path on busy Boston-area sidewalks to notice your presence and move out of the way.
Yes, I would agree with this. Though, since I work in govt contracting, having that MBA can sometimes "check a box" when a position has a hard requirement for a certain degree (or degree level). But, yea, if I had it to do over again, I would pick a different Master's degree :)
A ride-along is easy to arrange, that’s true. I’ve had the chance to take advantage of the opportunity a few different times. Twice with officers from the LAPD (Rampart and Olympic divisions), and once after I moved back to the East Coast when I spent three hours riding with officers from the Loudoun County Sheriff’s department.

Perhaps my experiences were exceptional examples and everywhere else across the United States, a majority of LE interactions are between officers and “guilty” people, but that’s not what I saw.

I’m open to the possibility, of course, but I’d still like to see a citation backing up the statement I was responding to.
Even so, I could never get my family to agree to a ~$100k/yr drop in household income :P
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. The competing design reminds me of 1 world trade center, which I do not like.
Taiwan does indeed have world class health care despite having an exceedingly low tax rate by western standards.

But lets not overlook the elephant in the room.

Taiwan is an island full of thin people who eat rice or noodles at almost every meal. Millions of people still shop primarily at traditional markets and millions of others follow Buddhist diets that would be mocked by western "diet hackers". Only in the past generation has it really begun adopting, and suffering the effects of, western eating habits.

If Taiwanese people ate like Americans and drove everywhere, their health care system would have become bankrupt years ago.
I can't drop my biomass...
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Assuming the company is doing well, financially, it's not zero-sum if there's enough money for everyone to get a salary increase.
Every group has its snobs. There are also people who think that car drivers are lazy and unhealthy.

I'm a conventional cyclist, but some of my friends have e-bikes.

For the most part, people get along. While cyclists don't know what to expect as e-bikes get more popular, we also recognize that e-bikes provide access to cycling for a larger population. The hope is that the overall popularity of cycling will be better for everybody. There's a general observation that car drivers behave better towards cyclists as cycling gets more popular in any given locale.

At least in my locale, e-bikes are arriving on the scene gradually enough, that people can have a wait-and-see attitude about how they will mix with conventional bikes as they get more popular. For now I have a laissez-faire attitude unless or until problems emerge.
Disputes are resolved outside of the star system. AirBnb will basically reimburse 50% of the costs automatically if you complain.
This is almost never the case when there are multiple armed and armored police present.
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But then they can't be rich. They don't get to keep on bringing in millions and millions because they are creating value. They are appropriating value because that's how our system works.

So sorry but they want to keep using land to farm you.
I guess I wasn't clear. I didn't mean that the people who are climbing are the ones who are asking govt to go search for them if them go missing. I am talking about people, who in general ask for liberty in such matters while also asking govt to provide search and rescue operations to deal with any fallouts. I am sure you would ask me for data to show conclusive evidence of this happening and my answer is that I have none.
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I think the (ongoing!) tale of 75 Howard [1] makes for a good exemplar of the challenge of building in San Francisco.

tl;dr: It’s a very fancy building replacing a parking garage on the waterfront, so a well-meaning contingent have been trying to stop them because they’d prefer affordable housing. The YIMBY perspective would be “Who cares what they pay for housing? Let ‘em build.”

There’s lots of stuff that gets people riled up. The distinction between San Francisco and places that move ahead regardless is the set of decisions in the 70s and 80s to give the public a say in basically any development. Whether that’s your living space being plunged into darkness or a demand for affordable housing, you can bring your concerns to the planning department and planning commission (mostly in person, sadly).

The Planning Department and Commission are woefully understaffed, underfunded, and in an awkward position. The Board of Supervisors can overturn their decision at a moments notice, and thanks again to the conflicting desires of the loudest folks per district (hello Telegraph Hill!), it’s easy to see how they have to be conservative and move at a glacial pace if they want things to stick.

The one bright spot, is that thanks to some of the neighborhood plans in SOMA though (which then serve as “the overall community clearly believes X”), thousands of units were built in the last few years finally making a dent in the downtown market. Sadly, we seem to be going backwards with the so-called “Central SOMA Plan” which due to some lobbying now calls for something like 50000 people worth of offices and maybe 7000 people of housing.

FWIW, transit studies are required of all large projects because of CEQA unless I’m mistaken. Most of them are garbage though, and see above about the planning department being understaffed and generally outgunned.

[1] http://www.socketsite.com/archives/tag/75-howard
Technically not murder, as that requires premeditation. However it is apparent that this is a no-win situation for the victim, the officer is clearly intent on creating a situation for a "justifiable" homicide.

What's just as horrifying is that the jury acquitted.
The reviews are kept secret until both parties submit. The host will not know what you gave him, you should definitely have put a negative review.

Some countries and cities don't have curtains. A TV service and hangers don't qualify as a valid reason to get $2k refunded, or even half of that.
Not to multiple trained, armed, and armored men it doesn't, which is normally the case with police shootings.
> What would the reason be for him to lie?

Just taking a wild stab at it, avoiding embarrassment and maintaining his reputation. I know literally nothing about him, but I presume he's every bit as human as the rest of us.

I'm absolutely not trying to weigh in either way - again, I know literally nothing about him. But also I don't think past accomplishment can be used as such handy proof of subsequent accomplishments.
Programs are abstract objects like numbers. The computers executing them are indeed not deterministic (e.g. random bit flips occur occasionally), but pretty smart people do their best to make them appear so, so it's unlikely that you see behavior that is not explainable by a deterministic model.
Most people choose to bin and forget the $10 shit they got, instead of sending back and asking for refund.
In my mind, that does apply when you're talking about entry level software development positions. If someone is an SDE1 (or equivalent) at Facebook/Google/Amazon, I assume they're smart, determined and they studied a lot for the standard whiteboard interview.

If someone is a senior engineer at one of those companies, I assume they have a reasonable amount of talent. It's not easy to fake it or avoid expectations as a senior engineer.
If you want to go work a few decades as an Oakland cop? Yes. That's my opinion. You are welcome to yours, sir.
I'm really unsure why this got down voted, I was genuinely glad to see someone change their opinion (however minor) when presented with facts that discredited it.
This is incredible. I want an automated Lenny feature for all telemarketers that call me.. I get around 5 a day, this would be amazing.
That's quite a claim.
Its in your face.

For people with ADHD, its a distraction that's willfully ignored while you're trying to complete one of the other hundred things on your to-do list that are also screaming for attention, most of them in more-urgent-but-less-important ways that this attempt to schedule an appointment with yet another provider who's likely going to make you prove once again that your life is falling apart by jumping through your life story and maybe trying some alternative that makes you ill, cranky, and introduces some sexual dysfunction that gives you one more thing to worry about alongside the thoughts of whatdoigetdonethisweekpleasejustletmecrossoffonethingtoday that you wake up to each morning.

> severe procrastination or complete lack of willpower

This sounds an awful lot like the attribution of a moral failing to people that suffer from an issue with executive function as it pertains to attention. This might be why people keep telling you that you are clearly articulating an inability to empathize. Imagine a mindset in which your fundamental assumptions, which seem self-evident to you, do not apply. If it seems difficult to understand why anybody would want to live that way, congratulations, you've got something in common! Nobody else wants to live that way either—the difference is that we don't have much of a choice, which is why we all have such strong opinions about this topic.