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The psychology of pain is complex. “Pain” doesn't imply “suffer”. For example (https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/32309...):

”There was no dependable relation between the extent of a pathological wound and the pain experienced. No significant difference was found between the pain of sudden injury and that of chronic illness. The intensity of suffering is largely determined by what the pain means to the patient.”

On that front, I think there’s a large cultural difference between Americans and Europeans.
For people's safety, you might want to delete that comment.
In Germany you can buy it at a pharmacy, you generally can't obtain medicine at a normal store.

Direct consumer advertisement of drugs is also illegal in Germany. (I think there's only 3 or 4 countries on the planet where this isn't the case)
Per your second paragraph, even in the real world people have little to no control over what data of theirs is shared between third parties (eg gossip).
This was announced the other day (and promptly flagged off the front page): https://blog.trusttoken.com/trueusd-a-usd-backed-stablecoin-...
I have a non-addictive personality, and have taken opiods 3 different times in my life, never killed me nor did I have an issue stopping.

Opioids are only 30-40% addictive, meaning the vast majority of people taking them never develop an addiction. 30-40% is high no doubt, the highest of all pain killers, but the idea we should disallow people in pain from taking them simply because some people go on to abuse them is not rational IMO
Not sure how you manage to come up with such a comment after reading this particular article. Clearly she did not have the pain she feared she would have. She said she took two Ibuprofen - that she did not need!

So why would you think she would have been better off taking drugs against pain that she didn't have?

Real pain is treated here in Germany - of course!

But taking pills for mere fear of pain that isn't even there?

I had had four wisdom teeth removed all at once, that's when I got and took a few (a few!) Ibuprofen during the following week. Only because I actually lived and worked in the US at the time (but had the surgery done during a vacation in Germany), and had to go back to work, doing IT training for a few days. Otherwise I would have taken even less.

Later I had jaw surgery, lower jaw extension by 4 mm (no metal left inside me, by the way, it was a z-cut followed by the shift and half of a bone could reattach to the other half, just shifted lengthwise a bit), so a complete cut through the lower jaw. I did not need a single pain pill.
When I had surgery recently, carb loading was done with a mix that dissolved in water.
You don't need a prescription for it in Germany (up to 400 mg AFAIK), but it may only be sold in pharmacies.
This is where a lawyer would have to answer. I'm certain that a detailed explanation would involve a mountain of cases and precedents. (I would guess that a lot of the precedent hinges on whether you are intentionally lying, or whether you are merely making a good-faith prediction. Pump-and-dump schemes are obviously the former.)

The point is that, in general, deception for financial gain is fraud, more or less by definition. It doesn't have to involve regulated securities.
An answer here would be way too long, but the short answer is "no". The technologies that were available at the time of TeX meant that TeX had to do all kinds of things that in today's world are bizarre.

TeX has seen a lot of improvements over the last 30 years, and modern TeX engines such as XeTeX and LuaTex have removed a lot of the insane painpoints that came with traditional TeX, which worked well only because there was literally nothing better at the time.

A modern TeX engine will let you just write what you want to write, using all of Unicode as your playground, using modern OpenType fonts, and with real vector graphics. None of those things can be done with original TeX, not just "it's hard to", it's literally impossible without rewriting it from the ground up. Which is why we HAVE modern TeX engines: just because it worked, doesn't mean it was good. It was merely the best available at the time.

Time moved on.
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This passage feels like it is premise of the article; the author eventually comes to terms with her tea-sipping and resting as recovery, and this doctor explains the reasoning behind the medical decision-making which is very clear (and mindful/thoughtful) I think.

“To paraphrase him [German anesthesiologist], he said: ‘Pain is a part of life. We cannot eliminate it nor do we want to. The pain will guide you. You will know when to rest more; you will know when you are healing. If I give you Vicodin, you will no longer feel the pain, yes, but you will no longer know what your body is telling you. You might overexert yourself because you are no longer feeling the pain signals. All you need is rest. And please be careful with ibuprofen. It’s not good for your kidneys. Only take it if you must. Your body will heal itself with rest.”’
In other words, you (the web developer) can control what gets cached via the Cache API.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Cache

Workbox is my team's (Google Web DevRel) library for making it easier to manage caches (there's lots of gotchas you can potentially encounter if you roll your own).

https://developers.google.com/web/tools/workbox/
Here's the thing. You're walking in here all smug like "told you regulation was necessary." Meanwhile all the people who got into crypto because they don't like regulation aren't expressing any regrets. You're "I told you so" is falling flat.

You're trying to frame crypto-enthusists as hypocritical fair-weather libertarians that will change their mind just as soon as there's a scam or hack which affects them. Yet it never materializes. When exchanges get hacked you don't here "wahh let's get regulation". You hear "Don't keep money on exchanges".
Which is why I also oppose single payer, but that is a whole other topic. The fact that Single Payer is used to make those justifications is one of my primary reasons to oppose it
I didn’t care for how it pushes a web server and absolute urls on you. Seems it could still learn a lot from Sphinx.

As the sibling comment mentions I sent a pull request to fix some broken css and they requested I fix their test suite first. No thanks, moving on.
> If bitfinex doesn't have dollars to give for usdt, all they have to do is give an equivalent amount of bitcoin

This only works as long as their bitcoin holdings don't drop in value below the amount of tether they've printed.

Backing USDT this way is incredibly unsafe.
Is there any data about the tendency towards of beta rhythms vs not in different cultures around the world?
Walter Benjamin is rolling over in his grave.
Most of the mails are from 2008-2009
Many places have more than 2 parties, many don’t allow exit polls and many places have violence associated with elections.
I am a fan of Extra Credits, but I was actually disapointed in that particular video. I thought they failed to acknowledge many other aspects of video game monetization.

I encourage you to check out Jim Sterling's video "The Sixty Dollar Myth" as a good argument for the other side.

https://youtu.be/pHSso2vufPM
In the UK, ibuprofen, aspirin and paracetamol are sold freely everywhere (but only in small packs). Painkillers containing codeine are available over the counter, after talking to a pharmacist. Anything stronger requires a prescription.
Use your imagination. Having a scrap of inside knowledge is a great asset for recruitment. You establish yourself as an insider and the target is more likely to spill some beans.

“Yeah, getting all those Foo widgets to that secret storage place was a real pain, I know! It was bunker X9, I think.. that’s the worst, am I right?"
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_union

> A credit union is a member-owned financial cooperative, democratically controlled by its members[.]
There have been times I needed opiate painkillers, I melted all the skin off my right hand in an accident, needed a major skin graft. I did become physically addicted but the experience was so harsh any time anyone offered me opiates outside a medical context I was like hell no. I don't consider that pushing opiates because the level of pain when growing back nerve endings is off the charts.
That's not necessarily true, depending on what your definition of "non-trivial" is.

I currently use IndexedDB to store over 500mb of data on phones successfully in a B2B application.

The biggest issue in my experience is access to native "well optimized" APIs. (If I want a video feed, it causes significantly more battery draw to do it in a webview vs a native camera feed).
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A story about a self medicating American living in Germany trying to get prescription drugs from the doctor.
On an individual basis, good for you that you can handle yourself. You are indeed a victim of the majority. However, making opiates freely available would be catastrophic for society to a point that would dwarf the current epidemic.

In other words, it is a shame that the system can't do better for you, but your point of view is selfish.
Ibuprofen, paracetamol and acetylsalicylic acid are generally available almost as easily in Europe as in the US.
http://www.businessinsider.com/how-does-moviepass-make-money...

> The same day it announced the $10-a-month plan, MoviePass raised cash by selling a majority stake to the data firm Helios and Matheson Analytics Inc.. With a new price-point designed to attract as many subscribers as possible, MoviePass is hoping to attract a large enough user base so as to be able to monetize it.

> “If you get a trailer right now for Spiderman on Facebook, Facebook can’t tell if you ever actually go to the movie. We can,” he told Wired. “We can tell if you look at 'Spider-Man' and look at 'Wonder Woman' and 'Mission: Impossible,' we can tell you exactly what movie you went to out of all three trailers.”

> Farnsworth envisions movie studios using MoviePass' valuable data to do targeted marketing for their films. Once MoviePass has millions of subscribers, its ability fill seats can make the difference between a hit movie or a flop, he explained. MoviePass plans to hold an IPO in March, he noted.
it would be the opposite actually, since you don't have to wrap the app in a heavy bundle. avg iOS app size is like 30mb. a web app shouldn't even come close.
> That is all.

Did you read the article?
Most of what you’re going to read today is pointless
"Did they turn me into an instant addict? Of course not."

That's the case for you but others are more prone to addiction. My girlfriend some years ago had a surgery and got opiates afterward. The pain was gone a after a few days but it took a lot of convincing and almost force to make her stop with the opiates. This stuff is really addictive for some.
> So just like threats that have been made by US

Maybe. Irrelevant to the evidence you asked for though.

> https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/sep/22/pakistan.usa

(1) That was actually conditional on future Pakistani decisions. (2) That was a remark by an assistant secretary of state, and the president rejected it.

> If they were in response, they sure sound like conditional then.

Everything governments ever do is conditional by that standard.
And how well does that work out? My experience with ad targeting is that it's mostly awful. Amazon can track every book I purchase through them, and the ads for books to buy on my Kindle are awful. Facebook has oodles of information about me, and if I turn off AdBlock for a moment there, the ads I see are... diabetes test strips (I do not have diabetes) and something involving Brook Shields that I bet is a total sham. The only online ads I see where data on me, and not just inventory, seems to play a major role is retargeting, where I look at something on Amazon and it's shown to me again in an ad in case I changed my mind about not buying it. The whole adtech industry is in awful shape, and the idea that MoviePass can be profitable by being such a periphery part of the adtech industry is laughable. People will just tell Facebook and Twitter what movies they've seen for free, there's no reason to subsidize movie tickets to get that data. This is a case of "let's spend VC money like water to get enough customers to get a huge valuation and then figure out a business model."
I think the author really loves America
I have no doubt that pills are overused, and Europe is a rather ahead of America in terms of natural remedies and a less pill-pushing approach. That said, doctors should take care: the only thing worse than overprescribing necessary medications is underprescribing them.
I’ll second this statement. Migraines for me (and my mom as well) used to be crushing, and would take me out for potentially days at a time. Sumatriptan was a miracle drug for me, and now if I take it in time, I don’t suffer. If I catch it late, it will reduce the duration of the migraine to just a few hours (which feels like a miracle in the moment).

I had tried previous to sumatriptan many other remedies, and nothing compared. I’ve heard from my doctor many respond well to magnesium supplements as a way to head off the migraines altogether but I can’t say it worked for me (but I gave it a shot none the less).

All that being said, I’m generally averse now to opiates after seeing their long term effects on my father who was also an alcoholic. They did allow him to push through pain, which resulted in ever increasing damage to his joints (and ultimately internal organs as well). By the end, he couldn’t walk, was self medicating heavily with alcohol, and couldn’t keep himself in a physical rehab facility because his urge for alcohol and opiates couldn’t get satiated in that environment.

He died at 61.

So, I applaud the author and those who seek to responsibly limit access to medications which are highly addictive and potentially unnecessary for treatment. Pain management is very important, but it does need to be weighed against the potentially catastrophic dependency issues it can cause.
Rich people have nannies/caretakers to keep the kids entertained. For regular folk its too tempting to 'catch a breath' by using electronics to keep the kids quite for a minute.

Especially bad in USA where you can't just tell your kids to 'go out and play' and leave you alone. Thats what we did when we were growing up, come home, finish homework and head out to play. Parents had it good back then :D.
You can't buy painkillers in stores in France but we have pharmacies everywhere. It's probably the same in most European countries.
Except the value of a CryptoKitty or Rare Pepe is unlikely to continue to be worth anything in a few years, because let's be honest, it's not very interesting art.
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Not to mention, there are plenty of safer viable alternatives. Is ibuprofen or acetaminophen as effective at preventing pain as oxycodone for most people? Probably not, but they're good enough for most wisdom teeth extractions, a common operation that unfortunately results in many opioid addictions. I had some particularly difficult extractions so I took some ibuprofen for a few weeks to make eating manageable, but avoided the oxycodone-acetaminophen I was prescribed once I left the doctor's office. When I reported this, the nurse who checked in on me was surprisingly taken aback, but to me, the potential consequences of opioid use to better mitigate temporary pain seem irresponsibly high.
Speaking for the UK you can buy ibuprofen, paracetamol (acetaminophen) and aspirin off the shelf in any shop.

You're limited to 2 packs of 16 tablets each (for a total of 32 tablets) per transaction, in an effort to reduce the incidence of spontaneous suicide attempts.
No personal experience but I have read good things about Dell XPS developer edition. Other choices include Dell Precision laptop brand. I guess any laptop lines that are made for businesses rather than consumers should be fine. Other options include System76 (search keyword).
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I can’t tell from this, but does this demonstrate a causal link or is the headline somewhat disconnected from the paper?

That is to say, does the brain truly rely on beta rhythms, or are they just a symptom of something else?
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> it should be up to me if the pain is server enough to warrant opioids

It is!

You do get the drugs you need. If you actually ARE in pain. But this woman, as predicted by her doctor, was not. If you read the article, she did not have the pain, it was only fear of it.

Society does have to pay the price in the end if people are given what they want. See the problem of over-subscription of anything from pain killers (in the US) to antibiotics.

Not least, those drugs show up in ground water and in drinking water supplies, and water companies can't really filter that stuff out.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/pharmaceuticals-i...

https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/features/drugs-in-our-dr...

If you think "the levels are low - that is save", there is no scientific basis for such a statement. We have no clue what low-level exposure to drug cocktails does.
It's still different. Needing to go to a specialized store with trained personnel to buy painkillers has a completely different appeal than just tossing bottles of painkillers into your cart next to milk and candy.
> “If you get a trailer right now for Spiderman on Facebook, Facebook can’t tell if you ever actually go to the movie. We can,” he told Wired. “We can tell if you look at 'Spider-Man' and look at 'Wonder Woman' and 'Mission: Impossible,' we can tell you exactly what movie you went to out of all three trailers.”

Oh bull. So many people tag themselves in Facebook posts when they go to the movies. Facebook absolutely has enough data to determine this.
https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scapple/overview

Scapple just lets you draw nodes and edges. I fell in love with it a while ago and use it to collect my thoughts, and to put together project plans (treating it like a dependency tree, even though it doesn't impose that constraint on you)
Well good. If a cryptocoin is regulatable, its a failure. Let them be pumped and dumped until they re banned. It only brings the tech closer to what it has to be
I assume adding "inline" in front of a function declaration without actually defining it in the same compilation unit doesn't result in inlining. If this is true the article is wrong and the only important aspect about inline is how it affects the linker.
Just today I discovered Bram Cohen is actually working on a new crypto-currency in a company [0] he has setup. It should be interesting to see if he can create a better crypto that doesn't have all problems that he currently sees in Bitcoin and others. He's currently looking for devs with good algorithmic skills to join his company.

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[0]: https://chia.network/
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Finland to propose that EU abolish daylight savings time
I live in Europe now, but lived in the US before. The difference is that buying medications is part of weekly grocery shopping in the US more or less. It is also how it is advertised all over the place. Besides, many medications that are prescription here (or are just smaller doses) are available in large doses in the US in grocery stores.
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I also unfortunately failed to find the original statement in full :(

Let me know if you find it.
Why would you move someplace with hyperexpensive real-estate and overpriced dev talent?
There's a lot of case studies on PWAs driving significant increases in conversion rates and engagement.

https://developers.google.com/web/showcase/2017/

Disclaimer: I work on Google Web DevRel, which owns developers.google.com/web
I like the headline...
On Windows I liked Noteliner very much; unfortunately it appears to have gone abandonware around 2016:

http://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/6225
Somewhat tangential to the article, but interesting to note: various studies have indicated that ibuprofen and acetaminophen are as effective as opioids at treating acute pain:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/11/as-epidemic-rages-er...
>This, however, is not a story about the benefits of universal health care

Despite this phrase and the title ("wanted" as opposed to "needed") being technically accurate, you'd think the article is going to be the disadvantages of a universal healthcare system but it's not.

It's about nothing.

Just an entitled patient bugging her doctors to prescribe her Vicodin before her surgery even began and them not doing so because, as it tuned out, her biggest hurdle after the surgery was boredom and not pain.
The opiate prescription policy in Europe is currently absolutely not converging with US practices. Practitioners are instead looking into alternative means of pain control, such as hypnosis (which is less of a scam than one may think).
I don't know why you're being down-voted.

These commercials should be banned. It's the U.S., and one other country that allows them. All medical commercials should be banned. They are an embarrassment.
This is just a guess, but I would imagine (based on a glance at U.S. stats) over-prescribing accounts for a lot more pain and death than under-prescribing ever could?
Yes, indeed. My original thought was more along the lines of why there are so many generators published to solve the same problem when it’s easy to create your own custom generator as needed. Add one more step - publish your custom generator online in case it’s useful for others - and now you see the proliferation. Makes perfect sense now :)
Friend in the US had a benign type of surgery. The procedure carries minimal pain after the first 24 hours other than maybe aching (and my friend really had a pretty boring recovery). She was still given a bottle of probably 20+ pills of Oxycodone that fortunately went unused (later disposed.)

While my friend was responsible in her recovery, I wonder how many people medicate themselves just because.
> vast amount of adtech/big data/consumer analytics companies for which this data is a goldmine

Don't credit card companies already have this data?
Check out the Progressive Web App Checklist for the canonical definition.

https://developers.google.com/web/progressive-web-apps/check...

Disclosure: I work on Google Web DevRel, the team that owns that site
But what happens next, after the murder, isn't what you see with comic book villains.

God says to Cain the farmer "If you till the ground, it shall no longer give you its produce." Cain replies "My punishment is too great to bear" and "Anyone may kill me at sight." God relents, assuring him "If anyone kills Cain, Cain shall be avenged seven times", and he becomes the ancestor of blacksmiths.

This is odd, Cain isn't even sent on a quest to make up for his deed, like Hercules and Orestes were.
Existing regulations are probably as adequate as they are for more traditional instruments. There needs to be better monitoring and enforcement, though.