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Well. probably more injuries, but much less serious. American Football, if you get hurt, you get hurt really bad
mma fighters like Eryk Anders who were once NFL players claim that NFL is much more dangerous than mma.

yet MMA seems to get much more scrutiny( bans ect) than NFL.

I saw an interesting house regulatory committee meeting where people like Randy Couture testified on this topic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S03Z6a2ABWk
My understanding is the brain slams against the inside of the skull due to stopping fast. Wouldn't a crumple zone (again for lack of better term) allow for a slower transition and thus less rattling around in the skull?
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Probably no helmets is what makes the difference.

I heard that in early boxing (no gloves) fighters very rarely knocked down opponents, because you don't want to attack head without gloves. Only after introduction of gloves deaths on the ring became an issue.
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Speculation: Just as boxing with gloves results in more head injuries than boxing without, so too it is with football and rugby.
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There's an iOS version as well for those of us on the other side of the smartphone aisle, which is similarly free and ad-free: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/simon-tathams-portable-puzzl...
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I don't think its flawed though I agree with your sentiment. I think the point is why is anyone surprised this is the outcome of playing that sport?
"Who killed Davey Moore,
Why an' what's the reason for?"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Killed_Davey_Moore
Then don’t use NAT, it’s a hack anyway. IPv6 is not exactly a new idea.
There are a lot of efforts underway [1], but the problem is really one of physics. To make a substantially better helmet, the duration of the impact must be increased. The helmet cannot just become softer internally, but it must become larger, perhaps unfeasibly larger. Becoming softer alone means that the padding would crumple until the outer (impact-spreading) shell hits the player's skull.

It is my impression that helmets have been heavily engineered over the past decades; it is just the outer appearance that remains constant.

Regarding "crumple zones" (a very appropriate suggestion): football linemen take a great many hits in every game-- replacement probably isn't feasible.

[1] http://lmgtfy.com/?q=improved+football+helmets
If we systematically select businesses that pay subsistence wages, the concern is that better employment may never show up, and the overall economy becomes more and more unstable over time. But it's hard to know for sure and that is one of many different outcomes.

But still it's not an area you want to move forward with no introspection.

Edit: If low-workers are paid such a low margin that they have no personal buffer for uncertainties such as automation in warehouses, then we also guarantee that the government ends up paying for that transition (or we get unrest and/or economic malaise). If they're paid a higher margin, the economy ends up more efficient at flexibility transitioning from changes like warehouses becoming fully automated. (because offset workers can make individual transition choices that that make local sense instead of trying to apply slowly responding gov't policy).
According to this article[0], concussions are just about about prevalent in rugby as in professional football.

[0] http://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/16029747/rugby-nfl-concu...
> No matter how much some starving kid needs food, he doesn’t have a right to steal someone’s wallet or hold up the local convenience store to obtain it

There is at least one Italian court that disagrees with you:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36190557

The article states that Italy's highest court of appeal has ruled that stealing small amounts of food to stave off hunger is not a crime.
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The articles include various patterns of errors and recommendations that reduce the likelihood of such errors appearing in code.

* Introduction - https://www.viva64.com/en/b/0552/

* memset function - https://www.viva64.com/en/b/0553/

* break и fallthrough - https://www.viva64.com/en/b/0554/

* Memory Leaks - https://www.viva64.com/en/b/0555/

* Typos - https://www.viva64.com/en/b/0556/

* Use of Untrusted Data - https://www.viva64.com/en/b/0557/

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* Miscellaneous Defects - https://www.viva64.com/en/b/0559/
What does social construct even mean?

I mean it appears everything outside of physics and chemistry is a social construct (in academia they argue those are SC too).

Biological gender? Social construct! How is having ovaries or testicles a social construct?

Hierarchy? Social construct! Hierarchy appears even in non-living things, never mind most biological systems!

Property? Social construct! Why? How? Why is a solitary apex-hunter delimiting territory "natural" but when bald monkey does it, it's a "social construct"

Finally this "decided as a society..." BS! That just revels your identify with the social class that gets to make the rules. But, unless (maybe) you're Swiss, you have no real political power. The vast majority of Americans despise Trump, didn't like Hillary, and don't want Bernie either. There are more independents than either party (almost than either combined).

But somehow this representative democracy makes decisions that respects with my agency? BS!

Get this even society is not a social construct. That's right! Society arises as soon as you have a handful of people (or agents) finding their place in their interrelationships. Hierarchy will naturally arise from this.

I'm not saying the OPs point are (or aren't) abhorrent. But this social construct and contract thing is getting out of hand.
While we see these sorts of chronic problems and a rise in repetitive injuries, the number of deaths dropped dramatically with the introduction of helmets. "Between rule changes and the 1973 creation of NOCSAE, the National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment, head-injury fatalities in high school football declined by three-quarters.": http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/The-312/May-2012/...
NFL players are at least well compensated and are adults making decisions for themselves.

My problem is at the high school and college level. The kids are playing with great intensity for nothing more than love of the game and maybe the opportunity to move up. The long term risks seem way too high.

I'd say the same thing about kids playing soccer. I don't think heading the ball should be allowed in high school or college play. I was relieved when my daughter quit soccer.
It is country-specific though. In Europe, there are a few countries with (for example) free education from primary too university level. It hasn't changed in years.
Articles about App Store rejection are always a bit sensationalized. I'm not very familiar with Telegram, but I think the issue here is that by default on a fresh install there are public channels that could contain "obscene content".

There are no public channels in Signal, so there's nothing objectionable for an app reviewer to see on first launch. Apple doesn't restrict any form of end-to-end crypto... except VPN apps in China. :-\
This is why I was so impressed with the roadside sellers of live chickens I saw in Pune.

In a place where the climate is unfavorable to the freshness of meat, and (just like in the USA) the big producers have strong incentives to sell you crap, how do you know the animal you're going to eat is healthy? Observe it alive!

Probably not a foolproof method, but better than you're getting at Whole Foods.
Are we sure it's not prevalent? Concussions & CTE weren't widely reported in the NFL until recently. Googling for "rugby cte" turns up articles like this one (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/rugbyunion/11857548/Rugby-u...), which suggest that it might be more of a problem than you're implying. It's even a problem in non-American football/soccer (source: http://www.businessinsider.com/soccer-heading-brain-damage-d...).
Worse - you get hurt irreversibly, sometimes mortally, very slowly over time. A broken leg is often the least of your problems compared to multiple concussions or the cumulative effects of CTE.
Amoxicillin is often free at grocery store pharmacies. This has to be an exaggeration.

https://www.goodrx.com/amoxicillin
They are not the ones that are supposed to change, it is the system that has to change. Do you go to your boss and ask for a pay reduction because you earn too much? Silly.
tl;dr: Life In The USA, the worst country in the world to have medical issues in, that also refuses to change to what everyone in the world knows works, for some reason.
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> Why is this "right not to work" not enforced across the board? People should be able to just slack off whenever, right?

It is, and they are. You may end up living on the street if you don't work, but the choice is 100% yours.

> what if the fire department decides not to help you? Do they have a right not to work?

The fire department entered into a contract with their coverage area, bought and paid for in advance by the people they are covering.

> If the only X specialist surgeon available in the world decides to not treat you? And by this I mean, they're willing to treat other people, just not you. What then?

This frequently happens, especially with surgeons.

Your questions indicate to me you have not sincerely considered GP's argument. Your _choosing_ to work is very different from my (or the government) _forcing_ you to work.
Starting contact football at a young age, repeated low impact hits with head contact or sharp movement of head, since rugby players don't wear helmets, players take care to not impact their heads. That said, there is still evidence of smaller CTE problem with rugby and soccer.
Sometimes I understand why you feel that way. But I think there's some bias; as an engineer I can work out why these machines operate the way they do, to some extent. From the perspective of someone with no experience in this field, I imagine it's a much more frustrating experience, especially when some of the machines are so god-awful to use.
Yes this is a big problem. Particularly for google searches. Now that there is so much money at stake for being the top of google results, the best information often gets buried because the people who stand to make the most money have the biggest budgets and are able to spend thousands on SEO. I’m not really sure what the solution is. Google has become “the internet” for billions of people and its utility for finding information has gone down (in my opinion) not up. Now everything at the top is sponsored, or a big aggregator like TripAdvisor or yelp.

As someone who works in advertising I try to do my part by only taking clients that I trust sell something quality and do business with integrity. I could make a lot more money if I just sold anything and everything. I know people that market tobacco products on Facebook, for example. Those contracts are extremely lucrative, but I simply could not feel good about promoting those products.

I would not be able to do what I do (from a moral standpoint) if I just advertised for everyone. I enjoy what I do because I am able to promote people and companies that do something positive. There are a lot of scammers in my business, and I was tired of watching the least honest people get the best results (because they can afford top agencies) and the smaller clients actually doing something positive get screwed by dishonest marketing people.
The issue does exist in rugby and soccer as well. Here is once source I found talking about it:

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1728218-rugby-player-welf...

I know time in the game is a factor, but idk what rugby is like for that. When do rugby players retire typically?
> But I wonder why it is that the state of California was progressive enough to legalize marijuana but can't get something like this done? The current punch line is "This isn't a problem in North America if you are Canadian."[1] so why is that the case in California?

We'll see. Ironically, and optimistically, the attack on the ACA at the federal level might push California voters towards supporting universal health coverage.

But marijuana is a different issue than healthcare, because in order to legalize it, you don't need to tax the haves more. It's only opposed by social conservatives, who are not a huge contingent in CA.

Universal coverage in CA, however, would need to involve some form of redistribution downwards (just like the ACA did), and many Californians aren't as progressive when it comes to that. You see this same phenomenon in NIMBY anti-development housing policies, and in the underinvestment in public education.

The demographics of this tendency are strange, too. The older generation has a strong skew against progressive social policies, but sometimes young, well-to-do, and childless people are also opposed to more downward redistribution, because the things that some of the progressive policies affect (healthcare, education, etc), are a non issue for them (at least so far).
For example, you are worried that your fatigue is due to a brain tumor (google surely told you that), so you ask your doctor to do an MRI to rule it out. MRI comes in negative. But the MRI radiation gave you cancer, because it does (in a very small amount of people), as well as gave you very expensive bill for it, because MRI are expensive everywhere, not only in the US.

Good example, except you're thinking of a CT scan, not MRI. CT scan uses x-rays. MRI uses no ionizing radiation.
Helmets have changed. They have better exterior material, the inside is inflatable to customize to individuals, the shell has flex like car panels, etc.

But CTE is about repeated impact, so most CTE cases now are from previous poor helmet designs, not from modern helmets.

Also because of the repeated nature, single impact helmets aren't the important ones. Linemen have the biggest problems and they aren't the ones getting laid out from thunderous impacts like a receiver.

To protect against those, modern helmets have stronger face masks and wider field of vision so a ball carrier can see it coming better. It is those blind hits that hurt.

I hope to see modern CTE rates come down from improved helmets but it will take a decade plus to see the results in the pros.
The snark is a bit unwarranted in my opinion because it isn't entirely that cut and dry. The pads provide the illusion of safety - the hits honestly don't feel, or look, as bad. Well now we're starting to find out that the pads don't protect against this sort of long term damage, they only protect against visceral short term damage. It wasn't unreasonable to think that a contact sport like football could be played safely with pads because that's what appeared to be the case - on the outside.
That is rather humorous on the red flag traffic laws. Had never heard of that before!

One thing that's nice now about self driving vehicles is that it seems that more or less the entire automotive industry is hopping on board. For some time it looked like it was going to be Google + Tesla doing self driving and I think it being lobbied and consequently "regulated" out of existence in the US was a very real danger. But at this point, which influential lobbying force might, even if we're just speculating, be a concern?
How does bankrupting the system improve quality of life for all?
There's a bit of a Trolley Problem here. 194,000,000 Indians experienced starvation and malnutrition in 2014-2015. If antibiotics greatly speeds animal growth, aids reproductive success, and increases muscle mass perhaps it's a necessary temporary risk in order to increase the food supply and drive down food prices.

Antibiotic resistant diseases claimed around 700,000 lives in 2014 according to the CDC. Animal feed is unproven to be contributing factor, and only a partial one if so.
4:4:4 doesn’t mean twice the compressed bitrate, however. First, chroma residual already takes a minority of bits - luma residual and prediction info take way more bits and those are unchanged going to 4:4:4. Second, quantizing chroma more so there’s the same number of chroma bits as there would have been in 4:4:4 is approximately equivalent as subsampling chroma in the first place (okay, its actually slightly worse, so yeah you need maybe 1% greater bitrate to match quality with 4:2:0 with modern codecs on sequences for which 4:2:0 subsampling is transparent.)
Indeed. I played rugby and found that players are much more concerned with not injuring themselves. There were not any spear-tackles or leading with the head. Mostly cause you'll literally get knocked unconscious (or break your neck) if you try it.

Additionally, in rugby it's illegal to lift a player off both feet, and high tackles are much more heavily enforced, which forces players to use proper wrapping tackles instead of just smashing into each other trying to knock the ball-carrier down.

However, at the high level, spinal injuries are more common and actually a lot of players have been paralyzed. Especially in scrums.

Just wanted to compare football and rugby in this context. I think both sports are dangerous but, generally, I agree that the increasing protections provided by helmets and gear enables football players to take much bigger risks and hits. It's definitely a factor in the increase of CTE instances.
The NFL spends massive amounts of money deflecting responsibility: https://www.healthnewsreview.org/2018/01/nfl-cdc-tbi162490/
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>> The fact there are no pads or helmets actually makes Rugby safer.

This is oft-cited but before helmets, NFL players were dying at a pretty rapid pace [0], and this is before advanced strength and conditioning.

NFL players rush into each other at full speed knowing the risks. Why would that change if you removed protective padding that has been proven to do very little?

[0]: One such article on the topic: https://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/19-football-players-died-in-...
Sorry! Thanks for the correction.
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I suspect that what andreasvc meant is that the default "NAT" configuration of most consumer-grade gear is such that it will block UDP (unless some other mechanism such as UPnP is used)...
Well in Texas, the evidence of people in other states/countries is not good enough for them, so they have to do their own study with people in state before they will take action to change how high school athletes play football.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/munro-cullum-concussio...
> 50 years ago when there was only had a small leather helmet

Players wore hard helmets in 1968. Before hard helmets, players died all the time [0].

[0] https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=MG19051202.2.31
It still needs realtime remote directions.

I wish they did provide this without the hassle, then I could send somebody to deal with all the social crap so that I don't have to.
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Yeah, I hear what you’re saying. I deploy my stuff to Linux, but putting aside any ideology, I just vastly prefer a Windows desktop.
"In American Football people rush into each other at almost full speed"

300lbs, running 5seconds for 40 yard, 2% bodyfat -- straight at you -- head down -- helmet first. Oh yeah. They trained on smashing into bags for this for 10 years.
Ask HN: Where can SW testers practice and learn different aspects of testing?
Is there a good website or community where SW testers could practice testing - both manual and automatic testing?
I know there are various sites which help to develop programming skills in general, but I'm looking something which would be focused on testing.

To illustrate my idea, I've created a simple form with Wufoo: https://testville.wufoo.com/forms/gps-navitest

This form is an example of a "buggy website", it has several hidden bugs (and some obvious ones).
And actually, if there does not exist such website, then I have a plan to create something like this.
The court says it's legal, or not a crime, but it didn't say it was right.
Is it really better than WholeFoods though?
I wonder if that is true, or if rugby will eventually be studied to have the same consequences too.
Along with what others have said about the pads possible being part of the problem allowing you to hit harder, there are other factors that contribute to the danger.

The American football is played in a series of short plays with long stretches of non-action between plays. This allows plays to be more explosive allowing players run at faster speeds for shorter distances. Also some of the rules lead to greater specialization, which favors some players become much larger (offensive linemen in particular) than rugby players. So the combination of greater mass and greater speed can lead to more dangerous play.

At least that's my take on it.
You aren't allowed to lead with your head, or target the helmet. It's called "targeting," and it will get you ejected on the first offense.
This is one of my favorite features of Terra [1]. It also uses Clang to parse the header files, so most things "Just Work" (including, even, JITing inline functions on the fly so they can be used).

[1]: http://terralang.org/api.html#using-c-inside-terra
Just like boxing gloves make boxing far more dangerous and even deadly than UFC, despite UFC having a more violent appearance.
Hmm, forgiving a debt is considered income. I wonder if the situation with hospitals depends on a lot of technical details.
The problem that I see here is that development.kitchen needs quality traffic to provide that feedback, which sounds like the most difficult part of running this service.
I'm skeptical. Many harmful impacts on the line happen with the facemask, and I see no changes there to reduce impacts.

The NFL has a long history of pointing to new technology that promises to make the game safer, but I have yet to see that manifest in reduced concussions. I'm also skeptical that increased cushioning wouldn't just let players hit each other at higher speeds.
We are talking about an economic problem. And if you dont care about quality of life, why would you enter a debate about rising cost of healthcare?
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Interestingly, my kid's flag football league cites stats that there are more concussions in flag football than in tackle, at least in that age group.

I am not sure that I totally believe those stats, but the larger point is that any concussion in flag football would be due to an incidental collision. However, in tackle football collisions are built into the game, so every play is an opportunity for a sub-concussive blow, the accumulation of which has been found to be more damaging than the one-off full concussion.

So, yeah. Flag football FTW.
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>when you have a lot of encoder computing resources.

There's no reason to think that, after the final spec is published, nobody will work on an optimized encoder.