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My sis and I are currently caring for three relatives who are doing self-harm. And all that entails, including denial, neglect, selfishness.

While I have been coaching my sis, eg "If Sally doesn't want to do chemo, then we have to respect her decision.", I needed to be coached in turn. So I've been seeing a counselor who has much experience with addiction and end of life stuff. Not for my own grieving or processing (much), but I really need advice refreshers, and sanity checks, and updates on best available science to help me (us) strategize.

The basic advice comes down to 1) first take care of yourself 2) don't judge 3) don't try to fix, just support and empathize 4) there may come moments of lucidity where the "patient" does ask for help and is open to suggestions, so be patient and be ready.

I now see great parallels between addiction, denial, cults, and how people face end of life. Mostly in how we relate to those we love who are going thru those experiences. Which will be ourselves one day, so be advised.

You wrote:

"... I would go seek a good doctor by myself."

I strongly encourage everyone to have a patient advocate accompany them. Best available science (as of 10 years ago?) was that this significantly improves outcomes.

While I was still volunteering, how it typical works is

a) pre-meet with my buddy, compile list of issues and questions

b) take notes during visit with doctor, play wallflower as much as possible (it's not about you), nudge patient to keep convo on track and ensure all questions get asked

c) review notes and action steps

Your patient advocate will (should) keep you focused and accountable. People are notoriously bad at self-reporting (eg "how long have have you experienced this discomfort?", "um, I dunno"), so advocates are also observers, verifiers.

The advocate gig isn't easy. My sis and I are trying to help our mom. But she's early stage dementia, has terrible short term memory, and has a history of not asking for help (stoicism). So we don't get looped into the convos until issues become crisis. Alas, mom's not quite to the point where we can start making decisions for her, so we just have to tough it out. With an emphasis on respecting her wishes and integrity.

So I just try to follow my own advice: "Mom, what do you want, need? Maybe we can help."

PS- A former sweetie of mine was likely paranoid schizophrenic. My efforts to connect with, help her started my learning on that facet of this topic. I failed her and she remains untreated. I'm hoping that I'll do better, be more useful next time.
I guess I'm the only one here who actively turns Location History on. That way I do get the benefits like being able to exactly pin-point when I was where and I can make sure the data Google believes isn't wrong. Then if I don't want to be tracked I can just leave my phone at home and everything will look absolutely normal and no one is any wiser.
Interest on public debt (which is 130% of GDP, inferior only to Japan [1]) makes it basically impossible to have any sort of expansive economic policy. Since the '90s, any investment has to be financed with cuts elsewhere (this has even been enshrined in the Constitution, for good measure). The state routinely struggles to pay for schools and police cars, and to hire replacements for retiring civil servants or doctors. One year, the state literally took a chunk of money out of all bank accounts overnight; a repeat has recently been considered.

The country is broke, but our survival skills are so proverbial that the markets more or less trust we'll always come up with enough money to keep going. The day this stops being true, we'll go the Argentina way very quickly.
The government doesn't need to run one. They just slurp up data from the ones we sign unto voluntarily.
I think your advice would work well.

I've been buying whole beds from one manufacturer (brooklynbedding.com & dreamfoambedding.com) to find that "sweet" spot for me. I'm on my second bed and things are getting better but this is wasteful and expensive. Of note, our bodies change over time, so what is comfortable during the summer (lots of exercise) might be different during the winter months - also changes that occur as we age. I think preventing weak muscles from developing around the spine might be beneficial.
I'm hazy here and may be wrong but:

When bitcoin started there was basically one computer mining and the difficulty level reflected that and the cost of a bitcoin was less than a cent.

Now that there is billions of dollars worth of hardware dedicated to mining, the difficulty level goes up until the rate of block creation is one every 10 minutes. But now the 12.5 bitcoin reward every 10 min has to support billions in capital investment hence the price needed being higher, of the order of $2000. I guess if the price fell well below that to say $100 then there would be a lot of mining hardware repurposed or sold on eBay and we could get cheap graphics cards again.

re The speed of transactions? The price of transactions? The creation of new coins?

The speed remains about the same, the price of transactions tends to go up, the creation of new coins is not effected as it is hard coded in the bitcoin software. (https://www.anythingcrypto.com/guides/bitcoin-mining-block-r...)
Massively downvoted, seriously?

I didn't mean 'remove' from the front page, but merge it with the other post and leave it in position on the front page... wow, you guys.
They also have a 'lively' border with Syria to add to their concerns.
> What about forced displacement? There are 10s of milions of forcibly displaced people around the world. It's not a small group compared to some other mentioned protected groups.

People who were forcibly displaced apply for asylum and (if the system works right) eventually become refugees. AIUI the overwhelming majority of the migrants in question are not seeking asylum.

> Anyway why it's ok to attack someone for something he chose and not ok for something he didn't choose?

Because that's most people's moral instinct, even across different cultures?
>The author argues that many forms of what we call "mental illness" are not real illnesses at all, but extreme preferences that prevent people from successfully integrating in society.

My understanding is the latter half of what you described is one of the main criteria for a mental illness. Not that some part of the body isn't functioning properly, but "Is this causing problems between him and the rest of society?"

(Not saying I agree with the criterion)

This has implications when you have a society of people with a lot of minorities from very different cultures.
> The hope is that people will vote with their feet and move to communities that favour the truth.

People will move to communities that favor their truth, I suspect. Same reason they typically watch the news stations that reflect their biases.
> I think most tech companies severely overestimate the cost of false positives, particularly in the USA where it’s trivially easy to fire someone who turns out to be a dud.

I don't think that's actually true. People who are net-negative on a team may be very personable and hence emotionally difficult to fire. And of course the U.S. does have a number of protected classes, who can be very difficult & expensive to fire for cause (because the assumption is that they were not fired for cause). I'm a member of a protected class, and I often worry that it actually makes it more difficult for me to get hired: will folks be willing to take a chance on me, knowing that were I a jerk I could make life difficult for them? I'm not a jerk (I think!), but they can hardly know that!
It could be a little of both additional supplies of late-to-the-party money have finally found their way to this market, amplified by the ongoing process of coin concentration into fewer and fewer hands. Both factors (with a little help from breakage and block reward subsidy tail-off schedules) constrain liquidity and thus drive up the price. But it makes for a very distorted "market cap." Fiction, leavened by just enough fact, feeds an eager fantasy, which feeds back into more fiction. Last one out the door gets to hold the very real bags.
Am I the only person in the world that uses Timeline?

I don't use Google's search but I do use Timeline frequently and find it useful enough that it's worth the risk. So I understand the difference between these different privacy settings, which AP is calling "an issue". It's not an "issue". People are freaking out like frightened mice and making it into something it's not. Fear is the motivator here, not facts.

The ability to feed the Timeline app with location data is a separate thing from turning off all other apps' ability to use location data.

Why is this so difficult for people to understand? I know the answer. Viral fear shuts off your brains' ability to think. I answered my own question.
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I find regrettable that the reasoning is still explained/oversimplified in terms of "electric potential tells body to do this". This is utterly nonsensical determinism, unhelpful when trying to understand hugely complex and dynamic systems. To say that ions interact with their environment and affect it, through their electrical properties (and maybe chemical too), would be much closer to the reality being described here.

To make an analogy of why determinism is not helpful in biology, consider a white blood cell catching a few bacteria that would otherwise have tried to attack the lungs. Determinism would have us say this white blood cell is protecting the lungs, as if it were its goal. But a white blood cell is just that, a single cell, with no idea that things such as lungs exist or that they need protecting. A white blood cell is just a hunter that recognized something it could eat, and ate it.

If interested in the topic, I was paraphrasing "neither god nor gene" there, a book by Kupiec and Sonigo, and the one read that changed the way I understood biology when I was an undergrad in the field.
Even worse is that several of the major Italian banks have a large exposure to Turkey including UniCredit. Italy has the worst youth unemployment in the EU[1]. Consequentially, there was a large amount of drug use in the city I lived in.

https://www.thelocal.it/20170718/italy-european-union-most-h...
Think a bit: if we are upset about being constantly observed and spied on by the ones of Google and Facebook, how much more we would be if it was the government itself running these services? I can't imagine anyone using them.
What startup up is this and are there roles in nyc?

I would like to know more . Jpg
Have you looked at Packman (one of the more well-known unofficial repos), or OBS (https://build.opensuse.org/)?
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This is the truth we live in. And yes, he is known to forego reason in order to get votes.

To clarify: Islamic perspective on interest rates is that it is sinful (actually, giving credit is what is presented as sinful, but meanings are lost in translation)

However, the Quran doesn't present a perspective on whether interest rates can be used as a leverage against high inflation rates. I guess they were too busy trying to calculate how many male witnesses are the equivalent of female witnesses.
How could I be their second priority? For any one service and availability zone isn't it all or nothing (or slow).
Is it possible to use machine learning to have the AI improve itself?
Insane compared to what? The cost of traditional methods to consumers, or to society as a whole?
>that Turkey will not climb out of its hole until the country enacts major structural reforms that would undo many of Mr. Erdogan’s constraints.

>Those would include allowing a free press, an independent judiciary and returning powers to Parliament

Not that it wouldn't be nice to see those reforms, but it seems like they just slipped that claim in without much justification. China does fine with an autocratic system, as do others. I'm just puzzled that this wishful thinking that economic prosperity is necessarily connected to political freedoms still persists. Would be nice it if were true, but doesn't seem so.
"Mr. Reitman said he never intended to become any kind of public figure in a national conversation about gender, and that he started the process before the movement took off. “It didn’t come from #MeToo,” he said."

Misleading title.

I'm a feminist, and knowing neither the professor or the former student, I would believe the student's claims above those of the professor. Gender has nothing to do with it.

My reasoning: there is absolutely no good reason for the former student to lie about what happened, and there are plenty of reasons for the professor to lie. Additionally, the email about, "I'll try not to kiss you," is pretty damning evidence.

I've flagged this article because it seems it is attempting to portray this as a men vs women issue, which it absolutely is not. Anyone who abuses their power and makes others feel uncomfortable in this way deserves to face consequences.

The #MeToo movement is about all of us, all humans, taking a stand against sexual assault and harassment, especially in professional relationships such as the one in the article.
Sad to see economies fail in the same way time and again.
Simple lessons to prevent this:
1. Only take on debt or issue bonds in your own currency.
2. Only borrow for short-term extra spending (like a disaster).
3. Every couple of years all debt should be annulled. That way people don't walk around with a mountain of debt. And companies only give loans for what they can reasonably expect to be paid back within said ”sabbat year”.
4. Need more money than you earn? Chance spending habits instead of ”plastering over” problems by taking on more debt.
5. Taxation should be fair and easy to understand.
6. All expenditure should be fair and easy to understand.
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The question I recently got that I found annoying was this: Given input (4, 2, 3, -1, 5) and output (-30, -60, -40, 120, -24) what's the function between them?

I don't actually mind doing whiteboard interviews even on minimal prep. I've gotten a few of the "flagship" company offers and failed a few. I think part of it is internalising that nothing is going to guarantee you anything. You can always hit a question you bomb on and have an interviewer that will move on or bury you for it.

Phone screens are 2-4 questions and on-sites can add another 6-10. A 5% bomb rate for an on-site question will put you into the 60-70% pass rate.

I'm confident that if I do all the interviews I'll land atleast one offer but if you're putting all your eggs in one basket you're going to have a rough go of it.
You will note that I did not say “earn a profit”. There is still a cost center here, and even governments (at least those at the local and usually state level) have to abide by a budget. Spending money one year that results in less money the next doesn’t fit into that model in most budgets.

I’m sorry for the confusion, I thought that was blatantly self-obvious.
It strikes me that enabling people to connect with one another is fundamental to most governments as a public service. Cities and states make and fund roadways and public squares and parks. Social networks seem like an approximate digital parallel.

The roadways, public squares and parks are under the direct control or ownership of the government, the virtual/digital parallel doesn't really exist.
The reason we test for things is to verify you have enough domain knowledge to "look it up". A bad interviewer will ask you to write quick sort on the board, because if we've already gotten to the point of "implement quick sort" yeah we can just look that up. However, if you're given a collection of nodes and asked to do something with them; that's a bit more interesting. If you know nothing about graph traversal, or have never seen a tree (both not uncommon in people claiming to be principle engineers in my industry) how do you even know what to search for? Best case is you're smart and waste time coming up with a new solution from first principles; most likely it just never gets done.
For the average person to buy something you need to buy a coin, that's 1 transaction on the block chain. They need to buy something with that coin that's transaction #2. The merchant needs to sell that coin that's transaction #3. Granted #1 and #3 can be much larger reducing the costs, but the average user is likely to be splitting #1 across a small number of transactions.

Further 2 exchange fees sit on of those 3 coin transactions.

In theory you can have an exchange handle all 5 of these transactions, but then your using the exchanges book's not a block chain.
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I think we have lowered the bar for companies like Google far too much. Honestly, it would be reasonable to expect Google not to do any location tracking across any of their services at all, without obvious and explicit approval of the users, granularly service by service, and with the ability to reverse that decision. We should be aiming for opt-in tracking, not opt-out. Fine print in large EULAs, or dark patterns in privacy controls, don't count as genuine opt-in procedures in my opinion.
You can look up the articles and the HN commentary yourself. In short: he supplied drugs to people who then died of those drugs.

(Long version: he ran a platform where people sold the victims drugs, from which sales he financially profited). Victims who subsequently died.

I assume you think that they would have overdosed from other peoples' drugs anyway, but as I wrote, I don't accept that, so we can probably not discuss this productively.
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Security against double spends.
If anyone is interested in this, Debt: The First 5, 000 Years by David Graeber is fascinating.
Men are sexually harassed frequently but we don't hear about it often because there is a lot of shame in speaking about it... since you're admitting to being lower power/status.
> Much of the "we stand up to authority" hubbub of US security researchers and developers is mostly an act.

Source, go through the body scanners at the TSA. Worn down, can't be bothered to "echo FUUUUUUUU > /dev/null" any more.
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> The #MeToo movement is about all of us, all humans, taking a stand against sexual assault and harassment, especially in professional relationships such as the one in the article.

While I'd agree, the prominent feminists quoted by the article do not agree.
For reference here’s a comparison video: https://youtu.be/WzNIyoMmjQ4
Like others have said, the purpose is to make money to enjoy the other 1/3.

Bear in mind that different people will find meaning in different ways. If you find meaning in participating in the rat race, then by all means go for it.

For me personally, I thought I _had_ to participate in the rat race, but this was a lie.

I saw this scenario play out at my last corporate job:

At that company it was typical for some managers to over-promise on what they can deliver to customers, knowing full well that their developers and QAs would have to work serious overtime to achieve those goals.

Even mentioned before the project started and the first line of code was written they would say something along the line of "this is a very important project. We're going to need you to put in lots of overtime for this".

The developers who were _idealists_ would then overexert themselves: Work until midnight, always be tired and miss out on quality time with friends family. They thought they would get rewarded when promotions are doled out, where in actual fact they were being exploited by the managers.

The managers in the meantime wasn't that concerned with the project or the goals of the company per se. Rather they were concerned with looking good in front of their managers. They were playing the _real game_.

There was always some form of emotional manipulation, like "the team depends on you". When you're an idealist you don't recognize it.

One of the developers had been with the company for 30 years, yet he didn't have a senior position, precisely because he was a pragmatist. He did his work during the day, but never did overtime. Then in the evenings he would go home to his family. Over weekends he would work on his photography hobby. He seemed a lot happier than all the others rushing around.

A younger version of me might've accused him of having a poor work ethic, but older me sees his point.
> Perry said if the president does not act according to the resolution, the country needs to elect a Libertarian president in 2020 to get Ulbricht pardoned.

Yes. Clearly, that is the single-most important issue in the 2020 presidential election.
"Unlucky" in my book would be if you died before having the chance to use any of your hard-earned savings ;)
This is convenient! I was just thinking I want to build a funny way of letting me know someone was added to my local network by playing a wolf howl on my sonos speaker.
I'm guessing this is possible with Trackjacker.
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Really? It looks great on my s9.
It's also possible the case had no merit to begin with.
I've always thought FPGAs would be perfect to have hardware backed video decoding/encoding that could adapt to new codecs (like vp9) while also being updatable for new performance improving discoveries.

It also seemed like it would go well with a generic radio subsystem, so you could compile hardware support for new wireless standards that come out after your hardware did (essentially an fpga sdr).

It seems like there could be lots of uses for being able to on demand enable hardware acceleration for certain tasks a program might need lots of.
Better, we are healthier, more informed (even with the advent of increasingly common misinformation), more socially conscious, more equally pervasive, and happier as a society.

Our education rates have skyrocketed and literacy is higher than ever.
Absolutely. In the worlds I work in, FPGA has been standard practice for years and years. As of late, it's becoming more common to place the CPU there for cost reduction.

In addition, you get the opportunity to both update the part and/or to change it's behavior via (for instance) a user setting.
https://news.ycombinator.com/lists includes that option among other lists. The story from yesterday is currently number 11 on the best list.
Here's one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKu_SEDAykw&t=11s
> Usually when someone's saying something is overvalued, what they mean is that they think there is good reason to believe that what people are willing to pay for it now is significantly more than what they think people will be willing to pay for it at some undefined point in the future

This is a mis-understanding of the term "value," at least in the context of investing. Value is the benefit you receive from holding an asset. If you buy an undervalued bond, the interest and maturity should pay you more than the price you paid for it. Same with stocks and dividends, derivatives and cash flows, et cetera.

Currencies seem like an exception until you consider how FX traders make money. Currencies give you access to borrowing and lending in their respective economies. Their relative values are enforced by market factors like the carry trade. Bitcoin doesn't have this because, like gold, it does not natively support interest rates.
> Unless you‘re in Europe (or at least Germany) where Hotel staff is only allowed to enter on your invitation, no matter what the ToS say.

Sad how govermenmt regulation swoops down on valid business interests.