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You seem to have a good understanding of this subject. Could you explain to someone who is much less well-versed, why it matters if some species has an important area that it can't go to anymore and, say, stops producing in that area? (Goes somewhere else.) I mean is it some great tragedy not to have some species in some particular place?

I want to kind of add a disclaimer to my question. At the limits of course I am not questioning ecological conservation - the Earth would both suck if it only had humans and our crops and livestock in it, and be thrown completely out of equilibrium so that it would suck for humans too. But I assume that the effect you're talking about is where over time some tiny little place becomes bad for some species, so they stop going to just that one place. Likewise you mentioned the opposite effect where "It can also create ecological activities, where some species congregate around the outlet because they want the hotter water" but this doesn't seem like some objectively great thing - wow, we have all these fish hanging around what amounts to a thermal spa for them, fantastic - but more like just a neutral fact.

This is my impression, that it is what it is, so I'd just like an explanation of the strong moral component or why this is important - since you seem to understand this. (Again, I can do part of the reasoning myself since obviously I wouldn't choose a barren lifeless planet with only humans and stuff we eat, on it, I'm just having trouble extending this reasoning to tiny local perturbations.)
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Honestly it’s my feeling that all this stuff about sitting better is missing the point. I am beginning to feel like sitting or standing at a desk all day is just bad for your body. It’s hard for us to swallow and our economy isn’t set up for this, but I think we just work too much.
Because they've taken a look at the alternatives and decided to make the best of a bad situation.
And look at how pianists sit, they stay on a bench similar to the guy in the picture for hours, often with great posture as well. Pretty sure most office chairs are terrible.
> What I meant is that cravings for sugar and salt modulate taste covariantly. Which you seem to get.

Uh, yeah, I think a five year old would get that. Things that one craves taste quite good when they finally hit one's taste buds.

But this:

> Salt really only tastes good when you need salt.

Logically implies that when a person does not need salt, salt does not taste good to that person.
Not sure what industry you’re in, but three years doesn’t translate as ‘job hopping’ to me. If anything, 2 years is an average ‘acceptable’ job length.
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> You can't get away from being sexist and racist by adding more sexism and racism.

It's quite literally fighting racism and sexism with racism and sexism.

The mindset of people who support these types of policies is that all types of racism and sexism are not equal. They believe racism and sexism can be used as a positive tool when it helps a minority and isn't permanent.

It's very important that these policies be temporary even if temporary means for decades. Otherwise we are just institutionalizing racism and sexism which I agree is toxic. However, they can be useful in nudging society away from racism and sexism overall even if it's increased while the policy is in effect.
I see. I have a female friend in Vienna, she's said similar stuff to me. Things are getting bad there.
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Some thoughts from my experience:

1) You mention your shoulders being outstretched and flexed when you work, that's a good place to start. When I work at a desk, I try to maintain a posture that keeps my arms parallel with my body until the elbow where my forearms then extend at a 90 degree angle or so. When I think of someone with their arms outstretched, it's hard for me to not imagine you're also leaning forward at least a bit which also puts stress on your neck. Aside from changing desks, you might want to look into an under-desk keyboard/mouse drawer/shelf to lower and extend those things to you in the correct position. You shouldn't be stretching to work at a computer.

2) Headphones. For me, hours wearing big over ear headphones can leave my neck and shoulders sore even when sitting with perfect posture. Consider using earbuds when you work.

3) Your bed. Most neck and back problems start in the bed, whether it's having a pillow that's not properly supportive or has dust mites, not turning your mattress often enough, sleeping on an old lumpy mattress or just sleeping in the wrong position. These things can all contribute to neck and back pain. Don't rule out the possibility that multiple factors could be contributing to your pain.

4) Light exercise with stretching/yoga. Can help eliminate lactic acid from your muscles contributing to the soreness.

5) Diet. This one's sort of on the low end of potential fixes but having too many foods that increase uric acid levels (alcohol, meat, dairy, fried foods, soda, etc...) could lead to joint stiffness in general or increased difficulty for your system in breaking down other acids that lend themselves to soreness like lactic acid.
"Dehumanizing" isn't the proper word here, since we're literally talking about non-human entities. If you want to talk about inter-species empathy, it should be pointed out that most predatory species aren't relating to their prey animals (they typically go after the weakest prey; young, elderly or sick animals which humans would likely empathize with). The odd behavior is that we ascribe human traits to things we plan on killing and eating which aren't objectively demonstrating them.
Here is what I do, which barely helps (I focus on managing anterior pelvic tilt):

• Toe-touch stretch to stretch lower back
• Kneeling hip flexor stretch
• Glute bridges (I don't do these enough)
• Crunches (the "right" kind where you don't go all the way up)
• Rows and deadlifts to keep shoulders back
• Wallsits at work with hips tucked in
• Planches at work to help straighten out core

I still get pain once every few months.
I didn't even know about FOIA request until this post thanks for write up
Good result and makes sense. Sometimes people need to step away to have time to consider and integrate the new facts and perspectives they've been presented so they can attack the problem from a different perspective. Forcing continued debate can cause people to dig in on their view of the problem.
Wearing a mask isn't enough because they're also working on gait recognition, you'd have to change up how you walk every time you leave too.
We are a "hats on" people.
Your assertion regarding adult CNP risk is incorrect, they do in fact have much higher levels of fraud and chargebacks. The card networks came down on this category because of chargebacks, not because porn is bad.

I would also point out Adult CNP is far from the only category to get this treatment, but they are one of the only high risk categories that have four major banks more than happy to take their business. Travel sites, dating sites, and other high risk CNP merchants don’t have the same benefit.

The techniques described in this article are exactly why issuers block transactions. Merchants are trying to force transactions that are likely to be charged back by engaging in increasingly elaborate, and likely illegal, schemes.

If you’re operating a legitimate adult CNP site, there are plenty of options available to you and the adult-focused processors will hold your hand through rejecting sketchy charges even if it means lower up front revenues.

I have seen bad actors open up fake porn sites to obtain processing for their illegal activities because adult processing for legitimate sites is that available.

Edit:typos
I think this is a both/and, rather than either/or scenario. There's no doubt your environment has a massive impact on behavior modification; I agree with everything you wrote.

However, the key here is that you first identified a specific problem that you wanted to solve. From there, you created an environment that exploited our (for lack of a better term) inherent laziness and brought about desired behaviors because it was the path of least resistance.

I think often people change their environment without first undergoing the uncomfortable but integral process of self-reflection to determine what needs to change. Then, when their lives aren't magically better, they are disappointed.

We are all constantly changing; our environment and our actions are a vicious circle that produce this change. But from what I've seen, the vast majority of people don't direct those changes through conscious thoughts & behavior, so they take on both the good and bad characteristics of their environment (profession, city, friends, culture, etc.) and then are surprised at the result.
Here's a game you may like then https://store.steampowered.com/app/98200/Frozen_Synapse/
It feels like I am putting too much pressure on my male parts when I do this. Am I doing it wrong, or could it be the chair that I am using?

Edit: After looking at the picture from the article, it is obvious that the man has his legs spread wide, and this position is much more comfortable. I also lowered my chair to bring my elbows back to desk level.
Another "before" image, from roughly the same perspective (from an article someone posted below).

http://cdn-media.ingegneri.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/C...
What is “the credit card database?” What country is this? In the US we only have credit reports, which are tied to SSN. Do you mean you had to give your SSN to receive a prepaid card? That doesn’t seem right.
I have a friend that worked developing Internet in Equatorial Guinea around 2014. He told me that in a couple of occasions, Chinese teams came there to install surveillance systems.

So this is already happening.
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Sure, if your company isn't actively hostile to the idea like the one I work at is. Lot of places are very butts-in-seats focused.
I currently work for Google, and enjoy whiteboard interview questions. When the questions are well designed there should be a relatively trivial, brute-force solution. As that solution is explored, it should highlight a bottleneck (time, space, etc.) that leads naturally to a more elegant solution. I really enjoy the excitement of finding the inflection point between the two. In addition, be aware that Google now offers Chromebooks for interviews at many locations, in case folks are more comfortable typing than writing. A recruiter can confirm if that option will be available. (See https://careers.google.com/how-we-hire/interview/#onsite-int...)
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Do you have any links on the Detroit AI you mention? All I see on the GDC vault are talks about lighting and engine tech, can't seem to find any game AI info.
It was Morgan Stanley, but I'm sure there's similar things with most brokerages. If you think you over-paid in error it's definitely worth your time to go back and amend it, it's not like your money is gone.
Really? I've always heard 2y or more at each place is the line of no suspicion, and from more conservative sources than HN. Interesting.
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They don't have any obligation, but then again neither has the government any obligation to permit/not penalize the business. If Facebook wants to operate in the EU, it will have to follow EU rules.
Do you have links to any information on the use of AI in Detroit's narrative? Searching for "Detroit AI narrative" isn't working well for obvious reasons!
Will AWS have it? Will they call this service the AWS HomeWatch? Can we use it to spy on our pizza and see why delivery is taking so long?
Indeed, although it's not unheard of for mathematics lecturers at university to throw in a question within a twenty-question problem sheet for their course that is actually equivalent to some important unsolved problem, on the off chance that one of their students sees things in a totally new way and makes a ground-breaking discovery. Solving something NP-hard in linearithmic time would certainly qualify...
> Interesting. Does the UK have another word other than “government” that has the US English meaning—any institution of or controlled by the state?

In everyday speech, not really. We don't have a codified constitution so things are sometimes a little ambiguous. I guess people might use terms like "the state" or "the powers that be".

There is the legal concept of "The Crown" [1], which is kind of like the legal personality of the state. It sits at the root of a hierarchy, with the executive, legislature, courts, military etc. below it. The monarch, as head of state, exercises the powers of The Crown, although mostly in a ceremonial way on the advice of the government [2]. But nobody talks about The Crown in everyday speech.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crown

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_prerogative_in_the_Unite...
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A lot of these PWM algorithms required counting clock cycles which is only practical in assembler.
As is pointed out in the article, the issue is the chargebacks. If you have to many, the credit card processing company (I don't know who Stripe uses) will close your account. Both MasterCard and VISA will also shut you down if you have to many charge backs, or to much fraud.

Stripe would have to setup an entirely separate legal entity to do this. Otherwise they would risk not being able to process ANY card transaction, because the porn sites have to many chargebacks. It would potentially be a risk to their primary business.

I think Stripe is "giving up" on the money for the same reason many others are: It's simply not worth the hassle. If you have a nice income doing payments for non-adult sites, why bother?
So:

execute(STDIN.each_line, code)

which gives you a lazy enumerator, in place of:

execute(STDIN.readlines, code)

which gives you an Array.
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Tcl is bananas. On the one hand, its approach to structuring data (cram everything into strings, including procedures!) is... idiosyncratic and not what I'm used to. On the other, it seems to work hand in glove with the "Unix Way" (for whatever that's worth), and I've never seen a faster way to get a GUI up and running than Tcl/Tk. Not Visual Basic. Not even Smalltalk.
Yeah not sure. I think it depends on the contracts. Maintaining infrastructure on 3 cloud providers that don’t work the same is costly.

All of these services provide pretty steep discounts (as a percentage of original costs) for customers who are able to provide accurate capacity forecasts and make long term commitments.

And the while the “technology gets cheaper” argument is true, I believe it is generally understood that while AWS/Azure/Google can use this trend at the scale they operate at (and then pass the savings to the customers), most cloud customers would spend more money hiring additional engineers to maintain more complicated infrastructure then they would save trying to take advantage of this trend.
Looks like Microsoft has been wasting time on stupid UI changes and not enough on multi-core performance.
Writing a plugin would be a great way to get into programming.
I used to have problems with back pain, neck pain, various aches and pains and “knots” and so on.

Now I don’t. At all.

The difference is that I started lifting very heavy weights at least twice a week for about an hour each time. Like a standard strength training or bodybuilding approach. I’m not actually particularly jacked up, that’s a pretty laid back pace.

My issues with back pain are now just completely gone. If I have to take more than about 10 days off they slowly creep back. But a day of deadlifts and shoulders and so on fixes that.

It’s not science, I have a sample size of one. But it sure seems to make a positive difference.
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This is an excellent post, and I agree. It's important to remember, though, that the majority will move with the wind, a small group will be virtuous (almost) no matter what, and a small group will be terrible no matter what. If the system rewards the terrible, the majority will sway that way, and vice versa.

So, while you're right, the brainwashing is largely voluntary, and people seem to even enjoy it in the short term, it's up to the "adults" to set a sustainable structure - to not succumb to greed and petty wants. With regard to politics and business, I can't tell you how many times I've heard, 'Where are the adults?'

My situation is similar to yours. My job is fine but only fulfilling in short bursts, where I get to alleviate pain for people. The rest is pure shit. But, my life is pretty great. This morning, I saw four wood storks overlooking a canal in a warehouse district that most would consider an eyesore. It was beautiful.
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As Italian I feel very touched. Hope the body count won't go up. What a tragedy!
This is the live streaming from an Italian newspaper
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> Governments absolutely should be looking to make profits

I understand what you're saying, but I think you're stretching the common understanding of "profits" and risking confusion because of it.

Absolutely, government should try to measure the impact of its actions, but expressing that in terms like profit can lead to undesirable consequences like the expectation that a successful self-promoter pretending to be a successful businessman can also be a successful president.
I agree. I love Ruby, but I'll pipe 'httpie', 'jq' and 'xargs' for quite awhile before deciding to write a Ruby script to do something similar.
I agree about environment conditioning you to some extent; but not necessarily solving underlying, unrelated problems.

I've lived in 4 different countries in the last 8 years so I've also been moving quite a bit, even between continents, and I have "reinvented" myself in every new country and job, and absorbed new ways of living as well. But it took me this long and this many countries to realise that some of the issues I had were relationship issues, not country or job issues, which is why I took them with me across countries and jobs.

While I agree with what you're saying, this is why I believe that trying to fix a general sense of unhappiness or unfulfilment by going through drastic changes may be an overreaction if you don't understand what you're trying to fix in the first place.
I don't know where you live, but porn magazines are in see-through plastic, just like other magazines. They're just on the top shelf, that's all.
Thanks :)

When I completed School & later College, our girl classmates had something called ScrapBook, where everybody will write in messages & good wishes for the owner of that book.
I think you hit the nail on the head and I personally agree 100% with your position: the society does not have the right to forcefully medicate unless I am a danger to others. Doubly so if I clearly expressed that desire while being medically sane.

If contested (as it seems to be), this should be a topic of open, public discussion. And I hope that the logic that "we will do X to you against your wishes because it is good for you" will be rejected by the majority. We do not let parents take adult kids' money "'cause we know better how it should be spent", etc. Restricting individual freedoms this way is, to me, a wrong path to take, but opponents should certainly present counter cases.

Restricting freedom when one is danger to others (e.g., carrying a deadly, contagious disease) is OK in my book.
I imagine there are a whole
bunch of “gov is inefficient” types who like having non-competitive rates so reinforce the narrative. This makes it easier for the public to support dismantling gov programs, etc.
>As for people asking why the highway needs to go through Genova instead of around,

Mountains. And a few of the major highways actually go under Genoa, via tunnels.
Everything in the USA is for-profit.. It is only a scale of how much.
1. That someone wrote. Maybe HP got it from an OEM and it is in dozens of manufacturers' machines.

2. Would mitigate this vulnerability. And, the nasty thing about this is that it could potentially rewrite your logs. You can't trust a compromised machine to tell the truth.

3. Yup.
I grew up in the same part of the country around the same time as the author. While I agree not everything in the book is a fully realistic depiction, it is honestly highly accurate in many regards. It goes in depth with the type of inconsistent, moralistic and tribal decision making and thought process in Appalachia in a more detailed and accurate way than I’ve seen in almost any other account.

I’d suggest to also read the book Dreamland about the opioid and prescription drug epidemic in Appalachia.

Between base knowledge of how tribal morals work there, how skills gap unemployment had hit that area, and how the addiction crisis has hit them, it helps dramatically to understand why it creates a conservative-leaning voting bloc that feels scared of modern progressive politics and would generally vote modern Republican despite having deep historical roots in voting Democrat as a worker solidarity signal.
Just posted this in another thread, but it’s especially relevant here:

I work at a small AI startup, and our CEO worked on the AI for the NPCs in F.E.A.R. [0]. He has written about developing the goal-oriented action planning [1] approach in the game (and is linked to in this article). Great to see how it was done!

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F.E.A.R.
[1]: http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~jorkin/gdc2006_orkin_jeff_fear....
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No discussion of weight loss, injury, mobilization techniques, foam rolling/self-myofascial release (i.e. self-massage), no discussion of massage or PT. These are all huge for back pain and the author manages to brilliantly avoid these while discussing one-on-one sitting training sessions.

The reality for most people is that nearly all of these things can affect their back pain. Once again, an article attempts to reduce a multivariate model to a univariate model, reducing many variables to one is simpler but not more true, just easier to dispense in a news post.
> Designed to handle 320 trains a day, the Lanzhou-Xinjiang HSR currently has only eight daily services. “Because of this large amount of idle capacity, [the line’s] annual revenues are not enough to pay for its electricity costs,” said Prof Zhao.

https://www.ft.com/content/ca28f58a-955d-11e8-b747-fb1e803ee... [Paywall]

> China’s huge leveraged bet on HSR has also generated many other benefits as it dramatically shrinks distances, transforms lives and boosts regional economies. The now three-hour, 1,100km train ride between Guangzhou and Wuhan used to take 11 hours, and tickets are now priced at just Rmb464.

Annual travel on China’s HSR lines — 1.7bn trips — exceeds travel on conventional rail services. And about half of all HSR trips are, like Mr Liu’s, business-related.

“When you think about that, a staggering 850m people are travelling [on HSR] to meet customers, get to their job, visit research centres and so on,” said Mr Ollivier.

If China Railway’s HSR network is ultimately able to pay for itself, it will be a testament to the miracles that can happen when the Chinese Communist party marshals the vast financial resources at its disposal to serve a common good. But if it cannot, there is little doubt who will have to make up the difference.

“China Railway’s debt is government-backed,” said Prof Li. “It won’t default.”