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The only 'controversy' around coconut oil is that it is very high in saturated fat - much more so than lard, beef dripping or even butter.

It doesn't appear to have any mitigating health factors, as had been claimed (a lot, by a lot of people and a lot of the press), that would count against this. So it appears to be a really unhealthy fat, which should be used sparingly.
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But it increasingly seems that inaction is inconsequential. The only dietary information I trust is to keep your weight down. Being overweight puts extra strain on joints, ligaments, as well as internal organs. Everything else just seems like the fad dujour.
There is a religious aspect to coconut oil. People believe it cures everything. It's just saturated fat.
"You could say the same thing about any discipline where professionals have opposing viewpoints. "

I guess the problem in nutrition is that it impacts everybody's daily decisions. It doesn't make much difference to me if string theory or super symmetry works but it makes a difference to know whether I should avoid coconut oil or not.
Is this really a big deal? Don't many websites either redirect the www to the non-www, or the other way around?
the issue is rather the quality of the articles and what we as humans in general prefer to read. we'd rather read about an extreme (this is the greatest, this is the worst) or a conflict (person a says the opposite to person b). it's basically just a symptom of decaying journalistic standards. incidentally it's often also cheaper to produce such content.

there is probably an academic consensus that goes one way or the other, but our journalism has decayed enough that they don't even bother researching this.
Looks like this is intentional. To change it back go to chrome://flags/#omnibox-ui-hide-steady-state-url-scheme-and-subdomains and disable the setting.
The ((())) thing would be far too obvious.
Increasingly some departments decision making processes are actually being run by some faceless AI. Even worse, the humans pretend the problems they created will go away if they just sprinkle some magic AI fairy dust on it.

Either way it's a completely unacceptable dodge, especially for Facebook and Google.
Wouldn't be a problem if the producers weren't also lying about their effects.

And people ask why so much hate towards marketing industry...
Sums up my feelings. At this point, I firmly believe that the negative physiological consequences from the stress about nutrition outweigh any benefits.

Eat intelligently (I think we can agree that processed foods and sugar is less good than fresh veggies), and lower the stress.
It's on some crazy high resolution display. If you switch to text mode, your resolution drops a ton, and the required pixel pushing power drops accordingly.
The book Why Buildings Fall Down is full of significant historical collapses and pretty much every one boils down to a lack of redundancy, a single point of failure.

http://books.wwnorton.com/books/Why-Buildings-Fall-Down/

Lessons for software engineering right there.
Yo, this is... going too far, c'mon now.

While sure, www seems odd now, it's still a subdomain and we're inching into territory of obscuring things that matter for small gains in end-user perception that aren't _that_ impactful.
Or...perhaps 15 hours of an actual competent developer?
There is not one concentration camp, there are over a dozen. And while I could only find those two you mentioned as eyewitnesses to camp 14, we have plenty of other witnesses to the other camps. Dozens of people going back decades. And even if you consider the entirety of their testimony suspect, these witnesses bare the physical signs of torture and malnutrition.

I'm unclear on what exactly your position is. Are you just skeptical of stories like boiling people in molten iron? If so I can understand. Do you believe that these political re-education camps exist? What about the policy of sending an entire family, including children, to prison if one member of it commits a political offense? Do you believe that these camps are host to abuses, including the torture of prisoners as punishment, forced labor, and inadequate access to food and medical care?
Link is down.

Terry Davis was a troubled individual but an impressive hacker.
I'm pretty sure it's solid science that probiotics definitely help at treating or preventing certain digestive tract disorders/diseases. For instance, SIBO:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28267052

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3329544/
Don't forget to calculate the money you are left with every month after paying taxes, health insurance, housing and basic needs.

I read that health insurance in the US costs 1000$+ per month, and even then you pay thousands out of pocket. Same for social security.

I believe that if you take this into your calculations the difference is not so bad
My guess would be no way for outsiders to access the camera.
Thanks for those details. I am glad to have seen the demonstration. I didn't know they removed it in 2016.

I believe the better link is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divided_differences
An aggregator is just a site that just shows others' data. That site is showing what is the result of "adjusting" others' data to create new predictions. Those "adjustments" led to phenomenal accuracy in the 2008 and 2012 general elections, and abysmal accuracy in the most recent general election.

You end up with the same problem of centralization that aggregation aims to avoid.
Your EV numbers are high.

If the EV was really significantly above 1.0 (say 1.5) then everyone would buy a lot of lotto tickets. It would be simple arbitrage. In reality all of those people buying extra tickets (because of the high perceived EV) would mean a higher chance of splitting the pot. Splitting the pot would reduce the real return by 1/2 for every person that purchased a ticket.
> I've concluded that eating is good for your health.

[citation needed]

Jokes aside, you and GP are right; with this level of confusion, there's not much ground for trying to micromanage your diet.
> probiotics being universally healthy is one of the most dogmatic nutrition facts that anyone can recite

Considering that probiotics are formally defined as having a beneficial effect when ingested, there is good reason for this to be "dogmatic".

The question then would be "what's a probiotic and what isn't?"
25 and 46 are plenty large sample sizes for something that should have a large effect. I agree that I've always thought of probiotics only for recovery after antibiotics or stomach illness.
While what you say may be true, it's trivia. If one of those devs who attempt a fix learn a little and make a more significant contribution later in life. Only hindsight is 20/20.
China wasn't expansionist, though. They never grew much beyond their current borders. They were good trading partners, but didn't have the complexity and drive of the middle eastern civilizations, from the early Persians through the Ottomans.
I'd go for precommit hook or similar, but not a huge deal.
Anyone know if this checks for a DNS record that supports equivalency between the www/empty subdomains? It's possible for them to have different values.
Random post online.

While it seemed high, if you have a 1 floor building, and a 10 floor building you have floors ((1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9 +10) + (1)) / 11 = 5 floor average height.

Not: Average the building heights (10 + 1) / 2 = 5.5 and then cut that in half = 2.75 average floor height.

PS: Put another way a 1 story building has 1 floor of people a 100 floor building has 100 floors of people so the average person is not evenly split between both buildings. So, 100 1 story buildings and 1 100 story building average to 50 floors. (+/- and off by 1 errors as you go up 99 floors to reach 100th floor, but people also go to basements.)
Thank you for mentioning overtones. I think it's a very important factor that makes it possible to talk about a universal musical aesthetics, even if a very basic one.

> For instance, Greek music is composed by combining intervals where the integer ratios have a prime number no higher than 3 to form the scales.

You mean the classical Greek music, right? I think the system you describe is called the Pythagorean tuning.
The Fourth Crusade was devastating, but Rome had already lost nearly all its territory to the Arabs by that time - which is in part what set off the crusades in the first place. The Muslim conquests had taken all Roman territory outside Anatolia by 730, many centuries before the Fourth Crusade.

The period surrounding the Muslim conquests is almost as disruptive in the historical record as the Bronze Age collapse. A lot of writing either gets lost or destroyed during that period. Sources dry up after ominous allusions to doom and gloom. The Latin sack was bad for Constantinople, but isn't nearly that bad.

The emperors were also very aware that the loss of nearly all their holdings was the beginning of the end, and that they were essentially caretakers, only able to delay the end. It's very sobering reading what they wrote.
>My guess is that, like the incubator baby thing in Iraq, the more heinous crimes are just made up. It's easy to make up stories when there's no way to refute them.

It's also a nice way to prop up the "enemy du jour". You wine and dine some people who got out, and they'll tell any kind of horror story you'd like to hear.
> and drinking water

I've seen lots of articles on this too.
Wow.

1. We don't test.
2. We don't code review (or rather if we do, we do it so poorly swallowed exceptions don't raise red flags.)

That's an outrageously unprofessional software process.
www is a sub domain and orthogonal to protocol. Eg ftp://www.yo.com should be valid as well.
You're about an order of magnitude off.
I disagree. There can be bad and good regulation. Just like there are bad and good comments. GDPR seems like a good idea, still. I'm guessing you think there should be no regulation of the internet. What about posting naked pics of you against your will - this actually happens, it's not a strawman argument. Net neutrality is a good thing, it doesn't happen without a regulation mandating it.
And many including myself are not OK with this. Your browser shouldn't be obscuring any part of the URI.
>how do they not know about the atrocities they are involved in?

Why do you think this is so obvious? Why are Facebook employees oblivious to the atrocities they contribute to?

Taking domestic propaganda into account, do you think, as a North Korean, your country looks so much worse than the US? From the most cynical view of US foreign policy?
I used gimp the other day to resize an image with no training or experience. Thanks GIMP Team!
There is still a debate about how unhealthy all unsaturated fat is - so no, they shouldn't avoid it.
Have any of you with corporate-type proxies been seeing authentication issues? Since moving to Chrome 69 a number of our users are reporting repeated proxy auth prompts when this should normally be handled transparently by Kerberos.
British Airways breach: Customer and credit card data stolen for 2 weeks
Probably the same risks as with any IoT device. Any device is dangerous to some extent if it:

(1) has internet connectivity,

(2) has poor security (due to bad design/implementation and/or lack of updates), and

(3) is on your internal network.

It may not be a valuable target itself, but it can serve as a beachhead to launch further attacks on other devices on the same network. Assuming you rely on some firewall-style network security (a notion of inside and outside), which most people do.
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I also have a couple of kids and have thought this would be a great side effect of getting a Roomba, but then I always think, after I clean up all the toys running an upright would only add 5% more effort to my total clean up time. Then again maybe that's a nice forcing function.
I feel that'd be like shoemakers putting metal plates on top of their shoes to prevent bullets from penetrating when customers shoot themselves in the foot. It's silly. Those same customers could shoot themselves in the leg (another software they misuse and expose .git/ from), or hurt their foot via some other method that the plate can't protect from (expose other non-git sensitive information via the webserver; i.e. the webserver can't predict all ways it can be misused).

However, now I see you said it should be Ubuntu and not Apache that should do this default configuration. I guess that'd make a little more sense as Ubuntu could be interpreted in this analogy as the vendor of the boot, pants and gun, and is generally geared toward beginner cowboys.

The real solution, though, would be for the customers to learn to use the gun properly. If they shoot themselves, then that's valuable experience they can learn from. If you put the metal plate, they might go on without realizing they're shooting themselves.
It may also depends on how you get them. For example somebody told me that turmeric helps with joint inflammation. Bought some turmeric capsules and they did nothing. But then I used it in cooking and it definitely makes a difference for my joint pain. It comes back while traveling and I don't get turmeric. But as soon as I get home and eat my own food the joint pain gets better. It also gets worse when I stop using turmeric in my own cooking for a while.
Be transparent, it is your business, run it as you see fit. Why would your client be unhappy you are expanding YOUR business?
I think websites should just stop using "www." entirely and host directly on their domain rather than a subdomain.
So I bought both Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer when they shipped. I re-bought them last year when I got a 2nd Windows machine and wanted something on Windows (first version was Mac)

I've gotten quite a bit of use out of Affinity Designer. There's a few features I've wished for but I can't justify paying for Illustrator and so have made do and been pretty satisfied.

But, ... recently I started doing some game development again and the workflows in Affinity Photo just didn't work for me. I found myself very frustrated because of poor or un-thoughtout design issues. So I caved and paid for the Photography Photoshop/Lightroom subscription ($120/yr). That's probably 1-4 hours of salary to buy depending on your job but it totally paid for itself in having a much better workflow so I could actually get stuff done.

$120 a year is about 4x what I paid before Adobe went subscription (used to upgrade every other version which was about once every 4 years) so in that sense it sounds expensive but, compared to what I get paid or what I charge it's a tiny amount of money and AFAICT totally worth it, at least for me.
It's about the principle. www is a valid subdomain.

Browsers are supposed to be as unopinionated as possible since they are browsers, not mediators, and their job is to implement the standards of the web.
This sounds kind of like me. I don't use things like pomodoros, I find it distracts me too much. I embrace my procrastination habits. It is like ADHD, I just go wandering mindlessly through youtube, some specific subreddits, hackernews, etc. Its not a waste of time for me because I'm learning about new technologies, software, tools, content, etc that helps me in my job and personal life. I never view anything I do for fun as a waste of time.

I have 3 cycles in personal productivity.

1) When I intentionally let my mind wander freely -> When I deep dive into a huge number of breath first content in multiple industries. I watch many documentaries,youtube videos, read news,etc and I have systems for collecting which information I've read or seen

2) Focused on one task -> Depth first approach, deep diving and learning one specific topic very well. Or working on a side project and nothing else. I try and make this timeblock last a few hours long, because there's a startup/warm up time in getting "in the zone".

3) When my mind needs a break -> play something like rocket league, ASMR, walking around for a bit, stretching, getting food, etc

At the start of my day, I usually do steps (1) (2) and (3) in order. As the day progresses I tend to focus on (2)
Because regular people read this bullshit uncritically, journalists write more pop articles based on that, which makes more people read it... and suddenly your mother starts calling you about pills you should/should not be taking, and your SO starts to insist on random dietary changes.

Even if this stuff doesn't cause huge hurt, it definitely causes annoyance.
If someone wants to experiment and be on the cutting edge they can follow the latest news stories. The stakes really aren't that high for most people. Those who follow the standard dietary advice can live a full life.
There is a popular video on YouTube outling the reasons why Concorde failed. Mainly it came down to market, expense, and not a business fit.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=a_wuykzfFzE&t=12s
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Why should you tell them anything?

You're a business, and it's none of their business who else you serve. As long as you deliver what they pay for, it shouldn't be an issue.
Are you insinuating that I didn't read the comment? I take such offense to this.
I believe the "inately bad" thing about coconut oil is that it's more than 80% saturated fat (wikipedia says 82.5).
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It doesn't seem very surprising that if you keep eating mostly what you normally eat, your microbiome is already well-adapted to that diet and will out compete almost anything new you try to introduce.

I would expect if they tried limiting their diet to foods compatible with the probiotics, they'd get more significant results, because the existing microbiome colonies would be stressed from lack of their usual junk/meat/fat and be weaker. (Almost all standard probiotics, other than dairy varieties [yogurt etc], are veg-carb-loving.)

Before refrigeration, there couldn't have been many probiotics consumed in isolated form rather than as fermented foods. Give the new bacteria some food to eat when they're trying to out-compete your existing (bad parts of your) gut microbiome. One of the most likely good foods for them to eat is what they've been cultured on.

It may not even be necessary to eat probiotics, if you already have some of the bacteria you want, you merely need to encourage it to out-compete bad microbiome bacterial strains. Eat food compatible with the good bacteria.
But it's such a hassle to change diets, everyone wants a pill or a powder or one serving of probiotics they can add to their diet, keep everything else the same, and have the bad bacteria / imbalance miraculously disappear. Is it any surprise that's less likely to work?
Yes, I'll fall over myself to defend the right of someone to post a Nazi-themed dog image. Free speech means the freedom to offend. It even means the freedom to hate. Censorship solves nothing, and it's far too tempting a power to be given to the self-righteous.
That doesn't mean we need a link tax. That means we need a new model for journalism that can pay the bills in the modern internet world. We shouldn't be trying to save the old formats beyond the point they're unprofitable, in the same way we shouldn't be trying to save most businesses and organisations when they can't make ends meet. The solution to issues caused by disruptive technologies and a change in culture is to find something new that works, not keep the old guard alive at the expense of everyone else.
Definetly seems interesting.
Codes can be replied. Security keys cryptographically sign the hostname, so the credentials generated can't be used across different domains.

This is a short edu video, I'd be curious if you have any feedback: https://twitter.com/_conorpp/status/1036751355346595840
Please communicate that to the National Science Foundation (and by extension, the electorate). We're hemorrhaging some of our best scientists for that reason. I may soon join them.
Introduction of a five-year plans for the national economy would cancel out all the spending from competitors.
I did a BSc in AI in the 90s and we had courses on the Philosophy of Science and another on the Philosophy of consciousness. While they were both interesting, neither has been relevant to my real world work in the last 25 years.
My site, although one can argue it is a poorly configured (although it is intentionally configured this way), is a great example of why this is problematic.

https://www.aishitei.ru vs https://aishitei.ru vs https://kimiwo.aishitei.ru

I never set up a www cname, but now unless you're paying attention (or actually reading error messages) you might not notice that the reason it failed is because you're not at the domain but on the `www` subdomain. The URL bar doesn't convey this information until you click it and then it shows the full URL.

It's really minor but I also don't see a good reason to do this. All the sites hosted by the company I work for are hosted on `www.` with the intention that it "looks more professional".
Even if DNS is the same, the host receives full host name in http and/or TLS headers and can trivially serve different content.
If the browser uses some technique to detect that www.domain.com is functionally identical to domain.com for a given domain, then I don't see a serious problem with this. But if they are short of that certainty, they're obscuring a critical part of the URL, and harming usability (e.g., if I want to jot down a site's URL for later use, I might get something unexpected).
founded by _former members_ (albeit founding members) of Google's TPU team.

i wonder how they negotiated this from a legal standpoint. every employment contract i've ever signed certainly would not allow for starting a project this similar to my employer's core business.
The eastern empire lost most of its territory by 800, reducing it to a dying regional power.

But yeah, totally a European perspective. Aside from the Romans, "Europe" barely comes into play in history, until Spain reached America and started bringing back enormous piles of gold.
The Gimp is quite good once you get the hang of the UI. Which may be never :-)
what's exactly the distinction between swords and sabres in English? In my native language we'd call this a sabre (sablja), as word sword (mač) is used only for straight double-edged blades.
... which is basically making Bucephalus355's point for them. There's too much confusion, too many unsubstantiated claims.
trans-fats are unambiguously bad for you. There's been a lot of spillover demonization of saturated fats which I don't trust at all.
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I think that's somewhat missing the key nuance of the point. There are actually two debates:

1. Whether to regulate the internet.

2. Whether a specific regulation is a good one.

#2 is the debate that happens for every law in a democratic system. If you agree with the democratic system on principle, then you already acknowledge that the democracy may not choose the laws you want.

#1 is what you're talking about. But it's not an all or nothing deal. You can believe that the internet should be regulated and simultaneously believe that any specific regulation is a bad one.
For those wanting some reference to the Harvard Medical School coconut oil war:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/why-a-harvard-professor-is-call...
Sometimes the EV goes above 1.0 and there are several groups of people who closely monitor lotteries all over the US to spot this event. When it does happen, which is very rare, they do calculations on the expected impact, viability and if their conclusions are good, swoop in and buy hundreds of thousands of tickets.

They have people printing tickets for an entire day. They pay stores to stay open late. It's a tactical operation.

Sometimes the jackpot is so anomalously big that the general public can't buy enough tickets to bring it back down below 1.0.
Well it has medium chain fatty acids. Most saturated fats are long chain.