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> Case studies are widely used in medicine. But thanks for the downvote.

Why are you saying I downvoted you? I'm not trying to be adversarial, just trying to provide counterpoints to what I believe is poor-quality reporting. Case studies are indeed often used in research. However in this situation we have an n=3 sampling without even a semblance of scientific control or analysis. They apparently didn't even bother to confirm whether the products that the kids were using actually contained lavender, much less characterize the quantity or composition. This isn't scientific by any stretch of the imagination. It's pure anecdote. It's no better than a facebook rumor.

> Here is a different report (early puberty in a girl)

Okay, another single case report, and again no analysis of the product being used, and no analysis of the "other CAM remedies" that the mother was reportedly using, nor any attempt to isolate other coincident changes in diet, treatment, chemical exposure, etc. Not sure how this helps anything.

> The cautious option is to avoid systemic use of lavender in populations where xenoestrogenic activity may be undesirable.

I disagree. You are of course free to be as cautious as you like, but IMO it's a paranoia that isn't justified by the research we've seen so far.

And as I said, the whole thing doen't really make sense. If we really do have to worry about lavender, then we're pretty fucked, because the chemicals of interest (such as the eight studied in the report you cited) are everywhere. Eucalyptus, basil, coriander, pine oil, mints of all kinds, citrus of all kinds... all of these and many more contain estrogenic terpenes in quantities similar to (or greater than) lavender. Are you going to be cautious of these as well if someone starts a rumor that they can disrupt your hormones?

> Particularly in light of the fact that the “refutation” you linked was written by someone with an obvious conflict of interest.

Tisserand's monetary interest in the industry could well lead to a conflict of interest. I don't know anything about him, but I'll grant that. But be careful about discounting him out of hand; it's easy to cross over into ad-hominem attacks. That he may have a dog in this fight doesn't necessarily make him wrong, and it doesn't make Henley's report more legit. Do you have a specific quarrel with Tisserand's reasoning? Do you have a rebuttal to his rebuttal, so to speak?
I'm sort-of leaving tech, but I've worked in web dev for 8 years, and this is the first I hear of Gutenberg.

From what I understand, it's better WYSIWYG. Great, but we have entire essays demonstrating how WYSIWYG is garbage. Alright but people want WYSIWYG!

To me, this seems like a manifestation of the limits inherent to the simplification of UI. The frontend needs complex information to be able to correctly produce a beautiful design. Ultimately, the user needs to be aware of the concepts (too complex, apparently), or the design needs to be automated and therefore simplistic. WYSIWYG is the unhappy compromise demonstrating that consistency begets complexity.

If this dilemma really is unsolvable, then Wordpress is but one of iteration in a grand cycle of its victims. I worked mainly with Drupal, and the situation there isn't much better, they've simply opted for sophistication over usability.
Unfortunately, "basic decency" is like "common sense", in that it is actually pretty rare.
Well, we do still want to reward researchers for coming up with good hypotheses. It's just that we want to also make it harder to game the metrics.
You probably need to know enough technical language to enter the right search terms.
In Arabic numbers are written in the same order as in, say, English, Thus Arabic is little-endian.

I grew up with the Hundu digits (and the European ones!) which look more like the digits we use here than the actual arabic ones.
That's the first thing I thought and it's mentioned in the readme file itself.

I don't think I'd ever want to use this tool. Every keystroke could be an arbitrary command, and I wonder about the performance of commands with a lot of I/O or processing.

Conceptually it's really neat and I get it, but practically I find things like parameter completion in Fish much more useful.
For me, people talking is not "white noise". People banging on things is not "white noise". Machines dinging and donging and bleeping and blarping is not "white noise".

For me, only actual white noise would qualify as "white noise".

And even true white noise can be pretty distracting if it is too loud.

YMMV.
That would be better than the current process.
FWIW I installed iOS 12 on my mom's iPhone 5s a few weeks ago, and I can tell you it ran much faster than iOS 10 or 11 on that device.
Google's antivirus is optional, so if a user was cognizant of the dangers of using Aptoide but still wanted to risk it couldn't they turn Play Protect off?

Google and Microsoft are often criticized for malware that targets Android and Windows, respectively, but restrictions such as this render Play Protect and Windows Defender increasingly toothless in the battle against malware vectors.
Except that those are Hindu numerals and not Arabic numerals.
In my view, a negative finding needs to be as solid as a positive one, i.e., just as hard to publish. Since folks haven't until recently published negative results, we probably haven't developed standards for reviewing those results. If you're a reviewer of an paper that reports a negative result, how do you decide if the work was carried out with sufficient skill to make the result useful?

Should negative results be replicated?
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> you don't put a robot in the kitchen. You turn the kitchen into a robot.

That was my thinking too after reading the article. Why jump through all those hoops, trying to get a robot mimicking us getting around the house and instead just build smarter, more capable appliances.

E.g.:

- having cupboards that double as dishwashers (the robot does the sorting and drying...)

- having wardrobes that double as washing machines (the robot does the sorting and drying...)

- having trash bins that do the seperation, maybe even compression

But in any of those cases, the "robot" could be a grappler on a track that never leaves the casing of the appliance
And thus, you are the rare gem that actually considers the outcome of your actions on others.

In contrast, most people are totally happy to blather about mindlessly, without any thought or care at all about who they are bothering with their chatter.
It's pretty stark. I speak Laventine and I struggle to communicate with my North African friends and often end up supplementing with english.

I'm not sure I'd go this far but some scholars make the case that the dialects are not really dialects, they are there own language that were influenced by Arabic.

See for example Taleb's argument on Lebanese being a language https://medium.com/east-med-project-history-philology-and-ge...

Historically it makes some sense because North Africa and the Laventine didn't have much in common with Arabia before Islam so they must've had their own local languages (say Berber or Aramaic) that was influenced by Arabic.
I learned MSA and some Egyptian and there really are things you can say in it that are almost impossible to express in English (or the other European languages I know). This is true of any pair of languages of course but structurally the root system allows much more nuance and overtone than more workmanlike languages like English. I believe Hebrew (which I don't speak!) has a similar structure though I've been told by Hebrew+Arabic speakers that Hebrew in practice is less so.

It's a real shame the contemporary literature is so small.
France is doing the same with French.
some planning plus a timed "slow cooker" could address this directly
The number of auto sales in the US is determined by demand, not by how much auto makers can supply (within price adjustment constraints, of course).
Because that shit is expensive.

You mean, you want human beings to be treated like ... actual human beings?!?

What kind of crazy person are you?!?

;)
> You could get environmentalists or governments to pay you to bury it.

It isn't sufficient to punt the cost onto a small group with shared political bent (environmentalists). There simply aren't enough of them to bear the costs, and it creates perverse incentives for carbon consumption for everyone else.

Yes, I think environmentalists have been trying to encourage governments to pay for carbon sequestration etc for quite some time. Mandated emissions reductions and increased fuel efficiency, carbon offset taxes, and funding carbon sequestration (burying) are all sides of the same coin.

> You can't avoid public policy when it comes to solving climate change, but if you can bury reserves of atmospherically-extracted hydrocarbons in the ground, that's an easy budget line item and not a massive fight that requires coordination among literally every industrialized nation.

Potato, potato. It's still additional funding, and good luck getting a conservative-majority senate to pass funding for anything other than the military and social security.

Yes, there is some use for carbon products, assuming people dispose of them by recycling or burying rather than burning. But I don't think it comes close to the volume needed to really restore pre-20th century atmospheric carbon levels.
In my experience, it's buried in dissertations.
its 100% in R&D. Real commodity hardware is sold at ~3x raw material cost, with R&D amortized over millions of units and very long period. Every time you see something made in china and go "how the hell can this be so cheap" is seeing real commodity price, with no R&D and middleman margins. People will argue about quality, by writing replies on keyboards that cost $5 to make in China, and clicking send with $0.2 BoYue microswitch in their $70(retail) mouse.

You could in theory make 500K robots at 5K if you give up any notion of recouping development cost by tackling ridiculous margins, and instead concentrate on moving millions of units.
Imagine if during the height of the Greek golden age most of the largest cities were razed to the ground and their populations systematically exterminated. That means Athens as we knew it would have been reduced to rubble.

That's what happened during the Mongol Conquests. The fall of Baghdad alone caused at least several hundred thousand people to be killed. The main library, which had collected countless works over the centuries, was gone.

Baghdad was rebuilt, of course. Economically and politically it bounced back since it was still right on the silk road. But scientific study never really recovered there.
If you truly had a humanoid robot that could do the dishes and the laundry and cook and clean the house, you would have no trouble at all selling it for $50,000. It would sell like hotcakes at that price. People would use financing to buy it just like cars.

A contract cleaning service is cheap, but they aren't in your home helping you 24/7. This hypothetical $50,000 robot would be much more useful and not that much more expensive if amortized over, say, 10 years with regular maintenance.
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Horses can in theory, go anywhere, but in practice it’s not advisable, at least at more than a trot. If you’re going at a canter, or god help you a gallop and the horse’s foot finds an unseen and unexpected hole, stone, etc... you’re going to be in serious trouble and so is the horse. Generally you only ride horses at high speeds on well worn and known trails, or roads. So yeah, a horse is better off-road than a Model T, but I’d rather walk unless I know the trail. Trotting for long periods is an athletic thing if you’re riding English, and torment on the groin otherwise. All in all, riding a horse for long periods is not easy unless you’re very used to it, and physically fit. Remember that at the time most horses weren’t being ridden, they were pulling carts or carriages, and they’re not exactly off-roaders either.

Fuel was definitely an issue, but you could just carry tins of fuel and the car wouldn’t mind carrying them. Carrying food and water for a horse is no joke, and horses also need to rest. You also don’t have to take the saddle and bridle off a car, wash the car and brush it down. Horses really are a lot of work, especially if you’re working them hard. Remember that work also comes at the end of a long day in the saddle, which is hard work for you, especially if you’re beating a trail at a trot.

Parking... I have no idea about the logistics of parking at that time, so I can’t say.
For contractors at my current place of employment, we don't get that much space.

Direct employees of the company get more space than that, but not us dirty, rotten, stinking contractors.
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They [the Chinese Communist Party] think suppression of local languages “pays off” in the form of political consolidation/control. Which it certainly does, at the expense of Chinese citizens and their regional cultures.

The Chinese government is by no means unique in this approach. Violent suppression of minority cultures has been a common occurrence in world history.
These are companies, whose sole purpose is to generate wealth for their shareholders.

For them, humans are a cost center. And cost centers exist for only one purpose -- to be squeezed out of existence.

So why do you think they would care about how the humans in the company are treated?
This article was hailed by Language Log as being mostly right in its scientific treatment of language[1], which is unfortunately pretty rare in journalism.

[1]: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=40379
For thousands of years, the majority of humanity would answer that question with a resounding "of course not." Even in antiquity, only a very small niche of people would say that it is cruel, and they lived in a very localized area, so that it's possibly reasonable to discount the amount of people who held this belief as not statistically significant. Today's deep thinkers are usually philosophical descendants of The Enlightenment Era so it's no surprise that they're eager to adopt unusual conclusions when it suits their mood, but consider this: why are we so quick to check realistic probabilities at the door when we come across logical questions that fascinate us?
It’s not a serious problem to work around, but it is another instance where the web architects designed all these different languages without thinking all that deeply about how they would work together. and so i need

.style[“background-color”]

.style.width=mywidth+”px”

and (sigh)

href=“/search?q=hello%20world&amp;another=query%20parameter”

the latter of which is, while it's the correct way to write html, is so stupid that most browsers silently error correct the less insane (but technically wrong) version

href=“/search?q=hello world&another=query parameter”
I utterly hate the cult of personality around him.

It makes any kind of discussion impossible.

Look at the person you relied to, his post is already grey.

The guy is kind of a wanker:

https://www.marieclaire.com/sex-love/a5380/millionaire-start...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/aug/29/elon-musk...

Everyone just give him a free pass which is bullshit.

Personally I think the guy is a narcissist given how much he loves attention. Like most narcissists he will shit on you if you get in his way, right and wrong be damned - something to keep in mind.
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The ghazal is a poetic form, not science. Not saying I agree with GP, but this isn't a rebuttal.
'A language is a dialect with an army'
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One might, on the other hand, wonder what might have happened if the Mongols hadn't been infected by Islamic schism and dynastic troubles and completed their push through into Mamluk Egypt. As pivotal as Ayn Jalut was, the groundwork for that failure was laid in the religious conversion of [1]Berke and the Golden Horde to Islam.

[1] Initially listed his brother Batu, rather than Berke, the first Muslim Khan.
One of the challenges of managing time series data is to be able to manage both reads and writes at scale concurrently. I wrote about some of the ways different TSDBs approach this issue (Disclosure, I work for a commercial time series database provider)

https://www.irondb.io/2018/08/tsdbs-at-scale-part-two/
> Tesla's short position as percent of float is very high, at almost 29%. GM, for example, is under 2%, and Ford around 3%.

Auto comparisons are worthwhile, but equally valid are comparisons to companies of a similar age, not just established stalwarts (for better or worse).
At least the KLM funnel into the same backend forced you to switch to a password a few months back.
I've personally gone through a lot of the django codebase. It's got a lot inside it, and is pretty easy to understand!!!

Bottle can be read from end to end, and one can understand how it works internally fairly quickly.
unless the face-based device joins us in our every day activities like the smartphone, it's not going to be directly useful to facebook

Isn’t that obvious / circular reasoning? It’s basically saying “unless people start using VR a lot and it becomes more than a niche, it won’t help Facebook.”
Plus you get the influence of colonial powers like France in North Africa. Tunisian for example is... challenging if you come at it from the perspective of something like Kuwaiti Arabic.
How do we know this is an illusion? Has anyone reproduced the illusion reliably?
I just took a new job and I think my coworker thinks this about me. Here's the thing though: I'm not sloppy, he just overcomplicated everything. Seriously, I'd have to be fucking telepathic to write a PR that passes whatever arbitrary level of ultra-complexity he'd expect.

Being "strict" in code reviews is not necessarily a good thing. It's great if you're strict with regard to stability and code standards, but it's not at all great when you reject everything because, "hey, this super specific module should be written because MAYBE ONE DAY in 20 years it could be maybe re-used, so you should make it ultra-generic and over complex."
Do you kill weeds or pick flowers? I can't fathom a stunted growth is somehow worse than killing a plant.
The RoC also promotes Mandarin, it's not unique to the PRC. Nearly every modern state promotes a national language.
Is mowing your lawn cruel?
My phone is spying on me, so I decided to spy on it
Do you have proof of the US government kidnapping people and forcing them to learn another language?

Edit: it was mentioned in a previous edit of parent comment
That's all well and good but rems only became broadly usable relatively recently, and I've had to make web pages a lot longer than that. And also fix webpages written well before that.
>Here's a bunch of global state, some of which is hidden in gigantic minified files, now edit it!

Well, there's your problem. I'd recommend reading about things like atomic css, BEM, OMACSS, etc.
Check out pgxn.org for Postgres extension distribution /package management.
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(4) you open everything and let the community keep old devices significant numbers of people still use current and secure.
Take away that nice gray wall. Take the space you have now in your cube with your desk, and cut that by a factor of four -- or maybe a factor of ten.

You're now sitting at a table, with someone sitting right next to you and their arms are literally inches away from yours), and you have someone sitting right next to you on the other side, just as close. You have someone sitting across from you, and you are constantly fighting for foot space underneath the table.

The table is just wide enough for your computer and your monitor, and you have no place to hang any paper or reference material. You do not have space for a second monitor. You don't have space for a pad of paper next to your keyboard. You don't even have space for your coffee cup where there isn't a high risk that it will get knocked over and spill all over the electronic devices you're using.

You have literally three feet width of table space, and maybe two feet depth. You've got a chair, and you can roll it back far enough to get into it and slide your legs under the table, but if you try to roll it back any further than that then you will hit your neighbor behind you.

That is an open office. Welcome to my world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_boarding_schoo...
Tesla has always thought of itself as an energy company. Electric cars were to bootstrap battery manufacturing capacity (typically low margin, made high margin by Tesla through selling luxury vehicles). Who would've given Tesla funds (through bonds) to build Gigafactory 1 with no proven demand for those cells produced?

It is why teslamotors.com is now tesla.com
Do you mean using tables, float/clear, flexbox, or grid? Or all of the above?
Most of these are nitpicks. Some are preferences that I would oppose.

CSS is inspired by the style sheets of yore, of typeset publications made by ink-smeared metal pressed into paper. A magazine or newspaper might have a "style sheet" that said things like, "Paragraphs shall be 10-point Caslon" and "all second-level headings shall be hanging headings, outdented 5 picas." Before web browsers got a hold of them, stylesheets had already entered the electronic world in desktop-publishing software like QuarkXPress and even Microsoft Word.

The problem they were trying to solve was, how do you update the look and feel your website easily? This was in the days when most websites were static HTML files, and updating all your articles meant changing a file for every page. The most famous and beautiful example of the power of Cascading Style Sheets is CSS Zen Garden. In 2003 Dave Shea provided an unstyled page of HTML, and then designers from around the world contributed stylesheets that transformed the page into wildly different designs (http://www.csszengarden.com/).
I do. It's CSS. There is a nifty feature display: grid. And also display: flex.
This just happens to be where pronouns clash with free speech, which I consider a sacred value.

You don't get to choose the words that other people speak. It's invasive and destructive to a person's integrity, and potentially dangerous to do even with good intentions.
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The Ship of Theseus thought experiment might further interest you. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
That's why I use CSS in JS :D. But we're just putting abstractions/stopgaps over a fundamentally flawed design. Not to mention, since everybody uses a different standard for isolation, CSS in JS is not compatible with BEM is not compatible with SASS, etc.
Seriously, check out Troy Hunt's Have I Been Pwned?

https://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites
> Without the Arab and Muslim scholarship much of Greek/Roman wisdom would be lost.

I've just been on a holiday in Venice and Florence, which made me question that standard wisdom, as I learnt more about Venice and Constantinople.

The most important effect of those texts, I guess, was the Italian Renaissance. Petrarch seems to have found his books by hunting through old piles in attics, and the Venetians got (looted?) theirs directly from the Byzantines. It isn't clear to me that the Arabs had a major role.

The Spanish got their classical books from the Moors. But what did they do with those books, and why does that matter?
I know at least three without using tricks like negative margins.