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> Brain injury can also obliterate memory abilities.

I think any kind of shock/adventure can mess with memories. I was in a nasty car accident about half a decade ago. I escaped virtually un-hurt (just some bruises and bumps all over). I can only remember flashes from before and after the accident.

None of us in the car can recall what actually happened (even the driver!). One moment we were cruising smoothly at about 100km/h and the next moment I'm crawling out through the windscreen, because the car is upturned and the passenger window is crushed closed.

None of us had anything more severe than a few bumps and a couple of scratches in my palm from the broken glass. But none of us can clearly remember how it happened, how I called for help on my phone, how we were taken to the hospital.
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Anytime I've been to a WeWork, I have never seen much work being done.

Common themes I've seen are, some hipster Instagram'ing their overpriced avo and toast, a bunch of cute dogs running around mad distracting everyone, people browsing social media and someone messing around with the Sonos music player, setting the song to Rihanna's "Work" on repeat.

The WeWork camps look fun, if not a bit cultish.

caveat: these observations are from what I've seen in the shared spaces, I realise there are private offices and spaces where people will be working hard.
I find it hard to describe even 130% of average pay of $90k as "looting", on a website where most software developers wouldn't get out of bed for that kind of money.

I also find it very interesting that the 130% number on that wikipedia page comes from the only reference which is a youtube video by one "John Tapogna", who appears to be from a thinktank.

A different view: https://www.oregonafscme.org/?zone=/unionactive/view_article...

"the average PERS benefit to a retiree is $29,720 per year, or about $2,476 per month, which is a modest income, but it is being seeing as the problem. In the mean time, Comcast owes $170 million of unpaid taxes, Intel's off-shore profits were $26.9 billion, and "non-profit" hospitals made $1 billion in profits in 2015 - yes, you read it right, non-profits made a profit. " (I wonder why this more plausible number is so different to the Tapogna one?)
Our taxes work the same way, but HECS repayments don't work the same way as tax. When you hit the threshold, you pay the percentage on your entire income, not just the income over the threshold. There are also multiple thresholds, so when you hit $57,730 you go from paying 2% of your total income to 4% of your total income. Personally, I've turned down overtime due to being just below one of the thresholds.

The repayment scheme is stupid.
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If I were an investor in your company I would be very alarmed that you were wasting your time and mental energy on this. The goal of that 2-3M investment is presumably to be used in growing your business to produce a 10x+ return - that is 1000.00%+. Not running some bizarre risk free hedge fund where you are trying to squeak out an extra 0.10%. If you really think this is the highest ROI use of your time, effort, and energy, it would be better to liquidate the company and return remaining funds to investors.
The US as a ban on banks to do business with Iran. This also affect bank that are not US-based but do business with US (see [1]).
The banks are free to do business with Iran, but they will then get ban from doing business in the US.

The GDPR is exactly the same. EU says that you have to comply with the GDPR if you process EU-citizen data. So company have the same choice: Comply with the EU GDPR or don't do business with the EU. I don't think it happen yet, and I think that the framework for this is not even ready yet, but nothing would prevent EU from banning your service in the EU if you don't want to comply with the EU GDPR.

I honestly don't understand why there is such an outcry about it. It always worked like this: you want to do business with a country, you apply the law of the country. Internet is not a magical international space with no regulation.

You can argue that this kind of laws, that is a form of protectionism in a way, is bad. But it has been this way for a very long time and GDPR is absolutely not the first time such a law was put in place.

Just another example, if you are a US citizen creating a bank account in the EU, the bank (even if it is a EU bank), will have to declare it to US authorities (apparently due to your tax system that also apply if you are resident abroad).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_sanctions_agains...
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You don't have to delete everything. In case of ranking lists, it would sufficient to tombstone the data; replace the name with "[deleted account]" and link it to a page that explains the account data was requested to be deleted.

GDPR Deletion Requests only cover data for which's processing you either used consent, used the legitimate interest clause or is part of a protected category (sexuality, religion, etc.). Some parts of "legitimate interest" that continue to be legitimate interest (like for example, billing information for tax and fraud prevention) you may continue to keep it around as well.
Yup, epidemiology of non-smoker lung cancer is an active area of research. (Epidemiology of smoker lung cancer is not; it's very well established.) I haven't seen this old article, but it sounds perfectly right; the quoted result is probably due to diagnostic criteria.

Lung cancer in never smokers (2009) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3170525/ shows the field in confusion. Radon, indoor air pollution, second-hand smoking are named as possible sources, but it's still not satisfactory.
I really like the idea behind this. It's a bit like PostgREST, except with tht, if you want custom SQL, you need to make views or stored procedures. With SQLer you write the scripts on your application server, which has all the usual pros and cons of having code live on the appserver vs in the database. I think most people prefer the code in the appserver, which theoretically would make SQLer the better choice at least from that perspective.

I sorely miss a comment about security authentication, however. How are sessions done? Cookies? Etc?

More fundamentally, I find myself really liking many things that are inspired by CGI. I think that when we moved from CGI to monolithic application servers two decades ago, despite all the good reasons to do so, we threw a lot of babies out with the bathwater. There's an elegance to the "http request? just run some code" model that only very recently got popular again with AWS Lambda and the likes.
I can confirm that my 15 year old daughter and her group of friends got into it because of Stranger things. Now have regular sessions with obligatory pizza. I'm rather jealous.
I'd be glad if you'd be a bit more charitable in your reading of my points. You are speaking with someone who has litigated and published substantial material in the specific area you're attempting to lecture me in. My point isn't very complicated, but it doesn't seem like you're trying to understand it. You're trying to define it away, and it doesn't make sense to do so if you actually know the fields of law intimately.

The terms you're discussing do not originate in the US and the principles which have been (repeatedly) pointed at as the core subject of discussion do not first arise there either. Nor are they exclusive used there, nor are the problems they remedy exclusively addressed or present there. This is comparative law as applied between fields of similar construction. I'm shocked that the point is so difficult to digest; this is one of the key techniques used in the analysis of legal systems.

Unfortunately, this was not supposed to be a massive string of posts about the portability of principle. If it was, I'd have started with the actual roots of the principles we're discussing, which (and this is a very simplistic summary) attained quasi-modern forms in the 1600s, in the context of war over rulemaking authority in England, and was developed further into the fully modern form in civilian systems. So no, there's nothing misleading - this is actually the more fulsome understanding. This is a common issue with barristers - the law, to them, only seems to extend to what they believe they can use in a factum.

I just think the full story is key in sorting through the jargon to show what 1A is actually trying to do, but it seems we've spent all our time nitpicking jargon instead of examining the intent and purpose of the rules. So clearly I wasn't too effective! Unfortunately, this is my last post on the subject, since we're well off productive ground, but if we cross paths again, I hope we can have a more productive discussion. I love speaking with colleagues here.

I'll end with a nice little note by former CJC Beverley McLachlin on the aims of admin law as it developed in Canada - maybe the parallels will be illustrative:
"The goal was to ensure that administrative tribunals operated within the principles that define the rule of law. Not arbitrarily. Not capriciously. Not unreasonably. Fairly and in accordance with the law."
While I take your point that there is always some uncertainty involved sometimes it is just not that productive to reinforce doubt... otherwise we would never move forward.

Look at climate change... are we 100% certain? Of course not but there is overwhelming evidence that is just prudent to act even for the faint possibility of being wrong.

Same here... logic (how could be creating a living thing to slaughter it and eat it be more effecient than processing and eating the feed itself? That would mean raising an animal with all its (unnecessary) complexity was more efficient than our focused industrial processes...) and evidence (e.g., scientific studies and calculations) very much point to the direction that production of meat alternatives would be much more environmentally friendly (at scale).

I don’t think this is so much about “true believers” but there is simply a lot of evidence pointing in the direction that this is really something that could improve the world in many dimensions.

But you are certainly right that like any other pursuit this should be done dillegiently and with care. If you have specific criticism of some evidence that should be discussed... However, there is no need to be overly sceptic and lay bricks on the road if there is no credible evidence pointing in that direction (In this case baseline skepticism doesn’t seem to hold up against the available evidence at this point). Change will be difficult and reinforcing doubt might delay the development and roll out of viable products at high costs to environment and animals.
It hasn't happened to me. I started coding in 1982; I'm still doing it. In the meantime I've started four startups (none of which succeeded - I'm a much better geek than I am a businessman - and done a couple of management jobs. But I find I still prefer writing code (and designing systems) to anything else, and I don't at all enjoy being responsible for seeing that there's enough money in the bank to pay other people's wages, so these days I'm just a contract programmer.
The question is: Are you breaking the Swedish law while targeting Swedish people?

For isntance: Germany has laws around limiting usage of Nazi symbolism. If you create a web page glorifying Nazis and their symbols this is illegal under German law. If you run such a site targeting Americans no German state attorney or Court will take the case (exceptions exist for stupidity or ego or power play reasons) however if you host a page in the U.S. aiming at German Nazis that way (for example by commenting on German politics and German language) they will try to go after you. (Which might not lead far, as the site is probably protected by US freedom of speech, thus US authorities won't assist, but you might want to avoid travelling to Germany and countries which might cooperate with Germany)

P.S. I don't want to imply that you have any such plans for such a site, but it's a specific example working fully virtual
> It's a real business pain that we don't have these kind of informations about gig workers and would pay top dollars to have them...

Why not permanently employ them? Should be cheaper in the long run.
The sad thing is that most instances of cancer and heart disease are down to diet and lifestyle. We already have the "cure" to these conditions, but people won't take care of themselves.
It's not critical but having a bcrypt function which doesn't take in the cost parameter feels like bad practice for the future.
You've cherry-picked one sentence out of the whole document. And even that sentence mentions US dollar strength.

Right before your quote they use the words VAST MAJORITY to describe China's impact. And it's not just one section, it's stated at the top of the release in the summary, along with supply constraints, as the reason for the revised estimate.

My point is that almost every other comment here was confirmation bias about things hnews readers think are important. They're not important. They're worthy of a throwaway sentence in an earnings estimate at best. It's obnoxious.
It is rare to find something too good to be true that is, indeed, true. I don't know why this amuses me so much.
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Just 5 years ago you were 21. Consider for a moment how your attitude and emotional intelligence was back then. Think back 10 years when you were 16.

It is likely the case that you've come so far and a lot has changed in your life in just a relatively short amount of time. Now, move forward 5 or 10 years and imagine the same amount of change.

What I'm trying to say is... it is perfectly normal to change your interests.
This doesn't imply GA, sending data to a third party (and one of the worst offenders with respect to privacy at that). The same can be achieved solely by first party means. It's just not that convenient.
Yeah - access to education needs to improve.

Especially as technology means a lot of lectures could be given online with just needing to sit exams, do labs (for certain subjects) etc.

Honestly Corbyn's idea of the National Education Service (i.e. access to education from cradle to grave) would easily win my vote if it wasn't for his Brexit support...
My impression is that second-hand smoking is considered insufficient to explain epidemiology of non-smoker lung cancer; see my other comments.
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+1 on this.

Critical Role is the perfect storm of
* great friends just playing a home game on stream
* who are excellent voice actors (they have Overwatch, Last of Us, Spider-Man, Horizon ++++ credits)
* who aren't afraid of improv
and who GET D&D
I see...but I don't have any addons installed (because I generally don't use Firefox these days).
His argument is a common expression, not meant to be translated literally to whatever your first language is. It means don't take a tylenol for the pain - take an antibiotic to kill the bacteria causing the pain. maybe you don't get basic medicine either. I can't explain this to you. You need to go back to r/poland so you don't have to translate.
Vision. It's the difference between inventing a new future and iterating on the past.
It's also applied project management, as in hard to hide the fact that some component of the dish is not yet ready when everyone did show up at the table already.
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. - Arthur Conan Doyle
> I've been diagnosed with all kinds of stuff, including schizophrenia, OCD, depression, etc. (The docs aren't even sure themselves what I have)

This sounds all wrong to me, and obviously will be very stressful for you. You need to find a good hospital / doctor and get yourself diagnosed right. And only then can you consider the right treatment for what ails you (I know this must be obvious to you, but I want to emphasise it).

Depending on what you suffer from, life long medications might not even be required (though will be helpful during therapy). For example, depression and OCD can be successfully treated with therapy.

While I am averse to recommending self-help without knowing what you suffer from, I highly recommend that you read "Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy" by Dr. David Burns ( https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0380810336/ref=dbs_a_def_r... ). The author is a real doctor and a trained Psychiatrist and explains how cognitive therapy can be effectively used to treat depressions and anxiety. And he also explains how anti-depressants works technically (you can skip that chapter if you find it too technical). It is well written and everything is explained in an easy to understand manner.
If you're asking for my opinion residential real estate should be publicly owned, like hospitals, transport infrastructure, (public) schools/universities, etc.

Or at the very least the land under it should never be sold, only leased from the state.
None. The idea of abusing adderall to code is simply laughable as a professional.
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Thanks for the links! Of those, the only one I can find dealing with development speed in Lisp vs other languages is http://www.flownet.com/gat/papers/lisp-java.pdf and that study is flawed due to the self-selection of test subjects. Given 50 years of http://wiki.c2.com/?SmugLispWeenie the amount of empirical results is very low.
I couldn't have expressed it any better. This is it for me, it kills it for me when "coding isn't seen as anything but a chore that needs to be done towards the business goal. A necessary annoyance, where the real purpose is something that doesn't require coding. And that really kills the enjoyment for a lot of devs".

I began feeling that way at my previous job and left about 2 months ago. Now I am in my new job at a startup going through hypergrowth and I feel like development and solutioning is so intertwined and we go back to the drawing board so often and the dynamics of so fluid that I get to feel a more obvious sense of purpose.
I call that 'NPR style' and it's literary cancer.
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Have lived all over the US, "wee" is most definitely used.
I don't think decision implies hostility. It's possible and maybe even healthier to take a Marie Kondo / Ariana Grande approach to things like this. Thank Warcraft for the good times, but now you're moving on.
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I read it as meaning the English Parliament were an influencer of their European counterparts.
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No, we can barely convince people to take prescribed drug; we don't have effective intervention to change diet and lifestyle. If we had effective intervention to change people's diet, that would qualify as "cure" and would be a great boon; we don't.
L oeil Noir! Surprised to know it still lives on. Is the scene very active?
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permissions are not a problem, you can specify exactly down to a cell what permissions a user has (read/write/delete).
The problem is D.O.S., One can write a query that takes down any database without having access to any tables/data.
> You can see they knew this by the lobbying effort that Uber did to even get where they did so they could ignore laws without immediate consequence.

In the US that worked (simply because US politicians can be bought off via Super PACs etc, which is absurd in itself), but in other markets (esp. Europe) they got quite a beating from regulatory agencies.
Red's author here. The answer to your question is, I think, that it is just not ready for prime-time yet:

* Language and runtime library are at version 0.6.4, so still alpha stage.

* Lack of support for mobile and web platforms (Android support is coming this year).

* Documentation is largely incomplete, still relying on Rebol docs for core parts.

* Community is very active, but still tiny, it needs to grow much bigger.
WeeWork largely catered to the digital portion of the gig economy(freelancers etc), which was largely over estimated.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-estimates-of-the-gig-econom...
yes, because the document is from Europe for a device created in California. A European document is going to be in metric. That is what the OP was pointing out - that the document is European. The US document, the original one with the specs, would be in inches. I would recommend looking up the acronym ECMA.
This whole article is great, but the first 2 paragraphs really resonated with me: http://www.loper-os.org/#selection-29.0-44.0

Here's an excerpt:

Sadly, the above scenario is more truth than fiction – for computer enthusiasts. There is a particularly cruel discrepancy between what a creative child imagines the trade of a programmer to be like and what it actually is. When you are a teenager, alone with a (programmable) computer, the universe is alive with infinite possibilities. You are a god. Master of all you survey. Then you go to school, major in “Computer Science,” graduate – and off to the salt mines with you, where you will stitch silk purses out of sow’s ears in some braindead language, building on the braindead systems created by your predecessors, for the rest of your working life. There will be little room for serious, deep creativity. You will be constrained by the will of your master (whether the proverbial “pointy-haired boss,” or lemming-hordes of fickle startup customers) and by the limitations of the many poorly-designed systems you will use once you no longer have an unconstrained choice of task and medium. To my knowledge, no child grows up “playing doctor” and still believes as a teenager (or even as a college student) that an actual medical practice resembles that activity. Likewise, no one has a fully functional toy legal system to play with as a child, and as a result goes into law. On the other hand, “adult” programming, seen from afar, is enough like child-programming to set the computer-enthusiast child up for just this kind of exceptionally cruel bait-and-switch.
Sure, another thing to consider is fallout incorporated into tobacco and then smoked...

But do you see why I didn't care if a correlation existed? There are a bunch of ways to explain such a correlation. That line of reasoning was based on the affirming the consequent fallacy[1]:

If

H: Nuclear tests are a significant factor in lung cancer rate

Then

O: We should still see a correlation between lung cancer incidence and nuclear test frequency [in non-smokers]

We can't conclude "O is true, therefore H" (since there are a million potential reasons for O besides H), so we don't learn anything from it. Now if O had been some very specific prediction unlikely to arise from other hypotheses, I would care.

In terms of Bayes' Rule, I only care if p( O|H[0] ) dominates all the other possibilities (H[1:n]) in the denominator. The mere existence of a positive correlation isn't specific enough for me to care:

p( H[0]|O ) = p( H[0] )*p( O|H[0] )/sum( p( H[0:n] )*p( O|H[0:n] ) )

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirming_the_consequent
Thanks for the reply. In fact I have been considering moving into product management as it feels like a more stronger fit. However, I am scared if this is the right choice or if I might regret leaving coding.

I could always code as a hobby I guess.
I was wondering - do you tell your blind friend what he/she rolls or how do you deal with dice?
I just published version 1.0.2 of the book. Some readers spotted typos and bad grammar and submitted pull requests (kudos are in the changelog). You can download it from Leanpub. Happy reading!