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Well I'm not downvoting you since 1) I can't, you responded to me; and 2) you're not being offtopic. And you're at least defending your position without memeing even if I disagree with it.

That being said, I'm glad you clarified because I figured the implication you were getting at is these are harmful vaccines. Am I correct in saying your grievance is a lack of evidence that they're helpful?
Have you read the insert? The first highlighted point may seem odd out of context, but the context is right in front of the highlighted section. It's not saying the vaccine is ineffective, it's saying it is for immunisation in people who currently do not have the flu. The lack of studies mentioned is in relation to its effectiveness in people who take the vaccine whilst already being infected with the flu.

Highlighting the lack of proven effectiveness in children is odd too, since the very same insert states it is not for use in under 18s. It makes perfect sense it hasn't been tested on children.

The Mercury part doesn't even say anything negative, simply that it is an ingredient. There are many things that we know are poisonous in some contexts/quantities, whilst being harmless in others.

Im not sure if you're being disengenious on purpose, or if you simply lack the reading comprehension.
Couldn't agree more. Jira, bitbucket, outlook, gmail and the list goes on and on. The really jarring redesigns are literally maddening and make me angry. They are so shitty. The other designs are basically the same design with more whitespace. Either way, the app doesn't benefit and at best, you're angering users. If I could stop using jira or Bitbucket, I would just for their shitty UIs. Things that used to be one click or two now take many clicks or are simply no longer doable. The UIs are not intuitive. The shitty designers never design things properly so when I have two windows side by side, they still put two or three menu bars on the left side, leaving no space for the actual content. The redesigns are shit and clearly, they are done too appeal to some dumb ass hipster aesthetic of the designers who clearly don't understand anything about user experience or usability. Just fucking stop before all your users leave.
I don't know how you programmed CL, since there is no "Run" button like in DrRacket (which simply evaluates everything and discards previous state) but if you did the equivalent of that, you were doing it wrong.

The way one should program Common Lisp, is through an environment like SLIME which lets you write code interactively and iteratively. DrRacket is very far away from that. In CL/SLIME, you usually evaluate everything you type in, immediately after you do so. Since you program inside a live environment, you can see this as continuously adding to a live process and molding it to your mental model. You build your program up from zero and all state is kept as you do so. There is no reload/wipe-previous-state/run cycle.

This way of engineering, when done over a short feedback loop, is supremely powerful. I can't stress this enough. Since you can evaluate expressions inside your editor, without any context switches [unlike Python, Ocaml, Haskell where there is a separate interpreter and one does not build his program up from scratch from inside the interpreter], evaluating things becomes second nature. So you do it all the time. Not to mention that the entire language is geared around this sort of development. The object system (CLOS) allows you to redefine pretty much everything at runtime. The debugger allows you to do the same. Errors (conditions) can have associated restarts that you can select interactively. You have inspectors that let you dig into the state of your process as it runs.

The short of errors you are describing are easy to catch and after becoming proficient working in this way, simply do not happen. The main issue that a lot of dabblers in Lisp run into is that they are not exposed to the Lisp Machine development paradigm and thus do not know how CL is different and how to take advantage of all that it offers.

If DrRacket -> Run was how I had to write Lisp code, I'd be quickly moving on to something else myself. Thankfully I can use SBCL / SLIME and recapture some (most?) of the magic of the Lisp Machines.
I really dont get why the west doesn't use a bidet.

Its really mind blowing to me that if someone smears a cake on your face, you wash it with soap, but use TP to clean feaces.

Why use so much paper and do so mich environmental damage, if you can just use water for a better cleansing outcome.
I think it was Michael Jordan who said he was at his physical best at 25 but 35 was when he was playing his best basketball. Though he declined physically, he made up for it with his knowledge of the game and experience.

Though at 55, you are not at your intellectual peak of the your 20s, you have gained knowledge and experience that can more than compensate for loss of brain power.

I like to think of it in terms of hardware and software. While the hardware may stagnate and decline, you can always update the software to get improved performance.
No. Why would I? I used it for a few years and hated it. We still have one or two internal apps that use it that we're to lazy to port to something better.

I used to be hip on NoSQL, but I've decided that Postgres is good enough 90% of the time, and I've never regretted using an SQL database at the outset, but I've usually regretted a NoSQL db, and this is with non relational data (test result blobs, no need to do any kind of relational queries, just dump and retrieve data).

I don't like CouchDB because the views are not intuitive and it takes a while to train a new team member on it, so I tend to just deal with it myself. Debugging reducers and whatnot is a pain, and I honestly don't see much benefit over a key/value use case of Postgres, which has the benefit of being familiar to most devs.

The cases where Couch DB is the "right" choice are just too niche to be a default choice for anything, and SQL databases can usually solve those problems reasonably well too.
Amazon isn't set out to fight and correct anti-vaxxers. (Some people do, and I admire their devotion, but it's not a fight I'd enjoy.) They just want to stem the flow of misinformation.

It's not the job of a fireman to make an arsonist see the error of his ways. We just want to put out the fire.
there's always been bad information but it was previously hard to disseminate NEW bad information quickly. It was incredibly expensive, slow and there were watchers, gatekeepers ... various religious authorities, newspaper editors etc. now the russian election manipulation cyber warfare division or your local anti-vax grifter can anonymously target a limitless number of impressionable rubes with the click of a mouse. often for free if the content's viral. thanks social media!
Because this works directly at the database level, it shouldn't need any "wiring in" to django itself, to use it with django.

I don't use django, but all that is required is for django to be able to initialize an empty database based on its model definition.

Then you can just use that initialized database independently as a target from which to generate migration scripts.
Did you try Krita?
> as if random Feds are strapping babies down against their will and pumping random fluids into them against their will.

That's not completely wrong. The kids in my mother's generation for example were force-vaccinated in school and a lot of them suffered through life-threatening kidney issues caused by said vaccine. This is certainly not the case right now, but I have heard of people advocating for mandatory vaccination in schools.
Newtonian mechanics still has overwhelming scientific consensus, because it satisfies Occam's razor for most practical physics problems.

No one bothers calculating v^2/c^2 to estimate the kinetic energy of a Tesla.
> You don't use Google maps because it looks nice, you use it because it tells you where to go to get good tacos. You don't use Facebook because the UI is nice, you use it to talk to your friends and share photos.

I actually don't use Google Maps -- because it's a crazy mess of buttons and menus that get in my way of trying to navigate. I actually don't use Facebook -- because it's a horrible dog's breakfast of inscrutable icons and I can't figure out its mental model to save my life. And there are many more sites/apps that frustrate me so much that I abandon them for better-designed choices, or even for nothing at all, because at least doing nothing doesn't make me angry.

This function-over-form attitude bugs the hell out of me. People (especially designers) who think that design doesn't really matter as long as the function is okay may not notice the mass of former users who simply throw up their hands and refuse to use their product at all.
Just wanted to say you guy have a great product. Kudos.
He’s a boss not a leader. Fear and intimidation is a great way to keep churn high so people will give up their stock :p
Don't people normally just use separate credit cards / bank accounts for business vs personal expenses?
Human gene editing is the future. Currently, we are scared that we don't know enough so everyone is against it. I hate the idea but at some point, we'll feel like we know enough and someone will feel like there's a "good" reason to do it. Once it starts it will be hard to stop since we'll try to fix unintended consequences in the same manner. And yes, there are always unintended consequences.

Also, given the human characteristic to separate into groups. I see a future where there will be human and transhuman communities. It's not out of the realm of possibilities that there will be human vs transhuman wars.
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I wonder if they inadvertently strengthened the conspiracy theory by doing it. Sometimes censorship has that perverse effect. I easily see someone hearing from their "friend" about how Amazon has removed the video because they know it's true, and how it just validates all the bullshit claims presented there.
When learning some Italian I was both dismayed and fascinated to discover that it was necessary to avoid every diminutive ("cute") and augmentative I could think of, because they all carry sexual innuendo.
What is the difference? Employees invest their time and careers into a company. For career growth, it is much better if your company is also growing. Grow or Die.
They may not be innovating, but advancing the state of the art is a gradual process, and can by itself eventually open up new opportunity. Google's lauded Portrait mode probably flat out wouldn't have worked on the phones of ten years ago due to lacking computational power, and the steady advancement of x86 has ushered in software worlds beyond an i486, including things like entirely new programming languages that would not work well on 100MHz & 4MB of memory.
In response to the insert you posted;

Have you read the insert? The first highlighted point may seem odd out of context, but the context is right in front of the highlighted section. It's not saying the vaccine is ineffective, it's saying it is for immunisation in people who currently do not have the flu. The lack of studies mentioned is in relation to its effectiveness in people who take the vaccine whilst already being infected with the flu.

Highlighting the lack of proven effectiveness in children is odd too, since the very same insert states it is not for use in under 18s. It makes perfect sense it hasn't been tested on children.

The Mercury part doesn't even say anything negative, simply that it is an ingredient. There are many things that we know are poisonous in some contexts/quantities, whilst being harmless in others.

Im not sure if you're being disengenious on purpose, or if you simply lack the reading comprehension.
An interesting argument I’ve had recently is if there is a downturn, would you buy stocks in the ipos that are over employed on the ipo or rightly employed? You look at Adyen for instance, and it doesn’t seem like there would be many people to cut fat from versus some other companies that seem to have a ridiculous amount of employees for where revenue is at pre ipo.
The one movie looks like it was 4.5 stars out of 5, with 3900 people rating it.

It has more reviews than the Matrix.
They need not decide the premise is false; they can rely on scientific consensus. It's not a perfect heuristic but it's the most useful one we have. If they're transparent about the sources they use and they're impartial and consistent in their application (read: no videos given special treatment), they're not arbitrating. They're (actively) reporting.
So you're saying: We don't know if its effective, because its really really hard. However, we should make it illegal to refuse.

Its bracing how anti-science you sound.
The canonical example of macro that is useful "in the wild" is embedding SQL in your code. See for example http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/practical-an-mp3-database.ht...

(Disclosure: I am just an occasional LISP dabbler)
Facebook does that intentionally, the more you spend scrolling through crap with the occasional thing you actually want to see the more time you'll be looking at advertisements. They don't make money by being more useful, they just make money from showing you ads.

Presumably the same reason for the recent reddit redesign, and snapchat's awful UI changes.
1. It depends on what you mean by censored. If by "censored" you mean a simple search, then yes, I agree. But as far as I can tell (and I'm fairly certain albeit with no way of verifying that I have better information about this than you do), VPNs are commonplace enough in China that this isn't a issue.

2. I don't have any numbers, and I doubt you do either.

In any case, your cute platitude of "you can't learn from history if you don't have the opportunity to learn the history in the first place" is incorrect in implying that Chinese people have no way to access this information and general in such a way that it suggests that you are indeed uninformed (or else you would never make such a sweeping statement). While my anecdote is indeed not representative of what happens at large, I believe strongly that I have better information about this than you do, and would bet everything I have that I've discussed this issue with more Chinese people affected by this than you have.

But I supposed this is a pointless argument (since you/I have no way of verifying any of this). I only ask that you think a little next time before irresponsibly spreading misinformation about a group of people that I suspect you've probably never meaningfully interacted with, as this particular post gives the impression that Chinese people are helpless enough in the face of censorship that they don't know their own history.

Again, my whole argument is predicated on the assumption that I have better information than you do based on my experiences, but if you have better information, please show me as I'm pretty curious about this myself.
As far as I know, no one is trying to force the flu vaccine. You have to get it every year and it is widely known to be potentially ineffective.

Measles vaccines on the other hand are considered about 97% effective.
dasm is the right tool for this. call me convinced.
What'd you use those 3 for?
Amazon is starting to ban some far right books. Sexual Utopia in Power is currently banned(it's on libgen) likely as a compete blacklist on it's publisher. The author had published a book on Kojeve for an academic publisher and the book has received positive feedback from many conservatives who have nothing to do with the far right. I see no reason whatsoever for it to be banned. It may be coming back because it's page is up and not completely deleted like many other books though it's still not up for sale.

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>I actually don't use Google Maps -- because it's a crazy mess of buttons and menus that get in my way of trying to navigate. I actually don't use Facebook -- because it's a horrible dog's breakfast of inscrutable icons and I can't figure out its mental model to save my life.

probably because of unnecessary redesigns.
I don't really care for the "fake news" label since it's so politically charged. But I would say a thing is a "fake fact" - a falsehood, to speak plainly - if it asserts a claim about the world which has no support from the scientific community (or worse, is actively disputed by the scientific community).

In other words if it's not grounded in empiricism it's a "fake fact."
In my experience, the turning point was between 2008 and 2011.

I was in late elementary school in 2008 (grade 8), and I don't know if any of my classmates had a cell phone. Yes, some people had Facebook, but I think it had a minimum age limit of 15 years (?), and stuff like Instagram did not exist. People still called each other on the telephone.

Fast forward 2–3 years into high school though, and everyone was on Facebook, probably half of my classmates had BlackBerries (BBM was all the rage), and some people had iPhones. A few kids had their own laptops that they brought to school, but schoolwork was entirely paper-based. (Heck, I didn't have home Internet access until after I graduated from high school, but I think I was in the minority there.) Using your phone during class resulted in it being taken away.

Now I look at my youngest siblings, and everything they do is online. They submit homework through Google Classroom while browsing Instagram on the sly (Facebook is for fudder dudders), and their phones are their lives. They don't call people, and txt spk lk this is rly populr again for some reason. And teachers encourage phone use during class for certain things.
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I mean... I get what you are saying, but you are going to have to offer an alternative. Preferrably one that isn't complete garbage.

What do you use over Google Maps and Facebook?

For Maps, I really don't know of any alternative. And I now make some mapbox-gl applications for the office. There just doesn't seem to be any real alternative.

For Facebook? I can actually almost completely unplug. That said, it is the easiest way to get pictures of the kids to family. I could setup a website, but I can't imagine it would be as easy or as effective. With the emphasis on effective.

edit:s/primarily/preferrably/
Changed the "sort of" link to this very thread. Let's get meta!
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Would I gain any benefit from Truffle by connecting my business account instead of my personal account? I already keep all my business expenses separated. Isn't that what other freelancers typically do?
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To be clear: The best vaccines have about 85% efficacy rating. Most have a 35-60% efficacy rating. Some (like pictured insert) are basically unknown.

The idea we should be compelled by law to forcibly take vaccines, and moreover that we shouldn't even be able discuss their efficacy is so anti-science I'm not sure how to respond.
I see your point regarding the word "stuff." Mostly I phrase it like that because I'm trying to empathize with (and represent) the anti-vaxxer view. They don't view vaccines as medicine, they view it as poison or at least potentially harmful. They are also not often well informed regarding it's contents, so to them it is just "stuff" that someone who they don't trust says is good for them.

"Forcibly inject" tho is metaphorical but accurate. Many of the people here are advocating the mandating of (i.e. forcing) people to vaccinate their kids.
Can you be more specific? Which vaccines caused the problem, for example? What years?

I got my shots in the early 1970's and I don't remember there being any problems, fears, etc.

As far as I can tell, this all started about 10-15 years ago when the general public started jumping on the Internet in large numbers.
There is no such thing as YouTube customer support. At best they send you to an Indian or Filipino call center that just wastes your time.
The fascinating legal conundrum facing Banksy
English orthography is great for Middle English. Not so hot for the various modern Englishes.
> I'm told GoT has outrun the novels by now so they're in the same mess as everyone else

Not exactly, I don't think; from what I understand GRRM has provided outlines that go beyond where the novels, so while there is more to flesh out (even before changes made for the TV medium), they aren't flying as blind as a show that's working completely season to season.
Despite my negative comment in another top level post, I actually resonate really well with this. I just got the "try the new twitter" icon. It immediately made me groan. Amusingly, if they hadn't asked, I probably wouldn't have really noticed.

Which is kind of the point. If you notice the modernization of something under you, it will annoy you. We have grown to not trust things that change. To the point that the appearance of stability is actually hugely important.
It feels to have millenial burnout