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HBO has some big-ticket items, but Netflix is more consistent in dropping new series for me to try. It's still my go-to place for content since there's more than I have time to watch. I just looked up their list of original content[1] for refresh my mind, and quite a few were extremely good in my opinion.

- House of Cards: I only got a little into the second season before I got busy, but what I saw was high quality and interesting.

- Orange is the new Black: My wife still loves this series

- Stranger Things: An honest to god phenomenon. The second season was weaker IMO, but I'm not sure how it could be as good as the first. That's a high bar to hit.

- The Crown: I caught a lot of it as my wife watched. Pretty good, even if a blond Doctor Who was somewhat distracting.

- A Series of Unfortunate Events: The kids liked this, as some of them are going through the books.

- Altered Carbon: Refreshingly good science fiction. Main character casting a little odd, since it's more obvious now than it was when I was younger how odd and slightly off-putting it is to cast someone with the physique of Arnold Schwarzenegger as a science fiction lead. At the same time, it's now fitting (or a trope) because of all the science fiction he helmed in the 1990's.

- Lost in Space: Interesting, but ultimately spoiled slightly by the contrived plot. Better writing and this would have been extremely good rather than worth watching, but slightly disappointing.

- The Haunting: A nice interweaving of stories, and creepy series. I liked the ending. I have friends who didn't.

That's just from the drama section of the list. There's plenty in the other sections too, such as Maniac and Russian Dolls which I watched recently that were good, and documentary section has a bunch of good things I've seen as well. Some of he Marvel series' were pretty good too (season one of Jessica Jones was excellent on so many levels).

That's a small fraction of what they released. Looking at the list now, there's no way I would cancel Netflix before Hulu, and probably HBO also. There's things I want to watch on those (for different reasons), but now that I examine it, it's clear that I use and value what Netflix is giving me way more than the other two.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_original_programs_dist...
This was based on the SELECT trial data, which means that it could just as easily be measuring the effects of a very large and prolonged dose of 400 IU of alpha-tocopherol as it is omega-3. Greater than 12x RDA.

Moreover, it's been many years since this was published. If prostate cancer-promoting effects were so plainly an obvious effect of marine omega-3 supplementation, you'd expect to have seen it abundantly replicated by now.
> We've seen most of what interests us.

What about all the original content?
What about the packaging or matetial of the pill itself that contains the supplements? And any additives in the process? The processed stuff usually has higher risks. I wonder if any studies have been done on what contains the drugs which they also consume.
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Let me give an alternative view of this epidemiological study.

"Those more interested in their health (motivated to take supplements or eat a high omega-3 diet) more likely to be diagnosed by their doctor with common health issues"
I think the old guard media has misstepped on this, not for ideological reasons but for clicks. More banal certainly, but somehow worse, I think. Even the conservative media continued to talk about it, railing against, because it drives clicks.

What we really need, and hopefully comes from this reckoning, is a new model of financing journalism that can be free to act in the public interest, and is built with that in its DNA.

Unfortunately, ideas on what's in the public interest are so vastly separated, I wonder if such a thing even makes sense to hope for.
> And both saying because the other one is sharing private data....

No, they aren't. Shopify is saying that Mailchimp isn't sharing data Shopify insists be shared, Mailchimp says sharing that data is not acceptable, because it's private.
Brexit is bad for me personally, but I'm sure that respecting results of a political procedures (referenda, elections) is exactly what should be done in a democracy, because not sticking to rules of the game is a direct way to destroy trust, and incentive to vote. "Diminishing support" is what often happens to very freshly elected MPs, governments, or presidents, and it doesn't cancel electoral outcomes.
Yes, that's right I don't use Tor. I could actually run Alpine but Tails has everything I need and it's clearly designed with privacy and security in mind (e.g. Tails is reproducibily built). Actually I have wifi card and hard drive removed and the state is kept only on 3 SD cards.
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Surely life in a tent or on the street is far more dangerous than life in shoddy but formal housing, like the complex the protagonists of this story were living in before it was condemned for being unsafe.

Of course such a moral quandary shouldn't be necessary: allow and subsidize the cheapest possible permanent and safe housing everywhere.
Google “digital nomad” if you haven’t already. You can likely find a remote tech or support job.
> A relatively small number of people are able to generate a relatively large amount of profit; this is the nature of the software industry.

This makes sense, but does it explain the issues?

You mentioned yourself that people working in software are a "relatively small number of people". Can they have such a big impact on everyone else?
It would cost billions to test the various drugs that you mentioned.
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I saw this youtube, there is this vegan fruitarian named shawn. He feels like crap, he fasts and as soon as he starts eating, he feels like crap again.
Some foods are bad for us, we just don't know it, because we're reacting to something all the time. Auto immune diseases, depression, adhd... I find it weird how no one connects that to the gut. And kids drink sugar packed energy drinks every day, ruining their livers...
Or we don’t and the rich suddenly notice that dollar notes can’t provide nourishment and don’t do laundry.
The article is realistic, there is no major issue in recommending flaxseed.

> Flaxseed oil will give your diet a nice little omega-3 boost in the form of alpha-linolenic acid. You might try adding some to your salad dressing. But it's a backup, not a substitute, for the omega-3s in fish and fish oil because of the conversion factor.

The real issue is: are you deficient in Omega-3 oils? Here's how much ALA you need (which is what Flaxseed has) https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Omega3FattyAcids-Consumer/...
says you
Right, people are talking about what's spiritually natural. Talking about what's biologically natural is just missing the point.

Also, why do you feel the Christian sacred texts doesn't really condemn homosexuality? I feel you have to do a lot of extra-textual analysis and theory-crafting to reach that perspective, so it's no surprise that Christians in general don't buy that idea.
I wonder if a subscription fee for hardware would appeal to businesses.
Mine is also (Aether - https://getaether.net). I’ve also gotten comments reflecting on this same thing. I love Go. It is boring: it makes sure that I focus on doing interesting things, not on writing interesting code.
Actually all private keys are stored in there and copied to hardware tokens when needed. No software private key is ever used in my scheme. Having backups of private subkeys is not that important with signing subkeys but is critically important with encryption subkeys.

If you've got more questions I'm happy to answer.
...did you even read the article? The study found a link between blood concentration of omega-3 fatty acids and prostate cancer. The issue is with omega-3s in general, not that particular form of supplement.

The article also states that there is little evidence for any benefits from similar supplements.

I think that if the risks associated with pollutants in fish oil capsules were significant enough to affect the results, they would have been mentioned in the study.
Shopify payments was the sole reason I didn't use it for an industrial equipment e-store. Markups are low as it is, Shopify payments takes an extra .25% interchange, getting vendor and payment locked is just a high risk venture.
> The service will focus on original content, including TV shows and movies from producers such as Damien Chazelle, M. Night Shyamalan, and Oprah.

Makes one wonder if they will show a teaser for the Asimov's Foundation show.
Alpha-linolenic acid (ALA), the main type of fat in flaxseed oil also seems to increase prostate cancer risk:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15051847
It could be, $10 a month for news, from a variety of source is a great deal. Back in the real world: There simply isn't going to be sufficient demand. People who will pay $10 per month already pay more for a source they picked.

What possible content can they put in there to attract people that already have newspaper subscriptions?
Most of the long, grindy AAA games are on Windows only, so really, not much worries there.

I have yet to see a game listed in the App Store that wasn't also on Steam, so I'm not worried about that either.

Apple may be good at many things, but games is not one of them. There's not enough bang for your buck on the Mac platform when it comes to gaming and you can't easily and cheaply mix-n-match your hardware like you can with Windows.

I love Mac for everything else, but if I going to seriously game, I will buy a Windows box and use it for that only (well, and running Linux in a VM - for reasons).
Joining a platform may be beneficial only on a short-term. And it is usually bad for the entire group of people/professionals that are involved. For example, by joining the App store you are supporting the platform, but through strength/growth of the platform you are creating a pressure for other developers to also join that platform. But in the end, you are stuck with 30% tax on your work, plus a market-regulator that you may not agree with and that can even become your competitor. And you are likely to become the helpless subject of stories like in this post.

Therefore, yes, joining a platform can be beneficial. But it can be seen as a greedy, selfish action; and in the long run a very costly mistake.
Yeah, like owing "blood rent" to the descendants of proprietary works that pass their copyrighted material to their offspring. Or land rights, or special social privilege. Or the answer keys for professional and entrance examinations. Or classified data. Suddenly you have to have your genome sequenced to walk through the airport and documented status is conferred by blood.

I'm not being a luddite here on purpose, but over long time scales there's a tremendous potential for this kind of technology to push towards a kind of class differentiated society in the way most of us would despise.

Some technologies are leveling, like roads or mass transit or vaccines or industrially produced consumables. I don't see public institutions putting libraries in the seeds of apple trees as a civilizational fail safe, whether that's centrally planned economies or democracies. But maybe you could get an ethnostate like Israel to include the talmud in your cells or your microbiome when you settle on occupied land. Best case scenario with body horror is that it becomes like tattoos. I await the forthcoming Atwood book with that slightly alarmist slant.
They have no incentive to keep themselves honest.

I have worked on a music streaming service for a while and our iOS app was a big pain. We often had months long gaps where we were unable to get an update published.

The good thing about Google being this unfocused is that they are unable to do even think about doing the same and favor Play Music or whatever they are calling it now .. again, they are not strong on focus.

I kinda hope that at some point publishing an app will be considered an utility so it can't be so easily gamed by the platform owner.
Do you have any link or description of such a mask?
In the modern era, what is the legitimate reason for gerrymandering? Seems so outrageous that it still exists.
No, you are incorrect. It might cost billions to develop them from scratch, but those are already sunk costs. Additional testing and trials do not cost nearly so much. In fact, while they may cost more in some circumstances, the average is only $19 million [0]

That means that even testing the half dozen or so anticonvulsants known to have neuroprotective benefits it would cost in the range of $100 million.

But for the sake of argument, let's grant your premise anyway and see where it leads. Let's say it costs billions, even $20 billion to do the trials. The annual cost of Alzheimers may top $250 billion. So the cost/benefit analysis still works out either way. In fact, in that context the potential savings make the difference between $100 million and $20 billion pretty negligible if the drugs could normalize even a few years for the average patient that would otherwise be plagued with dementia.

[0] https://www.outsourcing-pharma.com/Article/2018/09/26/Clinic...
You have a problem with your counting. Each location can be in one of four possible states:

T-A

A-T

G-C

C-G

That location, using 2 base's, encodes 4 possible values, i.e. 2 bits. I.e. 1 bit per base.
Any blog or forum needs administration

I'm not sure why are you stating this like some sort of undisputable truth.
agreed, and the headline talks about "link" because such a refined thinking doesn't fit in a headline.
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I always said the university made some sort of mistake when they gave me a math teachers masters and, let's face it, that was decades ago.

But still. This article has an inconsistency that doesn't require any particularly high level of math understanding.

> world’s entertainment market — encompassing both theatrical and home releases — grew to a new high in 2018: $96.8 billion

repeat:

> consumers spent $96.8 billion on entertainment around the world.

compare to:

> cable subscriptions still rake in the most money, increasing in 2018 by $6.2 billion to $118 billion

Erm, what?

And I checked the original PDF, the same sort of headscratcher is in there: apparently people spent more on cable subscription than on entertainment which is obviously (?) impossible.
The information is right in the article you posted. I never used the word 'default'.
The bridge seems a terrible investment, regardless of who pays for it, but these terms are terrible:

"Under the terms of the contract, an arbitration court in China would have jurisdiction in the event of any legal dispute. CRBC won commitments that all imported construction materials, equipment and other goods be exempt from customs and value-added tax. Chinese workers were given 70 percent of the work."

Thr Chinese government issues a loan then disputes are handled by a body whose independence is highly questionable.
Don't let your imagination run wild. Most child abuse is nonviolent, usually committed by family or acquaintances of the child.
Participants were selected by having a cancer. Have you read the article? it's about growth rate.
On the other hand there no way that I'd cancel my subscription to The Economists paper edition for a digital only solution.

I suppose I'm not the target audience for Apple. Reading the news is something I do away from digital device. It helps me practise focusing and it helps me to relax.
Yes, magnetic flux induces a current in metal. It does not have to be ferrous.

Drop a magnet down through a copper or aluminum tube for a demonstration of the effect. (The induced current creates a magnetic field that opposes the magnet, slowing the fall.)
You can’t run in a movie theatre and yell fire. There are limits, the internet does not remove the need for basic human decency.
Transactions fees don't destroy the economics of supply and demand.
And do you think shells aren't pressed when the flax seeds are for oil extraction?
I don't know. Maybe. A quick Google search yielded no studies asking that question. Or was your question rhetorical?
The function is not associative.
I think, however, general understanding that homosexuality is something a person is 'born with' -- had huge impact on policies and public debate around legalizing homosexual marriages.

Being born with it, rather than a choice -- meant that unfair treatment of homosexuals was morally equivalent to race/ethnic origin based prosecutions.

Therefore, civil rights accomplishments, and modern legal framework resulting from those -- would apply to homosexuals.

If 'being born with' would not have been recognized as scientific truth, then homosexual marriages would likely be treated the same as consenting adult polygamists.

I think this is one of reasons why non-binary people having hard time being recognized in same policy/morality structures as homosexual people.

> Ultimately, homosexuality in humans is fine not because it's natural, but because we should, by default, let consenting adults do what they want together.
What's wrong with money
When they geographically cluster in sufficient numbers to out-compete everyone else for a limited housing supply, they certainly can. And it looks like they have.
with the exception of scope-based resourcing, that basically describes Go.
I agree completely. If a director was meeting the company goals and running either a harsh or caring organization - well, at the higher levels of the organization nobody really cared as long as things worked. We would put up with lawsuits, employee complaints, and customer complaints all day if the business was going in the right direction. We spent insane amounts on lawsuits in exchange for getting non-disclosures signed. Like I said before - Oracle didn't grow to its size by being stupid.
(I should add that I didn't like the environment. When Larry offered me control of a big organization I left. I was tired of the horrible values and what I would be expected to do. I walked away from a transition to an Executive position to go back to simple technical work. No regrets.)
Care to elaborate and point to
specific policies? Are you referring to safe injection sites or something else?
The $96.8 billion is just talking about movies, and the cable subscription total is just for sub fees.
I think the part about pollutant free shouldn't be overlooked. Some labels claim they have removed harmful things like mercury from their fishoil supplements. Eating fish and shellfish in large quantities eould certainly increase your exposure to that and other contaminants.
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I think the tech world's use of the word "commodity" is interesting. "becoming a commodity" really means "fail to establish a monopoly".
Almost all the low-income rentals, esp trailers, down here in Mid-South have predatory or apathetic landlords. The rent is already high for what they offer, there's surprise fee's/fines for petty stuff, people dont get their deposit back for stuff that was already there, renters cant afford lawsuits, and we're told how bad evictions are on our credit report.

Almost every bad operator I knew from over a decade ago is still in business with bigger lots than before. So, this is a factor.
I think they're talking about spiritual aberration, and not merely what's biologically common for humans. By natural people mean a perspective rightness, as opposed to merely some notion of statistical frequency.
Funny how an announcement looks different depending on the slope of your income. Apple reaching new markets vs apple « reinventing itself » is a complete different story. Apple makes great devices and can leverage that to conquer service subscription, but I don’t think anyone has been impressed by apple online services or technologies on their own merits...
I’m only focusing on the fact that a nation that prints its own money can end up printing too much and devaluing it. And when a country shows its printing presses are controlled by people who have no clue what they’re doing, people tend to stop buying their bonds.

I don’t really care whether it’s truly borrowing when a country sells bonds and promises to pay the bondholders back with interest. As long as the country feels it has an obligation to pay those bondholders, it has a temptation to pay them with devalued currency. Most countries don’t do that because they expect few people will buy bonds the next time the government wants to sell some.
What’s the problem with someone of sound mind (i.e. not due to mental illness or addiction) living on the streets by choice? The only issues I have are that sanitation is a problem, and the places we force them into are not safe for them, or for non-homeless people, for that matter.

Would you criminalize someone who’s eternally “backpacking through Europe,” metaphorically speaking?

No one should be forced to live on the streets in a country that has a large multiple of vacant homes per homeless person, but if someone makes a voluntary choice to do so, why stop them, as long as it doesn’t harm public safety? Broadly speaking, you’re allowed to do stupid things in the US, as long as it doesn’t hurt anyone.
That's my opinion have a special needs brother. I'm down on the side that these are mostly subtle developmental disorders. Both structural and in neural 'presets'. The latter I think explains kids with specific deficits that disappear over time.
mu = mu + (x - mu) / (i+1)

This is more natural when written in C:

mu += (x - mu) / (i+1)
But mindcrime's top-level comment told me what to do (risk my life to help others), and the story made me imagine a situation when I could do that.

Just to be clear, I'm not trying to be prescriptive here. I don't mean to tell you to go out and look for a chance to die young by risking your life. And even among trained emergency responders, there's a constant need to remind people in training to not develop "hero complex" and wind up risking yourself needlessly. Even firefighters do have situations where they opt for "discretion as the better part of valor."

All I intend to say is that those people who, when presented with an emergency situation, elect to put themselves in harms way for the sake of others, earn - in my mind - a certain measure of nobility and special esteem. But I don't want to encourage people to put themselves in danger when they really aren't prepared / equipped to help. I know that seems like a subtle distinction, but I'd encourage everyone to keep it in mind.

A heroic death may be noble, but it's still a death. And every death is a tragedy for someone. Wives, husbands, sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, friends, etc. may feel terrific pride in such an event, but they'll also feel terrible pain.