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Would you feel even remotely the same if the treatment was not vaccination, but let's say you already had the measles. A bad case.

The odds would be 99%+ that you would get better on your own (essentially nobody stays depressed, after all), BUT the process of getting better would involve 2 weeks nausea, painful pimples all over, and of course generally feeling very bad. You would need to be locked up during that time to prevent spread of the disease. In < 1% of cases it would feed back onto itself, and those weeks would repeat, progressively getting worse.

The treatment is amputation, say of a foot (because ECT does permanent cognitive damage). And, even though they can give you something to prevent you from remembering the pain or the process afterwards, they can't actually sedate you. This has a decent chance of making you better in a shorter time "without" (visible) pain/issues. They may need to redo it several times, taking off some more every time. Let's say they start with a few toes, but progressively they'll take off more, and you can reasonably expect to lose at least all your toes, with your entire foot being a possibility. Of course, there's also odds you'll lose your foot, but remain ill. (there is widespread disagreement on what those odds are, so let's leave it at "not zero, and not very small either, so >10%, but not 90% like some claim either"). And there's a tiny chance you die.

Would you still feel as positive about the treatment ? What if your parents got threatened while making this decision with having you taken away by social services and having this imposed on you ? (with some small odds of you never getting returned to them, ever)

The ethical issue is more complex than you present it. You conveniently leave out that it mutilates the patient, just not visibly. You leave out that there's extreme pain involved, and they can't sedate you (that would defeat the treatment, because the point is that the brain learns to associate absolutely extreme pain and stress with "the problem"), but they can give you the date rape drug (yes, really). You won't remember. You'll still be mutilated though. Cognitive impairment. You won't remember how it happened. Usually you won't, that is. There may be some lingering trauma, and PTSD. So there's a 10% chance (it's pretty high for ECT) that you'll have extreme (fear or violent) reactions to things you associate with the treatment room.

> I'm a little surprised at the lack of deference to her husband.

Really ? What do you think about the "doctor thinking of his career" explanation ? Can you at least agree it's pretty consistent, that some doctors might think like that ?

As in, can you at least agree that giving psychiatrists that option at all presents a "moral hazard" ?
When I got an Apple Watch I quickly learned that for me the hardest ring to close was to stand up at least once in the hour for 12 hours in the day. Now it has become habit, but it's something I never really noticed since I went to the gym every day and am generally healthy.
I don't think so... Generally all of the Dell's have an extended warranty and, so far, most of the damage has been covered under that. Where I work there is also an insurance policy to cover laptop damage, they are currently in talks with the insurance company to get the damage covered.

I think that in the end my co-worker will be refunded the money. I don't think they will be left with the bill.
> Is this a new thing? I thought that was possible in Python already.

Yes and no: the syntax was used in documentation (that's the "argument clinic" mentioned in the article) and Python functions defined in C were able to define positional-only parameters, but it's a new thing for Python code: before 3.8, it's not possible to define positional-only parameters in pure Python[0], with it the "argument clinic" syntax becomes actual Python syntax (rather than pseudo-python).

[0] well you can use *args and a bunch of hand-rolled assertions
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"It's always day 1" philosophy is very different at Facebook.
The government is mostly likely to be inefficient if it starts a company by committee and competition is prohibited. If it's just a financial backer for an independent entity, with a lot of strings attached to its support, I don't see why that would be any less efficient than any other business. Perhaps we just need to reexamine how the government gets things done...
A study is not really required to confirm that wooden constructions contain and retain their carbon. Even over many hundreds of years the wood in Tudor houses is chemically stable (without preservatives - as long as it has correct ventilation)

Studies may look into possible mistakes or optimizations that could be made, but the basic material reality is evidenced in plain sight.
I bet restless feet help a lot in preventing this, too.
The word 'angiosperm' here is a key to understand the idea. This is not the tallest tree alive, but is the tallest flower bearing tree registered alive. At least for some time. They should have discussed it extensively before to make the announcement.

I bet that a drone could do the measuring job also.
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As a climber who saw OSHA warning sheets about this, I had the same question and found several major differences.

1. This is almost exclusive to sustained free hangs. Bouncing against a wall or otherwise working your thigh muscles circulates blood with minimal effort, so standard climbing circumstances raise the safe time - potentially by hours. (Notably, Alpine climbing guides and specifically Alpine rescue guides do cover this syndrome in case someone falls and hangs while awaiting aid.)

2. OSHA-style harnesses are over-the-shoulder devices anchored between the shoulderblades. Many don't even have waistbands, just leg and armpit straps. That's useful for unpredictable falls, but it's the worst possible configuration for suspension trauma. Your legs hang straight down and the straps pull up at the edge of your groin, cutting off blood flow. Even hanging free, the climbing harness posture (elevated legs, pressure on hamstrings) is much safer.

3. Safety harnesses are mostly cheap and ill-fitting because you're not expected to hang in them; they're the same unpadded straps you get on the worst climbing gym rental harnesses. The time to initial risk apparently varies a lot with harness fit and padding, so comfy climbing gear is also much safer.

The ad below has a good visualization of the difference; it's from a company selling OSHA-compatible harnesses which pull you into a climber-like sitting position for exactly this reason.

https://www.rocorescue.com/ALL%20BLOG%20IMAGES/FreedomHarnes...
You know who should determine if prosecution has basis to pursue? The courts, not the prosecution.

Mueller and his team attempting to be neutral, in this case, plays into Trump and the GOPs side and thus the outcome becomes partisan, despite the intention.
This is the stuff I think about when I find myself in an overly tight airline seat.
> But is a small chance of dying from eating toxic bacteria worth it?

The parent is probably talking about food that's not more than a few days past expiry, since they worked in a grocery store. The risk from not following a mostly-arbitrary date is not much higher if properly stored than say, eating improperly-stored food.

A student died eating pasta stored at room temperature for five days: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6638715/20-year-old...

Things might have turned out differently if it was stored in the fridge.
It was supposed to be a warning, not an guide book!
Thanks so much enobrev, that’s really heart warming. ;) I use a bit of Linux myself these days via WSL (and digital ocean droplets running .net core). I feel strangely at home on Linux in a way I can’t really articulate. Perhaps in a past life I was a file descriptor.
> My co-worker ended up shelling out ~$1000 out of pocket as they needed to get work done and they had very real feelings of guilt.

Ouch! Really? What kind of company wouldn't pay for this repair? And isn't this some sort of legal issue? The laptop doesn't belong to your co-worker so they can't really authorize repair of it. Just a weird situation, that.
Or inverting the two halves of the AT power connector
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Last time I went skydiving I experienced something like this. I was doing a pair jump and you do it in a harness that’s attached to the skydiver with the parachute. When the chute opens you slide down/into the harness and it compresses around your thighs. The first time I jumped, the instructor told me to step on his feet so he could put some slack in the harness, but this time the instructor didn’t do that, so for the whole time between opening the chute and landing I was stuck motionless in the tight harness. I almost passed out, it was pretty scary.
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Hemp is regulated as an agricultural commodity by the USDA. My company based in Oregon is licensed by the Oregon Department of Agriculture. Whereas in cannabis legal states, cannabis is regulated by something mirroring alcohol/tobacco, hemp is very different.
Hm - do you have a master's degree yourself? I've seen lots of people (here and elsewhere) who suggest that a bachelor's degree also doesn't indicate skill and is also therefore useless. It seems as if everybody assumes that whatever level of education they themselves have attained is the cutoff for "usefulness" and any level beyond that is just a waste of time.
That the prevalence of a chronic illness increases with age is completely unsurprising. The fact that depression is (incorrectly) thought to be the opposite of happiness is a coincidence. I'm not sure that people get happier with age, but I am sure that depression statistics cannot disprove it (within reasonable bounds. Obviously it would if it turned out everyone over 40 were clinically depressed.)
> So it's not state owned but might be state controlled

What's the difference?
You can get one of these for really cheap... I use them to type in other languages

https://m.aliexpress.com/s/item/32774074005.html
So just 4 hours with a new battery? For light usage, the minimum is 8 hours. (Even my first-gen Macbook got that much, 12-13 years ago.)
Hopefully IMDB, Metacritic, Spotify, Amazon, and app stores will also empower users to make their own evaluations unencumbered by mob mentality by removing all metrics from public view.
absolutely -- that's the 'finding common experiences' part of social skills I was referring to. If two people went to different schools but were both on the fencing team you can leverage that in the same way you can leverage that you went to the same alma mater.
Everything about what the top comment said seems like Fastly marketing propaganda.

7% increase in sales? With what sample size? With what confidence? How did you isolate variables?

For reference, I work at a company with $110M in annual sales. We were planning to start using Fastly. For obvious reasons, we wanted to know how much of a net positive that would be for the business. So we wanted to A/B test it. For us, at least, it's not as straight forward as it would seem.
You are right that successful business people are on the whole pretty intelligent. This isn’t always true of investors as individuals, but investment management tends to be reasonable smart too; some very much so.

I think FOMO is a real part of the cycle that causes a lot of bets to be made on untried technologies. Technologists might well reflect on how many of those bets are hedges, and what the true cost of failures are.

It’s also worth noting that a significant chunk of the most egregious bullshit I see flung around in the area is coming from technologist driven startups in the space...
I’m in no way defending Apple’s keyboards and there are some real issues with tiny bits of dust completely ruining a keyboard, but normal laptops have always been susceptible to even a little liquid damage.

But if your coworker couldn’t just go to his manager, tell them what happened and the company paid for it, that says more about the company.
And worse, they cause problems in some APIs e.g. defining / overriding MutableMapping.update(), it should take a single optional positional-only parameter and any number of keyword arguments, currently this requires using *args and hand-rolled assertions, otherwise you can get kwarg conflicts and other such issues.
Poorer women and men from poorer countries have forever traveled to rich lands in search of partners and opportunities.

The "left behind" (say the surplus of men in Vietnam, far greater than in China, in any case) are obviously unhappy about the situation and blaming "China" or "America" is an easy scapegoat, but the issues are less foreign and more domestic and economic.

It's always easier to blame foreigners, but looking within the country and taking responsibility is the only way to better the situation of its inhabitants. When emotive issues like sex and marriage are involved people understandably get confused and forget that.

A great positive for China is the equality of gender opportunity has created the situation where many hard working, intelligent women choose a career, business or personal focus over relationships.

And a female-heavy workforce is actually a boon for national security, and more men able to work more hours a boon for the economy. It's those other countries, those with many young and angry youth, but without the strong economies to put them to work, and easily angered by issues such as blaming foreign states, that are more security risks for creating war.
I always said that one of these things would probably make you one of the richest (or powerful) persons on the planet:

- Practical nuclear fusion (that outputs more power that it takes to run)
- Superconductivity at room temperature
- Artificial general intelligence
- Practical high-density energy storage
I had that happen to my 2012 MBP.

Ordered replacement top case with keyboard assembly off ebay.

Took a very long day to take it all apart, transfer to new top, and reassemble.

Worked first time.

A few months later random keys would glitch.

I use it like a desktop when I need to now.
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I bought the 2018 MacBook Pro shortly after its release and I'm pleased with my purchase. I don't really like the keyboard, but I spend the vast majority of my time at a desk with an external keyboard and mouse anyway. My laptop is basically a desktop that I lug to and from work everyday. USB-C has been great for me because it means that I can have 1 hub that handles power, my external monitor, network, and all of my other peripherals. I tell people it's like having a docking station that works 100% of the time.

I don't like the keyboard because I find that I accidentally repeat keystrokes on it a lot. Maybe I just need more practice or lighter fingers. I also have to admit that I don't like to eat around it for fear of spilling crumbs on the keyboard. I've always been pretty tidy around my laptops, but I've never been this worried. It's not a deal breaker for me (obviously), but I hope they fix the keyboard's issues in the next version.
Recently traded my corporate 2015 MBP 13 for a 2017 non-touchbar MBP 13. In short - it's terrible. The keyboard is extremely loud and I personally don't like the tactile feel. Battery life seems worse than my 2015 model. Bluetooth is sketchy, and it seems to take very little load before the fan ramps up for takeoff. Combine that with only 2 USB-C ports, so I need to carry port replicators and converters for travel.

Anecdotally, I know of at least 3 people on my team that have had keyboard issues with this model, generally in the first year of deployment.

I'm not a Mac fan in general, I use Android phones and run Linux at home. I chose the MBP in lieu of an even worse Windows experience. I really think my employer is trying to influence us all to BYOD. As my role requires software that is not supported on Linux, I'm stuck choosing between two undesirable options, but right now I'm leaning towards buying a Dell and dealing with Windows as the Mac hardware is just infuriating.
What I would be more interested in is how such a tower of interpreters behaves. Does the undefined/underspecified behaviour add up until it's impossible to tell what a program will do? Does it remain more of less functional?
Microsoft also has Lync (now renamed to Skype for Business in what must be one of the worst naming decisions since Javascript). Then there is Teams, of course.
I’m not sure this aligns exactly with what you’re saying but it reminded me of a bit of wisdom I received from someone a fair bit older than myself who seemed quite relaxed, happy, had just bought a house in my small hometown to turn into a B&B—generally pleased with life and a pleasure to talk to.

Me, being quite younger than I am now, and seeing most accomplishments in life as being quite uphill from where I was, asked:
“Does it ever get any easier?”

She said, “No, but it gets a lot better”
> I see it it is an un-designed un-principled heap of low-quality software

why would anyone attempt to have a reasonable discussion with you when you lead with such a misinformed "opinion"
...or a greasemonkey script.

I'm definitely not installing an extension just for this.
> Is it possible those people running multi-billion-dollar organizations just know something you don’t, or have a perspective that you don’t?

While it is possible, I'm kind of tired of hearing people defending the strong and powerful. And I'm kind of tired of hearing the perspective of CEOs. It's pretty much all we hear in fact.

People 'running multi-billion-dollar organizations' are like the greek gods to us: capricious, arbitrary, and powerful, but also subject to the same flaws as normal people.

However, they do have one great privilege: that of being completely above the effects of their actions.

They don't need people to defend them. The whole damn system is designed to adulate them. We 'pray' to these people very day without realizing it.
Well said. Job creation is not the hard part. Eliminating jobs is. Every time a job becomes automated, the workers eventually find other industries/professions to work in, boost aggregate productivity in those other sectors, and thus end up creating more wealth for society as a whole.

https://outlookzen.com/2019/01/05/prosperity-comes-from-elim...
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We are just splitting hairs here. In an authoritarian state with no real "rule of law" (yes there are laws but the party is more powerful than the law and power is completely concentrated in the hands of a few, possibly just one), what does it even mean to not be "state controlled"? Everything in China is controllable by the state. China has never had "rule of law". It's always been a very precocious state when it was able to centralize power since the Qin dynasty. Its rulers has never had to divest that power nor implement any sort of real rule of law. Laws in China serve the state, not the other way around (contrast that with Western liberal democracies). This stems from Qin's Legalist origins and every dynasty since then has inherited that basic idea even while they dressed it up with Confucian ethics. I'm not saying if it is right or wrong but I think some of us who grew up in Western liberal democracies can't even fathom any other systems that may exist and still function well* (depends on your objectives).
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Note that you don't have to use `/` to do this, you can use Path.joinpath or call Path/PurePath with multiple path segments.
Wait. What? 147 paying customers? I was personally one of those customers, paying like $100 a month, mostly just as a test. They really only added 147 paying customers? How many of them were just paying $100 a month for the base price?
I simultaneously admire modernist architecture while desiring to never live or work in it. It's pretty to look at it, but it is literally and figuratively hollow.
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They developed these on a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-10. It's not like they were editing/compiling on the C64. Of course targeting small systems does influence the coding style, but...
I have significant doubts on cost savings with either moving to the cloud or moving to an MSP. I've already commented a bit on the cost hike of moving to the cloud. I think there's a lot of benefits to MSPs (disclosure: I work for one) in terms of access to a larger resource base of IT professionals at the drop of a hat, but if you want a good MSP and a high quality of service, you are probably not saving money compared to hiring, since at the end of the day, you are still paying for the amount of employee time to solve the issues that crop up in your organization plus all of the management staff and profit margin of hiring an outside business.
I'm only saying what I saw during the hype bubble. People were looking for a reason to use blockchain (or just be able to say blockchain in relation to their company) rather than letting the problem drive the technology choice. This behaviour suddenly disappeared when the bubble burst. There is lots of smart money in VC and the dumb money follows it. Mostly it seems to be from laziness and herd mentality rather than actually being stupid. If you invest a little in everything you're bound to pick a winner. The ratio is skewed way out past 1 in 10 in this scenario.

> It would be much more interesting and productive to discuss what they see in AI and why they feel so much urgency, rather than dismissing them as fools falling for magic.

I can answer that question without asking. People can see the potential to do more work with less people and make truckloads of cash. Everyone is scared of being the stupid one and be left holding their dick whilst everyone else gets rich. When you have cash to spend it's a small risk to take.
Don't forget a radar bug ID which you can't see but any bug you file gets closed as a duplicate of it.
What do you think about this article?Is it useful or I need to read more on another source?
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I have the same thing happening with a Maxtor usb stick. When I plug it into my 2017 MBP (via a usb-c to usb-a dongle), wifi connectivity will drop to what feels like an unreliable 1200 baud connection.

Apparently, it is an issue due to the metal unibody. It took me way longer than I care to admit to figure out the usb stick was causing the problem. :-(

Fun fact: try gently swiping your finger over the unibody while charging, and then without charging. You'll feel something like a vibration in the former case.

I prefer quality plastic.
This is very much TIMTOWTDI. Larry Wall would be proud.
But still Bitcoin has a lot of inflation due to speculators... I would trust more a criptocurrency that is used to buy/sell something "tangible" like Filecoin that is used to buy/sell storage.
No you should be grateful I made it here. Click that little up arrow to show it, and if you want a bug report, go make it yourself.

They're more likely to see it fast here, than in one of the 40000 feedbacks per day. Even more likely if you show your appreciation.
macOS is a BSD system. I think that was the point
Well, from those 3 a teleporter would probably have some economical use, the other 2 not so much.

Besides, "probably impossible" seems to be a large overrating of our knowledge of superconductivity.