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I also use a multivitamin from time to time, but I get some crappy multivitamins from adv formula slimfast, rainbow-lite and both contain fake vitamins (like ascorbic acid). I try to get most of my vitamins from food.

My BP is under control though I would love to stop using BP drugs. In fact, I would like to see legislation around the use of them, i.e., doctors must within 180 days, find the root causes of the abnormal BP and within 360 days, have the person on a program to fix it. BP drugs are bad news and put people at grave risk (as the body fights the effect) which means if you stop taking them, your body fighting the ffect triggers a rebound. It's happened to me twice when the pharmacy was screwing around with my prescription.

Magnesium is 100mg, 3 times a day. It is chelated and bound to a couple amino acids. K2 MK4, 100mcg twice a day. K2 MK7 100mcg twice a day.

The only lab work I've had done was testing for the usual things, cholesterol, triglycerides, checking for h.pylori, etc... I don't think they even do a ldl lipoprotein spectrum graph.
As it stands the price you pay for a ride in an uber is unfairly low. Driving it even lower would be irresponsible.
> The first few years of an ICE vehicle might be very similar to an EV, but that changes drastically as a car ages

If the average age of all cars on the road is 12 years, where's the data for 12 year old EVs?
That is a remarkable story. Curious, did you ever find out what it was in eating specifically paper/fabric that helped you? And how did you discover this?
Another mystery for me is why, if the backing actually existed, did Tether refuse to have that verified through independent auditing? I can think of a couple of reasons why not, but one of them is that it was not actually unencumbered, and another is that it might be inconvenient down the road for it to have been clearly established that, at one point, Tether really did have the cash.
Of course, I'm not arguing its difficult or there are any barriers, I know its easy. However, I literally can't convince a single person beyond my sister to open up a high interest savings account. People just don't want to be bothered.

Me? I currently have fifteen (15) bank accounts. Chasing those sign up bonuses.
> Isn't the risk of accidentally suffocating the baby quite high when co-sleeping?

No, it's on average quite low, but notably higher than not cosleeping, and the consequences are severe so many people generally prefer (and the medical community generally recommends) to avoid the risk, at least as a regular practice.

IIRC, there is some reason to believe that the on average risk is misleadingly high for many concrete cases, though, because it seems like there are other factors without which the risk does not increase [EDIT: nearly as much as the on-average increase would suggest] (and with which the risk increase is much higher than the on-average increase), but I forget the details.
Small slack teams are easily horizontally scalable; for a small team, the web server, the app server, and the db could probably run on a single EC2 instance, and AWS offers some rather large instance sizes.

Lets start there, though. 70k stand-alone (paid!) slack teams means 70k stand-alone systems. How do you operate, well, all of them, simultaneously? With one mammoth central database, there's one database to upgrade; if it goes down, there's one database to fix. With 70k small databases there's 70,000 problems! With 70,000 systems, how do your engineers deploy code, and how many times per day can they do it (it had better be well into the double digits)? How do you roll them back? What do you do if an upgrade goes wrong? With 70k different apps, one small problem quickly becomes 70k small problems, which is harder to manage than 1. Some things can (and I'm sure are) scaled horizontally but the isolation that grants you does not come for free.

And then, what about past that? Looking at the customers listed on Slack.com, they serve some larger enterprises, who are going to need the "expensive" level of scaling. No database is going to be able to scale to that level without team to manage it (no matter the technology), so then you need a queue as well as a db, plus a team to manage each of those, and then how do you do searching/indexing. You also can't ever take a single database node offline, so then it's a database cluster, with hot spares, and also large enterprises operate globally so then their slack team system needs to run multi-region hot as well, and then and then and then? I've got Slack open all the time on both my (work) phone and my (work) laptop as do the majority of my coworkers, which means their webservers have heavier requirements compared to Lyft, which I use for a few minutes whenever I take a ride.

Slack usage will hit a lull outside of business hours, so you'd want it to scale resources that serve that - I'll bet a non-insignificant portion of the $4M/month probably goes to resources that are only used during the business day - so in some sense, Slack is paying AWS a premium to not pay them for unneeded resources at 3:30 AM.

Slack's optimized their app for development cost (much to my laptop's sadness), it doesn't seem that far fetched that slack has also done some optimization of server side costs. future money isn't worth as much as money today is, and this fact is reflected in AWS RI offerings.
Self-driving cars are already here (Phoenix, Arizona). That and falling electric car prices will be the key advantage.

Uber won’t be the one to benefit though, as the other companies at the cutting edge are too savvy to let them (Waymo, Tesla). It is very hard to get right and I think will give those companies an advantage for years.
Why are health apps not promoted by healthcare professionals?
Except that Amazon didn't have remotely close to the level of losses that Uber has. The year Amazon went public, they lost $30 million. Uber is losing a billion a quarter.
If you're self-employed (e.g. contractor) can set up a SEP-IRA and do "employer" contributions in addition to the regular "employee" IRA contribution.

Another option is a "solo" 401k account but there's more paperwork involved.
Absolutely. A surprising number of small businesses locally still advertise in the Yellow Pages and have neither a web nor a social media presence.
> one fun exercise is debugging an Azure Function (their serverless lambdas) locally and seamless inside Visual Studio on your machine. Magical).

I read this initially as a red flag as it looks like they are coupling Azure with Windows/VS development. A better indication of how serious they are in creating an open platform would be how magical the experience is for people not using MS blessed tools.
> how is this supposed to create wealth for anybody except the shareholders who got in early with cheap valuations?

Spoiler alert: It's not.

The primary goal of a VC-backup startup is a positive return to its VC backers. Everything else is a necessary evil to attain that primary goal.
The fact that it has happened before?
Very inspiring
> This marketing company got credit for helping elect someone to the most powerful position on the planet, and somehow that worked out REALLY poorly for the marketer. Who would've thought?

Blaming Facebook is a way of the media class and voters obsolving themselves of their part in the original sin of electing Trump.

It's a convenient fiction that Facebook swung the election, and it's one that if the Democrats have any aspirations of winning in 2020, they would do well to acknowledge.

I'm no fan of Facebook either. But however much Facebook is fined, that sin can't be purged. It's the voters that elected him, and the media that ensured that Trump was the story for much of 2016.
Bar it from creating free filing software. Free e-filing pf fillable forms already exists, and would continue to exist.

Not that this makes such a measure palatable.
Is this article a joke? Shanghai is the opposite of a well-planned city that evolved in a positive direction.

> Shanghai has provided one of the world’s largest and most rapidly growing urban populations with a quality of life and a breadth of infrastructure unmatched by any other megalopolis. It has done so in less than three decades.

Quality of life is absolutely awful in Shanghai, where is the blue sky? where is the clean air? Traffic jams happen all the time.

And apart from the subway system that is indeed extensive, having lived in Shanghai in 2003 and then having come back in 2009, I would argue that Shanghai was a much better place back then in term of quality of life. Less pollution, less cars, more bicycles, more of those lane houses that encouraged a stronger sense of community between residents. It was a lovely city back then.

Of course, with money, things have improved, but I'd argue that Shanghai would have been better off with much better planned development. As it is, I don't think random thoughtless urban development would have created anything much worse than what it is now.
>AI doesn't change what computers do, if affects only how it's done.

Except AI is very much changing how things are done as well as what computers do. Image recognition, natural language processing, self piloted vehicles, these are all novel applications for machines which carry significant real world risks to life and property.

Moreover, AI in it's current state is a complex black box with unpredictable outputs for given inputs, which may be chaotic - see, for example, adversarial attacks. If we want a better handle on, say, regularizing outputs in a predictable way, or at least a clearer window into the occluded complexity of neural network decision making, a whole new field may very well be warranted. There's a reason we are calling these program outputs behaviors now; it's a new type of loosely -deterministic computing until we develop a deeper understanding which will not be trivial.
Grid Cartographer is great.
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But they take a percentage of transaction, and the "freelancers" do pay a monthly fee, I believe... Admittedly I just googled "Freelancers.com business model" and found a Quora answer, so I don't know how accurate it is. But that makes it sound very not-free.
Most likely due to opportunity cost. Your resources and effort would be better spent elsewhere.
Why is uncontrolled growth better? Seems like it most often leads to waste. In the real estate context this manifests as ugly, unlivable spaces which become derelict as soon as the frenzy passes.
Article has loads of interesting details, including the purchase and theft (well, piracy) of US military technology by China. This little paragraph is a good summary:

"In short, the Chinese government was literally funding a business that it co-owned along with the sons of two of America’s most powerful decision makers."
One of the problems is the pure mechanics of how SMTP works: anyone can send an email with any "from" address, and filtering on people/domains in the "from" field is basically pointless if you want to catch spam.

What Google is likely doing is checking the domain of the originating IP in the SMTP "envelope", but that also gets tricky with outsourced email services or internal IPs.

I do not use Gmail, so these are just wild guesses, but I do run my own mail server and frequently get my email not showing up for people.

Problem with SMTP bounces is that it may take a week for the final bounce to show up in my inbox (because again, that's how SMTP protocol is designed, to expect nodes to be down and retry a number of times).
If you feel nothing in your pecs you might have your hands too close together. Hand separation generally selects from a gradient of tricep vs chest for me.
I completely agree, would be interesting to see if a Qt GUI can be made with this as the underlying engine.
I'm not sure about the future profitability of this space, but I think you're disregarding a few key points.

1. The innovation was less the app and more solving supply problems. No app will be able to change that for the taxi business.

2. Competitive advantage in this space is having more drivers and less wait time. That drives folks to use one provider over another. The lock in isn't the tech, but the availability of rides.

You're right that the lock in or network effect in the ride sharing space is very different than other big tech cos (FB, Netflix, AMZN etc) in that they're localized, and should result in more competition.

The bet investors are making is that the market will shake out with one category leader, a runner up and virtually no competition beyond that. Should be interesting to watch.
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I don't think Microsoft would buy Slack given the money they've dumped into developing and promoting Teams. Seems they're too far gone at this point.

Disclosure: Work at MSFT, not on Teams.
“Coal” plants burn carbon, making carbon dioxide. It’s colorless and pretty much harmless, excepting it’s inpact as a GHG.

However, coal contains (depending on the source), mercury, sulfur, radioactive elements, tars, rare earth elements.

Some of these are volatile when burned. Some become ash.

A plant running anthracite is naturally very clean.

The plant has to have scrubbers to remove the volatile ones.

Especially the yellow smoke (likely sulfur)

However, a one time emission of sulfur is likely insignificant.

Finally you mentioned it could be natural gas. Natural gas, mostly methane, is also colorless except it releases water vapor. Given the right conditions, you might see plumes of white smoke coming out - that’s harmless water vapor.
It’s done because private industry in most circumstances, does it better than government can, and at the end of the day it can be significantly cheaper and less of a boondoggle than if government did it all themselves as government likes to do.

Think of the professional experience, supply chain, and logistics for each industry where you could theoretically involve government to control or produce on it’s own.

The error of rolling everything possible under the sun into a government department, like sign laying, is you get a sign placer sitting around making a unionized $60k-$90k/year (for a $35k-$40k/year actual job), with a massive retirement pension that you will continue to pay for forever, a huge tax bill to cover the storage of all of these signs that the government has sitting around on a dirt lot somewhere, because they have zero incentive to rent them out and make money on them while not in use, and crumbling infastructure when the entire cost of the government does all attitude sucks the tax base and economy dry.

United Rentals, as a private company, has a vested interest in running their company efficiently, renting out a maximimum share of their inventory for the most profit, and their profit derived from this is not immoral behavior because it saves all of us money at the end of the day and employs a lot of people along the way. This is one more thing we won’t have to worry about the government screwing up as tax payers.

Now, let’s say a senator wrote a convoluted law that made it so only United Rentals can supply signs for government projects, cost be damned. That’s a more valid argument for moving it under government control if there is corruption and rent seeking behavior going on.
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Is it easy for new entrants though? And is there competition?
It probably goes the other way: the responsible company's legal team determined they can't avoid liability any more, so they get some favorable studies to mitigate the consequences/reduce the size of the potential class action.
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> You're not implying that if people just abstained from sex they wouldn't need the HPV vaccination? That's a judgement about people having pre-marital sex, is it not?

No, because I said nothing about pre-marital anything. There is still a risk, even in marriage, though people who take only one sexual partner are less likely to contract such diseases. That's not a judgement, as I am not saying whether anything is right or wrong, it is simply a fact.

> And your stance that it's "less important" is based on the idea that simply abstaining from sex prevents all HPV exposure, correct? That is not a science-based conclusion. HPV can be transmitted outside of sex by walking barefoot across a bathroom floor.

Correct. You are correct about some varieties, none of which are currently known to cause caner.

> But if you want a morality-driven argument it is IMHO undeniably imperative to vaccinate the general public against disease including cancer causing disease regardless of the mode of transmission of said disease and that imperative and benefits outweigh any counter argument that simply abstaining from a given behavior lowers that risk.

Again, I didn't say that it was necessarily bad, I was pointing out that it was less important than MMR or other such vaccinations, an assertion by which I stand.

> If I can find the citation for the article I mentioned (I did Google for it but couldn't find it the first time) I'll happily address whether in fact it's one prevented by Gardasil, etc.

I couldn't find it through internet-searching either, which is why I made the above point.

I still maintain that a HPV vaccination is less important than other vaccinations. This is especially true for men, as the largest cancer risk by far is for cervical cancer. You are unlikely to get major traction for people being vaccinated against a disease that will most harm another at their expense and pain. Why did you take such issue with a passing remark I made as part of a broader, positive point? I am not saying anything that is wrong; the risks are there and the benefits for a large part of the population that would be required to achieve herd immunity are not.

Again, there is reason it is not standard or required. The herd immunity argument is not as relevant because it is much less important for men (especially because existing vaccines focus mostly on strains that cause cervical cancer) and so a large portion of the population will remain unvaccinated against it.
Their customer support is just fine. Only trouble is, we're not the customer, we're the product. (And no, I'm not interested in hearing about how that's a hackneyed worn-out cliché, or whatever, given that it's a true statement. Downvote and move on.)

A big part of the problem with Google taking everything over is that only in very limited situations -- the service formerly known as YouTube Red, for instance -- are we given the ability to actually conduct business with them as a paying customer. Conventionally, Google users don't even rise to the status of sharecroppers, since we're the "crops" being sold to advertisers. They expect us to depend on them for the everyday conduct of our personal lives and careers, yet the only way to appeal for help is to start a shitstorm on Twitter or HN and hope somebody notices.
What is the incentive exactly? What do they really gain by having such crappy security practices, other than just not having to spend the time and money to improve security?
Never looked into HN's API, but I know you could easily fetch that and more info from algolia: https://hn.algolia.com/api
It's rough. We thought about switching to Microsoft Teams and we realized that so many decisions about our relatively young company were tucked in DMs and private channels in Slack that we couldn't leave.

Email is non-sticky (just take your emails/save them on client and leave)
Files storage is non-sticky (just move your files from OneDrive to GDrive)
Chat/Collaboration is sticky as mud.
This has always been my opinion, you can only go so far with a strong man driven - authoritarian regime, eventually it will implode. China was very poor not too long ago, people subsisting on next to nothing. People are not questioning anything, because they are only now entering the middle -class workforce. When these folks move to the next level in the rung, they will start questioning and demanding what we in the west consider fundamentals of democracy - free speech, diversity. You can install a cyber wall, block off all western press, but your people are traveling to the west, in fact, Chinese tourists are the biggest contingent to Europe. You cannot prevent the dissemination of ideas, and ideas are more powerful than a nuclear bomb!
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They are very, very similar. The hashes are two level: one is fairly traditional. You take the first k bits from the hash and look that up in a table. The second layer is 128 bit blocks. (one SSE/NEON register) This block contains 14 8 bit blocks, where the top bit is a tombstone marker, and the bottom 7 bits are the k+1 though k+7 bit from the hash. (or the top 7 bits? not sure. it's 7 bits from the hash that aren't used in the top layer) It uses SSE instructions to identify which of the 14 blocks to do a full key compare with.

Both of them have two variants, one which guarantees that references to keys and values will remain valid even if iterators are invalidated, and another which is faster but iterator invalidation invalidates references to keys or values.

IMHO it looks like the Folly team saw the Abseil presentation last year and said, "That's a good idea, we should do that."

abseil presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncHmEUmJZf4 It's super interesting.
If you are storing "documents" (i.e. JSON), Couchbase is a fully-developed, off-the-shelf, mature enterprise solution for this sort of thing. And it has N1QL which is much like SQL for documents.
People with less than 500 karma can't downvote though, so it's possible to end up with 40 upvotes even if the majority of people dislike Microsoft.

Let's say 200 people wanted to vote on your post.
100 people with > 500 karma vote 45% up 55% down ending up with -10 karma total.
100 people with < 500 karma vote 45% up but the other 55% can't downvote = 35 total upvotes.
You're right that taste is subjective, and that what tastes good for one may not for another. That is a large part of the reason that I take issue when people self-righteously say I should be eating a vegan diet, eating insects, etc.
Thanks for replying with your stance, genuinely.

I genuinely wanted to just add the additional context for the Hacker News community to discuss as it seemed relevant. If you believed the person this was a story from their past. If you are uncertain about the veracity of random posts on TrustPilot (as some commenters are) this was a data point too.

What was initially met with a dozen upvotes as people seemed to appreciate the context then shifted as comments were made about me as the OP and now the point balance is in the negative.

I wasn't intending to "rally a defense" and I was especially not intending a "punch down". I listed my disclosure at the top to ensure everyone knew any potential bias upfront rather than reading and then having to retroactively update their thinking.

I honestly think I'll keep any future knowledge to myself in situations even if I have additional context. I tried my best to remain neutral and upfront and it still faltered. "Make of it what you will" was a literal request and it seems HN decided that I was a shill / defender and reacted that way rather than using the data point or reflecting on it themselves.
Good idea to do this during squats as well, but for a different reason: engaging the lats (the "pulling my shoulders down" part) helps to make your back more rigid.
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It’s called XMPP, and Google ran a public gateway federating for Google Talk. Basically nobody used it, and what little use it did see was mostly third parties sending spam to Google users over the gateway, so they shut it down.

Centralized systems seem to give users what they want. This is why iMessage, FB Messenger, WhatsApp, Snapchat, and Instagram are huge, and email is dying (and XMPP failed to get any real traction in the first place).
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