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I'm not sure what your point here is. I made no claim of 1-to-1 parity with propofol, the various uses of seroquel, it's efficacy for a given purpose, etc. Seroquel is however in the class of drugs "major tranquilizers" and my claim was simply that it can have a similar "time warp" effect. It's a claim based on my experience with it, and it is not an uncommon one. (And I do have experience with propofol through a single surgery to compare)

I will address some of the other details of your comment though. First, the statement that someone on seroquel is "arousable": Compared to propofol, sure. But a vigorous rub of the sternum will absolutely not do it for many people, myself included. My wife can attest to the difficulty. And if aroused before time, the state can be likened to severe drunkenness in terms of ability to function.

Also, your are right, there are arguably better sleep aid options. But it's arguable because individuals react so differently to different medications. Seroquel was not a first choice for the task, or the third. A doctor likely would be negligent in prescribing it for that sole purpose on a first consultation without exploration of other options.

As for it being a shit or "dirty" drug, there aren't particularly good options within this class of drugs. We can argue about whether these are over-prescribed, but for people who truly do need them, it is something of a devil's bargain where the benefits can be suspect relative to the costs. For the fortunate that response to them, newer medicines like latuda offer a much lower side-effect profile for similar benefits. Absent very good insurance though, that is financial hit of roughly $15,000 per year that few can afford out of pocket. This leaves the "dirty" drugs.

I won't put words into your mouth with this next part, but there are some that would then argue that these sorts of drugs are universally unsuited for any use, and that people suffering from their targeted disorders might better control their symptoms with diet, exercise, and supplements. Having seen many people attempt such and fail, I regard this point of view as a sort of survivors bias. The people that argue this point of view tend to be the very rare people for whom it works, but just as with any particular medication, the efficacy of any treatment regime varies greatly with the individual.
IIRC the Fae are the Celtic/Irish (British) equivalent of Norse elves and they do have the tradition of Changelings, half-Fey half-human children who can choose to be human or Fae when they went into adulthood. So not that much different in outcome from Tolkienish Eldar.
The richest 10% of households now represent 70% of all U.S. wealth
Interesting. I haven’t looked that deeply into the problem, but I’ll have to read about that.

I imagine some locales might be worse for that problem than others, yeah?

Do you have any info you can share?
Microsoft built the truck, the NSA welded the bomb on the front, and then allowed that weaponized truck to be stolen off their parking lot.
Yah sorry that sounded aggressive, doing both (one job one not) is my plan
Hardly serious, read the first paragraph on the page.
IMHO, the best alternative to Android that can be used right now is pure AOSP, or an Android distribution that tracks AOSP closely. In the past, that was CopperheadOS. Now, GrapheneOS.

The downside is pretty limited hardware choice. Basically, Pixel (and Nexus for legacy releases). Plus some Sony Xperia (if you can cope with a few non-critical hardware glitches).

The upside is very good security, and not being tracked. F-Droid is, for me, a surprisingly nice ecosystem. Firefox, Termux, Conversations, Signal, OsmAnd, Haven, etc. I don't need much else.

Your needs might be different, but you can always install MicroG and sideload things from Google Play if you ever require propietary applications.

LineageOS is nice, but I don't like excessive hackiness and lack of focus in security. I understand it's partly something given by their goal of supporting a much more broad set of devices.

Thankfully, Project Treble gives the possibility of device-independent ROMs. So things might change soon. For the time being, most devices have glitches, as Treble's HAL has not been well implemented and tested by manufacturers [1].

Other alternatives, aside from iOS, lack tons of functionality. I wish Sailfish/Mer became a serious contender. Their predecessor, Maemo/Meego, as seen in the Nokia 770-N9 saga was amazing.

[1] https://github.com/phhusson/treble_experimentations/wiki
Sugar as per taste but milk is a must! I use 1:2 water:milk but you can vary it. About 1 tsp of masala per cup or mug. Typically you’d heat the whole concoction till the milky water rises once or twice. I don’t put in the tea (loose or tea bag) from the start as it tends to become bitter but it must still boil with the rest for a minute or two.
Good point, absolutely! The line is really thin between industry changing stuff (CI, cloud, distributed version control, type systems that don't suck, etc) and reinventing the wheel through arrogance or just not knowing any better (yet another testing framework, screwing up some well studied patterns :cough Java Optionals cough:)
Disclaimer: I work at Google. I know our internal policy regarding PII information and the tooling around it to protect PII information, so individual employees cannot easily violate my privacy. And I know people work there are generally very vocal (think about Dragonfly) . I would trust more on Google to handle my privacy.
Trying to confirm your point: because the company was careless in letting an employee walk out, this was a lesser theft?

I haven’t heard a case where a burglar gets a reduced sentence because the house was left unlocked.

The fact that this comes from a Huawei senior exec speaks a lot about their company culture.
I'm really sorry an AskHistorians thread is not good enough for you. Let me paste Jonathan Smele's remark about Rummel's work (Smele is known for his compiled bibliography on the Russian Revolution):

>A poorly researched, obsessively anti-Soviet polemical general survey. [1]

Unsurprisingly, you would have read that exact quote in the reddit thread I linked. Guess that was too much to ask for.

[1] Jonathan Smele, Russian Revolution and Civil War Annotated Bibliography
Surely not being a parent is friendlier to the environment :-)
You can nudge all you want I will never pay any unless I am forced to, which would at least make the criminal cough...cough Nature of the alliance between the fake environmentalists and the state even more obvious.
Intel Announces 8 Core I9-9900KS: Every Core at 5Ghz, All the Time
> But there's a reason that the cold war didn't turn hot, and in part it was because the major powers, US and Russia, were able to set formal and informal international standards for intelligence, espionage and data collection, for themselves and for their allies.

It didn't turn hot because of mutual destruction threat.
Part of the Stone Age is that the good stuff is already out there in books nobody reads, rather than fancy Medium posts.
Why? I wouldn't have guessed your age from the article at all, in fact. I wrote several submissions for COMPUTE!'s Gazette when I was in high school. Yeah, I could have improved the prose and tone a bit, but the tech was sound or it wouldn't have gotten through the editorial process. It's a shame type-in mags and the old hobbyist journals have died, because it was a great way to encourage writing, it was fun to see your name in print, you had a coding standard that was public to aspire to and you made some okay money.
I was looking at it as time causing neurotransmitter changes (leading to sleep) and the resulting self being manipulated due to being in a sleepy state, but I see now how your explanation makes sense too.
Suburban moms are delivering groceries
IF it's too easy the ease will keep backing it off...
The negative outcome of more specific fines is that they get progressively easier to circumvent.
Why I'd not use React Native
Er. The app allows to you adjust the "aggressiveness" of the noise cancellation or turn it off completely.
This good technique - I hate to call it a hack because it's been either a legal or aspirational standard for decades - is on its last legs in the US as the NERC has or will retire the error corrections that ensured corrections for long term accuracy. Our principal engineer with a history in the power transformer industry tells stories about better times pre 9/11 when utilities would give tours to engineers and describe how the operators would run line frequency corrections overnight to match the dual clocks present, one showing official time, the other showing the usually slightly slower time reflecting the errors accumulated over the day.

http://www.nerc.com/pa/Stand/Project%2020101422%20Phase%202%...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43532031/ns/technology_and_scien...
The same way they created income tax. Not every law must be popular.

How about this: The top US tax rate in the 50s was over 90%. That's a good number for the upper bracket of a progressive carbon tax. In short, large companies are no longer allowed to make profits while emitting carbon. They can continue to operate, but as investment vehicles they will be dead.
It’s not an analgesic (drug that reduces pain), but it’s true that if you give enough propofol, you will be so unconscious, you won’t feel pain.

Sometimes, anesthesiologists will give opiates so that you don’t wake up abruptly in pain, or give benzodiazepines so you feel less anxious afterwards.
Depends on what they did - if you had a dislocated shoulder, the pain is much less once it has been ‘reduced’ (Put back), so you probably wouldn’t have (too) much pain, relatively speaking, once you wake up. But if someone just cut open your abdomen, you will have lots of pain on waking, so makes more sense to give some opiate beforehand, to make your wake-up ‘nicer’.

Propofol also tends to lower your blood pressure a lot, so some docs feel you can get the same level of sedation with less low blood pressure by giving a bit of benzodiazepines + propofol
You should add some kind of rogue device/app guarantee+ notification. If something starts to drill a server, it could spike the users costs without their knowledge. That means every device and app is a liability for the user.

Something to ponder.

I know my Nvidia shield DRILLS Netflix even when it's a asleep.
Pick the political party in your country most interested in stopping climate change and go work for them. And vote.
This is the kind of logic, that always kills me: "There is no climate catastrophe ahead, because avoiding it would mean unthinkable restrictions".
I keep getting YouTube ads from a company called Ecosia[1] who describe themselves as a search engine that plants trees.

I don’t know anything else about them other than I think they are based in Europe. Might be worth a look.

[1] https://www.ecosia.org/
The technique is from 1982 by Bob Bishop.
http://rich12345.tripod.com/aiivideo/softalk.html
Can we cut the constant climate change topics? For the last three or four weeks I haven't been able to swing a dead cat without hitting somebody going into histrionics about the end being nigh because humans or cow farts are destroying the planet.
I bet Facebook links your fake account to your real account internally and you count as 1 MAU in their stats.
And cellulose it said, but suitable microbes have since evolved?
In addition, reverse translation is a 1:N problem.

Many cards from the foreign language to yours have recurring words on the back: if you reverse that, you will often have to remember many different foreign words for one card.
Then how do you judge whether you know the card? 4+ out of 5 is good?, 3 is "hard", 1-2 fail?
If everyone just buys tanks, eventually they'll have no choice but to change the regulations.
How about stop using automobiles and walk to places?
Mandating the use of specific technology is uhh, not a great plan over the long run. What happens when photovoltaic is no longer the best way to improve the energy efficiency of roofs? Directly heating water for domestic use is already arguably better than photovoltaic.
You are aware that NPM already does that, right? It’s even safer because the network requires immutability so there’s no way to trojan a package without shipping a new version for everyone to see.

The real problem is why I mentioned auditing: the attacks we’ve seen over the years have been updates from maintainers who followed the normal process. Auditing is the most reliable way to catch things like that because the problem isn’t the distribution mechanism but the question of being able to decide whether you can trust the author.
I've seen people from IBM giving talks using Beamer.
The key phrase to be looking for in terms of employment is 'Environmental NGO'.
As well as this, think about incentive engineering: ways you can make it easy for people to change their lifestyle.
Don't forget nortel who used to employ 140,000 people including myself. Now the goverment occupies their offices.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/former-nortel-exec-warns-ag...
A few mins searching and I've not been able to find any figures that justify that, do you have any to hand? An acre sounds a bit small.

Nearest I've found is <https://greenismything.com/2015/06/23/howmanytrees/> which suggests ~2 acres per head for the US.
They are based in Berlin to be precise
It really is that big of an issue.
For whatever it might be worth, here is my advice to juniors about being mentored:

It mostly is true that the only stupid question is the one you didn’t ask.

Please don’t ask the exact same question twice. Take notes if you need to. Asking for clarification or following up for more detail is fine.

If you have many questions and your mentor has other responsibilities, try not to keep interrupting them all the time. Discuss the best way to balance your needs and theirs, perhaps finding a time/place/medium where you can have a larger discussion and deal with several questions at once.

Assuming your mentor has accepted that responsibility voluntarily, they’ll probably be happy to help even with the basic stuff — we all had to start somewhere — but will appreciate it not taking over their whole day.
I love anki, but I really don't like the code. I wish we could build something modern, but still open, from scratch.
Any programming job where you write code that runs at a higher power efficiency than whoever else would've programmed it if you hadn't taken the job
This is extremely disturbing, not to mention so ironic that a self-proclaimed "communist" regime is torturing and kidnapping communist activists.

We can debate Marxism here in the comments, but the fact is that nobody regardless of their political stance should have to worry about being kidnapped or tortured by their government. At that point your government is effectively a gang, of no higher moral ground than a bunch of thugs with guns.

Until China fixes their government, they will never be taken seriously on the same level of other "first world" countries. Unless people passively watch Peking University students (statistically harder to get into than Harvard) get kidnapped by their government and do nothing about it.

I wonder what Chinese people think about the odds of any of this improving.
https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1131365880435286016?s...

Those tree planting drone companies probably require software engineering.
Here is my usage on my PI. 2 people around 5 devices.

https://imgur.com/a/jf2Zqgy
Best use ever of the slogan "I'd rather fight than switch".
We've asked you many times to please follow the guidelines and since it's not happening we've banned the account. We're happy to unban accounts if you email us at hn@ycombinator.com.

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I absolutely don't know anyone who was saying that about Japanese electronics in the 1970s in my part of US flyover country. Sony was considered to be one of the very best in the world, and my family was greatly disappointed in the 1980s when Sony moved a lot of manufacturing to Mexico and they had to fix many cold solder joints on TV sets. If you wanted a good reel to reel tape deck, Teac was your first choice.

One thing left out of this formulation is that it was realized at some point, certainly by the 1970s for electronics, that the Japanese added "and improve", which no one says about the Chinese. Who are said to have a pattern more than a century old of steadily decreasing quality until the customer complains. Different culture, vastly different societal trust levels, Japan high, China low, different results.
We revisit the law.

Perfection cannot be the enemy of the good. A standard tactic to oppose any new regulation is to show how it might not be perfect in certain circumstances. That draws out the debate. Draw debate out long enough and the proposed law dies. If solar+wind+nuclear is no longer the best approach in ten years, we can cross that bridge when we come to it.
>This is certainly common, however I see more often that engineers are simply not convinced by logically sound arguments that are in fact correct and true, so you’re forced to use other methods such as authority since they’re not operating completely on reason.

Can't speak to your case, but the reality is that most SW engineering principles are opinions and not facts - even simple ones like whether we should expend effort on making code more readable. As such, there can exist multiple logically sound arguments that give opposing conclusions. Then they start to appeal to authority.

In my experience, people don't appeal to authority for factual things like "your loop could potentially never terminate under conditions X." (fact) They appeal to authority for statements like "In C++, you should never inherit from a class that does not have a virtual destructor." (opinion)
http://worrydream.com/ClimateChange/ may inspire you.
I can't even comprehend the amount of energy required for an 8.0M earthquake.

From searching it seems an 8.0M earthquake is equivalent to a nuclear explosion of 6,270,000 tons of TNT but a 7.0M is 199,000 tons of TNT.
This is abusive and we've banned the account.

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Slightly adjacent to your question, but I've thought it would be nice to have a Google Maps-like app that optimizes for fuel use instead of drive time or distance.
Salesforce’s Success Rides on One Man’s Gut
2019 European election results (live data)
Are you looking only for other jobs in software engineering, or are you willing to enter a different field to accomplish this?

Software has the possibility to change behavior but it's probably not the biggest lever available for this particular problem.
Great stuff coming out of category theory.
In terms of software engineering alone, your best bet may just be to find an organization you support and work hard while under their employ. Even if you're not _directly_ affecting emissions etc., you're supporting those who do. As a bonus, passion for a cause can be very motivational. (Though keep in mind you may be discouraged if the organization feels dysfunctional or ineffective. Be ready to switch jobs if need be.)

As for finding those organizations, that's a different question and may be better asked without reference to software engineering so as to receive the widest spectrum of orgs.
Well, this shows why democracies can't fix climate change. In Canada's case, there won't be a free lunch, as many people need to heat their homes much of the year.

If the tax becomes large enough to make a real difference to how people live, then there would be enough public support to scrap it, or at the very least freeze any increases. That means it'll only work if technology advances fast enough that we can lower our emissions enough to meet climate goals without compromising quality of life. But that would be a reduction of over 10% a year, every year. Yeah, that's what "limiting to 2C" would actually mean. http://www.climatecodered.org/2014/01/radical-emissions-redu...

Trudeau has also supported the oil industry at every turn. The extraction and burning of the remaining oil in Canada is itself more than Canada's fair share of global emissions to limit heating to 2C. https://www.nationalobserver.com/2015/07/08/news/tar-sands-v...

As for the carbon club, existing agreements like NAFTA stand in the way of creating a carbon-pricing trade bloc. The most plausible place for it to start would be the EU after the UK leaves, but even then, I doubt there will be any politicians fighting for it - for similar reasons as for Canada.
Play with Polar for a bit and let me know what you think.

This is sort of the idea but Anki is still pretty amazing in a lot of ways if you're a power user.

I'm trying to make SR easier for people just getting into it.

For me the frustration was switching back and forth between my document reader and Anki.

I wanted something completely integrated.
Yes, humans can be really insensitive. Most just don't have the capability of seeing things from other perspectives, like the bear's.

That guy was starving. He was wounded. He ate a porcupine!

The humans were in his traditional territory. I'm sure he didn't like messing with them, because they're dangerous and unpredictable, but it was a desperate situation.

And anyway, there are too many of them. They're over-populating, and they have few natural predators. A cull is the best thing for both the humans and the environment.

So he ate one baby, out of literally billions on the planet. Not such a big deal when it's a matter of survival.

And anyway, that baby would have grown up to be another first world consumer, destroying huge swaths of bear habitat and belching CO2 into the air. Since we're already over 400 ppm, we really must do something right away.

All in all, it was for the best.

See! HN people can be sensitive!
Sometimes a helpful antidote to the nirvana fallacy is to choose a solution which doesn't preclude perfection.

It's one thing to make a decision which blocks you off from ever solving the problem the really correct way. It's another thing to not achieve perfection now but leave open a path to going back and improving certain parts later so you eventually get there.

For example, maybe one component of your code uses an inefficient algorithm, but you isolate that so that later you can create a drop-in replacement that is optimal.

For me, at least, it's mentally freeing to just take a little time to verify I haven't painted myself into a corner. Once I know that, I'm satisfied and can more easily move on to build the imperfect system I need to build now.
I think the example is backwards, because the 13th amendment restricted the government, not the people.
If totalitarianism ever comes to the US, Google would not be able to prevent the totalitarian regime from making use of its data-collection systems. A good analogy would be building a nuclear reactor on a site which sees very rare massive earthquakes. Apple in contrast has acted responsibly by designing its systems not to centralize or concentrate the data in the first place. That is, the unencrypted version of the data and the encryption keys stay on the iPhone.

Second, Google uses personal data combined with machine learning to optimize "user engagement" (roughly, hours spent on the service) because that has been proven to be a good predictor for how resistant an internet service is to competition or disruption. This optimization of user engagement has a bad effect on the productivity and perhaps the mental health of individuals and families and has a bad effect on our public discourse.
Ah, yes. I was remembering a center J-2 on the second stage of Apollo 13. So, my mistake.
You should be able to send a Vary: Accept header to the cache to have it cache all image types.