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I'm actually not terribly surprised to hear this. Bret Weinstein may have been (and continue to be) a lifelong liberal, but from what I know about him, I wouldn't expect him or professors like him to discriminate against conservative students. Nor would I expect Nicolas Christakis to discriminate against conservatives, I don't know him other than by what I've seen and heard on the media, but this would seem very out of character. Yes, professors lean left, but these are still, by and large, people who devoted their lives to scholarly pursuits, and often show a very deep and principled adherence to the pursuit of truth, where data and analysis takes you. Professors have long been further to the left of mainstream society and their students, but until very recently, conservatives and republicans, in polls, have viewed universities as having a very positive effect on society. The collapse and political divide is recent. It is driven, to an extent, by a effort to associate liberal professors with the very worst attributes of "cancel" culture. Unfortunately, while I continue to feel positively about universities, I can no longer agree that this narrative is entirely fabricated, either.

My understanding is that college administrators tend to run more left wing than college professors, and they may contribute more to the campus climate than professors do - their ranks have swelled considerably in recent years. I also suspect that professors self-censor, and that students do this as well - not just conservatives, but moderates and liberals. I brought up Bret Weinstein for a reason - liberal professors giving conservative students bad grades simply to punish politics they don't like would be reprehensible, but I don't think this is the elephant in the room.
The one thing I sort of held as truth over my life about why international grand conspiracies would never be "real" was that there's just too many individuals involved to make a coverup possible. Surely there has to be some individual with morals to leak necessary evidence to the media right?

The more that comes out about this Epstein case the more I question that truth. I'm sure there are people on the inside looking to call out and reveal things but if our sole source of coverage for these events are media companies owned by the very people guilty of such high crimes then what do we do? Surely the internet would enable these voices to come forward?

The whole thing seems so weird and like a fiction novel. I'd love to see those horrible people charged for their crimes, but in the absolute bare minimum I'd like to see how such criminal empires operate without notice.
Yes. It's both mentioned and linked to in the article on which we are commenting.
> instead of just regulating drug prices domestically

The current administration is very anti-regulation, so this would be a bad move. Also, allowing Canadian drugs to enter the country will force current producers to lower pricers, which will organically (capitalism) reduce the price through competition.
I would love a flight information board.
I have heard it a lot but I'm not sure how true that is. Given all the specifics of essentially abuse/corruption (whatever you might call it) by US medical industry it's hard to believe their claim of subsidizing the world. There's probably some of that going on but I find it unlikely to be as big as claimed.
> I'd support giving the next Democrat President carte blanche to obliterate the healthcare industry

The top 5 recipients of healthcare lobbying money for '17 and '18 have been democrats [1]. Democrats received more healthcare lobbying money on both the '08 and '16 elections [1]. No reason to expect the party "for the people" to actually do anything for the people besides make emotional campaign commercials. Both parties are the same. Bernie is leading the way, however. Calling on all Dems to stop accepting their money. (personally, I wish they'd just accept the money and then betray the donors en masse).

[1]. https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus.php?Ind=H
It goes deeper than this. Both Victoria's Secret and Abercrombie are run by pedophiles. Both have been deeply connected to Epstein.
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> Long to short, people use "journalism" like they use "literally"; most of the time in the wrong way at the wrong time.

You should look up "literally" in a modern dictionary. For example:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/literally

2 : in effect : VIRTUALLY —used in an exaggerated way to emphasize a statement or description that is not literally true or possible

"will literally turn the world upside down to combat cruelty or injustice" — Norman Cousins

And an extended discussion:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/misuse-of-lite...

It's not unusual for a word in the English language to have its own "literal" meaning and also be used in other contexts with nearly the opposite meaning. There are literally billions of words like this!

But I'll bet most people could care less.
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For 4., I’m pretty sure Canada has a similar verification process. It’s whether or not the U.S. considers that process to be the same with in terms of standards, or a threat to whatever vested interests the U.S. verification process protects. The latter point might sound like anti-American rhetoric, but the same thing happens within the U.S. . Consider the bidding process for the U.S. military project involving Amazon, Oracle, and IBM and the latter two companies accused the process of being heavily skewed to favouring Amazon [0].

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/heres-why-amazon-is-heavily-...
Is this strictly for building iOS/mobile UIs? From a quick look at the documentation and website I was left with the impression this is not for desktop or web applications.

If those platforms are not supported, is it on the roadmap?
All those 'light rail/trolley/MTS' tracks going in around UCSD back and forth across I-5 definitely create one MTS platform in UCSD itself and other ones close by. At least one platform in the center of Genesee between the two major malls. Not up and running yet. UTC/UCSD is one of the major asparagus patches of skyscrapers in San Diego.
It's worth noting that in many cultures, 16 year olds have modest incomes and 24 year olds are expected to have at least a nominal employment history.

Not that folks under 24 can necessarily afford to finance week-long holidays. But it's not entirely out of the question for young adults going in together on a beach house or something.
What's to stop drug companies from prohibiting re-export from Canada as part of their sale/negotiation with Provinces? This is an absurd idea. Canada gets lots of its drugs from American companies, why on earth would they permit re-export and undercut themselves? Refusing to address the real problems in the US market and relying on Canadian provinces to negotiate bulk discounts on behalf of American states is almost surreal.

That drug pricing is America's problem, not Ontario's, is a phrase I never thought I'd type out haha.
I find activist refreshingly honest. I've found that you can read a pretty clear agenda from most writers when you read enough from them - in what they report, but mostly in what they do not report. They are activists, but they claim not to be, because that claim makes their activism more powerful.
No need to fix the crisis at home, just leach off of other people who are able to get their shit together.
The starting point for this series is the global financial crisis and the drop seems to be driven mostly by Eastern European countries whose economies have been rapidly growing over that time period.
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Maybe run some bus lines or put up a light rail? More roads is not the answer
That's a great workaround for small groups of people. As a national solution, it's full of problems and directly avoids the real problem - that government doesn't negotiate drug prices.

Scale matters.
Indeed. A 1992 profile of him contains remarkably prescient details:

> One outrageous story links him to the CIA and Mossad. Another that Epstein was a concert pianist. Yet another that he was a maths teacher at an exclusive girls school.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Epstein/comments/ch6g3r/the_mystery...

Two of those three are known publicly to be true.
Approximations, including temporal ones, are also science.

Ever seen a texture pop in instead of a stutter? If a lock would be taken on that load without timeout (very short) it'd either not load on time or load when it's no longer needed.
Thank you. And I'd never heard your pithy description before, but I shall proceed to steal it. ;) As the thinking seemingly goes, only journalists must have ethics (those ethics being defined as "whatever makes the claimant happy at the given time"), but I'm not a journalist...!

HN makes it difficult to really have these conversations in-depth because at some point one must nod to the elephant in the room and point out that there is a manufactured epistemic closure at the heart of the "objective journalism!" complaints. Which is to say that 'edoo might be relaying his opinion in good faith but the folks who peddled his opinion to him certainly did not do so in similar good faith--and there is something slithering in the dark that has a real interest in the delegitimization of journalism that even just tries to represent the truth as it is understood by the journalist.
On the 4th, it wasn't random. The days following? I can't predict when fireworks are going to go off. (That's irrelevant anyway, as the dog needs to go out regardless of the date.)
Similar experience with Mad Men

For a show about how work will not save you from the emptiness inside, it really motivates you.
Guess it's better to be sad and rich then just sad
Tumblr have a url scheme where subdomains are user-owned.

https://m.tumblr.com/ != https://tumblr.com

When they initially decided to hide the "m" subdomain, https://m.tumblr.com/ was shwon as tumblr.com.

It's not the only website with that issue.
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You're missing the fact that one big reason the prices are so low in Canada is regulation.

https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.20.3....

What the administration is proposing is effectively to regulate drug prices, but outsource that work to Canada, since it's politically unpalatable to their base here in the US.
Most such questions come down to the fact that Academic politics is inscrutable.
I eliminated TV 4 years ago and noticed these benefits:

- Finished 3 years qualification in record time
- Doubled my salary
- Managed to complete 3 profitable side projects
- Improved my software development skills tenfold
- and more...

In the process, I lost friends. I used to host 300+ people parties. I doubt I can be able to bring together 20 people in one place for a party.
One of the magazines that were indeed reporting on people like Epstein was Gawker, it’s actually mentioned in the article. We all know what happened to Gawker but people in the Valley are too afraid to speak up against pretty despicable guys like Thiel.
> They look like junior high schools. You know, they're not fancy, but the care is good.

Yes! That's exactly what my (limited) experience of hospitals in Italy was like. They're very plain, but the doctors know their stuff.
And you'd be wrong. In any event, again, your expensive illnesses are not representative, and many people in Washington at half the median income would be getting along suitably well. That same stat in Arkansas may be a very different story. It's at least hypothetically possible (and I don't have a great deal invested in the thesis) that industrious upstanding people in the bottom quartile are actually better off in Japan than in the US, and that could be precisely because of those virtues. The author takes it as a given that being in the bottom quartile is poverty everywhere and concludes those virtues don't matter (see, both countries have lots of people in the bottom quartile -- those Japanese virtues don't make them better off). But because half the median income means different things in different places, I cannot make it there. Not, at least, without more information.
Take a core sample and count the rings.
Yep. If you've bitten the apple of JavaScript tooling you can kinda sorta rig up compiler-enforced immutable data structures with TypeScript. But IMO if you're going that far it's much easier/well-documented to just use Elm or something.
Not necessarily. You underestimate the willingness of people to hire trollish lawyers and file suits which are, or should be, frivolous. Even if the company prevails in court, the cost and risk exposure are too much.

And that's not even getting into the people who are willing to go down to corporate HQ with an AR-15.

Ghosting has become acceptable in recent years as a personal safety measure -- in dating, too. It's important not to get too offended by it.
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I remember 20 years ago when I was a UCSD student hearing a discussion on the local NPR station about extending the trolley to UCSD. I believe university leadership opposed it at that time. I recall one of the counterarguments was that it would bring more crime to campus. (I believe the term "rapists" was used by the person on-air representing that position. I don't recall if that person was a spokesperson for the university.)

In any event, classic Nimbyism. Memory still pisses me off. Glad to see at least the University has come around, even if I imagine most La Jolla residents haven't.

For reference, if I'm not mistaken, it was a La Jolla resident who invented that cheap clicker device that you can click to instantly report plane noise complaint to FTA. Cool little project but, well, yeah.
Yeah except drug patents
I lived in Banker's Hill in 2010 and even then you could get to everything you needed via walking and bus. With ridesharing, scooters and better public transit it is possible to go sans-car.
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Yeah Michael's dissertation was out in '94 already, and he had native Oberon running in slim binaries (aka jit'ing from compressed AST) for quite a bit before that. Thomas did the Juice stuff (aka slim binaries on the web) around mid '96 IIRC, then did a continuously optimizing JIT for Oberon, then got sucked into binary translation at Transmeta.

There were a lot of fun overlaps. Robert Griesemer did his PhD at ETH around the time Michael did, on a vector extension to Oberon for a Cray. He went on to Animorphic working on Strongtalk, and later the JVM at Sun. IIRC the assembler from Strongtalk days has been extended and used in other projects like Javascript compilers. Animorphic had Urs Hoelzle / Lars Bak / Gilad Bracha too; Urs was undergrad at ETH with Michael IIRC, then worked on Self at Stanford inventing a bunch of the optimizations that went into Strongtalk and later Hotspot for Java. Etc. Etc. Small world :-)
They do - check out Tijuana and every other Mexican and Canadian city right at the border. It's all pharmacies and cash-only clinics. Not everybody lives close enough to drive there all the time.
I usually hate the lazy and dismissive "what's the difference between this and x" comments, but as a UX/Design focused UI developer, I think I'm part of the target market for this. But this looks very similar to FramerX without some of the things I love most about FramerX.

It looks like all the input/output is proprietary Drama stuff. Framer lets me paste in content designed in Sketch, or import production components we've already built in React. The end result of a FramerX project can be exported as a static webpage you can do whatever you want with (host, A/B test, embed).

A designer can start designing a component in FramerX, and I can later add the logic while retaining their styles/animations/interactions. Then we can pull that completed component into our component library, which can then be used in production and imported into other FramerX projects.

I can't critique anything they show on their website, and the results look great (any attempt to make interaction design easier is a godsend), but right out the gate as a web guy it seems like a big disadvantage even if it outshined FramerX as a general interactive prototyper.
I would be pretty stoked to see H.R. Giger artwork in any place (I have visited his gallery & cafe!), but I think it might be bad to dwell on it for a long time, since it would probably push you towards thoughts about existential questions and the nature of humanity, things like that. Probably not the best subjects for when you're already anxious about possibly-life-threatening hospital situations, heh.
>...Tim Ferris ...

The most regrettable thing about Tim Ferris is his popularity essentially annihilated discoverability for a great science writer with essentially the same name.
That would not be the op's problem, so is probably fine for them.
I replaced "passive" TV watching. I now mostly watch TV/movies if I'm really focused on it. I no longer just turn the TV on because it's there. This has led me to seek out other things when bored. Reading, taking random classes around town(archery, weaving, bicycle building), and listening to music/podcasts while cleaning up around the apartment.

It mainly comes down to: I no longer have a default activity to when bored, so I fill the time with other, more engaging/deliberate, tasks.
Influenced by environmental factors, genetics and lifestyle. It can tell you how soon you'll die but not how old you are.
> Redis is a cache

Redis is much more than a cache, you can model graph data structures with Redis primitives, and the redisgraph module compares directly against Dgraph.
Because it's entirely fraudulent. The headlines keep claiming that around 40% of Americans can't afford a surprise $400-$500 bill. The actual number is around 12% according to the Fed survey that the headlines are intentionally misleading about. It keeps getting pointed out that the claim is false, however the propaganda value is too sweet so it keeps getting abused.

https://outline.com/rqAedK

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-06-04/the-40...

https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/report-economic-...

https://www.nationalreview.com/2016/04/middle-class-doing-ok...

https://www.cato.org/blog/it-true-40-americans-cant-handle-4...
1) if they cannot kill cobol, what chance does any other language have of dying. Saying that I believe cobol programing pays extremely well.

2) look at the bio of the author, do you really think they know anything about tech?

3) Can you name any programming language that was popular at one time and is actually gone? I am sure there are people still using Forth, original Basic, PL/I, and APL. Or at there very least some system has some critical piece of SW in it.

Will some of these eventually die? Sure, in time everything changes...
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I have never witnessed walls in a hospital room being cleaned
You are conflating s400 with significantly older systems. Even with stealth, it's impossible to take down s400 without suffering heavy casualties. The system is decentralized, and highly mobile. You take down one command node, another one takes its place.
San Diego is much more like Ft. Worth than NYC, I'll grant you that. But the reason why San Diego is the way it is, is due to 40-50 years of uncontrolled and unplanned housing construction combined with uncontrolled and unplanned road building. The city (let alone the county) has nearly _doubled_ in population in this time, and while civil planners around the world have known for decades that road building increases rather than solves congestion, San Diego's response to congestion has consistently been to build new roads and widen existing ones. Why? Because that's what greases palms in San Diego. It's a toxic mix of developers, contractors, and their bought politicians running the show.

The situation will continue to grow more intolerable until that changes. People in SD are beginning to wake up to this, and to understand that civic pride requires civic participation, but it's an uphill battle with attitudes such as yours.
As much as I hate NIMBYs in SF, the City has built a lot of housing over the last decade, and I would say more than San Diego. The SF skyline is completely new, and places like SOMA, East cut, Mission Bay, Dog patch are entirely new neighborhoods. Sure, we need to build more on the West side and iPhone Sunset and Richmond, but we will definitely get more bang for our buck by up-zoning San Mateo, Palo Alto etc
The data is collected with questionnaires; I checked one of them and it had literally the question "Could you afford a week’s annual holiday away from home? Yes/No"
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How is it zero chance Mossad? Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein's "girl friend" and the woman supplying him with underage girls was the daughter of Robert Maxwell, allegedly a Mossad agent[0].

I agree, no one really knows what is behind all this, but saying "zero chance Mossad" seems disingenuous.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Maxwell#Mossad_allegati...
Just curious, which European countries have that?
Can you tell us why it won't make it ? Please refute with some basis.
Sounds good to me. Second-best, but that's true of a lot of things.

They should do the same for Europe.
Well, Finding Nemo deserves a remake.
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I'm using a graph for a collaboration platform where the back end benefits from the idea of dynamic relationships between objects where someone "owns," "shares," and things "comprise," etc.

Instead of tacking an RBAC system onto a flat document management system, I just designed my data model as a set of objects and different types of relationships. Saves me the trouble of metadata, normalization, and access control just becomes a traversal instead of having to manage a separate policy store.

Anything that requires collaboration, sharing, user profiles, consent, etc.
> Many cloud service designs today rely on durable queues, such as Event Hub or Kafka.

AFAIK nowhere in the Kafka documentation does it use the term "queue", and unless you only have one consumer per consumer group it's impossible to guarantee FIFO behavior. Maybe call me a nitpicker but I've seen this "queue" language lead to completely wrong assumptions about kafka.
There are many generic drugs that I'm aware of being manufactured in India for consumption in the US. They are required to follow all the FDA manufacturing standards for import. But there are still some quality issues at this time.

https://www.statnews.com/2019/07/22/indian-pharmaceutical-in...
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Sounds like status signalling, not virtue signalling.
> Students opposed to legalized abortion, for example, enter college with narrowly higher GPAs than pro-choice students, but lose most of that advantage over four years. Is this a sign that professors are discriminating against right-wing students? Probably not, according to the study: The authors argue that high school may play more to the strengths of conservative students, who often prefer a straightforward, right-or-wrong assessment style. Liberal students, the authors conjecture, fare better in the qualitative work prioritized in higher education, especially in the humanities.

This sums it up. Conservative thinkers don't do well with nuance, in fact that's probably why they chose conservatism.
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