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I was hoping in the beginning that this would present some interesting new explanation for UFO ... hysteria, but it didn't really get there.

The argument from governmental incompetence isn't terribly compelling to me. The occasional leaks of vast cover-ups -- like the extent of the NSA's surveillance apparatus -- suggest that the government is in fact quite good at keeping sensitive information hidden from the public.

The UFO phenomena appears to me to track more closely with the rise of the extraterrestrial in popular sci-fi. It starts with the War of the Worlds radio broadcast in 1938, made even more compelling perhaps by the events of World War I and the technological advancements that would have seemed to be happening at break-neck speed at the time, and seen through the lens of a global tension as events began leading up to World War II. It was based on a story written in the late 1800s which was just another of many popular British invasion works of fiction at the time, just with an element of science fiction, owing to Wells' training as a science teacher.

From there we have the rapid progression of Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, Space Ghost, Lost in Space, Star Trek, Unsolved Mysteries, The X Files, and a whole pile of other shows, movies, comic books, and magazines. Frequency of UFO reports [1] seems largely US-centric and tracks pretty well with metrics like number of hours of TV watched [2]. It also correlates well with the most common locations for the sightings: in rural areas, who have in recent years shifted their interest in conspiracy theories from the great UFO coverup and towards QAnon and the deep state and all that.

So while the nuclear age may have inspired some of the fiction, it looks to me like it's the entertainment age that created UFO mass hysteria. For the people involved, any phenomena they experienced -- strange lighting, whether real or imagined, or sleep paralysis, or the delirious effects of a sleep aid, or, maybe, proximity to experimental aircraft -- would all be best explained by the fiction they were most familiar with: extraterrestrials.

As cultural interest has shifted towards domestic issues, and we have begun to explore space ourselves, and ubiquitous surveillance has spread to every person's pocket but has yet failed to produce any clear, incontrovertible evidence for alien spacecraft, reports of UFO sightings have likewise been trending downwards.

[1]: http://www.nuforc.org/webreports/ndxevent.html

[2]: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/05/when-...

edit: as I was writing this, ~reggieband posted a comment to this thread that pretty sweetly exemplified my main points: he was watching a Joe Rogan podcast, and thinks that Bob Lazar is being duped into being a part of a government conspiracy to conceal classified aircraft.
The law already doesn't protect us from intrusions into our minds, or from others controlling how we explore our own minds. What makes you think governments will get this right?

If anything, they'll move towards a standard where a person's mental autonomy is reduced even further than it already is.
No it isn't.

There are different effects on the gut microbiome, which affects how many of those calories are processed.
An alternative form of downvote is to reply with a negative comment. This makes a lot of sense since upvotes imply that you agree with all or most of the post while a downvote reveals nothing about what part of the post you dislike or why.
I can take some information that you've sent to me over HTTPS and put it in a public FTP... does that mean HTTPS is insecure?
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I am from Terengganu. And yes people in Terengganu can speak standard Malay, but among themselves they speak a different dialect, which is very different. People from other parts of Malaysia often have difficulty understanding it. It’s more like Scottish to English I would say.
Many of the culture problems with SO are a result of poor or outdated site design and moderation tooling -- and the high-rep users are aware of this and have been pushing for better tools for years. Unfortunately, the company has been neglecting the Q&A site and focusing instead on money-making products like Jobs and Teams. Over the past few years, Stack Overflow has launched several new products (Documentation, Developer Stories, Teams, etc.) and UI redesigns (which were often usability disasters, see [0] and [1]).

Meanwhile, the moderation tools (downvotes, close votes, etc.) have not scaled well and are now woefully inadequate and inefficient. Requests for improved tooling have been silently ignored for years (see [2]) -- for example, an absolutely trivial request to re-word one sentence in the review queue guidance ([3]) was unimplemented for several years (and its eventual implementation was really just a token effort from the staff when tensions between the staff and the community were at an all-time high).

Believe me: SO users know the site is not functioning well, and we've been doing everything we can to try to fix it (some users even create bots and userscripts to work around the site's deficiecies). However, there's only so much we can do without the cooperation of the staff. Tensions have been escalating over the past few years, and there's a lot of mistrust and cynicism on all sides between the company, the site's "power users," and new users. At this point, many of the power users are tired of fighting an uphill battle and have reached the point of giving up ([4]).

Fortunately, there have been some encouraging signs recently: over the past few months, the company has finally started to implement some of the much-needed features we've been requesting for years ([5]). Hopefully these efforts will continue -- we'll just have to wait and see.

If you're interested in reading some more of the history behind this, there's an excellent analysis at https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/331513/258777.

[0]: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/349118/3476191
[1]: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/386505/3476191

[2]: https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/285889/258777
[3]: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/332546/3476191

[4]: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/386324/3476191

[5]: https://stackoverflow.blog/2019/08/20/upcoming-on-stack-over...
I too have visited Terengganu. Your impression of the language vs standard Bahasa is far off the mark. Wikipedia says:

> Terengganu Malay is one of the most aberrant from all the Malay varieties in the Peninsular along with Kelantan-Pattani Malay and developed a distinct phonetic, syntactic and lexical distinctions which makes it mutually unintelligible for speakers from outside the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia.

People from areas quite far away are aware of this, such as the KL shopkeeper mentioned in the article who could not understand its protagonist.
Agreed. It’s a wholly bootstrap site with unfinished elements, poorly laid out columns (on mobile at least), stretched images and requires a login for any action that isn’t the front page.

Oh and the content overlaps the footer.

I think this should have been cleaned up a little before touting it on HN.
I use this approach on a service of mine that is built around a community. It works, I recommend it. When you hit 0 and someone tries to downvote further, it informs you that that action is impossible (no user supplied content can be voted into negative territory). I regard negative point voting to be an unnecessary form of community punishment. If something is spam, abusive, or otherwise breaks the rules, then it needs removed. If a user persists in posting that type of content, they get removed.

In a decent community you don't get punched in the face for asking an ignorant or lazy question. Instead, you do not get any reward or positive feedback for it (upvotes, attention to the question). The default of decency is a neutral, respectful treatment to others; a floor of dignity. People can learn how to better contribute without being either subtly or overtly attacked or bullied.

I also give downvotes an expense, they cost points (they subtract from your account score), and I increase the cost as it makes sense. So a user must earn the ability to downvote through contribution. If the system has too much downvoting, you can gently alter that behavior by ramping the cost overall and individually (if a given user is prone to downvoting heavily, you increase their cost beyond the base system cost).
Sounds like a possible startup project to me
Having recently lost an aunt to cancer, statements like this in medical literature, disappoint:

"However, chronic caloric restriction is not a feasible clinical intervention. Evident difficulties, such as the long period required to be effective, and unacceptable weight loss [10, 11], hamper clinical application in cancer patients."

Doctors will fail to offer fasting as a partial solution because it's assumed that patients will reject this option.

It would be great for fasting to be presented to the patient as a partial solution.

Many would absolutely fast to help survival chances.

Generally the lay advice to one who is sick is: "eat, so you can maintain your strength".

When in fact, the rule of thumb, "eat to maintain your strength" isn't always true.

Sometimes, NOT eating is better for certain diseases, such as cancer.

But few doctors will ever explain this because statements like the above cause doctors to conclude, "telling the patient to fast is not practical.."
In the same way it was never confirmed that Israel has nuclear weapons?
You nerd to get a new Dr. or nutritionist if that's what they told you. If you just got that from rando internet bro science you should talk to a Dr. or nutritionist or try to back your statement up with some clinical research.
Calorie counting works, when someone else is controlling your food supply.

When I control my food supply, my hunger will almost always override the cold math of the calories.

It's a bit like how abstinence can prevent pregnancies, so you don't need condoms or pills. It's of course true in a technical sense, but real world people aren't strong enough to remain abstinent.
I think thought-based Googling will be the true killer app. Home assistant stuff would be really nice as well, though.
>>Education doesn't lead to social mobility, redistribution of wealth does.

Two random thoughts:

Education is good for everybody - the poor may perhaps not gain on the rich, but their quality of life will be better than their similarly poor parents.

Severe redistribution of wealth can have second-order effects : people stop working and producing if too much of their labor is taken from them.
Good point on the state. One good thing from such research results even if impractical itself can yield good targets for future research. If it’s a matter of geometry or crystal lattice spacing from the pressure an alternate formulation might be able to make a meta-stable structure that induces superconductance. Perhaps there’s another part of the state diagram that could be modified.
No, it has not. It is very well supported by studies.
I think the "right to be forgotten" should be limited to certain specific instances regarding long-ago conduct. I don't understand this desire people have to participate in society, then try to completely pull out and say "oh, not only am I not participating, but I want to also redact every piece of content I ever wrote". Forget the person, not their contributions.
Technically, most people like using things like the internet, a monitor, keyboards, etc, and ideally would like computations to finish in a reasonable amount of time and be presented in an understandable format. Bonus points if this can occur on physically realizable machines.
Takeo Ishi is one of the big yodelers. Rest assured he is not an ethnic German. As someone who has learnt German to use it, I have never encountered what you describe, except that one never tries German outside of Germany.
Do a chargeback on your credit card. Let them figure it out. When they realize they aren’t going to get paid, things start to happen.

(That said, I’ve never come close to being dissatisfied with Amazon’s A2Z customer service. They’ve always done what I thought was reasonable or even more in a few cases.)
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> it's just reduced caloric intake

Right, but the point is it is easier to stick to this kind of regime than counting every calorie. And if you stick to the regime it also keeps you focused and conscious about not eating too many colories in general, you don't "forget" that you are trying to lose weight.

Further I've read that fasting kicks your body into a state where it starts to burn the extra reserve fat you have, which should make you feel less hungry after the start of the fast. SO rather than taking calories in, you are using what you already have. I don't know if 16 hours is long enough to get this fat-burning process started but perhaps.

I almost follow this same regime but I often slip and eat all night after the fast :-) But the account above gives me more inspiration to try a lit bit harder. Don't eat after 8pm. Skip the breakfast. How easy is that
It’s especially annoying because the fact that you can’t delete an account is not disclosed up front.
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I have found that getting rid of the sugar and refined carbs from my diet is an effective way to lose weight and keep that weight off (for over a decade now).

I've made no effort to exercise more, control portions or avoid fat and dairy.

I did switch over to cooking all my meals from scratch.
It's not. According to the article it needs to get 12 to 13 times as far away (lg2(3000)).
> And I have a problem with acres of whitespace.

We're talking about just 1.5x line height. Which is a perfectly reasonable default for nice reading. The browsers have a lower default line height because of historical reasons, doesn't mean it's the right one. People don't use the Times font very often either.
> It is counter productive for me to dismiss all of these as just ways to disguise calories intake reduction.

I didn't "dismiss" these, of course these are useful techniques that help people. My point is to not associate non-scientific properties to having kale smoothies or avoiding carbs.

Losing weight is great. Many ways to do it. To say there are such things as "super nutrients" distorts the real process at work here, which is reducing over-eating.

As for a calorie being a calorie, you're misunderstanding my argument. I'm not saying all _foods_ will have the same impact on you biologically. Of course not. Human biology is extremely complex and people should eat a balanced diet.

But what happens too often is people confer special, almost mythical properties to foods or nutrients (like kale, or omega-3 fatty acids, or plant-only diets, or carbs, etc) when the most fundamental process is calories in vs calories out.

Yes, it's possible to lose weight and still be unhealthy (just eating 1500 kcal of McDonalds per day, e.g.), but most health benefits associated from dieting come from weight loss, not isolating particular properties or compounds or ingredients.
Stationary satellite, "stationary" hurricane;

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Look at the default GeoColor, then let it load Channel 14 or 16.
> lack of empathy

I think this interpretation is colored by your own bias. Downvotes only show a lack of empathy if downvotes are a social mechanism to comment on the asker, not the question. Particularly given that the SO guidelines explicitly say that downvotes are for the question, not the asker...

I'm reminded of every stop sign I've ever stopped at in my life. Some asshole is always waving me ahead of them, even though the rules of the road say it is their turn. They probably think they are being considerate. But I don't think they are being considerate - I think they are making traffic flow less well, an inconsiderate act.

Interpreting downvotes as a lack of empathy is the same sort of wrong reasoning as thinking that letting somebody go in front of you at a stop sign is considerate. It disregards the well documented and publicly posted rules for something you made up.
> Downvotes are solely to demote content that is viewed, in the subjective opinion of the voter, as not contributing to productive discussion.

Says who? It's not in the guidelines, so really when to use the feature is determined by its effects. Downvoting obscures comments and hurts a user's karma. So in reality, downvoting is to demote content you don't want yourself or others to see for whatever reason and/or to "hurt" (for lack of a better word) other users.

Your criteria of doing it based on whether it contributes to productive discussion fits in that, but it's not the only possible criteria users may determine for themselves.

mceachen's suggestion is to modify the effects to make the possible criteria space more narrow and more similar to the criteria you shared. When they see such a popdown, they'd have a better idea of what the downvote is meant to be used for. It would provide some guidance on the "proper" use of the feature.
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> Anecdotally I know multiple obese vegans, but that aside at the end of the day it's calories burned vs calories consumed.

Anecdotes are not data, but 'obese vegans' don't suprise me at all. Carbs are very present in vegan diets, therefore it's easy to overeat.

Also, yes you can get fat from veggies, but honestly, most have so few calories per kg, you would need to feast on them the whole day.
> No, calories vary massively. If someone ate 2000 calories of vegetables each day and someone else ate 2000 calories of sugar there would be a huge amount of difference between their nutrition.

As someone who lost 95kg within 2yrs And subsequently regained 40 over the next 10... That's not what it was for me.

Calories were always directly linked to me gaining or losing weight.

The difference was mainly in what happens after i've eaten the sugar calories. It's gonna take a few minutes or hours and I want to eat the next serving.

Sugar just... makes you eat more, both short and long term. If it's 2k today, it'll be 2.2k tomorrow and so on.
The limitations are there to protect the battery pack and motors - Teslas are production cars with multi-year warranty, so the conservative limits are accordingly.
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Accountability is subject to power. Gambia, like South Africa before then, can have a Truth and Reconciliation because they have overthrown the reign of terror.

The US (and for that matter UK) have not had the thorough regime change that would enable a true accounting. And yes, this has to include the media and the permanent state.
As a software engineer who makes $150,000 per year, I'm wondering why you assume that inequality is bad? It's possible that we could improve the conditions of the poor while also increasing inequality, so that means that there's never any reason to discuss wealth redistribution as a possible solution to poverty. Also, it's human nature to want to help your offspring, so therefore it's immoral to ever even think of doing anything to reduce the advantages that rich kids get. After all, I'm for equality of opportunity, not outcome.

If you really want to help the poor, the priority should be growing the economy, which should be measured by how well my stocks are doing. This article should be flagged as a propaganda piece from the far-left publication Vice.
Empirically speaking 4/4/9 calories per gram of carb/protein/fat. So generally speaking no, 1lb != 3,000 calories.
It's for practice space for the Subterranean Challenge [1], before the secret project speculation starts =P

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> Electriticity infrastructure was built to provide electricity to privileged few

What group of people built the "electricity infrastructure" you now enjoy? And if they hadn't built it, do you think you would have access to dependable electricity right now?
Email Client in Beta and does what it says. What you guys think. Btw I am not a developer or no way related to this. I just like this. But $15/mo is way higher for individual user for emails
Reading a biography of TE Lawrence and his magnificent book Seven Pillars of Wisdom, I realized that the story of Paul Atreides in Dune is largely based on his life.
It evolved over billions of memory bit errors from the Code Red virus.
This comment is veering into John Perry Barlow's "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace" territory.

The only thing that's become eminently obvious in recent years is what an intellectually bankrupt ideology it is. And I think even most self-reflective "cyberlibertarians" (who are probably in there 40s, 50s, and 60s) would agree with that at this point.

Technology is not inherently emancipatory. In fact it's being used to subjugate and oppress people all over the world. At best technology is neutral.

Representative governments are sovereign. The only thing that is going to emancipate mankind are the things that have always: self-determination, rule of law, strong institutions, and people who adhere to enlightenment values. No one wants to be ruled by an unaccountable technocratic elite who are mostly from the west coast of the US.
I use a driverless subway almost daily. And it's rare, but not not terribly rare to see the fallback driver panel in use. It works because a fallback driver can be deployed in minutes, which is very much not true with the distances spanned by heavy rail.

Regarding the L train, how much would service suffer if the "supervisor" wasn't there to clean up whatever is left by reliability nines? We may never know. And it is hardly surprising that a recently modernized line is beating the living history museum that is the rest of the MTA. It's quite a leap to go from modernization causing reliability to automation causing reliability.
> Between the "why would you want to do this?" answers

This is my pet peeve: WHY ... DO ... YOU ... CARE.

Also, duplicates that not only are a completely different question but THIS question is ranked #1 by both DDG and Google.
I just finished chemo eight months ago. I lost 35 pounds. I'm 6' and went from 140 pounds to 105. So yeah, my nutritionist gave me shit for putting water in my feeding tube because it doesn't have any calories. Ensure, juice, gatorade, anything was better than water. I had neck/mouth cancer and for about month I wasn't able to swallow anything (including water).

I was doing about 3K calories of formula a day and still dropping weight. Everything hurt. My joints were a wreck and getting out of bed was a chore. I started doing 8oz of formula (TwoCal HN) and mixing that with 8oz of vitamin D milk. In a few days my joint pain went away.

But yes, infusion rooms have little cafeterias and are stocked with soda, ice cream, juice, candy, and so on. Anything to get calories in people.
All: sorry for the false starts, we're going to go tomorrow because of the American holiday.
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But making a building aesthetically pleasing usually is for the purpose of increasing profit (attracting tenants, etc).

Any building where the owner is worried about resale value or attracting long-term customers who care about visual appeal is incentivized not to cut corners if it’s any kind of buyer’s market.
What is this backgroundchecks.org? Last time I saw this site, this wasn't a part of it. The site itself doesn't give any information about who is behind it.