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Life’s too short to give a crap about working myself to death. I’m alive and I’m happy, and I clock out at 40 hours. I have friends and hobbies that I love, and that’ll matter infinitely more to me in my final moments than spending a few more hours toiling away for some faceless money machine that only cares when I’m gone because of the paperwork it creates.
Conjecture is silly when there's good data to be had.

The number one cause of bankruptcy in the United States:

> "medical expenses"[0]

The average amount charged for an ER visit in the United States:

> between 2008 and 2017, the average price of hospital ER visits rose 135 percent, from $393 to $924[1]

The cost of an ambulance ride in the United States:

> $164/mile[2]

And make sure to compound the monetary cost with the cost of people avoiding medical care out of fear and unknowns surrounding the actual monetary cost.

[0] take your pick of any study done by anyone

[1] https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/average-cost-o...

[2] https://www.consumerreports.org/consumerist/164-per-mile-sur...
produce rich in nutrients are typically also tastier. However, modern groceries (such as massive chain stores) require huge logistics and scale, and thus expect farmers to produce a steady, homogenous and sturdy crop that also happen to lack nutrients. It's unfortunate that for the produce to be cheap, it has to be done the way it is today.

Not everybody can afford to have "organically grown" heirloom tomatoes, because it's too expensive, and labour intensive. May be genetically modifying foods to also take in minerals properly is the answer...
That’s probably the real problem.
I've been using type hints with my bottle projects for some time now. Makes it a lot easier to write JSON based apis.

https://github.com/theSage21/bottle-tools
See my responses to AnimalMuppet downthread.
I'm hoping for the marijuana legalization people that test happens because get the feeling that DUI is going to be a problem.
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I'm a lifelong patient. I currently have great coverage.

I don't know how it's possible, but our healthcare system has been getting worse every year. Even simple stuff like refilling scripts has become Kafka Meets Keystone Kops. The insurer has interjected itself into every single transaction, second guessing everything, adding ever more hoops to jump thru.

It's a wonder that we even bother with doctors any more, since the insurers apparently know better than my doctors.

Things are so bad, I wouldn't even know where to start if anyone wanted to fix things.

Better to just start over.
> This is all to say that the closer I look at the evidence regarding how our brains function, the more I’m convinced that we’re designed to be single-threaded, working on things one at a time, waiting to reach a natural stopping point before moving on to what’s next.

So it's another hypothesis, parading around as a common claim.
Agreed. Thanks for chiming in. It can be hard to calibrate whether a particular strategy is reasonable or not, so hearing what the folks here have to say has been helpful!
>> There is a reason why these DevOps certifications exist in the first place...

Yes there is a reason, but you're not going to like the answer if I tell you what it is.
I mean, you can even google it like I did, from this page: https://www.ophthoquestions.com/posts/why-i-left-kaiser-and-...

"For those who are not familiar with the Kaiser system, here is a very abbreviated explanation. Kaiser Permanente is an HMO, and consists of the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan (the Kaiser insurance) and the Permanente Medical Groups (the Kaiser doctors). The patients buy the Kaiser insurance and they are only allowed to see Kaiser doctors. The Kaiser doctors are salaried from the pool of insurance premiums and provide service only to the Kaiser patients. In the Kaiser model, services are prepaid, so there is no financial incentive or penalty to providing or receiving medical care."
I just instinctively hit reader view on my iPad, and that worked too.
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> most interactions should not be Internet scale

Metcalfe law's shadow: the risks in a network are proportional to the square number of people connected to the network.
If you were accepted into multiple Ivies with full financial aid you were definitely eligible for work study and student loans.

Personally, I would recommend anyone in that situation to opt for the Ivy as it really does open doors later in life.
> Let's use another example of a great man who accomplished a lot without working real hard: Winston Churchill. A day drinker who was fond of long meals, boozy parties and who took a daily hour and a half long nap. Somehow he managed to take up painting, write a couple dozen encyclopediac books, ran many important government offices and defeated Hitler.

I'm don't think taking naps and enjoying parties disqualify the possibility of also working hard. There's probably a difference between doing a lot of work, and feeling that you're "working hard" - I can't say whether Churchill experienced the latter, but he certainly accomplished the former.
Oh dude congrats! That's a whole decade worth of wins right there. Keep it up!
Thanks for sharing, Tastyfreeze.
Take a rear-facing seat if available.
These things are cultural myths. Science doesn't back them up.

Some cultures practice these things, some don't. Also, I assume all cultures can change.
Whose interests?

US/Western companies have been undermining interests of people living in those countries themselves for quite some time by outsourcing and tax tricks.
And ultimately their own as Chinese became good at cloning, then some innovation by portion at things they build...
You could, but it would be stupid to do so if it wasn't a trivial app, since nobody wants to support something like that, even if it's lifetime is measured in minutes or hours. It's a one-liner, just a pointless one.

That said, if rails has a super simple default startup that could serve a file, then it might be useful to start that as a one liner in select circumstances.
If I thought the premise was self-evident, I would not have wasted my time challenging you. The review you cited covers effects of participation in team sport on physical well-being and certain markers of psychological well-being, but you claimed that sport builds character.

Perhaps I assumed a different meaning from the one you intended, but when I hear people going on about sport building character, they're usually talking about their idea of "moral character".

This study does not test, let alone support, the premise that sport builds moral character. Did you mean some other kind of character?
As far as the OS goes, having used MacOS at work for 6 years across 2 separate Pro laptops, ending about a year ago, I'd now rather write code on Windows 98. The terminal was one bright spot until it started crashing repeatedly about a year or two ago (many reports of that online and it was not fixed for months, until I no longer had to use MacOS). I have a looong list of glitches, crashes, hangs and feature rants, but my favorite was the proliferation of "Memory cleaner" apps, one of which I've actually had to use. The way they work is they take up a ton of memory and then release it to force MacOS to actually manage memory properly, so all your other apps don't stutter or crash with allocation failures. And it worked like a charm for me! I've had a free app but apparently people pay for them, too. That's pretty much MacOS in a nutshell as far as my experience goes.
I am guessing it’s similar to Japan’s NHK and their fees.
And massively cheap if you factor in the saving from a night of accommodation.
Is any organized collective action from the public possible here?

What if we had a service that would take your itemized bill and spit out the fair market prices. Then, you would tell the hospital/doctor/insurance that you would pay this price and nothing more.

If enough people did that, could it actually work?
I love the idea and if it were available on the 7 hour drive I do on the regular I'd use it but some of this marketing copy is extraordinary!

> Whenever the vehicle experiences an event that will create vertical acceleration for our resting guests (the feeling of “bumpiness”)

aka whenever the vehicle goes over a bump?
There are lots of good books on it and youtubes. It largely depends on what you want to grow. Fruiting plants are different than leafy plants, for example.

I suggest starting with a nutrient blend like this:
https://www.amazon.com/MasterBlend-4-18-38-Tomato-Vegetable-...

You can look up the ratios of the elements for different plants on the web. It's all out there. mhpgardener on Youtube is amazing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXy32Dr4Z4A He has videos on how to set up different types of hydroponic systems, there are 3 main types, the video link is to an Ebb and Flow system called Dutch Buckets and is mainly used for fruiting plants like tomatoes, eggplant and peppers.

There's also Nutrient Film Technique (NFT) which is more like what you see in PVC systems that pump water along the roots of the plants. There's also a raft system where the plants float on top of the water and the roots are constantly submerged.

I looked at Aeroponics too and I believe that is an excellent system as well, though did not try it.

Watch mhpgardener's experiments with different nutrients. He does one with organic nutrients, but they didn't grow as well as the masterblend recipe, which you can learn about here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYv9iu2NI3M

I remember watching a video about a Japanese company that can tweak the flavor of different herbs to exactly cater to what their chefs wanted to accentuate different notes for different dishes.

For equipment, you'll need a pH meter:
https://www.amazon.com/Poit-Digital-Meter-Tester-Resolution/...

a PPM meter for nutrient concentration:
https://www.amazon.com/HM-Digital-TDS-EZ-Measurement-Resolut...

The rest depends on the setup you want and the plants you want to grow. What do you want to grow? I can point you to a good kit to get started. Here's one for dutch buckets on amazon, real cheap. https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Water-Culture-DWC-Hydroponic/dp/... You could grow two tomato plants in one bucket and get 20-30 pounds out of it in one season very easily.

Pretty much anyone here can do hydroponics. It's like programming plants!

And they do not taste like grocery store hydroponic veggies. Those are grown to meet other priorities: thick skin, shelf life, uniformity, color (sometimes). They are not concerned with flavor or nutrients.

In your home, in your yard, you can prioritize any aspect of the plant you want, what's important to you: Flavor, Nutrients, Color, Size, harvest dates.

They are all just numbers. It's not that hard. It's not easy and you have to care but it's the same as anything. If you care and you want it, you can do it. I know, because I did and I want more people to know they can too.

YOU CAN!
Is that why people from all over the world come to USA for cancer care, against all costs?
Or better yet, "Edward Snowden: 'I'm an indoor cat'"
I saw Julia speak at KubeCon last year in Seattle. She’s a talented engineer who has found a unique and approachable way of teaching DevOps/SRE tooling and concepts. I wish her much happiness and success in the next year!
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The focus also changed, way back then the Igs were awarded for discoveries "that cannot, or should not, be reproduced". Over time they changed to "honor achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think".

If you are in Boston next year you should attend. The show isn't mean-spirited at all.
I suspect it's about connection to BTS or at least core network which already is often fiber.

Not out of realm of possibility but would take a long time to fully develop and deploy.
Maybe my experience is totally unique, but when I hire someone who isn’t fresh out of college, I only care about experience / interview skills / references. I give someone bonus points if they come from a no-name school and still wind up at the top of their game. I’ve also noticed that the best entrepreneurs I’ve worked for have come from no-name schools.

It’s almost like industries that are more focused on skills don’t give a shit about what school you went to! It’s always the capped jobs (law, medicine, accounting) that arbitrarily limit who can work in the industry that care most about prestige labels.
Separately from your rhetoric, Trump has perpetrated many chances in law and practice that benefit really wealthy people, exactly like the Sackler. These include massive tax cuts for really wealthy people, and reducing fines and legal exposure for wealthy people. He's the opposite of a reaction to reign in wealthy people. He is a rabble rouser who uses his rhetorical power to make actions that at least in taxes and wealth only hurt poor, populist supporting people.
Recent trends in vertical farming are to heavily automate all of this and use sensors to maximize yields and minimize waste. Greenhouses in the Netherlands have been using hydroponics at scale for decades and are a reason it's a leading exporter of e.g. tomatoes and many other crops. The whole point of hydroponics is industrial scale and maximizing yields.

What you call industrial farming started roughly mid last century when people were people figured out how to grow a handful of crops at scale using large machinery at the cost of diversity and quality. The modern variant of that heavily relies on overusing pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers, etc.

The downside of farming like this is the lack of diversity of crops and the negative side-effects on the environment. Industrial farming has destroyed vast amounts of land and turned them into eroded wastelands and deserts.

Modern farming is becoming more high tech and using data driven approaches, automation, etc. enables smarter use of land, a wider variety of crops, better quality produce, and more efficient use of resources (water, chemicals, nutrients, light, energy, etc.). Hydroponics are one form of that but also organic farming has evolved way beyond hippies growing small amounts of produce like the industrial revolution never happened. Organic farming at industrial scale is becoming a thing.
The university I attend is considered moderately competitive (~35% acceptance rate). Each year since the year I was admitted it has only gotten more difficult to receive automatic admission (top percentile students). The highly coveted classes at this university are reserved for students that require the course in order to graduate on time, because the demand is generally much higher than the supply of professors to fulfill that demand. This means you cannot take relevant courses across departments. I get the impression that these "elite" universities are busting at the seams and can barely cater to the influx of students they are receiving each year.
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The problem of learning by doing is that it's extremely hard to find good tutorials designed for production. Most of what I find these days is 'hello world'y and then you need some tool like Sentry to catch edge cases that don't get caught in your limited testing.

I've 'rebuilt' our kubernetes cluster almost 3 times since I started by applying lessons learned from running the last iteration for a few months. It's just like anything else in software development, as you start your tech debt is high mostly due to inexperience. Force yourself to reduce that debt whenever you can.

As an example: the first version had a bunch of N1's (1 VCPU machines) with hand written yaml files, no auto scaling. I had to migrate our database and had a headache updating the DB connection string on each deployment. Then I discovered external services, which let me define the DB hostname once. (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/kubernetes-best-p...).

It's just to say with kubernetes, I think it's impossible to approach it thinking you'll get it right the first time. Just dedicate more time to monitoring at the beginning so you don't do anything 'too stupid' and take the time to bake in what you learn to your cluster.
A landcruise. I like it.

A european company did something like this: Busabout. They ran a circuitous route (or two) around W. Europe. You'd buy a 30d pass and hop on/off wherever you wanted. You could continue, back-track, whatever you wanted.

Doubt they had sleepers.

Kinda like the Eurail passes I guess.
not quite related but ... any recommendation on a good open source mud? most of the projects I've tried have been very raw, or unmaintained. eg https://ranviermud.com/
It is very easy to create backdoor classical encryption systems by adding multiple keys, especially for public key cryptosystems. If this is done in hardware, you'd be hard pressed to find it.

Not so with quantum encryption. At least I'm not aware of research that shows that this can be done.
Though I have seen some interesting spying instead of the bass quantum encryption schemes which didn't use all of the phase and magnitude.
A few bus loads of passengers is not nearly enough demand for rail so this service doesn't really prove anything one way or the other.
I would start by making all drugs legal without a prescription except in the rare case of a systemic risk. Antibiotics and super-bugs are one example of systemic risk. Grandma's heart medication, or Suzie's asthma inhaler are not. And of course you should be able to purchase those drugs from countries we generally would trust to create safe products: Canada, UK, France, Spain, Germany, etc.

Second, I would require that all medical products and services must have their prices acknowledged by the consumer before service is rendered. Obviously there would have to be some exceptions for extreme medical emergencies, but emergency care only makes up about 1% of healthcare costs, so that can slide.

I would disband medical unions such as the AMA, which spent decades artificially limiting supply of medical workers to keep wages sky high.

I would ban employer provided health insurance, decoupling healthcare from employment.

I would attempt to reshape the health insurance industry to actually work like insurance instead of total coverage. If you get the sniffles, just pay the market rate to visit the NP at the CVS minute clinic, get your antibiotic or whatever, and be on your way. Insurance should not be involved in that, and should be reserved for major medical emergencies or serious conditions like cancer.

I would have serious patent reform, moving pharmaceuticals to generics at a faster rate, and expedite FDA certification for generics. I would work to create a system of partner countries for healthcare certification. If your drug is approved in France, you get a greatly expedited process in the US and vice versa.

If those things didn't dramatically bring down the price of healthcare to a reasonable rate, then I'd consider some socialization of risk.
I made a compilation of Ruby one-liners [1] as well last year.

There's plenty of stuff that is similar to Perl, which in turn had borrowed from awk, sed and other tools. The biggest difference I'd pick is Perl's context based operation.

# Ruby requires explicit conversion with to_i
ruby -ane 'print if $F[1].to_i > 35'
perl -ane 'print if $F[1] > 35'

Performance is slower compared to Perl, but to those who already know Ruby, this would suit better than learning the nuances of another language.

[1] https://github.com/learnbyexample/Command-line-text-processi...
I don't know what it is like in your country, but in the US we are awash in lawyers.
I have the opposite problem. I avoid human interaction because I haven't figured out how to get people to stop talking to me about their problems.
Medium is terrible, I don't quite understand why people allow a company to monetize their blog for medium's gain. But, that's their choice, not mine.
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Ya me too on malnutrition and food desserts. Americans eat so few veggies and we are still living for a long time. And for rich Americans who match Japanese longevity, this doesn't seen to be hurting us.

Like if we all had scurvy and were bleeding from the gums by age 19 I'd be worried more :)

Or maybe it is what is spiking auto immune diseases or something weird.
Most big ball of muds have all that this article preaches. they are still big balls of mud because the rules are full of exceptions when they were convenient to the devs. and exceptions are as hidden as all the other things called out in the naive article.
Maybe a special duty office for this should be created. (Like for meat and meat products in EU.)
The Age of Empires 2 scene is actually growing these days. There's plenty of people to play at whatever skill level you are. It's better than ever.
From what I can quickly find on the web, I'd estimate that they sold about $35 billion worth of Oxycontin. That doesn't include all of the other opioids they sold through Purdue and other affiliated companies. I'd say it's likely that the vast majority of the Sackler fortune is from Oxycontin.

If you rob a bank you can't just give the money back if you get caught, and you certainly can't just give half of it back.
You still seem to confound skinniness and willpower and again, the second link I showed someone well into 40+ BMI changing. Secondly, this article has a few issues as well. The participants are older, which we know is difficult to lose weight at (which does support your claim, but not for the same reasons). The article also does not appear to compare the participant's appetite increases to those of "healthy" individuals. What does an "8" represent, and would any person show the same signs?

I will assume that formerly obese people have higher cravings. No doubt a former heroin addict has cravings. I will accept that it is harder for these individuals. But again, that does not mean you shrug your shoulders and say "that's the way it is".
Is this basically a precursor to modern glulam?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glued_laminated_timber
+1 on Living Web Farms. They have a lot of great videos about sustainable farming practices. I've learned a lot from the whole gang there - but especially from Mr. Pat Battle. If you have any interest in learning how to grow some of your own food, you should check them out.
> The mix of programming, creativity, and camaraderie was sometimes very special. Maybe my recollections are clouded by nostalgia, but it sometimes felt like a hacker fantasy, coding, role-playing, and working together for good (fun).

I agree! I got into MUDs when I was 13-14 and they introduced me to good programming practices early on with things like CVS, checking patches in a group, and running dev environments for testing with various playtest groups.

The dev cycle was great too, with to-do lists based on long-term goals and player input, with coders/admins breaking up tasks for planning to get things done.

It's really hard to overstate how important that was in instilling good practices and a feel of "this is how things should be" in me as a kid, and it's definitely carried over to my professional life now, some 20 years later. I even wrote about it in my college entrance essays (something my mother mocked me for), but it was such a good experience that I don't regret it at all.

I actually found a split-off branch of a MUD I used to frequent/code for and after logging in and asking about people I remembered for a while, someone started a global in-MUD game -- one that /I'D/ made over a decade ago. That was an incredibly gratifying experience, knowing that some of my oldest, most amateur code was still out there and people were still getting some fun out of it. :)

Edit: If anyone out there was on some Wheel of Time MUDs, I was on The Weave/The True Source and As The Wheel Weaves.
The fact that Homeworld wasn't mentioned until the last paragraph was a major case of "they had us in the first half not gonna lie" for me.

Cannot wait for the sequel. I spent so many hours playing HW1. Great balance of macro and micro strategy.