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I don't buy this line of argument.

If the news reflects the medical community's POV and the medical community is wrong, that makes them "complicit"?

>Piece after piece told readers, including young doctors and medical students like me, that pain was under-treated and opioids were safe. Outlets championed a paradigm shift in the way we thought about pain relief. Pain joined body temperature, blood pressure, heart rate, and breathing rate as the fifth vital sign.

Was that untrue? I remember those stories, lots of doctors were advocating for a change on how pain was treated.

The article straight up says that the medical community thought opioids were the answer.

Should the news media have rejected the medical community's position and suggested people use something else? Essential oils? Some sort of anti vax message?

The medical community might want to think twice about telling the news media or anyone else that they should have disregarded their expertise in the past as I'm not sure they'd like it if that happened today...
American (who spends lots of time in India) here: what is stamp duty and registration? I see a lot of stamp paper and still don't really understand what it is
you can do all of that on a ti-84
I'd love a citation for your 90% number then because I couldn't find any information broken down by location of border crossing.
That in the former case, the drugs in question are given to you by your country's medical system, while in the latter case, you have to procure them yourself on a black market?
> …people routinely modified the system classes.

People!

What can be done?

— reject libraries that change system classes?

— accept that library version G is said to work with system version F, and may not work with system version Q?

— accept that along with library source code comes the burden of resolving library conflicts?
Agreed most upper echelons of governments can be seen as gangs.
Why did you dodge the question? Who do you consider a real American and why? And if the answer is "someone who self-identifies as an American", why do you think that doesn't include liberals?
in my experience (4 years without "friend"-based social media), becoming disconnected from friends is temporary. during the first year after quitting social media, you will have to work hard to maintain relationships; you will have to instigate social time with your friends through other channels. but after a while, it will start to work in your favor. when those same friends are setting up events on facebook, they'll start to remember that you can only be reached through other channels and they'll start reaching out to you even when they might not have thought to invite you via facebook. and when they want to have a conversation with somebody but don't feel like opening the facebook app, who will they reach out to? you.

my approach was to keep my facebook account, but strip it of everything except my name and a profile picture that says "i don't use fb, please text me". that way, people can still be reminded that i exist and they know i'm always a text message away.
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> If a single nation has that power, what's stopping China from making Tienanmen Square unsearchable worldwide?

Nothing, and they're already doing that sort of thing in a variety of cases.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/22/business/china-social-cre...

"United, Delta and American received letters last year from Chinese aviation officials saying their social credit score could be hit unless their websites labeled Macau, Hong Kong and Taiwan as part of China. Lower scores would lead to investigations, the possibility of frozen bank accounts, limitations on local employees’ movement and other punishments, according to a letter sent to United and seen by The New York Times."
What counts as complicit?

Reporting accurately on what the medical community thought the answer was?
I’ve been a cyclist all my life, including hanging out with antique bicycle clubs (I have an 1886 Columbia highwheeler) where one might, might, see an 1890s Columbia shaft drive. I might have seen a half dozen of the Columbias over the years. I have never seen a shaft-driven bicycle made in the last 100 years in anything but pictures.

So though shaft-driven bicycles most certainly exist, I would argue that they are the dictionary definition of “uncommon”.
The thing that bothers me the most about framing this as "foreign influence" is that precisely no one knows even remotely accurately how much foreign influence is taking place in Western countries, but this meme has been repeated 24 x 7 for years now, typically with hat tips to "evidence" (which is usually just a narrative based theory based on some inconclusive circumstantial evidence, if you follow the thread of evidence through the articles), that the majority of the population seems not just completely convinced that it is an epidemic, but they will passionately argue against anyone who asks where's the beef.

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed. Perception is reality.

"Foreign influencers are constantly on the lookout for opportunities to inflame hot button issues in the United States. They don’t do this to win arguments; they want to see us divided."

I can think of a few domestic groups who seem to have been engaged in this very behavior, to great success, for many decades now.
Viewing the initial question from a perspective of social status the answers the article makes have pretty simple answers. Males competing between other males in video games and win gains a perceived gain in social status, so when they put down the game and face others around them there is a natural clash as the social status gain is seen nor recognized by the social environment outside the game. Aggression is common in most societies as the cultural accepted method to defend social status, so from outside it look like video games make males aggressive.

Females compete for social status more on social media, and thus social gains and losses occur on their mobile phone. As a result it look like social media cause females to become aggressive (with the cultural methods of aggressiveness that is appropriate in a given society).

With this perspective we get the exact behavior that the article highlight with no difference in brains. Same brain pathways, same biological reaction, just two different social status competitions (females vs females, males vs males) and two different cultural accepted behaviors when it comes to defending social status.
YC collects as much data about you as any other social network would via its website.

We have gotten to a point where people are set off by the information a standard http request sends to the server because it’s common practice to log each http request.

It sadly all has become a unproductive privacy extremist conversation
Make sure to vouch for it to cancel out the mass-flagging.
Id suggest anyone not affiliated to a larger group would be in danger. I agree an outcast solo man might fare slightly better on their own, but in a dynamic enviro with other people a woman might fare slightly better.
Complicit? Reporters aren't medical experts. They reported what the medical pros of the 90s said. And, the doctors at the time all nodded their heads and said it was great stuff.
Nothing comes even close to having fewer kids [1].

[1] https://globalnews.ca/news/3595511/climate-change-carbon-foo...
If you think the Office of National Statistics lie, then I suggest you take it up with them.

The nation isn't tearing itself apart. A bunch of us who lost the vote have decided to attempt to thwart the result. May was a remainer and a weak negotiator, other remainers are weakening the UKs negotiating position by insisting we can't walk away from a bad deal.

We lost. It's over. The vote was to leave. Let's leave.

And yes then let's fix the environment, knife crime and everything else too.
And how does that change the result of the referendum? What's happened over the last 3 years is an utterly scandalous denial of democracy, and it's frightens me tbh to see so many people acting in support of something other than respecting a democratic vote simply because it didn't suit them.

If we had voted to remain and there was a movement attempting to force us to leave I would be manning the barricades in support of remain, despite the fact I voted leave and believe we should leave. And that's because the principle of freedom supercedes what I may or may not like. That's democracy: sometimes you lose, and you moan a bit, and then accept it and get on with things.

In the end, democracy is the only thing that the little man has to defend himself and fighting to keep us in the EU is taking even that little thing away. Why bother voting ever again when if the result is inconvenient for the powers that be, they will simply declare democracy invalid?
Mortality from smallpox vaccine was small, but not zero.
Help, facebook was reading the old joke headlines again.
Thank you. Yes, not having the vesting agreement is a mistake. A lawyer is currently too expensive for me, so I'll try to get it done myself. Even if they found some way to get me out without my consent/go around me, the fact that I've done most work about the app apart from programming means that Jim & whoever he hires would have a hard time understand & navigating it wihout my help & advice
PHP is, at its core (i.e. after in-engine precompilation), a hand-coded-in-C virtual machine with its ISA purpose-designed for efficiently generating dynamic HTML from the results of backend network service requests.

Honestly, that’s not a bad idea. It’s a lot like how many old game consoles have ISAs that specifically make game software efficient to run compared to generic application software. Purpose-built architectures can be exploited to achieve incredible efficiencies in CPU/memory usage for a given effect—as any demoscene programmer could tell you. Even emulators running this CISC code often outperform the same code written idiomatically for the host arch (see: one of the reasons that z/OS FORTRAN programs stick around.)

So far as I know, we haven’t recapitulated this approach in any other modern stack. Sure, we “compile” templates, but only to the bytecode ISA of the scripting language hosting the MVC framework, which has none of these dynamic-HTML-oriented CISC opcodes (other than maybe the Erlang VM’s vectorized write of “IO lists” using writev(2).)

A web MVC framework for another language (e.g. Ruby, Node, Elixir, whichever!) would actually likely do well in performance terms by having its “view” component be a static PHP (or Zend microcode) generator, feeding the web frontend (e.g. Nginx) a directory of PHP to expose to the world, which would only call into the server backend (and so the MVC controller) through API-subdomain subrequests. The static-generated PHP “app” would serve the same purpose as a JavaScript SPA... but would exist on the server together with the backend, so there’d be much less point in persisting state there (since you’re not patching over a latency boundary by doing so.)

There’d probably be even more efficiencies to uncover if you designed an ISA from the ground up to be used solely for this purpose (i.e. being “edge-worker logic” spat out during a backend’s compilation phase), though, compared to PHP which must be Turing-complete for those that want to use it as a full-stack solution. I imagine the resulting ISA would look like some weird bytecode hybrid of eBPF, Server-Side Includes, and Nginx’s in-memory representation of loaded location{} entries. (I also imagine that some Cloudflare engineer already has a design for such an ISA in a notebook somewhere, as a more-efficient-through-constraints Cloudflare Workers target—but they haven’t bothered going further because it’s kind of an arcane idea and they’d need buy-in from framework devs before it’d be useful to build.)
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Yeah, knowing fewer facts and understanding where those facts come from and how they fit together is better than just memorizing lots of trivia.
From my personal experience.

I was a co-founder in a startup. It was split 50/50. I did all the development work and my partner did the business development work.

I had to drop out due to health reasons. I retained 1%, which I felt was fair. The main thing is they needed to bring in new people to replace me and needed equity to offer them. We did formalize it, and I have the legal documentation showing my shares in the company.

They have gotten investment so I'm sure my share is diluted quite a bit by now.

That was about 5 years ago that I left. At this point I'm ok if I don't get anything out of it.
Columbia did make a two-speed version. It’s been so long that I forget exactly how it works, but it’s not an internal hub.
TLDR: practice

this article has almost no actual content
All this does is to move business out of EU.

We are now worst that when we started: Still no right to privacy and now, loosing our companies.
I agree this paper isn't really useful for biology. LANL maintains team of pseudo-biologists who scale up MD simulations and publish papers like this periodically (https://www.lanl.gov/projects/karissa/Ribosomes.html shows some previous work).

I wish this was a field where you could just apply more CPU and get better results (I say that with multiple papers published under my name which claim exactly that) but I'm skeptical. The force fields we use are far too approximate (point charges, assumption of transferrability) and it really does seem like we don't actually need most of this information to answer the questions we want to answer- those can be answered using more parsimonious techniques.
I think that is a little too generous.

It was a poor design because it didn't take into account the thermals of the hardware it was sold containing. It throttled its graphics cards from the start but also got worse as dust/age set in. It couldn't be upgraded or fixed because they chose appearance over practicality.

It was, is, and will always be the "garbage can." It has nothing to do with the industry's direction, it was poor as-sold.
Really though? When the inventor of the concept of "free software" and the founder of the Free Software Foundation says that free software is not the same as open source software I don't really think you can seriously declare that "it's up for interpretation".
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Same as America. We have been doing this for the last 50 years.
A farming community will only last until someone else establishes martial superiority over it.

The best business is a protection racket. Establish martial superiority before someone else does. You can even offer a nicer protection racket than the others. But you’re gonna need organized firepower if you want to keep any of the wealth you produce in the long term
Looking at the CO2 pollution charts ...

It's clear that India is the next China: The country that we order cheap manufactured goods from, so our own CO2 numbers keep looking good and we don't have to concern ourselves with worker rights, pollution, etc.

Also, what many people forget, that the country is so big, their middle class (or even rich class) is bigger than their/my entire country.
discussed many times already on HN, most notably here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21049822
Funny enough. Every time I visit my favored academic institution's athletics department website, I get asked to turn off my ad blocker.
Not that I am a big fan of SCMP, but this fact is well known that India provoked the war[1]. There was even an opportunity to call off the war but we (our government) denied it.

[1] https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/geopolitics/article/2102555/i...
The USA appears to be more than "center" right, but that's beside the point. People weigh certain issues more heavily than others. So while someone might be pro union, they might vote for an anti-union candidate because of another stance they are more passionate about.
My experience as well. A lot of people even in Tier 3 places ask whether if you have Tez or something especially if they don't have change.
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If I was running 10,000 transfer jobs in parallel and the longest of them took 12 minutes, the job would take 12 minutes
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I remember the scripts we passed around so that you could hop on CServe and download all the things you cared about, read it offline, respond offline and then dial back in to sync.

This was at a time when my 486-33 with its 400MB hard drive and 16MB of ram was bleeding edge (for the first month I owned it at least).
It's really common for "security" products to assume bad guys will meekly obey conventions like telling the truth. "Are you a bad guy?" "No". Ok then, test passed.

Plenty of anti-TLS 1.3 stuff for example says that they "need" the plaintext Certificate message which in TLS 1.3 is now encrypted. But that message is literally just some public data - an X.509 certificate, if you're using it to "verify" anything your security is broken because a bad guy can send someone else's cert. They can't send a working CertificateVerify for it, but you don't know that because that message was never plaintext.
Wouldn't the mob run away after a few people in front got shot? I'm sure there are historical examples for comparison.
> Because people who say they believe in science have a really hard time accepting the cognitive dissonance that arises when science contradicts their beliefs

Exactly this. And it's fascinating and educational to observe. I wouldn't recommend to intervene though, just make an observation and move on.
> We should never indulge any interest merely because it exists.

We absolutely should. Blocking someone from something they desire, from their "pursuit of happiness" is patently imoral. Prohibitions don't work because people want what they want.

> You fail to really ask who benefits

The customer benefits from getting what they want in nicotine, and the company benefits from getting what they want in money.

Benefit is entirely in personal perception.

Just because you don't believe the person is better off for getting nicotine products, doesn't mean they don't.
Stupid question, but if you straight-up own 40% with none of the usual options/vesting stuff, then can’t you just tell Jim to go stuff it until he comes up with an offer to buy that 40% back that sounds reasonable to you?

You came together a couple years ago with a plan to make something and own it 60/40. Now you have something and you own 40% of that thing. I’m not sure how your continued employment matters at this point. It’s like saying someone needs to be employed at Apple to own Apple stock. They don’t.

Maybe I’m missing something.
Thank you for sharing. To me, every part of your story sounds completely believable.

CPS has limited resources and a lawyered up parent can beat them. I’ve heard of institutions based on abuse like you described. Someone who went through what you did would likely end up homeless, but then there’s a chance they can beat that and get a good paying job. And then it’s a well known phenomenon that people who have been victimized at some point in their life are more likely to experience it again, later.

I don’t know you past your comments, but nothing I read sounds like paranoid delusions or mental illness.

I’m not a therapist, but I suggest you talk to one. I’m guessing you have health insurance with your good job. They wouldn’t have to give you a severe diagnoses to have it covered. I don’t know you, but maybe a professional would find you to be dealing with Adjustment Disorder or Anxiety. A professional therapist could be the trusted advocate that you need.

My caution is to only go with a licensed therapist, and one that gives you a good gut feeling. Be 100% prepared to walk away if this person starts acting like the abusers in your life. And avoid unlicensed people like “life coaches”. Some of them are great, but I also think they have a higher rate of people who just enjoy having power over other people, and that’s the last thing you need.

I hope this helps.
What software do you use daily?
I've met some who are very quiet about it, presumably precisely for that reason. It's no surprise that you don't really hear about the ones who are highly-prepared but don't say much.
What keeps Jim from creating a new corporation, have that new entity tender an offer to buy the assets of the "current startup" for $100? Could Jim, owning the majority of equity accept the offer and pay our OP his $40?
As someone who has lived as quite an extreme minority (only 4 people out of 1500 at my high school looked even remotely like me), it's hard to imagine a world where these small slip ups don't happen at all. I wouldn't want to live in that world. I'm guilty as well, to some extent.

Our minds are literally categorical machines--in order to fight entropy we find stable states through classification of the world into categories. So literally any form of thought is a form of discrimination between many categories. Every word can be thought of as a category.
The best part is it is totally free.

In order to activate the band, you simply imagine yourself buying a product from one of the advertising partners.
While I think the article is a little thin, it does scratch the surface that the hard part of civilization collapse is not about survival, but about how society will need to reorganize itself.

We take for granted at the moment how critical law and law enforcement is for the stability of our society, and the major reduction in violence, civilization has enjoyed. [1]

Evolution has favored an evolutionary stable strategy, basically a Nash equilibrium, between those who would exploit, those that are passive, and those that fight back when exploited. [2] A collapse of civilization would mean that as a society, we’ll have to recover and restore systems that allow us to cooperate and fend off those willing to exploit others for their own gain.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Better_Angels_of_Our_Nat...

2. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionarily_stable_strate...
> This is why "preppers" make me laugh ...

Well, those are the "annoying vegans" of the prepper world. That or folks using publicity to scare up interest and sell you things here and now.

Any prepper with an actual interest in long-term survival knows the importance of OPSEC.
And this is bad how?

I live in a German population center with many many mosques and it affects me in exactly zero ways. I know _no one_ who regularly visits a mosque, let alone trying to convince others to join.

We have religious freedom in our constitution. Aside from some stupidly minor exceptions, Germans aren't somehow converting to Islam. They are leaving religion in general.
This is how a lot of men expect things to go even within society. Sexual assault is ostensibly illegal but in practice does not always result in harsh penalties.
Why is it exactly a better decision? Perhaps for you, but I see no issue with being targeted with ads that may have a higher probability of a conversion. Especially if I make the choice I don't want to pay or vice versa.
Right, but without the lambda infrastructure it would be infeasible from infrastructure and cost perspective to spin up, let’s say 10,000 instances, complete a 10 minute job on each of them, and then turn them off to save money, on a regular basis
"I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question" is my all-time favorite way to say "What is wrong with this clueless dipshit."
probably the decades of people pointing out that the latter was wrong and research on addiction
The problem with security is you have to be right every time, they only have to be right once.