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What follows is my personal opinion. (Disclaimer, I'm a guy and I've not been abused, but I have had to deal with troublesome people and as a confrontation-avoidant person I've worked out some strategies for dealing with that. These strategies are more oriented towards avoiding panhandlers than avoiding abusers, but perhaps they can be useful.)

First, the interesting thing about "being selfish" and "being assertive" is that they actually overlap. If someone tells you that you're being selfish like it's a bad thing, that person is probably trying to manipulate you. They want you to stop being selfish so they can be selfish. This is literally how they try to get their way.

Another way to think about it is that "assertiveness" comes into play when there is a conflict of interest. You want X, the other party wants Y. In this situation there's no way to satisfy both X and Y. At this point you can fight for what you think is right, or you can fold. The other people want you to fold, and if they're abusive, they're going to try and insult you or make you feel stupid until you do.

Which brings me to some concrete recommendations for being "assertive:"

1. When walking, look like you have somewhere important to go. You're not meandering casually, you're walking with purpose. You're in charge. People are much less likely to approach you if it looks like you're going to turn them down immediately.

2. In conversation, use the "fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me" approach. Operate in good faith until you feel that good faith is being abused, then retract it. Don't be angry, but don't let it happen again. "Forgive, but don't forget."

3. Don't apologize for things you didn't do. If you are afraid and feel like you have to apologize, then do it verbally but don't believe it. Tell yourself that you're lying to this person about being sorry. You're not sorry. You're tricking them because they refuse to accept the truth.

4. Think about the reasons people say what they do. Words coming out of a mouth are like symptoms of the mental state of the person. Don't just take them at face value but ask yourself: "Why are they saying this?"

5. If possible, find people you trust who can be a sounding board. Especially if you think your own "assertiveness compass" is whack. Err on the rude side. Then literally describe your encounters to the trusted party afterwards and ask whether you were rude, so you can refine your social barometer.

6. Protect yourself! You're a living organism and you should be your number one priority. Nobody else has the right to make your decisions for you.

Hopefully that's helpful to someone. But like I said, I'm coming at it from a bit of a different angle, so I welcome any feedback / questions.
Before the S4 Apple Watch came out, I used AliveCor. Works pretty well, though obviously not as reliably as the watch does. And to enable basic storage functionality in the app they want you to pay $5/month. Pretty quickly it costs more than just getting the watch.
> (whether this is particular to AVID or just an intrinsic property of using the Mac Pros with third-party GPUs, I don't know)

Definitely more the latter.
10 weeks vegan here. Easiest diet ever, no cravings. I'm down 19 lbs (193-174, 6' tall). Dropping the chips and oreos took a few weeks, I just thought anything vegan was ok until I realized junk food is junk food. I cook twice a week and make enough to last a few days. It takes about an hour to cook. I sautee vegetables and put them on rice and quinoa or pasta. For breakfast I have a banana and a Larabar. For dessert I have grapes or watermelon. Before this I rarely ate healthy food. Chipotle is decent fast food when you aren't cooking.
I kind-of-sort-of also feel this way about other patents, but in the spirit of specificity my particular sticking point is software.

Yeah, other patents are problematic, but at least patents of yore were more like "here's my design for a door hinge. Here's a diagram showing my specific implementation. There are many ways to mount a door and this is one I've invented and physically produced. Anyone else is free to create a different hinge mechanism."

A modern software patent version of that is "I thought of the idea of a hinge in my basement. They've existed for centuries but I'll be the first to file. No, I've never physically produced a single one. Yes, any implementation of opening a door infringes on my system-for-opening-a-door patent."
I don't have a specific online reference to cite, but the Software Engineering Institute has a lot of research in this area.

Specifically, the PSP (Personal Software Process) suggests using LOC as a proxy for size. e.g., a Small task might be 50 LOC, 200 LOC is medium, 700 is large. Then you can take those T-Shirt sizes and compare them to tasks you have done in the past and use that historical data to predict completion times.

I'm simplifying it somewhat (e.g., there are also Complexity inputs), but the process does work if the organization is disciplined enough to follow it.
The problem is that so many brilliant inventions are obvious once they've been explained. Because of this, it's very hard to describe what is and isn't obvious.

The closest analogue I could imagine would be a test in which your patent includes a problem statement and a solution which solves that problem, and the test for obviousness is to present the problem statement to a group of skilled professionals and see if the solution they craft for that problem statement matches the patent, and strike any claims they propose.

This is a very unreliable test and a lousy and expensive standard, but it's the best I've got.
Thanks for the followup, it fits in retrospect but on my initial read I didn't peg it.
To me, an adaptation that makes you avoid something damaging is a great way to make a population less likely to suffer adverse effects from it.

That said, the surviving populations probably also have a higher alcohol tolerance than their sober ancestors. That seems hard to measure though.
It's very likely climate change-related: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/may/07/climate-...
>They act like they're some superimportant holders of knowledge, and require all kind of identification, personal information, ID document copies, whatever, just to even listen to you.

Google's real issue isn't that they have some deep ideological conviction to free speech. This isn't 1998-2008 Google anymore, all the "free speech" libertarians have either left the company or retired rich.

Their real issue is that a zero marginal cost business, like a search engine, is starting to have some costs now. Their opposition to these types of laws is about preserving their high margin, infinitely scalable business model. That may have been the primary motivator in the early years of Google as well, the ideology may have just been grafted on later.
I just remember a report that the end-to-end quality inherited from its Signal origins had been removed. At the time, the innocent-ish explanation suggested was for access to keywords for ad targeting.
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The reason Jupyter notebooks are so popular is that people who only learned to code or are learning to code to enable some kind of analysis can easily do it without needing to get much of anything else set up. If all you really need is to read in some data, do some statistical tests, and make some plots, I'd argue it's by far the simplest solution. Many academics don't need much more than this. Similarly, when a data scientist or product analyst is just doing analysis, not much more is needed.

Your comments about what Jupyter notebooks incentivize are definitely true (I'd argue its part of the appeal - people new to programming often don't immediately grok types of state and Jupyter kind of just says "eh, work around it"). I certainly fall victim to it and often wish for a week of "the expectation is that you will go through your notebooks and create modules or packages for them".

I also agree that running automated jobs from Jupyter isn't an optimal solution, but for many companies, if it means a data scientist (whose coding skills are primarily statistical) can get a report into production without a single engineering hour, it's often worth it.
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Your premise is true, but drastically oversimplified. And your conclusion doesn't follow at all. It's clear that there's a huge public health problem with obesity that needs to be corrected. In order to correct it, we need to know why it's happening. Is something causing people to consume more calories than before? Is something causing them to use fewer calories? The "classic" answer is that people are lazy and gluttonous, but there's a distinct possibility that other factors are in play making people crave food more.
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I've seen it discussed several times, and believe it's at least a respected hypothesis. To what extent it's "established science" I don't know.

I don't have any source links handy. Do you have any sources for your disbelief? :)
In contrast, in 2007 a man in Baghdad noticed an injured man by the side of the road, and stopped his car (containing 2 children) to help. He was immediately killed by the US military for doing so; they were watching from an Apache helicopter and shot him dead for stopping to help.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,_2007,_Baghdad_airstri...
That last point is maybe a little more legitimate, at least from this random commenters position.

On the one hand, you have what sounds like straight up abusive targeted marketing of a drug at a vulnerable population: direct meeting with children, no teachers present (!?), "totally safe", etc. This seems reprehensible.

On the other hand, if it's an "education program" specifically targeted (and limited) to students who have already demonstrated that they have a cigarette problem, it seems like it could be a genuinely well intended part of a program to provide harm mitigation and a (apparently fairly successful) tool to help quit. I'm a bit more sympathetic to that version, even if it's still financially motivated.

On the gripping hand, vaping has unclear risks of its own that we don't fully understand yet, and even setting aside the improvement going from smoke to vapor, any nicotine product is still going to be an addiction risk.
I'll go one step further and say that the whole concept of patents is not only unfair, it's ineffective at what it supposedly tries to achieve (fostering innovation).

For every monetary incentive of developing something new, there are 10 obstacles because of patent law. Patents are a hindrance more than an aid.
There are many ways to get a paycheck. What's confusing about having values and working them into your decision about where to get it?

The job I have doesn't improve the world, I accept that. But it also doesn't make the world a worse place. I sure as hell would never work for an industry that's creating or enabling smokers. No matter how legal.
Is this study biased in the sense that people who cook for themselves are not represented? Does the hospital staff order everything in?
> I'm talking about the IP address destinations

That's true, that will leak either way.

> DoH is strictly worse.

Still waiting for your argument for how it's worse. The way I see it it's at the very least no worse, but in practice much better for most people. I have an open-mind on the subject, convince me.
Right, this is from 2015, I'm aware that "transistor-hidden" backdoors have been created since then... at least as proofs of concept ?
But while these are a future possibility, I doubt that any of those are already in place already now, much less were in 2008, when Intel introduced IME...
Would be cool to have something like this for debugging outgoing container traffic in Kubernetes.
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When do you wake up and what do you do to start your day?
>At least my ISP is subject to European regulation

As is CF in the EU, no?
The best way to survive, of course, is to avoid a lightning strike.

Oh, and remember that rubber tires and rubber-soled shoes provide virtually no protection from lightning. In fact, many victims of lightning strikes are farmers in open fields riding tractors with rubber tires.
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The spec page says 500 hours of battery, which is about 20 days. At 2 hrs/day that's 240 days -- still quite a bit, but yeah.
I imagine this is the same thing Facebook employees say when they decide to work on features that invade people's privacy. Great for the person that gets paid, terrible for society.
Rail against patents. They may have been made with good intentions but they have failed miserably at their purpose.
Do you have actual experience building a product with cross-language support, or are you hypothesizing?
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Milk ruins it. I drink my tea with shards of glass.
>not small if you do certain sports (e.g. trekking, climbing, etc)

If you're serious about hiking/climbing you should never be in a position where you would need an apple watch to save you. You should always let people know where you are going, what you are planning to do, and when you plan to be back or at least back in contact otherwise they should call a rescue team. If you're solo climbing and your apple watch is what you're relying on in case of emergency you probably have far bigger issues to worry about

That being said, it does seem like it could be useful for the elderly in some scenarios
The GNOME Foundation takes donations[0], I think it would probably be good if they had some way to signal that you only want the money in a legal defense fund (especially given that sometimes they put Foundation resources behind controversial things which I myself don't want to support).

Nonetheless I'm throwing some money into the pot, hopefully it is used to fight this troll case, which thankfully may be so facially ridiculous that it is thrown out.

[0]: https://www.gnome.org/support-gnome/donate/
I see no reason to call this "Counterfeit Capitalism". It's just capitalism.
I think they mean total calories. My understanding is that the body has a sense of the caloric density of unprocessed foods, and adjusts the appetite accordingly (as in the example given for honey or other natural sugars; the taste prepares the body for the calorie load). But ultraprocessed foods confuse the body's ability to do this, causing people to eat more overall calories than they otherwise would, regardless of density.
> yet is headquartered in a single country.

The vast majority of companies have their HQ in a single country. This is due to the base function that the HQ serves for a corporation. [0][1]

[0]http://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/corporate-headquarters.a...

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_headquarters#Locatio...
It's extortion to use such leverage to reduce your stake from 40% to 3.85%? Worst extortionist ever!
Aside fighting the patent, I hope this egregious act does not come without consequences. It may be meaningless, but I'm tempted to mail a letter to this company regarding my disapproval for the gesture they are sending to the open source community.
Why? You're not expected to find a tape in the attic 40 years from now and insert it into a drive you just bought at Fry's and restore the data from it.

If you do care about the data on any given medium a few years from now, you copy it then to a current medium. And so on.

This works fine as long new media are cheap, easily available and higher density than the old. As has been the last sixty years. If this progress ever halts or reverses (due to some man-made or natural disaster, including a major economical recession), we're screwed.
The tracking is happening anyway, everywhere. Maybe it sucks, but it's reality. Netflix and Amazon, not to mention the entire rest of the internet, are doing it. So if it comes to cable it doesn't differentiate streaming vs. regular TV. The ability to skip ads with a traditional DVR does differentiate them.
Don't be too sure. Even the paper tea bags have been found to contain plastic: https://www.irishcentral.com/culture/food-drink/barrys-tea-p...
Oreos are vegan fwiw.
I think what this case is saying is that Google only has to "forget" that thing in the EU. It's free to keep that information on its servers in Asia and the US for instance. In fact, we can imagine actual legal situations in places like Singapore or the US where that data has to remain available. So I think this just clarifies that it doesn't have to work for every server everywhere in the world.
Notebooks are a souped up repl, basically. So they might make sense anytime you find yourself turning to a repl. Its also nice to have that environment persist, so that you can pick up where you left off from another machine.

They also make nice front ends for spark clusters (and/or other big data engines).

I agree with the OP though. I wouldn't automate notebook execution as a part of any workflow.
For self responsibility to work, you obviously can only accept responsibility for things under your control. If you are taking responsibility for things outside of your control, I think the more appropriate solution is to learn some humility, rather than to adopt a "victim" mindset.
They just need to start their own charities, base them in WeWork offices and charge hefty fees for their personal involvement in fundraisers.
Paying attention to what you eat really goes a long way.

I remember watching a video of two women, one skinny, one overweight, who were good friends. They said that the skinny one always eats way more food, but doesn't gain any weight.

They had a camera crew follow them both around and it was true that the skinny woman ate larger meals. The difference was all the time in between. The skinny woman didn't eat anything, while the overweight woman was snacking regularly.

The total calorie counts for the day were much larger for the overweight woman.
I hope this news tempts some convenience-tea drinkers to explore the incredible world of loose, whole leaf tea.

Many aromatic and delicious rabbit holes await you if you start to explore the original world of tea which is still very much alive and well.

All the styles and sub-styles of Chinese and Japanese teas are rewarding to prepare and serve and drink. Smaller footprint for processing, packaging, transport, storage, and waste.
> they're paying more attention to what they eat, meaning they take in more reasonable amounts of calories as a side effect.

That doesn't necessarily follow. The vegans could end up eating huge amounts of soda and potato chips, and the low-carb people could go crazy on bacon.
Yes. Like, a ton.

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=fiber+on+satiety&hl=en&...
> GoFundMe

oh, that American health insurance website.
Yes, and the sub heading of the article basically says this.

> “Ultraprocessed” foods seem to trigger neural signals that make us want more and more calories, unlike other foods in the Western diet

Eating more calories than burning them isn't being set aside by the new theory.
I prefer calling it "Poker Capitalism". What he's describing is a situation where a player with a big stack can bully his way to taking the other players' money, even when his cards are not particularly good or well played.

In any case I think he's got a good point. The main thing I'd say is that capitalism requires both freedom and true signalling. We focus a lot on the former but tend to forget the latter, despite lessons learned since the 1800s.
> You seem to be presuming that a single "service" is necessary.

A fully distributed alternative can just as well be considered a "service" if it can be plugged into a browser or OS to replace the default resolver.

> The ISP learns about the result regardless right after the domain name has been resolved to an A/AAAA record, when the browser sends the TCP+SYN packet to start HTTPS.

Cloudflare is working hard on closing that loophole. Thanks to their evil monopoly, hundreds of hostnames resolve to the same set of IP addresses. The only clue as to which of them a person is trying to visit is in the SNI header, which requires some serious deep-packet inspection to figure out. Even that is going to be encrypted soon.

> That doesn't mean it will be a benefit for everyone.

> Please stop using this cheap appeal to emotion that presumes one solution will help everyone.

Who is this "everyone" that you keep talking about? Last time I checked, everyone and their cat was using Chrome. Chrome is planning to enable DoH in a future version only if it detects that you are already sending DNS queries to a service that supports DoH. No change of privacy there. The one browser that's planning to go full-time DoH with a partnership with Cloudflare is Firefox, an underdog with only 4% market share.

So "everyone" is NOT being forced to adopt the same solution. People who want DoH can switch to Firefox. People who don't want it have several other browsers to choose from. It's a free market. Let companies experiment, and let people vote with their feet. Use something else or build something new if you don't like what's available. That was my whole point.

There's so much negativity around the issue, one would have thought that somebody got caught red-handed colluding with the NSA or something :(
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Seems like this https://phys.org/news/2005-09-world-built-in-wi-fi-enabled-d.... invalidates the patent.

Nikonn CoolPix had wifi support in 2005. I'd imagine if you could select specific pictures to upload wherever from the device, that's the whole patent claim invalidated by 4 years. Hell, this article even references a device that Nikon offered to wirelessly transmit images as early as 2003. Find one of these, bring it to the law firm defending Gnome and that should invalidate the patent.
Ugh, yet another "hmm, never thought of that" thing to worry about, but it comes at a good time. I was just giving thought to going to back to loose leaf and a tea ball as I was preparing some Trader Joe's Earl Grey that comes in an individual plastic wrapper, along with a string and a bag, and whatever else. For a cup of tea. I'm one step away from a Kuerig. Other brands in the cupboard aren't a whole lot better on packaging.

And now plastic in my tea. The wife's got to have a tea strainer in here somewhere...
Yikes.

There's an intelligent conversation to be had for sure about how large firms like SoftBank are intentionally playing the market and unsavvy investors. This isn't it.
Not the op here, but I have been doing low-carb off and on (i get into deep ruts of depression frequently enough that messes with it and I occasionally fall off the wagon) for the past 2 years, and for me personally the strictness of the carb count works for me better than the healthiness of the food I am eating.

I limit myself to 30g of total carbs (minus fiber) a day so it forces me to be more honest with myself. If I am at 25g for the day and I need to make dinner for instance, it basically forces me to always pick the low carb version of a meal (veggies + meat).

I hope to one day be able to transition to a diet with more healthy carbs, but in the process I am focusing on working on better habits and losing weight.
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