skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only twice? That's a great rate.

Keep in mind that:

- Most Vietnamese traffic is on 2 wheels; motorbikes are inherently less safe, that's not necessarily related to traffic rules.

- "The [US] federal government estimates that per mile traveled in 2016, the number of deaths on motorcycles was nearly 28 times the number in cars." [1]

I would classify Vietnam as safer for a biker than the US.

That said, street safety can certainly be improved in Vietnam: people wear dirt-cheap helmets that protect nothing. [2]

[1]: https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/motor...
[2]: https://noipictures.photoshelter.com/image/I0000TpoYiE1y2Nw
A friend's wife underwent brain surgery ~8 years ago. She was prescribed pain medication for a long while.

At some point, she realized that she may be developing a bit of a pill problem. She went to her doctor, to see what could be worked out.

He listened her out, marked her down as drug-seeking, and cut her off, cold turkey.

Surprise, fucking surprise, the very next thing she did was to turn to black market oxy.

Eight years of rehab, rehab again, fighting, bargaining, threatening, and pleading, she's once again relapsed, and their marriage is falling apart.

I speculate that if it does, she'll likely be dead in a few years.
Social media is addictive in roughly the same sense that not punching yourself in the face is addictive. The "dopamine hit" aspect is grossly oversold. Social media is distraction from suffering. Most addictive behavior is, but social media is almost entirely distraction from suffering.

If you don't do something about the background suffering that's leading you to the distraction, you'll just fill that void with something else.
This description is a bit misleading:

- School: Germany mostly has public schools. If you have operated a private school for a few years, you can apply for subsidy. You will receive roughly the amount per pupil that would otherwise be needed to fund the pupil's place at a public school. So this is more or less a zero-sum game for the state. All schools have to obey public school regulations (e.g., on curriculum and exams) regardless who operates them.

- Elderly home: there is no direct subsidy by the state. Germany has established a mandatory insurance ("Pflegeversicherung", nursing care insurance). This insurance will pay for nursing care, regardless who operates the elderly home.

- Hotel: no subsidy by the state at all.

Summarized, there exists no special deal by the state for church operated services, with respect to funding/subsidy.
That's a good point I didn't even think of, however it may have been subject to censorship and editing by the newspaper staff and would have limited reach for most newspapers, not a global audience.

Also I don't think I ever wrote a response to any newspaper in pre internet times, that's a lot of work just to be heard.
That’s not an accurate description of the military revolution that began with Revolutionary France and the levée en masse or of the Prussian General Staff system, the two major military organizational innovations of the Enlightenment era. Prussia and France both had mass armies but neither was terribly well educated, officers aside, and calling Prussian subjects citizens is misleading in the extreme. It suggests participation in political life that was restricted to a tiny segment of the population.
With the 24 hour news cycle, I've started regarding large popular news-o-tainment companies in the same vein. CNN/FOX are just as bad as assuming some egg on twitter is reporting unaltered truths.
Looking at my own experience with doctors who were practicing throughout this scandal, I always try to think: what will our generation's scandal in the medical community be?

The loss of the doctor-patient relationship could be one.

Our trust and financial relationship with the pharmaceutical/insurance industries, or maybe our salaries in general?
I tried it multiple times and it really depends on the game. If there's an opportunity to move fast (faster than in real life) then I definitely feel sickness. The same for friends who tried it too.
The US solution to this problem is to sue to the surgeon and retire from the settlement
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No, alpha decay is a distinct nuclear process.
Good thing we have the option to get free credit monitoring... that we just received from the last time our data was carelessly handled.
Oh, certainly. The way it is now encourages both wielding controversy as a weapon as well as remaining silent to avoid a conflict (for their own sake, but also the other party).
Thank you, the thing with scheduling payments over some sounds good to me, I'll try to propose it to Jim
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The efficiency of electric assist doesn't really matter. They get decent range with a small battery, so you can just use a modestly larger battery to get more range.

I'm not saying more range from the same battery would be worthless, just that the ranges they already offer are plenty marketable.

I also wonder about the efficiency of a small (tiny!), slow generator.
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Because race is still a driving divider in our society.
To each their own, but I'll stay with relatively neutral media, such as Wikipedia, as my source of information.

Anyway, we're digressing from the main topic of this post.
Eh...tedious...gotta login now.

But yeah, thanks for reminding.
No, of course not. I'm not saying it's a good reaction but I can understand why some people might react like that to this topic.
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> Most people, left to their own devices, yes - in the small.

As long as people are part of the same tribe. Plenty of small communities who aren't terribly empathetic to outsiders, minorities or foreigners.
Yeah, I left Facebook altogether because the stream of right-wing vitriol was overpowering. Just couldn't take it anymore. I'm not angry by nature, but I felt myself getting drawn in by it and I needed to escape for my own health. I am pretty sure that I will never be able to talk someone that angry down from their soapbox, so ... I just let it go.

I wish you luck finding that bubble you're looking for. It probably does exist somewhere, just have to locate it.
Floating point numbers are trying hard to rectify this ;-)
Discrimination against any religion is not OK and NRC has been religion-agnostic. So, I fail to see your point.
You're gonna get downvoted to hell. But this is probably the sanest advice.

To OP- elaborate on what you're actually trying to accomplish
broadly agreed

I would say ruthlessly coerced.
Logical fallacies only prove that you can't deduce a conclusion from given evidence. They don't prove that the conclusion is wrong, or exclude inductive analysis.

> many people credit the gruesome and explicit nightly news coverage of the war as turning public opinion.

One of the theories for how public activism affects broader public opinion is that it affects public awareness, via news coverage. A big protest creates news for the media to cover, and that coverage will include some explanation for why people are protesting. A big protest may also convince reporters that there is enough interest to support further reporting on the topic.
The problem has been the absolutely pitiable amount of money which is being spent on human capital by the government. The government schooling systems across the country is in a mess - and this has nothing to do with "Macaulay's children" or English because most government schools are in the vernacular language.

The present government also made huge budget cuts in the mid-day meal programme which is an essential programme which draws the poor into the schools. So overall, things have gotten much worse.
This is much more invasive than just taking license/registration plates of offender's vehicles.

Are all Tesla driver's likely to be prosecuted for using their big phone screens?

If this is acceptable, what's to stop CCTV trained into private homes. The principle is the same, if you consider both to be a private space.
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Indeed. Vote Leave, the campaign lead by Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, and Dominic Cummings, three of the men now at the helm (PM, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and adviser, respectively) said (add at the time):

> The day after nothing changes legally. There is no legal obligation on the British Government to take Britain out of the EU immediately. There will be three stages of creating a new UK-EU deal - informal negotiations, formal negotiations, and implementation including both a new Treaty and domestic legal changes. There is no need to rush. We must take our time and get it right.

http://www.voteleavetakecontrol.org/briefing_newdeal.html
In my case I felt the 1% was fair. We had brought on a couple of people to help and we had offered them 1%. So I ended up getting what they got. I should have mentioned that my post, but its been so long I forgot about that. I might should have fought for more, but I was having some pretty severe health problems I needed to focus on.

I think it is important to honestly look at it. Not with what if, but how likely something is to happen. How likely is it that it can be sold as is in a month? How likely is it is that it is going to be profitable? How likely is it that more development work needs to be done? My gut tells that the answer to the first two questions is pretty low, as if there was a really good chance of making a profit or selling, you wouldn't be wanting to leave. Instead you'd be looking forward to the incoming money.

Do you have any sort of a written agreement, or was it a handshake deal.
TL;DR Kik's VC says that their messenger is shutting down (but their cryptocurrency is intact).

He ends the blog post with:

> I will end this with a quote that the founder of one of our portfolio companies sent me this week. I think it sums it up nicely.

> My centre is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I am attacking.

Were I a newly unemployed engineer on the messenger team, and I'd just been described as "giving way" or "in retreat", I think I'd file that under adding insult to injury. That seems kind of tone deaf.
The comment above clearly stated that someone died of pain.

Your refusal to believe that illnesses can affect the brain is obsolete thinking.
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Absolutely agreed! And these services you mention have to expend great amount of money and effort at advertising, and often resort to dishonest practices, because the market is already saturated with advertisements.

I like to picture it like this: if everyone around you is shouting through a bullhorn, you have to use a bullhorn too just to have a shot at being heard by the person next to you. But how about taking away everyone's bullhorns? Suddenly, people would have a chance to have an actual conversation.

A floor needs to be put, to stop the ethical race to the bottom, and that floor needs to be put way above where advertising industry currently is.
Let me be blunt: I was calling out a lie. Solar does not require rare materials, and you are either misrepresenting the study you are pointing to, or the study is mistaken. If this is the study I am thinking of, you're misrepresenting it.

Silicon PV (which is 95% of the market) uses no rare elements except silver for front contact wires, and that can be substituted for with copper if a diffusion barrier layer is added to prevent its reaction with silicon.
Unsurprising-

>The US farmer suicide crisis echoes a much larger farmer suicide crisis happening globally: an Australian farmer dies by suicide every four days; in the UK, one farmer a week takes his or her own life; in France, one farmer dies by suicide every two days; in India, more than 270,000 farmers have died by suicide since 1995

2015 had about 37 farmers killing themselves everyday if I’m not off.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/06/why-are-amer...

And Wikipedia article on Indian farmer suicides.
I did not mean that about you, but in general. Sorry if it came across like that.
*die of suicide, as a side effect of chronic unrelievable pain
'hysteria' is the key word here. A blanket ban on more than 7 days of opioid medication is a hysterical reaction to the current problem. Sure, root out the corruption. Blame people and companies and even put people in jail if you think it will help. But in the meantime, it saves lives.

Also, as long as we're here, the reason pill-selling and whatnot exists is because of the war on drugs. But that's a larger discussion than what I/we can do here.
> The drive system is heavier and less efficient than a good chain drive

They claim 99.2% efficiency in the video over 97% for the top-performing chain driven versions. Do you have any data on chain driven systems that are better than what they compared it to now?
I'm with you on this.

It's like conspiracy theories - people WANT someone to point to and say, "that is the person in charge, they're the reason this has happened."

When in most cases, a really, truly shitty situation like this one does rely on the action of a few, powerful, bad actors, but mostly it's daily choices to simply not think made by all of us.
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That's essentially the process I used for an application which had a hierarchical graph-like database structure. The naive implementation would check if a node could be pruned (i.e. if it had no connections) every time a connection was removed. But it turned out it was a lot more performant to just periodically sweep for nodes with no connections like once a day.
I guess you didn't scroll down far enough to notice they did put those expenditures as a percentage of GDP and it doesn't paint a wildly different picture.
It wasn't intended as in insult, but I apologise and have edited my comment to remove that part.
Thank you for linking that. I was immediately arrested by the following line: "On 27th or 28th August, in a telephone call, he formally advised Her Majesty to prorogue Parliament between those dates".

Is this really implying that the government doesn't keep track of Prime Ministerial communication to the extent that we're not even sure what day he gave formal advice to the queen?! Surely at the very least there is a call log.
Don’t think of it as “I have to quit all Social Media. What is the exact definition of Social Media so I include it in my quitting?”

If you think something you are doing is harmful, just stop doing it and don’t worry if it counts as Social Media. It is highly personal and will be different for everyone. For some people their WhatsApp usage is a net negative and they should stop. For other people it might not be.
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"Newspapers have always had an agenda"

I'm fine with this, so long as they don't insist on their objectivity. Otherwise everything they say must be filtered through an undefined lens that readers either a) don't have time for and are thus victimized by the 'untruth' or b) believe and desire the confirmation bias and are thus victimized by misinformation.
Calling the Socratic method a bad faith argument, is itself a bad faith argument.

It's obviously an attempt to get you to clarify your position by showing if/how you differentiate a case that fits within your previously-stated criteria but we assume is actually excluded from your judgement.
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More like nightmares.

I've read articles about Syria being the first casualty in the coming migrant wars due to climate change.
Currently its just in english, but I just found out it would be a pretty simple update for me to make it support a bunch of other languages! Thanks for the suggestion:)
Thanks a lot - that list looks kind of scary :) I'll definitely keep that stuff on mind. Yeah, now I see that it'd be really best to try to negotiate a walk away fee
Practically speaking, how long until the Quantum Jubilee, when (much of) encryption is broken?
I didn't downvote you. I tried to sue after hearing from multiple doctors abroad how badly it was done and how I never needed it, but it's not like people think from TV and "common knowledge". It's hard to win malpractice. Most cases are not frivolous but people think they are all money grabs. The doctors and their insurance companies do things like insulate surgery centers in friendly counties and under special business arrangements etc. There are small caps and extremely short statutes of limitations on many things. Even if I had won 100%, which rarely happens according to the lawyers, after all was said and done I might have gotten 10,000usd max...and that's nothing for taking away a future. People don't understand the reality of medical errors and malpractice. Patients always lose.
>pruning its genome came to something which was minimally viable

That sounds something like CRISPR or gene modification of an existing organism genome, maybe even taking genes from one species and inserting them into another (taking bioluminescent jelly fish and putting certain genes into cats or plants to make them glow). But, I'm talking about more recent successes of actually reproducing the DNA (synthetic DNA) from the atomic level up not modifying existing "natural DNA".

Sorry, I don't have enough time to search for recent studies, but here is old article about first "synthetic DNA" we created and inserted into cells that took off and self-replicated back in 2008: https://www.wired.com/2010/05/scientists-create-first-self-r...

The link seems to reference the first success of fully synthetic DNA, but I have recently been listening to podcasts about more recent experiemnts/studies, specifically reproducing bacteria with full synthetic DNA (which is stripped down as much as possible to maintain viability) for the purpose of studying gene expression and hopefully begin to identify what the currently unknown genes sequences do.
Why is it that when someone says a group was complicit in something that affected rural America that blame is being shifted solely on that group because of racism? Everyone is aware. Give it a rest.
> I agree that there is little gain in hiding DNS traffic from your ISP. And like you I'm wondering what the benefit of spreading around one's DNS profile should be. I think it's better to just pick the DNS provider one distrusts the least.

This assumes you trust your ISP. I know mine does metadata retention, therefore I do not trust them with my privacy. I also know mine blocks things based on a government "block list" which was implemented all in the name of stopping "serious criminals" such as pedophiles and terrorists.

However, in practice it's used for much more than that, of which does not constitute any criminality (news websites such as torrentfreak.com, that's because of corruption. The Minister for Communications https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Brandis that oversaw the implementation of this system was also the Minister for Arts and had heavy ties to the movie industry. He had a lot of collusion with Village Roadshow and Sony (evident by the leaked Sony emails) on this matter.

In other parts of the world I have heard that certain ISPs collect that data for marketing purposes.

> When you set up a private VPN to tunnel your traffic through, doesn't your VPN server just become your client? Or am I missing something here?

This is why I pipe everything through a VPN, that I trust more to protect my privacy than my ISP.

My DNS requests then go through to the DNS server on my VPN's network (it's in private address space), that recurses to Cloudflare. As far as those DNS providers are concerned "someone from that provider did a lookup for something", assuming that it isn't already cached.

The reason I use a VPN provider and don't run a VPN on my own server is because that would just link back to a server that is controlled by me, this way my network traffic is mixed with unrelated customers. For times when I need strong anonymity of course I use Tor. (Just before anyone points that out).

I have found issues in the past, particularly with EDNS subnet information not being available when accessing archive.is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828317 so that's why I have mine setup like so:

https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Linux_Router_with_VPN_on_a...

My network has dual-stack IPv6 so with this kind of routing https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Linux_Router_with_VPN_on_a...

I believe this is the 'correct' way to ensure privacy. Essentially my network works like this:

VLAN2 -> direct to ISP via ppp0
VLAN3 -> through VPN via tun0

Local unbound server forwards everything into dnscrypt that first tries my VPN's DNS server, then tries to use DNSCrypt over the VPN

Regardless of which VLAN I am on, my DNS traffic is always sent through my VPN, https://www.dnsleaktest.com/ is a great site for testing that.

I tend to use VLAN2 for things like financial, or stuff where I do not want to be anonymous or cases that require extremely low latency such as gaming. In either case DNS lookups still go through the VPN.
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If you intrinsically have something people want and you're physically weak, you'd best make friends with Samuel Colt, the great equalizer.
I wonder how it came to be that only people in certain countries have a particular right, and how a court can determine that. I'd like to know their definition of a right. I'm pretty sure it differs from mine.
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Samsung did expand the building a couple of years ago. IIRC it was to expand the NAND production.
Thats a good idea - if enough people care I definitely will
My concern are the one sided conversations. There are conversations I've seen mods participate in by flagging opposition.

I don't trust the opinions here anymore. The most I can hope is to see a range of opinions.
AKA Postel's Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle

I've never been a dispatcher, but I have worked in on-site assembly plant tech support, and I've seen the problem with escalating interactions quite a bit. The way I approach it, people who call in are upset and excited about their problems, not mad at me. Other people heard the raised tone of voice and took it personally.
I agree with your assessment that people are missing out when they don't consider the Neoplatonic influence on Christianity, especially when stating it this way is the only way of getting people to look at it from a different perspective.

"Eastern Christian philosophy," or simply "Eastern Theology" really came into its own, and while it is absolutely valid to study Church writers in contrast and relationship to Neoplatonic philosophy, they developed their own tradition. Thus, parsing the logos tradition as if Origen, the Cappadocians, Dionysius the Areopagite, Maximus the Confessor, etc., were "philosophers" in their own right is actually quite a fruitful endeavor.
True, I hope to it done as soon as possible
Foucault and other post modernists defended pedophilia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_petition_against_age_of...

I'll stick with Marx and dialectical materialism, which offer actual tools to fight systemic oppression, rather than moral relativism.
This doesn't seem like a neural interface at all. Yes, technically the device is measuring neural activity, but it's measuring neural activity in your arm, not in your brain. In effect, this seems to be way closer to gesture control than it is to a neural interface.

If that's all they're doing, the title of this post is very misleading (and consequently, most of the comments in this thread are irrelevant).
Tweets and real life are not always in sync.

No other state has anything equivalent to Assam Accord.
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