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i'm not getting porn but this is nonetheless a perfect example of how bad ddg is. first result is the "torus" article on wiki, which is _not_ what the query asks for. by contrast, google's top result is the "solid torus" wiki article - much better.
> And 9 out of the top 10 American billionaires are self-made.

Is there really such a thing as self-made? I honestly don't believe so. Otherwise, I think more people would do it.
Majority isn't so much what matters.

The percentage of people with significant inherited wealth who becomes billionaires far exceeds the percentage of people with significant inherited wealth in the general population.

Thus, inheriting wealth has an enormous impact on the likelihood of becoming a billionaire in America.
I don't have any Epyc hardware, but Linux 5.0 and 5.3 have worked great with my Ryzen 3 1200 and Ryzen 7 3700X, using Ubuntu 18.04.
Same here, 10 kg down very quickly. Now weight is fixed at 80kg no matter what I eat. The only difference is when I eat.
Same here. I wish it was a little faster in changing configurations (I move some speakers around to different rooms and different pairings from time to time), but the last time I did so - it was faster/better than before.
Reputation information doesn't always flow freely.

After agreeing the purchase of the site for the house I'm now sitting in, the sellers changed their asking price, tried to pull out of the sale after we got planning permission, accused us of swindling them, and the night before we fenced the property moved the boundary markers.

When it was all done and dusted one of our neighbours said "it's great to see someone getting the better of $FAMILY_X". Seems like we weren't entitled to access to their reputations until we'd started to build the house, and became true locals
DuckDuckGo has certainly been good enough for my regular use for several years now. Switching the search engine to DDG is part of my standard new-browser setup, along with resetting the "new tab" content to blank and installing uBlock Origin.

I may have had an easier switch because I never used a google account, and thus never had to deal with personalized search results. I also never liked the natural-language style of search query - too fuzzy - and have continued using the same kind of keyword-based searches that worked when the web was young.
I just pop open wolframalpha for anything that needs more meaning to it. I'll keep DDG in mind for next time.
This kinda seems like a just world fallacy. It might get around, it might not - I'm not sure its really known either way. But we like to hope people that regularly behave like assholes eventually get punished for it.
Totally agree this is the issue.

Most people don't realize that a plain bagel (55g) has more carbs that a slice of pie (43g).

https://www.eatthis.com/foods-high-in-carbs/
New York Times? Are they like world-class science researchers like John Hopkin Institute or are they just a bunch of shady journalists with a fantasy narrative that they desperately need to maintain?
People get really creative when they have constraints placed on them, in general. Poverty is a pretty strong constraint on a lot of things.
No, the budget was not cut.
Even if you could come up with a good definition, it would still be a silly assertion. He’s wrong: not being an asshole won’t make you more money. Being an asshole will also not make you more money. How nice or not nice you are to other people is almost entirely unrelated to how much money you make.
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But, but ... nice guys (and girls) finish last - or so the saying goes. It’s been my experience that the belligerent and those that take charge and those that are just the loudest garner more attention and cash. That’s not me though.
Coronavirus outbreak makes lobsters so cheap that sellers face a fatal blow
https://www.artsy.net/artwork/brian-kernighan-hello-world
I think this is the most reliable data source on COVID-19 for the general public. Was previously looking at a few other trackers but this one has broad numbers and specific cases.
I think there's a kind of 'loading' period where your body absorbs caffeine and normalizes into a caffeinated state. I don't know if the sleep cycle has much to do with it though. In my case, I sleep much better after I have caffeine. I've been sleeping poorly for several months now because of my decision to cut it out.

I might be abnormal (people I live and work with certainly think so!), but I basically never feel 'tired.' I go from feeling 100% to "I need to sleep." This has remained true even after I cut out caffeine, so I can't really relate to how you describe working while tired.
It's great. I've been using an EPYC 7401P as a primary workstation/build server for < 3 years, things have all been working great. I'm on Debian/testing, and I upgrade once a week or so.

I have a bunch of VMs on it, multiple-GPUs, and a bunch of disks. It does exactly what I want, and I'll be upgrading things next year or so.
Greenhouses maybe. Those are usually constructed in a way to get the most out of the incoming sunlight, right?
Thanks for the link -- great insight to facts on the ground. Next link to snap may be hospitals in cash-flow crisis, like this one:

https://www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/nurses-threatened...

And here's why it was already so close to the edge:

https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-verity-health-bankrup...
And you will be better in the future paying interest for years.

He is forced to stretch himself and expressing ideas and concept one level clearer than otherwise. This helps him to move on another level skillwise.
Except this has been tried before and they typically end in one of three outcomes:

1) It was a mistake and it doesn't go to court.

2) It was intentional and it doesn't go to court because the attorney, while still being a piece of shit, understands what option 3 is.

3) It was intentional, it goes to court, and you produce the email evidence showing the attorney agreed to changeset N then sent along changeset N-1, and the provisions are thrown out because they were executed in bad faith.
Yes, this idea is called sparse distributed memory https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparse_distributed_memory
Usually comments. I read them like cliff notes for the article.
Usually the comments first (unless it's from a site I know) to get more context.
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You make inverted prisions, aka gated communities.
Nope this was misinformation sowed for political purposes: https://apnews.com/d36d6c4de29f4d04beda3db00cb46104
Georgia ran 50 tests yesterday. And that's after only 3 positive results so far. All states not equally dysfunctional.
It's not even that - people venerate the results of luck. For every "self-made" billionaire, there's untold legions of people who had nearly the extra same formula, but were just a little off. Sure, a lot of them worked hard and had good ideas, but so do tons of people. Somehow it's more acceptable to think these people earned their success more than a simple lottery winner, whose long hours and hard work at their janitorial job gave them enough free cash to buy a ticket.
Ha, if true that would confirm Balzac's claim:

> Coffee is a great power in my life; I have observed its effects on an epic scale. Coffee roasts your insides. Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.

From "The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee, 1830, http://blissbat.net/balzac.html
Okay, I've generally wavered on this between "assume the online advertising sector is nefarious and evil and perfectly competent" to "assume the standard level of bureaucratic incompetence". Your comments here are moving the needle back towards the former.

So what in your opinion can people do, that are reasonable, actionable steps to take, to avoid being an unwilling part of this ecosystem?
And China may have tested every one in Wuhan, which has almost the same population as New York.
Not even spending several hundreds or even going beyond a thousand bucks will save you from this on Android, and this is the reason why I try to avoid it whenever possible. At least iPhones are expensive but you do have years and years of updates (and no, not willing to change my phone every year or two).
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I attribute user error and stupidity when most people attribute malicious intent. 99% of the time, I am correct.

I'm betting that, if the lawyer was not acting maliciously, s/he used the wrong version of the document to accept changes.
That's what trailers are for. Minivans can absolutely handle trailers even if manufacturers claim they can't. Don't go hard on the gas, keep transmission temperatures down, have sufficient braking capacity. You can easily tell when trailer is overloaded if you have any reasoning skills whatsoever. The most important feature for trailers is trailer brakes, an easily retrofitted feature.
Re your 4th point, this is exactly why you want a working space presence -- if you move all your mining off the planet you just remove one future failure point.

Also, there are lots of people, humanity can walk and chew gum at the same time. On best of the days anyway.
> Even when practicing a very low carb diet your liver is "topped up" through gluconeogenesis while you are sleeping.

Not really, gluconeogenesis is a pretty inefficient pathway, from my reading on the subject you can't make more than 200 calories of glucose per day via gluconeogenesis, which is pretty low and definitely not enough to replenish the glycogen stores, only enough to keep them from being completely depleted. I'm struggling to find the reference.
But you can also ask most doctors — if you give urine or blood in the morning, nobody raises an eyebrow when seeing ketone readings because it's a known effect.

Also note that I'm not saying that all glycogen is depleted. Glycogen stores are never depleted, as the glucose sparing effect eventually kicks in (aka physiological insulin resistance) and yes, some of it is replenished via gluconeogenesis.

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> by ketosis you mean the body is producing enough ketones to power itself

No, ketosis is a metabolic state in which the liver is producing ketones in response to a short supply of glucose, with significant ketones being detectable in the blood or urine. That's it. And availability of ketones in the blood stream is enough for them to be used.

There is a threshold of 0.5 mmol/L of ketones that people in the keto community use, but it's completely arbitrary — nobody knows why that threshold isn't 0.3 mmol/L. Regardless, I'm at 0.5 mmol/L in the morning while eating between 150 and 200 grams of carbs per day.

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> "You don't need to starve yourself, you just need to put your body in a scenario where the energy demands overtake the available energy in the form of blood glucose (and strain the stores in the muscle and liver)."

We agree here — yes, once the glycogen stores are depleted enough, the liver starts producing ketones and of course exercise can do the trick.

There is one caveat ... during exercise ketone usage also goes up, and exercise also drives your blood sugar up, so if you measure the ketones immediately after exercise, the readings can be misleading.

But yes, active people can burn through their glycogen stores really fast.
How do you not end up spending all your time on the toilet when consuming that much caffeine?
A long time ago in a gifted kid program, I was taught a method which I like. Just now I learned it's apparently just brainstorming, but specifically the original Osborn method (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainstorming#Osborn's_method).

The gist (as I was taught it) is that when generating ideas, you separate things into two phases.

In the first phase, you focus solely on coming up with a lot of ideas. And here's the key part: during this phase, you avoid all judgment, evaluation, and negative thinking (maybe even excessive positive thinking) about ideas. If you're trying to generate ideas that solve a problem, for example, you don't worry about whether it will work. Just write it down.

In the second phase, you then go through and evaluate which ideas are good and bad. Many of them won't make sense, and of course you toss those out, but it's good that they're on the list because it confirms you did it right.

I think doing it this way this gains you two things. One, in the first phase, you stay focused on idea generation. Every moment your brain is occupied in evaluating merits is a moment your brain is not working on creating ideas. It's very easy to get sidetracked exploring an idea in depth. Avoiding evaluation helps ensure you actually allocate time to idea generation.

Two, it helps emotionally. Judgment, even if done constructively and in good faith, tends to kill the moment/mood (which is relatively fragile), whether it is self-judgment or from others. Coming up with ideas feels good and you get a little emotional reward as you create them. But negative thoughts or responses tend to make you want to hold back. Last time you offered (to yourself or someone else) an idea, it was partly a negative experience, so why repeat that?

You can do the two-phase thing individually in your own head or in groups.

Practically speaking, this isn't necessarily easy to do in groups. Many people already have preconceived notions about how brainstorming or idea generation is supposed to work, and it's hard to get them to try a new way or understand the difference between this and how they normally do it. Also, some people have trouble sticking to it. Sometimes because of impatience or wanting to look smart, but also because evaluating later can give you a feeling that you'll forget an important thought if you don't express it now.
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So I assume she has to take immunosuppressants more/less for life, but then that leads to immunodeficiency too?
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Agreed as that’s my assumption. Do you have first-hand experience and/or a source?
Ah ha, thanks! So turns out gray cards use "middle gray" which has both a physical definition as well as a specific RGB value:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_gray

Fascinating. I never knew there was an "standard" mapping between real-world colors and RGB.

Now if only online clothing store photos would map to that, so that the olive green coat I order doesn't turn out to be closer to medium brown or vice-versa... :P
That just doesn’t make sense to me. Uncontained, this disease will grow exponentially until tens of millions are infected at once, and it eventually burns itself out. But by then, the disaster will be obvious and we will have the same result. Only with more casualties.

Certainly anyone who had that sort of ulterior motive would understand this.
Ego depletion was one of the key losers of the replication crisis in psych. Book was published right before the peak of the crisis.
Basically it's impossible because the body can't even digest the glucose in time for the purported effect. Baumeister is also a hack who refuses to let go of the idea while others have moved on.

changelog: key example -> key losers
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We would take adderall to work and study, and then smoke weed at 3am to go to sleep. Very fun but not very effective (for academic success)
I never click the ads and always scroll down to the native results as I don't want to get involved with their marketing games and not to put burden on the content providers.
Of course it won't. Otherwise the advertising industry wouldn't exist.

More than that. In general, the market rewards being asshole and borderline fraudster. Reputation is a thing within smaller groups, but what matters is primarily reputation related to your behavior towards your peers in that group. And if your peer group is composed of assholes, then being an asshole is a positive trait as long as you're not an asshole towards members of that group.

Another thing: when you're a no-name upstart, reputation matters little because nobody knows you. When you're a large, successful business, any bad reputation can be compensated by proportionate spending on PR and advertising.

Yet another thing: in B2C, consumers often don't have a meaningful choice. An individual is juggling a lot of different priorities in their lives, not least of which is "saving money" and "buying stuff one likes". So e.g. Coca-Cola does a pretty lot of evil stuff, but people have strong taste preferences in the product category Coca-Cola sells, so nobody really boycotts them. Or, pretty much every major brand of smartphones is doing evil things, and every major telco provider is filled with assholes - yet as a citizen of the western world, I really do need to have a smartphone. So I have to choose someone. Or, a grocery store next to the place I used to live would wash stale meat with detergent and sell as fresh. This lands straight into asshole category, but I still went there, because a) it was the closest store, and b) I have no guarantee other stores don't do the same (and plenty of reasons to suspect they do).

And yet another thing: taking VC investments; when investors come knocking for their returns, plenty of startups are forced to become assholes.

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TL;DR: The market rewards assholes. If you're not an asshole, your competitors will force you to either become one, or get marginalized. There's an excellent essay that goes into details about the mechanics of that: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/.
> "I'm not sure laissez faire capitalism if there is such a thing has proven it doesn't consolidate into monopolies or cartels."

capitalism isn't uniquely prone to monopolies or cartels. all economic systems face problems of gaming, because humans relentlessly probe weaknesses in systems to gain advantage.

and capitalism doesn't attempt to address monopolization head-on and instead relies on competitive dynamics and invisible hands to control the problem. and to be sure, in many cases, it's been enough, but runaway market dynamics like network effects do occasionally overwhelm those mechanisms.

we now have enough practical experience to realize that those occasional runaway trains accumulate and we no longer have very free markets across the economy.

that's why governments step in with regulation (yes, regulatory capture is a problem too) and laissez faire capitalism simply isn't viable long-term.

we should iterate on market-based economies beyond capitalism to reach a more resistant economic system (capitalism =/= market economy, which is a commonly misunderstood).

edit: note that you can have a market-based economy featuring choice and competition without it being capitalism, who's defining feature is putting the means of production into the hands of the (moneyed) citizenry.
Fair point. On the other hand, I'm not much more inclined to work with a stupid lawyer than a malicious one. If he opens by screwing up this badly, what's he going to do next?

There are some cases in which granting the benefit of the doubt is too much of a risk to be worth taking.
It's not a conspiracy per se. I don't think Big Ag and the government got into a room together and said, "we're going to kill everyone over time with a Western diet leading to obesity, type 2 diabetes, and eventually death". It's more simple than that: greed of industry and regulatory failure on the part of government. Mexico has one of the highest rates of Coca Cola consumption, it's even fed to babies instead of formula. You know why it can't be stopped? Multinational power and greed, with trade weaponized against countries who attempt to counter these multinationals [1]. In country, instead of trade, it's campaign contributions to representatives that keep more substantial regulation at bay.

But you simply cannot argue that Western diets aren't causing epidemic levels of obesity and civilization disease [2], and that food producers and government aren't contributing to it.

Sidenote: Was "they don’t want you to know” a Kevin Trudeau reference? If so, I get that reference!

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/news/2015/nov/03/obese-soda-suga...

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6817492/
I don't agree. The sample is not representative of the whole. The only useful inference is a lower bound on how many cases there are, but this is more likely to mislead that inform.

If you know that officially confirmed cases don't reflect reality, and you care about reality, then the dashboard is not useful.
What's interesting, for me, a Ukrainian guy, it became better than Google as a default. Google ignores my settings that set to only Ukrainian and English results and constantly throws Russian at me, be it Russian Wikipedia (horrible place) or Russian version of MDN articles and similar things.

DuckDuckGo is "ok", and often times when you think "omg, results are shit, Google would work here", Google shows same results.
I doubt that my IP address is a globally unique identifier. I can think of 15-20 devices that are sharing it now. Advertising networks jump through a lot of hoops to tie those devices together in a small cluster of user profiles.

How does the installation ID identify a person?
A few years ago I started a company, then raised money through convertible notes. By the time the notes were due (2 years), we weren't ready to raise a round yet, so all investors extended their notes. All except one.

The investor that didn't want to extend the note was also the CEO of the company that was our largest client, so not only did he call his note, he also ended his company's contract, making a huge hole in our revenue.

After doing that, and knowing that the company would be struggling financially, he sued, forcing the company into bankruptcy.

From the beginning we tried negotiating a payment plan or some other form of compensation, to no avail. Although at some point he did "offer" to completely take over the company and fire the founders (which we of course refused).

During bankruptcy, he took over the assets of the company while also giving us and the trustee a hard time.

Now, after having ruined the jobs of everyone that worked at our company plus the potential upside of all the other investors and shareholders, he is suing me and my cofounder personally.

The company closed 2 years ago and it looks like this new lawsuit will take another 2 years. Also no one knows if this guy is going to stop at that.

Be very careful about doing business with assholes, especially if they have a lot of money and you will be taking any type of potential liability (e.g. debt) in their favor, even if it's not personal liability, they might still try to go after you and make your life miserable.
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No, I've had this happen when drawing up contracts with American lawyers way too many times for it to be mistakes. We've had lawyers try to sneak in one sided clauses after we agreed differently with business owners pretty much constantly.

It always significantly deteriorated relations with that company. But I guess Americans think that's fine because "it's just business".
Interesting study. I wonder what "enhanced problem solving significantly" means?

Also first time seeing my alma mater on HN :)