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> Everytime I travel to the USA, I'm puzzled by how difficult it is to "eat normally"

I'll second that, I've only been once for a few weeks on a work related trip, and I never paid attention to what I was eating but by the second week I felt run down, lathargic and really 'not great' - Hard to describe properly but I wasn't myself at all. With work I was connected with a doctor that I met because I just didn't feel 'right'.

I wasked asked the usual questions but after talking a bit more about my diet usually (even before mentioning what I was eating in the US) she knew exactly what was going on. My body wasn't used to breaking down the amounts of processed sugars that are more commonly found in everyday foods in the US.

I took a more concious approach to what was coming into my body and over a week I was able to feel normal again.

I come from Ireland, we have a diverse mix of foods available, you pick a country, I can tell you a street to find their food authentically and I love trying them. I also cook heavy with bad cholesterol, lots of butter thanks to French friends, lots of salt in other dishes from others, lots of cheese, cured meats, smoked cheeses and meats, snacks etc. - My diet was never interestingly good.

After my US trip I realised that there is a small poisoning in a sense being taken over the consumption.

> My 2 cents: - eat as much vegetables as you want (learn to cook them, with a little bit of olive oil)

I'm not stereotyping here, my exposure to the collegues from the local area never cooked. This is fine, but when you replace good food for fast food, you start to go into that chain. They didn't know a good way how to peel an avocado, which I found out on a drunken night with them in my apartment. 10+ and none of them knew how to prep an avocado. But that is not their fault at all..

> It looks like this is hard to do in the USA

Spot on. I cannot stress this point enough.
You have to go out of your way to eat even moderately health conscious. This is a real shame. We will all take the easier path : 'Ah tonight I'll just get take-away, I'll just grab something on the way home.'

I grew up as a kid in Italy until I was 12, probably the only thing that I too away from it as a positive was that preparing, cooking and eating food is really not for sustenance.

Sustenance is the result, what matters is the social time, the prep is almost like a meditation, and the collaborative effort is like a social movement.

Food is really not just for sustenance. And I implore anyone reading this to try just cook a meal with friends, family or loved ones. It has a nice impact on way more than your sustenance intake.

Sugar is good, avocadoes have a lot of them, even the bad ones, but I would much prefer to enjoy my food than inhale it, in the US, it was seen as a time consumer.

'You are what you eat' - This expression didn't come from nowhere.

PS: 5 a day and the Pyramid might be wrong, there is no 1 scale for everyone. But there sure as shit isn't a cereal loaded with sugar for anyone.

What really annoyed me though, was the cost of it. To eat more natural, is more expensive than processing food. Odd.
Here is the case as handed down by the 7th Circuit. http://media.ca7.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/rssExec.pl?Submit=Disp...

I would mostly ignore the Harvard Law Review's recent cases section. It is written by second year law students with barely any supervision. Circuit Court judges write in plainer, better English than law students.

Also, I know link rot is a thing, but seriously, all of the opinions are available copyright free and probably as PDFs provided by the courts who issue them.

The workers who do have valid arbitration agreements aren't prevented from suing by this case, that was already clearly the law before. That is not in dispute. This case holds that in case some employees are prevented from suing by their arbitration agreements, Facebook can skip giving them notice if it can show the court the actual signed arbitration agreements. That is all.
I find this surprising and it makes me wonder if native android apps are just bad?

The difference between a native iOS app and a fake app that's really just a wrapped web page is obvious. Native apps are a lot faster. It's possible there is some selection bias here and you only notice the web apps when they're bad, but I really don't think this is the case. Native apps just seem categorically better.

If Facebook pouring immense resources into it couldn't get web based mobile applications to be good, it's probably because the technology just can't compete with native.
Stripe Down for Anyone Else?
I can't get stripe to load. Keep getting 500's with "An unexpected error occurred" and 503's with "No server is available to handle this request.".

https://status.stripe.com/ indicates it's not down--but I think it's lying.
That's a strawman. Nobody's talking about "stealing a TV from a corporation". That's not what looting is. Go spend five minutes on google and see what's been happening. Looters have destroyed thousands of small businesses -- destroying equipment, ransacking the buildings, and in many cases setting them on fire. The theft is only a small part. Many of these losses cannot be be recouped through insurance, and many of these small businesses will die. For nothing.

Looting and vandalism don't hurt corporations. The corporations have insurance and can rebuild. Looting destroys livelihoods of people who often can't recover, accelerates the decay of already struggling neighborhoods.
Even if this company is literally going bankrupt? The shareholders will be wiped out in just a few months. Its extremely difficult for me to imagine a situation where these new shareholders will make money over the next year.

The only part of my brain that agrees with you is the "Machiavellian" part. Yes, there's something to be said about letting people do what they wish to do. But on the other hand, if people start jumping off a cliff tomorrow, you bet that I'm going to do what I can to save them.

Buying up Hertz right now is extremely dangerous. Encouraging the behavior will cause lots of pain to the investors who almost certainly don't know what they're doing.

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These aren't hedge-funds or big banks who are "smarter" than me. These are retail investors. The "dumb money" of the market.

In the best case scenario, these "investors" (really... gamblers at this point...) are willing to play a Ponzi-like scheme of "selling to the greater fool". There's no other reason to be buying companies up through a bankruptcy.
Coloring inside the lines vs. drawing your own picture
> Nothing actually happens there

That is false; one thing that happens on LinkedIn is that you can find people from your distant past.
League was the first free derivative of the mod (Dota 2 was released nearly four years after it) and the complexity of the game was massively reduced to the extent that it's marketable in a way that Dota 2 just isn't. Valorant is trying to fight the incumbent while dealing with an inevitable balance trainwreck, and although Riot is going to throw a lot of money at it, it's not clear they realize how spoiled they were with the success of League. I'm sure the game will be around in a few years, but the odds of it largely supplanting CS don't look very good.
These arguments have been made, mutatis mutandis, roughly since the beginning of computing. At least, certainly since the 70s/80s.

Gabriel articulated some of these in "Worse is Better" (89?) but it wasn't new then.
I think a key phrase here is "he was dismissed for publicly challenging a colleague’s silence".

In other words, he publicly harassed a colleague who (for what could be any number of perfectly valid reasons) preferred not to publicly state their beliefs. That would seem to me to be an eminently reasonable reason to fire someone. If you go around publicly harassing your colleagues to publicly state their political opinions, you deserve to be fired.
Windows has an ARM version.
That's what I think most people are missing. A loan comes with an interest rate and repayments. A new offering is just cash minus the fees. It's "free" in terms of future obligations.

If this "IBO" gives Hertz the breathing room to restructure, clean up, and come out the other side, then well done. If not, no one will be surprised. This is almost a "no lose" scenario from the Hertz side.

If this becomes systemic, that's when things get ugly. Imagine senior execs with a "plan" that they have no intent to execute on, making an offering, paying out its bonuses, and then saying "Oops, it died anyway! Sorry!"
Pretty much the only time I care about whether an app is “native” or not is when I have
to update it.

The CapitalOne app is awful about this. Every month or two (which is roughly how often I open the thing), it requires an update. Not a suggestion. Not coming soon. Refuses to login without updating first.

The download is 375mb. Three Hundred and Seventy-Five Megabytes, for an app to display credit card balances and pay them.

It’s a nice app. Really it is. But forcing a 375mb download every month or two is extremely frustrating when I just wanted to check a balance real quick.
macOS has an ARM simulator though. Will they have a “legacy Mac” simulator too?
Yeah, but other markets that have robust competition don't look like this. Why are cloud services different?

Of course, the answer is that there's insanely high demand and massive lock-in. AWS/GCP/Azure are only competing for new customers, as existing customers are locked in by way of proprietary infrastructure. I imagine that the existing customers completely dwarf new customers, so the best move on their part is to charge high prices.

Only a non-dominant player like DO needs to make bandwidth cheap.
What is with Hacker News and these pessimistic hot takes? He tried it to see if it would work. That envisions the hacker spirit better than most ever accomplish.
I agree there's a lot of conflicting information and that specificity is key. But it can also be useful to have a guide for when you change goals, someone who knows your history and preferences etc.

Body composition changes typically go through multiple different phases and cycles. It might seem like you'd want someone specific for each phase, yet some consistency is helpful across phases too. As an analogy, you wouldn't want to change universities for each year of your degree
Your opinion is balanced. But it'll appear as nonsense to Americans. Americans are ideologues. They love freedom. They like their own camps. They want to find eternal truths in everything. (There's no such thing).

In the dietary world, you'll find anti-sugar camps, anti-fat camps, Atkins diet, ketogenic diet, fitness buffs. This article is an example. It's a deep dive full of science. The conclusions, however, are mostly nonsense.

I'll eat like you suggest. But I'll entertain with the reading. :)
In the case of standard racing bicycles, it really is rules rather than tech.

There are different formulae for road cycling (governed by Union Cycliste Internationale), triathlon bikes (International Triathlon Union), and "human powered vehicles" (International Human Powered Vehicle Association), typically recumbent and with fairings, and others.

Top speed (undrafted) for HPV over a timed one mile is 78 MPH.

http://www.whpva.org/land.html#220

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racing_bicycle#Distinction_bet...
By declaring dependencies in code (usually with annotations or decorators)
As an American, I absolutely agree with your original post. I find it so much more difficult to eat good food here unless I pay a ton of money. Good food is also usually the most inconvenient choice.

I also think that our obsession with work hurts us. We don't have time to slow down and cook.
Yep, but windows apps are typically distributed as binaries, so the OS doesn't help when you need OS+architecture to make things run and folks build for x86.
Hard no. A favorable outcome doesn't convey rationalism upon the arguments used to justify the action.
Either of these:

- Elixir

- Haskell

- Ada

Are all unique and quite enjoyable to learn. Each of them has challenging new concepts that are amazing once you get your head around them (and a bit painful beforehand).

Each one will teach you something new and valuable.

Ada has an incredibly advanced concurrency model that blows everyone else out of the water. It is also incredibly safe -– this is the language that powers airplanes and spaceships (and missiles). Beware: after using Ada, you will hate the concurrency primitives of other languages.

Haskell is a great and enjoyable introduction to functional programming with concepts that can be taken anywhere.

Elixir can create extremely robust software through the "let it crash" philosophy and supervisor tree structure. Also a great intro to highly distributed systems, probably the only language where I found the lack of types to be an advantage. The concepts have been replicated in other languages (e.g. Akka, various actor frameworks)
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> gChat, Allo, Duo, SMS (whatever it's called today), Hangouts, Meet, ??? They're all relatively similar, send messages including media (remember stagefright)

Most of those have a much more limited attack surface than iMessage, at least in my understanding. SMS is shared and doesn't try to do what iMessage does, thus the issues
> Trump’s posts included the racially charged phrase “when the looting starts, the shooting starts”

How is that racially charged?
Yeah this is a strange and pretty misleading headline. Here’s the primary source tweet: https://twitter.com/aweary/status/1271522288752455680?s=21
Yep. Down for me too. The dashboard won't load and the front page returns an Internal Error.
Overcoming Barriers to Cross-Cultural Cooperation on AI Ethics and Governance
Why would anyone want to raise a son in a society like that?
Does this mean that women don't date men with misogynistic beliefs or habits?
I'm thinking that this strange trading behavior with Hertz and others is an unanticipated consequence of commission-free trading combined with a lot of fully-employed people getting free money from the government.
Exact search results are getting bumped by paid ads

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23483101
> The very concept of a toolbar probably needed to be challenged.

Uh, that's exactly what the Ribbon did? It challenged the ideas of a traditional toolbar by going back to first principals far enough to the point where traditional toolbar stalwarts hate it on sight.

Half the reason we have debates about the Ribbon is precisely because it challenged the very concept of a toolbar.
Researchers train drones to perform flips, rolls, and loops with AI
The World Wide Web
Study on Covid mitigation methods: wear masks
Yeah regards from Bitcoin. Your logic is impeccable.
Watch YouTube AthleanX Jeff Cavalier.

Eventually you'll have to learn through experimentation what works for you. Will take 5 to 10 years.
Agree completely. This whole harass people for not being vocal enough in their endorsement of the cause smacks of authoritarianism and I think will backfire spectacularly. People resent being made to say something out of fear.
Just take a look at the Wikipedia article you linked to.

In it there are versions by: Huxley, Philo of Alexandria, Ficino and Pico della Mirandola, Agostino Steuco, Emerson, Blavatsky, Huston Smith, and a bunch of others.

Take a closer look at what these people believed and you'll see they believed different things (except that, again, they believed that there was a common source or experience that different religions stemmed from or were getting at).

For example, from the article, "the Egyptian god Osiris and the Greek god Dionysus had been equated as Osiris-Dionysus by the historian Herodotus as early as the 5th century BC", while "The mystic Ramakrishna's spiritual ecstasies included experiencing the sameness of Christ, Mohammed and his own Hindu deity". Not really the same, is it?

"Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499) believed that Hermes Trismegistos, the supposed author of the Corpus Hermeticum, was a contemporary of Mozes and the teacher of Pythagoras, and the source of both Greek and Jewish-Christian thought."

Again, not the same as the other two.

"Ficino saw his thought as part of a long development of philosophical truth, of ancient pre-Platonic philosophers (including Zoroaster, Hermes Trismegistus, Orpheus, Aglaophemus and Pythagoras) who reached their peak in Plato."

So now the peak is supposedly Plato, not Osirus, Christ, Mohammed, or a Hindu diety.

Then there's Steuco who believed "that philosophy works in harmony with religion and should lead to knowledge of God", but that's different from Emerson, who thought "an individual's intuition of truth was taken as the criterion for truth".

Etc, etc, etc...

By the way, in none of the above (or anywhere else in this Wikipedia article) is there any mention of what you said perennial philosophy (and, according to you, PKD) were getting at: that "there is only one moment". Where did you get that?
Dear Mark Zuckerberg,

Please use the power you have over the facebook platform, including that overseas in countries in Africa, and India to change the outcome of the US election this year so Trump loses.

Then after the other countries too. With great power comes great responsibility, Zuck.
Down for me. It's being investigated[0].

[0]: https://twitter.com/stripestatus/status/1271586092752367618
Your clients complained about the name git? (As an aside, you know Linus named both his projects after himself? :)
> Height gives an enormous advantage

That's why I mentioned Sean Stephenson.

> than a 5'6" Indian guy.

I know a pretty small Indian/Surinamese guy (used to be a Dutch colony). Surinam is a bit of a melting pot, FYI but his family line has remained relatively purely Indian. In all fairness, he's good looking. What he also has: the best accent and voice tonality I've ever heard. He says it's his biggest strength and most of that is totally teachable. He taught the best Dutch accent I've ever heard entirely himself and he lowered his voice.

So yea, I do have those advantages, but they are overcomeable. It's simply a lot harder. Also, you don't need to rise to the top. One needs to rise to a level that they feel content with, and in most cases that isn't the top.

With that said, I had the advantage of being tall and white. That's true. Not that it mattered, compared to the amount of disadvantages I had, but I do agree that it would be harder as a starting point if those 2 points also would've been against me.
"just use PostgreSQL unless you have a compelling reason not to" is just as a bad advice tbh. At work we did not even consider it because no HA support / availability. What do you do exactly when your master is down, your entire backend just stop working? PG is not a silver bulet especially not when you're looking for good managed / HA solution.

There is no such thing as "use x.y.z unless" this statement does not make any sense.
> I'm French ... I'm puzzled by how difficult it is to "eat normally"

This really needs so much attention and focus given the ungodly delicious amount of butter French people cook with.
I’m sure we have a camp that is militantly in favor of moderation. It’s our great innovation, as Americans: the ability to be extremely angry about minuscule modalities.
> The only way to explain this phenomenon is hypergamy.

This statement just does not mesh with the study suggesting the proportion of people getting 0 sex has risen by about 5 percentage point (eyeballing the chart) from 2000 to 2018. Doing some bad-and-wrong-but-making-a-point statistics, if you're getting 0 sex in 2018, the majority of your likelihood of being there was already present in 2000. I'm sure it's harder being a man of color, but I'm also sure it was harder being a man of color in 2000 as well.

It's totally possible for dating markets to favor a few individuals and for that not to explain this trend. The reason it sparks debates online is because some individual recount their struggles getting dates as evidence for huge impacts on what dating is like for the majority of males. It doesn't resonate with those who have "normal" sex lives.
> This will probably further drive high-end gaming away from Macs

Agree. I guess people will end up using Stadia/GFN/PS Now, etc.
Christopher Columbus Statues Are Being Beheaded in America
I feel like “will” in that statement should be “has”
> but there is most certainly a heightened awareness of the possibility of being charged with sexual misconduct among men now a day than there ever has been before. One simply has to be a man with friends to know that, it comes up in conversations all the time.. at least in my groups.

This sounds awfully like "men are being _caught_ today." Surely you don't mean that, right?

You said "charged," which invokes the notion of being able to prove sexual misconduct with an abundance of evidence. I really don't see any problems here. Accepting inappropriate sexual behavior (e.g. bad, not funny 'jokes'), makes sexual harassment seem not so extreme, which leads to assault, which leads to a culture that has hypocritical views on rape and women's bodies.

And if you really want to try to contest the extreme consequences of this slipperly slide, I'll direct you to a 1991 (!) ruling in UK (http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKHL/1991/12.html). Since 1736, it was started, under law that “the husband cannot be guilty of a rape committed by himself upon his lawful wife, for by their mutual matrimonial consent and contract the wife hath given up herself in this kind unto her husband which she cannot retract.” It took hundreds of years to recognize, legally, that rape is rape.

That is absolutely insane by any morally consistent standard. It's completely believable in a society that views women's bodies as property of men.
The phrase has some history. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_the_looting_starts,_the...
I guess the fact that a large fraction of the available corpses were corpses of children was a factor in that.

Child mortality was extremely high up to around 1900. https://ourworldindata.org/child-mortality:

“What is striking about the historical estimates is how similar the mortality rates for children were across this very wide range of 43 historical cultures. Whether in Ancient Rome; Ancient Greece; the pre-Columbian Americas; Medieval Japan or Medieval England; the European Renaissance; or Imperial China: Every fourth newborn died in the first year of life. One out of two died in childhood”

It also may have been more practical to steal easier to haul corpses.
Windows itself runs on ARM64 just fine. The third party software usually still requires Microsoft’s emulation layer. I’m not sure that Apple would still maintain Boot Camp, however. I doubt that that matters as much as it used to.
I think this is just normal for big financial institutions. The small ones just break the rules or haven't been audited yet. The regulation is very suffocating.
Doesn’t Apple already include an ARM chip in MacBooks with the Touch Bar?

I have three feelings:

1. Apple will just enable the existing chips “today” and developers can ship ARM code to a sizable audience, with instant battery benefits.

2. Cheaper Macs will start dropping x64 next year and continue running only ARM code, maybe emulating x64 like Rosetta.

3. Pros will keep having both processors for the foreseeable future, similarly to how they have “dual graphics”, except that the OS will always run on ARM.

We should keep in mind that Apple just dropped a swath of 32-bit software which means they aren’t afraid to do it again.
my guess is, apple feels that in the near future, "industry standard" → ARM, and thats one of the reasons <insert hockey puck analogy here> they are moving...
I have a Main degree.