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He might be happy and content there. Also, leaving your homeland is a tough decision and he would lose his home audience potentially if he is vocal.
> The use of finance is, at least in theory, it's ability to provide growth to productive sectors.

No, like all other capitalist industries, the use of finance is increase the wealth of capital owners.

> When you're seeing finance being one of the primary drivers of growth by itself, whereas productive sectors don't grow, this indicates that you're lagging behind in your capacity to actually produce value.

No, because of its driving growth, it is producing value (not just for it's owners, which is it's narrow purpose, but for whoever is purchasing the service.) If a nation is seeing finance-driven growth, it's just a sign that that is where it's Ricardian comparative advantage lies in the system of trade. And if you look at international trade regimes, there's a pretty clear finance (and information/knowledge work more generally) - manufacturing - extractive heirarchy ranging from the core to the peripheries. Positive changes in relative position in the world economic order are associated very much with moving to the earlier part of that list.
To quote Lorde,

> I'm kind of over gettin' told to throw my hands up in the air

> So there

Personally, I don't like white boy shuffling and yelling into someone's ear to have a "conversation" enough to justify the club experience, never mind the overpriced drinks. I guess the people who really like the music and dancing have moved on to the rave scene.
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Can't agree more. "Just doing my job" is a pretty shallow justification for killing another person on vague grounds of "defend my country". Even more so when flying an airplane and just dropping bombs all over the fucking place.
> ... it would be a huge loss to culture if the second style of club disappears

The 'second type' never disappears, it'll always keep going, because you can't make starving artist types disappear - they are already willing to be marginalized by the rest of society.

The particular groups and venues you are familiar with will disappear, but they always get replaced by a younger generation's thirst for self expression and community, willing to eat the shit sandwich of the starving artist lifestyle.

Don't worry, some people live to eat and breed, some people live to do their quirky thing and one of the quirky things some people just can't get enough of is music.
Thanks for the response. I won't respond to every point because (1) that would be long and (2) I don't disagree with everything.

> Human evolution and mutation is slow. By looking at what our primary diet was up until recently, we can understand the macronutritional and micronutritional needs of our body and how a vegetarian/vegan diet may or may not influence that.

What was "our" primary diet though? Depending on where a group of humans lived, presumably the diet varied greatly. It seems to me that humans can successfully adapt to a wide variety of foods. I'm sure early humans ate meat, but vegetarianism and pescetarianism date back at least to antiquity. And just because a diet kept us alive doesn't mean it's "good" for us in the modern sense. Say, hypothetically, that a meat-heavy diet increases the risk of early death. That would be irrelevant in the context of natural selection if that age is much older than that of typical reproduction. Our "goals" are different now, too. Does a person sitting at a desk all day require the same nutritional profile as a hunter?

> The main thing currently under scrutiny is the bioavailability and toxins (for lack of better term) of plant-based foods compared to meat.

This is interesting to me and something I've been researching too. It does seem that a lot of the "toxins" can be mitigated by using very old cooking techniques: soaking beans/lentils, cooking vegetables (rather than eating raw), sprouting, fermenting. These techniques can weaken the plants' defense systems, so to speak.

> Avocados, coconuts, olives and nuts stand out here, being more fat heavy, but as most of the population does not have a history with these compared to animal products, it is difficult to say its all good. Beyond that, it is very difficult to get all your minerals and vitamins just on those alone, which isn't the case for meat and seafood, which results in either tapping into the remainder of the veggies and fruit, or tapping into animal products.

To be pedantic: meat doesn't really have a lot of vitamins, right? If you want a complete mix of vitamins and minerals, you would need to eat the kidney, liver, brain, heart, etc, which for whatever reason we don't really do anymore (in the US at least). For the average person (again in the US), this means you will need to step into non-meat sources for e.g. vitamin A or vitamin C. I only bring this up because the topic at hand is specifically about meat, not necessarily eschewing all animal products, so they are presumably allowed in this context.
It’s hard for me to care about misconceptions held by people unwilling to read the nutrition label clearly displayed on all of these products.
I hope you have read the sequels. The Dark Forest is I believe the most mind-expanding of them and Deaths End goes pretty wild but is still very interesting.

I had the luxury of finding out about the problematic CCP leanings after finishing them all. But can’t bring myself to pick up anything other by him.
Maybe it depends on how big pockets one used to have, and how willing one was to follow vendors jealously declaring their software should be the only thing running on the server.

In my experience, unless a server was a VM host (or, these days, k8s cluster), it was rare that it would be single function. We just didn't have the money to allow such waste of resources. So unless you had single-software with enough requirements to hog the whole box (usually DB servers), then everything tended to have multiple functions, and reimaging was rarer event.

So I prefer to have "Freddy the web serving system", which might contain several machines named in style of R04-24.SFO.i.contoso.com ;) - because "freddy the web serving system" is the part that I care, and individual components enter everyday care only in the metrics of capacity planning dashboard.
I would have been surprised if they did that before, and I certainly can’t see it happening now as they pull things out of the open source releases…
Ambrosia apples are also grown in the USA (at least in Wisconsin). We bought box this year, along with a box of Snow Sweet and a box of Honey Crisp. 11 people (five kids) are eating them, and as the boxes start to run out, the Honey Crisps are almost gone, with Ambrosia close behind. The Snow Sweet is the least popular. I like them all, but my order of preference follows that of the our (greater) household.
Air forces of the world seem to have their own more strict code of honor, moral or mutual respect. Hermann Goering is known to have enjoyed some hospitality after surrendering[1]. Also Franz Stigler escorted a badly damaged US bomber to safety[2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnX5HXbRbcA

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Brown_and_Franz_Stigle...
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>It mostly boils down to people pumping themselves full of steroids up until a week or so before the competition so they test clean.

The most common "base" of a steroid cycle is testosterone. If you stopped injecting testosterone a week before a competition, you would still show unusually high levels of testosterone in your blood (even if you were using a shorter ester). But as others have pointed out, they don't test for steroids in most BB competitions.

My personal suspicion is that pro BBers who use steroids but deny it do so to protect product endorsements they have.
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Electric cars are going to slaughter hydrogen for one simple reason. Once people get used to the convenience of their car getting filled up every night when they are at home, they will never go back.

There may be a parallel H2 network for industrial vehicles of some kinds. But the vast majority of personal use is going to be electric.
I love to eat cold honeycrisps myself.
Yes, I do believe it, even the 30% of Trump loyalist, which I do not think are any less patriotic than the elite. But only if their leaders were trustworthy and frank and not patronizing, cynical assholes, transparently lying all the time.
I disagree. I am living in Cyprus and we received 1848/mil population asylum seekers in 2020 alone. We have by far the highest number of asylum seekers of any EU country (more than double from Greece which made the news).
We really do nothing but letting them walk in at this point even if most of them are financial refugees from africa rather than war-torn areas.
As someone who witnessed war preparations in two very different countries and with more than a decade in between, I can tell you what they had in common: people at the top had to convince the majority of the population that the war was necessary. In each case, the arguments were sloppy and could have been pushed back on. I would argue that giving people more data points would increase the decisioning threshold for such actions.
I didn't get that from it at all. The theme of the last book is a conflict between values and survival. What's the point of survival if you sacrifice all values to do so?

Liu is Chinese just like most of HN are American so there will be different default stances on international politics, but the books did not read as jingoistic to me.
> Not only not every, but in fact “slippery slope” rarely is a fallacy.

Personally, I think a ratchet is a better analogy. While it's theoretically possible to stop at any point, realistically each click is just one partial step towards a complete goal, and it's harder to go back than go forward.
> wait what? so everybody is eating grass but being tricked into thinking its meat today?

No, some people are eating grass and then not eating meat. And I'm not talking about today specifically but in general. 100 calories of A replace 100 calories of B.

> It's going to cause the government to kill subsidies therefore jobs and not get their votes from bovine states?

If people don't buy meat, then meat isn't made, subsidies or not.

> Ignorant of their commercial interests and completely brainwashed by their cultural narrative.

Whose interests? I'm not sure what you think I'm missing.

> You know not everybody shares your dull sense of taste right? You know people can taste the difference and they have no plans of accepting the future you fantasize right?

But... you were suggesting people eat less meat and more vegetables!

Being able to tell the difference doesn't mean you can't swap one for the other.
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I found the number of interesting characters with good realization impressive. Also characters of both genders were almost equally well realized. It just too bad he couldn't bring meaningful resolutions to 90% of them.
Spent about two minutes on the website and could not find out what "userscript support for browsers" means. Literally could not figure out, what this thing does – and I have a degree in CS. Maybe it's just me who's not in the know, but I think that's something a documentation/website should always deliver: a high level description for out-of-domain people explaining what a piece of software does.
If you’re currently hunched over a laptop, high quality monitor and keyboard make a big difference.

If you’re sitting on something crappy, a used high-end chair.

If you’re sitting on something nice, a convertible sit-stand desk.
That’s state by state, and can vary.

For instance, in Alabama of all places, private members only clubs can serve as late as they want.

I knew of one dive bar/rock club where membership we $5/yr. they stayed open until 3am most nights, and would stay open 24hrs from Thiraday down to around noon on Monday
Yeah I have no way to assess the credibility of Amazon vs. SpaceX claims. But Amazon has not 6 but less than 5.5 years to get 1600 sats into orbit and they don't have a rocket to put them on. Blue Origin still hasn't been able to build two flight-worthy BE-4 engines for ULA to launch a Vulcan. Then they need 7 more engines and finish up the rest of New Glenn, LC-36 and their barge and do their first ever successful orbital flight. There's almost zero chance that will happen within the next 12 months, and if anything goes wrong could easily be into 2023. Blue Origin will then have optimistically ~4.5 years to become the second-largest launch provider.

It's worth noting there's bad blood in the general space community already after Blue tried to stop SpaceX from doing barge landings, attempted to also take over pad 39A vs SpaceX even though Blue has nothing to launch, their $10 billion HLS "40 foot ladder" proposal and Bezos infamous "Congrats @SpaceX on landing Falcon's suborbital booster stage. Welcome to the club!" back 6 years ago gives a general gist of why Bezos' claims are being treated with skepticism by many. https://twitter.com/JeffBezos/status/679116636310360067
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Fuji also have one of the most edible cores from a taste perspective. Great for an end of hike treat.
Except for winning competitions, is there any natural advantage of bodybuilding for both men and women?

For both, for advantage in most sports and attractiveness the typical calisthenics physique, sort of gymnast/football(soccer) one seems like the ideal one to me, yet a lot of people seem to be obsessed with getting overly buff.
The strength of a body builder as a result of their training doesn’t disprove my point, that is just another side effect of their training - they become very strong. However world recording holding strength levels are not required to win body building competitions - the look of your figure as subjectively judged by other people is what wins BB comps.

If Coleman or Arny competed in powerlifting then they would do very well, but then they would be participating in a different domain, one that is undoubtedly a sport.
F*ck you Atlas Obscura. You make it so painful to find a way to refuse your cookies. One of the darkest patterns I've seen in a while.

I'm so tired of this. Most of the websites I'd like to visit, AND most of the websites that I find on HN, are now a privacy/cookies hell.
You cited one of few small ways the organisation is able to something back to wikipedians as the problem.

Are you now pivoting to saying Wikipedia doesn't spend enough rewarding contributors, from having previously complained about having a celebration with contributors in Accra?

I strongly encourage you to go to one of the events run by the kind of organisation you're complaining about. I'm not exaggerating when I say Mozfest is life changing for many people. Open Knowledge Foundation events have been career-defining for me and many people I've mentored in the UK, Kenya and South Africa. I've never been to a Wikipedia event but I know about them and I think you're imagining something vastly different than what happens. These are events that are about building communities, networks, and opportunities for open collaboration. If you don't like how these organisations do it, sorry, because they are the ones doing it successfully.
This is just Facebook exercising their right to free speech. Or so I've been told.
The UK is showing decreasing deaths from Coronavirus while excess deaths (deaths over the baseline level of expected deaths not attributable to Covid, which are usually very steady) have gone up by more than half the supposed Covid decrease. Simultaneous with the rollout of the Astra Zeneca vaccine, the UK has had a new very stringent lockdown. The actual decrease, net of excess deaths does not seem any more than one would have expected from the new lockdown.

25% of the participants in the Pfizer and Moderna trials were over 65, 40% over 55, according your citations. 0 over 65 in the Astra Zeneca. There weren't enough over 65s and certainly not enough over 75s to come up with confidence intervals as tight as one would like in those subgroups for Pfizer/Moderna. Remember it's hard to recruit older participants because they often have co-morbidities that can cause all kinds of problems when you analyze the data. That's very different from Astra Zeneca. In particular, it's bad because the Astra Zeneca did actually recruit over 65s for the treatment groups. They just chose not to release most of that data while retaining some over 65s in the control.

This AM South Africa suspended use of the Astra Zeneca vaccine because data collected by South African authorities found it wasn't effective. It's being spun as it's not effective enough against the new strain, you still get the mild Covid etc by Oxford apologists. I suspect given a few months, we will find the vaccine doesn't work against any strain.
Interesting to rewind to before the engagement & think about the odds of them both ending up alive years later: there was a chance that Zoltan would be killed by taking a risky third look with the radar from a fixed position. There was a fair chance that both missiles hit Zelko's plane, a chance that any single missile hit would be enough to kill him or render him unable to eject, and a fair chance of him dying anyway even if he did manage to eject. Also a chance that both missiles missed and there would be nothing to write about.
The huge cast of characters was definitely a challenge for me as well.

But I wonder sometimes if it’s more a cultural difference than simply some kind of “failure” on the authors part.

Have you seen those videos where old communist leaders gave speeches, they declare some good news, some achievement, and the crowd claps and cheers, and so does the leader. Watch Stalin, watch Mao.

To a westerner it looks like they are clapping for themself - taking credit for the victory.

But in communism, the results are not that of a “brilliant leader”, but rather the results of history unfolding. They aren’t clapping for themselves, but for society’s progression.

I think, similarly in this way, 3bp doesn’t have the “hero narrative” that western authors favor, because the protagonist of 3bp is society as a whole, while the characters themselves are just minor witnesses.
Corps don't need a military in their own name if they can influence existing militaries to do what they want. Chiquita did this repeatedly, for instance - they got the Colombian military to fire on striking workers in 1928, they got the US military to overthrow the Guatemalan government in 1954, they funded a paramilitary terrorist organization in Colombia from 1997 to 2004, etc.
uMatrix and ublock origin are my two go to addons on firefox, for the most part, whatever ublock origin misses umatrix will catch, and I really like the grid system layout of matrix (despite recently learning on hn there is an advanced mode of ublock origin that is similar to umatrix) I guess umatrix isn't included because it's not technically an adblocker?

I feel sorry for the masses that still browse without these addons.
>Modern actors aren't as willing to sacrifice their health for muscle as their historical counterparts, especially because the lean look is preferred over the muscle-bound appearance of yesteryear

While it's true that the Schwarzenegger look isn't in vogue, it's a bit of a myth to think that steroid usage would lead to that look in any short amount of time.

There are many steroid "stacks" (meaning some kind of testosterone ester with other steroids on top) that are designed for the lean, dry look that many movie stars have reached in recent years. I don't doubt that some stars work for it naturally, but I do believe many have used them in the short term.

I also don't think it's incredibly risky to your health in the short term, depending of course on the steroid.
That comment is back and I have responded to it, it’s a valid point but doesn’t disprove BB is an art
Counterpoint: I recently switched from Android to iOS. On Android, Google Assistant and the likes were always the first apps I deleted. Google is just not a company that I trust at all with my personal data. On the iPhone, I have Siri enabled because I have the expectation that my personal data does not leave the phone when I use it with Siri. So when you say:

> I know that Siri is impaired by choices Apple's made wrt to privacy or some such.

For me it's the other way around. Without those choices, I would not be willing to use Siri at all.
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I feel like what exactly she looked like wasn't the takeaway from the discussion for me, to be honest.
Not all cardio activities exclude strength components that would discourage/diminish muscle maintenance and development. Rowing and swimming, for example, or lower weight/higher rep strength routines that can maintain a faster tempo leading toward a hybrid strength/cardio workout.
Numerical weather forecasting enables genuinely new capabilities. Where is a hurricane going to make landfall a few days from now?

In principle, all the arithmetic operations going in to the final forecast could be performed by hand. But then the "forecast" would be completed millennia after the hurricane arrived. The only way to get foreknowledge of weather from the model is to do the arithmetic at inhuman speeds.

This isn't even AI by most people's intuitive notions of AI. AI is colloquially an artificial approach to intellectual tasks traditionally performed well by humans. Since humans were not very good at predicting hurricane tracks in the first place, the increasing capabilities of models to predict weather probably doesn't have as much wow factor. It's a new capability without any human-genius antecedents.
TARP made only about $15 billion on about $400 billion “investment “ from around 2008-2013. An investment in almost any other financial asset would have made much much more money over that timeframe.
To drive home the point, compare Warren Buffets bailout of Goldman to the TARPs bailout of banks (called the Capital Preservation Plan). Both involved purchases of convertible securities and warrants (both dilutive) from banks, but Buffet exacted much more onerous terms (lending Goldman, the most credit worthy bank, several billion at a 10% interest rate). He made about 3 billion on his 5 billion dollar investment.

Meanwhile the US government lent much less creditworthy banks MORE money at LOWER rates, which is why the returns of the bailout are so abysmal.

As for who benefited disproportionately , I would argue all of the primary stakeholders of the big banks and financial institutions. The primary stakeholders are not the shareholders as commonly believed, but instead the bonus eligible employees of those firms. 2010-2013 were amazing years for bonuses at trading desks at all the big banks.

Anyone of the stakeholders who bet on the stability of the financial system should have been punished (financially) for making the wrong bet. Instead most ended up doing quite well.
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To bypass the paywall, it seems like it has to be referred from author's page
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I suspect the target demographic already knows what a userscript is.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Userscript