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I've lived both sides of this. I once went to a chiropractor for back issues and he made me seriously worse and it took months to recover because what he thought just needed to be put in was actually a herniated disc.

Fast forward more than a decade and I have an amazing chiropractor. Every time I go there, I walk away feeling better, walking straighter, and in less pain. My daughter also goes there and the chiropractor has helped her tremendously with various issues.

If anything I think it's a shame that the quacks and the Good Guys can share the same title. But it's the same in any profession, isn't it?

It reminds me of the joke: What do you call a med student that graduates at the bottom of his class?

Doctor.
>What do I get out of accepting the blame?

Less costly energy bills?

People shouldn't need an oil company to remind them that what used to be a dwindling resource and now a more threatening "climate risk" could best be addressed either way by extreme conservation, and substitution using less damaging alternatives whenever possible.
Nobody likes Monty Python references?

I guess I shoulda known, my Simpsons one got downvoted too. Well, lessons learned, I guess.
I think evolution plays a part in why older people are more prone. A debilitating illness in your teens is likely to stop you reproducing and is more likely to vanish. But a genetic trait for cancer later in life can get past on.
I am personally mesmerized by the aligment youtube videos. It is touching to see someone barely able to walk and after a series of adjustments able to walk normally.
I didn't even knew there was a sentiment that these adjustments were 'pseudoscience'. The guys doing it seemed pretty knowledgable with X-Rays and stuff. I always thought of it as a complementary medicine.
My understanding is even if we stop all CO2 emission tomorrow, we’re still looking at catastrophic warming. Anything else is just rearranging the chairs on the Titanic.

Honestly people should just be enjoying the world prior to it falling into chaos. It’s going to be very ugly. It’ll make Covid look like a tea party.
> Unless you’re the only competent person on the team, if the team thinks its a good idea then why not? If you’re the only competent person on the team however, you should really leave the company.

Sometimes I ask myself this question and I basically can't answer because, well. What are the odds that I am ? And what are the odds that it's the opposite, their ideas are great and I am in the wrong doubting them ?

Actually the most common situation is that someone will come with a very bad idea, and when asked what they think about it, the other attendants will something like "yeah, maybe that could work". They don't approve nor reject the idea. And it looks like more passivity than anything, but if nobody says "nope, that's wrong" and I'm convinced it actually is, maybe I am the one in the wrong ?

I see exactly what you are saying about CR. And that's exactly my mindset. But sometimes people argue that it's a matter of opinion while to me it's a matter of correctness. In those cases I'm lost because on one hand I deeply know that they are wrong, but on the other hand I don't want to be the bad guy that always reject PR because I think my opinion is more important than their.

TL;DR : I don't know where to draw the line between people's limits and my own stupidity.
Isn't that a complete drag? Needing to install a dozen different tools just to do something basic as maintain security? There is no way you can hold every C++ project up to this standard. If you asked me to write software in C++ I would forget to use half the tools you listed and your list isn't even complete to begin with!

Of course this is not an answer to your comment.

Even if you use std::unique_ptr you can still run into use after free bugs. std::unique_ptr is just heap allocation with a "stack allocation style" lifetime. You can still run into use after free by putting a reference to stack allocated data (this applies to std::unique_ptr as well) into a struct or global variable that outlives the stack allocated data. std::unique_ptr isn't really meant to solve use after free, it exists to ensure that heap allocated data is properly freed eventually. It saves you the discipline to match every new with a free but nothing more.

This is something that you can only solve with a borrow checker. If you were to add the ability to detect these types of problems in C++ then you would have essentially added a borrow checker to C++.
I'm just gonna quote the last paragraph in the article (which really should have been the first for folks unwilling to read the whole thing);

> I get it, you’re going to occasionally hear a friend say that chiropractic helped him de-clutter his alcove or do 87 sun salutations… but that’s an anecdote, and data is more important, and trustworthy than anecdotes. The data on chiropractic supports that the practice is nothing more than a collection of broken promises and fake medicine.
Is tobacco use higher today vs pre-industrial eras? I don’t think of it as a particularly modern introduction to humanity.
LOL. So now my standards are not high enough? Everyone should program in C. Definitely one of the fastest. So we can all serve your highest standards.
SQL server dev is free now and runs on linux.
Yes but that way of splitting would very quickly destroy for the very very obvious reason - no money must be given to children... And dividing by adults, say over-15s, it's 70T per 257M, $272K per adult or $1044 per month for that family of 4 with 2 adults in it... That hardly solves any questions.

And you can't divide all of it, because it means destroying capitalism, taking the bottom out of society. Only a small fraction of capital stock can possibly be distributed this way.
This is not true. Live expectancy for adults did changed a lot too, just not as much as when you count also kids.

> If a medieval person was able to survive childhood, then he had about a 50% chance of living up to 50–55 years.

This is from wiki. Our life expectancy is much higher. In fact, contemporary medicine is saving a lot of adults.
> only valid route out of poverty

well, what other routes are there?
I call that problem the how-much-vs-how: there's a permanent battle about the amount of transfer with exceptions and special cases pushed in from both sides at every opportunity, and result is continually worse incentives and complications like that effective tax rate problem at the thresholds of the receiver side.
I wonder what would happen if Facebook choose to pull out of the EU with a large banner "Due to new EU regulations, we have to stop operations until regulations change".

Would there be a large public outcry ?

Me, I would like to see facebook, google, apple... reigned in, but they have a large bank account where that can "donate" to pols, so we will probably see a big loophole appear.
Oh I'm totally in favor of pushing fat granny in front of the trolley. Take the utilitarian approach! But it does kill younger people in lesser numbers, and potentially permanent damage to be people's brains, cardiovascular systems. What about them?

As an aside, my fat granny is watching my kids right now so she's not totally useless.
According to the radio (BBC), a substantial portion of the budget is going to contractors who've started rejecting perfectly good applications.
This should really have a [2019] tag
In my little toy build I set up no, it doesn't warn me that smashing a data structure while iterating over it at the same time gives UB. I'm 50/50 on if there's a flag for that, don't actually know.

Again, in the spirit of becoming more educated, what's the equivalent Rust code? I have `rustc`/`rustup` on my box so I can run that too.
Yes, broken scrolling and failure to tell me what it is made me hate it.
I know a search engine that ranks pages the way you like. It's called AltaVista.
And lack of antibiotics.
There's some interesting post election anaylsis that picks up on this (in Wales at least). There's a view [0][1] that while results are bad for Plaid, they're getting a lot of what they want, and shifting the window on the most important issue (independence). In addition to UBI, it's interesting that Welsh Labour have started the push for "home rule" [2], something that is likely to win them a lot more votes from traditional Plaid Cymru supporters.

[0] - https://nation.cymru/opinion/this-was-a-bad-election-for-pla...

[1] - https://www.thenational.wales/news/19303406.plaid-cymru-noth...

[3] - https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/politics/mark-drakeford-d...
Thank you. I'll try to keep that in mind next time I'm in this kind of situation and see how it turns out.
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The (completely false) theory underlying chiropracty says that it can do .. basically everything. That's supposed to be a feature.

The 'problem' is not chiropractors failing to stay in their lane - If they follow the theory, their lane includes everything.

The problem is that the theory is still being taught, despite being trivially disproven since the invention of the x-ray.
Well, yeah, like I said:

> Whether consumerism is a powerful enough motivator... I just think people are very over-confident talking about what is definitely going to happen in a system that has basically never been tried before.

People are really eager to look at populations and make very strong assertions about what their intrinsic motivators are with (in my mind) little evidence.

> and I don’t think consumerism is motivating them very much.

Are 14% of the population below poverty levels because they like living there? Because our systems discourage saving money once you're on wellfare? Because of market pressures? We have basically zero large-scale experiments, but people on both sides of the UBI test seem really confident that they know what everyone will do.
Mmmhmm.

Selective data collection and interpretation can say pretty much anything you want it to, can't it.
I would accept a 4 day workweek at 100% salary. I'm not going to accept less pay for something the current research says is going to increase my productivity [1].

[1] https://www.npr.org/2019/11/04/776163853/microsoft-japan-say...
Which is why we have the scientific method. Shame that the chiropractic "profession" refuses to use it.
UBI is part of the same technocratic agenda. This is all planned - take a look at the nice words here: https://sdgs.un.org/2030agenda

UBI will only foster greater dependence on the government. Most will not be able afford to exercise personal judgement if you stand what becomes essential money to survive on. When we don't do what the governors mandate, we will lose the UBI, the right to travel, etc. These are dangerous times, and I see nothing to cheer about here. And in case anyone is in any doubt, we are moving into a corporate run, fascist dictatorship.

Those governing us are not our friends. But we are giving up our natural freedom to move, breathe, control what we put into our bodies.
Depends on the type of chiropractor you go to. Obviously the "I can cure IBS by re-aligning your spine" types are bullshit, but some of them are basically a combination of a masseuse and physical therapist. People I knew in the military were regularly referred to chiropractors as part of recovering from an injury.
It’s amazing how precarious being born is. I think I read that about 200 years ago around 40% of people didn’t make it past 5 years old or something like that. Antibiotics have helped a lot in modern times, especially for mothers giving birth.
I've done some research on this and it seems there is some evidence that what chiropractors do, Spinal Manipulation Therapy, is effective when combined with traditional medicine and physical therapy at reducing chronic back pain (and can help some people manage it with reduced pain management medication which is a plus!) However if a chiropractor tells you they can fix your stomach or headaches or anxiety by cracking your back they're a quack.
> In September 2014, U.S. security researcher Moxie Marlinspike wrote that "every lawyer I've spoken to has indicated that having a 'canary' you remove or choose not to update would likely have the same legal consequences as simply posting something that explicitly says you've received something."[15][16]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary
You lost me at gluten though.
HN could be thought as a BBS-like place.

See also:

https://bienvenidoainternet.org (see /world and FAQ)

https://4-ch.net (not 4chan)
Hey Gordon,

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I have extensive experience with the NHS (unfortunately) and have pretty much always been very well looked after. The only exception was probably maternity post-delivery, but that's not anything to do with the fact that it was the NHS.

But that's irrelevant. You can prove pretty much anything with personal anecdotes - what matters is the big picture. If you're against the NHS, you should probably put some thought into answering the question of "How do we stop poor people dying from preventable conditions?" (assuming that this is a desired end goal).

Also, Bupa aren't going to take you to the hospital at 3am when you have severe kidney stones, or unconscious after having been hit by a drunk driver.
you can only negotiate if you are ready to lose. Most ppl don't have that luxury.
Could it be that the examples of “good” architecture were selected over centuries by the communities that chose to preserve them, while the “bad” examples were chosen by pretentious hacks who don’t have to live and work near these buildings?

I love the author’s point, but I wonder if there are better examples of modern architecture that just aren’t being celebrated by the in-crowd.

Reminds me of Howard Roark.
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I agree but I seperated it for whose who might not, this way you can choose how you think about it. :)
The TOS is pretty meaningless given current exchange volumes.

If you somehow ended up with billions of dollars in tether you’d have no difficulty cashing it out to usd.
Let me start by saying that I agree that doctors do suck. They are people and that should be enough to understand them. But all self regulating industries with a financial incentive to lie suck. I realize this topic treads deeply into quasi-religious territory so forgive me in advance, but couldn't this just be the placebo effect? Mixed with the healing effect of someone caring about you?

Maybe your physio actually got you on the way to recovery. And the chiropractor is simply taking credit.

Also what actually does an 'adjustment' do?

Just thinking out loud here.
For the fuckers currently running the UK, primarily a combination of inheritance and corruption.
We have this situation where I live (Norway). I.e. you will get payed pretty much the same for a low paying job as you get payed when unemployed by the government. Note that we don't have minimum wage here, but it's not easy to pay people less than they get in unemployment benefits.

It still seems that people choose to work. Of course things could be different in other countries, there are clearly a number of factors at work here....
Administration costs go way down. We're spending a ton on making sure that only the "right" people get benefits and policing the poor.
That's such a strawman as to be dishonest and bring bad faith to the discussion. _nobody_ but you is saying that.

By the same logic if a heart surgeon for some reason wanted to drive an uber you think they are getting paid $1000+ now? Why would anything about this change?

prices will fluctuate by supply and demand. I could buy 100$ bottles of wine but don't because that's dumb. If I had a million I still wouldn't.
The problem is that that doesn't actually mean "chiropractors are useless"--as it is too focused on what they are claiming to sell rather than what they are capable of--nor certainly does it mean "doctors are effective" (and, if you actually look at the studies, most of the interventions performed by orthopedic surgeons are apparently at best no better than just getting physical therapy and at worst ridiculously horrible: they are mostly short-term hacks that cause long-term tradeoffs... which might sound familiar ;P). I spent a ton of time avoiding the chiropractor because I had been indoctrinated into the world of "chiropractors are useless hacks selling snake oil" until I realized that I specifically needed to get a "grade 5 lumbopelvic mobilization" and it suddenly occurred to me "I bet a chiropractor knows how to do that!"... it turns out they do, and are a lot easier to "manipulate" (pun absolutely intended ;P) into getting what you want than physical therapists.
Tobacco was unknown in Europe until Europeans were introduced to it by native Americans.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_tobacco
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According the the US Social Security Administration actuarial tables, the life expectancy of male Americans aged 65 years has gone from 12 to 21 years in the last century. This has massive demographic implications.
I almost wanted to share that video over here too, but I Ctrl+F "Ian" and saw that you did that first

The channel name is Chiro Core by Dr Ian

1. https://www.youtube.com/c/ChiroCore/videos
My family uses "I'm sufficiently suffonsified!", but I've never heard anyone else use it. Super curious where it came from.
For me it does so much more out of the box than fzf does. It takes advantage of the lsp to search your project in unique ways. Simply calling :Telescope will bring up a fuzzy list of all the built in commands making it far more discoverable than fzf was.

Check out the fantastic Gallery of uses

https://github.com/nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim/wiki/Showca...
People using facebook ? They do not care at all about where, how and volume of their data. All they want is "pointy/clicky" access to numb their minds.

But storing data outside the US, where would US people get their pics from should facebook fold, I will loose my best and free Backup Servise, the NSA :)
Not a mathematician, but

>2 degrees instead of 1.5 degrees

it's about 0.5 degrees.
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Did you actually read the article you linked? It is actually arguing that logic doesn't work.

> Overall, a scrutiny of the method used in these commentaries by Samsel and Seneff reveals a major flaw. These authors employ a deductive reasoning approach based on syllogism, which is formed by two or more propositions used to generate a conclusion. The first proposition is generally related to glyphosate’s properties (e.g., glyphosate is a chelator of Mn) and the second proposition is related to human physiology (e.g., sperm motility depends on Mn). From each of these pairs of propositions, Samsel and Seneff conclude a causative link of glyphosate with the etiology of different diseases. For instance, since glyphosate is a metal chelator (proposition 1), and since sperm motility depends on Mn (proposition 2), they conclude that glyphosate may partially explain increased rates of infertility and birth defects (13). They extend this reasoning to multiple body functions to propose that the dysregulation of Mn utilization in the body due to glyphosate’s metal chelating properties explains autism, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, anxiety disorder, osteoporosis, inflammatory bowel disease, renal lithiasis, osteomalacia, cholestasis, thyroid dysfunction, and infertility. More recently, Beecham and Seneff have used the same reasoning to conclude on a causative link between glyphosate chelation of Mn and the large rise in the incidence of autism spectrum disorders in children within the US (35). However, there are no scientific studies establishing a causative link between glyphosate and the described chronic diseases.

They are literally saying that syllogism cannot possibly work because there aren't "scientific studies". What is syllogism? It's literally logic. If you then read the actual article they are criticizing, there is literally graph after graph establishing a strong correlation between disease and glysophate use. Not only do they find correlations, they reason through several causative mechanisms, in extremely detail, based on chemistry, and then somehow that doesn't count? That paper is absolutely choc full of evidence. What more are they holding out for? It's like their brain doesn't work.
Some social assistance programs are probably worth keeping, rather than converting to dollars. Here in the states, for instance, I received regular updates on what to expect as my child developed, what vaccines they should have, what exercise and nutrition needs they have, and when to see a doctor. That info was really useful, much more so than getting mailed a couple bucks.
What you describe very clearly isn't universal.

One of the major selling points of UBI is that it never disincentivizes recipients from earning, saving or investing in their futures.
That doesn't mean that no chiropractors use it.

And even the quackiest quack's “I've seen this problem before, this fixed it” is better than the best doctor's “I've never seen this before, but I can guess what might help”. You can have empiricism without science.
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Wow. That’s mind-blowing. I knew it was a huge economic driver in the early American colonies, but I always imagined it pre-dated [in Europe] the colonization.

Thank you for my TIL!
Python has (more than one actually) trivially seamless FFI stories down to native (read: C++) code. I personally like `pybind11`, but there are others. Python is basically a convenient way to invoke numpy or Tensorflow or Torch or whatever. It's got numpy/scipy/sklearn/BLAS bindings etc., and is for better or worse how you do scientific computing in the mid-to-upper-mid range these days (the HPC folks have their own whole story).

It's a pain in the ass in it's own way, but you're kinda stuck with it if you want to do mainstream ML.

As a language it's dumber in some ways that JS, definitely slower in some cases, but also way less weird. Prototype chains and stuff are a cool demo that BE knew about Self and shit in the week he had to write JS, but anyone who claims they like that has Stockholm's syndrome worse than someone who thinks Ruby metaclasses make sense.
A nice feature is that when you design a URL lengthener, you can make the service stateless. The backend doesn't need to store every URL that it was ever given. This contrasts with URL shortener services, which must store state in order to generate very short URLs. (In theory, shorteners can use stateless compression like zlib, but it wouldn't save enough space to be worth it.)
Your conclusions here don’t really seem in line with your comment about still not knowing if masks work.

Not sure why you feel like this is a worthy hair to split.

This kind of attitude is why the western response could have been better. Western medicine is hews rigorously close to the “do no harm” ideal and interpret it that you need to have conclusive evidence before recommending a treatment, even something as harmless as mask wearing.

In Asian countries they just do it and so what if it hasn’t been demonstrated as a causal factor in a dozen studies.

Lay people see the indecision, the hemming and hawing, the hand wringing.

The cdc says shit like people shouldn’t wear masks.

This shit is actively harmful and thousands of people have died because of it.