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The historic scientific basis for chiropractors is total BS. The idea that everything stems from the spine, and if you get the spine and alignment, everything else will follow. Literally, a belief that you could, for example, cure cancer, by aligning the spine.

That’s no better than energy healing, and the idea that you have energy flows that get interrupted and need to be corrected by using a certain crystal.

Having said that, chiropractors can fix muscular skeletal issues, that the typical medical community often ignores.

My chiropractor anecdote is this: I was in college and I had a bad pain in my neck and jaw. It came out of nowhere, and lingered as an annoying pain. I went to the student health clinic, where the doctor promptly prescribed me antibiotics for 30 days. I took the antibiotics, and things sort of improved. But the pain never went away.

I went to a chiropractor, who gave me one, single adjustment. When he adjusted my neck, it hurt like heck. 24 hours later the pain was greatly diminished. 24 hours after that, the pain went away and I never felt it again.

There was no infection; the antibiotics did nothing. The relief I felt over 30 days was merely the healing of the body on its own. There was still something incorrect in my neck and jaw, and who knows if it ever would have resolved. The chiropractor fixed it in literally 30 seconds.

So, it’s a mixed bag. And certainly, I hope everyone criticizing chiropractic care is similarly critical of Western medicine, and dumb doctors like the one who simply threw antibiotics at me and sent me on my way.

One more thing, I’m a lawyer who does the occasional personal injury work. A lot of that industry is based on chiropractic care. And there are some over billing charlatans making bank doing that chiro care. I guess the bottom line is that I’m not willing to completely toss out chiro cares potential, but there are lots of bad actors.
The Idea of Making $1 Off Gumroad?
You don't use it, yet you are also an authority on what it is "full of". So much so that you're an observer of subreddits dedicated to lascivious TikTok content.

I use Reddit and am blissfully unaware of such subs.

As to "designed to be addictive", you are literally using that as a lazy, pejorative surrogate for "designed to be rewarding/enjoyable".

Understand that almost every part of your life is "designed to be addictive" by that sloppy trope. HN is "designed to be addictive" by putting the most interesting stories on the front page. Netflix, Facebook, Starbucks, McDonalds, Movie Theaters, Parks, Conservation Areas -- Designed to Be Addictive. It is meaningless prattle, though it's usually leveraged to dismiss things Other People enjoy.
This is unfortunately a common pattern for bullshit pseudomedicine. They make up something random that looks like treatment and has some limited, short-term effect. By doing so they gain followers, who keep repeating the standard story.

It's scary effective.
I don't like the trend of corporate names taking real names and repurposing them.

The first results of a Google search for "Amazon" are the company. Not the river.

The first results of a Google search for "Palantir" are the tech company. Not the fictional object from J.R.R. Tolkien's works it's inspired from.

And a Google search for "Rust" returns links to the programming language and the video game, before the chemical reaction.
Can you find any period in history when this is not true, it just seems like restating a fairly obvious fact about what happens to human society as it grows.
According to Google, 82% of outbound email to other providers, and 93% of inbound from other providers, is encrypted in transit.

https://transparencyreport.google.com/safer-email/overview
This is a technique used by a lot of athletes but I personally believe it is one of the most helpful body maintenance tools for any human.

https://performanceforhealth.com/8-mobility-ball-exercises-t...

After spending 30 minutes with a lacrosse ball I can feel my entire body relax. Using it on your ass cheeks will do wonders especially if you sit constantly. Your muscles will bind up and kinda stick together - the ball helps loosen up knots and tightness.

It is not pleasant for the faint of heart ... but if you can push past it the first few times you will eventually learn to appreciate the relief more than the torture of doing it. A lot of times you will physically feel pain melt away.

I got nothin better to do on this Sat morning so I am gonna get mine out right now and do some mobilizing.

Psoas release is also very helpful for those of us who are sitting all the time: http://recoveryourstride.blogspot.com/2012/05/this-works-flo...
It’s historical fact.
so what you're seeing is the creation of a zero width space. When you combine an \x20 and an \x0b, it makes a zero width space, which your browser ends up ignoring. Only reason these are in there are to ensure the URLs are at a minimum length. Who wants a mere 20 character URL when you can have a minimum of 250 characters.
> You could surely argue that even in the OO world, inheritance has a bad reputation and practitioners usually favor composition if they can.

You could indeed argue that, if you’d never been part of a community writing code in an object oriented language and your opinions about actual OOP practice were formed by reading HN.
Nice, I’m pretty excited to try this out for my personal projects. Been looking for something like lucidcharts but meant for code architectures.
> they are telling on themselves in a hilarious way.

It's no secret how the algorithm tailors itself to what you watch. The hilarious thing is people thinking they're getting a 'win' when someone complains about any content. The app presents things to you and tries to grab your interest in any way. A lot of teenagers will, naturally, linger on that content for longer and then it becomes a cycle. That doesn't mean that is what they are aiming to get out of the app.
For a good laugh, check out the Wikipedia talk page where people contest whether 'chiropractic' deserves to be called pseudoscience. [0] I particularly enjoyed someone pointing out that These are in-universe sources.

For all Wikipedia's flaws, it does a good job of talking straight about this kind of thing.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Chiropractic
Multiplying Integers Using Fourier Transforms [pdf]
Well I made the URL lengthener so you should obviously hire me /s
This is definitely on their radar, at least conceptually. At the Ford developer conference they shared the idea of the zero dollar car. At signing, you are given the option to let them collect various data points (barometer, location for traffic, location for advertising, etc) in exchange for cost reductions on the final price.
My favourite three compared to years of Haskell experience are:

- runtime predictability. Our async high-load programs are already complex, and having a much more predictable runtime (no GC) makes things feel much more straightforward

- lack of bracket need. You get destructors from your types! No more async-exception or other accidental leaks

- no exceptions. The “?” syntax is truly genius, Holy Grail of Haskell error handling coming to life
Even in advanced cases of type 2 diabetes, many patients can still put the disease into remission with weight loss and a low carb diet.

https://www.ajmc.com/view/low-carb-diet-may-help-achieve-typ...
We're only using cloud functions for the initial redirect for some links, looks like we're hitting some kind of quota limit in our cloud environment. Should be fixed now.
> Conversely, I’m on several slacks, and I’ve only ever used the same account on all of them. One slack app and one slack account works for all of them.

How? Each time I join a slack, e.g. haproxy, i need to make a new slack account tied to my email address for that slack instance. How do you make a single slack account to be used everywhere?
There are, for me, two problems with ASAN and friends:

1) it requires a later execution, rather than your code failing to even compile.

2) it requires excellent and complete tests, probably with quality fuzzing, as often the corner cases (like hiting buffer size limit) is where problems occur.

For me, the argument for Rust is exactly that it let me (mostly) get rid of ASAN and UBSAN and valgrind and friends, which I consider required for C++.

The other big advantage of Rust is package management, with I feel C and C++ are awful at, particularly if you want to release for Linux, Mac and Windows.
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The Americans got the scientists, the Russians got the technicians. They served as catalysts for both space programs, but there was also a lot of talent from else where (America is famous for deporting a Chinese rocket scientist in the 50s or 60s, giving a good start to their program).
Even if that clause is enforceable, you can just tell people about it instead. No company would try to prevent talk about their products' good performance.
No no, so it's half your weight in lbs, in oz.

So for a 200lb man, it'd be 100oz. Just under a gallon.

It seems like a lot at first, and for the first few days I peed a lot, but now it seems normal.

Granted, I'm doing myself a small service by saying 200, but that's just a few covid pounds.
Just some back of the envelope work - with 70 million million
divided amoung 300 million people, that's 233,333 per person. Assume 4 people per household that's about a million per household. Avg s&p dividend is 2.3% - That's minimum wage per 2 working adult household.

The math does seem to stack up. The problem is distribution, not total wealth it seems

Edit: Ok this is skewed as US stock markets are really a global stock market, but if you took for example global GDP (~115 Trn) and divided by 8 bn people or 4 person households you end up with 60k per household globally.

Here's a trick I was explaining to my son earlier. We really do live in the Matrix. An announcement comes on and they are resetting - everyone gets a new life starting tomorrow - but randomly allocated over the 8 billion possible "players". We can keep the current social order or we can design a new one.

Do you hope the 8 billion sided dice rolls in your favour and you land in Jeff Bezos body? Or do you think maybe we should redesign society ?
my wallet weeps
At least tiktok is real
I personally find windows10 to be one of the most "invasive" desktop experiences that I've ever used. No matter what I do, I can't seem to properly turn off all the bloat and extra notification shipped with it.

I'm sure YMMV but I just have a hard time taking it seriously for anything beyond booting up to play a game. I wouldn't even use it for that if I had a choice and the supported OS landscape was different than it is.

The icing on the cake for me was when I had to edit the registry in order to re-enable the checkbox toggle for booting directly into the desktop. I just wanted to be able to turn on my steam box and be able to boot right into big picture mode on startup but MS had different ideas about what options I should be presented with by default.
We are under lockdown for more than a year now to save old and obese people, most of whom would have died anyway in this year (or perhaps in <5).

Started as just a few weeks and became over a year and who know if next year will be back to normal...
If you don't do any strength training at home you won't get better after adjustments. Chiropractors will give you the exercise groups to do. What's bullshit is the wait times for any healthcare in America.
My brother is a chiropractor who mostly agrees with you. He thinks that most chiropractors do about as much harm as good, or more.

Of course, he believes otherwise about his own particular school of chiropractic, the Gonstead Technique. As a long time beneficiary of that method I've come to agree with him. It has helped me quite a bit, and the long list of his vastly improved patients (many or most who are refugees from other chiropractors) is impressive and convincing to me.

Some healers are quacks; in some disciplines, most are. But that doesn't make them all quacks.
Yes, I tend to think of an increase of death by heart disease, cancer and neurodegenerescence to be good news overall.

These diseases are essentially dying of old age. Better treatment for heart disease will mechanically increase cancer deaths and/or Alzheimer.
> Or, as the researchers suggest, a mapping application—smell your way home.

This would be the perfect sensory augmentation for Andrew Quitmeyer's "Mark Your Territory" project: Pee to Check-In to Foursquare, using the Checkin Gradient to navigate, so you could smell your way to nearby locations where your friends most recently peed.

https://www.instructables.com/Pee-to-Check-In-to-Foursquare-...

A stereo smelling device for dogs would facilitate Cross-Species Communication and Augmented Canine Reality!

https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2020/12/augmented-...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5M1QfjZr4c
When people are paid starvation wages and have to have multiple jobs, that's brushed off as "supply and demand" of labor. You get paid what the market is willing to pay for your labor, and it's your own fault if you can't offer anything more compelling to demand a higher wage.

But when the situation is flipped around, and there is a shortage of labor instead? Suddenly the same rules don't apply, "supply and demand" isn't what should rule the price point for labor, instead, these companies are entitled to cheap labor. If people are unwilling to work for the wages offered, it's the people who are defect, not the wages offered.
Only problem is that i'd have to pay 700 dollars lol
I hadn't heard of the term 'chiropractors' until our family moved into the suburban parts of the US. The other fancy shops that surprised me by their existence were these healing crystal stores and astrologers and whatnot. Eww.

I mean it is downright unacceptable these days.
No, illegal settlements outside the proper borders of Israel are illegal, and the situation they create there is one of apartheid. What's hard to understand about this?
This language just does not look like much fun at all.
It's quite popular among data scientists and machine learning developers, they even made their own language server[0] for VS Code.

[0]https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-pytho...
I think it's also possible to tell Syncthing to sync file adds/updates but not deletes. I wouldn't trust it 100% with my files, though, probably still a good idea to manually take regular backups to an external hard drive or something.
> For instance, if you sit for hours in the same funny position on your couch every night.

For what it’s worth, good chiropractors will dig in and give advice like “don’t drive with your wallet in your back pocket because you’ll sit crooked”

Chiropractors tend to be more holistic in their thinking in my experience compared to regular doctors who ignore lifestyle issues.
Shouldn't the java in the first example explicitly state it implements the interface?
I did a couple searches of my own too:

The first results of a Google search for "C" are the programming language. Not the letter.

The first results of a Google search for "Python" are the programming language. Not the snake.
I've had whiplash twice. A chiropractor did pretty good at straightening that out.

Do I trust the new-age-ish stuff that they offer? No. Do I trust them to straighten my spine? Yes. At least, I trust the one I have.
I stop reading right here

"I claim that WunderGraph is by far the most powerful GraphQL client for the modern web."

Self proclaming your library as "the most powerful thing" it's something plain stupid
NHS has been pretty terrible in my experience and thank God I have Bupa now. You don't have to, but if you have something you need serious treatment for you'd better go private.

They didn't do any tests when presenting symptoms of a stomach ulcer after queueing for 3 hours (I had to do a private test to find out). Statistically I was unlikely t have it because of my age.

The first pregnancy went ok (albeit nowhere close to the level of instrumentation you see in the states), for the second one they delayed epidural until it was too late to administer and my wife gave birth on a sofa without pain relief.

My son had teeth problems since birth and they wanted to remove 4 front teeth saying an abscess was inevitable. Luckily we have dentists abroad who advised otherwise and it turned out removing teeth was not needed (and it would have been years of pain, spacers and ruined roots).

All in all, considering all the money I paid over the years to the government, it was a pretty shoddy deal.
What about Osteopaths?
> Where do I find the explanation of why Rust is less awful than C++ written by someone who has written a lot of C++ out of necessity,

The O’Reilly book by Jim Blandy and Jason Orendorff. It is a really fantastic book on a programming language, the best I’ve ever read. The new edition is due this year it seems.

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/programming-rust-2nd/97...
Your body has a lot of possible immune responses. Runny nose, inflammation, fever. My guess is that it just switches strategies to something less annoying.
It's not that Rust catches these issues like a sanitizer or linter would, it's that they can't exist by design. The compiler is aware of potential type-, lifetime- and ownership safety issues, and you don't need to run any code to figure out if your code is memory safe or not; static analysis is enough.

Also, even if Rust only caught by itself what Clang and half a dozen analyzers would catch, you also get a really nice language as a bonus. There is much more to Rust than just safety.
Surely the point of the market is that you need to pay for things based on how difficult it is to get them?

Contrived example.

Say you have some toilets you want cleaning and you decide to offer the job for $5 an hour + tips from toilet goers. The only person that agrees to do it is some homeless dude. You're not very happy about this, but no one else showed up so you go with it.

Then two weeks later the city offers $5/hr UBI and the homeless guy immediately quits.

"But wait, if you were scrubbing the toilets you get $10/hr + tips!" you say to him, and he says "ok cool but I'd rather beg on the street" and walks out

This means that $10/hr is actually significantly too low for cleaning toilets and the only reason this guy agreed to do it for $5/hr is he would have literally died otherwise

You can say "hey, a guy scrubbing toilets should definitely not make more than me, a big important programmer! My job's way harder" but would you scrub toilets for your current salary? I don't think I'd want to. Equally my company could probably give me a 10% pay cut and I'd complain about it but keep doing my job. I like programming.

However, the sad truth is society needs people to clean toilets and sweep the streets significantly more than it needs me to write React code for some website. If every cleaner in the world quit simultaneously, it'd be utter chaos. If every frontend dev in the world quit it'd be annoying but no one would die.

So why do we pay cleaners so little?
Don't Rush to Simplicity
I'm studying programming language semantics and papers like these are quite valuable in understanding type systems of real languages, see also Featherweight Java[0] and Featherweight Go[1]. At first it looks like a lot to take in, but when you start with far simpler type systems like typed arithmetic expressions and simply-typed lambda calculus, you see the same definitions and metatheorems (properties about the type system) appear over and over again (including in this paper). In particular, the pieces you see repeated are:

- the terms and types of the language

- the values (a subset of terms)

- the evaluation relation, telling you how you go from one term to the next

- the typing relation, telling you how you build well-typed terms and what their types are

- Progress states that if you have a well-typed term, it either is a value or it can take one step of evaluation

- Preservation states you that if you have a well-typed term of type T and it takes a step of evaluation, the resulting term still has type T

And we have the slogan, safety = progress + preservation.

I should also note that past a certain level of complexity of type system, you definitely would want to use a theorem prover such as Coq to formally verify and automate easy cases. The proofs themselves are actually quite boring (which is a good thing!).

[0] https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/papers/fj-toplas.pdf

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.11710.pdf
I really wish more were being done to openly address the more extreme cases of side effects, so we could try to find other contributing factors and perhaps mitigation strategies.

The number of poor reactions is very small, but pretending like they don’t exist or failing to address ways to overcome them only further fuels the fear in those hesitant to get vaccinated, and furthers the divisiveness in an issue we should all be working together on.

Which makes sense if you’re a politician or Dr. Fauci, but doesn’t make sense if you just care about the health and safety of everyone and want to get this damn pandemic over with already.

Forcing or shaming the hold outs to get vaccinated won’t do this, but giving honest confidence in the vaccine to people will.
Thank you so much for the thorough answer! There is a lot of exciting stuff for neovim rolling by e.g. on Reddit and I am already very happy with 0.5 so far. It is just hard to filter which new neovim/lua project is really worth the time to check out and potentially break your current setup.
I will give it a try.
We should invent the name for the aspects that are not bullshit, then. Some of the things they do are objectively helping some people in some cases. Gatekeeping medicine is important, but it can also become just that, gatekeeping
>Can you find any period in history when this is not true

Probably not.

> it just seems like restating a fairly obvious fact about what happens to human society

obvious and sad fact.

>as it grows.

why as it grows?
This article is full of weak proof and elitism. If one is to go back to the 1900s to critize how the practice is formed one must remember the state of medicine. He references this but only to cast a negative light chiropractors by linking them to a time when medicine practices lack the scientific base we have now.

This statement?
"Who the hell peddles (real) medicine out of a kiosk"

It is so elitist it out of touch. Most chiropractors are not in mall kiosks.

My eye doctor is located in a mall.

He may be right but this rant didn't address that.
Paintinglite v2.1.1
It almost seems similar to big video-game development shops exploiting the passions of game developers.
I usually use Visio for diagrams like this. It's a very powerful tool, but it's expensive, and really fiddly to use such that everything is aligned and sized the way I want - I invariably spend far too long adjusting size and position.

Something like this could be really useful, and I'm keen to give it a try!

If the founder is here, a question: what formats can you export diagrams in? My biggest fears in using something like this would be lock-in, or it shutting down and losing everything.
simplicty is important, but i believe it is not the most important metric for a PL and have no problem with complex PLs. the question; is it worth the trouble? c++s failure is not the complexity but c++ being one of the least orthogonal languages out there. in c++ you are able to compose two great things/ideas (other than my only options are c and c++ this is the biggest reason i prefer c++ over c) yet the end result is not more but less.