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> How is it so popular?

Setting expectations? I have low expectations for most action films, so I always tend to enjoy them more. I suppose watching the Matrix sequels without knowing the first film even existed, might have meant more people enjoyed it, but knowing the first film existed, everyone had high expectations for the sequels.

Apropos of nothing - saw "The Irishman" on there, which I confused with the "The Foreigner" - that is worth a watch. I'd say it has Jackie Chan's best English language performance. FWIW the original book is "The Chinaman" by Stephen Leather which is a good pulpy read.
A lot of charities in the Netherlands do the same thing, where you can't just give a one-time donation, but have to subscribe to a monthly contribution.

That is horrible enough as it is.

But then to unsubscribe, you have to call them (during their and your office hours) and endure another couple of pitches to keep you subscribed until you are finally allowed to cancel.

And then some of them even have a cancellation term of one month.
I made a software that capture screenshots and pin it on your screen
A windows app that capture screenshots as quickly as pressing a button and save the resulting photo to your PC or pin it on your screen as a floating image
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> Nope, it's not against the medical misinformation policy.

"I have reviewed these studies, they seem sound and there are no real downsides to taking Ivermectin. I can't think of any reason not to take it. I don't recommend taking it, maybe I haven't thought of something" is a position a reasonable person could come to after browsing through the available evidence. Are you absolutely sure a video like that would be kosher on YouTube?

It sounds extremely disingenuous to me, just typing it out.
I agree that intuition and thinking often precede speaking and writing. However writing is a great tool to clarify and elaborate our thoughts. The point is not to be a talented writer but to take the most of our ideas, to make them stronger before we can convey them to others and this can be done using a different medium.
> Actual medical science, and science in general, doesn't make claims beyond what we know for certain

Medical science made the claim that multiple sclerosis was "female hysteria," until imaging technology was able to see the damage. A doctor I know today claims that a lot of patients symptoms are really psychological and everyone at work is annoyed when they come in. When I brought up the case of multiple sclerosis, and maybe many patients have disorders which are not known to medical science because they are dismissed in the same way, I was met with a "that's ridiculous" defense. When I pressed further and ask for evidence on that point, I was given the fact that these patients with unexplained symptoms are highly correlated with anxiety. When I asked if having an undiagnosed medical disorder, and being told by doctors who clearly don't want to help you, and are clearly annoyed you are there, that it's all in your head might give someone anxiety, it was not well received. Medical science comes to all kinds of BS conclusions about the unknown without a shred of evidence.
I think situation in 2021 is very different in London: AMEX is accepted nearly everywhere in central London (Even on markets etc), there are ofc some shops that don't take it but generally AMEX is widely accepted.

Re: Mastercard

It seems that Mastercard is more widespread among "hot" banking startups, ie I can create virtual debit Mastercards on Revolut and Monzo
Can we please let go of that meme - GPUs prices are currently high due to the chip shortage and mining demand, yes, but definitely not too high for professional users to afford them. It sucks if you want an entertainment device and are on a budget but let's not pretend that these cards are unavailable entirely.

The RX 6000 series will have been out for a year tomorrow. I was able to grab one within a week after the release just by checking online stores a couple of times each day so while they did keep going out of stock, there was new stock coming in too.
Mind boggling? $1k/s is around $31 billion. First of all, just Pfizer brought in more money than that last year -- around $10 billion more. But let's set that aside for now, because they're slated to bring in twice as much this year.

You think Pfizer and Moderna are somehow coordinating a global censorship campaign to defend that income? Sure, Pfizer's projects $82 billion in revenue is real money. But it's less than half of Amazon's income. Facebook brings that much in every year. Apple and AT&T crush these numbers, but nobody's going around deleting every tweet about how Mac OS has gone downhill or AT&T's cell service sucks.

In other words, it's just not enough money to have this kind of pull. Even if Pfizer and Moderna were lying their asses off to everyone who would listen, they just don't have the cash to buy off every medical expert and microbiologist of any standing -- and even if they did, the relevant government agencies can't accept hush money and aren't particularly interested in advancing some cartoonish corporate ruse.

Biological and medical research is a competitive field; most of these people slogged through six or eight years of underpaid postdoctoral work just to build the qualifications to participate in meaningful research as PI. Are there crooks who will take a check to parrot a party line? Sure. Is that common enough to enable the kind of overwhelming consensus we see today? Absolutely not ... but let's say I'm wrong: there just isn't enough money to pull it off.

This is why the current crop of conspiracy nuts insists the scheme isn't just about profits but also about some kind of vague assault on unspecified civil liberties -- it's necessary to ascribe actual evil to the movitation before it's even remotely believeable.
The tone of the article makes it incredibly annoying and the author 100% lands on the hall of shame list of ridiculous benchmarks he mentioned.

tf-idf and phrase search alone make lucene 10x better, not speaking of the compression, fuzzy search, advanced query features etc.

I love new search engines like tantivy etc, but this is, due to the tone, a sad joke.
> Tether combines digital currency benefits, such as instant global transactions, with traditional currency benefits, such as price stability. With a commitment to transparency and compliance, Tether is a fast and low-cost way to transact with money.
Has anyone successfully nationalised/regulated into sanity this business? It's 2021, buying stuff should involve neither precious metals nor weird faceless financial cooperatives owned by private banks.
Well that's annoying. Visa credit cards are very common in the UK, I myself use one for everything online. I don't know anyone who's got an American Express card in the UK

Edit: Could it also be that Amazon offer their own Mastercard credit card and they're trying to nudge people towards that?
For my personal data point, 1 of 7 cards is Visa, the rest are Mastercard.
Maybe this is arguing semantics but unless you run something like Gentoo you will most likely get the linux kernel as a binary blob contained in a package your distribution provides. There isn't really any guarantee that this will actually contain untampered linux kernel sources (and in case of something like RHEL it most likely doesn't because of backports) unless you audit it, which most people won't do (and maybe can't do). So, in princpile at least, this isn't really that much better than the node_modules situation.
Security and trust are hard issues and piling on 100s of random js dependencies sure doesn't help but you either build everything yourself or you need to trust somebody at some point.
My grandfathers were a coal miner and a steel miller. Lots of coffee was consumed on/around the mines and on breaks in the mill. The image I have of both of them going off to work includes them carrying a silver or green painted Thermos bottle.
Took me nearly an hour on hold with the WSJ to cancel my account. The longer I had to wait, the stronger my resolve got.
> When they invented antibiotics, people began predicting "the end of disease." Fast forward a few decades and we have the rise of scary antibiotic-resistant infections.

> Medical stuff doesn't work the way most people would like to imagine it does. This sounds like a terrible thing to conclude. I'm rather unsettled to see it lauded here on HN.

Indeed, this exact thing is headline news in the UK today from our Health Security Agency - don't take antibiotics unless you definitely have something treatable by them: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-59310099
Millions of destitute people are trying to get into any developed country - not just America - because life in the developing world is even worse. This doesn't mean the US is doing great.
likely because Visa is increasing their fees in UK since Brexit unshackled them from some EU caps
Really never had a Visa credit card only master card in the UK. Visa debit cards, yes.
I thought that was illegal already, and has been for a few years? Not sure if by EU or German regulation.

FWIW, from 2022 on, Germany will have a 2-click unsubscribe law [0]. It requires clearly labeled buttons and forbids a lot of dark patterns.

[0]: https://www.mofo.com/resources/insights/211006-new-two-click...
I’ve worked with .net for 7 years and the “Microsoft” tag can really give you a false sense of security. I worked in the public sector, so we also took these things rather serious.

We’ve had far more security issues with the .net toolset than we have had with Python which is far more open. Most of them have been developer mistakes, because the update process for .Net is far less intuitive than it is for Python. So my developers haven’t always been on point with updates, getting caught in the act when our network team closed old TLS versions or similar.

But the biggest issues have been with libraries abandoned by Microsoft. Like when they wanted to move the world into Azure runbooks and this no longer needed their library for Windows Server Orchestrtion runbooks. Or the half finished libraries like everything involving on prem AD.

By comparison we’ve had absolutely no issues with Python. So I think this is more of a NPM issue than anything.
It's about what makes money. There's no money to be made from Ivermectin as you can't patent it. Money is what orchestrates the studies and the PR for any medicine.
Yes, these years it seems like this is the de-facto screen recorder tool.

"Open Broadcaster Software" -> https://obsproject.com
I'm not sure either but I did find confirmation that San Francisco no longer allows friction piles for any high-rise buildings in areas with "infirm" soils. Piles must be driven to bedrock.
Amazon Will Stop Accepting Visa Credit Cards Issued in the U.K
Reminds me of my wsj cancellation. I procrastinated twice calling via hotline and they ripped off three months of subscription from me.
Happy to see this on the front page. What scumbaggery.
Animal Crossing is wholesome and very popular. Not everyone might like it, but wholesome stuff seems like a big and underserved market.

I think the biggest problem with wholesome stuff is that creators find it boring to create wholesome stuff, not that consumers don't like it.

Edit: Also, even Disney movies tend to have a lot of drama etc to take away from the wholesome stuff, so they aren't really wholesome. They have many wholesome parts, but they aren't fully wholesome, there is a lot of evil in Disney worlds that needs to be battled and won against, or people die or get diseases or get enslaved, that isn't wholesome at all. So even there creators need to create non-wholesome stuff leaks through. Might still be too wholesome for you, but it still isn't really wholesome.
Isn’t there a stronger conclusion evident: that they appear to reduce the risk (rather than not increase it)?
Arguably THE open source software that revolutionized screen recording and live streaming. Not just software.
Nothing too concise, I am afraid. I think your best chance is to focus on a specific question that interests you. I will give you an answer in relation to some specific variables I did a deep dive on:

Video games and short term aggression: Enough findings for me to prefer giving my (not currently existing) children something to do that are not video games if possible, lest they learn unnecessarily aggressive behavior just by copying. However, probably not a mortal danger.

Video games and (adult/teen) addiction: Seems incredibly hard to track on a long-term base, as other people in this thread mention. Nothing is easier to color a bit to your liking than a meta analysis with small effect sizes, if you should be so inclined. On the other hand, good arguments can be made that excessive gaming behavior is very, very similar to excessive alcohol consumption, gambling or smoking - in regards to brain chemistry, slow drifting decline of societal function or even excuses made to the self. Thus, personally I treat gaming with the same seriousness as other potentially addictive things.

Hope that helps a bit, and good luck on your research journey. Maybe you even find some wider spanning reviews that are new, we live in a good era of terminating twenty-year studies :)
Ivermectin is completely safe (even if it doesn’t work). The rest of treatments, well, we will know in a few years or decades.
Parasites are notoriously hard to treat. They are harder to treat than bacterial infection.

Places with lots of parasitic infections need better infrastructure and general hygiene to prevent infection. They don't need all the locals actively breeding drug-resistant parasites. Parasites are enough of a nightmare without cavalierly passing out drugs for funsies.
Not really. 2 crucial differences: first, it’s the degree of the scale (I, ii, III…) that’s given a colour rather than the note name (C, D, E…), meaning the colouring is independent of the key (or octave) it is written in or transposed into. Secondly, the colours used are designed to be similar where their harmonic ‘meaning’ is similar (according to traditional Western music) and vice versa.
The Times of London does this, and so does The Telegraph.

Most of my subscriptions go via PayPal or Google so I can just cancel the payment and eventually my service will be cancelled for lack of payment.
I assume you haven't been enough on YouTube to see how many videos keep getting removed that contradict MSM.
Author here, kind of. Most parser combinators only deal with strings and streams of bytes, but they can also be used for transforming other kinds of data. I think they're pretty useful for working with stuff like JSON or XML and I'd like to see more parser combinator libraries with support for these kinds of data structures. What I tried to do in the post is give names to the different kinds of basic blocks that are needed for parsing all these different kinds of data.

I'm more or less using Alexis King's definition of "parsing" here, as described in this post: https://lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2019/11/05/parse-don-t-va...
As an engineer, sometimes I say "ship it!" to code that doesn't make me happy but works and solves a real problem.

Edit: I meant this to go with debating techniques, not cures. There are people for whom no amount of saying "why can't you just listen to Dr. Fauci" is going to work. We can say they are bad people, but that doesn't work very well for getting them to agree either.

You are right to call out above that there were other anti-Ivermectin arguments before and roenxi might not have had the background to understand them. That's exactly the point: here we have an argument that he can understand, and it's effective. This is good science journalism. The kind that doesn't work (too much moralizing or too confusing for the general audience) is bad journalism.
In Portugal the law makes it so you can cancel any service using the same means that you used to subscribe it, so if they support subscribing online, unsubscribing also has to be doable the same way; same goes for via phone, personal or whatnot.
It makes sense, prevents service providers from making it too difficult to terminate a contract.
Sounds like you had the opposite feeling.
We still typecheck and build in different steps due to speed; we can build our JS much faster than TS can with Babel + Webpack. We also have a bunch of old custom features that our build system needs to support, so bolting them onto tsc was a non-starter.

Plus, we have to support some fairly old browsers (we only recently dropped support for IE11), so Babel is certainly doing a lot of transforms on the bundles we ship to older browsers.

Separately, do you mean Terser instead of ESLint? ESLint isn’t really part of our build process.
You might want to check your browsing history.
A few times I found it was easier to cancel a card than to cancel a subscription.

I still find it insane that the "normal" way to pay for goods and services is to pass full details of your payment card, sufficient to make any future payment, and just trust the merchant. Surely the sane way is you generate some token they can redeem against, but you can e.g. expire it or modify it.

It thankfully is now more of a thing of the past, but it used to be the case in the UK at least that places would take a telephone card payment, where you recite your card number, expiry date etc. So not only can they make any future payment they like, there is even no durable record of them having these details.
> Debt isn't always bad.

I know the mantra of our financial system that creating debt also creates opportunity, but that is certainly detached from reality if used to form a general rule. For a average Joe, debt is exclusively bad. For states? They have more possibilities. But at that point we are talking about completely different forms of debt.
Was cancelling my cell provider and was required to send a fax - hello Vodafone.de
"For me, one of the interesting points of the article is not just that the replacement code was inferior, it's the recognition that the emotional compulsion to "clean up the dirty code" was a problem in itself."

That's certainly a valid observation and a good point. I think the article would benefit if it the author analyzed this aspect more.
Emacs is my personal little starship that helps me cruise the vast universe of computers :)
Could they have sued you if they had wanted to?

If, theoretically, there was an unsubscribe button in one's user settings that you hadn't seen, and you sent an email instead and blocked the payment card?
I have talked with my friends about the possibility of doing the inverse: multiple people taking on a single high paying job.
> bringing potentially charged terms like "ethnicity" into some discussions.

But as you say, I think this is the point of the article isn't it? People in the west are squeamish about using those terms in their own backyard but are often much less squeamish about using those terms when talking about places far away.
I like this. If that’s the case, it proves the free market works. You don’t need regulations when corporations can strongarm one another.
I wouldn't get your hopes up too much. It has been illegal in Europe/the Netherlands for years, however it is not enforced at all. Most newspapers don't let you cancel without calling them, having to deal with sales people trying to convince you to keep your subscription.
Planetary scientists tend to consider Pluto, and those large Kuiper Belt Objects, to be “planets.” It’s just certain astronomers, who don’t usually study planets, who voted to remove them from planethood. https://www.ucf.edu/news/pluto-planet-research/?amp

Pluto is an impressive planetary system with a bunch of Moons and active geology. I’m gonna call it a planet.

Also kind of funny, but this guy who is obsessed with finding “Planet 9” (which doesn’t seem to exist) is also the one who tried and succeeded at demoting Pluto.
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First direct (HSBC) has recently switched from Visa to Mastercard. The switch felt sudden, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it was due to negotiation that fell through.
> Solve world hunger sounded like a one and done deal

This view is incredibly naive. Despite what FUD the media might’ve spread, it is not a rational conclusion.

> That's sounds very much like the giv man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man to fish he eats for life.

World hunger is caused by innumerable systemic problems - but definitely not because the hungry person “doesn’t know how to fish”. For example, in the USA itself, 1 out of 6 people are food insecure (1).

(1) https://moveforhunger.org/hunger-and-homelessness