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Nicotine has been so vilified, it's never been properly studied.

I do know people with certain psychological disorders (I believe Schizophrenics) crave nicotine, and Psychiatrists don't have a clue why, like most of there art.

Nicotine appears to calm them down?

I had a friend who smoked 4-5 packs of cigarettes a day. If he was vaping, I bet he would still be around today?

(To those that cannot stop smoking cigarettes. I got down to 3 packs a year. Instead of just stopping, I use a tiny amount of tobacco daily, or when ever the urge hits hard. In my case 2x weekly. I buy a rolling papers, and roll tiny cigarettes. In one cigarette I can roll five tiny cigarettes. I would buy loose tobacco, but the taxes are worse than filtered cigarettes.

My point is use your vice in moderation. Most of you can. This black/white attitude towards drugs in America is troubling.)
> Dying younger is not a benefit.

It is when talking about healthcare costs.
No. The standardization process does not call for you to make your public facing, extremely visited website use Polymer/ShadowDOMv0. You can implement your API and make a demo website/offer a beta test on your website so that people can try it out.

Making it the default and making the fallback only reasonably accessible by installing an extension that will rewrite your links (that all send back to the alpha-using version), causing every browser that isn't Chrome to slow down to a crawl while you happily display a "Hey, did you know the web is faster with Chrome?" isn't working through the standardization process, it is weaponizing it to sabotage other browsers.
Well, "hacking is not allowed in the Netherlands".

But honestly, I think what they're trying to say is, we're happy if you report issues, but please don't commit a legal offense. This policy will not absolve you.
A fair number of people still use Word 97. It does what they need and still works on modern systems. Why switch?
Online office apps have an edge WRT collaboration. It may well be that the era of the standalone office suite is reaching its end.

What would it take to make LibreOffice a web-centric app companies could host themselves? Maybe Apache's resources could be directed that way.
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Which makes it insanely hard to change things for the better, normal cancersticks (now without menthol!) will continue to be made and sold at extreme tax rates whereas something that isn't perfect but is better will get banned.
Small world! I started using hevy in 2020 to track weights and haven't used anything else since. By the way somehow the timer noise always makes me jump.
There it is! Appeal to Authority Fallacy.

What you're missing is that this is a totally different set of hardware and circumstances than you've ever experienced in your 2 decades.

Instead of coming out with a know-it-all it-cannot-be-possible attitude, it would be far better to approach things by asking questions or at least having an open mind. Innocent until proven guilty, right?

If anything, in those two decades, you'd have learned to ask basic questions. If you are truly interested in this, you could have asked me for the brand of mobo or to provide photo evidence of the batteries, mobos, etc... or even gone to the datacenter to see for yourself, but instead, you've just had this whole "i am right, you are wrong" attitude that really doesn't get anyone anywhere.

As I said before, I'm not lying. I have no reason to lie about this. It is what we experienced.

This is my last reply to you... waste of enough time.
Completely disagree.

There is huge scope in healthcare for automation, pre-emptive diagnosis and raising the bar for precision.

It is mostly going to be done by a company with good AI chops, I would put my money on Google, from what I have heard about their efforts.
They're very good (I initially said wonderful but I want to be clear that you shouldn't use these products unless you smoke combustible cigarettes because they're comically addictive) products because underage people do not want to use them!

There is some regulatory nuance I believe that makes them harder to buy than regular vaping products but I forget what it is — a simple fact though is that the social aspect of smoking breaks, smoking at bars, the habit of smoking is a huge draw and it's hard to replicate that with gum.

The best product to solve the nicotine crisis is a smart device that gradually lowers the nicotine invisibly to the user over a 3-6-12 month period. This isn't a super hard problem, the FDA and the market is just too non technical to execute.
This is an excellent book. I got so much out the first half I keep building little toy interpreted languages and haven't got round to the second half yet!
>oh, fiber materials may be sand

what does sand means in this context please ?
Nicotine has it uses and benefits.

The abuse of that or the "cigarretization" is the problem.

One thing is to get real organic tabbaco and smoke in small quantities not inhalling only getting nicotine thru gum line.

About the benefits in cognition [1][4] alzheimers and parkinson [2], helping with covid [3] and even testosterone [5]

Cigarretes + additives are *very* bad you can see the difference here [6].

Is tobbaco bad? yes. Is nicotine bad maybe.

Is cigarrete bad? Yes very

Is Cigar bad? Yes but not as cigarrete.

TlDr -> Go for pure nicotine or cigars if you need neuroprotection.

[1] - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1579636/

[2] - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1859921/

[3] - https://openres.ersjournals.com/content/7/2/00713-2020

[4] - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9006184/

[5] - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24457405/

[6] - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29459935/
Yeah, that was me, I totally downloaded it as the first thing when setting up a new computer for years. I thought the errors opening some excel documents was because it was open source. Little did I know it was effectively abandonware.
We have muscadine wine in the Southern US.[1] Its made with a native grape like fruit. I do not suggest trying it unless you like extremely sweet wine.

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitis_rotundifolia
I share your perspective. Ultimately, I see the situation as somewhat analogous to having a professional work on your house. You rely on their expertise to direct what is and isn't essential, and really lack any ability to measure the outcome (e.g. is this harder wearing material or building technique really worth the extra time and money).

Again, as you say, I think the solution is simply to develop trust with the stakeholders to whom you're trying to sell the ideas. Technical leads - in a unique position of understanding the costs and the benefits - must be vigilant to bat away the spurious claims that certain topics (such as those you mention) require addressing, as trust lost is difficult to recoup.
I'd like to add a few asterisks:

Magnetic coupling removes issues with potentials _up to the dielectric breakdown voltage_. Ethernet magnetics are considered high potential components, and even the entry level options will isolate at least 1.5kV, but fault events often exceed that figure.

Magnetic coupling removes issues with _common mode_ potentials. If the + and - side of a pair are both a thousand volts away from the pair on the secondary side, no problem. If a wire pair suddenly measures a thousand volts across… well, Ethernet transformers are typically wound 1:1.

_Ideal_ magnetic coupling removes issues with potentials. Ideal transformers behave as above, but real transformers have parasitic effects, particularly winding capacitance. Fast transients (including ESD) can and do capacitively couple across the transformer from primary to secondary.

Magnetics are important but do not solve the problem on their own. It is possible to design and manufacture electrically robust copper Ethernet systems – for a given definition of robustness (typically defined as passing some specific EMC test) – but even then real world electrical faults can and do destroy robust Ethernet systems. Fiber has none of these concerns.
It's interesting to learn specifically about Growth Engineering, given so much is normally written about Growth overall as a function and those posts are typically about the PM side and tactics/experiments that teams tried. Also interesting to see where companies draw the lines of engineering responsibilities for Growth teams vs the rest of the org and how they split the team up.
"Fear and Loathing in the Unrelated Movie Reference"

See also:

- "Everything you always wanted to know about the Unrelated Movie Reference (but were afraid to ask)"

- "How I learned to stop worrying and love the Unrelated Movie Reference"

- "Unrelated References Considered Harmful"

- "Make Unrelated References Great Again"

When attending a tech conference, you can typically find at least one of those for each day on each presentation track. The last one being an obvious new-comer in overused references. In late 2016 or so, I was at a conference where they had a run of several, _consecutive_ "Make X Great Again" presentations, all in the same room.
If you let the project die on the vine however, you can clean up after it dies without having to take the hit for actually being the ones to kill it.

Apache is in an unenviable position, here. Might as well let nature take its course.
Vaping is much less terrible than smoking cigarettes but you still shouldn't touch them if you're a non-smoker.
I would like to respond but your comment makes almost zero logical sense.
But does anyone do it longterm? People do pills/lozenges for a few months to smoke less.

Whereas Juul was getting kids to TAKE up vaping, and add new smokers to the market.

So overall, pills/lozenges was doing good for society, and Juul was not.
I think the intent is not only making the father right by giving him 50 shekels, but also making sure the women isn't disadvantaged. Since she is "damaged goods" as you put it she would have problems finding a husband, making her life rather difficult. But conveniently there's somebody right there who we can make responsible of taking care of her for the rest of his life.

From today's point of view the solution sucks, but people back then had a very different view of marriage (and life as a single men or women). Marriage could be about love, but it was often just a transaction that establishes how people cohabitate and share roles in a household.
> A user can purchase $1000 of DAI and send this to another person in the world within 30-60 seconds, without the beneficiary needing to set up a USD bank account or disclose private data to a third party.

Your “refutation” is leaving out some key details:

1. You do in fact have to deal with legal requirements - it’s a requirement for converting into useful money and tax evasion has serious consequences in most of the world.

2. Replacing Western Union has some appeals but it’s not enough to justify the returns which blockchain salespeople have been claiming, especially when the established player can cut margins easily and blockchain users need a fairly large just to compensate for currency conversion and increased risk.

The Ponzi claims aren’t because someone is claiming that they can beat PayPal’s overhead by 2% — it’s from all of the people claiming double or triple digit returns which are obviously unsustainable, and hand waving questions away claiming that you should just buy now before the price goes up.

> And when you own stock, you cannot do much except hodl and sell

My dividend income suggests you might be leaving something out here too.
Programmable money is a useful feature and ETH has won that space. It doesn’t mean it’s not high risk or easy.

The one hard fork was fine imo - it’s probably good to have an extreme case community fallback when there’s serious abuse. BTC is the counter to that and why I think it’s good as a store of value long term (rather than just holding ETH).
Can they reproduce this effect:

https://www.nature.com/articles/444286a
There were good communities and bad communities. I really don't think profile pictures have much to do with it.
The purpose of e-cigs is to get kids hooked on something that seems more "cute" and healthy, so they can graduate to real tobacco products when they grow up.
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Well you know it's in the mainstream now...
>This is not particularly contradictory or surprising

That may be true, but it is still telling that we can only get information from a government agency because they are legally forced to give it to us and they will do so in a way that is as disruptive as they can be. This isn't related to this FOIA request, but to FOIA in general and the issue that FOIA was even needed to begin with. It denotes a lack of transparency and trust, one which has fed into many not trusting the government and builds a question of what extent it should be trusted even today. This factors into far more than just vaccine related discussions.
Google often has terrible execution when it lies outside their direct core businesses. You are correct they have amazing engineering talent, but that is not the problem here.
Dying younger is a huge cost-savings, especially if it known non-treatable and quick.

And once you're retired you're providing less tax than you're consuming (for most people) so there's a double benefit! Die at 65 and help balance the budget today!
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I think this exists in the form of Collabora Office

https://www.collaboraoffice.com/collabora-online/

It is integrated into NextCloud I believe for self-hosting
I didn't know that format.
Actually, I'm looking for the solution to record and review that later.
It might be fit.

Thank you!
> 0.80 cents a foot

Isn't that 80 cents/foot, or 0.80 dollars/foot?
Thanks, I know that, and I was replying to the guy saying inflation is because of brexit.

At least Biden is saying inflation is because of Putin, that’s one step less of a ridiculous statement, albeit still wrong.
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You could put several doors the cabinet.

If using a chain, connecting locks in parallel between the links would be AND, and locks in series between the links would be OR.
In defence of executives its not that clear cut. Yes you can influence and most large companies have channels to do this but how much they listen to you depends on the support the executive gets from their manager and so on.

For big change to work there has to be the right culture set by the board and this has to feed down.

Heck, maybe in the not so distant futures a DAO like setup will exist that will flip all this on its head.
Correct. If you want reliable and user-centric FOSS the best bet is community-driven.

The second best bet is from a consortium of many companies with a track record of not dropping projects.

Unfortunately most developers still jump on hyped-up corporate-controlled bandwagons.
There's a "delete" next to edit on your comments for a few minutes.

Can't delete when there are replies, maybe. hehe.
> Its last major release was version 4.1, from 2014!

Oh we are playing major version minor version!

Let me try: Libreoffice is only at version 7.3 ! That makes it hundreds of versions behind office365! Proof once again that free software has no business competing with software build by professional commercial developers. Now excuse me while I try to reboot my futuristic Windows 2000. /s

Versions may as well be marketing names for most software. If anyone even mentions them I might as well assume a minor case of serious brain damage. Java just flat out dropped the leading 1, Firefox is in the low hundreds, some software just goes year/moth.

As Apache office still releases updates I find the claim that it is dead highly misleading, but that is presumably the intention if the post.
If the goal is to have society subsidize a subgroup, then either government funding or laws requiring the exclusion of the subsidized criteria for purposes of insurance pricing are the better method. Like ACA did.
I like name LibreOffice much better.

Maybe because when I tried using OpenOffice while I was at university it sucked really bad.

I tried LibreOffice like 5 years ago and I am using it day to day and I donated money to them and consider donating again.
> I don't see us repeating the IE6 era however. The Internet is core to Google's business in a way that it never was to Microsoft.

Depends on what your takeaway from the IE6 era was--if its that MS abandoned development and the web stagnated, then I think you're correct. However if you takeaway was that too much power was concentrated in a single private entity who has the defacto ability to control development and standards and channel them towards their best interests, not the users, then I think it would be the IE6 era all over again.
Wait, so... then what happens?

The potential that proprietary code 'leaks out' a few lines at a time into FOSS?

Or that it turns willful copyright infringement into mere copyright infringement? :)
> Except finance is extremely advanced.

Exactly. This is a problem. It can be so advanced that almost nobody understands it.

Now take a look at how advanced Bitcoin is:

Total circulation will be 21,000,000 coins. It'll be distributed
to network nodes when they make blocks, with the amount cut in half
every 4 years.

first 4 years: 10,500,000 coins
next 4 years: 5,250,000 coins
next 4 years: 2,625,000 coins
next 4 years: 1,312,500 coins
etc...

When that runs out, the system can support transaction fees if
needed. It's based on open market competition, and there will
probably always be nodes willing to process transactions for free.

Satoshi Nakamoto
> Do you also keep on using Word 2003?

Playing devil's advocate: if Word 97 (or something even older like wordperfect) does all you need, why should you upgrade?

Things are different, of course, when you have to interoperate with other people (in the word processor case, mainly by reading files written by other people); not only do security fixes become more relevant, but also newer versions of the software have greater compatibility (in the word processor case, not only there was a lot of work on libreoffice towards better compatibility with Microsoft document formats, but also AFAIK newer libreoffice versions write by default using a newer version of the OpenDocument formats, so if you have an outdated word processor, you might have difficulty reading files written by other people using these newer versions).
And it's so much fun to go through. Most CS books are usually very dry, this one is such a fun read. I would encourage everyone to go and read at least the web version of the book, I'm sure that you will end up buying it at the end.
I don't believe in conflating academic debates about the alleged complicated unproven merits of nicotine with the chronic public health policy failure of how the world has regulated cigarettes, vaping and wider nicotine products.

Sorry, I don't want my parent comment to be construed as being pro nicotine. If you don't smoke combustible cigarettes don't vape or touch nicotine. I feel a moral burden to be really clear about these topics as someone that briefly worked in this industry.
I agree with all of this, but the same argument can be made for being overweight. If we ban smoking, we should also ban being fat.

I don't have the numbers to compare, but I suspect banning being fat might even save the US healthcare system more money, if not now - at least at the current trajectory.

If you think "You can't ban being fat, my body my choice".. well, then I don't think you should ban smoking.
>e-cigarettes end up saving billions in health care dollars

Does the american government not spend money on retirement? In my country smoking saves like 30 times more in retirement expenses than spend on smoking-related diseases. IIRC, that's not even accounting savings on healthcare that earlier deaths cause.
Hey, I’m the author and happy to engage in constructive exchange with everyone who read the article and has thoughts or questions

(NB the full title is ‘“Don’t Mock What a You Don’t Own” in 5 Minutes’ the principle is super old and this article is just an explanation why it makes more sense than it sounds.)
Ok, ex smoker here. Been itching to talk about this some, and now is the time!

I got started in the military. Flat out, smokers got more breaks and some considerations that others didn't, and so yeah. Light 'em up! And I was in during the late 80's when smoking was basically everywhere.

Smoked for many years, and was on strong cigarettes. Very hard to quit, and I tried a few times.

The impact was noticable later in life, I was easily winded and had some minor league emphysema beginning. Not good.

I had by chance mostly tried a vape. And it sort of worked, but did not deliver the levels I needed. Nicotine salt does. I did one vape on that formulation, and that was it. No more smokes.

Some years later, my recovery has been dramatic! Some basic damage is not going to heal, but most everything else has and I feel great! Can do what I should be doing too. And the benefits continue to accrue.

Coughed up bits of tar for a long time. On another whim, I did inversion, and gakked out a ton of the stuff. Recommended, if you've got clogged up lungs. Just make sure you've got a spotter and someone to assist you in the process. I needed that due to the exertion.

Moving on...

Vapes are seriously good harm reduction, assuming someone is using gear that isn't damaging somehow. There is a lot of crap out there. Sadly, rather than regulate it all and maximize the benefit, the pressure to get rid of vaping altogether is winning out here in the US.

Too bad JUUL was run so badly. Their core mission is a good one, and tons of people are going to benefit very significantly.

Nicotine itself isn't that big of a deal. It's a stimulant and is addictive like similar compounds are. What really maxxes out it's addictive nature is the inhalation delivery method. Taking it orally, for example, isn't quite the same thing, unless the method is intended to pass through the skin, like chew does.

Nicotine is not cancerous.

The real danger in smoking is tar & particulates damaging the lungs, and cancer caused by the tons of byproducts of the combustion chemistry. The nicotine comes along for the ride and again, by itself isn't such a big deal.
A very business-centric and legalistic take on the issue. Nobody actively using Twitter believes the 5% figure, especially any user who dabbles in talking politics, or crypto currency or Musk himself. Twitter has economic incentives to ignore or minimize its own knowledge and detection of bots.
It shouldn't be. The "think of the children" rhetoric has been used many a time now around e-cigarettes/vaping, to effectively restrict the rights of everybody.

E.g. the PACT act amendment (Prevent All Cigarette Trafficking, not the other one) means USPS - and therefore effectively all other carriers - can't ship vaping products from businesses to individuals, effectively ending online sales. "Law-making" at it's worst, especially because it was bundled into a massive COVID-19 relief bill.

They literally called it the "Preventing Online Sales of E-Cigarettes to Children Act", although it's just the "Preventing Online Sales of E-Cigarettes Act".
So higher insurance rates versus getting better research into life saving treatments? When you put it that way…
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I'd suggest doing more research before commenting about things you don't understand. Layered Money by Nik Bhatia would be a good place to start.

The concept of layered system design, especially in money and technology, is not new.

Ethereum is an inherently flawed system.
That would be the same argument for wearing/not wearing seat-belts. And I think we are way past that, right?
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