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I'm deeply confused at your response. 310 is still 1.3%, which is both a low number and percentage. Especially when compared with the larger 7.8% of other UK universities as OP stated.

Most UK universities are heavily selected. Indeed, Oxbridge moreso and as such you'd expect the dropout to be lower which it is. Hence OPs response.

I don't have the feature to downvote you, but it I did then I would. Here's why: what is an "objective fact"?

Are those statements you made relevant to the death of George Floyd? The answer is no.

He was a criminal who made mistakes - for which he served his time. Stating your "objective facts" appear to diverge attention elsewhere and in particular to paint George as the guilty party that warranted the police response that he received. Did he deserve that?

He begged for his life while being kneed to the throat for over 10 minutes. He then died on the floor by a police offer. There's some objective facts for you pal.

Further, there was no "real life complications of a real life case" he was literally murdered. That's the point and is why the police office is serving jail time!

Please take some time to consider what and WHY you wrote what you did. Do you think that he deserved death? Why?

In what way is the BBC free? You still need a TV licence to view it live or via iPlayer, which has an annual cost of about £100 if I recall correctly.

What is "this"? The artwork in the book? The title in HN? The design of the blog post?

I'd love to know this :D

Graduate typically means bachelor, though masters may apply.

PhDs typically walk into senior roles depending on what they did for their thesis and what types of code they developed.

Why have you decided to eat all your meals standing up?

Do you have a partner or kids? What impact has this choice made on them?

When I said Arthritis I actually meant Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), where Sulfasalazine is the recommended and effective drug treatment. I don't know much about osteoarthritis (OA) so cannot comment on it.

>> But Levadopa for Parkinson’s (which I’m highly likely to get if I live long enough), and its newer analogues, may be one of the few worth the trade. Grandparents on both sides w/Parkinson’s.

I'm very sorry to hear that. Are you taking any "precautions" to (potentially) delay or mitigate the onset of Parkinson's, e.g., healthy eating, exercise, etc? Do you think knowing what you know has had an impact on how you lead your life currently (#Yolo)?

Note: I'm a researcher in an adjacent field (digital health) and so please don't take anything above as medical fact.

Why is that so? What are some examples that our grandchildren will be appalled at?

Perhaps the type of energy we consume (crude oil) or the type of food we eat (fast food) or the lack of sleep we get?

I'd love to know your thoughts.

The challenge with such recommendations is that the reader must be able to understand which medicine can be safely skipped. I do not believe most people can make this choice safely.

For many conditions, such as arthritis, taking daily medicine is required and skipping that would decrease quality of life dramatically.

However, if you've a sore head then potentially skipping some medicine is fine.

>> With a very few exceptions, pharma is about temporarily soothing symptoms while doing nothing for the underlying disease.

I think you're quite mistaken. Pharma is about improving the quality of life and health outcomes for the patient. Some diseases cannot be magically fixed with drugs, e.g., Parkinson's, etc.

Why not just use your development machine for development?

Also, why not use a remote server for deployment, testing, and building docker images? Most roles I have had offer such services (remote servers) as part of their costing so wouldn't cost you time, money, or effort.

I agree that having a single place to backup photos etc, is important. I use an external SSD for such a purpose as imo it's more useful to have it offline as I rarely add data and it is less likely to be comprised, e.g., it my machine was hacked.

Yes, but cancer is not a solved problem, and so people will get it and eventually die. Also, who cares if people live 40+ years? Those with cancer statistically don't, yet drugs can increase life expectancy. That's the point.

An extra day with your loved ones is paradise. Taking a drug and potentially gaining years?

Come on mate, it's not a surprise you're being downvoted as your attitude is a disgrace.

In that case, where you then recommended to only make one commit? Are there guidelines for the average/ideal commit length? Did this add to extra workload in creating "perfect" commits? Likewise, did this mean that pushing "WIP" commits to remote was rare?

Yes, but the OP asked if people are reading specific commits in a PR.

The answer for me at last is no. Because the history in a PR should not matter but only the final commit. That's why we choose to squash commits in my current role.

That's a fair point and thanks for raising it. Diverse audience was just one example I had thought of at the time of writing. I agree that language shouldn't necessarily be "dumbed down" but equally, overly complex words can make the message difficult to understand. Written text on the web can be challenging to understand due to lack of tone, sarcasm, etc.

I appreciate the downvotes above as I didn't frame my message clearly, which likely came across as rude. My apologies GP.

I was mostly interested in WHY GP chose those words over others. I appreciate learning new words, as I did with OP, but my understanding is HN and other web forums is an area for chat rather than a novel.

Have you experienced spammers or your website or is this preemptive?

Also, couldn't you generate a random six digit number and ask a user to write it as a workaround for using Google? Or use a self-hosted service?

Why not just write hateful or awful instead of odious?

I'm always curious why people choose uncommon words, particularly when writing online where the audience is diverse.

A reason others may refer to conspiracy theory supporters as "crackpots" could be attributed to the fact that there's now so many wild theories out there (UFOs, aliens, 9/11 inside job, etc). So if you support a few, then you'd be more likely to be considered a crackpot.

In other words, while those two examples were true, many are likely not.

Thanks for the link and a good read. While this is possible, this is not something I would say most pigeon racers would do in practice. In this way, perhaps a small portion are giving a bad name to the rest?

I should comment that I have now watched the PETA video. The intro frame is a standard mechanism for releasing pigeons during a race.

It is true that some pigeons do not make it home. That's not to say that they have died, but perhaps got lost or "mysteriously" disappeared as in the article of this thread.

I agree that it large portions of pigeons were dying with each race that it would be terrible, but in practice this is often not the case.

Likewise, if pigeons fly home wounded their owners often stitch them up and care for them. If the wound is too much, then they can be unfortunately killed to remove the pain.

Compare this with feral pigeons ... The difference in "lifestyle" between them is stark.

I've no idea what it refers to either, but pigeon owners take great pleasure and enjoyment breeding and training them. Perhaps that's what they refer to regarding how they have impacted the lives of humans?

I cannot speak for pigeons as I am a human, but if I was fed, watered, had a comfortable home, often with radio or TV, high quality medical care, and in return I fly a few times a week? Sign me up!

They are breed for the purpose of flight (or sometimes looks). They cannot be "left alone" as they're not quite the same as feral pigeons.

There is absolutely no shame in keeping pigeons, caring for them, and racing them.

Pigeons fly home for food and water, not for their "mates".

As I commented above, if you find a racing pigeon there are websites where you can input the ID and get the club name that the owner belongs to.

For future reference and other readers, the rings around its leg have an ID written on it that you can use to lookup the pigeon owner online. Likewise, the ring likely had an RFID chip that has the ID, gender (of the pigeon: cock/hen), and owner (or racing club) details embedded within it.

Since it has a ring, it would be happy to be handled, and am certain that any owner would appreciate having their pigeon returned.

With that quantity of calories I assume bodybuilding? What was your prior ideal of perfection that you were chasing and for what purpose? (Personal satisfaction, competition, etc)

Is SSHing no longer normal? What do the cool cats do these days to manage their servers?

I use K8s and docker to run software on my server, but initiate these via SSH. I suppose CI is perhaps modern approach or what else is everyone using?

Which for anyone wondering, means "of the day", e.g, many to choose from and ever changing.

Of course ... Makes sense now, thanks! Someone mentioned below that drinking from a metal cup compared with glass tastes different, which again makes sense to me.

Where do you buy your pu'erh? I'll have to buy some, plus a sake cup it seems!

Upon reflection, I have experienced this so it all makes sense now. Thanks.

Why does where you drink from it matter, let alone its transparency?

Eating chickens is natural. Just like fish eat other fish, or cows eat grass. We eat all sorts of meat because the nutrition helped (and helps) our brains to develop into the big squishy ones we need.

Will cultured meat have the same outcome? Who knows.

Aren't they still microorganisms at that point? Don't they have hopes and dreams like animals? Or do we not know about either and are drawing a magical line at some point?