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My experience of mental healthcare in the UK and China is not what what you imply. Your description of mental care for homeless in USA is close to what is available for the majority of the working class in the UK.

I worked in mental health in the UK. In my area an initial mental health consult has a 6 month wait. You are unlikely to receive ongoing care in the first 2 years after the initial consult, but most will never be offered ongoing care. Lack of treatment pushes people out of the job market and into destructive behaviour. The fact that it is free at the point of care matters little when poor health is itself financially destructive.

I also cared for a relative's health in China. If you want a basic level of hygiene you will pay for everything. If you want clean sheets and avoid bed sores you may need to pay extra. Bring a good blanket, the hospital may not have a heating system.

Since this is from CloudFormation team, what can we expect about the performance vs calling the APIs directly? CloudFormation is not known for its speed.

Regulations require electric bikes to be 'pedal-assist' and is holding back sustainable transport. Let lightweight vehicles travel 25kmph without pedalling and these regulatory hacks won't be needed. It will likely lead to safer vehicles too compared to these regulatory hack solutions.

The hard part with auto-importing is the resource id. This is usually generated server-side and is not included in the hcl. Often resources define a user-supplied identifier as well, such as a name property, and this could be used for auto-importing if the property has unique constraints applied against it. However, not all resources have this feature, so its not a universal solution.

good news, Robin wasn't always a social scientist, he has a background in physics and statistics

Robin has been at this for over 15 years. Some reasons why he failed in the early years were that he used government money for uncomfortable bets about assassinations of US politicians.

14k a year

I appreciate the study calls out that most cannabis is smoked, and it may be general smoke inhalation driving these results rather than an inherent property of cannabis

I don’t know about the STEM fields, this is from the business school, which is a cash cow funding other programmes.

Business school

At at top 10 school in the UK: masters and even doctorates are being essentially sold to foreign students. The standards are incredibly low (students getting degrees without functional use of English), but the revenue to the university is essential.

There is a business risk if schools try to maintain standards (students have paid for degrees, not learning), but the cumulative effect is that I completely ignore graduate degrees when hiring.

Good links, thanks

Great! invite someone into the building who has lied to the entire crypto community to undermine global security. They will surely know how to spot bad actors!

Invite a bad actor into the building in order to keep bad actors out.

Invite bad actor into the building?

Hmm, maybe not.

AWS hired the architect behind the NSA's attempt at breaking commercial crypto, according the Matthew Green [0].

I can't trust AWS will be truthful about their crypto systems and lack of backdoors.

[0] - https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/13571435600055091...

When API keys are involved, I need a lot more confidence in the security of the software than what I am seeing so far.

I'm willing to trust Datadog for configuring their own services, but the community providers scare me from a security perspective. What I can see from the early uploads are community providers accessing secrets manager to fetch API keys. What happens when a provider requests permissions for all secrets? How well will the UI surface broad permission grants? What if providers bake in "telemetry" to spy on me ?

The QLDB performance comparison looks quite dodgy, but I can't find their QLDB benchmark code to see what they are doing wrong.

* 1.5% OF gray matter loss

Meaning 1.5% of the loss can be explained by alcohol

The Journal title is incredibly misleading here: “ There Is No Evidence That Associations Between Adolescents’ Digital Technology Engagement and Mental Health Problems Have Increased” - this wasn’t a lit review paper or meta analysis.

Sad that a top 20 journal would overstate the findings.

#1 - People want to follow you.

RMS does not have the skillset needed for a leadership position today. If you care about the movement, it needs a leader people want to follow. Just because RMS is not at the top doesn't mean he is being denied chances and isn't forgiven. I'm sure he can continue writing code. He just isn't good enough as a leader of a broad movement. That isn't a slight, most of us couldn't do it.

My comment only addressed wear on components, and specifically mentioned tyres and ball joints. I am not making a statement on upfront costs. I’m also not considering behavioural changes of users when switching to electric motors.

Cited article is about _potential_ torque loads and the need to design for it, and does not address light duty typical use case for mail delivery.

Jerk causes chatter (slippage) between parts and can significantly reduce designed life. Electric motors are amazing at smoothing out discontinuities. Nokian has stated EVs are easier on tyres for this reason.

In this case for short-distance batteries I estimate battery pack mass of 150kg more than ICE equipment. Increased mass would not have a major impact on ball joints and tyres, these loads will be designed in.

Smooth delivery of power has surprising downstream effects. The wear on ball joints and tyres for EVs can be significantly less due to not having as much jerk (derivative of acceleration) from their motor.

There is an AER paper in naked short selling, and Smith and other experimentalists have done extensive work on mechanism design.

When the top journal publishes on it, and someone wins a Nobel for the area, I’d say there is theory to cover it.

If we are looking for academic research to understand random asset bubbles similar to recent Gamestop events, Vernon Smith's Bubbles and Crashes experimental paper seems much more enlightening than this overview. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1911361?seq=1

Its more a comment on how popular your light beers are, and they seem to be in the low 4% range. We also say your cars can't go around turns, don't take it too literally.

Thats fine, but then don't title the blog post "Doubling down on open", make it "Creating a more profitable business model".

I expect Elastic to not pretend they are doing this in the spirit of getting contributions back. Just say that this is in the interests of their business model.

"protection against public cloud providers offering open source products as a service without contributing back".

I have no issue with whatever license they choose, but let's be honest, its not about contributing back to these projects, its inserting a poison pill clause that they know cloud providers can't meet.

Specifically, by contributing back they mean, per the license: "If you make the functionality of the Program or a modified version available to third parties as a service, you must make the *Service Source Code* available via network download to everyone at no charge, under the terms of this License."

They didn’t want to lose his audience to a competitor more than they wanted to ban him. It’s not political backing, it’s preferring money over morals.