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> Combined with React Hooks (which replaced stateful classes with functional composition), the ecosystem shifted decisively toward FP.

React is the farthest thing from functional, see here: https://mckoder.medium.com/why-react-is-not-functional-b1ed1...

Composition in React Hooks is closer to multiple inheritance in C++ (because it combines state and behavior from multiple components) than functional programming.

Would it be accurate to say enteric coated baby aspirin reduces risk of stroke due to its blood thinning properties, but since it is anti-inflammatory, also reduces risk of atherosclerosis and now cancer?

You are absolutely right and it makes sense to start with a spreadsheet. As I said elsewhere, you have to reach a pain threshold in order to look for alternatives to Excel. And how soon you reach the pain threshold depends on how big your data is and how many users are trying to modify the same data at the same time.

You are absolutely right about needing more clicks and key strokes in Airtable. You have to reach the pain threshold in order to look for alternatives to Excel. And how soon you reach the pain threshold depends on how big your data is and how many users are trying to modify the same data at the same time.

See here to understand what you are missing out by not using a database: https://visualdb.com/comparison/#integrity

That's true, nothing is as ubiquitous as Excel. But Excel is not designed for multiple people simultaneously updating data. At some point you need a database.

Not true. You can't use SQL in Airtable even if you want to, it just doesn't support it. Also, Airtable is SaaS, you can't install it.

I would say Airtable is. Or if your users are slightly more technical you can try https://visualdb.com/ because it lets you use your own Postgres instance as the backend db.

That's not true, you can use Airtable to get the ease of use of a spreadsheet with the robustness of a database.

Here's a modern Microsoft Access: https://visualdb.com/

Or try Airtable.

Have you tried Airtable? It works like a spreadsheet but is a database underneath.

> even a complicated spreadsheet that can be directly edited and modified by the actual business stakeholders

You can do that in a spreadsheet-database hybrid such as Airtable.

You need to give them a tool that's as easy to use as a spreadsheet, and yet stores data in a relational database. There are plenty of spreadsheet-database hybrids in the market.

Have you not heard of spreadsheet-database hybrids? Like Airtable? Or if you want to use Postgres: https://visualdb.com

> incremental transition path from spreadsheets to a full blown database

There are plenty of tools for that. Airtable comes to mind, or if you want to use your own database try: https://visualdb.com/

> I wish there was a better way to make spreadsheets use a database as a backend.

Here you go: https://visualdb.com/

> They're all news articles.

Correct, but if you read the news articles you'll see that they are reporting results from scientific articles and clinical trials. In other words, it is not the reporter's opinions.

> It's a bad blog post for sure

The blog is merely pointers to, and excerpts from, other articles on sources such as New York Times and Bloomberg. The blog post can't be bad unless the original sources it cites are bad. Which ones are bad?

Yes, there is that risk. On the other hand there is the risk of stroke, which I am more scared of, which is why I take aspirin. What is the impact of NSAID Gastritis? How bad is it and can you recover from it?

Sure statins may have saved lives, but the question is how. Is it by controlling LDL, or by reducing inflammation? This story says it is the latter: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2008-04-15/heart-dis...

So you are saying the human body manufactures a substance that is extremely harmful to the body. And yet lowering it artificially can lead to issues such as loss of short term memory. The body needs cholesterol! You could qualify your argument by saying that excess LDL is harmful.

What about Vytorin trial?

Vytorin is a combination of cholesterol-lowering drugs, one called Zetia and the other a statin called Zocor. Because the two drugs lower LDL cholesterol by different mechanisms, the makers of Vytorin (Merck and Schering-Plough) assumed that their double-barreled therapy would lower it more than either drug alone, which it did, and so do a better job of slowing the accumulation of fatty plaques in the arteries - which it did not.

See: https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/opinion/27taubes.html

> The cholesterol to heart disease link is one of the best attested in medical science

What about this:

Cholesterol lowering is not the reason for the benefit of statins. If it was, lowering cholesterol via any means should have produced the same benefit, but it doesn’t. One obvious way to confirm this is to find therapies that lower cholesterol by different means (i.e., other than statins) and see if they, too, prevent heart attacks. They don’t. See: https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/opinion/27taubes.html (Some will discredit the author Gary Taubes without addressing the points he is raising.)

The main reason why statins work may not be because they lower cholesterol, but because they reduce the inflammation that leads to heart attacks: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2008-04-15/heart-dis...

This last link aligns with the new findings.

Low dose aspirin can lower inflammation.

Cholesterol and statins have always been suspect science in any case:

https://medium.com/@petilon/cholesterol-and-statins-e7d9d8ee...

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You are right, unless you have been present at every manager-employee interaction you can't say it has "never" happened. But to claim that this is happening requires more than just one or two instances, right?

Sorry that's untrue. Top companies such as Google, Meta or Microsoft absolutely do not abuse H-1B workers or treat them any different. As I said there may be smaller outfits, or IT shops where this is happening.

H-1B workers at companies such as Google, Meta or Microsoft are not treated any different, they are not taking abuse or being exploited. There may be smaller companies where this is happening though.

One of the issues is conflation of IT jobs and High Tech jobs. Those making laws don't understand the difference -- they are all "computer jobs" to them. IT does not require immigrant labor. Companies such as Infosys and Tata don't need to be operating in the US. There are plenty of US workers available to do the job.

But High Tech is different. High Tech needs the best in the world, not the best in the US. The US leads the world in tech not because the best ideas were all American but because the best people in the world immigrated to the US. Stopping this will be ruinous to American prosperity.

The seminal research paper that kicked off the AI revolution (titled "Attention is all you need") was written by 2 Indians, 1 German, 1 British Canadian, 1 Pole, 1 Ukrainian, and 2 US born people. These people came to America, worked together and changed the world as we know it. Why would we want to stop it? Has this immigration undercut Americans? Far from it. These immigrants are the lifeblood of the tech industry, and their innovations create jobs.

I would like Amazon to be fined another Billion for not notifying customers about the annual renewal. They sneak the charge on to your credit card, and you have no easy way to find out what the charge is for.

I would like Amazon to be fined another Billion for not notifying customers about the annual renewal. They sneak the charge on to your credit card, and you have no easy way to find out what the charge is for.