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The zeitgeist has pushed the idea carbs/grains and sugar are terrible over the last 40 years on and off, so that seems to say more about the medical industrial complex, than anything. That's fair, but if that message has been pushed so consistently, why didn't we see a real decrease in the consumption of those things and the associated weight loss?

I think you over estimate the liqour lobby and underestimate how much of alcohol profits likely come from luxury purchases

Wouldn't the side effects, combined by the accompanying lifestyle changes key to making this medication most effective, show its not a panacea or cure-all? The fact there are these second order effects with such incredible impacts would lead me to believe its more mechanistic than magical with how much obesity effects all sorts of body systems

The main factor that you fail to mention is living cost, and not the internet, which made it possible and desirable to frequently move in search of opportunity.

It didn't mean there weren't people that lived long-term in communities. However, it did mean that you could find more lucrative opportunities in different places while also affording to move and live there.

That began to slowly change in the 60's, beginning with the death of single occupancy residences and a lack of funding/investment in affordable housing for a significant portion of income brackets.

The last 30ish years helped cement that for lots of reasons, but the ability to work remotely via the internet isn't particularly new nor causative for that change.

Is that more Orwellian than say anti-theft camera systems or red light cameras at stoplights?

I mostly agree. However, I think it has more to do with the market power MS has across multiple domains.

106 users yet over 400k posts.. can anyone speak as to the quality and sources of most of that?

Additionally, I assume this was on the cellular network completely and not on the dispatcher/rf side of things?

Not necessarily. It provides for all sorts of encryption schemes, including none.

That and they're likely LMR not P25 being in the part of Europe they're in.

Any more specifics or a link to your site? Couldn't find anything with a few quick Google searches

Did you read the article?

That is not the case whatsoever... They labeled them all as containing whiskey but none of them did. Just whiskey flavorings.

The rational consumer should find this deceptive because it says it has one ingredient while not actually including that ingredient at all.

Definitely not, they just average your hours out so you're technically paid minimum wage for enough hours to cover those ones where you don't make anything.

~$60k for a specialized tool makes sense

However it's clear we are years and years of development away from this actually being relevant over conventional tools. It really seems like were just giving money to Microsoft for developing what will ultimately just be internal patents going towards consumer or business facing products in the nearer term.

Buzzwords or not, Chick-fil-A has an incredibly efficient setup that has really improved significantly in the last four years.

You either didn't get to the end of the article or really missed the author's entire point.

She doesn't remotely seek to conflate her brother's mental illness to climate change. She is simply juxtaposing a personal experience with her brother to a professional observation she has(and sources).

Moreover, you clearly didn't read the whole thing because your entire last paragraph is filled with points she made and addressed in relation to her thesis regarding memory, both ecologically and humanistically.

Super relevant. None of the OP even has to do with the author's average day so it's doubly disingenuous

It has actually rebounded to 1 percent less than it was prepandemic, and health risks were legitimate reasons for people to not work for a period. Really it shows since 2002 the rate has gone down fairly consistently, show overtime it's worth less and less to work.

The main factor in choosing a job is pay in the end and that's also the main variable when choosing to work or not imo.

https://www.bls.gov/charts/employment-situation/civilian-lab...

The article specifically mentions how all the datasets their study used were NOT self reported, but measured. It's one of the biggest arguments for why their study was more trustworthy and why the assumptions/accusations were spurious and baseless

It's unfortunate how this conflates a lot of confounding things with sensible ideas.

"People first" language is a concept I'm actually a fan of; here it's used arbitrarily in the most ridiculous ways.

This type of thing just sets back progress towards an actually inclusive culture. And ignores the reality of how language and the meanings of words change over time.

Wouldn't that be more related to parallel processing power and throughout capabilities than feasibility?

More data in any situation where bandwidth is already maximized will lead to entropy and noise. However, if the capabilities were there to process all of that data in low latency scenarios with headroom to spare, surely adding additional sensors and data points would lead to a more complete model of spatial awareness for the car.

That's all hypothetical and reliant on ignoring the realities of running a business and tech development lol

Why?

Because reality.

Since the advent of motor vehicles, I would argue risk has generally scaled with the efficiency and power of vehicles.

At the minimum, for 70 years we have known that danger to both pedestrians and safe drivers is ever present and growing. The reality is not about who SHOULD deal with this problem, but how to most effectively arrive at a functional solution which actually reduces risk for drivers and pedestrians alike.

As well, it's worth noting most accidents occur in areas where you drive most often and you're most familiar. And the increase in traffic accidents and fatalities over the last 10+ years has been due to driver distractions, ie cell phones etc, more than anything by a lot.

Yes there are reckless drivers out there doing stupid shit. However, that's always been the case. Now it's just easier than ever to capture them on camera and for them to go faster than ever for cheap. However, even back in the 70's, crash safety technology was laughably behind anything we have so it goes both ways imo.

For most businesses, cash is a far more likely point of failure.

Taking in large amounts of cash is ripe for robbery. It's also why a lot of places don't accept $100's after a certain time and etc because it gets really risky for the employees.

Not surprising, just indicative of how insane and wild the bull market got over the last decade.

I can't help but think that a lot of businesses which could've ended up as profitable, sustainable market leaders over the long term have been, or will be, decimated by this misalignment of investment priorities. .

How else would we test an experimental drug and what makes that bad or cruel?

And the phrase "injecting and force-feeding the puppies an experimental drug for several weeks, before killing and dissecting them" is beyond sensationalizing. You could describe plenty of high school science experiments and Medical Doctor training the same way lol.

This article is a repost from RT, as mentioned in the tiny italic footer.

Even with that in mind, the authors themselves state these are "alleged" accusations lacking any sources or evidence. They mostly just claim over and over Fauci himself "bankrolled" these experiments and was the mastermind behind this supposed9 torture.

That's specifically NOT the way bureaucratic agencies, including the NIH, work at all.

I don't support animal cruelty whatsoever. And animal well being genuinely matters to me at all times. However.. vaccines, medical techniques, and pharmaceuticals that have transformed human existence in the last century and a half by saving billions of lives have often required animal testing during development. In the end, the only other option is doing the same things on humans.

The perfect example is the history of snake venom treatments. Rabbits were used to test the hypothesis of building an immune response via low dose titration of the poison overtime. Then you can take the plasma from their blood and harvest the antibodies to use as an antidote to a specific poison.

Fast Forward, we currently use horses to create the antibodies by dosing them with low levels of whatever venom youre trying to treat over the course of a year. Then, harvest their blood plasma and you have yourself antivenom.

Sounds terrible right? I'd disagree if one of my loved ones had just been bitten by an incredibly poisonous, rare snake requiring these seemingly cruel medicines to save their life in the matter of an hour. Plus the process is actually painless and harmless to the horses thanks to modern science.

You gotta love how a roughly %3 decrease in year-to-year revenue leads to a %97 decrease in the stock price and an increase in the net loss from ~$30 million to ~$300 million

Despite the concentration of highly intelligent and educated folks who make up the stock traders of the world... they make remarkably bad bets on the future of markets more often than not.

I couldn't fathom the idea of me being any better playing the market vs pros -- but this really illustrates the fact that in the long run the only effective, proven way to consistently beat the market is investing in index funds.

The stock market is a particularly fickle bitch and mostly zero-sum-game.

I would love a source for the theory on CO2 and poor sleep. Sounds interesting despite my skepticism after a Google search.

This is definitely one of the most interesting and insightful descriptions of working at a FANG company ive read.

The only note worth mentioning is confusion around the pod system, which I think actually sounds surprisingly effective for creating "culture". The op looks for an engineerimg explanation to justify meeting up with a group of disparate employees working on different projects, at different levels, and in different facets of the company. To me it sounds like a genuinely productive way to create relationships and "water cooler" interactions by letting it not have some ulterior motives related to the product.

That might be bias and optimism on my parent, and I'm sure the reality isn't that pretty either.

Working at an industrial hygiene company that works with large train companies in particular, doing studies on everything from asbestos to air particulates.

The entire industry is around finding where those issues exist, using accurate data to track it, and solve whatever problems come up to avoid the large risk of getting sued by employees or communities nearby.

I did QA on all the data that came in from labs and matched it all the various input samples we sent off. Incredibly thorough testing procedures, redundancy, and tracking over time was the name of the game for my companies entire business. They've been successful for 30+ years doing that too.

I find this post and your original comment quite elucidating. It illustrates the main dilemma I have with Alan watts' and western new philosophy.

At the least bit, it's all incredibly ambiguous to the point of losing most meaning and lending itself to interpretation in any direction.

Not to say most religious do not have a similar nature, but that this particular view is incredibly easy to turn into what lever perspective or belief system you want that's just as dogmatic as traditional western systems of belief.

The 'you are IT' and everyone is "it" and perfect at nature is just too easy to reduce in literally any direction you want. From anarchy to magical thinking to justified narcissism. Hints the section mentioned in which watts and his swami guy argue over the exact point.