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Being killed is a type of dying, it's not different to dying.

The Sun and the Moon have a big enough impact to make the our planet spin, orbit the Sun, cause tides, etc.

They were commenting about their personal feelings, as am I. Neither of us have stated we think YC will do badly because of it.

On the other hand, while I don't think it's bad enough for YC to suffer massively, they have presumably been helped in the past by having a strong following of techy people who just like YC and who assume that a startup funded by them is likely to be interesting. Will they lose that reputation, and if so will it matter to how successful they are? I've no idea, but it's not impossible.

I think you're missing the point of parent comment (or at least the point I'd be making) - it's not that those descriptions make it seem like the business will fail, it's that those descriptions make me not care whether or not they fail. I suspect the person you replied to, like me, isn't disappointed because they want to cheer on a possible unicorn but because they want to cheer on startups that are doing interesting things.

Please note that I wasn't addressing the end of sentence up-speak itself, as I'm none of a) a woman, b) someone who speaks like that or c) someone who's read any research into the subject.

I was just pointing out that "how vocal sounds are made" has some known physical differences, unlike "what colour do you prefer".

I've no idea if the the vocal trait being discussed is cultural or biological, but there is a difference at least between the two areas: the two sexes do grow physically different vocal systems, which can be heard in voicecs and seen on physical scans, whereas afaik nobody has discovered any biological differences that would account for colour preferences.

Surely having ADHD would only give insight into whether it can be learned by someone with (that type of) ADHD, it doesn't speak to whether it's natural or learned for other people - just as someone who has a physical disability not being able to learn to ride a bike wouldn't prove that riding a bike can't be learned?

(I'm not arguing for or against the point that they can be learned, just against the "proof" that someone with ADHD has - and not because of ADHD specifically, but because generally speaking any argument which relies on "my experience proves X about humans" is likely to be short-sighted.)

> Thomas and Alito favour obviously expanding the use of capital punishment and view most litigation related to it a liberal plot to undermine the justice system

Have they talked/written about it being a "liberal plot" or is that just a (quite possibly entirely accurate) description of a belief that would explain their actions without their having come out and said that?

I'd be interested to learn more if you have any suggested reading on the current members of the SC (not an area I know a huge amount about).

I don't know the data (or this area particularly well generally), but intuitively I would expect induced demand to be seen in the majority of cases of roads being updated for increased capacity.

Not because of a necessity that any capacity increase must always cause it, but because the decisions of which roads to expand are made by humans who, with the exception of edge cases (maybe the reason for rebuilding was because of the state of the road and increased capacity was a secondary affect rather than the main motivation; maybe corruption led to a poor choice being made; maybe forward looking expecting future demand to increase years later based on other factors like planned new buildings) wouldn't spend money increase capacity unless road traffic has been increasing and looks like it is't about to start trending in the opposite direction soon enough to make expanding the road a pointless short-sighted exercise.

Aka if increasing road capacity wouldn't induce more demand, how likely is it to be in a situation where it's considered worthwhile expanding it?

From the article:

> VLA15 is the only active Lyme disease vaccine candidate in clinical development today, and covers six serotypes that are prevalent in North America and Europe. This investigational multivalent protein subunit vaccine targets the outer surface protein A (OspA) of Borrelia, an established mechanism of action for a Lyme disease vaccine. OspA is one of the most dominant surface proteins expressed by the bacteria when present in a tick. VLA15 has demonstrated strong immunogenicity and safety data in pre-clinical and clinical studies so far.

UK actually went from "Challenge 21" to "Challenge 25" a few years after the former was introduced, so most places have a policy of asking for ID if you look under 25 now - a 7 year margin.

Though the extent to which staff really do challenge anyone who looks under 25 obviously varies considerably, even in businesses where Challenge 25 is the official policy (which afaik is a recommendation that most chains, including pubs and supermarkets, and many small businesses follow, but not a legal requirement).

Is the 97% for how many were executed that way, or for how the warrants were issued? Could it be that they're just defaulting to asking judges for the more permissive version of a warrant so that they have it in case something makes them want to do it that way, but often actually knocking and executing the warrant the same way they would if they hadn't got a no-knock one?

Of course that still wouldn't be good, but less bad than actually using the ability to perform a no-knock raid 97% of the time.

That doesn't necessarily indicate whether or not she's a better swimmer than she would be if she'd started later than 6 months old, though - maybe the first months were entirely pointless or maybe they're why she's so great already at 3.

The median is specifically the mid point of the data set, so it won't be "any number between 0 and 2", it will be one specific number depending on the data set.

If you look at ten people with 2, ten people with 0, and one person with 1, then the median will be 1.

If you make it twelve people with 2, still ten with 0 and one with 1, suddenly the median is 2.

Across an entire population, I would hazard a guess the median would be 0 or 2 unless the difference in numbers of each sex is small enough that people with 0<X<2 testicles might fall right in the middle of the distribution.

Worth noting that the second discussion was originally linking to https://www.reddit.com/user/SaveVideo/comments/oimo6y/the_en... before Reddit had responded.

I suspect there are at least a couple of reasons unrelated to her music (which I admittedly don't know much about myself) why she gets particularly disliked - the fact that Lennon had been part of one of the, if not the, greatest bands of all time, and her influence is blamed for Lennon going off in the musical directions he did, plus I imagine a bit of racism (conscious or unconscious) also comes into play for some people, especially decades ago when she was most relevant.

It's equally possible for a company's security team to do a shit job, that doesn't mean companies should not think about security. If those governments are doing a shit job it's an argument against doing it badly, not against doing it.

He's the guy interviewed in my second link :)

Very interesting person indeed, though I've met two unrelated people who've worked with him and both had great things to say about his science, not so great things to say about his personality / ego / way of working. But I hope he succeeds in his mission, and I'm already grateful for his speaking truth to power back when he got fired by the government for telling people the actual facts about how dangerous different drugs are.

Just to be clear, I wasn't recommending GHB as something people should try over alcohol :) It was just the first drug name that came to mind that has some similar effects and that's quite popular as a recreational drug.

Gabapentin I don't think is nearly as popular, though a couple of years ago I was told that it had become a hugely popular drug in UK prisons for some reason.

There are plenty of well known drugs, some illegal without a prescription some illegal entirely, which mimic parts of alcohol's effects. For example GHB https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-Hydroxybutyric_acid

There are also attempts to specifically create drugs that will be identical to alcohol but without the negatives. Whether that will ever come to fruition, and be legal, I don't know. For example https://www.menshealth.com/uk/nutrition/a30117412/alcohol-ha...

That's fine if the text you're copying spells out the URL, but often it will be just a word(s) that are hyperlinked, so if pasted as plain text the software you paste into has no idea there was a URL linked at all.

(But I too wish plain text pasting was the default more often.)

Well the hypothetical I was replying to presumably counted the hypothetical 1000 people at the end not the beginning of the hypothetical research.

But yes of course you can't start something complicated and know exactly how many people or how much budget will definitely be required, that's already true whether you're trying to develop groundbreaking nuclear technology, or building a bridge, or a computer game. That doesn't stop both capitalist and socialist initiatives being funded currently, it's just a complexity that needs to be dealt with as well as possible.

Is that not an argument for socialism (perhaps not full socialism, but at least in more areas)?

In your analogy you needed 999 risk takers to fail, but if that one person succeeding will be so fantastic for humanity why don't we the taxpayers fund all 1000 (or 2000!) so that we're more confident of getting there and don't need 999 people to invest their life energy just to get pipped at the post?

Lots of animals eat other animals, we don't kill everything that's not eating a vegetarian diet.

If hypothetically (since I'm not familiar with the data) they're killing some birds but those bird populations remain healthy, is that a problem?

That's fairly irrelevant considering it's true of any sample. Even excluding one single person has a "disparate impact" since it consists of 100% of one gender and 0% the other, etc. etc.

Since it's not targeted because of those categories not affecting exclusively those categories, it obviously wouldn't be covered.

(IANAL etc. but seems pretty clear.)

edit: more detailed explanation by fennecfoxen: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27570439

Right, as I said in my first comment I don't consider myself able to judge where the line should be drawn regarding this real person, so I created a hypothetical person to see if you still believed it would be ridiculous to fire any nurse for anything they say outside work hours.

Ok, edit my hypothetical person to not advising their patients, but standing at the hospital entrance after their shift telling all other patients that cigarettes are good for you.

The benefit would be if the downside of having one fewer person doing that work is less than the downside of multiple people hearing wrong advice from someone whose license implies they won't talk nonsense about healthcare.

I've no clue myself where the line should be drawn, but there's at least a debate to be had (by people who understand the scenarios a lot better than me). For example, would you say the same about a nurse who tells every patient they see that smoking cigarettes is the best way to prevent cancer, even if apart from constantly saying that they were doing a fine job in other areas?

I think it's not surprising that it had (and probably still has) positive connotations to many people, because "tough love" sounds like something most people employ sometimes - from a parent enforcing bedtimes to a friend telling another friend that they're being an asshole in some way. I think what clicked for the majority of people was the idea that loving someone doesn't mean saying yes to their every whim, rather than anything extreme.