delackner

"sceptical about the taste of seaweed having being in Japan..."

Thanks for settling that then! Nori is just the start. Kombu, a seaweed, is the basis of most soup broths in Japanese cooking, since it has a savory flavor. It would be surprising if there aren't other untapped delicious seaweeds out there for those of us who are not so set in our ways.

The scene in question from Tampopo:

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83KgeYls7iM

To the later reply, well, in the movie they actually use a normal household vacuum.

And this is why there are prescription sugar pills available. Give the patient something, but don't give in to their stupidity.

Maybe if a patient demands pills, fine, the patient has already been brainwashed and lost and you have to give them what they want or you will get a bad score.

Yet whenever I visit a doctor for some minor issue, I have never asked for antibiotics, yet Doctors ALWAYS just straight away say I'm going to prescribe you such and such antibiotics.

I always push back and say is that really necessary? And they just get all glassy eyed and spout that this is the standard course they always do, as a preventative measure. (Despite that usually these interactions are over some issue that resolves without any difficulty when I don't take their prescription).

Would it be so hard for them to just stop the bullshit when it is clear the patient has a brain and is not going to be angry with them for not "givin them their pills"?

Hmm. I bought a small container of pure stevia powder from Whole Foods, and it has a little tiny spoon I'd say about 1/20th a teaspoon. Put even that small amount in a cup of tea and it is as sweet as a whole packet of sugar.

In all the negativity of the article, you could easily miss the fact that Cuba has higher life expectancy than all the countries you mention except Chile, and lower violent crime rates by far, universal health care, and universal education.

They also have suffered 50 years of a trade embargo by their main natural customer (they were a huge Sugar exporter to the United States before we cut them off).

There is no LAND crisis. There is a crisis of failure to build adequate number of multi-family multi-story structures. Replace all the decrepit almost dead 2 story apartments in SF with 10 story apartments and there would be no crisis whatsoever.

I was more concerned with the apparent dependence on proving that people use specific nicknames known to be used by some suspect. I must be missing some detail.

Political leaders cannot advocate alternatives like a guaranteed income for everyone, only so long as the people fail to demand such measures.

The history of technology is a long progression of jobs that we don't have to do anymore, freeing us up to both achieve more complicated tasks, and to require fewer hours of human energy to achieve a certain level of pleasant life for everyone.

McDonalds cook, taxi driver, self driver, brick layer, so many jobs today are just on the edge of being unnecessary, and that is a great thing. Those people would be much happier, and society as a whole much safer, if we just gave all these people the money they need to live, and simply ask that they contribute a little civic participation (talk to some old people, supervise children, etc).

Walking down the street in SF near the Caltrain station, right on the street in a parking space I saw a huge pile of discarded construction of waste wood, with exposed nails and sharp edges. In any city with functioning cleaning services, this would trigger a cleanup response, since it is unsafe and a nuisance. Yet this pile of crap appeared to have been there for quite some time.

To me this is the soft version of the broken window theory. If your city can't care enough to clean up its messes, yes people will treat the whole thing like a trash heap.

Contrast.

In Shibuya every single night, 365 days a year, drunk people puke and toss waste all over an area about 4 SF city blocks. Every single morning a team of govt workers clean it to fairly acceptable levels. The homeless also congregate under the nearby train tracks, but there are so many public FREE toilets that no, I have never seen shit on the street.

SF is dirty because the people prefer low taxes to real government services. Shibuya CITY tax is hefty and rises considerably if your income is above a certain level, maybe 100k, I forget the exact numbers.

You worked at some companies that had foreign workers, I get that. Since most companies forbid employees from discussing salary with your co-workers, exactly how do you know they were getting paid less than they were worth?

Also, I don't know if you noticed, but most of the rest of the US, and the entire world as a whole, pays significantly lower salaries for software engineering than Silicon Valley, even factoring in cost of living. Yet Silicon Valley salaries have continued to climb to amazing heights. This is not because you are any better at your job today than 10 years ago. It is because there is a crisis of supply. The industry needs far more programmers today than ever before, and the LOCAL supply is severely constrained. It is hard to even get people from other parts of the US to move to the bay area, let alone from other countries.

Is the H1B exploitable? Yes, but that's because of anti-worker government policies. If the US offered skilled workers a transferrable Visa valid for a fixed (extendable if you can prove you still have solid income in your field), workers would have the power to leave a bad job.

As for ghettos, I don't even know what to say to you. The housing market in the bay is so utterly broken, and there are so few real walkable neighborhoods with a sense of community, you would prefer that recent immigrants what, scatter themselves across the bay instead of striving to at least maintain some sense of continuity in their life? If you want to improve things, fight for local city governments to stop their idiotic policies against infill development and public services.

Could you elaborate about the fr/us move causing shorter days? Most u.s. software companies seem obsessed with long hours.

That all sounds very nice, but the Fukushima reactor material is still above ground and totally at risk of explosion and entry into the atmosphere if it is not continually water cooled. The cooling water has contaminated the entire nearby water system and the ocean.

Your comment clarified exactly what is so willfully foolish about this whole enterprise.

"he wants a future where everyone has vast knowledge and a wide set of skills, and everyone has his own CNC multimachines, robots, all that"

It is a nice fantasy to imagine everyone everywhere being self sufficient, but unlike the movies, a single person does not have the time nor the mental capacity to become an expert at everything. Specialization begat the modern world (and vice versa).

Mao had a great idea to make everyone self sufficient by forging steel in their back yards to instantly industrialize. No one knew what they were doing properly, so you got massive quantities of nearly useless scrap, fueled by wasting previously productive inputs. The parallels are striking.

Profound. Thank you for sharing this. It pains me to read though that you had years of abnormal symptoms (severe shortness of breath, migraines, etc) and the medical system was unable to detect the issue early. This seems like the sort of issue that early detection could provide tremendous quality of life / survivability improvements at little risk. If the existing tests are too difficult, then we need more tests.

C: Ice Mint Rooibos Tea, lemon water, lime water, green tea, sparkling water with a dash of lime (not "lime flavored bottled water, which usually contains sweeteners). If none of those satisfy your tongue, you might look into diet adjustments to re-calibrate your flavor response.

I read recently, maybe even on HN, an article suggesting that children under [i forget, 3? 5?] should not be exposed to 2d screens at all, because their neural model of the physical world is still in development. Food for thought.

I'll leave aside the meta commentary on your (unneccessary) downvote comment.

Facetime is what makes it possible for me to stay in touch with my family on the other side of the planet, and that's even if I'm sitting out in a park far from Wifi. It just works, and even if it hiccups once in a while, the reliability is high enough that you just shrug it off with the confidence that it will recover. This is on LTE with good reception.

How is it ethical to distribute this without first disclosing to apple and waiting for a fix at least a few days?

Any japanese company can get a visa for a programmer incredibly easily just by filling out a form and submitting some documentation. Very different situation from elsewhere.

Or use PCKeyboardhack and I forget the other plugin but on a Mac, I have a brief caps lock mapped as esc, but holding it is control. it works effortlessley.

I would have tried to message you privately, but you don't have contact info.

Maybe you don't notice the nuance of your writing, as English is not your native language, but you are saying that ALL dutch people are racists. This is why you are getting a negative reaction. If you think that is true, you are wrong, and guilty of the sort of group-oriented negative thinking you are upset about. It might help future interactions to say, instead of "x are nazis" (which indicates you think they all are) to, say, "I couldn't stand living there, there were too many people doing [negative racist attitude]"

This whole discussion, both in the article and in the comments, comes from a perspective that the only options are doing something that pays, and sitting around doing nothing. And sadly that may be the case, but it doesn't have to be that way. The United States today suffers from a severe lack of social connectedness (see Bowling Alone, etc) that could easily be improved by paying unemployed people, including the disabled, to do activities as simple as: hang out with old people who live alone, read a book to a group of little kids. PLAY with little kids. Help someone in poor health walk to the grocery store once a week. There are so many positive activities that would contribute to a better society and they don't happen because the whole concept of the government spending money to improve society has been successfully stigmatized. I won't go ranting about why.

Yes, this is why I wish we could disable password reset emails as an option. I seem to remember disabling that in gmail when I activated two-factor...

I havent followed too closely the state of secure email delivery, but I would guess that even today a huge percentage of people both send and receive email in clear text over easily intercepted links.

this option only makes sense if email delivery can be guaranteed to be secure, and the recipient has non-password-based (two factor) auth.

This is a long shot, but have you tried taking him to an indoor bouldering gym? It is a very mentally demanding physical activity, that does not require any outside interaction with others but at the same time encourages it while also developing an appreciation for physicality.

My friend's son started going when he was 3, so no there is no time too early.

I swear I have read a very similar article elsewhere that talked more about WHY the project got cancelled, but this line in the linked article stood out to me as a hint: "Size in RAM was about twice the size of the C++ version".

This is back when memory was actually expensive, so yeah that is pretty big.

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That is a lazy retort to make against someone who has listed specific grievances with a specific place.

If you are thinking of moving someplace different but cannot think of anything specific wrong with the current place, yes that is a classic grass is greener mistake.

But having lived in several places, each one has drastically different positive and negative attributes, as with any relationship. You wouldn't tell someone to stick with a partner who was beligerent when any number of other people could easily fit the bill, but somehow people talk as if a cty is totally interchangeable with another. That may be true with some specific options that share the same negative and positive qualities. It is not generally true.

I feel like Objective-C is so close in spirit to Smalltalk, and with each syntax revision gets closer and closer, yet the utter simplicity of replacing "[foo: bar];" with "foo bar." I suspect will never happen. Too shocking for strict C programmers. I'd be totally happy to restrict traditional C-derived syntax to @ugly{ } blocks if it made more bold syntax changes possible.