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I don't have an opinion on what the "it's not caused by lyme" camp rely on, but the wikipedia page complained about above actually already references another study that found spirochetes in animals after antibiotic treatment.

No doubt the language in that wikipedia page is pretty triggering if you already believe chronic lyme disease is a thing though.

Being able to detect Borrelia Spirochetes is not equivalent to linking them with chronic symptoms.

From that study:

> These results however do not clarify whether the Borrelia infection had anything to do with her progressive neurodegenerative disorder

That's valid, I guess at this point with things as they are it's hard to imagine thinking the Taliban wouldn't be able to take over.

I'm sure I don't understand a lot of the ins and outs of the situation in Kabul, but it does seem weird that they pulled out all the military first and left over a thousand embassy staff there. And now they've sent some different military back in to get them.

I mean sure, the speed of the takeover seems like it took people by surprise, but surely the civilians and non-combat military gradually leave and the combat troops are last out providing security, even if the Taliban advance is slow?

Edit: Or were they planning to leave the embassy open?

Seems like the Taliban are holding back to allow foreign personnel to evacuate. I wonder if that is part of an explicit agreement, or just them not wanting to create problems for themselves when they've already clearly won.

The ideas may have been covered before, but at least this thread (so far) seems more constructive than some others on this topic that are just alternating chains of 'I like remote', 'but I like the office, so you're wrong', 'but I like remote, so YOU'RE wrong'.

I never managed to get properly comfortable in hammocks, always felt like my feet were up too high and the edges were too restricting.

I tried a few things at the start of the local lockdown, and soon found that laying flat on my back was a bit impractical (this guy seems to have found some solutions which I consider too much hassle like the suspended laptop). Also I find that laying flat on my back puts pressure on my lower back, perhaps due to tight abductor muscles or something.

What I found was that with a couple of pillows on my couch, I could elevate my upper body in a gentle curve which resulted in my eyes being almost level but with no stress on neck or back (compare this to the guy in the article elevating just his head, which is too acute an angle and stresses the neck). At that point I just moved my monitor to various positions and elevations in my sightline until it seemed right. I had my mouse on a coffee table so that my arm was not elevated, and my keyboard on my lap (this part required touch-typing, otherwise I would have to keep lifting my head).

Once I found the sweet spot where i was relaxed but supported ( it wasn't that hard), I could pretty much work indefinitely. At that point the issue was no longer stress on any body parts, but the potential overall fitness degradation of lying down all day, which could theoretically be solved with regular breaks for getting up and moving around, but I was probably a bit lazy with that.

Ironically, I am going in to work every day at the moment because it's practically deserted and I get a whole office to myself. Also there's no queue at the cafeteria.

Unfortunately, as people start returning the noise/interruption/lack of personal space level will inevitably rise and in the end I will probably start to miss working from home. Anyway I'm enjoying it while it lasts.

Well, buried in the middle of this article is an important point:

> In fact, as of the fall 2019 semester, Gerber had been officially enrolled only at the university in China, not at St. Gallen.

So he was a Swiss person doing a PhD at a Chinese university. His relationship with the professor at the Swiss university was an unofficial one, so the word 'dismissal' here is pretty misleading. No information about what happened to his actual PhD program at the Chinese university that I noticed.

The actual evidence of chinese influence?

> She said she had received a message from a Chinese doctoral student doing research at a Canadian university.

So, it sure sounds like some people had their feelings hurt.

My totally made-up hypothesis on this article: honest reporter researched a story, realised it was pretty weak, then when they wrote it up shuffled things around a bit to give an exaggerated impact, but couldn't bring themselves to lie or leave out any facts.

Well the first example in the article was about the author completing her PhD, and it mentioned productivity and making use of talents, and seemed to be talking about fear of success, so I read it as a (strange) extension of that.

If it was meant to be about more personal relationship type stuff the author could have discussed that explicitly. Maybe the piece needed an extra paragraph to explain better what the link was.

Waiting for some company to build a campus including accommodation and offices where you can live and work in whatever way suits you, and when in-person is required, people just wander over to the common area.

> in my experience it is usually tied to some kind of predicted loss of love and connection

This seems like a creative explanation that probably makes an article such as this seem a bit more quirky and interesting or something. Otherwise it's not a bad piece, but I don't think potential loss of love or connection is necessary to explain not wanting to do some difficult/annoying/time consuming task.

>That doesn't sound right.

This was just a comment on the obvious factual inaccuracy of the statement: Victoria Nuland is not a US Senator or "lawmaker".

> However, there are other US Senators who view Turkey as an important NATO ally. One such lawmaker is Victoria Nuland, the undersecretary of state for political affairs..."

That doesn't sound right.

Kreyszig had the highest thickness-to-width ratio of any of my textbooks. Carrying it around campus was totally impractical.

Aha, I get it, interesting point.

> The beetle seems to do the opposite thing, though.

Why is it the opposite? From the description it seems exactly the same.

Anyone knowledgeable on vaccines care to comment on how compatible a booster shot would likely be with other types of vaccine?

While the first 2 shots were relatively close together the problems of brand-matching seem simpler than they would be many months later.

Ok, that's a good point, the word 'capture' might have been the issue, I would have said that the logical clock idea guarantees causal order then. I guess that is what the article is saying.

As it says in the notes that you linked to:

> In distributed systems, it is frequently unnecessary to know when something happened in a global context. Instead, it is only necessary to know the order of events. And often times it is only necessary to know the order of certain events, such as those that are visible to a particular host.

They are talking about logical clock implementations as a way to avoid having to build a potentially expensive sychronised 'physical clock' system with sufficient accuracy and security for the application.

The notes also talk about ways to get higher accuracy synchronisation.

It seems like the article is providing a theoretical definition of a clock that allows causal order to be determined. But at the top it says

> Physical clocks can't capture causality.

Does a 'physical clock' with sufficiently accurate inter-node synchronisation and sufficiently good time resolution not meet the 'logical clock' definition?

> When you don't know anything about a topic, be hesitant to share your theories about how everybody is doing it wrong.

In the real world people who aren't experts have opinions, and those opinions matter. If the narrative that is everywhere is wrong feel free to correct it, that's a useful undertaking IMO. If you think everyone who knows less than you (in your opinion) should just be a silent spectator to your expertise, I guess we have different views on a how a healthy society behaves.

My (non-expert) interpretation of this situation:

After 2 planes down, hundreds of deaths and a massive international backlash and shitstorm, Boeing tries to get a business-as-usual, rubber-stamp, paper-over-the-cracks, fastrack approval, and rightly gets shot down.

> Is this just the FAA getting tough because of all the scrutiny?

Hopefully this is just the FAA doing its job from now on.

definitely hard to get to STP or thereabouts with fat fingers and small phone screen.

haha, nah easier to just use it on chrome, I only have both so I can stay logged-in to different accounts without hassles. Although I think edge performed marginally better on my low spec phone when I tested it at one point.

Yeah, I think you have to actively engage the 'system 2' analysis part of your brain when reading media stuff, and consciously try to extract the facts from the outrage and triggering, even from traditionally 'reliable' sources. It's kind of hard work but otherwise you just get manipulated too much.

If I understood the article correctly, there was a report on past slavery and colonialism links to NT properties published on the website. I'm not sure that I would consider this a barrier to people enjoying an outing at such a property.

If you mean these [0], I think they are talking specifically about a migration route through the Aleutians?

[0] https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/07/mysterious-link-emer...