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Look, I agree with you. I don't think we should mess with anyone's genitals without their consent. I'm just pointing out that there's data to support the health concerns.

While I generally agree with you and wouldn't circumcise any child, data seems to support that circumcision reduces transmission of some STIs

> Three randomized clinical trials showed that adult male circumcision significantly reduced the risk for HIV acquisition among heterosexual males by 51%–60% (95% confidence interval 16%–76%) over time. These trials also found that medically performed adult circumcision significantly reduced the risk of men acquiring two common sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including genital ulcer disease (GUD) prevalence by 47% and incidence by 48% and high-risk (i.e. oncogenic) types of human papilloma virus (HR-HPV) prevalence by 23%–47%.

It also seems to reduce the risk of UTIs

> Male circumcision has been shown to reduce the risk of urinary tract infections inmales aged 0–1 years by 90%, in males aged 1–16 years by 85%, and in males >16 years by 71%.

This data is from a report from the CDC https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/58456

I wonder if they would have ignored you still if you politely asked for help. Otherwise, I can understand your frustration.

I'm sorry this happened and I'm glad your child isn't more severely injured.

It sounds like you disagree with Georgism. Personally, it makes a lot of sense to me, so I was wondering if you wouldn't mind elaborating on your complaint.

Fixup commits are a good way to work around this. https://git-scm.com/docs/git-commit#Documentation/git-commit...

You still create your "clean up" commits, but it's done in a way where git can automatically squash everything back together in the end.

See also https://git-scm.com/docs/git-rebase#Documentation/git-rebase...

Does anyone know of an examples of stories/games made with this? Not like a full on game like 80 Days, but something like what you could end up with after following the tutorial?

I want to show this to a friend and I think an example would help give them an idea of what's possible.

Edit: Someone wrote a "portfolio" for their personal website which is pretty cool https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26765367

If anyone has any narrative examples that would be ideal.

Absolutely. My team was hesitant to even use Github actions until now.

What does this give you over writing a flake8 plugin (for Python at least)?

I've found the flake8 API and documentation lacking, so perhaps just a cleaner interface?

They touch on this sort of indirectly, but homeowners aren't the only objectors. Often NIMBYs don't like development because they don't want to live next to a tall apartment building with lower income people, for example.

Thanks for the recommendation, I'll check this out!

A quote near the end that really struck me:

Ibbott, who retired in 2019 after 30 years’ service, suggested that he knew there was a larger web of offenders, but his resources were limited. “If I had enough time, I could have taken out all the other potential doctors and traffickers,” he says. “But resources are always limited, and cases pile up. I don’t want to spiderweb an investigation where I have 1,000 people before the courts, because the courts are going to say, ‘Well, we’re going to deal with seven of them. So pick your favourite seven.’ ”

Until recently, the college was also limited in its disciplinary powers. Among the five doctors linked to El-Azrak’s practice, one was temporarily suspended and two have been verbally cautioned by the college; all three continue to practise in the GTA. One of the three—a professor emeritus with the University of Toronto—remains licensed, but is no longer allowed to prescribe narcotics. The other two doctors are no longer licensed, though not as a result of their opioid prescription practices. One source, who agreed to speak on the condition of anonymity, explains, “By and large, the college just wants to get bad doctors out in the fastest way possible. They’re less concerned with getting a scarlet letter onto the doctor’s profile.”

Here's a link to the site with the documentaries about him https://www.dickproenneke.com/

If you are at all intrigued by this, I highly recommend them. Buying a DVD may seem dated, but I promise, these are worth it.

Can you elaborate on the Saturn V a bit more?

I really don't know jack about this stuff, but I will be blown away if your market predictions turns out to be true.

Quanta is free, and virtually all of their articles read like this.

A "cartel" that represents their workforce, so yes by proxy, their workforce.

I think this area is super interesting!

I am a regular software engineer with a background in math and CS. The most relevant experience I have is some tinkering with Haskell.

Do you have any suggestions for how a full time employee can engage in this world and possibly start doing research?

If you have the LaTex, you can more easily convert that to EPUB.

How does this compare to a Yubikey for example?

> “Dark patterns are something that are spoken of with pride and encouraged in design all hands” meetings, said one former designer.

Here's a fascinating article about the Sackler family and how deluded they are about the whole thing https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-sackler-fa...

From the New York Times article, "The amount McKinsey is paying is substantially more than it earned from opioid-related work with Purdue or Johnson & Johnson, Endo International and Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, its other opioid-maker clients, a person involved in the settlement negotiations said"

To me, "a cost of doing business" implies that they're making more money than it costs them. Here at least, that doesn't seem to be the case. So while this may not have been sufficient for retribution, I think it's easy to make the case that this will be a pretty good deterrent.

Consulting companies will start to realize that they can be liable for the advice the give.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/03/business/mckinsey-opioids...

What do you think an appropriate penalty is? When I first read this headline I was worried the fine would be just a slap on the wrist. I was glad to see it was more substantial.

Personally, I think a fine like this is just if it causes consulting firms to think about the consequences of their actions and do the right thing in the future. Making firms responsible for damages they cause would be best. Making it it clearly unprofitable is a good step.

I was referring to downvotes on maybelsyrup's comment, not its ancestor from haltingproblem.

From the New York Times article, "The amount McKinsey is paying is substantially more than it earned from opioid-related work with Purdue or Johnson & Johnson, Endo International and Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, its other opioid-maker clients, a person involved in the settlement negotiations said"

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/03/business/mckinsey-opioids...

Are people downvoting you because they don't want to humanize someone they hate? Or am I missing something?

Thanks, I was not familiar with the concept of emissivity.

Possibly a stupid question, but why would painting your roof blue help keep it any cooler than painting it white for example, which reflects more light?

Edit: Ok it turns out there's 2 parts to a cooling roof, how reflective it is, and how good it is at emitting infrared radiation (emissivity). Reflectivity of visible and UV light prevents more energy from being absorbed, but doesn't necessarily mean the material cools down well once hot. A high emissivity means the material can cool down quickly through radiation.

I guess YInMn blue has a high emissivity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflective_surfaces_(climate_e...

> This totally breaks a fundamental notion in Git that the same work, based on the same commits, has the same hash.

This is not a fundamental notion in git. The hash includes timestamps as well.

edit:

It also contains author and commiter details. Here's a slightly revised list borrowed from a blog post[1]

- commit message

- The file changes

- The commit author (and committer- they can be different)

- The date

- The parent commit hash(es)

[1]: https://www.mikestreety.co.uk/blog/the-git-commit-hash