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Would you also conclude that the study shows evidence that in a caffeinated body the theanine's only work is to reduce the effects of the caffeine?

What conclusions would you draw from that if you want to focus more?

First time I'm hearing about this. Interesting! There was also the option for non-weapon volunteering services, which is what I did. If I knew about THW and that the time would count as well, then I might have done that instead.

I hope Netflix can repeat their success from their movie streaming service by growing, supporting and maybe buying some indie devs. There is certainly a space between the $10-15 games and the $60+ games that has been explored in multiple ways but that has never really taken off. Maybe a subscription service can establish that space.

If your capital does not grow from gaining more knowledge then invest a few hours into investment theories.

Well, the "pyramid scheme" + "technobabble" is not totally worthless, if it enables the investment of "literally billions of dollars" in otherwise totally unproven technology paths, doesn't it? Finally there is one area where people are really investing money into computer science! A cause to celebrate in my book.

We can learn a lot from this about distributed, decentralized systems and their resilience. Caching as much and as local as possible, while accepting that the processes might have no network connectivity is key. This way each node, and whoever can reach this one node, can work independently for long stretches of time.

Decentralizing control over resources is a pretty interesting idea!

Sad choice of name though. If you're anti something, the biggest your ideas can reach is the size of what you are against.

One might, for instance, explore the "embedded systems" world and how one wants to distinguish oneself from it as well. I would say, embedded + everything that runs a kernel is a bigger scope already.

So, what do you want to stand for instead of against?

> I messaged my local library

Suggestion: Talk to the people face-to-face, and have a demo ready. If you tell them you want to do something for kids, in the demo there are free cookies, and besides offering the space they don't have to do anything, then the chance is almost 100% that they jump in.

PS: Some more traditional organizations don't even read their emails at all. So don't take it personally.

Well, if vaccination does not protect you for a lifetime, but only for a year or so, and a survived infection protects you for a lifetime, then getting infected while vaccinated should get you the +lifetime bonus.

And you will infect a lot fewer people, maybe zero, for the rest of your life, too. Should also help with avoiding future pandemics from this virus.

For me, this would be a point where I would fully rely on the experts for deciding how to implement that step and check if the plan is feasible. I don't recommend executing such ideas without syncing with authorities and experts.

That shouldn't stop us from brain storming, though, and allow experts to decide, if it's an interesting idea or stupid.

In many locations you have hospitals close by with covid stations. So you could bring the people to the virus.

> The broadly-accepted imperative requirement is "vaccinated", as in "do not enter without a mask/etc unless you have been fully vaccinated". There is never a reference to "inoculated" (to wit vaccinated or had Covid and recovered).

As can be concluded from my post: Where I live vaccinated and recovered are treated the same, at least for now.

> Furthermore, there may not be "official documentation from your gov't and official health body".

Where I live there are laws what is permitted in super markets, restaurants, bars etc. And there are recommendations from the official health body that is responsible for the Covid topic. Often they overlap, sometimes they don't. But I think currently both agree on the vaccinated vs recovered point.

All that is said just to sync up on facts. I'm not trying to convince anybody of changing their interpretation or opinion.

Thanks for sharing!

If recovered people have longer term protection than vaccinated people (which is one possible interpretation of the headline's statement), would it make sense to first vaccinate someone and then expose them to the real virus, thereby generating the benefits with a much much lower risk or maybe even zero risk?

Who said after recovery you need vaccine? Probably you just need to share official documentation from your government and official health body with your family. Afaik, recovered and vaccinated are treated the same currently.

Please provide context. Assume that I have no clue what is going on. I know there's freenode, which provides IRC as a service since forever, and there is this new thing Libera. Otherwise I didn't have time to investigate anything.

Not affiliated with either side, but I saw that nobody mentioned the blog post by freenode about this topic yet: https://freenode.net/news/for-foss

Sadly, it doesn't mention what they actually changed in their policies or why. Just that in general they seem to feel tricked by OTHER parties kicking people from freenode channels for NOT going to Libera.

My take: Instead of participating in the flame war, the best approach may just be to help both sides keep a voice, document what happens, support reasonable decisions. As long as both sides block and kick users there are no reasonable decisions to be made. Personally, I probably won't even open either chat tool until things calmed down.

As a side note, I also want to remember the time when Matrix was trying to get users by building interfaces to other chat platforms and mirroring the communication in both platforms. That sounds like a reasonable decision to me.

What is the purpose of this?

You seem to have a very specific vision. Could you mock it somehow? HTML, Figma, Paint, Powerpoint, whatever? Quite curious about ideas.

I would read his statement slightly different: In that perspective, the actual game is to cheat and not follow the rules. Everybody should do it, but the banker has an advantage. Thus, everybody hates the banker for having an advantage in the actual cheating game.

I have to say, it's slightly funny to assume a multiplayer game that is entered by all the players with the clear and open intent to not follow the rules of the game.

Yes, you can lose the meaning of all other rounds but the last. And if player strategies can maximize comebacks, then all the smart people will only focus on the comebacks and only the less experienced or relaxed players will play the actual game (and be constantly frustrated by seeming to win early on and then losing to comebacks without feeling any power to change that).

In chess, which doesn't have a clear comeback mechanic, this sometimes works out, since the impact of late game mistakes can vastly outperform early wins. So, comebacks are clearly and directly linked to the skill of the winning player making a mistake and the skill of the losing player being able to capitalize this mistake.

But even that direction doesn't come for free. As in such games skill is so important, inexperienced players fighting each other will have a lot of huge randomness in their outcomes and altogether the game only becomes fun once you reach a certain minimum skill level.

Last but not least, there are also alternatives to comebacks. For instance, in poker or pen&paper roleplaying games a factor of pure randomness is added. So, while on average the skilled players will have almost all the positive experiences that chess players have (they win more often, they have more clarity and control about the progress and current status mid-game), the unskilled players can sometimes make a lucky win which seems satisfying enough that some people get addicted to poker without ever gaining much skill.

As Monopoly also has a random element, I wonder if simply tuning the impact of randomness would make it more fun, allow for more lucky comebacks, etc. As a stupid example, maybe event cards could introduce property tax rates that stay until another event card alters them, or a renter being unhappy about the rental property won't pay the rent or even create costs through law-suits, required building repairs, or clean-ups.

One thing that fit people (e.g. a trainer or coach) usually forget is that the 1-4 hours they spend every day on training, prepping their bags, showering after the training, having a chat with the other training participants, is that the unfit people don't spend this time sitting around doing nothing.

Therefore, a major step in getting a healthier lifestyle is to carve out the time for dedicated sports activities, e.g. not joining the world of warcraft boss run with Leroy Jenkins, not reading that book on your desk, and/or not playing chess with your grandpa, as you used to in that time slot.

In one of my first attempts to improve my lifestyle that was a major hurdle. But walking is easy. It doesn't need much prep, it doesn't take a strain on your resilience as "harder" exercises would, and even people who don't believe in your health goals will believe that you are capable of taking a walk once in a while. So the burden of carving out that time is much lower when starting with walking. 10k steps for a beginner also means 2hs of walking every day. When you get faster, you can replace parts of it with other training. And then the next time when your overreading goals fail, you can fall back to walking instead of couch potatoing.

"Remember: Slow is smooth, smooth is fast." - Shooter, 2007

Love the look and feel, love the page, love that it is open source. The one thing I wonder about is whether this is something anybody would pay for. I mean, if GCal would have a github project, this would be a single `feature request` type Issue. And to most people both GCal (everywhere) and Outlook (at work) are free suites. If a user sees the whole suite as a product, then why would he pay for a single feature? And if the whole suite is already "free" in the mind of the user, doesn't that make it a lot harder?

Maybe it would make sense as component of a niche-market CRM solution?

Wow. Maybe take a break, walk or smoke. The only thing I can really take from this long post is that you didn't know the category of product before. So, you don't work as coach, consultant, recruiter or similar. That's fine.

If you are not a customer and the page makes you not want to engage further, then it is a good page, isn't it?

Could you give people money and allow them to take a nap?

Why do you associate high blood sugar with more sleep? Could it also be something else, like the cooking oil used with the veggies and meat/tofu?

It might need some training, but it's possible. Especially when you are very tired from sleeping only 5-6 hours every day, it should be very possible have a very deep sleep even in a 20 minute "nap" (i.e., a real sleep loop that gets broken unhappily after 20 minutes).

Sounds very reasonable. I should really do this more often!

This is a valid argument for the discussion. I don't agree with it, but thanks for sharing.

What do you think are Elon Musks talents that push his SpaceX program forward?

In which area do you think that you could make a valuable contribution to the world?

The article assumes that most teams know and openly talk about what their weaknesses are. But is that actually a common thing? Don't we have a natural drive to ignore our weaknesses and blame them on others?

It's a little funny, because the alternative phrasing also includes that already.

One hires the best of the best without specifying the best of <what>.

"The best people will solve all the problems!" without any inclination about what the problems are.

Doesn't that imply that one doesn't actually know one's own problems and hopes that if one can just hire a people smarter than oneself, they will figure it out for you?