octaveguin

Politicizing science will make science less scientific and more political. It will not work the other way.

They might see their own past.

It seems likely that all species that make it to space might have similar pressures because they have a similar environment.

See convergent evolution. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergent_evolution

That is, if they exist at all. Maybe we all converge to the great filter.

The Expanse also has UBI on earth. With it, most people still lack opportunity and live a rather destitute, powerless life.

Seems like a pretty good perdition of our future, really. UBI recipients with no labor of value to offer won't have power to change their government for long.

It's unfortunate that the authoritarian future of Star Trek probably wouldn't lead to paradise. Or at least, that's how our culture's view of the future has changed.

Both fictions are a product of their time. I still wish we had the optimism of Star Trek now.

How are you getting rapamycin?

I'm interested in it's benefits for autoimmune diseases but it seems quite expensive (in the US).

That's not true.

Many people can self-learn. Those same people often cannot perform well in school because school is rigid and authoritarian.

I'm definitely one of them and my career refutes your idea quite heavily. I'm absolutely not the only one.

Doubling down on debt and the system with another advanced degree is dangerous advice.

If you cannot self-learn, you find out relatively fast and with little cost. Not true for the above advice.

There's actually a wiki article that lists the standard protocol that a lot of research papers also say.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicobacter_pylori_eradicatio...

I went through the research papers on the subject and didn't find any indication that one treatment listed in the table did a whole lot better than another combination. Eradication rates seem to be between 70-95 percent depending on the claim of the paper which seems to be in range of likely errors with each paper.

The proton pump inhibitors are over the counter in the US but antibiotics are not (though they are in many other countries). It's a shame that the US is so restrictive here.

A useful keyword in this is Helicobacter pylori.

Apparently a huge percentage of people have it, especially in developing countries but not limited to them, and it is known to cause a lot of problems though there is debate about possible benefits of it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicobacter_pylori

There is a sort of cure for it involving proton pump inhibitors and antibiotics. After which, your stomach feels a ton better and your probability of stomach cancer likely decreased.

I had chronic stomach aches since I returned from a long traveling in Thailand. Only recently did I apply this treatment. I've never had such great stomach health.

This was self-diagnosed and treated. I know what many on hacker news thinks about non-experts talking about these sorts of things in recent months. I think that's absurd.

Help yourself because no one else is more invested in your health.

I agree. That's a problem, too.

The reason it became so pronounced is that social media got very good at it and then taught the lesson to traditional media. They, too, now use metrics of engagement to choose what they show.

It is true also that it is a weakness of people. But there are other weaknesses that we regulate in the interest of a healthy society.

I'm not a fan of regulation but a general awareness of the core issue would go a long way towards a solution.

Right now, the talk about the issue seems misdirected. I can only see the proposed solutions putting immense power of controlling narrative in a few hands.

This problem was created by social media by choosing which articles to show in your news feed based on engagement. That is, how much you'll emotionally react to it.

The solution is not to add another layer of "fact checking". That's super dubious.

Get rid of what got us here.

News feeds organized by engagement are evil. Dismantling them would solve both the production and consumption of emotion driven information.

I don't want to go down this rabbit hole but a lot of people believe that terrorism isn't a large problem. The outsized response to it has been.

Neither position is an absurd one to take.

Isn't that horribly patronizing?

I'd feel offended if someone treated me with kid gloves based on my skin color.

Please explain because every bank in the world needs to report to the US about their American account holders.

If you own a holding company in another country, you need to declare that and be taxed on it in addition to that country's tax.

I know this because I own a business and wish to live abroad so I really would like to leave but I can't.

A lot of people here are concerned that taxing the rich will just make them hide their money offshore.

It should be noted, then, that it's gotten a lot harder for Americans to go offshore with their money due to two recent things:

1. Expatriation tax - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expatriation_tax

2. Foreign tax compliance act - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Account_Tax_Compliance...

When taken together, it means that Americans are basically unable to ever leave American taxation. No other nation has the ability to restrict their citizens like Americans do while their citizens are abroad.

This is bad news if you want to own a company while living abroad (you can't unless it's American or you'll be double taxed), live in a lower taxed country, or renounce your citizenship if you make more than something like 139k a year.

Any tax applied to America's rich would not result in money leaving the country - it's no longer really possible.

I wholeheartedly support strong inheritance tax. Dynasties are bad things and create bad systems. The US is uniquely positioned to enforce it even if it means that citizens are basically serfs to their country.

There is no reason to believe telegram is in bed with the FSB.

The company does not have servers in Russia, the software wasn't developed in Russia, etc.

The only reason one could make the connection is that it was developed by a Russian. A Russian that gave up a lot specifically not to cooperate with the Russian government.

So the most reasonable explanation is that Pavel is in a conspiracy with the Russian government and is living in exile as a cover huh?

Sounds pretty complicated when a simpler answer would also exist.

It's strange that whenever telegram comes up, there's an unfounded suspicion that it has some kind FSB/Russian government connection simply because it was developed by a Russian.

This is insane and like pretty bigoted - not a good look for HN.

Here's the guy that leads the company: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_Durov

>In 2011, he was involved in a standoff with police in St. Petersburg when the government demanded the removal of opposition politicians' pages after the 2011 election to the Duma.

He's living abroad because he's either not allowed or does not feel safe entering Russia. VK was taken from him pretty much over his principals not to do what HN just assume telegram does. Telegram was developed outside of Russia to avoid being beholden to them.

The fact that Russia was actively blocking telegram should be proof enough. The reason they stopped is because when they did, they would accidentally blocked other services and it was kind of a disaster. They simply don't have the expertise to run their blocking campaign. It looked bad so they stopped.

Russians are more than one-dimensional Putin-driven fake news generating bad guys.

That newsletter popup made me not want to read your post, nick. It's quite an annoying one.

A solution to the housing a problem never mentioned is intentional communities. They seem to solve a good portion of the problems.

Here's why they make sense:

1. They can be cheap because they can be built in places with low land prices and low regulations. These are the chief factors in why housing is so expensive.

2. They can solve desirability by building together that stuff that makes a city desirable - other people, businesses, walkability, modern design.

3. They're more feasible than ever because remote work is so practical that you don't have to live in the middle of a city for a job.

4. A model for bringing people who have this goal together has been recently validated on a large scale (kickstarter type systems).

So I'm left wondering - am I just not seeing the projects or why have I not heard of them?

Interesting story but not very related to what the parent was saying.

Examples of skinner boxes are everywhere in society today. They've been around longer than they were identified by Dr. Skinner. Anything that gives a variable reward for pressing the same button is participating in a sort of skinner box.

Mobile games use them, slot machines use them, and you can even think of facebook/instagram likes as such variable rewards you get for the same action over and over.

They are pervasive in society already.

Dinosaury time periods were often much hotter and much more filled with co2.

They thrived. Plants thrived. The danger is in the change part.

In any set of events, the story is up to the interpreter. If you make your story that you were victimized, then you'll feel like there's little you can do yourself to change that. Claiming victimhood is not at all productive.

Instead, if you see those events as failings on your part, you are empowered to make the change required to have a better time in the future.

Victim mentality doesn't solve anything and goes further to make the interpreter of one's life a powerless pawn that will unavoidably be used in ways that person doesn't like.

Blame yourself and empower yourself.

Upwork is still awful. Avoid it.

If true, that's incredibly depressing.

Magic Leap would become the complete rent seeking lead weight to the next platform revolution.

Enbrel? They just received another patent extension, too.

This is what government granted monopolies look like.

I've thought a lot about this too recently while working as a contract software dev versus a regular employee.

There's quite a bit of overhead in specifications planning and negotiation.

There is, as well, a lot of overhead in committees and "no hierarchy" ways of working.

A great amount of efficiency is gained when someone - almost anyone - is The Boss.

This is all based on smart contracts.

A detailed description of how it's supposed to work was linked in a blog post of theirs:

https://colony.io/whitepaper.pdf

I'm interested in what kind of holes can be poked in particularly the distribution of tasks and "reputation mining".

Fascinating stuff. I hope one of these projects transforms the way we work. The payoff could be immense.

There are more mundane ends to Amazon possible.

1. If shareholders turn on the company for some reason, it could cause a chain reaction as the margins are so thin and operations costs growing.

Normal tech companies are more insulated from these kinds of problems as they don't require physical assets like traditional companies and take extremely healthy margins.

Amazon is balanced on a knife's edge, financially.

2. Actions by the US government could also be a threat worth considering as Amazon is a monopoly now. It currently is thought to not hurt the consumer. At the same time, the value in Amazon is the thought that they could 'turn on the profit faucet anytime' but when that happens, they'll almost certainly not be good for the consumer.

3. Jeff Bezos is also a single point of failure. He's amazing but probably still mortal. Amazon might not weather his absence well.

That lecture has a 20 minute introduction.

A long meandering of thanking and praising various funding organizations and people. A great example of what's wrong with modern academia.

The law you're referring to is more about marketing investments.

You're still free to give your friend 10k for a startup.

It's to prevent boiler room style organizations that quite effectively convince people without much information that an investment is sound when it's not.

Here are two boring problems:

Affordable housing and affordable health care.

For each, the current system only wants to create more cost and not benefit the consumer. Somewhere the bottom will fall out.

Maybe independent housing communities will start being a thing where the land is cheap?

Maybe medical tourism is where its at?

Probably neither of those solutions will really work out.

They're big problems, though, with real money in solutions. Technology will likely help provide an innovative path forward.

I've been using Vue for about a year now. It's been my lib of choice for rapid front end development. Quasar Framework with it is especially a productive combination.

In comparison to react, it's always been more intuitive.

That said, I recently started working with a developer new to vue coming from react. Explaining how nested data updates doesn't really work made me realize how janky it is.

I hope there's some kind of solution. Especially when you start using vuex, the data update inconsistency becomes a major issue.