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I don't know about the US, but here in the UK, if you are in say, your 40s/50s and out of work, good luck trying to get yourself a trade - apprenticeships are still the province of the young and the government won't help retrain you either. This to me is as big a problem with respect to vocational training as encouraging all school leavers to go to university to get a degree. As people live longer we can't continue to ignore those who would retrain into a trade.

I dunno, I'm a long term *NIX person (Solaris 1994-2011, Linux on and off 1994-2006, Linux mostly 2006-now) I am now involved in more Powershell scripting on Windows than I have ever done before. I don't see - Get-Content -Tail 10 FILE as an improvement on - tail -10 FILE

I think when it comes to the combination of intuitive command names and terseness when required, VMS' DCL is still unsurpassed. Having commands with sensible names that can the be shortened and a really useable HELP system was a major plus and I've not seen anything match that since.

At one point Sun had a similar model before RHEL + VMWare ate their lunch - https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19095-01/sfe2900.srvr/819-1269-1...

It's trivial to emulate old versions of z/OS, have a look at Hercules -

http://www.hercules-390.org/

Not sure about OS/400 (IBM i) emulation, but you can get accounts to play with it seems -

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3487895/as400-emulator-or...

The notorious Doritos shop lifting sea gull of Aberdeen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kqy9hxhUxK0 And another in South Shield, who favours Greggs - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4QXyUjQCgE

Some doctors and researchers believe the benefit from statins is more to do with the decrease in inflammation caused by them. Possibly widespread use of statins has beneficial effects on other disease processes too.

This was used to great effect as a weapons device in the 2000AD comic story Strontium Dog - http://www.musicbanter.com/members-journal/79558-trollhearts...

Agree that reflection and contemplation is important.

Likewise, writing your thoughts out is also powerful and sometimes, being forced to edit your point down to one or two 140 char snippets is not such bad thing either.

Similarly, being exposed to the views of people you would likely never meet in pre-internet/social media times is no bad thing either IMHO.

"Everything in moderation" and "Variety is the spice of life" are aphorisms that persist for a reason.

To be fair, having not tried Siri for a year or two, it has gotten much better at dealing with the Glasgow accent ; )

I recall around 2000 having to fake a US accent in order to get an airline's voice response system to put me through to a human.

I wonder how much of the research into this has taken place outside of the context of the famously sleep-deprived USA?

Although it's obviously more of a problem for hardware people judging by this article, this makes me glad, as a sysadmin, that my career has been almost exclusively contract based.

This wasn't much of a conscious choice, it was just the way it panned out for me early on but after 21 years in IT and only 1.5 years of that in 'permanent' employment, I feel glad that this way of working has forced me to chop and change roles, technologies and sectors so that I have done UNIX/Linux SA, DBA and storage work and have had some recent AWS/ansible experience too.

If I had stayed at my first 'enterprise' role, I could probably be in some management role now or be in a technical role that would have made me hard to employ elsewhere too. I'm much happier that I think I now have a record of varied experience showing I can pick up new stuff.

Much as he annoys me a lot of the time, Niall Ferguson's Reith Lecture on this topic is worth a listen - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01jmx0p

Much as he annoys me a lot of the time, Niall Ferguson's Reith Lecture on this topic is worth a listen -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01jmx0p

See also Rogue Trooper from 2000AD -

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

in which the 'biochips' where backups for the minds of disposable, genetically engineered soldier's bodies.

Another floppy disk hold out are the many musical keyboards/synths manufactured in the 80s and 90s that used floppy drives to load patches and sequences. Hell, patch, there is another anachronism that has a lot in common with the floppy disk icon :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthesizer#Patch

With you on this, we treat animals better. My dad was diagnosed with Alzheimer's at 62 and with liver cancer at 63 - in his case we noticed he was off his food and the GP did palpitate his liver and this led to a scan and diagnosis. He died just over 6 months later, like your dad, in a lot of pain. Liver and pancreatic cancer need more focus for sure and all the pain relief that can be thrown at them.

So many of these complaints seem to focus on edge cases, what proportion of car journeys would really trigger 'range anxiety'? Even in the US I imagine such long trips are the exception for the majority of car owners.

Apple used to use it in the PowerPC days as did Sun - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Firmware http://www.brendangregg.com/Sun/obp.html

On the patient experience, i.e. entirely anecdotal side : https://creator.zoho.com/ldndatabase/all-others/view-perma/C...

from :

http://www.ldndatabase.com/cfs.html

As for any autoimmune disease, have a read up on Naltrexone (Papers that is, not pseudo science blogs and advocacy sites that are generally poorly substantiated)

One on an MS model in mice : http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25906771

Interstellar seemed to suggest use of a similar method when the astronauts were in hibernation.

Another condition where Naltrexone might be of help for chronic patients : http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3351864/

On the bullshit side column, what's your view on Naltrexone? I take it for Crohn's and it has helped me a lot and know of many MS patients who have benefited from it too.

Personally I don't think we can truly call ourselves civilised whilst we persist in valuing our fellow humans' health and their very lives in terms of financial currency.

This also includes the interesting area of drugs which are already been patented and licensed but find new uses once out of patent for different conditions, Naltrexone being a prime example. google Dr Ian Zagon's work at Penn State if you are interested in his work on Naltrexone, OGF and opiod receptors generally.

If that were really true nobody would be trying to figure out why the UK is so unproductive, either that or we are working very hard doing very little (Said he on HN at work).

Story today on the BBC, from analysis of 500 word stories written by UK kids between 5 and 13 for a competition 'Words including email, mobile and Facebook are in decline, it said.'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-32902170

(Interesting that mobile is declining, suggests the distinction is lost in a world of tablet, laptop and phone use where desktops are a thing of the past domestically)

What's the feeling on the morality aspect of this? In a way it seems like the same situation as if US designed and manufactured weaponry were used against a US friendly power by some third party - is it analogous though?

Where is the evidence that diet alone can cause autoimmune disease? As far as I am aware, development of autoimmune disease is a complex process involving many factors such as genetics and the effect of infections on the immune system. Certainly there is anecdotal evidence of people improving their symptoms or possibly eliminating them through diet but this is not the case for every patient.

We need remedial ICT classes for politicians taking office. When I read things like this it makes me wonder how much other legislation is based on bogus knowledge of politicans of topics I know nothing about myself? One of the few good things about The House of Lords in the UK is the fact that there are some people in there with some know how of things outside politics.