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Sure, just get the people that take the risk to agree to it. Should be easy.

By "certain populations" do you mean a small selection of the worst members of almost all populations?

Jumping to conclusions and pushing narratives isn't the exclusive purview of any particular group, especially not in 2023.

Truly sharing the fruits of success means truly sharing the risk taken.

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Great article, but I think its odd to call James I of Aragon's conquest of Mallorca a "Catalan conquest".

Poor Aragon, always getting its history rewritten by Catalan separatists and those that sympathize with them.

With a few exceptions, everyone here on HN is wildly privileged. The .0001% of world-history.

You have been blessed to work on self-organizing and self-managing teams. When we come into client orgs, they typically have no process in place and cannot understand why they're not shipping features.

Scrum isn't perfect, but its an "industry-standard" practice that we can use to get quick buy-in from client stakeholders, and then use to apply even the most basic level of process to these teams.

As an engineer at Google or a freelance developer it never made much sense to me.

But as a manager of remote, distributed, international teams?

It makes a lot of sense.

That doesn’t mean the “they” here isn’t unclear. I wasn’t sure whose Mastodon handle Paul Graham shared. I certainly didn’t think OP meant he shared his own handle.

I dunno, I think Messiah works as an ending to the trilogy. There's quite a bit of intrigue and action. Nothing gets too weird—Duncan's Ghola is the only new sci-fi addition.

Children takes a sharp turn with the whole possession thing and then Leto's metamorphosis. But Messiah is quite adaptable and is the real ending for many of the same characters as Book 1.

Potentially risking downvotes, since religion makes people uncomfortable, but since you mentioned mental health services are lacking, have you tried joining a local church? Priests are the original therapists, and it’s a great way to meet people.

It’s not for everyone, but if you’re struggling to find meaning in your own life, perhaps looking up is the answer?

Not sure I need to spoiler alert a book that came out over 50 years ago, but Momoa should be back in Part 3.

Because it was Sunday morning in Old Town Scottsdale and there weren't any pedestrians around.

Because—other than FSD—the car is fantastic. I can't imagine driving anything else.

Only on HN could someone be arrogant enough to think their non-experience is more accurate than another's actual experience.

At no point was anyone—myself, my child, or another party—in any danger. Perhaps that would be different for someone who had never used Autopilot and didn't know how to disengage. But after a year driving that car, I'm comfortable in my assertion that the situation was safe.

But, by all means, please continue with the HN pedantry. We wouldn't want this place to change.

We'd used Autopilot (non-FSD) for a a year at that point. I was used to mistakes and knew how to disengage quickly before they could be problems.

I was expecting FSD to be bad, but I sure wasn't expecting it to be that bad.

Maybe without disengaging any of the three incidents could have become problems, but for someone who knows how Autopilot works it was more comical than dangerous.

The car is great. FSD is not.

Not sure where you got "she" from, but regardless, I bought another Tesla because the car is fantastic. The FSD is not.

When our Model 3 got access to FSD, my 6 year-old desperately wanted to try it out. I figured a low-traffic Sunday morning was the perfect time to test it out, so we headed out to grab Mom a coffee downtown.

The car almost caused an accident 3 separate times.

The first, was when it almost drove into oncoming traffic at an intersection where the road curves north on both sides.

The second, was when it failed to understand a fork on the right side of the road, swerved back and forth twice, and then almost drove straight into a road sign.

The third, in downtown, was when a brick crosswalk confused it on a left turn, causing it to literally drive up onto the corner of the intersection. Thank God there weren't pedestrians there.

When we upgraded to a Y, I turned down FSD. I don't imagine I'll be paying for it ever again.

I know, they could use the market to determine the rate at which that wealth transfer occurs. And then they could distribute it biweekly via direct deposit. They might even call it a salary!

Sure, but if we're talking about co-opting the anger around wealth inequality, that particular fight ended with Occupy Wall Street becoming Black Lives Matter.

Don't people use @NonNull everywhere now? It's been a few years since I've programmed in Java but even then I feel like that was common practice.

Sure, up to a certain grade. But regen braking isn't working down hills like the ones in SF.

The cold & flu were bad examples since they do share some similarities. A better example would be food poisoning and the flu: eating spoiled food doesn't make you less likely to catch a respiratory virus.

Cold & flu weren't the best examples. Here's a more obvious one: getting food poisoning doesn't make you less likely to catch the flu.

Some people treat "the immune system" like a muscle, where stress strengthens. Similar stressors can have cross-reactive effects, but unrelated ones do not.

This can go the other way too: people who have uncontrolled celiac disease (as in, they're still consuming gluten on a regular basis) can also have issues with avenin (a somewhat similar protein in oats) or even lactose. For a lot of folks those sensitivities disappear when they get their gluten consumption down.

Right, but that has no bearing on response to viruses. Having the cold doesn't make it less likely for you catch the flu, for instance.

There's a difference. In the "hygiene hypothesis" model—the one where your immune system weakens without exposure—getting a cold makes you less likely to get the flu. That doesn't appear to be true. In reality, since the cold and the flu aren't biologically related, one does not confer immunity for the other.

That's not to say the "hygiene hypothesis" is completely false. There's good evidence that exposing children to low level pathogens early and often helps reduce autoimmune conditions like allergies, asthma, and arthritis. It just doesn't effect viral response.

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The updated boosters have only been available at-large for ~2-3 months.

https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-deta...