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This isn't something Apple "did" to Facebook. Apple let people opt out of tracking. People chose privacy. Facebook's business model is not compatible with privacy.

Guilt by association. I won't touch it. Sooner or later all that usage data would be used to manipulate me.

They finally monitized their products and customers to a breaking point. They run on engagement metrics without common sense or empathy to how fear and anger impact their user's wellbeing.

I most definitely do not need or want a VR immersed version of that toxicity.

I heard they hang out on Facebook now

I'm not so familiar with the military but wouldn't it be up to brass like generals or strategic command to decide if the IT infra upgrades are a threat to combat readiness, and prioritize it accordingly?

They can give the CIO budget to do this, but the CIO can't unilaterally decide to do it.

Wouldn't any competent CIO of a company or government office big enough to need a CIO do the same? Which roadmapped strategic projects are going to get chopped so that this new project can start immediately?

That's roughly how governments work too. Reduce spending, raise taxes, or devalue the currency to make debts less costly.

> while the vast majority hears only what it actually says which is "remove funding from the police" and no one wants that.

The vast majority of white people? It's okay to be angry about state executions at the hands of police, and about the legacy of slavery. The wording reflects that anger. If it makes white people uncomfortable that's their problem. (This is coming from a white person who does not self-identify as "liberal")

When I hear the phrase, to me it's more about shifting resources from punishment based (policing), to community development in historically underserved minority communities. The effects of redlining mean we still have many highly racially segregated cities. It's directly acknowledging and confronting that history, which is uncomfortable for a lot of white people.

One can support both public safety and community development, and it's win-win if helping raise people up out of poverty reduces the need for police presence.

The feds had 2 years of pandemic to get it right. A bit late to launch but still glad to see resources getting out to individuals to help slow down the spread.

You're probably looking at a users dimension table. There are different "types" of update strategies for dimension tables. I'd start by figuring out which type meets your stakeholders' needs. Some keep the history, others only keep the current state.

Usually I'd recommend to bring the raw data into your database first before transforming it. It's hard/impossible to predict future needs and this buys you flexibility. "ELT" describes this approach (vs ETL)

Good luck!

For data warehouse reporting use cases I'd recommend starting with a star schema, not 3rd NF.

I'd start with learning about dimensional modeling, with one of the newer Kimble data warehouse toolkit books. And also document the data flow between all of these systems to make it easier to talk through options with stakeholders.

What type of user data is it? It sounds like you have multiple "input" sources of truth, and are wanting to create a single reporting dataset that has the latest info from each?

Once you can break down the datasets into facts and dimensions, it becomes more clear which update strategies to use for each. Master data like names and email addresses usually goes into a dimension table, and transactional data like purchases, page views into a fact table.

How do you know when each record has changed in each source? Are there edge cases where changes can't be detected? How much latency is acceptable in the reporting system? 1 day? 5 minutes? Those questions are important to explore early on.

You're getting into data engineering. It's a great field to learn and the job market is hot. But if you are wanting to avoid data wrangling completely, check out kloud.io and fivetran. They do a lot of the heavy lifting. If they support most of your systems it could save you and your company a lot of time. (I'm not affiliated but know both products well from firsthand experience)

I don't see anything adversarial, it is just someone describing how they play the interview game.

There's a whole leetcode culture on sites like teamblind.com. A lot of people are happy to play the game.

Not my cup of tea either, but to each their own.

I was commenting on possible delivery mechanisms for the compounds described in the study, CBDA and CBGA. Smoking or eating "cooked" edibles isn't going to get enough of those compounds into the bloodstream.

Edit: added compound names

Tinctures are an option too. And a lot of edibles like chocolates and gummies wouldn't hit decarboxylation temp.

https://wayofleaf.com/education/decarboxylation

"Our infection inhibition assay results clearly indicate that CBDA and CBGA are both able to block cell entry by SARS-CoV-2. The concentrations needed to block infection by 50% of viruses is high but might be clinically achievable. For example, CBDA administered orally to human volunteers at 0.063 mg/kg showed greater bioavailability than CBD and produced maximum plasma concentrations of 0.21 μM. (32) In beagle dogs, oral administration of CBDA at 1 mg/kg was well tolerated, was 2-fold more bioavailable than CBD, and produced serum levels up to 1.42 μM. (41) Although no data on the bioavailability of CBGA are yet available, the data for CBDA suggest that μM plasma and serum concentrations for CBGA should also be possible."

Did the CDC say so about this study? Source?

The same CDC that said early on that we don't need masks when the WHO advised them. It wasn't to keep the general public COVID free, it was to make sure there were enough masks for healthcare workers. CDC incentives aren't aligned with individual health, it's more for social health and getting people back to work without maxing out healthcare systems.

The scientific community should be fact checking and reproducing these studies.

The thing with cannabis, vitamin D, ivermectin, they have been around for years and have low risk profile in human use with billions of doses. Even if it is experimental and there aren't long term studies, all the science for mRNA vaccines in humans is new and there are no long term studies. So why not throw everything at the pandemic instead of hoping and dreaming for vaccines alone to save us.

We are a few mutations away from omicron contagiousness with delta symptoms. I don't see how vaccines alone are going to stop this thing. This current wave is not dropping to zero.

Trauma gets locked into the body too, not just the brain.

EMDR therapy helps process trauma for some.

Volunteering to manage my kid's youth sports team has been good for me. The quality of the kids' experience depends on it which is a good forcing function to stay on top of things.

Unexpectedly, it's also been a way to build community and get families connected with each other. As an introvert with social anxiety I didn't plan for that part of it. It feels nice to hear words of appreciation from other parents and know that I'm making a difference, even if small.

Being forced outside of my social comfort zone has been good for my personal growth. Especially after dealing with COVID related isolation for so long.

Oh my, yes I see that now. Sorry and thanks.

Nowhere on the page could I find a definition of conversion. What is a conversion? How does Facebook know about it? What about me do they share with other advertisers? How is my conversion used to target future ads?

This is just the regular Facebook ad pricing playbook being pushed out to all "meta" properties. Instead of ad placements though, it's for bot messages.

This would certainly speed up the rate of discovery from the images and get more people interested in astronomy.

Inside the project there must be an established data infrastructure running or ready to run. It probably has a raw layer and a transformed layer with well defined tabular schemas for the metadata of each image. It would be fun to see how both layers work and play around with the data.

Would the instrument itself have a fixed set of metadata attributes assigned to all imaging, or is it programmable and changeable during the service life?

When voice works, it's nice. For example I do enjoy asking my fire tv to play music or find a show. It's not perfect but it's easier than typing one character at a time on the TV remote, or doom scrolling.

Besides the incident, was it a value add to use Alexa instead of the buttons on the appliance? Our more of a novelty?

>> That’s conflating what people present to the world with their mind. It’s a very shallow understanding of what’s going on

I was trying to contrast the external and internal presentations of self, not conflate them. My point is that a "normal" external presentation doesn't make someone a "normal" person. Someone can act, consume, and behave certain ways that help them feel normal, but in the end it's a coping or survival mechanism of sorts. If I fit in with the "in" crowd it affords social and economic status. That's the version of "normal" my comment was responding to.

I've come to believe that weird is normal. No one has their shit together 100%.

Your version of normal is "don't rock the boat" normal. Rocking the boat is painful emotionally so don't do it normal.

I've spent a lot of time in therapy trying to undo that version of normal and figure out who I really am. And you're probably perfectly fine in your version of normal. Which really illustrates that mental health is very personal and multidimensional. It doesn't mean I'm fucked up and you're not or visa versa. Gotta meet people where they're at.

>> It's an extremely treacherous situation.

Hyperbole aside, access to mental health services isn't going to invent mental health issues for most people. There's an extremely large underserved population without access to any mental health services. And even with access it can take months to get an appointment.

The services need to be as highly regulated as offline mental health services to protect patients. Besides that, it's a many times over net positive on society if people get the help they need.

It's a net positive even if a few people need attention and get that by faking or acting out a mental health disorder.

Consider that maybe you had some luck, good fortune, or support structures that helped you pull yourself out of your anxiety, and it didn't turn inward on you.

Anxiety is not a disorder that causes or relates to introversion or extroversion.

Glad you're in a good place now but be careful on pumping yourself up at the expense of people who are truly struggling with anxiety. It's a mothafuka, not an out.

How do you define being "normal?". How do you manage the tension between your inward and outward presentations of yourself? It seems exhausting, and that's coming from someone who does that currently and idealizes some magical place when those selves merge into the same person.

That's "normal" to me, when I don't have to put masks on to fit into a preconceived notion of who society wants me to be. That's also a big part of mental health, not boxing people into mental disorder diagnoses, but helping people figure themselves out and be comfortable in their own skin.