steve-howard

It's the human rights council now, but you're right. Didn't think the UN was a particularly effective body at any rate, but that's ridiculous.

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

Pepsi has slightly more.

http://www.coca-colaproductfacts.com/en/coca-cola-products/c...

http://www.pepsicobeveragefacts.com/Home/Product?formula=350...

Be sure to click the 20 oz button on the Coke page (can't deep link to a particular size).

I'd love to have the leverage to do that, but I don't. The vast majority of companies see nothing wrong with this, and I'm not so in demand that I can filter based on office space.

It's minor, sure, but the EU is responsible for the widespread deployment of "we use cookies, hope that's cool" banners. Even if you don't think it's as stupid as I do, it's definitely an example of the EU impacting business all over the world.

Just as coffee "beans" are actually seeds. This information is of no use to the vast majority of people unless one finds it enjoyable to be pedantic, but it is a neat bit of trivia all the same.

Compared with wifi, though? Trying to screw with your wifi equipment requires just about any laptop sold in the last ten years. Trying to screw with your Zigbee equipment would presumably require me to go find some kind of dongle.

Of course, wifi has gotten more secure over time to the point that I'd be more concerned about giving the devices internet access than I would about intruders on the network.

Whatever you feel like.

That really hurt when I was taking Discrete Math. Extremely challenging course, and I'd put in 10 hours a week on the homework and still have a few that I just couldn't figure out. Practically cried when I saw people copying answers just before class. Unusually for a university course, the homework was worth about 60% of the grade.

I saw a fair amount of cheating in college. It really sucked to be competing with people who had an easy way out that wasn't even available to me.

Used to be the case, but it's happening less and less.

>And you'll have to explain Rexulti and Abilify to me. Abilify isn't an antidepressant, it's an antipsychotic.

I hadn't heard about Rexulti until today, but Abilify is heavily marketed as an adjunct therapy for treatment-resistant depression.

Especially if you don't want to.

We could perhaps say that men and women both experience strong emotions but that both the emotions and the way they've been socialized to express them are quite different.

Does allow them to indicate that they're not dead or unconscious, though. The radio has already failed at this point.

That's pretty shocking even for America. Malad City is pretty remote (population around 2000), but I've never seen a more literal example of "clinging to guns and religion."

I've occasionally been known to let my annoyance get the better of me, and post a complaint about the article. Many times it's because an article exhibits a "helpful" feature that frustrates the way I use my computer; the NY Times, for example, changes the text size when I double click to highlight a word.

I do feel like nobody's interested in hearing it most of the time, but I also feel like such a comment would naturally fall near the bottom, out of the way of any real discussion that might crop up but above the trolls. What's so wrong with having a tangential but not harmful comment on what's annoying us about the medium?

You don't see a whole lot of people taking lengthy trips in their cars to achieve trivial perks, though.

Mostly the kids are using emojis in IMs these days. I can't really tell what they're trying to say, but that doesn't seem to be a problem for anyone.

My rental contracts are always standard and calculated from a table based on how long I want to commit to a particular unit. I've never gotten any sort of quid pro quo for paying on time and not being an asshole. From the sound of it, though, New York is a whole different ball game as a renter from basically anywhere I've ever lived.

There are reasons to leave reviews for apartments (for which I'm taking landlords as a proxy, which is an assumption that may diverge from your take). I've lived in quite a few places and most of them had good and bad qualities that I'd love to share with someone who wants more information when apartment hunting.

They'd need to address the powerful incentive to create fake reviews.

Since we're all sharing debugging lessons I thought I'd include one for .NET. In System.Runtime.CompilerServices, there are attributes that can be very useful for a logging interface: CallerMemberNameAttribute, CallerLineNumberAttribute, and CallerFilePathAttribute. These add compile-time info to method calls like so:

    void Error(string message, 
    [CallerMemberName] string callingMethod = null, 
    [CallerFilePath] string filePath = null, 
    [CallerLineNumber] int lineNumber = 0);

You then simply call `Error("something wrong with the frobnicator")` and the source line you need to come back to is already there. The only caveat is that this won't work in conjunction with variadic formatting for the message (`params object[]` arguments can't coexist with default arguments). `string.Format` feels like a small price to pay.

Just not as often, I imagine.

Obviously this is a controversial sentiment but it's refreshing to see somebody state it so plainly. The idea that I get special privileges I didn't earn is uncomfortable, but if we're going to try and change that I am scared of a simple reversal in which we punish me for being part of a privileged class.

That said, I don't think I "prefer" anything about the way the world works now.

I doubt that's practical in the US. The country has many miles of state highways (and the older US Routes; US 41 north of Chicago is a popular bypass for a toll road) for which a limited-access road with no at-grade intersections is far too expensive to be worth it, but traffic is light enough that a 55 or 65 mile per hour speed limit is reasonable.

Maybe this should get brought up every time the Internet scoffs at America's weak social programs.

I'm not actually sure what the criteria for subsidies are; I made too much to qualify last year, I hope to get back to work soon and make too much to qualify this year. I don't know how "annual income" shakes out in this situation.

Either way I had a $2500 out of pocket max on my old plan that I usually met in January. $6k a year in premiums + $2500 out of pocket + some out of network costs is a relatively palatable deal.

I have chronic fatigue that, until treated, was quite disabling. I have some other more private health concerns that add up to about twice my rent. If you have a chronic health condition, access to health care is a major and fundamental concern: I just left a job that was killing me, and am temporarily unemployed, and COBRA with a $500 premium is my cheapest option by far. If I hadn't spent the last year saving as much as I could, I'd be in a lot of trouble.

I didn't choose to be sick. I don't want handouts either. I am very fortunate. But I do think it's a damn shame that health insurance is so tightly coupled with employment when employers come and go but your health follows you everywhere. I can't imagine that a public option would be worse than this.

The asymmetric value (producers need Google's favor more than consumers) leads to SEO as an industry, which in turn isn't always great for consumers. I can't remember which items off the top of my head, but every now and then I try to google a thing I'm not familiar with and it takes some effort to find results that aren't trying to sell me that thing.

That's very interesting, I've never heard of that. Apparently it's a tricyclic, but doesn't have the same side effects that have caused most tricyclics to fall out of use. Never approved in the US, either, though current research suggests it works in different ways than the most common drugs.

I'm hopeful that as drugs unrelated to seratonin, norepinephrine, and dopamine start to show promise with depression, that we'll have a better picture of what's going on in the brain when people get depressed. IMO one of the missing pieces in severe depression treatment is what to do in the weeks it takes medications to take effect, if they even do; the current strategy seems to be "wait it out and if they're at risk of hurting themselves put them in a rubber room."

Wiki link for lazy folks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tianeptine

If I had had the choice I would have tapered, but I had an adverse reaction to it and it wasn't handled very well.

My "discontinuation syndrome" was coming off desvenlafaxine. My access to it was suddenly taken away so I had no choice but to sit through the brain zaps for probably a week or two. You can't be sure how long it's going to last and that shit is as unpleasant as it gets.