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I'm not picking up on your implications, what are you trying to say?

Hurting the Russian nation state through financial and technological sanctions is one thing. Vilifying Russian culture or the Russian people is more slanted towards fascism--the same thing the Russian government is doing in Ukraine towards Ukrainians.

What you propose is also pretty ironic seeing that the majority of civilian casualties and destroyed cities in Ukraine are from areas that have majority of Russian speakers. Not really fair towards those people I suppose :).

Boycotting cultural works unrelated to this war crosses in the territory of fascism for me, so there is not much making of mind that I have to do.

Russian literature has been a mainstay among western audiences for the last hundred years. Works like Punishment and Crime, War and Peace, Anna Karenina are widely known across the world.

Replacing obesity with malnutrition will still leave you unhealthy but with different health problems.

Also hormone imbalance isn't unscientific. It has been widely been studied that women will have their periods change timing when malnourished.

Anectdotally: I had my testosterone levels wiped out when switching from a diet with excess calories to a one with not enough calories and nutrients. The condition fixed itself when I started practicing a balanced diet (with exercises).

Adopting a diet that deprives an overweight person of necessary vitamins and nutrients will not improve their health but will deteriorate it as now alongside all of the health problems they had their body can't function properly.

Adopting a diet that balances nutrients and calories and also provides all needed vitamins will lead to weight loss and health improvement (in most cases).

I wasn't arguing that being overweight is healthy. I was just saying that losing weight will lead to bad health if the way you lose weight is by depriving yourself of nutrients needed for your body to function properly.

Potatoes lack a lot of vitamins and nutrients needed in order for them to be the sole food you can eat and stay healthy.

> It sounds like a dumb gimmick that could never work, but there are a surprising number of people out there saying that they tried it, it worked for them, and they kept the weight off for months or even years after.

Losing weight isn't causal to being healthy. In most cases it correlates because gaining weight is usually done through eating unhealthy (excess calories, refined sugars, etc.) so going on a healthy diet means losing weight gained from unhealthy diet.

Also, there are unhealthy diets on which you can lose weight but the effects on your hormones might be even worse than an unhealthy diet that causes you to gain weight.

It's called surveillance.

What a coincidence, I am just going through the C# in Depth chapter about iterators and this pops up on the first page of HN :D.

Do you think it would make it harder to find for people specialize in making malware like this?

Excuse me then, we were discussing semantics vs legality. My point was that by dishonest the DNC was corrupt as by the dictionary definition of corrupt: "having or showing a willingness to act dishonestly in return for money or personal gain.". Or the Latin origin of the word: corruptus (along the lines of broken)-

Which seems to fit the description of the events and my arguments. You argue that because court rules this as political promises (regularly broken and legal to do) then it was not corruption as the court saw it.

This then seems that politics can be legally corrupt (deceitful). You don't have to agree with me but I vote out candidates that lie even if they fit under my political umbrella. In my opinion this machevellian behavior will end up more painful down the line and it is better to lose one election than to have a broken political system long term.

Yes, the people weigh on elections and they make their choice. But if they make their choice according to a party that claims honesty yet betrays that honesty with lies, isn't that an issue with the party being corrupt and the people being lied to? Thus corruption, which these leaks ultimately have shown us.

I'm not denying that, but if the DNC claims that it is unbiased in this race, yet by actions isn't, isn't that lying?

Please explain which part of my post led you to believe that?

That is not my belief nor the point of my post. I am only stating that the way the NewYorker looks at this is not the same how some other people look at it.

Also I'm not from the US nor do I really care about US politics, I do love pointing out obvious things like these :).

I'm not saying this is anything new, just pointing out that this is called corruption.

If the party claimed that they are in-fact biased against Bernie, as the evidence mostly shows, then this would have been fine. However, if the party claimed it was neutral but yet secretly worked against Bernie then this seems to me like it is corruption.

Or do you disagree?

I'm sorry, but this seems to me like you are advocating a point. of: "The peasants don't know what is good for them, the party will decide for them."

This would have been fine the DNC came out and said that this is what they are doing. But the DNC has explicitly stated that is unbiased in action (in the [0] of my earlier post) and then they go and do the opposite. This is just plain corruption.

If the contents of the food product you just bought are not the same as the label of the product then fines are levied against the company that sold it.

If that bias leads to action, as shown in [0] of my earlier post, then isn't that corruption?

EDIT: punctuation correction.

Didn't they clearly show bias from the DNC against Bernie? [0]

This also resulted in the DNC apologizing to Bernie. [1]

And did it not result in the DNC chair CEO, CFO, and Communication Director resigning? [2]

With actual email proof, public apology, and resignations it seems to me that there was more than just an aura of corruption. Or do you still disagree?

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/07/24/he...

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-dnc-statemen...

[2] https://edition.cnn.com/2016/08/02/politics/dnc-ceo-resigns-...

> But WikiLeaks had also shown, quite recently, a willingness to be a mouthpiece for foreign intelligence services: in 2016, the site had released e-mails from the Democratic National Committee

That is certainly one perspective you can have.

Another perspective is that if the DNC hadn't engaged in corrupt practices then foreign intelligence services wouldn't have anything to leak.

Why do you think fear of death is the only thing that motivates them? Have you considered other motives, like joy of live?

I respect that. After all, whatever we do in life the end result will be the same. So not doing what you want is truly a waste, even if it seems irresponsible to society.

I'm a polar opposite from you. I enjoy working and actual feel depressed and anxious when not doing anything. I just have an excess of energy that needs to be spent.

I prefer spending that energy traveling, talking to people and meeting new people, hobbies, and the like. These activities cost money so I'm fine with spending most of my days on a job that will earn me money to at least occasionally do what I love most.

But even without the possibility of doing anything that I truly love I would still have no issue spending 12 hours a day, every day, working. The alternative--not doing anything--horrifies me.

Excuse me for asking, but how do you expect then to pay the rent, that is already sky high, or service your car and pay for gas, or even buy basic necessities?

Genuinely curios.

Nutritional decline of actual fruit and vegetables or the nutritional decline of food as is consumed by humans?

I don't think we are seeing the former while the later is how you use the former for the production of actual food that is consumed. Converting fruits into smoothies makes them retain mostly only sugar, while vegetables (and fruits) under thermal treatment loose a lot of nutrients like fiber and vitamins.

I don't see a point in blaming students for cheating, or trying to give them a guilty conscious about how they are impacting students in curve grading scenarios.

The moral indignation that I'm seeing in the comments about this issue is just silly as the students are just acting the way humans act. Especially given the fact that most students are in their late teens or early 20's.

Cheating is just human nature, especially that some people see a degree a gateway to success or even as survival (no degree no job, no job no food). And as survival machines, like all beings, people will do whatever it takes to get a degree, including cheating least of all.

While college is an academic institution that is supposed to be about acquiring knowledge, the fact that almost every well paying job requires a degree perverses the incentives leading it to be a place where you get a diploma so you can move on with your life.

So should we just tolerate cheating, with all this in mind? No, I think the burden of preventing cheating should be on the schools themselves to design testing in a way that makes cheating harder than actually learning the subject and to make learning more engaging even for those who are there just to get a diploma. This is hard of course.

An even better solution would be to fix our current system that creates these perverse incentives. But that is even harder and I can't even phantom how that would be done.

I'm not sure how it is for other industries, but for computer sciences nobody takes schools seriously anymore.

Your knowledge and skill level is the most important thing they will evaluate you for, for the three SW jobs that I've gotten nobody asked me for my college degree let alone my grades, including a FAANG-type company.

According to this [0] it seems to be defined as dark characters and bright backgrounds. So probably not just strictly black and white colors.

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23654206/

Dark mode is actually bad for your eyes as it causes more strain. Reading white letters on a black back ground is harder than reading black letters on a white background.

F.lux and similar software are a better alternative as they just increase the warmth of the screen, which, at least for me, eliminates that feeling of eye pain when computing at night.

The gap between the richest and the poorest is probably the largest ever, but today people are also living far more comfortably than ever: electricity, heated water, food and water at a press of a button, generally good transportation to pretty much everywhere. What is lacking, for the less privileged, is mostly lack of access to affordable housing and a bad diet (arguably this is mostly due to the enticing nature of fast food and lack of education about how bad it is). Other than that the basic life necessities don't differ too wildly for the rich and the everyone who is not homeless.

The Dutch have separate lanes for bicycles and a lot bicycle traffic goes through areas where cars don't even go.