Well, there are Persian texts talking about c-sections more than 3 millenia old. So I guess if you adjust your timeline you can argue C-sections are also "how it has always happened" for some of us.
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After 9/11 all major wealth epicentres really started taking security a lot more seriously beyond just plain robbery.
Comparing them to out dated and corrupt armed force is selling them short.
Nothing will change, have you seen the security apparatus of G20? They literally turn any place into a fortress.
Visit Canary Wharf or City of London and most of the infrastructure for barricading or lock down is already there.
What is unexpected to me is that this starts with Healthcare when my expectation would have been Oil and Gas first.
> What comes next?
A. They find him and he gets accidentally murdered during arrest so that he never sits in front of a jury.
B. They never find him and a copycat trend begins.
Again, not true. High taxation is mostly (unfairly so) on payroll salaries not profits or capital gains.
Most investors are conservative, risk averse, and remain vastly concentrated on Real Estate, which yields very high profits on an inflated market.
Most businesses get very poor credit conditions from the Banking Sector and most Business are SMEs focusing mostly on traditional B2B B2C services with low margins.
Biggest barriers to business in the EU is risk averse Investors and Banking sector, lack of significant VC funding players, and Government spending strangled by Austerity policies.
The US spends a lot of money to make even more money.
A debt dispute could be resolved in less than 4 months or dragged for close to a decade depending on which EU state you have a business.
Same goes for fiscal law. Some countries have had pretty much the same rates and taxation arrangements for decades. Some countries change their fiscal load on businesses as much as twice in one year. Both cases are technically 'the EU'.
I like the tentativeness, I see a lot of : wait, But, perhaps, maybe, This is getting too messy, this is confusing, that can't be right, this is getting too tricky for me right now, this is very difficult.
I kind of find it harder to not anthropomorphise when comparing with ChatGPT. It feels like it's trying to solve it from first principles but with the depth of Highschool Physics knowledge.
The muscles that contract or relax to change your lens shape (to focus your vision at different lengths) don't work linearly. Most of the work/tension of the lens is happening in the last meters range. Such that looking out at a 10m distance or 200m distance is a lot closer in muscle tone then the tension applied to focus between 10m and 0.05m.
Most likely what is happening is that the visual field workspace is equivalent but the eye strain is considerably reduced from being able to not look at something so close by such as the displays we use every day.
The theory in the article is that this is due to reflected vs direct light but I think this is a post rationalization derived from the author's experience. The perceived experience is that it is easier on the eyes. The reason is less clear.
Their hybrid warfare has created massive social rifts and political instability across all major Western Democracies.
Unfortunately you do not need a lot of money to do evil, when the devil's whispers are enough to turn citizens of a nation against each other.
I am writing a research proposal now with Olivetti. Came back to this thread to thank you.
Also thank you to Paul Rankin for bringing back this nice focus mode of vintage computing.
;; file operations
("C-o" . find-file) ; open file
("C-s" . save-buffer) ; save file
("C-S-s" . write-file) ; save as
("M-Q" . kill-this-buffer) ; close file
;; folder tree
("C-d" . neotree-toggle) ; toggle hide/show folder tree
;; buffer content operations
("C-a" . mark-whole-buffer) ; select all
("C-f" . isearch-forward) ; find in file and highlight
("C-S-f" . query-replace) ; find and replace
("C-z" . undo-tree-undo) ; undo
("C-S-z" . undo-tree-redo) ; redo
("C-c" . kill-ring-save) ; Copy
("C-x" . kill-region) ; Cut
("C-v" . yank) ; Paste
;; font size
("C-+" . text-scale-increase)
("C--" . text-scale-decrease)
;; Pane/buffer switching
("M-1" . other-window) ; toggle
("M-2" . previous-buffer) ; previous
("M-3" . next-buffer) ; next
("<M-down>" . split-window-vertically)
("<M-right>" . split-window-horizontally)
("<s-up>" . shrink-window)
("<s-down>" . enlarge-window)
("<s-left>" . shrink-window-horizontally)
("<s-right>" . enlarge-window-horizontally)
("M-q" . delete-window) ; close window
;; launch term
("M-0" . term)
;; code folding
("M-e" . hs-show-block)
("M-E" . hs-hide-block)
("M-h" . hs-hide-all))
Arguably some of these are not standard anything (just something I was happy with) but equally there is also a lot of normal stuff people are used to in several software applications for many decades now.
> GNU Emacs literally has a several decades head start on any new niche electronic writing tools and is, in my estimation, a towering achievement in this space.
I love Emacs but I had to spend more time that I would like to admit making changes to my init file in the first months of seriously using it. The 'average' user expects to be able to hit the ground running with reasonable defaults.
A large fraction of my (blasphemous) changes was of course overriding keyboard shortcuts to match the expectations that average users have of what keyboard shortcuts should do, in at least the last 40 years of software. I don't have the mental bandwidth or appetite to learn incantations.
So to me I see emacs as a tool no different from Notepad++/VS Code but a tool I can actually open the hood and mod to my needs/preferences that also happens to have a huge community that I can leverage with all the packages and minor modes.
However, neither of this is realistic or practical as a key turn solution for the 'average' user looking for a distraction free editor.
I get that twitter/reddit/YT/insta/TT is relevant for product placement, stealth marketing, political PR, propaganda etc. But is there economic value in HN accounts?
Other than the occasional YC startup pitch most of the content here is for the purpose of sharing info/tech discussion.
Am I missing something? Or are people just online 'community' jaded?
I know what you wrote is fairly obvious but the wording really resonated with how I feel about social media platforms but couldn't quite word it so well.
Surkov will be proud I guess.
My stomach dropped when I heard a young men claim that Trump would be better because of his economic policies. To which I reply which ones? Followed by stumbling silence.
This is a young university educated 25 year old men raised in a Social Democrat European developed nation, claiming that Donald Trump would serve American interest and a world economy the best. We are absolutely underestimating the effect of people's world view being shaped by information wars on social media.
Adam Curtis 'Hypernormalisation' now feels like a Nostradamus level prediction of the decades to come.
The real solution is sunsetting single-use anything for any other applications outside bio labs or medical procedures. But $$$
This drive 'unit' that BYD is using across their vehicles is that for internal use only? Or is it also being sold as an OEM part for other manufacturers to produce their own branded vehicles?
Sunsetting ICE's in Human transport (specially in urban environments) is an Environmental and Public Health benefit that far outweighs whatever carbon estimation you make.
For additional context the short essay format as an evaluation tool is very much a Anglo-saxon university form factor.
There are several other cultures in the world, in particular stemming from Latin/Francophone school of thought, in the old 'cathedra' style university where students are either subjected to written exams only or even historically (less so nowadays) also 'oral' exams (Oratory not dental exams).
Arguably he tweets about it. For the most part the 'doing' of the cool stuff is happening due to the Engineering and Manufacturing teams who are putting in sweat equity on that vision.
Judging by the erratic and deteriorating public displays in the past few years I am not even sure he does anything on the strategic level anymore.
Arguably if more people are using rail it can become palatable to shift that money away from the tax benefits and subsidies for Oil which (equally) artificially lower fuel prices from real market prices (and which people seem to have no problem with).
If you are running something big enough and business critical enough and you roll your own custom _anything_, even if you save a gazillion, you are a hero for the next quarter. But if your custom solution goes fubar you are packing your boxes. The effort/time/cost of managing/configuring cloud anything is negligible if it allows people in companies where Software is a cost centre to deflect liability if something goes fubar.
It's pretty much the revamped 21st century version of the 80's meme "nobody got fired for buying IBM". Nobody will get fired at big corp for going all in on Azure or AWS. Look at CrowdStrike's cluster fuck, there were zero heads rolled for using the cloud services impacted by it. The very opposite would be true if it happened on bare metal servers. Google, Amazon, Microsoft, carry a 'too big to go wrong' halo with them (at least in public discourse) and that just sells.