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One of the better arguments I've heard is that if you look at Hubbard's numbers when she was competing as a man and compare them when competing as a women you'll see a drop in performance, but not an enormous drop. She went from a mediocre lifter to one able to qualify for the Olympics.

The reduced testosterone requirement is still way above what the average female athlete will have and it is a very limited view of what makes a biological female different from a biological male. I can't imagine what kind of problems this will give in combat sports, just imagine the longer reach and explosiveness men have.

I'm all for people being able to identify as whatever they want, but not at the cost of fair sports.

Here are some great discussions on the topic if you're interested:

Weightlifting House - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcijSwv5YBM

Zack Telander - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjulLSX29H0

I've found that this new wave of 'smart' search systems are actually making search results progressively worse. People complain that they can't find anything on Google alternatives, my experience is that search results are equally bad. These new systems start making things up "I bet he meant to search THIS" and there's no way to escape it.

All you get is ads and generic results any time you try to find anything out of the ordinary. I remember that if you were good at formulating your search query you could almost always find what you want. Instead they assume the user is stupid or just want to serve up an ad.

One thing to note is that Berlin does not consider the fox as all around better than the hedgehog. Usually you'll see that people have a preference for the fox but Berlin considers some great people as hedgehogs such as Plato, Nietzsche, and Dostoevsky. He also stresses the fact that it's merely a metaphor and shouldn't be applied strictly.

The book is absolutely worth a read if you're into the subject.

I have no idea why people are downvoting you. From what I know all you said is correct. The money will be given to the Namibian government and not to the descendants of the genocide (the Nama and Herero) who don't have a large representation in government. All the negotiations have been with the government without the involvement of the Nama and Herero.

I remember using week numbers in MariaDB, I found out I had to provide a second argument to specify what kind of week numbers I wanted. Just like that I was introduced to the strange world of week numbers.

https://mariadb.com/kb/en/week/

What about disgruntled? Have you ever been gruntled?

I usually say 'upcoming Friday', that usually takes care of most ambiguity. But if it's anything slightly serious I'll still name the date.

I have stopped supporting IE a long time ago. Haven't heard any complaints. Granted I write business software and we simply tell them we don't support IE or Safari and people are fine with that. Most people use either Chrome, Firefox, or Edge.

That being said, in some places IE is still enforced and you have no choice. I used to work at a place that enforced IE6 for the longest time, that was really awful.

>Highly recommend Bregman's book

I second this. It challenged a lot of my beliefs and busted a lot of myths (Stanley Milgram, the Stanford prison experiment, etc.). I didn't agree with everything but I rarely ever do, nonetheless it was a great read. A very readable book as well, shouldn't take you longer than a week to read.

Especially those driving their Honda Civics with the special BRAAAAP exhausts when they accelerate in my street just after the speed bump only to then jump on the squeaky brakes for the stop sign a few meters further. That really annoys me.

Disclaimer: I did not listen to the podcast, I merely skimmed the transcript.

Is 'addiction' to social media the same as an addiction to heroin? No of course not. But it is evident that some people have great trouble to not have it control their life to a certain degree. If addiction is defined as "a brain disorder characterized by compulsive engagement in rewarding stimuli despite adverse consequences" I think you could argue that some people are addicted to social media. Just because you're not injecting something into your bloodstream doesn't mean it can't be an addiction, many lives are destroyed by gambling addiction for example.

Also from the blurb:

>discover who really has the power to break these supposed “addictions.” (Hint: It’s you.)

It's always you who has to break the addiction. I don't see how this makes it an "addiction" instead of just an addiction without the scare quotes.

>to think these ads have no influence on you.

Yes, it has an influence, it influences me to avoid their shitty products. My assumption is that if you have to sink 80% of your budget into ads, I assume it sucks and I'll end up paying for more ads to be directed at me. Especially if the ads are annoying on purpose to "make you remember them" I avoid their products like the plague.

>The idea that ads help us have things for free might be the greatest marketing stunt they have ever pulled.

That was sort of my point. But the real secret of marketing is that it has a very low success/conversion rate. Marketing and ads are a product sold to the companies who pay for the ads, it's a racket. Marketing companies will pretend that you'll lose money if you don't, so you'll have to spend that money on them instead.

>if only advertisements were more relevant

Has anyone ever bought anything because they saw an ad? If anything ads cause me to not want to buy the product. I have stopped buying certain products because whenever I see them in the store I'm reminded of their stupid ads and all I feel is resentment.

Of course then people come with the whole "you pay with your attention" thing. No you don't, because if you pay, you'll still be served ads, because why the hell not right? They'll still mine your data, bother you with 'suggestions' and annoying ads.

Being a consumer sucks.

I have always done that. I don't like to read stuff that's too intellectually intense or stimulating in bed, so I opt for some sort of fiction or history. During the day I might read something like philosophy or technical/sciencey when I'm more awake. If something is especially mentally taxing I might opt for something lighter.

Doing this I might read up to four or five books at once, but always at least two. Reading should be fun and if you feel forced to read a certain book you'll be less inclined to do it, having options helps a lot.

WordPress is awful, I have had the misfortune of having to write plugins and themes for it and having to immerse myself in the arcane knowledge of WP plugin writing (their docs are seriously crap, I have no idea if I did things 'the right way').

But! My company's website runs on WP nonetheless, mainly because I don't want to spend time on creating a website when I could work on our product. WP allows my less technical employees to tinker with the website and the marketing oriented folks to do whatever marketing oriented folks do.

It runs conveniently on its own isolated VM where people can bikeshed it all day long. If your website is not your primary product, I don't see the point in writing your own stuff unless you got some leftover time you're willing to sacrifice to write it in.

It is shady. I expect Amazon, Netflix and their like to do this. Mozilla is supposed to have more integrity, after all their mission is to "build a better internet" and "empower" people. Just because something is industry standard doesn't mean you have to do it as well, especially when you place yourself above others morally.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/mission/

I wasn't totally against this until I discovered the A/B testing thing with the subscription costs. Something about that stinks. Just name your price and I'll think about it, don't be shady about it.

I don't know why some people are so sure that it couldn't be from a lab. People research viruses in labs and it's not impossible that a virus could escape from such a lab. And China doesn't like bad press and likes to suppress it as they did with Dr. Li Wenliang.[1]

I'm not saying that I know that it did come from a lab, but to say it definitely didn't is just as silly in my opinion.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51364382

True, only <button> (if type is not "button") and <input type="button"> function within a <form> context as a button.

>On this case, one way is to make a past_ or deleted_$tablename where you insert the deleted row before deleting it from production table.

The problem with this that it gets really cumbersome if you have a complex system of tables that depend on the main table, you'll end up having to make deleted/archived versions of all those tables. In that case it's easier to have a deleted/archived flag in the main table.

Something I notice as a nonnative speaker is that my fellow nonnative speakers often try really hard to sound British. They put more effort into sounding the right way than actually trying to use the language correctly and increasing their vocabulary.

Quite often people get praise for their "good" English because they've adopted a British accent even when their grammar isn't right or use words with the wrong meaning.

Personally I don't care if someone speaks English with a Spanish, German, French, Dutch, Indian, Swedish, or any other accent. Americans don't sound like Brits, Brits don't sound like Kiwis, Kiwis don't sound like Canadians, but they're all native speakers. I prefer someone who can communicate effectively in the language over someone who can fake an accent the best.

I have seen so many people argue against soft deletes over the years. But I have also had so many instances where users 'accidentally' deleted a bunch of items and then call support to ask if there are any backups. And then I'll have to reconstruct the data from yesterday's backup plus today's changes. A soft delete will take care of this.

And no amount of "are you really really really sure you want to delete this?" confirmations are going to fix this. You could require the whole Spongebob Squarepants ravioli ravioli give me the formuoli song and dance and people will still delete hundreds or thousands of records by accident.

Time and dates are awful enough without having to deal with hardware feeding you bogus data. I could imagine that if you were unaware of this that you could really drive yourself insane thinking your code isn't right.

>oldest sports/events in history

That has to be some form of running, right?

Something I recommend to all is to install uMatrix and only allow first party CSS and images by default and only increase permissions if necessary.

Because I block all cookies by default, I never run into this problem.

A more distant but very wealthy family member once said that people wouldn't be so poor if they just saved up money. That perfectly illustrated the difficulty rich people have understanding poor people to me.

I was really young, but that really stuck with me.

I have set up PHP on Apache (both php-fpm and mod_php) and Nginx countless times on different Linux distros and never ran into problems. It might have to do with the fact that I have so much experience with web servers but it takes me only a few minutes to set it up on any Ubuntu/Debian based system (download time of the packages excluded).

> The guy who was interviewing me was sitting their shaking his head like that wasn't a valid answer.

I wonder what would be the proper answer. Also if there is a proper answer, they shouldn't ask what your favourite feature is.

I hate it when people ask questions where they expect some sort of exact question to see if you think in the exact same manner as they do. Just ask me what you want to know or I'll pack my shit and leave.

> Old oil is processed and re-used (as cheaper oil, or for heating)

Or illegally dumped if we follow OPs cynical reasoning.

> it's usually one of the electronic parts

I didn't know tubes, gaskets, seals, clutches, oil filters, spark plugs, fuel pumps, radiators, alternators were electronic parts.

I am not claiming EVs are perfect but to propose classical ICE vehicles are somehow much better simply does not make any sense. To exist as a modern human is to have an impact on your environment.

>I'll keep my very efficient Audi diesel car (79g/km CO2) for now thanks.

I bet that's the exact reason why you drive that exact car. Because of course the coolant, oil, acid batteries, etc. your car uses is disposed of correctly, or one of the hundreds of parts that needs replacing every X amount of time in an ICE. Never mind the waste that oil production itself causes.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/mar/01/fossil-fuel...

New modes of transportation and energy generation will not be 100% clean and waste free, I think it would be naive to think we could actually do that. But they can be steps in the right direction.

If your cynical assumption is that we can't do it right anyway, why do you even pretend that driving your old car is somehow better? If we won't dispose of lithium batteries properly, we won't dispose of all the things your old car produces either.