Frozenlock

Sometimes I wonder if all those tax-free retirement accounts are just a ploy to incite people to put money in the stock market, to be milked by those knowing what's up.

Or that. Really, anything else than 2020.

It's worse than that. They are _utterly_ obsessed by sex.

They will blur images in medical training videos if they contain genitals.

They will also blur images of artificial insemination of animals. http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/archive/index.php/t-3360...

It's the little things, but I read

> Hindsight is 2020

as "Hindsight is two thousand twenty"

I would invite the writers to use '20-20'.

Euro is the new USA.

> you got to stop finding excuses about smoking, smokers are addicts

So are coffee drinkers. Do you give them a hard time?

Be careful with this... some think that it can help with Alzheimer and Parkinson.

Unless there's a demonstrable, important (life affecting) effect, I wouldn't care too much about nicotine. Maybe some people are even naturally balancing some of their brain chemistry with it.

I wouldn't surprised if in 30 years we 'discover' that nicotine was okay all along, just like eating fat.

By the way, what is your opinion on caffeine?

Just wanted to thank you for posting this (it seems no one noticed...), I found it very interesting.

So... turns out the good guys do win after all.

Right:

"A space should be left between groups of 3 digits on either the right or left hand side of the decimal place (15 739.012 53). In four digit numbers the space may be omitted. Commas should not be used."

http://www.npl.co.uk/reference/measurement-units/si-conventi...

In addition, put the odd unit in parentheses, not the SI one.

> 1 674.4 km/h (1000 mph)

And when it makes the cover of Time, short it to the ground.

My favorite podcast for my daily walk is 'Security Now'

https://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm

It touches everything and keeps me up to date on important security vulnerabilities. (Otherwise I would probably disappear in my coding cavern for months and not know what is happening on the surface...)

Except that I don't go out of my way to 'help' the supermarket. I don't give them free passes and give them a look of "Oh you!" when they screw up.

Twitch has also many volunteers. Just look at this guide on how to become a Twitch admin: https://www.reddit.com/r/Twitch/comments/2f77aw/how_to_becom...

"That means that being a Global Moderator is not something you get paid for."

I'm not arguing against the choices of Twitch per se, I'm commenting on the bunch of free passes they get because the viewers see themselves as part of the 'twitch community'.

Saying that the gamification of subscriptions is good for the streamer is the same as saying that games with micro-transactions, designed to be addictive, are good for the developers. Of course it is, but someone is paying for it...

How are they exaggerated? Some of these can be 'good', but they still are all unilateral changes, which is precisely the problem with the false sentiment of community.

>the handful of people who put in effort under reddit's brand are in an exploitative relationship.

In some ways, it feels like Twitch.tv.

I'm a little sad when I think of all these people making an 'exception' with twitch.tv by turning off their ad-blocks, by gladly giving $5 per month PER subscription (and some people subscribe multiple times on the same channel), by excusing a streaming website that still uses Flash and has a terrible, TERRIBLE user interface.

But it's all forgiven, because of the 'community'.

Well, that 'community' sold for a billion and you won't see a nickel for it.

Remember when Twitch was so much better than Youtube? Yeah... but the service is slowly changing to please corporate, and you won't have any say in it. New subscribe buttons no longer remove ads, they've added some music detection stuff that mutes videos, they no longer keep videos forever, they decide to ban 'cleavages', then games...

It's a one way relationship. The naive viewers are doing all these concessions for a company in which they have no equities.

Edit: Forgot to mention the new gamification of subscriptions "X suscribed for Y months in row!". That's pure genius. Evil, but still genius.

> "Is ISO 8601 really beyond comprehension for most of the population?"

No. It's the _only_ representation that makes sense and is easy to read everywhere. (Assuming you show it into the user timezone.)

Year -> Month -> Day -> Hour...

BIG -> Medium -> small -> smaller...

And because the year has 4 digits, you instantly know it's a year value.

There is nothing more infuriating than those silly "yesterday" "a week ago" and other cute time formatting. What if I wanted to know the precise hour, instead of a vague "yesterday"?

And don't get me started on the completely, utterly stupid "11/09/14". I'm French Canadian with many software configured halfway between US, Canadian and European standards. So when a software/website tries to be a smart-ass and gives me "11/09/14", It might be day-month-year, or year-month-day, or month-day-year. Yeah, fun times.

"Wow, that's fast!"

Sure, at least 3x the speed of light... :-p

I think you misread that sentence.

It's saying that extorsion is a criminal offense, not that only criminal offences can be extorsions. In other words, the criminal offense originate from the act of extorsion, not the reverse.

Probably, but it still left me feeling a little alienated.

Not to take anything from Om tho, people using it seem to enjoy it a lot! I guess I'm just less smart ;-)

It was mostly the whole reify dance, which I never had to do in any other clojure/clojurescript project.

If Om hurts your brain, I can't recommend Reagent enough: http://reagent-project.github.io/

Here are some videos that convinced me to try low-carbs a few years ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM Sugar: The Bitter Truth

1h29 - One of the best information (as in biology) video around about sugar.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDneyrETR2o Why We Get Fat

1h10 - A little less technical (IIRC), but still a great insight on what's going on.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vfK5U9qKaI TWiT Live Specials 124: The Sugar Hill

55min - Steve Gibson on his discovery of low-carbs, how and why it works.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSLf4bzAyOM - Dr Eric Westman - Duke University New Atkins Ketogenic Diet for Weight Loss and Health

38min - Dr Eric Westman guide patients through what they can eat and what will be transition 'symptoms'.

It works at all scales:

"I'd love to give you a raise, but corporate is making big cuts everywhere... I'll do what I can for you, but I can't make promises."

It's not, and it's wrong. Probably some 'facts' told by training gurus or whatnot.

You can be 5 feet tall, built on a cat frame and still be dominant. Being dominant is much more about how you interact socially. And no, being the 'tough' guy doesn't help.

You can feel more confidant if you have some more muscle mass, but that's about it.

Now, about the testosterone. Exercise will make your testosterone go up for only a few minutes to an hour, which doesn't do much of a difference. (Same for sex btw; levels go up AFTER sex.) Besides, if you lack the hormone in any serious matters, you should seek a physician. Other than that, why would you want more? Because you think it's in direct proportion to your manliness?

Or, you know, things are sometimes more complicated than the political spin given on them. (Especially by the winners)

Surely you know that Lincoln didn't care about the slaves (or at least they weren't his highest prority, which is odd for a war that's supposed to be about slavery.):

> “My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union…”

It's also a complex situation about taxes, jurisdictions and a supposedly 'voluntary' union between states. I suppose one does not take likely the realization that their voluntary cooperation was in fact hidden servitude.

What boggles the mind is seeing how people on HN are very skeptical of any current politician, but will gladly accept many propaganda issued by past ones.

Do many of you believe that the crusades were really to free the Holy Land? That it was for the good of the people?

> "It astounds me that there are large numbers of whites in this country who think the Civil War was about anything other than slavery."

And it astounds me that a large numbers of whites in USA think that their history was a series of clear cut victories against evil enemies. And when the enemies were from within the borders... well they were also evil. Obviously.

Why are you bringing this on? How is that related to anthropomorphic climate change?

That's the equivalent of some police officers catching a thief and keeping the money for themselves.

"Aren't you glad we are here to protect you?"

Very nice video.

It explains a lot about the low-carb (high protein) diet.

Thank you for sharing it.

This has nothing to do with agreeing with the law, it's about complying with it.

If it says you must report any --single-- withdrawal larger than $10k, then you are complying with it if you don't report:

A single withdrawal $5k;

3 withdrawal of $9k;

Yearly withdrawals of groceries;

Like said in another comment, you could easily ask to report any --total-- withdrawal larger than $10k within a time frame if that's really what you wanted.