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Only when they have gathered for the ritual at the annointed hour, when the cleric speaks the incantation does the transubstantiation occur, that they may feast upon the flesh and blood of their god.

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

Yes, they are in fact, "surprisingly accurate."

https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2943/study-confirms-climate-mo...

From a philosophical perspective, if your goal in life is to be happy, you will find it to be temporary at best or illusory. Better to strive for a meaningful life, with all the highs and lows that come with it. You have 70-80 years on this planet, is dying with the most toys the most fulfilling life you can think of?

Articulating why a certain function is bad design or is actively harmful is not the same as gatekeeping. I have lost opportunities because I chose to follow my ethics over my bank account. I do not regret those decisions.

Software developers should have a professional code of ethics. Other professions have them, why not computer scientists, computer engineers, and software developers? There is the ACM/IEEE-CS Software Engineering Code, but I don't know any professionals outside academia that remain ACM members, IEEE membership might remain relevant for computer engineers, so I may well be wrong in that regard.

You would think the panic over TikTok spying would illuminate the problem with apps having carte-blanche access to your personal data 24/7. There is nothing that the TikTok app does that any other app cannot also do. It seems nobody wants to make that connection.

There should be real protections for consumers to prevent ANY application from slurping up this data, and I don't mean just a disclosure or system setting to hamstring the application into uselessness. I mean, there should be regulations preventing the collection of this data in the first place, with hefty fines and punitive damages.

I can't think of anything more demoralizing than being hired simply to warehouse my talent to keep me out of competitors' shops while feeding me bullshit go-nowhere projects or leaving me to twiddle my thumbs.

You are 100% spot on. States are weakening worker and child protection laws around the country. Destroying oversight of child protection: no need to check that kids are at least 16 before they are hired in Arkansas. Ohio Reps want to let 14 year olds work year round until 9pm each day. Iowa wants to let 14 year olds work in meatpacking plants AND indemnify companies from liability if the child is injured or killed at work, isn't that just grand?

Minnesota trails with a bill to let 16 year olds work on construction sites. Do I hear 14? 13? How much for 12? Why any age at all? If a baby can swing a hammer, then what right does the man in Washington have to stop him? Is that baby not entitled to the sweat of his brow? I say YES! And if that baby should fall off a ladder dragging a square of tiles behind him, should the company not be protected from liability for it was that baby's own fault? I say YES, most emphatically! /s

It only makes medical error and accidents in US hospitals the 3rd leading cause of death, estimated at more than 250,000 deaths per year. But the hedge fund managing hospitals around the country save so much money by not having to hire sufficient staff and have reasonable shift turn-overs they all got bonuses, so it's all good.

And it isn't for the peons doing all the work...

Thanks, though there are Mexican militias in the US. The Brown Berets (Los Boinas Café) were not a gang, they were a militia.

On another note, if anyone could provide any hints as to why my comment made in good faith with an actual link to a reputable site that backs up a well-known phenomenon affecting police nationally was flagged, that'd be great. It's difficult to judge the group-think of ycombinator comment moderators.

Is it lethal to cats though? https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29430681/

I mean, better to be safe than sorry, but it doesn't seem to affect them in this study. Other non-scientific sources are all over the map on the question.

It's hard to give up the black oil, er, soda. I don't really like plain water. I can't take anything with most artificial sweeteners, they are migraine triggers for me. I bought a SodaStream, a 10 lb. bottle of CO2 and a few BiB syrup cases of Barq's Root Beer and have been lowering the concentration of syrup the past few months. I'm down to 1/4 the normal concentration of syrup. Eventually, I should be acclimated to the taste of fizzy water by itself... still not much of a fan.

Two different engineers, I am assuming Sandy Munro was disparaging Mr. Field. From your own Engadget link, you can clearly see that he had no vehicle manufacturing experience. Neither Apple, nor Segway produce automobiles, if that was unclear.

"Field, who previously worked at Apple and Segway, joined Tesla in 2013 to develop the company's next-generation EVs. In that sense, his mark on the company is hard to escape. However, there's a potential source of conflict. Elon Musk asked Field to handle both manufacturing and production in 2017, right as the Model 3 was becoming a practical reality. You may know what happened next. Tesla struggled to boost Model 3 production levels after relying too heavily on robots, and Musk took charge of manufacturing to be sure his company met its 5,000-a-week Model 3 production target. Field effectively lost a large part of his role."

You're right, probably not harmful at all:

"The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said some or all of the emails deemed to implicate “special access programs” related to U.S. drone strikes. Those who sent the emails were not involved in directing or approving the strikes, but responded to the fallout from them, the official said.

The information in the emails “was not obtained through a classified product, but is considered ‘per se’ classified” because it pertains to drones, the official added. The U.S. treats drone operations conducted by the CIA as classified, even though in a 2012 internet chat Presidential Barack Obama acknowledged U.S.-directed drone strikes in Pakistan."

Intense meditation and self-introspection will dredge up long suppressed trauma you may not even be aware of. It may be beyond your ability to cope with its sudden release. Western appropriation of Eastern tradition can be fraught with peril.

"Yet, somewhere six or seven years into my practice, whatever progress I was making petered out. I was experiencing a growing sense of bodily agitation and began self-medicating with drugs and alcohol. Looking back, it was also during this time period that I had my first dissociative experiences, in which elements of my sense of self became separated in a way that impaired my ability to function."

Also, recreational drugs may introduce negative experiences in your meditation journey.

Yeah, SEGA gotta SEGA. The fishing controller was great, wasn't it? I still occasionally drag out my old system just to play SEGA Bass Fishing 2 with the rod controller.

Yes, USA. Damage and behavior was disclosed. I was told by my insurance company that the problem was "in my head" as the vehicle's body and alignment were within specifications and their road test found no issues. This was a sports car and the behavior evidenced itself on more "spirited" turns.

Not really fair to blame the engineer. Musk is the one who hired the engineer to lead the design of the Model 3, knowing he had no experience with vehicle manufacturing design. They wanted to "move fast and break things" like a tech company. It was an expensive learning process for Musk. A mistake he seems to repeatedly make.

I've had a car in a crash that should've been totaled. I was rear-ended by a truck while stopped about two months after my previous car was totaled (t-boned by an drunk driver). The insurance company balked at a 2nd total in that time period and demanded it be repaired. The total repair cost came to almost $5,000 over the KBB value. The rear end had been accordioned and the repair company straightened it out (you can indeed straighten frames with the proper alignment tooling) having to replace all the panels past the doors. They claimed it was back to spec, but it never tracked correctly in turns after the repair job. I sold it shortly after for about what I paid.

Try making friends outside of work when you get older. It's hard. Really hard. It takes on average 200 hours of interaction for people to become "good friends". As an introverted, very private person, I would say that's an order of magnitude too low. They closed our office and our entire department is WFH. Some people have left for conventional office jobs, but some of us have thrived in the zoom/teams culture. I'd rather quit than go back to the office, personally. Though I understand it's not for everyone.

I bought an AA battery case, bored a small hole in the caliper's battery cover, fed wires through, secured them to the contacts and used velcro to hold the AA battery case to the back of the caliper. I can easily take the battery out when storing and it always just works without having to buy overpriced button cells. It does look a bit janky.

I have a UV index card I keep in my wallet (for no good reason). If you are receiving a UV index of 3 or higher on your skin, it is sufficient to induce endogenous production of vitamin D.

>Seems like everything old is new again. I remember reading similar things in misc.fitness.weights about 20 years ago, and a workout routine called Hypertrophy Specific Training was the suggestion. The idea is to do full body workouts every time, starting with 2 weeks of 15 reps, each workout increasing the weight until you reach your max, then 2 weeks of 10 reps, then 2 weeks of 5, then 2 weeks of rest. This workout routine tackles many of the problem points that the article points out.

Yes, Bryan Haycock popularized HST. It's a science-backed routine that you can pick up easily, without expensive training programs. Progressive loading increases each session for two weeks to your 15RM on the last session, the next two week cycle you progress to your 10RM, and the final, you progress to your 5RM. The last cycle is the hardest of all, haha.

The true freedom of living under a bridge because you have no income? The tech bros are not coming to save humanity from the toil of labor. There will not be a post-scarcity society where everyone's basic needs will be met in a capitalist regime. You will have to produce to keep the beast running. I'm sure the tens of millions of people displaced will be able to learn more technical roles or quietly starve to death living under a bridge somewhere. Billionaires, corporations and their shareholders need to get richer!

That would seem likely, as loneliness and social isolation have a much higher risk of mortality whether they have underlying conditions or not.

So what you're saying is that before the invention of the lamp, people had respite from work. Worker productivity has increased enormously in the last 100 years. My job entails putting good people out of work through analysis and design of more efficient (read: automated) workflows. At what point do we realize that we have to let go the "work hard every day until you die because that's the way may grandparents lived" ethic?

Sorry? Could you please identify what, specifically, you found homophobic about the comment? I think your comment reflects more upon you than it does upon my comment.

This discredited story began on a conspiracy website, was repeated by Republican candidate(s), Elon Musk (since deleted), and other conspiracy nutters. It has no traction as it doesn't appear to be based in truth, any more than the false story of Democrats running a pedophile ring out of the basement of a pizza restaurant in a slab-on-grade building. Conspiracy theories used to seem harmless before the internet was spreading them far and wide, but more and more, these stories are encouraging (generating?) stochastic terrorism.

If they have to believe in a mythical deity that dispenses "justice" post-death in order to quell their urges to commit murder, they probably should be treated for mental illness or otherwise removed from society, as they are a ticking time bomb.

Like I said, don't take it the wrong way, I've been snobbish, too. I spent a lot of money over the years chasing the "best" gaming experience. I've seen VR come and go since Sega's VR Shades that never made it to market.

You've got to consider that there are many tiers of gamers out there. Not very many are going to spend the thousands needed to get a top-shelf VR experience. If the only VR headsets out there require a huge (for many) investment, VR will always be a niche product. 2% of Steam gamers have a VR headset.[1] These are, arguably, savvy, more hardcore gamers than the average person, and it's still only 2%!

60% of those VR headset owners have an Oculus, 14% have an Index, 7% have a Vive. Price wins, like it or not.

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey

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