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> In my experience, having "group reasoning" is faster and with better results.
Why is face-to-face required for "group reasoning"?
Two things here:
1) Being snarky with someone asking a sincere question is a wonderful way to alienate them and leave a bad taste in their mouth regarding the topic at hand.
2) The parent said they "can be fired", not "until over a year ago, I could have been fired". They were asserting that this is the current state of affairs, which it isn't, so I asked a sincere question about it. If asking questions to clarify a statement doesn't "add to the discussion", clearly I was taught how to have a conversation incorrectly. But I, and most rational people, don't think that's accurate. So, y'know, maybe take your own advice and consider what your comment brings to the table instead of trying to dunk on people.
As for healthcare, I appreciate the link. It confirms what I was wondering, which is that the parent's comment only applies to specific, specialty services and not the general umbrella of "healthcare".
> The idea that over thousands of years the Bene Gesserit have seeded fake prophecy and religion throughout the universe to "primitive worlds". A Bene Gesserit visiting one of these worlds is trained to fulfill these prophecies and basically weaponize the locals.
> I don't know why it blows my mind but it does. Has modern scifi used this idea anywhere?
To anyone interested in Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere but hasn't yet read the Mistborn series, be aware please that my answer contains major spoilers for the first couple of books, so stop reading this comment now if that concerns you.
In the Mistborn series, there are two deities for this one specific planet- for reasons I won't go into, they created the planet and its humans together but one deity trapped the other in a metaphysical prison. To escape this prison, this second one uses the tiny amount of influence it still has to pervert the prophecies and teachings of the dominant religion over thousands of years to weaponize the local population, engineer rebellions, and cause a lot of people to believe they're some "chosen hero" who will defeat a fake threat manufactured by this 2nd deity, which all eventually causes the release of the 2nd diety from this metaphysical prison.
Not quite the same I guess, but they share some similar threads.
> Going this route you have to be better than everyone else with a degree: If you're not, the person with the degree will win, every time.
> [snip] My big fear is that I'll never get hired after this job because there are lots of qualified candidates who went to school, and I just don't stack up.
Oh boy, this resonates so strongly with me. I even have actual proof that the opposite is true (when I asked about other candidates at my first "real" job while I was still in college, my boss said they hired me over people with a degree because of my github), I still felt this way!! In the end, I ended up finishing my degree not because it made me more intrinsically valuable or a 10x rockstar code god, but because of that exact fear you're talking about. I wish I was the kind of person who didn't have to do that.
What? Where? And how? "At will" is one thing, but being fired purely because of how you identify? What?
> I can be legally denied healthcare treatment.
Wait, what? Are you talking about about all healthcare, specific procedures, or what? As far as I know, an ER can't refuse to provide healthcare treatment so you must be referring to specific things and not the general umbrella of "healthcare".
Legitimate, sincere questions- I honestly don't know anything about anything.
I'll confess I don't know anything about anything- I certainly don't have any insight into what evidence Netflix has to support the assertion that this employee was the leak; I doubt we'll ever see it.
I guess I'm just grousing about the title implying the employee was fired for organizing the walkout, yet the article doesn't expound upon the employee referenced by the title, the titular planned walkout, or the evidence for or against the title's implication. Instead, it mentions a show, some private metrics that were leaked to Bloomberg, 3 employees (at least one of whom is a trans software engineer) who were suspended for attending a high-level meeting they weren't allowed to listen in on and then reinstated after public pressure. So why imply that Netflix would fire an employee (who happens to be both black and pregnant) for organizing a walkout in the name of activism that hasn't even taken place yet in order to protest the show referenced by the leaked metrics if the only time they're going to bother even asserting the title's implication is when quoting an employee about discrimination?
Is discrimination the reason she was fired? Is it retaliation for a walkout that has yet to take place? Is there a smoking gun indicating that she was the one leaking private company data? I honestly don't have a clue and we probably won't ever know for sure. But for once I'd like to read an article where the experience at least begins in good faith instead of implying a conclusion without ever actually going into detail about it. [/rant]
Well, for several reasons you may not have considered:
1) I need you to find me a listing for a "used" ps5 that isn't broken, double the retail price of a new system, or a flat out scam.
2) You seem to be laboring under the delusion that the only reason someone would upgrade to the ps5 is for the latest and greatest hardware or to simply have a Playstation console. Instead, you should consider that there exist people like myself who hope to upgrade because of games that are exclusive to the ps5.
Edit: HN formatting is the best
But YMMV (literally ;) )
> [snip] nor is depression a bad thing on the whole.
> The causes for depression are well known, so why are we trying to electrocute our brain into not acting in it's own best interests?
While I agree with the sentiment that this study isn't a great study, these three remarks and the tone of your comment make it clear you have zero personal experience with depression. I hope you never experience it- it's hell. No amount of descriptive imagery or keen adjectives can ever convey what it actually feels like, so I understand how people who've never been in its jaws can be so dismissive. After all, just like it's hard to tell that stuffed inside a ballerina's blood-filled shoes are cramped, broken, _aching_ feet, it's hard to wrap your head around pain that isn't readily seen, much less try to empathize with the person feeling it. So I get it. I understand why you're so dismissive.
The only way I can think of to describe depression is to describe suicidal ideation: when you have a moment, go to your garage, get a hammer, and smash your thumb with it. Not a pleasant thought, right? I'd be willing to bet that if you were to legitimately try, you'd find it almost impossible; the instinct for self preservation is one of the most basic, powerful instincts. Now, imagine a situation where you're in so much pain that this instinct is completely overwhelmed and you actively try to kill yourself to stop it, a situation where you cannot believe you'll ever be able to be happy again, a situation that feels truly hopeless. That's depression. While suicidal ideation is one of the extremes, depression is something that drives a person to that point.
In all honesty, I sincerely hope neither you nor your loved ones ever have to face such despair. "That they experienced loss is not a gain, and that they experienced pain is not a victory."
It's possible to express a negative view about a technology without diminishing the struggles of the people it's intended to help. A little kindness goes a long way.
I would normally say "n=1" and "YMMV", but in this case n=everyone I've ever had this discussion with and the mileage has not varied. I don't know about you, but I have received exactly one phone call in the past year from a 1-800 number, and it was legitimate. You know how many calls I receive daily on average from people spoofing what they think is my local area code? Seven. Sometimes it's none, sometimes it's 12, but I have been tracking it for this exact purpose and the average is 7. That's too many.
Do you think anyone would have adopted email if the only two options to deal with spam were 1) read the text in the body and manually delete it if you can recognize the scam or 2) disable incoming mail from anyone not already in your address book? Of course not! And it's high time that the company charging me for my expensive phone and my expensive service plan do something about the expensive attention I waste when getting interrupted with these extremely preventable attempts at exploitation. Not to mention the poor victims who fall for these scams and lose their retirement savings because they grew up in an era before incoming calls became synonymous with massive social engineering dragnets.
I apologize for ranting- I recognize you were offering a workaround in the meantime for the parent and I've upvoted you for that; I rarely rant on HN, but this topic and the apathy surrounding it really ruffles my feathers and I needed an outlet.
It's not a play on words, "breaking the fast" is where the word comes from :).
I'm sorry, that's a really crappy experience! I hope you can get things cleared up soon. Back before I realized how easy it is for someone to steal my identity or even what any mitigating steps would be, I had an identity theft and fraud that went unnoticed for so long that I had a summary judgment executed against me by the thief's creditors- imagine my surprise when 1/4 of my paycheck suddenly vanished. Unfortunately, there was no recourse for me- I ended up having to pay for the fraud with 1/4 of my paycheck for a little over a year.
> The rules exist to be skirted by those who have the power to shape them.
I know places I've worked before have seen features in competitor products and scurried to implement new features to reflect them. I work on some open source that takes its lead from closed source alternatives. Is this considered skirting the rules? Genuine question, I don't actually know anything about anything.
You know, statements like this don't help a cause, they only end up alienating people (like casual third party observers, for example) the advocate claims to want on their side. Statements like this hinder a cause and are self-defeating as they cause the advocate to inadvertently become part of the problem they're trying to resolve.
Interesting perspective- when I was much younger, I was taught that a Christian is anybody who believes that Christ is the Savior and that he atoned for the sins of humanity. Is there an "official" definition?
... for fun? No one is making plans and saying "oh I better dump my Disney stock in 2030 because I think Mickey Mouse will be in the public domain in 2031 and that will only happen if the company goes bankrupt for some reason."
This is just for laughs. Not everything has to be all serious all the time.
While I very much agree with the point you're making, I can count on one hand (with fingers to spare) the number of family members I have who know what the developer tools even are, and that's because I showed them when troubleshooting an issue they were having. They aren't going to learn or remember how to access the dev tools to manage cookies, but they do know what it means to delete individual cookies and the current process to do so, and if they forget the exact steps they could certainly figure it out in settings/preferences.
What they're not going to do is think "well, I can't find the thing I used to use to deal with cookies, I'd better go muck around in the developer tools." I'd imagine a very large percentage of non-technical people who have heard about cookies fall into the same category as my relatives, but that's my own bias talking and YMMV of course.
>> I wonder was that tested in a court? In a case where the person who transcribed the song has not profited in any way from that, neither selling the transcription, not selling ads on the web?
N=1, but when I was in high school, I remember that several friends in the drama/theatre department were really disappointed one year because they'd performed a copyrighted play the year before for our school (at no charge; our principal firmly believed that charging the $1 admission they typically charged separated the "haves" from the "have-nots"), the board of education received a letter from the copyright holder, and now they were no longer able to do any plays for the school.
I guess this doesn't touch whether or not this has been tested in court, but it certainly scared the pants off our board of education.
These hypothetical children have spent all day socializing at school- if that gets "destroyed" by a few hours of being left to their own devices, better stop them from reading and playing with Legos alone in their rooms too. Claiming video games ruin social skills because playing them is an activity performed alone is utter nonsense.
Sure, there isn't "nothing to lose", but let's not kid ourselves- if you're past retirement age and in a position to essentially be on TRT for the rest of your life, hypogonadism isn't a big deal unless for some crazy reason TRT becomes unavailable. As for gynecomastia, it's very easily managed with an aromatase inhibitor like exemestane or anastrozole.
I'm not saying there aren't risks or possible side effects, but exogenous testosterone shouldn't be dismissed out of hand because of the FUD surrounding steroids. If you haven't seen the documentary "Bigger, Stronger, Faster", I highly recommend it.
A quick search found four clear cases where law enforcement has favored technological false positives over evidence:
Ousmane Bah: https://www.businessinsider.com/teen-sues-apple-1-billion-fa...
Robert Williams: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/facial-recognition-60-minutes-2...
Nijeer Parks: https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/29/tech/nijeer-parks-facial-reco...
Michael Oliver: https://www.dailydot.com/debug/detroit-facial-recognition-wr...
The one on Ousmane Bah really frustrates me- not only was he on a date at prom during the theft, he was in another state! "Nothing to hide" does not mean "nothing to fear" and allegations (even false ones) of possessing CSAM will ruin lives.
At the end of the day, what it really comes down to is trust; personally, I do not have enough faith in due process to not ruin innocent people. But I'm just some guy online, I will readily admit I don't know anything about anything.
Absolutely. It's a really frustrating experience too when you're denied access to these life-altering (not an exaggeration) medications for these reasons even when you have years of medical records detailing your condition and your treatment needs. I went to community college in a small town for the first two years of my degree; I had a great doc there who was happy to make sure I was getting the right doses for my condition and would check in with me every few weeks to see if anything had changed. After getting my associate's, I moved to a much larger city to transfer to a college roughly 10x the size of my community college for my bachelor's degree. I found a reputable local doc, got my medical records transferred, and made an appointment (required for a controlled substance) to continue my prescription.
You know what he told me?
"Oh, since this is a college town with several colleges and a lot of students looking to abuse 'study drugs', our policy is that we don't treat your condition here. But I have some resources on meditation and mindfulness that you should look through."
I got the same kind of answer at two other offices before I got fed up and asked my original doc to get me a referral to a psychiatrist who wouldn't blow me off like these quacks had.
I'm not saying that substance abuse isn't a problem, but I also don't think that treating everybody like children and drug seekers is the right call. But hey, n=1 and I'm just some guy with a beard- YMMV.
Yep, here you go: "No Metro by T-Mobile, former Sprint prepaid, or Boost customers had their names or PINs exposed," T-Mobile said. "We have also confirmed that there was some additional information from inactive prepaid accounts accessed through prepaid billing files. No customer financial information, credit card information, debit or other payment information or SSN was in this inactive file."