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A proven treatment to reverse type 2 diabetes make use of the keto diet, a low carbs diet (not low cal) which may be less risky. For most patients with T2D, doctor supervision is advised.

One company working to reverse diabetes in the US is https://www.virtahealth.com/ (disclaimer: I work there).

I've been using Hasura in production for small commercial projects deployed on AWS and I've been positively impressed by the stability and the speed up - it makes spinning up a graphQL backend with row-level security straightforward.

I'm not sure I want to do that, it's not my style. I just called the City and they sent a team to clean up the mess.

But even if I reported them, I suspect YC leaders would be rather proud of these guys.

That is an anecdotinal data point.. I live in a building with 6 units in the Mission district of SF. Until a few years ago my neighbours were people: families, (gay) couples,.. We now have 3 startups in our building. One of the startup (YC-backed!) moved out yesterday. The guys just threw what they didn't want into the street from the windows of their second floor apartment. And disappeared, leaving a filthy mess on the pavement.

I was working at a recruiting startup years ago and we got a cease & desist letter from LI asking us to stop crawling their public data.

Initially crawling them was very easy (we had ~100m profiles). With time crawling became harder and harder on the technical front. They obviously invested millions of $ in technology to stop being crawled.

Interestingly Belgium and the Netherlands are missing in year say 1900.

Article 5 only applies if a country is attacked. So if the US or UK are attacking, it doesn't apply. However if China attacks the UK in Asia, then article 5 applies and NATO countries will coordinate to respond to that, militarily of not. This is called deterrence.

> Austria is an odd example, given that it's completely surrounded by "friendlies".

This kind of thinking has produced the current nightmare IMO. The unwillingness to invest in common security has enabled Russia.

I think the best path forward for Europe should be to have both. Keep NATO as a strong alliance and build an EU Defense component as a non-alliance. That will make things much more complicated for whoever wants to endanger European security in the future.

> Russians are bi-modaly distributed

Sure. I applaud the people who protest. However I also want people reading this to understand that most people support Putin. At least I have strong data points that support this and denying that fact doesn't help anyone.

> Finding more effective ways to make ordinary Russians aware of what is going on might be the least painful path

Maybe. The US tried to build a western society in Afghanistan for 20 years and that failed. I'm not convinced "educating" Russians to what we (the West) think is happening will work either.

I have family in Ukraine and Russia. From the data points that I have, I'd say that most people in Russia support Putin (including in my family). While the average citizen will be impacted first by the current situation, it will have an effect on the leadership IN TIME (e.g. in years, not days). In fact, severe sanctions should have started in 2014 [1].

As for the argument that popular opinion will turn against the west: it already has [2] and I think we should not talk about sanctions any longer, but of separate blocks with minimal exchange and interaction. I understand that going back to an iron curtain of some sort may be shocking for some, but at least that will severely limit the risk of miscalculation and nuclear war. Putin is a dictator and we have to act.

[1] Says a former Russian diplomat: "They also thought the EU was weak because of how toothless their sanctions were in 2014" https://twitter.com/andreivkozyrev/status/150061067692600525... [2] https://twitter.com/ABCNewsLive/status/1499449302728462342

I have family / friends in Russia and outside Russia and I’m seeing the same thing: Putin is popular. I suspect it had to do with how the Russian identity is build.

I keep telling these people that a country is defined by what it does in the world, not by what it is or was. But at the end of the day I think a lot of them consider Russia as a « powerful » country that should have an empire.

That is true, bombing targets in a NATO country wouldn't work. On the other hand Russia could probably try to completely seal that border. It's not easy to do and will take years, but can be done.

And the only solution India has here is to support a dictator who has committed war crimes in Syria and attacked Ukraine?

As I said in another thread: I believe that the government and policies of a country is a (very lagging) reflexion of the value of the citizens.

I think that China will pay the price of its burgeoning relationship with Russia at some point. No country wants to be seen as Russia's enabler by the American public. The optics for China is bad: Xi / Putin "no limit" meeting just before the invasion, China may have shared US-provided intel information with the Russian,.. At the moment all the eyes are on Ukraine. But soon the world will start wondering who made that possible. And the American public is already biased toward China.

I would think following the same path is a bit risky for India.

You are using an analogy to a totally different domain (parent / child) where the rules of the game is totally different (in parent / child relationship, everything is controlled and non-escalatory: it's about education and the assumption is that there is no violence). In this frame of reference you might win the argument.

But my argument is different. If because of sanctions Russians people start to think a little bit and question their government, that will be a start. That may not happen to be honest because as I said, the government of a country is a reflexion of the values of that country. And I am not sure for Russia.

I have family in Moldova and in far-east Russia. I was talking to a cousin in the far-east and I can't even believe the discussion we had few weeks ago.

I have no problem making life harder for Russians, having them cancel their holiday in Turkey, wait in line a bit, move to a new VPN. Maybe that will make some realize that something is wrong with their entire government and they need to revolt and change that fast. This after Aleppo and the rest.

I think that the government of a country is a lagging metric of the value of its people.

China has willingly accepted to support Russia confront NATO directly and said Putin they will help in case of unilateral sanctions from the West. China may not try to backtrack a bit, but that support directly enabled Putin to invade (even though China may not have been given the details).

China must pay for that.

China is in a very uncomfortable situation imo. More than staying neutral, they are probably trying to find a way out.

They have: (0) enabled an unprovoked attack from Russia on Ukraine, undermining peace in Europe, (1) said that their ties to Putin have "no limits", (2) shared intelligence coming from the US with Russia, (3) not moved their own citizens out of Ukraine and (4) enabled a nasty rhetoric about Ukrainians

By going for self-interest and mercantilism over a principled and fair approach to international affairs, what China is doing is destabilizing and dangerous. China needs to be contained.

Highly preferable to a total ban from SWIFT. Because giving the perception to the dictator of a nuclear state that all his money reserves have been totally “stolen” may not be the wisest move.

I’d personally not take that risk and work on other fronts.

I'm curious - when what true? In the 2000s? Before?

I joined my first startup on 2010 and we had a managed PG database that was good enough for us I reckon.

As a former hardware engineer I support the move by the FTC! I have an honest question though: does the lawsuit have any realistic change to block that merger?

Another data point: earlier this year I interviewed at Stripe for a manager position. After the interview loop, I was told by email and on the phone that I got the job and that they would follow up within days. Never heard back after that and got no further replies from them. So I didn’t get or signed a written offer. I found another job quickly. But I was very surprised by the ghosting tbh.

Also: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/11/02/faceboo...

https://archive.md/JMwS2

I know nothing about finance but I'd love to understand how such a scheme can fool inverstors.

At the end of the day cashInBank==investment+sales-costs. How can close to $80 millions be missing on the balance sheet without anyone noticing!? Genuinely curious.

The Magna Carta not only singled out Jews, but also benefited a very very small part of the population of that time - according to some scholars as little as 10 people in England! Other scholars disagree on the figure but it is clear that most of the population was not included, by far.

The Magna Carta was the birth certificate of what today we call the one percent. I do not think we should celebrate.

I agree, but I would also not compare investing in stocks and starting a company.

Starting a company is not for everyone. It's a calling.

Being able to invest and get competitive returns should be democratized. It is a known fact that the richest have historically been able to invest their money and get high returns while the rest of us had to settle for savings accounts (0.5% return currently). And the trend is accelerating[0], inequality is growing. This is not sustainable and should be addressed.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_in_the_Twenty-First_Ce...

While that's true, it may only be part of the story. There is a clear tension between "democratize X" (for Robinhood X is "finance for all") and offering a white glove service, including stellar support for everyone. It simply won't scale.

Democratizing X also means commoditizing X by offering a minimum acceptable solution that will become what people are taught to expect. I am not sure there is a way around this to be honest.

While I love the idea of JaaS (Justice As A Service) I suspect that in most cases the cost will make it unworkable. In the situation OP faced, figuring out whether the contract has been correctly executed and whether the payment should have been made would have required specialized knowledge as well as time to look into the details of the case.

We've built and launched our community platform on Hasura + PG RDS. Row-level permission has been a time-saver to launch a product quickly. Stability has been great - our Hasura container hasn't crashed / restarted in the last 9 months.

Their are downsides (it has proven frustrating for us to implement the authentication part for a role that is not user or admin) but I would definitely recommend Hasura to experienced developpers.

Did you use platforms like Handshake or Jumpstart to apply?