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>A child is ~100x more likely to die from a drug overdose than a mass shooting, and ~10x from a car crash. Yet our perception is skewed because of what we see in the news / shared.

Wait, I have the opposite reaction to the car crash comparison. Is that accurate? It blows my mind that the odds of a child in the US dying in a mass shooting is only a single order of magnitude less than the chance they die in a car crash...

It's a fixed gear bike.

I'll save everyone the quick search. They added really basic opt-in telemetry, and then removed it after an out-of-proportion outcry.

But copy & pasting or using IDE features is more about consistency than speed. I.e. making sure you really did replace _all_

As a Canadian, I agree. Canada has plenty of natural resources, good geography, powerful military allies, huge trading partners and high quality of life. It sure is tough here!

(But seriously though, you are more or less correct except for the part about us all being "tremendously proud" of our recent innovations. Nobody gives a shit.)

It's interesting to me how often you comment things like this about Canada.

What exactly is your relationship with Canada that you find it necessary to chime in like this everytime the country is mentioned?

You've taken that right out of context. It's not a dismissal but an expression of amazement. As in: "I can't believe that happened!". The article clearly states the result was accepted immediately:

> Within a remarkably expeditious three weeks, the paper’s referees confirmed that Zhang, an unknown mathematician, had proved “a landmark theorem in the distribution of prime numbers.”

100% positive. Even though outwardly I was a popular, social, active, easy-going kid/teen I suffered from constant anxiety and sometimes depression throughout my childhood and adolescence. (I wasn't aware of it at the time -- thought it was normal to feel that way.) I also would also often feel inexplicable dread about doing things I usually enjoyed, like music or sports. I would often make excuses to skip these things and stay home in bed... even though they were my hobbies and nobody was forcing me to do them.

Finally things came to a head around age 19-20 when I dropped out of university two years in a row due to depression/anxiety. I had no real problem with school -- but I would just get a month or so in and it would feel unbearable to even think about going to class or opening a book. And I liked school!

After the second time a doctor suggested I start on a small dose of escitalopram. Within a week I was more or less rid of the anxiety, and I think for me an overload of anxiety was what would put me into a depressive state. The biggest thing for me was gaining the ability to have some control over my thoughts. Prior to starting medication my internal monologue was basically just an uncontrollable, irrational, negative stream of consciousness. Since starting, by default I feel... "OK". Which is perfect -- they are not happy pills for me. I still feel negative emotions and I still have bad days but I am able to live my life!

I am still taking 5/10mg alternating daily 10 years later.

One reason, besides being boring.

>I’m hard-pressed to name more than a handful of web apps that I would say are genuinely good with no major flaw.

>Content websites are a different matter. A static or server-rendered content website with adequate typography and semantic markup is generally going to do its job pretty well.

I feel the exact opposite. Most web-based applications are pretty incredible these days.

It's the "content websites" that are insanely bloated and over engineered (and unnecessarily turned into "apps"). E.g. news sites, new reddit, recipe sites

Isn't it the other way round?

A 30% drop in year over year growth is not the same as a 30% drop in value.

Most math textbooks are proofs, with lots of explanations, and then exercises that ask you to prove related theorems using similar methods.

So really any math text appropriate to your level will work.

I don't think that holds for questions about the future.

Well, in this case he would have been cheated no matter the price.

Small note, this is believed to be true but has not been proven.

What kind of yuppie goes to Tim Hortons?

Not every interpretation of a piece is the same.

> 1) Easy to use pointers. There's just pointers, not like C where you can have anywhere from 4 to 8 different types depending on your platform. And no, pass by reference vs. value are not the same as pointers.

Do you mean C++? Or am I confused?

> in some sense crypto's resiliance against so many catastrophies is amazing. if this was USD we would be at WW10 by now

Because USD is actually used as a currency...?

I definitely do where I work. Multiple web front ends plus mobile apps.

At least where I'm from, "space" is just a short-form for "outer space". But it sounds like your understanding is that "space" refers to the area within the atmosphere? Is that the really case?

What would the area between the edge of the atmosphere and lunar orbit be called then?

>No problems there, so long as remote means not here, except lack of specifics. What remote communities have an absolute necessity for small planes?

There are plenty in Northern Canada [1]. That is the only area I've been personally, but I imagine there are similar areas around the world. Possibly also of interest is bush flying in general [2].

> This is Whataboutism, a variant of the tu quoque fallacy, but it also has maybe a bit of Bandwagon fallacy as well. In any event, this is a fallacious argument.

The habit of name-dropping logically fallacies and thinking it is some kind of slam dunk is so cliche that it needs it's own name.

I was not saying that we should ignore the impact of hobby flying because something else was worse (whataboutism), nor that you cannot criticise hobby flying because you do other things that are comparable (tu quoque), nor that hobby flying is good because it is popular (bandwagon).

My point was simply that doing something "only for entertainment" is not in itself a bad thing! Most of what people do, besides surviving, is essentially for pleasure. In fact, that people enjoy doing it is a point in favour of hobby flying!

The question is whether the benefits of allowing it (pleasure, availability of trained pilots, freedom) outweigh the costs (environmental, noise, danger).

[1] https://www.canada.ca/en/transport-canada/news/2020/08/new-m...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_flying

For one thing, for remote communities, small planes are an absolute necessity, not simply for recreation. You've lumped together all small aircraft with hobby flying.

That aside, I think your environmental argument against hobby flying is interesting, but this other chip you have on your shoulder regarding "entitlement" and "the elderly" and "entertainment" people isn't very persuasive.

Dismissing something as "just entertainment for entitled people" is silly. Hobby flying is far from the only environmentally damaging thing that humans do only for entertainment.

This wasn't an airliner.

Something is wrong here. The whole point of GQL is to serve things in exactly the format the front end wants. Even the other negative comments here mention how it is easy to use on the front end.

They didn't specify the currency or the country. That's why I asked.

I'm confused, is 40k/month is not paying a ton? That's half a million a year of whatever denomination.

On the other hand, if master has 3 commits changing the area and your branch has 1... It evens out.

In any case, I'd prefer to solve several smaller merge/rebase conflicts rather than one large one.