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OnePlus 6T here and finally thinking it's time to step up. My previous phone was the OnePlus 2T so seems right to go up to the 10T now and do every 4 versions.

I've not had anything quite that drastic, but there are definitely a few small niggles I think I'll notice once they're not there. Main reason I think I'll upgrade is the usb port is becoming quite sensitive, it's 50/50 if it likes a particular cable now

A defining feature of cults is how difficult it is to leave...

:q!

I'm very confused by Spotify's audio books though. Can't buy or even see the price through the app, which can't be good for getting people started on it. I then went on the website version, and the Sanderson novels I can find are £29.90 (as are most of the others I looked at). I don't listen to audio books, is the market price really 4-5x the hardback?

If you're waiting for someone to find a case of someone joining the KKK because they once heard about a blacklist, of course that is never going to happen. This is about one facet of learning that happens over 20 years of someones childhood, and then trying to link it to statistical issues that emerge over large groups. If it were even possible to isolate all the different factors to just look at language, it would take generations to test.

This is where we're coming at it from different sides. I think changing language is a relatively cheap and easy thing to do, that might help fix an issue in some small way, and there's really not much reason not to. The cause and effect is plausible, if not provable on any reasonable timescale.

Metaphor, simile, pathetic fallacy are all powerful tools that really do change the way we interpret the substance of what we read. Colours too, it's not a coincidence the major tech brands have gone with various blues, those blues are deliberately designed to nudge people towards a particular emotional response that is completely unrelated to the brand itself. If word selection really did nothing to change the impression of what we read, then writers and poets would be out of a job.

Not bleeding across "all that much" might well be true, though I disagree since it's kinda the whole strength of the human brain applying learning from one area to another, that's why we're more intelligent than animals and have been more adaptable to new problems. You're also thinking about this in terms of conscious decision making when in our day to day lives we rarely sit down with an open mind and properly think about things.

But even if it is not all that much, it's still there. A million people having a 1% shift in their views due to language adds up. That's why we're seeing groups of individuals who aren't racist/sexist somehow reach answers that statistically do appear to be.

The specifics of which uses are neutral or not is the next debate. Step 1 is acknowledging that language is something that feeds into the "nurture" side of how we think, especially since language is such a large part of our learning during early brain development. With that in mind, it's something that should be debated and selection of words should be considered.

Language absolutely affects how we think, the brain makes links subconsciously and learns all the time from all inputs, so I don't think it's sensible to dismiss the idea of language making small differences to how we think.

The most likely cause of death for me on the next 20 years, as a white man in his 20s, is suicide. A major part of the reasoning for that is men typically struggle to reach out and talk about issues. A contributing factor I think is growing up around phrases like "man up" or "stop being a girl". Obviously anyone who says them isn't saying "bottle up serious issues until it becomes too much" but that repeated learning does stick and despite times changing and there being far less pressure now to be an alpha head of family type guy, the issues continue to affect us.

I don't see any reason that same repeated learning from a young age wouldn't also apply to black/white language if there's an overwhelming imbalance.

Muhammad Ali famously gave a speech on exactly this, though he also covered cultural references as well which is a broader scope: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-52988605

And then discovering that if you used latex for a presentation you could animate in tikz...

50 years ago is not 500 years ago is not 5000 years ago. In the last 50 years we've had some incremental improvements to our understanding, in 500 you're going to before Newton. 5000 and we were just developing complex farming societies and the first civilisations.

5000 years is before Ozymandias. Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!

But on the flip side, good luck making any kind of sensible Gmail account for example, which means either fastmail needs multiple domains or their service will see new customers reducing over the years as people can't get sensible email addresses.

The same thing is true of phone numbers, but it's more obvious that there's a finite number of... numbers... So they need to be reused eventually.

They haven't seen any incentive to change, but will grumble about Amazon and point to that as the biggest threat to their business. If they aren't, they should be.

I'd rather do business with anyone BUT Amazon, and its telling I still find myself having to order some bits from them every month.

Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/927/

And most people that do then look back on their lives and point to certain things they did that sets them apart. Like an old person healthy at 100 saying they studiously avoided beans and that's the sole reason they're still fit and well.

That's not to say the advice isn't sound, maybe it is, but if it's advice based on N=1 I'm not about to change my lifestyle.

I guess what the question is, is whether there's a chess position where every piece is in a legal position, but could never be achieved in practice.

I can think of several, for example if you had all 32 pieces on the board, but pawns were behind each other on the same file.

The gp specifically mentioned land ownership, which makes the comparison more interesting.

Haven't had that problem before, far more of a problem when I try to register with site specific email addresses like d+hn@nblows.com which I've tried to get in the habit of doing.

Becoming rich in capitalism beyond what you can earn from your own labour often requires exploiting some imbalance in the system. That imbalance is very regularly something we find out about later and the general public considers unethical. Whether it's the sweatshops of the clothing industry, sitting on science like tobacco/oil, the predatory lending of the banks... Every industry does it and it relies on getting rich and getting out before people find out.

The timing would imply that Benedict XVI resigned (at least in part) due to the scandal involving blackmail of homosexual members of the church. The wiki page on the resignation doesn't go into that at all, but does link to the scandal in the "See Also" section.

> On 17 December 2012, the Pope received a report on "Vatican lobbies" ... . The same day, the Pope reportedly decided to resign, a decision he made public in February 2013

It's possible that multiple factors added up to make the job too overwhelming for one man of his age, but the "vatileaks" scandal appears to be far more significant in coverage from what I can see.

The difference versus acedemia of old is that science used to be the hobby of rich gentlemen who were under no financial pressures to pay their mortgage and feed their families. Nowadays, I have no doubt everyone is in their field because they love it and want to further it, but if you have to choose between unemployment or taking on projects that you didn't choose most can live with the latter.

So the solution is to somehow decouple it again. Give universities a blank cheque to employ scientists to work on whatever for sciences sake, not for business. Sure, that's obviously open to exploitation in a new way, but we only need one major discovery for the whole thing to be worth it which we can't get with small incremental research.

I use PDF XChange Editor, and convinced my company it was worth it to pay for it (which it is). Aside from editing capabilities and everything else you'd want, it opens and searches large files far quicker than anything else I tried.

On mobile, I use MuPDF but its limited on features and I use because it's quick.

What's the rough downtime an email server can handle without losing any emails? The greylist filter relies on most people's emails resending after a few mins if the first is rejected, so guessing a short enough downtime has no impact?

Yes, a multi-party system if far better. But over time, if the rhetoric is "if you aren't for us you're against us" and "a vote for SmallParty is a vote for Enemy" we trend towards two. We justify it to ourselves by saying that although we don't support everything OurSide says, it's far preferable to Them.

Do they have a safeguard against becoming like the US? By which I mean doubling down on core support base rather than seeking to convert opposition, and using populist rhetoric rather than traditional debate.

If not then it is only a matter of time. A new charismatic leader who says the right things emerges, and system is pushed to breaking point. The US might be the first, but Trump's lasting legacy will be proving to the world that politics can be played this way.

Link please? I run Windows for work, which includes connecting to industrial networks with no Internet connectivity. If this happens, it's going to be a nightmare.

Lures still exist and apparently work in osrs, but they've gotten far more complicated. Unsurprising as osrs gold still has a real world value. Really its the equivalent of the Nigerian Prince email scam and its ilk.

KempQ on YouTube does a lot of videos on modern luring methods. There's also a guy on YouTube called Hermano, a former Venezuelan gold farmer, who has some interesting insights into the real world value of osrs gold and why Venezuelans do it.

Interesting, as there was an article linked either from HN or Pocket about how a lot of "gas is better for cooking" was deliberate advertising campaigns:

https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2021/06/how-the-foss...

Even the most gullible among us don't fall into the conspiracy theory trap by reading 140 characters (I hope). YouTube videos with decent production quality, which these days is accessible to anyone, lend some credibility to the content. Then you get the next recommended video, on the same topic, with some different bits of evidence but the same conclusion and equally well made.

See also: Cambridge Blue

Having friends injured in traffic accidents is leading more people to drink as a coping mechanism!

The Name of the Rose is a great read, that to me summarises the relationship nicely.

If you do accidentally connect to a network, before you realise this, there's no way to get it to forget. Rebooting doesn't work. The only solution I found was walking 30m away to the other side of the parking lot out of range of WiFi.