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> Facebook is just transitioning to becoming the digital equivalent of an oil company.

Seems more analogous to a tobacco company. Some people think it's bad and they use it anyway.

Just their PR?

So, sociopaths? Or?

> What are men doing if not working? On disability? Homeless? Retiring earlier?

Committing suicide?

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...

https://afsp.org/about-suicide/suicide-statistics/

It's a horrible observation, as men are obviously in crisis.

There's a large percentage of working age men not in the labor force too.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS15000001

https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2018/beyond-bls/mens-declining-...

Some perhaps they lost prior jobs and did not regain positions of parity, now they're disenfranchised, socially isolated, in some form of despair, or even homeless.

Anecdotally, the homeless populations I see everywhere in the west coast are 99% males aged 25-50.

A large volume of research shows depression/suicide/drug abuse/etc are directly related to economic stress, but that's a much harder topic to address so it's ignored in favor of easy scapegoats and bogeyman.

> Stemming the flow of cheap fentanyl dumped into the United States by China

OK, and how's the "war on drugs" going thus far?

> Mental health professionals and managers at large drug companies need to start going to jail for over-prescribing psychiatric drugs.

Really? You want to put people into jail for trying to treat depression?

> throwing doctors in jail who over prescribe these drugs would do wonders for people.

And now you want to imprison doctors for treating pain and taking care of patients?

You can't be serious, I hope you are merely ignorant rather than that punitive.

BTW, prescriptions have nothing to do with illegal fentanyl overdoses, and virtually nobody prescribed painkillers becomes addicted to them. This is well studied but largely ignored by the political posturing, media hysteria, and moral panicking about an imaginary prescription crisis, data shows it does not exist.

"Overall 675,527 patients underwent urological surgery, of whom 0.09% were diagnosed with opioid dependence or overdose."

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00225...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27400458

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a3z98b/big-pharma-didnt-c...

Read facts and change your mind, or don't and remain ignorant. You have that freedom.

Not too surprising. Suicide is a death of despair, which are closely linked to job loss, income loss, love loss, family loss, pain, etc. Easing any of those scenarios should help reduce suicide.

Try it yourself today https://www.haiku-os.org

Compared to other nations, is the US overmedicated in general?

Most predictions of the future are wrong

If you consume more calories than you use, you gain weight. Fat accumulation or loss is simple physics. Caffeine may have some small impact as do other stimulants, but often you see people consuming caffeine with large amounts of sugar or carbohydrates and rarely do you see those same people immediately jumping rope for 3 hours to burn off the equivalent excess calories.

Depends on the job, but I would think for most people on HN 3mbps would be considered painfully slow, which it is.

But even for the less technically apt, consider other common tasks that require speedy broadband. Something like restoring a 100GB iCloud backup to a new iPhone on a 3mbps connection would take over 3 days, assuming the connection (or your patience) could hold that long.

And you certainly won't be streaming your favorite shows in 4k.

Apple News is yet another walled garden, it's not too surprising they'd remove the ability to customize your content experience beyond what they specifically approve, is it?

Personally I still miss Google Reader and consider the demise of that service as one of the biggest losses to the open web.

> "(Nashville, Paris, Seoul, or Tokyo only count if you’re limiting yourself to those markets.)"

LOL, as if Nashville is even vaguely comparable to the other three?

> I have also tried a strict vegetarian diet for 6 months with no real changes in blood work.

Interesting.

Were you a junk food vegetarian? Were the carbohydrates high glycemic? Or did you eat a ton of dairy?

> I find the 16/8 routine tends to work best for me personally

That timeline as "fasting" is funny to me up because that is basically how people used to eat in 20th century USA, pre-obesity. You'd eat three meals a day, all reasonably sized (or even small by todays standards), and at specific times. No you can't have a snack, that would ruin your appetite!

But now people are addicted to food and abuse it rampantly as is evidenced by the majorities waistlines and health care expenditure, it's terrible for us all but it's not only the most culturally acceptable form of substance abuse, it's widely encouraged and even celebrated. Strange times.

Well the vast majority of TV is horrible and/or very boring, so I'm not too surprised.

There have never been more terrible shows to watch than there are today.

> Ideally I think I'd want a remote cabin in Montana with a high speed internet connection

That's a fantasy unless you consider 3mbps DSL to be 'high speed'.

And that's not even remote, that's often the highest speed available not even an hour outside of many major US cities out west.

Windows 95 had an obvious UI, but was rather cluttered.

The original Macintosh up through System 7 was perhaps peak of OS UI design, the simplicity and obviousness is a marvel. The modern Mac experience is no where near that simple, particularly since the Yosemite UI overhaul.

The original iPad had pretty great UI design too, until the iOS 7 redesign. Now I think it's probably the most confusing UI that exists on a modern OS. Nothing is obvious. Multitasking and copy/paste on iPad is befuddling to even the smartest and most technical people I know.

UI design that was perfected 30+ years ago has been completely shelved and lost by designers who are designing for other designers and their portfolios, rather than for users.

> You can’t trust your users, they don’t know what they are running when they install software.

Big Brother knows what's best?

For decades the Mac has trusted the user, what would be different now other than the company having the largest ever pro user base? Why assume pro users don't know what they are doing?

Lifetimes of debt service is a lenders dream

Sometimes DDG is better, particularly when google tries to infer intent rather than just searching for the keywords typed.

Sometimes DDG is worse, just generally, and sometimes much worse.

Either way, I think DuckDuckGo needs a different and simpler brand. DuckDuckGo does not roll off the tongue, it's not a verb or even verbable, and outside of the tech world very few have heard of it. Call it Duck, call it Go, call it something simpler and memorable.

And 1984 foresaw speech police, wrong-think, and cultural cleansing yada yada....

Not everything is taught in medical schools, which means there are gaps in knowledge. That can be problematic when a particular unique approach is more valid for a specific subset of patients. In those cases, the only way to learn how to perform those variational procedures might be by watching it online.

Would the surgeon feel confident with that situation? That's another question entirely.

I think you have it backwards. Tons of "content" on StackOverflow is copy/pasted from another source, often some experts personal blog or a niche site, without sourcing to the original.

Quora reminds me of Yahoo Answers

A bit surprised it's not higher than that. Who browses the App Store?

That's the billion dollar question, particularly because of the individualization necessary.

I'm still disappointed they killed off Google Reader, it was an excellent product as it was, and it had so much potential to be more.

This is really great progress. 3d printing of tissues specific to a patient that has no rejection risk in vivo would be a major breakthrough for medicine and surgery. Let's hope they can eventually do the same with arteries, muscle, bone, and nerves, though it's all likely decades away from routine use.

Of course cost will be a major factor, especially since it must be catered to each patient.