Thank you for all the follow up posts on this thread... It strikes me they're probably taking up as much, if not more, time just in the clarifications!
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Also, I appreciate your use of the singular "they" :-)
They're extremely humble and low-key about their inventions too, though they come out of seemingly nowhere, I don't think, for example, that anybody expected this latest innovation, because the consensus has been "manual is dead" since the new sports cars like Porsche, Ford Mustang and various others are ditching it for pure performance reasons (0-60 times).
The new manual looks amazing with its gated shifter, very Pagani Huayra-like. Their whole youtube channel (especially the invention videos, which are very humble for the sheer audacity of what they achieve) is interesting, but here's the link to the manual-automatic video.
And almost every single person I know personally with difficulty conceiving (various races, various countries, various diagnoses including ectopic/fibroids/undiagnosed) had some obvious-to-me metabolic-syndrome/cholecalciferol/ferritin issues going on, particularly Asian-sub-continentals in northern sun-starved climates who were not supplementing cholecalciferol.
Aside: How does one tell downvotes? I suppose I should look in the FAQ. IIRC only established members can downvote. Despite my account being from HN's 2007 inception, I do not have enough established-karma to have my own downvote button. So I generally don't bother about it, as it's a bit of a circular dead-end karma-spiral which I had thought the HN mechanics were supposed to avoid.
- carbohydrate (especially fructose) vs animal-protein/-fat consumption
- types of fat (our bodies only contain certain kinds)
- xenœstrogen & hormones of all types not just phyto-œstrogens
- Vitamin D, Magnesium, ferritin, pre-eclampsia, anæmia (lack of hæme iron consumption)
- more recently the whole statin-cholesterol debacle, Goodhart's law in action
I am hoping Sapolsky's latest book may shed some light on the subject without the Wade/Murray "bell curve" implications.
In almost all South-east Asian countries in particular, I have noticed high levels of sucrose consumption so I am curious if Korea is the similar to SEA, or if either of these factors apply to either of you?
Koreans have famously long working hours, but as you are not there, those stress factors should likely not apply to you.
Another point to note is that I have heard adoption is at least as difficult as IVF, emotionally & financially speaking, although there's less physical pain. At least IVF can point you to where the problem lies (the knowledge of that can be disconcerting) providing you perhaps avenues to mitigate/ameliorate those factors, which could improve your overall QoL and also lead to better health-outcomes.
Got a PHL Call Center that insisted the card txn was being declined. I tried to explain that there had been no api call for an authorisation attempt happening, as the failure was immediate, so there simply hadn't been any time for a backend round trip or stripe api call.
After some typical call center stonewalling I finally got through to a manager who looked at the logs and admitted the problem was an unexplained Netflix error and that in fact my card authorisation attempt wasn’t even happening despite the six times I retried based on the advice of the original CSR.
Then he told me they didn't know what was happening as it hadn't ever happened this way before and so presumably wasn't in their scripts, and nor could they kick it up to engineering! It was a one way callcenter outsourcing with no opportunity to inform upstream of any problems.
Their proposed solution was to delete my account with all the accumulated history back to the late 2000s … so, in effect, anyone who calls the Netflix help Center is being “unhelped” and encouraged to stop being a customer!
That's quite an unintended consequence of what was presumably intended as a cost-cutting measure, not a customer-cutting measure!
Non-local customer support is just terribly broken. I would wish for all support to be of the Joel Spolsky / Paul Graham type where competent developers can actually debug and fix problems, and problems are surfaced, not deliberately deep-sixed.
Yesterday a watching now playlist glitched and kept looping in the middle. I had to manually click on the next video as the next button and shift N didn’t advance the playlist but looped instead.
In addition to repurposing some of the old electronics & the entire chassis, they have massive performance, complete repairability & upgradability, a max of 64GB RAM & 3 storage disks, all in a smallish (but thick) Thinkpad form-factor. Oh, and they come with two power supply options (USB-C and barrel jack) and have functional VGA ports and ethernet jacks. Batteries are a bit of a problem though.