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Not quite, but close.

https://www.healthline.com/health/obesity-facts

In the United States, 36.5 percentTrusted Source of adults are obese. Another 32.5 percent of American adults are overweight.

Music is awesome but it's also a commodity with more content being generated every day than we could ever consume. It's simple supply and demand.

I've heard that was done to CDs as well. E.g. people psychologically prefer louder music so mastering practices have done this at the expense of dynamic range.

This kind of explains it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war

http://georgegraham.com/compress.html

I dont't agree with "If they don't survive it will just be a matter of time before ES is dropped by Amazon and totally unsupported."

Unlike Google, Amazon is fantastic about supporting older AWS products. I can't think of any off hand that are completely gone. There are some that might be deprecated that you can no longer create new ones of though. An ancient database service comes to mind but I can't recall it's name.

The clarion call was "defund the police" not "abolish the police". Some people believe these are are synonymous but IMO most agree "defund" means things like de-militarize and add social workers to deal with things like mental health and quality of life issues instead of sending undertrained people with guns... I'd add "prevent them profiting from things like property seizures".

Compare the two phrases in google trends for example. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=defund%20the%20po...

At the peak in mid-June it was a 100:7 ratio.

The relevant passage is below. Basically it's a funnel, so It takes testing a large amount of people to tease out just a handful of infections. 162 cases for placebo vs. 8 in the vaccine group.

Analysis of the data indicates a vaccine efficacy rate of 95% (p<0.0001) in participants without prior SARS-CoV-2 infection (first primary objective) and also in participants with and without prior SARS-CoV-2 infection (second primary objective), in each case measured from 7 days after the second dose. The first primary objective analysis is based on 170 cases of COVID-19, as specified in the study protocol, of which 162 cases of COVID-19 were observed in the placebo group versus 8 cases in the BNT162b2 group. Efficacy was consistent across age, gender, race and ethnicity demographics. The observed efficacy in adults over 65 years of age was over 94%.

The point you make (e.g. societal concerns vs. individualism) IMO is valid. However, if the intent of your comment is to change minds it will fail because the way you have phrased it inherently puts people on the defensive.

Something I often hear at work about me that is valid here is "People rarely disagree with what you say but they disagree strongly with HOW you say it".

We both may wish people didn't care about the "how" if the "what" is correct but that's not the world we live in.

A health care worker with covid when they should not have it because of access to vaccines is a potential super spreader vector to others that are not yet vaccinated or for whatever reason can't be. So to me that goes against the hippocratic oath. At a minimum they should have to disclose they are not vaccinated so patients can choose not to be around them. Though as others have said it sends a bad message to others that need it more. E.g. if I am a 25 year old that doesn't want to risk the side effects, 70 year olds with a heart condition and asthma that also decide against it with a very different risk profile have made a decision based on the young health worker...

That being said certain people like the pregnant woman that feels we don't have enough data if there are any I'll effects on that particular group seems relatively valid.

That seems like a bit of a leading question but that is scary. Though the fact that so many Republicans don't believe the DNC hacks is scary too.

"Tampered with tallies" might be misinterpreted by those with poor comprehension.

Very interesting so thanks!

E.g. when learning one should not also need to implement something new.

As an example making tic-tac-toe or a calculator or bubble sort are all tried and true exercises which you can find plenty of prior art on to compare and contrast your solution with.

Perhaps too many people don't try something because "it's been done to death".

I call BS on this. You can read just the home page of the Second Harvest Silicon Valley homepage that demand has doubled and people have stepped up to fill the gap.

https://www.shfb.org/

SF spends something like 40k per homeless person per year: https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heatherknight/article/Bu...

It's a hard problem to solve.

Example (not necessarily the valley) https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-economy-charity/ameri...

In conclusion you can find ample evidence that no one cares or you can find a way to make some tiny impact and attempt to influence others to do the same.

I think of it a different way. Many people think our taxes should be used to provide a basic "floor" to support the basic needs of people. E.g. shelter and food.

However, all that money flows up to the state or federal level to then get filtered back down to people at the local lavel. An ostensibly better approach is to support local charities to make the lives in you local community better. I support CSA and Second Harvest Silicon Valley for that reason.

Personally I'd prefer to be taxed less to have more money to provide to things I care about like food insecurity in my community, education, etc. I had a thought experiment that with my vote I got to attribute my tax dollars to NASA, medical research, national defense, etc. as I see fit.

I've always noticed when I am doing things for others I can't spend too much time dwelling on what isn't perfect about my life.

I have found you have to be careful not to expect much in return otherwise you can start feeling resentful.

It's probably this you are thinking of:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-california-rent/palo-alto...

It sounds dumb but IIRC it's an attempt to have teachers and police and city employees able to live there...

It depends on what you like to do outdoors I guess. I've lived in southern or northern california for almost 20 years and can pretty much run 365 days a year and bike almost that much. I HAVE run in snow storms in Illinois and North Carolina and heat waves in Houston and Austin, TX so my range of "comfort" is definitely a bit wider than the average person but in general the whole of California has near perfect weather IMO though it does get very hot as you go inland in the summer.

I see the Tuskegee example trotted out pretty often and frankly I was ignorant of it. Is this a well known and discussed thing among black people or might it be more about a general distrust of the government, etc. and as you pointed out, being historically under represented in medicine.

I am just guessing a fairly small people asked about Tuskegee would know what it is but maybe it's just me. I am just suggesting maybe asking black people why they don't want a covid vaccine for example and address those issues.

English is my first language and FTA your coal pollution hypothesis would seem to be refutednwhich I think was what they were pointing out because so few people DO read the article... E.g. more species would seem to be affected although perhaps it's a compound effect such as the pollution weakens some species more and some bacteria/virus/etc. kills them in their weakened state. I do appreciate your contribution about the local pollution sources.

Meta :-)

That seems the whole premise of the site: "Long Bets". You can't just say "some day" as given a long enough time horizon many improbable things will occur.

Libel exists so I'd imagine some sort of legal consequence could be supported if you are spouting lies you know to be lies.

It is a slippery slope though. I was just reading something recently about how the espionage act was used to jail people protesting war. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espionage_Act_of_1917

It feels like we are getting close to "shouting fire in a crowded theater" but at the same time this could be another weapon to squash dissent.

Maybe some kind of patent infringement settlement in that area? Or liability? A specific region feels like an ip or legal issue...

I see this thread below and there is a phone number you could call to get answers. I believe there are legit sites with older versions of apks you might try as a test.

https://us.community.samsung.com/t5/Samsung-Apps-and-Service...

> but policy-wise he didn't really make any horrible decisions

You don't feel how he handled the Covid pandemic was a bad policy? The guy's vanity wouldn't allow him to wear a mask to act as a good example to his base. He blatantly ignored most of what his advisors told him and proceeded to advocate quack remedies and dubious advice.

I really dislike the trope of "all politicians lie" when discussing Trump. It's the worst kind of "what about-ism". I do value a president talking to the American people like we are adults and tell us uncomfortable truths. I think Obama tried that on occasion ands it backfired on him in a major way (comment about those that cling to guns and religion comes to mind).

I do agree with you that it's not solely Trump's fault. The republican party quickly fell into step behind him to get their way above any sort of moral high ground they could have hoped to claim in the past.

I read about this eons ago but it is possible for your employers to take a policy out on you though you do need to allow it...

https://www.businessinsider.com/is-there-a-dead-peasant-life...

I have a suspicion in a future war a swarm of cheap drones will do things like take out aircraft carriers and waste a large portion of that arsenal.

My wife had a similar comment which surprised me because we are both fairly individualistic and have our own hobbies and passions we spend a lot of "me time" on such as learning to paint and cycling/running and ahem hacker news. I replied that it probably was an hour or two per day most likely at the most although obviously the work spent to stitch the story together obviously took way more time.

I think every human being deserves an hour or two to themselves most days if they need it regardless of their other career and life pressures. If you are rearing a child together you need to try to spell your mate to allow them that too.

Frankly I read about all this years ago so I'd have to spend a lot of time looking all this up and that's unlikely at the moment.

I may very well have some details wrong.

Re: parallel construction reference here though clearly this is more recent: https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/28/hemisphere-phone-records/

At the bottom of this article it references the NSA and Snowden but says no explicit links was proven. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction

I was on mobile so difficult to give adequate sources at the moment.

My point was they were essentially MITM'ing all traffic in google data centers. I fail to see how that "makes the US more secure".

"The National Security Agency has secretly broken into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world, according to documents obtained from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and interviews with knowledgeable officials.

By tapping those links, the agency has positioned itself to collect at will from hundreds of millions of user accounts, many of them belonging to Americans. The NSA does not keep everything it collects, but it keeps a lot."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-i...

Hacking private companies and spying on Americans seems outside their charter IMO.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency

It took 7 years for the courts to finally figure that out even though it seemed like ridiculous overreach to everyone.

Off the top of my head I recollect they were intercepting hardware like switches and compromising it, inserting spying equipment in Google data centers forceing them to now to end to end encryption and many other shady things.

Not to mention the collection of zero days that almost certainly will get discovered by other nation states and bad actors and risk our security. They used parallel construction with other law enforcement orgs as they leaked run of the mill criminal behavior (not national security related) so as to not disclose the real way they got the info.

There are many more examples of overreaches he brought to light but I don't recall all of it. The core concern I have is all this apparatus are tools of fascism and control of any dissenting voices including the opposing political party. Where we are politically today I think would be hard to fathom back when Snowden leaked all this.

The fact that the secret program he leaked was ultimately determined to be unlawful says he is vindicated and should be pardoned.

"A National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance program has been ruled unlawful, seven years after it was exposed by whistleblower Edward Snowden."

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54013527

I don't see any posters pointing to how broken DMCA is too.

This could be fixed tomorrow if the law had significant penalties for copy fraud in cases of fair use.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyfraud

Give the reporters 5 strikes too... If you cry wolf 5 times on things that are proven fair use or spurious or without proof you are banned for X days from submitting claims (at a minimum).