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Ah, but does it beat exercise, fresh air and sunlight?

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/depression/in...

The internet you use to transmit this message wouldn't exist without fossil fuels - and I am not talking about energy, but computer and networking materials.

Ditto the fertilizer and many other things that keep you alive to type on here too.

It's very hard to maintain modern civilization without oil/gas products. Unless you want to be Amish.

MrBeast built his castle inside of Youtube.

Mussolini: "Fascism is reaction".

That guy, a former Marxist, who invented fascism might be a more credible source than other opinions.

Fascism is as revolutionary as communism, focused on the collective vs. the individual. The only real difference is that fascism keeps capitalism intact.

Both are at odds with the aristocracy and liberal democracy.

It literally forced a bunch of peoples into a single entity run by a family (aka monarchy). It predates the nation state, it was blown up by the very desire of the peoples within it to get out.

Vienna was the center of this entity, not a part of "Austria". Stefan Zweig, being Jewish, also wasn't connected to the native Austrian population - just like most the persons mentioned in the article. Vienna was an unaligned entity, what New York became later.

The backlash against this amalgam fueled WW1 and WW2. It's still reverberating, as can be seen in various European issues today. Bolshevism and its reaction, fascism, geared up to eradicate the old Christian/Aristocratic structures across Europe. The Habsburg emperor wasn't just leading Austria/Hungary, but also the Holy Roman Empire (of German Nation). Christian god-given authority, verbatim.

Well, Gurman was right - the 16 phones will not trigger a big upgrade cycle.

17 might, as it would indicate Apple is taking a breath.

Or, of course, we'll never get a supercycle again till someone iphones the iPhone.

No, it's a function of low IQ and low impulse control.

My daughter was prescribed an audio therapy that worked wonders.

An app plays something akin to channel surfing on steroids, at a high initial switching frequency. Patient is to watch their favorite Youtube vids, play a video game - for 30 min while this cacophony slams their ears. Then gradually, day after day, the frequency is lowered to "humane" levels.

Totally worked, no meds involved.

I think it simply flooded her CNS and trained it to focus, without conscious effort. Might only work in 8 year olds, I don't know.

A lot of sound therapy we saw initially tried the opposite, calm stuff like classical music - feels clear why this can't work on a ADHD brain that runs in circles.

He droned and killed a US citizen without due process. Literal murder.

Obama droned a US citizen without due process, zero consequences.

Nothing new.

Same Google that just laid off the entire Python Frameworks team.

Deeply cynical play for low cost labor.

Man, Vienna is killing it in physics.

Nobel in 2022 for Zeilinger

Nobel in 2023 for Kraus, who did his work at TU Wien

Now this. Giving a lot of other unis a run for their money.

What this really does is prove the commoditization of the generic SFDC approach to "CRM", where it's horizontal and empty. It's price pressure for force.com, hence their push on "AI" and add-ons, to protect 30bn in revenue.

HubSpot is easier to defend as you get far more OOTB business functionality, rather than a generic, un-opinionated toolbox.

Attacking SFDC via your route is like attacking Excel with a barebones table entry form. Why would a company switch? How do you get your first paying customer and retain them?

/been doing CRM for 20+ years, good luck lads!

And you really think this is NOT the same in Search, Youtube, etc.?

By the way, Dall-E has similar issues. Wikipedia edits too. Reddit? Of course.

History will be re-written, it is not stoppable.

Isn't pair programming just one, endless meeting?

SFPD, per stats, basically stopped enforcing traffic laws during Covid/BLM.

This leads to an overall rise in crime, as traffic stops catch way more than speeders. Criminals tend to break many laws habitually, so it is a wide net. The car bippers tend to speed off (with the famous car flying down a ramp last year as an example).

The whole chain is broken though, Brooke Jenkins as the DA is running into massive issues with SF judges who simply won't prosecute.

Big chance this will end up in another example of anarcho-tyranny. Lots of citizens will pay their fines, but the worst offenders will simple ignore the various letters - and nothing will be enforced.

Let's see.

It's a taboo topic, people lose their jobs, existence over it. You can see it play out here right now.

This map shows 50% of the world's GDP: https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Ft...

From first principles: why? and why does it map to one of the most replicated, but most taboo findings: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/average-i...

Now, sort the table in the second link in reverse order. And compare with this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_disability

What are the consequences of this? What does it mean for law, education, social fabric?

Ironically, the make up of HN replicates this TO A DOT. Hypocrisy so thick it chokes you out.

Google/Sundar is seen as the template, not necessarily as a positive one. Doing the needful, to the grave.

MSFT/Satya is the outlier, should be what others aspire to.

Given the successor, they'll either flip Twilio or go private equity - in both cases Twilio as we know it is toast.

Amazon could snatch, also Oracle the evergreen. SFDC is the dark horse, don't see MSFT touching it due to massive AWS setup.

Godspeed.

Ultima 7:2 taught me more about DOS memory management than anything else. Had to handcraft a menu-driven autoexec.bat / config.sys monster to get that thing going. HIMEM.SYS ... oh the memories.

A single KB too much in a mouse driver and you were unable to start the game. Oh you want sound? Roland MT-32 or Soundblaster Pro? But how will you load all those drivers in those first 640K of RAM?

Shivers...

Has office with door - but 15 Slack channels with notifications on. Plus a twitch stream for some game plus a endless youtube of a "relax/study" channel.

You think nobody sees what's on engineers desktops?

Of course they're all Carmack-level geniuses...

Literally sandwiched between breathless "How Github CoPilot produces 80% of our code" articles from the likes of Shopify and "How laying off a thousand more fixed my stock" from the Spotifys.

Basically answer two questions:

1 - How much minimal time does a consumer watch Netflix to re-subscribe? 2 - How much content spend is necessary to achieve that minimal viewing time?

Everything else is waste and lost margin.

My god is this power law driven, just put that into a graph!

Top show has twice the view count of show number 8.

Would love to map that against budgets and sub numbers - without ads the viewcounts matter zilch.

The bureaucracy in Europe predates all the US. Systems of government changed, but hey, you still learn Roman Law in law school for a reason.

The US is a baby in terms of structures and culture.

Vienna has been continuously operating as a city since being a Roman fort, Vindobona = you can see the ruins directly in the city center.

The US is a very young country, with a burn it down and see what happens culture. A frontier state.

It is amazing to watch the speed run of recreating basic civilization from first principles. Why do laws exist? Why do we need traffic signals?

You think I am joking?

Portland disbanded traffic law enforcement! After quite a lot of traffic deaths, mostly minorities they tried to protect, they just reinstated traffic cops. More black people were killed by this decision than by cops in Portland...

Source: https://www.opb.org/article/2023/05/09/portland-oregon-polic...

"Portland has experienced record levels of traffic fatalities in the years since Lovell emptied the traffic division. In 2021, 63 people died in traffic-related deaths in Portland — the highest number in at least three decades. Portland matched that count in 2022."

https://www.koin.com/news/pbot-to-address-street-safety-as-c...

"Multnomah County Public Health Manager Brendon Haggerty said. “The third reason this is especially alarming for public health is that we see racial disparities.”

He added, “in Multnomah County, the death rate from traffic crashes among the Black population is about twice the rate of the non-Hispanic, white population.”

I can recommend his books, listed here: http://hintjens.com/books

Confessions of a Necromancer is his work biography, I was totally caught off-guard how relatable his stories turned out to be.

Wegovy and Ozempic are indication-specific brands, but the same product.

Mounjaro by Lilly is still diabetets only, wonder what their obesity-specific brand name will be.

It's becoming more common now as store owners are left on their own and have to protect their livelihood with their bare hands.

Big box retail (no worries, all insured - remember that BS line?) is simply closing stores and killing jobs AND access to goods in one go. Cue the complaint about "food deserts". Walmart closed in Portland. WALMART which operates throughout hurricanes cannot handle the rampant violence and theft anymore.

But yeah, total ignorance from the bougie class toward the plight of blue collar Americans.

Here is a Sikh store owner beating the shit out of a robber, because vigilante justice is all that is left: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12381031/7-Eleven-o...

Not enforced by DAs, especially post Covid and Bail reform.

Here, New York: https://nypost.com/2022/12/04/ny-should-revisit-three-strike...

Nobody was paying attention the last decade how the social movements destroyed safety.

Prop 57 in California, supported by billionaires? Resulted in the release of convicted sex offenders from prison. Turns out rape is a non-violent crime, who knew. Listen to women? Bah.