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If Bloomberg calculated the p-value, they couldn't write a catchy article. It's a conspiracy theory of course but this omission seems too big for a simple oversight.

For the terrors that were going on? Many other nations did way worse things for way less.

> why do we need a word for throwing someone out a window?

Well, "defenestration" is a sort of inflexion of a common word (in Latin or German, which was a common language in Prague in 1618).

Wikipedia has quite a few examples, so having a specific word might be useful in the end: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenestration

Isn't that the definition of causality? In life there can be multiple causes and multiple effects, but causality itself has one direction, doesn't it?

Yes, years ago. Why?

I sync Obsidian with iCloud Drive and it's been 100% reliable and very fast so far (a few months).

I was suffering with Joplin for years and finally found the time to migrate to Obsidian a few months back. So far I'm much happier and more importantly, more productive.

The biggest points are about the UX. My workflow requires switching between multiple notes rapidly (e.g., TODO list, Project 1, Project 2, Employee 1, Employee 2, Meeting Notes 1, and so on) and Joplin doesn't have native tabs. The plugin is only so so but it works only on desktop (I'm on Mac).

On mobile it's a disaster. Doubly so on iPad which is just stretched phone version - working productively on iPad (which is otherwise just fine for my job) is impossible with Joplin. Plus the mobile app has awful design and awful navigation. Who on Earth would put the most used button to the top left corner? Swipe from the left doesn't work of course because the following:

Neither desktop of mobile app follow the system patterns. Keyboard shortucts, if they exist, are different. Navigation is different. Everything is sort of clunky.

I used Dropbox for sync and while it does work, it's very slow and there's no background sync. On a regular day I have to sync about 50 items (some of them are history I guess) which can take a minute or two, which is the time I don't have when I open my phone and want to quickly add an item to the TODO list. Couple that with no conflict resolution and a recipe for data loss is born :-) .

Initial sync on a new phone took me eight fucking hours when I had to keep the phone open and the app in the foreground.

What I do appreciate is the native encryption. Now I do all my work in Obsidian but keep Joplin for the secrets.

So this is the main problems I had with Joplin. Rant over (but you asked) :-)

Many of the bands. Sticking to power metal and just from the top of my head: Rhapsody of Fire and related bands, Avantasia, Blind Guardian, Sabaton, Kamelot, Iced Earth, Gloryhammer, Ayreon and related bands (not quite power metal but the overlap in audience is large I believe)...

I would even guess that in this genre, more albums are concept than not.

I'm in the EU and it seems plenty applicable but perhaps UK and EU are more similar than UK and US.

I have read maybe 50% of the book only (there's no point in reading these things cover to cover) and haven't noticed many things specific to any particular laws or regulations. Performance management faces the same challenges in all markets. Knowledge management has the same principles everywhere. And so on.

I’m reading some articles on managing people all the time (mostly from Software Lead Weekly newsletter). And recently, I’ve opened Armstrong’s Handbook of Human Resource Management Practice to read a few chapters on a problem I’m facing at work.

And WOW a proper book on the topic is SOOO much better than any random article that I find, be it from SWLW, HN, Reddit, or any other source. Articles and posts are easy to like when I already agree with their premise. But the depth of a proper book, from a real source of authority and not some random person online, looking at the problem from multiple points, that’s so much more insightful and useful.

So instead of hunting for best articles, I would 100% recommend getting Armstrong, or some textbook. Or at least High Output Management as other comment suggested, or some other well known and well regarded book. But Armstrong in particular can give you very deep understanding of most aspects of people management, plus it’s up-to-date.

The difference between a heat pump and resistive heating is certainly not negligible.

Having ChatGPT-4 moderate Facebook would probably be even more expensive than having humans review everything.

IMO it's always been pure marketing. The wilder apocalypse proclamations, the more powerful and desirable their products seem. Exactly same store with Sam Altman's world tour earlier this year.

Not really, because:

* No dentists

* Not brushing teeth

* Plenty of sand, stones etc. in food (in particular, grinding grain with traditional millstones introduces a ton of sand in the flour).

* Many more diseases and infections that have negative impact on mouth biome and pH.

It's a common trope to point out white teeth of Hollywood actors in historic films.

Yeah, it's mind blowing. Minor correction, however. It's indeed the weight that counts usually. When we say blue whales are the largest, we mean heaviest. Largest in terms of size would probably be the Argeninosaurs or some other sauropods.

Interesting about parents not being trustworthy to look out for their kids best interest. If not parents, who is?

Cool, thanks for the response. Good catch about the privacy aspect becoming less of an issue long-term. I’ll be thinking about that.

Folks, can I ask about your opinion on one particular case of child photos on social media?

Imagine a semi-pro photographer, focusing on childhood photography. The photos are of course not any candid moments, celebrating the kids birthdays or sharing their lives. It’s staged, often with professional lights, heavily Photoshopped, etc. Telling a “story” rather than showing the photographed person - they are basically actors. Clearly, FB et al. would be great for finding clients, or just sharing the work with people who enjoy this kind of art.

Do you think it’s OK to post such images, provided the parents’ give their consent? Do you think it’s OK to post such images of the photographer’s own kids?

EDIT: Should have mentioned that there's no reason to link the models' identity on social media. It's not captioned as "Picture of David Oberon, 6yo from Seattle" but rather "Picture of a little inventor, working on a cool new machine".

If it helps, I've played PS:T on an ipad and it was playable.

Doesn't ChatGPT require sign-in as well?

Does anyone have experience with how Bard compares to ChatGPT-4? If ChatGPT-4 is on the verge of usefulness for a layperson, is it worth spending time with Bard?

My guess would be that they meant the oceans. No water = better elevation data.

I suspect they could mean they are rare in SF Bay or USA. Noctilucent clouds are not that uncommon in higher latitudes.

I set #0099FF, the opposite of the default, in order to quickly see if I'm logged in. I'd expect that being related to the default, it's a common choice. But it doesn't seem to be.

IIRC it was mainly about cheating in the US, no? The US definitely gave VW huge fines. And jail time for an executive.

Not that it's relevant to Google...

> Big fines are a start, but a better approach is taxation, since that takes away the regulatory risk for the companies.

Companies should obey the laws first and foremost. I'm not sure there's a lot of regulatory risk either; Google certainly has enough lawyers to know that what they did was illegal.

It's about how you purchase and sell it. If you sell Monero for USD on a centralised exchange, they might ask you for your ID, the source of the funds, source of the funds of your source of the funds (really!) and similar.

AFAIK ring signatures hold. It's like a mixer on every transaction so trying to track more than a few transactions back, the complexity explodes.

> pretty good track record when it comes to consumer rights

Are you sure EU has "pretty good track record" with these fines of Google, FB, et al.? If anything, I'd say the EU puts a mild theatre every now and then, and gives the US giants a free pass otherwise.

> I don't think that running malware on your computer is a good idea. Just don't do it.

I don't think that having vulnerabilities on your computer is a good idea. Just don't do it. /s

> SIP does not solve any problems.

Of course it does. We might disagree with the tradeoffs it's making, it might not be worth it at all, it might be a wrong approach from the start. But saying it does not solve any problems is disingenuous at best.

After reading this comment I tried to disable the 2FA with phone apps that I never asked for. Curiously, I'm not even signed in the app - I'm signed in Google Calendar but I get the prompts in Gmail app where I'm signed into work account only.

Anyway, it's not possible to configure 2FA in the way we want. The Google prompts configuration says "To turn off Google prompts on a device, sign out of your Google Account on that device."

There's no way to enforce the Authenticator. Not even make it default.