Suicide due to depression or other mental health problems is a medical emergency that a person can recover from.
That's the propaganda, yeah. The question that nobody ever answers when I put it out there is that given it's unlikely a negative self destructive trait would survive very long in human evolution, and given the psychiatrists BS about depression is that it is exactly such a destructive trait - a genetic disease that somehow passes from one generation to the next yet also "encourages" suicide, is it just not a teeny bit obvious that something more that's going on?
Here's the reality, and fuck my karma for pointing it out: SUICIDAL THOUGHTS CAUSE DEPRESSION, NOT VICE VERSA. Depression is literally a mental disorder that stops you from doing anything other than the bare minimum. Isn't it a billion times more likely that depression evolved as a method to prevent people from killing themselves in seemingly hopeless cases?
Is it really a surprise that the suicide rate for people on anti-depressants is higher than control groups not on them?
Suicide hotlines are like regexes: you have a problem. You try to solve it by calling a suicide hotline, with the result that you're hospitalized. Congrats, now you have two problems.
You're now even more in debt than you were before. You've probably lost your job. Your family and other loved ones are now upset. You MIGHT still be alive at the end of it, but you've just been denied a solution and forced to live a life you really don't want to live. You still have every single problem that resulted in you wanting to die in the first place.
Want to reduce suicides? Do what you can to prevent major problems before someone gets to the point that they're flailing for help. To do otherwise, to simply wait until the problems get so big that they've overwhelmed the victim, and then turn around and say "Tough shit, you're now sentenced to a life where you have to live in utter misery because we're going to emotionally blackmail you into staying alive, together with pumping you full of drugs that'll make you not you" is fucked up.
They didn't just "improve" YouTube for Chrome recently, they made it inferior on other browsers that didn't support their new "standards"
Technically yes, but I'd question however that anyone not holding a stop watch can really tell the difference between YT on Firefox and YT on Chrome. I flit between the two, as I use Firefox on my personal desktops, and I use a Chromebook. I can't honestly say I've ever been watching videos in Firefox and thought to myself "Oh my god, this sucks, clearly something is broken".
While there's probably no doubt Google is trying to take over the browser market, this "We built our web browser so it will be especially fast when rendering YouTube, and Google broke it by adding a hidden element to a webpage" argument is a spectacularly bad example.
Bear in mind what the Edge engineer is tacitly admitting here: Microsoft tried to cheat on a benchmark. They optimized the entire browser to render ONE popular website REALLY REALLY well, and their optimizations were so specific that the entire house of cards collapsed when Google added a single element, an element that wasn't even visible. So, they cheated, Google changed something, and suddenly Edge was rendering YouTube with the same performance it would render everyone else's video website.
Let's focus on real examples of Google breaking standards or favoring those Chrome supports over better supported standards, not Microsoft trying to cheat on benchmarks and Google fucking it up for them.
If they did, is it bad? If Microsoft has beaten a benchmark by essentially assuming YouTube's web layout is completely predictable, then doesn't that suggest their benchmark result was misleading and not indicative of real world performance? And wouldn't YouTube have ultimately broken in the long run anyway?
Hard to call Google's actions "evil". They're accused of putting a hidden div on a webpage, not breaking standards. It happened that due to some flaw in Edge, Edge's performance went through the floor when Google did that. That's... weird. Why Google did it is not explained, and perhaps it was intentional, but, seriously, how does a hidden div cause a massive performance reduction?
It's a feel good proposal by people who think that by shoving someone at the end of their tether in a hospital (essentially destroying any chance of recovery given they'll be paying the hospital bill and lost wages/jobs for the foreseeable future, on top of whatever got them close to suicide in the first place), they're "doing something" about depression.
They're assholes. People who promote suicide hotlines should go fuck themselves.
I'm not sure it's "better" unless the video and music services are comparable. Remember as far as delivery times go, there's a difference in expectations. In the UK, you should be able to get next day delivery on any package anyway (FFS, the warehouse it's coming from is normally less than 200 miles away), so what you're getting is "Free" rather than "Fast".
Yes, I'm aware that many places don't do next day delivery, but that's mostly intentional. When I ordered stuff during the 1980s (the 1980s!) it usually took 28 days, but that's because the companies involved would wait until the 27th before handing it over to the post office or whoever was doing the delivery.
On the other hand, the US is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the... well, it's big. If I send a letter to someone else in Florida, then I expect it to arrive the day after I mailed it. If I send it to someone in California, it may well take weeks. And parcels are much the same. If you choose a standard delivery method, the usual rule is it'll take anywhere between two days and two weeks to get from an arbitrary warehouse in the US to your door.
So Amazon Prime's 2 day delivery thing really does fit this use scenario:
Prime is great when you are doing something like preparing for an event when you want to order a bunch of stuff over a short period (but not all at once because you inevitably find you need more stuff as the preparations proceed).
in the US, whereas if you have to subscribe to Prime in the UK in order to be able to do the same thing, then your problem isn't that Prime is making things possible, it's that Amazon is fucking you around if you're not a Prime customer. Because, again, they can deliver pretty much everything to your door within 12 hours anyway.
It's more "I had to be aware that my Internet had been disconnected and I now had to fire up a web browser and click on a button, something that I wouldn't be aware of - and in some cases wouldn't have been able to do anything about either - if I was waiting for an email, setting up a smart device, trying to make an important call using a VoIP service like Vonage, waiting for said call, trying to access my security camera remotely, trying to access my home PC remotely, and all manner of other functions."
Is it reasonable behavior for an ISP?
No, it isn't. If I had a choice of ISPs and was a CenturyLink customer, I absolutely would terminate my contract with CenturyLink over this.
Odd how these people who are unrepresentative of anyone and appear to not exist (the definition anti-SJW people use is almost always contradictory and whenever someone says "Aha! Person X is an SJW" it usually contradicts 99% of the definitions in use, including the one that person came up) are somehow managing to flood videos with downvotes.
I don't buy it. I think there's a lot of garbage on YouTube. I think even the stuff that's "famous" is often utter crap. The simplest explanation is normally right.
If you saw CBS's schedule and people were able to downvote programs on it, I'd expect you to see a huge number there too. Not just during the day, but during prime time. 90% of everything is crap. We only remember the good stuff when we're not actually being subjected to the crap.
I think AmiMojo lives in the UK, which, from all accounts, has a crappier (if less expensive) version of Prime than us 'Merkins have.
Between the free video, the free music, and other little extras, I think it's worth it on this side of the Atlantic. But I can certainly see how it wouldn't be if all it gets you is free shipping.
LibreOffice and Google Docs, while excellent, do not have perfect compatibility with Office, and occasionally it matters.
Personally I use Microsoft's Office Starter, which you can still download for free in various places. It's a stripped down Word and Excel package, and you can always do you real work in a full wordprocessor and then finalize the look in the official Microsoft application. But not many people are aware of Office Starter's existence (or where to download it) (nor the patch needed to make it install and run on Windows 10)
Please please please Apple sue over that! In fact, if they could sue over missing headphone jacks, notches, poor battery lives, and phones that are too thin, we may even forgive them for their many sins...
That's great and all but the fact you think you can block Wordpress sites by blocking "all of their domains at the browser level" suggests you have no idea what Wordpress is.
It's a CMS. One of the most popular out there. While there is a Wordpress.com that offers hosted Wordpress services, you don't have to use it, you can install it on your home server, VPS, AWS, whatever you have that runs PHP.
It doesn't do terrible things to users, it does whatever you want it to. You can customize the entire system. The only major issue with it is that it's written in PHP which means that it has bugs, many of which are security bugs. If it was written in C# or Java it wouldn't have anything like as many issues, although it might be less popular.
I wonder if that's a serious consideration though, given you presumably want something that's pushing against wind all the time to have some serious helf to it.
(Disclaimer - know little about subject, genuinely interested in answers)
Yeah, can't you make a wind turbine with just plain old copper anyway? The solar panels thing I understand, but I'm having a hard time understanding why rare metal shortages would eliminate the possibility of making more wind turbines. The latter may be using them to make them more efficient or something, but ultimately it's a wind mill - which could be made out of wood if we needed to - hooked up to a dynamo - which could be copper or even iron.
This is already happening. Look at your DOCSIS modem. For most ISPs, it has to be on an approved list, and they flash their firmware onto the device, even if is owned by you. I wouldn't be surprised to see "AV" software forced into all Internet connected devices, which scanned for pirated stuff and unlicensed movies, under the guide of "anti-terrorism".
That'd be fucking stupid given that a consumer bought DOCSIS modem usually doesn't see any traffic that the ISP doesn't see anyway (yes, you can buy DOCSIS/Router bundle devices, I have one myself, but most consumer bought DOCSIS modems are standalone and have to be plugged into a separate router. So the DOCSIS modem has no access to your internal network that anyone outside of your network doesn't already have.)
Is this really what you think the thought process was coming up with this theory?
It's more:
"Well, we have good reason to believe X and Y happened. This would have resulted in Z, which would have caused mass extinctions of the type we saw."
"OK, but what proof do we have?"
"Unfortunately it's going to be hard to find proof other than with the hypothesis fitting the available data. For example, Z will have finished by now and the only evidence would be slightly more conventional iron as sediment at depths associated with the extinction, but as the iron wouldn't be radioactive that wouldn't be compelling proof."
"Sounds a good hypothesis though, and it does fit the available evidence, why not post it, and maybe other people can find ways in which its falsable."
At a guess, the radioactive iron would have hit the land and not remained in the atmosphere, limiting (though not eliminating) its consumption by land animals. Water supplies would have been decontaminated over a relatively short space of time as rainfall flushes away the iron that entered the rivers. Food supplies would have been contaminated, sure, but not to a very high degree.
But in the sea, it probably would have been suspended in the water, meaning it would end up being consumed by sea consumers as a matter of course.
This is a guess. I'd be curious to know if I'm in the ballpark on it.
You're thinking of something else. X32 is merely the amd64 (ix86-64) instruction set used with 32 bit pointers. It has nothing to do with Atom or SSE3. X32 was proposed by Donald Knuth (yep, THAT Donald Knuth) shortly after AMD64 came into existence.
...which to be fair, is exactly what happens. The Highway Trust Fund hasn't covered its costs from Gas Taxes/etc for decades now, it's needed propping up from the general fund for a while. (And the HTF was always a bit of a con anyway, but that's a discussion for another time)
You just bought into the FCC's spinning of this. It's not about spam. It's about Verizon et al being able to handle SMS however they want, including blocking SMSes from businesses that do not pay them enough, or that promote things they disagree with.
The extra performance you get out of X32 is the use of AMD's more optimal 64 bit instruction set. It's not about the address space, it's about the fact you have faster instructions, you have more registers, and you can process 64 bit values (integers, bit masks, etc) in almost the same amount of time it takes to process a 32 bit value. Remember that the 80386 was never considered an optimal CPU, it was the best Intel could do at the time with the conflicting needs of not having Motorola eat their lunch, while ensuring old software written for their previous, shittier, architectures, could easily run on the new system.
The logic behind X32 was that most applications (which was true at the time) have no need for 64 bit addresses (or, to be more accurate, 33 bit addresses), but would benefit from the AMD ABI's faster instructions. And to be fair, that's still true, it's just we all know it's not going to be true for much longer Firefox.
I guarantee that 90% of the responses to this article will think they're dropping ia32/x86 support (or whatever you call the architecture that began on the 80386)...
To give an on-topic response, I think it's a shame, but predictable. Most people are either interested in full 64 bit or in backward compatibility, the benefits of X32 were obvious but marginal, a slight performance improvement in return for the need to recompile everything and be limited to 32 bit addressing in the future at a time when 4G no longer seems like a huge amount of memory.
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That's the propaganda, yeah. The question that nobody ever answers when I put it out there is that given it's unlikely a negative self destructive trait would survive very long in human evolution, and given the psychiatrists BS about depression is that it is exactly such a destructive trait - a genetic disease that somehow passes from one generation to the next yet also "encourages" suicide, is it just not a teeny bit obvious that something more that's going on?
Here's the reality, and fuck my karma for pointing it out: SUICIDAL THOUGHTS CAUSE DEPRESSION, NOT VICE VERSA. Depression is literally a mental disorder that stops you from doing anything other than the bare minimum. Isn't it a billion times more likely that depression evolved as a method to prevent people from killing themselves in seemingly hopeless cases?
Is it really a surprise that the suicide rate for people on anti-depressants is higher than control groups not on them?
Suicide hotlines are like regexes: you have a problem. You try to solve it by calling a suicide hotline, with the result that you're hospitalized. Congrats, now you have two problems.
You're now even more in debt than you were before. You've probably lost your job. Your family and other loved ones are now upset. You MIGHT still be alive at the end of it, but you've just been denied a solution and forced to live a life you really don't want to live. You still have every single problem that resulted in you wanting to die in the first place.
Want to reduce suicides? Do what you can to prevent major problems before someone gets to the point that they're flailing for help. To do otherwise, to simply wait until the problems get so big that they've overwhelmed the victim, and then turn around and say "Tough shit, you're now sentenced to a life where you have to live in utter misery because we're going to emotionally blackmail you into staying alive, together with pumping you full of drugs that'll make you not you" is fucked up.
Technically yes, but I'd question however that anyone not holding a stop watch can really tell the difference between YT on Firefox and YT on Chrome. I flit between the two, as I use Firefox on my personal desktops, and I use a Chromebook. I can't honestly say I've ever been watching videos in Firefox and thought to myself "Oh my god, this sucks, clearly something is broken".
While there's probably no doubt Google is trying to take over the browser market, this "We built our web browser so it will be especially fast when rendering YouTube, and Google broke it by adding a hidden element to a webpage" argument is a spectacularly bad example.
Bear in mind what the Edge engineer is tacitly admitting here: Microsoft tried to cheat on a benchmark. They optimized the entire browser to render ONE popular website REALLY REALLY well, and their optimizations were so specific that the entire house of cards collapsed when Google added a single element, an element that wasn't even visible. So, they cheated, Google changed something, and suddenly Edge was rendering YouTube with the same performance it would render everyone else's video website.
Let's focus on real examples of Google breaking standards or favoring those Chrome supports over better supported standards, not Microsoft trying to cheat on benchmarks and Google fucking it up for them.
If they did, is it bad? If Microsoft has beaten a benchmark by essentially assuming YouTube's web layout is completely predictable, then doesn't that suggest their benchmark result was misleading and not indicative of real world performance? And wouldn't YouTube have ultimately broken in the long run anyway?
Hard to call Google's actions "evil". They're accused of putting a hidden div on a webpage, not breaking standards. It happened that due to some flaw in Edge, Edge's performance went through the floor when Google did that. That's... weird. Why Google did it is not explained, and perhaps it was intentional, but, seriously, how does a hidden div cause a massive performance reduction?
It's a feel good proposal by people who think that by shoving someone at the end of their tether in a hospital (essentially destroying any chance of recovery given they'll be paying the hospital bill and lost wages/jobs for the foreseeable future, on top of whatever got them close to suicide in the first place), they're "doing something" about depression.
They're assholes. People who promote suicide hotlines should go fuck themselves.
I'm not sure it's "better" unless the video and music services are comparable. Remember as far as delivery times go, there's a difference in expectations. In the UK, you should be able to get next day delivery on any package anyway (FFS, the warehouse it's coming from is normally less than 200 miles away), so what you're getting is "Free" rather than "Fast".
Yes, I'm aware that many places don't do next day delivery, but that's mostly intentional. When I ordered stuff during the 1980s (the 1980s!) it usually took 28 days, but that's because the companies involved would wait until the 27th before handing it over to the post office or whoever was doing the delivery.
On the other hand, the US is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the ... well, it's big. If I send a letter to someone else in Florida, then I expect it to arrive the day after I mailed it. If I send it to someone in California, it may well take weeks. And parcels are much the same. If you choose a standard delivery method, the usual rule is it'll take anywhere between two days and two weeks to get from an arbitrary warehouse in the US to your door.
So Amazon Prime's 2 day delivery thing really does fit this use scenario:
in the US, whereas if you have to subscribe to Prime in the UK in order to be able to do the same thing, then your problem isn't that Prime is making things possible, it's that Amazon is fucking you around if you're not a Prime customer. Because, again, they can deliver pretty much everything to your door within 12 hours anyway.
It's more "I had to be aware that my Internet had been disconnected and I now had to fire up a web browser and click on a button, something that I wouldn't be aware of - and in some cases wouldn't have been able to do anything about either - if I was waiting for an email, setting up a smart device, trying to make an important call using a VoIP service like Vonage, waiting for said call, trying to access my security camera remotely, trying to access my home PC remotely, and all manner of other functions."
Is it reasonable behavior for an ISP?
No, it isn't. If I had a choice of ISPs and was a CenturyLink customer, I absolutely would terminate my contract with CenturyLink over this.
Comcast, take note.
Odd how these people who are unrepresentative of anyone and appear to not exist (the definition anti-SJW people use is almost always contradictory and whenever someone says "Aha! Person X is an SJW" it usually contradicts 99% of the definitions in use, including the one that person came up) are somehow managing to flood videos with downvotes.
I don't buy it. I think there's a lot of garbage on YouTube. I think even the stuff that's "famous" is often utter crap. The simplest explanation is normally right.
If you saw CBS's schedule and people were able to downvote programs on it, I'd expect you to see a huge number there too. Not just during the day, but during prime time. 90% of everything is crap. We only remember the good stuff when we're not actually being subjected to the crap.
I think AmiMojo lives in the UK, which, from all accounts, has a crappier (if less expensive) version of Prime than us 'Merkins have.
Between the free video, the free music, and other little extras, I think it's worth it on this side of the Atlantic. But I can certainly see how it wouldn't be if all it gets you is free shipping.
LibreOffice and Google Docs, while excellent, do not have perfect compatibility with Office, and occasionally it matters.
Personally I use Microsoft's Office Starter, which you can still download for free in various places. It's a stripped down Word and Excel package, and you can always do you real work in a full wordprocessor and then finalize the look in the official Microsoft application. But not many people are aware of Office Starter's existence (or where to download it) (nor the patch needed to make it install and run on Windows 10)
Please please please Apple sue over that! In fact, if they could sue over missing headphone jacks, notches, poor battery lives, and phones that are too thin, we may even forgive them for their many sins...
Thank god no one could could ever get killed in a car crash if they drive a modern Tesla, Volvo, Dodge Caravan...
That's great and all but the fact you think you can block Wordpress sites by blocking "all of their domains at the browser level" suggests you have no idea what Wordpress is.
It's a CMS. One of the most popular out there. While there is a Wordpress.com that offers hosted Wordpress services, you don't have to use it, you can install it on your home server, VPS, AWS, whatever you have that runs PHP.
It doesn't do terrible things to users, it does whatever you want it to. You can customize the entire system. The only major issue with it is that it's written in PHP which means that it has bugs, many of which are security bugs. If it was written in C# or Java it wouldn't have anything like as many issues, although it might be less popular.
I wonder if that's a serious consideration though, given you presumably want something that's pushing against wind all the time to have some serious helf to it.
(Disclaimer - know little about subject, genuinely interested in answers)
Yeah, can't you make a wind turbine with just plain old copper anyway? The solar panels thing I understand, but I'm having a hard time understanding why rare metal shortages would eliminate the possibility of making more wind turbines. The latter may be using them to make them more efficient or something, but ultimately it's a wind mill - which could be made out of wood if we needed to - hooked up to a dynamo - which could be copper or even iron.
That'd be fucking stupid given that a consumer bought DOCSIS modem usually doesn't see any traffic that the ISP doesn't see anyway (yes, you can buy DOCSIS/Router bundle devices, I have one myself, but most consumer bought DOCSIS modems are standalone and have to be plugged into a separate router. So the DOCSIS modem has no access to your internal network that anyone outside of your network doesn't already have.)
Is this really what you think the thought process was coming up with this theory?
It's more:
"Well, we have good reason to believe X and Y happened. This would have resulted in Z, which would have caused mass extinctions of the type we saw."
"OK, but what proof do we have?"
"Unfortunately it's going to be hard to find proof other than with the hypothesis fitting the available data. For example, Z will have finished by now and the only evidence would be slightly more conventional iron as sediment at depths associated with the extinction, but as the iron wouldn't be radioactive that wouldn't be compelling proof."
"Sounds a good hypothesis though, and it does fit the available evidence, why not post it, and maybe other people can find ways in which its falsable."
THIS IS HOW SCIENCE WORKS.
At a guess, the radioactive iron would have hit the land and not remained in the atmosphere, limiting (though not eliminating) its consumption by land animals. Water supplies would have been decontaminated over a relatively short space of time as rainfall flushes away the iron that entered the rivers. Food supplies would have been contaminated, sure, but not to a very high degree.
But in the sea, it probably would have been suspended in the water, meaning it would end up being consumed by sea consumers as a matter of course.
This is a guess. I'd be curious to know if I'm in the ballpark on it.
You're thinking of something else. X32 is merely the amd64 (ix86-64) instruction set used with 32 bit pointers. It has nothing to do with Atom or SSE3. X32 was proposed by Donald Knuth (yep, THAT Donald Knuth) shortly after AMD64 came into existence.
...which to be fair, is exactly what happens. The Highway Trust Fund hasn't covered its costs from Gas Taxes/etc for decades now, it's needed propping up from the general fund for a while. (And the HTF was always a bit of a con anyway, but that's a discussion for another time)
You just bought into the FCC's spinning of this. It's not about spam. It's about Verizon et al being able to handle SMS however they want, including blocking SMSes from businesses that do not pay them enough, or that promote things they disagree with.
The extra performance you get out of X32 is the use of AMD's more optimal 64 bit instruction set. It's not about the address space, it's about the fact you have faster instructions, you have more registers, and you can process 64 bit values (integers, bit masks, etc) in almost the same amount of time it takes to process a 32 bit value. Remember that the 80386 was never considered an optimal CPU, it was the best Intel could do at the time with the conflicting needs of not having Motorola eat their lunch, while ensuring old software written for their previous, shittier, architectures, could easily run on the new system.
The logic behind X32 was that most applications (which was true at the time) have no need for 64 bit addresses (or, to be more accurate, 33 bit addresses), but would benefit from the AMD ABI's faster instructions. And to be fair, that's still true, it's just we all know it's not going to be true for much longer Firefox.
ia64 is Itanium. ia32 is the architecture introduced in the 80386.
Yeah, I know, it got confusing when the AMD 64 bit thing happened.
I guarantee that 90% of the responses to this article will think they're dropping ia32/x86 support (or whatever you call the architecture that began on the 80386)...
To give an on-topic response, I think it's a shame, but predictable. Most people are either interested in full 64 bit or in backward compatibility, the benefits of X32 were obvious but marginal, a slight performance improvement in return for the need to recompile everything and be limited to 32 bit addressing in the future at a time when 4G no longer seems like a huge amount of memory.