As far as I know, BMW has been using QNX for quite a while, and with fairly good results. I can only guess at why they want to embrace Linux more, and my two top guesses are availability of developers, and to prevent QNX from squeezing too much blood from them by helping create a viable alternative, whether they choose to use it or not.
I had the same experience as you - statins caused muscle pain and even cramps. Exercise is what worked; statins did not make anything better except blood tests.
And newer studies show that lowering your cholesterol with medication doesn't have much benefit anyhow. Yes, there is a correlation between high LDL cholesterol and heart disease, but not a causation. Being out of shape causes both high LDL cholesterol and heart disease, but high LDL is an indicator and not the problem. Lowering it just doesn't cure the underlying problem, much like pain killers doesn't cure what causes the pain.
Where Facebook is headquartered is irrelevant (and not just because this thread is about YouTube and not Facebook). The publishers of the videos accept the jurisdiction of the countries they choose to publish to. If they want to not publish across borders, they can mark their videos as not to be available elsewhere. If they don't, they accept that they have to follow the laws, and Youtube has an obligation to take them down if they are illegal.
1. "Masculinity" is not the problem. It is lack of masculinity. Boys raised in female headed households, without a strong male role model, are more likely to grow up to be violent and abusive toward women.
This is incorrect. The strongest correlation for violent abusers is that they themselves were violently abused.
2. "Online bullying" is attributed to "toxic masculinity", but is actually almost entirely a female-on-female phenomena.
While not "almost entirely", it does indeed to be overrepresented. My guess as to why is that women have a biological drive towards establishing a pecking order, and establishing a pecking order tends to involve pecking.
Sure they do, they take down pro Trump stuff all the time.
Pro-Trump videos stay up as long as they don't also contain illegal content like hate speech, which hosting companies are required to remove by law. It's not a difficult concept to get where freedom of expression rights begin and end - your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins.
In the past 6 to 8 weeks, I found several emails from people I know in the Spam folder.
It's worse than that. Perfectly legitimate e-mail gets outright rejected before it makes it to the spam folder. As a recipient, you won't even know, and have no way of finding out.
Although, it does seem to be a bit aggressive sometimes.
No kidding. About a third of my e-mails to friends who use gmail get blocked, and I have to find an e-mail from them to reply to not to get it blocked. These are all personal e-mails with no links, no mention of products, and really nothing that makes them appear to be spam to any human. And given that much of the e-mail get through, it's not any blocking due to the sender address or sending server either. My advice right now to my friends is to to ditch gmail due to this - they risk not getting quite a lot of legitimate e-mail, and not even knowing.
Or Scrivener for those of us who write books and don't care about presentation and "pages", but care a lot more about typing than clicking. Libreoffice is even worse - I don't like having to wait a minute for reformatting because I changed WA to Washington on "page" 3 and now need to jump back to "page" 700.
This is a myth. In earlier times, average lifespan was short because of high childhood mortality. But if you made it past 5, you were likely to live to 50, 60, or 70.
No, that is a myth. From Wikipedia, in Classical Greece, "Based on Athens Agora and Corinth data, total life expectancy at 15 would be 37â"41 years"
Never, in the history of man, has there been a quantifiable, limited, commodity, that can be so effortlessly, so completely, so absolutely, 'taken to the grave;' such that there is not a graverobber that can unearth it.
"Take secrets to the grave" is not exactly a new concept.
Much of the worth of humanity is what is inside the human head, and that is frequently lost to the world, whether it's a great writer dying before penning his last book, a smith who could make something no one else could, or a mathematician who hadn't written down his proof yet.
Why would you then give your money over to someone who maintains a centralized spreadsheet?
I think there are three major reasons:
1: You can't buy and sell much with actual bitcoin, and when you want to make a purchase is not the time to look for an exchange. 2: Acquiring validation for each transaction is a heck of a lot of work for individuals. It's not just pushing a button, it's asking and paying fees, and waiting an awful long time. Exchanges take up much of that slack by fronting the transaction for you. 3: Most bitcoin "investors" are not all that savvy - they likely don't understand the technology (or good old ledgers, for that matter), and don't want to.
Deflation encourages cash hoarding. And the ultra-rich are ALREADY hoarding cash!
Indeed. Which is why I think a deflationary system cannot work without progressive capital gain taxes, to make it easier for those at the bottom to save, and harder for those at the top to hoard.
It depends on how you define a stable society, I guess. In an utopic stable society, there might not be mortgages, but a strict earning-precedes-spending ethos. In which case living below your means and saving up is advantageous, as your money will increase in value as you wait for being able to afford a house.
Two problems with bartering precious metal and official IOUs. The economy expands faster then the supply of precious metal, causing a shortage or the supply of precious metal expands faster then the economy, causing inflation.
No, that causes deflation, not inflation. Inflation: Your money decreases in value, so there's little incentive to save but instead spend it quickly. Deflation: Your money increases in value, so there's little incentive to invest money, only time and other resources.
In a growing economy, mild inflation is generally beneficial, but in a stable society, mild deflation cements the stability.
It doesn't matter to the bugs that you survived a measles attack due to you being vaccinated or due to having superior genes.
This is incorrect. If you've had measles, your immune system is a lot more hardened than with vaccines. If you've been vaccinated, you need booster vaccines, but if you've had measles, you get a fever instantly if you get a vaccine, as your immune system goes into full attack mode. It won't just attack that one strain either, but anything that's close. The weaker "attack" of the disabled pathogens in a vaccine just triggers the immune system "enough" to protect you - not enough to put it in defcon 1.
The problem superbugs have in a "normal" environment without vaccines is that they're outcompeted by the less lethal strains. The milder versions of diseases will always win in the long run - killing your host is not a good strategy for bugs. Adding vaccines changes that, as you fight the strains that are prevalent, taking them away as competition for other strains.
(Forego still means precede, even though so many incorrectly use it when meaning forgo.)
I gladly advocate forgoing vaccinations for endemic and childhood diseases, because the vaccines are so effective. They reduce culling, and long term cause harm to humanity by saving individual children. New harmful or detrimental mutations in the human genome that in themselves are not enough to kill someone, but in combination with diseases like measles have a statistically significant higher morbidity are allowed to spread undiluted into our gene pool. These saved children have children of their own, where they otherwise would have died. When some ignorant anti-vaxxer says that vaccines cause autism, they may very well be right, but for the wrong reasons. It's not the vaccine itself, but that children who might have died now live to reproduce. If children with autism have any lower survival rate if they catch measles than children without autism do, no matter how small that difference is, by vaccinating against measles, the prevalence of autism will increase. There's a significant correlation between vaccinations against childhood illlnesses and the next generation being sicker from other illnesses like autism, asthma and spectrum disorders.
And we get superbugs. Through vaccination against endemic diseases, we instigate an arms race, where new and worse strains appear, which we have little protection against, unlike the milder versions that outcompeted any bad ones because we didn't wage war on them.
This is what's so great about Linux, or for that matter *BSD. Sane defaults, but you control your computer. That's worth a whole lot of hassle.
For better and for worse, the reality these days is that most companies are migrating to cloud and devops, where you don't control your own computer, and don't have admins that understand the underlying architectures and the nitty gritty bits of how to configure a kernel or why. Magic black boxes is the new standard, and control has become a negative word.
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Ya nobody else likes profits
Oh, everybody likes profits. The question is whether this takes precedence over every other concern.
it's a balancing act between capital expenditure (in tooling, engineering, prototyping, testing) and profitability.
If it's made in the US of A, yes, profitability is all that matters. Reputation is only relevant if it increases profitability.
As far as I know, BMW has been using QNX for quite a while, and with fairly good results. I can only guess at why they want to embrace Linux more, and my two top guesses are availability of developers, and to prevent QNX from squeezing too much blood from them by helping create a viable alternative, whether they choose to use it or not.
You don't understand percentages and how they differ from percentage points, I take it?
I had the same experience as you - statins caused muscle pain and even cramps. Exercise is what worked; statins did not make anything better except blood tests.
And newer studies show that lowering your cholesterol with medication doesn't have much benefit anyhow. Yes, there is a correlation between high LDL cholesterol and heart disease, but not a causation. Being out of shape causes both high LDL cholesterol and heart disease, but high LDL is an indicator and not the problem. Lowering it just doesn't cure the underlying problem, much like pain killers doesn't cure what causes the pain.
It could be argued that peddling opioids is a tad worse than peddling relatively harmless supplements.
Or that prescribing cholesterol, blood pressure and blood sugar medication is less benign than prescribing exercise and selling you exercise videos.
Where Facebook is headquartered is irrelevant (and not just because this thread is about YouTube and not Facebook). The publishers of the videos accept the jurisdiction of the countries they choose to publish to. If they want to not publish across borders, they can mark their videos as not to be available elsewhere. If they don't, they accept that they have to follow the laws, and Youtube has an obligation to take them down if they are illegal.
The world which YouTube publishers choose to publish their videos to. That implies a consent to the laws.
1. "Masculinity" is not the problem. It is lack of masculinity. Boys raised in female headed households, without a strong male role model, are more likely to grow up to be violent and abusive toward women.
This is incorrect. The strongest correlation for violent abusers is that they themselves were violently abused.
2. "Online bullying" is attributed to "toxic masculinity", but is actually almost entirely a female-on-female phenomena.
While not "almost entirely", it does indeed to be overrepresented.
My guess as to why is that women have a biological drive towards establishing a pecking order, and establishing a pecking order tends to involve pecking.
Sure they do, they take down pro Trump stuff all the time.
Pro-Trump videos stay up as long as they don't also contain illegal content like hate speech, which hosting companies are required to remove by law.
It's not a difficult concept to get where freedom of expression rights begin and end - your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins.
And, the result is more false positives ...
In the past 6 to 8 weeks, I found several emails from people I know in the Spam folder.
It's worse than that. Perfectly legitimate e-mail gets outright rejected before it makes it to the spam folder. As a recipient, you won't even know, and have no way of finding out.
Although, it does seem to be a bit aggressive sometimes.
No kidding. About a third of my e-mails to friends who use gmail get blocked, and I have to find an e-mail from them to reply to not to get it blocked. These are all personal e-mails with no links, no mention of products, and really nothing that makes them appear to be spam to any human.
And given that much of the e-mail get through, it's not any blocking due to the sender address or sending server either.
My advice right now to my friends is to to ditch gmail due to this - they risk not getting quite a lot of legitimate e-mail, and not even knowing.
Or Scrivener for those of us who write books and don't care about presentation and "pages", but care a lot more about typing than clicking.
Libreoffice is even worse - I don't like having to wait a minute for reformatting because I changed WA to Washington on "page" 3 and now need to jump back to "page" 700.
Ramses was 99 or something ...
You're confusing longevity with life expectancy.
This is a myth. In earlier times, average lifespan was short because of high childhood mortality. But if you made it past 5, you were likely to live to 50, 60, or 70.
No, that is a myth.
From Wikipedia, in Classical Greece, "Based on Athens Agora and Corinth data, total life expectancy at 15 would be 37â"41 years"
Never, in the history of man, has there been a quantifiable, limited, commodity, that can be so effortlessly, so completely, so absolutely, 'taken to the grave;' such that there is not a graverobber that can unearth it.
"Take secrets to the grave" is not exactly a new concept.
Much of the worth of humanity is what is inside the human head, and that is frequently lost to the world, whether it's a great writer dying before penning his last book, a smith who could make something no one else could, or a mathematician who hadn't written down his proof yet.
Why would you then give your money over to someone who maintains a centralized spreadsheet?
I think there are three major reasons:
1: You can't buy and sell much with actual bitcoin, and when you want to make a purchase is not the time to look for an exchange.
2: Acquiring validation for each transaction is a heck of a lot of work for individuals. It's not just pushing a button, it's asking and paying fees, and waiting an awful long time. Exchanges take up much of that slack by fronting the transaction for you.
3: Most bitcoin "investors" are not all that savvy - they likely don't understand the technology (or good old ledgers, for that matter), and don't want to.
Deflation encourages cash hoarding. And the ultra-rich are ALREADY hoarding cash!
Indeed. Which is why I think a deflationary system cannot work without progressive capital gain taxes, to make it easier for those at the bottom to save, and harder for those at the top to hoard.
It depends on how you define a stable society, I guess. In an utopic stable society, there might not be mortgages, but a strict earning-precedes-spending ethos. In which case living below your means and saving up is advantageous, as your money will increase in value as you wait for being able to afford a house.
Two problems with bartering precious metal and official IOUs. The economy expands faster then the supply of precious metal, causing a shortage or the supply of precious metal expands faster then the economy, causing inflation.
No, that causes deflation, not inflation.
Inflation: Your money decreases in value, so there's little incentive to save but instead spend it quickly.
Deflation: Your money increases in value, so there's little incentive to invest money, only time and other resources.
In a growing economy, mild inflation is generally beneficial, but in a stable society, mild deflation cements the stability.
A penny costs more to make and administrate than it is worth.
The real value of a penny isn't the face value, but as a lubricant for transactions.
Bartering using precious metals and official IOUs for them has worked fairly well throughout history.
It doesn't matter to the bugs that you survived a measles attack due to you being vaccinated or due to having superior genes.
This is incorrect. If you've had measles, your immune system is a lot more hardened than with vaccines. If you've been vaccinated, you need booster vaccines, but if you've had measles, you get a fever instantly if you get a vaccine, as your immune system goes into full attack mode. It won't just attack that one strain either, but anything that's close. The weaker "attack" of the disabled pathogens in a vaccine just triggers the immune system "enough" to protect you - not enough to put it in defcon 1.
The problem superbugs have in a "normal" environment without vaccines is that they're outcompeted by the less lethal strains. The milder versions of diseases will always win in the long run - killing your host is not a good strategy for bugs. Adding vaccines changes that, as you fight the strains that are prevalent, taking them away as competition for other strains.
(Forego still means precede, even though so many incorrectly use it when meaning forgo.)
I gladly advocate forgoing vaccinations for endemic and childhood diseases, because the vaccines are so effective. They reduce culling, and long term cause harm to humanity by saving individual children.
New harmful or detrimental mutations in the human genome that in themselves are not enough to kill someone, but in combination with diseases like measles have a statistically significant higher morbidity are allowed to spread undiluted into our gene pool. These saved children have children of their own, where they otherwise would have died. When some ignorant anti-vaxxer says that vaccines cause autism, they may very well be right, but for the wrong reasons. It's not the vaccine itself, but that children who might have died now live to reproduce. If children with autism have any lower survival rate if they catch measles than children without autism do, no matter how small that difference is, by vaccinating against measles, the prevalence of autism will increase. There's a significant correlation between vaccinations against childhood illlnesses and the next generation being sicker from other illnesses like autism, asthma and spectrum disorders.
And we get superbugs. Through vaccination against endemic diseases, we instigate an arms race, where new and worse strains appear, which we have little protection against, unlike the milder versions that outcompeted any bad ones because we didn't wage war on them.
This is what's so great about Linux, or for that matter *BSD. Sane defaults, but you control your computer. That's worth a whole lot of hassle.
For better and for worse, the reality these days is that most companies are migrating to cloud and devops, where you don't control your own computer, and don't have admins that understand the underlying architectures and the nitty gritty bits of how to configure a kernel or why.
Magic black boxes is the new standard, and control has become a negative word.