That's too bad. But even if those twelve people all die, it will be fewer than those that are killed by coal. According to one study, a single coal power plant kills more people in one week. And dying due to lung disease is a shitty way to go. Wikipedia on mortality associated with coal power plants: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
It seems I believed an article about this which people knowledgeable about Japan generally think is untrue. There's discussion on the topic here: https://www.quora.com/Is-it-tr...
(Just don't try to click through to the original article, because it has become a spam page.)
I should have said "Islamic terrorism" rather than "religious". I have the standard liberal tendency to try to single out the problems of Islam as little as possible, but it sometimes backfires and makes me say something stupid.
The collision attack isn't possible unless you are able to submit "bad" files to their system. You can't do that without getting in trouble for contraband.
I think you're being sarcastic. But Japan has mostly kept religious terrorism out of its country by simply not allowing many Muslims to immigrate, and not allowing construction of new mosques. It's not even particularly oppressive, unless a Muslim has his heart set on moving to Japan. Of course, the strategy of keeping Islam out entirely wouldn't work in a country that has a large established Muslim population, because it would be extremely oppressive.
You're making too fine a distinction if you compared them to another ethnic group which did a better job of assimilating. I don't know much about the Uyghurs--are you saying they don't speak much Mandarin and don't share culture with the rest of China? It sounds like the problem isn't traditional racism, but a conflict between cultures that don't like each other's lifestyle.
Not that that makes much of an argument in favor of Beijing's actions, though.
I don't know about "great". It has the glaring defect of, if you use the default options, deleting your firefox session, session backups, and history (so your state is lost and can never be recovered). It's absurd to have this as the default operation. It's the browser equivalent of "rm -rf/".
Yeah, I bought some paracetamol for a lady friend and the pharmacist said an adult should take 1 gram. I nodded toward my 45kg friend and asked, "What about her?" I don't even take a whole gram, so I seriously doubt my smaller friend should. Unless all adults have the same size liver, which strains credulity.
I already knew it's safe to take old medicines except tetracycline and similar antibiotics. But the surprise in this article is the fact that in a bigger study, 1/3 of medicine DOES lose its potency after expiration. The most important one is albuterol, the main "rescue" inhaler drug for asthma. This one is important because it's so tempting to stockpile--it's incredibly expensive in a lot of countries, so if you get a cheap source, you might want to buy enough for a decade or so. Too bad it doesn't last forever. I assumed all medicines were good forever if they're kept dry, but that's apparently not the case. If it differs per medicine, do the research when in doubt.
However, I can say from anecdotes (mine and others I found online) that albuterol is good for a few years after expiration.
Not entirely correct. The expiration date is a date where the product is guaranteed to have at least 90% potency. The date is a lower bound, not an upper bound.
The screen jellly effect is from the screens being installed backwards, and being flipped in software. Supposed an android fix will fix that problem.
It's also really, really hard to notice, at least on my phone. My friend showed me a youtube video that made it look rather bad, but if not for his trying to scare me about how bad the phone is, I never would have noticed it. Now that I know it's there, I've still only noticed it three times. I think it's a funny bug, though--it's hard to understand how the middle of the screen could get rendered with updated content but the top and bottom would be rendered with old data.
And are you aware that very same book seller (singular) has been freed long ago, went back to HK, and then after engaged in some anti-China publicity, suddenly got a big bunch of money to open a new bookstore in Taiwan?
The Fake News Networks in the US is even more effective as brainwashing people than the Great Firewall of China.
What are you talking about? There were five, and they were imprisoned and forced into false confessions. FYI, I'm in Hong Kong. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I think it's more likely that almost everything is owned by 100 companies.
Close, but not quite. I think the truth is that these companies produce most of the raw materials we use. Propylene, ethylene, and phenol are fossil fuel products. These are used to make most plastics, and BPA. BPA is used to make polycarbonate and epoxy. Epoxy is used to make carbon fiber and other composites.
Formaldehyde is used in some industrial wood glues, like those used to create plywood and MDF. Since it's a commodity (and a dangerous one), there are probably very few companies producing formaldehyde. The process for making formaldehyde starts with high pressures and temperatures--this needs energy.
And metal needs to be melted for processing--impurities can be floated off and alloys blended. Ingots are forged, and sheets, pipes, bars, wires, angle irons are created. All this molten metal requires huge amounts of energy. It's needed again when you recycle.
So if you use plastic, wood, or metal, you use chemicals that require huge amounts of emissions in their creation. I don't know that much industrial chemistry, but I think it's likely all the products we use are made from base materials that required large amounts of emissions to produce.
If the Enron mob had been under PRC jurisdiction, they'd have been shot, too. Just something to think about.
Doesn't matter. China may have strict enforcement (and it doesn't unless there's a lot of bad press), but that has no bearing on the fact that generally, the Chinese mentality is less focused on quality/safety and more focused on what they can get away with. Manufacturing products in China is cheaper than in the US, but from everyone I've talked to, the process is a fucking nightmare.
You are conveniently ignoring the fact that whenever a laptop is repaired, a person or organization NEEDS that repair. This isn't bad because it hurts repair shots. It's bad because you can't have your laptop repaired.
They simply produced a design that is hard to re-close once opened. A repair shop is more than welcome to go out and buy the necessary tools, they aren't proprietary.
Did you just make that up? There are no tools that debond friction-welded plastic, and heat-resistant glue typically cannot be removed except by grinding.
Murray is the guy that publicized the fact that any differences that exist between racial groups basically don't matter, since they're dwarfed by inter-group differences.
How can something dwarf itself?
Grrrrr, my brain wasn't working properly. I even thought about the inter/intra difference before I wrote that! I'll give myself a 3-day cooling off period before the next time I try to write one of those words.
Discussion isn't an end in itself... Meaningless spittle from twats with a poor understanding of something doesn't add value and wastes time as well as every other resource.
I agree. But that is a good description of 99% of calling out and shaming. Most of it is not even genuine--people that want to feel they are part of something don't take the time to understand the issues, and lack the humility to recognize situations where they can't understand the issues. For example, calling out an author of a book you haven't read, or calling someone a sexist after reading their online post which you haven't understood at the level of every nuance.
To be fair, I don't know exactly what you're referring to, but I have seen calling out and shaming, and I hear about it being applied to undeserving targets far more often than I hear about shaming accomplishing good.
You might have missed the story about Middlebury students donning ski-masks and trying to beat the hell of Charles Murray, sending another professor to the hospital and giving the body guards a seriously hard time getting Murray safely out of there. (This info is from an interview I heard with Murray, not this article.) Murray's crime was that he wrote a book that focused on societal inclusiveness of different races, attempting to reduce discrimination, which critics lied about (or at least misrepresented). Murray is the guy that publicized the fact that any differences that exist between racial groups basically don't matter, since they're dwarfed by inter-group differences. Basically, he's one of the good guys. And Middlebury students tried to kick his ass, and did hurt a professor that was protecting him. I'm unhappy about that. Aren't you?
The problem with relying on those assertions is that only code paths you run (or have test coverage for) will get the benefit. The problem with test coverage is that the tests can be wrong. I upgraded python code to a new version of python and the library, and doing similar work in C++ wouldn't have meant I didn't need to test each function, but I could have fixed a lot more of the problems before running the code. And while I think python is well suited to scripting, that experience showed it's a liability for maintenance.
The liver is designed to break down alchohol, genetically speaking, based upon the amount accidentally consumed when eating old fruit, not the amount produced and consumed on purpose as recreational activity and self medication against the angsts of society. So likely consumption beyond the genetic evolutionary norm is quite unhealthy.
Whoa, there. You're making a couple mistakes. First, evolution isn't directed. If there's no extra cost associated with being able to break down a larger quantity of alcohol, that ability can stick with us. (Some bacteria that have gained antibiotic resistance will lose it once the selection pressure is taken away, but others will keep it. This latter group has a resistance that does not have a cost.) Next, you're assuming our genes for breaking down alcohol haven't changed in a very long time. That is not known, and frankly, I thought there were recent differences in non-Asians, and others in Jews. Finally, your assumption that doing X beyond the evolutionary norm is probably a good assumption in this case, but it's not true in every case. We didn't evolve with green tea, antibiotics, or beaches/pools (not recently), but these things are all thought to extend lifespan or health-span.
How do these technologies work? I thought the charging speed of Li-ion Li-po batteries was limited by battery chemistry. Is the actual fact that in phones, the limiting factor has been circuitry/heat rather than the battery themselves?
I agree with you, but none of that negates the abuse of statistics. You just don't say " of X is bad" where X is already selected to be the worst fraction of a group. It tells you nothing, unless you're conducting an analysis of X rather than the group. However, we're considering alcohol drinkers, pot smokers, heroin users. We are not specifically considering alcoholics, potheads who are stoned all the time, and heroin junkies.
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I think the grammar is meant to be like the phrase, "news about laptop manufacturer Lenovo"--it's a description, not a specifier.
That's too bad. But even if those twelve people all die, it will be fewer than those that are killed by coal. According to one study, a single coal power plant kills more people in one week. And dying due to lung disease is a shitty way to go. Wikipedia on mortality associated with coal power plants: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
It seems I believed an article about this which people knowledgeable about Japan generally think is untrue. There's discussion on the topic here: https://www.quora.com/Is-it-tr...
(Just don't try to click through to the original article, because it has become a spam page.)
I should have said "Islamic terrorism" rather than "religious". I have the standard liberal tendency to try to single out the problems of Islam as little as possible, but it sometimes backfires and makes me say something stupid.
Thanks for the details. It's been a long time since I lived in China, and I wasn't particularly involved in the politics at the time.
The collision attack isn't possible unless you are able to submit "bad" files to their system. You can't do that without getting in trouble for contraband.
I think you're being sarcastic. But Japan has mostly kept religious terrorism out of its country by simply not allowing many Muslims to immigrate, and not allowing construction of new mosques. It's not even particularly oppressive, unless a Muslim has his heart set on moving to Japan. Of course, the strategy of keeping Islam out entirely wouldn't work in a country that has a large established Muslim population, because it would be extremely oppressive.
You're making too fine a distinction if you compared them to another ethnic group which did a better job of assimilating. I don't know much about the Uyghurs--are you saying they don't speak much Mandarin and don't share culture with the rest of China? It sounds like the problem isn't traditional racism, but a conflict between cultures that don't like each other's lifestyle.
Not that that makes much of an argument in favor of Beijing's actions, though.
Other than that it is a great program.
I don't know about "great". It has the glaring defect of, if you use the default options, deleting your firefox session, session backups, and history (so your state is lost and can never be recovered). It's absurd to have this as the default operation. It's the browser equivalent of "rm -rf /".
Yeah, I bought some paracetamol for a lady friend and the pharmacist said an adult should take 1 gram. I nodded toward my 45kg friend and asked, "What about her?" I don't even take a whole gram, so I seriously doubt my smaller friend should. Unless all adults have the same size liver, which strains credulity.
I already knew it's safe to take old medicines except tetracycline and similar antibiotics. But the surprise in this article is the fact that in a bigger study, 1/3 of medicine DOES lose its potency after expiration. The most important one is albuterol, the main "rescue" inhaler drug for asthma. This one is important because it's so tempting to stockpile--it's incredibly expensive in a lot of countries, so if you get a cheap source, you might want to buy enough for a decade or so. Too bad it doesn't last forever. I assumed all medicines were good forever if they're kept dry, but that's apparently not the case. If it differs per medicine, do the research when in doubt.
However, I can say from anecdotes (mine and others I found online) that albuterol is good for a few years after expiration.
Not entirely correct. The expiration date is a date where the product is guaranteed to have at least 90% potency. The date is a lower bound, not an upper bound.
The screen jellly effect is from the screens being installed backwards, and being flipped in software. Supposed an android fix will fix that problem.
It's also really, really hard to notice, at least on my phone. My friend showed me a youtube video that made it look rather bad, but if not for his trying to scare me about how bad the phone is, I never would have noticed it. Now that I know it's there, I've still only noticed it three times. I think it's a funny bug, though--it's hard to understand how the middle of the screen could get rendered with updated content but the top and bottom would be rendered with old data.
And are you aware that very same book seller (singular) has been freed long ago, went back to HK, and then after engaged in some anti-China publicity, suddenly got a big bunch of money to open a new bookstore in Taiwan?
The Fake News Networks in the US is even more effective as brainwashing people than the Great Firewall of China.
What are you talking about? There were five, and they were imprisoned and forced into false confessions. FYI, I'm in Hong Kong. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I think it's more likely that almost everything is owned by 100 companies.
Close, but not quite. I think the truth is that these companies produce most of the raw materials we use. Propylene, ethylene, and phenol are fossil fuel products. These are used to make most plastics, and BPA. BPA is used to make polycarbonate and epoxy. Epoxy is used to make carbon fiber and other composites.
Formaldehyde is used in some industrial wood glues, like those used to create plywood and MDF. Since it's a commodity (and a dangerous one), there are probably very few companies producing formaldehyde. The process for making formaldehyde starts with high pressures and temperatures--this needs energy.
And metal needs to be melted for processing--impurities can be floated off and alloys blended. Ingots are forged, and sheets, pipes, bars, wires, angle irons are created. All this molten metal requires huge amounts of energy. It's needed again when you recycle.
So if you use plastic, wood, or metal, you use chemicals that require huge amounts of emissions in their creation. I don't know that much industrial chemistry, but I think it's likely all the products we use are made from base materials that required large amounts of emissions to produce.
If the Enron mob had been under PRC jurisdiction, they'd have been shot, too. Just something to think about.
Doesn't matter. China may have strict enforcement (and it doesn't unless there's a lot of bad press), but that has no bearing on the fact that generally, the Chinese mentality is less focused on quality/safety and more focused on what they can get away with. Manufacturing products in China is cheaper than in the US, but from everyone I've talked to, the process is a fucking nightmare.
You are conveniently ignoring the fact that whenever a laptop is repaired, a person or organization NEEDS that repair. This isn't bad because it hurts repair shots. It's bad because you can't have your laptop repaired.
They simply produced a design that is hard to re-close once opened. A repair shop is more than welcome to go out and buy the necessary tools, they aren't proprietary.
Did you just make that up? There are no tools that debond friction-welded plastic, and heat-resistant glue typically cannot be removed except by grinding.
How can something dwarf itself?
Grrrrr, my brain wasn't working properly. I even thought about the inter/intra difference before I wrote that! I'll give myself a 3-day cooling off period before the next time I try to write one of those words.
Discussion isn't an end in itself... Meaningless spittle from twats with a poor understanding of something doesn't add value and wastes time as well as every other resource.
I agree. But that is a good description of 99% of calling out and shaming. Most of it is not even genuine--people that want to feel they are part of something don't take the time to understand the issues, and lack the humility to recognize situations where they can't understand the issues. For example, calling out an author of a book you haven't read, or calling someone a sexist after reading their online post which you haven't understood at the level of every nuance.
To be fair, I don't know exactly what you're referring to, but I have seen calling out and shaming, and I hear about it being applied to undeserving targets far more often than I hear about shaming accomplishing good.
Can't we be upset about both?
You might have missed the story about Middlebury students donning ski-masks and trying to beat the hell of Charles Murray, sending another professor to the hospital and giving the body guards a seriously hard time getting Murray safely out of there. (This info is from an interview I heard with Murray, not this article.) Murray's crime was that he wrote a book that focused on societal inclusiveness of different races, attempting to reduce discrimination, which critics lied about (or at least misrepresented). Murray is the guy that publicized the fact that any differences that exist between racial groups basically don't matter, since they're dwarfed by inter-group differences. Basically, he's one of the good guys. And Middlebury students tried to kick his ass, and did hurt a professor that was protecting him. I'm unhappy about that. Aren't you?
Good. The ignorant must be called out and even mocked when they attempt a decision based on their beliefs while real facts are available.
What effect do you suppose that has? Does it spread knowledge? Does it encourage dialogue?
The problem with relying on those assertions is that only code paths you run (or have test coverage for) will get the benefit. The problem with test coverage is that the tests can be wrong. I upgraded python code to a new version of python and the library, and doing similar work in C++ wouldn't have meant I didn't need to test each function, but I could have fixed a lot more of the problems before running the code. And while I think python is well suited to scripting, that experience showed it's a liability for maintenance.
The liver is designed to break down alchohol, genetically speaking, based upon the amount accidentally consumed when eating old fruit, not the amount produced and consumed on purpose as recreational activity and self medication against the angsts of society. So likely consumption beyond the genetic evolutionary norm is quite unhealthy.
Whoa, there. You're making a couple mistakes. First, evolution isn't directed. If there's no extra cost associated with being able to break down a larger quantity of alcohol, that ability can stick with us. (Some bacteria that have gained antibiotic resistance will lose it once the selection pressure is taken away, but others will keep it. This latter group has a resistance that does not have a cost.) Next, you're assuming our genes for breaking down alcohol haven't changed in a very long time. That is not known, and frankly, I thought there were recent differences in non-Asians, and others in Jews. Finally, your assumption that doing X beyond the evolutionary norm is probably a good assumption in this case, but it's not true in every case. We didn't evolve with green tea, antibiotics, or beaches/pools (not recently), but these things are all thought to extend lifespan or health-span.
How do these technologies work? I thought the charging speed of Li-ion Li-po batteries was limited by battery chemistry. Is the actual fact that in phones, the limiting factor has been circuitry/heat rather than the battery themselves?
I agree with you, but none of that negates the abuse of statistics. You just don't say " of X is bad" where X is already selected to be the worst fraction of a group. It tells you nothing, unless you're conducting an analysis of X rather than the group. However, we're considering alcohol drinkers, pot smokers, heroin users. We are not specifically considering alcoholics, potheads who are stoned all the time, and heroin junkies.