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Re:Will there ever be a cure for chronic pain? on Monday September 23, 2019 @05:42PM (#21054037)
No. Or not in our lifetime, maybe is the better answer.

My gut says a lot of “chronic pain” that ends up hardwiring the brain to be noticed.

Reinforce a neural pathway often enough and it won’t quiet down.

The buzz will be there and we can’t be sure our sore spot hurts or our brain simply can’t avoid that pathway.

See phantom limb and similar.

Re:Serverless: slower and more expensive on Monday September 23, 2019 @01:39PM (#21051315)
Like I said I was providing largely that pattern years ago to devs.

Not very net new for me, except I’m tethered to AWS.

As usual: ymmv

Re:Why Are Some Societies More Entrepreneurial than Others? on Monday September 23, 2019 @01:18PM (#21051020)
Yet they often have a higher quality of life, universal access to social services, and afford the general public longer periods of economic stability relative to the shitshow the US descends into every 4-8 yrs.

Perhaps innovative business (which I translate to “how to enrich myself via an ephemeral finance system without adding much new utility” these days”) isn’t a great target for governments to enable.

Social pressure downward to abide the desires of a minority of elites before the public used to be called authoritarianism, and it used to be reviled. Just because it lacks the overt violence of yesterday doesn’t mean it isn’t manipulative and damaging to society.

Profits are up. So is inequality.

Re:Serverless: slower and more expensive on Monday September 23, 2019 @09:40AM (#21048817)
Wow everyone all excited about hosted FreeBSD jails

Some of us had deploy pipelines into “containers” working like a Lambda in 2003.

Nothing in software is all that novel these days, IMO.

All these features that have been there for a decade plus are just wrapped in a corporate brand now.

Progress.