rKarpinski

Nani!?

This is a common misconception. BMI while an ok population metric, for individual's the biggest problem with is its poor sensitivity - it fails to classify people as obese who are obese.

Using your 6 3" male as an example, they are significantly more likely to be clinically obese (using waist circumference, body fat % etc) at a weight lower than BMI cut-off of 240 lbs.

When the Arch Duke was Franz Ferdinand was assassinated would the comments have just been about policy position in the Balkans?

There are now 3 active hot conflicts in Eurasia involving different Nuclear armed powers. This is a scary and unstable time.

> but at most China will sell some weapons—it won't get too involved.

In the Middle-east theatre, no telling what will happen in East Asia.

> I don't know if you're being flippant but the information at universities is neither secret nor sacred. Sure, there is a stupid price for academic journals but most of it can be found freely on the internet.

Those institutions are chalk full of secret & sacred knowledge. Good luck becoming POTUS, a Tech Billionaire or Nobel Prize winner through freely available information on the internet.

> Eldership, acceptance into a hierarchy based on deeds and demonstrated virtue within a relatively small social grouping that does not recognize the value of money is, I believe, worthwhile. And the socially formal recognition, not easily won nor necessarily expected from anyone who has not been permitted to give it perhaps recognises that our society has values and that you are still expected to grow, even as an adult.

The point is we already have an extremely rigid hierarchy that encompasses our entire society (the mandarin system would be envious, it was just for officialdom!) and unfortunately unlike your ideal - it is not independent of money & does not expect growth.

We've had only 1 president and 1 supreme court justice in my lifetime who didn't attend the Ivy league. It's already de facto, why expand it or make it de jure? This sort of credentialism is what brought us the Bay of Pigs & the War in Iraq.

Was referring to the SAT and existing credentialism from the college and university system.

> I do wonder if our society would be better if we had more honourifics and formality. China has instituted social media rules based on qualifications. Many indigenous societies have forms of secret and sacred knowledge.

In the US we administer a test at age 16 that determines lifetime "qualifications" and access to "secret and sacred knowledge". How much further is there to even go on that front? Back to inherited nobility?

> People tell me that I'm over training, which is ridiculous, because anything less would be easy and contravene the purpose of the workout.

This doesn't mean you aren't over training.

If it's strength training... Without knowing the specifics what you are describing sounds like too much volume (and training for hypertrophy). Lower reps (3-5) & higher weight will have more of a strength stimulus and be less taxing.

If it's cardio... you probably should be at a lower intensity and going for longer.

"Globally, Abbott has received reports of 736 severe adverse events (57 in the U.S.) and seven deaths (none in the U.S.) potentially associated with this issue."[1]

[1] https://abbott.mediaroom.com/press-releases?item=124718

> Western shows are all about the "you don't have to sacrifice anything to win" and Eastern shows are all about the "you're the chosen one"

This probably has more to do with the type of content you are consuming. If you watch things for young adults, it will probably follow "the Heroes Journey" - wether it is LOTR, Harry Potter, Star Wars etc. (the West) or Naruto, Pokemon, Dragon Ball/Journey to the West (the East)

Steve Jobs taking Calligraphy [1] comes to mind

[1] https://youtu.be/UF8uR6Z6KLc?si=339qOh2AlIr5QC2f&t=204

Whats the context to wanting to stop "bad guys" from using your open source project?

Might want to elaborate while you're on the front page!

You basically just described what the NYC "G&T" program is. All it is smaller class sizes and less disruptive students.

There are only like 4 actual accelerated learning programs out of the hundreds in NYC's "G&T".

> the company started as the anti-Oracle.

The company was founded by an Oracle executive...

Of course!

Is that the most provocative thing in the article? I thought it was just puffery.

"I’m a professor at Carnegie Mellon University in the top computer science school in the world."

Well that is a strong claim.

> Bobby Kennedy made that speech, was assassinated shortly afterwards, and Nixon won, prolonging the Vietnam War for another 6 years. Bobby Kennedy, also made a historic speech in Indianapolis that quelled rioting after the MLK assassination

You are talking about the same speech. It was a great speech

I didn't watch more than the first season of the show... but the setting for the novel is an alternate history in the 1960's where FDR had been assassinated in the 30's (failed in our timeline) and the US was isolationist and never entered WW2 until it was conquered by Nazi Germany and Japan.

And he wrote the plot for each character by tossing coins and looking up corresponding passages in the I-Ching

> (this is one of the premises of The Man in the High Castle, which is likely to age better than most sci fi TV series)

The Hugo award winning book it's based on is much better.

> FDR’s New Deal saved the entire planet from a descent into Nazism and Japanese imperial rule

The 'New Deal' saved the US from internal revolution; Huey Long. Nazism was doomed when Hitler invaded Russia, declaring war on America was just the nail in the coffin.

> Well, now that the US has a War Department

That was the department's name for 150 years.. until doublespeak became popular in the 1940's

> is there an easy way to verify it?

No, because they don't enforce their rules against obfuscation.

Even if there was it wouldn't help you - extensions regularly get sold to scammers who can push whatever update they want. I documented an extension with a few hundred thousand install base, that got sold and turned into malware. Overnight went from tens of lines of code un obfuscated to 10k+ lines obfuscated. Then they flooded the extensions review pages with fake reviews to burry complaints. I got a ticket open thru a contact which to Google's credit they investigated but they decided it wasn't violating enough policies to take any action.

Well aware it's absurdly expensive.

I was just highlighting that whats taking 10k/year in public school tuition (18k for Michigan (!) ) to ~130k for the degree is the living expenses, which exist wether or not they attend school.

> a decent state university ... He is looking at ~$130K in costs

130k seems high for public school. How much of that is room and board?

Whats wrong with verifying the ID?

The issue is they decided to roll their own extremely questionable service and insecurely store sensitive images in a public bucket

Multiple SAAS vendors provide ID verification for ~$2/each. They should have eaten that fee when it was small and then found a way pass it onto the users later

They make a case for not trusting Hims but not sure why that means I should trust Novo Nordisk

-> I'm unsure as to how the US installed him in 1953. He had been Shah for 11 years.

Operation Ajax

> But every year a small handful of dum-dums made it all the way to exam without having connected two dots, and I have to fail them and tell them that the three semesters they have wasted so far without any teachers calling their bullshit is a waste of life

Wow.

PSA is only one of several diagnostics that would have caught it at the level of care POTUS gets.

That might be true in a triage/ER context.

Doesn't track when we are talking about a slow, years long chronic illness and someone who over the last 4 years has had personalized healthcare to the tune of 8 figures.