starvingbear

Some countries in martial law some shut down a massive portion of their economy. The controversial approach is relying on individual citizen responsibility. Fascinating times

Crassus!

hah.. well. It's a reddit-like site not a reddit replacement. Just a spot to tinker for now

P-O-T-S-CHHCKUMPH-A-T-O Potato.. top notch.

I cant look at a potato without that machines voice in my head

good news everyone

I'm guessing just one incident was the end of that idea

I am so appreciative of his accomplishments. Knowing the history of ruby and functional languages, figured early on he found the right solution to the right problem and the impact of this language has been huge very quickly

I think it's absolutely true that most people will prefer an office or at least a community to work in most the time in person. I've done both and normally prefer an office. However most offices nowadays are very badly run and promote open layout and daily scrums etc. If offices weren't effectively sabotaged this way they would be much better. Every office critique in the OP article was made as well by my father in convo. He isn't in tech but ran a small biz his whole life. Not unique problems to tech we just have a weird culture atm. So my thought is the breakout companies that are learning how to respect engineering and get away from the hokey practices of current middle management will be the only ones attracting senior talent. Things will shift eventually and the office can maybe make a comeback.

Thanks!

It was a time of a lot of apprehension and war so the kinds of propaganda/marketing of that era were interesting from every country and sometimes business. We are in a different time now but some of the way science and language is subverted are very similar.

The climate language first it started as skeptic, which is inherently anti-science since any scientist should be a skeptic and consensus is nonsense. Climate warming and cooling (if you're old enough to remember that) was re-branded to change. Skeptic is now denier, an extremely negative connotation title. You can see how everything is ramped up until your enemies are on the extreme opposition.

I get your criticism. My intention was to go at the style of propaganda not the scope. If they are going to label me a denier and evoke extreme reactions to an oppositional view, that doesn't mean I should do the same to them.

I referred to the era more than the nazis but you are essentially correct. Other than the decently researched part which others have done a good job breaking down in the other threads

I'm actually surprised at my fairly neutral score. Need to post on more vaccine and climate change articles I guess

> The curves from Mars were similar to those produced by LR tests of soils on Earth. It seemed we had answered that ultimate question.

Maybe it was on earth

Let's just use whatever tech saved us from the climate catastrophe everyone was preaching was coming 20 years ago. Or the ones before that I heard tell of

For home insurance sure. Not for major investments though

Is there any example of an IPCC prediction that actually turned out to be accurate?

Honestly curious because when I look at insurance market it's clear nobody is taking threats to sea level remotely seriously so that's one group that ignores IPCC

I think PHP is still good. It definitely seems lower in priority for most companies remote or local than it used to be by far but it isn't going away or anything. Niche languages depend on a lot of factors. And debatable on what is still niche but I think Elixir, Scala, Go and Rust are a group to look at. My personal choice has been Elixir and that has worked out great. Lots of remote jobs too with it. A fellow made a post recently about how to find remote jobs in it https://blog.lelonek.me/how-to-find-an-elixir-job-db4c836890

Fair enough. His conduct afterward could be looked at (though going beyond wikipedia may be necessary). But the original hysteria definitely painted a huge target on his back with a lot of misinformation. I don't think that's deniable

Andrew Wakefield was simply an expert in gut health he didnt even want into the vaccine debate. He did very fair research that proved a link between between what he found in the gut and autism at the request of parents bringing their kids to him that was signed off as fully accurate by 12 scientists that assisted the research. It scared a pharma sponsor and got pulled from publication. That's all his story was and it turned into the all time anti vaxxer conspiracy somehow.

This may be valid. After both the last 2 measles outbreaks that hit the news in the US it was discovered in many of the kids tested that the strain of measles was actually from the vaccine itself. Not sure if that's classified as a mutation but I don't think thats supposed to be able to happen and spread that way. Will follow up with sources after I'm off mobile

Edit: Here are a couple of sources. The first claims to have proven that someone on the vaccine schedule spread measles in 2011. However I will correct that I thought the disney case was similar but I think that one may have been wild measles and only a few vaccinated were infected. These are just food for thoughts

https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/58/9/1205/2895266

This one is more scientific and dry but is from the CDC I believe and showed among other things an increase in sporadic measles outbreaks among vaccinated

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC228449/

The whooping cough is more interesting. You can find multiple cases of outbreaks among highly vaccinated people but the symptoms are allegedly milder so the vaccine is possibly doing something positive about it. The CDC is warning the vaccine is losing effectiveness.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/allthemoms/2019/03/14/wh... https://www.livescience.com/53359-whooping-cough-outbreak-ra...

Anyway interested in any takes on that. I'm not wildly anti-vax but even these mild questions on it were immediately downvoted. I think its a complicated and fascinating thing to talk about when people aren't crybabies about it

Came here to say something similar. Love the office but downtown cores where tech companies usually are are getting particularly difficult and unpleasant to deal with. And a lot of people dont pike the office layouts common now as well. Remote preference seems to be a combo of enjoyment of it and the worsening of the office situation

They should also account for the possibility that the moon rocks are actually from earth. Just in case the moon landing was faked

He actually made the same gut bacteria connection to autism patients that this new research found. His paper had to be personally signed off by the 13 other researchers working on it. It was retracted by the publisher due to a conflict with a sponsor but was never scientifically denounced. He then checked the safety records around the vaccine and said he cant recommend the vaccine based on the testing. There are tons of people currently associated with him and you can hear him out any time with any number of recent appearances