MistahKoala

NextDNS isn't a content platform required to have age checks, so no, that prohibition doesn't apply here and promoting the bypass feature isn't 'probably illegal'.

I think he might be referring to the words themselves - 'rabbit' and 'pork' - in that, despite not rhyming, together they are nonetheless described as rhyming slang.

Putting aside other factors for a moment, a rigorous test surely depends on the dose.

Stimulants like lisdexamfetamine can be titrated over a period of several weeks to determine effectiveness and tolerance of the dose, which are unknown until tested - that doesn't seem quick to me and indicates that clinicians can't expect a binary response from a one-off dose.

This is an interesting issue. First, I hope your mum and family are getting acceptable care and support, and that she gets the outcome she wants from it.

I know what it's like to see or experience something at the patient end of things and feel the urge to do something about it. It's difficult to find obvious ways forward with that in the NHS system, and the common ways for patients to raise complex and niche issues - MPs or the NHS' public-facing channels - can produce dispiriting responses.

I get the impression you're in England, so my assumptions here are about NHS England. There's been a push (and requirement) in recent years for Patient and Public Voice (PPV) - closer public involvement in the design, production and governance of NHS services - so there should be increasing opportunities for the public to act on their experiences. In practice, there doesn't seem to be much of an open invitation to public involvement in digital at the national level yet.

As you didn't mention it, you might be interested to know that, as well as the breast screening report you mentioned, there has also been a recent review of adults screening services [1]. That's led to NHSX's Digital Transformation of Screening programme [2], with objectives directly relevant to your issue. There's a contact email address that might reach someone more likely to grok it and/or explain the programme's routes for PPV input.

There's also some information about the current digital screening services, including named heads and leads [3]. Maybe a direct approach to one or some of them about how you can influence the issue (and highlight the shortcomings of the approaches you've tried)?

[1] https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/report...

[2] https://www.nhsx.nhs.uk/key-tools-and-info/digital-transform...

[3] https://digital.nhs.uk/about-nhs-digital/our-organisation/ou...

'Hygiene theatre' is the term some have settled on for the proliferation and implementation of this kind of thing: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/scourge-hy... (subsequently posted to the SSC subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/hzily8/bewa...)

As it's discussing future developments, another way of looking at the trajectory of a European model is to have folded it in to the Chinese model or mentioned as an adjunct to it; there's clearly admiration for the GFC within EU policy circles.

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2020/6487...

Perhaps a naive question, but what will this mean for Bootcamp users?

Thanks for the recommendation - I'll have a look for it.

"Sophist" (which is a difficult, very technical dialogue regarding problems with platos theory of ideas)

For the general lay reader, is there a more accessible equivalent you can recommend?

Somebody else has already mentioned The Open University (https://open.ac.uk) and I happily recommend them, as one of their alumni.

Another established and well-regarded institution is the University of London International Programme (https://london.ac.uk). The courses are relatively low cost, but rely a lot on self-discipline.

It's almost however long you want to put into it. I completed my undergraduate degree in around three and a half years, approaching it as a mix of part-time and full-time study, juggled with periods of employment.

At the time, I thought it wasn't particularly hard - I had it in my head that bricks and mortar universities were somehow more challenging and rigorous. Having recently completed a master's at a campus university, my feelings about the OU at the time were without basis. By comparison, the master's was easier, less challenging and less valuable.

Looking back on my OU experience, I can appreciate how enriching it was. The course materials and syllabi are fantastic and are often used by other universities. Associate lecturers can be hit and miss. Fellow students tend to be engaged - because they _want_ to do the courses - and often make for a supportive and thoughtful community; I actually found it to be far less isolating than the campus experience of my master's.

I was fortunate to have undertaken my degree prior to tuition fees increases, but I would still recommend them. Compared to other UK universities, the fees were still relatively low, last time I looked.

Presumably in anticipation of upper respiratory tract infection. COVID-19 is a lower respiratory tract infection.

I haven't heard of nasal irrigation using soap; hypertonic saline solution is usually recommended.

http://www.elvisstudy.com/

"But one local demographic variable did stand out as being protective"

What does 'protective' mean in this context? I wondered if it was somehow a typo of 'predictive', but that's a bit of a leap for a typo.

I wonder if that explains Amazon Prime's dubbed shows? I thought it was unusual (along with Netflix's 3%); in the UK I'm used to foreign programmes only being subtitled.

The self-portrayal of the EC as a wholesome and pure knight with a blue-and-yellow shield was particularly cringe-inducing, preceded by its dog-whistle anti-American policy message.

In fairness, it just mentions the most frequently disclosed location for other respondents who answers similar to our own. It doesn't appear to do anything predictive.

The article discusses reviving gopher, but doesn't mention how to access it (sure, I could invest a bit of time and effort googling how to do that, but that seems beside point for an article evangelising its revival).

The Aldi store next door just got a redesign and now looks confusingly welcoming

In the UK they seem to have taken store design up a notch, to the point that there's a discernible difference with the Lidl experience (along with now being a tad more expensive on equivalent products). I suspect it's an incremental differentiator in retaining the more affluent customers they captured over the past decade. Lidl, on the other hand, offers a more mixed experience: for the most part, they're still quite dowdy and utilitarian, although they have what seem like experimental stores that appear to be competing in affluent areas with an Aldi presence (larger, open layouts; brighter lighting; polished, natural floor tiles etc.). The kinds of customers I usually find at Lidl are notably absent.

Based on the current guidelines, how many years worth of sugar would the average 10-year old from 30 years ago have consumed?

Well... https://twitter.com/TomPugh212/status/1076874388761440260

Has Quora not peaked already? I was a fan of it in the early '10s, but around 2013/14 it seemed to experience an influx of users who turned it into an alternative to Yahoo! Answers. With no way of filtering them out, it seemed pointless continuing to use it.

This is the kind of HN response I was expecting (along with the downvotes); everyone who isn't a dev or engineer is wrong/irrational in their choices and experiences.

I had some useful extensions that worked with old Firefox. Then new Firefox came along and killed off some of them, so I had even fewer useful extensions. Meanwhile, Chrome has many more useful extensions and hasn't killed off any of them. Chrome fits my workflow, Firefox doesn't/can't. Yet this is somehow understood as me wanting 'less'. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

"If you care about about what’s happening with online life today, take another look at Firefox. It’s radically better than it was 18 months ago"

Except it's not 'radically better' if you rely on extensions killed by Quantum and are unlikely to be updated because Firefox has such a small user base now.

I want to go back to Firefox and give it a try, but sending a load of extensions to their deaths has made that significantly harder. I'm not up for spending hours finding little hacks and half-baked work-arounds, either.

Hardly ground-breaking stuff; individuals do this in everyday life as a matter of routine. They even use this tacit knowledge when they attempt to manipulate others: just compare 'old' Chris Wylie with 'new' Chris Wylie.

Initially I thought this was an appropriate and proportionate response. However, I eventually realised that doing so would be a tacit admission of acceptance of the extra-territorial ambition of the Directive and its application - which would be far worse, if we're truly concerned about global freedoms and rights.

The morally correct response, as an organisation outside of the EU in terms of its presence and activities, would be to ignore the Directive, just as thousands of other bits of local legislation are by routine and convention.

Unfortunately, Reddit is a subsidiary of Advance Publications, which I expect has physical operations in the EU and can therefore become subject to ransom locally. In which case, perhaps banning EU citizens in the EU from accessing Reddit is the most viable and proportionate moral response after all. It would mean I lose access, but I strongly believe that the European Commission monster must be tamed and cut down to size.

Paying ransoms (especially for organisations outside of the respective jurisdiction) isn't?

Sellafield's owner is the NDA. Liquidating Sellafield would likely only end up with it being handed to... the NDA.

One discontinued product that comes to mind - and is missed almost daily - is Evernote's Clearly. Nothing else comes close for simplified reading in the browser. Pocket does the reading experience well, but items have to be added to its archive in order to be read, and its ability to consistently capture articles in full lets it down (in contrast to Clearly and Evernote's 'simplified article' view, which lets users easily adjust the scope of page elements to 'capture'). It was also Clearly's styling that gave it an edge over other on-screen readers (light-on-black styling shouldn't be a competitive advantage for something so simple, but it is for simplified reading plugins).

If we can consider discontinued features as part of 'discontinued products', examples that come to mind are things like boolean operators on eBay (also coinciding with a time when eBay search results weren't filled with irrelevant junk). And index dates on Google search results.

I mean this seems very reasonable from Apple's perspective. They're trying to avoid their brand being tarnished by bad repair shops with questionable repair skills cutting corners with cheap and unsupported parts

Okay, but instead they're tarnishing their brand by being hostile to consumers. I'd say that segment is quite a bit larger than any segment that experiences a shoddy repair job.