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i worry that medication harbors a reliance on drugs

It can also get you out of bed when nothing else does. Or prevent you from killing yourself when you otherwise would have. Or give you a push to take small steps to get your life together. All of these effects are valuable despite efficacy being far from 100%, there being side effects and issues with reliance.

The reason for the tracking is to better target the ads, you can't separate the two in Google's model.

Thank you, I really don't think that questions like "Why do we do X?" lead anywhere, because they have the built-in assumption that everyone does X and that everyone does it for the same reason.

No. If a multi-billion dollar company completely overturned its revenue model, it wouldn't be the same company anymore. And the billions of people who have used their services for years wouldn't be happy with suddenly having to pay. Can some subscription services work for some people and some products some of the time? Sure. But Google has so many services, coming to so many people for free, and making them so much money from ads, that even the hypothetical is ridiculous.

quickly become an expert on a topic you know nothing about right when you need to be

This simply doesn't happen for anyone.

But the first 10-100 hours of learning and using a new language feel so good.

1. Not really, the richest x% own and run the companies, and can spend more, but the mass of consumers of the products are spread across the wealth spectrum.

2. The idea to reduce the population based on some metric is a dangerous road to go down on.

3. By definition there will always be a richest 10% regardless of how many humans you get rid of.

Go is in the same category. People are inventing better versions of C++ when I want them to invent better versions of Python. :)

In terms of use cases Go is much closer to Python than to Rust and C++.

Which idioms in Python are you referring to?

What's the more general pitch for learning a functional language in the first place?

Do tell more, what high level stuff do people want to use Rust for?

Isn't it also kind of dying out in terms of popularity? (I really don't know)

Genuinely asking, since I have little to no concept of this space - how does the prevalence of either Intel or AMD affect developers?

- clean up the taskbar by removing the default icon shortcuts and the giant search bar

- disable all desktop notifications

- install Chrome

- install Git Bash

I think he was answering your question rather than emphasizing anything.

This problem is inherently American - it's not that other countries have access to some secret tech that's keeping them gun-violence-free. Saying "let's not make this political" about an entirely political issue is laughable. So is "let's fix gun violence with ML".

To actually answer the question with tech solutions:

- accurate fact-based media with no spin

- accessible education

- opportunities for people to be exposed to cultures, lifestyles and mentalities different from their own

Educated, informed and open-minded people are less likely to shoot up a school, or to buy into other people's "right" to do so.

Here's what you've done in this thread so far:

"These are facts: ..."

(baseless claims with no justification)

"I hope I don't need to explain why they're are true"

(no justification or actual argument)

"None of these are controversial"

(apart from people disputing them here)

"They have been proven"

(without presenting proof)

Where and how do "non-central" banks print money?

And the overall economic situation - I'm too young to have experience of the job market during the last recession but I can't imagine that switching jobs or starting a career was a great experience at the time.

I'd like to reiterate the first point because it's important - in a thorough interview process you will be asked about your bachelor's degree anyway. You're much better off including it here and being prepared to address any questions and concerns about it rather than appearing to hide it.

Regardless of your personal list, Java is still one of the most popular languages today and nowhere near being "dead" in the slightest. No one's individual list of used/unused languages is relevant in this case - the question is about mass adoption and active development.

I would have definitely dropped my details into a "Who wants to be hired to save the planet" thread.

This is straight out of a Black Mirror episode.

While I do prefer Python over R, the idea that R will just "die" simply because it isn't as popular as Python is ridiculous. There is a very large user base, good ecosystem of tools, many talented people actively developing in/for R - it's a great tool for so many purposes and it doesn't seem to be going anywhere.

Also, which languages have been truly popular historically and then died? Only Pascal comes to mind. (I'm sure someone can correct me on this.)

I really can't figure out who the target audience for this book is, if it has a target audience at all.

Why is this book considered to be so good? I started it because it's been recommended on HN so much and I gave it up rather quickly because it was really dry and not all that focused on practical applications. Should I give it another go?

Without giving specific advice, here are some things to keep in mind:

- the same principles apply regardless of the market, you can just pick European equity or bond funds and add them to your portfolio (as long as they're available on your investing platform)

- you don't have to limit your portfolio to US and/or Europe, you can invest internationally

- historically the European markets have performed worse than the US. That won't necessarily continue in the future but keep in mind that you're making a similar assumption (that the future will be similar to the past) when you expect a 6-7% return from American funds.

- many of the the big US companies are international anyway - for example when you buy Apple stock, even though you're investing in an American company, you're betting on Apple's performance everywhere in the world including in Europe

- investing in companies that are traded in a different currency adds another moving part to the machine; you can be hurt or benefit from the movement of the exchange rates in addition to the stock/bond price fluctuations

I don't think that this is the problem that your solution is looking for.

The Nash-Equilibrium solution to RPS is playing each option a third of the time. Simplified, this means that if you're playing this strategy, your opponent's best strategy is to do the same and there is nothing either of you can do to increase your own expectation.

You just blew my mind.