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Lots of interesting things in this miraculous story, but I can assure you none of these miracles would happen without the two words completely left out of the article: white privilege

All the US has to do is: nothing. Stop sending over tank shells [1], Fighter jets and attack helicopters [2], deploying aircraft carriers [3] and stop vetoing UN Security Council resolutions trying to impose a ceasefire [4]

1. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/09/biden-admini... 2. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-01-25/ty-article/.p... 3. https://www.voanews.com/a/us-aircraft-carrier-to-remain-in-m... 4. https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-un-resolution...

Why is this flagged/down voted? Its just a plain statement of fact, supported by credible sources and references. Here's some more references if people think this didn't happen. The IDF attacked and fired on the Nova festival goers with Apache helicopters [1], an Israeli tank fired shells at Kibbutz Be'eri killing hostages and children, and stories of eight babies killed at the kibbutz have been proven to be false, among other things [3], [4]

1. https://www.businessinsider.com/idf-mistakenly-hit-festival-...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be%27eri_massacre#Survivors'_t...

3. https://archive.is/Zn3Bt

4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L91kG_bYsn0

Iodized salt is almost always the industrially produced variety, pure NaCL and much more salty than the natural varieties - either sea or mountain salts that typically include other minerals and are milder in flavor.

The single biggest factor is the cost of medical education. Once a person spends a fortune getting their degree, it creates a gated community that works to preserve its privileges, deny entry to other cheaper alternatives, and keep prices high across the eco-system.

You will see this in any field that transacts with high value goods: real-estate, enterprise software, weapons of war, investment bankers handling M&A ... the higher the cost of the product, the more the people dealing in it feel entitled to charge for their services.

Here we go again confusing correlation with causation. The medical field is mired with these: eat less to lose weight, reduce cholesterol to prevent heart attacks, reduce stress to prevent stomach ulcers ...

Have they considered people prone to dementia just aren't able to get quality sleep, and both of these are due to some other underlying cause where fixing one doesn't really fix the other?

She's referring to case law. The WSJ and the US Chamber of Commerce have been gunning for Lina Khan for a while now but I wouldn't bet against her. Even when losing, she's expanding how antitrust should be enforced, eg in the FTC v Meta case, the court seemed to accept [1] the FTC's argument about "actual potential competition", setting a precedent that the FTC will likely use in future cases.

1. https://www.wlf.org/2023/02/24/publishing/actual-potential-c...

Here's a contrarian opinion: Inflation isn't all that bad, if you have a fixed rate loan (i.e. mortgage) that is larger than all your savings put together, and as long as you don't need to sell or refinance, you will come out ahead. Keep in mind inflation requires a wage/price spiral, which means your salaries are also increasing to keep pace with the rising prices, while the loan amount stays the same, so repaying it becomes easier.

The article goes into quite a lot of depth about all the sources of inflation and how to fix it without actually mentioning the predominant cause of the latest inflation: Corporate Profits [1]

In Capitalism, we scorn at "price controls", and then go through a tortuous and roundabout mechanism by raising interest rates, so that the increased cost of borrowing causes corporations to cut expenditure which then pushes higher unemployment, reducing purchasing power and consequently reduces demand, all in the hopes that reduced demand would then cause prices to drop. But if the price increase wasn't triggered by higher purchasing power, then this whole rigmarole is meaningless, inflation remains "sticky"

1. https://archive.is/tzeHy

I'm no admirer of Jordan Peterson, but we don't have to speculate what the religious reaction to this nudity would have been. The Jews were there among the Greeks when all this was happening, and they didn't like it at all [1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_nudity

Exactly this. There's people responsible for not paying their parking tickets on time, and then there's folks such as Kissinger and Madeleine Albright that have the blood of hundreds of thousands of people on their hands. Lets not sweep it all under the same rug.

IBM is still #1 in patent grants [1] so there's still other groups there going strong I guess

1. https://www.ificlaims.com/rankings-top-50-2021.htm

Depends on who is doing the complaining, but yes there is precedent to arresting an employee for "theft of trade secrets" [1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Aleynikov

To quote a spiritual/philosophic answer from an Islamic perspective, there's a hadith where the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: “The Hour will not begin until time passes quickly, so a year will be like a month, and a month will be like a week, and a week will be like a day, and a day will be like an hour, and an hour will be like the burning of a braid of palm leaves"

Any time I read about how some part of the body has no function, I try to remember that our understanding of the body is superficial at best, it was only a 100 years ago when getting your blood sucked by leeches was the standard of care for many conditions. Mother's milk was supposed to contain useless and indigestble substances till it turns out they were important for developing the baby's gut microbiota. Entire organs such as the thymus were considered useless and then we began to understand the critical role they play in our immune systems. Once we consider that even critical muscles waste and atrophy unless used, we have to understand that whatever we retain in our bodies must be absolutely critical to its long-term survival, and there is no such thing as a "junk" component.

In India, and stretching into the Indian diaspora worldwide, Maggi Hot and Sweet sauce became extremely popular, and for some things such as samosas you can almost never use the regular Heinz ketchup - it has to be paired with Maggi Hot and Sweet.

If you are bought in to GCP and plan to stay there, then maybe not much. OTOH, Anthos would allow you to do easier migrations from on-prem, support hybrid workloads, or consolidate multi-cloud clusters including those running on say, AWS [1] if you like.

1. https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/anthos/multi-cloud-feat...

Call me biased [1] but K8s will take over the world! Yes you get containers and micro-services and all that good stuff, but now with Anthos [2] its also the best way to achieve multi-cloud and hybrid architectures. What's not to like!

1. I work for GCP 2. https://cloud.google.com/anthos/gke

I understand and I'm opposed to things like fat shaming

and then we jump right into it

witnessing myself how people gorge on junk food and massively sugary starbucks drinks around me, that no, a good portion of those fat people have no hormonal problems

Interesting you brought up genetics earlier in your comment but then ignored it when discussing the "lifestyle choices" of fat people.

It is now established that genetic variations can be responsible for a 1.67 fold higher rate of obesity [1] Just having the wrong genes means more of the calories you consume end up as stored fat, with a subsequent reduction in mitochondrial thermogenesis by a factor of 5 in those cells.

Lets stop blaming "lifestyle choices" and fat people's lack of willpower for this public health crisis and find ways to control it through meaningful interventions that address the real issues underlying the phenomenon.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTO_gene#Obesity

Lets not confuse correlation with causation. All this study shows is people with insulin resistance are at significant risk of dying from Covid, it doesn't identify what actually kills them. However, if you look at the role Vitamin D plays [1] in suppressing cytokine storms, which is what actually pushes over an organism to the point beyond recovery from Covid, and then understand that Vitamin D deficiency is common [2] in Type 2 diabetes, you can begin to understand the fuller picture.

1. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.08.20058578v... 2. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26375925/

You can count to a 100 on a single hand easily. Imagine each finger has four facets, and combining segments and joints you can count to 5 on each facet of each finger, gives you the ability to count to 20 on a single finger, so 100 for the hand. I haven't tried it but combining both hands would then allow you to go up to 10,000

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This

We know many things in nature are fractals: coastlines, tree branches, blood vessels...

What if the Universe is one big fractal, repeating itself at different scales: electrons go around a nucleus, planets around a star, stars/galaxies around blackholes, and so on and so on, building larger and larger structures.

Dr Atkins invited the wrath of the medical community because he pushed for a low carb, high fat diet at a time when the medical consensus was that fats are the root of all evil. They eventually took his license for some unrelated issue but the driving force was the fact he went against the medical establishment and ridiculed low-fat but high-carb diets

See this other link for the case of a Colombian woman whose brain is full of the amyloid plaque but she is dementia free due to a genetic mutation. The biggest difference between her and the rest of her family that suffer from Alzheimer's is the fact that tau buildup is minimal in her brain.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/11/colombian-woman-s-ge...

See this case of a Colombian woman whose brain is full of the amyloid plaque but she is demntia free due to a genetic mutation

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/11/colombian-woman-s-ge...

Ok found it. Its from 2013 so no wonder cannot find it anymore, its gone from the internet but still available on the Internet Archive. The title is "How to write an opening sentence"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5060076 https://web.archive.org/web/20130116141857/http://asserttrue...

Thanks, but not the one I'm looking for. Its from a few years ago, made it to the top of HN and had lots of comments to go with it.

The reason I remember it is because there was an implication of influencing the subconscious somehow. The first few lines didn't seem to be very pointed or hard hitting or driving a conclusion, but were terribly important in influencing the outcome for the person reading the article.

Good muslims have as many kids as they can

I don't have the power to downvote but its comments like these that are used by fascists [1][2][3] the world over, sometimes for mass murder [4] and genocide [5] so please be careful how you wield it

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Replacement 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurabia 3. http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Hindu-nationalist-press:-Musl... 4. https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review-one-of-us-th... 5. https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/11/mu...