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by calibas 7y ago
Ah, the eternal argument over what qualifies as "low-level". I think we can all agree it's not Javascript, but beyond that opinions vary greatly and it's mainly a semantic issue.
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by calibas 7y ago
When people like Michael Taylor run the FDA, that's clearly agency capture. The industry has infiltrated government positions, I don't know how anybody can act like they're innocent in all this.
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by calibas 7y ago
Hiding research results should be seen as this scandalous, shameful, and fundamentally anti-scientific practice. A heavy bias towards business profits, which is exactly what this is, goes against objective science. What if you kept repeatin
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by calibas 7y ago
I meant that using media to manipulate public opinion is nothing new, and it's happening at a scale that people are barely aware of, though the mechanisms have evolved...
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by calibas 7y ago
Here's some good reading in case anybody believes this kind of stuff is new. They had it down to a science nearly 100 years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays
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by calibas 7y ago
None of that actually answers what causes insulin resistance to develop in type 2 diabetes. You can't claim that sugar "almost certainly" isn't the cause.
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by calibas 7y ago
I'm not following this logic, we don't know what the direct cause of diabetes Type 2 is, but there's evidence it's linked to sugar. What this means is that you can't authoritatively state that sugar is the cause of
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by calibas 7y ago
In my opinion at least, the science is clear. The human body isn't built for large amounts of heavily processed foods, and consuming them in excess causes a whole spectrum of health issues. This is all made worse because health science
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by calibas 7y ago
By all means, tell me what causes Type 2 diabetes then. The actual science is unclear, but it's linked to your diet.
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by calibas 7y ago
That explains the difference between Type 1 and Type 2. I made sure to be clear which type I was talking about though.
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by calibas 7y ago
I hate that they begin with "No, you don’t get it from eating too many sweets." Then later they admit that Type 2 diabetes risk is greatly increased by an unhealthy diet. So you can get diabetes from an unhealthy diet, like a diet
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by calibas 7y ago
Why is there so much attention on glyphosate and not on polyethoxylated tallow amine? Both chemicals are in the weedkiller, yet the latter has consistently been proven to be more toxic.
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by calibas 7y ago
Here's a common Rust foreign function interface for Python, with quite a few examples: https://crates.io/crates/pyo3 Here's the one for C: https://crates.io/crates/libc
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by calibas 7y ago
Sounds like sleep paralysis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis Happened to me a couple times, but it's been like 15 years since.
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by calibas 7y ago
I'm actually quite experienced with web scraping, mostly using PHP and XPath, but also with Javascript as well as a custom approach written in Rust. I know in detail what an inconsistent mess everything is. That's why I'm so
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by calibas 7y ago
To me, that seems like a case against Javascript. Invalid or broken content should return an error, the parser shouldn't try to "fix" it. And things like data types should be strictly enforced, otherwise you can get unpredict
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by calibas 7y ago
How is Javascript better at string manipulation? I've never encountered anything special there that I can't do in just about every other language. Javascript just has more helper functions out of the box.
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by calibas 7y ago
Messing around with major/minor Python version compatibility and dependency conflicts has always been my least favorite part of Python. A tool like this is much appreciated!
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by calibas 7y ago
I was suggesting the correlation is deeper than just "circular reasoning", and I assume you agree since you mention two potential causations.
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by calibas 7y ago
Are observable differences not the basis of empirical science?
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by calibas 7y ago
Gender equality means you can enter into whatever profession you choose and not be discriminated against. It's about equal rights, equal treatment, it does not mean that men and women are the same, it's not a mathematical equality
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by calibas 7y ago
Seems like the police casually breaking the law is the core of the issue. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
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by calibas 7y ago
cough Five eyes cough
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by calibas 7y ago
Stingray use requires a warrant and every case should be dismissed where one was used without a warrant. I'm sure that's the main reason they want to hide the use of stingrays, they know they're doing something wrong. Police
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by calibas 7y ago
I believe it can bear load, but it takes something like a decade to harden to that point. It's like very slow curing concrete.
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by calibas 7y ago
There's a push towards more server-side rendering, though it's generally a pain in the butt at the moment. Also, executing JavaScript when scraping isn't that difficult, depending on what you're using to scrape. Node.js
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by calibas 7y ago
I assume it's like plagiarism, and if you rewrite the code "in your own words" you've copied the functionality but not the individual expression. Also seems that copyright regarding code and the whole world of copyleft i
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by calibas 7y ago
Thanks for that link! I found this part especially interesting: "In particular, the laws stress that it is a programmer’s expression of some functionality that may be protected by copyright, and not the functionality itself. If code em
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by calibas 7y ago
I forget that everything I copy from SO, and everything I post there, is under a CC BY-SA license. That SA is "share-alike" and I don't think people really understand what that means. From Wikipedia's article on it: &quo
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by calibas 7y ago
It depends, most require you to register first before your IP is hidden, just like Wikipedia. In both cases, it's so the mods at least have some kind of tools to (hopefully) identify who a person is.

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