It is disturbing how the moderators of HN are condoning the comments in this thread (the top comment by 'neonsunset' provides tools that enable DDoSing a foreign government website) that are encouraging cyber warfare against a nation-state that is considered an 'enemy' of their state (the USA).
Had a Russian/enemy state website had a similar thread that condoned cyber-attacks against the USA critical infrastructure, they would be flagged as terrorists and 'empire' publications like major US newspapers would be all over it as "war against the USA".
All this bluster from capitalists merely reflects hypocrisy.
> Had a Russian/enemy state website had a similar thread that condoned cyber-attacks against the USA critical infrastructure, they would be flagged as terrorists
Look up the difference between belligerent and victim, and the word compassion.
I don't see why you're dragging another political topic, capitalism, into the conversation when it's about thwarting what you call terrorists. It seems flamebaity but I'm replying in the hope you're seriously interested in the conversation.
Perhaps Westerners view all non-western science as pseudoscience or made up, but it is a well-known fact in many Eastern cultures (and their medicinal practices) that the stomach is a primary source of disease (and not just depression, but all kinds) when abused through bad eating habits.
Then the wheel is re-invented with intermittent fasting, a diet with less processed foods, more veg/fruit, less meat, etc.
Whenever I see articles about health on HN, I no longer take them too seriously because the reductionist approach to medicine is why people get mistreated for symptoms instead of the disease.
Even the ancient Greeks (the so-called birthplace of "western knowledge") took a more holistic approach than what the sketchy for-profit medical/pharmaceutical cabal does.
But of course, we need to take it seriously because "the scientists say so", even though their own research system is so badly broken that a for-profit cabal runs the publishing arm of research.
"Western Science"'s insistence on procedure, double-blind studies with control groups, finding provable reasons why, etc. have debunked most of pre-modern medicine. That some elements have withstood the test of close examination is not a criticism of our methods, more a validation. As are stunning improvements in life.
No, western science hasn't "debunked" anything with studies. They started out without accepting anything from other cultures, simply because they are from other cultures. As time has passed, the cultural medicines from various cultures have been studied poorly and patented and sold to people, mostly as long-term treatments of symptoms, never as cures. In every country, multinatinational drug cartel has made it impossible for local doctors to evem exist let alone prescribe traditional medicine, unless approved by the cartel, patented by them and sold for a huge margin.
I believe the western medicine overall has created more health problems than it has solved, if you exclude treatment of acute trauma.
I'm sure every culture, including Western ones, has some kind(s) of food everywhere along the "healthy" to "medicinal" scale.
Everyone agrees what you eat is important, nobody can agree on what that should be, hopefully this kind of research will tell us.
784 upvotes at the time of writing this comment. I see a lot of links/threads bashing Google for their shitty AI and non-existent human support on HN all the time but ...
I think the same resentment is slowly brewing for YC too. Whether it is misinformation or weak arguments, it won't matter too much. People generally don't like monopolies at all and YC does have a monopoly on the SV startup scene at the moment (from an outsiders view, every startup with even an idea knows that YC is the springboard for unlocking more opportunity/capital/network).
I wonder if the end result is YC ending up being innovated out of the startup scene itself. I don't think so because they are in the money game, not the tech game (see JPMorgan, Goldman).
As for the content, I can't be arsed. Capitalists will be capitalists.
This is such an amazing technology for the many tech people who are having to deal with hand/finger/elbow issues after extensive usage for years on their keyboards.
I was looking for this type of tech for at least 2 years and I am glad it now exists.
I like this idea for the very simple fact that I now know its plausible to write blog content with a pen and paper and then some GPT-3 AI will scan those words and make it into digital text for me.
Counter-intuitively, I wonder what gaming would be like if everyone ran the same cheats/mods? Would it be the same as "if everyone is rich, then nobody is" or would it devolve into such a state where cheating/modding gets so boring that people just go back to casual play ...
On the other hand, gaming is now a big commercial entity, including 'pros' and 'streamers'. With money involved, fraud and cheating ain't far behind.
If you look at what's happened to certain games without anti-cheat you can actually answer that question! It turns out that it mostly devolves into a bunch of AIs playing against each other with the actual humans just passively watching. Perhaps exciting to see your aim bot beat the others, but overall not much of an interactive experience anyone
And a hell of a lot more where that came from. There was one instance where players had exploited a popular no-rules server to spawn in items that dealt 32,000 damage, the administrator attempting to patch it and the players playing the cat-and-mouse game of trying to keep using them for as long as possible. The creativity is really something else. As for their music choice in that video- par for the course when dealing with the 4chan of Minecraft.
Every few days, articles like these keep cropping up with click-bait headlines about preventing all types of diseases in old age. The headlines almost always never match up to the content or even the reality of trying to treat or prevent these many diseases.
Another reality is that death, old age(and sickness with it) strikes such fear into people's hearts that they are willing to walk around with perpetual erections to prevent Alzheimer's disease(and the absurdity of my comment is linked to the absurdity of the click-bait title)
It's a smooth muscle vasodilator. Of course it will increase the blood flow of capillaries in the brain, the question is whether that's a good thing. It's plausible that it has some cognitive benefits — but also, entirely plausible that it might lead to oxidative damage. Without more research, it's impossible to say. Amid so many pseudoscientific headlines it's easy to be cynical, but this seems actually like a good research question to be asking.
This must be a PR nightmare for Israel, which brings me to my related topic of Israel's other major weapon in its cyber arsenal.
I think this falls under a type of disinformation. I don't know of any other state that has effectively weaponized any/all criticism against it as religious discrimination: antisemitism
Here is a basic example:
> (in no way am I promoting antisemitism or encouraging racial stigmas but this example is so common and the least harmless I can think of) "all Jews are greedy" - clearly antisemitic
> Israel is guilty of murdering non-combatant children in Gaza - has nothing to do with Judaism. Involves the very sensitive problem of murdering innocent children. Is part of the complex Israel/Palestine political issue. Yet this could also end up being spun as an attack on Jews and being antisemitic.
I think getting labelled an 'antisemite' in a country like the USA is career-suicide. It does play into the conspiracies about Israel's influence, but my theory goes that criticism of Israel in a country like the USA is just wrong-think/wrong-speak. Getting to this level of disinformation is incredible. Hopefully the dictators in the Middle-East(and customers of NSO) don't catch on and start weaponizing criticism of them as Islamophobic ...
All you said is fine as long as you recognize antisemitism is a thing. It is just a branch of racism/xenophobia. Any group with a name can be marked as enemy and attacked if retaliation is not expected.
Indeed, it is a thing, and has been for a long time. But labeling free speech as antisemitic is now quite common.
Here in the US, there is plenty of legislation at the state level that requires individuals and businesses sign agreements in order to gain employment or secure funding (advertisement, in the case of newspapers). For example, the law in Texas prevents an individual from being employed as a teacher (or contractor) if they support boycotts of Israeli companies. I'm not arguing for or against these boycotts but legislation preventing boycotts is now a condition of employment in some states.
Antisemitism is definitely a thing, a very bad thing with a very long history and lots of horrific things done to semitic peoples in many places over that long history. For sake of discussion, I will stipulate that it is a branch of racism/xenophobia.
Lots of ethnic groups/races in lots of countries have been victims of racism and xenophobia by lots of other groups in their own countries and in other countries.
Israel, as a country, has been very effective at weaponizing its "victim of racism/xenophobia." The ubitquity of the term "antisemitism" and the staunch defenders of the term are part of this weaponization. I have difficulty identifying other words that represent "a specific group that is a victim of racism/xenophobia" as well as antisemitism does.
I was hoping to see some link between labor and demand. Wouldn't more employed people or higher salaries translate to increased demand? By that inverse, if demand is decreasing, does that mean less employed people or stagnating/lower wages?
The expensive displays that cost between $150-$300 for 7-8 inch screens, excluding shipping.