I agree with you about respectful dissent. I have found that Lemmy, far moreso than other platforms, is afraid of hearing anything that challenges their beliefs and assumptions.

That said, their statement didn’t even cover that. I would describe the need to be comments that are made in good faith, to better drive the conversation/understanding in a community.

Flat earthers rarely post in good faith. They are overwhelmingly trolls attempting to derail a conversation.

But someone that posts to a vegan community about a new study about the health effects of eating meat is sometimes acting in good faith. Articles like this can drive genuine conversation. It all depends on context.

Same for politics. Look at how badly posts were down voted for showing (valid) polls with Trump winning.

Hell, look at the various technology communities. If you don’t have the approach of “Windows bad! Linux good!”, you will be down voted or moderated.

Even in communities/topics loaded with trolls (climate change, LGBT, anything politics), there’s still room for dissent in good faith.

While technically true, this really doesn’t change the question. Life is a complex series of chemical reactions; death is what happens when these reactions stop.

Let’s say you die of heart failure. Your heart stops pumping blood. Then the brain stops getting oxygen, due to the lack of blood. Then rigor mortis, and so on. If these aren’t all fixed, you would also re-die immediately (actually, without the brain function being fixed, you would never really be alive again).

The premise assumes that all of that has been addressed by them coming back to life. Adding a few external factors doesn’t change that. If it did, the simple fact that most people are buried and would suffocate would render the point moot. Same for decomposition.

Although cremation would be awfully hard to tackle…

That also implies that there is more to get excited about. It’s entirely possible that the leaks have completely stolen the thunder of their big reveal.

I also suspect that when they say “not official”, what they really mean is “not final”. i.e. These are prototypes, and could change by the time it’s officially announced. They could also be contractually limited from statements, in a “we can neither confirm nor deny” kind of way.

I do agree with your larger point that their press release left something to be desired.

This is also the reason why you frequently see the phrases “These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA” and "Not intended to “diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease”

Dude, there is always something else going on.

Relationships are not 1-dimension concepts formed on appearances. They are complex, with many facets and details that go into it.

Have you ever seen a couple and wondered “why is someone so hot with someone that ugly?” That’s because it’s not built in looks alone. Maybe he’s confident, or rich, or a good listener, or he’s good with kids, or any of a thousand other good qualities. Realistically it’s a combination of them all, because these don’t exist in isolation. And it applies in both directions. What changes are the criteria (e g. Men aren’t expected to have perfect skin, women aren’t expected to be confident. Generally)

I can tell you that they wouldn’t have included it if it didn’t serve a purpose. However, that purpose might be for a feature you don’t use, or possibly even one that doesn’t exist for your board (e.g. if there’s a similar model with features added/removed, they may simply leave components off the lesser SKUs. For instance, you sometimes see solder points for 4 RAM slots, when only 2 are installed)

While I’m a fan of using things until they truly break, you have to consider what this could mean. If they are for voltage regulation, you could end up with rich, chunky volts to your CPU, RAM, GPU, etc.

If they are for thermal cutoff, things could melt or even catch fire. It might even happen when you aren’t home.

And if they are for RGB controls, you could end up with no lights, and that would just be too boring to accept. (/s)

You have posted enough questions on related topics that I recognize your name.

I say this with all the kindness in the world, I think it’s time for you to speak with a therapist. This is about more than just your career progression.

You’re both right. It’s important to note that this classification only applies to botany. Botanically, it’s a fruit. Just like a peanut is botanically a bean.

Culinarally, tomatoes are a vegetable.

And for the purposes of tariffs, taxes, and customs, according to Nix v Hedden, it’s a vegetable.

There are many ways to classify an item. This just happens to cross boundaries depending on context.

There’s almost some truth to it. Certain foods, like salts and carbs, in certain situations, like low salt/carb diets, can have a ripple effect. 100g of carbs, or a few grams of salt, can cause your body to retain water. The effect being that you gained several pounds from eating just a few (hundred) grams of certain foods.

However, for your body to retain that water, you must also consume said water.

Have you noticed the rich are suddenly encouraging people to have (more) kids? It’s the only way to put more labor into the system. And labor is what money really represents.

The rich are stealing your labor.

If you have chronic back pain (not temporary, and not linked to an activity), you need to see a doctor first.

No, really. See a doctor. Because ALL of the exercises you see can seriously injure you, even permanently, depending on your exact condition. What works miracles for someone else may work backwards for you. Even if they have a similar condition, or it’s in a similar group (e g. Core strengthening)

And above all else, listen to your body. If it hurts, stop doing it.

Source: I’ve been through this the hard way

I’m not familiar with NYC, but isn’t this exactly the opposite of their goals? If you are staying within the congestion zone, you should be taking a different form of transportation. It’s only when leaving that area that you have a (potentially) valid reason to take your own car.

Pirates are absolutely still a thing. But it’s not Blackbeard and Captain Hook. It’s usually Somali pirates, with a heavy emphasis on the violence.

South Park actually had an episode about exactly this.

In a world of anarchy, you can get away with anything, until someone stronger (i.e. military) shows up.

If the entire Internet/power grid just shut down permanently, it probably wouldn’t take very long until you (and everyone around you) died. It’s not just your entertainment anymore.

Electricity obviously keeps your electric appliances going, including HVAC. Even if it’s gas, it probably needs electricity to work (e.g. fans on the furnace).

Electricity at a grid level keeps the natural gas flowing. Any backup options would quickly deplete.

It’s also necessary for gasoline, since it all stops flowing if it can’t be billed. Remember the gas shortage because of a ransomware attack? Those systems won’t have power very long.

You won’t have tap water, nor would there be clean/treated water at the source.

Now, what if you had electricity, but there was no longer any Internet? Well, that’s a little better. It’s possible that emergency operations could be implemented (using the military) to keep you barely alive, until things could be fixed. But let’s just assume the Internet is completely gone. Then what happens?

Remember when I mentioned the ransomware attack? Those systems probably don’t have an offline mode. If they can’t bill for it, the gas stops flowing.

No credit cards, no bank transfers, no phones. The public Internet is now the medium for nearly all communication outside of an org.

You can’t buy food at the grocery store, but it won’t matter for long because they can’t order anything more, and the trucks can’t deliver it.

Most people would be dead in about a week, maybe 2.

Here’s a much better comic on the subject:

https://m.xkcd.com/1357/

To me, it looks like defective vram. The cursor is rendered at a different physical memory location, which may still be intact.

ETA: the cursor being intact is actually very important- that quite effectively rules out the screen itself (LCD panel), since they wouldn’t care if it’s the cursor.

This type of question is common during the interview phase. It’s usually used (by the applicant) to show leadership and accountability.

It’s weird to see it as part of the application phase. I guess it’s just front-loading the questions, but it does feel like “jump through our hoops”

Also, be sure to run extensive burn in tests before deploying for production use. I had an entire batch from GoHardDrive fail on me during that testing, so my data was never in danger.

I can tell you that this is not universal. I eat very spicy food on a regular basis, and it does not give me diarrhea.

I can’t remember a time that it did, either. I remember when I felt the burn, twice, but not from diarrhea. Is it possible that it’s not the spice, but the spicy food? For instance, is your body reacting to the greasy chicken wings instead of the capsaicin?

This approach becomes extremely problematic once you leave the medical field, and it’s already problematic within.

The easy example is religion. Is it ok to manipulate them to save their souls? But let’s dial it back a notch. What about if someone doesn’t want kids, but you know they would be happier with them? What about giving up sex, drugs, and rock n roll? What about starting sex, drugs, and rock n roll?

Yes, people are stupid. And medicine is complicated and difficult to understand. And in systems like American healthcare, there’s a ton of bullshit on top of everything. But it’s very rare to be ok to deny them their agency to make a decision.

Of course, IME in the US, it won’t be the patient refusing treatment; it’ll be their insurance company that does so. And if not them, then finances in another form.