This mostly comes down to the irrationality regarding risks when you're having kids.
Out of my own experience, and given the worst cases scenarios you hear from it's difficult not to fear for your loved ones (and I mean you literally feel it in your loins) especially when YOUR decision can have even the slightest chance of ruining their lives.
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Please don't get me wrong, I have kids, and their vaccines are up to date (like mine).
A chat with an hospital pediatrist can help, for me it's when he clearly explained that without vaccines a kid can be gone within 2 hours.
And virtually it's as narrow minded as refusing to take antibiotics.
It’s not difficult. There’s ample statistical evidence available, and super high quality resources online such as CDC if one wanted to educate themselves.
It’s people being lazy and wanting to subject the world to their ego of “I’m so smart because I believe in something contrary to the mainstream or against the establishment”.
There’s clear proof of fraud by the idiot that started the nonsense rumors of vaccine harm, and not a single person who knows basic math has shown risk of harm. There is no excuse, other than wanting to satisfy your own ego.
You're misreading the GP just so you can be a pedant about it.
GP's post is excellent because it highlights where the irrationality comes from. If you want to convince parents with antivaxx tendencies of anything, don't begin by calling them lazy or having ego issues.
Address their fears, explain how the risk of not vaccinating 1000x higher than any perceived risk vaccination can have.
I'm a parent and my kids go to a hippie school (hippie by Dutch standards, i.e. not very). The school is great but one downside is there's a disproportionate amount of antivaxxers among the parents. They very deeply believe in it, not unlike deeply religious people. I've seen it happen, calling them idiots is only going to light their fire. But reminding people why this entire vaccination thing got started in the first place can truly help sway people who are on the fence. Most young-ish people who grew up in the west have no perception about how terrible these diseases are because nobody around them gets them anymore.
Friend of a friend stumbled across a more effective method.
Ask antivaxxers "What if anti-vaccine information is fake news planted by Russia to weaken our country?" (Not sure if the geopolitics play in your locale, salt to taste)
Only half-joking. It's surprisingly effective because it plays with their (a) propensity to believe conspiracies, (b) distrust of traditional media, (c) distrust of governments, (d) desire to feel smarter than everyone else.
Nope, you misread me, I clearly stated the term "irrationality".
I consider myself as educated, though having your own kids and being responsible for their life and well-being is what makes you doubt vaccines, especially when you read about people developing multiple sclerosis or other neurodegenerative symptoms following a vaccination.
The cause of the irrational behavior is the idea that one is more qualified than medical researchers in every developed country after reading a few websites about vaccine “effects”. To me, that is to satisfy one’s ego. An educated person knows where the limits of their knowledge is, and becoming a parent does not endow you with the ability to analyze vaccine efficacy, or any other subject matter.
For some parents it may be ego or hubris, for others irrational fear, and in many cases it may be driven by the consensus of a social group that someone identifies with.
The fact that individuals are making decision contrary to available evidence and data may be hard to accept (esp. for the HN community) but it happens all the time.
In order to convince people to change their behavior, appealing to the emotional and pro-social drivers may be more effective than providing better rational arguments.
To be clear: I am not endorsing people making obviously bad decisions, it drives me crazy, and I am 100% pro vaccines.
I think the inquisition against the ignorant is also in it to satisfy their egos, so we have two groups that are playing this game.
We have public health care and you always get at least a vaccine against tetanus if you even hit your small toe and go to the doc. Slightly exaggerated but not by much. Nobody questioned it. And it wasn't esoteric moms on youtube that let people be skeptical, it was the pressure to enforce vaccination that did. I have no data, but these are the usual behavior patterns you can currently observe in almost all political debates.
Enforcing vaccinations is mostly a populist policy.
> And virtually it's as narrow minded as refusing to take antibiotics
Antibiotics are over prescribed. And due to that we enjoy Multidrug-resistant bacteria. Antibiotics are the opposite of vaccines. By taking them needlessly you fuck up everyone else.
No, I think this is a dangerous excuse for unacceptable behaviour. Caring "irrationally" about your kids is taking them to the doctor a small cough that is probably zero cause for concern. It's zealously taking them for their shots and for their medicine, etc.
That's the reason why there was a USB port on each side of the original Apple keyboard (not the wireless one of course). These ports (on the back) are most likely located there with the idea of having a device pluggued in for good and not moved so often.
I agree, what's more important IMHO is education/knowledge of existing data manipulation, after all 99% of the work is reuse not pure creation (incremental vs pure innovation).
Algorithmicians (? - well... algorithm researchers, obviously) and programmers are not working in the same field of work, even though the boundary might seem thin for most, there's a world between both.
And that's why you must monitor your servers health. You know, for when they're starting to act funny.
I'm not related in any way with them but as a personnal favorite (I even use it at home) I'd recommend Zabbix as it's open source and quite straighforward to install and deploy its agents, once configured you can even forget about it.
Gosh, its default alerts will give you hints on things you never considered checking before while the integration of new/bespoke software can be done in a matter of minutes.
Archyn allows to build comparison matrices were any change on an Element is seamlessly cascaded everywhere without hassle.
I've built this because I wanted to have a smart comparison matrix generator without spending too much time on the logic and necessary orchestration.
For the record, all the examples you see in the landing page where built using this generator.
Basically to make your own Matrix you need to:
- Declare the Elements and Groups you'd like to compare,
- Create Qualifers and Affinities to link them (thing 1 "likes" thing 2),
- Create a Matrix and select which Elements or Groups you want to compare,
- Publish your Matrix and copy/paste its proposed code,
- Voilà!
Once done, your Matrix becomes live: any change to its Elements or Affinities will be cascaded down to it automatically.
Some sample data is already loaded when you sign-up so that you can play around to give you an idea about the concept.
Don't hesitate to give the free version a run, it's ad free with no time limit, and any thing you do remains private in your own Workspace (no sharing).
Also with any paid version you get the possibility to publicize your matrices so that you can embed them in your own website as well as an access to the JSON API for more complex scenarios.
I've built this because I wanted to have a smart comparison matrix generator without spending a minute on the logic and necessary orchestration.
For the record, the examples you see in the landing page where built using this generator.
Basically to make your own Matrix you need to:
- Declare the Elements and Groups you'd like to compare,
- Create Qualifers and Affinities to link them (thing 1 "likes" thing 2),
- Create a Matrix and select which Elements or Groups you want to compare,
- Voilà!
Once done, your Matrix becomes live: any change to its Elements or Affinities will be cascaded down to it automatically.
Some sample data is already loaded when you sign-up so that you can play around to give you some idea on the concept.
Don't hesitate to give the free version a run, it's ad free with no time limit, and any thing you do remains private in your own Workspace (no sharing).
With any paid version you get the possibility to publicize your matrices so that you can embed them in your own website.
Quipu are from the Andes in South America. It's several thousand miles away.
There's no evidence of writing in pre-contact Pueblo cultures. There are some rock pictographs that might have symbolic meanings, that's about as close as it gets. It's a bit of a mystery why Central American writing systems didn't make their way this far north.
Point "2. Maintain regular backups." should rather be "2. Maintain regular backups and validate your restoration process."
How painful it can be when you realize that your backup process was wrong from the beginning and you're left with a useless gigabytes sized blob when in need to restore your DB...
When you have kids you come very quickly to the realization that rewards aren't a mean to efficiently motivate. However intrisic motivation is exaclty this: intrinsic.
So what? Unless you can do Inception in your kids dreams to push them to realise that what you ask them is not what you want but what's actually good for them, you're bond to use rewards because that's the only thing that actually works.
Intrinsic motivation comes from the realization that you must do something for good (your own or others, but in the end it's only for you... but that's another ethical topic).
On another note a theory which seems to fit particularly well is called Janus. The concept lies in the existence of a twin universe (ours being matter based the twin being antimatter based) merged together where the black holes are basically where the antimatter is concentrated and thus repulses all the matter hence this seemingly void. This is a succint summary but I hope it makes sense to the more knowledgeable readers of HN.
Yeah you can interpret a Schwarzchild radius as a “void” in a certain sense (though more like a one-way dump) but a black hole is still very much a participant in the physics of our universe
Actually, as far as I get it, black holes just don't exist: it's a journalist term coined for a mathematical concept.
In short a black hole is how we call the possible existence of a place in the universe where there is no time nor energy, but it's no more than a mathematical possibility in the end as these are common variables in astrophysics.
Black holes exist, in the sense that we have observed several phenomena that can be easily explained by the presence of a black hole, but which couldn't be explained otherwise. For example the orbits of stars around Sagittarius A* ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagittarius_A* ) and the X-ray emmission of Cygnus X-1 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cygnus_X-1 ).
> In short a black hole is how we call the possible existence of a place in the universe where there is no time nor energy
I don't know where you got this idea, but black holes don't have "no time" and they contain lots of energy (often several stars' worth).
Keep in mind that time is relative, so when talking about extreme situations like black holes it's important to keep track of what we're talking relative to. In particular, if an astronaut left a space ship, approached a black hole, passed beyond the event horizon and carried on going, that astronaut wouldn't really notice: if they looked forwards into the black hole they'd just see normal looking space, if they looked backwards they'd see their ship just as if they'd not entered the black hole. Relative to the astronaut, space and time appear completely normal; hence it doesn't make sense to talk about black holes having "no time".
Things would look different relative to the ship: the image of the astronaut they see would redshift as it approached the event horizon, and would also slow down until it came to a stop when at the horizon.
Note that this ignores tidal forces, which can be large around small black holes (the astronaut would certainly notice if their body were torn apart!). For large black holes like Sagittarius A* the tidal forces at the event horizon should be small enough to ignore.
Thanks for the clarification, perhaps I was misleading, the point being that black holes have been deduced by mathematical interpretation, not observation of a phenomenon and today as per your own example we're still trying to find proof of their existence.
On the other hand, based on my understanding of the Janus model as I said in my first comment, the location of the seemingly void places are actually explained by the concentration of antimatter, which repulses matter through gravity.
A possibly wrong summary of what I'm visibly struggling to communicate:
This model explains how on the same way matter concentration attracts matter and rejects anti-matter, antimatter concentration attract antimatter and rejects matter.
The predominance of matter over antimatter I thought was explained by symmetry breaking at the ultra extreme conditions of early universe? Would there be a twin universe for other broken symmetries?
That's what is explained in the Janus model, both universes coexist in the same space and are rejecting each other through gravity, matter "won" over antimatter only by a tiny bit but sufficient to allow large portions of matter to remain. Though the appearance of both at the early times of the universe was in beyond colossal amounts, both being annihilated by each other when they met.
Out of my own experience, and given the worst cases scenarios you hear from it's difficult not to fear for your loved ones (and I mean you literally feel it in your loins) especially when YOUR decision can have even the slightest chance of ruining their lives. -- Edit: Please don't get me wrong, I have kids, and their vaccines are up to date (like mine). A chat with an hospital pediatrist can help, for me it's when he clearly explained that without vaccines a kid can be gone within 2 hours. And virtually it's as narrow minded as refusing to take antibiotics.