Top subreddits are pretty much all like that. The smaller subs are really what makes reddit a great place. Often as the smaller subs grow bigger, I tend to find myself unsubbing from them.
In this case though we've examples of how bad it can get. Iran comes to mind. As this progresses we'll see what happens to countries who didn't attempt any quarantine or drastic measures at all.
That won't be the US though which is already quietly quarantining things. Conferences are being postponed. Companies are stopping all non-emergency travel. Nursing homes are not allowing visitors.
I'm seeing it where I am at least. It used to 10-12 dollars per lb now it's down to 6 dollars a lb. A month ago I got some at 8 dollars a lb and I already thought it was a steal.
There are services that exists that checks if a person is real or not (requiring Id, passports, real facial captures, etc). Surprised that twitter didn't even do the most basic checks.
They're giving them a delusion of freedom so that most won't realize they're censored or passively accept it. If the government goes all out then it might cause a revolt. Soft tactics are always scarier than hard tactics.
The shitty thing about Equifax is that there's no way to not be a part of their credit score system. For Visa and MC, I can choose to not use their cards and go with something else. With Equifax, I can't stop using their service to stifle their business. I'm amazed the government is not intervening in cases like these where the end consumers have no choice in the matter.
Personally I've always called them flaky tests. I agree with the article that flaky tests shouldn't be ignored completely. But the issue is they take much more effort than usual test failures to debug. So it comes down to a balancing act of how much effort you're willing to spend debugging these vs the chance that it's an actual issue.
In my few years of automation experience, I've only seen 2 actual instances where the flaky tests were an actual issues and one of them should've been found by performance testing. Almost all of the rest were environment related issues. It's tough testing across all of the different platforms without running into some environment instability.
This is something brought up in Buddhism as change of state. Basically happiness spawns from the change state: going from normal to better state brings happiness. Same applies for going from a down state back to normal. In this case from doing something miserable back to normal. This is important because suffering follows the same logic and Buddhism emphasizes on recognizing these change of states. This helped explain the emptiness or sadness I often feel after a big reunion with family members, a big party, doing something exciting, etc. I think it also helps explain why people chasing after the constant highs will never attain the happiness they're looking for since after staying high for a period of time, it'll become the new norm.
The dopamine system is a harsh mistress - she doles out based on measured differences in states, and not based on any intrinsic absolute value of the state itself - although evolution sets her priors.
