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I'm actually quite interested in your N paragraphs about why the category is written the way it is, and especially about the principles under which it is (or was meant to be) effective..

Frankly it's something I've always wondered about, but as mostly a spectator of these kinds of discussions I've never seen anyone explain. Like a lot of folks, from my surface-level knowledge it seems arbitrary and likely meaningless. But so much so that it feels like I must be missing something.

Or any chance of a link to your previous cpmments on the topic?


I had a similar thought, along the lines of https://xkcd.com/538/


That's the closest link I could think of, but "deadlifting" is at best a very specific and small step toward the implicit goal of "become immune to all physical harm". It doesn't make sense, so I figure there has to be something I'm missing.


That was exactly what I was expecting, but the article was pretty good nonetheless


That's funny. I thought of a different XKCD. Deadlifting for a brute force-attack. https://xkcd.com/37/


Since we're doing "XKCD's relevant to the intersection of deadlifting and cryptography" - https://xkcd.com/189/


I could imagine that in practice you end up with a bunch of vulnerable people submitting themselves to experimentation by powerful companies, which is an unhealthy dynamic.


I agree that it could be an unhealthy dynamic but who should ultimately have the power to make that decision? The patient who wants to participate in a trial because it may offer a chance of improving his quality of life, or us?

Beyond that, allowing for these experimental trials, regardless of their success or failure, can accelerate medical progress that can enable better care for many more people in the future.


That's what I see a lot with Cancer drugs. People are dying and want to take a chance on really experimental stuff but the FDA will deny it. They want to try it because it could help them, or if not, at least help others by eliminating useless paths.

It's so strange that people feel it's wrong for patients to make their own choice on this, but they are okay forcing others to not have treatment. It's a "My decision is better than yours, I can decide what is better for you.


Agreed. People should have a strong right to repair that gives them liberty over hardware and software in their property especially in their body. Anti-cirumvention ought be illegal by default. The law should protect people from being prayed up on by controlling interests. Would that.


There are regulations in the us to protect human subjects from undue influence.


I believe this is required by code in some places, depending on the ___location of the switch. Mine is inset into the counter top, so plenty of opportunity for water to pool around it which I think would rule out an electrical switch.


Mine is also in the countertop, makes sense that code would require it in that case. Previous owner didn't like the idea of wet hands on a wall switch.


I've always understood the increase in diagnoses to be more about increased awareness than about a change in human behavior.

E.g. it looks like autism wasn't defined as a spectrum in the DSM until either 1994 or 2000: https://www.spectrumnews.org/news/evolution-autism-diagnosis....


My local big orange store sells both, there's a green pile and a KD pile.


thats really interesting - where do you live?


I have studied the properties of ketchup extensively at burger joints all over, and in my expert opinion Wikipedia has it correct here.

This is why ketchup barely flows when you invert the bottle, until you start banging on it and it gets moving and it all comes out at once (thinned by the shear stress of your banging and gravity)


Or you just shake the bottle at high frequency (and low amplitude), and you get a nice flow of ketchup.


I want something like this for accurate room presence detection in my house (for lights etc) that doesn't require dozens of PIR sensors or similar.

My dream is that the lights in my long hallway gradually dim up in front of me and back down behind me as I walk.


WiZ lightbulbs actually surprised me with this feature - they call it SpaceSense. You need two of their lightbulbs in a room to enable that feature: https://www.wizconnected.com/en-us/explore-wiz/spacesense


I'd settle for just "is there a person in this room?"

Taking even 30 minutes to converge that answer would still be great for lighting automation.


There are mmWave (5.8-60GHz) human presence sensors, https://smarthomescene.com/reviews/best-mmwave-human-presenc...

Aqara FP2 from China can isolate humans and room zones, https://smarthomescene.com/reviews/aqara-fp2-human-presence-...


Yeah, the mmWave sensors are a good step forward for detection presence compared to PIR, especially being able to define behavior based on multiple zones, although the latency is extremely high compared to PIR/ultrasonic. I was hoping to replace my PIR sensor with the FP2, but in the end I’m having to run both — PIR for instant on lights when entering room and mmWave for not leaving me in the dark when I’m at my desk working.

With that said, even if we mmWave sensors see significant improvements to latency, cost, and power consumption, I’m fairly convinced that it alone will never give me a completely satisfactory solution to presence. My garage/home office situation may be unique (or not), but I’ll always need a synthesis of multiple inputs/cues (SPL monitor, active BT connections, contact sensor activity, etc). Gotta love the lights shutting off abruptly while soldering audio equipment b/c I was laying down on the floor in the corner, and rather still, instead of doing normal human things. As with all good problems, just throw another abstraction layer at it :)


I never understood why the Aqara mmWave sensor doesn't also include a powered PIR sensor in it.


What is the connection between cookies and prostitution?


Surveillance and prostitution are arguably both violations of privacy/self human rights. Which society might decide may not be compelled nor bought&sold.


I think pants would work, if you put them in legs first.


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