this is my new favorite comment on this cursed website

> when taxpayers over in America forgo all of that...

Are you really claiming that if the US stopped subsidizing security overseas, American voters and politicians would suddenly begin to support "free healthcare and college" in the US? Your claim is that it's a _budget issue_?

Fascinating paper, and approachable for a layman like me. And in an rarity for academia, reading NEJM’s site is absolutely wonderful on mobile devices.

This opinion is heavily biased toward a white-nationalist narrative. For instance, the second linked “study” is actually a propaganda piece published by the New Century Foundation, an organization described by its founder, Jared Taylor, as “white-separatist”.

HN is not the place for this.

Can you find something wrong with the research itself in any of the papers that I linked?

Agreed - open body-hacking projects are amazing feats of community and perseverance, but the systemic cost and access issues that plague high-end medicine will persist until they’re addressed systemically.

I would point you to Swift's implementation of its "Character" type. Swift string handling is a model for how programming languages should approach Unicode characters and their complex combinations. The standard interface into all Swift strings is its "Character" type, which works exclusively with grapheme clusters.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Sw...

And they are changing a bunch of it for Swift 4: https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/docs/StringManife...

for the love of christ, it's OS X, not OS/X

I want to see someone come out with an OS/2 skin of sorts for OS X, just to make everyone in the world that much more confused.

And I hope you're pronouncing that as "Oh Ess Ten" and not "Oh Ess Ecks" ;-)

The Israeli policy of Palestinian suppression is to blame. Suppression and violence breeds terrorism and insurgency, and the civilian population of Israel (just like the civilian population of Gaza) suffers for it.

Change your policies. Violence breeds violence, civilian or otherwise.