Professional nerds in silicon valley and beyond might consider whether they can help, and how.
My understanding from long conversations with a beekeeper who has lost millions of bees, including entire colonies remote from agricultural and residential pesticides and artificial colony technology (which are some of the hypothesized causes blamed) is there is a mix of a) pathogens, and b) global supply chain homogeny distributing the pathogens mixed into various agricultural products eg mulch and soil, and c) environmental factors to include possibly RF which have been observed to destroy previously healthy colonies very quickly and then also scramble or interfere with the colony division/expansion process where a queen starts over. To include in some cases the queens apparently getting lost and/or leading astray their entire swarm of minion bees during the fragile process of relocating. This getting lost is apparently a new puzzling phenomenon.
Anyway, it would be bad if large fragile ecosystems upon which many species including ours depend, were deprived of key pollinators. There is probably some very smart insightful person or team here on HN who could help and profit from helping on a global scale.
I was in such a meeting yesterday where multiple participants were required by law to be each in same meeting from different computers in same room and with their mics and speakers on, and same law prevents use of conference room camera speakers and mic. There was a constant and annoying audio echo for everyone.
From governments, of course. There were times when criticism of anything and everything was a common and safe practice online. There are very few places where it is possible to keep practicing this now.
Raccoons have been living literally inside of houses for centuries.
One was kept as a pet in Jamestown Virginia in the 1600s. Another lived in the White House in the 1900s. Surely, not a decade has passed between have there been NO domesticated raccoons in the US? If living near humans changes animals, that started at least 25,000 years ago here in North America. Not recently.
My neighbors had a pet raccoon growing up. It lived inside but would come and go.
The people who wrote this article seem out of touch with the topic they chose to pretend to be experts about?
> Surely, not a decade has passed between have there been NO domesticated raccoons in the US?
An animal of wild parentage that was raised by humans is tame but not domesticated. So no, there's aren't really domesticated racoons, only tame ones.
Domestication is a process that takes many generations. It is a selective breeding process more than anything else. Animals that are 1 generation away from wild ancestors aren't domesticated, by definition.
And the last category is feral animals, "that live in the wild but are descended from domesticated individuals.".
> The people who wrote this article seem out of touch with the topic they chose to pretend to be experts about?
This is quickly becoming the norm for experts, unfortunately. I keep seeing more an more people with educational expertise in something that they have zero hands-on or practical experience with.
I remember being at a social event once and chatting with someone who was a business professor at any Ivy League university. Making small talk, I asked him which companies he'd worked at, and he told me that he had gone the academic track and started teaching during and after getting his PhD (in exactly what I don't remember). I remember being stunned that students would pay over $60k a year to learn about business from someone who'd never worked for or started a business.
> I remember being stunned that students would pay over $60k a year to learn about business from someone who'd never worked for or started a business.
Were you stunned that your parents paid lots of money to put you in front of educators from kindergarten to college?
Why would you restrict yourself to learning from one businessman when you can get learn from an educator who has distilled the experiences of hundreds if not thousands of business people?
That doesn't mean the process is happening naturally as asserted. For instance, wild black wolves in the US got this trait from hybridization with domesticated dogs.
I think you’re mistaking slight natural adaption for domestication, and taking domestication for granted. Go into nature and try and train a wild wolf. Good luck! You can’t.
Domestication, in the way that we see having happened with dogs (and cattle, and chickens) takes a really long time.
We consider cats “domesticated” and yet demonstrably they are not. If they were much bigger, they’d eat us, and if set into wild, nearly all household cats immediately revert to feral.
I owned five ferrets once. Loved them so much, but came to the realization that there are animals that should be pets and animals that maybe shouldn’t (yet). I think we have many, many more generations before raccoons are at the same level as dogs.
Ironic choice: ferrets are a wholly domesticated species of weasel, bred for rat hunting. They are domesticated, by any reasonable standard I'm aware of, as are cats.
I'm sorry your experience with cats hasn't been as pleasant, but I assure you they are much more domesticated than chickens - which you seem to have little experience with. Screw eating us - they'll eat each other.
You’re wrong on several things. There’s a big difference in the kind of domestication of dogs - which we generally think of when we think of domestication - and animals who serve extracurricular domestication, ie ferrets.
I also have 2 cats, having had 2 prior. They’re great. But it’s just science that they are not fully domesticated.
I also lived on a farm as a kid.
So let’s not make assumptions to prove an incorrect point.
These words all have different meaning. Because they all have different origins. Modern English (say post Shake-Speare, but especially American TV and music that is marketed globally) have grotesquely collapsed these words already.
For example
- Happy means "I'm feeling lucky." Like the old Google search button. You're happy when you say, hit your full house on the river... precisely because what just HAPPENED fulfilled your hope, but randomly and subtley perhaps without agency. This is a Norse germanic word. Its romance synonym is not pleased, rather fortunate. For example a baseball player hitting a home run off the bottom ten feet of the foul (fair) pole is and should feel happy; the same player hitting a home run entirely out of the park having successfully predicted the pitch with skill and agency, this is different. They are experiencing a different feeling. We've just forgotten the meaning of words. For example see Shakespeare "Oh happy dagger..." for a juxtaposition that is already playing with this. Obviously the inanimate object doesn't have feelings. And she is not glad or delighted, she's suicidal at that moment. It's the dagger that has won the lottery of sheathing itself in her tragic bosom?
- Glad means not pleased or happy but rather "bright and shining" or what a third party would perceive as radiant or glowing, even joyful. So Achilles in his touched/trance zone, bride walking down altar? Shakespeare uses it to connote an inside feeling in response to again something out of your control but not, as with happy, having any concept of fortune or luck. Rather like, I am glad of you, seeing you, being with you. It wants a other person and speaks intrinsically to a subject-object interaction: it's about perception and reaction. Happy is about being stoked because YOU were lucky, nobody needs to witness it. Glad requires an other. Notably Neil Sheehan chose "A Bright Shining lie" for his amazing book. This is another very intellectual choice (like Juliet above by Shakespeare) by an author who clearly knows his etymology? It's about the tension between what was really going on (objectively) and what people thought was going on (subjectively).
- Pleased is our first non-Germanic word. Broadly, English from German/Norse origins are a) older, b) shorter, and c) experiential not analytical. Pleasure is not that. It's going to be arriving with the Normans circa 1066 (a few generations before and after, by location in physical geography of the Anglophones ie Bordeaux vs Yorkshire) and the key concept is satisfying somebody's expectations: Pleased means a state of Acceptableness. Your home run above satisfies the expectations of the coach and your fans. That's why they are cheering. Not because you are happy to be lucky; or glad to be on fire; but because you accomplished THEIR goals. It's a technical analytical state of being, eg you should be pleased your candidate release passes acceptance/regressio testing. I hope you don't feel happy or look too glad. Act like you've done this before etc. A football player who puts down the football after scoring without a stupid celebration dance is pleased.
- Delighted is obviously another non Germanic admix word in via the romance languages with the Frenchies. The key concept is your experience of something alluring, charming, seductive, delicious. It's a
.. sensual word but also, like so many romance language words is a bit detached and analytical. Smart guy word for the feeling at the end of a process of getting what you wanted. Unlike happ and glad, which are for... bros verbing/living in the moment? The fact delighted just means "super pleased" or "double plus glad" now is a sign we already live in the collapse you envision. Which is a shame.
Ps you can fix it by reading books that are merely 50+ years old.
The patient would be 100% correct to blame the hospital staff for this incident. The only possible explanation is human error by the staff. The only reason this doesn't happen every day in hospitals around the world is MRI staff are not incompetent.
I think the sorting hat outcomes for technical polymaths and driven entrepreneurs is the hat is sometimes quantum, and can rightfully put you into any or multiple houses at Hogwarts? Like Harry.
Last time I had a major surgery the anesthesiologist at Stanford was also simultaneously a full time employee of Apple. (At the time we were competitors; we figured out during surgical prep that we had friends/colleagues in common.)
Similarly, while working at another FAANG company, one of my colleagues was simultaneously a practicing MD (PCP) at Stanford. He later left both jobs, to start own biz.
At one point he referred me to another Stanford doc who was simultaneously the founder of a diagnostic-tech startup, which sadly has since fizzled.
Lastly, I know a practicing anesthesiologist married to a serial entrepreneur who's built and sold stuff you've heard of. They or some of their hundreds of employees may be here, dunno. Won't out them.
https://youtu.be/qWsBZbnt_4A?si=3AcS7IdGT41gF598
Professional nerds in silicon valley and beyond might consider whether they can help, and how.
My understanding from long conversations with a beekeeper who has lost millions of bees, including entire colonies remote from agricultural and residential pesticides and artificial colony technology (which are some of the hypothesized causes blamed) is there is a mix of a) pathogens, and b) global supply chain homogeny distributing the pathogens mixed into various agricultural products eg mulch and soil, and c) environmental factors to include possibly RF which have been observed to destroy previously healthy colonies very quickly and then also scramble or interfere with the colony division/expansion process where a queen starts over. To include in some cases the queens apparently getting lost and/or leading astray their entire swarm of minion bees during the fragile process of relocating. This getting lost is apparently a new puzzling phenomenon.
Anyway, it would be bad if large fragile ecosystems upon which many species including ours depend, were deprived of key pollinators. There is probably some very smart insightful person or team here on HN who could help and profit from helping on a global scale.
Edit. Typos