maxheadroom

>...but strictly just means "not a manager right now".

There's also the verisimilitude that it can also mean an inferred ceiling. For example, Principal <whatever area> Engineer role[s] at Microsoft is [are] typically the highest that you can go - if you stick to the IC (read: non-managerial) track[s].

Does this sound like Downing Street is gearing-up for mass surveillance, post-Brexit, or is it just me?

Giving the benefit of doubt, I'm assuming that they meant the UK being a protector of the US interest[s]; however, I could be wrong.

Surprised that this is the first comment about this on here but we really need a better turn-of-phrase than "toxins" because kind of language validates the fads going around that are harming people - like the "get skinny in two days!" diets or the anti-vax community.

Also, why do they use the term emphatically in the title of the article and then state, "...presumably removing toxins associated with Alzheimer's, researchers reported Thursday in the journal Science." That comes across as, "We don't actually know what this is doing but we're going to take a guess and just run with it."

In fact, from the abstract of the paper itself, "Sleep is also associated with increased interstitial fluid volume and clearance of metabolic waste products. It is unknown why these processes co-occur and how they are related."

I don't understand how metabolic waste products automatically equates to "Alzheimer's toxins" nor how they're reaching these conclusions if they don't understand their coincidence - whether accidental or intentional.

Can anyone help a stranger on the internets and connect these dots? =]

>...one thing that gets overlooked is declining religiosity...

I think, maybe, you're mistaking the community that forms around religion (e.g.: churches, friendships, church groups, etc.) for religion, itself.

If the argument were that lack of religion is a precursor to increasing suicide rates, then we in Europe should be killing ourselves off in droves because we're the least religious lot (compared to our North American counterparts).

>A perfect storm of prescription opioids, government prohibition, and cheap/plentiful Chinese and Mexican fentanyl.

I think it's actually the fact that the war on opioids has translated into a war on prescription pain drugs, in general.

So, when you're a chronic pain sufferer and have gone without and you get ahold of something - anything - to remediate the pain, you're far more likely to take a little extra just to get the pain to STFU for a while so you can do things like sleep through the night for the first time in seemingly forever.

I've heard tales of American veterans (through the VA) being referred to things like yoga to manage their chronic pain, when it's entirely due to neurological damage and things like yoga will do fuck-all to help with that.

Is it any wonder then that people might be more liable to OD when they obtain something to try to manage the pain that otherwise never ceases?

I'd say it is a fundamental issue in American society (the war on opioids translating into no pain management medications whatsoever) with callous indifference - rather than anything else.

>I think the reason why most devs still prefer plain-text resources over anything else is...

I think you missed a vital reason and that is portability and sharability. No one needs to install anything special to read or edit a text file.

It's the digital equivalent of paper and pen when you think about it and that makes it a popular platform for everyone to be able to consume it.

Plus, back when we were all old and dinosaurs roamed the Earth, the text file was the lightest/smallest way to transfer data (read: ideas) between computers.

The practice/behaviour saturated the industry so much that many readmes of today are still on text files.

Maybe there's a correlation to the real world, where we're definitely more apt to consume mediums that don't have superfluous data points than the words/ideas that they're meant to convey? Maybe I'm just talking out of my ass?

Either way, plain-text resources are the easiest to create, share, and consume because there's almost a universality in the standard for text files (except the EOL and CRLF but that's more of an inconvenience than anything).