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You nailed it. I've spoken with doctors who were involved in changing DSM V to have a more inclusive definition of ASD with the express purpose of getting more kids access early intervention that they wouldn't with the PDD-NOS and other diagnoses from DSM IV.

That might be the intent but in practice the opposite has come true. The more narrow definition is more exclusive, which means fewer child with autism can be diagnosed as autistic. For example criteria under the description of Asperger’s and PDA are excluded so those children cannot be diagnosed as autistic and therefore those children cannot receive additional support. That is a massive handicap that requires main streaming children that cannot function or learn in a normal classroom.

I think you might be in the wrong state.

Many states require health insurance cover autism and have their own definitions.

It's definitely a broad sprectrum if the right healthcare system from the State's POV.


I'm about to be one of them if it incorrectly accuses me of not being in my primary household one more time. The anti-sharing crackdown is driving me crazy (we don't share!)


If they were clever they'd pivot to allow sharing as a means of differentiating. It's a wager on how desperate they think they are. Not being desperate, being complacent, is what kills giants. Only the paranoid survive. I wonder how Andy would think Intel is doing today.


What are the actual tangible gains they make from this beyond just limiting the use of a Disney+ account to <=n screens and/or locations at the same time (where n can be 1 for all I care)? See also: netflix.

Some of us actually travel for a living.


How do glasses like this work for someone who wears eyeglasses for myopia and astigmatism, and doesn't like contacts?


As long as your prescription isn't to extreme the VITURE Pro XR exists and is similar. I tried it and it worked surprisingly well but returned it because the headtracking didn't work on Linux and I didn't like the static view.


You can buy inserts for an additional $80 from official partner HONSVR, or less from AliExpress. My HONS inserts work as well as any glasses I've had. I have -1.50 myopia in both eyes, with different levels of astigmatism.


There are perscription lenses, but not sure how well they work https://lensology.co.uk/xreal-air-2-ultra-lenses/


they don't work for me having astigmatism with or without prescription glasses.


When I did a Vision Pro demo they had lenses on hand to accommodate my astigmatism. It was pretty nice…and about 10x the cost of this


Oh, that's really cool though that they can handle it!

It's funny that 3500 seems sooo much to spend for hardware now... over the last 25 years, it's gotten so much cheaper between lower price macbooks and not needing to upgrade phones and laptops nearly so often.


Its not so much to spend for a full powerful computing device which you can do anything you need to on for work or play (like a powerful laptop or desktop), but it is a lot for a purely media consumption device like a headset (which is essentially a fancy TV).


They won't be killed, they'll be forced to stand up as their own businesses, like the Baby Bells after Ma Bell broke up, or the split of Standard Oil.

I can see most of these being reasonable standalone businesses. And if they can't be they'll die and get replaced by one that is better.


The problem is that it is ingrained in people that these services are free, and the only way they are free is by having them feed a centralized ad network.


It's about time that people get used to the idea that you have to pay for some of these things.

In aggregate it won't even hurt to transition to that: consumers are, in aggregate, already paying for these things in the form of increased spending on unrelated products they were sold by the ads and increased prices on goods (because their suppliers pay Google monopolistic prices for ads).


There is no reason that the ad network needs to be centralized. Thats more convenient, but not required.


"sadly, the series is unremarkable for the fact that each film is substantially worse than the one before"

Patently false! The third is better than the second.


Die Hard with a Vengeance may be the best of the series. It's either that or the first, but regardless of what you think, it's a conversation.


The second is good, but it's mostly the plot of the first one. The third is a good Lethal Weapon movie, but with different cast. And I personally also liked the fourth one. Thankfully there was no fifth movie.


> Thankfully there was no fifth movie.

If that's intended as a commentary on the fifth movie I agree with it, but in case it's an actual misapprehension, sadly there was one [1]. It's more part of Bruce Willis' output during his cognitive decline than part of the Die Hard series, really.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Good_Day_to_Die_Hard


The terrible diarrhea I had yesterday was worse the than the terrible diarrhea I had today... not exactly a high bar ;)


The third film is fantastic, including in ways relevant to the article, playing with similar abuse-of-infrastructure ideas at city- rather than building-level.

It's actually a better city-level example of the first film's architectural ideas than the Nablus raid the article brings up. The Israeli forces' (horrifying, from the account in the article) "reconfiguration" of Nablus was a massively forceful one, blasting through wall after (residential) wall throughout the entire city *. In Die Hard (1 and 3) the protagonists' interactions with the civil infrastructure were far more involuntary and far less forceful, with the characters often being imperilled by those hostile spaces. Blasting through them like a Terminator wouldn't have been at all in keeping with the movies and the article does the first one a disservice by describing it in those terms.

The second one isn't great but I've always rather enjoyed it too. Far from diarrhoea, anyway.

* I should say, I know absolutely nothing about Nablus besides what's described in the article, and have no idea how accurate it is.


Completely agree! The antagonists also dig tunnels and otherwise subvert city infrastructure. I feel like it was a perfect example of what the author talked about.


Would you have a documentary or further reading about the Nablus battle? It sounds absolutely amazing.


They are both terrible, and they only get more terrible from there, sorry.


Oh, in that case I suppose I hate them now. Thanks for setting me right.


I'm sorry for your ailments.


So addictive. Awesome idea.


Cool way to learn some of these. Does anyone know why "Peru" is #CD853F, a brown? It has nothing to do with the flag (which is red and white).

(Aside: the word "peru" in Portuguese means turkey, like the bird. I somehow doubt this is related.)


Related discussion with no definite answer: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/247129/why-is-pe...


Probably because large parts of Peru is that color - deserts, brown mountains


I would completely invert saddlebrown and chocolate.

I mean, #D2691E is more orange than chocolate, IMO.


"NBA players are literally paid to entertain us. They should just absorb the verbal abuse."

"Waiters are literally paid..."

Or we could be humans?


Where did you get "verbal abuse" from? We're talking about competition, so a far closer analogy would be an NBA player having to play a a game against one of their friends. Should they not have to do that in exchange for their salary?


What’s the analogy here exactly? Non-coordinated competition is akin to verbal abuse?

Isn’t there a much more obvious NBA analogy here, which would actually make the CEO-empathy pleas appear even more ridiculous?

Were you attempting the move “X=Bad to me, Y=Bad to you, Bad=Bad, therefore X=Y”?


I've had bad experiences with superset (though it may have been misconfigured).

On the other hand, Redash has served my startup really well for the first 3 years (and now we're finally moving to Tableau)


This is very cool. I recorded myself in Portuguese -> Portuguese and got the same result.

I also did Pt -> En and sounded like... me speaking English, though with some artifacts. VERY cool.


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