Aha! Mansfield Park has been my favourite, since the 1980s. Most Austen fans seem to dislike it, and see the central character as weak and insipid. But, I see it as about code switching and timidity, she's clearly an introvert being bullied by the family.
The intrusion of Caribbean wealth is slavery. Edmond should be more overtly concerned about his families wealth, although to be fair it was mainly dissenters who did this, not the recipients of a family living.
She's on the money for naval preferment. Without help, commoner middies didn't make the crucial step up towards post captain. And for preferment, sexual favours by a sister would be common.
It may be important to note that all of Austen's novels are set up and kept going by an essential flaw in the hero characters. And Fanny Price is the ultimate anti-hero: indeed, she is hardly a heroine, she doesn't act, at all, she has no arc, she just clings to the first thing she encounters. While the world is moving and swirling around her, she doesn't move at all, not for lack of opportunity, but as a character trait (and, at times, by sheer luck, as in the theatre episode, thus earning her uncle's regard). And, in the end, it's all for nothing: while she got everything, she may have wanted to embrace, and even more, she is untouched by it and (quite literally) still where she started. It's quite literally about first attachments, not just in the domain of romance (like in Sense and Sensibility), but to about everything. Or, rather, first possessions, as in the first room, she may call her own, the first person, she talks to, etc.
How Austen constructs a plausible environment for such a character and what she does with this world and its characters is quite astounding – and hilarious. And, as you said, there are actually serious topics discussed.
Even more astounding is maybe how modern adaptations try to render this as "how our quick and cunning girl stirs up that lame family and wins everything."
PS: As a literary stunt and challenge, the question, how can we do an entertaining and involving novel with an entirely inert heroine and protagonist?, isn't that dissimilar from Umberto Eco's chosen challenge, how can we do a who-done-it where the book is the murderer? (as seen in the Name of the Rose.) And Jane Austen masters the seemingly impossible quite impressively.
It's quite remarkable how postmodern Jane Austen's novels already are. See also Northanger Abbey, where she regularly breaks the 4th wall for a meta-discourse on literature and genres, just to involve the reader again and again, as if she had never ripped the veil – which isn't necessarily black, BTW.
(In this context, it may be also notable how Fanny Price’s apparently keen social observations are really a mirror of the rigorous views and forms conveyed in moral books as characterized by Austen and put up as a foil and antipode to the genre of novels in this meta-discourse, and laughed at in other novels, like in the characters of Mr. Collins and Mary Bennet in Pride and Prejudice. If not for other reasons, Fanny Price is an anti-heroine, just for her anti-novel-ness.)
It's probably the best thing after the well-meaning social execution of Jane Fairfax, Emma's foil, by Emma's father for the exceptionally dangerous luck of having wet socks.
A less well known part of the invisible city is the mandated interception room in international internet exchanges on the east and west coast of the USA. Inside the giant windowless data centers, there are secure facilities and it's non optional to have your fibre enter this room and leave again. What happens inside the room.. (passive optical tap) isn't very clear.
The bit at the end where they are pulled out of line at boarding was very confusing. If they were conducted back out of secure space to public space, "next minute I was aboard" short circuits re-entry to secure space.
I think the editor removed some text, and context. I read this as "we're watching you" reinforcement: they were pulled out of line, politely, shown senior staff engagement, talked to, and then put back into boarding to leave.
Also, this is presumably about the Basij, but didn't seem to say so very clearly.
It is worth remembering the Shah era had very very unpleasant police-state forces.
I think this gets to the heart of what third party/alternate gui style means. Either we abstract the control elements to a common core and then what we call them, and their main points can change, but they are understood in metaform for what they are, or we have .. soup.
Ctrl-c Ctrl-v are just one instantiation. Open, new, open old, reopen, settings, help, print, there's hundreds of potential points which by default will hang off a burger menu and which either do not conform to a specific style guide or else don't behave the same compiled ifdef #this package against ifdef #that platform.
On a mac, it's policed. It's almost the lead value proposition.
I think on Windows too there is a history of certain menus that people expect. Of course Microsoft has messed with that over the last decade or so since Windows 8 came out.
I am unsure why you have been down voted because fundamentally your point is correct. Health is a fully regulated space, and no entity should be supplying medical products without adherence to requirements appropriate to their role. Compounding GLP-1 seems to me to be in the higher bar space.
Can you expound on your use of peptides? My nephew was diagnised with crohns at the age of 10, but they now figure he was being mistreated when symptoms started at age 4. He is somehow still alive, but there have been significant developmental problems due to crohns and an overuse of steroids and other weird medications in his treatments.
His parents have been doing IV infusions for the past two years, which seem to be having more of a positive impact than anything the health care system did, and now they are about to start peptide therapy, which is something I know little about.
Sorry to hear that, my heart goes out to him. I post a lot about it here on HN, you can scroll through my prior posts, about half are on this. Also feel free to email me. Chrons is pretty common in people with hEDS, which is what I have, so while I don't have direct experience with having it myself I do know quite a few people who have had it.
Edit: had to do a quick double check, but the foods that I eat, and don't eat, are specifically for hEDS/ME/CFS brain fog which I believe is IL-1B cytokine related and I think it's plausible that this probably has a crossover to Crohn's. Listing it here as something to consider; A diet of zero sugar and zero fruit, a lot of kale, chia seeds, and pumpkin seeds. I do one meal a day, and an occasional extended water fast. For vitamins I take TUDCA, DIM, and D3.
Prolonged use of steroids can cause dysautonomia which causes a plethora of other issues. So understanding dysautonomia could help. I also use a weak ligand approach to dysautonomia which is unusual with the use of modafinil and amitriptyline.
Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) is a rather benign medication that's been known to help. There is little downside to trying it - so it can be used as a bit of a diagnostic in addition to treatment. Of course DIY research rules apply.
One of my more out there theories that seems to be quickly gaining traction is that a low dose of GLP-1 agonists can be surprisingly good for autoimmune conditions.
Most of my other peptides are hEDS focused and include VIP, Ipamorelin, Selank/Semax, and BPc157/TB500. Though I really only take the ipamorelin and semaglutide these days. These are a bit more risky but since my alternative is to be very sick I have a different risk tolerance profile compared to most.
Factually healthcare is more regulated than most industries in the US and the web of regulations has no design and where it does, patient safety is rarely the primary goal.
More likely your initial comment was downvoted because it provides little additional context and makes a claim without support, as if it's self evident. Comments such as that rarely do well on complex topics. My own rule of thumb is that if I'm stating something as fact and I'm writing a single sentence, it's likely a low effort and low usefulness comment that is unlikely to be beneficial to the conversation.
Your comment immediately above this was likely flagged because of your inflammatory accusations and assumptions about why your were downvoted, and IMO shows a alack of introspection about possible reasons as to why you were downvoted. Much better to ask why than to throw out accusations, at least if your goal is to have a useful discussion or learn something (bot of which require some level of assuming good faith to others here).
That really isn’t what the HN audience is. That comment has a mix of upvotes, downvotes and flags, and at least some of the downvotes I can see are from HN users who routinely downvote/flag inflammatory rhetoric, no matter what ideology it’s advocating or attacking.
You're being downvoted because you're saying something factually incorrect, and now you're being flagged for blatantly breaking the HN guidelines and degrading the discourse.
This is a continuing relationship. When Britain showed it was within an inch of a viable independent ICBM with Black Knight/Blue Streak, the US agreed to share polaris. The condition was ending independent production of competing tech. Black Prince (related?) wound up as IPR in Ariane, the British strategic arms were polaris.
Some in Europe would say depending on F35 and a US weapons package means you probably do not have independent authority over the weapon.
Starmer is continuing a relationship over 50 years old. He isn't rocking the boat. I'm not here to decry it or promote it, just saying how I see it.
France is where independent european nuclear weapons capacity lies.
The intrusion of Caribbean wealth is slavery. Edmond should be more overtly concerned about his families wealth, although to be fair it was mainly dissenters who did this, not the recipients of a family living.
She's on the money for naval preferment. Without help, commoner middies didn't make the crucial step up towards post captain. And for preferment, sexual favours by a sister would be common.