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> Another difference is that meat based meals in restaurants are more expensive than their vegetarian counterparts(like it should be), not subsidized like in the US(through the form of animal meal subsidies like corn).

It's not just subsidies, it's the fact that in the US, 'vegetarian' (or vegan) happens to usually overlap other fad diets like gluten-free, low-carb, etc... Plus different cultural tastes. A typical vegetarian meal in India is made from some preparation of legumes, rice and wheat, plus a few vegetables. A typical vegetarian meal in the US is made from quinoa, avocado, cauliflower, almonds, etc... Not to mention, there's massive differences in the economics of restaurants between the US and India. In India, a 'restaurant' can be a stall on the side of the road with a few plastic chairs. Having an open fire on the side of the street is seemingly acceptable. In the US, you need a business license, commercial kitchen, the overhead is simply much, much higher and you need a certain amount of revenue per guest, so even if the vegetarian meal may cost less, you need to maintain your gross profit.
In the official reveal trailer, they seriously have the actor take out their phone and walk backward into the road while looking at their phone. Who cleared that?

[1] https://youtu.be/dYKxBKj29dI
How do you go about finding the chillwave community on Bandcamp?
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Off topic but...

I buy a couple of 4K Bluray movies every month. I want to get the best possible quality and also support film makers, but damn, other than the image quality getting movies from torrents is still the best user experience. It's not even a money problem for me.

Not only pirated movies are available weeks before you can buy them in Amazon, but you don't get any anti piracy ads, or trailers that you can't skip.

The available catalog in torrents is immense too. I waited like 6 months before I could buy the Dark Knight trilogy in 4K because it wasn't available anywhere. The Nolan 4K collection is also very difficult to get without spending an arm and a leg in my country.

You also don't get all the regional BS. I can't even get the digital online versions of the Bluray discs I buy because I don't live in the US. I've considered buying digital (iTunes, Prime, etc) but the regional catalog we get is poor. Google Play Movies for example doesn't even have 4K and, hear this, not only most movies are dubbed, if you want the original audio and the dubbed audio for the kids you have to buy 2 movies. Yeah. And then, since you don't really own the digital movie you bought, it can disappear from your library or you can lose the 4K version like what recently happened with iTunes.

I love movies, I want to spend money on movies, but damn the studios and distributors need to find a better way of selling their content.
>Almost all the vinyl I've bought comes with a download code anyway, and album artwork shines on a 12" x 12" canvas much more than it ever could on the tiny thumbnail you get on a music player app.

My dad was huge into music and had a vinyl collection of 300-400 albums. As a kid, I used to check out the album covers and inserts as I ate breakfast. One that I distinctly remember is cover for "The Wall"
To nitpick your nitpick: there were many attempts to implement DRM even on pure music CDs, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copy_Control

My personal experience with this was with some import CDs (from Japan) that, from what I recall, messed with the error correction part of the data so that it skipped horrendously in my PC (so it was impossible to rip in cdex) but played fine in (most) standalone audio players.
That's not really help that contributes to the project, that's communication or (often in the case of usability issues) opinion that might be useful, and even if it is, it just piles on more work on the project instead of helping with that work.

Every project has accepted everything whenever I've actually tried to help with the actual work they're doing, i.e. solving a bug or submitting a pull request fixing some documentation, something that reduces their todo-list instead of adding to it.
There's the catch. Americans would take all kinds of back-breaking work for the right amount of pay.

American agriculture has always relied, more or less, on underpaying its laborers, the extreme case being slavery (entirely unpaid, entirely forced, human beings were "owned"). After slavery was officially ended, we still hire the least politically empowered, and the most easily abused. The constant threat of deportation is a feature for American ag owners; it's hardly a step away from slavery, because yes, people can return to their own countries, but they aren't rational economic actors in any reasonable sense of the word.
I've been collecting CDs for a few years now. I rip them for archiving and for easy playing (iPhone, etc.), but also enjoy handling the real object. I like the experience of simply listening to album the way it was originally intended by the artist, in the original order, with the production values intended at the time, not mixed up with other songs. Streaming, or even shuffling, often makes me tense and anxious (radio did too).

Because it's a bit of a pain to get music to the iPhone (with ALAC conversion, etc.), I recently experimented with matching albums with Apple Music and just using that version. However, I've been disappointed that many of those albums aren't actually the same ones as my CDs! (Again, this is Apple Music: other streaming services might be different.)

For example, tracks might be remastered (sometimes for good, sometimes not), and often the album is a 'deluxe' version with extra tracks. If there was a way to 'hide' those extra tracks, I'd be okay with it, but sadly it feels like the original intent of the artist has been corrupted by the record label to sell more content.

So I'm slowly returning to my first method, and only listening to ripped music, an album at a time, in its original order.
It's turtles all the way down:

https://graphicallinearalgebra.net/2015/06/09/matrices-diagr...
> Again, from the people living there, what's the housing crisis??

Well, their children can't afford to live here so that's going to be a problem.
Wait... I never thought that India was considered vegetarian? I know vegetarianism is more popular in India than in other countries, but I've always just assumed that it's easier to get a vegetarian meal at an Indian restaurant.

The beef thing, though, came as a surprise. (I always thought beef was so taboo that no one would ever touch it.) I felt so weird the time I ate a steak at a steakhouse in India.
>I just missed it. I graduated in 2001 and looking for a job was terrible.

I think for a lot of people that experience was a wake up call to the reality of the world. One year everybody with a technical degree is graduating with jobs waiting, the next year there are no jobs and even the most specialized (e.g. Microelectronic engineering degrees) people are having offers revoked. Family and parents don't understand because supposedly if you have a degree in IT or CS jobs are just waiting for you and plentiful. New graduates are wondering what's wrong with them that they can't even get the most basic job.

Plus, at that time you had to deal with Monster.com, which was one of the most horrible and SPAM filled BS job sites on earth. Post your resume and get an "exiting offer to be an entrepreneur" and it turns out you can be an agent for an insurance company in your local area. That made job-seekers even more depressed.
Not for me. Two years sober.
Right. It was via the social worker, she emailed the social worker and the articles and my wife’s summaries of it were relayed to the doctors.

The doctors attitude was totally different after that, it seemed like they had a lot more respect for her and they used the information to make medical decisions (like the clonidine and a decompression surgery)
But can a conspiracy of more than a very few people be kept under wraps for a lifetime? I find it hard to believe that if there really was a conspiracy that nothing concrete has emerged in all these years.
While I'm entirely satisfied with the simple Oswald explanation, you are correct to emphasis how utterly terrible JFK's defense and foreign policy was.

The severe weakness shown in the Bay of Pigs debacle, an Eisenhower scheme he utterly wrecked by moving the location as well as the last minute denial of air support, directly lead to Khrushchev's nuclear missile adventure in Cuba. Which led to the closest the world has ever gotten to nuclear war, Soviet subs were under orders allowing them to use their nuclear torpedoes if damaged, and one captain decided this was a case but the decision required three officers, one of whom declined. (This ultimately resulted in Khrushchev getting sacked.)

There's lots more, but it's also worth mentioning that just a month before he was assassinated, he went along with his Best and Brightests' scheme to depose and inevitably assassinate the President of South Vietnam and his brother, which ruined that nation's officer corps and any trust they had in us, which led directly to our having to replace them with our own forces, and the nightmare that followed. LBJ's prosecution of the war was downright criminal, but at the highest level moral, he acknowledged the "you broke it, you own it" principle.

But one could see members of the Deep State deciding that JFK's assassination of an ally President made him fair game for assassination in turn. And for all they knew necessary to save the nation, he'd been reckless all his life, succeeding in starting WWIII given another 1-5 years was entirely possible.
Precisely.

Reinforced yearly, daily, and minutely by the constructs of media.
I really loved the Sansa Clip but the battery in it failed on me and I never did replace the thing. Sad to hear that they stopped making them because being reminded about it makes me want to pick up a new one.
Perfect solution! Based on what you said you should run for president to solve all the social issues for us, so far we only have 23 progressive candidates.

I worry SAT-adversity-score is not enough and we should go all the way, starting from free lunch at Kindergarten all the way to guaranteed college, job and income. To get there more efficiently we could just redistribute all the fortune right away. I actually see Communism ahead of us now, gosh Marx has been so right!
" people who come and earn a degree in the US should have an easy option to stay and work and become citizens if they would like."

No, this would immediately put Universities in the business of selling citizenship. Of course they'd probably love that. Though foreign student exports have doubled in the last few years, it'd grow even faster as a source of revenue for them.

The criteria for admissions in many undergrad/graduate programs is really not that high, and some schools are not very expensive at all.

"we’re investing a ton in the people who come here"

When foreign students pay tuition that's an export for the US, it's not so much 'the US investing in them' (though I understand many are on scholarships, and the institutions get indirect funding).

There are 1.1 Million foreign students in the US, and it's a $42 Billion dollar export [1]. That's quite a lot of money (and quite a lot of people).

Surely, under a 'merit based system' foreign students should get a bunch of 'points' towards the system, but a broad points-based system is by far better than a 'buy your undergrad/citizenship' program.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/03/magazine/one-of-americas-...
> On Windows/OSX the property that you can run the same build forever because everything is backwards compatible is appreciated. On Linux most people are downloading a distro that includes most or all the software they will be running.

One of these two methodologies requires an army of middlemen compiling and packaging applications for people. And if a middleman didn't compile it, well, fuck you I guess. It's a nightmare for users who want to run things no one has packaged yet and its a nightmare for developers who just want to ship their product to a user. It's the reason Flatpak, Snap, and AppImage exist.

> Other people have other tastes of course (hence snap/flatpack) but apparently not enough have wanted and worked on it for it to happen.

Not enough people in the Linux Desktop Community, you mean. Which might be why that community is so tiny.
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Anyone else in history who seems universally liked?

Da Vinci seems popular among everyone.
That article makes it pretty clear that wages are kept "unnaturally low" (their language) due to the immigrant labor pool.

The whole article has gross, racist undertones of wanting a brown serf class to do disgusting work in terrible conditions for poverty wages.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19280927
Along with the annual BOSC (Bioinformatics Open Source Conference), the OBF (Open Bioinformatics Foundation) hosts a free and welcoming collaborative event called CollaborationFest (CoFest).

CoFest is a collaborative two-day working session. The only requirement for attendance is that you have an interest in open source software and solving scientific problems. We will have contributors to open source bioinformatics tools present to collaborate with, and we welcome new attendees who want to learn and contribute to open source code, documentation, workflows, or training.

This year CoFest is July 26-27 in Basel, Switzerland. There is no registration fee to attend in person or virtually.

Disclosure: I'm on the organizing committee for BOSC and CollaborationFest

[1] https://www.open-bio.org/events/bosc/collaborationfest/
My favorite examples:

https://www.pcworld.com/article/249951/if-it-aint-broke-dont...
When the penalty for revealing it would likely be execution for high treason?
There's also the fact that while it's going swimmingly (job, healthy, etc), it doesn't seem so bad, so there's little incentive to change it... until it goes wrong, at which point you're too preoccupied to change anything.

At least that's how it seems to me, and why for some people on the left, healthcare isn't the most important issue to tackle. Having humans die in agony or poverty is terrible, but having it happen to your fellow countrymen is unforgivable.
You're focusing on the wrong scale. Intelligence has skyrocketed in the past thousand years. Policy decisions in our lifetime, do not matter or they end all human matters at once.
It's not racism, it's classism.
> The fact that I can recompile all of the software I use, is a really important feature to me and not a distribution problem.

I've always found this to be an interesting observation about free software. So many complicated things like FatELF, dll-hell are just straight up _not_ and issue when you're working in a source code world where you just compile the software for the machine you're using it on.

Most of the efforts around FatELF, FlatPak, etc seem to be to be driven by the desires of corporations who want to ship proprietary software on linux, and as such need better standardization at the binary level rather than the software level.

It's a win for Free Software in my mind, that we shouldn't typically have to worry about this added complexity. Just ship source code, and distributions can ship binaries compiled for each specific configuration that they choose to support.
> what if your insurance decides you are at fault for activating the autopilot under unsafe conditions?

Seems reasonable to me. The driver is always responsible.
Try this experiment. When you get to ask questions in the interview, instead of being nice and asking tings like "what's your data science stack" or "how important is testing here" give them a whiteboard. Give your future boss a whiteboard. But do it only if you don't care about getting an offer.
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No, Java is a language and virtual machine coupled together that abstracts away the entire underlying platform. The point of the "virtual architecture" I describe is to keep the OS un-abstracted and only abstract away the hardware architecture underneath it.
I can't go to therapy because of exactly this kind of thing. I have two different fully covering insurances ... plenty of cash... and probably some reallylifetime bothersome things that I would love to deal with...but I've never been able to get past the idea that I can't just go in and talk to a professional without them having to know everything and share and store everything about me I'll never do it.
My current setup is a Docker container[0] with a musikcube[1] daemon in an ARM board (ROCK960 Model C) and on my phone I use the musikdroid client. At first, it was an investment of time, but now requires almost no maintenance.

[0]: https://github.com/hectorm/docker-musikcube

[1]: https://github.com/clangen/musikcube
> I would take the language primitives not sucking over generics any day of the week.

It's not an either-or situation though: Rust has generics (and is a bit lower level), which has allowed go-style channels to be implemented as a library:

https://docs.rs/crossbeam-channel/0.3.8/crossbeam_channel/ https://twitter.com/stjepang/status/1006202765499125760
will this increase the probability of adoption of the SI system? I have often had the impression that some nations avoided transitioning to SI out of principle, not wanting to depend on the maintenance and cooperation of another nation?
One of the biggest factors is having large chunks of uninterrupted time. If your manager and team value deep work, having no meetings days can be a huge help.

And once you have an uninterrupted time block, it's important to ignore potential interruptions. I find this extremely difficult.
I'm imagining Leonardo applying gravitational waves, nanotechnology and genetic engineering to his A.I. moon sculptures.
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and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19939718 (just 10 comments)
Small/medium, or medium/large?
Unfortunately, I can't find documentation of the requirements insurance companies place on therapists for providing coverage. I would be surprised if this is even public information. However, I was able to find a therapist blogger who discusses the topic [0]:

> The insurer can also audit your records at any time they wish, which means they have full access to any details your therapist has, including information the therapist intentionally did not include in the claim submitted to the insurance company. Any and all information, including progress notes, which can include details about what occurred during the therapy session, is technically open to the claims specialist.

[0]: https://tampatherapy.com/2017/01/25/reasons-not-use-insuranc...
If it is true that you can get in and out faster (not even caring about cheaper) then I can imagine that would appeal to a lot of wealthy(er) but time strapped people.
The ease of development in Go vs. Scala is day and night.
> in the original order

I agree with most of what you said, but so many albums include awful filler music between hit songs. This was one of the reason mp3 downloads became so popular. Everybody knew record companies were just adding filling to get to a certain album lengths.
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Aviators and others who need to hold a medical to drive trucks, trains, or control air traffic also have incentives to not visit mental health or other healthcare professionals as we have to itemize all healthcare visits since our last medical (or for the last few years at least) at our medical exam that represents our continued ability to fly/work.
I used to fly semi-regularly on an E-3 visa. The online check-in and airport kiosks usually couldn't accept it, but the customer service staff never had a problem with it.

Arriving in the US was a whole other matter. They often weren't familiar with the E-3 rules for things like whether the 2 years starts when the visa was issued or date of first arrival. They also wrote the wrong visa type one time, which would have affected my employment authorization. Had to guide them thru it a few times.
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> The reason the Linux Community don't want this sort of thing is that, frankly, they just hate stability.

I'd argue that the reason the Linux Community doesn't want this is that it introduces maintenance burdens on the community that only really serves to support corporations shipping proprietary software.

I really don't care about making proprietary software easier on linux, but I do care about linux having to carry the baggage of backwards compatability like Windows has had to handle just so that Google can deliver Chrome as a binary more reliably.
Unless the parent were to be hired in some capacity, why would they be paid for it? The project has the MIT License.
There was an interesting conversation about the performance of line breaking algorithms recently. David Fuchs — who worked with Knuth on the line breaking algorithms in Tex — commented that the algorithm in Tex isn't especially performance intensive. It's not included in browsers because high-quality line breaking doesn't play well with floats.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19785968

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19473277
Thank you! But I don't know a thing about it - I only found out it existed because an internet citizen looked at the source and let me know.
There are plenty of reasonable "mistakes" people make; smoking, diet, exercise, alcohol, idiocy, stunts, etc, without having play the racist card.

Lots of people don't want to pay for problems they don't have control or influence over. You don't have to be racist, just a bit myopic.
US conservatives. Most attempts to fix this system are stonewalled, blockaded, or hit with waves of propaganda against fixes. Some people are making good money compared to something like single payer. And profit is always more important than people.
Those gross, racist undertones accurately describe the status quo in places like Iowa, where there is a huge labor shortage and tons of racism.
Why not just make driving a car as serious as piloting a plane? Planes are so much safer not because they are easier to fly, but solely because we take it seriously. If driver's licenses were giving and enforced like pilot's licenses...automobile fatalities would plummet!
The start of their Autopilot marketing video [0] clearly states "The person in the driver's seat is only there for legal reasons. He is not doing anything. The car is driving itself."

[0] https://www.tesla.com/autopilot
Cruise control is just a simple control loop. AP provides much more functionality (both for convenience and safety). That would be similar to calling an automobile a carriage+.
In the immediate short term: maybe. But fundamentally, these vulnerabilities are (hyper)threatening their business model, because not sharing the infrastructure suddenly becomes far more attractive.

So to the extend that you're suggesting that cloud providers are happy, or may even have had a hand in this: nahh.
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True, but for S3 the major cost is not CPU-bound.
"...Some practitioners who want to join networks are turned away. Melissa Davies, a psychologist in Defiance County, Ohio, was part of Anthem’s network for years when she worked in a larger medical group. But the insurer refused to contract with her after she started a solo practice in 2012, saying the area was saturated, even though Davies is one of only three psychologists in the county. When Davies examined Anthem’s directory, “I found a great number of their providers were no longer practicing, or were dead,” she says..."

This is damning.