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> "religious individuals and institutions can educate young people, receive government benefits, and participate in public debates without having to check their religious beliefs at the door."

That's not directed to science. It's directed to the separate issue of public education being a vehicle for eliminating religion from childrens' education, and replacing religious social values with government values developed by education boards. It's a legitimate concern when the government is deciding how you socialize your kids, and leaves you few avenues for opting out. (Also, it's a model that's by and large uncontroversial in most of Europe.)

As to your second quote, it appears 10 pages later. Is there some sort of connection you're trying to draw between the two?
The difference is that you could have a light on in the uberblack room and you wouldn't see the walls.
I feel this article demonstrates why gender equality is damn hard for us right now.

I'm male. I believe that has had a significant effect on my upbringing.

I'm an individual. I believe a whole lot of things have had a significant effect on my upbringing.

Why would I want to try to resolve my issues within this gendered framework? Am I really primarily male? That seems like a forced choice to me.
The world is full of chemicals right now. One day, humanity will look back at the last 100 years (and probably the next 50) and wonder what we were thinking.
There's nothing vague about it.

RFPs work in every industry. Depending on the bill, Congress should request proposals or maintain a list of credentialed experts overseen by a watchdog agency outside of their control. Or they could be nominated by professional organizations and guilds.

Either way, no, Google, Shell, et al should not be allowed to spend X dollars sending former members of Congress or others to advocate for them, especially when experts in those fields, or scientists, contradict them.

Regardless, throwing our hands up and shrugging it off is absolutely the wrong course of action.
>But that's exactly what's disingenuous about the GP's claim. Many disasters do indeed involve a sequence of mistakes of different sorts but that's not really the case here. The situation with 737 max was one terribly system and the pilot's complete inability to stop this - inability that could have been anticipated and which was the product of the original bad design.

MCAS is a badly designed system, but many other stabiliser control failures could cause the aircraft to rapidly lose altitude. The solution is the same in all cases - flip the cutoff switches to disconnect automatic stab control and trim the stabiliser manually using the wheel on the center console.

The flight crews in both MCAS-related disasters showed serious failures in airmanship and a lack of understanding of the fundamentals of flight. They were taken by surprise by MCAS, but they should have been more than capable of swiftly handling that situation; their inability to do so is symptomatic of broader failings in the training and culture of pilots in many emerging markets.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/16/world/asia/li...

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/18/magazine/boeing-737-max-c...
I don't think you're wrong about that factor, but I also don't think that chart is possible any other way given that many of those IPOs are so recent.

Also, the other axis is entirely subjective. The main point is well-taken that high-minded fluff rarely translates to high-performing firms.
Or are you spending money on PR that might even get you a direct ROI? Putting $50bn in VC that is primarily invested in the US likely buys you some sympathy, legitimacy and connections.
I don’t think SJC gets if from Hetchhechy nor east bay mud, but I may be misinformed.

Upon searching looks like SJC gets if from aquifers, recharge areas and also a bit from sfpuc (hetchhechy). EB MUD gets it from the Sierra snowmelt.
The "victory" meaning comes from WWII, not Pokemon.

The hippie counter-culture movement in the 1960s co-opted it as the "peace" sign, but nowadays I'd argue it doesn't have much of a meaning, it's just "something people do for photos" (especially in East Asia).
Ha, this has definitely come up for discussion.

My original plan was to have a photo with me and both of my dogs with the implication that each later book must feature yet another additional dog.

Unfortunately, Ginny, the dog in the photo on the back of Game Programming Patterns died earlier this year. (This makes it even more meaningful to me that she is immortalized on the book. You'd be surprised how many strangers have asked me about her.)

So, I don't have any firm plans, but I might just try to do a new photo with me and my other dog, Benny. He's getting pretty old too, though, so I guess the pressure is on for me to finish the book.
There’s at least one dude whose job it is to thread that needle, and another dude who tries to prevent that.

Our economy is filled with jobs that effectively cancel eachother out.
A lot of unbanked people are not crazy or freedom nuts or anything, but just dirt freaking poor. It costs a lot of money to run a bank account with only a few hundred dollars in it. Add to that the fact that many banks purposely reorder transactions to force you to take as many overdraft fees as possible, banking for those living paycheck to paycheck is not cheap
Women definitely have their share on the stigma, too many times have I seen women using mental issues to emasculate men.
Except that this isn't what Vision fund is about.

What you are describing is more like a pre-seed/seed fund of which there are thousands around including YC. Sure they don't have the capital but that is often not the blocker for most of these companies.

Vision fund is focused on taking successful companies global. And using their capital to knock out competitors and their experience in managing execution risk.

And their "vision" seems to be focused on a world where everything is provided by autonomous and robotic systems. And where Uber, Wag etc are the brands that leverage them.
Capitalisn’t: The Mickey Mouse Monopoly Club
> Whereas you can price at $3 and look like a champ

But who thinks you look like a champ?

To Person A (the person who won't pay more than $2), they won't be a customer because you've outpriced them. To Person B (the shopper who doesn't care if they pay $3 vs. $4) you look exactly the same, because they probably put the Avocado in their cart without even checking the price.
Every time we blame a crash on pilots, we are blaming it on training. Aside from some truly exceptional cases,* pilots who contribute to a crash are having issues because they have not been trained adequately in dealing with the situation. I believe that these two crashes indicate there is a need for reinforcement of the CRM training and also more training on unexpected situations.

We can try to blame Boeing for the lack of this training, but Boeing cant force airlines to do anything but the type specific training. They cant force airlines to do recurring training, they in-fact rely on the regulators to setup structures to make sure this all happens.

I don't have a personal stake in Boeing, I have a personal stake in not dying because someone decided breaking one link in the failure chain was adequate.

* These would be the cases where the pilot crashes the plane on purpose, for which some airlines have dealt with systematically and with associated training on prevention.
Pride comes before the fall because we stop grading ourselves objectively.
A good religious institution should rise above the fray and not even bother fussing about something like this. No-one who would otherwise have accepted Christ would have rejected him based on that study. It's the religious equivalent of a political cartoon--it changes no one's mind, it just fills up space and generates clicks/citations.

"Then Abraham said to him, 'If they do not listen to Moses and the prophets, they will not be persuaded even if someone rises from the dead.'" (Luke 16:31)
The term "yogababble" seems pretty offensive to those of us that get something really useful from the practice of yoga.

It also seems totally not necessary to pick on the practice itself or to single out yoga from the universe of things that are mis-used, appropriated, ripped-off, and marketed by the corporate world.
Here’s your Android but: WiFi and audio don’t work. That’ll be great.
I know it sounds unlikely, and it may even be unbelievable, but I suspect there could be men with emotions posting comments on Hacker News. Not me of course, that would be ridiculous.
Personally, I think it's more damaging that positions like, "Let's not lock children in cages", or "Let's actually listen to the scientific consensus on climate change rather than people paid by the oil industry" or considered partisan viewpoints.
I totally get political fatigue, I'm getting really tired of all the shit going on too, but when pointing out the president blatantly committed a crime is considered partisan, the issue isn't that people talk about politics too much.
>>I think it's that with legalization, some things improved, but it also created a broad market for counterfeit products.

I guess? I mean there's always been a market for counterfeit MJ products (everyone's heard the stories of people buying oregano at a concert) so I just don't feel like that's a "new" problem as much as a new version of an existing problem. Legalization and the general advent of e-cig/vaping products happened around the same time, so I don't know that we can separate what would have happened if pot had still been illegal but vaping had moved into it's current role the use.

>> Also, high taxes are helping to push people into the black market.

I think it's that people don't realize they're in the black market, which I view as a regulatory issue. Because everything exists in this quasi-legal (state yes, federal no) status, the industry hasn't really coalesced into a fully legit form. The legal, grey, and black markets all overlap constantly and people are confused about what they're buying. If I want to buy alcohol, I know when I'm buying a real product that had production standards vs something some dude made in his basement. Weed isn't at that place yet really.
The Action Lab! The first time I saw his channel I honestly didn't take the guy too seriously...but he is super creative and has some really cool ideas that most people could do at home if they wanted to.
I wonder if microbiome transplantation ends up like sperm donation. You can pick your donor for the transplant and there will be a financial incentive for healthy people to donate.
That is relevant but does nothing to explain why say Sweden put the line at 16 while the US has it at 18. It also happens to be the exact opposite for driving a car, ie the age requirement is 18 while in the US it is 16.

Personally I find the age when the brain is fully developed to carry a bit more significance, ie around age 25. Before that the brain is still being assembled and yet we expect people to make life or death decisions while driving, serving the military, have correct impulse control and follow the law just as everyone else.
> Your reasoning isn't flawed but one big reason why I still write some checks is this: they're accepted as payment for free by the receiver where most electronic methods are charged.

And it's not just monetary charges. It's also a desire to not demonstrate consent when I'm blasted with a CAPTCHA. The instant I get a CAPTCHA, I reflexively hit Ctrl-W to close the tab and either (1) take my business elsewhere or (2) mail a check in.

It's especially infuriating when they wait to hit me with a CAPTCHA at the very end of the process, after I've already copied over account numbers and other information from the paper bill they sent me. I'll find any way I can to waste the time of that company's employees at that point.
>Also, what would 100% light absorption look like?

A hole.
Ok - everyone should feel free to publish as they prefer. On the other hand lashing out at critics is unproductive.
Could you say more about each, with a couple examples? I find myself building little CLIs all the time, yet haven't developed any real intuition about what makes a good one.
>Literally all they do is facilitate meetings so other people can do things for them.

No, they define the process for decision making (ie: the values) and then enforce that it is followed. That includes finding those who don't follow it and either providing guidance or ultimately firing them. Of course, the people you're trying to find may be actively trying to hide.

There is a difference between not making direct business decisions and doing nothing.
Well, let's apply the HN guidelines [1] and, more importantly their spirit, to this case. That spirit is to be reflective rather than reflexive [2], which means to interrupt the rapid reflex that springs up immediately ("what everyone is actually thinking"), inhibit the temptation to react, and give the slower, reflective part of the brain time to catch up.

When I do that, the first thing that comes to me is that the dog-owner market is huge—so huge that $300M is likely a small number rather than a large one. Moreover, the emotions that people have about their dogs are intense, profound, and deeply personal. ("Dogs are the new kids", reads a coffee mug I once saw in a kitchen in San Francisco.) So this market is not only broad, it's deep; the potential customers are not only numerous but the chance for repeat business is high. Probably there's a huge opportunity here, if you can satisfy people's needs or at least give them a feeling of that. As for dog-walking sounding trivial, if you've ever been (or known) a stressed-out, overworked dog owner and how it feels to face your sad unwalked dog in the evening when you have no energy left to do anything, this is actually not trivial at all. It is not only a form of suffering, it's closely connected with deeper forms of suffering—because so many of us invest our unfulfilled relational capacity into our pets. People will spend a lot of money to relieve a problem like that. In short: huge market, repeat business, premium pricing.

I know nothing about Wag, but this is more than enough to see how the GP comment broke the HN guidelines by being a shallow dismissal. I totally get why people want to post that kind of rant and share that perspective—I share it too, it's fun and creates a sense of community in its own way. But we have to remember what we're optimizing for on HN. There are tradeoffs in the kinds of discussion we get to have. If we take the shallow route and go for the sugar rush of piling on stupidity at a distance, we forego the quieter, insightful kind of discussion. Compounded, this determines the kind of site Hacker News is going to be.

Edit: I read the article, which seems to me unusually good and to deserve a more thoughtful discussion than most comments have offered here so far. Among other things, it makes clear that the issue is not "a fucking dog walking company" being a bad business per se, because a competitor is actually doing better.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

2. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Well we do have methods to enable division / compartmentalizing it - the biggest two concepts are:

1) The three branches of the federal government & the checks / balances system, each with their own sub-divisions (e.g. legislative having the Senate + House)

2) States Rights - whatever powers not dictated by the Constitution to the federal government are guaranteed to the States.
Right, only someone who has never really tried (that is, stuck with) a yoga practice for awhile would claim that yoga, even the westernized version, is "incoherent." The whole point of yoga is to have an integrative and harmonizing effect.

Rather unfortunate that the corporate world seems to be seeing its own absurdity in the mirror, but then choosing an unrelated scapegoat to point fingers at.
By flight hours?
Long term priming, as opposed to short term with gaps of a second or so, was one of the prime victims of the replication crisis and seems to actually not exist.
> Uber works because of google maps knowing a faster route than even the 20 year veteran tax driver.

Who also use google maps to do their route planning...
I had a similar experience in 2018. In fact, I think my application with them is still active, cause I also never heard back from them after my in person interview.

They had me come in at noon, said they'd serve me lunch, then directed me to a galley kitchen where there were some leftovers from something that was served the day before.

I kind of zoned out after that, cause I was hungry and also annoyed, but I remember being condescended to, everyone being late, and everyone seeming like they were in a huge hurry. Never heard a rejection or offer from them.

My ex has our dog, I told her to stop using Wag as soon as possible. I'm not trusting a company that disorganized with my dog.
The problem as it's explained is that those being regulated are the ONLY ones presenting informed commentary on the issue.

Surely hearing a perspective from someone striving (at the very least) to be objective rather than ONLY hearing from someone who has clear bias on the issue (the corporation to be regulated) is more likely to be a good thing than a bad thing.
> The parent's point is that legacy systems still exist in the US, as I'm sure they do in the EU.

And the actual point is that no, they don't, they were cleared away because their existence is a pox on everyone.

Having seen both systems upclose, for the average consumer the European banking system is about a hundred years in the future from the American one, which is a steaming hot cesspit of legacy systems and banking institutions that spend all their time figuring out ways to milk more money out of consumers.

Case in point:

> or don't want to because of fees

It's not okay to charge people fees to send or receive money.

(Technically, European banks still can do that, but since the EU has forced all banks to accept transfers from each other using a common system, and that all money transfer are executed as "shared fees" where the sender pays the fee to their institution and the receiver pays the fee to theirs, free and open competition has driven the price of sending and receiving money to 0€.)
> parallels with Canadian parliament, where theoretically all decisions must be ratified by the seemingly powerless Governor General, who represents The Queen

This sounds to me a lot like the executive is superfluous, much like the monarchy can be discarded
>How can you even answer any of these questions except with fluff and bullshit...

That's so funny, I read these question's and though I could consolidate them into a single question:

"How well can you bullshit and talk about things entirely immaterial to work?"

Seems a lot of people are chiming in to say how great question #3 is (how do/did you solve a problem at work)...I've gotten this in interviews and told them the Mad Men/Don Draper story of needing a new ad for my client "Lucky Strike" because the attorney General was going to prohibit our existing ads, complete with the pitch how I convinced the client its the greatest opportunity in marketing, asked them how they make their product....stopped them in their tracks, said that's it: "Its Toasted". Interviewers seem to love that story, and if they have seen Mad Men they seem to love it even more. Other times I told them about selling Mangos when I was a child...they love that one too, nothing more bullshitters love than other bullshitters.
The chart is the worst thing in that article. That hilarious line through the middle! Is that suppose to show some kind of trend!?
You can't discard the different pressures specific to each gender, and how each gender deals in their own way with those issues. This reminds me of schools that deal with boys like they are "broken girls", they are ignoring their natural gender attributes when assessing what's acceptable behavior.
Exactly, and the older the pipe, the thicker the layer.
Thanks for always looking up for HN site to keep its sanity. Could you reactivate my voting right please?
Can a reverse osmosis filter remove microplastics?

How dangerous are microplastics?
> "Worse... it's worse than tap water."

Considering the bottles are made of plastic, it would be surprising if they contained less plastic particles than tap water.

What would be interesting is if glass bottled water contained a similar number of plastic particles, because that would suggest a different source of contamination.
I interviewed with them. Their tech stack is Laravel. The whole interview seemed flaky. Now glad I got rejected.
Sure, though from what I found the Vision Fund is about 10x larger than Ycombinator, so doing the Ycon thing at a VF level would probably involve some scaling challenges. But fundamentally, it seems a better way to go about things than putting nearly all of your eggs into late-stage start ups with highly correlated business models & failure modes.
There's a difference of degree and a difference of kind.

In Europe, there are standards and tests that are performed before something is deemed to be "safe" enough to be sold to the public. Look at the supplements industry in Europe for instance where there is a standard of proof to be met and contrast to the supplements industry in the USA where anything goes [5].
It is not a coincidence that the contaminated supply of valsartan was discovered in Europe [1].

In the US there are - usually- no standards and for the vast majority of consumables, no tests done. Even for highly sensitive chemicals (e.g. marketed to the baby market), the FDA is visibly in the pockets of big corporations and - when forced to act - is moving at a snail's pace. It is depressing to see the FDA capitulating to the lobbyists [2] until the mountain of evidence grows to the point where it commands attention. Even then, it can be ignored [3] [4].

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-09-12/how-carci...

[2] https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/03/tritan-certi...

[3] https://www.consumerreports.org/bottled-water/fda-still-hasn...

[4] https://www.consumerreports.org/arsenic-in-food/fda-has-know...

[5] From https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/whats-in-your-chil...

"Europe has banned many phthalates from use in plastics that come into contact with fatty foods, including baby food, but the FDA allows the use of many phthalates in such materials and classifies them as indirect food additives."
Having spent 5 months in Germany recently I can say without a doubt the entire food chain in that nation is something I miss. Tap water tasted great and the food was super high quality.
They probably didn't expect all their performance tricks to backfire in last two years, too.
I had no idea. This kind of stuff is why I like HN. I have no idea who the real 'celebrities' are. It feels like most of the discussion is on a pretty even ground.
I'm not Leo, but I'll give my own opinion.

Mithril solves all those issues well except animations, where it's just OK.

Interestingly, even though the Mithril community seems to be a home to people who dislike JSX, Mithril supports it better than React does. You can copy and paste HTML into JSX with Mithril; all the attributes line up. Also Mithril doesn't try to improve elements like <select> and <textarea>; it's all standard.

In personal projects I use Mithril. For medium to large organizations I recommend React. That's because Mithril does everything better than React except for maintaining backward compatibility and attracting large numbers of job candidates.
Saturn's Rings May Disappear in 100M Years
Does boiling water vaporize the micro plastics?