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>> Marching aimlessly about on the drill field, swaggering in conformity with prescribed military postures, conscious only of keeping in step so as to make the next move correctly and in time somehow felt good.

No. Modern drill is definitely not aimless, let alone fun. If done properly, it hurts. For some people at basic training it is more of a workout than the actual PT workouts. I've seen people pass out. I've seen people damage themeselves and others with bayonets as they fall (parade bayonets are not sharp). And all the foot-stomping and repetative motion leads to knee and back injuries. The one thing I took from drill was an ingrained desire to avoid it at all costs.

>>A plastic surgeon has called for a change to the way a German battalion does its rifle drill after its elite soldiers started developing breasts. Dozens of soldiers in the Wachbataillon unit (Guard Battalion), which performs drill displays at official events, have complained about over-developed breasts on their left-hand side because of the way they clasp their rifles. It is understood the repeated slapping of their rifles against their chests has stimulated hormones, causing a condition known as one-sided gynecomastia.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2267631/Germanys-Wa...

>> "There is a very significant link between the activity in the … battalion and the development of the breast on the left side," Dr. Bjorn Krapohl, director of plastic surgery at the military's main hospital in Berlin, told the Herald. "They need to change the way they drill."

https://www.livescience.com/26597-german-army-soldiers-breas...
Underrated concept. Thanks for sharing.
This isn't true at all. These services are effective in most of Europe and exceptional in Scandinavia. Degradation has increased significantly due to so-called liberalization (privatization) lately with obvious examples in school and healthcare.
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While I think the thought is nice this would just lead to those with excessive financial independence being the only ones able to take the hit of being a law maker. Someone like AOC would never be able to afford to maintain a residence in D.C. while folks like Pelosi and Feinstein would be able to trivially afford it.

The same issue arises whenever folks get antsy about Senatorial pay rates - sure paying them little feels nice but, as has been demonstrated repeatedly in developing nations, lower direct payment leads to more indirect payment through corruption.
Just a couple of ways how it is better, using Turbo Pascal 7 for MS-DOS, released in 1992.

- Units (modules) for separate compilation with strong type checking and not needing useless prefixes

- A proper string type

- Proper arrays with bounds checking, it has functions to retrieve upper and lower bounds

- Allows the definition of numeric ranges

- Enumerations are their own type, can be used as array indexes or data sets

- Support for sets

- Thanks to reference parameters there is less need to deal with pointers that might be invalid

- Already allows for a simplified way of doing Type Driven Development

- Supports type safe function pointers

- Supports single inheritance OOP with minimal RAII support for heap allocated objects

- Comes with a quite powerful OOP framework for TUI applications, Turbo Vision

- While it doesn't prevent use-after-free, it allows for memory regions that can be deallocated on one go

- Can map arrays to memory regions with bounds checking

- Besides inline assembly without UNIX's clusmy syntax, allows to use registers as variables

- If one really wants do do unsafe C style coding there are compiler pragmas to allow it and yes even pointer arithmetic and unsafe casts.

This in 1992, if I take a recent version of Delphi, FreePascal or Oxygene, there are even more bullet points.
What is the largest number smaller than 1?
It looks like a lot of the cost and complexity is to allow takeoff and landing. Is anyone working on a system where the flying part never lands? You presumably have to supply some energy to keep it aloft on windless days, but that might be cheaper than landing gear.
@Dang what do you think about changing the url to this?
Elementary school is effectively universal childcare. It's just you have to make it through the first several years first. Realistically that age is set to when children can be reliably self-sufficient enough that they don't require help with feeding / bathroom things.
Just saw that as well. Pretty frustrating that they didn't add any detail.
Please cite any study that validates this ridiculous claim.

Have you ever voted? Are you even registered to vote? Reading this makes me think you have not and have never... Registration requires verification, address, name, etc. You dont just show up and cast your vote.

The problem is in many rural and poor communities. Many people do not have a birth certificate, many do not have a DL and believe it or not, it costs money and requires significant travel for many people to get these things.

You must live in or near a large city, be from a wealthy family and have never been outside of your geo-bubble. Most of this country is rural. Some people have to travel 100's of miles to the nearest government agency. But you knew that, right?
I defined it:

0.000...1 = 1/10^∞ = 1/∞
The problem with sarcasm on the internet is that it's nigh impossible to pickup on.
Well if it was Andrew Yang's plan, then by a 10% VAT, and other things i.e. a carbon tax. In general, why the taxes are regressive, when paired with the UBI, the product is quite progressive.
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Transportation and shopping come to mind. If you do most of your shopping online you will be less exposed to this kind of mass surveillance; conversely, if you have to use public transportation and walk around, you'll be more exposed to it: not "retain their privacy", but "retain more of their privacy".

It's also possible that more affluent neighborhoods have fewer cameras.
Voter ID laws are often used to disenfranchise poorer voters by creating bureaucracy mazes or DMV-like conditions to stop voters from acquiring the necessary credentials.

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/chal...

Anecdotally, as someone who was living in poverty before I got into this line of work, I did not have a state-issued ID and did not have time to waste or even the inclination to get one (my state does not have voter id laws).

Sure many will go out of their way in order to acquire credentials, but much like email scams, the value of voter suppression is in the marginal success.

Lastly, the amount of real voter fraud (well below 10% last I checked) seems minimal vs the amount of people who don't have credentials (about 10% according to the above).

I will leave you with this quote:

"It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer"

Isn't that the meaning of "justice"?
Everything you said is true, except the other way. Meat is way we thrived and evolved on. Plants was for survival only.

You're right the science doesn't lie. There is no science that shows a lifetime of meat doesn't get you far (there are some that show you excel though). There are questionable questionnaire studies that show association with processed food (and for some reason they put meat in this, further confounding it) has a very small increase correlation with risk of cancer.

Meanwhile all those athletes "thriving" on plans actually saw their performance drop.
https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2010....

>On 12 March 2010, as she prepared for her final push to pass reform legislation, House Speaker Pbbnelosi shut the door on using reconciliation to preserve the public option. While citing the lack of support in the Senate, Pelosi was also aware of the deep concerns that moderates in her caucus had regarding the public option. The narrow vote (219–212) in the House on 21 March 2010 suggests that every possible vote was needed. The House passed the Senate bill (HR 3590) and the reconciliation bill without a public option.

It was included in several House versions of the bill coming out of committee. She didn't fight for it. In fact, she heralded its loss as a win for bipartisanship and her own negotiation campaign.
I have been using #lang sicp in Racket to go through (most of) SICP -- and it's been mostly a smooth ride. DrRacket can get very slow on Linux, so eventually I switched back to vim+terminal once exercises started to require larger amounts of code.
every time I've looked into this I've found the documentation severely lacking in examples of how one would go about incrementally migrating a c project to better c. does someone have a pointer to a blog post or even a git commit that illustrates the first step of migrating a single c file, with all the attendant makefile changes?
Reminds me of Fukyama's "Political Order and Political Decay", but in a more contemporary and narrow context. Interesting thought bubble, thanks for the read!
The point of UBI is to reduce overhead. America’s subsidies for ‘low cost’ housing in cities is far more expensive than cheap housing elsewhere. Someone just given money is going to try and maximize it’s use, where people running programs have their own incentives.
My thoughts on declining industries have changed a lot since listening to the Spectacular Failures podcast episode about Toys R Us and learning more about the vampiric practice of Private Equity, where firms like Bain acquire struggling businesses and win regardless of the output. Here's a similar story from The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/07/toys-r-...

I'm tired of people lamenting the loss of true retail and blaming disruption for any negative changes in the world. The fact is, entire industries outside of Bezos' world flourished from these failures and continue to thrive as long as Chapters doesn't use big data, Visa doesn't make an intuitive gift card option, and the family-owned grocery store doesn't have software to share inventory online.

Most of the zombie companies had excelled at some point in the past - even a joke company like Sears was once the pinnacle of innovation. At this point I'm just convinced companies that decided to "lie down and die" are cases of competing goals among the decision-makers. Some are too non-confrontational, some are egomaniacal, some stifle innovation, some are too audacious, and lots of executives, board members, and consultants flourish regardless of the result.

The result is an unhealthy economy that is constantly getting conned by those who know how to play the game. But maybe that has always been the case...
> because they nail the experience and the category becomes much more popular. Moreover, Apple generally dominates the categories they enter when it comes to profit margins. (And no, it is not only because people pay to carry an Apple logo.)

At some point it switched from people buying Apple as a premium brand to, as you said them just being "more popular" and leveraging that. A lot of people simply don't look much farther than they brands they already own, and this applies to Apple as well.

I wouldn't say that the AirPods were a "setting the bar" product. I'd argue that for the Apple ecosystem it was more of a "keeping the bar", with AirPods being the path of least resistance after they removed the headphone jack.
This. Newegg has similarly taught me to select only Newegg as the retailer when doing searches.
> some fields would randomly be missing, because the field wasn't necessary for that instance of the object

This problem can occur in statically-typed languages too, such as if you have a class to model your entity, but in this instance you only need certain fields to be hydrated. The other fields may be set to null.

This might only a problem if the half-populated instance is 'leaked' to somewhere that expects a fully hydrated instance. Thinking about it though, it's possible that null could also be used to represent a null held on the database, rather than not hydrated.

The ideal solution would I suppose be to roll your own type for this semi-hydrated data, but that's not always possible/convenient.

Example: https://github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-dotnet/blob/de...
What’s your definition of “rich” for purposes of funding UBI? How much exactly do you want to tax those rich? How much money do you expect to extract?

These are ideas seldom entertained by UBI proponents, because as soon as they are seriously considered, it becomes clear that there aren’t even nearly enough rich to pay everyone $1000 a month.
What? 0.999... = 1 is not dogma. Please don't spread misinformation. And at least read the link before commenting on something.
I remember reading an old post on here by some anon who managed to make themselves enjoy math using a carefully crafted psychedelic trip. Could be a fluke on the level of curing OCD with a gunshot, but also an interesting possibility.
I've actually quit coffee a few times for 6+ month periods. One thing you'll notice, or at least I did, coffee just didn't taste that good, and your mind quickly connects the caffeine rush it's going to get. Even trying to drink decalf wasn't a worthwhile endeavor (even though there's still a tiny bit of caffeine in it). I imagine, it's a variation of a junkie not loving to put the needle in their arms, but anticipating their high.

Note: I don't drink coffee "drinks" like mochas, lattes, frappachinos, etc. just drink black coffee, without sugar and milk .
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They do stuff like this all the time. Large sellers are treated like subhumans that do not deserve attention from an intelligent person at Amazon. You get bots and contractors making very expensive decisions.

>Why would Amazon, in the middle of a pandemic squeeze a business such as ours so hard that we cannot get ANY of our funds for goods sold or to pay our people. I understand risk mitigation, but this is over the top. Please mods, help us!

Amazon considers sellers to be a renewable resource that can be disposed of haphazardly at the whim of an automated system or a low level employee. Note that they also pay for an account rep, covering a significant portion of that rep's fully loaded salary, yet they are still unable to get timely information. You have to understand that even if you are on the larger side, in the top 10% of sellers, that Amazon still considers you expendable.

Paid reps are very helpful but the cost is sort of absurd for what they wind up doing in high pressure suspension situations for nebulous or stupid/incomprehensible reasons.

Unfortunately, they are trying to write to "Amazon legal" which does not exist to field seller problems. Writing to "Amazon legal" is indeed a black hole. The way to force a response is to file for arbitration.
We'll have to wait and see. If it winds up being too much government spending to avoid inflation, then taxes would have to be raised to cut down the inflation. I don't think this would be such a bad thing, since the income redistribution would be a benefit anyway.

My guess is that it wouldn't cause much inflation, since much of the demand destruction we've seen will be permanent.
Excuse me but I did loosed the password from the account whose I was using to make the post.
I'm also sorry but I was to know about this document, and the very point of my question is that "I'm even able to type a document", the difference is instead the reality were I don't see any office using an Open Source Operating System, but all Windows instead.
I don't know, but from my poorly point of view this looks like people that "thalks about them working" vs "people that actually's on a job" (meaning at EU's Committee ones ofc).
Thanks for you answer, anyway.
By taking $950/month from the middle-class, $2000/month from the upper-middle-class, and $200 from the lower class. And a couple of million/month from billionaires. (If you can't tax the billionaires, increase all the payments above by $40/month.)

You can't squeeze enough money out of the rich to give the middle class a free ride, there's not quite enough of it, and there's too much of a middle class.

Edit:

If you really want to tax the rich, don't tax their money, tax the things they own. Land value taxes. Taxes on stocks. The purpose of doing this shouldn't be to fund a social program, but to align the prosperity of the nation with their prosperity.

If the government were a passive shareholder in ~40% of the S&P 500, then the nation as a whole would directly benefit from 40% of the returns of capitalism. If we had land value taxes, then the nation would directly benefit from the high cost of land (Which currently is nothing but a cost, and a drag on the economy, and funds all sorts of rent-seeking, unproductive uses of land.) And would skim a good slice of the rent-seeking parts of the economy.
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> What people need to thrive is security the knowledge that if unfortunate events outside of their control happen, that they will be helped to the degree that society is able

I don't know if I believe this. It's unpopular, but I think being completely secure may have some negatives. For example, drawing upon my own life experiences, I found it hard to find motivation to be productive when I was completely secure in all my needs. I ended up playing a lot of video games and watching a lot of anime. However, once I lost my training slot in the Air Force and it looked like my cushy military job was no longer guaranteed, it lit a fire under my butt and I was highly motivated to start sharpening my computer industry skills, doing side projects, etc. in case it didn't work out and I had to find a "real job" (and it didn't work out).

We didn't need perfect social security to thrive historically. I don't see evidence of people in EU countries with tons of social services thriving.

Historically, all we needed to thrive was the promise that hard work, creativity, or both, would be proportionally rewarded. Somewhere along the way we've lost this (or at least part of it). We should work to bring that back, and provide enough social services to help people become self-reliant (if they aren't already).
Take a look at the AirPods Pro page with JavaScript disabled. After a very slightly suboptimal start (consuming too much vertical space for fairly meaningless content), it’s actually pretty great. That’s what they should have made for everyone.

But far more of the time, what you request is impossible, because such fancy scrolljacking sites are normally utterly broken with JS disabled. The Pixel Buds page is basically just blank, for example.
The prices for AWS products only tell a small part of the story. The real costs are in outgoing bandwidth.

Take the encoding example above, you might pay a competitive price for the compute time required to encode, but you'll be paying some of the highest bandwidth fees in the industry if you were to stream out your encoded video to multiple viewers.
> Wal-Mart won the retail game because it won the price war, like you said, but it held the keys to the kingdom for so long because it also enforced a minimum quality standard with suppliers.

Wal-Mart is nearly just as guilty of selling shoddy items as Amazon. Wal-Mart has struck deals with brands so that lesser-quality versions of popular products are shipped to Wal-Mart stores than to more upscale shops. These lower-quality versions are not clearly marked as such, and it is difficult for the average consumer to notice how the plastic molding is thinner and less durable – they will only find out when it breaks on them.
This is a common political trope in China used to shift responsibility away from the center and should not be taken at face value.
It kill/wounds preferably African-Americans, then Caucasians and lastly Chinese:

"Critically however, ethnicity has major effects on thrombotic risk, with a 3-4 fold lower risk in Chinese compared to Caucasians and a significantly higher risk in African-Americans."

Sound like an effective ethnic bioweapon. And, since most Chinese American citizens are Republicans and most African-Americans are Democrats, there may be just enough lethality to change the outcome of a USA Presidential election.

P.S. Curiously Africa shows low numbers of Covid-19 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23010276), the above article seems to indicate that African-Americans do less well than Caucasians or Chinese, so isn't this another part of the puzzle?
Washington and Oregon only have remote voting. It works extremely well, is less open to voter suppression and tampering, and lets you sit down and research what you're voting for in comfort. A ballot is mailed to you, you fill it out, seal it up, and mail it back or put it in one of the many ballot drop boxes.

Electronic voting? Absolutely not. But it's hard to have cyberwarfare campaigns against paper trails.
Honestly, it costs about the same to implement as Medicare for All, but I would much prefer a UBI.

Imagine if everyone had a catastrophic healthcare plan that was essentially an out-of-pocket maximum of $12,000. And then everyone gets $12,000 a year to spend on healthcare - or anything else.
Why not do a 'Show HN'?
If Universe is infinite, then if we compare you to size of Universe, you are infinitely small, so you don't exists at all. Why I should waste my time?

If Universe is finite, then finite number of elements can make only finite number of combinations, thus this discussion is repeated infinite number of times again. Why I should waste my time again?
Thanks for doing that; i edited the post realizing several had spoken of such.
@dang could we update this very misleading headline to "US Senators Introduce Resolution to Allow Remote Senate Voting During Emergencies"?
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But Yang numbers weren’t even close to adding up. Last I checked them, even if you are very optimist and assume that he’ll get exactly as much as he expects in taxes, this wouldn’t fund even half of $1000/mo.
They do not give answers because it is very clear with a simple calculation that this is unaffordable in addition to serving no purpose.

Giving $1000 a month to 210 million people costs $210 billion a month, $2.5 trillion a year.

I believe that the annual federal tax revenue is about $3.4 trillion.
There was never any chance the Senate was going to support a public option when Obamacare was being developed. It was a non-starter.
You can do this in a closed system. India is not a closed system. At some point, someone is going to screw up. You can't shut down a city every time that happens.
Obesity affects fatality rates, not infection rates, due to greater chance of respiratory obstruction in advanced cases of the disease.

It appears that infection rates in India are low at the moment. It's not entirely clear why, but it could be a combination of hot weather, their nationally imposed lockdown, and lack of testing.
Im annoyed that you have to spell out auto all over the place. It should be implicit. The compiler should automatically add auto if you have not specified something else.
First off, it doesn't have to be funded. We have a fiat currency. However the extent that new dollars are to be offset because of fear of inflation (not an immediate concern given current deflationary trends), the a partial offset via a VAT tax could work.
Inflation is caused by "too many dollars chasing too few goods" not literal money printing. The demand for basic goods as needs are going unmet is actually pretty high. A lot of the printed money would actually go to paying off debt and thus actually destroying money.
0.999...1 = 1 - 1/∞ - 8/∞ = 1 - 9/∞
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