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> Can you give me a source on that? Asked about his political views he said he was socially liberal, economically conservative. He seems to me to be more of a libertarian type, certainty not a left anarchist or even an anarcho-capitalist.

His own words:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1008120904759402501

He certainly went off on a Anarchist tirade on his earning's call, and his stance on Alameda County.

> This is pretty much what every single western country has done.

By inflating the currency until absolute oblivion? I will admit that the State has done so at a time when overall prosperity has increased by orders of magnitude for a large segment of the Species, but that's more consequential than it is a direct causation.

Me having a computer has nothing to do with how the US has lost 90+% of its worth since 1913 when it was severed from the Gold standard and its monetary policy. And more to do with the risks taken by Market participants to drive the price to an accessible level for me, the end consumer. I'd wax on Market dynamics but to be honest that would take an entire other conversation and today is Crew Dragon flight test!

But just so it's clear, I think PM are a relic of 18th Century thinking and that money has evolved by orders of magnitude since then.

> We know that is happens like that, I don't think he said that in a Utopian spirit.

I was just watching the 3rd row podcast and saw Todd behave surprised when he only realized that even Kimbal's Square Roots was built specifically for the intent for Food production on Mars.
I think focusing solely on the link side of things is missing the forest for the trees. All of the same points apply if you want a button element to look like pretty much anything other than the default button, that is, use an actual design on your page while keeping semantics in tact.
Real question: As the head of the Federal executive branch, who would stop him?
I feel like I've seen a lot of similar apps like this posted to HN but as usual the main blocker for me is no mobile support.

A personal knowledge-base is a great idea but you need to be able to easily reference it wherever you are. If I had a second brain I wouldn't leave it at home ;).

I mostly use Notion and just as an example say you're at the mechanic and they say "hey you got the VIN for your car handy?"

I pop open notion and its right there.
The publishers are not mentioning to the visitor they are adding one more third party looking at your data; one that maintains an ad exchange and will be an intermediary on every resource request.

A publisher is free to switch to AMP, but choice needs to be given to the user to agree or leave the site the same way it happens with cookies. I wouldn’t opt in and now I cannot block Google tracking at the DNS level thanks to this.
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Yeah, that's not how it works at all. People who start watching the Qanon videos in their Youtube reccomendations aren't going to then get swayed by your eloquent speech, they are going to get sucked into a whole alternate world where your arguments are just dismissed as part of the conspiracy.
To properly think critically you'd have to even question what school teaches you. The framework of school as an institution, it's purposes, it's origins. If you're lucky, your parents teach you how the real world relates to school, how teachers are just normal people, and aren't experts, that schools are operated under a certain ideological agenda, either governmental or from the owners of the private institution. That even experts aren't truth-oracles and have disagreements. That in complicated questions, like history, different countries may teach very different stories in school. And that your school's version is also not unbiased.

I don't see how you can teach the essence of critical thinking when it's in itself a fiercely individualistic don't-just-trust-the-authority idea.

If you teach it as such, you will get people to believe in any and all crackpottery because "I learned not to trust school and experts, I now found the actual truth that my school has repressed in this creationist UFO book on how aliens built the pyramids".

The other option is to teach them not to trust anything that comes from "unapproved" sources, only believe your government institutions, UN orgs etc. This may seem like a good baseline for the average person but it's just appeal to authority and not critical thinking.

I think there is just no such thing as "critical thinking" that could be taught as such, in itself. You have to go to the object level. If you want to dispel creationism, you have to teach biology and talk about how we know what we know about evolution and make sure people deeply understand it in their bones and they don't just regurgitate what they think you expect of them. It's the same in every subject. If you want people not to believe in magic healing crystal energy vibrations and parapsychology and homeopathy, you have to get them to understand some principles of real medicine and real physics (with equations and exercises all that). Only someone who has firm foundations on the object level, can successfully apply critical thinking.

One thing that could be taught though is propaganda techniques, marketing psychology, how it relates to the brain's reward systems, how ads are designed and monitored, A/B testing and tracking in cell phones, addiction. How cults form, the human biases that cult leaders use, a lot of stuff about human behavior, social psychology, trust, different personality types. Fallacies, pitfalls of thinking. But all these are very meta and again, to have a good grasp of these, you need a good actual base on the object level.

Most of actual critical thinking in the real world looks like "wait a minute, that doesn't feel right according to my model of how the world works". It's not really by matching things against a shortlist of logical fallacies that you had to memorize for some test.
Hold on, does the "de" in derrière mean "the" as in "the rear"?
x1 carbon, yeah good. but the T-Series are better. any thin, laptop you're gonna run into the same macbook problems, due the design constraints of letting the laptop be thin and lighweight. I have a t490, hardware solid all around. though lenovo put clippers on the bottom panel. don't know why. I know previous models t480 etc didn't have clippers.
I don't know, they look kitschy to me - as if someone designed them just to look 'cool' and futuristic instead of utilitarian, like a fashion statement.
+1 for vimwiki! As a matter of fact, you can get almost all of these features with vimwiki, minus the fancy graph visualization. Plus, it's open source :)
They stare at them while waiting for the automatic launch sequence that has been in use by rockets since the early space race.
I don't have to let trump stand on my front porch and scream lies at top volume, and twitter doesn't either. Twitter is protected by the first amendment here, not trump.

Twitter's platform is private, not public. Twitter should waste no more time in making that crystal clear.

If you own the printing press, you get to decide what you print. If it were otherwise -- if the government, or anyone else, could control what we said and didn't say with our private resources -- well, that's not anywhere any of us really wants to live.
I don't think there have been margins in grocery in my lifetime.
Just want to make sure that s we're talking about the same person here - are you referring to the author of "pedo guy" tweet? I guess he's the best role model we have for now...
I can kind of understand why Google wants to do AMP. Mobile web performance and all. It probably scores better at some metric that someone believes passionately in (to the exclusion of all else). I don't think it's worthwhile overall, but I can understand it.

What I can't understand is why it has to be managed so badly. Just put the damn URL there for people who want it. Allow opt out for people who want that. Super easy.

Even if the plan is to cynically use leverage to railroad through adoption of AMP, you're not going to win over the people who despise AMP. There's nothing to be be gained by twisting arms like this. You're only making enemies. Just throw a bone to the people don't like AMP, and the rest of the people will go along with AMP anyway because they don't care.
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You say "Modern capitalism" as if there was a different capitalism before it. The system is the same (perhaps more optimized from longer innovation); the culture and the players are different.
Well there are two kinds of public shareholders, right. There may be a small number who own large enough shares to bother attending board meetings and voting, and then there are the millions with pensions, 401ks, index funds, etc. I think you're talking about the latter, who have the same issue but a slightly different version of it. In their case, the "ill-informed management" comes down to "price goes up, buy, price goes down, sell". Through share price they wield an extremely blunt version of the same weapon.

This is almost worse, because it very explicitly cares only about the short-term price. It's also a much harder problem to solve, because you can't just tell those people "think long-term and ethically when you're exercising your impact on the marketplace!". No matter how ethical they may be as individuals, most of them probably don't even know which companies they have stakes in, much less whether those companies are heading in the right direction!
I’ve had this happen on my work MBP (13” non-touch bar, BT magic keyboard and trackpad and HDMI monitor connected via a cheap USB-C hub) a handful of times. Really have no idea what motivated it.
Can his ambitions be much grander than what he's already achieved?
You can't say these words in Google buildings or they escort you out.
I really don't think so. The people in the past were not getting automatic respect and were not getting automatic love. The marriage was often economic transaction and you often had to live among people who did not respected you. The marriage happened after short time of knowing each other and if it turned out mistake, that was it forever, no love.

Some people's lives had meaning, plenty of others were basically surviving in routine .
What’s the % of users who use that? Until you can buy a de-googled Android phone straight from the store it’s kind of irrelevant to the comparison for the majority of non technical users.
Yeah right... "accidentally"

just like Reddit..
Fragile by what measure? The US economy at least appears to be weathering the storm, and many experts expect it to start rallying in the next few months.

I mean...we just faced a complete black swan event where people all had to lock themselves in their homes, and so far we seem to have avoided catastrophe (at least by many expert predictions).

The US is extremely well positioned to avoid many of the negative effects that most countries are going to be seeing.

We are the opposite of fragile, at least compared to other human economies.

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2020-0...

https://youtu.be/7IWdNPAOQDE

https://zoom.us/rec/play/uZV8drj9-z83SIDH5QSDAvcoW9XoKK2shHI...
Very much agree about old NASA suits - especially the orange shuttle ones.

I think it's important to discriminate between what the spacex suits look like in stylized prototypes and actually on people. Take this image for example: https://sm.pcmag.com/t/pcmag_uk/news/n/nasa-space/nasa-space...
The entire point of having ISS (or Glass Lewis) advise on voting and offer options like autopilot is to give the collective power of all those tiny 401K balances to a single unifying entity who can help drive shareholder-friendly terms (or at least provide a partial balance to what might otherwise become too boardroom-friendly terms). I view that the voting is on autopilot as a potentially positive control not the negative that you seem to believe it to be.

Some fund companies commit to following ISS advice across the board or on certain topics. Others like Vanguard delegate the voting power to fund managers (who have access to ISS reports but aren't obliged to follow it slavishly).
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Amazing. Still boggles my mind that these huge companies can't invest in native development. You never really understand how constrained Slack is once you see what multi-window setups could look like. The current UI is mess and this is a great solution.
As a hacker, I see a very easily exploitable flaw in your proposed solution :)
Let me first say, this is a really great discussion that has forced me to think, and I'm upvoting both sides, including Deimorz and ratww.

On one hand, if I expect buttons, and only buttons, to have some non-link in-page effect, then yes, those [-] things should be buttons.

OTOH, as ratww, notes, the up/downvotes "are links", in a sense -- if JS is disabled, it just does the upvote with a page load, so functionally it's like a link and deserves <a> and not being a button. But by that logic, nothing deserves to be a button because you could replace it with a page load + the desired effect.

So let's go with the "make it a button" implication. I tried wrapping the [-]s it <button> tags, and yeah, that gives the button styling, which doesn't fit with the HN general style -- I'd prefer it stay text.

So I grudgingly (and tentatively) concede there are things that semantically should be buttons but whose default styling I'd still want to excise right out of them, forcing me into that dilemma I previously ridiculed. But is there still a way that I'm wrong about that concession?
This is the opposite of what your parent comment is arguing...
> The two astronauts along with the Falcon 9 will be docking with the ISS and then returning home

Just to be clear, the Falcon 9 is the booster that never gets to orbit. It's not going to the ISS- not moving fast enough to achieve orbit. Just the little Dragon spaceship on the nose of the rocket will get to the ISS.

> No crew swap is happening, which seems like a waste of energy. I get that SpaceX isn't "operationally certified", but is a crew swap inherently more risky?

Believe it or not, they've sent this 7-seat spacecraft to the ISS already (well, the same model) just to verify it could do it. It arrived empty, it went home empty (except for a plushy that stayed behind). The point is that SpaceX is going to be doing this maybe hundreds of times in the future, but the first time, they want to minimize the number of people that could die if something goes wrong.

Remember, this whole test would have been done 6 months ago except that the sister to this spaceship unexpected exploded during a simple ground test. This stuff is dangerous.
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I know that the whole "have kids" thing, which we were thinking about, has basically been totally shut down. Nope, this is craziness, time to just survive for the next few years.
No, it is not.

Not when they compete with exclusive content.

It would be good if they had the same content but compete with the UI (in such case Netflix would win, and HBO would loose, as they have the worst possible UI), streaming content etc.
Thing is, at a minimum the "vibe" increases the cost, but financial constraints aren't going away, so...
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They're easy to use correctly, but just as easy to use incorrectly.

But this applies to a lot of technologies. Some people treat Base64 like encryption. I've seen passwords stored in databases with Base64 encoding. It doesn't mean Base64 is terrible and insecure, it just means it's being used incorrectly.
Ok. Do it.

As with all things trump, the man spends his days flailing about from one tantrum to the next with no actual focus or initiative. Bluster all day, every day.
That doesn't mean they're not redundant, only that the bigger problem is bigger.

And Airbus has to deal with the same thing now, whereas before Boeing had a unique disadvantage.
> The current US law regarding restaurants is in fact that an commercial establishment have very little freedom to refuse to save people based on who they are.

To be clear, current US law protects things that one can not change about themselves eg: race --and even this is a bit of an oversimplification (see being gay or a woman)-- but it in no way prevents a restaurant from serving someone because of the attire they are wearing or the speech they are speaking.
" but distribution, installation and updating was a headache"

I am not sure what headache are you talking about. My product/s are usually single exe with dependencies statically linked and acting in dual role: setup and the end software itself. Installation goes like this:

1) customer clicks on link

2) setup.exe is downloaded and ran.

3) setup copies itself to a proper location and renames itself to yourwonderfulsoftware.exe.

4) When running it may communicate to servers to get whatever data/files/licenses it needs if any.

5) It also checks for new version and if there is any it can self update if you click that "update" button.

6) Before update starts the old version and data are always backed up.

Yes it does lack that instant satisfaction experience that comes with good web applications. But then again the if software I want to make looks like a good candidate for Web target way I will implement it as a web app.

In hopefully not too distant future Web assembly may make the difference minimal but we will have to wait and see how it goes.
Your local QFC is really a Kroger btw
Link to paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.04511
There's bullying and there's bullying. Some Presidents have used the IRS against their opponents. If this President uses only rhetoric, then I'm fine with that. Also, pushing rule-making authority at the FCC or FTC is not over the line the way using the IRS is.
To be fair most of the interviewers seemed to work along these lines that you describe. (That's why I managed to get quite close quite a few times - I was never big on memory so it's impossible get the details on WB).

Yet, if the string of interviews is too long (and it is) the probability of hitting a "reef" is really big. And it seems that either you get a unanimous "yes" or you fail.
>My favorite was the guy who made a fake AC unit, installed it on the roof, and bought a stereotypical AC repairman outfit that he wore every time he went to do maintenance work.

This is some 90's sitcom silliness I absolutely love it.
Thank you! These are all delightful.
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I’m seeing a couple of red herrings dominate these comments, which really have no relevancy to the issue at hand.

1. The veracity of twitter’s fact checking. This absolutely does not matter, since Twitter may host or refuse to host whatever they want on their own website, including incorrect fact checks if that’s how they get their jollies (not that there’s any evidence that their fact checks have been incorrect so far, because there isn’t). On the other hand, Trump doesn’t have the same right, because he doesn’t own Twitter.com

2. Hate speech, and whether it is ever justified. Again, this doesn’t matter. Twitter has the right to remove (or visibly flag as the case may be) any post they want on their website, for any reason they want. They might do so because a post is hate speech, but they’d be just as firmly within their rights to do so for any other reason.

I think all of the confusion in these comments exists because the law is very simple, but many folks here don’t like the conclusion:

1. Twitter may fact check, flag, or remove the posts of Trump or any other user completely at their discretion, even if their fact checking turns out to be incorrect. Nothing about this violates Trump’s first amendment rights in any way.

2. I had hoped this was obvious, but in case it’s unclear to you, Trump and the US government absolutely do not have the power to shut down or punish Twitter in any way just because they don’t like the way that Twitter has fact checked Trump’s posts. This would in fact (obviously) violate Twitter’s first amendment rights.

Finally, there is no legal distinction between a “platform” and a “publisher” that in any way restricts the control that a business has over their own website. Anyone who claims otherwise is simply incorrect, and not worth listening to.
What this points to is the concept of distilled vs undistilled information. When X happens it often takes a short or long period of time for X to appear in context of the thing that's actually newsworthy.

That GE stock is down 1% at 2pm isn't useful unless you are an professional active trader. But the stock's trend line and the company's financials could, over a few days, point to a story you can take action on.

We didn't evolve to receive this level of information flow. Our brains think it's all relevant.

My strategy is to read a summary of sorts on Sundays, a paper copy of The Economist. It's not all encompassing and sometimes has a bit of bias, but it's the only weekly I've found that comprehensively sums up the stream of events that happened rather that generally line up in some sort of context. I've found that useful.
We've been helping HK, we just failed. Many organizations sent money to support the protests from my understanding.
> US infrastructure that was there before SARS-COV-2 is still there.

The physical buildings and roads are still there. The people who use them are not, which makes it in practice not in place.
>If Twitter wants control over what's published on their site, then they give up their rights (their 'free harbor'-alike protections) to not be held responsible for the content they censor and let through.

Where is this in US law? Are you confusing DMCA safe harbor issues with speech?

All platforms take control over content - otherwise they could not remove child porn, PII, etc., and they don't lose DMCA safe harbor exemptions, which only applies to copyrighted items posted by users.
I guess I'm in the minority, but I've been chomping at the bit for curbside pickup of groceries for years. Our local stores finally started offering it around 6 months ago and it's been our primary method of shopping since then.

We've had pretty good luck as far as produce goes. I think 4-5 things have been bad, to various degrees. But even then, it has saved a TON of time, even if I go in and pick the things I'm particular about. I'd say 95% or more is to the quality I would pick, 4% is "passable", and 1% has been "straight into the trash". The stores have never had a problem crediting us on any mistakes.

It saves me probably an hour a week, plus there's reduced "impulse buying".