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>I wish people here were more sensitive and sympathetic to the folks who are genuinely hurting.

What makes you think people aren't? Disagreement on the virtues of Universities using a political hot button issue as a means to discriminate doesn't mean people aren't sympathetic. At most it means there's are differences in prioritization of what should come before what in regards to how the "System" operates.

>...and less worried about the loss of privilege that people face for their own bad choices.

Now who's being unsympathetic? And for that matter, wasn't it the Left who have been pounding the "higher education is a right" the last few years?

This is what bugs me about this shift to the use of social media mob tactics, and the undying record created by freezing in time every detail of everyone's life via private social media companies.

Instead of a People united in the understanding we all screw up, and change over time, always trying to better ourselves day after day, we've turned the social media presence of a person into the ultimate scapegoat and tool of prejudicial dismissal. The very thing that the Liberal movement of my youth was dead set against. You didn't judge someone by what they'd done, but by how they'd changed, and the changes they're trying to realize.

Furthermore, the purpose of a University is not to provide a safe space for the academic elite. It is an intellectual battleground, upon which the very foundations of human thought are broken down, relaid, and broken down again on a day to day basis. It is where the hard, but necessary questions are asked and answered. It is a place where the very fibers of a human being can be ripped asunder and rebuilt through the gaining of new perspective and through learning the art of transformational learning, research, and rhetorical communication. If you cannot see why it is not in a University's best interest to turn away sharp, inquisitive minds of any shape, and to not feel pause at the weaponizatiom of admission into an institution of higher learning as some sort of political virtue signaling mechanism, then I don't know what to say to you other than I'm disappointed you feel that the sacred mission of a University to sharpen, redirect, and hone young minds is unimportant enough to be wielded as little more than as some sort of brand.

>We need to be fair to the people who haven't done anything wrong except be born with the wrong skin tone.

The poster opines on other's racism, as he makes a value judgement on the basis of life with a particular skin tone. There is no wrong skin tone, just other people more than willing to tell you there is one. If I had any advice to anyone reading this, it is to ignore such people. To listen, and give weight to it is to even acknowledge that such a state of affairs has legitimacy through the sheer populations of other people that indulge in it. Grit your teeth and push on through. You'll come out the other side that much stronger for having done it on your own, and will never have to entertain a second thought that anything you earned was unjustly given.
It's not technical jargon. 'Noosing' the animal is not a term invented by Scientists, it's a colloquial term they've borrowed from trappers and hunters. It's just a 'regular term' and it's part of language.

Why don't you check here by Googling "noosing a lizard". [1]

Have a look at the myriad of results.

There is not a single instance or comment anywhere on any of the videos etc. about such language being 'inappropriate' - because it isn't. Nobody but a single person is complaining about it.

It's completely absurd to consider the concept of 'noosing an animal' as racially insensitive - if that is offensive - than everything is.

By this logic, the 'threshold' for 'banning terms' would be effectively to condemn language that has literally a handful of people in the world who object to it.

Now - the 'n-word' for example, is obviously inappropriate.

What we need is common sense, and the ability to reasonably be able to draw the line somewhere. What is happening, is that a certain kind of people intellectualise the ordeal and loose sight of any material reality. Not that different from startups let by very smart people who spend a lot of money building products that nobody wants (how can that possibly happen?).

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=noosing+a+lizard&rlz=1C5CHFA...
As I understand it, if you're travelling from Canada, and have evidence of Canadian residency, you're as good as Canadian for this purpose. If you're a visitor in Canada, it gets murky quickly.

It's also worth knowing most countries are still banning by purpose as well as by source. Most countries do not accept tourism as a valid reason to visit.

For example, for Germany; https://www.germany.info/us-en/covid-19/2321562

"Third-country nationals with a long-term right of residence in an EU State and/or in the aforementioned State (residence permit or long-term visa, e.g. for studies or starting a job) " - that could be you, depending in your residence position in Canada. ("aforementioned State" is EU/EEC/EFTA, plus July 1st's "positive list").

However, the page ends with "U.S. citizens may still enter Germany without a visa, if they can show proof of one of the afore-mentioned exceptions to the airline and border authorities. Entry for the sole purpose of a visit or for tourist reasons is therefore still not possible."

Essentially, you need either a) the natural right to enter - EG, you're German. b) a good reason to enter, and be resident in, and travelling from, an acceptable country. or c) be on the VIP list of risks we're willing to take.

(Germany in this case was just the clearest example I found in two searches. Go figure, Germans are good at rules. The "positive list" and recommendations are provided by the EU, the implementation is provided by the state. So the nitty-gritty does vary by country.)
Usually better answered by asking: why should they not?

Being on HN to discuss this most likely means you're much better off than billions of people on this planet.
Makes me think of a current superpower which committed multiple genocides against a native population, enslaved and represses to this day ethnic minorities, is in perpetual undeclared war with oil-producing countries, purposefully infected its own free citizens with syphillis and observed them over the course of 40 years....
Yes copycat cannot innovate. But Eric Schmidt believe China are no longer copying:

"""
"I have carried the prejudices about China in my years working with them," he said.

"That they're very good at copying things, that they're very good at organising things, that they throw large numbers of people at it. But they're not going to do anything new. They're very, very good at stealing, if you will, our stuff. Those prejudices need to be thrown out.

"The Chinese are just as good, and maybe better, in key areas of research and innovation as the West.

"They're putting more money into it. They are putting it in a different way, it is state-directed in a way that is different from the West. We need to get our act together to compete."
"""
I wish they had treated the public like adults:

"Listen, we believe masks are effective but we don't have enough for medical personnel who need them right now so unless you absolutely need one please stay home, stay safe, and leave them to doctors, nurses, and other emergency personnel."

No misinformation and the vast majority of people would have complied.

Lying to everyone just cost them credibility and probably lives when this is all said and done.
b/c they are not as effective as many once thought. In fact they are not very effective at all:

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/podcasts-webinars/specia...

Transcript at:

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/sites/default/files/public/downlo...

Simplified explanation: when we breathe we exhale tiny "aerosols" and when we cough or sneeze we exhale far larger "droplets". The dust you see in a darkened room when a beam of sunlight enters is an aerosol. Aerosols are like marbles compared to droplets' boulders.

Covid-19 hitches a ride on both aerosols and droplets.

Cloth masks can stop droplets but cannot stop aerosols, which flow in/out a mask's gaps. To stop aerosols you'd have to wear something with an airtight seal, something akin to a swim mask. Cloth masks and even surgical masks do not do this.

Cloth masks don't work against aerosols; even surgical masks won't protect you (indeed they don't protect surgical patients or doctors either). Never trust a mask against Covid-19.

A final note from the interview with Michael Osterholm:

"When you wear your cloth mask in public, realize that it may only provide very limited protection. The most important thing that you can do to protect yourself and others is distance."

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And for God's sake put your goddam nose under the mask - if we can see your nostrils we're doomed, simply doomed!
Was the Walkman any better than its competitors? I was only a toddler at the time but a few years later EVERYONE made personal cassette players, at way lower prices than Sony.

But it wasn’t like with a generic “MP3 player”, a generic cassette player wasn’t really missing anything that the Walkman had (except for the very low end models that were in the cheapest price bracket). I remember one model that only had reverse and not fast forward, for example.
Flairs on AH aren't checked for credentials (though many are indeed in academia). My username is the same there and I occasionally pop in to answer questions.
Nah, I don’t want an app nagging me to subscribe after I’ve already subscribed. That’s not a very “Apple” experience, goes against their philosophy of simple, clean design. Make it easy to cancel (which they’ve done). Perfect.
People on each side are downvoting the other side. I changed that in a few cases, but I'm also not seeing a lot of fine comments here that are downvoted. It's mostly flamewar stuff that breaks the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

If you have links to other examples, I'd appreciate them. You can always send them to hn@ycombinator.com.
Dad can provide a minor credit card/debit card, they are very popular these days with spend limit. Many platforms allow you to set spend limit.

It's also possible to turn on a heater and forget to turn it off by a minor and accure mega electricity bill and same is true if your data is being charged per unit data consumed by your internet provider. In none of those cases, refund would be provided.
In India, WhatsApp is used to hilt by political parties. Ruling party owns one of the largest digital network with 100s of thousands of such groups with 10s of millions of members. These groups are used to circulate all kinds of fake news, Islamophobic posts, even hyper local fake posts which have resulted in lynching of innocents by the mob.
These posts then spill over to non political groups and are
compounded by the fact that media is corrupt and silo-ed into factions.

This a genuine problem impacting impacting both democracy and the social fabric.
Wouldn't it be nice if history were actually this simple?

The idea here is that Romans, with their pater familias, or the Confucian Chinese, for whom the father was a mini-emperor, were just preparing the way for capitalism, 2000+ years before the fact?

Marriage and home-bound women were not an invention of the late medival world. Women may well have been more free in the preceding period, but that was the exception, not the norm.
Please don't be a jerk in HN comments, even when someone else has a mere anecdote.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
My son, alone? Nope. But I'm still getting royalty checks, so someone other than 8-12 year olds are playing. The world is a big place, and not everyone has an iPhone. Are fewer people playing than back in 2008? Yes. Is it enough to be viable? No way to know. I would say that Kongregate made some big bets over the last few years that didn't pay off (mobile, publishing, Kartridge). That doesn't make them bad bets, they just didn't work out.

I think it's very likely they could make enough money from their remaining brand and html5 games to pay for a couple of full-time bodies to keep the lights on. The company has changed hands a few times the last few years and the founders have moved on, so I would think it has more to do with the current owners bailing on Kartridge and winding the business down than the pure economics of the site itself.
If you fly something like netjets where they have experienced crew, and you’re flying a bigger and new jet into a large airport, I don’t really think there’s much safety difference vs. commercial.
AMP solves a problem, it just doesn't solve a problem for users. It's an anticompetitive play and it's helping exactly who it is supposed to help.
That 23andme link doesn't work for me, it says no genes or markers found for rs10490770.
Ah bummer, that explains why I got bunch of odd reactions after I sent venmo request after my last private jet trip :)

Joking aside, do you have first hand experience of this? How does it compare to traveling by business class on a national carrier?
I don't care about my doctor's opinions as long as they behave professionally and do their job well.
Whataboutism. 15 year old black kid being tried as adults is not right, so is this.
It's the only way to do it. TLS has shown that OCSP and the likes are not adding significant security and short certificate expiration is the only way to go.

The serving nodes are not necessarily under control of a well intended party that complies with upgrade requests.
I guess what I’m saying is, it’s not just hazard pay. So many people in this economy aren’t paid a living wage to begin with.

In an ideal world I would agree with you. In the world we live in my suspicion is that (not saying this is you specifically) calls to “balance” “excessive” (imho a case can be made for unemployment being higher than ones previous pay - parents for example have to home school now in addition to work - they paid taxes for schools but e kids can’t attend them. One theoretical.) unemployment right now are really just political cover for eliminating pandemic-related financial support for citizens from the federal government entirely.
Eggs are consistent enough that they generally contain the same amounts of the relevant chemicals as another, similar sized egg. As a result, you don't generally need to weigh or measure the volume of your egg to achieve consistency, so long as your eggs are consistent. But you do need to use approximately the proportionately correct amounts of the other chemicals in your recipe.

And you're just making your life easier if you measure those quantities in terms of mass, because it has all sorts of benefits:

1) You don't need to worry about packing - the same mass of table salt and coarse salt, sifted flour and packed flour, confectioners' sugar and granulated sugar; all will have the same amount of the active substance (but the form factor may of course have other effects on your recipe)

2) you can use a fine grained scale like grams, without having to introduce cumulative error (imagine if you tried to measure out 7/8 cup of flour by measuring 42 teaspoons - your error would be huge)

3) you can add it up across combinations of ingredients (100g of flour + 100g of milk weighs 200g; 1 cup of flour + 1 cup of milk has... who knows how much volume? That was, after all, the point of the original article at the top of this thread). This has huge benefits when adding mixed dry ingredients like mixtures of types of flour and cocoa, or mixed dried fruits, where you need to have a reasonably fixed total mass, but the ratios aren't as important. Just keep adding until you have the right total mass - something you can't do with volume.

Measuring volumes is harder, less effective, and more error prone. That would all be the case even if you used a sensible volume measure like milliliters, but it's even worse if you insist on using a volume measure system made of arbitrarily named units like tablespoons and cups where you have to memorize a dozen conversion factors and work in fractions the whole time.
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> This can't be a serious argument...since when was beliefs held as an adult, however grotesque, become 'okay' because it was taught at home?

That isn't what I said. I'd never defend any kind of racist thought, and I'd further never confuse explaining something with defending it. For example, you can explain why a cancer arose without defending the cancer's existence. Similarly with racism: You can explain why people hold racist beliefs without defending any kind of racism whatsoever.
I think it's mostly a variation of your second option. It's not so much that the people in question are concerned with the minor inconvenience (as discussed in the article, and many of us saw early in the pandemic choosing of sides, they were in favor of masks when it was contrary to the recommendations from experts), and it's not so much that they've been led to believe something unwittingly. The reason it's such a controversy, is because opposing the other side has become reflexive.
> has to birth a hedgehog backwards

You have every right to be indignant, but I could have really done without that imagery.
We’re moving to Boulder next month. With houses starting at $800K and larger houses going for $1.5M+, it seems like the local economy must be driven as much by the tech companies that flocked to Boulder bc of the school as by the school itself.
Most people don't sift out the chaff or rocks today, but sifting performs important functions of making flour lighter for certain "light & airy" recipes that cannot be properly performed only by weighing.
Nobody is completely innocent. The people who want such perfect morality from everyone else are usually the ones with the most to hide.

As much as the college has the right to revoke their invitation and nobody is entitled to acceptance, there needs to be a much deeper discussion about how to engage with people instead of shunning them for any transgression, especially ones defined in the future in retrospect.
South Korea was similarly ravaged after the war, and was ruled by a series of various dictators until the 90s. Luckily they were authoritarian capitalists instead of authoritarian communists, and were propped up by US aid (much better than Chinese aid, since the Chinese could barely feed themselves).
Another way of looking at it is: they absolutely are self-regulating.

And it appears to be a problem.

Another problem is, there's effectively no distinction between regulator and regulatee.
Why does Archive.org get a pass on this one? Signed responses mean that there's a very clear way to leverage the browser's domain blacklisting technology to stop the spread of malware, which isn't presently possible for any content mirrors on the web.
Frankly, garbage. Serious bakers are capable of a lot more consistency than you realize.

> It turns out that not all eggs are the same.

You can weigh eggs, or more often it's actually sufficient to balance the liquid to offset the variation in eggs -- a lot of baking especially isn't just about taste - but about consistency and proper proportions to get repeatable texture and density. It is also generally speaking quite sufficient to deal with food liquids in volume as well since room temperature differences are controlled close enough such that it doesn't matter.

The difference in weight of a cup of water between 20 C and 25 C is negligible.

1 cup of flour on the other hand can vary in actual material by over 20% because of numerous variables from clumping to type of flour.

> I don’t know how many times I’ve seen someone in a video boast about measuring the flour by weight for their bread, only to add a completely unmeasured amount when flouring the working surface or their hands.

Basically bullshit again because: In most cases, the working surface flour won't amount to even 1% of the final product, however as stated volume vs. weight can make double-digit differences.

Your whole "10 gram" of sugar claim is a straw-man.

Baking and pastries tends to require a lot more precision then basic cooking to get repeatable edible results. It's the one reason why pre-made cake mixes and Bisquik are so popular, even with professional chefs.
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Masks slow down herd immunity. How can you possibly support that?
In other words, "if we are reducing advertising costs, let's not forget to collect maximum PR benefit out of it".
private jet crowd is likely to spend a lot more money than the commercial jet crowd. after all, they just dropped about $40k or more just to get there.
It’s not a vague promise, it’s an extremely explicit one. Search results for news contain a “top carousel”, a horizontally scrolling box that shows cards for different articles. On most phones it takes up most of the screen. If you want to be in the carousel (i.e. if you want your site to be visible near the top of search results) you must use AMP. No ifs and buts about it.

If NYTimes and every other news organisation refused to participate then yes, Google would be in trouble. But they can rely on good old divide and conquer: these news organisations all compete with each other. All it would take is for one to starting producing AMP content again and they’d vacuum up all the search traffic, and all the other sites would follow them immediately.
agreed. can't wait until I accidentally rm -rf * because I hit an edge case.
At that point, wouldn't the approach be to defend from the client side? Namely, we can instruct the client to not trust any content sign by such-and-such keys. This can be done by pushing out a certificate revocation, etc.
well since you really really want to talk about that word, I am referring to all parts of the socioeconomic spectrum that have been laid out to bare regarding COVID19 outcomes.

this time it happens to be about a very long flight to a European tourist island for summer that otherwise would not have made news.

you are assuming my opinion on that is negative and it could just as equally be fandom, which is why I greatly question what axe you have to grind and why
it's a loss leader, no one is going to try to compete with it.
It seems like there is a risk that an old version of a bundle will get served instead of a new one by an arbitrary host? Maybe the bundle should have a list of trusted mirrors?
1. You talk as if it’s not a single mom making a dirt-low hourly wage at McDonald’s.

2. I’m curious how what you say applies to countries like Sweden, France, Norway, Germany, etc.
> A debt purchase is either money that was given to you, that you're now returning (Treasury securities) or money that you're giving to others which will be returned (corporate bonds). It's not a giveaway at all - the net exchange is $0.

The corporate tax reduction is equivalent to a handout since it won't be paid back. As is the paycheck protection program.

I agree that debt is not a 100% handout, but it is definitely not a 0% either. The fed is not that worried about qualifying its purchases and some of these companies will still go bankrupt: those cases may be 100% handouts. The debt is being purchased at above market rates and inflating prices for the asset so that's still a noticeable percentage of handout for the loans that get repaid.

But I wouldn't assume that corporate debt will ever truly get repaid until I see the fed balance sheet go down. They tried to unload just a little bit last year and the stock market went down so they stopped. We now have 1.9 trillion in mortgage backed securities even though the housing crisis is over and housing prices are back to the levels of the prior bubble.