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That article is dripping with intersectionalism.

The author misses the point entirely. It's not that wages are good in these countries it's that they are improving and improving rapidly.

It's not racist, unless you take the modern definition that any racial disparity is racist. Racism requires discrimination. Disparities do not always mean there is discrimination.

History has dealt these countries a bad hand. But things are getting better and they are getting better fast.
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If I recall, there were always stories of southern China getting flooded every few decades. Tens of millions would get wiped out and killed by the floods. So, this is a very tragic and cyclic event.

Thus, they were determined to build the great Three Gorges Dam, to control the flooding. And even at the cost, where it would at least hold back the floods for a few decades, then this might be worth it, in order to prevent regular destabilization.

The society could at least grow and prosper for a while. This could buy the society enough time to build other fortifications, or do something to mitigate a future disaster.

These people here live in a flood plain. The water is washing down from the mountains, and the government didn’t build enough flood run off to handle the torrential downpour.

In the future, they should probably build their newer buildings on top of a 10 foot high concrete base. Or build more flood run off channels.

It’s easy to be a naysayer and cast your doubt about something. It’s much harder to actually do the research, and try to engineer something to hold back the forces of Mother Nature, for the greater benefit of their society.
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"I'm a classroom teacher and I'm totally not obsolete, here are talking points on effective teaching methods, which only a person like me can perform!"

I don't buy it.

I didn't pay attention in class for most of my school time and that was before any of the more modern distractions existed.

To do well in school, you need to:

1. Capture and memorize factoids that will be on the test

This can be done the roundabout way by taking notes, which does help with memory retention. It's however far more efficient to just copy other more diligent people's notes and memorize those.

2. Understand mechanisms and systems

This requires you to work on your own, try things, figure things out, getting error feedback. Schools are notoriously awful at this, with 20+ kids you just can not spend the time to give meaningful advice, to give enough feedback in a timely manner. You send kids home with homework and they get results a day later or worse. The kids that do really well here usually get help from parents/siblings/externals.

Neither of these require teachers to do any classroom work.

Of course, there's the whole social and daycare aspect of schools which can be beneficial or oppressive, depending on the teachers and environment. Let's just not pretend that actual learning needs a classroom environment, or that it's better in classroom environment, because we don't actually know that yet. Classroom teachers talking their book doesn't help.
I hear this a lot. Is there any reason why people are not scooping up Canadian wilderness properties right now?
I believe life forms are optimizers .. survival means spending the least amount (according to our mental representations but bodies are a major source of data).

Then there's lazy and defeated. I'm so not the same as my colleagues who are lazy .. they know what is useless to a point and avoid the work. I have a fundamentally different approach (from computing, food shops and industry). I aim at minimizing work AND maximizing flow. It makes my processes very different because I remap the task and attack many paths to find the most enjoyable one. The other lazies don't dive in the task they just take the simplest path and do it slowly.
Newyorker's hot takes are lower quality than it's core offering of slowed down reporting about something big. This is no exception. The concluding paragraph seems the most telling. The author seems to simply throw his hands up and say, 'I don't know, this is all about power or media or culture or something.'

I think people here are looking for a deep read of this, but my read is that the assignment didn't interest the reporter and he just tried to rush it.
You are right, Of course I exggarated. But for a significant chunk of people I school is something you don't like. It's significant enough to be a cultural trope[0]. This makes it an easy target, and a useful hook to get support for any anti social institution criticism.

[0] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SuckySchool
Maybe have a look at 'internet trolling' and the history of it, a 'red herring' a Troll and monkey island:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_herring

https://monkeyisland.fandom.com/wiki/Troll
That's ridiculous, I would say in terms of preparation and creation an online course is probably nearly double the time of a physical one at a minimum.
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The amount of calories we're able to extract from the earth is proportionate to the amount of energy we can produce. If we stop generating large amounts of energy, the population will shrink dramatically. If we keep generating it, the population will eventually grow to exceed carrying capacity.

It's the wrong level of abstraction. There is no answer.
I would say that really depends on the person - you can be lazy in a "good faith" or "bad faith". "Bad faith" is just like you described - let someone else deal with that.

It also depends on organization itself, because in some cases the reward for being efficient is more work.

It all applies to every other "virtue" too.
> Can't wait until they decide the team is 'too white'
>now I'm nearly certain they wouldn't want me.

No need to be afraid, there's medication called melanotan II, it can alter your skin pigmentation to appropriate levels.
>Fury admitted to setting the 23 May fire by igniting some rags on the top bunk of a bunk room. He claimed to have started the fire to get out of work early.[10][11][12][13] On 15 March 2013 Fury was sentenced to over 17 years in federal prison and ordered to pay $400 million in restitution.[14]

Wow, uh, that's a lot of money. Is this the poorest individual (by assets sans debts) in America? I can't imagine anyone being able to acquire personal debt on that scale by any other means.
I can agree that Zoom is not the best format for classes, but that doesn't mean classes can't be online and working perfectly.

For me there is so much room to innovate in EduTech!

Why always trying to go back to the past form of tradition instead of being the engine of innovation.

There are plenty of talented people here, that are currently reading HN, so instead of saying please get my physical classmate, ask for change in the cyber world, you should be served well ;)
Well, that too, but that is a different topic.
I wonder the distribution of patience among age. I used to be impatient, but so fast I could get progress even without careful plans or observations (basically I was a chaos monkey iterating 10x faster than average until I covered a lot of space and found a trick).

I love patient now, being old deprives you of sprinting wild.. you know it's the fastest way to paint your self into a corner.. that said full patience leads to boredom often. You need a pacing agent.. or a balance between observations, hypothesis and tests.
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And there are 113 cities with more than a million inhabitants in China: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/chinas-113-cities-one-milli...
You don't own the rest of the stuff that's in the middle. Permission first.
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OP's comment is right there above mine; I haven't obscured it.

The premise of OP's argument is that India is more similar to the West than is China. The conclusion is that relative similarity will impede a future push by the West to divest from Indian manufacturing. There's a bit of a switcheroo in that argument, because the conclusion is only weakly supported by the premise. The strength of the argument depends on a comparative advantage in India-Western similarity versus Sino-Western similarity.

I don't agree that India is more of a Western country than China, apart from the influence of British rule. Think about cultural norms, religious thinking, political philosophy, racial discrimination, and women's rights in India. Would you describe these aspects of India as "Western"? China is arguably a more capitalist country than India; does that mean it is more "Western"?

Even if India were "more similar" to the West than China, it is so dissimilar from the West that it is totally within the realm of reason that the China manufacturing quagmire could be replaced by an equivalent India quagmire within a decade or two.

Both countries are faraway, populous, third-world regional powers with nuclear weapons and territorial disputes. They are more similar to each other than either of them is to the West.

There exist many third-world nations that are smaller (thus easier to influence) and closer to home (thus easier to defend in times of insecurity). If we have to invest in creating a new manufacturing hub in a place that will inevitably profit handsomely from our consumer demand, there is little sense in repeating the mistakes of the past and putting that hub in a massive Asian nation with which we have little in common.
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Those are AMAZING. How did I not know about this?
> own fault or shitty behavior are not mentioned

Sure, always blame the victim.

I have had nothing but bad experience with Apple with MBPs battery swelling twice in few years, bad pixel on screen, dead SSD (again twice in few years). And I had to pay ridiculous money for it the second time. Surely it wasn't Apple's fault, right!
Only sort of related but I hate how I sometimes get the impression that review sites do not take the date of review into the account when presenting a final rating.

For example I got an Instant Pot once. It worked fine for a year. Then one day I was steaming some lentils and it just shut off. No error or anything, it just shut off without a sound and never turned back on.

And because my continued existence was basically contingent on that Instant Pot I began to starve.

So I bought another.

Two weeks later it was dead in exactly the same manner.

And I went back to starving.

Then I went back and read the most recent reviews on Amazon and realized that if I had paid attention I might have noticed that so many other people were having the same kind of problem and various other mechanical failures and leaving one-star reviews. But because the reviews section was swamped by five star reviews from years ago that got highly upvoted, I didn't notice. At least, that was my impression.

I think it might be hard to change the public's mind if you have a large group of people leaving reviews saying "it works great" in the first few months of the product being released, and you build up this false credibility. Then suddenly a defect occurs that only appears after a very long period, say a year or more, and people don't bother to update the five star review and figure it's time to buy a new pressure cooker anyways.

If there were some way of verifying this were the case it would certainly be frustrating.

Do all the people who wrote those five-star reviews years ago that haven't been edited still use the product and never had it break on them after a few years?

Eventually I got a Yedi and it's more convenient since the pressure valve never clogs like it did with the Instant Pot all the time and is automatic release. I get the impression that it's just better engineered and Instant Pot was just overhyped garbage. But still that's my impression because I've had it for only a month and can't judge if I'll be able to keep using it for another year yet. Maybe I just got lucky.

Look at how Steam does reviews. If a developer releases a patch several months after initial release that improves or breaks something, you have a better chance to know about it since they have a separate rating for only the most recent reviews. And sometimes the difference between the two is stark. I would say this is innovative. More sites with review systems really ought to follow suit.

And I really wish Amazon were like that.
If your going really old-school 'trolling' look up Red herring...trump trows allot of them around.

>Incidentally, PHP is a fantastic language and Haskell is hot garbage.

That's NOT Trolling if both of them are fantastic.
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Indeed, we have major issues with snap (doesn't work with $HOME on nfs, and auto updates with very few controls are a terrible idea on servers) so avoid anything dependent on it. Otherwise, I really like the concept.
>I felt at times it shifted to require more of a Producer mentality than purely an Educator one.

Thanks for sharing that.
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FastMail had some of the cleverest ideas for plus addressing. username+tag@fastmail.fm could be given away as tag@username.fastmail.fm
Indeed. That was because smart-matching in Perl was symmetric.

The smart-matching in Raku (formerly known as Perl 6) is asymmetric and customizable. If you write:

a ~~ b

you are effectively executing:

b.ACCEPTS(a)

In other words, the right hand side of the smart-match is responsible for accepting the left hand side. So as a developer of a class, you can add your own ACCEPTS (multi-)method to govern how your class will handle smart-matching.
I had Netflix for a year and canceled because I ended up still using torrent. There are lots of movies and anime missing in Netflix and it is annoying to use with Widevine (as I run almost 100% FOSS I use Kodi as a media center).
200 micron fiber vs 250 for cladding diameter is extensively used in new ultra high strand count ribbon cables. The "aramid" part is just Kevlar jacketing which is also common in outside plant fiber. It sounds more exotic than it really is. Google spider ribbon fiber for some details.
You understand that there is nothing available at any price that works perfectly, for everyone, all the time?
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Great site.

Never realized Greenland fits inside the USA. Dragging a country to/from the poles really establishes how ridiculous the projection is.
A better way to lens it is:

If they're paying too much attention to Twitter they are not journalists.

While not perfect, this list via Jim Lehrer is an excellent filter for evaluating the quality of an infomation source:

https://kottke.org/20/01/jim-lehrers-rules-of-journalism-1
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Curiously enough, so far I've only ever observed the reverse happening - spammers somehow ending up stripping off the common prefix and leaving the individual suffix intact.

(Though on the other hand thankfully I'm still not getting much spam anyway and it's only a few addresses that were affected, so I only have a limited amount of data to go by.)
Well, it’s not going to become valuable for probably another 6 generations. You’ll be long dead by then, but your great great great great ancestors might benefit from it.
Actually, there is such a thing as PERL6LIB: it's an environment variable still recognized by Raku (formerly known as Perl 6). As you may know, Perl 6 has been renamed to Raku (https://raku.org using the #rakulang tag on social media). FWIW, there is now also a RAKULIB environment variable :-)
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That would be impressive however it is probably not correct.

Here is state-sponsored Xinhua's coverage of the same story:

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-07/14/c_139209909.htm

China battles unprecedented floods around its largest freshwater lake
While I agree in spirit with some of what you say, the law is as it is and producers invest in content with the expectation that those laws will be enforced. You want copyright to go away? Then get enough people to agree, and get the law changed.

> copyright is an entirely artificial construct meant to benefit society by encouraging creators to produce content

The problem with this line of reasoning is that all property is an artificial construct. Just because it’s an artificial concept doesn’t, on its own, make it wrong.

> It is my and many others opinion that the current state of copyright is a very one sided affair that benefits mainly big corporations while having numerous negative effects on society.

That may be true, but last I looked we live in a democracy, which means that we have a process for changing the law, which does not include doing whatever you want.

And honestly, while there is plenty about modern copyright that I find repulsive, especially the constant extension, nevertheless the wholesale removal of copyright would have many consequences that you probably don’t want. For starters, the GPL, CC, Apache and many other free licenses rely on copyright to work.

> There will always be a demand for entertainment and people interested in filling that demand will find a way to make it worthwile

Copyright supports far more than just entertainment. The wholesale destruction of journalism, for example, has clearly damaged society. Part of the damage has been caused because Google and Facebook have subverted copyright to their own causes.

It really is not black and white.
Almost 60 people in this thread claimed having this issue with their AirPods Pro. Doesn't look like a case of 'a loud minority' to me.

I bought mine a few week ago for $370. No issues so far, was supper happy that after 5 years I had finally found perfect earphones.
Granted this survey isn't robust enough to be taken as evidence of the superiority of unschooling or even homeschooling generally. It's anecdotal, and if I had to guess I'd say the target audience is parents who have already decided to unschool and want some social validation, or at least parents leaning that way.

That said, I think your huge concern is that unschooled kids are at a higher risk of insufficient or delayed social development, and a survey that recruits on social networks will biased against such socially underdeveloped children. And furthermore that those socially underdeveloped children are at a higher risk of suicide than their conventionally-educated peers such that a survey which doesn't count the dead ones is further biased.

If that's a correct assessment of your concern then I'd be really interested to know upon what facts or even anecdotal experience it's based. If it's just that the idea of unschooling seems suspect, or that you can't imagine how such a system could produce better outcomes than conventional education, then you're certainly not alone in that position but I would submit that you are misinformed.

In my experience the social (to say nothing of intellectual) development of the average American high school graduate was laughably primitive when I was that age 20 years ago, and nothing I've seen since makes me think it's gotten any better. As for suicide risk I find it hard to believe that an educational style that presumes a higher than average degree of parental involvement and an almost certain lack of bullying and abuse in school leads to a higher propensity to suicide. In fact I would confidently wager that, were such data available, it would show the exact opposite.
Surely everyone knows this by now
Same here, been through many replacement cycles with Apple, and whenever it was clearly Apples' problem, they replaced the system, no questions asked.

There was the NVIDIA GPU flap, the thermal paste issue, the screen bleed, and even an iPhone - 3 MacBook replacements, and an iPhone, for free, because Apple took responsibility for having designed and shipped a shitty product (really, all were flaws in Apple's supplier/manufacturing).

If, however, I try to get a freebie for having gotten an iPhone wet, well .. bets are off there.

And I think that's only fair really.
A simple check on whether purchasing a service is worth the cost - built in an afternoon in response to a previous HN discussion [1].

A few people expressed interest in embedding something similar in a landing page, so I've open-sourced the code for others to use if they wish.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22497093
> 1) It's strongly connected to Canonical and Ubuntu. This is mostly a matter of perception and it is an actual community project. However, I can understand people not feeling comfortable with "snap install lxd".

Last time I tried it on Fedora it did not work (less than 6 months ago).

Also it offers nothing I want over podman with --rootfs
Not everybody is concerned about their career, some people are focused on providing a better life for their family. From that perspective brain dumping a certification feels like it has potential for high reward with minimal effort.

Brain dumping is the process of memorizing the answer bank for a test. There are many sites for these kind of certification exams that provide brain dumps or answer keys to study.
China has been doing that for 3 decades. The target is a 60% urbanization rate. That's why there are so many "empty apartments". Because they are build and it takes a year or two to fill them up, so it looks like they are "empty". I lived in two such developments during the years that I lived in China. It's interesting to see the policies used to fill them. And to come back to the place a year later, when it is crowded.
Previously it was Delphi, immense bloatware. With python bloat is taken to the next level.
I've written Weave for the Nim programming language:

- https://github.com/mratsim/weave

- RFC that describes the goals: https://github.com/nim-lang/RFCs/issues/160
On a more serious note, there is an argument for all computing being fundamentally authoritarian. You have one root account dictating how other users can consume resources, and from that you descend onto things like "the project owner". If this model is not tempered downstream, I can see how people can end up shouting "nazi" at each other.

(still, I guess one should probably catch himself before violating Godwin's Law in a work environment...)
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It’s so hot at Death Valley National Park that cars are breaking down
Depends where you live.

Over here, in Eastern Europe i have no need for a car(i sold it this year, after 10 years).

Public transport is really decent if you use it outside of rush hours, most stores are in walking distance(not only form my location but all over the city). And there is a great network of cycle lanes so you can easily cycle to work.

Plus our cities are usually wide, but not tall, which means more places for developers to build houses.
Of course not. But a lot of people thought it might become one, if they just investing heavily in it and spur a lot of economic growth. But the idea that with more economic growth you generate a democratic change is just wrong. If that would be the case Saudi-Arabia would be the most democratic country in the world. The opposite is the case. Economic growth just stabilises a regime. So the hope that China will ever become a democracy died in the last years. It is better to invest in countries which are already democratic like India.
That's true. I live in a country that only recently got an Apple store. Prior to that, the 3rd-party Apple vendors were making a killing with upgrade costs and replacement parts and so on.

Was a definite change in the local market when Apple Store arrived.
> LXD feels like it's at a point between LXC and K8s, but I'm not sure how many real-world systems want to be there.

I would suggest give podman with --rootfs a try.
The USA is losing a lot of first world esprit lately.