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It's very difficult for me to do anything like this because I end up forgetting things so much - good old ADHD, not something funny pills alone can solve. Creating a routine and sticking to it works best for me, but I've never been unable to stick with it through more turbulent times. Everything is fine until something, say, an unexpected family visit or a worldwide pandemic, disrupts my everyday life and routine and then I just fall back to my old ways.
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I am pretty sure that is a plot element in ‘Atlas Shrugged’.
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Dang, this description makes me wish I enjoyed the taste of pineapples.
Here would could at least prioritize schools? Ventilators was only bungled because it turned out to be the wrong therapy... air purifiers is a win win win
> Are they just projecting their fears of being wrong?

I'd believe this answer if someone told me :). It's the same thing that fuels all of the fanboi-ism in tech. The "I'm insecure about my choice so I need to attack all of the other choices to feel better" behavior.
Even if they don’t use Bolivian lithium at Tesla, more lithium in the market reduces the cost of Australian lithium. Tesla directly benefits from this if the coup government isn’t ousted.
Revit / AutoCAD import / export is sine qua non - everyone in this space is going to offer it before going to market.
> If the virus were truly airborne, which it isn't

why do you say this? The article is saying otherwise, quite literally "The coronavirus reproduces in our upper and lower respiratory tracts, and is emitted when we breathe, talk, sing, cough, or sneeze"

> then simply walking through an empty room could get you infected

You're presuming it has to be empty.

If you walked through a full room without touching anyone or anything and you caught covid, would you accept that it is airborne? Or are you saying that is impossible?

Do I misunderstand you?
The thing is -- why assume it can't form aerosols and that those aerosols aren't infectious? By demanding evidence for aerosol formation that is what they are stating. It makes no sense. Most viruses do form aerosols, and those aerosols do seem to be infectious.

Are you really prepared to make the bet that they aren't infectious?
Ah yes I remember seeing this then forgot. Thanks! :D
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Indeed. Governments have been slow to draw these lessons unfortunately. My local government (quebec) lets you remove masks at indoors events when seated.
That's a good point. I forgot about the RTG shortage.
> The Raspberry Pi is a fully fledged Linux Desktop,

I'm not sure I agree with this, lots of Pis are sold for projects which don't involve use as a desktop. In fact—from what I've seen—only a small percentage of Pis are actually used as day-to-day computing devices.

But in addition to the Pi, there is Pine64 which is exclusively sold as a "Desktop" platform with both laptops and workstations.

But I was talking more about the number of apps available on the platform than the number of units sold.

Software support for Windows ARM is a bit of a crapshoot which makes it hard to estimate what's out there.
> I'm saying it makes sense in terms of reducing the number of people that go into bars without closing them completely. Maybe my personal experience is wrong, but bars are pretty crowded in New York City

Where are bars crowded indoors in New York City?
Of course, patriarch theory completely accounts for this. The common view that men are more powerful and autonomous, and therefore dangerous, can probably account for some degree of their harsher treatment under the justice system, just like this view probably helps them in acquiring positions of power in the workplace.
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Thanks, it's always good to hear about the alternative options. Yeah, HN instinctively goes after anything that sounds vaguely shill-y but don't worry, I trust that you haven't been here 7 years just to shill for freetaxusa :)
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It seems like they have a history of it.

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There is a article in German there. Linked the reddit post, since it is in English.
Nah, you switched arguments mid stream without any reason or warning, besides that the crisis argument was easier to prove wrong than the parent's. CRA was introduced 43 years ago, the 2008 crisis was 12 years ago, there is no reason to link them today.
> It's difficult for me to come up with a charitable reason why Sowell, an arch-conservative, is somehow interesting to HN

That's pretty easy. It's because tech has a vocal arch-conservative contingent.

Why are there so many arch-conservatives in tech? I don't really have an answer to that.
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I feel the other extreme is more acceptable.

For me, the biggest barrier to getting started on something is all the boilerplate and ceremony around actually doing the thing. Right now, I can go from a resting state in bed to sitting on my rower or running outside within 90 seconds. The same cannot be said for most other physical hobbies.

I rationalize it along lines of "If I start right this second, I can be done with cardio before 8am". For me, the time cost is way more painful than any physical cost. This ideology allows me to squeeze exercise into time windows that would otherwise be impossible if I had to travel somewhere or meet other people to engage in the activity.

Ultimately, I feel that physical fitness is about recognizing the benefits and engaging them at any cost until you are at a point where the cost becomes relatively negligible. The physical and emotional aversion are a temporary thing, and it will ultimately boil down to how much time you want to spend on your own health.
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Yes, this is how I read the OP's comment about the days of BS being over. In the past, newspapers had exclusivity not just in access but in voice. Their frame was THE frame. Today, anyone with a phone can be a journalist. Anyone (not everyone) can access a large audience and get their story out. Anyone can establish an alternative frame, or point out lies, smears, dubious sources or stealth edits.

Can a newspaper be serious without putting its published articles under source control with complete edit history?
wow, for someone who has gotten pretty much nothing but praise for his supposed amazing writing ability and though process - this article is a complete steaming dumpster fire
What?!

Are you suggesting as long as a news outlet is telling the truth in more occasions than lies, the organization can still be treated as trustworthy? Even if the organization intentionally ignore the need to verify and correct lies?...

Logically and emotionally, this is outrageously offensive to liberal value! You are playing the cards advocated by CCTV backed by CCP. Their integrity certainly "passed your standard"...
definitely! when we live in a city for 5+ years, we assume lot of basic questions are common knowledge.

but as someone who change country or city every few years, it would save me so much time, money and hassle to know all those "basics"
They believe the virus and masks are part of a conspiracy to deprive them of their freedom (???), so by wearing a mask you're participating in it, somehow. Not that bizarre compared to the (increasingly widespread) conspiracy theories about child trafficking in imaginary tunnels and basements that led at least one guy to storm a restaurant with a rifle.

We've also had incidents of utility workers being attacked by people who think 5G towers are being used to spread the (imaginary????) coronavirus, so that's a thing.
> VP and CTO are actual titles that confer authority.

Those are considered illegitimate since they are undemocratic. A top-down vanguard too.

> but what would he say about parent-child relationships?

The same competence argument applies to child rearing.
The "a total mystery that we will never understand" was intended to be fairly obvious sarcasm. My mistake.
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> However, Republican Donald Trump pulled off one of the greatest upsets in history—rendering the polls useless.

This is dumb. Going into election day, 538 gave Trump a roughly one-in-three chance of winning, based on polls. (Anyone who's played X-COM will know better than most what a 70/30% split actually means.) The end result in each state wound up very close to what the polling data indicated; it was only a small number of votes in a small number of swing states that had to vary. With a margin of error of 2-3%, a close race always has the potential for surprises - especially if the reasons for a mild shift in one direction are correlated between states.

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>the US is making no indication to do the same to Japanese, Korean, or European companies.

The EU is already starting to formulate its own version of internet sovereignty, the recent invalidation of Privacy Shield by the EU is giving an indication of what's to come, as were the threats by the US over the taxation of internet giants in Europe. It's not as loud as the China-US conflict but it's going to happen.

I think it's also important that this chilling effect doesn't need to be overt. If the US is willing to emulate China's tactics in reaction to China, there is no guarantee whatsoever, that it will not leverage it against other countries. On trade this was already stated at several points during this administration, directly targeting Europe, Korea, and so on.

This is why the US in the past has generally avoided taking overtly partisan stances on the international stage. As soon as the US moves from being the maintainer of global order to national player, everyone will start to make calculations if the US can still be relied upon. For that reason this is a huge win for China in my opinion.

By engaging China in a tit-for-tat manner the US makes itself a huge deal smaller than it needs to be.
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There is a setting to require attention (eye contact with the phone) or not, enabled by default. Try disabling that?
Looking at his claim isolated from his evidence is hard to discuss. I think that also came from a TV interview, which is not the ideal forum for him to present evidence.

(When discussing "systemic racism", let's set aside specific racism, which can (and should) be specifically called out and changed.)

To explore systemic racism in more detail, we'd want to look at some measure (not necessarily a single number) of systemic racism. Once we have a way of measuring it (even crudely), we could compare across various races, countries, states, and regions. Importantly, we could compare it within a given race -- if systemic racism varies within a race, then clearly we need to revisit the definition because there are other factors at work. We could also look for other signs that something is awry, like areas that are "systemically racist" against the most politically powerful group.

Dr. Sowell has been performing this kind of research and analysis for decades, and documents it extensively in his many books.

From the quotation above, it seems that he believes that he believes that the term "systemic racism" has no useful definition remaining after this analysis, and that it's being used as propaganda to undermine institutions that stand in the way of political goals.

If you believe that systemic racism is a useful construct that leads to solutions for a better world, then by all means follow where it leads. But please focus on offering alternative policies that lead to good results, and adapt (or revert) those policies if they lead to bad results. Don't just turn it into a never-ending "discussion" that divides people with no solution.
I partly base the 'most' part on seeing how widespread the idea is here on HN, which I generally consider to consist of reasonable, and mostly liberal leaning, white people.

Honestly, though the BLM movement is a nice gesture, it seems mostly prompted by the string of high-profile police brutality cases, and limited to that. I haven't seen a real agenda of change beyond that, like, for example, the suggestion of reparations, or other significant economic initiatives.
> shorter and easier to write the software

There is nothing short or easy about writing Revit/BIM software and it couldn't be done with the 5 million dollars that these firms had been spending on ADSK products.
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So you think examining a single network activity is a thorough analysis of an application with millions of lines of code?
Australia tried aiming higher, and now Melbourne is facing 6 more weeks of hard lockdown with record highs. Maybe there were policy choices that could have allowed them and every other country to replicate New Zealand's current situation, but you're going to need more than a pithy comment to demonstrate that.
Except magnum champagne, truffles, and caviar are all available at grocery stores. To be equivalent to a 1700's pineapple, they'd have to be so difficult to acquire via import that growing your own, in an unsuitable climate, would be worthwhile.
This is a great breakdown of prediction markets and how it would be far more accurate than a poll due to loss aversion which cancels out bias. This is classic “Put your money where your mouth is”.

Edit: In other words, if you believe in modern portfolio theory and market efficiency, aka boglehead index fund beats all; then you must conclude that if this was actually an efficient betting market than the outcome would be near 100% certainty.
Microsoft tried to build a YouTube competitor (Soapbox). Microsoft tried to build a Facebook competitor (Socl). Microsoft bought Yammer. Microsoft bought LinkedIn. Microsoft did build a Slack competitor that seems to be doing well (Teams), after failing to buy Slack. Microsoft bought and ran a Twitch competitor up until just recently (Mixer). Microsoft still seems to have hopes that its Xbox social features are competing as a Facebook or Twitter competitor for very narrow niche of gaming-related sharing.

Microsoft hasn't been immune to social media fever, it's just been somewhere between unsuccessful and unlucky. (Which maybe makes it "lucky" for not being on that "hot seat" you describe, but certainly not for lack of trying. Parts of Xbox have been and are on that "hot seat", though.) If Microsoft is thinking anything about TikTok, it's probably that it could get a good deal on a strong competitor in an actively highly competitive social media space. (Whether or not that can translate to success or luck, given Microsoft's track record to date is another question entirely.)
What I don't understand about Briar is how it can scale. Surely it can't know ahead of time which users are going to "travel to another part of town" and should therefore have messages pre-loaded onto their devices. Therefore to me this seems like it must use some kind of broadcast delivery model and so would be vulnerable to flooding attacks.

Edit: seems there are some thoughts about this already https://code.briarproject.org/briar/briar/-/issues/511
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Ranking common countries first only seems like an issue because of our sensitive political climate. Or do you still think it's "perverse and elitist" to put commonly bought bus tickets before more rarely bought options like season tickets in ticket machine menus?
This article seems pretty light on evidence. Where is the data comparing election outcomes to both polls and betting odds over time?

The argument seems to be based mainly on this:

> Political betting sites won’t give one presidential candidate great odds of winning just to influence voter perception. They’d stand to lose serious money in such an event.

Of course, political pollsters also stand to lose money if their polls are wrong, because if they have a bad enough track record they will no longer have customers. When the polls are wrong it really pisses off the pollsters' two main customers: political campaigns who want to know how popular their candidate really is, and the news media which wants their election predictions to be correct.
Part of the problem is that the lockdowns were inconvenient and their effectiveness at slowing the initial spread made it easy for conspiracy theorists and extremists to argue that it was all fake. Now that the government has been pressured (in part by lawsuits from conservatives, business owners and extremists) to open back up, we're seeing aggressive spread combined with people convinced that the lockdown was a scam to begin with. Going to be hard to put together another lockdown when we need it...