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What if I told you that the fact that billionaires have no liquid assets is the problem to begin with.
I would love to put every penny I made into the s&p but I have to pay about half of it in taxes, what makes them any different?
They are playing a system and they pay people well who know how to play it for them but that doesn't fix the root problem that equity is tied up in the ultra rich and no amount of printing money or begging for trickle down will fix that. If you take care of the unemployment things DONT just take care of themselves. The fact that unemployment skyrocketed so easily during covid is a testament to how poor the quality of jobs were and how little companies and CEOs had prepared for a scenario like this because they simply rolled their money into investments and r&d which seems logical but the problem is that at some point you have to look at the middle class and inflation and ask what happened and the answer is clear as day, equity was to hedge funds. So now instead of someone being able to pay for a house and a car and secure a safe loan at a reasonable price they must pay and institution more money than they could possibly make to even have a chance of paying for a house but of course they won't be able to because they are also paying for the student loan and God help them if they have a medical condition on top of this.

...the rest will handle itself is exactly the kind of thing you say when you are looking down on the rest of the populous like ants instead of human beings that deserve a chance because crunching the numbers you will find every single time that the heart of keeping an economy strong and stable is to have a good middle class and lower the vast majority of the population out of poverty and even lower income so that they can be consumers to the market.

Printing money and giving two shits about what assets billionaires have as liquid is not our damn problem, we do it every year and we can't beg the feds to bail us out when it's our mortgage on the line. Think how messed up that is that my mortgage company can ask for free money that delutes the value of the USD but we can't even ask for a months forgiveness over a worldwide pandemic from the same company that needed bailed out. I'm sure right about now tlyou are calling me nieve in your head for comparing people to companies but I think it quite nieve as a person to give them the benefit of the doubt they so desperately need you to buy into to keep this round about enslavement going.
You are just an economist I think is the problem, but you don't understand that this is a problem that has been going on for a long long time, it's a power dynamic where the most powerful members of a society need to take as much value for themselves as possible and traditionally we dealt with it by burning down a palice and presenting a head to the people. I think this is quite a reasonable alternative to that considering the former isn't off the table.
I think you're partially right. In order to learn from a list of textbook recommendations you need to know how to read effectively and comparatively, how to take proper notes, how to record your thoughts and questions for future reference, how and when to summarize the information you just read to support learning and understanding (chunking it and fitting it in to your mental schema along with information from other sources), and you need to be disciplined enough to go back and review your notes and the text so that you will actually remember the material.

I don't think it's a matter of "having the right mind" or any sort of innate ability. It's a matter of acquiring the skillset and perspective necessary to learn. I agree that school does not teach this, you're simply expected to either be a good or a bad student and any failing is entirely your own. We'd have many more "inquisitive minds" if our education system taught kids how to be inquisitive, literally how to ask questions of themselves and others, instead of test taking.

The knowledge transfer process is different for everyone insofar as everyone tends to be at varying levels of competency in the set of skills needed to acquire that knowledge. This is generally the case because training of those skills is so neglected or hodgepodge and left up to blind chance, peer groups, and parents.

Experiment is key because all knowledge requires some grounding in actual physical experience. The base of the framework that you build upon is made up of your interactions with the world. Another failing of our current system is shuttling people between home and school with less and less "free" time in the wider world. We have it backwards, thinking that we need to frontload all the information and book-learning and then explore the world after that's done. We couldn't be more wrong, our physical experience must precede or coincide with our education. You have to walk the halls and avenues of the world in order to build up a store of places and things upon which you can hang the names and concepts that you learn.
Can’t fix everything.

I’ve had success getting people to open up during coffee talks by asking probing questions. The key is to truly care about the person when you ask. Often requires sharing of your own struggles.
Or there are agents from those places with paid motives to post those things. I've noticed whenever a China topic comes up, there are a suspicious number of apologist/whataboutist comments beyond even the normal HN-kneejerk-contrarianism.
As E-Commerce Booms, Robots Pick Up Human Slack
I love to write under time pressure, somehow it removes the shackles of procrastination. Just like a drug can remove the brakes of conventional thinking. It is so nice if we remember that we have nothing to lose...
I'm quite fed up with people counting the number of cases as if it has any value, it's like they don't want to admit we were wrong for creating such a panic. Infections are meaningless.

Let's count how many people are in ER and how many die.

The conspirationist in me can't help but think that COVID has been the scapegoat for the worst financial crisis in this century.

While we look at meaningless COVID stats and debate wether we should wear a mask, we don't look at the real culprits for the current financial crisis that will take decades to heal (if it ever heals fully).
Generally, it is more important for all deliveries to reduce their emissions, so making deliveries pipe their exhausts into the products they deliver is the right way to go.

Here, enjoy your new couch! And let us get the air from the back of our truck into your apartment.
Ungated: https://archive.is/1BiLz
Google, without notice, intentionally started listening to something that wasn't a wake word (glass breaking). How is this 'pretty boring'?
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The above is just a expression of sentiment, the actual dismissal is found in other parts of the comments.
I'm working on my startup and I absolutely love it. Much better then a postdoc in literally an way. I am my own boss, get 2-5 times the salary compared to academia and I do similar science but on a much broader sense. I would encourage every helpless finished PhD to look into academia spin-offs.

Edit: of course this also applies on finished Master studies in STEM.
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Thx. Upvoted.
I got to “ maltose has the highest glycemic index, with a rating of 105 out of 100” and stopped reading there.
Yeah, that might not fly for many of us here…
Yeah, if I'm understanding this correctly they just show that the part of the Foreshadow attack that loaded kernel memory contents into cache prior to leaking it, rather than working in some obscure Intel-specific way as previously thought, is actually just a known Spectre variant which works on a whole bunch of processors including AMD and ARM ones. It's not massively useful on those processors because the stage that actually leaks the memory contents and known alternatives like Meltdown are Intel-specific, so it requires a certain amount of cleverness to even detect that it's happening, but it does happen.
How is this downvoted to oblivion 5 minutes after posting?
Everyone can learn!

The problem is many people don't know how to learn, or haven't developed good habits-of-mind. That goes under the terms executive function and metacognitive skills. They are force multipliers throughout your education, and you're right that schools don't teach them.

If I can do it, so can you! It just takes a few years developing those skills, and ideally a little bit of mentorship to point you on the way.

And no, people don't learn differently. That's one of the biggest lies fleeced upon us. The reference there is: "Learning Styles: Concepts and Evidence." Turns out we all learn more-or-less the same way. Many of us believe we learn differently, but we actually don't. A big part of executive function is differentiating between activities which /feel/ like learning, and ones where skills actually grow.
Asking someone why they don’t drink is not deranged. Pestering them until they give in might be, though.
If anything HN itself is one of the most readable sites on the web. I'm literally at a beach at the moment and since Germany is rock bottom of Europe when it comes to 4G rollout outside the cities, the only actually usable websites are HN and Reddit via a custom client. Everything else is dog slow.
Scala doesn't compile to WebAssembly
I'm guessing the reason these universal API's don't exist is because there would be no business model and hence no billion dollar companies. However, Europe's PSD2 regulation was essentially launched to establish these open API's for banking
Were you trying to be ironic? You have presented exactly the problem OP is complaining about...
Linux Kernel is replacing HTTP link with HTTPS
Strides looks great but it is only compatible with ios :(
> the US is doing whatever it can to maintain its superpower status

Um, not in the slightest. There is no united front in the US regarding foreign relations. Trump is left to his own devices without the backing of Congress. That is far far from "doing whatever it can".
The claim is that Oatly is not a good substitute for milk, and that cow milk is perfectly fine to drink for a good percentage of people, which I judge the article demonstrated satisfactorily.

You can of course say you don't want to (or can't) drink milk for a very long list of absolutely fine reasons. The solution then is to just not drink milk, not substitute it with oat-canola slurry. Or you could reduce your consumption to the point where its price can go up (as more of a luxury product) and allow manufacturers to treat animals ethically. Or buy it from responsible farms.

You can also make the point here that there is a great number of people who, when faced with the choice of "drink less milk" vs "continue cow abuse", will pick the latter because they like drinking milk more than they care about cows (which are bred specifically for human consumption). In that case you could argue that substituting Oatly for milk will make the world better, because it lets them lower their milk consumption without requiring sacrifice on their part. The thing that worries me here are second order effects - if Oatly is indeed not very healthy (which it sounds like it isn't, at least compared to regular milk), then these people will then suffer lowered cognition and worse health, leading to them making less than ideal choices in democratic elections, and putting more strain on the health system.

Again - there are good critiques that can be leveraged against our current farming practices regarding milk production and more, but I don't see the solution being switching to synthetic alternatives with potentially harmful effects that marketing makes their best to prevent you from knowing. Just go without and advocate for change.
I have found it’s generally quite easy to say “I don’t like the way it makes me feel”, which is relatively guilt-free. A less-strong one might be “I don’t like the taste”. It helps that it’s true in my particular case, of course.
The scale of their IP theft is incredible.

The CFO survey said it is happening to 1 in 5 US corporations, which is incredible if you think about it - but the trouble is the scale is larger than that, when you include what they steal via surveillance too.

I can't see an answer outside of decoupling, seeing as they're set on their path and proud of it.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/28/1-in-5-companies-say-china-s...
Which set is happier?

Honest question.
It encourages a chauvinistic, macho culture. Those who don’t fit into that should not be trusted, that is, excluded (e.g. women, Muslims, etc.). That’s actively harmful.
>Some servers will attempt to imitate these features, but it's always a hack and works with varying degrees of reliability.

That is no longer true in practice...
How would they get access to the Gulf of Mexico? Most of their surveillance flights are near Japan, India, Siberia and Alaska.

https://thediplomat.com/tag/y-9jb-surveillance-aircraft/
I did not read the guidelines. My mistake. You’re right.
> No, it is not ... stable for 1% of the population to control 99% of the assets...

Many ancient cultures had at least this level of inequality and ruling stability. The Ptolemies made something last for longer than the US has existed, e.g..
What bothers you more; "one", or this particular company?
The arrogance displayed here by saying “If I can do it, so can you!” when that’s exactly what OP is complaining about is astounding.

Does everyone have the same level of intelligence? Are you really telling me that absolutely any member of the public could learn QFT, even people with a severe learning disability and low-IQ? Anyone you just randomly plucked off the street? Just no.
No. They are to act in the best interest of the corporation/shareholders, which with increasing clarity means not getting in bed with Chinese organizations (assuming your foresight extends beyond the end of your nose.)
you can't imagine the problem of having your private conversations recorded, then a business compelled to release them without a warrant? You can't imagine what inferences might be made about your personal conversations and sold to others? I do not think you are giving the words you say enough credit.
To be honest this sounds like an urban legend with questionable morality associated with it (baiting recovering alcoholic for money).
> I just can't understand why when it comes to geopolitics, HN just can't keep the discussion related to the submission?

It's not HN, it's human nature, that's why whataboutism is universal. In most cases whataboutism is a nearly uncontrollable impulse, it's a mental sensation the person can barely contain. Whataboutism is used either to relieve anguish that the person feels, or to outlet hatred/rage. They're compelled by the stress they feel to outlet it. In the case of anguish, it's caused when the subject of a negative story - eg China - is being hit, the person desperately needs to redirect fire off of it, because it feels personal, they feel actual mental anguish from the story and need to make it stop. One way to lighten that anguish is to spread it around, try to normalize the negative (by trying to show that other countries are guilty too). Whataboutism out of hatred/dislike is a case where the person literally hates the redirect subject - eg the US - and looks for any excuse at any time to focus their rage onto it; in that case it's not about the focus subject, it's primarily about the redirect subject (the initial focus subject is merely the opportunity provider).
If I gave them a 99% tax rate they would still be richer than almost any of us will ever be. At some point you are asking the question "is it ok if people starve to death if billionaires get to keep extravagant weath regardless of how they earned it?"
And your answer is a firm "yes, I'm fine with their suffering and death as long as the economy is unaffected"
Hydraulic would probably be easier with the limited stroke.
Reading the title and the url my first thought literally: "What? someone from Wall Street Journal admitted they are bought and paid by the Chinese?"

Not joking here WSJ has admitted, after a lot of pressure, to receive money from China Daily it's just not very well known.
I agree with you that we need to be much more careful and rigorous before trading with China, but China's market-based growth since Xiaoping's reforms are the reason hundreds of millions of Chinese citizens are out of poverty now.

It is the new turn to geopolitical hegemony and debt entrapment that we should be careful of, not the incredible influx of wealth that has (wonderfully!) gone to the Chinese lower classes.

Free trade, and the US leading the world charge to open up to China, is the best thing that happened to Chinese citizens.

Things are different now that the state has such an iron grip, and its own intentions, however.
If people need to be on drugs to consider your product, maybe it's time to take a long hard look at what it is you're selling?
> I worry when I see movies like Star Wars which preach believe your instincts (aka trust the "force")

I thought that The Last Jedi was interesting because it very deliberately subverted that -- there are multiple pivotal scenes where people fail or endanger others because they're trusting their instincts. I'm not sure I've ever seen a blockbuster with such a cohesive thematic element.

Consciously or not I suspect that's why some folk didn't like it.
> Logic and critical thinking textbooks typically discuss slippery slope arguments as a form of fallacy but usually acknowledge that "slippery slope arguments can be good ones if the slope is real—that is, if there is good evidence that the consequences of the initial action are highly likely to occur. The strength of the argument depends on two factors. The first is the strength of each link in the causal chain; the argument cannot be stronger than its weakest link. The second is the number of links; the more links there are, the more likely it is that other factors could alter the consequences."

Indeed, many people don't realize that accusations of committing the (or any) fallacy need to come with justifications of their own.

[1]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope#Non-fallacious_...
> The author engages in a little deceptive rhetoric himself by setting a 12oz serving as the baseline.

Yeah what is up with that? 12 oz is over 340 ml, who puts that much milk in their coffee? I had to measure the volume of my coffee cup, it's 250 ml or 8.8 oz.

I usually drink my coffee black, but if I do have milk in it it is usually a tenth of what the author uses. Unless the author is drinking a quarter gallon of coffee at a time he's not drinking coffee, but really drinking milk with a splash of coffee.
They’re supply constrained on both Fit and HR-V. The factory is going all out, but building a new factory isn’t a short term thing. So they can build all of the more profitable HR-V and sell every one or they could mix in some less profitable Fits.
Ross Perot was literally being satanic.

In the most explicit biblical (and quranic) story of satan, he and god debate Job's loyalty to god. Satan tortures job, kills his wife and children, poisons his crops, his body... The point is to see if Job remains steadfast, always praising god no matter the pain. At the end of the story, god rewards job with a new family, farm and such.

In other stories, Satan tempts. The idea is the same, a sneaky test of piety. Rewards to the steadfast. Punishment for everyone else.

^First time I've used the term "literally" literally in a long time... literally.
That will really big mess
> We (consumers) are to blame

No, the farmers are to blame. This is the kind of thing regulations solve. If we force the use of sustainable and ethical farming methods through regulation, like how we force producers to obey all other aspects of food safety and production, then the market will adjust to the new prices, whatever they may be.
America stole Britain's intellectual property for a leg up a century or two ago, now a different country is doing it to them.

There's a difference between copying from open source patent database and reverse engineering versus blatantly engaging in industrial espionage, which is a whole another kettle of fish.

Or claiming to be playing by the same set of rules but blatantly violating them.

The harsh copyright laws and IP agreements they've bullied the rest of the world into accepting are beginning to fail, and these sort of articles are a direct consequence of that, why wouldn't we discuss it? It's an intellectually interesting effect.

Patent systems should be considered harmful to nations that enforce or implement them, but that's another story for another day.
I have a big cognitive dissonance here of what led you to buy it in the first place? The gulf of knowledge or personal risk tolerance between those 2 stances is so vast that I can scarcely comprehend them being in 1 person.

But, clearly they are so I'm obviously wrong.
Slowing down to idle speed and ensuring the intersection is clear absolutely nothing like what’s being addressed in that video.
Coronavirus linked to stroke in otherwise healthy young people
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email him with such concerns, random comments aren't necessarily seen
> PS I'm not American or in America.

The point was generic so I'd say it stands. And the particular point was that most views are relative to where you're looking from but everybody states them in very absolute terms. You set your baseline at what you're comfortable with and take that as absolute reference. I was just trying to show you that that's not the case.

Putting it more simply, if you support the absolute idea that TikTok is bad, and their US operations should be forced to sell and be under US control, then the idea that Facebook or Google are bad and their EU operations should be forced to sell and be under EU control is just as true. Very few people see it like this as such the logic of the discussion is fractured. Without reconciling that fracture first every discussion looks like this [0].

[0] https://pics.onsizzle.com/our-blessed-homeland-their-barbaro...
NYT can be bypassed using Reader View, but the WSJ seems to be able to disable it.
I find 3 hours of coffee split between 2-3 occasions equals one night of moderate drinking from a relationship building perspective.
Thanks for the answer!

I actually love carrots as snacks, though I'm not sure how well they'd go with coconut and olive oil. Have to try I guess.

Do you have any sources about coconut oil killing the bad bacteria in the gut?
The infrastructure of the Big Brother surveillance machine is the same as the infrastructure of the target-ads-better machine, the only difference is who is in charge of it. And relying solely on our current mechanisms to prevent the system being co-opted is naive. Especially given it’s already public record that some of these mechanisms have already been co-opted.

Also, that is just talking about the worst outcome, there are plenty of horrible possible intermediate outcomes, with the data being sold without restriction or not properly protected.
Not that I've noticed here in Australia. Personally, my current car is an auto, and trying to engine break just isn't very effective without switching to manual in my car.
Engine breaking can also be noisier, as may have to shift down gears in a way that means the engine revs relatively high, for a brief time - making it a more noticible noise.

Out in the country, and for me that often means the hills and mountains, then engine breaking is a much bigger part of my driving style, esp down hills!

Engine breaking also doesn't cause your break lights to come on, and they provide a quicker signal that a car is slowing, than relying on people to detect the change in speed.
States offer unemployment of less than $50 / week without the economic stimulus