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To my knowledge Trump hasn't stepped outside the conflicts engaged by his predecessor. According to Bolton's book, Trump called off a strike on Iranian military facilities after a US drone was downed by Iran, because he didn't believe that the US should kill Iranians over the loss of a robot.

Even the killing of Soleimani took place in Baghdad, where Soleimani (himself a commander of insurgent forces) was meeting with an Iraqi commander of insurgent forces. Hard to argue that this act fell outside the confines of the Congressionally authorized war in Iraq.
Ah, but there lies the rub. The regulators don't have the education, training, or exposure either. And crucially, they don't have access to my risk tolerance.

This is most obvious in anti-mask rhetoric from the top public health service in America but also is common in that regulators are safetyists. They will let a million die so that not one will die by their hands. That's okay for them, but not so much for me.
And here I was thinking that they'd immediately shelve it, and then spend their time litigating against influencers and copycat platforms.
If you really want to up inflation, go towards a %100 employment target :p
Well about 1/4 of the prison population has ADHD and half are dyslexic. Female prison populations also have a very high rate of BPD.

The grandmother's where you're from might benefit from learning about pervasive developmental disorders and the effects of trauma.

Some people are dealing with stuff that isn't their fault and that they never got adequate support for.
They are literally describing "Happy couples tend to take a solution-oriented approach to conflict, and this is clear even in the topics that they choose to discuss" as an argument.
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If you have enough savings for retirement, and no dependants, I do not think your wife gets to have a veto over what you choose to do with your life. An opinion to take into consideration, sure, but not a veto.

But maybe this is why I've never gotten married despite wanting to. I don't like it when other people try to pressure me into doing things I know I shouldn't have to do on premises that I don't agree with. Shrug.
Yeah it only happens sometimes. They also will randomly, occasionally not let you read the comments on a post without downloading the app.

Previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21780092
Who pays for this going forward? (Right now it says it is driven by donations). So there is a group of people motivated to succeed and work towards it and pay taxes to allow a bunch of people to do what they like to do (getting stoned and playing video games)
Why I believe the US has herd immunity in some states
I think that people would question whether the agreement was in fact good-faith. The British company had agreed to various obligations to improve the working conditions of Iranian workers, train more Iranians to work in administrative roles, and generally contribute to the development of infrastructure in the country. It had done none of those things in the decades since signing the deal.

Under that light, it's not really a case of buyer's remorse, where Iran signed a fair deal, and unjustly decided to renege on it. It's a case of the British company acting exploitatively, violating their agreement, refusing to renegotiate, and the Iranians declaring the agreement void as a result.
But it'll only avoid becoming voat if people invest time to grow the community into a place of meaningful discussion and beneficial discourse. There are some sub mods who are trying very hard to build welcoming (and non-political) subs but they can't do it singlehandedly.

If you want something to grow, you have to invest in it.
dang I didn't find your link super helpful. What is the contrarian dynamic?
The mass is a problem of you don't t recuperate braking energy. Tesla's do recuperate braking energy. A heavy ICE driven vehicle in contrast just loses braking energy as heat.

Edit: typo
high regulation and subsidies effectively make ‘doing business‘ a nightmare. the real question is: who are the value creators? how can you reward everyone appropriately based on how much value they create and how much risk they incur whilst keeping an healthy base level (minimum wage) for those who don’t? i think the answer is in the middle. too much regulation is harmful for businesses which are ultimately the risk takers and the value creators in our economies
>measure radiation without being noticed", but what are the actual situations where you would want to do that?

Most likely it was for use against Iran or some allies who we didn't want to overtly say we don't trust.
> companies have more power in negotiation, they have more information

You're just asserting this without any argument or evidence.

> and, most important of all, they can deal with a job opening not being covered most of the time. Workers can't usually live too much without finding a job.

Workers don't specifically need a job at that company. Even if they need a job, they can go work somewhere else. And if that isn't the case, you have bigger problems than minimum wage.

> The only way to counter that push is by giving more power to the worker, and in low-skilled fields with lots of available workers, you need to do that through regulations and subsidies.

Even if you want to do this, it still makes minimum wage a ridiculous policy, because it harms the same workers it's purporting to help. The ones who work for companies that can absorb the cost get more, but the others lose their jobs. When there are policies that do only one and not the other (e.g. UBI), there can be no justification for the one that does the bad thing in exchange for no relative advantage.
And you are the one not listening.

In EVERY other country you can buy masks, and they were strongly encouraged, that prevented YOU from getting sick.

South Koreas KF94 masks come to mind, very good coverage and fit (3 parts including one under chin). And despite the lies basically posted by you and plenty of others including health authorities (don't wear masks if you are "healthy", masks can't protect you from covid) masks CAN be used to protect you from infection, and that is a MUCH more powerful motivator for folks to wear them, and can also be targeted to those who are at higher risk.

We need to get a grip of basic facts. Masks help reduce transmission and if reasonably designed (look overseas) infection. Why else do doctors in hospitals wear N95 masks? To avoid getting sick.

I am somewhat higher risk. I wear and N95 under a surgical mask. This reduces my risk of getting covid.

The other issue you miss is that there really has not been good evidence of outdoor transmission, and the claims of covid living on outdoor surfaces for 7 days also are suspect.

So when folks say - no one go to the beach, it's a bit of an eye roll. If covid were THAT infectious (huge open ocean airflow hitting the beach, blasting sun) then we'd all have it already just from going to the grocery store.

I think health professionals lost a megaton of credibility in claiming masks don't help, to not wear masks, or that masks can only help reduce transmission not infection. Other countries went all out on masks - with great results.

They are reaping the rewards of these basic lies. Now I'm told going to beach on a sunny breezy day is high risk. I'm listening, show me the outbreak, show me the data that says this is high risk.
My local community college offers some bachelor degrees, and an associates degree can be a meaningful life change even if it's just a move to a management position.
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"Threads often get an initial wave of negative comments, followed by a second wave of objections to the objections. What determines the initial wave of comments is not community opinion—rather, it's what's the easiest thing to make reflexive objections to. Those comments are the first to show up because those reflexive reactions take the least time. Thoughtful comments require reflection, which is much slower" ?
I'd probably refer to Obama's actions in Syria as an engagement of war. (I'm not saying he was right or wrong to go there, because I don't know all the facts about the Syria conflict.)

I probably wouldn't refer to Trump's twitter commentary as warfare, inflammatory and counterproductive though it may be.
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I agree. I wanted to share a bad experience. Otherwise, I have rarely needed any support from Apple in the last ten years.

I did, and it hurts looking at my previous one I loved right across from me considering the price I paid for the new one. "Well, at least I have Touch ID now" is what I keep telling myself.
Kids can't learn all day long in a classroom. I don't know why we expect them to be able to do it remotely. School has always been 1/3 learning 2/3 baby sitting.

When my parents were kids, they only went to kindergarten for half a day.
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Modern gasoline engines are not as heavy as you may think. I once transported 2 liter car engine in the back seat of my civic. Only ~150 lb and quite manageable.

Even monster SUV motors are only ~350 lbs. That doesn't include cooling, oil, accessories, or transmission but EV's have those too.
Irony is Adam Smith only brings up markets in terms of a free labor market.

Labor must be free to move among opportunities. Fearing that extreme division of labor would make a person a limited thinking tune easily swayed by corrupt political intentions.

Amazing how 200+ years ago, and even more if you lump Plato & Aristotle’s awareness of human behavior, how true much of their concerns still apply. It’s almost as if humans haven’t evolved much socially, we haven’t escaped the same theme. We’ve merely improved the world around us.
Wait a moment, you're equating a change of administration (Obama - Trump or any preceding transfer of power in the US) with a change of governance, as in a structural change in the system of governance (which is explicitly spelled out in the comment you were replying to).

It's particularly odd that you make this argument given Trump's unilateral withdrawal from the P5+1 agreement as well as many other bi- and multilateral arrangements. If we're just going to rely on realpolitik, why not accept that the oil companies also made bank out of Iran for a while and hey, nothing lasts forever?
s/intelligence/malevolence/

Stupidity is more likely than bad actors. Usually.
> Rate that allows the employee to live without government assistance like food stamps and Medicaid. Otherwise the government is just subsidizing the company.

No, the government is subsidizing the worker, and in a system of means-tested aid doing so less than it would be without the job.

If you can't employ people at wages that don't get them fully off public aid, then people can't get the jobs that let them build the skills to be employable at decent wages. Your plan is a recipe for (1) killing businesses and tax revenue that support public assistance, and (2) killing people's ability to move up and off of public assistance, so that for any given minimum standard of living we’ll need more public funds to reach it but have less available.

It's much better to tax capital returns and use the proceeds to support the un- and under-employed (whether permanent or transitional) then it is to block the onramps to people becoming employable at wages that are livable.

And that's even ignoring that Medicaid and other public assistance usually aren't based solely on individual income but household circumstance, so that the required minimum wage by that standard would be dependent on household circumstances, which is problematic.
> What if we worked to expand access to online courses and improve them for all?

I'd really like for everyone to have a home Internet connection that is symmetric gigabit or better. For some reason, in at least one town in the US, you can get Comcast Internet access that is gigabit down but only 30 mbps up. This is not good enough when you have multiple people who are trying to do things online at the same time. It is all fine if all you're doing is streaming movies/music (downloading)_but uploading videos or conference calls by video means we need decent upload as well.

I don't see a solution other than fiber to the home. Would love to see municipal fiber to be honest.
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The "contrarian dynamic" is that HN threads (and internet comments generally) are propelled by people making objections. [1]

The objections come in waves. In the earliest stage of a thread, they tend to be rapid negative reactions to the article. It's not that these are a community consensus, it's that they're the fastest reactions to feel, and the fastest comments to write—especially when the topic is provocative, when most of us are reacting from cache [2].

Then a second wave of objections is generated by the first wave.
Readers come to the thread, see the comment section dominated by those initial reflexive responses, and feel some version of surprised-shocked-dismayed at how "all HN commenters" seem to react in the same way. This propels them to write defenses of the article, often carefully expressing more moderate or balanced views than the first wave—but they probably wouldn't have been motivated to post anything if there hadn't been the first wave of comments to object to!

These second-wave comments tend to get more upvotes, perhaps because more people tend to share the more moderate view, but also because those comments tend to be more reflective [2] and therefore better written.

This explains why the top comment in a thread so often begins (ironically) with "Wow, I can't believe the comments here"—or from the current thread: "All of these comments make me think HN has never interacted with a 5 year old" [3]—followed by a defense of whatever those objections were objecting to.

Eventually you get objections to the objections to the objections—which reminds me of the line "My complication had a little complication" from Brazil [4], and also epicycles.

[1] Cunningham's Law touches on this: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_Law

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24215135

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyHilwSRo28#t=61
Sooo you’re telling me that if I give my toddler a pain brush he’ll be the next davinci? Could you follow up with some more specific direction? I mean if I want to raise a pop-star does the microphone need to be plugged in or does using it like a lightsaber also get them closer to the target?

Sorry for being silly in my reply, but the reason we have studies confirming simple “obvious” to you correlations is that we can’t just rely on random peoples intuition without proof. Even simple things need to be studied and sometimes our expectations are broken and we discover that no, everything isn’t made up of combinations of earth, water, fire and wind, even though that was what was “obvious” to the smartest elders of all the lands.
Notably it‘s still serving 80k travelers each day.

Some contemporary footage as a contrast:
https://youtu.be/9IFh6wFTJiQ

The video is quite interesting, shedding some light on the reasoning and requirements of this undertaking.
It's great that you are a technology-savvy teacher who is capable of taking advantage of these tools. Unfortunately, a large number of teachers and school districts do not have the skills, resources, or leadership to support this kind of experience for their students and teachers.

Most school districts would need

1. the desire to transform the way they teach

2. the leadership capable of driving this change

3. the teachers who are tech-savvy or capable of learning these technologies/skills (many aren't!)
Working to expand and improve is a worthy goal. I believe before the lockdown it remained an under invested niche for those not suitable for the existing schooling like outright remote (rural to even rural), very ill children, or those who had especially severe social issues from the "Lord of the Flies/prison run by the prisoners dynamic" dysfunctional norm structure of schools and bullying. It was viewed as the worse option especially for corner cases before it got forced into primetime at scale.

On a side note you clearly didn't mean it in the negative sense but the rhetoric of "arbitrary option for improvement technology/advance is privileging the elite" bugs me as very zero sum. If any ammount of additional resources can yield at least a smaller edge then by definition the elite can perform better. The only alternative to that situation category is "no additional human effort can help". The framing in effect spitefully disregards the masses of "non-elite" both within and without access to the option and implicitly dismisses anything which helps because another gets helped more.
The role of government is to set the rules of the game to provide for the livelihood of all citizens. Free markets bring certain efficiencies but they are not a priori good and virtuous. If they bring the best outcome for society as a whole then we should lean into them, if not then we should consider regulation of some form.

Increasing income inequality should be very alarming to everyone. The bottom 90% because they're getting screwed, and the top 10% because the perfection of conservative talking points and scapegoating of minorities and immigrants will not address the truth on the ground: nostalgia for post-war prosperity will not bring the jobs back. Policy in today's interconnected world is complex and almost entirely driven by expert lobbyists representing special interests who donate to both political parties to guarantee their influence. It's going to get worse and worse until either the 1% see their own danger or the pitchforks come out.
Assassinating Soleimani was definitely not explicitly listed on any treaty.
Energy recovery from regen is minimal unless you're stuck in stop and go traffic. Usually less than 5%.
Here's the trick. If choice has been eliminated, i.e. walmart has replaced your local shop, you can no longer vote with your dollar - pressuring the companies (via "calling-out") to give you options becomes the only choice available.

That said, there are a ton of areas where we still have choice. In those cases, people do need to become more aware of the impact of their purchasing decisions - but in those cases I agree with you: making different decisions is the actual required action.
I’m not a doctor so please correct me if I’m interpreting this incorrectly. It seems the TLDR is:

1. There are few effective treatments for upper respiratory tract infection.

2. The authors combined all studies currently done on the efficacy of honey to estimate how it compares to conventional treatment (antibiotics).

3. Honey appears to help slightly more than conventional treatment (just at managing symptoms?).

4. They recommend further studies with placebo control to learn more.

That’s interesting and kind of surprising to me. How does one use honey as a treatment? Just eat some? How much? How often? Etc.
It'd still net us more information though. If it works out at least the permanency aspect is answered, and if it doesn't, then maybe we need to reconsider UBI fundamentally.
Not necessarily. In this case the business seeks an alternative to workers such automation or simply going without.
The problem is the relaxed attitudes to COVID is causing clusters to appear and expand, delaying efforts to re-open.

Remember, lockdown isn't about 100% prevention, it's about keeping infections at a level that's acceptable (generally defined as keeping enough ICU beds and ventilators available for COVID+normal use).

If people all wear masks, keep distance when possible, and generally "follow the rules", we should be able to return to a more normal lifestyle.

But, as politicians force schools to open, pastors insist on in-person services, and the "mah rights!" crowd refuses to play by the rules at all, we get more COVID clusters than we might otherwise.
You're on the right track, but they're usually considered rentals not purchased property. The Apple ARM devkit Mac Mini, for example, has to be returned to Apple at the end of the preview.
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A wealth measure will give a higher rating to someone who spends on assets than someone who spends on Fortnite skins. What it doesn't do is arbitrarily favor someone who lives in a HCOL area or in a country (sorry, the country) that forces individuals to spend their own money on things like health care.
Not true.

Testing in production (with rollbacks and safeguards) is actually how things are done in many endeavors in life, especially with processes that are reversible or where the cost of mistakes are bounded. Reality is a better teacher than a simulation. This it not to put down tests -- it has its place -- but in complex systems, it's impossible to have comprehensive coverage. Stochastic things show up in real life that never show up in tests.

In software, you just keep building up your test suite. In complex stochastic systems, you'll have a much harder time building tests.

Software people have a notion that the world should be TDD-driven, but it doesn't really work like that.
Why not have a runoff election or instant runoff voting?

Additionally, why do we need to have a single representative for any individual instead of say 10 people representing a larger district?
This is a straw man argument. The issue at hand isn't "whether a free market is eminently desirable", but whether or not the relative ability for employers (or any buyer) to wait for a better price on a good or service renders a market unfree. My position is that a market in which one party (the employer in this specific case) can wait for another party (the worker) to come down to market price is entirely congruent with the definition of a free market.
Quick notes from skimming the docs:

* Conductor implements a workflow orchestration system which seems at the highest level to be similar to Airflow, with a couple of significant details.

* There are no "workers", instead tasks are executed by existing microservices.

* The Orchestrator doesn't push work to workers (e.g. Airflow triggering Operators to execute a DAG), instead the clients poll the orchestrator for tasks and execute when they find them.

My hot take:

If you already have a very large mesh of collaborating microservices and want to extract an orchestration layer on top of their tasks, this system could be a good fit.

Most of what you're doing here can also be implemented in Airflow, using an HTTPOperator or GRPCOperator that triggers your services to initiate their task. You don't get things like pausing though. On the other hand, you do get the ability to run simple/one-off tasks in an Airflow operator, instead of having to build a service to run your simple Python function.

I'm unsure on whether push/pull is better; I think it largely depends on your context. I'm inclined to say that for most cases, having the orchestrator push tasks out over HTTP is a better default, since you can simply load-balance those requests and horizontally scale your worker pool, and it's easier to test a pipeline manually (e.g. for development environments) if the workers respond to simple HTTP requests, instead of having to provide a stub/test implementation of the orchestrator. (In particular I'm thinking about "running the prod env on your local machine in k8s" -- this isn't practical at Netflix scale though.)