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Yes, they all solve similar problems. This is a space with a lot of differing requirements, so they all share some common features, but many have different strengths for various types of tasks.
It implies that they are analogous, not that they are similarly dangerous.
If you are getting a significant chunk of someone's time and labor, but not paying them enough to live well, that seems like the definition of exploitation. If you can't pay a living wage, your company should go out of business - it's not helping society, and it's sucking up air that could be used by other companies that CAN pay their workers a livable wage.

Specifically in the case of walmart, they CAN pay their employees a living wage. They drain about 6-7 billion from taxpayers (1) by way of workers on assistance. From 2006-2020 walmart has made over 10 billion/year every year except two (9ish billion and 6ish billion) (2)

(1) https://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2014/04/15/report-...

(2) https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/WMT/walmart/net-in...
Isn't the range penalty a lot worse on short trips? When I was researching Leaf I noped out of buying one because range penalty in the cold for daily commutes was almost 50%
As someone who has done some contracting work in this space, I'd say one of the use cases for this is shipping inspections at ports. Not everything the government considers sensitive is the Jason Bourne black-ops stuff most of the comments here are fantasizing about.

Here's a couple overviews:

https://www.energy.gov/nnsa/nnsa-and-nuclear-smuggling-detec...

https://www.epa.gov/radtown/radiation-and-shipping-port-secu...
Can't imagine Florida is being careful enough that their herd immunity depends on masks
There's a common talking point that because masks aren't perfectly effective, they therefore aren't effective at all or worthy as a safety mechanism. It's a total farce of an argument.
> When Americans consider other countries' reactions towards them, they seldom consider the impact of their own actions

Source? I'm an American. I consider it, as do most people I know.
Jet fuel is ~36 kWh/gallon raw energy density (13 kWh/gallon mechanical power assuming 35% engine efficiency). The pre-covid jet fuel price was $2/gallon, or $.15/kWh. The average price of commercial electricity is $.06/kWh in America, or $.08/kWh including charging/motor efficiency. This cost will definitely be higher if you only buy clean electricity, and this ignores battery wear out.

But where the economics break down is aircraft utilization. If charge time is greater than ~1 hour typical turn time, all of your costs will grow. Capital cost, crew costs, and airport infrastructure cost will increase. To charge in <1 hr is a challenge, you need a huge power source (tens of megawatts per plane) and serious cooling.
No they're not. Employers are prohibited from paying them below a certain amount. No employee can be or ever has been prosecuted/sued for accepting sub-minimum wage.

I realize you're trying to say minimum wages limit economic opportunity for ad-hoc and casual labor that the poorest rely on. But you've fatally damaged your argument by presenting it in an untruthful way.
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Good luck- you might be waiting a while. Peer review takes months to years. At that point it's too late for preventative strategies for a pandemic.
Sia seems like a Dropbox/OneDrive replacement whereas Filecoin is an incentivized storage layer infrastructure for apps to use, especially dapps.

If you wanted to build a decentralized SoundCloud you couldn't use Sia but IPFS/Filecoin is the primary building block of such a dapp.
Thats a black or white fallacy: I think carried to the extreme it would be like me making the claim that kids who use tablets will become software engineers. My argument, is that screen time makes kids better at interacting with screens.

For clarity to your point; I think it would be hard to argue that among kids tested playing piano that those who had an interest and practiced more would sound better statistically. Your toddler may not be davinvi, but they should end up with better fine motor control and maybe learn to enjoy expressing themselves in that medium.
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Back in mid-May, when the US was still behaving pretty well, the angry right-wing facebookers started talking about how great Sweden was. So I did a per-capita death calculation and Sweden's was 30% higher than the US's.

Of course, a lot of the US has lost patience with the difficulty of safety, so I wouldn't be surprised if it's worse now. But that's not because of lockdown not being effective. In fact, it's the opposite.

And let's not forget, in the US H1N1 infected 60M people and only killed 12K of them.
I work for making D the best programming language in the world. I've always been doing things like that since my first job. I've always liked the challenge, especially when people tell me I can't do that.

I selected a college specifically to prepare for the kind of things I wanted to do as a career, and selected classes in the service of that. I once told my dad that I was never bored for a moment in college.

Vacations dull pretty quickly.

Lying around doing nothing is my notion of hell.
This is a good point. GP is arguing that their experience with their child was great, specifically because they didn't sit their child down in front of a screen and tell them to sit still and watch a pixelated head talk at them all day. And they're probably right, what they're describing sounds like an awesome learning environment.

In a weird way, they're kind of agreeing with the article here -- remote learning as it's currently structured in the average public school does not work for every kid.

The only disagreement seems to come down to whether someone's reaction to seeing a paragraph like this

> Even our worst-case scenario is a privileged one; a trashed apartment and frayed nerves are nothing in comparison with what other parents are about to undergo. My husband and I can work at home, and we can afford some assistance with child care. The huge number of parents who must work outside the home, parents who can’t afford any child care, and parents who don’t feel comfortable managing a sitter’s viral risk alongside their own are in a far worse situation.

is:

- Wow, this is a problem we should collectively work to address.

or,

- Wow, parents sure are lazy with their kids.
I would suggest you disabuse yourself of the notion such an answer is owed.

Someone putting time into a response you’ll accept is a privilege you earn, not an obligation you demand.

If your take is “so what”, fine stay home. You become politically irrelevant. “So what” that you even exist and to your political positions then.

Our biology doesn’t allow for altruism. John Stuart Mill already covered this; the government should strive to be blind to bias in its institutions, but there’s no stopping a community from literally ejecting the dead weight.

Don’t get involved in political conversation that doesn’t draw you in. Whatever. Nobody has to take your indifference to any topic as anything more than the emotional fart of a nobody who is indifferent to supporting people that to them end up being total nobodies.

Exist in your circularness of nobody caring. It’s easier when nobody matters.
They don't do any harm anywhere other than in an ECON 101 class. The invisible hand and equilibrium ECON 101 doesn't account for unlivable wages. That's why there's a minimum wage.
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To what purpose? To get people talking about the newest version of the iPhone? Don't think this stunt was required for that.
It's not a mistake, and it isn't severe. You're talking about exceptions to the law, not the law itself. The law is exercised thousands of times a day and wrongful termination lawsuits account for single-digit percentages.

As the plaintiff in such a case you need to be able to provide evidence that it's "reasonable to believe" that you were fired because of whatever protected class you fall into.

It can be difficult to do, especially if you're blindsided and escorted out of the building and cut off from any sort of evidence (tip: if you think you could be fired because of who you are, start keeping receipts before you're fired).

Previous to winning my own discrimination case, I was a juror in a case where an employer almost got away with blatantly discriminatory firing. They thought they were being sly by sacrificing another non-protected employee at the same time... but then bragged about it to an employee they didn't realize would rat them out. If it wasn't for that email there wouldn't have been enough evidence to know for sure.

That aside, if you're not a protected class (the majority of people aren't)... good luck. You can be fired without cause at any given moment.
I think you're overselling your point a bit. $15/hr would be very rough in NYC or SF, but it's actually a pretty decent wage for a single person most places in the US.

for comparison, I make quite a bit more than $15/hr, but $2100/month is pretty close to what it costs me to live a nice life in one of the most desirable neighborhoods in my city. I spend closer to $2500 in a typical month, but $200 of that is because I chose a nice apartment with a good view, and I could probably shave off another $200-300 by not shopping at whole foods and downgrading the alcohol I buy. a year ago, I was living in a detached home (with a driveway!) in the county with three other people and my monthly spending was well under $2000.

so imo, $15/hr is more than enough as an absolute floor for wages in most locales. probably not enough to support an entire household with n children on a single income, but I don't think that's a reasonable expectation for a minimum wage.
Especially when you can redirect to apps or open apps with links
Are we talking about the D'Arcy Concession? I ask because none of what you are describing is found in the text of that agreement.

It's immediately obvious upon observation of modern Iran's highly developed petroleum industry that concessions sparked the development of infrastructure on a massive scale.

> 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.

I think it's precisely a case of buyer's remorse. In Iran prior to the development of infrastructure, 16% share in profits generated by AIOC with no initial capital commitment from the Qajars sounds like a great deal. In Iran after the wells are pumping, 16% share in profits sounds like a pittance. I reject your framing of the issue as an exploitation by British interests. That may be a palatable narrative for the times we live in today, but it's a distorted perception of the actual facts. Petroleum production was the single greatest driver of wealth and development in 20th century Iran. If not for foreign investment, the industry could not have boomed as it did.

D'Arcy took massive personal risk and even took the British government as an investor, but he failed several times in the process of exploring for oil before he was ultimately successful. Risk is the nature of the wildcatting business.

If you study the process of oil rights and nationalization in the Middle East, you will see that it is a topic marked by extremely brutish behavior from local parties as well as faraway beneficiaries like the US and the UK. Even OPEC is full of deception about production numbers as it sets production amongst member nations.

For that reason as well as others beyond the scope of the current conversation, there aren't many clean hands in the oil production business. Look at the massive corruption and cronyism taking place in Venezuela's PDVSA. Iran has the same kind of problem, where the country's dictators finance their corrupt practices using petroleum income.
Super cool! Looking forward to trying it out.
It's a part of traditional medicine in Russia. As a personal anecdote, I didn't find it particularly effective on me, but it's good to see a proper study conducted.

Anyway, the way to take honey is usually with hot tea. Drink from a cup and use a special spoon [1] for honey. It tastes well together.

1. https://www.google.com/search?q=honey+spoon
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yeah, that is precisely what I was speaking of. It is good tactic for winning a absurd internet debate, but doesn't really further the original discussion, and certainly doesn't help educate anyone or build consensus.

To me it is a matter of goals, when posting.

I seek to learn something and/or share something, and think this is best achieved by replying to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize.

I find that satisfaction of baiting a stupid post then refuting is short lived.
You're right, it's not very clear, this is what I was going for:

It's not very fair to society as a whole if we implement policies which impede standard of living increases.
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> if it wasn't hard to do, it wasn't worth doing

that's a very narrow minded way of looking at the world. Kind words, hugs are very much worth it
I assume thinness is part of the problem--my high-end Logitech webcam is about an inch thick. Also webcam quality was probably just not much of a consideration until fairly recently.

But, even if someone doesn't more or less set up a studio as I've done to a degree and some of my colleagues have done, there are some pretty basic things related to lighting and webcam height that can be done pretty easily by most people. Though I'd add that comms problems are also a frequent annoyance and there's not a lot people can do there.

I'd add though that I normally move around my house when I'm working. Sitting at a desk all day in a "studio" doesn't really work for me.
Nothing is wrong with hard. But complaining about hard things, sympathy, and recognition of the difficulty is also a large portion of what makes doing hard things tolerable. Trying to shut it down will have the opposite effect of what you want.
There are very practical techniques for addressing these problems. However they aren't widely known.

For example if you want to keep a kid still to listen, give them something good to fiddle with. For example, teach kids how to finger knit. And then have them do simple finger knitting while they are listening. The finger knitting is an outlet for the ansies, and they are able to pay better attention, for longer.

You also have to be more cognizant of kid limitations when you have less feedback. But we haven't done that. We have kept the same schedule. It is easier to miss a kid acting out over Zoom. And the combination is bad. We really need to tell kids to get up and do jumping jacks, come back in 15 minutes with milk and cookies.
> Isn't your "that turned out to be too hard" one of the answers?

That's a "we need an expert in filter theory" problem. I had four people crash and burn on that problem when we were building a DARPA Grand Challenge vehicle. Combining GPS, accelerometer, gyro, compass, and odometer data to get position is a hard problem. All those sensors are noisy, but in quite different ways. There are off the shelf solutions now, but there were not in 2004. We could not get below 3 degrees of heading noise, and had trouble keeping the sensor map aligned to the real world.
The fact that they were hired back during a pandemic isn't a good counter-argument, greeters obviously add very small value to the company under normal circumstances.
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There's more than enough oil in the US, Canada, and Mexico to support not only US military needs but the entire North American civilian economy indefinitely. There is no risk of the US ever losing a war due to an oil shortage.

When the US 'goes to war for oil' in the Middle East, it's going to war not to protect its oil supply but rather to make sure the profits of oil accrue to US companies and to ensure that oil remains priced in US dollars, which is vital for the US Dollar to continue to be the world's reserve currency.
I sure love my first cuppa coffee in the morning. The miracle of global trade!
There would be no taxes, only voluntary cooperation.
Not really, at least not Fauci. What he said was they wouldn't work for most Americans. What he was implying is that most Americans wouldn't bother to learn to wear them properly.

I think he was right. If your glasses are fogging, RainX isn't your answer. Make the damn mask fit better.
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Don't discount this so easily. You can't land a jumbo jet immediately after takeoff because its maximum allowed landing weight is much less than its maximum allowed takeoff weight. So you'll need a stronger fuselage and landing gear for electric plans, which means even more weight
have you been taught to tell hard from bullshit? i've been taught that hard and worthwhile are orthogonal and the amazing prize at the top sometimes is just the fact that you've made it, thanks, now get the f* back down you idiot.
Inflation taxes the wealth of all savers -- this is unavoidable.

Currently many countries have, or are proposing additional wealth taxes that are graduated in amount (What the original article is discussing).

>blame wealth tax for the faults of inflation

Who made this argument? Not me. You've misrepresented me pointing out that engineering inflation is a tax on all wealth (including average Joe's $800)

Best of luck to you in thinking that people writing words in a book in marble buildings can magic more food into existence.
This isn‘t the government carrying out the trial, but a crowd-sourced private non-profit.
We live in an unprecedented age of communication and media. I have a hard time taking any so called 'extrovert' seriously when they say that they can't handle the current state of 'non-socializing.'

Maybe these extroverts aren't extroverts and instead they're regular people suffering from withdrawal because we live in an over-socialized society.
Okaaaaaaay then.

Your fifty-five years of studying how people work didn't extend to anywhere outside the US then.

I'll leave you to it. Have a pleasant day.
Granny style remedy: mix honey with lemon juice and eat it with tea spoons. Don't eat or drink anything for the next half hour.

The aim is to coat your throat with it.
If it was written from the start in Rust, i have no doubts.
But thats not the reality being faced here.

Right now the Chromium codebase have less bugs than if it was written in Rust, because of how many hours and efforts that were spent on the codebase to make it work smoothly.

Also the particular engineers with particular know-hows work with a particular tool. Its not easy to find them especially if you are forcing to use a new language in a giving project. It will take years and even decades to have the same quality people you already have in C and/or C++ in Rust.

So it will take time to have an engineer that can make, lets say, a multi-process compositor in Rust. What about many people with that particular special knowledge that take years to be good at.

So in real life its not just a matter of a language being a better fit. Theres a lot of other vectors to take into account.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
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Hot lemon and honey (hot water with lemon and honey dissolved in, sometimes with soluble paracetamol) was my mum's standard treatment for sore throat / cough / runny nose type ailments. Maybe there was something to that.
one answer i haven’t seen mentioned is because mobile web is another platform they have to maintain. and it requires a lot of dev work to make sure every new feature works there instead of simply saying it’s unsupported and pushing people to the app
It's a really interesting point because, at least in the USA, we sort of make people work for their 'tax rebates'.

They have to fill out complicated tax forms (really, a tax preparation company fills it out and takes a cut) to get rebates like EITC. They have to spend time visiting government offices to renew their food stamps. They have to be subject to relatively invasive life inspections for welfare- and 'workfare' programs that require people to leave their house, put their kids in daycare, and rake leaves for 8 hours a day are always going in and out of fashion, with over half the states usually implementing a form of that program under some name.

I feel like if it were my choice, I'd like to get a little less money but have it 'guaranteed' without a bunch of time obligations that would interfere with my attempts to raise my kids, learn a skill, or get a basic job. Of course, 80%+ of people in the USA who are in poverty are children, carers, disabled or the elderly, so it's not like they're learning a new skill or trying to find other work. Their time is still valuable though.
The BMW 330i is about 660lbs lighter according to some questionable internet sources for curb weight
> How is taxing the local economy to spend in the local economy (and some abroad) a net benefit?

Taxing the rich, who have a lower marginal propensity to consume and consume locally, and transferring to the poor, who have a higher marginal propensity to consume and to do so locally, increases the local velocity of money.
It wasn't very many years earlier that Germany waged total war against the US but a grudge hasn't held out there...
We really need to define "many people". I try to avoid comments and papers like you referenced. They essentially represent the worst case scenario -- it's in the air, unkillable, easy to catch, victims never recover, you may have no symptoms but permanent damage, it makes sane people go crazy etc etc.

How about -- what's the max viral load one can sustain for it not to pass the 1st layer immune system? Is there really a 1st and 2nd layer? Can I resist it without getting antibodies? How much more effective is a KN95 / N95 mask in terms of viral load vs the others?

And why don't we have more high powered venting fans and permanent outside events and require building to open their windows or remove their walls in climates where that'd work?
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The one thing I've not seen discussed, and maybe I'm just not using the right terminology, is how inflation is controlled in a UBI world. If everyone is on UBI then it would be very simple to peg things like rent or auto payments to the current UBI rate - the same way apartments in New York City today are often priced based on the average bonus paid financial services workers. Granted that not having to worry about housing would relieve a huge burden for many people, but if other necessities like food or fuel are similarly pegged to the UBI, in the same way food costs changed during the Euro conversion, then it seems like we might ultimately end up in the same place where a percentage of the population needs assistance beyond UBI.
You also have to consider the huge investment that testing takes. Not only person days spent writing tests, but also infrastructure costs for running fuzzers, huge test suites and so on. And although the code base is already there and tested, it constantly changes, so there is no way to just incrementally test it. At some point you have to make some advances in the way you approach software development, not everything can be handled by brute force.
It highly, highly depends on motor setup.

Tesla low gearing induction motor is by far not the best here.

Synchronous motors have much better regen capability.