skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The other big change is downward pressure on location based real estate values. Even a 10% reallocation of wealth from real estate to equities would have a huge impact.
I think you're both kind of right.

There are ads on pretty much every medium that say "Stay Home", which is not at all what you're describing. To say "nobody is saying do not socialize" is untrue, but to say "We're not allowed to socialize" is also untrue.
It is my understanding that malnutrition, clean water, and access to education/information are foremost among the problems of the developing world, and it's not at all clear to me that regulating medication in those countries would improve anyone's situation measurably.

For my part, here in the "developed" world, I have a family member with a rare autoimmune condition, and access to comparatively few medications. Those that are available are very expensive and not covered by any insurance. There is little competition between their manufacturers.

Because it costs at least 1.4B to bring a drug to market, and because of the rarity of her illness, it's unlikely any company will pursue new research. Thanks to the FDA's inordinately expensive approval process, no company is incentivized to bring a drug to market with an upside of <= 1.4B, regardless of how many people it could help.
> They shouldn't, a notion of rights does not include any material implementation of these rights for you by other people

This is about the customers rights. They should have a right to do whatever they want with there own devices, and buy repair services from anyone who chooses to deal with them.

I am not saying it is " for you by other people. ", so I am not sure why you are making this up, when that is clearly not what I meant. I repeated the same point, like 6 times, so I thought my point was clear, but somehow you ignored it.

Instead, I am saying that both these customers, and other companies, should have a right to deal with each other, if both agree, and an unrelated 3rd party, Apple, should have no ability to stop it by them using government force, which Apple is doing.

And if you don't agree in this voluntary trade, then you don't believe in free markets.

> If you find that Apple acts as an abuser in an abusive relationship

I find that they are using government force against others.

> you just cut all ties with the abuser

Well, the people who actually support free markets want to remove Apple's ability to use government force against others.

That is what we want to do. We want to get rid of their government supported coercion that they are using against others.

> "they should have a right to continue living with that person

I don't want a right to force Apple to deal with me. If they don't want to sell iPhones to people, they don't have to.

Instead, I want to remove Apple's ability to use government force against others, for engaging in voluntary trade. For example, Apple should not be able to sue anyone for voluntarily using 3rd party repair services.

> It implies that there's no force that is able to chain you to the abuser.

But there IS force! Apple is literally using government force against others. Stop ignoring this point. Lets get rid of that force that Apple is using against others.

I will repeat once again, so that this is clear.

You said "It implies that there's no force". I am saying that Apple is using force against others, through government support lawsuits, and I want to take away Apple's ability to use this force against others. Lets get rid of their ability to sue people, for voluntarily buying from 3rd party repair shops.

This is the point that I am making, and you keep ignoring it.

I made like 6 sentences where I repeated this exact same point, and somehow you ignored them multiple times that I repeated the same point, over and over again.
States are what states are, it’s more complicated when it comes to sizes there as it has to do with territory, democracy etc.

So I didn’t try to relate companies to states, I just wanted to exclude the states from the discussion altogether.
That has nothing to do with lifting weights and availability to lifting.
You bet!

Does anyone have the link to the story about the guy who found a Made in China power strip w/ a hidden bug inside?
The adaption of markdown usually ends where "non-markdown people" have to edit markdown documents. This really changes the game!
This, a hundred times over. Or, as Thom Yorke put it in "Paranoid Android": "Ambition makes you look pretty ugly".
I think MS was more or less at its nadir when the acronym first showed up.
Look at the middle east, countries like Saudi, Iran, Kuwait, Qatar have done it for decades. Using your logic they should be ruling the world. Instead it has created a dependent population, unwilling to work and needing an army of immigrants to do the work at horrible conditions.
Late Night Programming (A Poem)
Aren't the cofactors for COVID death highly unusual for gym exercisers? High BMI, low cardio health stats, diabetes, high blood pressure... Going to the gym is my only prevention for those cofactors...

Looking at the stats I'm more likely to spread the disease if I go to the gym, but much less likely to personally die of the disease if I stay healthy by going to the gym.

Complicating the situation is due to work and food delivery situation, I can't actually spread the disease to anyone at risk because they just aren't in my life.
Github is a social network, and Microsoft hasn't manged to screw it up yet.
That's a lazy strawman. The people operating these businesses are doing what they can to survive, and they are dealing with willing customers. Both parties are exercising personal responsibility. Equating this kind of thing with murder and rape is juvenile.
...We are now on month 7...

And if people had actually sheltered in place back in March, we might be opening back up (or opening with fewer COVID clusters).
Do you not see that anecdata is also sometimes correlated with real data? That we may be able to look around us and at life experience and observe real trends?

Here's what I get from some quick googling.

Decline in underage drinking, 1991-2013: https://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/surveillance101/Unde...

Youth use of cigarettes declining (though I believe I have read that vaping counter-acts this trend when looking at all nicotine products): https://www.hhs.gov/ash/oah/adolescent-development/substance...
There's still a difference though between a setup that uses keyboard + speech vs. one that mixes keyboard and mouse. For instance, you don't have to take your hands off the keyboard to issue a speech command. Also, there's a fundamental usability difference between voice input and mouse input in that the strength of menus+mouse lies in the fact that a user does not have to remember the exact command, it can be looked up / navigated to. For speech, you have to remember the command just as you do when using M-x <command> in Emacs right now -- unless you're thinking of a fully fledged spoken dialog system type of interface that would allow interactive descriptions.
the potential would be greatly increased with self hosting rather than FB of a different flavor. discord needs a login to off premises services
> Based on how most jobs will get automated

Will that happen before or after we get fully driverless car everywhere?
The USSR's philosophy was that under Lenin, under Stalin all hopes of worldwide revolution were abandoned and the philosophy shifted to "Socialism in one country".

More relevant to your point:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia_involvement_in_regime_c... (This includes the overthrow of Nazi and Imperial Japanese invasion governments, and a good third were post-USSR)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r... (This includes only Nazi overthrows)

As you can see, the second is significantly longer despite not including regime change attempts against Imperial Japanese governments.

If you remove WW2 and WW1, the US list is over twice as long.
How to fairly evaluate someone's ideas without having to either fully accept them or fully reject them.
Yeah sorry, you can’t equate taking your shoes off twice a year when you fly to being stuck in your f’ing house for 7 months on end because our overlords deem it so.
You're ignoring the point. The issue is one of culture (and parenting when it comes to children), in Mexico and in all other countries.

Corporations are an easy scapegoat that also fits a political ideology on the left.

It's also a complete fallacy to claim that people cannot see through things. People are not stupid they know that it is their diet that makes them fat. People deserve at least this credit and respect.

Alcohol and cigarettes sales to children are obviously completely different and a very poor analogy.

So... Following the logic, either we accept that people are free to make their own decisions, that parents are responsible for their children, or we take children away from parents because the state knows best.

Personally I think we should do the maximum we can to teach good diets at schools, and perhaps provide classes for adults, and to label products then people can do whatever they want but live with the consequences.

But I think the likely outcome (as we start to see in some countries), which must be politically acceptable and cheap, will be similar to the path taken for cigarettes: PR campaigns and tax. This is a way to let people do what they want while nudging them, and to let them pay for the consequences (healthcare where it is financed through tax).

When it comes to children parents won't be blamed (although they should be) because this is not good to win votes. It will be easier to continue blaming ads and corporations, and to ban things.
I agree on your second point though. Clercs were having so much hidden power at the time. Consdiering for 250 years since the inception of various religious taxes (5th of salary) and donations they were accumulating a wast amount of wealth.
Redreader is awesome.

The interface is a little clumsy, it is open source and verifiably not making unrequested connections to the Internet is amazing.
The non-deplorables hold themselves to high standards.
After 40 everything once was good/tasty needs to be reduced a lot and or cut out of our diets. Our U.S. arteries are clogged no matter if your obese or not.
Sunshine and fresh air worked with the Spanish Flu also.
I'm not an expert (so I might be wrong here question-wise), but it seems to me that using the same type of encryption "key" to lock down firmware on various devices sounds like a very ill-advised way to do things.

It seems like it would be possible that once you find the "key" for one router, you could potentially exploit a bunch of other router/switch models as well. Am I incorrect in this thinking?
Masks haven’t been proven to work. In fact, they have been shown to do diddly squat for influenza.
You've just identified the difference between "Proven" and "Proven to me." The former has already been done, but obviously the latter requires a person to not actively refuse to listen.

If you're ready to listen, the proof is already there.
The permanent portfolio is an investment portfolio designed to perform well in all economic conditions. It was devised by free-market investment analyst, Harry Browne, in the 1980s. The permanent portfolio is composed of an equal allocation of stocks, bonds, gold, and cash, or Treasury bills.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/permanent-portfolio.asp
No, but they are much more complicated and their size are determined by many more factors, so discussing whether they should be powerful or not is an entirely different conversation
> R&D companies submit proposals to the FDA for new drugs they want to develop. The FDA can also send out RFPs for drugs they'd like to prioritize.

So I'm Pfizer, and I think I've identified a compound to treat hypertension. I get all the way to phase 1 (which isn't cheap), only to find out that it doesn't actually work better than alternatives. What I do find out is that it's great at stimulating erections. A la peanut butter sandwiches, now we have Viagra.

> The math for insurance costs and premiums would change because retails prices for most drugs would drop. That would make insurance cheaper, and some of those savings would probably need to go towards a tax for the FDA's R&D funding.

Total US spend for pharmaceuticals is on the order of 10% of all spending. Since you can't actually zero that out, you're probably not looking at as much money as you think.
I'm not totally sure - if you go out to rural, poorer Mexico, away from the corporate chains and packaged snackfoods, the traditional Mexican diet isn't especially healthy. Lots of lard, simple carbs, etc.
I’m all for making sure dogs get the attention and exercise they need but this is just silly. Walking your dog for an hour every day doesn’t somehow make you a responsible pet parent. And not walking your dog for at least an hour doesn’t make you irresponsible.

Me forcing my dog to go on a walk in the rain or cold would be tantamount to torturing him. They have a mind and personality of their own that deserves to be taken into account.

Overly prescriptive one-size-fits-all laws like this are bad laws.
Yelp doesn't let you see more than a few photos in mobile web; if you switch to desktop view you can see all the photos but of course all the dimensions are janky.
I get the virtue signaling hoard, but it has no effect on outcome.
What the Post Office Needs to Survive a Pandemic Election
Kettlebells are doing the trick for me, you can start with just one.
1. There's so much outdoor space to socialize. You make it seem like the choice is between doing it indoors or not doing it at all.

2. Why can't people socialize online? It's even easier nowadays. It might not be the same thing but it can get pretty close.
Funny (not really) that Bill Blair is the Minister of Public Safety now.
I mean - Canada is in the same boat right? Canada might even be worse off since the country was originally french and then that entire population (along with first nations & Metis which are a more significant portion of the population up here) was second-classed when the English won a war that one time. Quebec secessionist is far more serious than any state in the US[1] and western Canada tends to begrudge the arbitrary french bilingualism while wondering why Mandarin or Punjabi isn't the other official language.

All that said - Canada is still a country that identifies as a country. If anything is causing a real divide in America it's the entirely manufactured hatred of modern divisive politics. As someone who grew up in Boston I went to school with a wide array of skin tones and original nationalities - there weren't Irish and Italian gangs beating up the black kids - there were suburban entitled white-kid gangs beating up the black kids... Any sort of origin based racism left in America is from more recent immigrants - it's totally bullshit and needs to stop - but I've never met anyone in America that said "Hey - you look Prussian - I don't like Prussians since they moved in on my Pomeranian ancestors. I don't take kindly to you folk."

I am uncertain where you've observed it, but I certainly never saw it in either New England nor the south west.

1. That isn't to say they're leaving tomorrow, there is just actually a serious portion of the population unlike all of the US states.
Nutrition writers struggle to name the industry without using the word food. "Junk food," "fast food," "ultra-processed food," "frankenfood," and so on all help the industry obfuscate that they've refined out and sell the addictive parts, which resemble their sources as much as heroin resembles poppy or cocaine coca leaves.

We don't call heroin "fast poppy" or cocaine "junk coca." Doing so with the addictive refinements from other plants only confuses people that temporarily filling their bellies resembles nourishing themselves. Heroin would make us feel less hungry temporarily too, but we recognize it harms.

Michael Pollan's "Eat food, not too much, mostly plants" implies non-food isn't food, but he doesn't come up with the needed name for what's not food that he recommends avoiding eating.

The word "doof" -- food backward -- is catching on among some nutritionists and food writers. The change in your world view that comes from differentiating food from doof is tremendous. You see 90% of the supermarket as a wasteland of addiction, plastic, and pollution. When people say poor people choose fast food over vegetables because they can buy more with their limited funds, you hear that they're buying doof instead of food. Companies selling doof displace farmers markets and people selling food.

Doof is generally packaged, engineered to promote a short-term rush and long-term craving, and its pleasure comes from salt, sugar, fat, and convenience.

I propose using the term doof for doof and avoiding referring to doof with any phrase including the word food.
As a general supporter of UBI, I'm not sure there is any way to actually test UBI without just implementing it at full scale. The U is an important part of it and like you said the expectation of permanence is crucial to seeing a change in long term planning and behaviors.
It's as the parent says: TINA. It's not that Apple isn't risky, but that everything else feels more risky.

Casino stocks, more risky. Cruiselines, more risky.

The money has to flow somewhere.

I mean it's not just tech that's not risky. There's some other equities out there too which seem to be concensus safe havens by investors. Eg. Lululemon, Home Depot.

This is why we're seeing big interest in some sectors of real estate too. money is cheap and big chunks of the economy seem risky. Why not invest in something else. Also risky, but TINA!
Essential services are essential to others.

Income is trivially addressed, given political will.
Murder by Suicide
I think a lot of people in this discussion are pitting the argument at people prioritizing their individual choices over the collective health of the community. I think that is a very singular framing from one side. A lot of people I know just believe that the virus itself is not as deadly as the reaction warrants. The infectious mortality rate of Covid is at best twice that of the normal flu, which isn't nothing and warrants action but probably not 40M people unemployed and possible national depression. The fact is if your under 30 you have a better chance of being hit by lightning then dying of Covid. It's pretty rational for someone to understand that and make personal choices without feeling like they're causing real danger to the community.
California Doomed to Frequent Blackout Risk by Battery Shortage
Depending on the state, calling sufficiently-far up the chain of command may do something.

The officer's immediate superior may be inclined to cut the officer some slack, but the buck stops with the person charged with ensuring that the pandemic is effectively managed.

The buck stops with all of us. We either beat this thing together or it keeps killing our relatives. Those are the only options. Pick one.
"California’s latest energy crisis has several causes. For one, 9 gigawatts of gas generation—enough to power 6.8 million homes—was retired in recent years. Over that same period, the state’s grid integrated more solar power, which without sufficient battery storage can be less reliable than the fossil fuels that drive global warming."
Im an introvert, Ive abstained. Lost a ton of strength and weight. And im over it. I still have to shop groceries. I still need to lift weights.

Joined my local gym. It's packed everyday.

This is not a social injustice. I want to lift. Not chat over sweat.
I doubt it's heat or global warming related. It's hot in California, sure, but it's the middle of August and it's always 100+ degrees nearly every day, and has been for the decades I've lived here.

The problem seems to be, California turned off a bunch of coal and oil electric plants, swapped to "green" wind farms and solar farms, but didn't figure out what to do when there's no wind and/or it's night time. Ya, demand will be high in the summer.
Start by allowing anything at all: not ignoring it, but reporting it. And continue reporting it, until it is wrapped in "unsafe" or fixed.

It would not be a mistake to report the total number of "unsafe" blocks harbored in the program when it is linked, from all sources, alongside the live borrow violations. Safety, like development, is a process, not an endpoint.
> Only four people at Apple knew about this secret project. Me, the director of iPod Software, the vice president of the iPod Division, and the senior vice president of Hardware.

Not even Steve Jobs? Shouldn't this have been his decision?
I guess there's a values gap there I don't know how to bridge. I don't recognize the entire category of unbounded obligations to preserve life that you're suggesting.
A book I'd recommend for anyone who wants to improve the communication in their relationships -- romantic or otherwise -- to help resolve any kind of conflict, is "Nonviolent Communication" by Marshall Rosenberg. The ideas are very simple, almost obvious, but his exposition is brilliant and really reaches deep into the human experience. He makes a convincing argument for how our learned behaviours have led to widespread inability to effectively resolve conflict, and he gives a straightforward model for overcoming this.
I don't appreciate the condescending tone.

"2013 nationally representative phone survey of about 2000 subjects showed that one-fifth of Americans thought FF was good for health, whereas two-thirds considered FF not good. Even over two-thirds of weekly FF consumers (47% of the total population) thought FF not good."

Note: FF = fast food

https://academic.oup.com/advances/article/9/5/590/5062131

There's also this scene from Fat Head:
https://youtu.be/evcNPfZlrZs?t=1258
You must have forgotten that they're spreading it to everyone and thus indirectly killing people.
That's what China and Russia and many great powers in history did to their sphere of influence as well.

They all come and go. Some learned their lessons, and some are yet to experience the bitter revenge from those they harm and molested.
I'm an auto-didactic. I dropped out of HS and taught myself everything I know by reading books. I have never subscribed to a system of note taking. I guess all I ever did was relate problem spaces in my head. This problem is an analog of that problem with separate variations. Perhaps that is an extreme oversimplification.
> The rest of the (developed, and many underdeveloped) world dealt with it and are moving on.

I'm not really sure on that, lets take greece, which was praised for their strategy (I was in greece during the lockdown). They didnt have a strategy, they just locked down before there was an outbreak and blocked flights, so no spread. Now they have an outbreak because they stopped all there restrictions. They were just lucky

Look at New Zealand, their strategy is to prevent anyone to enter the country with covid, well that works as long as not a log of people fly to NZ. Now that flights have restarted, they have like 3 cases so they lockdown the entire city, well, doesnt seem very smart in my opinion.

The only countries which are doing well, are the Asian countries, China (can't really trust their figure), Taiwan, south korea same as NZ, but restricting all freedom of citizens.

The smartest country of all, is Sweden, never locked down, explained to citizen the situation. Managed to get the situation under control without any lockdown, and probably will reach herd immunity before anyone else. Time will tell this is too soon to judge, but they seem well positioned for winning
In a causal system the Great Recession is not a confounding variable, it's an inflection point. As will be the recession triggered by covid.
That’s an aggressive put-down for someone who is not omniscient himself...

Doctors do a lot for a critical Covid patients! “Proning”, anticoagulants, anti inflammatories, anti virals (E.g. remdesivir), CPAP, and, yeah, if all else fails, ventilation.