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> Such changes make the organization increasingly dependent on the new leader, and also ensures anything that does go well gets attributed to the new leader directly rather than their team. If this is your approach to leadership, please know that you’re awful and take the time to work on yourself until the well-being and success of an entire company matters to you more than being perceived as essential.

Something tells me that this person is rather more idealistic than you would expect from someone branding themselves as a "staff engineer". People who have such an approach to leadership don't give two hoots about the opinion of their line-level subordinates or about the actual amount of value generated. The only thing that matters is the opinion of the person who will decide on their next promotion, either inside the company or somewhere else.
Wait. Is your argument that 200k people dying specifically from this virus isn't a big deal, because people die from other things, too?

How and why did you form that belief? That just doesn't make sense.
I've always pronounced it that way because in British English is just the regular spelling of the word (Americans spell it "caliber"). the name was doubtless influenced by the "libre" part but I never thought to say "ca-libre"
Here are two metrics that law enforcement might use to measure their “war on drugs”:

1. The total amount of drugs imported into or produced within the country. This measures the problems related to addiction.

2. The total number of drug dealers in the country. This is a measure of social problems related to gangs/violence etc.

The dark web changes the game because the D2C model competes against gangs and offers law enforcement an easy choke point on producers and importers. We should be careful not to send the market back to the streets.

Personally I’d rather live in a society without drugs. Right now it is not legal to use drugs, nor is it legal to exclude drug users.
> Are they accusing him of exercising free speech, or accusing him of actual crimes?

This is how it works everywhere that has theoretically free speech, but not practical free speech. The principle itself is rarely attacked, rather the surrounding activities are criminalized.

For example, these are actual excerpts from The PRC's Constitution (http://www.npc.gov.cn/zgrdw/englishnpc/Constitution/2007-11/...):

> Article 35 Citizens of the People’s Republic of China enjoy freedom of speech, of the press, of assembly, of association, of procession and of demonstration.

> Article 36 Citizens of the People’s Republic of China enjoy freedom of religious belief.

Does that sound like the practical situation in mainland China? How do you imagine a PRC court verdict about protesting reads?
Emcell in the Ukraine has been offering fetal stem cells to treat MS and other "incurable" diseases for 25 years now; if treatment early enough then can stop progression and regression (undoing the damage) if not too far progressed.

Documentary on Emcell on YouTube: https://youtu.be/gYRcmDySFyE

The producer is working on another documentary as part of research Emcell is doing on treating infertility - via injecting certain stem cells into the testes.
Ask HN: Will Chromebook delete all your local files without warning?
After all of my locally-stored files and some of my login cookies went missing (and my laptop was perceived by at least one site as a "new device") I found from searching that the ChromeOS thinks it's fine to destroy this info, with no warning, if it feels it can't run properly. I didn't know this and I don't find it credible. Do you know?

I have never put it into developer mode, this is pure ordinary consumer chromebook.
> with MS is terrible and the life expectancy is short 5-10 years

That's not true at all (edit: oh I see what you meant--see other comments). My mother was diagnosed before I was 5 and survived until my 30s. I volunteered some with the MS society and there were many man and women who had lived with for several years.

For most of her life, there weren't drugs like betaseron or avonex. Those drugs also had terrible side-effects. I remember listening to a much older woman with MS talking to my mom and how when she was younger she got onto some clinical trial, but got terribly terribly ill. She decided then she wasn't going to be a guinea pig.

The woman said her life slowed down, and she couldn't keep up with a lot of her old friends, but formed new ones. She kept on living.

My mother kept hoping she'd be cured and took treatments as they were approved. They had pretty bad side-effects, and they didn't reverse the existing degeneration, just attempted to prevent further damage.

If you're diagnose with something like this, your health decisions are your own and you should make them carefully. But no matter what you decide, keep living. Adjust your life, deal with your "number of spoons," and keep going as best you can, even as you watch your mobility be taken from you by your own immune system.
Now that the work of migrating is done?
> the Wikimedia Foundation was carrying out political activities via the volunteer-led Wikimedia Taiwan chapter

Is this true?
This is very risky. Some people are allergic and can become allergic to penicillin-based drugs. Also...how do you get the dosing right? How do you know when to quit taking it in order to be responsible not adding to the creation of antibiotic-resistant "super-bugs"?

I'm asking these rhetorically. Of course the answer is make the regulation more accessible. But in the meantime, this solution should not be taken lightly.
My comment is a response to the comment I was replying to, that contains the link with his comments.

They do not extend to anything outside of that, so I don't think it's a broad statement. Just my opinion on his response to the Debian maintainer and other polite requests.
> basically the only safe painkiller for pregnant and breastfeeding women

Huh, is that why they keep it around? I thought it was mostly cruft/momentum. But it looks like NSAIDs are risky in the 3rd trimester.

https://www.aafp.org/afp/2003/0615/p2517.html
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> had (have) no effect

> it is possible that the protests caused an increase in the spread

> had little effect
I think the best way to stop belief in conspiracy theories is to decrease the number of real conspiracies.

From Watergate to Epstein it’s shown that people in power commonly abuse their own power. From Enron to Purdue Pharma it’s shown that some Americans will indirectly kill other Americans for profit.

I’m not sure how we reduce political corruption or individual greed pursed with morals abandoned. However, I think that’s where the conversation should be around. I can’t blame people for believing China manufactured and unleashed a bio weapon that causes a disease we call Covid-19, that’s on par for the type of evil things other people are doing in the world.
I think downward mobility is a significant factor. People doing well in life have little reason to reach for these fringe ideas. People that aren't doing so well want some sort of explanation, there must be some
malevolent outside force driving their misery. And so conspiracy theories become an attractive explanation. I think if we want to rid our society of conspiratorial thinking we need to improve our economy.
We aren't talking about +50 we are talking about people who work at facebook which is mostly young white well educated.
I am glad to hear you talk about your motivations because that's the right place to start.

Here is what I can share.

I am about to restart my blogging after a few years of not doing it.

I look at the web today as a post-apocalyptic wasteland with all the ads and bots and trackers and spam, modal and non-modal pop-ups.

I have put "getting started" with this off until I have systems in place to give readers an experience that is head and shoulders better than what they have on most of the web. It's not as hard as it sounds because just getting rid of the negatives mentioned above cuts the bandwidth use and loading time dramatically.

Still it involves perfecting my tech and getting my head straight and a work that takes a certain kind of inner energy.

Good luck!
Well, one of my university buddies happened to be an observer in the 2012 presidential elections (he went as the observer from the Communist Party, although he himself was supporter for Prokhorov, ironically enough). Well, he claimed he did his duties with utter dilligence, never leaving the voting station, and that he saw a) absolutely zero fraud attempts; b) 70% of valid bulletins had votes for Putin. And when he later checked in the GAS "Vybory" whether the protocol he signed was meddled with in the system, no, it was there with the counted numbers just as it was signed.

He was rather upset with Prokhorov's loss but admitted that that guy wasn't actually popular.
Unfortunately, there is so much that needs to be addressed but has not and will not in the foreseeable future unless something drastic changes.

To the comment below that is "dead" you are completely correct IMO. HN has too many gov't lurkers here manipulating votes. Most dead comments are gold.
I understand but also understand these are just some examples of the “narrative” carrying I believe undermine their trust.

We know nothing is a silver bullet, but we also know HCQ is prescribed or was to people going to the tropics and in some of those countries it’s OTC, so then labeling it as dangerous as heroin is kind of disingenuous. Sure you don’t want to dose yourself... but it’s also not as dangerous as they made it out to be.
It's a fair question. One could argue that it doesn't really matter. We often take comfort from a large body of evidence supporting a course of action. Let's assume we don't have that in this case. Could we not invert the question? I.e. is there evidence that wearing (or the mandate) masks increases the spread of the virus? Or could we relax our need for evidence and use the precautionary principle? That is to say one may have doubts about what is being said about the virus but to be on the safe side wear the mask anyway.
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Not wearing it all the time. Not changing it in the recommended time period. Taking it off and putting it on backwards. Waving it around after taking it off rather than folding inwards and disposing in a sharps bag.

All the things that happen in daily life rather than in a medical setting. Which is why despite full mask protocols and sanitiser at the door to every classroom kids going back to school this week around here have all have gone down with viral sore throats and noses.

That shouldn’t have happened if masks do what it says on the tin.

Unfortunately network effects dominate. We are not hamsters living permanently in cages.
Similar thread from not so long ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24374979
I am checking their homepage. It does not seem like they are doing something else? Still its a network to low bandwidth network to connect devices ?
Exactly this. If it's safe to march and yell and protest (all good things), it's safe to stand or sit quietly someplace.
Its funny you say this. I remember initially being turned off by Calibre because it looked like library software, and I naively thought "if it looks ugly, it works ugly". Later on I learned how wrong I was. Its so easy to use.
The biggest thing I've seen that's changed in the past 10 years is the creation and refinement of the VisualEditor extension. It's a great tool for self-hosted mediawiki when you have a bunch of relatively non technical users, who are not comfortable with editing wiki 'code'.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:VisualEditor

VisualEditor is what you get by default now when you go to edit a wikipedia page, unless you specifically click on the option to edit source.
Thanks for building, cryogenicplanet!

Just wanted to add I really like the "no-upload" programming paradigm a lot. I use browser native webgl rendering internally for example to automate generation of static digital art assets. All samples and finished images are transferred via http. And its easy to run on any device: just fire up chrome and enter url.

I'd like to do the same for the video asset generation pipeline as well. For which I do most ffmpeg processing on host. WASM build allows for browser based video generation on the fly ;)
Upvoted for the headline before I even read the post; and in full agreement after reading. I'm somewhat inspired to keep a similar diary of techno-suck moments... but there would be so many!
Hi,

I never stopped to think about how much time I spend on this kind of request, just to get what I'm trying to obtain.
Then, if we are worried about using our time wisely, what to do?
>The hypothesis that COVID-19 is man-made makes it seem like we have some control over it, whereas, the thought that it developed outside of human control and might happen again terrifies them.

The hypothesis that COVID is man-made is an inevitable result of already existing conspiracy theories about Chinese communist plots and "globalist/NWO" population control programs that go back decades. The only novel aspect of this is the degree to which it's been normalized and adopted as part of mainstream Republican identity politics.
Funny, I just clicked on this after the piece revealing the Guardian's disgustingly biased coverage of the assange case.

Its hard to enjoy fluff like this when you know they are doing truly evil things.
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The question was

> slows the spread of COVID-19 or a similar respiratory disease

What makes you believe that COVID-19 is spread significantly differently that the inconvenience of having to wear a mask is not bearable relative to the potential benefits? Do you believe that masks have risks other than being inconvenient?
Most of these are true enough, but this:

> Self-interest is the most powerful force in the world. Which can be great, because situations where everyone’s interests align are unstoppable; bad because people’s willingness to benefit themselves at the expense of others is so seductive.

No way. Self-interest is useful enough for day-to-day interactions, but for the stuff that truly matters it is not even in the top five.

Love, trust / faith, goodness, thoughtfulness, so many other things are more powerful that mere self-interest.
https://xkcd.com/1053/ Ah, the "ten thousand" moment. Because it's quite probably the most known git tutorial in the world.
And to that I would say the lack of nuance in almost every media outlet, covid-19 coverage not being exclusive to this, gives conspiracy theories a lot more weight and consideration.
With the recent protests and riots in the US spawned a thousand conspiracies by having news agencies attempting to downplay any criminal activity in the protests by standing in front of burning buildings and telling the audience this was the result of a peaceful protest, queue the theories of people pulling strings in the media to provide cover and drive a communist uprising.
Not that anyone will read this now, but I am disappointed how all these replies ignored the equation. If you want freedom to choose what goes in your body, you need to absolve society from a responsibility to take care of you if you screw up. It’s totally ok to want freedom for what you put in your body, you just have to be consistent and get the government out of the business of providing for you. Everyone saying let us take whatever drugs we think we should, no one saying they want the government to stop other services.
This might sound like a flippant question, but it's not.

Isn't the point of tech to tinker? When did problems become problems that you shouldn't try to solve, instead of a reason to learn about the tech?

I've really been down about technology lately, after working with 6-12th graders. They just don't get how anything works, if it doesn't immediately work for them. They don't want to take it apart and figure it out.

This blog piece just seems like more of that. Why bother with figuring out how things work when you can just throw them away?

Now get off my lawn, I guess.
No my argument has a context, the context here is mostly Facebook employees and their likes at twitter, spotify etc which are mostly well educated young white people.
The flashier the website, the worse the product
Perhaps if the elites expected the public to trust them on this particular issue, they should not have lied, obfuscated and concealed so many times in the past.

Social trust has been completely wiped out, by the same elites complaining about it.

“In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.” --CS Lewis
.. sure, until you have to do something for realsies and the tech is the only way to do it. Then it's just fucking your life over.
Could also be that the MS treatment effects are a different delivery mechanism.
Dude, Taiwan(or say R.O.C.) is 100% a country in reality, you can't deny that Taiwan isn't ruled by China. And law from China doesn't apply to Taiwan.
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This judge sounds like a real piece of work.

https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Vanessa_Baraitser#.22Sneers_and_...
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Meh. I personally believe this pandemic just exposes differences in people's value systems. There are those who are risk-averse and those who are risk-affine. There are those who value freedom of choice over safety restrictions and there are those who would rather save the weak than keep their freedom. It is an interesting moral dilemma and this entire affair has turned into religious debate for me.

There is no real "right" or "wrong" here. Everyone can argue until they are blue in the face whether all these policy decisions are correct or necessary. It all depends on what you believe society should be like.
thank you for the links, I never knew about that. although it seems that (in the US) the journalist is only protected from being compelled to reveal their source(s), not from prosecution for any crime they committed themselves.

as an aside, I'm not sure it's appropriate for a reporter to have any statutory privileges over an ordinary citizen, especially under something so fundamental as the first amendment. if it's appropriate for a journalist, it should be granted to the rest of us as well.
It's almost like software has bugs. Even at magical company by the internet's most loved wizard.

Who wants to bet their astro-turfing squads aaa, sorry, PR teams will be all over this downvoting and disliking on every social media platform.
I believe there is listing of the dosage in mg of the active ingredient on the bottle, and so they just matched up the dosage with what they had been previously prescribed.

They're aware of the 'super-bug' problem, but when you're the one in pain you're a lot more willing to undertake some risky behavior to make it stop. They only take a single dose, I believe.

With you on the regulation.

I'll advise them of developing allergy, I'm not sure if they're aware, and I was not. Thank you.
Lots of people are above the law, half the US Federal government at the moment is arguing they are. Also any entire government spying apparatus has always been above the law by definition. Being in the military and fighting a war can be defined as being above the law (from the other side's point of view). Law defined in one locality can easily be illegal in another, so you can both be legal and illegal at the same time. Plus illegality is often about wether the declarer can prosecute under a law; if no one has standing or has the power to prosecute, then the law is rather hollow.
I take issue with the notion that "only principled people side with Assange". Based on my following of his saga, I still have a lot of questions about how deeply Assange was truly involved. I feel he removed some of his legal protection by being so actively involved in hunting for government secrets. He wasn't just a neutral clearing house in my opinion, but an active agitator sticking his thumb in the eye of nation states.

The question of whether he is a journalist is irrelevant to me. What I do see is that he was a highly partisan actor involved in the affairs of nation states. His behavior around the 2016 election further moved him in the direction of willing accomplice to election interference. His selective publication of data also makes me highly suspicious of his behavior. It all had a very clear slant and focus around the election. He even supposedly solicited information from Russian intelligence agents at one point.

Maybe somewhere in all of Assange's partisan hackery, I can see an argument that he didn't actually do anything wrong. And, since he is very polarizing, you would have to stick to strong principles to still support him and what his legal plight represents. However, I don't think you could engineer a less sympathetic character to carry the banner of freedom of speech/press, which is honestly his biggest problem. No one cares about another partisan hack going by the wayside of a potentially corrupt prosecution. "You get what you deserve". I don't believe that, because I think the actual case against him has merit.

In reality, the accusation, which I believe is credible, is that he was an active conspirator in an effort to steal state secrets, and not just a mild mannered clearing house that published what it got through highly clean and legal means. He broke his own operational "security" code of staying above the fray by being such an active participant in the acquisition of state secrets. The manning case in particular is an area where I believe he crossed the line and was actively assisting and encouraging Manning. He has a hard time telling the truth and based on the facts is morally and ethically bankrupt.

People like Glenn Greenwald managed to handle things like Snowden much more cleanly and without the obvious bias and legal/ethical concerns of an Assange figure.
The argument is that for something to be "stolen" it has to be missing afterwards. An unauthorized copy is copyright infringement, legally speaking, not theft.

Words mean something and there is a reason why right holders tried to coin this (pillaging, murdering) piracy to give it a bad connotation. Then the various "pirate parties" said if you want to call large swaths of the population pirates, then we will be taking that word from you (somewhat similar to pride movements).
Why should they be forced to, at the expense of things that matter to them, though? That's the problem.

Automatic updates were a default. People turned them off because they were annoying. One solution to this problem was to make them not-annoying, but instead Microsoft opted to become aggressive and force people to update.

I will never hold anyone who thinks this is a good idea in high regard because they are actively making the world a worse place.