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> Monopoly power cannot be sustained without government intervention.

Hum... Monopoly power cannot be sustained without barriers to enter. There's nothing saying that those barriers must come from a government. There are plenty of examples where they do, and also plenty where they don't.

Anyway, I don't see how any of that is an except to my earlier point.
It's even more absurd. They force Green Card holders to pay taxes too.

I lived and worked in country A, have citizenship with country B and the most amount of money when I worked in A was sent to the US, where I have no rights, no one would come for me to 'save me' when I'm held hostage or whatnot. Nothing. But I paid more taxes to the US than to country A (and nothing to my home country).

I relinquished my Green Card two years later.
> Then someone decided to open source the result

The Sun JVM was open-sourced in 2006-2007 [1] - 10 years after the introduction of the platform and after it was already wildly popular.

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20140527220942/http://grnlight.n...
> I watched the disaster from sidelines

How can you assert all the things you said if you didn't play the game?

I haven't played it either, but it's honestly difficult to get an idea, because I feel there's so many people complaining that didn't even play it.
rats or monkeys maybe but human patients no thanks
I noticed a sort of almost prurient interest in salacious details about ISIS among liberals around the time the podcast came out, so I think that was part of it, they just knew something along these lines would be popular and sell. (Conservatives may have had much the same interest, I don't know, but if they did they weren't going to the NYT to get their fix.)

The "ISIS as unconscionable bogeyman" story also helped sell the U.S. intervention in Syria, which was an ongoing objective on the NYT's part.
What would be important are criminal charges for gross negligence while distributing vaccines to medical professionals in the middle of a fucking pandemic. In the best case prioritizing the administration was unintentional, which means nobody ran even basic sanity checks on the output until the staff noticed that they got almost nothing. Add in a murder charge for anyone in the area dying of COVID until the case is over.
Why "should" they be?
American moral authority has been dead since the Vietnam war, if not the Korean war. The sheer quantity of war crimes committed was astonishing. Most people know about My Lai, but that was just an incident which managed to break through into American awareness - it wasn't unusual, it was more like the norm.

Nobody ever faced consequences for any of it.

I gotta be honest, the idea that things like this "damage American moral authority" is just such a purely America-centric view. Americans truly have no idea how they are perceived by the rest of the world. Across the globe, polls consistently show America is viewed as the greatest threat to world peace.
> The ad is just pushing mental buttons and appeals to emotion.

Hehe well, par for the course, as the entirety of FB is exactly this.

I hope that schools of the future will teach our children about the dangers of weaponized emotional manipulation.
In my experience, Wyoming was one of the most pleasant states to bike across (apart from the bits of interstate you need to take). Highways with wide shoulders and little traffic. Just get started early to avoid the afternoon wind.
Does it really matter if useless surgery is popular? Cosmetic surgery is largely useless, but people still do it. It's an issue of bodily autonomy.

I used to live in Germany, where health insurance companies cover all manner of quack treatment in the standard plan. You cannot choose a plan that does not cover this. It's annoying, because I don't want my insurance payments to be funding someone else's placebo habit, but it seems there is no broad move to change this. Society as a whole has decided that placebos are okay.

I do think doctors should be honest with their patients about the various alternatives and not push them toward useless surgery, but I'm not sure it matters very much if some people still choose to get it.
Don’t be surprised if Texas (in particular Austin) adopts similar tax measures. I bet there is just as much public support for it—if not even more—then in California.
> It's hard to explain just how good Google was back in the day, compared to those early search engines.

This 2000 New Yorker article does a pretty good job:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2000/05/29/search-and-dep...

It was actually how I discovered Google. I was a grad student at the time (English literature) and dreamed of accessing all the primary and secondary sources on a particular topic from the convenience of my own keyboard (still a pipe dream today). I cycled through every search engine I could find looking for one that would actually return results relevant to my search terms. I remember AltaVista being touted as one of the best but still failing to satisfy.

As soon as I read this New Yorker article, I checked out google.com and had that same eureka experience: finally, this is the one.
>Hatred towards the ultra-rich is not based in jealousy but in a moral stance.

there is nothing 'moral' about hatred. or covetousness.

one wealthy person has created more jobs and taxes and created benefits for society in goods and services than the 99% that already benefit from them.

see that smart phone in your hand? the blazing internet speeds? the nice roads? the electric car rebate you get. the cheap cheap food we enjoy. thats what we get from wealthy people. if you had money after killing the golden geese and noone motivated to create this paradise we live in, we'd move elsewhere.

20 years ago..and i am old enough to remember it...life was so much different. maybe segregation is the answer. ghettos and mansions.

eta: is america the land where children are not taught to take things that dont belong to them? its not your wealth. you didnt create it. you cant take it. move on. make your own money. happiness is free.

do men go to a woman and grab her breasts because she has them and they dont. they want it and she doesnt? same thing. you cant touch without consent. i wouldnt go as far as to say that taxation is rape..but it is theft and punitive. best to measure the inherent power of taxation and only use it sparingly and prudently. other's wealth is not for the govt's to distribute. are we going to start forcing everyone to study, educate themselves and work next? i didnt think so.
Surgery --> stem cells
> during the missions the city comes alive, but outside of missions it feels empty and soulless.

I don't think that is a bug. This is cyberpunk after all.
... Trump should be dead then if this is true
This is utter insanity but California is going to reap what it sows.

California is going to be massively insolvent and in default within in a decade.
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I don't disagree, but I also suspect that a very large number of real world JavaScript applications have few to no application-induced cycles. I might even go further and say this extends beyond JavaScript--the most common reason I even define recursive data structures in a language like Rust is for AST-like data that almost invariably forms a tree.
No, masks were mandated for health personnel dealing with COVID from day one. It was simply a lot of bad faith/ascientific messaging by WHO and national authorities early on.

This also to a large extent fuelled the anti-makser movement you have trouble reigning in now. Absolutely moronic.
This happens a lot. But the new road/rail often shares the line of the old on the easy sections, so you may not get a continuous bike trail out of the old route. (Plus, as you say, old bridges/tunnels/steep slopes may be unsafe, or simply damaged & not repaired.)
Thanks! I am working on two loaves right now, haha!
The Computational Beauty of Nature (published by MIT) belongs on anyone's list as well. It walks instructively through several different kinds of complex systems, including L systems, agents (Boids), cellular automata, fractals, chaotic attractors...
I believe it matters. I mean, sure, short term you can stay apart. But can you imagine not getting even a hug for 5, 10 years?

Helping others any way I can does make me feel good (so does receiving help, for that matter), I guess that's the case for the majority.
> I think the issue is that a lot of people are trying to play this game like a cyberpunk GTA, which it just isn't

I am 41 hours in and it definitely feels like cyberpunk GTA. Very much so.
The polio vaccine, as administered, is over 99% effective, which is an order of magnitude difference.

If what I wrote is correct I don't see how it lends itself to "stop all research" as opposed to "wait until we have a more effective vaccine." I'm not even saying it's a greater than 50% probability, but it is a risk.
Ask HN: What's the most damage you've seen one person do?
We've all worked at places where individuals mess things up. What's the worst case you've ever seen? I'm not talking about an intern breaking production on their first day, that's an organizational issue. I'm talking about someone doing intentional damage either by political grandstanding, refusal to work with a team, arrogance, or even willful ignorance.
Big words coming from an anonymous coward.
This problem will remain until Facebook is considered complicit of the crime as they are the ones funneling potential victims towards the scam and earn a hefty profit for doing so.
i agree. what i meant was how singapore's structure is different from the rest of nation states.
They mention only controlling for health reasons. How do they control for that? Is it even realistic to control all the health reasons?
And what about thousands of other things, such as

1) People who like to take high risks, might be less keen on communal activities, like volunteering.

2) People who have bad habits might also be less likely to volunteer.

3) Depressed, stressed out, cynical people may be less likely to volunteer.

4) Poor people are less likely to donate and also have lower life expectancy.

5) People who died earlier didn't make it into that point in life where they would be able to donate. This one is easier to control though.

And probably countless of other things?
I'd need to go deep into the actual study to understand how they controlled for all of that, but right now it makes me very skeptical.
Likely for people with Chinese heritage or relatives. It's clean, orderly, and it's super easy to start a business there.
This is a separate site that doesn't have rocks from the famous UK stonehenge. The idea is it might be independently created, as a natural thing people might make to track things like the sun or other astronomical movements (like the movement of the sun at the solstices). And if the age is about 9,000 years old, a little older than the uk stonehenge.
Negative. I'm saying that you should be extremely skeptical of everything. Notice how you are attempting to dismiss my premise by categorizing me as a "right wing nitwit"
Giving yet another reason for the rich to move to a lower COL area/state, buy up all of the housing inventory, and raise the COL in their new area.
I have a feeling that portion will be struct down in court.
A very good point. It was what I was dancing around in my statement about Fauci being in a difficult situation.

I may be being too critical, but I think certain professions of public trust need to be held to higher standards in this regard. Meaning, while I can commiserate with the idea that careers hang in the balance, they owe it to the public to be honest. It's why certain roles are "professions" and not "jobs" (there is generally a professed oath to serve the public good). This is where I would hold them deficient in their communication and, unfortunately, a threat to a career isn't sufficient to avoid one's professed ethics. Misspeaking is one thing, misleading is another.
>"Content" has a pretty broad definition. In a social network, "content" is people (and what they post). In a search engine, it's documents (and what's in them). In an app store, it's apps.

If we stretch the definition beyond any meaning, or to mean "input" or "data" in general, then sure.

Usually by content we mean news, music, videos, movies, writing, comedy, commentary, etc. though.

Not apps, office documents, or people's social messages...

>You're looking at content in a very narrow definition.

Me and most people using the term. Perhaps you're looking at it in an extremely wide definition?
> Like it or not, this is here to stay

Like it or not, the web browser game is one monopoly after another. First it was internet explorer, now it's chrome.

It's been happening again and again, the only way not to lose is not to play the game.

Thus, relying less on the browser is a good thing.
The secretary of state has said as much, and pointed at Russia. Sure, he could be lying, but given the president's reflexive defense of Russia, that would be a weird lie to go with. If anything, it's an admission against interest, which strongly suggests to me that this is the assessment of the relevant security agencies.
I understand the idea, but sadly we're tied to these primitive bodies that have their own needs and urges.

Perhaps in the future we will learn to shut off the primal instincts, but for now, it seems to do more bad than good if we ignore them.
> and boys especially have little tolerance for staying up till 1 in the morning to jump through these hoops

The amount of sleepless nights growing up in school is something I never want to subject to future generations.

As time goes on I realize how much clear-minded I am when I'm rested.

As someone born in the early 90s, if there's one thing I thing I remember it's as I got older school becoming progressively more hostile to something like "recess" and riddled with neurotic, joy-less rules.
That might be true of those fresh out of school. I've been proven to be fallible and stupid enough times to believe it.

It's been over a decade since I've last said "that decision that somebody else made was stupid". I've since replaced it with "I would have done it differently, but I don't know what other constraints they were faced with at the time".
Why would anyone with a "real" job want to live in CA or god forbid move to CA? I'm honestly stunned? Does CA understand how basic economics work? You can hate rich people all you want, but at the end of the day they're the ones starting companies and employing people. When are they going to start thinking about limiting spending instead of just finding more ways to wring dough out of people who make an honest living.

For those who disagree with me, please make an argument that in the U.S. making $120k is not an "honest" living...
That's why we run trials. Over 20,000 people got this vaccine months ago, and have been carefully followed since. If it was going to wipe out 20% of people one month after injection we'd know already.
Actually, there's no reasonable pathway for crystal healing to help here. On the other hand, it's entirely plausible and there's real-world experience to support (1) masks filtering harmful particles and (2) hydroxychloroquin being useful against an immune system run amuck, which is the way 'flu' often injures patients. So, no, only two of the three were similar.

Zero credit to those who would equate all three or who would dismiss either of the latter two without diligent, unbiased investigation and solid empirical evidence.
A week or so ago, you mentioned on HN [1] that Matrix is in a pretty good position to support a Discus-like comment section for personal blogs and articles.

I think something like Cerulean may even be a better idea. It would probably be straightforward to just make every blog post create a corresponding Cerulean/Matrix post and then have a link to it automatically inserted into the bottom of the post.

One question I have, though, is how performant it is to have thousands and thousands of these small Matrix rooms around. Are rooms that lightweight? One for each post seems like it could be a lot, but I'm not familiar with the intended internals for servers to use in how they represent rooms.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25336352
My pet peeve is User Generated Content. Generate is often used when an inanimate object gives rise to something, so UGC is dehumanizing in addition to being devaluing.
They'll hunt for silicon chips as we do arrowheads?
I listened to it and ai clearly remember this second or third question, which they answered to by saying they couldn't just tell yet, because it was too early – they only had begun issuing refunds a few days before the call and didn't actually see the numbers. This also isn't something they can withhold as a publicly traded company.
> Because there is zero proof that species will get past the point where they can start moving between the stars.

The feasibility of interstellar space travel is an unknown unknown. We have so much more to understand about our universe and our world before we can even cast doubt on whether it's possible or not. When we don't even know what 85% of the universe consists of, much less lack a unified field theory, we just don't yet have the knowledge to make bold assertions on this topic.
Here you go actually, straight from the horse's mouth:

https://www.mcvuk.com/business-news/for-the-good-of-the-indu...

> [Update] It looks as though CDPR bypassed some of the TRC process, promising the platforms it would be fixed for launch, but that doesn’t change the fact that both platforms have a legal responsibility to their consumers to provide a usable product.
“In terms of the certification process and the third parties – this is definitely on our side. I can only assume that they trusted that we’re going to fix things upon release, and that obviously did not come together exactly as we had planned,” said Michał Nowakowski at CDPR in a conference call.

https://www.cdprojekt.com/en/wp-content/uploads-en/2020/12/c...

The rules are different if you're important enough, I think that is just be expected at this point.
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This is not how any of this works...
He thought it was however perfectly humane to cancel all of the other religious holidays, and though that doesn't speak to his bumbling act, it speaks volumes about his character.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments? You've unfortunately been doing it a lot lately and we're trying for something different here.

We've had to ask you several times already, and when accounts keep ignoring these requests eventually we have to ban them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This needs to happen. We need to start taxing the rich and implement our social security nets again. Like they do in almost every other civilized nation.

Where is the line? And how have we not crossed it already?

How many americans have to go bankrupt or die from medical debt?

How many people need to be evicted and live on the streets? How large do the homeless camps need to become?

How uneducated and ignorant do people need to become?

How desperate and unstable do the lives of the not-upper class have to get? How full do our prisons need to be?

How wretched do our forests and streams need to become before we change?
I love volunteering. Best feeling I the world.

My health is in shambles. So these days I have to take pride in just making sure kids have food.

Horrible feeling when people ask for help, and I know I’ll just be a burden.
Callimachi was an absolute rockstar at the paper. She had been nominated for multiple Pulitzer Prizes and this, amongst other things, would lead to another nom. I suspect there was a deference to a veteran reporter at the top of her game, a feeling of sunk cost and risk analysis that said "this is so good that we have to publish it".

I think it was a case of the NYT quite openly deluding themselves.
> I had the same VIP area issue, on reload I watched the guard conversation and then another guard goes to the bathroom where you can jump him for his keycard. There were a few different ways to do it I think.

yeah I ended up playing through it a few times. part of why it was so confusing was that I actually went straight to the manager the first time I went in the back hallway area. he seemed a little surprised to see me, but wasn't too upset. I had to reload because I threatened to fight him if he didn't spill the beans and I lost the fight. the next time through, I ran into someone else who just shot me on sight.

> Once inside nobody saw me as a threat though which was odd. I was wearing an arosaka vest so maybe that’s why?

if that's the actual reason, that would be pretty cool! I'd actually love a more implicit/nuanced system for "where am I allowed to be". the thing that really breaks the immersion is wondering whether I am solving a puzzle or troubleshooting a bug. in general, I only do the latter for pay :)
So far to me this game is a slightly better than average shooter with some shallow RPG and stealth elements.

I’ve been a gamer most of my life, learned my lesson about hype a long time ago, but also just don’t assign as much importance to games in general as much anymore.

I hope they continue to improve the game, now that it’s just out there it will be easier to fix? Or maybe CDPR should just give up and hand over mod tools so at least the PC community can create the game they wanted for themselves.

Sorry, not a spicy take, but there are enough of those :P
Ok but then you get README files that are useless on their own, containing basically only a brief descriptions and several links to github pages / docs website. What good does it make to be able to read that on your terminal?
Natural selection. Deadlier strains reduce life span of hosts that transmit the disease.
If the podcast stopped posting new episodes, a lot of people will miss a new one.
This. Why are people saying the game is good when the AI is simply bad? Without a good sense of immersion and real world simulation like police response time and behavior, how is this game arguably any good?
Perhaps we'll get a series called 'Media Empire' which explains this allure?
Max Martin is also a fantastic musician, originally a singer (this is arguably the most important part of pop), and has a deep understanding of music. From a harmony standpoint, his stuff tends to be a bit more interesting than most pop tunes. The dude is beast.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Martin_production_discogra...
Good example, but I think the military example better shows how enormous the mental aspect is.

For kids, one could argue that they still have to learn what pain is, just as they have to learn what it is to be physically tired (go on a walk with them until they say they’re too tired to make another step. At that moment, point out there’s an ice cream vendor or a playground a kilometer away, and be amazed).

Kids sometimes also (consciously or unconsciously) play the tired/injured card just to get attention (that probably applies to some grown ups, too)
> They simply needed more time.

They needed more games, not more time.

People forget that there are over a dozen games and expansion packs that make up the Grand Theft Auto franchise. They didn't just make GTA5 in a vacuum. They had all those previous games to draw on. They've been working on police chase AI since the games were top-down with 2D car sprites.

There was no chance that CDPR could do something comparable on their first attempt. They tried to do way too much new stuff all at once in one blockbuster game. They should have made several smaller games with those different mechanics first before trying to pull it all together in one game.
It is interesting to me that (for a podcast at least) there’s presumably more than enough data available somewhere to send a notification of the retraction if NYT was so inclined. Surely iTunes, Spotify, etc. could identify the vast majority of people who downloaded and listened to these episodes. How come my data is only used to target me when it’s beneficial to these major companies and not when it’s beneficial to me?