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I think you're focusing too much on "nuclear operator" here. As mentioned in the article, Homer worked a variety of different jobs throughout the season.

In my opinion, it's not realistic for a high-school graduate with no additional training to be a nuclear operator. I believe it was part of the "ridiculous" that went towards making the show entertaining, and a job that most people would not have in sight into.

My point is that a lack of a specific type of job is not the root cause of the situation the author is describing.
To put it a different way, the people who grew up to be violent individuals are probably not posting on HN, nor working at companies with people who post on HN, so the fact that everybody on HN isn't violent, despite playing violent video games is only weak evidence against there being a correlation.

In fact, I would be surprised for there to be zero correlation (even assuming there is no causation), as it is a reasonable assumption that naturally violent people are more likely to play violent video games.
You aren't going to stop buying Apple products. Even if they were executing workers on the factory floor, you would still pre-order every iPhone, and sit smugly in a coffee shop reading Jacobin on your iPad.
That's for the money that's owed them from not paying the rent.

YouTube doesn't charge rent or other fees, and I'm not sure how they'd auction your digital copyrighted IP anyhow.
I got an e-mail from a grocery chain saying they will be offering the COVID vaccine. No additional details on how to sign up or anything. The communication had a 'more info is coming' vibe to it.
I run video with sub-100ms latency through multiple nats.
You can pay $12/mo to get rid of the ads on YouTube.
You're very right; it's probably a combination of confirmation bias and the fact that this has been result has been shown by just about every serious study on the subject so far.

Besides: claims of a link between violent video games and aggressive behavior was never backed by anything other than assumptive moral arguments, much less studies (or even coherent reasoning and valid logic).
As long as I have to buy products built on human rights violations, I wish someone could sell me the equivalent of carbon offset credits.
No you did not. You said it should be a security first and I asked you "of what" not "why". The Howey test and all your other argument are not news to me and dont answer the question. What is XRP the security of? And what is ETH the security of?

If you wanna know why the Howey test is misused in this case you can read https://ripple.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Ripple-Wells-S...

And like I said on my preview post if they would actually think XRP is a security then it would have been one since ever and it would still be one today. Which is not the case since the allegations are only about the sell contracts. But anyway none of that was or answers my question.
chiefly benefits powers whose long term vision is the decline of liberal democracy.

...by exposing the hypocrisy of said liberal democracies. What good is a liberal democracy when the demos remains oblivious of the negative aspects what the cracy is doing?

If things like the collateral murder videos, or the treatment of Manning and Snowden are the work of said "liberal democracies", then I'm fully in the camp that wants to decline them, and replace them with better, more transparent, more accountable structures.
Thus, "Or anywhere else, really."
Exactly. Besides the fact that the need to copy and paste such asinine, archaic terms and details in an agreement is exactly why a country shouldn’t want to be ruled by the Vogons in Brussels. It’s Pournelles Law on steroids.
Not limited to Apple

"In all, ASPI’s research has identified 82 foreign and Chinese companies potentially directly or indirectly benefiting from the use of Uyghur workers outside Xinjiang through abusive labour transfer programs as recently as 2019: Abercrombie & Fitch, Acer, Adidas, Alstom, Amazon, Apple, ASUS, BAIC Motor, Bestway, BMW, Bombardier, Bosch, BYD, Calvin Klein, Candy, Carter’s, Cerruti 1881, Changan Automobile, Cisco, CRRC, Dell, Electrolux, Fila, Founder Group, GAC Group (automobiles), Gap, Geely Auto, General Motors, Google, Goertek, H&M, Haier, Hart Schaffner Marx, Hisense, Hitachi, HP, HTC, Huawei, iFlyTek, Jack & Jones, Jaguar, Japan Display Inc., L.L.Bean, Lacoste, Land Rover, Lenovo, LG, Li-Ning, Mayor, Meizu, Mercedes-Benz, MG, Microsoft, Mitsubishi, Mitsumi, Nike, Nintendo, Nokia, Oculus, Oppo, Panasonic, Polo Ralph Lauren, Puma, SAIC Motor, Samsung, SGMW, Sharp, Siemens, Skechers, Sony, TDK, Tommy Hilfiger, Toshiba, Tsinghua Tongfang, Uniqlo, Victoria’s Secret, Vivo, Volkswagen, Xiaomi, Zara, Zegna, ZTE."

https://www.aspi.org.au/report/uyghurs-sale
Can you list the retirement savings date for these plenty of “responsible” people? Unless they were government employees with ridiculous gold plated defined benefit pensions, I don’t see how the math works for saving sufficient money while earning median plus or minus a standard deviation wages for an individual.

Also, please list if they had jobs with medical insurance pre ACA, and whether or not they have experienced any healthcare events in their family.
It's not "bad luck". It's capitalism.

And responsibility costs money. It's much harder to be responsible when you're poor. The immediate threat of poverty alters your decision making process, as does the malnutrition from only being able to afford garbage food. And that's assuming a fair and equitable system, without structural racism or other forms of ingrained discrimination.

Let's quit pretending this is normal or acceptable, or that some free market solution will come along. The solution is wealth redistribution.
Tipping is ethically required in some instances such as when a lower wage is permitted and paid to in-house servers. That is fine, but tipping culture is out of control in the USA. When a tip becomes required it is no longer a tip and we should stop pretending it is. Grubhub has the ability to change this situation right now, over night. Simply add a new 20% delivery charge onto their fees.
> Back in 2012, I had not yet been born (I am, in fact, only six years old). But I am a student of history.

So good. So very good
They're poor and their house is pretty shitty.
With Google Maps I will know about a Maverik gas station that is on my route that I know I want to stop at. I'll search for it "along my route" and I get a bunch of other gas stations that I don't want.

I suspect they are prioritizing the other gas station brands because they paid for preference, and selected "Maverik" as one of their keywords, but the impact to me is that the exact thing I searched for doesn't come up even though I know it's there because I've stopped there before.

If somebody gives me a simple maps product algorithm that just shows me what I'm asking for without preferencing paid people using key words and I'll likely switch. I've loved Google for many years but they are getting much worse.
I see it as then wanting to do it right through curation. Contrast that with Google where they just throw ML at everything.
Would you consider only buying a used/refurbished phone/computer? Obviously it’s not scalable to the masses, but not putting any money in Apple’s pocket directly
Yes, AI translation tools could produce starter text that a human could fix later. I assume the text is placed in speech bubbles manually? Perhaps in something like Photoshop? In that case, AI can also place editable text boxes at the speech bubbles, saving more time. I'd love technical details for how you translated manga!
Eh, you and Dan are in agreement? "This task ... is still nearly entirely accidental complexity", etc.
> For the US (and this generally holds true in other western countries to varying degrees), the rise of female workforce participation was (as you imply) a counterbalance to stagnating real wage growth.

A counterbalance or an unintended cause? From a very high-level viewpoint, the market optimizes to capture disposable income, both through offering new things to buy, and price increases on the old things (the more disposable income you have, the less likely you are to seek out alternatives if something you like becomes more expensive). So, as more and more household became double-income, the market compensated, locking female workforce participation from a choice into a necessity.
Is SC2 getting a continuous stream of new users?
Why should someone that takes antiviral medicine and can't transmit HIV anymore have to disclose their status?
Fitting for a yankee doodle dandy, though.
The primary threat to "liberal democracy" is CIA, DHS, MI5, and MI6. It is not SVR or MSS. This has been true since the Cold War. Who did more harm to "liberal democracy", J. Edgar Hoover (who tried to extort MLK into suicide), or KGB?
IIRC it was as simple as holding down the shift key on startup.
These could also be described as examples of violent behavior by drinkers of water, for that matter.

There is nothing pointing to a causative relationship here.
> less about stopping spread and more about reducing fatalities among the most vulnerable

This is a reasonable strategy, but I disagree with it.

> the least vulnerable who are most likely to be the main spreaders

[citation needed]. To my main point, we just don't understand how it spreads well enough to really say.
I suspect one big problem for Google is the ignorant politicians and lawmakers/enforcers who think that the dissemination of information which _could_ be used for illegal activities is akin to the promotion of such activities.

And since you cannot without great effort educate people who are incapable or intentionally unwilling to learn, the easiest solution is to sacrifice some of your users to placate the idiots.

Maybe this is not Google's excuse, but it certainly applies to many other internet companies (craigslist for example).

Edit: typing on phone is miserable :(
The tomato paste on a pizza was recently ruled a vegetable too, depending on its volume. [1]

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2011/11/15/142360146/pi...
I think in that link they're just using US Census data, which uses fixed thresholds.

You're right that rural costs of living are lower. Unfortunately I don't see any good data adjusting for this.

Nonetheless, the idea that rural America is doing just fine is sort of silly, for a few reasons:

- It's a minority of the population. So from a policy perspective, it's unclear to me what the conclusion should be. That more people should move to rural areas? That the Atlantic article is missing the experience of 1/5th of the population? ;)

- The same macro trends (rising GINI, declining real household wealth) exist across rural/suburban/urban divisions. (Note too that the Simpsons is probably set in a suburban, not rural, area—and suburban areas have experienced a sharp increase in poverty.)

- Qualitatively, rural poverty is associated with prescription drug abuse (extremely prevalent where I grew up), limited education and labor flexibility, limited geographic flexibility, etc.

So I never know what to make of these "it's going fine in Rural America" arguments.
Apparently this was not true, and was some kind of "April fools" joke: https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/no-half-a-million-geforce-rtx-30-...
If you're talking about non-contiguity due to multi-dimensionality (or strided slicing), PyBuffer already internally supports that (and thus memoryviews, stdlib array, etc) - [0], is that "pure Python" enough?

[0] https://docs.python.org/3/c-api/buffer.html#c.Py_buffer.stri...
Are people willing to pay for multiple newsletters? I'm paying for one but would find it hard to pay for two or three or five.
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I agree, I’ve often found smaller or less “online” businesses (e.g. a local car stereo shop) on Google that Maps doesn’t surface. But I usually just search for these in a browser anyway, and open Maps when I actually want to navigate there.
>This isn't just hyperbola, after observing as many humans as we have in both these activities, it's practically self evident.

*hyperbole, though my autocorrect also tried to screw me.

I'm not sure about this comparison though, as there seems to be a connection between concussions and violent behavior. Comparing track members to video game players would be somewhat interesting.
stronglikedan said doing a trade, not completely unskilled labor. The makethemonth website might not teach the lesson you want it to.
What vendors are in this business?
This. Don't get it as well. Rather enjoy my free time. I live along the line of "work smart not hard" to get as much free time as possible.
But if it is a must to you... thinking is also working. No need to produce a text or edit something or such things. Wrap your head around a topic and there's no need for an input device.
Recently, Apple's supplier, Wistron faced revolt after treating workers unfairly here in India. And India is not really the most shining example of protecting our workers from unfair and harsh working conditions. So, if such treatments don't fly here, I don't think they will fly anywhere else. The kind of labor expectation that these companies have after their stints in China is ethically incompatible with most other countries. So, I can't see the condition improving in the near future, companies will continue chasing profits at all cost and China will remain the most fertile ground to do that.
Consumer credit provides upward pressure for the price of goods while removing the composite pressure for wage growth. I think the liberalization of the consumer credit market is the primary catalyst for this situation.
> They aren't thinking about what was fair on the outside. They were just thinking about their options in prison, and in that perspective, the farm looked pretty good.

You're making the case that it is involuntary. "Do this or we shall do to you something worse against your will" is textbook coercion.
The labour is not transferred from Xinjiang because the factory in question is in Xinjiang.

This is a masterpiece of weasel-wording.
> It's not a civilised way to conduct business.

It's true, and the way they try to hide this fact is by pretending that the censorship and policy switch-up is done in the name of "anti-racism."

YouTube & co could not have been more lucky that an entire segment of the culture came up with the perfect catch-all term to enable them to walk back their horrible business blunders.
A 40-foot container seems to have an inner volume of 67,5m^3. That's 67500000 cm^3 for 500000 units, making it 135cm^3 per unit, so it looks like you are right.
> No, bullying cannot be solved by the victims

As someone who has punched multiple bullies into the face, I can tell you it does stop it quite efficiently.

Two of them basically instantly switched to never again daring to acknowledge that I even exist, for the remaining >5 years of being on the same school. The remainder wasn't smart enough to stop instantly and thus got multiple beatings. There's always the one kid who needs to touch the hot stove multiple times until they realize it hurts ;)

Would I recommend it to children now that some decades have passed and I am an adult? I don't know.

But it does work, ideally if applied without prior threatening and in quick succession. People really don't like having multiple fists in their face when they didn't expect it to happen.
The standard of living in these developed nations is due to exploitation that is outsourced to other nations. For example, regarding that $1200 cell phone? This is on the front page right now: https://9to5mac.com/2020/12/29/iphone-workers-forced-labor/

Those bananas? Well you can thank children in Ecuador for those: https://www.hrw.org/news/2002/04/24/ecuador-widespread-labor...

We have the best medical care, but results are uneven. If you are so poor that you are rationing your medicine to the point it doesn't work, what does it matter how good it is?

Was the food the king ate really worse? Today's poor eat sugar disguised as "food" that leads to obesity, heart disease, and diabetes. You can say what you want about medieval diets but at least they didn't have an obesity epidemic. I'm not sure who is better off.

At any rate, even if what you say is 100% true, that doesn't really change the fact that homelessness, hunger, and poverty are solvable problems today. To say that things were worse before and therefore the moral failings of society today are tolerable is just baffling to me.
Others like HTC have also been accused of doing the same. You could put "Google Pixel" in the title.
My CS degree from UC cost me ~120k in the end -> $90k of borrowing which accumulated $30k of interest by the time I graduated.

The fact that they used to charge 8% interest on those loans is just plain evil. It's not like it's unsecured, it's the only kind of loan you can't get rid of during bankruptcy.
> * a heavy involvement of illegal aliens in "services", the "trades" and "agriculture" in places like California. These people work hard at being "invisible" because if they become visible they get deported; a result of it is that people don't have a realistic image of this work and in the people that do it

Good point. This is a big problem when it comes to COVID. This invisible sector has been been working hard and that sector of the economy going. But they don't have health insurance. Because of the invisibility requirement, they don't have access to the same medical resources, and definitely would not have the same health seeking behaviour as 'non-invisible' people. Are these people even in the COVID vaccination plans?
Well, we often see the huge start of it in the 70's when the USA was able to get products out of China. Thanks to nixon, well paying middle class jobs evaporated, replaced with worse service jobs, or nothing at all. Then deregulation in the 80's allow Bain and the like to load up companies with debt and take that money as fees. Effectively destroying these American institutions. Sun Beam used to make things in the US. Toys R Us used to be a stable business. We can't have nice things because the basis for them has been wiped out. There is also the two income trap. So people over consume to fill a gap or cope with stress from having to work so much.
Very interesting article.

I was quite perplexed, since I have never heard of Bucatini before, but know some sorts of pasta - at least the most popular ones. Turns out, that in Germany, these are called "Makkaroni"! (We call macaroni "Makkaroni" too)
Ask HN: Why do developers implement smooth scrolling while it is annoying?
Every time I install a browser or other piece of software, the first thing I do is disable smooth scrolling. Still though, some websites get around this and force this "feature" on the browser, making their website hard to scroll. When I see such behavior, I just quit the website. On a 60Hz monitor (i.e. most monitors), smooth scrolling feels like playing a video game at 10 FPS. Not to mention the additional CPU load caused by it.

I just cannot see any value in smooth scrolling, and yet, many devs are doing it. Is there a reason for that?
There's a Netflix documentary about the garlic industry where among other concerns journalists reveal that peeled garlic from China is the product of prison slave labor. Many of the prisoners work their hands raw and continue to cut garlic ends with their teeth. Prisoners have a daily quota with punishment for not meeting it.

I haven't come across peeled garlic that wasn't from China or was unlabeled. So, I stopped buying it entirely.
I would say the other POI markers do serve one value, and that is with regards to finding a place... if you notice it's right behind the McDonalds, then you know you are close when you see the big M from the street. Similar for strip malls.
Finding social media profiles is easy. Reading the content takes time. I'd guess places that go through your social media are probably just doing quick searches for terms like the company name or the n word. I also doubt its standard practice at most companies I'd be interested in working for to go through social media for roles that aren't public facing.
I'm paying for 5. They are worth every penny.
It does make me wonder if this type of legal document is just too large and complex for the people agreeing to it to even really know what they're agreeing to. The international politics version of a EULA.
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I only buy used phones. But I rarely buy used computers / monitors. Those are my bread and butter, so reliability matters.
It's only a matter of time before Substack gets enough pressure from its employees or its payments provider and starts censoring "inappropriate" content.

(The definition of "inappropriate" being "whatever people on Twitter dislike today".)
Go Lang is not so simple
Mapbox responded to Google raising prices by raising their prices.

Is it likely that Azure and Amazon would do similar if they raised prices on GCP?
I'm curious about the place card one - you come up first on a Google search for "make place cards", which is great (congrats!). How much of that was because you saw an opportunity there from an SEO perspective (i.e. relatively highly searched, low competition) vs. you put the app together and then actively did SEO?
They are required, depending on jurisdiction, to provide the information that they have about you that they have derived from other sources, and if the data you have provided is small enough it makes sense to give a download if everything rather than making an effort to separate it out.

But for a video site the provided content is going to dwarf the other data/metadata stored about a person/account/channel so it does make sense to separate them, and I don't see why they should be required to give over resources so you can download data that in theory you should already have. They are a content hosting service, not a content backup service.

> so long as they're not clearly illegal

That makes things even more complicated. How do they decide, given some things are grey areas almost everywhere and some things are very much illegal in some places but not others?
lol logical arguments get flagged...
Or it's there for both of those reasons... Not an either or situation
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Research Shows Women Have a Gland That Helps to Prevent Miscarriages