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Yeah, I want that, but if I’m standing in line at the grocery store, I’m not at my desk, I don’t have a monitor, keyboard, or mouse.

Those tools may be good for some situations. But what about all the other situations? Some of the best art is created under adversity.

To be clear, the grocery line isn’t an adverse situation. But being in prison, working a physical / manual job, poverty—these are all adverse situations people face every day that prevent them from accessing the tools you mentioned, but I simply don’t believe they cannot or should not make art.
Even if it were the case that the vaccination is only effective once the second dose is given in time, holding back half the supply is far too drastic: if the supply chain failed to the point where these doses would all be used for this purpose, we would have a much bigger problem on our hands.
That sounds more like an argument against allowing rail transport of petroleum rather than an argument for allowing rail transport of LNG.
We "let" them get too big? They are an ancient society who have had millions of inhabitants for centuries. They were already big, huge in fact. In the wake of Mao, however, they have a one party communist system that exterminated it's intellectual and critical class decades ago. Hard to see what could've been done during the Cold War, we tried the domino theory which was a colossal failure in Korea and Vietnam and Laos.
That sounds very unwise. How's he going to deal with huge swings in price? How's he going to reliably convert this to real money? What about taxes if his bitcoins collapse in price?
> I'm amazed the world isn't taking more action on China. Its quite sad really, 20 years ago, any one of the headlines from this year would have prompted sanctions and denunciations...

Why would world politicians take any actions against China when so many of them do have a finger in the honeypot themselves?

Invalidate stock shares* of all companies who made untold billions on China, and you will see that a huge double digit of Western politicians will go broke overnight.

The one sole reason the West was so eager to jump on the China train unlike any other broke harebrained communist country was because China went from the start to openly bribing Western elites.

The reason why China is not Iraq now is that.
Chuffed to not only see a hearing related post on the front page of HN but also that you used my Audiogram Creator to generate your results.
It changes by holding companies like Apple accountable. They are the largest company in the world for goodness sake. Their audits when so little as a picture of a manual gets leaked are incredibly thorough, yet when it comes to literal slavery they're unable to reign it in? If we were to hold executives liable for acting as slavers then it would be miraculous how quickly corporate leadership would suddenly be interested in the well being of their fellow man.
Ask HN: How to Professionally Focus?
I run a small web agency with my friend. We’re capable and talented and we have happy clients.

We have a good balance of skills (design vs development/logic vs creativity). We enjoy staying small enough to enjoy other activities but deep down we feel like we are resting on our laurels. We don't make as much money as we could. We don’t work on projects we’re particularly excited about.

We’d like to challenge ourselves more, whether that’s great products, content or client work. Truth be told, we don’t know how to do this or where to start. On one hand we’re very grateful of our position but on the other hand we lack the external motivators many in traditional jobs have.

What techniques, lectures, books or advice do you have for developing focus and cultivating more ambition and drive?
And then they'd actually have a foot to stand on in terms of defending their position.
> There's no consistency, everything changes every 2 years

It all depends on the distribution (hence "too many different distros" is good). Choose Debian XFCE and you will never see any change, everything is rock-solid. Tested with my relatives.
Wasnt the study performed in Bangladesh? Since when is Bangladesh considered a meritocracy?
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I'd lean towards the lying part. Her strategy of leveraging higher powers didn't pan out, so she went with plan B of illusion of leveraging higher powers.
I think most people would have better luck getting their friends on board with Matrix. Personally, I like XMPP more, but so far I've not found a client that gets as close to the discord experience as nearly all Matrix clients get.
One of my best friends is a 20,000 hour 737 captain (and check pilot) at United and spent the past several weeks getting training on the new Max. He says the primary win for the new MCAS is that there is no longer a single point of failure (in the prior version the system only took data from a single AOA source even though there were two AOA indicators already on the airplane. At least on the United versions of the plane.) The new version uses both AOA sources. Additionally, the MCAS system now has limits on the amount of “correction” to prevent extreme compensation by the system. My friend is just a single anecdote, but I trust pilots highly experienced in type more than articles written by journalists who don’t actually fly or even bureaucrats who have never spent significant time with the airplane in real world conditions. If mainline airline pilots are confident in the system, so am I. Even with the old system, no US (or major European) airline ever had problems with the old system because European and US have far higher pilot experience requirements to fly in the bigger jets. For example, at United, you need at least 3000 hours before even being allowed in the right seat of a 737. For RJs, you have to have 1500 hours before being allowed in the right seat. That is a significantly higher standard than Ethiopian which has right seaters with less than 250 total flight hours. At Ethiopian or Lion Air 5000 hours is an “experienced” captain. At United that would be a rookie first officer. I don’t know anyone at Southwest, but they have very high entry level minimums as well. The first 737 Max had flaws, no question, but statistically, why didn’t any American carriers have any crashes despite flying an order of magnitude more hours in the airplane compared to Ethiopian or Lion Air? The US and European airlines are simply far more rigorous in training and pilot requirements as well as maintenance requirements. Fixing the Max is not addressing the bigger, far more significant issue of pilot training in non-US/Euro airlines. I have almost 1000 hours and am commercial and instrument rated but I am barely qualified to fly FedEx feeder Cessna 208s or perhaps right seat in a King Air. If I were outside the US/Canada/Europe, I could be flying 737s with 150 passengers.

We still have the significant issue of “fake pilots” [1] and all sorts of chicanery that has yet to be addressed. Despite flaws inherent in any government agency, the fact is the FAA has made American skies among the very safest in the world, at least according to the data. If US and Euro airlines start crashing, then we can revisit that theory.

[1] https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/680358-why-has-eu-never-ban...
When you have enough liquid capital (see: fiat) to not worry about day to day expenses.

I fail to see how this is any different then someone asking to get paid in another investment vehicle. Why not gold? Why not stocks?
Knowing the details of the current situation and differentiating it from previous forms of slavery does matter, but, as you say, it's by no means the most important thing we should be focusing on and discussing in the comments.
If alcoholics drink half the alcohol, by volume, it may still be a lot less than half the revenue, let alone half the profit. But hard to guess... I wonder what proportion of alcohol sold is (say) more than twice the price of the cheapest stuff (of the same broad category)?
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Spotted the Marxist.
being sold at a slave market in the middle east, is quite different from being forced to work or being put in a detainment camp. a slave in this context has no human value. its owning a human being, not simply forcing them to work. it can even be hereditary. its practiced daily since a certain religious figure did it and granted his followers the same "right". (to own another human being)
Micro had the best dpad and buttons by a large margin. Definitely felt less cramp in my hands using it than with the SP.
This might be a good time to watch the movie made by the ESA about responsible satellite disposal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT7typHkpVg
China has reached it's Hiroshima moment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bj_mEiMvPMI
They can rely on the consumers to just shut their eyes and go "lalala". It's been working so far and as long Apple doesn't get 'old', none of the influencers will try to call Apple out.

Capitalism working at its best; collect all the surplus and make somebody else pay for it.
I would switch to Apple Maps if they adjusted your estimated position while driving. When you're following directions on Google Maps, the app seems to estimate your location based on your current speed and the road you're on. Apple Maps doesn't do this (or doesn't do it as much) so it causes me to miss turns.
It's extremely important to scientifically verify "obvious" things, both because some people disagree and because things that are widely believed sometimes turn out to be false.
Re the gun ownership issue, roughly 40% of US households ADMIT to having guns. There is a significant amount that will NEVER answer that question on any survey. Much like those that admit to owning them will rarely tell you specifics like how many they have.
I have the same issue. Worse, when I did get my hearing checked, the supposed test for difficulty picking up speech against background noise was terribly and obviously flawed. They used a very short (few seconds) clip that looped. My brain quickly learned the loop and subtracted it. What I can't do is filter out unpredictable background noise. Plus the lab is an idealized environment without distractions.

Want to accurately test it? Put me in the lobby of your hearing center with a wall phone and try to have a conversation with me, it would be immediately apparent. Of course they won't do that (too many uncontrolled variables) but they could at least try to make the test more lifelike.

It's very frustrating because I feel like if I could get a formal diagnosis I could ask for accommodations at work like not using the telephone for support calls (email and instant message instead).

It also makes relationships difficult; I've been married four years and my wife is only now starting to actually understand and believe me when I say I didn't hear what she said (vs just not caring / not listening).

I feel like if I could say up front, "I have a diagnosed condition that affects my hearing," I could avoid a lot of problems and confusion. Unfortunately I can't seem to get a diagnosis.
I don't know man... I dont think its that rare for someone to climb out of poverty. Maybe I just see it this way because I did it myself (born in a 3rd world country, single mom, step father with bad addiction issues, barely graduated HS)

Now that Im a father myself, Im of course trying to give my child the best opportunities, but also trying to raise him to be grateful and disciplined.

So I'm not talking about the billionaires. Im talking about regular people who can now grant their children not private jets, but just a good private school.

What would be fair in this scenario? How can we make things equal/just in this case?

Also I dont think its rare or hypothetical at all, that rich kids never learn to work hard and squander their good fortune.

-- EDIT, i completely agree its absurd and completely wrong that 1% of people have 50% of the wealth, that should not be that way.
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> Another strange food is dairy. In fact, I think that most Europeans were lactose-intolerant, until they started getting people from Asia mixing in genes.

I think it's the other way around, but i claim no expertise.
The good news is all macro trends portend to factories leaving faster out of China. And less trade with China.

- Unfavorable Views of China Reach Historic Highs in Many Countries in 2020 https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2020/10/06/unfavorable-vi.... Consciously or subconsciously, consumers will favor goods made not in China

- US President-elect Joe Biden affirms his anti-China position. On Monday, he slammed China once again for “abuses” on trade, technology and human rights and said America can best pursue its goals relative to Beijing, when it is “flanked” by like-minded partners and allies. https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/biden-slams-chines.... This should help confirm multinational COO's decisions to leave China faster.

- China keeps attacking other countries, and further isolating itself. From stopping coal trade with Australia, and causing blackouts for its own cities https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/16/world/australia/china-coa..., to engaging in border war with india, to antagonizing US, Canada and UK.

- Chinese suppliers engaging in more and more thievery and sabotage against its own global partners, as reported at chinalawblog. Western companies are reporting Chinese suppliers are brazenly not delivering on goods paid for.
I think a lot of white collar folks don't know any blue collar folks, thus they imagine they don't exist or "can't make it"

It's not that inequality is a problem, but if you are willing to go 50 miles from the coasts you will find people in the trades who do OK, some with help from a union, some not. Some of them get paid pretty well but what they all have in common is that they didn't start their career with $200,000 in college debt.

So many things make it invisible, however, including:

* 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

* the media is demographically unrepresentative of the country as a whole: if you read the whole New York Times (particular the Sunday metro) it seems almost as provincial as a paper from small town South Dakota. There is a lot of content that plays to the fears and anxieties of over-represented groups in the New York City suburbs.

* for HN in particular: every kind of engineering other than "software engineering" requires occupational licensing and has professional associations that both stick up for workers and set a bar for training and quality. As a result if you work in a place like a library or a hospital you'll never quite be accepted or taken seriously by the licensed occupation folks who run the organization. To people in our field, the idea of having a group that looks out for our interests seems unthinkable, which is great news for all the other people who are organized and have one less pressure group to fight against. Thus the idea that you could have a union job is just as invisible as having an ag job.
I feel like this exemplifies the phenomena we see in the news today, and over the past few years has been increasing. Anyone can just say something on the news, and get a bunch of attention and credibility.
But in order to disapprove it, we need a 10 year study, and multiple citations plus a large N value. Even then a lot of people won’t believe it nor will they take the science as a more credible source than the original person.

- video game violence causes real word violence
- vaccines cause autism
- insert conspiracy theory here
I've spent a ton of time mapping out trails in my region on openstreetmap. I've found the issue now is the interface. The map data is only good if it can be easily read.

I'm starting to look at workflows for taking osm trail data and trying to make nice maps, but wow it is not easy to do!
I really dislike long form articles, I feel like the author never gets to the point, only jumping from one digression to another. Perhaps difficulty in writing could be an incentive to write shorter and more focused articles :)
You may not personally value a Bitcoin for its nostalgia, but many people would. I disagree that Bitcoins have no inherent value. There's a lot of history surrounding Bitcoin, so the argument that they have value purely from a collector's standpoint is valid.

However, it does not follow that therefore a valuation of thousands of dollars per unit of Bitcoin may be justified and not just due to speculative frenzy. I'm picking the NES game because it has roughly the same amount of units available and most people own them as a collectible, not to actually play it.
From what I’ve seen, the >17yr old imports aren’t to save money, but your chance to finally drive something exotic that wasn’t (or wouldn’t) be approved for sale here. E.g. RHD, Kei cars, Nissan Skylines
There are more people around. More cars. Where I live, there's about 1000x more needles than when I grew up. Way more crazy people roaming around. Maybe statistically they aren't causing any problems, but they sure harass me enough. Especially when it comes to "playing in the woods". The woods around town are the worst place now. We used to find camps and places where teenagers would party here and there but now when I walk in the woods (unregulated, non-protected "parks", or outskirts of real parks) there's people camping out and smoking, drinking, doing whatever. Both my hometown and where I live now are like this. It's not my imagination. My parents see the same thing. I don't care if the statistics say it's better.
Don’t trivialize nazi concentration camps by comparing them to some re-education camps. I highly doubt the number of deaths that occurred in these camps is anywhere close to the deaths that Apple‘s home country caused in its own war on terror, including torture and war crimes. With police brutality and the highest incarceration rate in the world, how can a company that values human lives do business in the US?
Is anyone saying that they are? All coverage refers to them similarly to this article - they are a Muslim ethnoreligious minority.

The parallels to Muslim minority integration in the West is probably why it is so interesting to Westerners. The disparate treatment by governments is what makes it so striking - in China they are second class citizens; in the West they are favoured over the indigenous population.
Until at least 2022 (end of 2021) but I would be willing to bet they end up having to support it much longer given the install base is now absolutely massive and people, even the most Wordpress diehards, hate Gutenberg.
Okay, but it was the Indian iPhone slave workers actually rioting.
Did you change router as you moved?
It’s not “in clear” though, is it? It’s encrypted.
The problem in this case is actually the USDA, whose mission has always been to promote and safeguard the interests of suppliers: livestock and farm. This mission is directly in conflict with human health, consumer interests, and animal welfare.

It's another government agency that does not serve the greater good.

This podcast enlightens many of our current ag policies: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/farms-race/
These dietary guidelines are not published by the FDA, whose goal is to protect public health, but by the USDA, whose goal is to protect farmers.

Compare their "about us" pages:

FDA:

"The Food and Drug Administration is responsible for protecting the public health by ensuring the safety, efficacy, and security of human and veterinary drugs, biological products, and medical devices; and by ensuring the safety of our nation's food supply, cosmetics, and products that emit radiation."

USDA:

"We have a vision to provide economic opportunity through innovation, helping rural America to thrive; to promote agriculture production that better nourishes Americans while also helping feed others throughout the world; and to preserve our Nation's natural resources through conservation, restored forests, improved watersheds, and healthy private working lands."

https://www.fda.gov/about-fda/what-we-do

https://www.usda.gov/our-agency/about-usda
How would they be abusing the trademark law? They officially started using the trademark first, the fork then wanted to take advantage of the brand from Facebook’s product(open source or not). The fact forkers were originally Facebook engineers who started the project and came up with the name doesn’t remove the fact Facebook invested in this project and built the trademark. This appears to be what the trademark law is there to do and that this is use of trademark law for it's intended purpose.
How close is the location? Many sites look at your time zone since they can just ask the browser "what time is it"
I miss HN office hours and I was contemplating how to make a better version of recent, but this could be a nascent form of it.

Can you tell us a little more about this service or your impetus or inspiration for creating it was? It reminds me of microblogging version of Forest. One thing I might add is, be sure to engineer a way to keep the diversity and population size of the population stratified into small samples, otherwise new users will gentrify the service.
was? you do know that slave markets exist today right? also isis sold
the daughters and wives of minority groups deemed to be infidels.
Of course it's encrypted, the deal reads "The open standard s/MIME as extension to de facto e-mail standard SMTP will be deployed to encrypt messages containing DNA profile information" (highlight mine). Then it goes on with technical details (that could be updated a bit), then the mention that common email software already supports this (including those from the headline, which is how we got this headline).

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/... page 921
Change the two words 'media restrictions' in the first clause to 'privacy protection for patients' and you have a statement that is both more accurate and shows how the second clause is more alarmist bullshit from the intercept.
I'm from Mexico too. Kids (males mostly) playing with toys guns or swords is normal.

Almost all games/sports are microcosms for wars, football, basketball, tag, hide n seek. Both kids and adults love these microcosms of war.

They don't pretend to be narcos because they like toy guns. They do it because they aspire to a quality of life they will never get via a normal working job.
The pilots were inexperienced. The right seat guy had less than 250 hours total time in any airplane. At that level of experience, he’s lucky to remember where the landing gear controls are. (He didn’t have 250 hours in the 737, but less than 250 hours in any airplane!) Even the captain had fewer hours than an average United first officer. At those low levels of experience, it’s just unrealistic to expect them to be that good with non-standard situations.
> Hobbies where you can learn/hone new skills are more valuable. With video games, there's nothing to show for it.

Not strictly true. Games are fun because they are a learning experience. Boredom is the result of having learned all that is learnable from a thing, and frustration is the result of continually failing to learn from a thing. In this sense, all games are teaching or honing skills, just ask anyone who's finished Getting Over it With Bennett Foddy.

You may argue that games teach "worthless" skills, but I would say the same is true of many hobbies and, moreover, not everything valuable is valuable because it can be put on a resume.
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