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People are too naive when they talk about China.

For one people actually believe Chinese's numbers, something no Chinese national will ever do.

China is a totalitarian country, they have the monopoly of the press. That means official numbers are not real numbers because if you go against the official numbers you just dissapear. You can not compare numbers given in a free press country against numbers being given by a totalitarian country.

That happened for decades with Soviet Russia, while Lenin and Stalin made tens of millions of people die of starvation, their official numbers were fantastic. They even exported grain.

There is no evidence because China made impossible for scientists to study the origin of COVID for almost a year. They closed their laboratories and removed all possible evidence with bleach.
Redfin will let me list my house on the MLS without a fee?
> When Germany was dissolving all their democratic processes, and started labellling jews, what did the rest of the world do? What did their neighbours do? Did they just happily keep on conducting business?

The 1936 Olympic Summer Games are a good starting point in my opinion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_Summer_Olympics
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HN art No. 1 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26476204

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I'm half Jewish (49% according to 23andMe), and I have a picture of 10 people of my own family killed in a mass grave, so I couldn't be farther from an anti-semite. Also I have no problem with Israel, as I said (I have far relatives there). What I don't like is the mix of price based capitalistic distribution for the countries, but not priced based capitalisic distribution of vaccines for the people. It's fake humanitarian and fake capitalism at the same time.
Buying has costs too. Mortgages are an obvious example, but even if you could afford the house without debt the money could also have been invested in something that yields income like stocks or bonds. If the amount you'd receive in income from investing the house price can cover the rent of an equivalent house, it can make sense to rent as you come out ahead overall. It does not surprise me at all that rich people (who can take the time to shop around because they are not at risk of getting evicted) manage to get a better deal than someone who represents more credit risk for the landlord.

Of course pulling this type of thing off requires that you can find investments that will yield more than the rent price, which may not be easy to do in the long term as high yielding investments can often carry unforeseen risks. Also because a significant amount of people already know this, when renting is "cheap" enough compared to buying the demand for renting will increase and prices will rise. This means that the condition is unstable and will often disappear on its own.

Still, there are sometimes very valid monetary reasons to rent instead of buy. Then there are nonmonetary reasons to rent instead of buy that make sense even for quite rich people. If you're a NYC banker and you get seconded to London for 2 years to set up some new division, it is probably not worth the hassle to buy a house there.
I entered the workforce at the same time. I don’t have kids so I can’t relate to that aspect, but I speak to lots of college students and career-switchers and like you, I always note that I’m coming from a place of knowledge. I’ve been mentoring a lot of recent grads over the last year and with the pandemic, the uncertainty in the job market is very reminiscent of 2008 and I know what it was like to graduate into a pit of “what am I going to do?” And the answer is usually, “it’ll be fine. Probably.”
Looks like a wonderful place! How I wish that people from outside of Sikkim could acquire property there - it's one of our favourite states in India.
LOL I built my own blogging platform for my personal site, but I get constant nagging for not handling permalinks in the expected way and for never implementing RSS. (lisperati.com)
No, it is not a coincidence.

There are a lot of bats in Wuhan. There are a lot of bats carrying coronaviruses. Coronaviruses have triggered past epidemics. Ergo, there’s an institute for virology in Wuhan.

Listen starting at 6:30 in the podcast I posted from Nature. There is indeed strong correlation but no causal relationship established.
Her Job Is to Convince South Koreans to Use 5G. It Hasn’t Been Easy
And political fragmentation.
You're looking at thing as they are now.

Now, as I've said, there's demand\need since the EU scaled up the vaccination efforts however, look back 3-5 months.

EU was discussing just how to split\manage the vaccines among the union members, while Israel was vaccinating at a neck-breaking pace.

While my family in EU were not sure if they want to be vaccinated, people in Israel were waiting hours in line to even get a chance to get vaccinated.

Israel currently has over 80% of the population vaccinated, I'm willing to bet that even if you provide that number of vaccines to any European country, the numbers will be far lower.
Maybe not, but pretty sure the wealth of an urban area is a superlinear function of density and size (super linear on both axes), so choices based on the marginal RoI to land barons will lead to suboptimal outcomes either way.
Because that would have impacted trade and commerce.
> I don't believe for a second that Google's algorithms are unable to identify and remove content marketing blogspam.

Easy for me to believe. They have to use some formula, and as soon as they change it, well, there's a massive industry dedicated to getting around it. If their algorithm is just "filter out what's useless", that's AGI.
Sorry, I edited my comment at the same time you posted your comment - leading to yours to not have the proper context.

(For the record I wrote something about things that happen frequently not being news)
Thanks for the feedback!

We'll definitely add much more of a feature by feature comparison with some of our competitors.

With regards to complexity, we have a principle that we try to hide as much complexity as possible from users until they need it. So rather than big forms with loads of dropdowns or a lot of boxes that need filling in, we try to keep the UI pretty sparse. We tuck things behind buttons or in the cmd+K menu so they're out of they way. Some examples of stuff that's not in the UI til you need it:

* Added team members to work items

* Setting effort/impact of work items

* Adding a backlog to a space

* Etc

These are all things that some teams but not all teams need, so we don't want to give teams the feeling they're doing something wrong just because they're not using them.
This is mostly nitpicking: What you describe is the idea of FI (financial independence), no RE (retire early). In my impression, this is actually what by far the most FIRE-achievers turn into sooner or later (well-known examples: chooseFI, mad fientist, MMM). Or maybe the retired ones don't talk about it on the internet...
> Who else shares it?

Or what else shares it?
> Is the Falcon 9 really low-cost or maybe is it that NASA and the American government is indirectly subsidizing the company by overpaying for their launch contracts?

How can it be overpaying when they crushed the previous monopoly on launch held by ULA? It is known that both Delta and Atlas are a lot more expensive than F9.

And that's been borne out when competing for government contracts, they pretty much always have the low bid and/or have forced their competitors to significantly lower their prices. ISS resupply 1 and 2, Commercial Crew, NROL launches, GPS launches, etc. Look back at the award process if you like.

They did come in 2nd to Vulcan for the recent NSSL contract, which surprised a lot of people. Vulcan, of course, is a newly developed, as yet to be flown rocket and it looks like factors other than price made the difference.
> Your example doesn't show why a 9v battery used in this way is dangerous.

So? It's part of a more general argument against assuming household items are safe when you're using them in highly unusual ways or far outside of normal parameters.

But if you need a specific example of someone killing themselves with a 9V battery to get the message, a sibling comment actually linked to a Darwin award where someone did just that.
Somewhat agreed but the issue is that taxing away tax breaks or implementing a flat reduces Congress's power to choose winner and losers.
This is a very good comment. The fetishization of "failure" is a quite recent phenomenon that like many other communication workflows of the modern time has the implicit or explicit goals of making someone understood, commiserated, seen as naturally strong or "yes, I cried, but look how much stronger I am". A total waste of energy that to my eyes looks weak and entitled. Like when you read on, say, Twitter "my biology professor told me I had no chances of finishing high school, but now I have a PhD in molecular biology" - assuming it is true (and I many times doubt it is the whole story), are you really holding a grudge against a nobody in your life who said some words 15 years ago?

And that's why I use "failure" in quotes here and I never use the word in my life, except in some very specific contexts (e.g., machine failure). Anybody with ambitions in their lives gets rejected, dismissed and have things that don't work even if they cry in High Valyrian. Forget, move on, live large, not small.
One I just recently discovered is symbolhound.com. It's nice because it lets you search for characters that google absolutely refuses to treat as search terms. I needed to debug some makefiles and bash scripts the other day (not my strong suit!) and it helped me understand some of the weird syntax I was seeing.

As others have mentioned, Google no longer respecting literal search terms has made it much worse for many types of searches. DDG had been great at this, but sadly has been following in Google's footsteps the past few years.
I think enough of us have been on the same side of this story that we feel fairly comfortable taking it at face value, even if we're only applying it to said personal experience in a wishful fashion.
Well it doesn't help that they've blocked the investigation.
Something is very off here. A standard vial of insulin has 10 ml of insulin concentrated so there are 100 standard units per ml.

1000 units per vial. Even in America where our prices are bananas, the cash price of a vial of insulin is not 100k.

I believe the overall pricing trend, though. Maybe this is the cost per vial? It isn't even the cost per cc!
...and because politicians in the EU told citizens it might be dangerous. Fine, believe all the conspiracy theories about the UK stealing vaccines...the EU has literally millions of doses sitting around going unused because citizens won't take it (it is almost verging on mania: in Germany I have heard that 50% of health workers at some hospitals who had the vaccination are calling in sick after getting the vaccine).

I am not sure why there is even a discussion on these points: the EU was late, and once they were late they did almost everything wrong (unsurprisingly, countries in Europe have a terrible record on vaccines)...that is it.
Will it also be a vulnerability in boringssl and libressl? only speculations
For me it was a few lucky coincidences.

I’ve never had concrete career goals, that’s step one of not being bothered by challenges.

Step two, I’ve always worked at startups in relatively emerging markets, which means they are inherently new and challenging and that has fed that challenge/growth that I seek even though not necessarily tied to career growth explicitly.

I’ve only started in my 40s to care about long term career growth, so go figure.

I think the short answer is I’m highly internally motivated and seek out challenges no matter what so it’s not a thing I usually worry about.
A friend with access to Merrill Lynch Research told me in August that there was strong consensus around the WIV lab theory. If there's one reliable source of truth in the world, it's the information that banks are betting billions on.
“Patch Tuesday” is a Microsoft policy afaik, not a global one.
You can't get the same leverage nearly as safely or as easily in the stock market, which is why so many people start to play landlord with second, third, etc, properties that they finance.

What changed in the last year is that people want a lot more space which is pulling them out of the "expensive apartment" market and into the "house" market, while also being less concerned about commute distance. So the expensive apartments fall in demand while the houses go through the roof, without effecting the lower end of the rental market at all.
It's not that wanting sources is bad, but a plausible-sounding claim may as well be argued against by providing sources to the contrary, or defend by providing sources in support. Demanding rigorous proof of an intuitive claim is not a good way to argue against it.
I've used Ghost for years and it is just a pleasure to write articles. A clean interface, WYSIWYG (unlike Wordpress), and fast.

And if you want to create your own theme (or use another), it is essentially Handlebars - easy to use.

I find it an even better writing interface than Medium. Now that they are moving heavily into newsletters, all the better.
Well, large parts or the Ariane program are built in Germany - the upper stages IIRC. SRBs in Italy, etc.
There are alternative approaches - for instance you can be Amazon/Uber/Tesla/GameStop, who aren't profitable but are simply so cool investors just keep them running forever. However, it's possible that their investors are the actual customers and their product is their coolness expressed as shares.

(Amazon is kind of messing this up by starting AWS, which is actually profitable, but the retail side isn't.)
Not that there's much to read here, but here's an archive link

https://web.archive.org/web/20210322203019/https://mta.opens...
You say this as if Africa&China was equivalent to US&EU. A bunch of totalitarian dictatorships / warlord states vs. democratic and at least somewhat accountable and transparent free republics.
My guess is, even official media and government organizations will take advantage of deepfakes if they think it will increase their profits, or penetration of their messaging. A year ago, the government and media teamed up to lie to the public and claim masks weren't effective, "for our own good" so medical people could obtain masks without economic competition from the plebian hordes.

Nobody apologized and it seems the public didn't care either. So we can conclude that truthful information isn't always desirable, especially when it comes to feeding the masses. Anybody with a brain already realizes this and understands that deepfakes can and will be used on the general public, "for our own good."
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/astrazeneca-signed-va...
When you are in a crisis, the first thing you do is put the oxygen mask on yourself. The crisis in the UK and the US has been severe and it does not help to spread the vaccine around peanut butter style across every country in the world such that only 5% of the population has it.

If anything else, we should be focusing it more on single countries impacted the most to get their essential workers and most impacted covered before moving on to a next one.
Patch Tuesday is a Windows thing generally.
China blocked investigators from going to Wuhan Institute of Virology.
I do not care one single iota about who was first or paid most. What is clear is that people are dying unnecessarily because of this competition. The ethical thing would to be minimise the number of people dying of covid-19.

Distributing these vaccines evenly based upon risk factors (age, BMI, ...) is what should have happened. Practical example:

- My double marathon running, under 40 brother in law in Israel is low risk. He should not have received the vaccine yet, even if I like him.

- My heavily overweight 71 years old father is high risk. He should have received the vaccine already.

The EU, the UK, the US, Israel _and_ most of the manufacturers failed abysmally at this.
I’m from the same generation, so if you say “Amphenol connector” without further qualification then I’ll assume you’re referring to a 25-pair microribbon.

Unless the context is printers, in which case you obviously mean a 36-pin Centronics.
Those clicks won't click themselves!
OP never advocated nor mentioned a flat tax. He advocated adding two tax brackets to the progressive tax scheme we currently have.
Empirically, HN collectively gets things like this right much more often than not. It’s been right about the coming pandemic as early as beginning of Feb, it’s been right about masks when it was dismissed by CDC, and lab leak hypothesis has been dismissed as crank the whole time while building more and more of an implausible case that it wasn’t lab-leaked. HN has been coming around to that too. Of course, nothing is conclusive yet but you’re actually furthering the damages caused by misinformation by grouping this into it. If lab leak comes to fruition, there’s just going to be further outrage against traditional authority sources of info that gets things wrong, railing against people like you who called their correct hypothesis misinformation.
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Pfizer and Moderna production factories in the US are not owned by the government either, but they are prohibited from exporting a single dose of vaccine until the US government has enough doses to vaccinate the entire US population.
Wuhan is nowhere near the caves where these bat viruses have been found. It's over 1800 kilometres to Southwest Yunnan, for example.
I imagine it's mentioned elsewhere in this commentary, but the key point I think this chap missed was not connecting to a wifi network under his control.

"A browser hitting that returned a page to connect the lamp to local WiFi. That is a no-go ..."

You can buy prosumer routers nowadays for $99 USD which enable one to setup different subnets and VLANS such that a device is accessible on the network but unable to access the internet.

I'm not afraid of IoT like some other tinfoil types commenting here - just make sure they can't call home (I'm looking at you Samsung TV)
Huh. Interesting way of looking at it. I don't associate wanting to work at a bar with spending more quality times with friends. I think it would be interesting to be in a customer service role and working in a fast paced environment where I have to make drinks/pour beers.

I like the little bookstore near me. They play classical music during the day and the lady who runs it seems nice. I'd like to work there for a while and see what that is like.

Carpentry (or being a cook which would also be on my list) is about doing something with my hands professionally. Can I make my living by creating something with my hands? What would that feel like? I know I can make a living using my voice. I know I can make a living with my fingers on a keyboard.

What would it look like to make a living building something physical? For me it's more about things that seem like they would be interesting life experiences.
I liked this piece. It is well written and the author has good self awareness which is helping them in their journey.

I also see in it a common question which the author hints at but doesn't seem to land on, "What is my purpose?"

I get emails from people sometimes who write "I want to be rich! Tell me how to do that." and I always ask them "Why do you want to be rich?" It is however also the question the FIRE folks should also be asking.

Here is a clue, no amount of money will make you happy or satisfied with your life, if your life has no purpose. And that purpose has to come from inside of you, not from some external source. Having kids may align your brain with the 'purpose' of raising and launching those kids into the world.

But folks who retire "early" (what is early) and have no purpose find retired life fun for a couple of years and then it loses a lot of its luster. They need a 'job' which gives them purpose.

And the longer you live the more you realize there is no "win" square at the end of your life, your life just stops. While that can be depressing, it can also be liberating. Consider how you can fix one small problem, provide durable support for one person or group of people who need support, and you start to realize that even after you are dead they will still be supported, and the problem will still be fixed. That is "winning."

I didn't realize any of this until I had kids. I mean up to that point my path was "learn all the things, get rich, and retire to a life of leisure." But I did have kids, and I found I got much more satisfaction out of the path of "Help launch these new people into the world so that their impact is positive and your own contribution to the world lives on." Many writers have written, "We live on through the lives and deeds of our children." and I found that much more profound once I had children.

In my professional life I found I get the same sense of accomplishment when I help someone move to their next phase, when I was presiding over the robotics club it was great to help new members build their first robot and to see where they took it.

Doing those things doesn't require being "rich" or being "famous." It just requires me to take time to help on things when I can with advice and guidance. I found it was the difference between "having a purpose" and my earlier goal of "get rich and retire."
Five figures is $10,000. It only takes 2-3 months of rent to reach that in an expensive Oakland apartment.