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Please don't post flamebait or take HN threads into generic ideological arguments. They are exceedingly repetitive and convince no one—they just get people activated and angry. This place is for curious conversation.

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I worry that this article seems to suggest that COVID-19 is not a threat. But this was a key sentence:

> less disruptive and costly NPIs can be as effective as more intrusive, drastic ones

Many public health policies in response to COVID-19 around the world have been more driven by politics that by science. We do need public health measures in response to pandemics, but those measures ought to be smarter, not stricter, which seems to be what happened in Texas:

> While Abbott said Texans would no longer be legally required to cover their faces in public, he urged them to keep doing so, and many businesses continued to require masks

It wasn't an absence of public health measures, but rather a difference in how they were enforced. In many places, they were enforced by heavy handed authoritarian policies. In Texas, they were enforced by common sense and decency.

My hypothesis is that the authoritarian policies actually lead to push back and less compliance, while trusting people to make their own decisions has a potentially better outcome in terms of compliance.

Those interested in improving public health outcomes would do well to study and understand how to influence human behavior at scale. There's a good chance that heavy handed governments forcing people to do things isn't the most effective way to make those things happen.
The MNT Reform motherboard has 6 layers, which I consider a small number. Also, I was thinking about adopting MXM for a GPU slot.
Framing this as a left vs right issue is an USA-centric way to frame the question. Consider how the US is basically the only country in the american continent that still goes ahead with capital punishment. Most other countries in the continent, from all kinds of political orientations, have either banned capital punishment outright or haven't executed anyone in more than a decade.
Ohio border is clearly visible but KY/WV blends well. I don't get it though, why would Athens County, OH be almost 4 points higher on the hesitancy scale than Lewis County, KY despite having better vaccination stats?
Trump is a true grifter prodigy, who has managed to “fail” hundreds of times – while skimming billions of dollars away from investors, business partners, lenders, suppliers, employees, and customers – often in full public view, and both skate away from criminal liability and still keep finding more marks, ultimately including something like 40% of the general public.
A reminder - in the US by default capital gains are levied at the same rate as any other income - the "capital gains tax" is a LOWER tax on some forms of capital gain intended to encourage some forms of investment (long term rather than stock/house flipping for example)
Communicating the potential benefits and harms of the Astra-Zeneca vaccine
Generally cameras are reasonably rad-hard because the pixel size dictates a lot of the wiring size (and puts a lower bound on the process size). 3.5um pixels don't play well with 5nm features. Bigger features are generally more resistant to radiation fun.
> I think no other justification is needed to end the death penalty than “it’s inhuman and barbaric”.

Thing is, most of the time, people who are subject to the death penalty are there because they did “inhuman and barbaric” acts.

It is kind of like the paradox of tolerance. For society to prosper, you need to punish inhuman and barbaric acts, or at least isolate people who do that from society. However, such punishment is likely inhuman and barbaric at least on some level. Limiting a persons freedom of movement and interaction is inhuman and barbaric.

In addition, by not having the death penalty, you are subjecting others to have to deal with the person who did the inhuman and barbaric acts, whether other inmates or guards.

I am of the opinion that there are some acts that are so heinous that a person should never be a part of human society again. In that case, rather than prolonged human isolation, which is actually barbaric in and of itself, I think it is actually more humane to end their life. It does not have to gruesome or painful, no more than euthanizing a beloved pet with a terminal condition has to be gruesome. But some acts are incompatible with ever being a member of human society in any form.

Edit:

In addition, there are a lot of stuff that could be considered inhuman and barbaric but we do them for what we think as the good of society.

Spaying and neutering your pet sounds inhuman and barbaric.

Modern surgery, especially cancer surgery where they remove large margins of apparently healthy looking tissue, could be considered inhuman and barbaric.

In the Middle Ages, dissecting dead human bodies was considered inhuman and barbaric.

So the fact that a person sees something as inhuman and barbaric really is not overwhelming evidence if something should be done.
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This seems perfect for editing/programming, but I'm wondering what the limitation is?
It’s not just about saving the life of the person being vaccinated. It’s about not giving the virus anymore “fuel” to burn through. Every infection is a roll of many dice. Statistically at some point someone’s mutation will overcome even the vaccines we’ve made. If that spreads we’d be back in February of 2020.
And that's just the base Federal rate. If you add NIIT at 3.8%, I believe that is the highest long-term capital gains rate in the developed world. And that is before you add State taxes, like the 13.3% in California.

Unlike some other countries, there is no cost-basis adjustment for inflation and there is a limited ability to deduct capital losses, both of which can be substantial for long-term investments and risk capital.

All in, this makes it very difficult to get a competitive return on long-term high-risk investments, like tech startups, biotech, etc compared to almost any other asset class. Instead, it strongly incentives cashflow and rent-seeking investments, which have better risk and tax profiles in almost every regard if this goes through.

As a second-order effect, this would cause an extraordinary amount of capital to be moved into real estate which is already experiencing very high price inflation.
You would not be aware of your lack of life in the latter scenario.
That link is about Debian. Debian doesn't ship zfs module and it needs to be compiled separately for each kernel version.

Ubuntu ships ZFS module in kernel package and it works without having to be compiled nor it needs header package.
Reminds me of the War on Terror, where so little was actually about what a normal person would call terrorism. Most of it ended up being law enforcement overreach under the hard-to-criticize banner of fighting terrorism.

You see this any time law enforcement stumbles upon a scary marketing word that helps them justify their activities to the public. The word's meaning slowly grows to encompass all sorts of things that the public would never have associated with it. Like how "Sex offense" now includes people caught urinating on the side of a building. And how you can get a "DUI" without driving and without being under the influence.
It is written in .NET standard 2.1. We have migrated it from .NET Core to .NET 5.

Give it a ride. :)
That’s kind of the point.

Saying “you’re a bad person if you disagree with me” draws a line in the sand that precludes civil disagreement and picks a fight. Most people like to avoid conflict, and any possible counterargument to “you’re a bad person” inevitably comes across as defensive.

In other words, the tactic is to bully the opposition into shutting up. And it works very well.
MA has about 30% of people fully vaccinated. In Israel, the rate of new cases cratered once that number hit close to 50% and has stayed extremely low ever since (despite reopenings and the rate of new vaccinations there slowing to a crawl).
You wouldn't be responsible for the payment just like you aren't responsible for the payment with a stolen credit card. I also wouldn't be surprised if these terminals had a pulse detector that would stop a severed hand from working at all.

You'd probably even have an easier time proving your hand was stolen it since your hand is missing.

It's still a problem that if someone compromises your biometric data they'll have full access forever. In practice that isn't a huge problem because it's still really hard to do.
"Hesitancy" nice word. The implication that everyone does want this vaccine is nice; after all, not wanting it would be some sort of mental defect right?

"My body, my choice" ain't just a political slogan; it makes sense. I'm glad these vaccines are available, but I had this crud early and I'll pass on the vaccine thx.
Let's just kill fewer innocent people and it's fine right? Why won't you compromise with us?!
The least hesitant 30 counties basically seem to be MA, VT and the entire Bay Area.
This is an obligatory watch with this thread - https://youtu.be/WDiB4rtp1qw
I'm not going to hold my breath waiting for him to be imprisoned. But I do think he's going to be spending a lot of time in courtrooms for the rest of his life and that's at least some consolation.
You can flip houses all day long and not pay any tax as long as you buy another piece of real estate within 6 months.

https://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/0110/10-things-t...
I was taught that growing up.

And again, let me be explicitly clear: I do not believe any of this. However, a lot of people genuinely do, right now, today.
Why is it partisan? Let’s pretend OP said “swing left”. Being against the left isn’t how partisan is normally defined. It’s usually the bias of being for a specific cause/political party. What would be the cause here? Not being pro American politics left? That does not give much info about what causes the person is biased for.
The problem with minimum font size is that sometimes you want the text to be smaller, especially in cases where it's used as UX labels or the like. I used to set it fairy high in Opera (long time ago, Opera Presto) and even back then it would break stuff.

I have a few custom userstyles to deal with the worst of it; topnavs that grow to 20% of the page height and stuff like that.
The iPad has been far more than a media consumption device for a long time now. Two examples - the first is a whole community of people for whom the iPad is their primary or sole device:

https://www.macstories.net/ipad/

Second is Jason Snell, a LONG time Mac user, who prefers the iPad for editing audio for the many podcasts he is involved in: https://sixcolors.com/post/2015/11/editing-podcasts-on-ios-w...

Noticed this isn't a recent phenomenon for either of those examples. Jason in particular still has Mac's in his overall production chain ( https://sixcolors.com/post/2019/11/why-my-ipad-podcast-workf... )since there are still many significant shortcomings in iPad OS - so being able to run macOS on iPad Pro hardware would absolutely have value to what I would would wager is a significant user community.

Or Apple could just plug the many identified gaps in iPad OS. I won't be holding my breath for either to happen any time soon but I will welcome either if the day ever materializes.
Come on now. Elixir is going the way of the dodo, this isn't gonna change anything.
Where and how did you move? Visas aren't all that easy to get.
This seems so insane to me. This isn't high school, you're going to be expected to actually use the stuff you are learning in just a couple of years when you're in the real world. Nobody is going to code for you after you've graduated and gotten the job. For that matter, how are you going to pass an interview if you don't know the material?

Or are they cheating at the "take these courses to become a more rounded person" stuff, like the insect biology courses for the CS students?

Still, you're paying a fuckton of money to supposedly learn stuff in college. Cheating your way through is a huge waste.
Wouldn't that latter be better fixed by adjusting estate & inheritance rules? You could even make it simple, e.g. all unrealized gains upon death.
I don't want to have giant buttons just because some people don't want to zoom. Zooming is a feature to allow me to use my device the way I want.
You're also not factoring in risk that comes from investing, the argument is lower taxes on investments encourages people to invest their money. If there is risk of loss, plus high taxes when there are actual gains, there is lower return on investment and therefore, less incentive to risk your money in investments.

It's already been mentioned that some of the money has been taxed once already, when the corporation pays taxes on profits before they're paid out as dividends.

I imagine large investors will just break up their investments into so many shell companies/trusts that each entity will never carry more than 1M in investments. There's always a loophole.
The distinction between revenge and justice is that justice is carried out by a disinterested third party.
Shares are a kind of property. Perhaps it would be reasonable to charge a property tax on their value. The market would fix inflated valuations right quick.
i'm not well-versed in the politics of unicode, but it seems like you're looking for use-specific iconography, not symbols that are part of language. there's no standard symbol for "bicycle transport available", or "wifi access available". the three curved lines radiating from a circle image adds some visual flair to your project and can be used as a shorthand if you make it clear what it means, but any symbol you could use there doesn't necessarily convey the same meaning if i use it in my project.

contrast that with the symbols in this proposal - the TEXTILE CARE SYMBOL WASHING TUB WITH SEVENTY DEGREES CELSIUS glyph means the same thing no matter where it's used.
But “the bottom” is not really a bottom then. It is like a joint private/public venture. What is wrong with that?
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They are vastly different in the urban areas. Agreed on the rural.
If the only argument in favor of the death penalty is that the prison system is inhumane, to the point that someone would rather die than go through it, the answer to that should be to make the prison system more humane.
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RE your subsystem idea - you can run iOS/iPad OS apps on the new Apple Silicon Mac's today (as long as developers allow it).
the daily mail website is literally unusable on mobile. other sites are bad, but I’ve not seen a single other one where you literally can’t scroll down the page

that I would pick on this one doesn’t highlight the bias in the system, it highlights that the article I’m commenting on is about the daily mail

I don’t see how breitbart is relevant
This is only slightly better than judging from the skin color or location of birth.
Given current interest rates it seems like the world has too much money to invest and not enough people spending.
> Bitcoin's energy consumption should be framed in the context of how much value it brings to the global community.

Sure, but how much is Bitcoin actually being used where it creates real value, as opposed to being something people invest in hoping it will go up farther.
It to incentivise investment to make up for the possible loss.

you might want to think about what happens when companies run out of capital.
So, from what I can tell it's essentially a Mechanical Turk for someone's personal team. However, I'm trying to figure out if it offers Mechanical Turk style offerings as well, where you can just pay for some random person to do the job?
Not going to comment on the listed steps (that sounds like a pain to grade), but I will totally echo your comment about knowing how well someone is doing.

Every semester, students fell into the same buckets.
- Those I rarely saw who nailed everything (and were getting an A or a high B because they understood the material),
- Those I saw constantly who were going to get an A or a B (because they sometimes didn't understand things from class, or when they did, wanted to make sure; or for a few, understood it all, but knew the importance of showing they cared about the material to the professor and TAs)
- Those I saw constantly who were going to get a C or a B (they rarely understood from class, but were willing to put in the work to try to)
- Those I never saw who were going to fail (they didn't show up to anything).

It was pretty much invariably this latter group that got caught cheating. That's not to say the other groups didn't, but they at least got working code, did really well on the exams (pre-COVID, proctored in person), and in conversation were able to show they understood, so I'm a lot less concerned about them.
Sure, but he's got an extremely loyal 40%. Of course, most of that demographic aren't the folks that can afford a night in a Trump hotel or to buy a membership at one of his golf clubs.
You could use a wireless mouseand keyboard that support being connected to multiple computers. I have a Logitech MX Anywhere mouse that works really well, and I know there are keyboards that do that too.
Investment risk is already addressed with this proposal. The top tax bracket for earned income is way lower - something like $450k.
This myth of 8 glasses (or 2 liters, as I usually hear it) has created some anxiety for those who, like me, _hates_ to drink water except when is really thirsty. Seems to be au pair with the thinking that you're always wrong: "don't drink sodas, prefer juices." And you begin to drink juices and it's also bad, water is better. Then regular tap water is bad too, you should drink just those bottle version, and so on.
The median home price in California is rapidly approaching $1M, Wouldn't this just lock up the real estate market even more?
> For me, there are some things that just don't warrant debate, and encompass such deep-seated truths about humanity that putting them up for debate is a repulsive and disingenuous act,

The authors of the Declaration of Independence would perhaps agree.

But, keep in mind that stance — as they will knew — would result in the ‘disagreement’ being resolved by force and war.

Consequently, it’s wise to really give some thought to whether an issue is ‘self-evident.’ I personally do not think capital punishment is such an issue; that is, I acknowledge there are good arguments on both sides.

(Are there good arguments on both sides regarding whether some people — like King George — are inherently and divinely superior to others by virtue of their lineage? That’s a different matter... I would have fallen into the ‘self-evidently’ absurd camp on that one.)
> If anything, it sounds like a great opportunity for free marketing.

Right? I'd shop at Satan's grocery store.
It should be made retroactive to 2020.
Or maybe write your whole app in go, that works as well!
"the refusal of the drug company lawyers to accept liability if something is wrong"

In theory the government is supposed to provide a settlement under the countermeasure version of the national vaccine injury compensation fund. I say in theory because the system doesn't work as well as it's marketed to (based on personal experience).

Also, I'm not sure why you are being downvoted. Maybe just an unpopular opinion or the inflammatory remark? I'm of a similar opinion. I don't go anywhere except the food store, have an N95 mask (owned prior to the pandemic), work from home, under 35 with no comorbidities, only elderly I have contact with are family who have already recieved their vaccinations. If they are saying that this might be an annual vaccine and I fit low risk profiles for attributes and actions, then I might as well wait until I'm forced to go back to the office to get it.
Not even close to true. Demand is so high here, MA was only able to offer vaccines to the general public starting this week. If you were lucky enough to even be eligible last week, you needed to use bots to find an appointment.

Compare that to Texas, where shots are going begging at freaking Walmart. It's extremely infuriating. MA's vaccination rate is solely limited by available doses and meanwhile vaccines are expiring unused on the shelf in other states. We could have hit herd immunity by now if we were given the chance.
Sia has been operating at a large scale for years and has a running decentralized CDN service (Skynet).
The problem isn't this one transaction. Of course you could dispute it, but you're in for a life of disputing charges as you can't tell the merchant to not accept your hand print and use a newly issued one like a card number when it is compromised
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And, interestingly enough, it doesn't actually record the print, but the shape of the fingertip. If you know someone with a close enough fingertip shape, they can use your ticket.
If you can still credit past losses against your gains, that should account for the risk shouldn't it?
Other companies working on cell-cultured fish:

Finless Foods: https://www.finlessfoods.com/

BlueNalu: https://www.bluenalu.com/
This is A Good Thing and by design. Isn't encouraging investment the whole point?
shifting even more the tax burden to the citizen why?
Sewerage isn’t particularly accurate. Australian cities have been Covid free for the last 6 months yet there are continual reports of virus in the sewerage. It seems some recovered cases shed the virus for months after the infectious period.
If we did that, commenters would complain "yet again, the HN moderators completely change the meaning of a title with their invasive and random editing. It's infuriating." And in this case they'd be right, because in this case the definite article and the word "real" are essential—the article's argument doesn't really exist without them.
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Here's a link to the CR report with details of their testing: https://www.consumerreports.org/autonomous-driving/cr-engine...
> How am I meant to tell if you are using a fullscreen mobile browser vs a resized desktop window?

You aren't. Why should you assume that a mobile browser window is any different than a desktop window?

I have an Android tablet with a 13" 4K screen and a stylus. A full screen window on there is huge and you don't need a huge button.

I don't want huge buttons on my tiny iPod screen either.
Multiple projects for side income instead of one
I've been attempting to work on side projects but most of them only yielded little profit. I soon realized that I don't have the magic touch to make one project go viral.

Recently, I realized that I might have more luck doing multiple things at the same time. Perhaps sell gadgets, self-publish a few books, a few Android apps, provide various services and so on. Hoping the sum would make something worthwhile.

Although right now my goal is to supplement my income, I'm dreaming that one day I'll be able to quit my day job and work for myself. Ideally having the entire day to work on these things.

I'm curious about how some of you succeeded with one big project and others with multiple smaller ones.

My ambitions sometimes grow too big and maybe this is just a pipe dream.

Your opinion would be appreciated.
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