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Globalization and Lobbying are not irreversible trends. The world is already starting to become less "global", with the Chinese belt-and-road initiative, Russian exclusionism, and the breakdown of NAFTA (among other things). Many world powers, including Russia, China, and the US (to some degree) want the world to be less open for trade and large corporations.

as for lobbying, America has been through this before. The Gilded Age saw lobbying to an even more extreme degree, with companies like US Steel and Standard Oil able to basically pay off senators. The same thing happened with slave plantations in the 1850s. After the great depression (and even before to some small extent; see the breakup of Standard Oil), laws were put into place heavily curbing lobbying, insider trading, among other things (like stock buybacks). Really, we're in another Gilded Age, and one day the balance of power between the individual, the state, and the industry will shift again.
When Flanders was poor a lot of Flemings moved to Wallonia, at the time it was the wealthy part of Belgium, to find work. They stayed and their kids grew up learning French and then their kids did as well, only their last names reminding them of where their ancestors came from.
The vast majority of "patriarchy hurts men" discussions I've seen, including the Buzzfeed and Washington Post articles I spot checked at the top of this search, have been about how the men reading the article need to fix their bad behavior. Buzzfeed calls for me to learn "specific strategies to end gender violence" so that I won't "engage in everyday sexist behaviours"; Wapo suggests "Giving up a small slice of privilege in exchange for a longer (and happier) life".
Is it just me or archive is unusable on mobile now due to the capcha being off screen?
I mean, though, you can always disable a cellular radio, it's just a matter of finding it.
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Your actual website shows a much more interesting console product: https://www.deref.io/

Can you share more about that?
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I once mentioned the obvious flaw in the GMO mosquito plan to my Genetics professor, but he just waved his hand and said "Oh, these folks are smart - they'll figure it out."

It's good to know that my intuition was correct and the field is basically over-promising to local authorities so they can effectively conduct funded genetic experiments in the wild...

Oh, wait a minute... No I'm not... That's a f*ing disaster waiting to happen.
I agree with a fair portion of the original article and my comment was almost off-topic because it relates more to the author than the article.

The common feeling the author identifies with incels is the intense loneliness and unhappiness. By no means am I criticizing anyone for their feelings. What I am saying is look for the primary underlying cause and dealing with those feelings which is to a) deal with mental health issues. b) focus on building a strong support system for healthy emotional regulation to alleviate loneliness especially. Life should be enjoyable with friends and hobbies, not miserable.

I also want to point out that what a lot of incels want is not a healthy relationship with a woman, but a glorified sex slave or sex worker in exchange for treating them with basic dignity. This is a far cry from gay people oppressed by homophobia. Nonetheless, for the sake of incels who understand what healthy relationships are like and want that:

I'm trying to be pragmatic. I'd advise a gay friend to escape their strictly homophobic society and help them leave. If there's no where to go then I can only offer emotional support and try to fix the society. Likewise, I think introspection about the true source of intense negative feelings is the best thing for anyone who feels intensely unhappy about life for any perceived reason. I have felt intensely unhappy in the past and I have a lot of evidence now that it was mental health and not circumstances like whether I had a partner or not, despite it feeling like the cause sometimes. Love and sex can mask a lot of negative mental health, too.

Pragmatically what else can we do for incels? They feel very bad, none of us (speaking for the men) can give them what they want, and the only way forward for them that I see is helping them find coping skills and support systems to become emotionally healthy. Most of them have unrealistic expectations and will be disappointed until they correct them. The others will have to wait to find the right partner while otherwise enjoying their lives.
I believe it is more of an English speaking world thing. The tropes of the white wedding come from people emulating English nobility.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_wedding
Reminds me of a Rubberbandits classic.
>> But there is a way to improve supply: give dignity to prostitution.

Better yet, guys need to learn to be the kind of man women want to fvck. They're not obligated and attraction is non-negotiable. Reality can be harsh. Guys need to treat themselves with dignity and put themselves together.
How did Taiwan get its start... well, people there invented the foundry business model 30 years ago when barriers to entry in semiconductor manufacturing where much much lower than they are today. China has sunk hundreds of billions into the industry and is barely making a dent.
You have to explicitly allow contact/phone/sms sharing on the phone when you pair it.
Don’t forget Mazda!
It's not working because they believe the wrong things about why they are struggling to find companionship. It's not just find some stat to max and done, positioning the problem this way is itself part of the problem.

> Reducing inequality in dating

What does this mean, be specific. I cannot think of anything except absolutely ghoulish ideas that remove agency from women.
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Years ago the natural diamond in my wife's wedding ring fell out somewhere, so she stopped wearing the ring. When our 25th anniversary was coming up I asked her if she wanted to get a new ring. Our 20-something year old daughters got wind of this and said under no circumstances could we get a natural diamond. I'd never paid much attention to the issue since I hadn't been in the market for a diamond in the 26 since years since I purchased one for the first ring (a ring that only cost $600 since I was a poor college student, no wonder the diamond eventually fell out).

I did some looking around and learned about Moissanite. The women on r/moissanite were especially enthused about it. From there I learned that you could design and purchase Moissanite jewelry directly from China. I had my wife look through the rings of one of the stores on Alibaba and choose one that she liked, except the color was wrong (she wanted rose gold instead of platinum). So I reached out to the company and asked about the possibility of getting it made in rose gold. I was assured it was no problem. I told them I wanted solid rose gold and not plated. They said the price would be higher, but no problem. I sent my wife's ring size and a few days later they sent back CAD mockups of what the ring would look like with measurements. I had them enlarge the bottom of the band and we came to an agreement on what cut/color/clarity/etc. all of the side moissanite stones would be. Then we started working on the main stone. We came to an agreement on size (2 Carat), color, clarity, style, etc. We could specify everything about the stone from the height of the crown to the width of the edge to the way the stone was cut to the bottom point - frankly we had to read up a lot of how stones are cut and what the different options are to know how to appropriately respond. About a week later they had finished cutting the stone and sent us videos of it under different light conditions so that we could approve it. Then they manufactured the ring and sent us videos of it to approve. After approval and final payment we received it in the mail about 3 days later.

Frankly my wife loves the ring. It really is gorgeous and everyone thinks the Moissanite is a real diamond.

My favorite part is that the entire thing only cost me $700. 10 out of 10 I'd definitely do it that way again.
I think a big part of this is the lack of repairability and long-term software support, though. There's no good reason we need to be replacing our phones (and a lot of other electronics) as often as most of us currently do.
That can be simplified even further, the NSA doesn't care about Google, Facebook, or any other specific companies, just the ability to extract data from them. They would truly hate if the Third Party Doctrine were overturned.[1]

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[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_doctrine
The amusing factor to all of this, is that 99% of people can't visually tell the difference between a $100 and $10,000 ring. As a status symbol, it effectively works on the honor code, or based on someone directly reporting its cost! Sort of like fancy wine or art.

e.g. people will make a judgment on the 'realness' of your ring and it's validity as a status symbol, based if it's inflated value is perceived to be within budget, and if challenged you would have to stand ground by declaring it's cost.
Anticipating some comments about how this is fine and market value is whatever people decide it is.

Is that really the world you want to live in?

Think about the other side of the coin: if the market is undervaluing something truly important in the long term like fighting climate change, do we really want to throw our hands up and say “them’s the rules, let the market be”?
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i’m with you on the technical bit. in any style of writing where the goal is to concisely convey information, you’re definitely right that style doesn’t matter in most cases, so repeating words isn’t really something to avoid. to kinda piggyback off your anecdote, a lot of people trip into that pitfall of trying to make whatever they’re writing sound too unique, and in doing so, they (often inadvertently) add a layer of verbosity that adds wordiness instead of anything meaningful to what they’re trying to say.

my issue is that i reuse adverbs and adjectives within a few sentences of one anther and simply don’t notice it — like saying “rain fell in gentle waves,” then a sentence or two later, “the tide rolled in, soft, gentle, crashing against…” it just feels.. lazy, unimaginative to me. i read somewhere that it’s a quirk of the brain (perhaps only for some people, i don’t remember) where words in immediate memory get looped and “stuck” there. that seems to be what happens when i write, and it chaps my ass.
This is much more convincing than dnissley's response to me. I wonder how many "incels" have suffered trauma in their childhood.

I certainly don't expect people to just work through childhood trauma without societal help. ex. Make it cheap, easy, and acceptable to get therapy. Much different than my list above IMO where most people can work on it themselves without many excuses.
While I'm sure that's true - it is still a very popular smuggling area exactly because the border patrol is very thin.
Hi. I'm a guy who has, for my entire life, had difficulty forming romantic relationships. For most of my life, I also had a lot of trouble forming close friendships. So this is a topic that is very personal for me, and please listen carefully to what I have to say.

First: close friendships are not a substitute for romantic relationships. Friendship and romance are two distinct needs. Not every human is wired to need romance, but _many_ people are. At this point in my life, I'm fortunate enough to have a circle of close platonic friends, but I'm still single, and I'm acutely feeling the lack of romance.

That being said, you have a valid point that romantic relationships are not a substitute for close friendships. Some incels want to get a girlfriend as a substitute for making friends, and I agree that's a bad idea. But telling them "make strong friendships" is not helpful! Most people in this situation will struggle to form to close friendships for the same reasons that they struggle to form romantic relationships.

So how _should_ the problem be fixed? There are no easy solutions. And there especially aren't easy solutions that the sufferers can implement on their own; if there was an easy way out, they would have done it already. I believe this problem will continue until _society_ changes how it treats socially awkward people. Society needs to be more sensitive towards people who lack social skills, and stop demonizing them. For example, there's a tendency to conflate "incels" in the sense of "misogynistic assholes who use terms like Chad/Stacy/femoid", with "incels" in the sense of "any man who's lonely and complains about it". The former group is a tiny fraction of the latter group, and conflating them is very unfair to the latter group. This needs to stop.
>> Imagine if Tony decided to assign her more work to ensure she spends a full eight hours a day busy.

Tony invents “agile/scrum”.
The editors and ghost writers aren't named.
I made an app with the purpose of drawing cloud backend architecture diagrams using apple pencil. I haven't used Excalidraw+ but I guess it's the same though. - https://cloudarchitect.app
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I guess it's possible that it could be a knockoff, but in any case it would be made in china either way, since the original is also made there, so it doesn't really change anything in relation to the point being made by the parent comment
Actually, I'm glad that this happened.

Now everyone can see the essence of NFT scams.

Basically, he made an investment asset from a donation, with an ability to gain more later.

How this can be called a donation, if you are going to make more money from a single fact of it, FOR YOURSELF?

Hypocrisy maxed out.
Or

wit.ai

www.wit.ai
Missing the point. These things are supposed to exist for pure marketing blitz, it doesn't matter if they're actually decenteralized or even outright fraudulent.

It just has to help bring in enough new suckers to allow the recipients of ethereum's huge pre-mine (now valued at about one quarter trillion dollars) to exit more of their positions without collapsing the price.
>> right now in most of the states law require it to be returned

Is this true? That would be very surprising, as it is essentially a gift, or at the very least, joint property subject to divorce adjudication like anything else.
> but the fact is that women despise weak men.

I'd say this is true for all genders and people. Homosexual people also display this tendency just as well as heterosexual males. Heck, even in friendships, it can be hard to enjoy being with a buddy that is going through a deep funk despite all your efforts to rouse them out of it. People want to be with people like themselves. Misery loves company, and vice-versa
Chainlink sounds interesting. But how can you be sure about the data and the link?

Insurers have sizeable fraud departments. If a system is unreversible and exists in a place without enforceable contracts, wouldn’t that allow for a large gaming opportunity?
> I can imagine "upgrading" my computer to a faster processor like we do with RAM

Am I going insane, or is our collective memory of user-serviceable computer hardware already fading?
My personal opinion is that the current educational paradigm is not a good fit for many students and (or because) the educational system places students into an adversarial/competitive environment.

We wouldn't tolerate school athletics to require students to take steroids in order to pass Gym so why should it ever be expected for a student to need to take Adderall or another ADHD drug to complete an academic class?
How is it being blocked? The share buybacks are record breaking, but investors just plow the money right back into them by buying more.

The big tech companies are objectively delivering products that people around the world derive a lot of utility from.
It is all of the US land, sea, and lake (Great Lakes) borders.
But if phones cost 4x what they do now, as GP suggests, people would replace their phone far less frequently.
Don't you think this might have been figure of speech rather than statement of fact?
I fear that words like "easy" or "expensive" in this realm are difficult to evaluate objectively.

Weddings, for example, are not expensive, if you consider them as a bureaucratic act: in most countries, it's just a few forms to fill him with minimal fees attached. However, if you impose on them oversized cultural expectations (which come from "netflix shows of the past"...) of white horses, diamonds, banquets and so on, then yeah, it's an expensive act. Maybe, if one wanted more weddings, one should support reducing some of these artificial obstacles...?

> a sizable segment of the population thinks the idea of marriage is “uncool”

That's always been true, as showed in literature of the past.
Would finding a romantic partner help with existential dread related to death? You will not only worry about your own death, but that of your partner's as well. Some degree of this is normal and expected, as it's part of being human, but if it reaches the pathological levels described by the author of TFA...
Chrome extensions don't mirror GitHub source, they can upload whatever they want in the zip file.
2 employees assisting with 6-12 self-checkout stations is still a net-win for the employer if the objective is cutting "overhead" of personnel. It's only a problem if the self-checkout system is flawed in a way that requires frequent and lengthy intervention by the employees, versus the occasional ID check for alcohol purchases and item check for something not scanning correctly.
Ask HN: How to fight back against bank auto pay fail, subsequent credit hit?
I've been lucky to have stable employment and have never missed a mortgage payment in my entire life. Earlier this year I used my bank's website to setup Auto Draft for a refinanced mortgage which failed, and caused me to miss a payment. The result was a hit on my credit.

Setup Date: 1/21/2021
First Draft Date: 2/1/2021

This auto draft failed, and the bank claims that not enough time was given between setting up the draft, and the first draft. This seems like a weak excuse, because my bank account was already approved in their system (this was a refinance with the same bank, who I had been auto drafting for years from).

The only correspondence I received after the failure, was a physical letter in the mail 15 days later (2/15/2021). This was lost, probably in the jumble of junk mail I get from this bank having sold my information to third parties. Anyone with a mortgage knows this pain.

After not noticing, and not receiving any notification (other than physical mail) ... 30 days passed and I was given a delinquency hit on my credit.

No email was sent alerting me of the failed auto draft.
No SMS message was sent.
No phone call within the 30 days of auto draft failure.
Nothing on their dashboard indicating a failure.

How can I fight back against this? Bank is stonewalling me claiming that when I setup the auto draft, it listed when the first draft would take effect, and that this was 3/1. That was presented flatly, without any warning, and I probably glossed over the "success" of setting up auto pay.

It seems I'm being screwed by a bare minimum effort from the bank here. They did almost nothing after the auto draft failed to help me realize the failure. Furthermore, the draft failing in the first place shouldn't have happend.

What recourse do I have? What regulations exist regarding bank software?
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I really really like those cell phone cases.
We're in closed beta now and will have more to share publicly soon. Would be happy to chat though, so I'll reach out if you sign up for the beta invite list on our site or shoot a note to hello@deref.io
Every ISP has to have this in order to qualify for safe harbour provisions under the DMCA.
People don't necessarily optimize for maximum happiness. It's not a good target metric.
In 7 months, over 8,000 apps were created with Budibase. Many of these are either data based (admin panels on top of databases), or process based (approval apps).

Budibase is built for internal tools so the apps are behind a log in / portal.
My bad, the stakes are high. I'll work to cool it next time.
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It's not the UI, it's an old mock-up.
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I "trolled" the professor by doing a random sort...
I think this is the right way to look at it. This is why I gave myself as an example. I was raised by a mentally ill single parent in poverty. I wasn't taught how to socialize with others in a healthy way. As a result, I wasn't equipped to form healthy relationships.

I think there are a lot of young men who are in a similar position and if they are given proper guidance and healthy role models when they are young, they can be in a better position to succeed in friendships, work and relationships.
I went to a wedding and the two friends tied a knot as per middle-age European tradition.

The knot was then packaged inside of a chest, as a reminder of the promise they made on their Wedding Day. And as far as I know, they still have that chest with them, and the Knot is still tied.
I strongly disagree, but my evidence is all anecdotal. I'm not saying that literally every guy can find a partner, but I have seen all manner of men end up with perfectly lovely partners (and/or occasional sex partners). And when I say "all manner" I mean dumb guys, ugly guys, short guys, guys with terrible hygiene. The spectrum of men I have personally witnessed have success with women is vast and diverse and even kind of disgusting.
The money in lenses goes towards more predictability - sharper, wider aperture, faster to focus, smooth bokeh for portraits - or technical achievements like ultratelephoto lenses. The people who can pay are looking for those features, not random effects.

The value here is in novelty - it doesn't look like anything else. If it was mass produced, demand for the effect would likely go down, not up. And it's certainly not without compromise - sharpness across the entire frame in those example shots is worse than your average plastic 18-55mm kit zoom.
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I think we should all hate to see the latter. Unfortunately, it's already happening with TikTok, and with the rate of innovation in China, we'll see many more.
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Counter-argument to that -
Maybe Tony wants Gloria to "slack off" so that she has 100% of her mental energy available to solve whatever problem he needs to her to solve.
> That's different from wanting similar outcomes between groups of millions of people, because those almost invariably come from inequality of opportunity.

Can you cite any evidence that this is the case? It seems you are simply defining inequality of outcome to mean the same thing as inequality of opportunity at the group level.
The issue isn’t prodigies! The issue is that students will no longer be able to take calculus in high school. And that’s a big problem since it slows down students abilities to take advanced math in college, at a time where the amount of math needed by technical professions is only growing!
It's pretty easy to install from source, if that's your preference. We'll get some build/install instructions in to the readme.