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>It regulates costs for pharmaceuticals and medical equipment.

This is an underappreciated requirement if we want to significantly lower costs. Drug patents, medical device patents and illogical government regulations imposed by corrupt and incompetent regulators lead to massive costs for patients. Allowing drug to charge hundreds or thousands of dollars for a dose of a drug that costs .50 cents to manufacture is an atrocity. This is doubly true since a large portion of medical research that these patents rely on is done by publicly funded research at universities and research clinics. Patent laws need to be completely rewritten to allow for a decent return on investment while disallowing price gouging.
One counterpoint against 1), and what eventually pushed me to stop eating meat, is the supposed humane slaughtering of the animals. It is not humane at all, and there is a lot of malpractice against the animals while they are in the slaughterhouse. There was a broadcast on Dutch television highlighting these issues. If your stomach can handle it; here is the link, but I warn it is very expressive:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2bwr7RotAs
(~2m40 people reacting to what you will see; ~3m23 the actual footage)

To be sure, this is not some incident but some fundamental issue throughout the industry (at least in the Netherlands). There is only one big company responsible for most of the slaughtering. The government bodies supposed to be monitoring their practices had their budget cuts for years and now it turns out they can no longer do their job, and are said to be part of the problem. It is hard to give citations here because most of it is in Dutch, I am not sure about the situation in the US.

Slowly but surely there are more biological farms operating in the Netherlands, but still these animals are slaughtered at the same slaughterhouses the factory animals are slaughtered at. I am afraid there is no good story here.

Another counterpoint is; you are talking about cattle, but what about pigs and chicken for example? They are not happily grazing on some green meadow, but mostly always indoors (talking Netherlands here again), being overfed to grow as fast as possible, get as many piglets or produce as much meat in a as short amount of time as possible, then to be butchered in some awful way if they are unlucky. It takes very little effort to find mountains of footage of animals being mistreated on farms all over the world.

So I don't think the assumptions you make in 1) hold. There is no way to ensure that the meat you are eating (even biological meat), is from an animal that was treated respectfully during its lifetime and slaughtered in a humane way.

Ad 2), by the fatalistic argument, a whole lot of things no longer make sense (who would you vote, your vote does not matter). But consider the network effect you may have in your decision to no longer eat meat, and for example start making too long comments on HN to try to convince other people to stop eating meat. In case you can convince more than person during your lifetime to stop eating meat, habits and what is considered acceptable will shift eventually.
With Safari now having it built-in so you can do FaceID/TouchID I have a feeling it is about to become more common for websites.
Do you realize that is literally prejudice?
For Linux usb writing from Windows, I have had great success for many years with Lili https://www.linuxliveusb.com/
Firefox is just as (or more) open source as Chromium. If I wanted to fork a browser that’s where I’d start.
Also a Linux user, but back in the Windows days you could use Diskpart to do so:

select disk ##
clean
create partition primary
active
format fs=ntfs quick
assign

Then just extract the disk image to the USB Drive and voila. I just noticed it's even documented on Dell's support page[0]

0: https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000136959/create-a-...
How do you plan to power desal plants? LADWP is still importing coal fueled electricity from Utah. Not to mention all of the petroleum and natural gas plants scattered around California.

Before we have desalination, we need more renewable energy.
No, it's WebAuthN these days (FIDO 2) which can transparently use U2F tokens.
I feel your pain. I lost my GMail account under very similar circumstances. That means that I also lost my Amazon and Reddit accounts because they send me "verify it's you" emails that I can no longer access.

It's been almost two months now. I managed to get through to a human but they misunderstood my problem, referred me to the wrong documentation, and then stopped replying altogether. I am now shopping for lawyers to sue them under the GDPR for something that any other company would have resolved in an hour or less.

Do not trust Google to be your gatekeeper.
It's worth noting that in addition to what you said, Californian farms also recycle fracking waste water, something residential systems do not.
This reminds me of the “chair incident” story I read a long time ago. Maybe someone will know what I’m talking about.

It was something in the game industry and I don’t remember the details but I know a chair was broken such that one of the legs was broken off to form a “shit your pants” style point and one person held it while two other guys held the uncooperative victim by the arms and leaned him right over it so that if they let go he’d fall and get stabbed.
You can set up PhotoStructure to build smaller (4k, 1080p, whatever you want) previews on your home server, and rsync just the previews dir and DB periodically up to your VPS. A couple of my beta users do this. (I'm the author, btw).

https://photostructure.com/faq/why-photostructure/
CRT teaching and COVID-lockdown related psychosis is going to lead to more adolescent health crises e.g. Columbines than we can imagine.

This is going to cause issues with a whole generation of kids until we realize the damage it’s done and ban it.
I mean, its not always ignorance. I understand meat has massively more impact on the environment in many metrics. I still enjoy meat products and tend to eat them from time to time. There's things I enjoy about those products, even though there are externalities. If there's a product out there which can offset most of those externalities and still satiate that same kind of experience, I'll pay a few more bucks for it. Hopefully, many more similar people to me will as well, and maybe we'll even make it cost effective to offset most of that highly impactful meat eating with something that more people find agreeable.

Its way better for the environment if I never purchased a car or even a bicycle and I just walked everywhere. My environmental impact would probably be lower. But in the end I'm going to buy some kind of vehicle, because I enjoy what buying a car gets me.

Its way better for me to never eat meat, but in the end I enjoy what eating meat gives me. I can massively reduce my impact on the Earth living naked foraging berries and roots and never traveling farther than I can walk but in the end there are things I enjoy and will end up doing them despite the externalities. I'm going to own an air conditioner and I'm going to run it. This has externalities and would be better for the environment if it was never made and was never run. I'm going to own a refridgerator and run it. This has externalities and would be better for the environment if it was never made and never run. I'm typing this on a computer which will eventually go into a landfill and probably become some trace amount of toxic waste. In the end, I still managed to get usage out of it and find value from it while its useful. The only way to have no impact on the Earth is to never exist.

Its nice having the option to do things which give most of the same experience while reducing the externalities. I'll buy the refrigerator which is more efficient. I'll buy the right size AC system for my home to cool it as effectively as possible I'll maintain all my appliances to give as long as a serviceable live as possible. And I'll buy what gives me similar experiences to what I enjoy for food that reduces my impact on the Earth.
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You seem to throw all food processing into the same pot, so to speak. Humans have an under-developed digestion system. Why? Because they can pre-process their foods to compensate. They know that some plants are poisonous unless cooked, for example.

And obviously, few food-processing factories or bulk shipping methods of ingredients cause enough greenhouse gasses that you can just eat local meat instead, if you care about your footprint. Saying that none of this is solving a real problem is wishful thinking.
Actual, non-click-bait, non-misleading title: Preliminary Findings of mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine Safety in Pregnant Persons

And an excerpt:

"Although not directly comparable, calculated proportions of adverse pregnancy and neonatal outcomes in persons vaccinated against Covid-19 who had a completed pregnancy were similar to incidences reported in studies involving pregnant women that were conducted before the Covid-19 pandemic."
Chinese Manufacturers Sidestep Trade Barriers by Buying Factories Overseas
I guess inkjet printers are good for something after all!

Was there any reason...why he did that?
https://archive.is/vZMkb
It's true that if a black person gives up without trying because they assume they can't succeed then their failure contributes to the inequality between the races. I'm sure I could have put it better. I was most concerned about pushing back on the notion that this subject should be taboo because somehow discussing systemic racism is the real cause of inequality.
I'd pronounce those the same (western US accent), but it can vary. Check out the caught/cot merger, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cot%E2%80%93caught_merger
Wouldn't it logically follow that issues of systemic racism are a bigger problem than the narrative of systemic racism? Can't that be true without being a brainwashed white guilted liberal?
Usually I pick languages based on the ecosystem and not the other way around.

One thing that Grain has going for itself is the toolchain, just like AssemblyScript.

Most languages targeting WebAssembly, instead of directly generating wasm files, use a klundge of Python, JS and Java tools, with Emscripten being the most notorious in that regard.
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As a canadian, are we really that much more equal than the USA? Sure, maybe we have less of the extremes on both sides (Less billionairs, and i suspect less hopelessly poor, although i don't know the number on that), but we still have rich people and poor people, a good uni still gives you a major step up.
Been there, my friend. Been there.
How WSJ stipple drawings are made: https://youtu.be/sZzP9PQJXLs
But I suspect you've convinced yourself with explanations that the sensors of the Navy around those released UAP videos were somehow invalid, or the many, if you search, nightvision UFO video, are also invalid. it would be cool if humans really had silent anti-gravity triangles, and if people see those or have an experience with them I think it's wrong to say well given that one of the possibly interpretations is aliens therefore this evidence must be discounted in these people must be crazy. I'm not saying you're saying that but I think there's definitely an incorrect trend in that direction

Something interesting about this stuff is that there's not perfect cover across all sensors always. Maybe sometimes you have people seeing something that's not on radar. Or you have something that's on radar but not on other types of sensor. Or you have something that's in the infrared but not in the visible. I'm not asking you to believe anyone interpretation just to be open and consistent I think that if you're willing to believe the sensors are malfunctioning and creating ghost tracks it's also reasonable to consider that the sensors are not capable of picking up some sorts of technology. I understand that depending on your pliers there's different takes have different probabilities to you but I don't think it's okay to rush to certainty and discount any of those interpretations and say that anyone who suggests as much or obvious for those is out and out crazy. that's offensive and abusive to people and not I think in the spirit of investigation and curiosity.
So, the technical interviewer says “no hire.” But the VP (who went to the candidate’s alma mater) says yes. And the Director who knows the candidate’s uncle from the country club says yes. And the candidate really laid it on thick for the hiring manager who has the final say. What did the tech nerd say, again?

It increasingly feels like the world’s reward systems have been captured by and saturated with these charming phonies who only know how to game the system. Put all your skill points into charisma and people will just hand you money and opportunities. I’ve spent my whole career perpetually a couple of rungs down the totem pole from these well-pedigreed charmers, and hear them talk their smooth, but ultimately empty talk over and over.

Whether it’s college applications or job applications, the longer I go at it, the more convinced I am that the ability to “seem like the right kind of successful sort of person” gives you the best results. Better than track record, better than demonstrable skills, better than potential and willingness to do hard work.
For people that aren’t good socially (especially those that don’t fit it in the culture quickly) having a group of people that you try to work with is sorta useless advice.

Speaking anecdotally: It took me a long time to understand how to be a good listener and pick on social cues and not be constantly worried about appearing like an idiot. While I was cordial with coworkers I tried not to engage with them after work: I’ve always wanted to keep those 2 worlds separated. I do hang out with coworkers when eg it’s crunch time, or in celebrating a successful launch. But that’s it.
Really? How is this activated or enabled?
I think danShumway answered 1) pretty well. I just wanted to add my opinion about 2).

Nothing an individual does in terms of personal behavior can have any "significant impact" at a global scale. If all humans made decisions like this, we would all come to the same conclusion, none of our individual actions are responsible. Which, while true, is ultimately a useless conclusion. I'd rather that we as a collective change our fundamental behavior for the better instead of governments imposing on our lives. If all governments decided tomorrow to ban all meat products, the world would undoubtedly be in a much better place. You also mention second order effects (small circle of influence) but even that is marginal. Being a vegan, I believe I've "converted" (just by exposing them to an alternative lifestyle) two people to vegetarian.
It is an idea based on you have some method of determining the best employees and you select the most productive which sounds fair.

What happens is people make choices that put them in that 10%. Some by increasing odds by hiring awful in purpose. Some will target others work. Selecting the right group becomes more important than doing good work.

I believe you should hire or fire based in objective numbers. If 50% are bad fire them now. If none are bad keep them and give them a raise.
This guy Vasallo sounds like an entitled, self-righteous prick. YT offered him a fix but he didn’t want it.
Etcher is easy to use but why on earth did they decide to make it an electron app?
The article states:
"In February 2020, Nature Sustainability published this terrifying conclusion: California would need to burn 20 million acres — an area about the size of Maine — to restabilize in terms of fire."

So the data the article is using is from before the 2020 fire season. Only 15.4 million acres to go.
There was a post of the front-page of reddit a few days ago saying that most Americans are lied to about the fish they are buying in restaurants and supermarkets. I think it hilarious when people like me, urban dwellers, tell me to my face they only buy meat from some small butcher because they only trust him, or some variation of that story. Truth is, we have no idea where our food comes from, labels lie, and sellers have all the incentive to manipulate the truth.
My x86_64 and ARM CPUs were also designed to able to run languages like C and C++ (and Rust) efficiently, and so does not have built in garbage collection.
> If you had a rigid system and slow turnaround from the start, you might not have gotten off the ground to get that far.

I always see people say this and on the surface it seems to make sense, but I also always wonder what "rigid system" they're talking about. It's much, much faster to make big changes in every phase of a project in Haskell for me than it is in Elixir, so this is the perspective I'm seeing this from. This hypothetical/straw man "rigid system" is hard to fathom.
Maybe someone on HN can answer this for me. Why are these articles about the American system written as if they are new developments. Nothing in this article sounds any different from how things were 50 years ago, and probably earlier. I am guessing that 1. more kids are going to college today than 50 years ago (that should be a good thing) and competing for spots at top schools (thus more competition) and 2. the American economy has not expanded to make use of this increased number of college graduates. I have no idea if that is true, though. Articles like these make it sound like the author is reporting on some great, newly discovered unfairness. But things have been this way in America for over at least half a century. The only obvious difference between then and now is perhaps that there's more people competing.

EDIT: Cheers for the answers. I am going to do some research on tuition increases at state universities, as well as the historical numbers on student borrowing. Any pointers to where I can find such data already compiled would be appreciated.
I've been feeling more conflicted about consuming meat lately, but it's blanket assertions like this that trigger my inner libertarian hard, and I come out swinging. There is considerable evidence suggesting meat consumption contributed significantly to our cerebral expansion (https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/701477?mob...). Unlike most great apes today, whose diet is primarily plant based, we can thank the incredible nutrient density in meat and our incredible hunting and tool creating ability for prefrontal cortex development. Humans are alpha predators, more so than any other animal in the world. We were pack hunters, forging tools and strategies capable of taking down mammoths. Call it 'diabolicaly evil' if you want, but this is simply nature and survival. Eat solely plants without supplementation and you will become deficient in B12 and iron (amongst other things, contributing to early age mortality). I don't personally believe highly processed plant alternatives such as Beyond meat are a long term option if you're even vaguely interested in your own health. So call me evil, I see myself as a pragmatist, more in touch with nature than you are. I recognize the alpha predator in myself. I lift weights, consume lean, well sourced and organic meat. I've hunted and eaten what I've killed as my forebears. I'm resilient and healthy. If that makes me diabolical I'll take it.
Hey dang, if I mention you this way, will you notice the above suggestion? It seems pretty easy and pretty valuable!
A cow grown in Wyoming or Michigan, where they have more water than they know what to do with is less of a problem than water intensive plants grown in California, where people paint their lawns because it's illegal to water them.
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Totally agree. I don't want to be the guy who's trying to have the last word and comment on everything here. I guess I just want to engage on this topic where I feel like I got so much to say. I'm sure there are other people here have more to say than me, I hope to try to create a sort of welcoming environment for those people come and engage too by removing or stopping some of the incorrect negativity and dismissals that I see around this topic.
I don't particularly want to argue with you. Using the phrase "falsifiable observation", and then referencing "fun" as an argument just doesn't really work for me. I appreciate that you like dynamic languages, but I will not take your "rest of the world" bait. To suggest that dynamic typesystems are as verifiably correct as static typesystems is verifiably incorrect.
https://www.nola.com/opinions/article_4f6138fe-ea8c-551b-9e6...

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/12/09/black-lives-mat...

https://www.facebook.com/JusticeForDaniel/photos/i-just-want...

| BlackLivesMatter.com

The movement is so much more than that website. There's also a big difference between black lives matter and Black Lives Matter.
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Telling someone they are a victim and there is nothing they can possibly do to better their situation is not a helpful or productive action. You end up with entire generations who believe there is no point trying because its all pointless since they are a victim to something that happened generations ago.
No, that's not the point. That what your think, and i think, it's a little harsh and dismissive for you to judge someone else's life work or experience or what they amount to and say they've achieved nothing. I bet a lot of other actual human beings would reject your characterization of them. I think you should think of that and I think not enough people remember the human in this topic. And I think that's selfish and cruel
I will personally grow my own cow, slit its throat, and carve a bloody quarter pound of beef off it before I eat one of these things.
To add to that, even grass fed, free range animals are often fed more grain at the end of their lives so the grow quicker in the last couple months.
I'm as big a Rufus fan as anyone, but for Windows 10 why wouldn't I just use Microsoft's boot image creator?

That's what I've done lately, and it works every time with no fuss.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

Edit: I just remembered that you might not be on a Windows device, in which case you may well want to download the ISO and use Rufus to make a bootable stick from it.
I’ve heard people say it makes chilis extra spicy.
We certainly are lucky to live in a society of plenty where we can make the moral decision on how or what we eat. I don't have any negative thoughts against people who completely opt out of eating meat for that reason.

But just to comment on your first point, we would never let an animal suffer like that when we grew up. A quick shot to the temple to switch it off immediately, and then cut and hang the meat to bleed out worked just as well for us.

Don't get me wrong, we were always taught to minimise any suffering and to give our livestock the best/healthiest/least stressful lives possible, and to treat them with dignity when you needed them for food.
People can be legitimately afraid of revenge by a company or specific people.

Certainly met a few characters that enjoy going out of their way to hurt others.