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> The USA must defend Taiwan even at the risk of nuclear war.

I don't think this is a popular or maintstream position, nor does the rest of your argument support it.

>The dollars position in the world allows the USA to run its current accounting.

I am not sure what this means. Every nation has a current account. Accounting is just how we track what that account is. Nothing allows accounting to happen, we just do it.

The U.S. is uniquely generous (or from an alternate point of view, uniquely foolish) in allowing the rest of the world to purchase unlimited dollar denominated assets. This makes the U.S. the safe haven for everyone that needs to park export earnings, and thus incentivizes the rest of the world to run huge surplus against the U.S. This is what is meant by "the dollar system". If tomorrow, the European Union would allow unlimited foreign purchases of Euro assets, and provided what is believed to be rule of law and respect for foreign investor rights, then the rest of the world would gladly diversify away from the dollar and the dollar system would end. That was the original vision of the Euro, but the moment there is any crisis, the EMU reveals that it doesn't have the same level of openness for global investment as the U.S., and that dream is proved illusory. So the global dollar system continues, and is in no way dependent on Taiwan or any other exporter. You get to be a reserve currency by importing the most, not by exporting the most.

> Allowing China to take Taiwan destroys the economy and the position of the USA in the world.

It does not affect the economy of the U.S. in either direction, except that the resulting chaos would be bad for markets. Having one foreign export power taken over by another is a null op when determining where can the rest of the world park their money. Of course we may block China from doing it, and that could escalate into a war, which would be disastrous for two nuclear powers, but there are easier ways to punish China -- e.g. seize all their foreign reserve holdings (which are held in custodial accounts in various foreign central banks), block all trade, stop the shipment of any oil. For a nation dependent on exports and dependent on foreign nations allowing China to hold large accounts in their financial system, China is tightly integrated into the global system and uniquely dependent on the good graces of that system. They would have been better off taking physical delivery of silver as in the past.

Not a single bullet needs to be fired to cripple China and destroy its economy. It would also seriously damage the global economy and spread hurt around the world, but this type of economic warfare is better than nuclear war. Whether Taiwan is worth it is a completely different question. But in such a battle, the dollar becomes even more important, not less, as it would be the global safe haven currency (for everyone except China).
If your average person became fanatic about nutrition, sleep, exercise, sun exposure, and toxin avoidance - how many extra years do you think they would add to their life?

5? 10?

What percentage of their free time do you think they would need to dedicate to those things?

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Meanwhile, an average 20 year old who is unconcerned about optimizing those things, is healthier than the average 40 year old who is. A "miracle cure" that fixed the effects of aging would be worth orders of magnitude more than being fanatic about your health today, and would (note the miracle part) consume orders of magnitude less time.

Of course that miracle cure is expected to be metaphorical gold.
Ran well for a few minutes on my iPhone, but froze up and then again after refresh. But very responsive and crisp. Obviously not yet optimized for touch devices; have to tap and hold the scrollbar to scroll, native iOS stuff didn’t come up after text selection. Very cool and while imperfect according to other comments, this is not bad at all.
Best: It's okay to say you don't know something

Worst: Don't tell employees you pay them so they shouldn't have to use Google.
look at the recent Taiwan election. the pan-green party won the presidential race with the highest votes in Taiwan history.

Taiwanese rejected reunification with China. Taiwanese rejected CCP.
I take it to mean a new version of Scala.
In Bonnie we trust.
The U.S. is lucky to have a billionaire made so through public funds?
I hate that. I noticed I developed this pattern over years of consuming short content online. Why start a big task (or even watch a movie) when there’s this 5 minute video (repeated over 20 videos). TikTok takes this to the extreme with 5-second videos that keep your mind busy without ever having to make a choice. This is addiction and I had to delete TikTok like I deleted YouTube and Facebook. Now Instagram got reels too and I’m stuck in it.
Could you re-read my comments, I think go is a very lame language, at no point I said it would be good for anything. You're not convincing anyone by picking on low bar like C#, javascript & go to make rust seem like a good language for UI programming.
Incidentally, a couple of weeks ago I wrote a tiny Star Wars-themed Forth program to celebrate Star Wars Day: https://github.com/susam/may4

Forth brings back the fun in computing for me that I once experienced when I began learning to code with Logo. Simple, distraction-free, and fun!

"I think that it's extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously. We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines. I don't think we are. I think we're responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house. I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun." -- Alan J. Perlis
There is no uniting to do. They’re two separate countries where one wants to own the other
Ask HN: Where/How to start re-learning math?
I am 23, and have not actively engaged in mathematics since I was 14, I enjoy programming but I am at the point where I can no longer avoid more in depth concepts which directly require, to a degree, mathematical fluency.

Math was incredibly easy for me at 14, so I figured it would always be easy, even if I never took another math class. I was wrong, and I would appreciate any advice, as I would like to keep diving into more and more difficult and complex programming-solveable challenges.
Great tip. I just set up a Shortcut on iOS to automate this for future use.
This is one of the things that annoys me about Chrome. Last I checked, there wasn't a solution for this. Opera had it as a feature a long time ago.
But I think people vastly overestimate the difficulty to relocate any of these elsewhere. Give it a few years and it s all running the same anywhere.

It's only a matter of cost: training an american to do the job of a chinese for the same cost is impossible today because american would refuse to produce these under the same condition: they prefer to enjoy using the chips rather than making them.

The good news is that the chinese will eventually come around and start changing their expectation.

If you think China cant change, look at their drastic demographic changes: they can become what we became, they just take longer.
Seconding this. WFH is more conscious effort in this regard, but you don't _have_ to lose those things. The biggest difference is organic conversations will not happen in big meetings. When only one person can talk at a time, you lose all those side chats, etc. So you need to book a lot of smaller meetings with people.

I have daily stand-ups with my team. I've never made it explicitly clear but kind of driven it towards a routine of "get the work out of the way, then we have until X time to chat and bullshit".

I have a weekly planning meeting with a few members of the team. Same deal. Get the planning out of the way, then the remainder is for general chit-chat, talking about personal projects, etc.

Every week I have three hours blocked off where I do a "check-in" with a bunch of other team leads. It's dual-purpose: There's a lot of things they might be dealing with that they'd never feel rose to the level of scheduling a meeting to discuss (whether problems or just wanting input, etc; this was previously a lot of the water cooler talk), but when the time's already there then they'll find all sorts of productive ways to fill it. And chit-chat once that's all out of the way.

I do an hour once a week with my boss one on one.

The entire office does a monthly-ish hour to play some silly online games and hang out as well.

We've been hiring like crazy so at this point a lot of these people are people I've never met in person but I've built a pretty good rapport and relationship purely over video chat and Slack.

All-in, I spend like 6 hours a week on this. And most of it's scheduled around the beginning/very end of the day where most people aren't as interrupted or super productive to begin with. Truth be told, this is barely more (if any) than the amount of time that we were spending previously on socialization at work. If we account for the _lost_ productivity of being distracted in the office, then I've definitely gained time.

The hardest part was just accepting that I was going to have to let some relationships go. As much as I really enjoyed talking to that one frontend engineer and it _occasionally_ resulted in some sort of productive action, the trade-off just isn't there so I need to rely more on the team leads to solve and communicate those issues.
I doubt it’s much. The wafer production is almost entirely automated. The clean rooms don’t even have oxygen.
I'm not sure the cause of their concern with the J&J being produced with a fetal cell line, but the Catholic Church has some fairly vocal guidance on why the J&J vaccine is acceptable that address this.

Also, for the mRNA vaccine, you may want to emphasize that this is the result of several decades of research, not a one-year crash program in new technology.
Doesn't it get tiring constructing some imaginary victimization conspiracy? If they're getting banned for "conservative politics," they're probably not talking about small government or lower taxes. We all know what they're talking about.
Instagram in particular seems to have gotten much more aggressive in not letting you view anything without an account.

For whatever reason though businesses like restaurants and bars will often nominally "have" a wide range of social media accounts, Instagram is often the only one with actual content. I used to be able to reasonably use these but I now seem to get a wall requiring login immediately.

It's possibly/probably worse because I'm often doing this in incognito mode, which tends to make everything more aggressively naggy. Twitter seems to be fairly random as to when they'll let you, say, view replies or media or something without requiring login, while Reddit is basically fine on desktop (even better in the "old" mode) and a dystopian nightmare on mobile.

Pretty much everything "big" is much much worse on the mobile web, I guess because they figure they stand a pretty good shot at getting you to get The App instead. It sucks.
Clicking on link brought me to a 404 page.
>IP theft

I hope that one day we look back on Imaginary Property and the silly notion that pure information is a scarce resource that can be owned, and realize what a terrible anti-humanist idea it is. It was a concept dreamt up by lawyers primarily for lawyers.

Funnily enough, Elon Musk agrees, at least with regard to Tesla imaginary property: https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you I'd hope he has the same approach with SpaceX things, but I admit I haven't looked into it as of this comment.
No it is not, which is the reason it will end up in nukes. There are a ton of well researched papers on this. Taiwan is well dug in and any invasion perpetration would be seen months in advance.

To be clear, if the USA defense of Taiwan leads to the extinction of the human race, so be it. We should have destroyed nazi germany in 1939. Fīat jūstitia ruat cælum. We are not worthy to survive if we do not defend democracy. I say this as a veteran and parent of kids that are just starting their life.

Edit: downvoted by the China accounts. Love it. Post facts. This is hacker news. We operate on data. I applaud today's Mars landing by China. I applaud all they have done as county to pull their people from poverty. The CPC has done amazing things to bring China forward, but it is has had its time. It is time trust in the people for leadership in the future. A democratic republic is what the world hopes for. China has so much to offer to the world.
> This info doesn't seem sufficient to draw meaningful conclusions about longer term protection.

Is it because the study period is just that i.e. 12 weeks? Even the studies on natural immunity from COVID suggests at least 6 - 8 months antibody persistence because the study period were just that[1][2]. Note that policies are being made now to defer the jab for those who got infected by COVID, based on these studies.

We'll likely see studies confirming long term protection from vaccines & natural immunity after disease in coming months. Btw, How much is long term?

[1]https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/lasting...

[2]https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2034545?s=09

[3]https://twitter.com/PTI_News/status/1392715110821494789
Your last sentence is exactly on point. What's sad is that we spend far more on naval power projection than on detours around obvious risks to prosperity and peace, such as the semiconductor supply chain. We are barely spending 50 billion dollars on domestic semiconductor fabrication in the upcoming legislation, despite acknowledging that the economic costs of the semiconductor shortage are far greater. Contrast that 50 billion number with Apple's expenditures on buybacks and dividends over the past decade. They aren't even in the same order of magnitude.
SpaceX employees aren't USA employees.

That makes all the difference.
Won't it be great when everyone is rendering directly to the canvas!
Best: Stay calm and recognize that long term success is more important than short term ups and downs.

Worst: Good people can sometimes land in the wrong role. Change conditions before passing judgement.
"The science" is not this monolith that stands on its own. The science behind this is the belief that fully vaccinated people are not significant spreaders of the disease. That is correct, and it's good for the CDC to recognize that. But it doesn't tell us anything about how easy it is to determine who is and isn't vaccinated and how to ensure compliance in the absence of a "vaccine passport."
Though, sadly, things like Facebook Marketplace are eating nice sites like craigslist: https://dealerpromoterpro.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Sim...
Sounds like the solution is to both donate blood and get saline drips regularly.
I see the point of employees’ well being is always missing from these conversations as the main topic.

Across companies I’m seeing it’s getting increasingly difficult for people who liked a simple 9-5 or 10-6 in the pre-pandemic days. On most days they could just switch-off from work in the early evening by leaving the work place.

That boundary is now constantly stretching. Someone has a kid so they want a different time, someone has daily house chores so they’d rather take that 3-5pm off and then extend to 5-8pm and they’d expect others to adjust around it.

It’s especially bad in my country, India. This place already had a chronic national work-life balance issue and it’s limitless in many ways now. US companies anyway treat this place as offshore software worker colony no matter how you’d want to dress this in words. I recently switched from an Indian startup (quite bad work-life balance) to a US firm and I could never imagine it would have changed for the worse. Anyway I’ve resigned and I’m interviewing only for very large MNCs where I know multiple people personally who can vouch for this part of work culture.

Now of course you can be strict about your time and slowly become “that uncooperative person” in the team. Or you can just bleat about how that’s just company failing to streamline things.

Problem is majority seems fine with not having a work boundary in their lives that used be a hard stop early in the evening and then everybody else is automatically expected be okay with this.

There is no fix of this other than very clearly separating work and home.
Autocorrected ‘low risk != no risk’
That looks about like you took the 2020 fatal collisions and divided by the 2019 sales, but that doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Probably most of the Ford crashes were not from the 2019 model year, they've been selling cars for over a century, and many of their cars are still on the road.

My understanding is fatal crashes are biased towards older models as well. Tesla has barely any cars over 10 years old, let alone 20 or 40 or 50.

More fair would be to look up registered vehicles by make and compare to fatal collisions (which I can't find a free source for, unfortunately).
California is one of the most economically richest places on earth, and I only say that from the point of view of a world traveler and without bias.
Why do you use Internet Explorer 6-8 on the internet?
i believe you can add 10-15 years easily if you: eat right, exercise and avoid nasty chemicals. Easily.
It does not take that much more time, but it can be more expensive when it comes to food and products you use.

If you go into the experimental / really expensive territory I think you can add another 5, maybe 10 years.

So I firmly believe, that today, you can expand your lifespan by 25 years if you do all the right things, you can afford it and of course you don't have very poor genetics.
For me, the problem tabs solve isn’t finding the thing, but remembering the thing to find. Bookmarks solve the former, but tabs act as a collection of topics that I care about at a given point in time.

While bookmarks accumulate over years and lose relevance and context, my tab collection acts in a revolving manner where old ones fall off as often as new ones are added. Their arrangement also forms an informal categorization system that requires very little effort; I hate trying to organize bookmarks, but organizing tabs is almost automatic. And while I do keep a lot of tabs (300-500 on average), the fact that they’re not free (they take up screen space and memory) prevents me from going overboard and encourages me to frequently cull tabs that have lost relevance.

All in all, I think my usage of tabs has come to reflect the way that I think and work, like an extension of my medium-term memory. That’s why I keep a cache of them.
Very funny to read this when the US went to the moon thanks to its government.
That's blatant slander. Think about the detergent presented as 'evidence of weapon of mass destruction' that led to the invasion of Iraq.
Well, I made a lot of mistakes and am more than glad to share them here.

As I mentioned in one of my comments, after having the original idea/thought I got too excited too soon. At the time I did not know mobile or web development and so jumped on Google, did a quick search and filled some forms on some mobile app developer companies website and literally hired the first company that called me back. Then spent about $6k for just logo design, wireframe and a landing page. That stage took about 4 months and then they gave me a $50k quote for iOS and Android app. I did not have that money.

That's when I came across Upwork and posted a job there. The quotes were much lower as you may know since most of the freelancers/agencies are based outside the US. I finally hired a company from Pakistan since their CEO personally called me and kind of lured me into not only giving them the job, but also told me he is interested in the project and he could be my advisor/mentor. Again, I got excited and thought that was a great deal. That ended up being the worst experience of my whole professional life.

Their company just broke apart in the middle of the project. Cofounders parted ways and the one who contacted me (the CEO), he said that all their team members left with the other guy and took the source code for our app with them. So I had to contact the other cofounder and have them share the code with a new team that the CEO hired. It was a mess and the project was delivered poorly and way after deadline. However, in the middle of all that, I decided to learn web and mobile development. So, I took a lot of Udemy courses and watched many Youtube videos. That was I guess the only silver lining and maybe I needed to go through the whole excruciating process to get there.

Anyways, long story short, after taking loans and spending about $35k for design and development of the iOS and Android apps, I had to redo everything else myself while having my full-time engineering job (I still needed to pay bills and had just got engaged. So no way I could quit that other job). It was a lot of non-stop 15 to 18-hour workdays.

This might not have been what you asked for, but I thought I'd share part of my story :)
What is this? "If you've maintained the asset for several years you get a tax break" Just capital gain?
The truest comment I've ever read.
Honestly I hope you're right! How cool would that be?
So does stopping for stationary objects like metal plates on the road or overhead signs.
If you were placed in a situation where everything feels like it’s on fire and falling apart, don’t go complaining to your manager. There’s a good chance your leader ship already knows, and that’s exactly why they put you there. Because they trust you to get things back on track. But this isn’t necessarily great for your mental health. So you have to prioritize and strike a balance on what matters and what doesn’t. Don’t let small things get to you.
Adding this several days later, so I realize you may never see this, but if (when? :D) you do happen to notice, feel free to email me at the address in my profile (click my username), regardless of how far in the future. :)
It's not the majority that is the market. Billionaires will pay billions per person for even a provably modest increase in life.
Why include the word "women" at all, though? Replace it with "jews" or "gays" and see how it reads. The fact that he chose to single out Bay Area women, specially, implies he doesn't hold men to the same standard.

If I were a woman working for Apple who didn't happen to be into carpentry or animal husbandry, I really wouldn't want to work for this guy.
I agree with both of the others who replied. Jira has infinite knobs, and they all get turned, and you build this massive, complex system when what you really need is a textbox and some tags.

I am not normally a "less features is more" kind of person. But with issue tracking, I am.
https://news.yahoo.com/were-going-to-lose-fast-us-air-force-...
I converted dBase, Lotus 123, Clipper programs to MS-Access and Visual BASIC. Knowing legacy languages help with upgrading and upsizing to newer technologies. These are not taught in college or hacker dojos.

I moved COBOL and FORTRAN programs off IBM Mainframes and AS/400 systems to Windows PCs using Visual BASIC.

Every organization has legacy code, but they don't want to pay the price of upgrading to modern technology.