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I spent some time in Central America radicalizi... err I mean traveling for fun, after college.

One of the things that always stood out to me was how patient everyone generally was with one another.

I remember riding around on chicken buses to get from town to town, and on more than one occasion, the bus would just pull over and the driver would get out, grab some lunch, talk to a friend. Nobody was in a rush.

My friend that I was traveling with and I would stare at each other and be like "what the hell is going on?" as we looked around at everyone else on the bus and nobody seems to care at all that their day has this arbitrary delay. I can only imagine if a driver did that here in Seattle with 30+ people all trying to get somewhere.

I like living in the US, I think it has some massive upsides, but I also think I'm a bit of a hostage to what I think my life is supposed to look like, versus simplification somewhere else.
I always wonder how much the explosion of "true crime" media has contributed to American paranoia and fear
If you can muster up 10k-15k you can buy a $300k house with 3% down. There are down payment assistance programs as well. After a few years you can refinance to remove PMI etc…. It’s not impossible but it is certainly difficult.
While the government probably can't do a parallel construction in these cases it gives them the identity of the bad guys even if they have nothing to take to court. Thus they know who to target.
While you may not have felt that way, other women have. Does your experience invalidate theirs?
In my city it's hard to separate the multitude of interrelated issues to say it's any one thing, but something I didn't realize until I moved here is that magnet schools pull out virtually all the competent and interested kids by the time they reach highschool.

Given that, it's less surprising to me that the bottom tier public schools in these areas wind up so much shittier than the average public school.
The term "encrypted phone" is meaningless and stupid. Do you use imessage, whatsapp, signal or any chat app that is currently thought of as "good" by tech or privacy people? Then you have an "encrypted phone". Does your phone have a lock code that is not easily hackable? Then you have an "encrypted phone".

It'd be hard to find any person using a smartphone whos phone is not "encrypted".
If you wear a T-shirt with your home address on it, people will learn your home address. The correct technical solution seems to be to NOT wear a t-shirt with your home address on it. (Don't use a device that broadcasts your home SSID in the subway)
I think the companies want an independent for-profit maintaining the business because they don't trust the dynamics of open source / non-profit to actually provide good products/services. Which I think is actually a reasonable argument given the issues in my OP.

I wish the FTC, etc. tweaked how the CAD industry was handled to increase competition / decreasing switching costs, etc. This relates to them preventing people from being in their equivalent of the "app store" which Dassault has been particularly aggressive about.
There's no reason to be such a dick and accuse someone whom you have zero knowledge of of being a Wikipedia warrior, coming to do an internet maoist campaign, or whatever it is what you think I'm doing.

The rest of the world gets that bad guys aren't twirling their mustaches as they bind damsels to railroad tracks. You should be able to piece together that, after a very short list of atrocities over a 70 year span, the word cartoonish might not actually mean cartoonish and instead trivialize the word given the glaring mundane history of the entire organization.

Also, it's totally okay to feel morally superior to people who rape and torture. Especially those of us who do so in massive quantities.
I work for a large organization which is exploring blockchain to link several disparate databases (all with different software, intranets, etc).

This is the only reasonable use of the tech I have seen.
Right, I saw that, I was just nit-picking the "prune" UX. I'd far prefer to gray things out, not delete them for what seems to be for good.
I agree that wifi beacons are publicly broadcast. The issue is no way to use google services that require location without contributing to that data and not being up front about its use.

But all the big companies are abusive in terms of privacy so it seems like it’s par for the course.

I know its not technically a product but it always feels like these sorts of schemes should be illegal tying. Can’t make an iOS app without supporting safari? Should be illegal tying. Can’t use google maps without feeding google information about the wifi networks around you? Should be illegal tying.
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Also, paradoxically, the added light layer reduces screen contrast when the light itself is off.

(Have an Onyx BOOX Max Lumi with Frontlight. The display is good in strong light, but even under fairly-brightly-lit indoor conditions, the Frontlight is useful.)
> Yes, I'm calling out Gates. It started under him, decades ago.

I’m sure he’s quaking in his boots, former Slashdotter.
I think parent poster edited his comment.
I'm just asking about the interventions. Intelligence gathering is more benine at least...
> Friends of mine travel with an au pair AND grandparents.

Sounds absolutely reasonable! Do they differentiate in any way between the grandparents and the au pairs, or do they, for instance, also share accommodations?

Also how do you separate the grandparents from the au pairs in the family photos???
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> primary reason for the charge of rape.

> The primary reason was

Assange was not charged. Please stop spreading this falsehood.
The US spent the first 100 years not living up to it’s own ideals. When we started figuring that out, we stopped caring about them altogether. It’s as if things like constitutions and conventions exist to provide the illusion of legitimacy to systems that ignore them.
>Prices going up does not favor them when medical care is going up, so they are oddly on the average person’s side.

But it does favor them.

If overall margins after operating cost are a small percentage of the money that changes hands then you want the most money to change hands.

The insured have to buy from someone. Price and quality discovery takes so long that reputations don't really matter.
This preview version of Next.js Live doesn't do anything special for text editing. It just locks the document while one user is editing.

We are excited to work with Vercel to add true collaborative text editing on top of Replicache soon.
An example of theft of a free product is newspaper theft. It's not much of a grey area in the US, plenty of precedent.

https://splc.org/newspaper-theft-resources/
AMA survey: 96% of doctors are fully vaccinated [pdf]
it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time

https://richardlangworth.com/worst-form-of-government
You can't access HN with Firefox? This website loads one simple html file, one style sheet with a handful of media queries, three gifs and a small js file, which only seems to do things like voting and hiding. While FF 3.6 won't do the styling properly, even that ancient version should be able to display the contents.
Gates/Allen/Bezos/Jobs/Ellison/Google/Netflix/etc did not inherit their wealth.
China simply won't ever acceed to the US's role as a Hegemon, no matter what. The only country in the world that can even remotely do so is the US because of its geographical position that allows purely offensive military positioning and solid economic control of a whole continent as well as access over all the oceans.

It's even less likely that China could even surpass the US in relative terms without relying very heavily on other powers such as Russia, some African powers and so on, because of their geography and lack of resources. So even then they wouldn't be able to project their mode of governance or impose social overhaul on other countries in the way the US did.
There are more options than American late stage capitalism and developing world unskilled labor.
It's funny because while I don't consider myself "good at math", I'd always learned math by learning the fundamentals, and deriving what I need at exam time, since I find memorizing leads me to (a) go insane with boredom and (b) if I don't understand what I'm memorizing, I might apply it incorrectly without it "looking wrong".

Calc II was a class where it just wasn't possible because there was too much to derive on any given exam. It took me 1/2 way through the course to course-correct and make flashcards and such nonsense. Unfortunately that was the last (non-discrete) math class I took, so I never discovered what happens next.
Well, it's actually women in CS being offended, and I'm merely engaging with the blockheads who refuse to acknowledge the issue.
Thank you for your posts, they're a needed counterpoint to the deeply slanted and historically decontextualized hot takes that make up the majority of this thread.

I don't have time to add much at the moment, but it was nice to see at least an ounce of balance in the current state of this thread.
Definitely tell us more if you're willing to share.
Yea, I believe most (all?) CAD systems are spin outs from industrial programs. Pierre Bezier (of the curve) was actually an automotive engineer at Renault as they were trying to better define shapes.
How many graphic design studios/photographers can there be in the world to give them this kind of market cap ???.
I have a Boox Note Air--but no have no interest in using it for notes or "productivity." I just like e-ink for reading, and find screens smaller than 10" to be too small (too much page-turning, no good for PDFs). It's good as a reading device, and I like being able to use Google Play Books and Instapaper (and the way that Boox hides animations and increases contrast for Android apps is clever).

It could use a dedicated "page turn" button.
But those souls believe it ruins interstellar
You’re downvoted because Node is considered a framework. So while you’re not technically correct, I think your response is still valid as “I caught your drift”.
A Wi-Fi station is an inanimate object that is incapable of breaking the law. The law applies to what people (or legal entities) do.

Sure, whenever somebody else sends a Wi-Fi packet in your vicinity, the components in your phone are physically reacting to the signal that they receive, and inspecting the data to see if you're the intended recipient. If the packet is addressed to somebody else, and your device never stores or displays the payload, then obviously you are not intentionally intercepting anything.

The law assumes judges and juries are human beings, who have at least a modicum of intelligence and common sense. It's not a mathematical formalism in which the slightest contradiction lets you prove absurdities.
>I guess the problem is the worldwide database it's put in.

Why is it a problem to know the gps location of a specific street name + house number? That seems like a pretty useful piece of information, especially in north america where a single street can span the entire width of a city. As for the downsides, what's the privacy implications of knowing that 73 elm street is located at -52.024290244005,101.13123390478796?
Thanks Lee - appreciate the insight!
What makes you think the CIA isn’t subordinate to the rest of the government? And moreover, what does being subordinate to the government mean when that government is a dictatorship?
This is not propaganda and is something web developers will likely want to know about to keep up with the latest industry news. This is the type of stuff that I come to Hacker News for.
Highly recommend creating a ledger of all spending. It's amazing how quickly the little things add up, by simply taking the time to write things down it becomes much easier to see where it all goes.

Many credit cards claim to do this for you, but to me that defeats the point. If you aren't taking the time do your own accounting, it simply becomes another email/HTML table/push notification/whatever to ignore.
Part of the issue is that Medicare and especially Medicaid pay providers below cost for services. That money needs to be made up somewhere. Private insurers pay above cost, but they have too much leverage to get squeezed by the hospitals. That leaves uninsured patients to hold the bag. They could try to cut costs, but that puts them at a competitive disadvantage because most patients don't actually care about how much their care costs, they only care about how much they have to pay.

If you're an uninsured patient who isn't in poverty then hospitals are going to squeeze you for as much as they can get away with. It's how they keep the lights on. None of this makes any real sense, but hospitals are just doing what they have to do to survive in the system we've created for them.
There's plenty of funding for academic R&D (https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/COVID-Related.cfm), TFA focuses on how slow it took to get that funding or repurpose existing funding.

I was following some research into repurposing existing drugs for COVID that started early last year. Only last month did they complete gathering enough people for the experiment.
If you take issue with the timeline they present, you’re free to post your own fact based argument to refute it.
Why shouldn't Next.js be used in "data heavy enterprise web apps?" Keep in mind that it's trivial to write code that only executes during CSR: if (typeof window !== "undefined") { fetchExpensiveExternalData(); }
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I'm actually using my moleskine quite a bit, but it's frustrating because everything is chronological, all mixed up. I'm not using it enough to justify having different ones for all activities. And when it's full and I get a new one I never have have my older one at hand, it stays at home.

So this kind of tablet looks really nice...

The reason I prefer to write on my moleskin rather than my laptop is because if I have my laptop, I get distracted and I do stuff I'm not supposed to.

Additionally I find it rude to be on your laptop when you're in a meeting, because people might think you're doing other stuff, and also because having your screen between you and other people creates a kind of "barrier".
Your statement doesn't follow any logic.
Facebook Is Officially Beta Testing Hotline a Clubhouse-Inspired Audio Feature
I wish they would bring back simple directory bookmarks instead
of these "smart" links that detect when I rename the target
directory (so annoying!) and that you can't even give a display
name. After upgrade to Win10 I suddenly had 5 useless links
named "tmp".
Ask HN: Corporate users, are you able to buy HDDs in large quantities?
No. You didn't read my comment fully. Companies already support app versions that are years old, for various reasons — the most obvious one being that many people use older devices that run an OS that's no longer supported by the app in question, and others just don't ever update anything. So since they're already doing this right now, and have been doing this since forever, there's literally zero additional work involved.

Besides, no one is asking them to "deliver new functionality at a rapid pace", especially to feature-complete products. This whole "keep flapping your wings or you'll die" thing is a lie. It's fine for a product to be done. It's fine to stop. It's fine to go into maintenance mode.
I make low 6 figures and support a family of 4. We have to budget, but we definitely aren't struggling, we are able to afford plenty of luxuries. Buying a house was not too big of a task. You should move to the Midwest.
> The US spent the first 100 years not living up to it’s own ideals.

https://www.insider.com/inside-forced-sterilizations-califor...

It still isn't.
It preserved Iran's oil assets in the hands of Western companies for 26 years, from the time of the 1953 coup until the Iranian Revolution in 1979. I'm sure they counted that as a win, if not a permanent one.
Honestly it’s the last line that gets me the downvotes (oh no downvotes!) and this was intended. I think being brash about it is a good way to take a look at where the world can improve.
It might seem obvious but the less you write the more illegible your handwriting seems to you. I noticed this during school. Over summers I would pretty much never have to handwrite anything, and in august I had all the same gripes that you do about my slow illegible terrible looking handwriting. Those kinks would be worked out two weeks into the school year, after your hand is back in shape from writing notes 8+ hours a day.

The other thing about handwriting is that you remember things better. The act of transmuting something you've heard, put it into a thought, then taking that thought and stroking out words on a distinct location on a physical page taps into all these levels of comprehension and processing that you just miss if you take the stenographer approach with a keyboard and transcribe directly what you hear, or even writing digitally on the exact same 8x10 screen day in day out. I've fallen asleep in lectures with my hands on the keyboard mid sentence typing up some note, because the effort required by your brain is so much smaller and you are not nearly as engaged as when you are actually stroking out words and in the background thinking about how to fit relevant information on a unique 8'x11' sheet of paper.
That wasn't sarcasm, and looking back at my comment I don't really understand what could be understood as sarcasm. What did you understood when reading it ?

edit: ok, I see how it could be seen as sarcasm.
I personally LOVE LOVE LOVE USA, Miami in particular. I don't know why. Maybe is the weather, the beach, etc. I would love to live there and work one day.

That said, three things worry me:

1) How complicated the health industry is there. Being from Argentina where health is universal, or living now in Germany where is also universal, that is crazy for me.

2) How easy you are fired and that you basically don't get any protection if you are. Again, here in Germany we have insurance that covers for many months, etc.

3) How bad employees are treated there by (most but not all?) companies.

Personal story. My sister, she had to travel in the middle of the pandemic to my home country as my father was sick. She asked for permission to work remotely for 3 weeks. She had to stay 2 more because my father's health was not the best. When she returned, the company told her that that is not what they expected of her and fired her on the spot. Now, I was in my home country so I know my sister worked all the normal hours and more, she was connected all the time, and giving her 120% (if such a thing exists). And still, they said, good by. Crazy.
The Rene Herse tires are just branding on tires he has made for him by Panaracer. They used to be called Compass Tires till he made a deal with the Rene Herse estate to use the Herse name for branding.

He basically asks Panaracer to make everything thinner & lighter and delete flat protection, reduce the tread thickness, etc.. They are fast & potentially comfortable tires for their size due to being made as very racy tires. The Panaracer versions of the tires are still very fast but have a much better reputation for durability, flat protection, compatibility with a wider array of rims, and for being easier to setup tubeless.

I have unfortunately been on rides with people with the Compass/Rene Herse tires where they repeatedly flatted over and over, IMO they are too fragile for me. I have had exceptionally good luck with the Panaracer tires.
The National Endowment for Democracy is the official media influence stuff, which funds NPR domestically, and only really goes wild abroad.

The biggest and most obvious way the CIA impacts media is through leaks to journalists, though.
No, I absolutely did not opt in to Google mining this data.
Why Millennials Don’t Have Any Money
A good mechanic will tell you "it's $800 to fix the transmission, if the rotors are bad it'll be $1300." and if he finds is estimate is way off, that's his fault so he will take that on the chin and do right by the customer. Same for contractors who work on your home, sometimes you accidentally bid under cost and learn a lesson for next time.

Hospital estimates in the rare case they are provided only seem to get revised in one direction, that seems like having cake and eating it too. If the high school drop out painter can live by his estimates, so can the national hospital chain full of Harvard Business School graduates.
That's definitely safer based on my experience.
The thing is, they probably do suceed but you never hear about it. It's difficult to get information for sure.
Obviously take this with a grain of salt - the entire citation list are two highly polemic works. This author also has no problem mixing facts with ascribed motives. This is a really dangerous way of understanding history.

While there is no denying some of the real atrocities committed, this list makes some REALLY simple narratives out of some pretty complicated events. Several of the "democratically elected" dictators were nothing of the sort, and several of them buck the narrative by being right-wing populists.

A lot of other agencies were often complicit, in several of these examples the CIA was merely there holding the coats for European agencies or local political organizations.

Indeed, this list would make you think the CIA was capable of creating political movements out of whole cloth. But the truth is much more insidious - they often empowered the existing political movements conveniently at hand.

But I think, most importantly, is that we know all of this. You can look at the Wikipedia pages for all of these events. And all of the congressional investigations into them. I want to blame our government for letting all this happen, but on some level I at least separate the ideals of the US constitution and our separate and distinct failure of living up to those ideals.
> Friends of mine travel with an au pair AND grandparents.

Surely you understand this is completely out the reach of almost everyone in society?
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If there weren't privacy concerns, then the SSID API wouldn't be behind a Location permission toggle for iOS and Android.

It's not just Google doing it - see https://wigle.net/ with over 10B observations. So your privacy would be at risk even if Google didn't collect SSID/location information.

Fundamentally, asking people not to do something has never been a security measure that's worked. You need to implement some tangible, real protections. We already have those in the case of SSIDs, namely, the SSID and AP information aren't accessible to an app without location permissions in modern operating systems.
Rather, it's an example of "No good deed goes unpunished".

You suggest that had they done no effort at asking scientists about the theories, no criticism would be warranted, but since they did and cherry-picked what would best support the narrative, they deserve scrutiny.

And I disagree.
In Germany, in the vast majority of cases, you can simply go to any doctor's practice (including specialists, no referral required) during office hours and see the doctor the same day, if it's urgent. They'll squeeze you in.

For non-urgent appointments, yes, the wait time for specialists can sometimes be months.