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My very least favorite horseshoe effect example is, as always, Huck Finn.

It is an absolutely stellar novel. “All right then, I’ll go to Hell” is one of the more courageous bits of writing that young Americans are exposed to about ourselves. How dare we try to pretend otherwise. It is beyond me.
CA drought is nothing new and our native plant community is evidence of such. Human driven climate change is not likely to help the situation, but without it CA would still face periodic droughts and mega droughts which would cause problems for society.

If you live in CA, please take the time to learn about our native plant community and encourage the use of natives in landscaping: https://www.laspilitas.com/advanced/advecology.htm
You may have lived mostly in apartments or small homes. In larger or multi-story homes, the water heater may be some distance from the shower.
>A zero corporate tax rate would highly disincentivise corporate reinvesting into things like capex for expansion or R&D

This is simply not true. The investment equilibrium would change in favor of less investment in _lower_ return expenditures. Corporate managers would likely distribute more capital, which would then be reallocated efficiently in the market. The only hitch here is that the government would likely collect higher tax receipts, and thus lower total investment. But that's an argument for lowering the tax rate on investment income, not creating bad incentives for corporate managers to spend money with a lower marginal rate of return than their core business.

>There's also the fact that corporations are only made possible in the first places because of the infrastructure and services provided by the government, and those must be paid for.

Corporations pay property taxes, use taxes and payroll taxes already (e.g. truckers pay gas taxes, and that's reflected in retain prices etc). And since the proposal is for revenue neutrality, the delta revenue is still collected on the distribution end.

>Of infrastructure resources they used then indirect funding of such things via taxes would be required as much.

You can simply look at the budget. The vast majority of government spending is on income transfers, administrative expenses for social programs and jobs programs (the largest of which is bombing people in foreign countries). A very tiny sliver is infrastructure that corporations use. And as pointed out above, most of that can be paid for via use taxes they already pay.
Zadig is a cloud native, distributed, developer-oriented continuous delivery
Ironically the US has the oldest constitution of any sovereign state[0]. Beats Norway (the second oldest) by 26 years.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_constitutions
I must be missing something. How is it possible to precisely collect a resource with tracing GC? And if you need to update counters when you make duplicates of object references, you are not using a tracing GC where the benefits are the cheap duplication of object references, cheap allocations and cheap (batched) releases, but the downside is not being able to precisely and automatically do it when the value is available for collection.

Seems to me it is impossible to have both automatic precise release of a resources and collection-based GC?

As I understand it, even the documentation for IDisposable in .NET says as much at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.idisposab...:

> The primary use of this interface is to release unmanaged resources. The garbage collector automatically releases the memory allocated to a managed object when that object is no longer used. However, it is not possible to predict when garbage collection will occur. Furthermore, the garbage collector has no knowledge of unmanaged resources such as window handles, or open files and streams.

> Use the Dispose method of this interface to explicitly release unmanaged resources in conjunction with the garbage collector. The consumer of an object can call this method when the object is no longer needed.

So this is the interface you can use to explicitly release a resource, because the GC gets around to it only later at some unspecified time.

About SafeHandle it says at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.runtime.i...:

> The SafeHandle class provides critical finalization of handle resources, preventing handles from being reclaimed prematurely by garbage collection and from being recycled by Windows to reference unintended unmanaged objects.

Doesn't seem it's at all helpful for automatic precise release of resources.
Does pg get automatically recommended to all twitter users or something? The replies to his post are pretty low-quality; I'm guessing few people in it have read any of his books (technical or the essay compilation). Why'd he get cursed with such a following?
Big question, lets not forget that WebGL 2.0 requires a subset of OpenGL ES 3.0, which was released around 2011.

So most OEMs will never bother to put anything that most gamers will bother with, not even Vulkan class GPUs
Acupuncture is snake oil, but I would very much prefer knowing that my acupuncturist has been checked out by someone qualified to check their skills. Just because it's snake oil doesn't mean that there are not expectations around its safety and application.
Too little, too late ? Asia at the moment produces almost everything we consume.
You need sources/facts to form an opinion. Otherwise you are pulling opinions out of thin air.
> How about a $0 starter tier for max. of x monitors, with a max freq. of every y hrs... then move up to a one-time fee that is more generous, but still constrained, and finally have a monthly fee that allows unlimited.

Yeah! That seems like a nice strategy. Do you think people will be ready to pay subscription for unlimited access?
I've used TH on many engagements as a starting point for osint. great tool that does a pretty decent job of collecting initial info.
The disdain for casual hobbyists you show here implies that you are probably not the target audience for the article, which is targeted even lower than hobbyists: people who need an early introduction. Professionals have very different needs than hobbyists and therefore need different materials and suppliers.
I know of at least Edge and Vivaldi that do it.

Granted, it seems that nobody at the Edge team thought of actually giving the vertical space used by the horizontal tab bar back once you flip to vertical tabs mode, but the feature itself is there.
Honestly this seems prime for abuse, letting that one guy decide to "forget" what he doesn't like.
No, "there is a worldwide conspiracy to suppress Ivermectin so that Big Pharma can make vaccines" is clearly a conspiracy theory, it's not a tautology.

Seriously, why all the tinfoil?
business of all sizes, and government and all their cohort, routinely ignore FOSS license in all parts of the world. Even if ninety percent of those are compliant, its a big, big world. Why mock people who stand up for this situation on the part of FOSS ?
I always wished that the acoustic refrigeration tech ended up working out better with wider adoption.
Do you have a link where I can learn more about that?

Some quick googling turns up nothing more than the state Department of Aviation, which looks serve the same purpose as other states' departments of aviation. Namely, to maintain state-owned airfields and support some planning functions.
Technology tends to follow a sigmoid curve. First nothing happens, and then it seems like the world is changing and it is unstoppable, and then it falls into a new normal, not changing much. We never know when it slows down, reaching the third stage, until it's happened. For all we know, this is the furthest we get. Personally, I don't believe that, but food for thought.
It is hard!

But the folks making decisions about education in California (including the authors of the California Math Framework 2021) believe they'll achieve better outcomes that way, than they will by grouping students based on their progress in the subject.

I heard recently from a 6th grade math teacher who has students who are 1, 2, 3 and even 4 grades behind.

Imagine orchestrating a single class in which you're teaching some children about adding single-digit numbers, and others about long division.
I see that many see the apology as innocent and sincere.

To me, this apology screams narcissism and abuse. The author cares only about his public image and tailors the article accordingly. He knows what he's doing there. And I really, really don't envy those who work for him.

I wish I could think otherwise. But once you deal with a narcissist and see them abuse people, you know it.
AdGuard runs an Electron app in the background, though.
And yet it is exactly how many hobbyists approach the topic, and quite successfully. Not that he does hint at these curves when he talks about how running it at lower current will make it less bright.
...The lawyers always win in a legal fight.
The effective ICs that are that high level get involved in the whole doc process earlier than The Final Review anyway; people are collaborative about those before The Official Meeting, and asking to take a pass at the doc before The Review With So-And-So isn't weird.
Seismic stability is apparently a big plus for the area
Still, not a reason to let billions of people die. We can solve that problem asynchronously.
NFC is perhaps two seconds more convenient than a chipped card. Two seconds is worth the price of living in a panopticon?
Everyone will try via various means to get a piece of the multi trillion dollar pie the US is creating.
I don't think the logo is bad myself, it is a tiny change overall.

However, it's worth noting it was shown alongside wordmark, and the font used by that wordmark (a modified version of Ginto Nord Black) is... not great, in particular I think the letter "i" looks somewhat off in relation to other characters in word "Discord" - I don't know what's wrong with it, I'm not a typographer.

That said, because the wordmark is not seen often (pretty much the main page and the page announcing new logo), in practice it's fine. After logging in to Discord there is no real reason to go back to the main page.

Also, out of curiosity, I checked the videos you linked to, pretty much all consider the logo to be fine, but they all criticize the font or the letter "i" specifically (even the video called "discord's new logo is alright").
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There was a shortage of materials and manpower in late Germany, that is another benefit of the forge and extrusion process.

The alternative to forging the wing spars is to create a sub assembly from a dozen or more smaller components. The fasteners, drilling, and overlapping joints create a mechanically weaker, larger, and heavier assembly with worse material properties than a one-piece forged part.

In addition, assembling a wing spar from a dozen parts creates wasted materials from additional steps in the process (machining, forging, drilling, riveting a dozen parts) which takes much more time, requires skilled technicians, and decreases tolerances in the resulting assembly.

Machining titanium has different and worse metallurgical properties than a single forged part. You can heat treat the forged titanium part which has totally uniform mechanical properties, where in an assembly each part might have different inclusions and defects that are much harder to control for in process. This aids QC as well, as you can just X-ray the forged titanium part once.

So yes, they did, but its much more than that. The forged wing spars improve dozens of manufacturing, QC and engineering problems in addition to the material savings. Even without that, the forged parts are still a prerequisite for modern air frames.

EDIT:
sorry, I didn't notice your edit. It may be that the market would provide these Heavy Press machines, and I mean the DoD partnered with ALCOA and other existing experts to build and run the presses, and the private market owned and profited from them, but in 1945 there wasn't a market for this except to the Air Force. That's why the DoD funded it. I'm sure the market could have also invested the absurd dollar sums, I mean the things are still used today, what was the total ROI on the Iron Giant presses... its incalculable.

But I'm almost certain today's globalized manufacturing would do what they are doing now: Make them in Taiwan, China, developing nations, and ship them across the ocean. The point is that the Air Force recognized the value of making the wing spars in country, so you can't bomb, flood, or capture the presses. We should definitely be able to crank out i7's on our continent, I don't care how.
Eh true. And it's not disdain, those companies are great for what they do. The guy above just implied they sucked, which isn't the case. They're great for their target market
Most hardware stores in the USA require tools to be unopened/unused to be returned.

Most retailers are pretty restrictive and those that aren't, such as REI, have generally been notable for those policies.

In my mind, software return policies should be more liberal than physical goods since there isn't any potential loss to the retailer due to damage.
I mean I miss that feature of Poetry when working with pip+venv.
How about starting with a 25% tariff on imported consumer electronics? And make it for at least 5 years, so plants get built in the US.
The problem with visual diagramming tools as far back as Visio, is how much of a time suck they are even for simple diagrams. If you're one of those folks who manages to stick with one long enough to create a stable of templates for common diagrams, you can become somewhat more efficient, but it's always going to be fiddly.

I've embraced the diagrams-as-code world, with graphviz, plantuml, Structurizr DSL, AsciiDoctor Diagram, Mermaid, and WebSequenceDiagrams all having a place. It's even possible to generate SVG using ruby or any language with a decent SVG library.

Yes, I had to give up making my diagrams "just so", but the time I've saved not dragging around elements, trying to connect lines and arrows makes it worth it. Being able to commit them to source control as text rather than binary files that don't diff is a bonus
Well "from their university library" is a pretty important qualifier.

Certainly, curating which books are placed in the university library is detrimental to diversity of thought and exposure to various views (even knowing what extreme views are out there is important if you wish to counter them). But it's not really the same as say a government ban of controversial books.

Also, this survey was done in Germany, where you can already go to jail for claiming the holocaust didn't happen.
> Interesting maneuver but what's the motivation for Valve?

Reaching the ChromeOS using market.

> ChromeOS devices aren't known for their gaming prowess among consumers

Selling ChromeOS to gamers isn’t Valve’s interest, selling games to the people on ChromeOS is.

> plus one would think that Google will eventually be interested in profiting from their relationship, eating into Valve's revenue.

Initially, Google profits from Valve’s success by growing the market for ChromeOS, by changing consumer perception about it as a gaming platform. Longer term, maybe it might go the way you suggest, but that's a negotiation for later.
> After years and years of pushing American manufacturing overseas, suddenly Congress

How has Congress pushed American manufacturing overseas...?

Manufacturing has moved overseas simply because labor is cheaper abroad. Congress didn't have to push anything. It's just natural economics at work.

At most you could say Congress has been part of reducing tarriffs and promoting free trade, which makes everybody involved wealthier. But that's no "push". It's just letting the free market do its job.
Is there any reason to believe that asking would be remotely reliable? There's a reason that liquor stores don't just ask people whether they're over 21.
But would they choose to build in the US without the enticement
The US has an overabundance of brilliant physics PhDs most of which are probably pretty sick of academia's bullshit at this point. Let's give 2000 of them a 100k/year job plus $5B, cheap/free access to federal land, energy, and water, and see what kind of fab(s) they could make. I bet they'd get to TSMC's level pretty quick. If we offered Taiwan a mutual defense pact, we might even get their help to get there.
A rancher doesn't provide a pasture because the cattle are their customer.
Then go to one that has some kind of recommendation or badge of acupuncture quality. Why should the government do that?
There is an interesting corollary here. Given a narrow market and the high capex of such industrial machinery, it doesn't make sense for anyone to build a second machine.

The owner of the machine can effectively charge all customers the marginal cost to build a new machine in perpetuity as a natural monopoly.

Odds are Semi is heading in the same direction where it doesn't make sense to build new fabs except for national security reasons, and whoever controls the massive fab can charge the marginal cost of building a new one to each of their customers indefinitely.
New York City spends more per student than anywhere else in the US (<https://www.silive.com/news/2019/06/how-much-does-new-york-c...>). Baltimore, an incredibly poor and run-down city, spends the third most. #4-6 and #8 are all wealthy suburbs of Washington DC, but their schools are all far better than those of Baltimore or NYC on average, despite Baltimore spending slightly more per student and NYC spending 60-70% more.
Taiwan is one of the most important allies the US has against China. I think that a straight-up bombing/invasion of Taiwan would be met with a massive naval response from the 7th fleet (pretty much total war, short of nuclear). China is still at least a decade away from naval superiority, so I don’t see why they would tempt fate. They’ll simply continue their buildup in the South China Sea, and hope that the US in the meantime weakens or loses interest for political reasons.
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You've posted something like 9 unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments in this thread. That has a seriously damaging effect on discussion, especially when the topic is divisive as this one is. I'm sure you don't intend that, but the effects work that way regardless of intent: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor....

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful. Note this one: "Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."
Here's how Madison.com handles this:

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>What the hell else are we paying for?

Are chips for industrial equipment or cars?
When you say cutting edge I think desktop / phone / servers.
It doesn't have to be so black and white on youtube's response. They could, for example, but a disclaimer pre-roll ad saying "Don't take medical advice from youtube." There's a difference between Brett's interview, where they discussed the scientific merits of a drug, and someone saying "Here's how much drug you need to buy at your farm store, and how to dilute it." In any case, the analysis for banning topics doesn't consider the risk of how many lives could have been saved if Ivermectin actually is pandemic ending. Some professionals speculate hundreds of thousands of deaths could have been prevented if Ivermectin was given back in November. I don't know either way, but surely the discussion is worth not being banned.
Unfortunately, I have heard about it but I don't know much about it. Both O-1 and IEP could be good options. There are pros and cons to each. Relatively speaking, the O-1 is more subjective/discretionary but premium processing is available while the IEP seems like a more "check the box" type of application and spouses can get work authorization but the turnaround time is completely unknown.
True. I guess I just prefer pyproject.toml, it is definitely more minimal for my use cases.
> US military strategy for the allied Asian countries has always been "treat them as a buffer"

Is that why there are so many bases and troops in South Korea and Japan? Any invasion of either of those two countries would likely trigger an instant war with the US.
If you live in any moderately large sized city, you’re just going to get your books from the public library anyway. No one used the school library at our school and we were fairly large and fairly successful.

If it’s in class, 99% of the kids were going to SparkNotes whatever book they ended up getting anyway.
By definition, a 1200 year event is at least a little unusual
Yeah I noticed this on my phone yesterday. And I only noticed it because I have auto updates disabled for the Play Store and it was asking for an update. When I searched my installed apps list (both in the phone settings and in the Play Store), it did not show up. So not only was this silently installed on my phone without permission, it was hidden from me even seeing it was installed.

Some have speculated that this may only be happening to people who mistakenly (or purposefully) turned on the COVID-19 Exposure Notifications in the Google Settings. But I confirmed that that setting is turned off on my phone and the app still installed silently on my device anyway.
> It requires significantly less political capital to create a new tax cut or subsidy than to raise taxes or allocate new spending directly.

This is an incredibly important point, and one that I wish would come up more often. The reason that the US tax code is such a cluster@%&$ is because we insist (for reasons of politics) on conducting our fiscal policy almost entirely through the tax code, rather than just, you know, spending money directly on the stuff we want to invest in.
If anyone was serious about democracy they would give tax payers the option to select the services they are willing to pay towards.
Tick the box to pay towards a new Aircraft Carrier, a new Hospital, Vaccines, Making viruses more deadly etc.
Are costs like rent & utilities and construction of facilities really much more expensive elsewhere? I can't imagine that a lot of automobile manufacturing would move to Mexico if it cost more to operate. Unless you mean the labor savings more than offset other cost increases?

I completely agree on capex, but changes there mean literally nothing for large multinationals that already pay close to zero taxes already. For me though, running a (very small) business on the side, I took advantage of that myself to make a few big ticket purchases (relative to the scale of the business)
Yes and:

Govt has become increasingly risk adverse. Any proactive misstep is ruthlessly pilliored. So we're left with cycles of neglect, crisis, and oversteer.

Just one example: Michael Lewis' latest book Premonition details how the CDC went from proactive to hyper risk adverse. And we've just seen how that played out.
It raises the question, what are we getting for our money (in the US)?

> In 2017, the United States spent $14,100 per full-time-equivalent (FTE) student on elementary and secondary education, which was 37 percent higher than the average of Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) member countries...
https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cmd
Acknowledging real behavior is not a good argument?
Simple, lower tax rate doesn't Guarantee industrial investment. It can lead to bunch of things like share buybacks, higher CEO pays etc. However, targeted tax breaks can help guarantee industrial investments.