skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Billionaires building toy rockets when others starve is equivalent to "seed coconuts"? That's a terrible straw man.

There have long been simple answers but we have been to greedy to look at them. We have been able to eradicate hunger, homelessness and educational poverty for a long time. We have just chosen not to.

I find it funny that so many people are terrified of being capped to $20M/person and so few are concerned about children sleeping outside, hungry.
virtually no economists in a particular school.

if you take a more literal view and see federal taxation as destruction of money rather than a means of raising revenue, its applications become clearer.
Kent Dodds has a very highly rated course that’s about $300. https://epicreact.dev/
Seriously just make sugar illegal. It is cheap calories with no nutritional value. It is killing over half the population. I can not believe that 75% of Americans are overweight or obese. Top causes of death are weight related. I dont have much to say besides that it blows my mind. Sugar is poison.
So, a giant corporation outsources their production to china, pays zero carbon tax, and still pollutes the same planet, but Johnny average cannot heat his house and drive his car, because he cannot afford it anymore?
Completely nonsensical article - making broad generalizations without evidence, ascribing "penny pinching" to all kids of behaviors.
I think it's fairly common to take a wire article and change/update it with original reporting.

For example, the current main article on The Guardian's website is:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/13/taliban-seize-...

which has a byline of:

"Luke Harding and agencies"
Speaking of which, why not sideline athletes which are exceedingly successful and leave some room for others? Nobody needs their 6th NBA championship or 10th Grand Slam title or 7th Formula 1 championship while their competitors, similarly talented and hard working, can spend entire careers not winning anything. Heck, it might even be better for the fans!
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/controls/comb...

The Win32 API is going to continue to drive naming conventions when all of us are dead.

But yeah, the difference between a combobox, a listbox, and a dropdownlist is just a flag value.
Do you guys think the mid-late 20th century phenomena of fat = bad, sugar = no comment, has anything to do with this battle?
A hypothesis: We are all narrative building, all of the time. It's what humans do.

I can't really tell if that is 100% true, but I think it might be. I think confirmation bias could be looked at through this lens. We have an internal story that makes sense to us, and we tend to give more weight to data that fits our internal story (narrative) and discard the rest.

I don't know really, I'm more thinking out loud here than trying to present The Truth.
> People get propagandist content because they willingly consume propagandist content. They like it.

More like that content creates engagement and ad money, and people respond to it even though they feel worse. (Not exclusive to news, social media too)

By the way people also like hyper-palatable processed food and that doesn’t mean we get to ignore the material consequences of the obesity epidemic.
Scotland introduced a sugar tax. As a result, many of the most popular products switched to sugar substitutes.

For example, Scotland is one of the few countries in the world where Coca-Cola is not the most popular fizzy drink. Irn Bru is.

Following the sugar tax, Irn Bru changed the recipe to use alternative sweeteners.

Some people complained, and there is an original version, but it is far more common to see the sugar free version used.

In this case, the tax works.
I am fortunate I don't have diabetes but man, I wonder the fear when a shot you need to live is so expensive.
“the first to be authorised by US regulators,”

This seems disingenuous no? There’s a problem right now finding someone who wants to be head of fda, presumably because that person will be forced to approve the vaccines. According to politico nobody who is qualified, is interested in that job. Both parties have said the current temp leader, forget her name, is not qualified.
And more money to billionaires will?
I am personally against taxes, but a sugar tax (or at least eliminating corn subsidies) would be great IMO. We can protect the agriculture by other means, say import bans, rather than massive subsidies.
Your domain is https://kisstodo.com/

You do not have the www subdomain set up.
You're very much quibbling on the definition of terrorist. She was convicted of having hundred of pounds of explosives while being an active member of a group that did bomb government buildings is good enough for most people to colloquially agree that is she is a convicted terrorist.
I think he means eliminating the extremists teaching. I don't think that can work for Afganistan. Chinese government provided tax breaks to lure companies to open factories in Xinjiang, the re-education camp is just a small part of the policies, you need to train people skills to have a normal job, the boring part of modern society. There is no hope for Afganistan.
Definitely give Losing the Signal - The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry[0] a read if you're interested in the genesis of mobile. In many ways Google was actually late in comparison to Apple, but was able to leapfrog the ecosystem by focusing on abstracting to the operating system platform/layer that is Android.

This is also why I personally believe Microsoft failed but Google was ultimately able to succeed in competition with Apple.

[0]: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Losing_the_Signal/oE-TB...
Am I on Hacker News or Youtube...
> An example being SPLC labeling ex-muslims as hateful "islamophobes".

Why is that an example? Plenty of ex-whatever-religion (or even ex-particular-denomination) people turn right into the most extreme and hateful bigots against the group they departed.

It’s a frequently commented on phenomenon among religious people, often not focussing on betrayal by departing members (where the bias of attachment to their own identity group might make them prone to overperceive) but on the trend among converts to their own religion.

It would be weird if a group tracking hateful religious bigots systematically excluded former members of the targeted religious group from the label.
Yeah this is what’s most sad about tiktok to me. It’s a great new format for media, but it allows, or is especially susceptible to, attractive people putting their goods on display and teasing their viewers. Some days it feels like tiktok promotes and validates this behavior, and other days it feels like the technology just scales up high school popularity dynamics and isn't really anything new. So does the tech drive the algorithm or do the users?

Youtube doesn't particularly have this type of problem, for example. It has others, sure, but the core content it breeds is not shorts of high schoolers in their bedroom dancing in their underwear. Snapchat and sending that content privately was one thing but now tiktok validates that behavior with a public audience. And then onlyfans exists to graduate your content and monetize your body directly. I’m pretty sex-positive so it’s not that I’m turned off by the concept of people wielding sexual power in society or making money off their body. But I’m not sure what society looks like when that’s the highlighted path for 16 year old girls to replicate in order to make life changing money or be immensely popular as their own brand in their 20s.

Back to the youtube example: on youtube it seems the content is important because you have to engage for more than 30s whereas on tiktok it feels like you’re following personal brands and the utility of the content is almost irrelevant.
If they pay the requisite fee it is licensed to them to do that, that is the wire services business model. It isn’t plagiarism if you pay for it and it’s done with the writers permission apparently.
I know Elon Musk tweeted that out early in the pandemic but I don’t recall medical experts specifically making that claim. If some did, they were clearly wrong.
I strongly believe that fasting is one of the best ways to combat obesity, diabetes, cancer, high blood pressure, and more. The scientific literature is certainly accumulating tremendous evidence supporting this hypothesis [1].

Here is one of my favorite videos on the subject [2], a talk by Dr Pradip Jamnadas who is one of the top cardiologists in Florida.

There is no industry that profits on you being healthier through fasting. Consequently it doesn't get the attention or consideration that it should given the supporting evidence. However it has an advantage over every other solution suggested here - everyone can start reaping the benefits immediately. No legislation, no taxation, etc.

Eating healthy and natural foods is still a critical part of the solution. Perhaps most importantly, we need to properly educate the youth and show them the benefits and consequences of their choices when it comes to diet and exercise.

[1] Fasting: Molecular Mechanisms and Clinical Applications
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S155041311...

[2] Fasting For Survival Lecture by Dr Pradip Jamnadas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuOvn4UqznU
> For example, Elon Musk would be forced to sell all but a minuscule sliver of his shares in Tesla, SpaceX, etc and give the proceeds to the tax man. He'd be out on his arse and replaced by an executive hired by whoever bought the shares. It would be the death of Tesla and SpaceX as we know them.

The point is that Musk would/should never have gotten to such an oversized amount of control in the first place, and thus these businesses wouldn't be in any danger at all from such a move because they'd already be staffed by competent people who wouldn't need his approval or "executive powers" to run things. And if Tesla and/or SpaceX can't stay afloat without Musk, then I'd argue they're failures, or at the very least shouldn't have gotten this big while still being dependent on him.

Besides, so what if companies fail? They're not people, they should never be more important than people. As long as the people are taken care of we should be fine with businesses failing. It leaves room for others, and stops tying up human output for unproductive endeavors.

> This would take the ownership of huge swathes of the companies in the world out of the hands of the people who created them and operate them and into the hands of random executives with little or no track record.

Who's giving you this idea? The whole point is to give more power/control back to the people running those companies, i.e. the workers making stuff, serving people, maintaining, etc. No-one is arguing to blindly dilute ownership of companies among the populace _just_ to keep from having billionaires. This is scare-mongering at its finest.

> Finally, if everyone who's currently an investor in these companies, but has more than $20m also get taxed down to $20m, who is going to buy all the shares?

The wealth being taxed doesn't just vanish into thin air. If so many currently wealthy investors are being taxed down, it stands to reason that the redistribution of said wealth would mean that _more_ investors appear.
Also, from an ideological point of view, it seems more democratic to have many smaller investors, than allow a few to accrete such wealth that they can do such things as bully or starve projects of investment for personal reasons.

> It's nonsense like this that is why Marxist experiments the world over have caused such havoc and misery on unimaginably vast scales

Funny how someone who immediately thinks to reference "Marxist experiments" in response to an argument for better wealth redistribution, can't envision an economy without a top-level executive being vital for a company to survive, or investments being impossible if 1 person can't do it all by themselves. Seems like a really fragile model to me.
Meanwhile, these Marxist experiments aren't broiling the planet for an extra 50 years to milk profit off of fossil fuels, nor expecting people to sacrifice their health and time to themselves to work 50-,60-,70- hour workweeks without getting an ounce of recognition whether they do a good job or just adequate. Or how about leaving people to die of poverty because there's no direct profit to be had in them?
Yes I just looked, they do have 'mostly true' and they didn't use it. Honestly, if that first one doesn't make you roll your eyes I don't know what to say.

Would a reasonable person consider a person who was a member of a terrorist group that bombed the senate and was subsequently convicted of being in possession of large amounts of explosives and firearms a domestic terrorist? I think it's an emphatic yes.

It's like arguing that a man caught by police attempting to have sex with a 16 year old girl from the internet shouldn't be considered a sexual predator because he didn't succeed and there is no single universally-agreed definition for the age of consent.
then tax import goods from China on entry to US until US authorities are satisfied with the amounts of carbon taxes paid in China (to China).
Speaking of silly data - the page for Antarctica doesn't render - I see "TypeError: t.selectedCountryData.cities[0] is undefined" in my console:

https://nomadvisa.io/antarctica
You have to go way out of your way to get food that is not loaded with sugar. Just normal food, let alone something that is meant to be a desert.

Peoples taste becomes so attuned to it that they don't even realize that almost everything they eat is a desert.

It takes attention and effort to get off of that soft addiction. The first several months things will taste bland. But, once you reset your taste buds, you will have a hard time believing you used to eat all that sugar. And you will experience all of those other flavors that the sugar was drowning out.

And the addiction is real. A friend who is a nurse has seen people sneaking in sugary foods to people who are in the facility due to diabetes, and in danger of losing limbs or going blind. They won't stop.
Straw man. Taxation has existed for a long time and has worked well. The only new part would be a wealth tax that caps out to 100% at some level, and only until basic needs are met for the very poorest.
> should not allow anyone to have more than, say, $20 million

We need to define "have." "Have" as in have X$ as personally owned liquid assets? Or "have" as in having X$ invested in economic development?

I'd agree with you in the former case, but not so much the latter.
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that might be true independent of farm subsidies. we don't really know. it is pretty clear that there are government programs being used to buy votes. which is a pretty stupid way to spend public money.
What if there are two genders?
Taxing sugar means people can no longer heat their house or pay for gas? Sounds like a bit of a reach. How much exactly is Johnny Average spending on sugar every month?
A large percentage of users benefit from good accessibility features. These don't just include screen readers, but things like being able to change colors and font sizes (manually, or to pre-sets designed to help people with deteriorating vision or colorblindness, et c.)

Most people's vision and hearing go to hell at some point. Practically all older people can benefit from a11y features—whether they know they're there, and know how to enable them, is another matter.
Which is also silly, because if they had conversations with those professors, they'd mostly find people with extremely nuanced, evidence-backed opinions.

It doesn't take too long in research-land to appreciate that ideologies are merely abstractions; they're tools to help us understand and discuss the real world.

The people with blind ideological faith are mostly uneducated (and perhaps undergrads), but the academics know how messy the world actually is and love to talk about the jagged, contradictory bits that don't line up with our current models of thought.
Greedophiles simply do not care. If it's not the path to more money, ignore
Crumbly Mars Rock, Not Hardware Flaws, Scuttled Perseverance’s Sample Attempt
Definition of "true dichotomy" (plural: true dichotomies): A situation in which two alternative points of view are presented as the only options, because no other are available.

// Example: harsh lockdowns, or get building surplus crematorium capacity
taxing carbon does that.
So now everybody needs 2 vaccines against diabetes?
I am pretty shocked that this hasn't been more of a narrative since the PPE shortages of COVID.

I guess it's expected that the people who have been pushing the free trade globalization angle wouldn't want to turn and admit that strategy has a significant downside that's been ignored. Not to say that it doesn't have upside.
> I see Snopes as pure, unadulterated bias

Oh, they said Trump told the truth when he said "Murders this year have spiked 27% in Philadelphia."

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jul/24/donald-tru...

Why didn't anyone remind them of their bias before this got published?
A lot of the people who buy those things also object.
I'm a big fan of the compose key, both for its universality and intuitive "syntax". For many years I endured the pain of a dual French/US keyboard layout (one for writing, the other for coding), until a coworker showed me the special Option-key shortcuts you can use on a Mac to make French accents, and then finally I settled on the nice and intuitive Compose Key support offered natively by Ubuntu: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ComposeKey
I was all for this withdrawal until I found out it was only 3000 soldiers that we had in Afghanistan. If 3000 soldiers can keep a whole country from going Taliban, then it seems worth it to keep them there.
Beginners tend to overestimate the differences between programming languages and pay attention to superficial things as opposed to things that matter. A good chunk of computer science is a branch of math which is eternal: if there are aliens who live under some the ice on some moon and they have computers they are going to know about the results of Turing and Gödel.

A language like Java or C# is perfectly fine for "systems" tasks such as compilers, database engines, etc. You don't need to interact with memory on a low level and you can afford to pay the cost of automated memory management for some guarantee that you don't get use-after-free and similar problems.

For that matter if performance doesn't matter you can do a lot in Python, Javascript, and other languages that people think of as "applications" languages.

For some other "systems" tasks, such as embedded, you are going to have a choice between C/C--, Assembly and maybe Ada or a Pascal variant if you're adventurous. In that case you need absolute control over memory layout. C has the particular advantage of portability. I think it's an atrocious language to program the AVR-8 arduino but your code is portable to a more powerful board and your skills are portable.

Rust has the "borrowing" model that is potentially more efficient than the garbage collection model of languages like Java and gives you some control over the layout. You might like it or you might learn to hate fighting with the borrow checker.

What domain you are in absolutely determines what languages you can use.
80% of people with Type 2 diabetes who are overweight would be asymptomatic if they lost weight. Perhaps we should tax obesity and not burden those who know how to eat responsibly?
> Mindless cynicism leads to the sort of corrosive distrust that’s eating away at civil societies everywhere.

...repeated breaking of trust by institutions has earned that. It is unfortunate and it does eat away at our civil society. The solution is to fix the broken institutions and re-gain trust, not to blindly follow them like livestock!
The right solution is to educate people about what their A1C means and to incentivize them to check it. Most people don't know what theirs is - I would bet that less than five people in this very thread have checked their A1C in the last six months. Remember that diet isn't always sufficient to lower A1C and you may need drugs or other lifestyle changes.

Mandate A1C checks bi-yearly for insurance providers or have them pass along the penalty.
The same is true of life but life doesn't require student loans.
Would you call killing Islam extreme terrorists an ethnic cleansing? Because they won’t think twice before stoning a woman to death.
This level of skepticism would find even the Daily Mail as free of bias and agenda.
We (the US) offered interpreters who worked with our troops in the middle of the absolute shit a path to citizenship and then left them literally in the dust so that they and their families can be tortured and killed.

Maybe the Euro Countries (or even Canada?) could be nicer, but the USA (politicians making the decisions that go in affect) clearly don't give the slightest fuck and haven't for decades.
All of big tech is run by crony capitalist oligarchs working hand in hand with politicians which happen to all support one side. When all of big tech, media, academia, Hollywood, late night tv hosts, trillionaire corporations with horrible hiring, firing, poor working conditions support the same candidates and view points, maybe it’s not so pure.
While I partially agree, I think it's for different reasons.

Mostly those being "you cannot accurately predict how taxing will play out."

But "poor or middle class" people choosing $2 soda over $3 orange juice... might choose $3 orange juice over $2 soda that has a $2 tax slapped on it. You cannot argue "they'll just keep buying the same thing when it's taxed all to hell."

(Orange juice probably isn't much better than soda, but that's not the point of my argument.)

Sugar is not "literally in everything." Not for the dictionary meanings of "literally" and "everything." Though it does seem that yes - the corn industry, especially HFCS should not be subsidized... the exact opposite of taxing! So repeal those subsidies, and maybe put taxes on HFCS at the industry level (rather than the consumer level). If industry, rather than the government, want to foot the bill for HFCS and sell it at a loss, then at least we've shifted the problem.
How would you manage this very site by these criteria?
Would you still cover cryptography, freedom of information, civil unrest and bills which damage fundamental rights?
> Yoga videos do not harm you. In worse case you will tear your ligament.

Ligament tearing is definitely harm.
> I think we're also increasingly seeing journalistic "power" consolidating on the coasts

It's just the Northeast of the US: NYT, WSJ, Washington Post; and of course NY is the center of journalism (as with many things), and Washington and NY are the leading centers of power and therefore news. There are no equivalent west coast or southeast news sources.

However, don't forget that the largest 'publication', or publisher, is Murdoch: Fox, Wall Street Journal, etc. And that is right-wing and the most biased.

The influence of the coasts has been remarked on for a long time, but I think with the Internet it's actually a much improved situation: People easily get news from all over the country and the world. Everyone can read the BBC and much more (including Russian sources, without even knowing it! :) ), and they also get their news, for good or ill, from random people worldwide! :P

> journalists for the largest publications are overwhelmingly far more left-wing than the rest of the country

That assumes the personal political beliefs have a large effect on their jobs.
Any recommended resources / tips on how to go about buying real estate in Costa Rica? Am also a fan of the mountains.
I guess from your perspective, people will buy something they want no matter how expensive it is.
taxes are one of the best tools to incentivize behaviors we want and disincentivize the ones we don’t.

Trouble is that too few people understand this and therefore politicians present taxes as fair/unfair