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You have too much trust for NPR and the NYT after the revelations that so much of their reporting on Russian collusion and the first impeachment were false[0] and the Brian Sicknick death by fire extinguisher lie that was completely fabricated[1] by the news media.

0 https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-media-lied-repeatedly-a...

1 https://taibbi.substack.com/p/aaugh-a-brief-list-of-official...
Even the dumbest among us are clever, particularly when it comes to reducing work loads. It's not gonna be long before somebody figures out an alternative way to power that washer.

> One of the biggest health problems in America is lack of physical exercise.

I disagree. The biggest health problem is the abundance of high calorie foods that are designed to taste so good that it confuses are dumb monkey brains into eat more than we should. Limiting or eliminating the amounts of sugars and simple carbohydrates in our foods would go a long way at improving our overall health.
Investigate and find the murderers so they can be punished?
It's just convenient. You know where the mask is at all times, you can't lose it, etc

Plus wearing a mask somewhere hot sucks but cars have AC so they're cool and this drawback is removed.
But wasn't the counter-intuitive result that women spent more time washing since it was so "easy" now, they could wash things much more frequently.

I can't find the reference but I did read it recently.
fires - the wildfires are mostly a measure of human mismanagement of land than anything else. Normally, the fires happen pretty regularly in nature. Humans wanted to stop all fires, and so you end up with huge amount of fuel for huge fires.
That is how you got in the US West from huge fires in the 1930s to a low average mid century to 2000, to huge fires now.

https://forestpolicypub.com/2015/09/01/official-year-to-date...

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-03838-0

And anyway, what do fires have to do with agriculture? Usually fires happen in forests and uncultivated land.
Cool site!

Out of curiosity, where's your personal favorite places to be a digital nomad in? Also do you list places with a specific digital nomad visa like the new one in Costa Rica which lets you stay for an entire year? (Didn't see this yet!)
There is a whole nuther type of bowling in the UK, played on grass, no pins, you aim to get your balls closest to a jack.
The planets getting greener!! Who cares if millions will die for it and that we could achieve this green through other means. Doing it this way puts the right kind of green in peoples pockets, so doing nothing is a much better solution obviously.
And? Is that bad? It gives an "American" perspective, which considering the influence of the US is important. That does not make it a bad newspaper.
Hardly an invention, used in India in barrels with spindles for years
Important addition I'd like to add here is that you almost certainly won't owe any US tax. You just need to file the return. AFAIK You get a crazy high deduction and can also deduct all your local taxes, so it's almost always 0 or near 0 taxes owed. That said it can be expensive to actually prepare and file the return, as you need to find a tax specialist proficient in Local AND US tax law to prepare it for you and they charge higher than normal rates.

Another thing to know is that the US imposes worldwide reporting requirements on banking institutions for their US citizen customers. This problem is far less severe than it initially was, but depending where you go some banks/institutions may deny or restrict your access to financial products because they don't want to deal with the reporting requirements attached to you. Again, it's probably fine anywhere in Europe (nowadays anyway), but elsewhere in the world it may be extremely difficult to do something as simple as get a simple checking account.
It’s likely government pressure played a role here, yes. The source doesn’t mention this, but it’s illegal to say racist things in the UK and people are being prosecuted for the incident in question. (https://apnews.com/article/euro-2020-soccer-sports-arrests-h...)
It actually happens a lot (either teacher flames parents for injecting too much "independence thoughts" or the other way around). It is also very inconvenient for politicians/big corps/media.
The problem, in my experience, is that most people are happy to learn "how to apply critical thinking to judge news stories," will agree to the principals in a general sense, and then go on and only apply such tools towards things they are biased against and while uncritically believing any reporting that either confirms their bias or seems to be part of the common sense of their peer group.

For instance, NPR talks about news literacy here, and I'm sure most of the people at NPR "know" how to be critical, but their level of reporting often doesn't reflect that.

For another example, there's a podcast I listen to by journalists that often point out poor reporting and misinformation spread by other journalists. But they'll usually uncritically repeat the "common sense/everyone knows" ideas that permeate the media outside of their wheelhouse. I only saw a realization of this issue once, when they were talking about the Gell-Mann Amnesia affect, then a couple of minutes later were talking about news reports showing XYZ, and they gave some throw away disclaimer to the effect of "although, I suppose going by the Gell-Mann Amnesia idea, we perhaps shouldn't trust these reports 100%."

In the end, it seems that news for most people serves as a form of infotainment. Infotainment that spreads a lot of disinformation, but leaves people with the illusion they're informed. I think most people would do well to take a few months off from the news and see how it effects the things they actually have control over (usually a lot less than they assume), or how out of place they'll feel when they jump back in (usually not much, since it seems most news items are forgotten within a few weeks).
skip to 1:26 to see the machine, the rest is an interview with the creator.

I know that I'm not the target for this product but if I had one I would love to hook it up to a stationary bicycle. I feel like my arms would get tired much faster than my legs would.
I don't think the developing world who cannot afford to eat well are really that bothered about formal exercise. Mostly just surviving.
>I'm confused: Isn't this a very common narrative, especially among a certain political group.

It's common for both political groups...

The people who don't think their political group distorts the truth are a prime target for this class.
> scientists are wrong

Every medical scandal (For example, in the French Antilles, the scandal around "chlordecone", a pesticide, is supposed to be fueling anti-vaccine fear today.) Earlier uncertainties about masks, vaccinne efficiency, vaccines from different countries, possible early treatments, etc...

Even though the "consensus" settles quickly, the dust of the discussion remains in the air for very long. Media is playing a part here, ironicaly because "not blindly trusting the authority" and "presenting a balanced view of facts" is good for ratings.

> ... and governement are lying to you

Do we really need to test this hypothesis :) ? Of course it is a generalization that "all governments are lying all the time". But it is such an easy one to make...
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I worked at the Max Planck Institute back in 1999 and one reason I didn't fit in was that I was a vegan but even the vegetables at the cafeteria weren't vegetarian. (Ham in the peas, for instance.)
This is a great point. We realized early on that researchers present their research to industry as if they are giving a lecture to a group of peers; 45m of presenting without any response from the crowd. We try to work with our users to help them understand how to present their research in 5m or less in terms that industry will find interesting, but it's a constant battle. We're working on features to help with this!
I can't give you dollar values, but I think there are some ideas that might be informative:

1. The cost of these iron flow batteries is almost entirely in operations, the cost of battery material is negligible. It's early days so it's really hard to say how low ongoing costs for things like valves, pumps, control systems, etc. are going to be.

2. In principle, flow batteries shouldn't need to discharge at all. This is why researchers are confident they can create batteries with multi-month capacity.
Of course I am grateful for all the people who put in effort to teach people things, and then doubly grateful for people who make it accessible and triply grateful for those who make it free.

At this point a guide to machine learning guides would also be a huge contribution. Some ideas for ranking/filtering/grading features: how much math, how much hands on, which language, assumed knowledge and pedagogical strategy/path.
> I read Wendell Berry quite a lot, and in one essay (I forget which) he posed a question, "where would our technology be if we had continued improving on simple things like the plow, without using combustion engines"

We'd still have slaves. That's where we'd be.

The development of steam, IC, and electric machinery is what actually put an end to slavery, by making it uneconomic.

Slavery (or near-equivalents, such as serfdom) was a constant of virtually all human societies above the hunter-gatherer band level, until the development of powered equipment.
There are many countries in which it is completely within the government's purview to regulate speech, including the United States. Companies like Twitter are finding themselves in an impossible situation in which their legal safe harbors are not sustainable because of the compliance overhead of operating in so many jurisdictions at the same time.

Instead they just try to implement a one-size-fits-all global authoritarian standard on everyone to attempt to continue their liability dodges in each and every jurisdiction their service is available. In practice it means the entire network has to abide by the laws of the jurisdictions with the harshest speech codes.

So, right, Twitter began with a perspective that the American constitutional principle of free speech is great, and that it should be spread everywhere. Now the imperial soft-power avenue of approach moves in reverse, in which Americans are going to be asked to comply with Continental standards of permissible speech.
also got a fairphone 3 with /e/.

before i had /e/ on a onenote 5t.

the fairphone is a bit weaker than the onenote, and in particular wechat (which i need to use here) gets hit by the OOM killer frequently. (at least that is what i think is causing it to die)

/e/ is just great however. the most polished experience i ever had with an alternative phone OS. (having used sailfish, firefox OS, tizen, lineage...)

i think the OS is actually the more important selection criteria when it comes to privacy.

the fairphone is a nice device, and for how it is built, i think it is worth the price, but if you can't afford it then any other cheaper device with /e/ on it is a decent alternative that gives you just as much privacy.
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> It seems to me that students’ main takeaway from this course would be to trust NPR, NYT and the like, rather than viral content. Which is of course great for NPR, but doesn’t help when your “trustworthy” media selection decide to suppress all arguments from another side, or remain silent on certain stories altogether.

Did they post the syllabus in the article and I missed it? Or did you get on your hobby horse and just make unfounded assumptions?
LOL. That cartoon is particularly funny because it is rather insightful about the nature of such disagreements.
What's the use of knowledge of optical illusions? So that you know that "seeing is believing" is not 100% dependable.

Also you just listed their "use" in your very comment. People build upon these to convince others, and if you would like to be less manipulated, then they are useful to know.
> SMS short codes don't work on VOIP phones

My experience is mostly with Google Voice, but I've not found that to be true. Years ago that was the case, but these days, I've encountered by few that don't work.
If food or drink consumption was the primary purpose of going out, there'd be no reason to coordinate and meet. If a group of people meets for food, they don't meet for food. They meet for each other. They meet to enjoy each others company, the mood, and good discussions. The price of food and drinks for the group is meant to facilitate these things. For the group.

That's not paying for other people's alcohol consumption. It's paying a fair share of the expenses that were involved to create this particular communal experience. Which also means that if somebody is budget constrained, the group may want to keep that in mind - no matter what they order. I've been routinely in groups where somebody with budget constraint paid less. Not because they ate or drink less. But because the group decided that it was their fair share, based on the group's perception of fairness.
To be fair, OP was more specific than "not wanting to spend thousands of pennies for others’ alcohol consumption." The penny pincher also goes out of their way to be compensated, going against the social etiquette.

One can also remedy this by not spending time with people who do not on their own initiative recognize the inequity of the situation and help make it fair. In fact perhaps you can think of it as an excellent investment of one's money to ferret out the inconsiderate, in order to eliminate them from the friend circle.
Entirely. Credential signaling leads to mediocrity. In my opinion internal mobility between departments and roles improved in the last four years, except for the untouchables.

I didn’t even go to that great of a university nor study engineering. I learned years later that apparently my university was on some recruiting shortlist on account of it being a renowned engineer’s alma mater. I suspect that was the only reason I was even hired to clean the metaphorical toilets. It took most of my career to overcome the attendant imposter syndrome. Breaking the L6 ceiling put that to rest, but I don’t forget my roots.
He's not claiming he invented the first manual washing machine, just mass producing them with modern techniques at a low cost for the developing world.
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This will end up teaching "news literacy" just like how the "Patriot Act" was, you know, patriotic, and the "Affordable Care Act" made health care affordable.
How many men do you need before you have one horsepower?

One horsepower is .7 kW. A horse working for an hour nonstop would be .7kW hrs.

Now, how many men do you need working constantly before you have comparable strength to a 20kW generator sipping a little bit of gasoline?
Very telling that the first two proposed ideas in response to your comment are: memes are valid news sources, and we should stop public education entirely.
The dad has found good advocacy while at the same time doing business. It will boost the morale and mental state of the patients with health conditions.
Ah. That makes sense. I always assumed it was one of many derivative languages.

I wrote a tool or two, in PL/1.
We hear a number for the threshold for the first time; from the video interview:

> Threshold of [matches], something on the order of 30 known child pornographic images

As I understood it, if around those number of matches are found on the device, then a scan happens on those matches in iCloud, and it’s the photos that match on iCloud that they then go on to report.
the thesis of an argument is by definition not a fact. It's a point...founding is a theoretical concept, its metaphorical, its not provable and demonstrable and repeatable.

Wow.
"The 1619 project is a major initiative from The New York Times observing the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. It aims to reframe the country’s history, understanding 1619 as our true founding, and placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of our national narrative."

They removed this quote from the interactive website without giving an explanation as to why. It's really obvious how biased they are.
"when you stare into the abyss..."
I am abhorred at an enormous spend on many vanity projects by the "development community," and hipster NGOs. That's why.

I keep repeating a line about Bill Gates'es space toilet exactly because of it being the most glaring example of that.

For the money spent, Bill could've easily built like 200-300 sewage treatment plants.
Sounds like Apple might be interested in his pictures.
in this situation, the OP class would teach kids to use lateral reading.

> what helped students distinguish misinformation the most is something called lateral reading. That can be as simple as opening a new tab and leaving the post to find more about the source of information. It appears to be effective.

in fact, you would be for this class

It would be clear that the class would help kids uncover that 1619 has many controversial claims
Aren't those Infra tools just cool-aids too?
If you have a plan for a generator that can power washing machines for an entire refugee camp, plus the machines themselves, plus a supply chain to deliver fuel for the generator, plus a stable supply of water for the machines, plus plumbing to distribute water throughout the camp, plus electrical infrastructure for the camp, plus education and materials for residents to maintain and repair all of that, all for under $1000, I'm sure Oxfam would be very interested to hear it.
> Printing more dollars doesn’t mean you have more money.

Often it does, because “printing money” avoids a cascading effect of negative feedback.

Imagine in the days before FDIC insurance that due to a sudden asset depreciation or error, a large bank does not have cash on hand to meet customer withdrawals today. Because of uncertainty, other banks are not willing to lend to the troubled bank on short notice.

If the Fed does nothing, customers will panic. They will sell their stocks, and withdraw money from other banks. Now the market is crashing and other banks are running low on reserves. Credit tightens up and interest rates rise. Businesses stop investing, consumers stop spending, and unemployment starts rising. This is a vicious negative feedback loop.

Instead, if the Fed had stepped in and simply materialized cash out of nowhere, and assured the public that they would guarantee all deposits no matter the cost, the entire crisis would be averted. When negative feedback cycles are so destructive, merely instilling confidence is about as close to a free lunch as you can get.
Its more about knowing whether the algorithm isnt politically rigged to engineer public opinion by amplifying certain truths and decreasing visibility of other truths.
i can't see any downside in /e/. you can even run specific google software if you want that. as far as i know everything works.
The more it's worth to it's owners, the less it's worth to it's users.

Fortunately HN is worth dick-all and it's owners seem to have zero interest in changing that.
> What if the propagandists are portraying it that way, in order to create that skepticism/concern. They do delegitimize one institution after another: Journalism, education, government, etc. - these are the big ones.

> But most straight news from major sources is impressively straight, IME.

Your attitude is exactly why so many posters here are skeptical of the idea of "News Literacy". Whatever right-wingers are saying, there are good reasons to distrust institutions, including journalistic ones.

Any genuine "News Literacy" course will end up teaching radical skepticism. It certainly won't teach fealty to the noble and honorable professional journalists, which is what you seem to be suggesting.
It is also like an accent in that a bit of one is not bad at all, but a very heavy one makes things almost unrecognizable.

"... has a bias" is trivially true for just about anything. That also makes that sentence useless unless you add more information.
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> not enough planning was done

20 years of planning was done. 40 years, if you count when the US was arming the proto-Taliban to fight the secular leftists in the PDPA who were running the country back then.

> and the wrong assumptions were made about the Afghan Army.

20 years and trillions of dollars poured in, and four months after the US and NATO announces they will keep funding but remove ground troops, pretty much the whole country outside Kabul and surrounding areas is under Taliban control. I had the right assumption about the Afhan army as I'm sure the White House had - that they are puppets of US policy and would immediately fold when foreign armies leave. One reason the taking back of Afghanistan is so slow is the Taliban is being a little cautious.

> It didn't have to be like this.

When the NLF and PAVN went on the offensive in Vietnam in 1975, Saigon was liberated by the NLF within two months. Puppet governments and armies do not survive when their puppet masters begin withdrawing support. As the US is not going to sacrifice money and enlisted men's lives forever in a country on the other side of the world with a GDP less than Zimbabwe, it was always going to be like this.
> Media is playing a part here, ironicaly because "not blindly trusting the authority" and "presenting a balanced view of facts" is good for ratings

Yes, this is part of it. Of course scientists are wrong sometimes, but it's in someone's interest to stoke general distrust.
I remember similar noise/promise/talk when the 'Drumi' won a James Dyson Award years ago:

https://www.jamesdysonaward.org/en-GB/2015/project/the-drumi...

Drumi has since come to market. These machines are great but I think drying clothes (I live in a tiny apartment with no outdoor space) might be the more difficult challenge.
The clothes are sort of a flywheel.
I can't find a citation for this, but a favorite quote of mine from Twain(?) is:

"The bicycle is unique in that it's engine is also it's cargo."
There have been a lot of these lately, eg "build your own sparc machine" but it's a Raspberry Pi. Not exactly the same thing.
I wrote the guide linked above. You are right, but when it's time to renew your visa, they aren't so lenient. You can also get a shorter visa if your case isn't compelling enough.
By the same that says logic, Elon musk is a federal employee because spaceX has government contracts.
Would you meet with them? They’ve invested millions in a competitor.

Aside: is the username an Expanse reference?
Neutrality is an irrelevant goal. It's quite possible for the conclusions of critical thinking to fall on the left or the right - even the extremes of either. Falling for the center narrative is no more uncritical than falling for any other.
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