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Sadly, sometimes you have to fight your own battles and wars. Be they for independence, the right to vote, etc. (see Vietnam)

If the dissenters leave and don’t put up a fight, who is going to do the right thing?

Imagine if the resistance fighters of France or Benelux said instead, it’s fucking bad here, we gotta get out of town and let’s go to Argentina (or Angola, pick a place).

That would have left the baddies without resistance. That’s what would happen if no one were to put up a fight. Yes it’s deaths, but the future might be worth it. If Americans can go die over there to protect civil society surely locals can organize a fight.

Look at the VC of Vietnam, they could have said, shit, let’s just go to China or whatever and forget our homeland, but they didn’t. They fought tooth and nail with every breath, men women and children. I disagree with their choice of government but I admire their will for self determination and willingness to fight for what they thought was righteous.
There is no reliable scientific evidence that diets high in meat increase the risk of diabetes. Rather the opposite.

And there's certainly nothing wrong with seasoning. Healthy food doesn't need to be bland.
Ideally, articles like this calling out other media outlets for their one sided reporting wouldn't be needed, and especially in this particular case we would be much better off for it.

There is a discussion to be had on this topic, but the article comes off as disingenuous and reads to me like it's just meant as more cannon fodder to rile up a certain crowd than it is about making a point.

Rating of the site[1] itself is not what I would consider a trustworthy source for myself and matches my expectations.

Saying climate change won't be too bad because the economy will be fine is like saying a traffic accident wasn't so bad because the driver walked away with minor scratches. It's an incomplete picture that disregards all the collateral damage that comes with the situation. Criticizing other outlets that highlight those other aspects because they don't mention or focus on the economy being fine is completely missing the point, and I'm struggling to believe that is anything but intentional.

[1] https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/businesslive/
Pure Linux phones are still a bit far from being usable in daily-driver scenarios. The flip side of it though is that a lot of hardware looks like it might be about to gain support, thanks to the likes of postmarketOS upstreaming mainline support for a variety of SoC's and chipsets. You're not limited to PinePhone or Librem phones, these are just the most convenient options.
you can do both. incentives, and disincentives.
It would be better to focus on html and especially vanilla JavaScript first and maybe even Typescript then start with react. Knowing JavaScript well helps with react. Pluralsight offers a number of excellent courses in all web technologies including react but its a paid service. Another paid option is egghead which has a focus on front end tech.
Software wise it seems to originate from Lisp[1].

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exception_handling#History
Me: today, I ate apples.

Oranges: ... and I took that personally ... next, I started posting about it on Hacker News ... next week, I'll begin a poltical campaign about it.

Do you really think that implies "hate directed to CIS white males is acceptable."? ... absolutely bizarre.

@Dang. Kill me now. I'm done.
Thanks. I was inconsistent in my use of >= and >. Making them consistent has fixed this edge case.
> Warren Buffett is a genius at personal marketing.

It helps when the American press is as obliging as it is in continually portraying him as a sort of billionnaire Mr. Rogers. They'll happily print his folksy wisdom and relatable outrage about how his secretary pays a higher income tax % than he does.

Yet he hasn't lifted a finger to support efforts that would reduce corporate tax loopholes.

https://money.cnn.com/2013/03/04/news/economy/buffett-secret...
And life, how many people died for nothing?
And none were involved in active combat operations either. Just logistics and intelligence support.
Citation also needed for the opposite position - that the government will use the money well.
> Each node has an integer ID, a role (e.g. button or window), and a variety of optional attributes. The schema also defines actions that can be requested by assistive technologies, such as moving the keyboard focus, invoking a button, or selecting text.

This sounds very similar to what I'm using for my Semantic UI project (which has similar aims).

Accessibility systems require the ability to programmatically interact with the UI, too (install Accerciser if you're on an AT-SPI2-based system to have a play around); I'm not sure how your system supports typing. (Is it all done via Action::ReplaceSelectedText?)

Also, have you thought about latency? AT-SPI2 is really laggy (“bring down your system for several seconds at a time” levels of laggy), and from a cursory inspection AccessKit looks even heavier.
buzzfeednews is a different thing entirely than buzzfeed
>Easiest solution to diabetes: Sugar tax.

Wrong. You should BAN High-fructose corn syrup.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-fructose_corn_syrup

It is way more harmful than natural sugar.

It is not banned yet because:

- It is made from corn, and corn is heavily substituted by US government.

- It is super cheap (high volume of corn available)

- It is not only slightly sweet but also prevents spoilage (that's why they add it to US "bread" !)

- It is good anti-oxidizer

- It is good and cheap liaison
Sugar doesn't cause diabetes anymore than water causes thirst. A person with undiagnosed pre-diabetes, or is diabetic craves sugar.
Nobody's talking or doing anything about the Pakistani support for the Taliban. The T wouldn't be anywhere without it and for years the U.S. and ROW have chosen to ignore it.
Bin Laden was killed in Pakistan, not Afghanistan.

Also, we could have gotten out 20 years ago if Dubya hadn't been so arrogant.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/oct/14/afghanistan.te...
Well, looks like I'm never buying a new printer.
Nextcloud is an open-source Dropbox-like system with clients for multiple OS and decent security.
And explosives.
I second this opinion. Guimaras Mangoes are simply the best. I don't know anyone who's tried them and disagrees.
What happened to the Nomad List? Is it still being actively updated?
I don't think it's worth it. Afghanistan is classic example of scope-creep. We went in because al-qaeda blew up two of our buildings. We dismanted al-qaeda leadership including killing its founder. But then instead of leaving we decided to stay because of scope creep and we are still there 20 years after initial deployment fighting against a totally different adversary (Taliban). So what, we pump more soldiers in and destroy Taliban leadership too? But then I'm sure the vacuum will be filled by the next religious-militia organization and we will be stuck like this forever.

I am in favor of helping countries that genuinely want freedom from an oppressive regime. South Korea is a great example, they fought tooth and nail alongside the Americans to secure their own freedom. But Afghanis were not like South Koreans. They didn't seem to care much that they were ruled by oppressive regimes. We had a lot of friendly fire problems where Afghani security forces would go rogue and start killing random personnel on base.
> 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.

Seriously. It's such a pain to shop. I've, thankfully, managed to find one brand of 100% whole wheat bread that has <1g added sugar. All the rest were crazy levels for bread imo.

And protein bars, despite being labeled as 'healthy', usually contain tons of added sugar, sadly. Or, just as bad, they have sugar alcohols to make them sweeter. It'd be nice to just find one that only has sugar from what's in it, without all the added stuff. Closest I've gotten to zero is one with 2g sugar and 2g sugar alcohols.

As for the addiction, you're 100% right. I used to drink way too much sweet tea a day. I went without for only a week and the first one I drank after that was just not flavorful. It was quite disgusting. I've since added it back in from time to time, but mostly I just drink unsweet anymore.
Its not funny at all.
I reversed Type 2 diabetes with a ketogenic diet.

I had been referred to my local hospital's diabetes department and was prescribed Metformin. On my second appointment I was given "the talk" and told I would definitely end up on insulin - everyone does - and will probably have all kinds of nasty complications.

Then we looked at my most recent HbA1c result. "The metformin is working well for now", he said. "Your a1c is back to normal".

"No, I haven't been taking it. I've done that through diet alone."

I was discharged from their care on the spot and haven't been back.
Finally solves the problem of what to do with cable news pundits.
PayPal recently partnered with the ADL to ban accounts and prevent the wrong people from making transactions. Should be beyond concerning that not only they did that, but celebrated themselves for it. The ADL has ever widening definition of “problematic“ that extends to political topics far outside of their mission statement.

I would really have to think about who is less biased, the SPLC or the ADL.
Type 2 diabetes is also very much a genetic problem. Sure, being overweight may give you a more likely chance of seeing the issues arise (sooner that is)but I know plenty of people who are not overweight and have type 2 diabetes.

If someone has the genetic disposition for Type 2 diabetes in younger, more fit people they are still extremely likely to start seeing the effects as they age and lose activity (even if they do not become overweight/obese).
Sure, but a hn discussion, or major media coverage doesn’t really contribute. Almost nobody reads the linked articles and the feedback doesn’t propagate back to the authors effectively. On the other hand, the opinions of the public have already been influenced and the article will almost certainly never resurface with media attention if there was a correction.

Maybe hn discussions do contribute sometimes, there are some experts on here who comment
> the fights start off of the headline alone

I think we have mountains of evidence that this happens whether or not there's a paywall. :)
Speculation is all this thread has got. CSAM scanning of your siri searches and your safari searches apparently is happening on your phone, why would it stop on your laptop?
I wrote an entry on Wikipedia on visualizing the QR algorithm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_algorithm

The visualization helped me spot an unstable fixed point and understand the behaviour of the algorithm near eigenvalue clashes. The behaviour's quite sophisticated.

I think I wrote this there, but here goes again. The idea is that a positive-definite symmetric matrix can be visualized as an ellipse. This follows from the spectral theorem. Each iteration of the QR algorithm causes the ellipse to fall towards the x-axis, as if under the influence of gravity. The unstable fixed point corresponds to when the ellipse is standing up precariously, unable to fall in either direction. If you tilt it by just a bit, it will fall over (so the fixed point is unstable).

The case when the ellipse is nearly circular (corresponding to near eigenvalue clashes) causes the ellipse to fall over slowly. I think this also makes physical sense, if you think of it being under the influence of gravity. If you think of this near-circle as being a matrix, then this matrix is nearly equal to a scalar multiple of the identity matrix, so its eigenvalues are essentially known. The fact that the ellipse falls very slowly implies that the eigenvectors are unstable near eigenvalue clashes, but the eigenvalues are easy to find.

Note: The issues surrounding the unstable fixed point can be fixed using Wilkinson shifts. This makes each iteration into a discontinuous function, allowing all the fixed points to be stable. The issue surrounding instability of the eigenvectors near eigenvalue clashes cannot be fixed, as it's intrinsic to eigendecomposition (even of symmetric matrices). The latter difficulties can be dodged by slightly perturbing the matrix, but the resulting eigenvectors can be very different from the eigenvectors of the unperturbed matrix.
I believe we had a recent President who tried to raise import taxes (for whatever reason) on imports from China and the opposition went totally berserk. If it didn't work then or for whatever those reasons were, why would it work now?
Afghanistan and Korea are vastly different scenarios, perhaps the main difference is the situation the US put themselves in rather than a change of core values.
I disagree that we should wait until we see ADE in the general public before addressing it as a risk. If ADE hits the vaccinated population and is as serious as it was with other viruses, like SARS-1, it will be a catastrophe of biblical proportions.
Because many of us make use of accessibility options, and so it's relevant to whether or not a project is of interest to us.
Thanks. That was absolutely my intention and I'm grateful you replied. I amended this solution by changing strict > to >=, which seems to have fixed some of the problematic behavior.
Perhaps we should treat unhealthy foods like we treat other unhealthy things like cigarettes and alcohol. Tax them at 90%, must be 21 or older, ban advertising, and require scary warning labels on the retailers that sell them, the containers, and the menus.

The real problem is two fold. tons of people are negligently ignorant about what they eat and how it affects them. Lots of people’s livelihoods depend upon most people having terrible diets. Like seafood? You’re probably eating multiple times the safe limit of heavy metals. Like live events with popup food services? Would you like it as much if the only affordable foods were vegetable and fiber rich options without the large servings of carbs and sugars? Want cirrhosis with your alcohol? Want diabetes warnings on your ice cream and coffees?

To solve the diabetes epidemic we must get structure the parts of society that rely on people actively eating themselves too expensive and early deaths.
Why is there no extremely high VAT on luxury goods?
Dudes you are bunch of cowards. Either get better lawyers or operate offshore.
US barely fought the Afghan war. The war was "Afghanised" very early on. The lion share of casualties in Afghanistan are the ANA troops.
That's such a simplistic view of economics, as to not bear the slightest examination.

E.g. the free market depends entirely upon the amount of money people have? And nothing to do with supply/demand and the elasticity of the market? In a more nuanced view demand creates supply, efficiencies of scale reduce cost, and everything is cheaper.

Folks love to throw out the "More money means prices go up!" as if it's a truism.
Yes I very much agree, it would be important to know more about the origins. Still the fact is that March was the time it really went “viral” with all the excess mortality and widespread health impacts. So we lost all of February - January even if you account early warnings from WHO. Cases probably doubled into critical exponential increments only in late February / early March meaning there was enough time for fast action (see New Zealand, beginning of February).

https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/2...

Definitely tons of mistakes were made from the get go but FWIW CCP regime went all in with their dictatorial measures after they couldn’t hide it anymore (January/February).

Though I mostly care about my personal perspective / “realm of action” being European / Canadian so EU and NA I hold up to way higher standards basically.

Pretty much all of the governments in these regions waved away the risks even though they had all the high-caliber scientists and some press warnings early on in addition to WHO’s warnings.

It goes without saying that the “leader of the free world” wasn’t paying attention didn’t help either.
Freedom fighters in the 80's, Terrorists now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mujahideen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban%27s_rise_to_power

"Although no documentation has officially surfaced that the CIA directly supported the Taliban or Al Qaeda, some basis for military support of the Taliban was provided when, in the early 1980s, the CIA and the ISI (Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency) provided arms to Afghans resisting the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and the ISI assisted the process of gathering radical Muslims from around the world to fight against the Soviets.[11] Osama bin Laden was one of the key players in organizing training camps for the foreign Arab volunteers"
I think that's the point - there aren't big tech construction workers, they're just construction workers.
Let's stop pretending we care about diabetes. All the time an article like this gets trotted out and life goes on the minute the world has stopped reading it.

If we cared, we'd address the culture that is making us miserable.

We can try to address diabetes, obesity, depression, and suicide by passing bills and popping pills, but it doesn't actually address anything.

People are miserable whether they know it consciously or not. Many Americans believe they are happy and yet are spiritually devoid. They know deep down that the reward they're getting for their effort is break-even most of the time. The more aware can see this reflected as stagnant wages. American society is that of decreasing trust and we've never been more divided. What do people do when they feel alienated? They seek out escape. What kind of escape can most people afford? Comforting, cheap, and addictive food and vicarious living through mainstream mass entertainment.

Yeah, no shit they're getting fat and sick.
Company value is decreased when earnings are dividended out “into your wallet” or paid out in salaries, so I’m talking about neither.
As a millennial, I remember my Mom buying those Snack well cookies for herself, thinking they were more healthy than traditional cookies. I assume they compensated for less fat with added sugar.
Once again, my fellow Americans, if you are ever confused about how the Taliban won the hearts and minds of various groups within their country so quickly — while being such utterly backwards, terrible people — remember that we collaborated with pedophiles to “manage” Afghanistan, to the disgust of our own troops:

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/21/world/asia/us-soldiers-to...

I’ll never stop reminding people of this, because 1) it’s INSANE; 2) any sane person would say “yeah if you’re on the non-pedophile side I’d probably choose you over the other guys.”
Yes, I agree about choice of facts also being part of it (I wouldn't exclude accuracy either). I didn't use precise wording, so it's a good point to add.

But my conclusion is the same: The 'story' is usually pretty accurate, IME, within certain limitations (e.g., news moves quickly, and I find the NYT often omits some important questions, though not political ones).
Pakistan is also burning itself with these crazies.
Almost all these “fact checkers” exposed themselves on the lab leak theory which they had to redact after 1.5 years. Relying on any of them as a source of “truth” is asking for trouble. They are more of a narrative check.
My local paper dropped AP, but now runs CNN as their primary source. It has been… pretty obvious.
HN is a bad platform for discussion of highly-charged political topics.

FWIW, this is known, which is why it's also discouraged.
That 3000 you're seeing reference to in the past day or so is about new troops being sent now to rescue the US Embassy staff as the Taliban approaches.[1]

We have not been this embarrassed or humiliated since Saigon. It's pathetic foreign policy, and a stupid military withdrawal -- capping off a monumental waste of lives, time, and money.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/12/afghanistan-us-urges-citizen...
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It's like when you force someone to quit drugs for you, they don't learn how to quit for themselves.
So good seeing U.S. giving up on its imperialistic foreign policy, so much hope for the world /s
I don't remember what our license agreement was exactly, but back when I was in school I did a weekly morning news slot on the school's FM station. I would take all my stories from the AP wire, and the rule was that I always had to start my segment with, "and now some of the top stories from the AP..." or similar.
The women of Afghanistan yearn to be ruled by a hereditary king. Think of how much legitimacy he has.
It drains the country of future conflict while supporting these victims. It brings the fight to developed countries on their terms and soil. You'll never win against the Taliban by fighting the war in Afghanistan, so you slowly transition through immigration policy the population base they subjugate.
Yeah and Vietnam is why. Really, America as the world police was a pretty short-lived experiment. We had to be dragged in to WWII. We mostly sat out the Maoist revolution even though we did have a presence in China at the time. Korea ended up being politically fraught and the public just didn't have their heart in it. No one wanted to help a backwater Asian country. It's hard to sell a 70-year investment to help them become a first-world democracy when the outcome isn't guaranteed. Vietnam really broke a lot of people's spirits to the point that we carefully avoided nation building in the 1991 Gulf War. Our biggest success since Korea was the Balkan Wars which just aren't prominent in the public consciousness for some reason.
Hot take:

The immense security theater and waste of time created due to creation of the TSA following 9/11 and our increased interest in fixing the Middle East is just insult to injury.

All that and now we’re leaving with basically no results? SMH. If we’re leaving can we get rid of the TSA at least and restore some sanity to airplane travel?
> additional speed for spacecraft

Extreme rip-your-craft-to-bits tidal effects [0] would make life exciting. Also, see 'Neutron Star' by Larry Niven for a description of such a manoeuvre, albeit a less dangerous one than than sling-shoting a black Hole because of the larger size of the neutron star.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_force
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