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What historical public health measures exist that are as invasive as a needle in my body on a regular basis?

Non-COVID vaccinations are not the same thing here. The typical American booster shots are administered far, _far_ less frequently. They don't require yearly (or every 6mo) shots to be effective.

These non-COVID vaccinations also don't require me to, say, not participate in society (per the recent vaccine mandates in swaths of Western Europe). As for schools, I knew many kids whose parents chose not to get them vaccinated when I was growing up. It was tougher to get those exemptions at the University level, but still not impossible. The way these vaccination rules are playing out, thus far anyway, are trying to make it impossible to not be vaccinated no matter what the reason. Nobody cares what your reason is, even if its medically related. [0]

Also of note is that those non-COVID vaccinations work really really well. The COVID vaccinations are far less effective, as the increasing rates in places like Israel or Gibralter show. It should be noted that, at least thus far, its better to be vaccinated than non-vaccinated as the former are less likely to have severe symptoms battling the disease. But these are hardly the polio vaccine, _at least not yet_ as a better vaccine may come along.

[0]: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9806345/Incoming-fr...
These two markets are increasingly divorced. Absurdly huge trucks are an unique US obsession.
> over the years I’ve learned in this industry that 90% or more of coworkers and managers are not going to put the same effort into it.

What's worse to me, is the <5% (<1%?) that just actively refuse to communicate. I work with one of these right now, and it is frustrating beyond belief. I feel like conversations usually start with claims that are hard to believe, and completely unsubstantiated. Like Occam's Razor points in the complete opposite direction. Requests for evidence to back the claim up are usually deflected ("look I've been looking at this for quite a while now") or can't be provided ("I don't have the data right now" — and it will never be provided, even at a later date. The request is ignored or forgotten about. But inevitably, we should press on making a decision on the unsubstantiated claim!)

And half the time, it feels like the unsubstantiated claim, even if true … literally wouldn't matter? Like, it's then applied in a non-sequitur argument of "unsubstantiated claim A, so we should do B" where there's no logical reasoning that A should lead to B.

Almost all of the time, the amount of words or text involved is just huge, like volumes and volumes of it, using terms that nobody else would use (because, IMO, they haven't taken the time to learn the systems we use…) and most of it, to my ear, sounds like bull. Just nonsense.

Direct questions are usually just ignored, so trying to just ask clarifying questions will get one nowhere. Even simple stuff, like yes/no inquiries, so stuff like "how much space does X require?" are again answered in paragraphs of meaningless gibberish.

That these individuals work in an engineering profession just even further boggles my mind. The most charitable view I feel like I can take is that they feel like I'm attacking them (by pointing out their position is bad) and it's one giant alpha-male fight after that, when really I just don't care about that? (at the end of the day, we could both get promoted? it's not like there's some limitation there) and really I'm just looking to get solid data to help make a good decision, and what I'm getting back just doesn't. make. sense.

It's so hard to describe in a HN comment, since these individuals are just so irrational from my point of view. Like, "fails the Turing test" … interactions seem more like a bad or aggressive Markov chain rather than a thinking person…
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Is there any evidence of managerial excess at the expense of profits (I don't mean anecdata)? Genuine question. I've always worked in small companies, so I don't have any experience with large companies.

But someone is footing the bill for a salary on the premise that enough revenue will be generated to cover managerial costs and some. Right?
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"not being able to see past vehicle fronts is what life is like for children."

This wasn't being discussed. Driver visibility was the topic. How do you feel children not being able to see past the front of a vehicle affects their safety? Presumably they are crossing at crosswalks and intersections which would not have cars parked immediately around them and provides visibility.
Since you mention them - I wonder if Tesla might actually be an ideal customer.

As you say, they are vertically integrated, they are well set up to produce the full stack of the technology. They also need compressors (for air conditioning, and at least in their trucks for other systems), that need to be compact and energy efficient. The technologies at play (pressurized fluids, eletric motors and magnets) are all very familiar to them.
Interested, what is your job title now and what is the challenges looking for an infrastructure job with only web dev experience in your CV. How did you start doing platform/infrastructure work? Was it picking them up at work or OSS/side project?
Also good genes. But that's a blasphemy to bring up
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What is and is not "manipulation" depends on your definition of manipulation. A very narrow definition captures only intentional harm and a very broad definition excludes only existing in a vacuum isolated from the universe.

It is pretty easy, when you are engaging in questionable manipulation to justify what you are doing by picking a somewhat broader line for what counts as manipulation compared to what you are doing and then saying "see! there's no way I can't manipulate!". Comforting perhaps but more of a rationalization than a reason.

When you make your decisions about quality with popularity as a basis, there is no way you don't end up being manipulative with or without intent. This is what is wrong with the attention economy, it evolves the world to find and exploit the weaknesses in humans.
Does taxing more on big cars stop pedestrian accidents? Where does that tax go? Improving crosswalks? So they say. Who oversees that actually happening? Can’t trust the government to do that efficiently and effectively.

Should we also tax pedestrians who look right at moving cars and summarily dip their toes into the crosswalk, expecting said car to slam brakes on for their stroll?

It’s a two way street, pun intended. Drivers need to watch the fuck out and slow down in high foot traffic areas, and pedestrians need to make sure it’s safe to cross. You know, like when we were 5 years old. Look both ways. Only now, do that and put your smartphone in your pocket for the crossy street journey.
Greg Bear's fantasy "The Infinity Concerto" revolves around a series of attempts to transmit Songs Of Power to Earth; Kubla Kahn was one, and the Person from Porlock was sent by a rival faction who wanted to send a different Song of Power. Had it been written down in full it would have changed the world in mysterious, magical ways.
Does this LangJam take suggestions for tasks?

I would like to see the outcome of people trying to design a language with first-class scope.
I worked in commercial lending for a little while and all assessments you've made on commercial properties is wrong. We (as do most) financials underwrite the business, not the property. If the business has several years of a solid, stable income as well as can afford it, we don't care. We just want a low risk borrower whom we just set and forgot until balloon renewal. Obviously we also don't just give out a loan to anyone with money either. There is no good investment in real estate unless youve got money to pump into them continually until your rents far outweigh even your personal expenses.
I doubt in 60 days one can accumulate 1 day of sick time to use to go to the doctor. An unexcused absence during the probationary period would likely result in immediate termination.
The example of "foo bar" didn't work with while but inserting tr fixes it:

echo "foo bar" | tr ' ' '\n' | while read -r var; do echo ${var}; done

For examples in general, I guess something like "cat file.csv" could work. (the difference between using IFS= and not using it is essentially whether we want to preserve leading and trailing whitespaces or not. If we want to preserve, then we should use IFS=).
> which would not have cars parked immediately around them

Something tells me you haven't visited an urban downtown lately. Vehicles are often parked right up to the edges of blocks, and that can make safe visibility difficult for adults, let alone children.
Remember Taylor Series or polynomial expansion from calc I. You can fit something until it doesn't. With a really large number of terms you can fit a lot.
Not requiring a doctor's note for going to the restroom infrequently seems a bit more on the reasonable end.

I'd have more sympathy for Amazon if, say, she was AWOL from work for more than an hour a day with no explanation. Humans are not machines and deserve some flexibility with their time.
Anthony gets even worse if you go back and read him once you're an adult, and you realize just how much time he spends looking up the dresses of pre-pubescent girls in his books.
I would acknowledge Taiwan and offer them protection just like that if I had the power. I'm sick of the CCP sqawking like chickens every time they hear or see something they don't like. Sad.
One important point that I have not seen addressed is the fact that CSAM detection may be able to run in realtime.

The orwellian implications of realtime detection are even worse, a constant stream of information about the content a particular user consumes, all generated through the display pipeline because new iPhones have ML accelerators.
It would be sufficient just to have a) consistency, and b) 2D bar codes.

In most countries, every council does their own road markings and signage. Sure, there are laws, but they're implemented inconsistently. Worse, those laws are often ambiguous, intended for humans, and defined at the state level.

Ideally, all of the critical markings should have a single, consistent, internationally agreed standard. This doesn't have to be every road sign, but all of the really important lane markings and basic speed limits and stop signs should be consistent.

Then, these signs could have infrared 2D barcodes layered on top, which would guarantee machine readability.

Humans would benefit from the consistency, but wouldn't be able to even see the bar codes.
It's not about "spilling tears" for anyone, it's about creating the right economic incentives to ensure there is plentiful housing supply, and having an eviction ban for 18 months absolutely kills that incentive.

And when it come to "the landlords take on the risk", well, in the past, this was always true. There's the risk of bad tenants, the risk of unplanned environmental damage (just ask anyone in Texas who had to go through major floods or ice storms with no power), etc. But the extended eviction ban basically was changing the rules in the middle of the game, to what amounted to government appropriation of property without just compensation, and that is exactly the type of risk any decent functioning government is supposed to prevent.
Might be easier to create a separate login?

Some partners expect to share passwords as a trust thing, but my work does not allow it (and most personal devices have access to work stuff).
It was 10 years ago when “Rumors, Truths, and Reality: A Study of Political Misinformation” was published. Among other things, That was the study that tried debunking “death panels” and the affordable care act. The outcome was entrenchment, more people believed in death panels after hearing the fact check.

Since then this study has been repeated 10s if not hundreds of times. That fact checking doesnt change minds is not in question. It simply does not work to change someone’s mind.
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>> with lots of money simply going to waste

> What does this look like? Is there money going into the system that’s not going to anyone / any company at all?

It means that money efficiency and productivity are low. A surgeon is idling because an OR is not setup because stuff is poorly organized, etc. It was mentioned in this thread already that with similar outcomes US healthcare costs are way higher than comparable systems in other countries. Low efficiency per dollar is a money waste.

EDIT: formatting.
> "...they would of taxed cars based on volume + mass."

yes, something i also heartily advocate (or any alternative that would effectively internalize these sorts of hidden costs). it goes beyond lives (although that's most important, obviously) to things like how big our paved surfaces are, how much space we devote to parking, and how far apart everything is.
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A defeatist piece. If you're determined and have initiative you can achieve a lot. If you depend on the legislators in society, like this author, you may indeed be doomed. But you don't need to be.

The good thing is that with defensive measures you can stop much of it. With retroveillance you may even be able to strike back from time to time.
because god forbid the average person lives in a 1200sq ft home.
You parse the s-exprs and execute them in the context of a namespace of data constructors. Then you can have whatever data structures in memory that are defined by the constructors. This is NOT equivalent to having one data structure to cover both as Lua does. It is having one text format that can construct any kind of data structure in memory for which you have constructors defined.
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Well then maybe the police should do their jobs and start towing people parked within 15 feet of the intersection. It's a bit ridiculous to advocate for more laws when the current ones aren't enforced.

Edit: why downvote? In my opinion city design has more of an impact on safety than vehicle design.
> Admittedly it has a weird way of naming the files

You can change the file naming default to be based on note title BTW, it's in the first Preference pane window "General".
Yoicks. Sure hope EMTs are being advised of these. Cutting through a HVDC line started getting attention when Priuses became common and here we go making things worse. It would be interesting if a resident EMT were to write at length about these hazards.
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So, according to the liberal media pinnacle NY times, we, the working people, should foot the bill for the unemployment for the lazy-ass bums, so that they can go spend MY money at he stores, so the economy can stay afloat, huh ? Pretty swell for the lazy asses and very bad for me.
This could be a market problem, like trying to buy a small car these days. People are demanding bigger, faster, more range. I know several people with e-bikes, and most of them are on their second or third bike in pursuit of more speed and power, fatter tires, shocks, etc.

A used bike might fit your bill. Or the DIY route. The friction motor might be a bit iffy, but you might be able to buy an electric front or rear wheel for not too much and use the same electronics.
Why phone scams are so difficult to tackle
Of course many were. The US govt really did a dirty to many landlords. They tried controlling people in the most ineffective way possible that will have worse effects on lower income people than had they just been evicted.
Someone with diagnosed IBS could get a note in an email exchange with their primary physician.
It does seem like an oxymoron at a superficial level, but if you look into freedom of speech, there's an implicit assumption that the speech isn't inciting violence or harm.

I can have any opinion I want about any other person and I can use any medium I want to share my opinion. I can make political cartoons that are racy, buy a megaphone and protest in front of the white house, make memes and share them all over the web. I wouldn't get in trouble for having unpopular or even conspiracy level opinions.

If I'm encouraging people to do something violent and it's clear that I'm not making an edgy joke, that might start to fall under terrorism and the government will look into how valid and serious I am as a threat. All of the four horsemen can be simplified to intentionally harming other people at a serious and maybe grand scale. The US government has a very clear line that they draw for when they will get involved.

So I do think that freedom of speech is generally protected in the US. In the context of this discussion, I can voice any type of opinion I want about the government without any repercussions. It's been ruled in the supreme court that even hate speech is protected as long as there's no imminent threat of violence.
Suggest you try doing some rock climbing and then seeing how well touch ID works on your phone.
Except they have front, rear and side cameras. Our new F150 has 360° of visibility at low speeds. There are also proximity sensors that tell me if something outside the field of vision is coming my way from behind. It's also very liberal with the automatic braking, trying to stop in situations I'd barely slow for. And the automatic cruise changes based on GPS and stored speed limit data. It's by far the safest car I've ever driven, for both my family and those around us.

My friend's new Chevy 3500 has twice as many cameras as our F150. We both tow heavy things (I move large pets and rescue animals in various trailers.) and my bed is often filled with dirt or rocks.

What are you driving and how many pedestrian detection and collision avoidance systems does it have?
They should not require doctors notes for using the bathroom. Be a human.
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> In the early 2000s, there was a movement to produce tools and training that would let domain experts produce their own tools – rather than delivering "requirements" to a programmer, a bookstore clerk or nurse or librarian could just make their own tools using Visual Basic.

This is something interesting that I hadn't noticed. "RAD" tools like VB that I remember from when I was a teenager seem to have ceased to exist - replaced with either complex IDEs and languages that almost require a CS degree or with dumbed-down "glue some stuff together" automation like IFTTT/Shortcuts. The last bastion of application development for "normies" is probably Excel?
Why require a doctor's note at all?

Humans need to go to the bathroom sometimes, and six times in a workday is, while higher than average, not terribly so. If your business processes cannot deal with humans who need to use the bathroom, that's the fault of the business process, not of the humans. It's like me running code on a cloud instance and then asking Amazon for a hardware tech's note when it reboots for hardware issues. My job, as an SRE, is to design computer systems in a way where it's okay if computers crash every so often, and if I can't do that, that's me failing at my job. Their job, as a supervisor, is to design human systems in a way where it's okay if humans go to the bathroom every so often.

Note that I'm not saying that you need to allow employees to sit in the bathroom for eight hours straight and then clock out. By all means, require that they get their work done! Just measure them on work done.

What is the doctor's note even supposed to prove? Suppose that the employee is lying about IBS and just likes the ambiance of bathrooms. Weird, sure, but does that affect your business processes? Again, measure them on work done.

If you're worried the employee is going to the bathroom to get high, or to hook up with coworkers in violation of ethics policies, or to leak trade secrets, or whatever, then go after that.
Exactly. How do you measure expertise?
Is a layperson expected to know if they would qualify for Phase 1/2/3 clinical trials?
Yes. Several reasons:

A) The diurnal cycle means that pollution production has been reduced for roughly twelve hours, so it has had a chance to disperse.

B) the cooler morning temperatures have allowed some precipitation of excess moisture in the air which condenses around dust particles and thus 'washing' them out of the air.

C) Cooler temperatures due to lack of turbulence-producing solar heating mean less dust lifted into the air by thermals.

As an ex-pilot, I must state that flying is far more pleasant in the early mornings, as the air is cleaner/clearer and there are very few annoying turbulent thermals at that hour of the day.
People are forgetting that this is a guide to difficult conversations, not a guide to all conversations pointing out a problem. Difficult conversations are occasionally necessary when all else fails.
Nothing major, especially not by HN standards. Won best game design at one of the Global Game Jam sites a couple times & won a Ford smart mobility app design competition thing. Got a couple minor IndieCade type noms back in the day but didn't win
Sure, if pre-employment, one had the privilege of having a primary physician.
The parent said F150, which is a different level of truck and lower. They were also talking about full size adult males. Their statement was factually inaccurate.

Edit: why downvote? Should we just leave fake information circulate?
I do. Reverse cameras are federal now, I believe. Most of the truck stickers I looked at had front cameras too. It's a minimal cost.
if I look at the viewcount on bitchute the most popular channels are in the thousands when it comes to views. Not sure what Gab's or Rumble's numbers are, but I am almost certain they're significantly diminished, including in ad revenue for creators compared to giving them mainstream access.

And that is enough. People argue against deplatforming as if the point is to somehow cure or enlighten the people who get kicked off.

The actual point is to destroy the material means they require to operate. If you can diminish their audiences and revenues it will impact their reach and that means their influence and the financial incentive to keep going decreases.

There's no evidence they're 'thriving' in the underground, and as long as they marinate in the underground that is good enough.
Kei car is also often seen in highway, but less frequently than streets. Some kei car buyers buy it as a second car for family (example: husband buy Prius or Noah minivan, wife buy kei car like Tanto), so their second kei car replacement by EV kei car is possible market (though still difficult task). Some people buy kei car for the only car, it's more difficult to replace.