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The US has been spending a couple hundred million dollars per day on the war in Afghanistan alone for the last 20 years. No one even noticed.

If the US put its mind to it (WWII levels of mobilization), it could probably achieve full renewable electrical conversion (all fossil fuel infrastructure obsoleted and removed) within five years or so.
Wouldnt that also equip many attackers with better skills?
To me it sounds like a bunch of big-state news agencies trying to scare everyone away from a more distributed economy.
if you're printing money like they are of course you would refi debt in the stupid low interest world we live in
But are we in a "pandemic" still? How do you define pandemic?

If you go by "a disease spreading out there", then surely colds and flus qualify every year, just nobody bothers to think much of it.

I think we need some quantitative benchmark, like:

- if emergency measures are ever taken, any ban on vaccines is lifted

-once vaccines are no longer banned, to qualify for increased measures the disease must be expected to have 5x worse case fatality rate than the flu in vaccinated people.

So in the US we have 3 groups:

- vaccinated people where the disease risk is very low (lower than flu)

- children who are banned from taking the vaccine

- unvaccinated people whose deaths should be labeled suicide. Their deaths are tragic, but it's basically more akin to suicide than anything else. I mean if I just don't eat, I don't really die of starvation, I die by suicide. So it's fine, let them do what they want, but don't make everyone suffer for it.
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In Canada that's the case. But small belts can go through. So it depends on the security guard what exactly they ask you to do. I had purposefully bought a small belt that would not trigger alarm when I flew weekly pre-covid for years. No joy : Half the security guards told me to take it off as a precaution when I tried to go through, half would get upset I'm taking my small belt and delaying everyone - sometimes there's no winning, just say "yes sir/ma'am" to whatever they ask that particular day :-/
That looks like https://astro-pi.org/
It's a pretty well known event. The copilot locked the captain out and used the purposefully designed system to also disable the cockpit entry code. Of course the primary cause wasn't the security setup, but it did contribute to the event.

"The captain had a code to unlock the door, but the lock's code panel could be disabled from the cockpit controls...The captain then tried to break down the door, but like most cockpit doors made after the September 11 attacks, it had been reinforced to prevent intrusion."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanwings_Flight_9525
protip: the SEC doesn't work for you. They work for big banks and are on the pay roll...
It's not at risk as in it's FDIC insured?
You're kidding yourself if you think it wouldn't. Didn't the Taliban just win despite 20 years of military occupation?
Fair point, but when you take a margin loan, you also don’t have to register it as a security.
I thought it is already designed to be at L2? But because of diffraction it still cannot stay perfectly in the darkness.
It also requires propellant to stay at L2, so it’s actually only designed to be operational for 5-10 years. It’s kinda sad to see some gadgets going out faster than it takes to build it.
Im in favor of people concealed carrying for this exact reason...distributed security works better than slow centralized security and a vulnerable public. Obviously this doesnt work for a plane though.

Fully expect to get downvoted for this on HN...because its HN.
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One of my favorite parts of that video is how he goes into how stupid an idea those "Tide Pods but for dishwashers" are. They don't do nearly as good of a job cleaning in my experience, and missing the whole pre-rinse is likely a large part of why.

Now, getting family/friends to stop using them has proven to be a challenge, because Alec can have quite the dry video format for those who are being told to "stop doing a thing you deem convenient, and watch this 32 minute video to see why".
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Notably? I would say “artisan” is too broad and “carpenter” is the usual meaning. the profession based surnames are far from being dominant either compared to smith, which almost always means blacksmith in the west.

While surnames are diluted this kind of “joke” about surnames still exists today, so there is at least some meaning

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhao_family_(Internet_slang)

FWIW according to Baidu wiki the character yi itself has a nomadic origin.

https://baike.baidu.com/item/夷/678050
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> Why should a founder/CEO earn 10 to 100 times more than that NBA star (10,000 to 100,000 times more than the strawberry picker) for a social media company that profits off of social media addiction, undermining privacy to harvest information to sell advertising that in turn is used to manipulate people's emotions and weaknesses? If your answer is that "the market says so", you are begging the question. If your answer is that it's because of "human nature", we've made that a self-fulfilling prophesy by adopting a system where "selfishness is a virtue".

No one will ever come to a consensus about what they think the economic reward for a particular thing should be. Why should we listen to you about what is fair and how much an NBA star should make? Markets should decide, with people voting with their money
I'm someone very different than the person each individual that I know think of. Not sure who is right.
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> readily attack America’s values and founding principles

You lost me with that one. What does one have to do with the other?
Yes, but that has rarely happened in history. And to prevent that, we do scan the luggage and make sure that there is no unidentified luggage on the plane.
Rule #382: You can translate 'kids these days' commentary from one generation to the next by simply substituting $newthing for $oldthing, and inserting a new value of $newthing. For instance:

1990s: Kids these days wouldn't have the attention span to {read a book}. All they can do is {watch music videos}.

2020s: Kids these days wouldn't have the attention span to {watch a music video}. All they can do is {browse TikTok}.
The passengers re-taking the third plane was a stroke of luck. That flight was actually delayed long enough that passengers were making phone calls to friends and family and heard that the first plane (or two) had already crashed, so they knew what was happening. That's when they decided to storm the cockpit. Had they not been delayed, they probably wouldn't have known and not retaken the plane.

edit: but agreed - point being we know now if a plane is hijacked, there's very little chance of it coming down peacefully.
>Security screening, he said, will also be expanded to passenger drop-off points and airport and off-airport parking lots, in addition to walkways and tunnels approaching departure and ticket kiosks.

That's the protocol in Israel. The airport is fairly isolated and before you can even get on the entry road your car is pulled over. Outside the airport entrance there are dogs and officers and then you go through security before you even get to baggage drop off and then another security for some questioning, etc. You are deemed suspicious if you don't arrive a few hours before your flight. Any drinks you buy after security are taken away as your carry on baggage is looked at one more time before you board. I often buy a couple liters of water before long trips and the to have them taken away (and probably put back on the shelves and sold!) before boarding was a bit annoying.
Yes! My girlfriend is in cell biology and they desperately need help. All their apps require complicated setup which is only complicated because no one wrote the documentation, or it’s now outdated. These guys are passionate about algae and can handle Excel, but the terminal is not their friend. My gf started learning R but she has me in the house. Others are completely lost.

I started helping them out and I don’t even go to their school. I have a meeting with her PI tomorrow to work out the reqs of software project that caught my interest. It should help thousands of biologists if I figure it out.
From the information that Coinbase has given, it's no more an investment than a savings account is. More importantly, it's not a security since you can't sell your loan to someone else.
That is what I find so strange, isn't it likely that this privileged group could be infiltrated?
You don't have to imagine, look at Afghanistan. A ragtag group of people won against the strongest military in the world.
It just needs to be abandoned. No point talking about it more.
> The idea of leaving half-washed food waste in the machine and recirculated for a whole month also doesn't appeal to me. But perhaps that's just me.

Unless there are actual solids (=bones, remains of stickers on glasses that contain plastics) in there, the combination of heat and extreme alkality of the washing water will dissolve just about anything over time so that it passes through the filter and gets pumped out.
>ByteDance had been exploring a public listing in the beginning of 2021, sources have told Reuters, but in April the company said it had no imminent plans for an initial public offering.

Has ByteDance been put on the waiting list by the CCP or is it cold feet from looking at Ant Group ?
Maybe. I think at least part of the reason is political though.

Nobody wants to be the person who scraps a security policy and then has a terrorist attack happen as a result of their policy removal. Not politicians, not TSA higher-ups, nobody. That's a career-ending mistake, no matter how unlikely it may be.

Not to mention that it's probably not a particularly popular decision amongst the public. Maybe it's security theatre, but people like it.
> the unlikely mecca of the field, the University of Utah

The story is that David C. Evans was made head of Utah's CS department in 1966, having worked on Berkeley's timesharing research, Project Genie, and having been born in Salt Lake City. He applied for graphics funding from the Arpa-backed Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO) which funded practically all the major computing leaps of the 1960s including the Arpanet, chasing the vision of JCR Licklider's "man-computer symbiosis". Not only did the IPTO stump funds, but they decided to make Utah an IPTO centre of excellence in graphics. Furthermore, in 1968 they sent down Ivan Sutherland, a former IPTO director who invented the line drawing program Sketchpad for his PhD under the supervision of Claude Shannon, down to Utah to join Evans. Sutherland accredited Evans with being "The man who figured out the basic techniques that made modern computer graphics possible".

So bear in mind that Alvy Ray Smith and thereby Pixar stood very much on the shoulders of giants. And that the foundations of computer graphics were paved by a serious amount of public spending.
Isn't this the reason for the Lightning network layer?
Joe Rogan I believe talked about this on his show the other day and speculated that this is a result of fentanyl laced cocaine. Fentanyl is so cheap and requires such a small dose you can turn 1 kg of cocaine into three, nearly tripling your profit. This is an unintended result of the US drug war and will probably result in a reason to continue the US drug war. If people could buy cocaine with a prescription, they wouldn't be getting laced cocaine.

There are no easy answers, but the path we are currently following with the drug war seems worse than if we didn't do anything at all.

Having said that, the Omar character on the Wire was very well acted.
It would, IMO, help to make third parties viable by getting rid of First Past the Post voting.
Shoes off, masks on. In perpetuity.
Discussed previously...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28448593
It is. I don't take off my belts with no metal parts in Europe and it's been fine. Once they even asked me and I said 'no metal' so they didn't press.
You two should go to couples therapy. No joke. The alternative: you let this disagreement remain and be a daily mini-stressor for the rest of your lives.
“those willing to give up a little bit of freedom to gain a little bit of security deserve neither and will soon lose both”
I skipped a ton of highschool. With a single parent that works all the time it's easy to make sure they never get the message ;)
Spot on, and once the endless waves of variants no longer convince the submissive within our populations that all of these massive changes to life are necessary, the same measures will be used during a questionably endless "climate crisis" to justify the retention of this newfound power they've gained.

1. https://ktrh.iheart.com/content/2021-06-01-after-covid-lockd...

2. https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2021/09/07/out-covid-lockdowns-...

3. https://www.guardiangazette.com/2021/08/30/climate-lockdowns...

And for those who aren't convinced, I'll be available to accept apologies at my nearest concentration camp.
It would equip everyone with better skills. But more important would be the sense of community involvement—most attackers have a disease of the mind brought on by isolation and lack of empathy.
New South Wales has a solution for this. Limit the alcohol allowance of individuals under lockdown:

https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/news/nsw-health-lim...

I wish this was a joke, or fake news. But no, once they control where you can go, when you can go there, etc, it's not a big jump for them to demand control over what you put in your body. It's for your own safety, after all.
There's a lot of media we can get that we don't want though...
I think that's their point, though. When people know their only option is to storm the hijackers, they do.
https://www.ck12.org/book/ck-12-middle-school-math-concepts-...

> An edge is the place where two faces meet. Edges are straight; they cannot be curved.

> Cones, spheres, and cylinders do not have any edges because they do not have any flat sides.
Well, fundamental value is well over >$8T which is a rough estimate of the gold's monetization (because BTC is superior to gold in every respect as a store-of-value). BTC still has to climb 10x till there and all the dips on the way are corrections.
I'm not sure why he's quitting then. That's exactly what he brought up in his resignation blog post.
>> military training/civil service mandatory.
>> Basic combat training and paramedic abilities

Those are very different things. Not every soldier is taught hand-to-hand combat. Not every civil service volunteer is taught to handle a weapon. And basic first aid training is almost universal already. More lives could probably be saves by everyone being trained in basic mental health and de-escalation techniques.
9/11 was such a singular event for Americans that future terrorists don’t have to kill people to be successful, if the goal is to create enmity and get the US to waste billions of dollars. Just an occasional scare will set us off again.
For the United States specifically, another good argument for this training to be in place is the importance given to the second amendment, the rationale of which is to have “a well regulated militia”. One would assume that everyone being well trained is part of that.
https://youtu.be/at8FUPwlIYM
Central banking is itself insecure.

In 2008, the banks failed. They put a gun to the heads of everyone in America and said "bail us out or you lose everything". So the bankers kept all their profits and everyone else lost big.

That is just one of many central bank failures. The only difference from the many small bank system that came before is that instead of a bank here or there failing and everyone else moving on, all banks fail at the same time. Don't count on that FDIC money either. It is setup as if only one or two banks will partially fail at any given time. In massive failures, there's not enough money to secure what they promise to secure (thus the gun to your head).

The real answer is to do away with the fractional reserve lending where a bank gets $100 and then proceeds to loan out $900. That would require banks to have much smaller profit margins and maybe even become not-for-profit entities, but we certainly can't entertain that idea..
> sounds like TFA is talking about manufacturing floor space

Does it really? I for one certainly did a double-take at the GP's interpretation. It's a product that's usually measured in surface area, and was reported in surface area. Feels pretty obviously related to the product itself, not the factory floor.
Except many, many more deaths in the case of Covid, and we don't have, thankfully, a federal Covid Corps to enforce any of the related policies...
You are correct.

Any enterprising software developer could take some accounting classes and work as an accountant for a SME while developing the product on the side.
There's a curious psychological effect where talking about your plans and receiving anticipatory praise can decrease motivation.

It's part of the general way that extrinsic motivations poison intrinsic motivations.

Shipping is hard.
The annoying thing is that, ok there are easier targets elsewhere, but if for some reason one of those lone wolfs decide to attack planes in particular the long lines created by those useless security measures are the obvious target.
It also depended on unlocked cockpit doors, which are no longer a thing.

The shoe bomber FAILED because it's pretty fucking obvious if someone is trying to light a shoe on fire.

We don't need the security theater of taking our shoes off. It needs to stop.
So if I want to create real mayhem I just need to have two suicide attackers starting a firefight in roughly opposite directions in a crowded open place and wait for dozens of bystanders to join in?
Yeah, also the original 1998 paper that describes the architecture of the Google Search Engine calls this out explicitly:

http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html

Currently, the predominant business model for commercial search engines is advertising. The goals of the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing quality search to users. For example, in our prototype search engine one of the top results for cellular phone is "The Effect of Cellular Phone Use Upon Driver Attention", a study which explains in great detail the distractions and risk associated with conversing on a cell phone while driving. This search result came up first because of its high importance as judged by the PageRank algorithm, an approximation of citation importance on the web [Page, 98]. It is clear that a search engine which was taking money for showing cellular phone ads would have difficulty justifying the page that our system returned to its paying advertisers. For this type of reason and historical experience with other media [Bagdikian 83], we expect that advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers.

That's pretty much exactly what happened to Google (and the entire web honestly) in the last ~10 years. I'd say that Google was doing a very admirable job of avoiding this bias from 1998-2008 or so -- both search and ads were good.

But basically the founders moved onto other things, handed search and ads over to VPs, pre-IPO employees left, etc. and the result was predictable. In large enough numbers, people behave according to incentives... it's basically "physics".

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Also I think Go.com is notable for inventing paid search -- it wasn't Google. There was a book that covered this history in detail -- I think it was one of the many books about Google.
so I'm curious if you think name calling helps in having hard discussions?
> The real threat is lone wolf random attacks on the general public like the DC sniper. That's a very low-cost high-impact attack that paralyzed an entire metro region for nearly a month. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.C._sniper_attacks

Considering how many crazy, extremely radicalized people are out there, I'm surprised attacks like this aren't much more common.
You basically just need to make the odds of encountering a trained responder higher than a lone wolf. FWIW, this would be a much better approach to the “well regulated militia” part of the second amendment than what the US has today.

Edit to fix bad quote of “well regulated militia.”
No - the use of gasoline does not impact the cost of the road. But it can be used to persuade people to use the bike lane next to it. People are amazingly sensitive to costs - check for instance tax benefits. As soon as a product is subsidized by means of a tax rule, people run as fast as they can to get it. Hybrid and now electric cars are a great example (at least in the Netherlands).
By having people pay by the mile instead of whether they own a car or now, usage is more evenly charged. You drive a lot? You pay a lot. Even nicer would be to add a charge to the gas prices: your car uses a lot? You pay a lot. But it seems that the gap between buying gas at the pump and riding your car is too wide: people will get a guzzling car regardless. But if you know that every mile you pay 10 cents..? I guess it will get people out of the car very, very quick...
Interesting, so that would mean that `int` would be faster than `unsigned int` in tight loops because the compiler would not have to check for overflow and do the wrapping (if the upper bound is unknown so that it cannot be optimized out).

I think that in Rust the unsigned types do not wrap by default, so that the compiler does not have to introduce these checks at runtime. If one wants wrapping, they have to directly use the wrap types instead which would be more instruction-heavy.

I wonder if there is a way in C to reproduce this mechanism in order to not generate any check instructions as well for unsigned types.
It also makes citizens more aware of the cost of war. Had conscription use up so much time of a citizen’s prime years, I think it would be more popular.
Works reasonably well. Multi-cursor/renaming is not as good as VSCodeVim. On the plus side, you have the full set of vim commands available to you such as`:norm`.
Well, just before the pandemic I flew through Frankfurt, Milan and Berlin Tegel forgetting about the Leatherman knife in my backpack's side pocket. I noticed it only when I was back home after my flight back.
This lead directly to the rule that nobody can be alone in the cockpit. If you're in the front of the plane when a pilot needs to use the toilet you'll see the dance; service cart blocks the aisle, flight attendant goes into the cockpit, then one pilot comes out.
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Good to know, that's more in line with the normal world. I would think that only applies to Russian citizens, though. Getting a visa into Russia is a different story under normal conditions, let alone a pandemic, and exit visas do apply to foreign visitors (at least from the US).

https://ru.usembassy.gov/u-s-citizen-services/russian-visas/
Then how would pilots do things humans need to do, like go the restroom or eat (on prolonged flights)?
Sometimes I get the magic "Pre-check" and I'd forget I don't need to take the laptop off, for example.

I just try to look ahead and see what others are doing.
Like wetting yourself... to stay warm?
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In addition it operates at a higher temperature and pH than hand washing, which is fairly antimicrobial very just detergent and hand-hot temperature.