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> The idea that the Jewish population was responsible for the harms and ills of pre-WWII Germany was a devastatingly harmful idea.

Come to think of it ... If the pre-WWII harms and ills of Germany did not exist, would the scapegoating have existed? So, is it the idea that one could keep the peace by utterly destroying the enemy _after_ they lost that ought to have been banned?

Fast-forwarding a little bit, even after those particular manifestations had been banned, some Germans continued to kill people whom they considered to be of "inferior" races. Do you attribute the literal roasting of Turks to the idea that luxury on the one side and communism on the other side could magically wash away responsibility for the genocides committed by their ancestors?

I am curious because once we go down the path of blaming "ideas" instead of specific people for specific actions, it all gets pretty funky pretty fast.

It wasn't like the Nazi party was never banned in Germany. Do you take the survival of those ideas despite the various bans since 1923 as proof that banning ideas don't change anything about the people who'll do horrible things?
I had to wait for 7 hours at the ER last night. People who choose to not vaccinate shouldn’t be allowed entry to the hospital.
strawman is a description of your argument, not you. It doesn't make a judgement about what kind of person you are, and that you have been or always will make bad arguments.

It's very different from calling you Strawman-er, which would be making unfounded assumptions about your general argumentation style and would pre-judge future statements by you.
when you tell someone "get vaccinated or be fired" what choice do they have? My job required us to all upload our vax cards or be fired. I resisted for a few days and even applied for an accommodation on the basis of "crisis of personal conscious" but was told if my accommodation was denied then i would be fired. I eventually relented and uploaded my vax card because i wasn't going to risk my family's wellbeing over a random piece of paper.

i did file a formal HR complaint and asked for a list of other personal health information required for continued employment that was not in my offer letter. I expect no response though.
I encourage people to contribute to all kinds of things I'm not a "front" for. ???

Clearly, they are sympathetic to Black Lives Matter, and don't particularly hide it, it's right there on the page! "Front" to me implies that a) they are operated by the thing, not just sympathetic, and b) they try to hide that fact.

Those things don't appear to be true? But sure, you can tell people they are sympathetic to Black Lives Matter movement, if you think this is important context for their facebook reporting re-posts, why not. About half of the USA would currently apparently agree, and half disagree, with that sympathy. (I don't think the half that would agree are all 'fronts'!)

I don't know if they are sympathetic to "antifa" or not (which is not the same thing or people as Black Lives Matter, despite right-wing talking points), but... I am, personally.
They still do, and should. Your personal health is none of the government's business. The whole process for how we got where we are with mandatory seatbelt laws is insane.

This could have gone very differently. Once again, ancient Hebrew law comes through:

"If a bull gores a man or woman to death, the bull is to be stoned to death... But the owner of the bull will not be held responsible. If, however, the bull has had the habit of goring and the owner has been warned but has not kept it penned up and it kills a man or woman, the bull is to be stoned and its owner also is to be put to death"

This is pretty directly applicable. Cars are dangerous. If car makers fail to improve their safety, they're liable to being sued by consumers. Seatbelts fit the bill, as do airbags. In a free market, it's in the interest of the manufacturers to take care of their customers. Customers can be as dumb as they want.

I guess my question though, is why didn't it work out this way?
Also the reason for the pushback from the right. It is actually the regressive left that started poking at it and opened the pandora box without thinking about the consequences of doing so. Now the whole scientific method is up for debate.

(And I am a traditionally left-leaning person)
There's the Family Medical Leave Act in the USA which protects your job but provides not your paycheck. Some states offer to pay a part of your salary or a flat amount but a lot do not.

I am sorry to hear about the cancer diagnosis. For anyone whose immediate family is impacted by cancer or any complex medical issue etc... and you are employed, you should consult with an employment law attorney in the beginning to get their advice as how the system works and how to protect your legal rights. This will cost a little money but it's about prevention, then preparation and documentation. The company consults lawyers, so should you.

The "consult with an attorney in advance advice" also pertains to any situation where you have complex needs, including for example public schools, special education and your children.

You have to understand how the system works.

Also my advice is to never ever switch jobs when you are dealing with a complex medical situation if you and your employer have a good history and they are acting like human beings should. That relationship is worth a lot.
Uber

Explanation, since this is being downvoted.

Uber might not have lied about their business, but it surely looks like investors never cared about the businesses viability and rather only cared about being able to turn a profit on their investment (which was the point being made by the gp).

To this day, it is still not clear if Uber’s business model is viable. Also not to mention the original CEO/founder’s reputation and attitude, which the investors also didn’t care about until it became too big of a scandal. Additionally, the investors didn’t even care that Uber was technically illegal (same as Airbnb btw).

Some references:

https://techcrunch.com/2021/02/12/will-ride-hailing-profits-...

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/uber-and-lyft-are-staging-...

https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-company-scandals-and-co...
> I would certainly have thought so. Are you referring to something specific or just sowing seeds of doubt?

No, I'm genuinely asking you. Do you know?

> I can read the whitepapers myself and understand the risks I'm taking.

Oh you can? Do you have a background in immunology?

> Shutting down dissenting views is authoritarianism and categorically not free speech.

> There are legitimate issues with vaccines people should be informed of such as early warning signs of myocarditis that are also not allowed on YT.

That people are freely allowed to discuss with their doctors. Why on earth anyone expects to get medical advice from a for profit entertainment website is beyond me.

> Are you claiming there's no point in discussing this?

I literally wrote:

> I absolutely think we need to discuss this topics in a meaningful way

...this is why we can't have nice things.
"they won't suffer symptoms"

Except for the ones who get sick or die of COVID you mean.
I wear seat belt and it would be my choice anyway.

I wouldn't use the word "violated" but yes, seat belt law decreased the total amount of freedom. If you don't agree to that it means we don't use the same definition of the word "freedom" or the word "law".

Because of that law I am either less free on the seat of my car, or (if I ignore that and I am caught and fined) I am less free about how to to spend my own X dollars (the fine).
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Discriminating against people because they're of Chinese ancestry is racist. I'm surprised that this is a claim that you feel requires further justification.
That's probably reasonable. The Linux kernel has historically been very good about not breaking existing compiled code by changing ABIs like this.
Yeah, I got that wrong.

Who cares if they do more than 150 FPS, when humans cannot see more than 60 FPS, unless we are talking about VR, which is nonsense for a NES emulator anyway.

Trying to win the benchmarks game makes people lose sight from what actually matters.

SPA would never had taken off if it wasn't for the work done in JavaScript JITs.

Similarly, Ruby JITs can open doors for just being the language used for Rails applications.
or a 99.2% chance she would have just lived, you know, using the stats on the virus.
Ask HN: How to effectively onboard new hires?
Curious to learn if there are any effective processes/tools to make onboarding new hires effective and meaningful.
I do consider seat belt laws as overreaching. I don't consider vaccine mandates as overreaching.

But here's the thing -- I live in a society, and that society has decided that seat belt laws are fine. I don't make a fuss about the seat belts because that's a settled issue in society and isn't a huge burden on me. People making the liberty argument against vaccines should adopt the same stance.
TDD vs. BDD – Design or Workflow?
Those are not exactly the same thing. And it would undercut her current defense which is "I was just doing my best and we failed and business failure isn't a crime"
So rephrasing what you said, unvaccinated individuals who are twice as likely to get reinfected than those with a who were vaccinated after infection means that vaccination doesn't always offer stronger protection than getting the virus?

This isn't exhaustive in the sense that it doesn't cover all permutations of vaccinated, infected, and, but it shows that at least infected + vaccinated is better than infected. That seems to meet the criteria that vaccination always offer stronger protection than getting the virus (at least in the vaccinated + infected vs infected populations).

But even a cursory glance at the study shows that the authors of the study knew this wasn't exhaustive, but they cite research [1] backing up OPs claim, and then add their voice to back up that vaccine > infection, vaccine + infection > infection, and make OPs conclusion in the Discussion section.

RTFS

[1]https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0817/10/2/138
In some places, Uber is just a front-end for a bunch of taxi companies to let you hail them. I remember doing this in Athens, the app just calls a taxi for you. Although I don't remember if I paid through the app or paid the driver directly.
I’m not a believer that vaccine science is a matter of “public” debate. It’s scientific debate, where only experts who have the tools, experience, and knowledge to argue should be allowed to weigh in. If you already have the problem of bad actors misappropriating yet-to-be-verified “scientific” claims for their own political agenda, then I don’t see why it’s right to let those ideas go out there.

I believe that people only have the right to speak their own opinion, but have none to spread disinformation.
Their antenna was a CotS LNBF. Think just the bit on the end of the arm of a DirecTV dish, not the dish itself. Typical aperture maybe 10cm, full unit about hand-sized.
We should have supported openly racist and homophobic speech. So that we'd be able to continue openly talking about other things, like science. But we all think we can control the beast.
>without exception
>harming themselves
>mentally ill
>actual nazis
>perpetrating evil

I hope you're just an inflammatory bot because this post is complete garbage.
It takes 20 minutes to sign up for 4 separate cloud storage accounts and upload to all of them.

Or seed a BitTorrent. Or both.
This strikes me as entirely being exactly the things of which you are accuse the parent post's author.

> "people like you are part of the problem"

> "such judgemental bullshit"

> "judgmental jerks who prolong the schism between people"

Whatever your positions or beliefs on the matter, or opinions of the post author to whom you are responding, your opinions and views could be more effectively expressed
using logic and reasoning without the ad hominem and vulgarity.

In any regard: it's beneath the community standards of reasoned and respectful communication on HN, which I think many of us highly appreciate and value.
>How can you support free speech but prevent a company from exerting that speech?

Because these "platforms" are in fact utilities.

We have allowed corporations to own and control the common square and bypass rights our forefathers fought wars to establish.

The gov has been all too lenient enforcing laws against these giants because it allows them to censor-by-proxy.

For the left-leaning among, please recall that the definition of fascism is "the merger of state and corporate power".
Well, in this case it also removes the plots.
Rape is horrible, but you're using as an example a country which has arguably the worst rape statistics in the world, where rape is used as a regular war tactic.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/400000-rapes...
How IBM Lost the Cloud
I think you can dial it back a notch. The comment they highlighted...

> She thinks they’re taking it down because they don’t want people to know the truth.

Isn't indicative of someone wanting to see long term data. That's someone who thinks the powers that be are hiding some smoking gun.

I'm sure there are folks with qualms about long term safety, but you're absolutely ignoring all the false information being pushed by a lot of the "hesitant". "Long term effects" is their strongest argument, but they rarely use it. Instead it's lots of stories being made up, statistics fabricated, and just flat out belligerence.

So yeah, I'm on board with the idea that "vaccine hesitant" is a term that should be used with discretion. Stand up for the truly hesitant. The rest are full of shit, and I have no problem with that label for them.
Its not just a Christian culture magazine, it is one whose backers have a BLM slant as well.

so, for them, to skip Black American content - pardon the pun, it should be relevant to them too?
> conflation of government officials and academia with expertise

This conflation doesn’t happen by itself. Who does this? What are their motivations for doing so?
> The vaccine is the fastest vaccine EVER approved.

This is because it's received the most private and public funding of any vaccine, ever, in history. Not because safety hurdles were removed.

> We have ZERO long-term data as to what it does.

We have 30 years of mRNA studies and research, and at this point, ~billions of case studies that show no negative effects over the course of 1+ years.

> But I UNDERSTAND why people are hesitant.

84% of unvaccinated people said their decision against immunization wouldn’t change if the vaccines had no side effects ([source](https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/10/cnbc-poll-shows-very-little-...)). Also, "Higher county uninsured rates and poverty rates are associated with lower vaccination rates." and "vaccination rates are lower in counties that voted for Trump compared to those that voted for Biden" ([source](https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/vaccina...)).

This isn't a debate among intellectuals about impact of mRNA generated spike proteins like you're framing it. It's an idealogical divide among those who properly evaluate risk of long covid vs. vaccination and low income conspiracy theorists.
Exactly, it's like the unfortunately common belief that religious people can't be scientists. Let their actions speak for themselves; if they are unreasonably biased, it will show.
Here's a thought experiment.

Suppose we were at war with a hostile adversary, and that adversary had killed over 700,000 people already, and thousands more each day.

I can scarcely believe that any reasonable person would argue that blocking propaganda or misinformation that harms the war effort would be an egregious imposition on free speech. Once the imminent threat is over, those efforts can and should stop, but not while the destruction is immediate.

Covid-19 has killed more people in the United States than US combat casualties every war since World War 2 combined. It is the the worst mass casualty event any living American has ever experienced.

Why is it unreasonable that serious and extraordinary measures should be taken? Misinformation about the pandemic has surely massively contributed to that death total. The chilling effect on free speech is worse? No, it's not. It simply isn't true that free speech won't return. But those 700,000+ and counting dead are not coming back.
>That rich white people

Balwani isn't white. He seems just as culpable as Elizabeth.
That’s the whole point I think
The former. Worked from home and used phone or email. It was great and paid OK (I think $500 per column, plus all the commercial software I wanted). I also wrote reviews, so if I wanted to learn databases I would write a database roundup. Didn’t go to school for programming, so this was getting paid to learn. And of course being a published writer looked great when applying for a job.

The full-timers did have a real office, BTW. At one point the owners of Penthouse bought COMPUTE! and Omni, so my churchgoing editor found himself putting a porn mag online…
This sounds plausible, but as someone else said, has this ever been proven to be the case? What are some good examples?
Depending on the year, you may be able to fix it yourself. Check iFixit for your model on how to replace the screen.

Follow the process there, which depending on your system could be as easy as remove the bezel, undo 4 screws, lean the screen forward, snug up the connector & put a fresh piece of kapton tape over it to hold it down and then put everything back together.
Obtaining the long term data depends on reliable uptake of dependable data. When nurses and doctors refuse to acknowledge that a new symptom for the individual that happens within the hour/day/week of receiving the vaccine isn't even a possible side effect of the vaccine, then we don't have a reliable uptake of data. This is a common and largely unaddressed systemic complaint that destroys trust.

The chorus of "it's safe" becomes a self-reenforcing position regardless of actual outcome because it taints the view of those collecting the actuals in the field.
I think the point is that Humans are stupid. Very few people nowadays think that seatbelts are a bad idea, or that smoking should be encouraged, or that lead in your makeup is the best way to make your skin look like porcelain.

And often we only really realise that with 30-40 years of hindsight - sometimes more - once the smoke has cleared, once the big companies have stopped their misinformation or lobbying (though I wouldn't be surprised to find out there was still some low-level lobbying for relaxing car safety laws).

> To prove how futile it is to resist government power

I guess the real question is, what is government there for - if not to enact laws that keep people safe and prevent profiteering companies from hoodwinking the common folk to help their own bottom lines?

Because as this pandemic has shown, given anything even slightly inconvenient, people will quite happily hoodwink themselves. Personal liberty is king, social responsibility is treason.

(I'd welcome any examples of small inconveniences to help our fellows that did NOT illicit massive backlashes. I can't think of any ever - no matter how obvious the benefit or small the inconvenience.)
Content like what you're describing is expensive to make, usually very boring and gets no views. You have to pay experts, read studies, interview government officials, maybe even read some science papers. Later you have to dumb it down enough so the common man can understand it. Content like this makes me want to defer the matter immediately to actual experts so I can stop thinking about it.

Now contrast this to viral content claiming that Bill Gates is conspiring to implant 5G chips, vaccine induced magnetism, government hiding thousands of deaths from COVID vaccines and all other conspiracy theories that are easy to manufacture from the comfort of your home, require no expert opinion and get tons of views. Content like this is super addictive, exploits my fears, sows doubt and leaves me less informed. This content wins is the economy like this.
and do what? the article lacks any inspiration, like it says you can get into the admin panel, but what does the admin panel let you do? can you change a subtle address to get some of the bitcoin fees for yourself? raise the fees to 100%?

the article then mentions some stuff like access to the bootloader, which of course means you could flash a more capable admin panel into that lets you do way more like take everyone's bitcoin

but what about the default admin panel?
Yes, that's correct. ALL of the metadata from that point forward gets placed on the cache.

That is, until you fill it up - which you could.

At that point new metadata goes onto the spinning disk vdevs, as it did prior to the cache. As files age in and out, space gets freed on the cache and some new metadata makes it back on there.

So if you fill it up, it behaves more like a cache.

ALSO, you can add multiple metadata caches to a pool ... so if you fill one up, you can add another ...
We may agree philosophically, but you are either not aware of how enmeshed political power is with a few large communications platforms or you are purposefully distracting from that point.

> it's to prevent and disallow them from being that powerful in the first place!

That ship has sailed. The here and now is the fact that we have a communication, tracking, and employment oligopoly in cahoots with the current centers of political power interested in preventing competition to both.
The big tech companies are facing intervention by the state at this point. Being broken up or regulated or, depending on country, just outright banned, could really clamp down on profits.
Ritchie wrote a great history of C for HOPL II: https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/chist.html

Oh, not that C?
I don't like to see where it's going. I mean, there are good chances this is the future of desktop computing. And it's no good in my opinion. Computers already cut us out from our bodies and trap in head as is. Replacing the screen with VR will push this effect even further. Expect more anxiety, depression, social awkwardness.

I feel lucky to be born in times where we have technology and abundance but it didn't yet turn to a sci-fi dystopia created by tech nerds.

And even from a productivity perspective, a regular screen is enough if it's powered by a good window manager (i.e. i3wm). There's no reason to block the reality with a VR, unless you are living and working in a room with no windows, then maybe you can get yourself a nicer view and that's it.
That question of targeting is important: I would argue that the most effective way most companies support open source is by buying Red Hat or Ubuntu licenses simply because it's a model which every accountant understands and you can make a single payment which will filter to tons of projects either in the form of direct employment of maintainers or patch contributions.

I'm aware of various attempts to collect payments or offer support plans but I don't think anyone's hit a combination which is as corporate-friendly. Everyone understands the idea of paying for support and it's usually much easier to give six figures to one party than 3 figures to a dozen projects, _especially_ when the latter doesn't get you some kind of guaranteed benefit easily explained to the accountants.
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