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It depends what you think the intent of vaccination is.

The 3 vaccines authorized / approved in the USA all significantly reduce the probability of severe disease, the duration of contagiousness, and the magnitude of contagiousness.

I would agree that severe disease is already exceedingly rare among that population, but the contagiousness issue is more of a trade off of multiple factors.
Why invest into something that will only last 100 years in fuel, take 30k years to deconstruct and may blow into your face at every point in time. Sounds insane.
> I have heard a lot of opinions, some of them bonkers, but there is one I have never heard; I challenge you to find one single American who believes that Iraq was invaded due to popular demand.

I seem to recall it being fairly popular among the public back when it was proposed and first carried out, because there was a pretty widespread belief that Saddam did still have WMDs, and that he was somehow linked to 9/11. Those were both wrong, and there were certainly people who were skeptical, but it did have somewhat popular support at the time.
> Former Chancellor Gerhard Schroder oversaw the shutdown of Germany's nukes.

This is incorrect.

Germany decided to phase out nuclear power after the Fukushima desaster. This was well into Merkels's chancellorship, and there are still nuclear power plants.
That's a puzzling empirical claim. Why would no billionaires care about other people's problems?
> Dishonest article.

The slam is untrue, of course.

> There's a difference between repeal and reform.

The inferences behind this particular talking point were just recently debunked. https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20211004/11400447697/why-s...

and - the opportunity to rebuke anti-230 misinfo is sincerely appreciated.
Are there plans for a 15" Laptop soon? Can't wait to place an order.
You have to understand the context that the anti-nuclear movement came from.

First, nuclear weapons had been demonstrated as devastating by killing tens of thousands in Japan. Then the superpowers engaged in a nuclear arms race. A small town in Germany's Hesse was even assigned coordinates 0/0 in NATO maps because it was expected to be nuclear ground zero in case of a push of the Soviets through the Fulda Gap. Add Chernobyl to the mix that showed that even civil use of nuclear power can be dangerous and you get a universal, blanket rejection of all things nuclear. It's really not surprising. Rejection of nuclear power plants might not make a lot of sense nowadays in a stable and developed country like Germany but it is understandable once you look at the history.
>Simply letting your money or real estate idle is a much better bet than actually investing it in an economy with slow population growth

Do you have anything that points to a majority of billionaires doing this?
This picture was popular on 4chan a few years ago: https://imgur.com/a/ZyNZ0JL
I've said it before and I'll say it again: we need a global reckoning on the tradeoff between efficiency and resilience.
Oh yeah. Definitely doing the decision-taking but not the decision-executing.
I can't carry it for you mr fodo but I can carry you?
I'm not sure what you mean with Venusian colonization. The surface is so utterly hostile that all probes we've managed to land only last for at most a few hours due to the intense atmospheric pressure, corrosive atmosphere, and temperatures hotter than the melting point of lead.

Floating balloons were considered, but it turns out those have a whole host of practical engineering concerns that rule them out. Plus, getting back into orbit is nearly impossible from said cloudtop balloons. You'd basically need a full sized orbital rocket like the Falcon 9 because the gravity is basically the same and the atmosphere is still a major concern.
This is not correct, lisp operations on lists have always been to modify in place, with copying versions added later. The technology did not exist to do functional programming efficiently enough (and to some extent that technology still does not exist generally).
>So its funny you left out the countless proposed, failed and later repealed attempts at wealth taxes in Europe.

I do remember when news media outlets owned by the very wealthy claimed the French wealth tax failed because Gerard Depardieu left.

>If you want a very simple example, just look at how Sweden killed their markets. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_financial_transaction_...

A simple example of what? This was not a wealth tax it was a transaction tax on securities.
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Yes, I mean the exclusion zone, it doesn't matter, the numbers are still in nuclear's favor.
Isn't Chicago Midway a de facto hub for Southwest, even though they don't call it that?
Juan Brown at the blancolirio channel (of Oroville dam fame) did a video on this topic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO39nIcuPhQ&t
For the crime of the multitude of anticompetitive and shady behaviors that Amazon has engaged in, including using their position as a marketplace to leverage their suppliers out of business[1], supply chain fraud by commingling[2], workers rights abuses[3].

But quite frankly, even though several of those are actual crimes, I don't think you need to have committed a crime to be an awful person. Jeff Bezos qualifies for his smug demeanor while being an asshole, regardless of what crimes his company has committed.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/amazon-i... - Literally on the front page today
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27177539
[3]https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/feb/05/amazon-wo...
You are putting a lot of stock into a PR piece...

SWA is attempting to manage the damage to their brand. It's pretty obvious.

And again, the Union has to deny everything. Any organized walk-out, or something they knew would happen and did nothing to stop ("official or unofficial") is illegal.
You’re thinking about Peter the Great. The Czar. Also, if you think you can get credible reports from Pravda, about a country with Potemkin villages of all things, then I don’t think you’re looking very critically at that information.
I believe there is one glaring difference: The deception/sneakiness factor. I know Kirkland is Costco's brand, Great Value is Walmart's brand, No Name is Superstore.

That being said, Amazon has taken a step in the right direction by being open about it's brands: https://www.amazon.com/b?node=17728530011
This language has mutable strings. This is in some sense the opposite of functional style.
Additionally if the airline claims it's because of the weather they don't have to put people up in hotels and cover their meals.
All 10 years at one company
There really isn’t a way to do that — airline operations are based around renting “slots” from airports that give takeoff and landing rights at specified times. Slots are expensive, so you build your operations and maintenance plans around them. You just don’t have an option to build unused backstop routes and the logistics around them, so either you’re bumping folks onto other carriers or having them wait for your congestion issues to ease.
Going by the German energy usage there's no replacement using fossil plants being done. It's all displaced by cheaper renewables, especially coal and old nuclear plants.

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/sites/default/files/styles/g...
>The concentration of the majority of wealth to a smaller number of people is definitely a factor, it's the hallmark of a corrupt system...

How?

>This is not irony

We're on a developer news site, talking about the US not having this or that, while also ignoring the fact that the US is very sought after by developers.
It’s could be against the Wagner Act for airline workers to strike in this manner. It would certainly invite the intervention and mediation of the NLRB in the matter. By keeping it undeclared and unofficial they head off labor litigation which would ruin the company and create an immediate crisis that required federal intervention. The union also could not sanction such a probably illegal strike. Even organizing such a sick in could be considered illegal given the separate treatment of infrastructure labor under the Wagner Act plus amendments and the Railway Labor Act which does cover airline workers.

Such a strike would likely be illegal and could lead to the dissolution and decertification of the union. Corporate, labor, and the feds all have good reason to run FUD on this in the hopes that it can be settled before it kerplodes into infinity hours of legal bills.
Author here. You've probably read more smart contracts than me, but this hasn't been my observation. Rarible, for instance, is very popular and uses proxy contracts. Axie as well.
Because the executives at Southwest can't just make that accusation without enormous evidence that it's true. It's legally dangerous ground for a lot of reasons, because the pilots are federally prohibited from pulling sick-outs.

Falsely accusing someone of breaking a federal law, a law that is very important to their job and industry, can come back on you in an epic way given the stakes here. That would be an opening for a giant lawsuit and that's the best case scenario for Southwest if they did something that stupid.

> saying that other people are breaking the law is not a crime.

You do not want that claim to be false - you do not want to be wrong and or unable to prove your out-on-a-ledge position - if you go around making very substantial accusations like that (eg stating the pilots are pulling a sick-out), which can directly threaten the livelihoods/careers of the pilots. If you're wrong or otherwise can't back up your claims, you just made a mistake that will cost shareholders an expensive legal settlement and possibly get you fired.
AVR is actually rather expensive, relatively speaking. I believe it's only popular due to Arduino. Even the various PICs will be cheaper, and of course there's still a lot of (very fast) 8051 variants as well as 4-bit MCUs at the ultra-low-cost level (<$0.01).
Millionaires and Execs arent too popular these days. That could just as easily backfire.

It does appear as if a lot of companies are going to be dealing with a bit of "brain drain" int he near future....especially ones unwilling to be more accepting of WFH...
And, again, if you have some reason to think it is not, you have not cited it. Saying people mention other languages that are not LLVM output is not such a reason.
- Brian's comments about Airbnb's approach to performance marketing are used to imply that Airbnb's lessons apply to other businesses. Very few businesses - especially those that start from small numbers and need to grow them - have 90% of their traffic mix come from repeat customers. Using Brian's comments helps fuel the narrative that brand marketing is a better investment than performance marketing, which is correct in some cases (Nike, Airbnb), and not in others (most startups). Also, as another member pointed out, Airbnb's performance marketing budget is still well over $200M/year, which no responsible/public company would spend if it wasn't returning a great ROAS. Finally, Airbnb is known for all sorts of marketing shenanigans in their early days, and they certainly can't take the credit for a pure brand play.

- Calling performance marketing platforms a scam (repeatedly, both in the title and in the narrative) doesn't explain how those same performance marketing platforms are carrying the majority of traffic acquisition in most of the B2C companies that went public this year (and practically all of the DTC ones). Calling into question the accuracy of measurement is one thing. Calling it a scam is wrong and designed to rank on HN rather than to be reflective of the true value of those platforms.

- As I pointed out in my original post, all you have to do is use incrementality studies and 98% of the criticism instantly goes away. Rand implies that you have to do your own studies (by eg, following Avinash Kaushik's methodology) which is 100% wrong - Facebook will do them for you if you reach a certain spend limit, or 3rd parties will as well with no spend limits. Also, from experience, this really becomes an issue once you spend meaningful amounts on two platforms at the same time. His rant on this subject has an iota of truth and a whole lot of sensationalism mixed together, and overall leads to wrong conslusions.

- He conflates "paid search" with "all performance marketing platforms", including "paid social." It would have been helpful to point out that the challenges with branded terms are entirely isolated to paid search and have nothing to do with paid social.

- My favorite sensationalist tactic: frame a strong accusation as a question. This way you get the clicks, but you can still cover your ass by linking to resources that with enough research would allow the reader to answer the question with a "No." But in lieu of that research, the implication is that the answer is a "Yes." You'll see this tactic used by less reputative media sources, and I was disappointed to see Rand do the same.

I could go on but hopefully this will suffice.
> It's universal knowledge; you will hear it whether you are talking to a conservative christian or a communist,

I wouldn't expect either to be part of the Overton window, and both to be rather unhappy with current society. As for upper civil servants, corporations and the media, one has to suppose their interests are all aligned, as opposed to being in disagreement over various matters. Sounds like something you'd hear conservative christian or communist say. Someone unhappy with the current form of government who supposes there is a grand conspiracy preventing their ideal conservative or communist society from being realized. Instead of a majority of people not wanting such a society.

Both have a narrative of the world as being controlled by dark forces brainwashing people, instead of it being a complex, emergent structure from a messy history with nobody in control.
When Germany closed nuclear power plants after Fukushima much of it was replaced with coal power plants.[1] So I don't think his point is moot at all, it's actually quite a reasonable argument to make here.

[1] https://www.nber.org/papers/w26598
Why are you using the painfully obvious propaganda term "hesitancy"? There is very little "hesitancy" at this point. There are people saying, "I am the sovereign of my body and you will not force your unnecessary medical interventions on me, period. This is the hill i die on." That is not hesitancy.
You're correct, but presumably in the wrong direction given your comment history.

Any time a complex system fails, smart folks dig into precipitating and root causes while ideological idiots dream of conspiracy.

I've actually seen this is professional contexts, where idiots blamed a series of hardware failures on employee sabotage. Turns out there was a component with a 1-in-10,000,000[^1] failure rate that was failing almost exactly 1-in-10,000,000 times and the distribution of the failures was clustered by pure accident.

[^1]: Or something like that. It was a decade ago.
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What does a programmer that's not a "real programmer" do? Only write code in films? Slap the keyboard on hackertyper.net?
VMs for that with an account with no admin rights.

To add to the parent I also use adblockers and turn off JavaScript
Belarus to make subscribing to some social media channels a criminal offence
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We've literally just been through an entire energy crisis in Europe that was exacerbated due to inconsistent wind.

https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Europes-E...

The UK is suffering the most from the drop in wind power output, caused by mild weather. The country, which prides itself on its wind capacity and whose Prime Minister last year said wind farms could power every home by 2030, produced less than 1 GW of wind power on several days. This compares with a generation capacity of 24 GW, according to ICIS senior energy economist Stefan Konstantinov.

Cheap isn't as important as reliable. It's not like these countries have no money.
Excellent ranking for those wishing to have a reasonably well researched list of candidate countries for where they could place their hidden funds and avoid future taxes. Bravo.
In the book Post Corona, Scott Galloway talks about red vs blue companies. Blue companies (e.g. Apple) charge a premium for their product and offer you some level of privacy, while red companies give you their product (the Android OS and Google Apps) for "free" and then collect lots of data on you (and use that to make money). Amazon is clearly going this route too with the ridiculous number of ads they have started putting on their Echo Speakers.

He predicts that over time there will be paid versions of a lot more products for people who want (and can afford) privacy. I know there is a lot of hate for Galloway, and I take everything he says with a grain of salt, but this struck me as pretty astute.
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Any plans for a fanless option.
> This app will send you new words (with translation)

With definition, not translation.

Come on, I expect better from a vocabulary web site.
The interesting part is, Biden hasn't issued an order yet. But Texas' governor has - prohibiting any mandate.
Which is far cooler, and comes from a far more credible scientist, though as a notion, still requires low credence.

Penrose has far more insight into the mathematics of the beginning and ending of the universe than your average genius-cosmologist. Yet claims for supporting data from CMB analysis (residual cold-spots from black holes in past epochs) should have been confirmed by now. So far as I know, those results haven't been repeated and all occur within error margins.
The view I share with a majority of Germans: Costs of nuclear energy are very much a burden that future generations will have to carry. A hundered thousand years of safe storage is not part of the calculation of the energy price. It is also clear now that the the companies running the plants will not pay for the deconstruction of the plants after they reached their end of life. Tax payers have to pay for this, and a large part of the remains will need to be stored safely for millenia as well. This is the opposite of sustainability and fairness towards future generations. Worldwide there still exists only a single final storage solution for nuclear waste - in Finland for the finish waste. In densly populated Germany the search for a storage site has been going on since the late 1950s, so far without success. All this on top of the risk of a system failure that would devastate huge territories. In a country where, as we've recently seen, simple emergency warning systems are basically non-existent and fax is still the main communication tool for the authorities...
Private wealth has already been taxed unfortunately
At this point I'm actually wondering how much more discussion will be required about "Williams Sonoma Cast Iron Skillet" to get HN among the top search results.

Another reason why ads for "Williams Sonoma Cast Iron Skillet" exist are not just to combat Williams Sonoma competitors but also scummy SEO search engine spam, I mean what if you don't pay to have your stuff in the first results and some hustle comes along that makes fake product review sites off of scraped results and engineers getting their stuff all among the first results, since UX research shows people not finding a relevant hit in the first few results do not go to the next page in results it implies that ads are required to give the correct research for something obvious like this because otherwise you have to take a chance with the present day subpar google results.
Why would you use ascii for something like a waveform, something that's inherently a graph?

Sure, maybe you don't need that much resolution for what the use case is. But it's the equivalent of looking at a graph and squinting your eyes to blur it.
By this logic one should not get excited after buying a house, a car, or even a birthday cake since someone else did the work. Obviously, that's crazy thinking.

But besides that, Bezos did a lot more than just buy a rocket from a supplier. He invested billions of dollars and years of work into Blue Origin. By any reasonable definition, he deserves to celebrate its successes.

Humanity as a whole succeeds when things like this are accomplished. The world has many problems, but advancing our ability to travel into space is not one of them.

Only a sad kind of cynic sees these events as an opportunity to spew hate. They reveal much more about themselves than anyone else.
Seems that no credit, no bount, nothing, has become the way that Apple deals with the iBugs Hunters.

And all it takes is one of those unsong heros giving up on reporting to Apple and, instead, reporting to some 0-day company, and some ransonware go brrrr
Not only that, the copy to clipboard function produces text that DOES NOT render correctly when pasted into a Markdown doc.
> Knowing that they will get the bomb, the US had no reason to press on in the Pacific.

I think you're underestimating the amount of animosity that the Pearl Harbor strike created. When Doolittle's raids basically failed (all bombers crash-landed and destroyed), Doolittle was given a medal of honor for at least kinda-sorta attacking Tokyo.

The American people wanted a Pacific fight. The American people also knew that the "real fight" would begin after the Essex carriers arrived, and when the Pearl Harbor battleships were dug up / resurrected from their watery graves.

Midway was a surprise: that the USA could win a fight despite being outnumbered. I think the American people would have understood that an outmatched underdog Pacific fleet would lose to a stronger adversary.

The fact that the opposite happened: that Midway was a success for the Americans, allowed the USA to scale up Pacific efforts much faster than originally planned. But both Japan and USA knew that the "real fight" would begin in 1943, after the new Battleships and Carriers came online.

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If the USA lost "Midway", then the USA would have simply had a Midway-like moment come 1943, as the US Navy would begin to outnumber the Japanese by significant margins.

For Japan to win at this juncture, it would have had to repeatedly play "reverse-Midway" like battles for the remainder of the war, which seems unlikely. The amount of ships US Congress approved was insane.

The USA committed 3 carriers to the battle of Midway. In 1943, it would only take 3 months for 3x new, Essex-class top-of-the-line fleet carriers to replace them. If Japan somehow sunk those 3 new carriers, just 3 months later, we're back to the same situation.

In contrast: Japan had barely any industrial capacity to build more ships. (That's why they wanted to invade China after all).

The only reason the USA stopped building carriers was because we knew we won the war.

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IMO, the "reverse-Midway" timeline has the USA reaching Japan maybe a year later, and therefore nuking cities instead of using firebombs. But otherwise, the war ends very similarly: USA eventually gaining numeric supremacy and crushing the Japanese fleet. Then using an island hopping mission to get closer-and-closer to Tokyo before unleashing a devastating bombing campaign.
hmm i wonder if a site like this would be a good candidate for cloudflare pages where bandwidth is unlimited (even though they have a 20K file limit). Then servers wouldn't need to serve any requests, and every time the source weather data is updated, you rebuild the files and push to cloudflare.

love the site despite the ads. who/what did you use for i18n?
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Yes, SWA has 11 hubs, even though they refuse to call them that. There's even a list on the wikipedia[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines