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We absolutely must teach science, it is frankly ridiculous to assert that we should only teach the scientific method and assume everything else will follow from that. It has taken millions of people hundreds of years to establish the corpus of scientific knowledge and understanding that knowledge is critical to advancing that knowledge or disproving it.

We could do a better job of teaching the science alongside the history of the process of its discovery and validation and incorporate actually reading scientific papers rather than just textbooks. We can emphasize science as an ongoing process rather than simply a "just so" story, but we absolutely have to teach its results and not just the methodology.
So that they could get a lot more media attention compared to just another incremental release.
It needs a certain change of perspective, but big companies are in effect large centrally planned economies that are thriving, many several times the size of a small country.
If anyone is in doubt that's the purpose of this endeavor here's a related fragment: "- Realizing the declaration of the world’s resources as being the common heritage of all people.

- Replacing money-based nationalistic economies with a resource-based world economy."
The US government and corporations borrow money at the prime interest rate plus some margin. Right now, US corporations have borrowed the maximum they possibly can. If the interest rates on that debt go up, many corporations will immediately go bankrupt. The US government also has a debt ceiling it is refusing to raise, which may mean that the US government itself may become insolvent faster with an increase in interest rates.
> Give people money during pandemic, people feel less pressure to work. Less people who want to work, wages rise to attract more people.

I feel that depicting the current scenario as a sudden global reluctance to work because people are getting benefits is a gross misrepresentation of the facts, and one which is rooted in the old moralist notion that poverty is tied to laziness.

The truth of the matter is that the year-long lockdown enabled workers to reconsider their life priorities and their professional choices, and those stuck in awful jobs with awful working conditions decided to reconsider their options.

To illustrate the fact that "giving people money" is not the key factor here, keep in mind that priviledges workers, such as handsomely paid software engineers working for FAANGs, started quitting in droves due to working conditions, and right now we are seeing these same FAANGs scrambling to contain this hemorrhaging. FAANG-caliber engineers don't just quit their job because the government started passing on handouts.

The service sector imposes exceptionally abusive and poorly-paid working conditions, thus no wonder they are having problems attracting workers without doing any soul-searching and addressing their problems.
Statistical Outlier Johnny has some medical condition improved by nicotine or other drugs best ingested by smoking; or perhaps some issue for which nearly any smoke would do.

"Rational Society" then dismisses the existence of these people's needs and pats itself on the back in the sure knowledge of Righteous Grace while banning smoking. If they're feeling especially magnanimous they might offer an alternative that costs more and has worse side effects, under supervision.

It wouldn't be Rational to let people take responsibility, unsupervised, for their own health and comfort, now would it?
At the end of the day, there are two underlying problems, I think.

One is that the supply chain and shipping world is just completely bottlenecked and screwed up, some of it is COVID related disruptions (airlines not flying for a long time, shippers/dock workers not working, etc), some is residual shocks from the Ever Given (which pushed a massive "bubble" into the normal flow of containers/etc - which is creating weird paradoxical effects all across the supply chain as it suddenly becomes very important or not important at all to hustle on specific parts of the chain), etc.

The other is that we just killed 700k people in the US alone, a disproportionate number of whom were "frontline" workers - the people at your grocery store and fast food places. Yeah a lot were seniors but of the ones who weren't, a ton of them were frontline workers. And that's just creating a massive labor shortage. In a sense this is also a preview of what the "send 'em home" policies certain political groups push for would look like.

Vaccination policies are another log on that fire but frankly I don't think it's the grocery store workers who are the ones digging in their heels about getting vaccinated, it's the karens who are their customers. I think it's a comparatively small effect compared to the above two, but it's still yet another compounding effect.

The supply chain was very "just in time" and disruptions to that supply chain can have surprisingly long-term effects before the ripples finally smoothed out - even if COVID had disappeared you are probably talking "at least several years" to return to normal, in the global shipping chain, and in certain long-leadtime supply chains like electronics. And really we are not even past the part where ripples are still getting created, due to the general labor shortages. Again though, we tell workers to have a 6 month supply of all expenses just in case "something unexpected" happens, and yet these JIT policies have been the darling of the business world. This is the downside, something big happens and they don't have any slack in their production chains. The companies that planned ahead and had a "6 month emergency supply" of computer chips aren't having problems as bad as the companies who were living paycheck-to-paycheck (or supplytruck-to-supplytruck).
Selenium 4
https://www.nature.com/articles/533452a

> More than 70% of researchers have tried and failed to reproduce another scientist's experiments, and more than half have failed to reproduce their own experiments. Those are some of the telling figures that emerged from Nature's survey of 1,576 researchers who took a brief online questionnaire on reproducibility in research.

If 70% the GNU/Linux installations failed to boot, are you sure you'd take it on faith?
Why must skeptics be convinced? It is perfectly okay to live in doubt, ask Pyrrho.
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What if prices didn't go up, but down reflecting a more productive prosperous society?

Imagine everything getting cheaper every year. Every year you'd see your rent and food bill go down. No more arguing about bumping the minimum wage or the middle class being left behind. Everyone would get richer by default.

Of course this is highly unpopular with economists. They'll tell you no one would buy anything if things got cheaper. But some things do get cheaper every year, mainly technology. You can wait a year and buy that new TV you want at a 10% discount, but that doesn't stop us from purchasing it today.

But of course stopping inflation would mean not printing trillions of dollars and giving them to large banks, so obviously thats a no-go

https://www.covidmoneytracker.org/
>Give people money during pandemic, people feel less pressure to work.

It lets people stay home more to prevent the contagion from spreading... but it is not the good life. It might help buy groceries or pay a bill or two, not much more than that.
You don't. Case in point the drift in measured values of the fundamental charge of the electron over time starting with Millikan. However, given enough independent evidence you can conclude whether or not the results of a measurement are more likely than not.
What are you trying to suggest? That people only work to avoid homelessness? That homeless people deserve to be homeless? That providing homes to the homeless would cause people to stop being productive members of society?
United (sic) States of America is full of people who think that they know better. If no matter what question or problem comes up you have an answer ready, then your problem isn't with science, you have a problem with logic.
> any attempt to raise interest rates at all will likely trigger a massive recession. this is called the corporate debt bubble

It's a continua. If we raised rates 0.00001% it clearly wouldn't "trigger a recession", if we raised rates to 25%, it would.

Powell has shown himself to be an effective chairman, I doubt the fed will trigger a recession with rates.
In my recollection, 98SE was good. 98 was very unstable, I think because of (usb?) driver issues?
And even more confusing, it's "Visual Studio for Mac" which is a completely different product than "Visual Studio" ("VS Mac" is just a rebranded MonoDevelop).
Talking of unscientific beliefs, I have yet to see any evidence that teaching critical thinking is either possible or likely, or that schools would do anything other than use the time for propaganda - particularly in regard to anything of importance that is contentious.
> If you own a house and all of your neighbors sell theirs at a 30% markup, should you pay taxes on making $300,000 (for a 1mil house) this year?

In most places (not California) your property will likely be assessed higher and your taxes will be commensurately higher next year. Your house's increased value isn't treated like realized income, but its effect on your taxes isn't 0 either.
Occurrences of words in the Linux kernel source code over time
>coordinated unauthentic or disingenuous skepticism

There is certainly some of this happening as with every issue, but echo chambers can easily emerge and sustain themselves without the need for coordinated bad actors. I believe the larger issue is simply lack of education rather than bad guys doing bad things.
There's no license for the copied code. You can do whatever you want with it.
The document is actually worth a read. I don’t think the parent poster is accurately representing Apple’s position.
That 4% difference is absolutely massive. Further, these benefits have to be paid by someone somewhere. These benefits are being paid by all the rest of us in the form of inflation eating way our income.
Some things are objectively addictive. For instance, alcohol is an objectively addictive drug. If you don't have trouble controlling drinking now, that's excellent, but if someone were to somehow force you to drink 6 drinks a day for a year you would certainly start to develop physiological signs of addiction. On day 366 when you were free to not drink, you would feel a craving. There is no such thing as a person who cannot become addicted to it. It is the drug which is addictive, and not some failing/property of the person who became addicted.

In particular with social media, I don't like the framing of it as "what is addictive to someone is harmless for someone other". The addictive-ness is baked into the product whether or not an addiction is manifest in any individual user. Viewing the addictive-ness of say, Facebook, as a problem only "for some people" rather than as a property of Facebook, shifts blame away from the engineers and execs who purposefully make their product addictive, onto users who find themselves (somewhat innocently) addicted to an the addictive thing.

Don't want to be pedantic but I think it's an important point.
> Whatever they're wasting in returns, they're saving something in reducing the need for physical stores.

A physical store presence has way more positive effect for a society as a whole than online shopping has. Just look at the developments of the last two decades: Walmart has destroyed local, reachable-by-foot grocery stores, and Amazon (plus corona) has obliterated physical retail. The result is entire communities that have no places left where people regularly come in contact with each other. Inner cities decay (see e.g. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/theres-terrifying-mall-blight...), quality of life declines, and social cohesion vanishes.

You want a reason why Trump got elected, why right-wing populism is on the rise across Western countries? The blight of physical store presence - or, to be precise, the providers of essential services vanishing - is a huge part of the reason why so many people feel disconnected from society. An empty mall, a village center void of any human presence, public services shutting down because the tax base of said stores has vanished? That is immediately visible to the people, and they, historically proven, vote for the person who claims the loudest he has a recipe to fix the situation or at least offers a convenient boogeyman (immigrants, China, Jews, ...).
That week he was hawking the Helium blockchain. Supposedly his nephew buys some expensive LoRa nodes so he will reap future rewards when more people will have such hardware. Now that's a pyramid scheme if I ever heard of one.
Looks like a fun project. I should get back in to FPGA tinkering. Last time I played with one was about 20 years ago. I wonder if the development environment has improved since then?
Fixed, thanks! (I'm french :D)
> If the interest rates on that debt go up, many corporations will immediately go bankrupt

Do you know which rates are the ones the Fed sets?

These threads always bring out the people who don't understand how the economy works.
> But what am I to do? Cut them off and be a pariah from the extended family for the rest of life?

Easy for me to say, but what about yes? Their behaviour is what is worth of them becoming the pariahs.

If the extended family are decent, you could try talking to them directly, although I guess not a lot of people have understanding with kids who "disown" their parents.
It’s actually more like a factor of 100x for Democrats - maybe 50x for Republicans.
Not recommend. Theres no option to raise a private army, build nukes, invade a small country in the East Europe and make it your personal resort.
> Does it mean that we should tax wealth? Absolutely not.

If he takes out a loan guaranteed by his wealth, how should that be taxed?
Merely that you must consider the incentives of policy as well as the immediate result of a policy.
You've been going on and on. I linked you the AWS marketing page on Lambda that includes it scales with no infrastructure and can be used for all use case.

You've had two chances to cite something on their vast marketing and documentation other than marketing brochures (are you serious?) and AWS specific training, paid or otherwise.

You even quoted the wrong part of the marketing spiel.

Just upload your code as a ZIP file or container image, and Lambda automatically and precisely allocates compute execution power and runs your code based on the incoming request or event, for any scale of traffic

ANY scale of traffic, requests or events. Just upload a ZIP or image and you're done. We know that isn't the case, don't we? Even without AWS sales people showing up personally to provide us marketing brochures they wouldn't put on their website.
The links to data in other comments suggests a treatment would take about 2 weeks to become effective (rid the system of existing viable sperm), then last approximately 6 months.

Although, if you look at the graphs/numbers it seems there still are a small number of motile sperm (looks to me like approximately 50% reduction in count with 20% motility). Seems like it doesn't completely eliminate the possibility of pregnancy.
>"Being a billionaire is inherently immoral."

No it isn't, and that's no a self-evident assertion. Jeff Bezos is a billionaire because the company he created and led for the past 20 years is an insanely productive business. People want to own shares in his company and that is why his holdings are worth so much.

>"without underpaying or overcharging others"

This is an impossible standard to meet. In a system as massively complex and chaotic as an economy there is no way for any business to pay/charge the "right amount". Not only is the fair amount an unknown value, anything resembling a fair price is only discovered through overpaying/underpaying until prices regress to some middle ground. And then something inevitably happens in the world that necessitates finding a new value and the process begins again.
Home is mounted as noexec.

Sure when there is a will, there is a way, however it seems many here lack the experience to work on properly locked down UNIX servers, where a user is really a plain user that dances to IT music tune.
pretty good. so good, there is even a market for communist mythology and postmodernism miasma
Housing, not houses. And they don't own the property. In most programs like this, the person gets a single room or (if they have a family) a small apartment. It's considered temporary - only until they can get back on their feet financially.

It's still only one step above complete destitution. Most people would prefer better and would still work hard.

It's a lot easier for a person to get a job, or beat any personal issues they have if they have a stable, safe roof over their heads. You gotta give people boots so they have bootstraps to pull themselves up by.
> Most of the time I've tried to get clarity on your opinion

Which must have been frustrating for you, seeing as I was resisting being pinned down on what I regarded as overspecific details not related to the reasons for my original intervention in these HN subthreads.

To be clear, my original concern was to avoid a lowering in the standard of discourse here on HN, and I did not intervene to criticise you directly, only to criticise what I took to be a complaint of criticisms of you that I took to be entirely without merit. I don't like what I have seen of the New Discourses content (one of the links you provided I particularly disliked), but I actually value the fact that HN is a place that people who agree with Lindsay and Pluckrose can argue. For this to work well, though, standards of argument need to be maintained.
Ah yes, and the real price of your mortgage and student loan payments would go up every year, sounds like paradise.
Though you can share memory manually, i.e. in C but access it from Janet.
New solar cells produces a thousand times more power
I don’t fully understand why, but in general stocks tend to fall when interest rates rise.

Investopedia chalks much of it up to psychology and… higher rates means less lending means less spending means less earnings.
https://www.investopedia.com/investing/how-interest-rates-af...
Of course it is! The market doesn't have 20B$ worth of contractors to build homes so just by injecting that much money your house prices will increase, making it hard for everyone else to build their own home.

To get 20B$ in actual money to pay the above-mentioned contractors, you need to sell an additional 7.4B$ in shares (to pay the taxes). Selling 27B$ of your portfolio would inevitably mess with Amazon's stock price, the value of the company would tank and now your 20B$ endeavour effectively cost you 40B$ (remember he doesn't have 136B$ in currency in a vault).

Those homes that you are building needs to have clean water and will consume electricity, this is a maintenance cost that homeless people might not be able to afford so there is a yearly price to this endeavour unless you want to go back to square one. On top of that, the grid can't handle the surge that all these new homes require, you need to scale the producing capacity. This puts an additional strain on the global supply chain, again raising your prices.

Of course the above is just one big conjecture, but the point I am trying to get across is that it is never simple when these amounts of money are involved because other constraints will emerge that will limit what you can do with your seemingly unlimited amount of money.
>Whilst we’re headquartered in the UK, our revenue is split 55% US, 25% EU, 9% UK

Having worked as a European expat in the UK for about two years in the software industry this is how it looks for a lot of companies. Majority of revenue is either US or the European market (largely depending on what you're selling), with the UK market at most capturing say, 20%-30% of revenue.

It makes in my mind no sense at all to diverge from the EU on privacy policy. All the difficult compliance matters hat already been harmonized over the years, most of them are sensible anyhow and good enough to build upon, and the world is more and more moving towards data sovereignty type frameworks, in Asia as well.

The British market itself is now so small on the world-stage, some kind of national solo-mission when software is so reliant on global markets
Apple taps China's BOE for premium displays for iPhone 13
I built a new computer around Windows Vista and it worked fine. Almost all the issues where related to users installing it on older systems that didn't have drivers (new driver model) or couldn't handle the graphics. Even considering the issues on older hardware, it still was better than the releases of 95/98/XP. Windows 7 didn't have as many issues since the driver model and hardware requirements were similar to Windows Vista. I really consider Windows 7 a Windows Vista Service Pack.
> One-time taxes is the alternative I suggested. That's what they did in parts of Europe after WW2.

Why do you believe that creating/increasing taxes all on itself will address the problem caused by a) economic stagnation, b) workers seeing themselves out of a job and without a paycheck?
Your statement that all, for e.g., global warming skeptics are bad-faith shows you don't have a scientific mindset yourself.

I live near glacier national park. In the 1990s, some climate model predicted the eponymous glacier would be gone by 2020. Signs around the parks' entrances were erected boldly stating this claim. In January of 2020, the signs were removed because the glaciers hadn't even shrunk.

If there were real scientific interest in climate change, there'd be some interest and funding in ascertaining why that prediction was proven incorrect. But there is no such study, no funding for it, no interest whatsoever.

The climate change alarmists have zero opposition in all major institutions. Anyone who says their models are bullshit, or who says maybe the Sun is having a larger impact on the climate than are GHGs, is ridiculed without their arguments even entertained. You belie this with your statement that any such skepticism is "bad faith".

When it comes to climate change in particular, a field that seeks to study an incredibly complex collection of phenomena, whose leading experts have raised blood-chilling alarmist calls for action for decades and many of whose forecasts have proven totally bunk, who study a system far more complex than even the economy (are economics skeptics bad-faith too?)... Well, if you think YOU have a lock on what's true, and everyone with varying opinions is an obvious quack or a shill, then I think it's you who doesn't understand science.
Also, isn't there a law strictly forbids this in Germany? As a middle-man, you are not allowed to use their data to compete with them? Because the place I work has a marketplace with third party sellers as well and we have internal rules explicitly disallows this, cited by our compliance team because of the regulations.
I had a typo. I meant we were NOT forbidden.
Waymo struggles with left turns and puddles. But it's still winning over riders
The wealthy borrow against their assets at stupid low interest rates, and those loans are not subject to income tax. Got a billion dollars in stock? Borrow as much as you need to pay for that yacht.
To be clear, high-end futons are actually really nice. Stroads have horrible safety records, futons do not. However there is always a trip and fall hazard around furniture. Please exercise caution when maneuvering indoors.
Best native editor of the current decade, but after years of working with Atom and then VSCode, leaving the JS-everything plugin ecosystem is tough. I constantly want to make the switch myself too.
Ah well, as for 2021, it was because of the ongoing global pandemic.
So this is purely propaganda, then?
Ends justifying means and all that?