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Hannah Arendt was famously a Nazi sympathizer, married to prominent Nazi philosopher Heidegger.

In her writings, she also argued that colonialism was good, and that ending racial segregation would be totalitarian. That itself should demonstrate the absurdity and moral background invoked in her nonsense theory of totalitarianism, existing only to further the US's propaganda war by equating fascist colonial terror with people's progressive movements.

I hope she is remembered as what she really is, just another white supremacist propagandist.
Couldn't this be solved by scaling everything by the largest entry. Of course that requires first a pass to find the largest entry but that's not as expensive?
I know nothing about the products involved, but I assume it was along the lines of "I want a Mac Foo 342, which happens to come in the smallest box, so you can't miss it".
Didn't Maxwell come before Tesla and Edison? The insights of Relativity and QM came before lasers, electron microscopes, quantum computing, etc.
Veritasium: A Story of YouTube Propaganda [video]
The author apparently defines 'moral panic' as any negative press attention on a social movement they personally approve of.
Huh? For reproductive concerns, I'd rather marry someone who is an excellent parent, than someone who will make genius babies but ruin their development.

And I'm not interested in find a mate who will adopt someone else's genius 23-chromosomes
Plus you can do it also for indeterminate size iterators, or values not there yet (promises etc)...
It's like you don't even know google exists. You just spout one false fact after another.

Cannabis is one of the oldest cultivated plants in human history (1). It was smoked for pleasure and religiously long before Christianity became a religion.

I wonder, do you dilute your glass of red wine before drinking it? The ancient Greeks diluted their wine with 25% wine and 75% water. They also viewed anyone who didn't as a barbarian and drunkard (2).

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_cannabis#:~:text=Ca....

2) https://www.worldhistory.org/article/944/wine-in-the-ancient...
> You'll get through COVID just fine in the VAST, VAST majority of cases if you catch it.

Yep. But the virus travels through the population so quickly and so effectively and sickens enough people on the margins simultaneously that it cripples even well-prepared first-world healthcare systems and results in significant numbers of dead and disabled that place incredible strain on society in many ways.

We will never have a healthcare system that can instantly, across the entire nation, scale up ICU capacity (which is not just literal beds and equipment but also critical care teams consisting of many specialized medical professionals) to be able to deal with mass death and destruction caused by this kind of infectious disease.

The lives of those with some kind of "pre-existing condition" that places them at increased risk of COVID also matter and they exist in such great numbers that we cannot simply say "too bad" to them. Half the adult population in the U.S. has hypertension. 42% of the adult population is obese.

Improving the health of the population broadly so that it would make an impact when it comes to COVID isn't going to happen overnight. It's not going to happen in a few years. It will require many years.

Thus the urgent demand for vaccines.

> Don't chastise/berate/punish others who decide not to because it's a personal choice linked to bodily autonomy.

Isn't it counterintuitive to demand that others respect "bodily automony" and then turn around and demand others change what they put into their body (food) and do with their body (exercise), or condemn them to death for not making the choices that you want them to make? Getting a shot or to is an order of magnitude simpler for most people than changing a lifetime of diet and exercise education/habits.
I mean...it's not 'The Left' that's pushing the 'fake news' and 'alternate facts' agenda when they come up against anything they disagree with...
The challenge is that historically the political mainstream has been endlessly assuming good faith on obvious bad actors, to the point that Trump's obvious racism was controversial to point out because he didn't literally dress up as a Klansman wielding a noose.

As a reaction to this problem you see the basic approach that the social justice wing has basically declared that intent doesn't matter. No more excuses.

And I'm getting to agree with them. If somebody is doing something destructive and the stakes are high, wasting time being nice about their feelings seems thoroughly counterproductive. COVID has made this problem deafeningly loud - whether the bad actors are crazy or grifters or misguided, polite deference to them on grave matters gets people killed.
Modern Smart are so focused on their niche most people failed to see the big ( or even medium ) picture. Because they are more specialised than ever their world view are extremely distorted by their lens. Peter Thiel touched on this as most of the successful founders and entrepreneur tends to be something similar to polymath.

Another thing is Wisdom. Which the older I get the more I think have little to no relationship to being "Smart". I also think there are certain relationship with Wisdom and polymath.

This topic also echo an article earlier [1], where it is more important to be curious than being smart. ( I am glad this narrative has finally caught on. )

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28753560
At that point he had spent three years selling cars that he claimed had all of the necessary hardware for FSD. He was also already years later on his promise of coast to coast automation.
Again, I'm going to ask what were they sold as. You keep saying what they weren't sold as, but have yet to say what they were sold as.
Thanks for introducing me to these names, it is indeed a good place to start
I think the opportunity for these bus services is in the 1.5-3hr window, like the SF->Sacramento route [1]. Anything shorter or longer than that, people who own a car are likely to drive, or fly.

They will also need to upgrade/modernize the Greyhound buses if they want to attract the climate-change-concerned crowd.

Unfortunately, intercity buses in the US have been culturally stigmatized and associated with poverty. They need to increase appeal to a broader swath of the population while still providing an economical service for intercity transportation.

Electrification is one way - the novelty of an electric intercity bus would get me to take it - but they will need to sell comfort and convenience too.

How they will do this without raising prices is the tricky question, as it will require a fair amount of capital to make these upgrades.

Ironically, in other countries like Germany (Flixbus) and even developing countries like Mexico [2], decent and broadly utilized intercity bus services exist.

1. https://shop.flixbus.com/search?departureCity=65e6af81-18ec-...

2. https://www.mexperience.com/bus-travel-in-mexico/
All the wealth in Maryland is concentrated around DC, so western Marylanders probably don't feel much connection at all to easterners. I'd imagine it is similar elsewhere - people in upstate NY probably feel a stronger connection to Vermonters than they do to NYC folk.
> sheer chance and lucky circumstances.

LOL, dualism moment. There is no "you" outside of your genetics and the socialization you experienced. There is definitely some luck involved, but also you're the product of a lot more work and planning than you give yourself credit for.
I don't know where you got that definition, but it's obviously not right. It excludes mint and rosemary leaves, for example.
The senate is supposed to represent the state governments at the federal level, but they stopped doing that with direct elections. It was to prevent large states with a concentration of population (currently like CA, NY, TX, FL) to have too much power over smaller states.

Here's some background on the arguments for and against. It's got some partisan hyperbole so try to ignore all that.

https://www.theusconstitution.org/news/the-17th-amendment-un...
Just confirming what the others have said.

Often times much more is being collected than than what would be required for performance monitoring, it's not at all clear where this data ends up ("why does Bob from marketing have an account on our Sentry?" is literally something I overheard), and opt-outs are rare.
The Aadhaar Project in India was also born out of a similar desire. Unfortunately, it has led to exclusions, deaths, frauds, and a multitude of scams and leaks.

Aadhaar also had to spend a decade getting to a billion enrollments just within India, with the full power of the Indian government. I'd say their projections are a tad too optimistic.

I wrote a thread with the comparisons noting how the incentives are aligned to let operators scam their way to money: https://nitter.net/captn3m0/status/1451259136365105154
It gets deeper in science.

There is the debate about pursuing everettian quantum mechanics vs traditional quantum mechanics
Well, they take the perspective that the "other team" is hurting the country, so hurting them helps the country.

Almost all evil comes from the over-application of morality. "My team is good, and their team is bad, and it is good to hurt bad people."

The problem is that democracy depends on cooperation. If you insist on winning at all costs, the other side adopts your tactics and it becomes a no-holds barred power struggle.

Democracy is in short a system where people can struggle for power without killing or unjustly imprisoning each other.
What I love about systems like bazel, buck, etc. is that they tend to be language-agnostic, or maybe more like language accepting, unlike the new trend where each new language, comes their own build system: rust, go, dart/flutter, zig, etc... so good luck trying to explain dependencies from one to another... I simply wish the build process was not so entangled in the language itself.
Sounds a bit like the Socratic method [1], just used for making sure everyone is aligned with the fundamental goals.

As someone who's recently been put in a position to make sure everyone's aligned (and failing quite a bit at it), it sounds like genius, in my opinion.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socratic_method
Spoiler alert: there is no perfect way to tell them, that’s the point.
Isn't that just fancy phrasing for a username/password?

Most APIs just have you set a key in the "Authorization" header. I don't get what value the "Bearer " prefix adds.

That RFC is strange and seems it can be summarized in one line:

Include header "Authorization: Bearer [API key]" for authenticating API calls.
> Why is it limited to a small group of Julia developers and packages?

I don't think there are any gatekeepers limiting it's use. Articles like the one highlighted here help to get the word out to more potential users.
It's not about comparing quality, it's about comparing consistency. Brands want their blends to be consistent from year to year. So every year they might create hundreds or thousands of different combinations of the specific teas they've acquired, until they find one that tastes as similar as possible to the blend they had last year.

Also, green tea is just fine at boiling, if it isn't of poor quality :)
Could putting RedPanda/Kafka in front of ClickHouse make it insert benchmark winner? Of course it means operational expenses but I wonder if this route is worth exploring?
Yeah east Germany had free housing right? I don't get why people were always trying to cross the Berlin wall.
I'm trying to be as charitable, polite, and thoughtful as possible with my replies. It's a real shame that HN is slowly devolving into reddit.
Ask HN: Can I add a “Share to HN” link on my blog?
Is there a non-javascript way to add a "Share to HackerNews" link on my blog?
Whenever I hear about renewable trees I cant help but think how policy failures often lead to more and more forests being destroyed.

Perhaps it would be better if we stop over commodifying trees in general and try to reduce our reliance on them and hopefully partitioning them off from the economy could encourage regrowth
This is good advice given that Twitter should be violently shut down. It will make things significantly easier to archive.
It might help to see it as class based. I know I started to feel better about myself when I realized that, being well educated and in tech, I was part of the upper class in the US and it's not good to look down on those who are not.
States do a lot more then just vote for Federal legislators. We could have a federal election system that didn't take states into account but still had independent state laws, governors, police forces, etc.
Yes. I used "savings" in the title and first paragraph for SEO reasons. This blog post is from 2006, when google didn't change words into other words without asking, so it was useful to use the variant that people search for rather than the version that is correct.
I certainly agree that this disparity exists by-design. We can disagree on the word used to describe it, but the fact remains: For every person in a state represented by a senator's vote in the Dakotas, there is nearly 50 people in the state of California. This is ~400% the disparity you cite between Delaware and Virginia. Certainly that growth in disparity is not entirely unforeseeable by the founders. The system is functioning as intended. My point was that you aren't likely to get people to voluntarily choose to have less power.
'Dune’: The sci-fi classic returns to the big screen. Does it succeed?
The thing is people write threads to write a twitter thread. It's to increase their following. A good twitter thread will get a twitter account a few hundred new followers. This is literally just them working to increase their audience. And most of the time they're increasing their audience to sell stuff.
All monumental climbs start with a single step. It's easy to get lost thinking about what could have been or what will be and forget about what can be, right now at this very moment.

It's not enjoyable to think about wasted opportunities in your past, so don't let your future self suffer the same fate.

Do at least part of one of the ideas you find boring or stupid to get back into the mindset of being someone who is able to create. Armed with that, you'll spend less time thinking about whether you can do it and more time about what you want to do.

Obviously for people who are depressed or suffer from ADHD you often can't "just do it" but in general I think it's worth trying to shift the way we think about the things we can accomplish.
> Anonymity is important because it allows you to have discussions purely based on the arguments and opinions, without the bias of who youre talking to. I often find myself having a wonderfully deep discussion with someone online, and when I eventually find out what they look like (etc), I often realize that they dont look as friendly, educated, etc as they are.

Yes and no. Anonymity also prompts people to make lots of assumptions about you based on what and how you say things that may not hold and may even distort how the messages are received.

For example, I'm an ethnic minority but if I break from certain aspects of identarian political dogma it is generally assumed that I am White. Women who deviate from a certain line on gender issues are, similarly, often assumed to be male unless they indicate otherwise. On issues where a person's lived experiences stemming from their identity might matter, the assumption of there being a 'default' identity ends up kind of polarizing perspectives and eliding nuances and potential middle-ground on a host of issues.

Put another way, it has been said that "on the internet nobody knows you're a dog." But not everyone defines themselves by their "dogness" to the same extent, nor does being a "dog" mean the same thing to all dogs. But since we assume everyone is a default template until they loudly and proudly fly an identifying marker, the only voices who speak for the dogs will be the doggiest of the doggy, the people whose identity as dogs is the most important thing to them in that moment.

Bringing that back to a concrete example, I remember when I first made the switch from Windows to Macintosh in the early aughts (in the peak of the Switch ad era). Initially making the switch was kind of a revelation. I had really just never experienced a computer that was well designed before nor technology that put this much attention towards--what I would later learn to refer to as--UI/UX. I could not stop evangelizing this to everyone who would listen because, to me, it was new and super cool and I was just really really enthusiastic about it. This happened often enough that Apple fanatics online got a reputation for being over-exuberant and kind of deluded. But the thing is, after a few years I just stopped posting about Apple stuff because I had grown into having more balanced and nuanced perspectives on computing. But the assumption in a place like Slashdot back then was that you're a Linux or Windows guy unless you state otherwise. Thus only the newly converted, over-excited Apple fanboys are taken as representative of Mac users and the ones with mellower perspectives are drowned out.

With computing platforms it's all rather frivolous and probably doesn't matter. But when it comes to social or political issues, this dynamic can have real effects on what we think of as an authentically [group] opinion and who gets to speak for whom. I think it has a tendency to foster a certain essentialist way of looking at the world that is rife with ecological fallacies.
Satire? I am offended, this is a real solution I'd dare say a final solution to the dangers of misinformation and people who think that they should be able to do what they want because of "freedumb".

I think at very least we should mark people who are unvaccinated so that other people can know to stay away from them since we shouldn't make innocent people suffer because they are too evil to do the decent thing. Maybe we could make them all wear brightly colored armbands or something so everyone knows who the dangerous individuals in society are.
Did you read it through? You need a physical wallet attached to your phone. The irisScan gives you a QR that links to the keys on your phone (via some privacy preserving magic crypto).

I'm unsure about what happens if you lose your phone, since you lose your keys. Do you get a new wallet? Do you get recovery keys to your old one? That seems very scary, if any Orb can sign recovery keys for any wallet for eg.
I know people hate language wars and always reply with “Use the best language for the job.” but wouldn’t it be great if there was a language that could do it all optimally (or at least adequately).

Then we can focus on just one language to master and don’t have to keep in our heads a jumble of languages.
Not sure I believe it.

The Tesla reservation I put in that was initially scheduled for delivery in Jan 2022 is now listed as July 2022, with no notice whatsoever.
I see it as a trade-off between "glory" and having an otherwise very nice life, as framed—trading "being smart" for "having some really good ideas", which is a rather odd trade, but I'm addressing the text in its own terms. Between "have some very good ideas" and "be even a little smart the entire rest of the time", if I can only choose one, yes, I'm strongly inclined to choose the latter.

"Being smart" benefits me and shapes my very identity by affecting my perceptions and experience of everything, every waking second; having some very good ideas might make me money and make me known as "the guy who came up with X, Y and Z". Having both would be great, obviously! But if PG's presenting some weird "pick one" choice between the two, then claiming it's obvious which one a person would pick, yeah, I'm leaning toward, "no, your assertion and assumptions on which you're couching this entire line of argument are far too broad, it's 'be smart' by a mile and I doubt I'm alone in that choice".

It's Achilles' choice, as I see it (though, again, it's a weird pair of things to ask people to choose between) and as much as I like reading about him, and as impressive as it is that we still know his name and what he did (taking the stories as true, and the character as real, for the sake of lending what he opted for the most possible appeal), thanks but no thanks.
Again, you're talking about feelings instead of policy. About "contempt" instead of dollars and rights and lives.

I can't help but see this as every bit as ridiculous as the anti-vaxxers who dig their heels in even as the people around them are dying, because they don't want to give in to The Left on vaccines.
So if the premise is correct, festivals would be making a bigger % of live music revenues?
But you get the car. Some manufacturers have simply shut down production while they wait for parts to become available.
I'm not sure that there are as many problems to solve for languages like Rust and Go as there are for languages like PHP and JS, Ruby or Python. Basically desktop/system vs web apps. Of course we can write web apps with Rust and Go and we do but why bother? There is evidence that the world is using PHP to write web apps, not the new (and better) languages of the last few years. It's so much easier.

Java is somewhat in the middle: a compiled language heavily used for web apps. There was little else to use in the 90s, except Perl, so big Java shops got established, banks started using it and it will live at least as long as COBOL. But do I want to write web apps with Java? No thank you, I jumped ship to Ruby 15 years ago, then added Python and Node.
From a user's perspective, what do they want? Availability, cheapness, quality, (all other things), security, privacy

Android users don't care that they're being tracked, as long as it doesn't break their app or drain their battery too fast.

Google cares that apps track users, because (a) it allows apps to end run around their own ad offering & (b) it provides Apple with a talking point to bludgeon them about the head with.

Review is a PR measure masquerading as a user benefit, in order to technically enforce a centralized toll gate.
So identical to https://linktr.ee and https://beacons.page and the hundreds of others doing the same thing. What sets your offering apart?
The student came to the Zen master and ask 'Would you like your tea with or without milk?' to which the Zen master replied 'I will take my tea with milk, without milk, and both.'
Randy Pausch's Last Lecture
Note the author's subtle toggling between denying a phenomenon exists, and then smugly implying that it does and should.

>The Economist cites the case of Colin Wright, a post-doctoral student who had difficulty finding a job after publishing a series of essays “arguing that sex is a biological reality” (TERFese for “trans people don’t exist”).
> From elsewhere in the thread: all great tea can be brewed with boiling water. The idea that green tea (or any other type of whole leaf tea) should be brewed with something under ~100C is a technique used by merchants to sell you bad tea.

Is this "can be brewed" as in you will end up with a beverage that is drinkable, or that you think that in general green tea is fine to be brewed at 100C. The former I can understand (especially with cheap bagged green tea) but I'd be very surprised at the later considering that goes against pretty all modern and traditional guidance I've heard or read.
Totally agree. If UX of social media was like a RSS newsreader, I'd mosdef use it on the daily.

Yes and:

Nerfing could be as modest as dialing down virality. Like maybe a rate regulator.

IIRC, the velocity of rage posting is way greater than puppies and kittens. So just slow that crap down. Or just don't turbo boost it to big with.