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I’m not sure if I agree with your experience, in New York City Obamacare plans are horrendously bad, The coverage comes nowhere near to the crappiest employer plan. I had to hire a Nigerian kid to just call the doctors listed on Obamacare website which accepted the silver plan, and about only 40% of the doctors really did (this was for a delivery). $1400 per month for a mother and a child.
I currently pay $1400 per month for coverage in all the US through open access for a full family of four (because I live in a place where Obamacare isn’t applicable so the prices are relatively dirt cheap and allows special deals with mainland insurers to get that coverage most mainlanders don’t get).
> Japan has it. Australia has it. The UK. Canada. Germany. It's a good thing.

Sure, but Texas, Georgia, and Florida have no excuse-needed absentee voting. Democratic rhetoric about “Jim Crow on steroids” is precisely about these restrictions such as number of days of early voting—which are still generally more liberal in these states than in advanced western countries.

> Many foreigners recognize this, just as they recognize the truth that "liberal election workers and would-be reformers" ARE the good guys, because they are not bombarded with cynical, horse race-style coverage of the minutiae of our collective political life.

But that’s exactly what’s happening. Foreigners aren’t looking at the actual laws in Florida or Georgia and comparing them to their own laws, they’re hearing Biden call those laws “Jim Crow on steroids.”

> When they learn of our goings-on, they usually receive facts, like:

Except, apparently, the “facts” regarding the actual content of these laws.
I can't help but wonder if this headline was A/B tested and was found to be more 'engaging' specifically because of the same sort of reaction GP demonstrated.

Edit: Interesting that the headline was changed from the original to no longer refer to Brown university at all. I genuinely wonder what prompted that.
As a university student in my last year of undergrad, I've been tempted to go work as a software engineer, even though I'm interested in doing research. The opportunity cost just seems too large to give up. Working as a SWE will allow me to earn a massive income in my 20s, during which I have few defendants and a lot of leisure time. While many of my peers are planning to do graduate school right away, I feel like my quality of life would simply be better by going to work in industry right now.

With that said, I still love learning and diving deeply into topics like math and the history of science. I hope that I can one day retire off my savings as a SWE and return to graduate school (maybe in my late 30s or 40s). Has anyone done this before? Is there a stigma against graduate students (both Masters and PhD) who are not in their 20s?
Thx, but my request was more like "how do Compose and git relate?"
Obligatory reminder that all three hard disk companies are evil and almost all SSD vendors as well. Boycotting just one company is cognitive bias.
They lost me in the trailer. Foundation is a story across centuries about elderly and ossified leadership structures, not attractive young people in spandex. It is about one faction rebelling against another, not kids trying to get out from under their parents. And I really don't mind changing the genders of characters but please don't do so just to create eye candy.

Dune did this too. I think making Kynes female was interesting, although it certainly changes the male/female dynamics that are the core of the story. But making the character young and attractive is just pandering to male gaze.
The fact is, bringing a drug to market safely is a lot of work. All organizations respond to incentives, both corporations and governments. You can say it would be nice for the Government to do that work, but what is the incentive? In practice, most bureaucracies respond to incentives like individual actors minimizing their actual work and attempting to gain promotions. The practical incentives don't align very well with the work and risk associated with drug development. What bureaucrat wants to authorize the effort for a series of huge clinical trials for an experimental medication - they have a downside for failure, but not much upside for success.

This problem aligns far better with capitalism. Companies have incentive to do the work because they stand to make a windfall if they succeed. Governments don't.

I could be wrong of course. How would we test this? Well we have a pretty good free market for this right now - corporations are free to develop new drugs, and so are governments. Corporations develop lots and lots of new drugs at breakneck speeds. Governments by and large don't. Not that they never do, but it's a trickle, relatively speaking. If you want governments to develop more drugs, why not just do that now? Show us all how your solution can work.

The only way to do what you seem to want would be to actively prevent corporations from doing drug development work. So you would be actively preventing new drugs from being developed by organizations that are proven to be able to actually do it in favor of a setup that is demonstrated to work worse. In short, you would be actively making the world a worse place because you have some weird hangup about people making a profit off of something.
This is also what happens when you re-write the core story to match a Political Correctness agenda. The producers should’ve taken a note from Denis Villeneuve’s treatment of Dune, the source book should be the Bible and you don’t mess with it.
As someone who grew up with healthy dog environment (our family always had a dog) I think the article is spot on.

Dogs are eternaly fucked up. In my opinion this animal shouldn't exist and I'm willing to bet money that in not-so-distant future we'll be looking down on ourselves for partaking in such psychological madness.

I say this as a rescue dog owner and general animal lover myself. These animals are beyond any sort of healthy, reasonable existance. Unfortunately there's nothing much we can do to fix this other than a cultural revolution but humans are far too selfish for that.
While I want to agree, until this year there were still deadlock issues that could take down whole clusters [0][1].

[0] https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-57476

[1] https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-56779
This has nothing to do with the article and it comes off as you taking a jab at "woke" people who you presumably dislike.
I've also filed a NHTSA report, some 12 months old now, that has been greeted with ... crickets. Something very basic, that any car maker should be able to do, is write a manual that teaches people how to use the (poorly written) software.

The manual explains that you can do a 3-step invocation of a voice command: 1) push 'voice' button; 2) utter command; 3) push 'voice' button to complete. It hasn't worked that way since 2019. See, e.g. Software version: 2021.32 [1], p. 161

Good luck teaching people how to use 'Full Self Driving' with these kinds of error checks.

[1] https://www.tesla.com/sites/default/files/model_s_owners_man...
Who ever signed off on that piece of equipment is going to find themselves in deep....trouble.
Well, by that logic, it could belong to Japan as well as they actually ruled and educated people there --and, it was almost reverted to Japan after WWII, it was in consideration.
I've read the books and watched the show as far as it's aired. I agree, but I almost think it's good that Asimov's vision is getting smoothed out a bit. After "second foundation" in the book series, the books go in a very different, unscientific "woo" direction. The end of the entire series is bizarre and controversial. I'm not all that convinced I want the original ending to be preserved - it wasn't that good anyway.

The powerful bit about foundation was always the ability to predict larger events better than smaller ones, as well as criticism of empire and overdependence on interconnectedness. In that, the TV show preserves the themes very well.
Telling someone that they are confused about what a web browser is looks pretty clearly like an insult to me.
the main type of free speech I care about is facts and logic. opinions and faith based speech is less important IMO. So we should be able to say this happened (if it really did). Or there are 10 houses on that street (if there really are). Inconsistent and wishful speech is pretty pointless and we have too much of it probably, I wouldn’t miss it as much. libel and slander are already risky even outside China.
It's actually the opposite -- if employers raise wages, we can easily get into a wage-price spiral with extreme inflation. The only way to avoid inflation is for employers to just wait until potential employees deplete their savings and extended unemployment benefits, and then hire them at uninflated wages.
The army combat sequences are inconceivably stupid. Dozens of soldiers firing sci-fi machine guns at unprotected opponents at close range and everyone magically avoids injury. It makes one wonder if Apple applied some sort of violence limiting clause to the production with absurd results.
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> integrating them into family on the other hand is absolutely fine if done responsibly.

Is that not ownership?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome
I wonder if something like a reading ring would be a good idea -- like the converse of a weblog ring, but instead of linking to the other blog you'd read and comment on a post they made, and in exchange someone else would read and comment on your posts. Might be a good way to get early readership and feedback.
Your comment is a useful corrective to the idea that China is certain to win a conflict over Taiwan. Or even that it is more likely than not to: if a victory were seen as probable, the CCP would have initiated a conflict yesterday.

But I think your point of view goes a bit too far in the other direction and is too sanguine for the US.

China is today, by PPP, the largest economy in the world, with the US coming in second. In 1940, the US was first, with Japan coming in seventh between India and France.

It's true that contemporary China faces energy problems analogous to Showa-era Japan, but Japan's were much more severe. China has enough domestic crude production and the ability to import it from Kazakhstan and Russia to fuel its military indefinitely (albeit at significant domestic pain), while Japan had almost literally zero domestic production.

> The US isn't seeking conflict with China, and the US is not trying to invade China or any other country. The US is simply pushing back against Chinese aggression and flagrant violations of international law. It has mutual defense treaties with a number of countries in the region (Japan, Philippines, South Korea) and has a huge economic interest in ensuring that freedom of navigation continues in international waters that are home to some of the world's most important shipping lanes.

This is a weird part of your comment. It's unlikely that China would attack US warships in (what it sees as) its territorial waters out of nowhere. The more likely way a conflict would develop is it initiating some kind of aggression against Taiwan, which the US would respond to by shutting down that exact freedom of navigation in international waters in an attempt to starve China and its economy. As US warships enforced an embargo via threat, force, and even sinking Chinese and neutral civilian shipping, China would use that as justification for attacking US warships.

> And it will almost certainly become a war between China and the US, Japan, South Korea, Australia, Philippines, etc. because other countries in the region know what's at stake if the CCP is allowed to take over the Eastern hemisphere.

Of course all those countries would prefer a constrained China. But, if the US isolates China's economy by an ocean embargo, it's effectively started a massive depression in all those countries simultaneously. They all have some reservoir of goodwill for the USA, but how long will their elected governments be able to tolerate double digit unemployment for the sake of an island they don't even recognize as a real country?

The points about China being more isolated on the world stage than the US and having severe demographic issues are accurate.
Computational physics might be a nice intersection.
I just moved from AWS DynamoDB to MongoDB serverless for a project due to the 400KB document size limitation on DynamoDB (as opposed to around 16MB on Mongo). Feeling nervous after reading all the comments.
Working on something that's in beta might be something. So I do two jobs at the moment. When I have more time though want to get back into robotics/lower level stuff, been in JS/web dev/app stuff most of my brief career. Eventually dream is little autonomous robots particularly the underwater ones. Flew my DLG probably last time for the year as it's getting colder.
When I go back home to India, the very first cab from the Mumbai airport to home is like a dangerous roller coaster ride. No lanes, criss crossing autos(tuktuks), bouncing on small potholes on the road, smoke, honks, buses and cars in close proximity etc is a sensory overload.

I breathe a sigh of relief when I come back to the US, but I do miss home.
> Have you thought through the consequences of what you are advocating? If EU starts removing US equipment, or Brazil or India?

Not GP, but that's a good thing. Every country should secure their own telecoms. Resilience against spying from all sides.
Maybe this isn't much an issue on MacOS (I never use it), but to me as soon as you can't right click with one hand with trackpad, there is no way I would use it over a mouse.

And how do you do middle click at all even with two hands? I use that frequently (browsers, CAD, etc..).
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This is correct if your only goal was to secure a conviction, but you are forgetting that when witness tampering is occurring, there is already a judge who is very willing to hear evidence about it. The integrity of their court is at stake. They absolutely do not require an audio recording to make any number of potent orders to protect you. The indirectness of the threat and its unsuitability to curing by judicial power is more of a problem than the lack of audio recording.

Your best bet if you care about delivering the evidence is probably to leverage the power of the judge, ventilate it and get the people threatening you to retreat. If you do that, you transform a threat behind closed doors (not to do something) into a retaliation for something real that you did (telling the court about tampering) that you can tell your tenure committee about later. In sum, open justice is designed to expose these things, it is far and away the best forum for it, so better to use it while you can.
Even if the work is related to the research?
Ask HN: Downsides/Upsides of the Metaverse Future?
What are some of the downsides and upsides of this metaverse future?

How will it affect work? Will people still go outside, or will we escape into all sorts of MMOs? Just curious to understand, because this is all kind of trippy to me.
I tried it for ~six months during undergrad, mid-'00s. I didn't feel sleep deprived but I disliked feeling so out of sync with everyone else.

My biggest complaint was the feeling of time being seamless. My six sleeping periods were all of the same length, so I sort of lost the feeling of a concrete 'yesterday' or 'tomorrow'.
On the one hand, yes, and I use keynav for a reason. On the other hand, keyboard isn't great at the stuff a mouse is good at, and certainly not without extra training.
> there's enough return on investment for them

Honestly, this sort of thing is more effective marketing to me than any communication strategy. In brand awareness and "employer-ability".
I would actually prefer to have both a trackpoint and a nice MacBook style trackpad, mainly because trackpoints are hard to beat in cramped quarters.
Or the Fed could just crank up interest rates and stop allowing any schmuck to get a loan to finance everything. I distinctly remember this happening before...twice...
Thanks, that's much appreciated!
"Radio -> cable -> cellphone audio jack -> APRS app"

While this works, it is just the start. Soon you realize that you want to actually use your phone AND APRS at the same time and that your audio and mic are busy. I did this for about a day before seeking out something better.

Radio -> cable -> Mobilinkd Bluetooth TNC paired to your phone -> APRS app

Now you can take calls, play music in the car and drive down the road with a radio paired and use APRS. This isn't a bad setup, the big pro us the multitasking and using the APRS app on your phone to write messages.

The other way I've done this is a radio that has the TNC and APRS built in. A handheld like the Kenwood TH-D74 can send and receive messages without any additional hardware, but you have to write the messages on a lame keypad like in the dumb phone days. I like this for backpacking as there are fewer pieces to worry about.

It is fun stuff, and can be a life saver. Check out https://hamstudy.org/ the easiest level (Tech.) is enough to get you access to all of this.
Brown is a respected US university. I don't believe anyone of count would mistake this title to think of his skin color. You'll probably have better luck with a tweet.
This is only correct if labor is the largest component of the price of a good. If labor is not a large component, paying more for labor, at the expensive of competitors labor supply, is a good idea, and employers should do it.
For those that don't want to move their hands, the TrackPoint (the red thing in the middle of keyboard) found in Lenovo professional lineup might be good choice.

Personally I'm still using it instead of trackpad, although operations such as zooming in and panning are a bit cumbersome.
> Words have meaning.

Have you considered that you may simply be failing to comprehend the meaning?

In particular, "monetization" literally means "the process of turning into money" - one of several more specific meanings, which should be clear from context, is the conversion of a non-monetized asset with sufficient monetary properties into a monetized asset. A monetized asset (not monetary - that term is too overloaded, although "monetized" isn't much better) is precisely an asset which has a higher value than would be predicted from its expected revenues, commodity consumption value, etc.

If people are concerned about currency devaluation, where do they put their money? Whatever set of assets people turn to (equities, commodities, whatever) will be subject to additional demand purely qua wealth storage, pushing up the price of those assets beyond what you would expect from a pure discounted cash flow model - i.e. they become monetized (begin to function as money, in addition to whatever asset class one might naively assign them to).

So, with that in mind, let's address:

> Real estate and oil are not money and therefore cannot be demonetized

If people are using real estate, oil, (gold, equities, ...) as a place to stash their wealth to protect it from inflation or whatever, and all of a sudden there's a better option available for this purpose, demand for random "not money" assets qua money is going to drop, and they will cease to behave like money - demonetization.
He already had an MD and a Ph.D. in biochemestry....
Foundation, as written, does not lend itself to any medium other than text. Dune had already been adapted to films, TV shows, and games multiple times before Villeneuve's film. Yet, despite its popularity, Foundation had never been adapted into another medium before the current TV show. I agree that the Apple TV series does not capture the essence of the books, but no series or film possibly can. Best we can hope is a loose adaptation, which is what we have gotten now.
Also, wikipedia at least indicates that the problems of Fogbank included an unknown "contaminant" that was required for proper functioning. This is a common issue replicating older alloys as well; the exact impurities in the contemporary ores are not always known.
As soon as COVID is over immigration will restart and wages will start flatlining again (unfortunately).
I'm guessing something like this must exist already, though perhaps not in an academic way like you suggest!
We need a Chinese version of this - one retroactively from 20 years, one today
This is an interesting viewpoint but somewhat at variance with my understanding. I have only started taking notice in the last few years though and I'm not studying military strategy and operations full time.

In a war in Taiwan, the US and its allies would have very long supply lines, and China very short lines. The US has to prevent an invasion in force or it loses Taiwan.*

If China can invest Taiwan with a few million troops, then the US must either destroy Taiwan, permanently losing its manufacturing capacity and making itself a pariah, or let China keep it, retain some of Taiwan's capacity through trade, and work to make China into (even more of) a pariah. The US cannot re-take the island once China is invested there without destroying it.

I don't think that Japan in WWII is a relevant analogy.

Japan in WWII had IIRC about a quarter of the manufacturing capacity of the US. China's is near parity, or larger.

Japan had and has no domestic fossil fuels (well, negligible). China is nearly self-sufficient in energy. Its current energy shortage is entirely self-inflicted, due to a desire to look "green".

The US has a long track record of obstructing the democratic process in its neighbours in Central and South America. Cuba, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Chile, ... the list does not stop there. The US routinely ignores international law when the law is inconvenient. There is no moral high ground here.

I agree with the rest of your observations. China is over the demographic cliff and its "allies" are the likes of North Korea, Rwanda or Ivory Coast. They are lukewarm allies at best.

China has always claimed Taiwan to be a renegade province, and recent actions by international bodies (the UN acceding to China's demands to remove Taiwan from lists of countries, and similar) may encourage it to think that now is the time to strike. I had believed China's leadership to be pragmatic. In 30-50 years Taiwan will be irrelevant except symbollically because Taiwan is further off the same demographic cliff as China. The US would probably let it go without fuss then.

* The economic value that is embedded in Taiwan.
I didn't win the IPO lottery, but I won the life lottery and am fortunate to be living off my spouse's salary for the immediate future. I quit my full-time position a few months back. Since then, I've been exploring different "work" replacements. I tried freelancing and noodled on starting my own business. Finally, I've decided to apply for a Ph.D. program.

But, the most important thing I've learned these past few months is that work isn't life. Instead, I'm beginning to view "work" as a hobby that I enjoy. Not the thing that is going to provide absolute meaning to my existence. I feel better and have a much easier time de-stressing.

I just hope I can maintain this perspective if I am accepted and commit to graduate school.
Say what? Hasn't "two finger tap == right click" been a thing for like 15 years?

Three-finger tap to middle click is the same, again for years.
Maybe in the general economy but not in tech