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> I don't like the idea of an airline stranding people in a foreign country

If you're going to break a number of laws on a flight, I don't think it's terribly surprising that the same business, or other airlines, might decline to do business with you in the future.

Ultimately, these are private enterprises and you're not entitled to your preferred mode of transportation for a return trip to Canada. It would be a lot more inconvenient to have to bus or rent a car to drive all the way back, but if you're going to break a bunch of laws the consequences may, unsurprisingly, be inconvenient.
None of your points really address the underlying problem is that most websites that people visit rely on ads to the point that widespread adoption will be a big issue. Also two large web browsers are run by large corporations such that what’s the point of doing a Pull request for code that may or may not be maintained.
You are focusing on the consumption side and your proposed steps seem like a good way to bring back easy consumption of RSS feeds.

But the problem lies elsewhere: the blogs I regularly visit still have RSS feeds, but most content now isn’t in blogs anymore. For-profit sites have crippled or completely dropped their feeds to make users see ads. Many people that would have been bloggers a decade ago just publish threads on twitter now. And discoverability is a whole topic for itself…

So even if rss was in-your-face in every browser, how would you get content creators to support it?
WTF

Why would someone do this? Like he's going out of his way to come up with bad, confusing variable names. More and more I think there are a set of programmers who just want to make the code worse.
I don't. It's time has come and gone.
Deciding on the equity percentage is on the founder.

For now, both founder & investor are supposed to do due diligence on their side before finalizing a deal.
Display ads aligned to content on the page and thats it.

Which is what Google promised us when it rolled out AdSense. That's why its called "Ad" "Sense" — By crawling your page ahead of time, Google could "sense" what ads were appropriate to match the content.

But at some point, Google ditched content matching and went after people matching.
I've been thinking this since the Apple Watch came out, but other than practical limitations (battery life) there's always this problem: have you tried to hold your arm out in front of your face and stare at your watch for a while? It's not the most comfortable position. You might have to add some extra arm/shoulder days in your exercise routine.
Delighted to see that BlogDB is written in Perl! I've submitted my blog to this directory/aggregator. Sites like these are indispensible for strengethening the independent Web.
Joining the chat at https://gitter.im/FosterRSS/community would probably not work as well, as it would not be limited to relevant updates?
It seems like you're defining "central banking" in relation to the independence (or maybe ownership of) the central bank. That doesn't seem correct to me.

China has a central bank, but it's fully publicly owned and is not politically independent of the CCP. The ECB, in comparison, is owned by the central banks of constituent banks. And on the other extreme, the Swiss National Bank is publicly traded and a minority of its shares are privately held (i.e., not by governments). (Perhaps related or perhaps not, the Swiss Franc also has historically had very high trust and very low inflation.)

My point is, there are multiple flavors of "central bank" ownership and independence; it seems odd to argue that the primary purpose of central banking is to allow private bankers to violate political oversight when, in some cases, the bank is fully public and not politically independent. Conversely, some examples of significantly more private central banks than the Fed seem to show a history of good management in the public interest.
More like corporate capture imo.
"The Federal Reserve is private" is a meme at this point that is largely divorced from our usual meaning of public/private. Calling the Federal Reserve Board "private citizens" is like calling the Supreme Court Justices "private citizens". They are both officials appointed by the president, who must be confirmed by the Senate, and who collect a public salary. Any profits from the Federal Reserve go right back into the US Treasury. What more do we need to consider this part of the government?
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Which makes sense, as there can't be "negative" objects, mostly.

Building floors are more ambiguous - there can be basement, ie "negative" floors. So, floors in continental Europe are generally indexed 0-based (basements ..., -2, -1, ground floor = 0, upper floors 1, 2, ...). A German friend of mine caused some confusion when she checked into her student dorm at a US college, and having being told that her room was on the first floor, asked whether there was an elevator, as she had heavy suitcases.
An R value of .8 would quickly go extinct.
As someone that had problems up until around your age and has been on the wagon for a while, there was something in my life that made me choose between alcohol and something better. There are two paths your life can take going forward: the one with alcohol, and the one without. 'Fun' aside, the one without is much better. The first 6 mos - 1 yr are the hardest in all respects, but once you get through that it's a little more second nature. Find something to do instead. For me it was work - exercise might be better - you can tell people you're not drinking because you're in training. Non-alcoholic beers helped me, others say that's not a good idea YMMV - Heineken 0.0. Good luck to you!
Is this the part in Plague Inc where the virus infects everyone and then mutates into a 99% chance of death monster?
Those rankings are very biased. The press one used to penalize countries at one point for not having journalist unions (don't know if they still do).

As an example, the US press was allowed to publish on the Snowden leaks but in the UK policemen forced The Guardian to smash their hard drives. UK is 11 places above the US: https://rsf.org/en/ranking/2021

The freedom ones often pick and choose freedoms. For example: none include self defense possession, but do include same sex marriage (something that was invented two decades ago).
You make a very good point.

I should have noted that this applies only when it’s your own currency.
as someone else reported, the confusing fact is that it's advertised as a webzine yet it does not come in the shape of a webzine.
> Bill Gates was the richest person...the 90s Java hype must really have been otherworldly to make him panic this much

I kind of disagree with this line of reasoning. I think very successful people sometimes overestimate possible threats, and it may be one of the reasons for their success. I had this realization when watching the most dominant Age of Empires player stream once. I once struck by how paranoid he was about what the opponent might be doing, but it meant he was constantly prepared for worst-case scenarios. He seemed genuinely worried most of the game, rather than confident like I expected given his first-rank status.
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Hospitalizations are down 70%, yet in South Africa only 26% of the population is vaccinated, this goes to show that Omicron is less severe than the original variant.

The reason for this is Omicron replicates mainly in the upper respiratory areas and does not invade vital organs. This is also why its so contagious.
Nah it didn't have a hard disk, and booting up without any floppies inserted resutled in an error message...
It was a PITA to manage for end users. They had to install the JVM and update it when the JVM updater told them so. Many people didn't update (slow connections for a file size comparable to today's one, no time, etc.)

Then the application had its own non native widgets and was noticeably slower than native ones.

Then (more importantly IMHO) developers discovered that HTML interfaces were good enough even 25 years ago and being able to update a web application (they were no app back then) even only once per month was so much better than having to distribute thousands or millions of copies of a desktop application. Game over. BTW that was web 1.0.
Thanks, that's quite interesting. The plan is to include any vaccine if there is literature about it on the internet.
There are yes.
On another note "28-day average case fatality rate in South Africa, the likely origin of the Omicron variant, tumbled in the past six weeks from 8% to 0.2%" from WSJ https://www.wsj.com/articles/omicron-variant-may-end-up-savi...
From what I've observed, wires outside almost entirely depend on how new the city is. Old cities have wires outside, new cities don't, that's really it; nothing to do with how rich they are. Palo Alto is an old city. I live in a suburb in Greater Sacramento that's a newer city and it's most certainly not as wealthy as Palo Alto -- not even as wealthy as some of the other towns in Sac -- we got no wires outside.
Except the alternative is rarely the actual person you need.

Before chatbots it was endless phone trees. Before phone trees it was oversea operators rerouting you around departments. Before that it was unpaid interns putting you on hold until you get disconnected or give up.

The game has always be to make it as hard as possible to reach the most costly level of support.
The fake ascii sprite sheet is a weird choice.
People get concerned about migrants replacing natives. What they don't realize is that after just a single generation, the birth rates of these communities plummet. It's women's education all the way down. Women have a career? Less likely to have a family, and also (if they do) to start later and thus have fewer kids. Any article that portrays population decline as a good thing (often for environmental reasons) will actively promote this link. Only two things could change this downward birthing trend:

1) ectogenesis (babies grown outside the womb)

2) reversal of women's rights and political enfranchisement

So unless you're down with transhumanist or neo-reactionary ideologies, it's time to adjust to a world with more elderly than kids for at least the next century.
4-5 months..... even against Delta that would've been close to 50% efficacy. With Omicron probably non-existent.

Also, see most of South Africa.
The words "care" and "performance" are also overloaded too.

I buy the objects but I'm not putting sheets between the pages or building UV-blocking furniture to prevent paper yellowing. I might even give half of them to charity after a few years.

My point is that although I consider them "mine" I'm not too bothered because the investment is usually not that big. Otherwise I would be worried if they suddenly vanished into thin air like an NFT.
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Anecdotes are not data. It is trivial and at most a minor inconvenience.

You are the one that needs to re-calibrate themselves and have some empathy, rationalizing this situation is reprehensible:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29813465

"I'm not saying that pulling a gun on anybody for this reason is in any way reasonable or proportional. What happened to your sister sounds horrific and her former-employer sounds awful beyond words.

But I have to say, I understand why people asked to mask up in some cases flip out. Does it make sense to anybody that society has somehow decided that the way to be safe in restaurants is to put on a mask so a host can walk you 10-15 feet to your table for 10 seconds where you then proceed to take your mask off for over an hour? The mask ritual especially in this case is dehumanizing performative theater that doesn't make a lick of logical sense. Most people wouldn't be so uptight about the Covid rules when they make any sense: but many of them are beyond nonsensical."
Nobody knew that at the time. 2000 is the peak for both for companies before the dotcom bust and Sun Microsystems had $18.3 billion in revenue, not that far behind Microsoft's $22.9 billion in revenue.
>You mean, when you can opt out, apparently

Yes precisely, this to me is the essence of anarchism. To have the free will to opt-out or opt-in to any voluntary exchange without coercion. To keep my factory floor if I like, and if people voluntarily want to buy enough widgets from me that I can build a space ship, that is great for everyone because I've given the world lots of value and they've voluntarily given it back to me in exchange for that value.

It's really strange to me that leftist anarchists and capitalist anarchist are such bitter enemies. I think both can survive under the banner of a system without coercion. Anarchist socialism is merely what happen when some group of people consent to each other to share their resources. Those that don't consent and want to use free trade instead look more like capitalists can continue to do so. Personally I pick the latter because I think it will bring me more prosperity, but I'm very live and let live and can see both ideologies living peacefully side by side so long as no one coercively tries to take the property of another.
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Also Java doesn't run on android? Not 17 anyway...

I guess you could try to argue mobile is bad or something, but you get Kotlin not JDK on mobile.

Yes, Clojure is probably better, but on the flip side as a developer knowing Java 8 and Kotlin is better than knowing Clojure and JDK 17. Perhaps you can point to some salaries here but Java developers are not in short supply, if you wanted to play that game there are better languages for more lucrative payout (assuming you can even get them, these tend to be boutique shops not generally hiring publicly)
I notice these kinds on comment whenever some people share something with "Shown HN: I made this and it makes revenue" kind of posts. There will be few people there, sharing their experience. That is where the bias started from and I got more curious about it whether it is actually true or not!
It does not, but thanks for the tip, I'll add it in the "to research" list.
">It is silly to coddle someone who is getting paid >200k a year while most of the population struggles to make ends meet.*

That's (unfortunately) not how the job market works. Some Dev positions are so we'll paid and coddled exactly because people who can fill them are rare and not easily found so a lot of nasty people with bad habits are tolerated because there's a shortage of better candidates and hiring is expensive. And it's exactly the positions where there's a surplus (minimum wage gigs) where people are more easily replaceable and more often let go despite being good people.

It's why even so many terrible CEOs get paid so obscene despite doing an obvious bad job and driving companies further down, because finding another replacement CEO is very difficult.
"...thinking about smartphones."

Actually, people were, even the non-technical everyday Joe. I remember a sales guy commenting once at a beginning of a meeting as he pulled out his PDA and set his oversized cell on the table "I'm just waiting for the day they combine these together so I only have to carry one of these". I think this would have been 1998 or 99, but people talked about "PDA phones" for quite some time before the iPhone appeared on the scene. The technology just wasn't there, and the CE based PDAs were clunky, nearly useless.
Doesn't this code actually put q in front of p? That is:

ZZZZZZZZ,0000000Q,QQQQQQQQ,QQQQQQQQ,QPPPPPPP

With Z still being the width of P?
If a person is identified as susceptible to this, do we need to revisit the current standards in medical ethics?

If telling someone of their diagnosis is a substantial risk to their health, should they be told? Should doctors always communicate a poor prognosis?
I think this is a good take.
Yes. Those that have the power to trick others into giving them even more power have little restraining them from doing so.

It's also complicated by the fact that those who push against it haven't exactly made a name for themselves as reasonable people (at least the most vocal ones haven't) leading to derision of "freedumbs" and so forth.

I mourn the dearth of different perspectives and not assuming everyone is on a "side".
Since when can you not drink on a plane? I've never really looked if vaping on a plane is against the rules, but it's pretty easy to do that covertly enough anyways
Ask HN: When watching Netflix on TV, are you googling the title to get ratings?
would you use an iOS app that uses camera to OCR Netflix page and show you the ratings for current selected movie?
It's mild for non-vaccinated South Africans as well.

The same still applies as always: Vaccinate the risk groups.
But even after mutations, the next time you catch it, symptoms will likely be a lot less severe than the first. At that point, we can stop tracking it and write it off as a variant of the common cold.
> For women, oppressive gender bias and overt harassment and abuse was endemic in many spheres of life, I saw people get away with it. Being homosexual was still a career ender for many people.

Ah yes indeed - there has been some genuine progress here

> If you took an average modern teenager and had them live in the 80s for a while they'd be horrified

... but this would really be just an aversion to change, right? Does the average modern teenager have any more fun? Have more joy and less sorrow in their lives? I'm not convinced (unless they're gay)
I'm in, too. I and my team built several news aggregators (https://TechURLs.com, https://DevURLs.com, https://SciURLs.com) and they are all powered by RSS. Every month we have issues with some of the feeds as either RSS has been removed or broken, and in this case, we have to write HTML parsers that extract the news, which is very tiring.
Oh, take homes are fine without the interviewing numbers game. They just break when you do that.

Many of the take homes I encountered also had rapid turnarounds. I would have 48 hours from Tuesday afternoon. A couple of times I was up at 3 in the morning as I had two of them due and had to abandon one of them as I just couldn't stay awake longer.

In hindsight, I should have realized the folly of that earlier, but I was eager to get as many paths going as possible.
Just a course or are you starting a degree program?
That description really does a disservice to Cowan's work. A more general argument was that:

- Prior to the industrial revolution, men's and women's work was distinct, but reciprocal—they both contributed towards the general maintenance of a home (farming, animal care, cooking, cleaning, chopping wood, repair, etc.)

- With the industrial revolution, men left for work, leaving many women solely responsible for nearly all home-based tasks. Household tasks became associated with women's work.

- Over time, electric appliances reduced the necessary labor to perform their household tasks. However, shifting expectations of motherhood and cleanliness standards resulted in less time saved than you would expect. Before washing machines, clothes were cleaned only seldomly, but with them, it became a weekly or even daily task.

The domestic workers part of the book is real and was common, but I'd hesitate to use it to exemplify the overall argument of the book.
Also if you ever get shot multiple times on your body, do not look down at your wounds, if you do you will greatly increase your chances of dying right there. You have to continue on and ignore them as much as possible.
Any focus on Dynamic Programming stuff? I myself prefer Python(as it very closely resembles pseudocode)
An interesting phenomenon to me is how male names get co-opted as female names -- and can later cause mild discomfort to the men who have the names. "Robin" and "Taylor" come to mind.
> inconvenient to people

Certainly. But why is it inconvenient to people? We don't really discuss personal issues in the public space, so I'm forced to use my own examples.

My grandma is in her late 80s and soon will be 90. She's had brain cancer decades ago, recovered, but maybe that's finally catching up to her. Our family pretty much murmurs about it behind her back, but her sharp mind simply isn't as sharp as it used to be. Every year is a diminishing of her memory, her ability to focus, her ability to hold discussions and interact with us.

To the point where she's pretty much locked herself inside her own house (we're worried about her but she refuses to live with any of her children) in most situations.

So what does this have to do with parties? Well, parties are one of the only ways we can manage to draw her out of her house and interact with us.

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I can't imagine that I'm the only one who is dealing with the diminishing mental abilities of an elderly grandparent (or parent). But my grandma's extreme stubbornness and pride makes this entire exercise more difficult.

Now sure, maybe we do have to worry about COVID19 killing her. But on the other hand, her lack of socialization and isolationism is another issue that our family struggles to find a balance with. That certainly can't be healthy either, and arguably the social part takes priority at this point.

Furthermore: COVID19 has vaccines and booster-vaccines to mitigate that particular disease. But we don't really have a "Treatment" for the social isolation she's put herself into, or general aging issues as her mental state deteriorates over the near future.

Frankly, this is probably signs that she's on her last legs. Its something we will have to come to terms with as a family, but hosting parties where she can still see us (even in this state, before she gets worse) is a priority.

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Yes. Its "inconvenient" to cut out the yearly parties out of our life. And I'm sure other people have similar stories about why _THIS_ Thanksgiving / Christmas was like no other, and why it was very important to meet up again.

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Don't get me wrong. I'm largely pro-lockdown, and pro-mask, pro-vaccine. But you cannot underestimate the importance of social interactions or family, especially since we all are in different circumstances. Sickness and health changes the calculus in many ways.

I didn't share this story last year, because I felt like the lockdowns were a needed step (pre-vaccine). But this year, I'm speaking towards opening up again and relying upon the vaccine to keep us safe. Perhaps its two-faced for me to take different stances just one year apart, but things really have changed and pushed my calculus towards the other way. After losing Thanksgiving/Christmas 2020, people are aching to see family again. And 2021 has vaccines, dexamethasone, monoclonal antibodies and the Pfizer pill. We've cut the death rate by 80%+ on treatment alone and vaccines can cut it by 90%+.

2021 is just not the same year as 2020.
Still doesn’t piss me off as much as automated phone support systems.

90% of the time they only offer options that I could easily go online to do. If I’m calling your phone number. It’s because I have a problem that’s not solved or clarified by your existing self-support systems.
> some ethnicities being culturally prone to "hiring down" to inflate subordinate count

Sorry, what? Which ethnicities are these?
It is! https://michaelyingling.com/random/calvin_and_hobbes/
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I agree with everything you said, but that doesn't change the fact that the post to which you're replying is also true.

If I always rode my bike, but didn't have a car, I couldn't really say "riding a bike is as much fun as driving a car".
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Yep. All the time.