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My office (CA based) just announced they're dropping all Covid policies - masks, vaccines, testing. The encourage and, I'm sure, will soon require employees to come in for "hybrid weeks". There's this weakly worded directive to stay home if you're showing symptoms.

Honestly, I'm afraid. It takes 2 weeks to show symptoms. We could be in the midst of a wave and not even know it. I have medical reasons to be extra cautious, not to mention not-yet-vaccinated kids. I don't want to be potentially exposed.

In my this can be equated to allergies. I won't bring peanut butter to the office kitchen because there might be an allergic person. Hell, I won't even let my kid eat anything peanut related before they go to the playground (and while they're there, of course).

Are other people in the same boat (according to NYT[1] - yes)? Any workers in the same situation that managed to overturn such decisions?

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/18/business/office-mask-mand...
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Republicans complaining that the word treason is sometimes used in a sense different from the one in the constitution is rich... It sorta went mainstream with their last guy.

And, arguably, this instance is far closer to the tradition meaning of the word than, say, Barack Obama when he was labeled as such: treason is supporting a foreign enemy in war. Gabbard et al clearly have connections to and sympathy for Putin and people close to him. There's quite a bit of money changing hands, as well. The only formal element missing is that the US is not officially at war with Russia.
I'm not sure I understand your reasoning -- you seem to be saying that authorities can't be trusted, and leaving it at that. It's just not a compelling argument. Are there other reasons?
So did the non elites, of what they were able to see, which is why such a large emphasis was put on concealing the wealth of the commoner westerner. Something that is still huge in China. If the average Chinese person learns that even the poorest of the western world doesn't live in 10sq meter "apartment" and work 9-9/6 the party would lose control.
Every censor was also doing something legal. It doesn't make their censorship any more rightful.
> I wonder how much of this has to do with the rabid push for diversity in media, academia, and industry.

Less than it has to do with you seeing woke boogeymen lurking in every shadow.
DuckDuckGo has been good enough for my day-to-day use. I’ll use Google for a few things.
Keep in mind you also will not (for now at least) have to spend a ridiculous amount on interest like many people did before you.

It is going to get interesting when the millennial generation suddenly starts mass inheriting baby boomer houses - not sure how that is going to play out honestly.
Yea it’s a math font, “CPT” can be thought of as a mathematical expression of sorts. Other symmetries like CT, CP, don’t hold
I wholeheartedly agree with your longevity sentiment. I have Apple Thunderbolt displays from 2014 I’m still using without any issue, even with M1 hardware (using an adapter). Looking forward to my studio display arriving!
Of course! The problem is that when laypeople buy veterinary doses (because you can't get a package of human pills for a decent price), it's very easy to underestimate the effective concentration of the medicine. There's also a risk that the material the effective ingredient is wrapped in (flavouring, gelling agents, etc.) doesn't go down well with the human body, or that the higher concentration has an effect on the human body.

If you compensate for the body weight and ensure that the gel agent the animal medicine comes in doesn't have any adverse effects on the human body (it probably doesn't) then consuming animal medicine can be an excellent way to treat parasitic infections if you're awfully poor and don't qualify for any insurance. Consuming any chemical not made for human consumption is dangerous, but if you don't have another option, it's better than doing nothing.

People ridicule the whole horse dewormer story, but it's no secret that people around the world have turned to animal medicine out of necessity due to prices of medication.
https://archive.is/m7yx0
There's a rounding error there. I recall the interview and I'm pretty sure the height was quoted to 1 decimal place which is pretty mad.
I feel this same way about a lot of aspects of Google search.
Putin already crossed that line - he has been bombing places in West Ukraine like Lviv and that training site for a couple of days now.
Huh, interesting. A recent US leader exhibited similar behavior
Boycotter's Guide: 5 Ukrainian Alternatives to Russian Vodka
It's legit to combine the text of an open source license and the text of the Commons Clause. However, if you try to do that with e.g. the Apache License Version 2.0, the Apache Software Foundation won't let you abuse their registered trademark and call it "Apache 2.0 + Commons Clause", because the result is incompatible with the spirit of the Apache License 2.0.

I believe that similar reasoning would apply to the AGPL.
That makes a lot of sense. At some point there is two parts to the license that contradict each other, and no particular reason why AGPL would override Commons Clause or the other way around. The court went with the obvious intent of the licensor which is good.
I use Qbserve [1] after seeing it mentioned in a previous thread.

Really helpful for seeing where time was spent over the course of the day/week. Collected data all stored locally too

[1] https://qotoqot.com/qbserve/
NASA's Webb telescope achieves near perfect focus
"Questionable" is being extremely lenient, it is corruption on the face, nothing less. $100,000 speaking fees, millions in donations to foundations are the same thing, it's not even hidden. It's just double speak.
Do business owners labor?

As someone who's moved around a lot (to London, then to Zürich) I definitely appreciate being able to rent, and hence landowners. Without them, I'd have to live 2-3 year homeless until I saved enough for a downpayment, then be saddled with 30 year monthly commitment (i.e. mortgage) and unable to move anywhere else.
Adjustments were made for several reasons, primarily because measurements prior to 1940 were often made at warmer parts of the day.

Total adjustment was about 0.3C; the US has warmed by more than that since 1981. I could see how someone could claim this adjustment invalidates the warming narrative in say the 1990s when the adjustment made was large relative to the warming trend, but at this point the data supports a warming trend even if you don't allow the adjustments.

For example, all of the past 10 years have been warmer than any year in the 1930s and 1940s even using the unadjusted data (contrary to your assertion in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30727107).
Sure, some videos are more of a rant and he can come across abrasive but I think the fundamental arguments are valid. Hyperloop isn't a viable concept ever since it's been conceived over a century ago. And the tunnel projects have so far been underwhelming and universally panned as worse than a standard lightrail or subway.

The only thing that's relatively unknown is the "Tesla Bot" but considering that self-driving AI is still unsolved, let alone any kind of general intelligence, I don't think there's much behind that either.
We started out building a Chrome extension to send voice messages per email. Recently, we've expanded and now offer features to record and share video messages as well.

Thanks for your feedback regarding pricing, it definitely depends on your use case :) But we're happy to say that we do have paying customers who think they're getting a bargain :)
There's no evidence for this claim. It's a popular thing to say, so I think it must feel true for a lot of people, but there's no evidence for it and simple arithmetic suggests that it's a red herring. The fact is that vacancies in NYC are historically very low and reached new all-time lows in Manhattan at the end of last year.

People love the "investors and billionaires are buying up the market" story because it suggests a convenient villain, when the truth is that the millions of ordinary Americans who oppose new housing in their neighborhoods are a much bigger factor. Of course, that's not as satisfying as blaming a Disney villain.

We've been under-building for decades. We have a massive shortfall of new units, far beyond the number of empty luxury apartments. Frankly, at this point I'd support a meaningless vacancy tax just so we could put this objection to bed and focus on things that matter.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/09/new-york-city-rents-jump-22p...
I suspect the same way you arrive at all Trump supporters being racist, the problems of the country being the fault of conspiracy theorists, etc: heuristics, combined with a cultural aversion to understanding how the human mind works.
I used it for awhile and did like it quite a bit - I found myself having a bit of anxiety though worrying if I was going to hit the search limit with my more trivial queries. Google really has us psychologically
Better is probably not the right word, since it depends on your use case.

We aim to be faster and simpler. Less clicks from recording to sharing basically.
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I've started using DDG for most searches, and a private email provider instead of gmail
> It helps to have F-you money. I suggest 2-3 years salary is a nice stash.

It is also nice to have a pony and a room full of ice cream.
>The local rulers have de facto control over government, jurisdictional and businesses.

isn't that a tautology?
3) ban abusive data providers?
> Google sucks compared to Google from years ago

How much of that is based on general incompetence, SEO gaming, growing complexity of searches or manipulation (e.g. filtering "disinformation")? Or something else.
The patent system does that everywhere. That's its purpose. The FDA does it in medicine.
Ever since she cravenly smeared Bernie during the Democratic primaries (insinuating he's sexist) I've had a hard time considering her a good-faith actor.

That being said, if you've never looked into it, you should read about how the Obama administration neutered her role in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. I think most anyone would have a hard time disagreeing with her take on the 2007-2008 banking crisis - and you might find the contrast between suave and shrill less... signifying.
The agencies are abusing the guidance and rule making processes in ways that are completely absurd.

When I worked in DC, I saw guidance that suggested criminal liability retroactively for selling some financial products.

Lots of petty dictators with no respect for the legislative process or limits of executive power.
We created this beta app that turns your head movements into a game controller
The article goes out of it's way to address this argument.

The cattle could have born, died, and primarily been butchered in another country as long as any amount of processing was done in the US.

This would be like if a tree was grown and and harvested in China, turned into a table in china, sent to the US, then a logo was stenciled in a corner in the US and then US was listed as the country of origin for the table when in fact every meaningful step of it's production occurred somewhere else.
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In the same vein, there was some discussion on the build up last year¹.

¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28650019
Before the pandemic I was able to WFH but usually didn’t, because as luck would have it, it always seemed like a crisis would occur and everyone would be looking for me. Now it’s more normalized and not a problem.

It’s less my attitude, more managing other’s attitudes (esp management)
I discovered Alexandria a month ago and was shocked by the quality of its results; while it's no Google/Bing replacement, it was leagues ahead of most other independent engines I'd collected and monitored for over a year[0].

[0]: https://seirdy.one/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexe...

It's earned a spot in my search bookmarks alongside Right Dao and Marginalia for when I want a bit of serendipity in my results.

I also appreciate the minimal UI, without any JavScript or other unnecessary bells and whistles.
> the richest people in america got that way by creating enormous amounts of ? value and then capturing lots of it for themselves.

> the richest people in russia got that way by plundering the country of its natural resources and the remnants of the soviet-era industry.
> those are not the same.

Importantly, the wealth of the richest in the oligarchy is maintained (or destroyed like in the case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky) by the use of force by the authoritarian. The power of the authoritarian is in turn backstopped financially by the oligarchs.

The wealth of the richest in the US is maintained by the economic system and its associated laws (however flawed). There is a conceivable path to make the system fairer in the US via elections, but not in Russia.
That's why decentralized chat protocols like matrix are needed
> Honest to God, the founders of Airbnb should have been sent to prison.

This isn't how the legal system works.

If something is illegal, and you do it, it doesn't mean you always go to jail.

If something is illegal, and you finance other people doing it, it almost always mean you get a fine.
>If London won't be interesting anymore for oligarchs, what will happen with prices of accomodation in center

i might be able to afford a house there
There is a category of non disabled people who benefit from wheelchair accesses : parents of newborns who have to push a buggy wherever they go. I find it interesting that this positive side effect is rarely mentioned in the discussions about this topic.

Edit : this is actually mentionned in other comments.
You can just append “Reddit” or “stackoverflow”, you don’t need to write “site:Reddit.com”
I’m a big remote work fan, and yet going into work has big benefits even for this introvert.

Really I just want the choice in it all. I think if you explained to people that either is okay, but some things need you in, that seems quite fair.
> they aren't a criminal class, in the UK.

Well, they _are_ a criminal class here. It's just they've been getting
away with it for some time because they're under the protection of
another criminal class - our leaders. With any luck the ramifications
of this Russia/Ukraine business will cause the unravelling of much
more than that little squirt Putin.
Silencing critics is to free speech what not buying bad products is to free markets.

Some people are right. Some are wrong. Some are in-between. Some are wrong, but in an interesting way. Some believe the marketplace of ideas needs a few more swastikas...

Unless you have unlimited bandwidth (in which case you should have a random algorithm talk to you), everyone wants more or the speech they like (including interesting-wrong), and less of the stupid speech.
Generally I have found google to always work the best (location wise) when you just put a zip code at the end of your search query
The 90's is when the first Iraq war and then the deadly embargo happened...
The declining labor force–New job seekers aren't offsetting the retiring Boomers
> We'll see how they fare if rates rise.

They'll be fine. If asset prices go down, rates will go down.
>They (UK govt at large) tried to keep the value of the Pound up, so that the UK could join the Eurozone, which was being constructed at that time.

Didn't this prove beneficial to the UK in the long run?

The Guardian speculated in 2013 (<http://www.theguardian.com/business/economics-blog/2013/jun/...>) that if Britain had joined the Euro:

* The mid-2000s British housing bubble, and its collapse in 2007, would have been even bigger.

* Britain would have had to ask the IMF, ECB, and EU for loans.

* The Tories would in 2010 have promised a referendum to leave the Euro and won a majority. Labour would have won fewer than 100 seats, and UKIP would have "made spectacular gains".

* The anti-Euro side would have won the referendum, and the currency would have collapsed.

* "after a deep and painful recession economic recovery began".

* "Britain would have destroyed the euro on departure, and would now be on the point of leaving the EU altogether. The idea that Farage might be the next prime minister would be quite credible."

And the UK not being part of the ERM or Eurozone in no way disadvantaged London from becoming the continent's financial capital during the 1990s and later.
Of any codec? Are you sure?
For me it just wasn’t as bad as I thought. I do miss hanging out with my coworkers but now if we’re local we just hang out. Being able to commute from bed is just so much nicer. And also being able to take guilt free ad hoc breaks during the day is just unbeatable.
Highly doubtful. The last decade or so of CCP direction has been to control and punish the huge outflow of capital by rich Chinese into various western asset pools (like US and Canadian real estate) that are outside the party's reach. See also the recent controls on various cryptocurrencies. A lot of this got washed through Hong Kong and Taiwan and Singapore.

Nobody outside is going to want to secure their wealth there. If kleptocratic Russians wanted that sort of arrangement, they could just keep it in Russia.
Heating the batteries and passenger compartment is quite expensive energy-wise, you certainly have to calculate that in when determining an appropriate battery size for such an application.
What kind of stuff did you have trouble with? I have not used Kagi in a bit but I found it pretty solid
Everyone is not using it.
Is Syria at war with the U.S.A.? Who's the treason against here?
I've been starting to use kagi for search. I'm still using google by default, but when I get a screen full of ads and clickbait articles I turn to kagi and it's almost always better.
Everyone? Not me.
I'm working on my second million!

...I gave up on my first.
It isn't normal (at least in a democracy) for the local rulers to have that kind of control over businesses. "Jurisdictional" I presume means that they don't have an independent judiciary either. Those things matter quite a bit.
Crypto is an unproductive bubble
I guess this is the Mandela effect because I can remember a few instances in my lifetime of larger countries invading smaller ones in contravention of international law.
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> Or the coyote in Quizno's (sub sandwich chain) incident: https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2007-04-04-070404...

How can no-one have taken a picture, or, if they did, how can the Trib not have included it?
Generally, if you're asking person X to spend money they don't want to spend, claiming that it's in their own best interest, it probably isn't.
They aren't monopolizing anything. Making the cheapest product available doesn't make them the enemy. The US is funding (at a premium) two other spacecraft near completion and there are other developments ongoing for more commercial spacecraft.
Looks like I came very close in 2021. Difference is worth it for small order delivery and the occasional use of Prime Video then.
"Medicinally" is the only real definition. Was the law written by pharmacologists?

Distinction made by law is generally arbitrary and based on emotional response to something. If it were otherwise, law would not need to be written to make the distinction.

The people who wrote the laws about drugs were, and still are, incredibly wrong about how things should be structured.

We need to have regulation written involving people who know the minutiae of how the things work that they're regulating, not people who are scared of the word "chemicals" because they don't understand that everything is made of chemicals

It's all bullshit written by clowns and the distinction in law should not be taken seriously. Alcohol is a drug, full stop.

Legislators trying to make this distinction in law are on the same level of stupidity as the time they tried to pass a law on the mathematical constant of pi by way of a bill on squaring a circle

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill
And are you really going to cheer as corporations take upon themselves the right to prosecute a war, let alone one waged largely against civilians?
Grieving mother silenced with a syringe (2000)
Notes on the Synthesis of Form provided intriguing insight into the theory and cultural impacts of design. As others have mentioned, he provided examples using architecture and biology. Quite fascinating albeit dry at times. Highly recommended. Thanks to the others for other reading suggestions.
> It's like no one could agree on happy medium between "landlord can eject you whenever they want for whatever reason" and "no one can make you leave, ever, for any reason".

Renters vote. Prospective renters don't vote, because they don't live there.

Landlords vote too, but there aren't enough of them to counteract the renters.
Ask HN: Do you have sudo on your company-issued machine?
I'm wondering if people have infosec restrictions about sudo access for their work machines.
I doubt that very much, could you provide a reference? I also remembered the height of 123m from the original poisoning reports, because it is rather a memorable number.
that's because all the people who want permanent wfh are browsing hacker news upvoting pro-wfh articles and comments while working from home with no one looking over their shoulders
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Their elections forecasts aren't stellar, but their errors are still far smaller than the magnitude needed to meaningfully change these results.
Stupid people do stupid things all the time. Clearly not an educated tactic. No one with an anything above the brain stem would do that, and that's not what's being argued for.

Racism isn't the point, crippling the Russian state is. Assuming anything else smells like bad faith.
Thanks for the reference to the paper. Indeed, what is claimed is much more...nuanced...than what the GP was claiming.
Why a myriad of reasons? What if you can't access your library for one reason?
That’s definitely a fair point and I’d be lying if I said I paid attention to accessibility from day one.

Took me seeing a coupon on a billion dollar retailer’s, where the alternative text did not include the coupon code, that I took it a little more seriously.

Dunno why, but I imagined myself having to pay 20% more than everyone else due to something I can’t control.