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>This is the correct answer. Carter would have lost to a significantly worse candidate than Reagan if they hadn't had Reagan.

Do you feel like there's current events comparison of Carter vs Biden?

>but they certainly crush the current president and Congress when the economy is bad and inflation is high.

Economy is doing pretty good, starting to kick in post-pandemic recovery boost. https://tradingeconomics.com/country-list/gdp-growth-rate?co...

Yes inflation is out of control but economy is looking great right now.

>It doesn't matter whether he did anything to cause it or not.

I find that the case. When the economy is doing well, both sides claim success. Current president claims his actions and previous president claims older actions took some time to work out. When the economy isn't doing well, both sides claim not me. It was the other guy's fault.
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She might not be an expert and the work might have been sloppy, and sure "correlation is not causation", but that doesn't discount her initial observations and hypotheses that needs further investigation

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32897110/

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I think your should read my comment again judging by your reply since it seems you think you are contradicting me.
Some languages have unfortunate misogynistic and transphobic/monogendered built-ins. This is problematic for a large minority of the LGBTQ+ population and many Native/Indigenous/First nations with different linguistic cultures. The USA is one of, if not the, most diverse country in the world with people from all over.

It is to me beautiful that the country can embrace both the latinx/hispanic population and at the same time say to these marginalized groups "we hear you, we listen to you, and we understand you."

To me the fact that the WH and President Biden use these important ungenderizations is a very important step, just like the federal desegregation of schools. It demonstrates how far we have come in just two generations. I have though met many latinx people who prefer latin@ instead, while others say that it reduces the language for non-binary folks.
> A study in Berlin found that shop owners believed only about 12 percent of customers lived within 1km of a shopping street when more than 51 percent of customers lived within that walkable distance.

This seem to imply that shops don't benefit much from parking when majority of customers lives within 1km of the store, and if that's the definition of local businesses then I don't see much problem eliminating parking. Local businesses catering to local customers. Non-local businesses, ie businesses where the majority of customers isn't with that 1km, should not be located next to shopping streets, which might require a new definition of shopping streets which centralize all kind of shopping to a specific street.

This seem to somewhat match a trend that I have noticed here in Sweden. Stores catering to a larger audience seem to have started to move away from expensive city cores in the last couple of decades, with specific shopping street decreasing in importance as a result.
Because you can use your position to promote expensive listings with more profit. A truly functional aggregator would lower prices by creating efficiencies. It's more profitable to let the market utilize price discrimination as long as the favor is to the supply side. If there is an oversupply then the aggregator would work to raise prices and would be more profitable. Right now the most profitable renter favoring model would be an aggregator that charges renters a fee. The problem is the same people don't rent frequently enough so customer acquisition costs would likely be too high.
Read your local paper of record, The Economist, NYT and WSJ (skip editorial pages on both).
You're deliberately applying the least intelligent light you can to everyone in this thread's comments.

With Gopher, you don't have to worry about whether someone is ideologically-opposed to JavaScript, and you don't have to only read the works of people who write about being ideologically opposed to JavaScript.

Your solution isn't a solution at all.
You're incredibly lucky if that's the case.

I've had a mix of both. The times that I had I micromanager were the most soul-sucking experiences of my career.

They're definitely out there.
The big ego stuff and always needing to feed it with claiming credit for everything reminds me a lot of narcissistic personality disorder, which is caused by childhood emotional abuse, so I think we should just humor his ego and recognize it for what it is, that is be kind and understand what causes that sort of thing, while not letting it distract us from the value of the research he’s doing. Intellectually Wolfram is clearly a very intelligent person; emotionally he is underdeveloped.
It's also easily visible e.g. at AWS, where the SFTP servers are $250/mo a pop (assuming zero usage). Basically legacy tax.
Not really, poor people aren't causing this problem. In fact they stand to gain from many of the changes. It's the rich who have most to lose.
I've done every possible combination. HIIT, free weights, bands, VR cardio, lengthy strolls. I've done each for at least months at a time. None of have had any noticeable effects on my well-being. I live in a big city with no car, so I walk a lot no matter what. Even going relatively hard on barbell squats and dead lifts just made my legs feel weaker.
I went with https://postale.io/ for about 20 mailboxes. Very simple and effective, recommend.
FWIW, speaking as someone who has had tenure, the problems don't end there. The whole thing is broken all the way through.

There are good places and good people, but the system is dysfunctional and too many critically problematic behaviors and dynamics are incentivized.

Society at large isn't helpful either, as outside influences tend to be politicized badly on both ends of the spectrum in multiple ways, even when the other side is trying to improve things in good faith.
Again, kindly see my reply about attacking me personally. If you feel affronted by my calling grad students cogs, make a case for why they are not. I spend plenty of time shaping those cogs into fine researchers, and they're all better for it, so my results speak for themselves. But you're kidding yourself if you think a green 22 year old fresh out of undergrad is able to perform at a level much higher than a cog in a research lab. There's usually a researcher in there, but it takes a lot of work, usually years, to properly shape their minds.

I'm quite young myself so I don't understand why you would say I'm bitter at young people, but I guess it just goes to show I hit a nerve and you want to lash out at me even though you know nothing about me, not even my age. You want to form an opinion about me and my personality and my entire professional posture based on a rant go ahead, but keep it to yourself.

As for professors not being involved in the nitty gritty research, there's just no basis for this statement. Like I said I've spent almost a literal decade getting my research agenda up and running, and that's pretty much the common case. It takes at least 6 years to get tenure. Students joining me today are getting involved in a project that began when they were preteens. Students claiming full credit over research done at that point is pure hubris.

How do you think research labs come to be without professors getting involved in the "nitty gritty"? Research happens over a long timescale, longer than any one grad student's tenure.
Interesting. I am curious how did the ultimately play you for you? I'd be curious to hear the outcome. Thanks for the links.
While thks article is quite interesting, I think it's worth pointing out the vast differences in non-car accessibility between countries, probably due to zoning laws. Large and low-density population places would require reliable modes of long distance transport (be it cars or buses or metro etc). From what I've heard North America practically requires car ownership outside medium sized cities. Here in the Netherlands you can mostly get anywhere in the country with a bike and a train (OV) card. Back home in India not too many people have cars so buses, trains and taxis and autorickshaws (aka TukTuks) substitute them. Not criticizing the point of the article, but I think a bit more nuance is needed when comparing Germany with Canada with New Zealand.

Also, I'd highly recommend checking out Not Just Bikes on YouTube, and perhaps the more "radical" r/fuckcars on reddit.
If you didn't have an existing relationship with bankers, it was difficult as hell to get these loans even if you did need them.

Still regrouping our small firm.
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"A common hacker refrain is that technology is always morally neutral. The culture's libertarian ethos holds that creators shouldn't be faulted if someone uses their gadget or hunk of code to cause harm; the people who build things are under no obligation to meddle in the affairs of the adults who consume their wares. But Alfred Anaya's case makes clear that the government rejects that permissive worldview. The technically savvy are on notice that they must be very careful about whom they deal with, since calculated ignorance of illegal activity is not an acceptable excuse. [...] "The logic goes that because he suspected his customers of doing something, he had a duty to ask. But that is a duty that is written nowhere in the law.""
> Russia and Venezuela simply never developed a civil society in the modern sense.

Isn't that the fault of democracy then? How can democracy be so great if it can't even help develop basic civil society? So now you are moving the goalpost from political government to civil society? So it's civil society that's important not democracy?

> I'd much rather be in one of those flawed democracies than, say, in North Korea. '

And most people would rather live in china or vietnam than many of those flawed democracies.

> Democracy, liberal/bourgeois values, civil society, proper rewards for merit...

That's not what honest look at political history shows. We're told hitler was the worst thing in history and democracy gave us hitler.

> All of these things ultimately foster competence.

I'd say it fosters corruption rather than competence. And everyone from the founding fathers to the ancient greeks would have agreed.

There are merits to all forms of governance. Nothing magical about democracy as I've shown. What you need is competence. Doesn't matter the form of government.
Surely, the training material is the most significant determiner of whether the results are dross or culturally significant?
Obviously, I'm just pointing out they complain about being unable to do the bad thing they are used to. I can understand it's difficult to start doing the good thing now, but using this as example of how bad is lockdown is almost as alcoholics complaining they can't get alcohol, there are for sure much better examples why COVID zero is stupid strategy than mothers unable to get formula for their babies.
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That reference would fit the zphd label. But it's _very unlikely_ that Zaphod Beeblebrox himself shows his head(s) here.
I might test this one day just to verify it did start with zillow, but after an interesting set of experiences* calling phone numbers for rentals on Zillow I started getting some very odd text messages about bank accounts I don't own and suspicious activity.

I don't call phone numbers on listing sites anymore, even if there's a face and an agency next to it. Better off looking up the agency, going to their website an calling that number (which in all three cases of the above, were different than the one on Zillow).

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* by "interesting set of experiences" I mean calling the number on a listing took me to an automated menu and a robotic voice where I had to enter the street number, and then first five letters of a street name so it could "look up" the property I was inquiring about, and connect me to the right seller.

Hanging up on that nonsense immediately and calling the leasing agency's number via their website got me a human being in two rings, and the leasing agent for the unit I was interested in after about 45 seconds of hold music.
An inner city road doesn't need to be 4 lanes wide if it's primarily carrying small box trucks to local stores.

And I think it's pretty apparent that quite a lot of restaurant employees rely on public transit, or feed a substantial portion of their income to one car, whose breakdown causes loss of employment. Forcing people to need cars from arbitrary point to point is a regressive tax.
>Replacing kerb-side parking with bus or bike lanes does not hurt local businesses, and in some cases, it can increase patronage. Bikes and buses don’t kill businesses - parking does.

Where is the evidence to support the claim that parking "kills" businesses -- I read the article and don't see any.

What about businesses whose products are too big/heavy to carry on foot or even on a bus? Where are all the pedestrians carrying 24-can cases of beverages? 40-pound bags of dog food?
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> Oddly, I gather rats cannot barf, which is why coumarin works as rat killer.

I think your recollection is off by a little. Coumarin is an anticoagulant and damages rats' livers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coumarin

You might be thinking of corn gluten meal, which kills rats by preventing them from absorbing water? It's sold as RatX: https://www.ecoclearproducts.com/pages/ratx-faqs
That's more of a banal aphorism then a piece of concrete actionable advice when trying to find a place to live. Expecting to get a rent below market rate by arbitrarily walking into somebody on the street is just...
IMVHO there are various issues, as anything "new for most people" (even if is not something really new) and that's not just on the administrative, middle-man, side:

- working by targets is not easy, because fixing targets is not easy. Formally we design everything up front so we know what to do at any point in the future, in practice we do design something up front but not all, especially not much "ordinary things". That means that control work progress is not easy and many feat to discover too late that someone is behind the schedule. Not all WFH jobs produce code that can be seen in a common repo every day;

- people who do not know each other sometimes have issue to act as a team and effectively communicate and interact as needed, most tend to communicate just the bare minimum and others too much;

- being really remote means no real geographical constraints so potential economical issues for workers (a new job market with workers from very different countries with very different cost of living), administrative issue (different laws, contacts etc) and practical issues for all (different time zones etc);

Meanwhile there are many advantages like for the employer no office space expenses, just furniture and hw for workers, for them the possibility to live in lovely and cheap places, no commuting, less fatigue and more free time having erased the itinere part etc. BUT to elicit those advantages we need a tested setup that's new and unknown for most, witch means a challenge with potentially long pain while experimenting. Most people still live nearby their offices in cities and there they do not have much space at home for a proper setup etc.

In the end the worst part: hybrid works that force in-office workers to work as they are at home and makes people at home less visible, disadvantage them, makes them feeling guilty to be more in comfort etc + all the issue of double/movable office setup from home to office and vice versa.

Long story short IMVHO:

- part of management, not just middle-man fear for their role

- part fear the challenge of completely change work paradigm

- part are simply not ready nor they can't be quickly to really WFH

That's why some like WFH and some do not. Of course techies tend to like it the most, because they are those already more organized and perhaps WFH since years, others are less organized and others are just old to feel well in digitally-centered environments.

I honestly think that around 30% of jobs can be done from remote effectively but just 10% of these 30% can be done now. Because only a small percentage is ready in humans and paradigms terms. To spread this percentage we need time and incentives...
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I was 3-4X a week at the gym. Weights plus HIIT for over a year before covid. Nothing. Didn't help my sleep, didn't slow my weight gain, didn't boost my stamina in daily tasks. And layered on muscle soreness.
What is wrong with the rest of Hacker News users they they keep in using the google browser?
Most HN users, especially American users, don't know that EU has 292 million cars. 780 cars/1000 capita. USA is not much different: 816 cars/1000 capita.

I live in Bay Area and people here think that EU is a utopia where cars do not exist and everyone just walks. They have a cartoonish caricature of EU in their minds.
They do; I went to a lot of effort a few years back, teaching one how not to be. We both learned a lot: I learned how to avoid a significant failure mode in my own career, and he learned he was happier in an IC role.
Ah right, forgot the code was setting r0 and failed to spot bhs was always true... thanks for properly explaining it
"Studies from across the globe have found that shop owners consistently overestimate the number of shoppers that arrive by car and vastly underestimate the number of people who arrive by other modes."

Perhaps the stats support this, we'll see (but I'm suspicious). What I am certain about is that I'll shop where there's parking for my vehicle—and that's how I go shopping. It would be difficult for me to estimate how many times I've bypassed certain shops/businesses because there's either no parking or the on-street parking is full up.
You're saying that a significant portion of Chrome + iOS users are A) constantly connected to a VPN and B) that VPN has DNS-based ad-blocking?

I'm not doubting you that some are, but to say that a significant portion of them are, would need some sort of evidence/source to back you up.
examples of things that were happening before that aren't happening now:

- I read great deep analysis of Putin,

- I read great deep analysis of sanctions, price of Ruble vs USD

- I read about Putin's inner circle

- On a different subject I read analysis of Xi's political thinking and international relations

- On technical subjects, I read interesting new hardware benchmarks

- On technical subjects I read about new protocols, new types of compression, different things about blockchain and even the darkweb

- I read about issues of free speech online, the effect of platforms on speech, etc, things like that

I haven't seen anything like these high-quality subjects in a while now.
Here in Switzerland it often takes 2x as much time to get anywhere if you take public transportation outside of big cities, compared to the car. Is it the same in the Netherlands? Also public transportation here is quite expensive.
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urban societies built within the 20th century are very different than urban societies built before then

they both have roads, the only difference is that the 20th century ones were built around car culture. car culture is not talking about people delivering food for the residents.
I don't exactly get your point. Stroads are generally more common in residential areas to the best of my limited knowledge. The bulk of commerical transport likely occurs on much larger roads and highways where trucks mainly ply. Short of last mile transport there isn't much overlap.
The natural instinct to information overload is hyper-desensitization. The more that is told, the less you can hear.
Am I the only one bothered by articles of this nature never really clarifying that nothing they say has any meaning below a certain very specific population density and in very specific areas with permissive zoning allowing commerce near to housing?

"Parking is, however, just a symptom of our massive car addiction."

It's especially hard to take seriously with comments like the above. I don't personally have a single friend in North America or Europe to whom it would be a "reasonable alternative" to travel on highways (where it is prohibited) by bike or bus and invest maybe 90 minutes to simply get to the closest grocery store and then be able to take home maybe 1/10th of what they normally load into their trunk. This false alternative is always brought up, but the only real option that exists is reorganizing housing across the whole society to massively increase density and to mix commerce zoning with homes in a way currently unheard of.
Who doesn't have a bias? Aren't subjective views just part of the human condition?

Couldn't we say that there is a bias in those calibrating the bias?

At the end of the day, I am more interested in hearing from users and how they evaluate the content on its own merits as you suggested, rather than a predigested bias warning. If anything this may serve to bias readers before they go into the content itself.
Some of them matter. Most of them don't. I would say you belong to about 1% of middler managers that actually matter.
I think the author fundamentally misses the point of the changes made to Gnome. If anything the changes reassert what is the responsibility of the Gnome ecosystem, as well as provides a clear path on how app developers can properly target it without app developers will have to continually deal with the edge cases imposed by distro tweaks. This reassertion of what is the realm of the desktop environment is what has to happen before the Linux desktop can be taken seriously by both app developers and regular users.

It's been said before, you can't make an omelet without first breaking the eggs. Though the egg breaking might be unpalatable, the omelet is rather tasty.
true, we can only impact those who hold the power over us if we all take action at the same time, i.e. go on strike.
The UC grad students have been unionized for decades, and just added gsr positions in addition to the teaching positions. Mostly right now it serves to protect student's research time from heavy teaching requirements.

But honestly, professors are also increasingly far away from the levers of power to create more permanent positions. There's a lot of bureaucrats making decisions who are mostly accountable to themselves.
You didn't see Germany criticized for buying oil from Russia?
Boy, they are the most criticized country for doing that (and oil and gas) - they basically enabled Russia to do the invasion. Nord Stream 1 and 2 come to mind. They made themselves (and few other countries) dependent on that bloody import.

India received Lawrow recently, he is not allowed in any EU country.

But there is a difference in long dependency and completely new buy. India is not dependent on Russian oil, Germany is (I mean, if they stop, cars will stop, people will freeze in houses because of lack of gas to heat their houses).
Well, the question is how much of the formal verification can be automated too ?
So facebook lost 2bil in value over nothing?