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> It's unclear to me why you have gone out of your way to misunderstand or misinterpret the situation

It's the internet. Even HN isn't immune to the Eternal September.

I still think Reddit is useful, sometimes, and I've got karma to burn for years, so I find it hilarious when my comments get downvoted into hell over some trivial issues. Since I don't care about imaginary internet points except to make sure that people can read what I post (I don't want to fall into the well of negativity on that), I don't delete the ones that get buried.

That poster you replied to is doing the kind of crap you see on the Reddit front page subs. They're almost all trash. You get upvoted for hivemind, you get downvoted for going against the grain. Regardless of the merit of the comment.

Hell, I've been downvoted here for my very milquetoast comment that maybe the clerk was trying to help you keep out of trouble in a country where you really need an IDP (different alphabet, e.g.). You can't downvote before you have a bunch of points here, and I almost never do - if you're wrong I'll try to help you fix it, and if it's just a disagreement then... that's life? You pretty much have to explicitly be an unprovoked major asshole or advocate straight-up genocide to make me downvote you.
.rar should be avoided since support in open-source extractors is rare (to my knowledge, the sole implementation comes from The-Unarchiver, `unar`). .7z is usually the way to go if not doing something fancy like casync.
Democrats like charismatic candidates too.

Anyway, the two party system seems to breed extremes. I'd like to see ranked choice, same day, primaries, and abolishment of the slavers' electoral college.
Those are facts though.
Yes — you can validate this by benchmarking things like l1 cache
It is additionally also possible that a democracy with more or less independent media is much more vulnerable than a dictatorship with state-controlled media. The democracies in the world better wise up quickly and figure out a way to become resilient against this.
I'm absolutely certain that if Trump was in the White House the full on invasion of Ukraine would not have been started. Not because he's some exceptional negotiator or because he brought peace, but because he was doing such a great job of undermining US influence that Russia would have been dumb to distract them from it.

It's one thing to speculate that this is what would have happened, call it one's "gut feeling" or "character read" or even "reasoned speculation", and leave it go at that.

But to be "absolutely certain" about a pure hypothetical like this (concerning a war that dumb and irrational for Putin to start, in any case) seems, well -- quite strange.

It's also unlikely, given that one of the key drivers for Putin's decision to launch the full-scale invasion was likely (not proven of course, but by any analysis it does seem highly likely) Trump's isolation stance in Afghanistan, and blatant backstabbing of the local Afghan government. This surely emboldened Putin, convincing him that a new era of disdain for interventionism had take hold on the US side -- and that he could most likely go in and have his way with Ukraine, with no significant consequences of any kind.
> The next time you meet a Texan, ask them if they think they are "meaningfully" culturally distinct from Californians.

Having lived in both places I can confidently say "not as much as either party would like to think". There are far, far, far more similarities than differences, especially because the population of either place doesn't tend to interact with their natural environment. Both simply have strong sense of nationalistic pride (however dumb this is).
Trans people have been around ages, same as gays and all that. Yet no gay gene discovered.

We know that a living being is just not only DNA, but also its environment; now on top of that add all the big complexity of human social behaviour and gender into it. I doubt they will find a "cause" to trans-ness.
> Trump floated bleach as a covid remedy

This premise isn't even true. Trump did NOT float this idea.

This is something Democrats believe though. Which says a lot more about Democrats than it does about Trump supporters.

As someone replied to you: No Trump supporters actually believe in bleach as a remedy, but tons of Democrats do. What does that tell you about their respective intelligence or education?
In case anyone was curious ochlocracy means mob rule.
The approach is ridiculous, though. Again, it's a word ban. When someone bans the word from being mentioned do you say "awww shucks guess I'm not going to be a white nationalist anymore?" No, you start saying Vitler instead and move on.

> They also don’t want the white nationalists to decry the fact that their posts about Hitler are deleted but posts condemning Hitler are not deleted.

One way to handle it is to stop fucking tampering with everyone's feeds. Then, if someone doesn't follow people who spout white nationalist gibberish, they won't get said gibberish in their feed. But no! That's not right! We have to show people things they don't follow to drive engagement and in the process effectively introduce algorithms that tamper. The end result is everyone wants the algorithm to tamper how they think it should.

Any social media company engaging in this tampering should be regulated, chastised, and/or systematically dismantled. But that doesn't happen, because people engage more when you show them things they never wanted to see in the first place, and engagement drives profit, and profit drives capital. And doing anything to upset capital is heresy.
That show is 95% hyperbolic con-man BS that angsty tech tweens lap up as truth. I listen to because I want to know what the hype machine is pushing, and they tell me.

It's great for following the techniques of grifter speech and influencing, but it's not a source of good information.
Canada orders shutdown of TikTok's Canadian business, app access to continue
Just expanding the court with pure loyalists seems easier.
let "idiots" babble and get their arguments refuted by further discourse. Sorry that i don't feel the need to have a magical truth authority tell me whats right or wrong. You don't know what a journalist is.
That makes sense for Chinese citizens, but I was talking as a foreign citizen, since we were discussing the differences between having your own government vs a foreign government involved in what content you see.
> The same could be said for Germany and Austria.

Well, yes. The differentiation is both dumb and well-reasoned, depending on your ethics.

However at least germany and austria have meaningfully distinct languages or dialects and many centuries more to marinade in their differences. Texan and californian aren't distinct enough to produce nationalities that are clearly distinct (aside from arbitrary pride!) and they regularly swap populations sufficient enough to provide cultural osmosis that keeps the two cultures tied together.
> It is possible in a short period of high inflation for goods and services to outpace wage growth.

It is possible. But it hasn't happened! That's what I'm trying to point out in this weird subthread. People (on both sides of the candidate divide!) believe something that ssimply isn't true. And not in a subjective "mostly untrue" sense. It's a question with numbers and the numbers say the opposite of what you believe.
Yeah I agree, maybe that's because young people that aren't shutin programmers for dotbombs are priced out of SF.

The rise of cost of living in urban environments has outpaced inflation quite substantially (certainly the real estate prices have) for quite a while. The colloquial gentrification cycle of gays -> artists -> college kids -> yuppies -> rich people requires a poor neighborhood as a starting point (usually a white one)... there's seemingly none of those starter neighborhoods anywhere in major cities, so the art and music has left the major cities.
> Democrats like charismatic candidates too.

Yes, we like charismatic candidates, but we don't run them.

In all sincerity, Jon Stewart is highly electable. More realistically, I think Pete Buttigieg would dominate the podcast circuit in a way that Kamala Harris dared not even try.
Knowing Nintendo, this will just be straight backwards compatibility with no enhanced visuals, resolution, or framerate.
China proveably opened illegal police stations in Canada. China arrested two Canadians and threw them in prison in pure retaliation when Canada detained a Chinese CEO in her mansion in Vancouver.

The issue here is that TikTok was allowing its offices to act on behalf of the CCP in opposition to Canadian interests. If we discover Google is running anti Canadian CIA ops we would have an issue with that as well.

The difference is presumably that Canada is happy to have google collect data since google is happy to cooperate with CSIS.
The mistake which this podcast made was to misinform their listeners. Given that informing their listeners is their core mission, it's a pretty unforgivable mistake. Better to listen to another podcast which takes their mission more seriously.
The problem is how to get voters to approve your tax change. It's easy if you can split the voters. That is, blame X of them and tax them, which the rest and a few good souls will happily support. Otherwise you are back to suggesting a falt tax increase which very few will support - until you exempt much of the population, etc, etc.
Not from what I've seen. But I get why you think that

https://www.axios.com/2024/09/28/gen-z-men-conservative-poll

Just look at the headline. But the numbers just saying "18-24 are slighyly more conservative than 24-30". While the lion's share simply say they are moderate.

So it can really swing any which way.

As another statitic:

https://i.redd.it/6sekbauh9uec1.jpeg

Only up to 2020, but for the US you see that liberalism for men only stagnated in 2020, not shift conservative.

South Korea... I have no clue what has happened.

> These days, college just makes up for utterly lousy secondary school education.

A bit questionable (I reckon lousy grade school just means less college, and college participation rates are decreasing), but I do agree that secondary education has utterly tarnished its standards. NCLB can't even explain this horrible drop.
> Because English is the global lingua franca

But English is not the largest language in terms of the number of speakers. I speak Korean for example and three-digit grouping is unnatural in Korean, which uses myriads instead. I guess Xenon is designed to be not comfortable for the vast majority of people including me then?

> Having special names, like $type, and hoping no language uses them is fragile.

I was not proposing special names after all. Xenon clearly has a much better extension point, namely the type string. You can have just one reserved character, which is very unlikely to appear in verbatim, and use it for the extension. And it is even unclear whether JSON's use of `$` for such special names was fragile after all, given that such complaint seems uncommon. (I complained about that in the past, but I mean others seemed to be cool.)

In addition, I don't think you have mapped enough languages to conclude so anyway. For example, can you list all popular enough languages that allow `$` in identifiers? While whether to allow `$` or not requires a single example, maybe you have missed other identifiers in other languages! (Angle brackets are also common in stringified types, after all.) So I expected you to have at least looked at them for your conclusion.
>Democrats insisted on COVID restrictions that were more like religion than science and then they just stopped and everyone was fine.

You... You missed out on the whole vaccines part here. Amazing.

>What would have changed if the restrictions were 6 or 12 months shorter?

Everyone would get hit with COVID before vaccines became available.

The healthcare systems were on the verge of collapse as it was; this would ensure the collapse and mass deaths (and long term disabilities for many others).

>Nothing

The confidence with which you're saying nonsense based on absolutely nothing is admirable, but the bullshit you're spouting isn't.

Next time, don't ask questions if your answer is premade.
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid admitted: “Bernie really had a movement out there, and it wasn’t right to treat him that way. I knew — everybody knew — that this was not a fair deal. So I’m sorry she had to resign, but it was the right thing to do. She just should’ve done it sooner.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/harry-reid-bernie-sanders-dnc...
I am not sure I understand the question. All companies should be subject to the basic rules and requirements under the law. It absolutely holds that one company should not be specifically targeted, just because it upsets current political ecosystem. If the rules allow it to exist, then the same end result is perfectly possible with other participants.

But what is happening here is different. We are saying: we don't Z company so we are going to treat them differently from the other companies in the same space.

And I am saying this as a person with minimal social media footprint.
Monopolies can only be harmful for essential goods that don't have alternatives. The water supply is essential. Access to the internet can (perhaps) be essential. "Software to design website mocks" is definitely not essential.
>I agree. I think Democrats should have let Trump win unopposed in 2020. Then he could have dealt with the global supply chain crisis, had inflation attached to his name, been a hero for getting it back down again, etc. And then he'd be gone.

Hindsight is 20/20. Also, wasn't the Democratic activist base thinking in 2020 that Trump getting elected would be the end of democracy? Good luck convincing them to stand down.
Social Determinants of Health
Kamala Harris far outspent and outraised Trump this election.

https://www.axios.com/2024/10/31/democrats-republicans-ad-sp...
https://www.fns.usda.gov/yearly-trends
https://fns-prod.azureedge.us/sites/default/files/resource-f...

Here are the yearly trends showing food stamps from 1985 to 2020, I don't know why 21, 22 and 23 data is not shown.

Since the 1985 until 2008, the number of people on benefits stayed roughly around 25 million. In the same time period, US population grew from 220M to 300M, roughly 1% every year.

From 2008 to 2013, the number of people on SNAP roughly doubled to peak at 47.54M people. Population growth was 300M to 315M.

2019 was the lowest point in recent history of only 35.29M people on SNAP, with population growth from 315M to 330M.

I averaged the monthly data from 2021 onward and got 2021: 41.6M, 2022: 41.2M, 2023: 42.1 and 2024 through July: 41.6M

For a long time, poverty in the US was shrinking as a percent of the population. 2008 reversed that trend with things starting to get better after 2013 and really accelerating up until 2019. It's been flat since the post Covid growth.

So everyone saying; "economy is back to normal, we have recovered." there have been 5M people who don't feel it.
It's amazing to me that we're all so chill about a company in Redmond having root access to our PCs because they pinky-swear they will never misuse it.
yes. Scalia died in Feb 2016 (while Obama was president) and the senate refused to hold confirmation hearings on a successor until Trump took office in 2021.
Any podcast that has "informing their listeners" as a core mission will make mistakes now and then. It happens because we are all humans and not Gods. All I'm trying to do here is push back against the suggestion of the article that you write off people based on a single mistake. A world in which I can never make a mistake is not a world I want to live in.
my 2700 is due for a refresh next year, so that's what I plan to do, get one of these fancy X3D versions, then cap it to hopefully sub 100W
> but at this point breaking up with them would feel like abandoning them to their situation.

I have no special psychology experience but this feels like a red flag to me. Guilt is not a good foundation for building a lifelong relationship with someone. You deserve a partner that supports your needs as well. There are so many people out there with problems and there are ways you can help people without being their romantic partner if that's what you choose to do.
My gut reaction, also as a Canadian, is quite negative to this idea. Are you interested in expanding on the idea? I'm always looking for new perspectives and to understand how my fellow Canadians are looking at issues like this.
Felon, as long as appeal courts don't overturn that felony verdict.
> In all sincerity, Jon Stewart is highly electable.

And in all sincerity, I think he'd be a good president too. He isn't interested in running, however, so the point is moot.
Counting for the population but not actually able to vote? Where have I heard this before...

The effects of the Fentanyl crisis is truly going to haunt the US for decades to come. absolutely unbelievable.
I am so sorry. I see you. My wife is bipolar, HSP, ADHD… it’s called severe mental illness for a reason.

I was eating blue pills for 20 years. I finally took the red pill and realized it wasn’t going to change, we weren’t going to find a magic cocktail, she isn’t going to find stability. Now I am stuck between a rock and a hard place with no option c. It is miserable.

The airlines have it right, ‘Put on your mask first.’ If you are hypoxic , you can’t help anyone. Care giving is all about self care.
You are right of course. My journey - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42072648

These sort of situations are very difficult and what the Human psyche needs is reassurance that as Alexandre Dumas wrote in The Count of Monte Cristo all human wisdom is contained in these two words,—'Wait and Hope.' In that sense these articles do have some value.
I think the proposal is fundamentally flawed because of this reason.

Facebook, Instagram and X/Twitter are probably what's intended here, but what about Tumblr, DeviantArt or Discord? What about Reddit or a generic forum? What about VRChat or Webfishing?

If this is about protecting children from harmful depictions of body image or misogynistic content, then why not instead propose a law that states online services that allow children to join need to appropriately moderate the content that is shown to children or could face massive fines. I don't necessarily agree with that approach, but at least it would make sense with what their stated objectives are.
Looking at the code everything is absolutely positioned, I would have expected to get a newspaper like flow to use Multi-column Layout
Totally. Combine with a nice sweater, a headset mic, a giant screen behind them, an audience and boom! Insta credibility. Looking like it is a TED talk is just as good as being a TED talk - and of course then all true! Deep expertise.. (maybe not these guys in particular. Just musing on some very good looking disinfi. Same thing as dressing people up in lab coats)
This is a poor take because he can't release more information than he already did.
And yet when you call it what it is (a backdoor) people get highly offended. Same thing with ubuntu snaps or really anything that updates automatically.
Could always move to a basket of currencies, that’s been proposed before
> Hollywood has always faced this issue and it has historically managed to make money anyhow.

It's harder for video games, because movies take only a couple hours to finish, and you generally want something you haven't seen before each movie night. Video games can take hundreds of hours to play to completion, and some games you can enjoy replaying tens of thousands of times. So the competition from the existing games library is very tough.
Perhaps, but China really doesn't have a lot of companies with offices in the West. When China tries to buy Western countries they are often blocked for the same national security reasons, as has happened several times in Canada.
OK I get it.
Isn't all that because it is rather hard to correctly implement such math trickery?
Since it's not just about manipulating bits, you need to have a pretty good background in physics to do it properly. The more you know about the physics of sound the cleverer you can be about what to discard and what to keep.

I have used Macs since my youth and used iTunes before it was even called that, so encoder quality was never a problem I had.
I guess I'll revisit the topic more deeply one of these days, still not that keen on that much math though.
Australia takes a different approach and says (in their Basic Online Safety Expectations 2024) that every online account must be linked to a phone number.

This is the same country that brought you "the laws of mathematics are very commendable but they don't apply in Australia".

I foresee a two- or three-tier Internet in the future, and Australia will probably be the first "western" country to block Tor.
I disagree. An opinionated tool can be as powerful as, but much simpler than a generic tool.
The government is being deliberately non-prescriptive about that, as they are about what qualifies as 'social media' (statement of fact - no comment on the approach itself). Ideally the legislation is accompanied by a government digital service that allows 3rd parties to verify age _without_ divulging full identity, but I don't see that side of things being discussed anywhere down here :(
Are you arguing that they should have either raised taxes or introduced austerity measures as the recovery was just beginning because Google told you it would have helped?

It would not have undone prior inflation and it could have strangled the recovery in the crib. It wouldn't do anything about price gouging either and it would certainly have turned America against Biden and Harris. Its just a grab bag of bad ideas.

Also your preferred candidate has said he is going to drastically increase prices with massive tarriffs. This isn't strictly inflation but the effect on your wallet will be the same.

I would talk to actual economists instead of Google.
A rapist who is fascist or a rapists of fascists?
Well Said and Good Advice.
One can also absorb chemicals through the skin (it is the largest exposed organ infact), so I've been thinking of getting a shower or whole-house filter. Definitely upgrade from the Brita though. Brita's aren't very effective at filtering PFAS last I read.

But to answer your question, I'd speculate that the filtered water from the RO filter would be superior to anything coming out of your tap, even if it had phthalates in the filter. You also have to account for PFAS, heavy metals, medicines people excrete back into the water supply, and many many other things...
Only the t instances and other VM types that have burst billing are overbooked in the sense that you are describing.
Safety from NATO means being in a strong defensive position with respect to NATOs ability to project force. This isn't just about proximity, but about control of strategic resources. The US pushed Turkey through NATO ascension because access to the Black Sea was deemed strategically valuable in an eventual war with the USSR. Russia needs to counter that threat and losing the port in Crimea would be a strategic blunder.
Why wouldn't he be? He's now been elected twice.

And on a basic level everything transactional so if you were being in cheek it kind of fell apart.
I don't understand what is your point.

a) bribing is more probable, happened by foreign country here this Sunday

b) it's a lot more dangerous for the entire society, it's not a vandal in your home, if anonymity is not implemented by voting process, then the local gang leader will force you (and all your neighbors) to vote for him, at the date he will tell you and you won't be able to do anything as he will be in power after these elections and will make possible to fake future elections.
"Every accusation is a confession", in other words
loved enough to get people out to the polls? I'm not sure. We keep underestimating human apathy.

Meanwhile, Trump runs on fear, one of the best emotions to exploit for turnout.