1996

I disagree.

> There were leftists among geeks the whole time

Clearly a much smaller proportion.

> The environmentalism and the desire for justice is a genuinely held belief of many scientific oriented people of a humanist bent

Is it not interesting in how this is a new social good, especially for geeks working for large corporations in California?

I believe all behavior is based in self preservation: it would be career suicide for a young googler to be part of the christian right, or pro Trump, or try to pull off a Damore like memo.

So I am not surprise they do not bite the hand that feed. I am only surprised in the convoluted rationalization they engage in, instead of being more honest (at least online where they can be anonymous) and say "I pretend I'm woke because I like my job because I like the money and status it gets me"

Only partially right.

Writing a check she can do very easily, so she gets little social credit for that.

Simpler reason: virtue signaling reaches new heights when you can force OTHER people besides yourself in doing things that will give you social credit - a bit like the ritual burning of goods and savings in some pacific tribes: if you do it yourself, you need some witnesses, and you will get less social credit than if you can social engineer a large party where everybody is a witnesses and more people engage in the ritual burning of goods.

It must not just be painful and wasteful, but also as hard as possible. It's a bit like a reverse proof of work!

> For some reason Hacker News really likes the idea of centralized authority and criminalizing things like math and free association by threat of violence and imprisonment.

The new kind of "geek" in the opposite of the traditional "geek" who was a libertarian / pro freedom.

My guess is that most geeks can't afford to bite the hand that feeds them (google/facebook/twitter...) so they decided to loudly proclaim their allegiance to modern values (environmentalism/social justice/wokeness in general)

> "ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country"

No.

You can and should ask as 1) it is at the basis of check and balances 2) it is not an connection that can not be severed if needed.

If you are not willing to look at the dynamic of the relationship, you may help a country commit tyranny: if your country is not willing to help you because of your race / religion / anything else, maybe you should do nothing in return except get the fuck out and grab a bag of popcorn while watching the country go sour.

I say that as I love China, but I understand and support my Gay friends who have decided to never return.

From my bag of citations: "crypto is to millenials what the internet was to boomers"!

A few of them got it, but for most people what didn't exist when they were teens is some heresy that threaten society. Yet as usual, society will move on, and those unable to adapt will be left behind.

Potential good reason: not giving it the keys to your kingdom (not letting cloudflare see who is visiting your website)

This, so much. Everything I say is always taken as apologism, while I just like my country.

If a US born american like his country, it's patriotism.

If a China born naturalized american likes both of his countries, it's proof of CCP manipulation.

Impossible to win.

> we all know now that it would of been a bad idea

No we don't.

> I've since turned more cynical and believe that greed is as essential to humanness as empathy, if not more, and without a strong moral code (and fear of being ostracized for breaking it), selfishness wins.

It's not the baker empathy that brings you bread, but his greed

> The pandemic has violently dispelled any remaining expectation I had for a future cosmopolitan society.

The pandemic makes me hope more people will see governments for what they are: restricting their freedoms for no good reasons, so it's better to starve the beast.

> Union contracts are employer specific (and in some cases, facility specific), and if the Tesla factory workers unionized, they could negotiate for stock grants

If it was my factory, I would cut the stock grant and fire them all - unionized or not - to end a clear message to the other factories: "you only have one job, while I have more than one factory"

Nice try, but working for the government is not for me.

Some people want to deploy cool technology to hit the frontpage

Other people want to deploy robust, tested and tried solutions, that won't break in mysterious ways, just to make money.

I side with the later.

Yes, my privacy comes before everything, including my health.

When your medical records are leaked (only a question of time) you can't say you weren't warned.

> Start writing you state government officials and get your laws changed.

I'm lazy. I travel instead. Medical tourism gives me higher quality healthcare.

> EVERYTHING

You wish. I use tor and have had no social network presence for over 10 years.

Many businesses are moving to digital only.

A digital-only business accepting only crypto will avoid taxes AND have it hold appreciate.

Personally, I'm waiting for an crypto-based onlyfan: it's the perfect niche: performers will decide if they want to convert to fiat, or keep their hold for purchases the government may dislike (like drugs: dead drop are an ideal use of crypto) or cashing it abroad like in lavish amenities that cater to a lucky few and only take crypto (yes, they already exist, and I can only predict them becoming more accessible)

There is a parallel economy emerging. You can deny it, but it's happening.

And on the opposite side, I would love it if I could have hospitals destroy all my records as soon as I leave, because I value my privacy more than their fetishist interest in collecting information that would put google to shame.

After trying in vain, I've realized it's fighting windmills on an uphill battle, an I just do medical tourism. No records, paid in cash, in a different country each time

No it's not huge

Indians will keep their crypto, and wait for either 1) the supreme court to strike down this law 2) a new government to repeal this law.

The cat is out the bag. Politicians in every country like money. They will try to appeal to the populace by pretending to fight crypto ("it's bad for the environment!") while knowing its advantages and trying to keep them for themselves

There is more manufacturing capability in China!

But both the submarine and the ASB are marvelous creations of the human mind to resist the state overreach.

It makes me wonder which technical marvels we are not seeing, and how much bigger China economy could be if only we let innovators freely innovate: selling better submarines to Columbian cartels maybe could lead to better autonomous boats?

The poor may have some cash, if only $100 in the bank. They certainly have no bonds, stocks, or real estate.

If they have no cash and only draw a salary, it will still hit them badly, as salaries are not inflation adjusted, and any pay increase requires negotiations with the employer - who may decide to increase the wage by only a fraction of the inflation.

Said differently: all people who don't have wealth in inflation proof assets (stocks, real estate etc) suffer from inflation.

The statement needs to be quantified: not a threat ONLY IN THE SHORT RUN.

Yes you don't see it on your graphs right now.

But IIRC 20% more money was printed by the fed for covid.

Unless you can refute modern economic theory, we still have PV=MQ, and the only thing saving us from inflation at the moment is the low velocity of money: in lockdown or with most high velocity businesses closed or operating at a fraction of what they did before (ex: bar, restaurants), the velocity will remain low.

We won't see anything on the graphs as long as V remains low.

However, as soon as they reopen and operate closer to their normal capacity, velocity WILL rise. When that happen, inflation WILL rise.

There's no magical way to wish inflation away. We will eventually get 20% inflation. The only question is how soon.

Yes, central banks may plan to have 2% per year for 9 years (19.5% inflation) if somehow they think business will not be able to catch up immediately (a closed restaurant will not get as many clients when it reopens) which is plausible.

However, I don't buy that, because 1) we are talking about 9 years, while the closed restaurant example will take more like 1 to 2 years max to work at normal capacity again 2) it would require TREMENDOUS discipline: no QE whatsoever for 9 years - which is politically impossible if unemployment rises for whatever reason (say the aftermath of a bubble, or a crisis due to malinvestment fueled by the low rates) 3) it fully ignores the rebound effect: deprived of social contact for too long, more people than usual will want to go to bars and restaurant - at least at first

I personally envision 5 to 7% inflation when things return to normal in the US (so schoolyear 2021-2022)

Windows 3.1, released on April 6, 1992 - so only 29 years old.

My bad, the 21 years difference must be important (somehow?)

wine can also run unmodified windows binaries

> The other thing you may experience, especially if you work at one of these places and a friend at work is now a "gazillionare" and you aren't, is that some of your friendships are broken

Very true. Wealth is isolating, both from our own actions, and from the other people actions (former friends)

I can't believe you are getting downvoted!

This is a real risk!

Relevant quote:

> Under normal conditions, highly virulent strains of the virus are not selected. A highly virulent strain would kill the host before the virus would have an opportunity to transmit to other potential hosts and replicate. Thus, less virulent strains are selected. These strains are virulent enough to induce symptoms but not enough to kill the host, allowing further transmission. However, the leaky vaccine changes this evolutionary pressure and permits the evolution of highly virulent strains.[12] The vaccine's inability to prevent infection and transmission allows the spread of highly virulent strains among vaccinated chickens. The fitness of the more virulent strains are increased by the vaccine.

(...)

> Highly virulent strains have been selected to the point that any chicken that is unvaccinated will die if infected. Other leaky vaccines are commonly used in agriculture. One vaccine in particular is the vaccine for avian influenza. Leaky vaccine use for avian influenza can select for virulent strains which could potentially be transmitted to humans.[13]

> It seems like 4 months were wasted just getting appointments.

That's the NHS "free" healthcare at play.

Remember, you get what you pay for!

> You really went out of your way to attack me personally and read my past comments.

I went to check if you had an history of bias, which you clearly have

> Please report.

No, I have wasted enough time on you.

> I suspect behavior like yours is way more detrimental to the community.

Calling out people who have a clear political agenda and participate to the discussion in bad faith has its risks, but I think I did the right thing by exposing the reason you would support such a weak argument.

> The difference is that those 450 cases at the tesla plant were easily avoidable, if not for the selfish actions of a powerful egomaniac

Evidence required. Without counterfactual, the plant seem safer than the county : 4.5% vs 5% as mentioned above. For all we know, they got sick while going to work due to the incidence in the county, and would not have been if they could sleep and eat at the plant.

Also, the workers may prefer being paid than on the government dole

But all the journalist care is making an incendiary article to present as class warfare what is just plain good sense: eventually, plants will be reopened

> one thing is it’s very hard to get the actual scans. I had to no joke steal my own chest xrays to get a copy.

unacceptable. In Asia, you have the personal email and cellphone of your dedicated administrative assistant (you won't ever have to talk to another one) who takes care of things like that. You just tell her to obtain your CT and fedex it to your doctor, and they call you back when it's done.

The US healthcare quality is bad, regardless of how much you pay, period.

For knee problems, like you I went to SE Asia as a medical tourist. I was provided with a taxi waiting for me at the airport, a translator who stayed with me at all times, a dedicated hospital administrative assistant for more complex issues like obtaining a copy of my exams, having them send to the doctor of my choice, obtaining the CV of the doctors so I could decide on the best one etc.

But the best was the fine dining options, as I do not like hospital food.

And when I was tired of the hospital and decided an hotel would be better for my mood, the doctor I had selected visited me in my suite, every day - with a nurse. If I wanted anything, I still had the translator the rest of the time.

It's not even a question of costs - that quality of service is just not available in the US, except maybe outside of some VIP setting where it may be shiny but the healthcare is mediocre (friends strongly recommended against such options)

Years later, I no longer have to care about costs, but I still won't go to a US hospital.

> Microtubles aren't made from RNA,

Yes they are. They are proteins. Proteins are made from DNA->RNA->ribosomal transcription.

Also microtubules interact with RNA quite a lot. Check the references: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15037309/