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Barracoonon On the Experience of Being Poor-Ish, for People Who Aren't

The author of the submitted article spent multiple paragraphs describing how it is not pretty easy to accumulate enough money to break the cycle of poverty, so if you want to maybe write a long form explaining how to effectively and realistically do so for people in this situation, that’d be great.

Barracoonon The U.S. Air Force just admitted the F-35 stealth fighter has failed

So if you buy into the concept of maneuver warfare you want to hit the enemy's center of gravity and reduce their will to fight. If you're trying to do that to China, you need to hit them hard and fast deep in their country's borders (I mean, Russia too to an extent). If you play this tit for tat fighter threat game, that doesn't happen and you're essentially in a war of attrition. That means you don't hold B-2s until a fighter threat is neutralized, you send them in to hit the CoG early so the war lasts days instead of years.

F-35s are really going to be doing counter IADS so their loadout reflects that. Maybe you get a couple A2A missiles loaded in, but primarily for self defense. If you want offensive counter air, you're bringing the F-22s (or probably the NGAD) loaded out appropriately.

Anyway all this just affirms the original idea, which is that you can't prosecute a war against peer adversaries with 4th gen fighters. Our 4th gens can still take down the enemy air threat, but the IADS means those 4th gens are not even getting into the air space.

Barracoonon More Than 70 West Point Cadets Accused of Cheating in Academic Scandal

This is a bit of a non sequitor. Parent didn't mention polygraphs, and the lying is which prevents you from moving forward. At the same time, I concur that polygraphs are not fully accurate measures of lying.

Barracoonon Harvard University Won’t Require SAT, ACT for Admissions Next Year

The "new American left" wants universal health care, college education, housing, and a clean environment. All of those issues affect lower-income whites just as much as any other racial group.

Barracoonon Students are failing AP tests because the College Board can’t handle HEIC images

I want to caveat this a bit. The OS does trust the extension of any file (at least MacOS/Windows). If you change a .png to a .docx, the OS will launch the handler associated with .docx files. If you change a .png to a .jpg, the OS will launch the handler for .jpg files. Chances are that program is the same for .jpg as it would have been for .png. When that program launches, reads the file, it probably looks at the file signature and then appropriately parses the rest of the image data.

Arguably, the user has been trained to think that renaming between image format converts between the two because of the image processing program correctly parsing and displaying the image, rather than displaying a message that the user opened a .jpg file but it was really a .png.

Barracoonon Two leading economists disagree about the flagging American Dream

This commencement speech from Arnold Schwarzenegger hopefully helps you understand where your family got lucky (text and video on this page). Arnold worked incredibly hard for his success, just like it sounds your family did. However, he did not live in a vacuum - he got lucky in many ways. He got lucky that he was born with genes that allowed him to maximize his grueling weight lifting routines to pack on mass (and probably lucky that no one really did much about steroid use?). He got lucky that someone took a chance and cast him despite his appearance and accent. He got lucky that voters elected him to governor, then that the legislature worked with him, and then that his infidelity didn't come out until after his term.

Similarly, you grandfather got lucky that he didn't die when his village was burned, that he didn't die in a work camp, that he could immigrate to the US, that someone gave him a job and wasn't in a community that hated Polish people for no reason. Your parents and you were lucky to be born to the families you were. There's less context about you/your father/your uncle, but I imagine there was a lot of luck of someone else giving you a chance involved.

As other posters have said - don't be upset that you got lucky! There's nothing wrong with being lucky. Success is a mix of luck and being able to take advantage of that luck - your preparation and hard work. Hopefully you use the luck that you got to help provide a bit of luck to someone else.

https://time.com/4779796/arnold-schwarzenegger-university-of...

Barracoonon Firefox is showing the way back to a world that’s private by default

Creepy is a subjective descriptor. One person's creepy is another person's not-creepy. Things may be both creep and not-creepy at the same time, depending on who is observing it. I don't know that you can say someone's perception of creepiness is incorrect as that implies that there is an objectively correct label for creepiness.

Barracoonon Ask HN: How are you preparing for COVID-19 disruptions?

This app may be useful to you. I've used it for about 6 months and have been pretty happy with it. You can customize what equipment you have available so that it builds you a workout based on that. On the other side, you can look at what equipment it lists and determine what you want to buy.

https://www.fitbod.me

Barracoonon US says it can prove Huawei has backdoor access to mobile-phone networks

Are you American? If so, that is a false statement. DODI 5240.1-R says "[DoD components] Will not participate in or request any person or entity to undertake any activities that are forbidden by E.O. 12333 or this issuance." [1] The NSA, which has the SIGINT authority from EO 12333 [2], is a component of the DoD. A non-DoD entity, such as FBI, Treasury, etc, would (a) not have a foreign intelligence mission and would therefore go through normal court procedures to obtain warrants to collect your communications or (b) would need to coordinate through the executive agency (NSA in the case of SIGINT) to request support for foreign communications, which brings us back to the referenced DOD instruction requiring FISA approval.

1: https://dodsioo.defense.gov/Portals/46/DoDM%20%205240.01.pdf...

2: https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/codification/execu...

Barracoonon US colleges struggling with low enrollment are closing at increasing rate (2019)

Based on how this thread is going, you seem to be projecting a lot of insecurity of what school you went to? Literally the words were "you will likely have a more difficult time being successful if you did not get a degree from a top school". Those words do not intrinsically say that someone who did not get a degree from a top school has less value.

It does not say that someone who did not go to a top school performs more poorly. It does not say that those who did not graduate from a top school are not good enough. All it says is that from a relative starting point, if you graduate from e.g. Harvard, you are more likely to be successful than if you did not.

My nitpicks with this premise are: is success defined in financial terms? Is it in position (CEO vs engineer)? What is the empirical evidence that graduating from a top school confers greater success (I think that there is such data, but citing it would be nice). There's enough stuff here to talk about that I am somewhat flabbergasted that you took this as a personal affront and misconstrue what's actually being talked about.

Barracoonon ‘Tesla killer’ Mercedes EQC flops with 55 units sold in Germany

The Model X uses 22.93 kWh/100 km. Electricity is € .31 / KWH. 22.93 * .31 = € 7.1083 / 100 km

The GLC 200d uses 5.2 L/100 km (best efficiency). Diesel is € 1.266/L. 5.2 * 1.266 = € 6.5832 / 100 km

So yea in DE it may be more cost beneficial to drive diesel than electric. If you get a GLC 300 using gasoline it goes up to € 9.798 / 100 km.