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I'm sure its fine for most situations, but you should be aware: below that entry it states that elastomeric respirators (like you are using with P100) are not included in that category:

> Until more is understood on exhalation valves, elastomeric respirators with unfiltered exhalation valves should not be used as source control in surgical and other healthcare settings due to concerns that air coming out of the exhalation valve may contaminate the sterile field.

I'd say you're already at one: Hacker News.

Otherwise, IRC chatrooms maybe?

I don't want to apologize for those statements -- its clear that they were wrong. However, I do think that originally they were genuinely a result of a mental breakdown.

As for the "Q is legit" statement, he quit Minecraft before Q was a twinkle in 4chan's eye. I don't follow Notch and haven't for years. I'm not surprised a lonely tech enthusiast was ensnared by the Q cult, though.

Notch's story is bittersweet to me.

He ended up bowing out from the game and largely retreating from the tech space entirely. Lotta reasons for that; but mainly -- as a wildly successful entrepreneur he suddenly found himself to be a highly influential figure whose every casual statement caused news article to get written[0] and he DID NOT WANT THAT AT ALL.

True, he made a ridiculous amount of money, but I don't know if it was worth giving up his creativity.

[0]: https://xkcd.com/799/

Kessler syndrome is definitely a problem.

I've heard SpaceX claims to deal with it by putting their satellites in an orbit that requires periodic boosting to stay put -- if they don't, satellites decay and de-orbit after a few years.

The plan is, I think, to regularly retire (de-orbit) and replace these satellites so they can continuously improve the design, and as a nice side-effect any collisions or otherwise misbehaving objects will at least stop being a problem after a known maximum span of time.

The maxim I was told by my dad, who I think got it from someone like Warren Buffet, is that, "In the short term, the stock market is a voting machine; in the long term, it is a weighing machine"

So for the day-to-day, week-to-week, etc movement of an asset or market, its primarily driven by the immediate feelings of the sellers and buyers. Longer term, however, its historically been fluctuations on top of a lower-frequency trend based on fundamentals.

> The surprise has been that inflation hasn't occurred outside of asset prices.

But it has occurred. People were originally calling it "short term" but its clear that the 6-7% inflation seen at the tail end of 2021 was very real.

As to your two outcomes:

I'd like to believe that the second one is what is sort of happening, with the "great resignation" of blue-collar and otherwise "unskilled" workers (its a term of art, I understand some of the jobs in this pool require a lot of finesse). Unfortunately, I also see lots of push from the top of the economic strata for the first outcome; most notably in the attempt to move from car ownership to ridesharing.

Nope. I actually signed up for the free trial while I was out of state in December so I could quickly do a couple things and only bring along my MacBook (complete a few daily objectives on my MMO of choice).

I don't think streaming games will ever quite work out for something like a first person shooter or competitive scenes, but I was really impressed otherwise. I didn't notice input lag nearly as much as I thought I would.

> it also means the feature being worked on is becoming too big/too much in conflict to be kept alive separate for long

That's a really great point and something a colleague pointed out to me when I was musing about this.

Another coworker told me they like to do commits + occasional merges from upstream into their feature branch as normal, then when they have built up a lot of commits, use `git reset --soft master` and then git add/commit all changes as one commit, with a nice verbose commit message.

I really like that approach, if you have to do it.

I am not trying to put myself out here as an expert; far from it. Rather, I wanted to share how I've been doing things and seeing if people think, "yeah, that's pretty much it" or "no its totally wrong".

For the record, I understand and empathize with the camp who responds "well, you shouldn't be squashing/rebasing at all; all git activity should be a commit or a merge." I am operating in the context where the main branch's commit history must be linear -- it is a customer/manager constraint. I hope to discuss options inside this paradigm.

Letters from the Union of Concerned Scientists, the SPLC, Greenpeace, EDF, etc etc appearing in my mailbox and asking for money, suspiciously about 1-2 weeks after I signed up for an event. That's how.

Indeed, the epitome of Chesterton's fence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._K._Chesterton#Chesterton's_...

It looks like another project from Fight for the Future [0]. They got their start with the original SOPA/PIPA blackout protests. They've done some legitimately great stuff.

Unfortunately they've clearly listened to the same god-awful consultancies that other major charities have, and gotten really sob-story heavy. They also share your data with everyone else in the non-profit space, who will soon be begging for your time/money.

Ask me how I know...

[0]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fight_for_the_Future

Hi there!

Sorry if there is confusion; it was several years ago and I don't remember it word-for-word -- you're probably right about Chinese Taipei. The student was very, very gracious and anglicized a lot of things when translating. He even used an English name in addition to his normal name.

I imagine, for example, the hostess caught some nuance I missed, or followed up in Chinese to confirm his opinion on sovereignty. I was really just following tone and facial expression.

I could call and ask him if he remembers, but from my understanding, he unfortunately has to have difficult conversations like that quite a lot, and I don't know if this one would even stand out.

Lebron James comes to mind: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/lebron-james-angers-hong-...

My family hosted a Taiwanese exchange student when I was in high school. One day, he and I were out seeing the town. He discovered a Chinese Tea house in an out-of-the-way corner, and we stopped in.

The owner, a Chinese expat, greeted us enthusiastically and personally sat down to serve us tea. The conversation was lovely; she was explaining the source of the tea, the preparation and serving method, etc. and I was just enjoying the experience when she offhandedly asked where he was from.

When he responded, "Taiwan," she immediately frowned and made some terse comment in Mandarin, to which he retorted, also in Mandarin. There was a tense exchange, and then she abruptly turned to me and started asking me questions again in English, changing the subject.

I had not yet learned of the One-China stance, so when we left I asked him what happened. He told me that she admonished him for not saying he was from "Chinese Taipei", and apparently some other nasty remarks he decided not to translate.

It was such a shock to see that level of nationalism exhibit itself in real-time. She was genuinely offended and angry, not annoyed. I suspect if I hadn't been there, she'd have told him to leave immediately.

> We have to evacuate Taiwan, a population the size of LA, by boat.

While the Taiwan situation isn't great, this seems a bit of a leap. It also completely disregards the reality of a situation like that. You can't just relocate cutting-edge industry and a population of more than 23 million.

NPR's Planet Money just did a great look at this: https://www.npr.org/2021/10/27/1049786108/nice-work-week-if-...

Its very interesting--the research they present suggests that people worked much less before industrialization. It jumped massively as lots of low-skill people took factory jobs for the first time and worked 12+16 hour days, but since then has steadily declined again.

This was the big takeaway for me:

"...some of the leading economic thinkers of the last century expected the gradual shortening of the work week would just keep going. None other than John Maynard Keynes, one of the most important figures in economics - and imaginary friend to the show - famously predicted that we would all be working a 15-hour work week by 2030."

What a crazy idea. Or is it?

> It is wealth in its own terms that is created by government out of nothing based solely upon its future ability to tax.

The units may vary, but the value remains the same. You get more dollars, but they are worth less, as the purchasing power parity is diluted. See: 6.8% inflation this year.

> So you eliminate that by forcing things to be rented out and used, or they will be confiscated.

I'm confused. I genuinely think you're reinventing LVT from first-principles here. The "confiscation" in Georgism/Geoism just comes at the hand of the free market.

Yes, if you resolutely clung to land refusing to vacate it and also not pay the tax, someone will eventually show up and evict you, but the pressure to just take the money and go will drive an economically rational person to leave before then.

> I'm not [misunderstanding rent]. You're hoping I am.

I'm trying to engage you in good faith[0]. Your first comment's line of thought confused me so I thought I'd lay out my response as I understood it, and I'm glad you came back to clarify. That said, if you won't return the favor then I'm not going to bother continuing the conversation.

[0]:https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#comments

Since the dollar is an entirely Fiat currency, its supply is dictated purely at the whim of the U.S. Government.

This means that they can turn on the presses (or these days, make some keystrokes) and instantly have as much money as they want. Because of this, if there are outstanding debts that are denominated in USD, the government will always be able to have that money on hand, or create it.

The problem is that this puts more dollars out in the world. And if there are more dollars in circulation, everyone (on average) has a little bit more they can "bid" on consumer goods. Because of the law of supply and demand, things inflate in price.

Fair point, apologies if I came off a bit harsh. I'm just really frustrated in the direction Google has taken with this whole thing.

I understand the average user probably shouldn't be able to easily hand over so much control to extensions, but on the other hand, dynamic ads shouldn't be able to serve malware or cryptominers.

I'd be a bit more open to the idea of a locked-down manifest if we had seen more good-faith attempts from AdTech to change the paradigm that makes content blockers almost a requirement.

The safari change absolutely kneecapped content blockers. Ublock dropped it[0], and the remaining few providers, like AdGuard, have to do all sorts of trickery[1] to get even close to the same performance.

If you're going to argue this is better, don't point us to such a clearly worse result.

[0]:https://github.com/el1t/uBlock-Safari/issues/158 [1]:https://adguard.com/en/blog/safari-adblock-extensions.html

Consider that LVT prevents urban sprawl (which happens because speculation drives people out of urban centers).

But yes, that is a consideration that must be made. Georgism is a very logical, mathematical train of thought, and as such does not effectively (in isolation) address human subjective needs, which certainly includes living in beautiful (or at least, non-terrible) places.

You should really give the original book review that preceded this a read.[0]

> assumes the usual economic myths of a fixed amount of money

Not at all. Henry George's original ideas included defining money as essentially an IOU pointing to an underlying wealth; and wealth can indeed be increased.

> The problem with land is not rent, it is the power of exclusion, which leads to hoarding

This sentence makes me suspect you've confused the antecedent of LVT with its result.

Fixing hoarding is The Point of LVT.

You're misunderstanding the term "rent", which unfortunately refers to both the common "I charge you X money on a recurring basis in exchange for occupation" and the more precise economic rent[1]. LVT would disincentivize economic rent, which would kill speculation and encourage more productive use of land overall, which would decrease exclusion and force hoarders to sell off their holdings.

[0]:https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/your-book-review-progr...

[1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_rent

You basically use a mapping function that assigns a visible wavelength to a corresponding non-visible one. Its as if you're manually red-shifting the light "down" the spectrum.

I'm sorry, did you and I experience the same 2016-2020? The one with a border wall, Muslim country of origin ban, and H1B visa cuts?

I'm not arguing these are good or bad (H1Bs especially are abused) but they definitely happened and have a massive groundswell of support from one party.

Hypixel has done that to an extent. The way most servers do it nowadays with with a server proxy that shunts client requests to a specified server transparently -- you "world hop" using in-game mechanics (i.e. walking through a portal, clicking on a sign)

https://www.spigotmc.org/wiki/about-bungeecord/

And as others have already mentioned, WorldQL is an effort to transparently replicate and shard the world without even requiring "world hopping"

Multiplayer modding is still very much alive and well. There is both the client-side route (where everyone uses a modpack tool like https://atlauncher.com/) or the successor to Bukkit, Spigot (and its High-performance fork, PaperMC: https://papermc.io/)

Spigot/Paper are bukkit-compatible and you can load modpacks from the spigot.org site, or even bukkit.org, which is still operational to this day.

Source: I run several instances myself and I help develop a server management tool for it: https://craftycontrol.com/

Straight mining also makes you pass through more chunks (16x16 section of the world) per block mined; since ore-gen happens based on chunking this gives you better odds.

Is it that general? Its one thing if a deal fails because a party gets cold feet, or can't reach an agreement. Its another if the parties are all agreed and ready and a regulator steps in, isn't it?