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Just wanted to say that these questions would indeed be great to have answered, or at least discussed. It's weird how cultish some people get.

I'm confused - the last sentence of your quote seems to explicitly state that mRNA vaccines are not gene therapies.

I also don't understand your larger objection. Your quote seems to say that the only difference compared to a regular vaccine is that the antigens are produced inside the patient's body, but the vaccination mechanism is literally the exact same. So why would you object to calling it a vaccine?

I'd just like to note: this article has 107 comments, of which you've posted 29, all in support of Bolsonaro and using the same rhetorical tactics as Trump supporters keep using.

Let's assume I'm talking about the same market as the person I responded to.

> And unlike a lot of things, media doesn't expire. I still regularly find albums, movies, and books from decades ago I enjoy today.

Media doesn't expire, but with increasing distance to the cultural context it was created in, enjoying any work in all its nuances becomes harder. Take for example Arrested Development - one of the funniest TV shows of this century, but unless you bring sufficient knowledge on the Bush Jr. administration, you'll miss the funniest layers of many jokes and stories.

And it gets all the more interesting to look back at how the Zeitgeist changed over time, as tropes evolve and tastes keep changing.

Project Hail Mary! I loved it, will definitely be a yearly rewatch for me.

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Yeah, seems that way - at least the editor space has a lot more competition than GPUs, so we don't have to put up with it.

In the end, I'd love to see Jetbrains pull themselves together and return to their former glory. But I don't know if I'll ever give them another chance since their pricing structure heavily punishes unsubscribing. Since the bugs pushed me over that ledge, it'd seem that they should offer lower prices, not higher ones!

I couldn't agree more with your comment, especially the first paragraph. It feels like there's always someone ready to play the devil's advocate for corporations, so subsequent discussions happen mostly under unrealistic assumptions which happen to align with the companies' goals.

I don't mind the new look, I also enjoyed the previous UI refresh. But I don't think UI changes are a good use of JetBrain's resources while the core functionality is frequently broken.

One example: In August 2024, new Vue projects stopped working correctly with Webstorm - not terrible on it's own, stuff can happen. The issue was reported on August 19th[0]. Someone posted a workaround, and on August 29th, they announced that a future version will fix the issue.

That future version was released on October 23rd[1]. In the intervening two months there was no indication in Webstorm that the LSP crashing was a known issue with a workaround. Users just had to search for the issue, stumble upon the thread, and manually update the component. They couldn't release this tiny version bump for two months, or at least add a link to the issue thread.

This would be fine if Webstorm were free, but it's pretty freaking expensive, and I didn't get any money back for the product being defective for 1/6th of the year.

[0]: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/WEB-68756/Vue-LS-2.x-Co...

[1]: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/articles/WEB-A-233538543/WebS...

Oh, I've never really tried that one. It probably goes much further than the DB integrations in Webstorm etc., right? Do you have any favorite features that could be interesting to look at?

> But, they still have a solid IDE

Which one exactly? I used to love Webstorm and Rider, but there were so many workflow-breaking bugs in each new release of Webstorm that I switched to VS Code. I still use Rider, but I've stopped my All Products subscription, because new releases usually decreased the amount of well-working features (and new features often didn't work at all).

Around 2022 I'd have agreed 100%, but these days not so much.

Why do you feel the need to lie about something like this?

57% of Germans approve looking into a ban. That's the majority, simple as that. https://volksverpetzer.de/aktuelles/umfrage-mehrheit-afd-ver...

Are you aware that data centers function globally? You don't need to have a data center next to you.

Parties that favor limited immigration have no issues in Germany, for example the leading government party favors that. This is not what's pushing the majority of Germans to favor looking into a ban of the AfD.

Haven't we had this same discussion before?

Only a tiny minority of AWS employees work on/in/around the data centers. Quick research shows an average of ~0.2-0.3 employees per MW for large DCs, so at best it's gonna be a couple hundred jobs.

It predicts that first the CDU will form a coalition with the AfD. If we ban the AfD beforehand, this can't happen.

We're not talking about arrests, but about banning the party (and successor parties, which is a specific and well-defined legal concept). Since this prevents them from using their established structures and connections, new rightwing parties would have a chance to establish themselves without immediately being taken over by the extreme right again.

In that case you're blatantly lying, because in 4 out of the 6 states you mentioned, proceedings have been initiated by the parties you implied.

Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony): https://www.landtag-niedersachsen.de/Drucksachen/Drucksachen...

Bremen: https://www.bremische-buergerschaft.de/dokumente/wp21/land/d...

Hamburg: https://www.buergerschaft-hh.de/parldok/dokument/102051/23_0...

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern: https://www.dokumentation.landtag-mv.de/parldok/dokument/648...

And just for completeness' sake, Berlin 2025: https://pardok.parlament-berlin.de/starweb/adis/citat/VT/19/...

> It goes both ways: you can also destroy the foundation by being too intolerant, suspecting your friends (or they start suspecting you), leading to a Reign of Terror.

But in this case, just listening to them is enough. They're openly calling for violations of our constitution. How much longer do we have to wait before we may take their threats seriously?

> While this might be true, it's at least half a lie – SPD, Grüne and SED could have initiated proceedings anytime targeting one of AfD's state chapters in Saarland, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Lower-Saxony, Bremen, Hamburg, or Berlin (2016-2023). They didn't.

While this might be true, I'd argue it's more than half a lie:

1. The SED couldn't have initiated anything since it doesn't exist anymore, but you know that.

2. Your wording implies that between 2016-2023 your implied parties only had a chance to initiate in the states you mentioned, but you selected both the states and the timeframe around the proceedings that they did initiate.

3. Your chosen timeframe also conveniently ignores the AfD's escalations over the last 2-3 years. There are a lot of people who were convinced of the need to ban the AfD explicitly because they started calling for removing people's citizenships (both of naturalized citizens and German-born ones) for populist non-reasons, which is overstepping our constitution.

Are you basing this on any kind of statistical evaluation, or is it purely vibes? Because your explanation does not imply that wealth is the main factor.

You seem to imply that libel & defamation laws don't exist in the US, but they obviously do. So could you explain what difference you're pointing out?

Let's be fair about the tracking: basically every modern car sold in the US and Europe is being tracked through built-in SIMs. And even older cars are mostly tracked through mobile phones, and in the US through Flock and similar surveillance networks. Ad-tech companies have built up detailed profiles, frequently including detailed location data. And we have no reason to assume our governments aren't actively tracking all these sources.

With today's AI models, it'd be feasible to analyze massive amounts of video/audio data gathered by the microphones and cameras all around us - as long as you have enough GPU data centers.

Wealth is not the only factor causing this disparate distribution. Each country has their own politics and media, which are shaped by their respective economy and history. From my own experience:

German car manufacturers make up a big part of the German economy, and they decided a long time ago they'd rather lobby to keep ICEs on the market than invest enough to develop good EVs. So for decades, our "news" media (especially Bild and co.) worked to instill a deep-seated fear in the population against EVs, renewables and co. This is changing slowly since solar got ever more profitable, and fossil fuels got so expensive. But still our current government is actively removing lots of incentives for renewables while throwing money towards the O&G industries.

This is simply not as big of a factor in a country like France, which is not as dependent on fossil fuels.

"Uncharitable assumptions" are this user's whole MO: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50154028

It's probably best not to feed the troll.

No, it's pretty universally accepted that blowing the whistle is not safe under autocratic regimes.

You're not asking in good faith, so I won't dignify your whataboutism with a discussion.

Ah, gotcha!

I guess our sensation of speaking could be a component, but that doesn't explain dogs apparently agreeing with us. And if you argue that dogs built a comparable association due to observing humans, then we still have to find another explanation for baby chicks.

IMO it's much more likely that this phenomenon is an artifact of our neural hardware. After all, there's no reason to assume we start as completely neutral blank slates.

I'm not surprised that this is your experience if you approach interesting questions with the attitude from your original comment.

> I believe you're looking at this like a classic programmer and that's why you're thinking "bouba.jpg" and "bouba.wav" are two different concepts. I used to think of the bouba kiki issue from that POV too. A good (and imo better) modern analog to the human brain thought process is a LLM that can definitely match different inputs to a single concept.

Actually, I always intuitively "knew" that our brains process different sensory inputs in the same latent space. Since I was a child, words and numbers always felt like they had "shapes" and "colors" in my head, and at some point I noticed that these associations actually help with solving real-world tasks, because words that have similar mental shapes often had actual connections.

When I tried talking to others about this, nobody ever knew what I meant, so it's satisfying to see this being accepted more broadly :)

But that still doesn't answer the interesting question: why do our brains match these concepts together? Why is bouba not sharp, and kiki not round? The baby chick experiment suggests that animals need basically no life experience to make this association, so it seems to be more fundamental than "we learned it".

> Also the vocal cords have very specific shapes in the vowel continuum and that alone would help explain why for humans it's simply intuitive.

I don't think that I can feel the shape of my vocal cords when I'm speaking, and I don't have any intuitive understanding of a "vowel continuum", so I don't think this explanation really works.

> There's also another comment mentioning how it works for consonants, which I believe helps explain how it might work for dogs.

Could you link the comment you're referring to? Thanks!