abootstrapper

> "I wonder if this is an attack"

> Rearing children with the goal of making them read at 2 years old. Then with the goal of learning calculus at 10.

Hol up. A little off topic, but a better goal is to be a supportive and loving parent. Don't have kids with a goal to have them do X by Y. Children are there own person. Guide them, direct them, support them, teach them, but their goals should be their own.

I love HN too, but I'm dubious it "points to the real diversity of what is happening." It mostly just has politics turned down to 2-3 out of 10.

I ran a Twitter app for 9 years that they crippled, crippled, then eventually killed with policies. It went from “@ev loves your app,” to “your app is against our terms of service” in that time. My Twitter days are done.

Last two items I ordered online I skipped Amazon and ordered from the manufacturer to avoid getting stuck with a counterfeit. I'm considering dropping my Prime membership if this keeps up.

I’d settle for 1x the sentence of a normal citizen. Right now they can literally get away with murder. Not to mention infractions like drinking and driving and speeding, that they let each other off for.

Not sure why you’re being downvoted. I’m from the south and was taught as a child that the confederates fought for “states rights” and slavery was a subplot. Many years later I realized that was bullshit. I wished I could go back in time and call my teacher on it.

That’s how I understand it. What disadvantaged groups would be using Zoom for free that law enforcement would want to target? Protest organizers maybe?

That’s because the FBI was investigating them and their buddies. For Trump it’s not about principles, it’s about power and what they can get away with.

That’s a great point. To your point, tackling the root of the problem should address the military hardware issue. I yield the point.

The equipment is not the only problem. But it is a very big problem, and it’s the easiest to solve. So let’s solve it.

For some people principals are greater than money. I am thankful for these people. I’m sure OP will fair fine in the job market.

Oh right, like I haven’t lived through countless blue screens of death in my time. Before Catalina OSX was the most reliable OS I had ever worked on.

How so? There’d be no penalty for spreading covid. The penalty would come if you spread it by willfully ignoring the current guidelines.

I think we should have a national standard "Covid Danger Rating System," like the Fire Danger Rating system. Track it like the weather. Have the local weather man discuss that regions current Covid Risk rating and what it means. Do it every time the weather is broadcast.

Add to that, let's make being caught spreading Covid by not following the current ratings recommendation a punishable offense. That way it's not illegal to not wear a mask, or not social distance, but if we're at Covid-Risk 5, and an outbreak is traced back to your negligence, you'd be fined, jailed, something. Same way you'd be punished for being caught starting a wild fire with a campfire during burn ban. We wouldn't even need perfect contact tracing for this to work. The majority of people will follow the recommendation for social good, and others will for the threat of possible punishment. It's not perfect but a unified plan that everyone understands, plus some teeth for enforcing it would go a long way.

Right!? I found dressing “older” actually made me look younger. It looked like I was pretending to be grown up. I kind of embraced a rock/slacker look in my 20s and that worked best. These days I just do the dad look. That works fine. Best of luck out there!

I always looked about 5 years younger than my age. It sucked when I was young. At 40 it’s not the worst quality, but it also doesn’t help much. So I look 35, big whoop. I did discover wearing my hair long in my 20s made me look a bit older (eh, more like my age). Might try modifying your look.

Oof. I blew my “fun” money in a couple weeks. My mistake was thinking the stock market tracked the economy and would fall on bad news. I was wrong, and learned I don’t know shit about the stock market. Buy and hold. Amen.

That’s bullshit. It’s a statement designed to sound intellectual, but it’s tired and unhelpful. Climate change is a tangible, human made problem, and it can be solved for the betterment of future humans. If we care to.

Kind of glum. How about: the rich are donating to those in need, the coders are creating tools to help others, the tall are handing items to others that can’t reach. Life isn’t fair and we should help others when it is not self destructive.

God I hate this argument. It pops up in every thread about climate change. Yes, yes, we know. The "Earth" is a rock, space, mater, existentialism, George Carlin thinks the earth wants plastic, blah, blah, blah. We're talking about our got damn descendants.

It does, because the statement “the cure should not be worse than the disease” insinuates we’re overreacting.

Ugh. My 2018 i9 has been freezing randomly recently. I actually rushed to install the most recent update hoping it would fix the freezing. It hasn’t and now I gotta worry about this. I regret upgrading to Catalina. Nothing but problems since.

They obviously haven't considered that maybe they'll be punished in the afterlife for knowingly endangering others for the sake of their own perceived salvation.

Honest question. How is the EPA suspending enforcement aid in the fight against Covid-19?

I really don’t get this. How is this helpful against the pandemic?

And the stock market loves it? I’m so confused.

When the hospitals are full of covid victims, all demographics will suffer, as you will not be able to receive care for your non-covid related ailment.

You have a point. We should have been aggressively testing at the start. Imagine if we had thrown the same amount of effort and money into initial testing as we are economic relief now. We'd still be open for business! But our leadership failed. So, now we have to lock down, but we should be doing it 100%. Hard core. Lock down. This weak half measure of "recommended guidelines" and leaving it up to local governments to adopt them is undermining the entire effort. It's tanking the economy AND not going to work. Let's swallow the damn pill and get it over with! Why is our leadership intent on dragging this out as long as possible? We should have been in hardcore, national lock down mode last Monday.

We'll come around, once it's too late. "Americans will always do the right thing — after exhausting all the alternatives."

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