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When you build something, taking raw materials from their current state and assembling them into something like a car or rocket ship, is that the opposite of entropy?

There are no "pure" capitalistic games being played. The US and China interfere to varying degrees.

Talking about slavery in this context is also ridiculous.

Idk, I'd say the same about a party dude turned judge.

Is it possible for anthropology to be a science the way we look at physics or chemistry? I'm not trying to bash anthropology, but I think we should be honest with what the "social sciences" really are. I personally don't think economics is a science, despite that being my field of focus. In fields where it is difficult or impossible to run controlled experiments, claiming to be a science is often misleading.

But maybe we just have different definitions of science?

The original commenter is specifically objecting to outsourcing high tech manufacturing to a country with an authoritarian government. You are ignoring this point, and suggesting that the original commenter is morally bankrupt for hating foreigners. You are going after them for things they didn't explicitly say.

In my opinion, the real choice isn't between producing in China and producing in America. It is between China and countries like India or Brazil. If India is a democracy, has better labor laws than China, has more respect for free speech, then moving production to India is less likely to have negative externalities than China.

Unfortunately, Apple's Chinese employees can't expect the same quality of treatment as their coworkers in America and Europe. The CCP allows this, and Apple (and the CCP) takes full advantage.

What does your nationality or your wife have to do with this? The Brits have an illustrious history of treating Chinese people well. Or all 'furriners' for that matter. But mocking Americans is much more fun than paying attention to any of that.

> they take about the same time as any other dryer

This is false. Before the Dyson Airblade and the really loud Xlerator ones, World Dryer was the most common hand dryer (in America at least), and they are awful. Forget about 10 seconds, you could stand there for 60 seconds and still want to use paper towels after.

I agree, great story but seems off topic for HN.

From the guidelines: "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon."

A woman winning a race is not a new phenomenon. A quick google search produces:

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/jan/17/jasmin-paris-f...

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/08/06/world/fiona-kolbinger-win...

https://trailrunnermag.com/people/is-women-winning-ultras-ov...

Of course it is US-centric, the post is from a US newspaper. Nobody would comment "This is all pretty German-centric" if the post came from a German newspaper. Maybe I don't understand your point.

That aside, I completely agree with your comment. Public spaces and well designed cities that allow for those clusters are very important to kids.

For whatever it's worth though, I don't think things were that much better in the US back in the 90s. In recent history the US has always been worse in this regard than Canada and Europe.

Ironically, it is actually hotter, it is actually colder, it's all of those things you sarcastically point out. Except being too small or dense, who told you that?

I'm from the American Midwest and I'm currently in Northern Europe. The difference is huge. The density issue of American suburbs is real, and the phenomenon is relatively rare globally. Go check out Google Earth. How do you not see it?

The weather is also more extreme in most places of the US than Europe. When Europeans tell people in Wisconsin to "just take an electric scooter to the metro station" they understandably laugh it off as ridiculous.

That doesn't work in many low density areas (prime example is American suburbia). So your answer for those people is to make them move to a more dense area that can support such solutions. Which isn't a bad idea, but it's a much harder thing to accomplish.

That doesn't prove anything about hospital quality.

From your source: "Around 40% of cancer cases could be prevented by reducing exposure to cancer risk factors including diet, nutrition and physical activity".

Americans live a lifestyle (fast food, less walking) that leads to a much higher risk of cancer than Europeans, the difference in mortality rate is mostly explained by this.

Another way of thinking about this, looking at your data, do you really think Australia has the worst hospitals in the world because they have the highest cancer rate?

This is an interesting point. Do you have a source for the life expectancy numbers? I'm genuinely curious.

This problem is widespread throughout the Rust Belt/Midwest and very costly to fix. Because many of the repairs fall on local governments, poorer neighborhoods struggle with this. So you can point to the water in a poor black neighborhood in Michigan and say it is proof of racism. But why are you ignoring the poor white neighborhood in Appalachian Pennsylvania that has the exact same problem?

To paint this as racism is either dishonesty or ignorance.

Many of the neighborhoods with this problem have been areas of severe deindustrialization. When a city like Flint shrinks because the main factory shuts down, they no longer have the tax revenue to support their own infrastructure, let alone build new infrastructure. They are stuck in a slow decay, and would need Federal assistance to get out.

19.8% of the world's foreign born population lives in the US. 14.3% of people in the US are foreign born. According to this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_d...

Considering that around 20% of the world's immigrants live in the US, saying that US immigration is "designed to keep immigrants out" is grossly misleading.

One thing I've noticed in Chicago and NYC is that the old steel elevated structures are extremely loud. However, the few locations in NYC that are made with much thicker concrete structures significantly reduce the noise.

Elevated rail is not inherently noisy, but the majority of examples in the US are. This is why people are against them. If we could fix the noise problem, this could be the optimal solution. I personally think it is possible.

I'd like to suggest an alternative to bashing the TSA. (most of the comments on here)

Let's invest more in non-road infrastructure. We need bigger airports, faster trains, better mass transit connections to these hubs.

Airports are over capacity in the US. I was in Chicago O'Hare yesterday, there were about 100 people sleeping on the floor throughout terminal B and C. When my flight boarded, nobody got up from their chairs, since they were waiting for a different flight, at a different gate, where there was no seating. Not only that, the roof was leaking, there were 10-15 buckets dispersed in the terminal catching rain drops from the ceiling. This is potentially the most important air transportation hub in the country and it is crumbling. There are plenty of other examples of this around the country.

"Huawei will mostly be fine"

"All this is a tragedy for the 200 thousand Huawei employees and their families, to see the company they built with hard work getting ruined"

Are they ruined or fine?

You are missing the point. The number of accounts is not an important metric. I am not saying your conclusion is false, just that you do not provide relevant facts to support your claim. Assets under management is much more important, and not necessarily strongly correlated with number of accounts.

From your source: "However, a Robinhood spokesperson said not all 4 million accounts are funded. The brokerage did not disclose total assets under management, average account size or typical starting balance."

They did not disclose the metrics that are important. You would need AUM information to effectively support your statement.

Some of these "fancy financial instruments" are not as fancy as you think. For instance, futures and options are a form of insurance. My great grandmother was a farmer and would trade derivatives to insure her crops for the season. Some trader in Chicago can trade this speculatively, but a midwestern farmer has a real world use for the product.

The women in finance I know have much thicker skin than you think. They also put up with bullshit that is not on the same scale as this benign title.

Complaining about the little things can hurt the bigger cause if you piss people off in the process.

We need to stop making generalizations about regulations. Some are good, some are bad, some are both.

Both the wealthy and society as a whole spend way more on medical science than space. It's fairly common in the US for every wing of a hospital or every building in a medical school to be named after some rich businessman who is doing just that.

Most young black Americans are in jail for drug related offenses, which could warrant the death penalty in China.

Also your argument is completely: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

> I realize that this is becoming a popular opinion, but why? I almost understand the full prohibition mindset more.

I was simply trying to explain why. I think the full prohibition mindset makes no sense personally. It would include more state violence, so I am confused why you think that is as valid as the parent comment's opinion of treating each drug differently.

Is it wrong to want the others around you to not have access to drugs that can destroy their lives?

I'm of the legalize everything mindset, but heroin (and fentanyl) have killed many people I personally know. Weed has not. It is not illogical for people to want to treat them differently.

There needs to be more focus on the capital gains tax. The super rich do not make most of their money from income. If we were to reclassify capital gains as income, the system would be more fair to people who make a living from wages while providing the government with additional revenue.

The article mentions that the US is the worst performing developed country. I find it interesting that nobody has mentioned the US's opioid problem. Kids dying of overdoses will crush life expectancy statistics. There have been frequent articles on HN documenting this problem.

Eat your veggies and don't do drugs kids. Well, the bad ones at least...