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Based on the top response here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22499569

There are more than 100 strains, which you can see here: https://nextstrain.org/ncov

Mortality rate (outside of Wuhan) is 10x worse (0.16%)[1] than the flu (0.014%)[2].

I'm personally not worried about a virus with a 99.84% survival rate, but it's still technically 10x as deadly.

[1] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-death-...

[2] https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/influenza-and-pneu...

There are large blanket licenses that professional broadcasters can acquire.

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-radio-station-able-to-play-...

You need a drivers license for the dockless scooters, so there's no way for a child to legally ride one.

> I assume to tell the gay people in your life that you would rather they didn't exist?

That's a weird assumption to make.

What I would assume is that the Senator has any other position that Google finds more profitable than an alternative Senator. It would be kind of crazy to think Google is directly supporting conversion therapy, or that anyone on this forum would.

The first thing you see when you go to twitch.tv is a live stream and a list of other live streams.

Once you view a stream the only things you see are the video player, details about the streamer, and chat.

Not sure what you imagine could be better, but if you want to know what really bad UI looks like, check out Mixer.

From an efficient market standpoint, a good balancing measure would be if consumers knew exactly what it cost Uber/Lyft to provide the service. That way even if they charge you more for being rich, you can make an informed decision whether or not you want them profiting as much as they are from you.

A competitor might even find an advantage by providing that information. For example, if a car service told you exactly how much the driver made and how much the service took as a cut, you might be willing to pay more because you know where the money is going.

I have the opposite experience. I find it virtually impossible to consume 2,000 calories at once, so I don't have to spend a single second thinking about diet or exercise; I just eat once a day and can guarantee weight loss / maintenance. Eating under 2,000 calories is obvious. You don't fast so that you can eat more, you fast so that eating less doesn't feel so terrible. Everyone already knows they have to eat less calories to lose weight.

> By some delusional people's metric, that's a 23 hour fasting period and should work great.

No one thinks you can fast and eat 5 days worth of food every day and lose weight.

That sounds like the first theory in the linked Wikipedia article.

> Mate selection. Automatic, stimulus-driven appraisals of uncanny stimuli elicit aversion by activating an evolved cognitive mechanism for the avoidance of selecting mates with low fertility, poor hormonal health, or ineffective immune systems based on visible features of the face and body that are predictive of those traits.

> 7 hours ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21502162

> 14 hours ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21500325

> Fascism is a form of far-right, authoritarian ultranationalism characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition, and strong regimentation of society and of the economy

> Fascists believe that liberal democracy is obsolete and regard the complete mobilization of society under a totalitarian one-party state as necessary to prepare a nation for armed conflict and to respond effectively to economic difficulties. Such a state is led by a strong leader—such as a dictator and a martial government composed of the members of the governing fascist party—to forge national unity and maintain a stable and orderly society.

Using a word exactly correctly is not "random".

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

> when Ward was still just a young man, he was tapped to be one of the translators of the King James Bible, published in 1611.

I would imagine this meant the translation occurred sometime around then.

300K - (130K taxes) - (70K rent) - (10K food) - (40K w/e other expenses/spending) = still saving 50K/yr.

Maybe that isn't as much as I'd think, but that sure looks like putting the 25th percentile's entire salary in the bank.

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

> So we're confusedly agreeing?

Definitely. It feels like there's a difference in our interpretation of the context of the word "patriarchy". I have most often heard it used as a condemnation of a group of individuals who are also disadvantaged by the social structure. Similar to the way "idealism" is commonly used to disparage positive future thinking.

I would sure rather a society where no one has to feel like they're in a fight for survival where the only way to win is someone else losing.

I believe that's my position. If the social structure of humanity is based on genetic necessity, I wouldn't think to frame it as any one group of individuals making decisions that harm others.

Just to clarify this position, do you believe that insecurity about physical appearance is the result of patriarchy and not a hundred thousand year genetic predisposition to find desirable mating partners for survival?

I'm insecure about my looks because I'm happier when I see attractive people and I know I can't give other people that happiness.

> Leave activism to western social media platforms with their trail of failed revolutions, genocide and death.

The last (failed) revolution in America was 150 years ago. China has not once gone 50 years without a revolution in the last 400 years. [1]

I support different countries trying different things, but Revolution is not a western problem. (And someone else can make claims about the definition of Genocide.)

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

There is even a site that tells you how much money you'd need to run 51% attacks on different cryptocurrencies. (It looks like the site used Nicehash payouts as a data point but Nicehash is down/being updated so those values are no longer there, but I found an article with a screenshot from May last year.)

https://thenextweb.com/hardfork/2018/05/30/heres-how-much-it...

Chronic pain isn't a condition, it's a symptom. That's why proper diagnosis is the solution, because the million different "chronic pains" you can have will be treated a million different ways, and you either need to know which one or try them all and risk the side effects, as they did in the GP's comment.

Or they could participate in the democratic process of their home country until laws reflect the will of the people.

Which could also be said for electors voting against their local interests in favor of their state's interests. Who's the derelict if everyone who lives within a 50 mile radius votes one way but the state goes another? That's the point of electors; states getting all of them for free should be the outlier.

> Also, I'm not really seeing the benefit of 2% cashback vs. the Citi double cash card.

The benefit is you get the same cashback but the card (titanium, touch pay) and the services (application, integrations) are better.

These jobs will be automated. Amazon doesn't have human workers because they like people more than robots; they have human workers because some work today still needs human workers.

Even as a tech problem, the new UI puts less information on the screen and makes it harder to interact with. It's worse by every observable metric, and I can't imagine they have successful A/B testing, because every other site on the internet that does a redesign (Facebook, Twitter, Youtube) commits to it, and Reddit has allowed users to stay on old reddit for like a year now.

The weirdest thing is that successful alternative reddit UIs exist, so all they would have to do is incorporate the features people are using alternative UIs for. They did virtually the opposite of that. This is exactly what Digg did, and the solution for Digg wasn't "allow people to use old Digg", it was "Everyone left and went to reddit".

30 minutes of your life should be worth more than $3.

Also part of the use of the tokens is to pay creators on sites they operate but the creators have to opt in to get paid, and until they do Brave keeps all of the money people are "donating".

A youtuber asked them not to collect money in his name and they said no [1], which would be illegal if it were real money.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18734999

> Tell them that "economic" thinking is the way "to move forward".

What would the "ecological" solution be for those people? As in, what can they do ecologically?

Economics is just the study of scarcity. Water in that location became scarce. Any action anyone takes as a result of that scarcity is economical thinking.

Not him but the Discover It card gives rotating 5% cash back and a cashback match for the first year, making it 10%.

They are saving what that income would be after taxes. That's not the point.

The point is that this is in no possible way closer to "paycheck to paycheck" than "saving an entire family's worth of money".

They're saving $4,000 / month. That's not living paycheck to paycheck. That's the average american household income going straight to savings.