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A market that can support fair trade, carbon-neutral, organic, and gluten-free markups can support a human-rights /value-subtracted/ tariff: goods produced by slave or child labor or under authoritarian regimes can be assessed a tariff to bring their prices in-line with those produced in better countries.

Stickers marked "Three children assembled this iPhone for you." or "These sneakers were stitched by slave laborers in Xinjiang" might be as effective as the USDA's "Certified Organic" in persuading those with money and a conscience.

You and the commenter to whom you’re responding are referencing different “F” words. Two words which seem to have switched places in terms of power and acceptability over the last generation-and-a-half.

I mostly agree. But Rogan’s physical appearance and demeanor in his apology reminds me of Anthony Jeselnik’s shark story from “Thoughts and Prayers”. To paraphrase: it’s one thing to put your own job on the line to take a stand, it’s something else entirely to put the jobs of everyone who depends on you on the line.

> Assuming this is a genuine effort and not some kind of corruption, this potentially sounds great.

It’s a genuine effort to put something positive on the table for the administration as the mid-term elections ramp up. Biden, like his predecessor, is historically unpopular. The administration is desperate to do anything to maintain control of the house and senate.

This “plan” is a retread of Biden’s 2012 scheme that went nowhere.

As for corruption, probably just run-of-the-mill NIH feudalism. Even Joe Biden isn’t so brazenly corrupt that he’d directly pay his bag men while he’s the sitting President.

It’s good to see cancer get more money & attention, regardless of the motive.

Section h.4 on page nine is where Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, et al., are targeted.

> I'd rather spend my "weirdness points" on pushing radical ideas than on dressing unusually

Agree. This could be a post in itself.

I dig the Beagle Brothers’ aesthetic.

Not nearly slow enough. Please rewrite the frontend in pidgin Ember and the backend in confused Scala.

> Above all, these figures present a model for thinking differently, and not in the glib sense touted by Steve Jobs. As the homogenization of culture proceeds apace, as the technology of surveillance hovers at the borders of our brains, such spaces are becoming rarer and more confined. I am haunted by a sentence from Virginia Woolf’s “The Waves”: “One cannot live outside the machine for more perhaps than half an hour.”

| “The global scale of the China challenge is not just about China’s rise, it’s not just about the genocide,” says Josh, “It’s about what kind of world we want to live in.”

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGh... https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGh...

Historically, totalitarian "experimentation" hasn't gone so well.

"The new restrictions targeting videogames, however, highlight the emphasis that Beijing has placed on cultivating morality in its youth, a preoccupation of senior officials that has come to the fore in recent weeks."

Thanks for the that link. I just spent an hour in the Eyes on the Solar System web app and listening to Carl Sagan wax poetic about our Voyagers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H92iCnecYGQ

"…and far from home, untouched by these remote events, the Voyagers, bearing the memories of a world that is no more, will fly on."—C. Sagan

> I would love it if governments compelled big companies to act more in the public interest and less in their own.

First I’d like to see a government prove it can work in the public’s interest and less in its own.

Is there evidence that white collar criminal convictions are career ending in the USA?

Thank you for showing more restraint than I did. I'm sorry for being incendiary, I did not mean to use any slurs. I've removed what I thought might be construed as slurs from my comments. I won't post further on this topic. Thank you for shaming me, I feel guilty and will do better.

Yes, I'm sorry for being incendiary. However, I think shame and guilt are excellent tools for getting a culture on track. Better than war, anyway.

You’re right, the government and its people are not equivalent.

The truth hurts. China released a deadly virus into the world. It tried to cover it up. It tried to blackmail Australia. It is extorting Africa.

China and the Chinese people must accept their responsibility for this catastrophe. They must let the rest of the world, in the guise of the UN, come in and sort out how much of this crime was intentional and how much incompetence.

China must be held accountable. It should pay reparations. It should be forced to suspend any and all biomedical research until it can provably meet western safety standards.

> Why would anyone want Swift on other platforms?

Myriad reasons. If—for whatever reason—someone likes to program in Swift, having high-quality implementations available on various platforms is a win.

> Other platforms tend to allow you much better choices.

This assumes an objective measure of programming language goodness. Whether a language is better than Swift is an opinion. Opinions vary.

What is your interest and motivation?

Do you want a career as a programmer? Solve a particular problem? Automate aspects of your current job? Start a new hobby?

How do you like to learn? What resources are available to you?

> Connecticut, Colorado, Delaware, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Oklahoma, Oregon, and Washington state are all considering broad [right-to-repair] laws that would apply to most of the stuff we use everyday.

Meanwhile, in Sacramento, it is illegal to repair your own car at your own home.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26421495

The 1541 was "vintage" even before it was released :)

> It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in, or permit others to engage in, minor vehicle repair or maintenance under any of the following circumstances:

> Using tools not normally found in a residence

The authors address this: the induced stress is not necessarily similar to the stress experienced on the job they're applying for.

> A technical interview has an uncanny resemblance to the trier social stress test [39], a procedure used for decades by psychologists and is the best known “gold standard” procedure [1] for the sole purpose of reliably inducing stress.

> The trier social stress test involves having a subject prepare and then deliver an interview-style presentation and perform mental arithmetic, all in front of an audience.

> … rather than avoiding unwanted stress, technical interviews may be inadvertently designed with the sole purpose of inducing it.

39: https://www.karger.com/Article/Abstract/119004

“...[The Russians] have an immense advantage. I think it’s a dangerous advantage and a temporary advantage. Twelve men decide what to do. They don’t sit here like I do and have twelve others question me on why I’m doin’ it... In the end they destroy themselves.” —General George Marshall https://youtu.be/Y7eVaVUESCo

Here’s a nostalgic piece on Bay Area Fry’s https://www.sfgate.com/essays/article/Remembering-the-Disney...

No mention of the Campbell’s Fry’s which—although practically inaccessible by car—was always overcrowded in the 90s.

The themes, the crowds, the chaos, and the variety made the Fry’s experience what it was. That, and knowing you were destined to return the next day to return for replacement something listed on that checked-at-the-exit receipt. Good times.

Scientific American is a shadow of its former self.

> …entire industries built on the fact that some beauty is unquestionable, like in the modelling [sic] industry

There are unquestionably beautiful models. But the modeling industry is as transactional as any other. The industry confers the status of beautiful on many people and things that are in no way beautiful.