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Best way to respond to this is to ignore it.
https://twitter.com/maxfield_wall/status/1287097229220536321
I lived in Taipei for a year and almost all transactions there are cash, debit, or bank transfer. You can do a bank transfer to anyone instantly for pennies. Really puts the ACH system to shame. Some things are better than getting 2% back.
I support the strike and I hope the folks ignoring covid precautions understand there is a limited supply of goodwill and of people who can save your ass if you get a bad case.
Doctors arguably have it worse right now because due to how they're employed, a good number of them have no legal ability to unionize or engage in collective bargaining.
Average med school debt at graduation is roughly $200k. Now imagine you are a recent graduate from residency or medical school, and you have a comorbidity or risk factor for severe covid. Unless you have some outside funding source to pay your debt, you have no choice not to work, likely in a hospital that has little incentive to keep you safe.
Even ignoring tuition, there is a massive opportunity cost to training a doctor, and these are the folks we're relying on to keep us healthy for decades into the future. Situation's pretty shit. Least we could do is lock down until every healthcare worker has been vaccinated.
These are electric drivetrains (simpler transmission, etc.) so there are fewer things that can go wrong relative to an ICE car. Obv range is limited with a used Leaf but that's not a problem for most city trips.
It's a must-read for anyone working with Ruby, even if you have no interest in metaprogramming. Despite the title, it's a very approachable and widely-applicable book.
This is currently a research frontier for AI so us non-experts likely won't be able to say a ton about it.
I thought this was a good talk on the issue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SS9DMr4VkbY
^ This article (reporting on the same research) seems to be a bit better.
I'm sympathetic to the argument that ads could reduce information asymmetry, make the market more efficient, and thus count as a social good. The problem is that advertisers' incentives aren't the same as society or the consumer's.
Look at it this way: Google exists. If you know you want something, it's not hard to find online. Ergo, if you often find yourself buying something because you saw it in an ad, what does that say about your rationality as a consumer?
In practice, corporations buy ads to manufacture demand because their products are neither things consumers or society actually wants, nor things consumers rationally choose to seek out.
The author's point about being over-critical of sexism is well-taken, but by reducing the sexist attitudes towards, for example, stay-at-home dads, it may be possible to help more women in STEM have fully productive careers.
This doesn't mean the procedure shouldn't have been approved, it most likely means that folks need to do better patient education and qualification. Not everyone needs to be a good candidate.
It's also possible that these results vary a lot between LASIK docs. I'd expect that some qualify patients more thoroughly than others. Risk for developing side effects can be assessed beforehand, to some extent.
Also really like the new <Suspense> Component! I created a {{render-on-resolve promise=foo}} Component for the app I worked on in Ember back in 2016, and we got a ton of use out of it. If you set up your data layer right, and use it well, it completely removes the need to ever manually manage a loading spinner again.
On one hand, Haskell or Clojure probably attract more academic types who have a reputation for (consistent with my experience) on-average worse-quality code.
On other hand, the barrier-to-entry for these languages is higher so they tend to be programmed by more experienced folks. I assume that people pick functional languages in part because they believe the functional paradigm leads to higher-quality code, so the sample probably cares more about code quality to begin with.
Airport surcharges should just be a toll gate (E-ZPass) when you enter and exit the airport. Same for roads, ideally. A single fee schedule for everyone.
Parking shouldn't be free. Someone with 3 cars on Turo shouldn't be penalized any more than someone with 3 cars who doesn't rent them on Turo and just leaves them parked most of the time.
I use Turo and Getaround. With Turo, I always end up meeting or interacting with the car owner. I'm not renting luxury vehicles, but in my experience the owners are always regular middle-class people. From what I've seen, "Tesla fleet" Jason Chan from this article is not representative of the average Turo renter. Except perhaps in niche luxury markets, Turo rentals won't be massively profitable because renters are competing against Zipcar, Enterprise, Uber, etc. and there is maintenance, cleaning, depreciation, etc. you have to handle for the cars.
I think we can all agree that regulations and taxes should be fairly and equitably applied. I'm fine with my Turo charges going up to comply with this. But I don't think this article is very balanced. It spends a lot of time talking about Turo without acknowledging the massive inefficiencies in traditional car rental business models, as well as the big difference in customer experience.
It'd probably be better if I just ignored the comment. But I think the claim "harms far more people" is absurd if you consider the unequal harms done to women through history, and the fact that they're half the population. The commenter didn't make an effort to engage in good faith discussion with my post so it's unreasonable to apply the same standard to me.
I'm happy to reply to comments like yours though.
People choose partners based on chatting after the swipe and the overall impression/feeling they have when meeting in-person.
The belief that the majority of women on the dating market choose partners primarily based on looks and status is a fiction that's part of a broader narrative insecure men tell themselves to help rationalize the resentment they experience-- and a result of men projecting their own preferences and motivations onto women.
See my other comment in the thread. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19603329
Yes, for the tiny fraction of women on dating apps seeking hookups, attractiveness and status may be important factors. Many men may never have hookups. But the obsession with hookups is a male phenomenon, and the majority of women find them off-putting.
> Studies show that women have the same hard coded visceral, visual sexual physiological response as men
I don't know what studies you're looking at but you're misinformed. Women don't have the same physiological response to visual stimuli as men do.
I don't know what you mean by "doing the same things" but even if we assume that women are doing those things it doesn't follow from that they are the same as men at a sexual level.