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Yeah so in this case Russia is the one invading places for baseless reasons, and all nearby European states fear they are next.

Europe also remembers how appeasement went for Europeans before wwii when another country though it would be cool to take over some neighbors.

I think you’ve advocating for Neville chamberlain’s appeasement policy.

You forgot to mention, if the US didn’t back Europe’s stance on Ukraine (yes Europe’s stance), then China would have a green light to invade Taiwan, and most certainly do it. And once that precedent is set of invading neighbors like that, neither Russia nor China would stop with just Ukraine and Taiwan.

That is incorrect, those are not government monopolies, those spaces have private options.

FedEx, DHL, UPS and government USPS

Parks - there’s a ton of types with equivalent public and private versions

Police - private security

Firefighters - there are private fire fighters who protect houses threatened by wildfire - they just don’t need to respond when it comes to responding to stuff like traffic accidents and health incidents

Etc etc

But would political motivation even be relevant? With how politically motivated assange was, political motivation is clearly not an issue in his context.

Or would it be a classic case of “it’s okay when my guy does it, but people I don’t like aren’t allowed to”

Musk’s whims are far worse than Job’s. Cybertruck, gull wing doors, X, S3XY, etc - musk is like a 13 year old middle schooler combined with Apple.

One of the things about the whole asssange wikileaks affaire that always bothered me is how many people would pick a sides and then consider anything the opposing side to claim to be suspect and likely false, while taking everything “their” side said at face value without inspection. It was nonstop extreme confirmation bias on display.

Of course wikileaks/assange aren’t going to admit to doing something terrible. Whether or not it’s true, they’re going to give the same answer!

I haven’t looked into that Belarusian thing, so I don’t know what evidence there is but it doesn’t make sense to take Wikileaks at face value - it’s obvious confirmation bias. Even if one doesn’t want to accept that it’s confirmation bias, one should be aware that it comes off as it to everyone else.

The whole wikileaks thing was so annoying because it was 95% of the time of two different choirs preaching opposite sermons based only on faith not objective facts.

“Us and China are increasingly hostile. We’ll, mostly the US towards China”

2+ decades of IP theft and product dumping, USA finally starts reacting, gets accused of being hostile.

Razer warranty service is extremely hostile - luckily I only had a mouse break in warranty.

But it’s a huge ordeal with a lot of back and forth emails and they insisted on a reply within 48 hours for each of the emails or they’d close the claim. It was such a hassle.

Never buy Razer, it seems like they hate their customers and just want them to hand over money for flawed products and go away.

Why support a country when it’s invaded by its neighbor for no reason? To prevent that from being a more common occurrence.

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While people are aware of the chemical element lead, are people aware there’s also a hundred or so other chemical elements?

Because accustomization and normalizations removes the awe from what at first were amazing achievements. It’s the standard expectation creep effect. What’s novel or exciting today is boring tomorrow.

Try showing today’s phones to someone in 1994.

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As to the article’s example of headphones as an example of a product that has interesting variation - I am not getting the same impression.

The headphones all look essentially the same with a slightly different case style - in other words if those headphones are exciting then a phone can be made exciting by buying an artsy case. Problem solved.

Actually, personalized phone cases are way better than the manufactures providing a non-customizable case like the headphone cases to. Both are wrapping a tiny bit of visual style around a standard product. But for phones one can choose from an almost unlimited number of variations if one so chooses, for headphones it’s only a couple options per brand.

Okay so you’re advocating for increased government regulation to combat this?

Does an asset limit of 2,000 set in 1980 without any inflation adjustments and a hard cliff benefit removal sound sensible?

No, I can see the commenters frustration. Unless one is versed in Llm space, one is more likely to know mamba as the package manager and find the headline and also the GitHub page confusing. The markdown read me is supposed to provide the info the commenter wanted.

Even that first line you posted is unhelpfully circular, defining mamba as an implementation of mamba.

Call me old fashioned, but a best practice read me should concisely provide: what the thing is, and why it is, aka the problem it solves. (And not with circular definition.)

Okay so is Mamba also an llm? There’s too much name overloading!

I’m familiar with mamba, the conda like thing in python, but a numpy implementation of that makes no sense.

That is wrong per the article.

The article says organic and conventional are essentially the same with mycotoxins except one toxin where conventional is worse.

Telling average users that aren’t HN readers, or particularly comp savvy for other reasons, that they now need to work out whether they want M chips, intel chips or arm chips is just going to confuse them.

I’m pretty sure most consumers will just be confused by arm windows vs intel windows.

Wonder how this will go for them.

Im sure one’s personal mileage will vary, but this is my experience.

I use windows for work Mac personal, and by far windows is more annoying with pop ups. Both do have a fair number of pop ups, it’s true. But overall the message feels either like gas lighting or wishful thinking, does not resonate at all.

A lot of HOAs have reasonable boards but contract out a lot of management to companies (I wouldn’t be be surprised if they were owned by private equity firms).

These companies are incentivized to find infraction to fine, and drive around regularly to make sure every rule is strictly adhered to. Trash bins out too early or late? Fine! Fence painted the wrong shade of soulless beige? Fine!

It’s not a choice when the overwhelming majority of available homes to buy have HOAs.

Like seriously, that was like saying that arresting the purveyors of contaminated, tainted meat is harming the food supply. It’s an argument that seems to be intentionally reversed in order to destroy logical debate.

Interesting, I find it refreshingly egalitarian and not classist and extractive.

It really bothers me how other airlines treat seating as a way to further bleed customers of money and create tiers.

Reading the article, the picture is appropriate, musk is a petulant micromanager who is allergic to people with differing opinions and demands dumb unquestioning loyalty. He apparently wants goons not experts.

the firing of the charging team really shows the board has let musk wreck havoc for far too long. Business wise the move was absurdly bad. Musk is going to run tesla into the ground over petty grievances and his increasing nonsensical reasoning

I’m not following the logic here.

are you saying the ICC panel is incorrect about their recommendation? How does an earlier lapse in justice effect an entirely separate event?

Oh… I thought your recent comment was also from that guy my bad, so yeah ignore what I’d replied. Guess I didn’t pay close enough attention

Okay… but the reference they called out wasn’t very long and had a clear bar chart comparing different vehicular types that included battery manufacturing as one of the components.

One could even ignore all the text and just look at the bar chart for the numbers.

Any original analysis that’s worth its beans is going to be far denser than that reference or the NPR article. Scientific and technical publications aren’t quite as bad as reading legalese but they’re close, full of jargon and precise language.

Since that short reference with the bar chart was too dense, then what you’re looking for definitely seems to be a pop-sci type summary - like the original NPR article.

If you ever visit SF, make sure to walk across the Golden Gate Bridge. It’s scenic as all hell, but also gratingly loud and unpleasant from the road noise (note the term is road noise not engine noise)

Running next to >30mph street is a mentally taxing experience. Running on a road or trail without traffic is amazing and one realizes a mental burden is removed by eliminating the noise and extra attention required for safety.

No, I am not. Car dominated cities and transport have many issues.

All EVs do is mitigate the tailpipe CO2 issue.

Take for example the phrase “They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.”

Cars definitely are ideal for certain things, but designing society and the built environment with car transport at the primary concern is highly misguided and bad for the environment even if tailpipe emissions are no longer a thing.

So Like the original NPR article that gives a high level explanation? (while establishing credibility by providing supporting references for cross checking)

https://text.npr.org/1250212212