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mobilefriendly··on Things Unexpectedly Named After People
Conversely, Porsche is named for Ferdinand Porsche and not the female name.
mobilefriendly··on US homebuilding surges as coronavirus sparks flight to suburbs, rural areas
The new factor that might tip things is more acceptance of remote work.
mobilefriendly··on Whose Land – Indigenous Nations of North America
Yes, for example the Seminoles weren't native to Florida they were bands of Creeks pushed there by the Upper Creeks and Europeans in the 1700s, and were also invited by the Spanish. They weren't even named as a distinct group until the 1770s. There were many other Florida tribes.
mobilefriendly··on Google offers free fabbing for 130nm open-source chips
It actually took a lot of hard work in the early days, to prove the model as valid and also defend the legal code and rights that underpin FOSS.
mobilefriendly··on Which firms profit most from America’s health-care system (2018)
More than 40 million Americans are on food stamps (govt food support). In reality, many food basics like milk, rice and beans are healthy and affordable.
mobilefriendly··on Returning from a Year of Isolation in Antarctica
Its not a scapegoat -- the CDC is extremely well-funded and has a singular mission -- and is doing a quantifiably terrible job. They downplayed the North America risk the first two months of 2020, utterly botched testing but still refused to allow private lab testing until the White House intervened, and they literally lied to the public about the efficacy of masks. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/us/cdc-coronavirus.html
mobilefriendly··on The Wrongful Death of Toussaint Louverture
The Haitian Revolution ended as a genocide against all whites on the island, including white abolitionists who were fighting alongside the enslaved. Several thousand French men, women and children were murdered.

Edit: The massacre happened the year after Louverture died, so that's not pertinent. I apologize. More details, including the Poles who only survived the genocide by hiding. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1804_Haiti_massacre

mobilefriendly··on Finishing a side project
If you don't mind my asking, what was your problem and how did you fix it? I've been just...stuck for a couple years. :(
mobilefriendly··on Kudzu, the vine that never truly ate the South (2015)
Invasive plants displace native ones; in the mid-Atlantic where I live, Chinese tree of heaven are everywhere. They crowd out walnut and other hardwoods, they aren't as tall and attractive, and the wood isn't clean burning. Our problem is also deer over-population-- the deer devastate the native trees and bushes but not the invasives.
mobilefriendly··on The CDC lost control of the coronavirus pandemic, then the agency disappeared
$35 billion is an EXTRAORDINARY amount of money. It's the economic output of Vermont, a state with 630,000 people.
mobilefriendly··on A new licensing program to support the news industry
The Contributor program lets people decide what "news" to support. Now Google is going to pick which favored news outlets it is going to financially support.
mobilefriendly··on Ask HN: How do I reach making $1-1.5k/mo in 13 months?
A company that responded to this kind of solicitation would be unethical, at best, and is probably breaking employment law in the West.
mobilefriendly··on U.K. Plans Citizenship for Hong Kong Residents in Row with China
All citizens of the territories and Puerto Rico have full US citizenship and vote in Presidential elections. Those citizens are free to move to the US mainland at anytime. In fact, living in US territories provides special tax advantages that are not available to US citizens in the mainland. There are historical and other reasons the territories aren't states -- Puerto Rico voters in particular have't supported statehood, and the other territories are very small and remote.
mobilefriendly··on Ask HN: Any job boards and age-friendly companies for older developers?
In fact the US government has employee programs that specifically hire 55 and up.
mobilefriendly··on The Ainu, Japan’s Indigenous People
Most recent? China is destroying traditional Tibet (which it invaded) through mass migration of ethnic Han.
mobilefriendly··on Sid Meier’s Civilization VI free until May 28th
Supported on MacOS through Steam.
mobilefriendly··on Sid Meier’s Civilization VI free until May 28th
Opposite for me, I like Civ 6 far better than 5. Give 6 another run with some of the popular mods.
mobilefriendly··on Sid Meier’s Civilization VI free until May 28th
Try the Historic Speed mod on Gathering Storm. It brings Civ VI into better balance, its a blast, especially if you like the longer game speeds. (I also turn down the storms and turn off city states altogether). But I agree there's too much tedium in the late game and movement takes too long -- like a decade to move armies from one side of a continent to the other. Another good mod is the trade mod that lets you automatically renew trade routes.
mobilefriendly··on U.S. Birthrates Fall to Record Low
There's a huge trade-off that you're missing. Fertility drops rapidly in your 30s, especially for women. I'm middle aged and know many women who waited but were unable to conceive.
mobilefriendly··on Vermont proposes providing broadband internet service to all state residents
These latest "broadband" efforts look like just another money grab by the same incumbents (Comcast, Frontier, etc) and the same state and federal bureaucracies that have failed to deliver competition and access. Vermont should simply announce full throated support for low-orbit satellite internet, which is under active deployment from SpaceX and also development from Amazon.
mobilefriendly··on How Apocalyptic Is Now?
Please study the actual history of the USSR-- there were multiple genocides of different religions and ethnic groups. Most notable were the pogroms and the death of millions in the Ukraine:

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

https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691152387/st...

mobilefriendly··on The ghost moose, the drone and the search for a winter-tick cure
Expanded hunting or culling the population by wildlife officers are another option.
mobilefriendly··on Why is the stock market rallying when the economy is so bad?
There's a gap between those folks, though, and the median household which earns $63,000 a year but has almost no savings or stock holdings. The median household wealth is $100,000 and that's almost all housing.
mobilefriendly··on Some overwhelmed parents are abandoning at-home schooling
The US has an obsolete, anti-competitive regulatory regime. In many states, the system allows local governments to grant effective monopolies each to a cable video and telephone provider. So many communities have, at best, two internet providers, and cable video service is far from universal. So a lot of places only have DSL over copper phone lines and that's rarely at broadband speeds. In my community the monopoly phone provider is bankrupt and has not repaired lines, meaning not even DSL is available to some homes.
mobilefriendly··on Some overwhelmed parents are abandoning at-home schooling
I don't have land-line internet available at my home in greater DC metro. We survive on LTE hotspots. Praying for the success of StarLink!
mobilefriendly··on Federal Reserve balance sheet trends
Bankruptcies are not "structural damage" they are economic progress that transfers assets to stronger or more nimble players. The bailouts are fighting creative destruction and this will reduce the dynamism and long term growth of the economy.
mobilefriendly··on Economists who defend disaster profiteers are wrong
The other externalities being environmental degradation and, to some degree, labor abuse.
mobilefriendly··on U.S. airlines want a $50B bailout. They spent $45B buying back their stock
No, if the airlines "go under" in bankruptcy, the assets, airplanes, and people remain-- with new leadership and investors. The dynamic, economic outcome is to let them fail and reorganize them.
mobilefriendly··on Why stockpiling is not the crazy, selfish behaviour that it seems
More specifically, that small increase is clearing shelves of items normally bought less frequently, like toilet paper and other paper goods.
mobilefriendly··on Federal Reserve pledges asset purchases with no limit to support markets
It is unconstitutional in spirit and practice in the United States for lawmakers to meddle in existing contracts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_Clause
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