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readarticleon Ask HN: Is it realistic to make a good living as a sole software developer

This is essentially the only solution to this sort of question that I’ve seen work bar leaving the industry entirely.

Solo development IME is 90% sabbatical or very early stage startup anyways.

Find some other malcontents OP, it generally works itself out naturally from there.

readarticleon Producer of Netflix Three body problem found poisoned

The detailed commentary on the noticeably androgynous physical and “mental” characteristics of the future males in a society that has decided the trisolaran issue doesn’t exist anymore and has fully accepted defeatism (through non natural means, but still).

IIRC, this society then attempts to pursue diplomacy only to get massacred before the archaic male heroically sets up a MAD situation.

The archaic male then controversially hands over control of the MAD response to a weak willed/nuance entertaining female, and the trisolarans immediately attack.

Apologies if I’ve mixed the timeline, it’s been a while and the human story draped over the skeleton of an interstellar war was a bit thin.

readarticleon Being kind to others is good for your health

It’s actually interesting those are the samples as I would probably characterize the West & (North) East they’re all from as the most “hyperactive” parts of the country vs the South & Mexican Border at the other end of the spectrum, with the Mid West & rest of the East somewhere in between (but probably closer to the coasts than the south & border).

Look out for any exciting opportunities to visit El Paso, Texas or Birmingham, Alabama for a proper comparison sometime if you can.

Bonus points for Brownsville, Texas where you can get a well steeped mix of the South & border along with a rocket launch!

readarticleon Facebook accuses people tied to French military of running troll accounts

Facebook said it tied about 100 Facebook and Instagram accounts and pages to the alleged operation tied to people linked to the French military. The pages had about 5,000 followers on Facebook, the company said.

Two separate networks of Russian pages, both allegedly linked to a Russian troll group, were also removed. Those pages had about 6 million followers, Facebook said.

It’s not immediately clear from the article whether those Russian troll groups were the specific ones active alongside and with the French one in CAR, Niger etc, but some perspective is in order nonetheless.

readarticleon Reddit is buying TikTok rival Dubsmash

I wonder if many of the new, non pc gaming users have seen either of the old or new site designs as opposed to one of the many mobile apps given how much interaction happens there and how strongly you’re pushed away to the official app.

readarticleon Ask HN: Google Play Music Alternative?

Apple Music lets you upload any personal music and stream/re download it alongside normal offerings.

Works perfectly through music.apple.com and an oddly good native Android app.

Un ideally it requires a subscription, though there’s a generous three month free trial. I also don’t think there’s a self hosting option.

readarticleon Briefing note: US Deputy Secretary Of State meeting with Andrei Gromyko (1985)

If it’s any consolation, the US has increasingly moved its diplomatic channels out of their traditional venues into the Pentagon over the past few decades, and it’s absolutely packed to the gills with Vindmans and Hills.

While the State Department might get a new coat of paint under Biden, it’s been being “gutted” for decades.

readarticleon Briefing note: US Deputy Secretary Of State meeting with Andrei Gromyko (1985)

Burkina Faso (French) was at war with Mali (Soviet) later that year.

readarticleon Arecibo Observatory Collapsed

You don’t have to think anything, there are millions of boricuas across the US who will happily fill you in on how divisive statehood is and how little mainland politics factor into it.

readarticleon Rock art discovered in remote Amazon forest

Colonisation and early peopling of the Colombian Amazon during the Late Pleistocene and the Early Holocene: New evidence from La Serranía La Lindosa

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2020.04.026 for those interested, wasn’t linked in the article.

readarticleon “Accentism” is real, but impossible to end

That includes the Gulf of Mexico and a lot of the South, Houston, New Orleans, Florida etc

readarticleon OCaml User Survey 2020 Results

Have to consider the context though, I’d point to it being a front end NPM compatible language from the same FAANG that React is from (vs a language from French academics that’s used in less popular domains) before curly braces.

Elm uses a more traditional ML syntax and AFAIK is more popular than Reason, though that’s complicated by it not using React and both of them being dwarfed by Typescript.

readarticleon A New Theory of Western Civilization

Christianity’s insistence on monogamy broke extended households into nuclear families. The Church uprooted horizontal, relational identity, replacing it with a vertical identity oriented toward the institution itself. The Church was stern about its marital policies. Violations were punished by withholding Communion, excommunicating, and denying inheritances to offspring who could now be deemed “illegitimate.”

readarticleon Before the Mayflower

I’m not quite sure what 17th century intraeuropean propaganda has to do with Andalusian conquistadors not being separatist English puritans, have you misread my comment as well?

readarticleon Before the Mayflower

That’s a misreading, not a correction.

There weren’t really any Spanish pilgrim settlers—a very specific type of colonizer—just conquistadors, and a bog standard extractive colonial empire.

readarticleon Should I use SwiftUI in production? A code-to-code comparison to help you decide

For now. It’s still a first class citizen receiving the full attention & buy in of the platform to a level even Swift itself didn’t receive this early on AFAICT (iOS 14 widgets can only be written with SwiftUI).

readarticleon For Alaska shipwreck survivor, losing everything has been ‘sort of liberating’

May have confused the interesting translation with Punto Abreojos / open eyes / “eye opener” a bit further south in Baja.

readarticleon Britain to ban new petrol cars and vans by 2030 on road to net zero emissions

To consider your simple question:

If the UK (unilaterally) sets an example and does everything the climate activists request of them, but this results in economic depression and unprecedented unemployment and poverty, then no.

Not only will no single country in the rest of the world use their example, plenty will seek to take advantage of an environment in which the UK is rendered deeply uncompetitive, as countries tend to.

And if the constant allegations of climate movements’ funding and influence being manipulated by foreign powers beforehand were strong, they will evolve straight into legitimacy following an event like this.

readarticleon An English Word That Hasn’t Changed in Sound or Meaning in 8k Years

Please don’t use this as an excuse to miss this article.

The lede isn’t even slightly buried (“lox” is the 7th word of the article), it’s just used to present the main topic, i.e. Proto-Indo-Europeans.

It’s not a click saved, it’s a click lost if you don’t already know of the Kurgan Hypothesis.

readarticleon U.S. undertook cyber operation against Iran as part of effort to secure election

The second paragraph of the article:

The move against Iranian hackers working for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps came shortly after they launched an operation two weeks ago posing as a far-right group to send threatening emails to American voters and also posted a video aimed at driving down confidence in the voting process

readarticleon ‘Culture wars’ are fought by tiny minority – UK study

That’s indeed further than I thought, but only 6 points larger than the difference between white and Asian, and 4 points smaller than white - black.

Texas meanwhile with a 13 point difference but 22.5 between white and black, the next closest.

According to 2014-2016 March of Dimes data anyways

readarticleon ‘Culture wars’ are fought by tiny minority – UK study

And without even looking I can guarantee you the biggest percentage is Hispanic, not that far away from 27%, and heavily outweighing Asian and black figures that are once again combined under 20% alongside immigration flows from LA that have remained static for 20 years.

It isn’t white vs minorities, it’s white “vs” a roughly equally sized Hispanic population in a few states that are already being consolidated because immigration flows have tapered, and, party evidenced by the article you posted, easily integrated into “whiteness”. No progress needed!

Haven’t even gotten into how California and Texas are the definitions of special cases in the USA being literally the most attractive states in the Union and also on the border. What are the proportions like in Utah, Kentucky, Pennsylvania etc?

Simple flows + demographic history mate, regional history is one of the big keys here and points the way.

readarticleon ‘Culture wars’ are fought by tiny minority – UK study

I’m not arguing whiteness will progress, I’m arguing against the idea there will be little shared ethnic background in California or Texas, and their “minority majorities”.

That ~20% figure is repeated in California and Texas, while the Hispanic and Non-Hispanic white populations are almost perfectly equal in size. These populations intermix at very high rates powered on one side at least by very strong social forces—societal and familial—that have existed for centuries, see: the demographic history of any Latin American country with substantial European immigration + the wildly different European:non European ratios in the US vs them.

From your own article, keeping in mind Hispanic immigrant populations are of European and Native descent:

We know that light-skinned Cubans were considered white at least as of 1950 because (despite the trepidations of the studio) the public accepted Lucy and Ricky, in a way they would never have accepted a black-white or Chinese-white couple. American Indians were considered non-white, but if they assimilated and married whites their children were generally accepted as part of white society. Did you know that Will Rogers was 9/32 ~~Cherokee~~ Maya?

A huge percentage of white babies of 2098 won’t have to self identify as white, they’ll just be white.

readarticleon ‘Culture wars’ are fought by tiny minority – UK study

America in 1998 had little shared ethnic background by the standards of America in 1898, which had a frankly hilarious lack of shared ethnic background by the standards of 1798.

California and Texas are utterly dominated by Non-Hispanic and Hispanic white people, the two ethnic groups with by far the highest rates of intermarriage in the United States of America.

England 1798 -> Europe 1898 -> Western 1998

readarticleon Wheelmap.org - A map of wheelchair accessible places

They meant “public accommodation”. Essentially any place in America that’s not a church or members’ club, regardless of whether the ownership is private, public, or government.

readarticleon Five Eyes and Japan call for Facebook backdoor to monitor crime

It’s in an even worse position being self hosted by people/entities with no power or sway in the face of a state.

Is there a technical provision that applies to people hosting mastodon instances that doesn’t apply to large social media cos and cannot be beaten with a $5 wrench?

readarticleon Why American cities can’t keep up with infrastructure maintenance (2017)

Oh no, it’s not common at all day to day. US foreign policy has been heavily liberal & internationalist for a century or so now in a manner that deeply affects public opinion of it and its effects. More realist lenses such as this have enjoyed splendid isolation in their IR niches until somewhat recently, but even that slight bump in popularity is mostly negligible outside DC and academia.

Each of your doubts could be addressed with a book/subfield of study, so this will be very high level, unsatisfying, inevitably colored, and in the same vein of perspective as before:

1. https://europa.eu/european-union/sites/europaeu/files/pictur... , can also see the concert and it’s rocky phases leading up to WWI here.

2. Mostly as it relates to balancing and the results of that, though as you’ve pointed out this could all easily be viewed as balancing against the USSR (though the context, lack of relative economic power & length of time in alliance preclude this somewhat, alliances don’t necessarily prevent peer conflict, especially over time and as the participants strengths vary!).

3. Sort of? Cold War era alliances were standing, and meant to ensure peace vs reactive with a finite life span and intended to address a specific crisis, e.g. Napoleon. This obviously existed beforehand though, and indeed led to WWI. I’m not sure of the exact historical trends on this.

4. The eastern half was still soviet for one, France was very strong in the form of EC at the time and didn’t like NATO dominating/expanding for two, and Thatcher was just Thatcher for three. The whole process of reunification was such a fantastic example of skillful diplomacy on both sides that I really can’t do it justice here, suffice to say that US efforts pushed an uneasy/unwilling FR/UK to commit to the process, the “Two Plus Four” negotiating format, and Germany in NATO while brokering the guarantees and associated issues that led the USSR to accepting. Really recommend checking out the history of this if you have the interest and time, fascinating period of history.

And decolonization was absolutely key to integration! Staying on brand, I would only question whether it was fully voluntary (Suez), and whether the global cessation of translating military force into economic success among US allies post Bretton Woods & the WWII destruction of every single other blue water navy had more of an effect.

Finally, the third world was a battleground. External powers and powers in general often do cause instability, but the US in this case held near complete hegemony over Western Europe, and hegemony is quite closely linked with stability in general. One can also look at the relative internal placidity of the eastern bloc while the soviets held control, and its aftermath.

I’m not exactly sure as to what your last paragraph asks, but I’ve had enough fun writing this as is, whew.

readarticleon Why American cities can’t keep up with infrastructure maintenance (2017)

The primary threat to European peace isn’t external.

The EU was wholly created and developed during a suspension of internal politics, conflict, and balancing due to the distorting weight of a third party ensuring order, e.g. German reunification is opposed by Britain, France, and Poland without the presence and backing of the US rendering their oppo essentially useless. Repeat for N issues.

Britain’s current state wasn’t conceived and started because England, Scotland and Wales’ historically conflicting interests were rendered meaningless in the face of an ostensibly neutral third party keeping the peace allowing them to develop ever closer ties, England just conquered the rest a long time ago.

For reference, the last time Europe tried to collectively balance itself internally before conflicting interests inevitably metastasized into alliance formation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concert_of_Europe

And forgive me but once again, I just cannot overstate how important suspending internal conflict was vs keeping the USSR at bay, or going further back, keeping the Nazis out of Britain.

readarticleon Why American cities can’t keep up with infrastructure maintenance (2017)

“Unthreatened” by regional conflict that spirals into affecting regional output more than anything explicit like turning off the taps.

And I’m sorry, but I personally still can’t/won’t do petrodollar discussions on the internet. It’s a perfectly valid reason for US involvement here, but I have been deeply scarred when it comes to good faith on this subject.

readarticleon Why American cities can’t keep up with infrastructure maintenance (2017)

Balance of power: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balance_of_power_(internationa...

The Treaty of Rome was signed in the late 1950s. It, and the subsequent steps to today’s EU are products of Europe’s own internal balance being suspended by the presence of something roughly US shaped [0].

That statement isn’t particularly controversial without delving into some heady revisionism as far as I’m aware. The EU certainly wasn’t developed in a vacuum, and US involvement in the region—especially re: security—was substantial to say the least.

[0] obviously there’s no formal role for the US in the EU, assuming a greater context.