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> Trump has encouraged a general sentiment of opposition to experts

Trump knew since May 2020 that Fauci was lying - he had the DOE LLNL investigate the lab leak theory, and LLNL reported that COVID-19 was possibly from a lab. So yeah, he doesn't believe experts who can't stop lying.

https://wjla.com/news/nation-world/exclusive-classified-stud...

> he's been kind of lukewarm on promoting the vaccines compared to Democrat leaders

Trump's Warpspeed (Spring 2020) funded the vaccines. I haven't heard him say any negative things about them.

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

Republicans/Trumpists believe in personal choice, so I wouldn't expect him to be a cheerleader for getting a shot.

> the GOP has increasingly embraced conspiratorial thinking,

After Fauci lying for over a year, 2 failed impeachments, being deplatformed on social media, being told they have no standing to dispute elections, being told CRT doesn't exist - half of the country knows what a Marxist conspiracy feels like first-hand, and they're pissed.

Most of the major stories about Trump since 2019 on CNN, MSNBC and WaPo have been retracted in 2021 (after the election). I suggest you stop reading those sources and spend a couple months reading Fox and NTD - I can't think of anything they're retracted.

Do a Youtube search for "cpac trump full speech 2021" - the only full version is on Sky Australia's channel - for now. All the copies on US channels have been blocked or prevented.

Working in IT but having a commercial pilot license, it's bizarre how continuing education in IT is non-existent, yet mandatory in the aviation world - and IT people don't even know it.

To teach in aviation in the US, you need a Chief Flight Instructor (CFI) rating, where you demonstrate to an examiner how to teach the various maneuvers.

IT could learn a lot from regulated industries like aviation.

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

Ventilators:

- are intended for use for a few days, not a few weeks. The artificial air pressure destroys lung cells and capillaries

- patients are sedated to avoid pulling out tubes. This weakens both their lung function and the rest of their body due to immobilization, including bed sores. Usually their trachea is damaged and they cannot talk after removing the tubes for a period of time, and must do physical rehabilitation afterwards.

- doctors and nurses consider patients on ventilators the sickest in the hospital, followed by recent ventilator patients

- being in a hospital for a month or more exposes patients to other infections, which are not immediately apparent in a sedated patient

- China warned about ventilator use being usually unproductive with corona very early in 2020, so it took a while for US doctors to understand that the low oxygen levels measured in corona patients was not a critical thing in most cases if they could still breathe on their own.

ER doctors are not researchers, so they follow previous recommendations until told otherwise.

> Still no crash.

There have been runs on 5 or 6 banks since 2020, and a bunch of property developers are in default.

The CCP threatened to audit large companies, and when they picked 16 to start with, at least one immediately admitted to being insolvent before the audit even started.

Had Trump's trade and capital restrictions continued, esp. on chips, there would have been a full-on crash. The US can do that any time it wants to, as they did with the USSR.

(BRI is financed from US capital markets. While the US was distracted with Middle East wats, China borrowed money from the US and expanded BRI to over 100 countries.)

This also happened in South America.

In some cases, the local rulers (Aztecs or Incans) destroyed existing libraries to cement their hold on power, before the Conquistadors arrived.

In other cases (Mayans), the Spanish clergy burned most of the books, with a few "codices" saved:

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

And in the US, we have the 1619 Project, statue toppling, etc. in an effort to revise history.

Fall of Civilizations (very addictive Youtube channel)

https://www.youtube.com/c/FallofCivilizationsPodcast/videos

FYI: the final Target SF location, Stonestown, with normal closing hours (9 pm or 10 pm) just adopted 6 pm closures too.

They also have 3x the security at self-serve registers, one per row, compared to maybe one total before.

- note that the official investigation meeting (before he disappeared for 3 months) had state officials from 4 different state departments in one meeting, meaning it was highly choreographed by the CCP

- Xi announced more hands-on CCP oversight for all companies in 2020 after a few decades of Wild West-style capitalism. The point of temporary capitalism was to grow the Chinese economy to a Western standard and avoid Soviet-style economic stagnation, which ultimately made the USSR non-viable. Then control and suppress the economoy going forward.

- Xi had himself declared dictator for life, well, to be exactly that. He doesn't need industry titans distracting the population, or leaving him in the shade. There can be only one.

I did some work for the Recommendation team (the oversized checks were still arrayed along the wall when I was there.)

The later winning entries were too compute-intensive to implement, or not enough of an advantage over the existing engine to justify more compute.

So I would say it was a real competition, not just PR, even though a particular solution wasn't used.

(Factoid: It was the the last team to start the migration to Cassandra.)

I did a search and it looks like airline ground collisions are usually resolved via the courts.

The towing company in one case with Virgin Airlines tried to muddy the waters with "no specific airplane model training" and "not enough lighting", which the judge laughed at since if an airplane towing company can't tow an airplane, what's the point of using them?

FYI: a wingtip strike can cost a few million dollars to fix, plus the cost of grounding (AOG) for weeks or months, which is more millions, for an airliner.

With small airplanes, most flight schools don't charge for AOG, but in the cases I've heard of, the loss of use was more than the repair bill and probably ended the student's career. The numbers were in the range of $5,000 in repairs and $10,000 - $20,000 for loss of use.

> Ironic, considering the opposite is true for planes. Although I do believe only one is typically in control/“pilot” at any given time.

In US civilian flying, one is the pilot flying and the other is the pilot non-flying (usually operates radios, etc.) They usually alternate landings. Pilots study Cockpit Resource Management (CRM) to improve communications.

The Pilot in Command (PIC) is responsible for the flight (not ATC.)

Airplanes can be towed on the ground. Not sure how responsibility is assigned. It's pretty common for wingtips to collide during ground-handling, which grounds both planes.

- DevOps originally was supposed to eliminate Operations (Sysadmin) staff by involving Dev with the Infra and Release process.

- But Dev is incentivized to create features, not know the intricacies of Release at scale, so dedicated Devops (Operations) teams were again staffed

- dedicated DevOps teams are here to stay except in certain unique scenarios. For example, I've seen some Indian-led SV startups that hate Operations staff ("oh, they're overhead") carefully design their production environment around using services that don't need mgmt. (DynamoDB, Lambda, etc.), and that will work up to a certain scale.

However, every time they have a problem with AWS, onboarding, security, excessive on-call rotations, etc. their developers have to be ready to become the DevOps they so despise, reducing the number of featueres they can build.

- in larger companies, Devs don't have access to production, so again dedicated DevOps teams are needed if only to enforce policy.

For those unaware, the CCP actually has police in foreign countries to find and arrest dissidents.

In some European countries, they have/had permission to operate freely.

In the US, the CCP police has been told to return home. But we'll see how that turns out.

This is only the tip of the iceberg in terms of foreign espionage that the CCP is doing in the US.

You can read about the Thousand Talents program (turning scientists into spies), United Front (connected to BLM Inc.), Confucious Institutes (teaching CCP narrative to foreign children), and donations to US universities and media outlets. (The CCP donates money so that they can threaten to withold future donations later.)

(The Houston embassy was closed because of the above.)

Two Australian Senators recently resigned because they were actually CCP members.

The Computer History Museum in Mountain View (Bay Area) has a CM-1.

https://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/computers/

It also has some of the first ARPAnet (Internet) routers.

It's not proof, it's an exception.

Also, Sriracha can be litigious:

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/05/sriracha-maker-loses-lawsuit...

Agreed. It's disgusting how HN has become communist.

> Is it ethical to scrape things, trying to bypass prevention methods, against the expressed wishes of a site?

No, but many sites only allow Google to index them now.

I don't think that was the original plan for the web.

Actually the artist was prescient - with Clear Channel ownership, there is almost no local radio programming today.

IHeartMedia (formerly Clear Channel)

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

"the company owns more than 850 full-power AM and FM radio stations in the U.S., making it the country's largest owner of radio stations. "

You're missing the point.

The reason for CRT/segregation/intersectionalism in 2021 is to attack the existing power structure and recreate it for the benefit of Marxist leaders.

The "problem" with desegregation and the nuclear/extended family is that Marxists don't get a cut.

You can learn more by reading previous generations of the Red Guard, Red Terror, Maoism and Fascism, which are being copied wholesale from the history books.

Your misunderstanding is caused by not being a good comrade.

The black box has worked well for all in Common Law countries.

In countries with French-style law, that might be different for pilots. (Essentially you're guilty until proven innocent, and they hire a retired judge with nothing better to do except to drag out the hearings (and fees) until they die.)

However the scale has tipped recently in the US with a central pilot records database being created recently. So at every step of your career, you're recorded and tracked. If an employer doesn't like you, they can scribble whatever they want in your permanent government record now.

So before a pilot candidate spends $200,000 on a college education and pilot training, they need to think about both losing their medical at any time, and what will happen if their airline decides to fire them and give them a hard time.

When you read that page, it's important to look at historical context. Ask yourself:

- was it a Communist govt? (ie. South America, SE Asia)

- was there anybody else that should have intervened? (ie. timid Europe refusing to police the Balkans)

- was there significant public support?

- was the US required to intervene as the sole superpower to maintain order?

- did a neighbor ask/pay for the intervention? (ie. Saudi Arabia and Kuwait paid the US to invade Iraq)

- did a neighboring country fail to maintain order (ie. Pakistan failed to police Afghanistan)

Also, note that Roosevelt ended English, French, Italian, Dutch and German colonialism. Most of their colonies can thank the US for their independence, most notably Indonesia.

The US has probably the world's smallest colonies for a superpower - Rome was nothing but colonies. How leftists twist that into America being evil is absurd.

They're hoping you click on the link in that paragraph, which is full-on Marxist propaganda.

Also, it's not 6 states banning CRT, it's 20 states now.

(CRT is calling white children oppressors, and black children victims. Neither is accurate or helpful. CRT is derived from Marxist Critical Theory. Since the US doesn't have a class struggle, racism has been inserted to make it a racism struggle.)

I believe early in WW2, Japan had a treaty with Russia.

So Japan did not torpedo US Liberty ships headed to Russia, and various other surprising things. (Japan obeyed international treaties to the letter, but did not follow any human rights conventions.)

Of course, at the end of WW2, Russia turned their vast army and artillery eastward, and annihiliated the Japanese army.

Source: I study WW2.

MySQL has had a myriad of easy-to-use solutions for over a decade that offer point-in-time cloning:

- Percona xtrabackup

- Linux LVM snapshots

- master-slave replication

- then built-in replication for point-in-time catchup.

I do some work with pg, but it seems clunky compared to MySQL for typical HA and failover scenarios, but it can be done. All the MySQL methods I mentioned above can and have been scripted. With MySQL GTIDs, it's usually trivial.

MySQL 8 and Percona Cluster are easy-to-use multi-master topologies. (I only use them with less than 100 GB of data in case of state transfers.)

Source: MySQL DBA.

If you can breathe, it should be ok.

A lot of DCs after 2000 went from cold to warm based on the failure rates not changing.

If you get a chance to tour HE Fremont (the old Apple factory), it's not cold.

Factoid: most startups in SV started with a rack in a closet, that one day lost air circulation or cooling and went to the boiling point. I recommend people monitor the temp and cut 2 inches off the bottom and top of their closet door to allow passive cooling while you drive back to the office.

Women ofte report heart problems as nausea, differently than men, who report it as pain.

So this side effect may be under-reported or misdiagnosed in women, so not male-only.

As I wrote on HN early 2020, Wuhan and Shanghai had direct flights to SFO and LAX of 50,000 passengers per week. No doubt corona was in SF very early, possibly late 2019.

SF got herd immunity from infections, which is why it was rare that we came anywhere close to ICU capacity. I watched the graphs daily for months, and while the rest of the country was losing their minds, we just didn't see much of a dent, typically in the range of 10% of total beds.

The only hysteria was from Newsom, who has ambitions of running for President.

The history is that Datadog hired the Boundary people, who added this feature about 2 years ago.

(Boundary was a small SF startup that created a network flow product. Netflix evaluated it for use on Cassandra clusters. BMC acquired Boundary in 2015.)

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/boundary

Your comment is mostly drivel, but I'll make a comment then add something useful at the end.

> But the sky turned orange for a week last year, as wildfires

California doesn't and can't manage its forests properly, so orange skies are expected annually. Very little to do with climate change.

The useful part in the article:

What's interesting in the article is that CO2 levels increased during a pandemic shutdown. That should be investigated to see why.

Climate scientists dream of the chance to collect measurement samples during cessation of human activities like this pandemic (same with the grounding of US aircraft during 9/11.)

Since when is being anti-Marxist trolling?

Is that how misguided HNers have become?

Churchill has an interesting reputation.

He was a failed military commander pre-PM, even ridiculed after the failed landing at Gallipoli:

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

Yet we most remember him as a fierce leader from the top, and he did so while under extreme stress due to U-boat attacks strangling shipping to Britain, and puzzlement from the German alien-level advanced technology (V-2 hypersonic ballistic missiles, long-range radio navigation, etc.)

(His scientific advisor told him the above technologies were disinformation, and couldn't be real.)

It's important to realize that while French and British public opinion became soft on the value of their culture and nationhood, Churchill knew better. Just like the pernicious impact of cultural Marxism today in the US, which must be fought as a war on every front.