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Thanks :)

Apologies if this question is too stupid, I mean no disrespect, just trying to understand things better.

If gender is a complete social construct and 'man' and 'woman' are something that is traits observed within an ongoing and temporal culture lens, then why not create another of your own?

Most problems that I see in this debate are due to one group wanting to widen the scope of a existing understanding, the other wanting to preserve it.

Wouldn't creating a 3rd gender and legislating it as a valid legal entity with compelled equal facilities solve the problem for both groups?

When reason fails, use fear or violence eh?

The US is in a bad state today because people have forgotten how to speak to each other respectfully, they don't agree to disagree, they violently disagree. Fear mongering and labeling will only make things worse.

Both sides need to stop explaining, justifying and funding their bad apples by pointing to the other.

In medical terms, stop tying to cure an infection with another infection of your own.

Well, my bad. It was a wrong assumption on my part.

A HN reader not knowing Jim Keller is a bit surprising. He is a well known name in tech communities.

A human being's inability to accept he is a finite random experiment with no specific purpose is the cause of most of suffering.

I know is a massive overkill, but how is the experience of reading books (pdfs)on the iPad Pro ? (Reading books on a laptop is a pain and phones are too small)

Thanks for sharing your story. Real life stories like your give far more insights to life than cooked up biographies of billionaires.

I don't know where you are from, but for people in developing countries even a lower middle class American life is far better than being relatively rich and fighting the daily hassle of living in their home country.

There is a reason we differentiate terms like "accident" and "collision" in the English language. Using the same term to define multiple things is not helping men or women. Feminism, I believe, needs to make better use of language.

Even the law, which is usually the last to evolve, clearly understands the difference between a death caused by self defense and murder.

I had never thought about society this way. Thanks for this insight.

This law if intended for capital preservation is solely aimed at the middle class, the rich already have means of moving their money out. Panama papers and Swiss Bank fiascos proved that well.

India's iron handed squeeze of the middle class via insane policies is already causing a massive brain drain, the government seems either too stupid or willfully ignorant in recognizing the insidiousness of this issue.

I have asked this previously, asking again, believing bitcoin will become digital gold is believing - * US will let go of the petrodollar / reserve currency status. * China will allow a democratic process to control their currency / economy. * Other developing countries like India will give up the ability to control inflation etc of their own economy.

Do you sincerely believe these are possible ?

Also, if most of mining & hardware required for it is controlled by China and we are buying this digital gold via real currency, isn't a significant global wealth transfer happening to China ?

I don't know if India's decision is right or wrong, we do have a history of taking incredibly stupid "shooting oneself in the foot" decisions, but questions above do bother me.

A few questions I need help with -

If bitcoin becomes a store of value / digital gold and people increasingly hold their wealth in Bitcoin countries will lose the ability control and regulate their own economy.

1) Why would any country hand over the reins of its economy to others ? India is already thinking of banning cryptocurrencies, China has similar thoughts too, if many large countries ban it how would Bitcoin sustain ?

2) US has fought wars to retain dollar as the global reserve currency. Why would the US give up this advantage ?

3) Presently, economic sanctions are used to push interests and disincentivize bad behavior. How would this play out in a world of Bitcoin ?

4) If bitcoin exists with fiat and exchange points can be controlled and blocked by governments, what's the point of Bitcoin ?

This is the one podcast on Naval's Youtube channel that I found wired. Most of what Naval says makes clear sense to me, but the conversation with Kapil & Kapil's twitter+website gave me all kinds of wrong vibes. I have seen too many of these guru type scams in India.

Naval is the only reason I want to explore Kapil's works a bit more, despite my instinct shouting at me not to. If a guy who has understood the game of life and money far better than me finds this guy a true intellect, maybe I am missing something ?

The poor get swindled most by retailers. Small and large retailers bribe too, but with cartels, vote bank politics and threats of violence.

Should the end customer eternally pay for these middle men because they bribe politicians and use emotional language to hide their willful incompetence ?

Retail sells 10x Amazon yet refuse to organize or make use of efficiencies of scale.

India is a poor country yet pay more than many developed countries for the same products because of dumb short term policies and protectionism. Creative destruction is important.

This article looks at data without understanding the reason behind it.

Many educated Indians choose to buy from these 33 Amazon owned / equity linked sellers because of the experience they offer - odds of receiving wrong/damaged product is low, and in case where that happens the return / replacement process is hassle free.

Amazon has brought price discovery to many product categories in India. For expensive products I check Amazon's ClouldTail / Appario seller's price before making a purchase from even local vendors, keep that as a reference and negotiate.

Eg: Every computer component, laptop has a ridicules MRP (Maximum Retail Price) in India. A RAM module sold at INR 5500 has an MRP of INR 20,500.

The sad part is even companies like AMD collude with distributors in cheating end customers.

Instead of fixing problems which makes citizens flock to few sellers at Amazon every Indian government irrespective of political party chooses to appease the voting block of traders union - who are nothing but middle men making prices expensive to the end consumer.

A country grows when builders and innovators contribute to the economy, not leeches who don't even understand what they are selling. Everyday I lose a little hope of India ever becoming a developed country, we have our priorities backwards.

The term you are looking for is New Grad. A good point to learn early on - avoid region specific lingo, communicating clearly is as important as your coding skills.

In that case every rapper who says the N**a word in a rap song or calls his buddies that should get banned from all platforms.

A terrorist speaking in an encoded message to cause wilful harm is still liable for it, even if the words don't exactly say that.

Language is all about context.

If we were so strict about language, most Americans wouldn't qualify to graduate 3rd grade for their botched up spelling of British English.

Most probably each public library would be assigned a set of accounts, which any citizen can use via their computers by visiting the library.

Genuine cases languish in Indian judicial system for decades, couldn't they just make the case against SciHub run around in the system for a few decades. Why waste money to satisfy somebody's greed when it can be put to much better use ?

Can't these researchers get a VPN and access SciHub, Govt of India banned many porn sites, made no difference to its users ?

Use the same money and fund more research!

Just like porn is not real sex, VR / AR is a long way from making in person friends and acquaintances.

+1 to @jamestimmins' comment

How many pandemics have we had in our lifetime ?

This is like saying buy a Hummer for that one off road drive you take in a decade and suffer its drawbacks for 99% of your use case.

Have vast sprawling houses protected US from COVID-19 ?

Let's make data driven decisions please.

In support of your comment, why can't apple have a few DIRECT EMPLOYEES at each major supplier factory full time to monitor the working conditions and terms adherence on a day to day basis ?

I have nothing against Apple. I respect them for their stand on privacy, I respect their innovation in hardware, but, this is not the first time their suppliers have used slave labor. It happened multiple times in China, now its happening in India.

When a company claims it is not shipping a charger in the box due to environmental concerns, how can it repeatedly be caught using slave labor ?

Can't a company that builds monumental buildings in the MOST expensive real estate in the world not hire a few DIRECT EMPLOYEES who monitor working conditions in supplier factories on a day to day basis ?

I have wondered for a long time why can't we have a Kickstarter / some crowdfunding started to port Linux to ARM phones. We spend so much money on phones, if we donate $1 a month for a few months and fund a few top class open source developers to do this full time whilst giving them market rate salary we can dramatically change the mobile ecosystem.

If a trusted name in HN Community or the tech world starts this many would contribute and it would have network effect.

Once we have Linux on mobiles, many startups would form around this ecosystem. Which would - localize jobs redistribute wealth so that Apple & Google don't get to hoard it. stop planned obsolescence which is rampant these days. create a market for open source hardware / cruelty free hardware.

Agree with you completely, I will try my best to avoid any products having Wistron as a supplier in future.

The next time you buy an apple product, keep this in mind. Along with that shiny new phone comes curse of thousands of poor people.

We are up in arms about climate change with govt, but when a TRILLION dollar private company screws people over - not a word. Wait in line to buy their products.

Its hard not to think that most Americans still prefer and like slavery. Just that a few black people managed to escape the publicly acceptable version of it.

I was prescribed steroid (prednisolone) for 2 years by a licensed, famous doctor. He never told me about its ill effects and he didn't taper the does till mid of second year. It didn't help my Crohns much, just kept it suppressed. I am expecting to die early because of this.

So, please don't assume the doctor is always right. Do your due diligence. They are fallible just like us, to be honest, I think they are just engineers working on the human body.