Tell that to the folks in Ukraine who now have to worry about one of their plants melting down in addition to everything else they're dealing with.
Imagine a conflict on the scale of WWII with developed countries bombing each other day and night. Sooner or later one of those conventional weapons accidentally, or not accidentally, hits a nuclear reactor.
Nuclear plants are great in Sim City, they just don't work in the real world.
Half a century of conformist education and a financial machine around scaling companies has made tech workers soft. And their choice to insulate themselves in specific metros/social circles has made them unable to see this.
Back in February, at the outset of the war, the U.S. offered to evacuate President Zelensky. His exact words were, "The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride".
Nice try though. I'm sure the pro-Russia contingent on HN will throw a few up-votes your way.
Maybe your free speech is overrated. But as for the rest of us, it is not.
Plus, the misunderstood bit. I mean I get you know this, but do you think people actually know their 1st amendment rights? Like, its about specific things, not all things, and no, you (nor Trump) do not have an axiomatic right to say anything you like on Twitter, because "freedom of speech" (hint: Twitter is not a commons, or public space, or bound by laws in Congress)
Do you think "free speech" is going to save the defendents in the Dominion Voting case, Specifically Fox? Remember, the fine point here is "misunderstood" not "is important" -I think the libel laws may save Fox, but it won't be Free speech, it will be Libel laws. I kind of hope they lose because even if $1b is an over estimate, they trashed a corporate entity for political gain, by lying. Thats really bad. They could do it tomorrow to anyone else. Thats bully pulpit bad.
The Sunni vs Shia wars and torture in the Middle East. Israel. The race riots in SE Asia. India's Muslim vs Hindu conflicts, as well as Pakistan. You need a minority whose votes are negligible enough. Often those with enough power to be a viable threat (Jews, Chinese billionaires, hardworking educated immigrants).
Trump/MAGA is just following the standard politician playbook of vilifying minorities for votes. When it works, future politicians do the same because it's easy and proven. And then the hatred turns to violence. It's not just MAGA, it's also the people who compare Trump to Hitler and compare MAGA to Nazis.
It started as the well-trodden "Southern Strategy" but now US' adversaries have poured fuel on the fire and its burst into full on fascist rhetoric and thinking now. This is quite literally, exactly how the Nazi party started and evolved. Stop downplaying this as anything but and start reading how the Nazis started and evolved - the StormTrumpers and GOP appear to be using it as their playbook.
Translation: I'm not prepared for what is coming.
i started producing my own food, water, and energy.
i suggest you do likewise. rather than expecting the government to supply all your needs.
- Corporate ESG sucks.
- HR departments have been hijacked by social justice people, mostly women. Subjectivism has taken over objectivism.
- Society/Technology has been deteriorating, not accelerating. Despite of what people say about progress in last 50 years.
- Anti-capitalism is going to lead to demise of USA and largely the west while APAC has been embracing what worked in the west, i.e. Hypercapitalism that's pulling people out of poverty.
- Hard work and pushing yourself to the limit mentally should be encouraged.
Let me explain. ESG is a way for politicians/administrative-class/elites to force ideology on the public without having to go through the legislative process and gaining public support, thereby bypassing writing laws. Constitution has deliberately made lawmaking process difficult and lengthy, that's a feature, not a bug. Instead, power is exercised through the proxy of corporations.
It is anything but democratic. It is totalitarian (even though I agree with some of the ESG initiatives).
The people I really have a problem with are the autodidacts. It's very hard to argue with somebody convinced of their genius, when it's never been formally tested, or constructed in a methodology.
Staying in lane means asking questions in the other field, make assertions in your own.
There's absolutely nothing I'm unable to do on Windows 10, but there are a lot of things I wasn't able to do on Linux.
Each cat his rat I guess.
The advantage over OSX is commodity hardware: easy upgrades/downgrades/repairs, & lower cost. Swapping HD in my macbook involved ordering special screwdrivers & prybars, then at least 30min worth of disassembly/re-assembly. Last linux/PC upgrade consisted of slapping the old HD into the new PC and powering on--10 minutes max. Aside from that, OSX is nice.
Calculator fires up in 2 seconds even on my elderly Intel m3-6y30 machine.
Not to pick on the parent poster, since I've seen far too many on HN say the same thing, but if the person who started this topic wants a prime addition to "unpopular opinions here that should not be", it's that those who aren't skilled enough to use Windows properly are also pretty much guaranteed not to be skilled enough to use other operating systems which expose much more complexity to the user, like Linux, properly either.
Not a CPU issue, but a network timeout one. Disconnect from ethernet/wifi, try again, report back. Circa 2016, it took 5-10 sec before it would give up on phoning-home & finally open. I put wireshark on it & timed it myself. No idea what it does now.
I've noticed that Windows programmers are very quick to work around what they perceive as bugs in underlying library code, and opaqueness in both code and motives is why.
Aside from that, amen. "Get a byte, get a byte, get a byte byte byte" is a breath of fresh air compared to MS documentation. The situation has improved--if only because we can go to StackOverflow and ask Jon Skeet for the answer--but in the bad old days (where you might as well be on a desert island with your MSDN DVDs) it was pure pain.
It's more than a whiff, it's a disgusting stench.
OP didn't ask for explanations, long or brief.
If you want those, that's what we have scripture for. "Which scripture?!" you may ask. I prefer the New Testament. Nearly any scripture is preferable to the modern materialist quantity-cult--even ones outside of the Abrahamic fold.
Such people have spiritual holes, which they deny, but are there none the less. They try to fill these holes with material comforts--food, sex, pills, money, et. al. The problem is: you can't fill a spiritual hole with material substance, but in our ignorance we keep piling-on. More restaurants, more drugs, more trips, more money, more hookups--metabolizing the earth, degrading the body, poisoning the children. None of it will ever be enough, because we are using the wrong medicine & operating on false premises.
What about people who are agnostic, don't abuse these things, and feel happy? Do they have spiritual holes?
> More restaurants, more drugs, more trips, more money, more hookups
All of these things are on the decline in the United States among young people. They are using drugs/alcohol and having sex less frequently than any previous generation. They are also the least religious.
Is it possible that agnosticism is not a predictor of pleasure-seeking activities?
You say they are using fewer drugs, but I don't see that. They've merely upgraded their dealers--from street hoods to doctors & pharmacists. Talking to kids today (and hearing about all of their drugs) is almost as boring as talking to my grandparents (and hearing about all of their drugs): SSRIs, ADHD meds (and how do I convince my doc to prescribe them), hormone treatments (for the trans & the old farts trying to re-live their 20s), PrEP, finasteride, dick pills (because they've already messed that up in their 20s with the hair pills), etc. From this board alone, I know more about adderall & HRT that I ever wanted to.
And I would be interested to know more about all of these self-denying agnostics you've claimed. Closest thing I have seen to what you have said "in the wild" would be ordinary status-chasing--foregoing the booze and the broads for clicks & social-climbing--which is no better, and no less material, than the comforts I've already listed.