Rise in UFO reports is due to stealthy drone ubiquity.
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COVID19 is part of a long-running CCP bioweapon unrestricted warfare program with benefits such as damaging open Western societies and providing pretexts for anti-dissident crackdown and social control. Other viruses originating in China have likely also been this kind of bioweapon.
COVID19 was a deliberate release intended to infect the US competitors in the Wuhan military games to frame the USA for a biowarfare attack on China. The US contestants were infected in China and then the infection was suppressed via HCQ as part of a "malaria treatment". The intent being they would return to the USA and then spread the virus.
However, execution was poor, and as a result Wuhan was hit first, and the CCP was unable to credibly blame the USA.
The timing was intended to collaborate with Democrats to prevent the reelection of Trump, to crack down on the HK dissident movement, to deal with economic pressure from Trump's negotiations, etc.
Ideally, China would have been seen as an international savior, with a ready vaccine and a model response. CCP leadership were protected via HCQ and suffered minimal casualties.
The argument from consensus is particularly weak when not averaged historically across the lives of the present generation, much less historically.
"Darling, I like you with passion."
Innocent errors of diction are de minimis; tiptoeing heresy emboldens orthodox bigotry.
Consider it. What do old parents imply? Long life expectancy, social stability, slow life strategy. A systematizing kid with low EQ will do well in such a small tribe. Relationships will be simple and long term investments will pay off.
Now look at how fatherless kids turn out well-adapted for a fast life strategy. That's probably a basic mammalian trait for social species with pair-bonding. Look at how young male elephants are feral unless properly led by old bulls.
But I bet autism is exclusive to humans and maybe chimps.
The exception is when free speech is being used as a wedge to destroy the old regime, in which case free speech exercises power, because it is being used to commit lese majeste and revolution.
Truth wins in the long run, when everyone is dead. Power wins in the short run, while the relevant actors are still alive. That's why it's called power.
On the libertarian left-hand side of the scales of state, one has the virtuous population's dedication to truth. On the authoritarian right-hand side of the scales, one has the ambitious population's attraction to power. Add leaden lies to the left-hand side until the two balance, and one discovers how much the regime rejects reality.
See Curtis Yarvin for further details.
Messy execution exploits top-of-mind opportunities without permitting administrative overhead chores to distract.
Immediate meticulous cleanup constructs an idealized legible history, with the advantage of familiar recency.
The human brain itself works this way, consolidating long-term memory overnight during sleep.
The next question is how best to implement this workflow in git.
One option would be to use complex arcane git commands to transform a messy actual work history into an idealized legible official record. Even if the user performs this transformation perfectly, at minimum it causes a loss of information about the actual work history, by altering messy commits.
Therefore it's better to write completely new commits for the official record. One's idiosyncratic work history doesn't belong in the public collaboration git repo.
I find it easier to use separate git repos, one personal and the other collaborative. I transfer info between them only via manually syncing the working trees.
It may take syncing from multiple personal commits to update the official record sensibly, which sounds like a burden, until compared to the alternative of trying to understand a mysterious ancient official commit embracing multiple unrelated changes.
Code spelunkers unsatisfied with the terseness of the official record should be free to investigate the contributing dev's personal repo to sort through his chaos for clues.
"But the difference only emerges when the children are teenagers" "in both America and the Netherlands"
A third, unstated assumption: Data is post-1960s and reflects the feminist revolution.
Since contradicting feminist orthodoxy is heresy against the West's religion of Progressivism, no Hacker News reader is allowed to state the obvious reason for this phenomenon. I find this amusing, living in China, where I suspect the average person on the street could work it out from stereotypes in a matter of seconds, and would certainly have no qualms about baldly stating it.
Perhaps the US thalassocracy will be the first empire to successfully dispense with the need for female chastity ensuring paternal certainty as an incentive for men to invest in future generations. In which case, there is no reason the same speech code cannot remain in effect in the Anglosphere indefinitely. It is certainly not the case that its adherents are unprincipled self-interested self-deceiving conformists!
Businesses are similar to organisms. They compete in an ecosystem to convert syntropy to entropy.
It takes so long to build software because it can. One can't construct a building forever. A novel is published and done. But software can be developed over its useful lifetime.
Similar followup:
The parts that take a long time, do so because the quick parts were finished quickly.
Lengthy software development isn't a problem with software, but rather reflects the frictionless malleability of code.
"Why does software dev take so long," isn't the same question as, "How to develop software more quickly?"
If this is their best argument, I'm alarmed rather than reassured.
If we're betting, I want to know the odds. Where's the latest adverse reaction data?
cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/meetings/downloads/slides-2020-12/slides-12-19/05-COVID-CLARK.pdf
2.3% had significant side effects from the vaccine.
If new data isn't being released, that suggests the news is bad.
Unity is a fine sentiment. Lions are unanimously in favor of lions laying down with lambs. If it hasn't worked yet, that only shows the weakness of our faith. Give until it hurts! Thank you Jesus!
Sorry, I was channeling a televangelist there. I don't know what possessed me.
https://brewminate.com/divide-et-impera-a-history-of-divide-...
What bothers me is there are so many fun immigration combinations that never get any press. Where's the lobby for unlimited Chinese immigration into Japan? Can you imagine the Godzilla movies we'd get out of that? What has Japan done for us lately, besides Dark Souls? A new national trauma is just the thing to refresh that fatalistic warrior muse.
If the Chinese and Japanese can't coexist, despite belonging to the same race and often being mutually indistinguishable, then who can?
Tribal politics are mediated by emotion, settled by sex and violence, and recorded in genes. Unfelt but underlying is the telos of life: to accelerate the heat death of the universe and achieve a more perfectly-uniform field of lifeless subatomic dust. Inspiring! If God is the universe, then life is the cancer She dies of.
So if you really hate God, become Elon Musk and advance humanity along the Kardashev Scale. Which brings us to what international pressure really is: the race up the Kardashev ladder. Those left behind enjoy a century of humiliation, as China discovered when the European nations forcibly opened her ports for business in classically-rapey colonial fashion. If forcible anachronism is a form of societal slavery, then this was a liberation of the Chinese peasant, who now owns a cell phone and several outfits.
Later Mao attempted his Great Leap Forward, but gave up on it before meeting the fate of Pol Pot, whose supreme ideological commitment weakened Cambodia so badly that Vietnam invaded. Thus the threat of invasion checks the degree of enslavement feasible. Of course, it rarely comes to that. Even Communists can be reasonable.
> Isn’t that what’s already happening though?
China should be enjoying her Asian tiger rise in per capita GDP, and filling the vacuum left by the USA's receding thalassocracy. However, it's always possible to overplay a good hand, and it appears Xi did exactly that. If he's replaced by moderate after Deng's heart, it will be partly due to the pressure Trump put on China, in a reversal of the USA's prior indulgence. Not that Trump is doing much on an absolute scale, but relatively, it's a dramatic shift. Mostly though, it's China's own fault. Burning all her international goodwill to hoard COVID19 PPE will prove very expensive, among other shenanigans.
Just because I make a factual historical observation, doesn't make me a neoliberal. Slave societies are an extreme case. I doubt China could be described as one at her current levels of forced labor.
> For producers in the market to be competitive, they must (over)optimize for profit. One of the best ways to do that is by reducing cost. One of the best ways to reduce cost is by employing cheaper labor (“efficient human resource utilization”, you said), and to do that, tech companies must outsource to manufacturers located in poor countries with weak state institutions where the transacting parties can get away with slavery.
Here's where you're right: Tribal politics represent the genetic feedback system, and they dislike arbitrary wealth because of its damaging distortion of genetic fitness feedback. The market economy makes wealth a much less arbitrary signal of genetic fitness, but it is nowhere near a replacement for tribal politics. Unless you think Bill Gates should get all the California girls...
That's why successful societies balance the interests of the rich against the interests of the commoners.
However, I wouldn't call China a "poor country with weak state institutions". If their slaves are outcompeting our free skilled tech workers, there's a simple solution for that: Slap a tariff on it. This move will garner enough popularity to guarantee a crowd of adoring iPhone assembly technicians in front of the golden statue of yourself you erect with the proceeds.
The USA does permit minimum wage workers to purchase cheap pistols, which is probably why its police aren't brave enough to lock them down. Sometimes those workers even upset a predetermined election.
I do not support prisons. On average, it is better to be the slave of an individual and work for him than it is to be the slave of a state and live in a cage full of predators. Although of course I would rather be imprisoned for life in modern Scandinavia than serve 10 years of "indentured servitude" in Plantation America.
Since doing good starts from home, I suggest you liberate your extended family's children from compulsory labor. Let us know how that goes...
I have little faith in legal remedies to liberate slaves. Arming them seems the only long-term effective solution. Otherwise the man with the gun will order the slave back to work the second the man in the wig isn't looking. And the man in the wig will remain silent, to avoid revealing his impotence.
Slave labor is inefficient, so perhaps the best way is to topple inefficient slave societies through full-spectrum competition, from military to economic. This pressure incentivizes efficient human resource utilization.
One thing's for sure: Individual Westerner guilt over whether to buy the next iPhone will add zero value.
When the MSM loses credibility, people such as the bomber are set adrift to seek truth in hostile seas swarming with clickbait. Success in small business does not translate to epistemological accuracy. His failure to obtain a family to sublimate his death drive is a sign of societal breakdown. When sufficient numbers of combat-capable men fail to reproduce, they initiate violence, regardless of the proximate trigger. He reminds me of a less-intelligent, less-alienated Unabomber.
Given those facts, I'm comfortable deprecating the much weaker Dominion-AT&T angle.
Last time I mentioned this rumor that I didn't see addressed in the comments, I got silently downvoted. Perhaps because I didn't provide links. So I'll now provide links, because this deserves a closer look.
A skeptical layman contacted the Facebook post author and confirmed that it wasn't a fabricated post:
https://twitter.com/kr3at/status/1342673196470964225
The author set the post to private because his phone was blowing up.
https://twitter.com/kr3at/status/1342680906381799424
Human remains were found at the bombing scene, which suggests a body in the RV, possibly a suicide bomber babysitting the payload to prevent heroics, or a murder victim. Suicide bombing would fit the Stephen Paddock pattern.
https://bigleaguepolitics.com/authorities-recover-human-rema...
This matters because as motohagiography observed, we're missing a motive. Right-wing terrorists targeting infrastructure is a possibility, but they archetypically target electrical, not Internet, since they regard the Internet as their propaganda equalizer against the MSM and means of decentralized cohesion. Shutting down the Internet during the Presidential transition would seem contrary to their interests. (Targeting electrical also interdicts Internet, but the benefit of the havoc caused in Democrat cities outweighs this in their eyes.)
My original downvoted lazy comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25542746
This is just my impression from today's news skimming. Needs verification.
Ruqqus is better in every way. Voat was obsolete.
The pious celebration of the HNers is amusing, but there is no reduction of free speech availability for the banned pro-Aryan right. If anything, their user experience will now improve. It is a consolidation.
Food insecurity implies potential for violence, and urban food deserts are practically unprecedented. One may call it a unique American achievement in urban planning.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0276146715612550
This promises interesting times when just-in-time delivery inevitably arrives a day late and a dollar short.
Just kidding, the USD is the first forever currency of the USG, the first forever empire. What's the worst that could happen?
Cities such as Baltimore and Detroit have already seen the process play out. It makes for interesting reading, from a safe distance.
Like a slow-motion forest fire, as the conflagration spreads outwards, new growth sprouts defiantly from the charred center. I wouldn't call it a natural process, but it resembles one.
Do the inner cities of other countries lie in ruins for decades, or is that an American thing?
In general, punish a monopoly by using a competitor, not by boycotting the monopoly. You're supporting an eventual threat to the monopoly, which monopolists hate, because it erodes their long-term advantage. That's why they spend so much buying up small competitors. They're afraid.
Doing yourself the injury of avoiding the monopoly platform completely is something they would do to punish you if they could, to discourage others from patronizing competitors.
Monolithic institutions such as Big Platform are vulnerable to the same ideological convergence that captured the big universities, but this problem is self-solving. Social cycle theory predicts hegemonic collapse due to impractical religion, but now both universities and Big Platform are being replaced piecemeal by the invasive barbarian hordes of the decentralized Internet, who ignore national boundaries.
See Parler and Gab for Twitter; DDG, Bing and Dogpile for Google. Facebook's challengers are VK, Minds and Diaspora, although Facebook is more loathe to offend its conservative lucrative userbase. Google's manipulations are subtle enough that anti-trust, section 230 and the like are probably greater threats; personalized search results still usually deliver a superior product despite biased results manipulation.
A divided society that increasingly refuses to do business with each other cannot have united platforms. For every leftist who discriminates against the right, there is a rightist who is legally barred from openly practicing his discrimination against a protected category on the left. Which isn't the same as saying this discrimination doesn't occur.
Already hordes of Republican Boomers have rejected Twitter's heavy-handed censorship, driving record competitor growth. Regardless of whether one believes Trump will overturn the MSM-declared electoral outcome, it's obvious that IF he does, Twitter's losses will accelerate. This will increase popular skepticism towards the other big platforms, to say nothing of increased governmental scrutiny.
Hillary's loss proved certainty an illusion. It's a bold bet; we'll see what happens.
But yeah, the Hugo site is written in Org, and refactored with Treefactor which I wrote in elisp...