My fyp was very similar. I'm going to miss having so many like minded folks to hear from and interact with. I don't think any other app has given me this same sense of community and to some degree empowerment. I am very left leaning in my politics, I also happen to be a POC who is surrounded by apolitical friends. TikTok showed me that there are other folks just like me - that is a powerful and reassuring feeling.
Because it's not clear what the national security concern is. With weapons or infrastructure, it's easy to understand how they can be used against the U.S., but with a social media platform, it's harder to see the threat. The concern really seems to lie with the users of TikTok.
So what's the issue? That people living in the U.S. and using TikTok might be influenced to act differently than how the powers that be want us to act?
I keep seeing this stated as a reason for banning tt but I've yet to see any evidence. During the supreme courts oral argument last week they referred to a sealed appendix with more info, when they were passing the legislation they also referred to secret evidence that Americans can't see. I don't want to give in to conspiratorial thinking but if its as bad as they claim then we as the public have a right to see the evidence and decide for ourselves.
I feel the same way and I think the writing is on the wall for the near future of the world. It is disheartening to see people on a forum like HN who I assumed have values similar to mine fall right in line with conservative propaganda and try to act like this isn't an overtly political action. This decision is political, and it goes a lot deeper than left vs right - its about attacking support for a baseline scientific 'truth' and fully accepting a post-truth world where reality is what the powerful deem it to be. This has always been the case to some extent but it has gotten so lopsided in the last decade that its hard to see how we come back from this.
It shocking to me too. I can't understand how people are 'both sides-ing' this or just supporting him under some free speech argument. Free speech has limits and a court found Jones went too far and that cost him his business.
I feel like I've ripped off the bandaid for a few weeks now and I'm left with a 'now what?' feeling. I'm stuck trying to think of ways we can bring the temperature down and bring us back to being a civil society.
I am taking a graduate level public health course and this trade off is literally covered in the first lecture its something they call prevention paradox. It's surprising to see that the head of the NIH would say something like this when it's literally part of the curriculum for public health. I'm so tired of political opinions masqueraded as we know better than the experts or we know better than the scientist.
What kind of calculation goes into leasing something for 750k/year to keep competition away? Is it as simple as thinking that a competing store would cost them 750k/year or do other factors go into this?
Also, the mayor expressed his frustration but there is a lot that local government can do to combat this kind of thing. Even something as simple as getting a weekly farmers market started or actively looking for small time grocers would help. I think the mayor doesn't want to push too hard for whatever reason.
What is interesting to me is that there is no difference in the AP English lit/lang exams. Why did chain-of-thought produce negligible improvements in this area?
Guns aren't smuggled in from the Southern border. If anything guns are smuggled out of the USA into mexico, how do you think the cartels get their guns?
I think it would be great to augment this tool to diagram the council meetings with questions, discussions, and motions. This would make it easier to track what city staff presents, which questions are asked by which council members, and finally how the motions are made and modified for any action items. I find that keeping track of all this during a meeting is very hard to do. It can make your head spin.
I work in hardware so my feelings about meetings may be different. In my experience, meetings are important because they keeps all the stakeholders in sync. The problem is that engineers like to work in silos and they do not communicate well with other engineers. Meetings allows stakeholders to communicate. It's not efficient but it's better than not communicating at all. Written reports would help, but writing a report does not guarantee that anybody will read it.
I also think it's very telling that whenever a project is at risk for missing deadlines, upper management tries to correct the course by holding more meetings. The extra meetings take a toll on productivity, but they also keep everybody focused, on task, and most importantly, they allow management to quickly allocate resources and people to critical path items.
Thank you for this comment. I read the article and it really resonated with my experiences while growing up. Unfortunately, reading the comments here makes it clear how ignorant and uninformed lots of the HN crowd is regarding socio-economic issues. These are not new problems. There are fields of study dedicated to understanding poverty and its effects on people. There is no excuse for the ignorance and callousness of some of these comments.
I've followed your comments in this thread. You'd benefit from educating yourself on the subject of food deserts it is not an unknown or new subject. There are hundreds of studies that explain how and why food deserts exist and why poor people make the decision that they do.
Why do you have to look at their credit history before allowing someone to rent from you? Shouldn't their income be all you need? Whether you realize it or not, you are a part of the system that enables a life of debt. Owning a home allows people to build equity and sets a foundation for a stable life. By being a land lord, you are preventing people from buying and building equity. Instead their hard earned money goes right into your pocket.
I agree with you 100%. To do this we need to put politicians who put science first into positions of power. This means that scientists, engineers, and all science forward people need to accept the discomfort of being political. We are the majority! To make a real difference that can counter catastrophic climate change we need to unite and support politicians who understand the importance of science based policies. We can't sit on the sidelines and watch populist politicians whip up support with pathos and lies. In the USA, I think it's time to start a PAC that lobbies and supports science based policies.
Thank you for this perspective. I agree, my parents have a lot of bad habits one of which is holding on to things that may be of value at some point for way too long. I help get rid of extra things occasionally but whenever I push too hard I can see the stress and anxiety it causes them. They've been through a lot, if having more things than they need soothes them, so be it!
Can you expand on you how transitioned to property development? Where there any books or classes that helped? I am interested in doing something similar but I don't know where to start.
I am active in my community and I engage with NIMBY groups to try and better understand their motivation. The top reasons they give are more traffic, less parking, more noise, less park and trail space.
To add, my experience is limited to living on the edge of a mid sized city that is currently seeing lots of growth in sections that were rural (think 2 lane roads and wide open meadows and creeks). I have no idea why people oppose HD housing in big cities or rural areas.
I live in a similar setting and this has been my experience as well. New HD housing is approved, the developer pays the impact fees, but the city doesn't build the improvements for years and years.