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> What is your standard here? If the massacres had been riled up by spreading paper pamphlets you would want to shut down the printers? If it had been though the TV news, shut down the TV stations?

Yes.

Why is this even a question?

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda convicted the three most senior managers of genocide, incitement to genocide, and crimes against humanity. They were sentenced to life in prison. The sentences were reduced, upon appeal, to between 30 and 35 years.

A Rwandan court sentenced one of the announcers to life in prison.

This information is easily found on Wikipedia for those curious enough to look.

You'll make a fortune if you can find a way to convert 40-150 KWhr of electrical energy to heat quickly enough to make a difference in an emergency situation without causing the car to combust (or explode).

You'll make a fortune because you'll have broken the laws of physics.

Most notably that manufacturers now use very narrow gamut LCD panels (50% NTSC, or even 50% sRGB) in low/mid range screens to force consumers to spend vastly more on hardware than was necessary, even a few years ago, to have access to devices with reasonable color rendition.

Charging the same prices for items of inferior quality is one way capitalism can increase inflation without it appearing in the official statistics.

I suspect the popular tide against science, especially among the 'America first' crowd, turned once science came up with results that threatened to make certain very large piles of money slightly smaller.

With society and the economy completely dependent on science to function, doing science now has a certain speaking truth to power aspect, in that scientific results can threaten wealthy established interests. This does not make science entirely popular among the kind of people who write the mental firmware for the 'America first' crowd.

Several large piles of money have waged deliberate campaigns against public faith in the results of the scientific process [0], and this will certainly have had an impact on public faith in science.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExxonMobil_climate_change_cont...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/big-tobacco-kept-cancer-risk-in...

Krita.

Nah.

The US has pursued a spectacularly inept constellation of policies that have killed granny and created an economic disaster.

The economy can't recover until the pandemic is controlled. Doing nothing about the pandemic to 'save the economy' will only make both the pandemic and the economy worse.

Making enough N95 masks, and forcing people to wear them, would have both kept granny safe and saved the economy. But, that didn't happen, so the US is stuck with the worst of both worlds.

Relative economic standing != absolute economic standing.

Statistical measures of poverty are set in terms of being able to afford the basic necessities of life, such as food, housing, medical care, transport, education and communications. Relative standing is irrelevant.

Further, having 10 times more income (or wealth) than subsistence farmer in sub-Saharan Africa is meaningless if your cost of living is 1000 times higher than that of a subsistence farmer in sub-Saharan Africa. Poor Americans aren't paying sub-Saharan African prices; they're paying American prices, and that means their income does not go very far.

This is the primary source:

https://www.lisep.org/

> It is creating a schism in the American workforce, and those on the outside lack access to the necessary educational institutions to ever catch up.

The implicit idea of offering a transition to knowledge work as a means for people who have been economically shut out to catch up is a misreading of the situation.

An economy must consist of more than just knowledge workers. If a guy who's stuck stocking shelves in a supermarket gets an education and moves up to a career working at a keyboard, those supermarket shelves still need to be stocked. The supermarket will need to hire someone else to fill that dead end job, and will need to do that again (and again) when/if the next guy with the dead end job gets training and moves up. Repeat.

Repeat for every hands on economic sector that treats its workforce poorly.

As long as low-status need to be done to keep civilization running by keeping food on the shelves, there will be people who cannot be knowledge workers. If there is a solution to help people who do hands-on work catch up, it involves paying them more for the jobs that must be done rather than training them to do other work.

(This does not apply to transitioning workers out of dying industries -- retraining people in this situation is the only reasonable option.)

SMART does report transfer errors between a disk and the motherboard/HBA. Failing cables should be detected.

OP is likely referring to documentation required under the EU's energy performance certificates rules. See:

https://ec.europa.eu/energy/eu-buildings-factsheets-topics-t...

You'd like to imagine that, in a climate with very cold winters, the building code would require high efficiency windows.

It's completely mind boggling that anyone was allowed to build housing with single pane windows in 2003.

HN has exactly the same groupthink hostility against countervailing views. The only difference between FB and HN is that HN groupthink enforcement is depersonalized and hidden behind the downvoting and flagging system, both to keep abusive people from needing to spend the time writing ad hominem replies, and to keep the ugliness out of sight from the casual observer.

Pay close attention to what gets downvoted and/or flagged in threads about social media regulation, disinformation on the Internet, COVID-19--or anything else that touches the glibertarian worldview generally--to see what I mean.

HN policies just convert the level of hostility that is typical of under-regulated message boards from overt hostility into passive aggressive sniping and mechanized bullying.

This post itself will be downvoted in due course, because it goes against HN's own accepted narrative.

OP is probably referring to the Steve Bannon's recent statement calling for the beheading of Dr. Fauci. This has been very widely covered, even by Trumpist media. See:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-electio...

https://www.newsweek.com/bannon-calls-fauci-beheading-154528...

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/05/steve-bannon-makes-beheading...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/steve-bannon-s-twitter-acc...

https://nypost.com/2020/11/06/twitter-bans-steve-bannon-for-...

This kind of political speech has no place in a democratic society. The fact that it comes down to social media and Internet providers to regulate it, however, is reflective of a policy failure. Keeping calls for extremist violence out of the public sphere ought to be the responsibility of the criminal legal system, not private business.

> I wonder what the answer for this is?

Don't rely on politicians to do direct questioning of witnesses. Politicians have the wrong incentives, and generally lack the skills, to do anything other than grandstand in public meetings.

Legal fact-finding, including the questioning of witnesses, should be done by lawyers and subject matter experts.

I don't extend personal sympathy to people worth over even a few million dollars -- if they don't like their jobs they can just retire -- but, in the abstract, the social media firms have bitten off far more than they can chew.

The kinds of problems social media has exposed are problems that society isn't able to deal with and the people who were just looking for a quick buck, without needing to do much work, are caught in the middle of it. Corporate structures were never intended to regulate the speech of billions of people in thousands of legal jurisdictions, but that's exactly the situation Facebook is now in.

I don't know if there is a good solution to the problems of social media short of simply outlawing it.

The free market is right there, refusing to address shortages and price gouging you for essential supplies. A few people are getting rich and many people are being put at risk, but the free market is fine with this.

Meanwhile, in South Korea, the government adopted a non-free-market solution and has been making KN95 masks available to its population through a combination of rationing and subsidies. Everyone has access to two masks a week, and the overwhelming majority of people wear them.

South Korea has one of the lowest rates of infection in the world and is one of the few economies expected to grow in 2020.

This is cargo-cult thinking.

The American constitution is designed (in principle) to give Americans freedom against undue interference into their private affairs by government.

The constitution does not, and cannot, give you protection against wild animals, natural disasters, drowning, or a virus that is not sentient.

One of the first things Trump said about SARS-CoV-2 is that it was a 'Democratic' 'hoax.'

How do you focus on educating against that, when any contradiction of Trump will be seen by his followers as a purely political act?

People wouldn't believe the virus is hoax if they hadn't been told it was a hoax, and that's absolutely not a 'both sides bad' issue.

'It just works' is not a phrase I've ever seen applied to the Windows 10 update process before.

While bricking updates for Windows are rare, the most infamous Windows update bug deleted all user data.

If you want stability, desktop Linux is now the best out of a bad set of options. If you need more software support, run Windows in a VM where it can't destroy anything important.

The even more blunt implication of good-faith originalism would be interpreting the 2nd amendment to allow the non-governmental ownership of nuclear weapons.

The original intent of the 2nd amendment was to allow a 'well regulated militia' to be adequately equipped to fight off an invading army, which in modern terms would mean that the 'well regulated militia' would need to be able to own tanks, fighter aircraft, warships, missiles, and nuclear warheads.

Contemporary originalists, however, both completely discard the mention of a 'well regulated militia' in the 2nd amendment and have re-interpreted the right to encompass only small arms.

Legal originalism is not an ideology predicated on good faith. It is a figleaf to misuse the opinions of the authors of the US constitution to defend the beliefs of contemporary conservatives.

I would seriously question the overall competence of any electrician who ran any low voltage cable in direct contact with AC power cables. This practice is not permitted by the electrical code. An electrician who does not respect that code requirement might be cutting corners with the code in other areas, too.

While the level of knowledge among electricians regarding network wiring is gradually increasing, the conventional wisdom for anyone who wants network wiring installed professionally is to hire a contractor that specializes in low voltage wiring.

Never send a consumer IoT (where the 'q' stands for 'quality') product to do the job of a commercial lighting control system.

The right tool to automate a house with 100-150 lighting fixtures is something along the lines of a Crestron system.

JeOS is the SUSE OS for small footprint virtualized environments.

I'm not too sure what niche MicroOS is supposed to fill that JeOS and the full-weight Leap don't already cover.

MicroOS just seems to be answer to RedHat's Silverblue, but with no clear use case in the SUSE/openSUSE product lineup. It makes some sense as a tech demo for an immutable OS, but not much sense as an operational product.

Congestion pricing is the brilliant idea that traffic congestion can be alleviated by making the roads too expensive for poorer people to use during peak times.

It's very hard to see making the poor pay a regressive tax for traffic congestion, that they have no say in creating, as a social good.

I would imagine the decision was based on a lack of electric commercial vehicles, combined with the fact that personal vehicles vastly outnumber commercial vehicles.

While a gasoline ban makes sense in urban areas, a blanket province-wide ban on gasoline vehicles does not seem practical or reasonable given Quebec's geography and climate.

EV technology currently isn't good enough to be workable for the small minority of Quebecers who live in isolated areas with very cold winters. EV batteries don't like the cold and much of Quebec gets very cold indeed.

The modest answer for open source developers is to host projects that are at risk of being Americanized either on .onion sites or in jurisdictions (such as Israel or China) that don't have a huge fondness for American copyright law.

Expecting domestic reforms is a sucker's game.

I'm not going to post a detailed recap of the past 30 years of American political history in a HN comment.

All of your questions can be answered in a few minutes with sufficiently well crafted DDG/Google/Bing searches. If you are so far removed from US politics that you don't have the background knowledge to frame such queries, then it's unclear to me why you're replying at all.