Seems like a scam. This shouldn't be here.
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I read this as: I am currently a happy apple customer. I do not buy apps on other app stores because they do not exist.
>>What I don’t get is the angry soap box lectures from the people who disagree. The intense planning on their part to mess up a thing I love just because they couldn’t make their money… Oh. Nevermind.
Apple's practices as a company are things that, historically, have more or less gotten other companies into a lot of legal trouble. The whole world is watching and waiting for a legal system somewhere to step in and say, "Ok, enough is enough."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contest_to_kill_100_people_usi...
I am not on HN to confront warcrimes denialism from foreign extremists, so this is about the extent that I am going to go.
>>At the time periods in question, de-facto segregation was still the norm across the entire U.S. and yet you're implying we were some sort of beacon of morality and human rights. Hell, the U.S. was performing horrific human experimentation before and _after_ the war.
No where near comparable to the horrors of what Japan was doing and not even close to relevant to this thread. This is pure whataboutism from a denialist.
The axis powers were not the same as the allies in some "weird and wacky" grey morality.
>>This part is just straight up racism.
No. Describing fascist cultures engaged in genocidal wars of extermination against the whole world as "diseased" during that time period is being polite and succinct. Maybe your view is that such a culture was healthy at the time? Tell us.
>>You're either a troll or you truly have bought into the entire breadth of American Propaganda.
I have seen the horrors of fascist Japan first hand. I have seen the devices and torture chambers they built. I have lived in Nanjing and heard the air raid sirens with my own ears.
I, for one, am not an ignorant denialist that wants to pretend none of this ever happened. Fascist Japan had a problem back home that needed fixing. America fixed it.
Japan was a very sick and diseased nation and culture at the time. They had made a national, media broadcasted sport of beheading children. They had turned deadly human experimentation into science. They had waged wars of aggression on all of their neighbors, no matter how distant.
They brought their cultural disease to American shores and attacked my family. All of their civillian science and industry and culture brought about the war machine that came to American shores to murder us in a time of peace, on a continent far away from their own.
The bombings of Japan should stand as a warning to all nations and cultures for all generations. If your culture gets sick with that totalitarian ideology, it is a lot better if you fix it at home on your own terms than if you bring it to our shores and make us fix it for you.
You can all enjoy the peaceful world that resulted from American sacrifice, and posturing after WW2. Criticize us however you like, you have that right and luxury regardless of where you live.
Regardless, you would be wise to learn this one lesson from history: Don't start nothing, won't be nothing.
Germany and Japan learned that lesson the hard way and they deserved every thing they got in response.
People knew there was something going on between infections that spread them even before the more advanced germ theories of Pasteur.
The black death killed a lot of the people who grouped in churches and ignored the common sense precautions of staying away from people. This could be seen as a culling of what was largely the weak and foolish third of society.
Coincidentally, with fewer people to do the labor around and a generally smarter stock of people remaining, the upper classes were forced to pay more for services that keep the world running. There was a huge impact on labor markets, claimed the professor.
Thirdly, and likely related to all of this, the renaissance began.
I do not have a solution to this problem and it is a problem that I myself would contribute to if I was trying to design an app that people would use. Greater addiction mechanisms trend toward wider market adoption which leads to a higher value for shareholders. The current system of incentives to a company makes this focus inevitable.
Video game addiction often leads to children and adults completely destroying their professional or academic lives. In many cases, a child grows up to find a balance between working just enough to afford their videogame habbit.
I have read stories of an adult who was so addicted to a simple cellphone game that they were compulsively telling lies to create more game time and ultimately destroyed all of their social relationships and lost their job. All of that dysfunction stems from their brain's addiction to the rush of progress bars, levelling up, victory screens, and success chimes.
Not all people are wired the same. A lot of brains are hopelessly addicted to these two categories of stimuli and I feel you dismiss them a bit too carelessly.
Elon Musk can tweet something and a million people will reply. What percentage if those replies are bots, shills, or people trying to get money out of some offer of employment? Likely an absurdly high %.
Then there are the hacker groups and their influence campaigns... All over twitter.
I feel like twitter might be useful on a self hosted intranet with your close family and friends -- but as a global product it is grotesque.
The strategy of appeasement is known to fail because it emboldens dictators like Hitler or Putin to always want and take more.
Putin already has taken a large chunk of Ukraine and Georgia with invasions that launched during a prior olympic event.
He needs to be stopped so that Ukraine doesn't end up getting another Russian imposed genocide and the world doesnt't end up in WW3.
I have watched developers of the project discuss what they are working on and seen their various presentations on things they've improved over the years. Some of the flaws cause all sorts of performance issues that have recently been fixed. It will get better and better with each passing year so long as they continue to receive funding.
LO is one of the best opensource projects in my opinion.
It is unfortunate that FOSS graphic design software (outside of blender) is no where near my opinionated standards. Just imagine if the Affinity designer / publisher software was on linux or became opensourced due to some legal issue. What a world that would be.
It is particularly amusing when it pretends to be a science and makes recommendations on how to manage your company, hiring, or engineering teams. Don't hire smart people or good engineers, they say.
Get any individual that appears to be a zealot of this religion publicly to meet privately, away from microphones, and they will typically acknowledge the absurdity of it all. People are often happy to brag, gloat, and acknowledge they are just gaming the system for maximum benefit. Their willingness to disclose this to you does require trust.
So, when does this end? How much damage will this do? Is this a strategy designed to divide the lower classes during a period of runaway neofuedalist inequality?
Academia has been taken over by an advanced persistent threat of social sciences that are all completely corrupted. That corruption infects and touches every aspect of the academic's life cycle these days. Funding determines most research and doubley so the conclusions. The infection politicizes everything and rewards those who use scientific branding to support the establishment.
As another example of justified skepticism, I wonder what their research departments have to say about student debt forgiveness programs? I am sure they will find such programs fantastic. There is no conflict of interest involved there.
Last time Russia took over Ukraine, they genocided millions; It wasn't that long ago, either.
A dragnet approach of digital malware and backdoors is a form of automated policing that will always be as unpopular as red light traffic ticket cameras.
Society has always accepted that some criminals going free is the price we pay for having our rights be respected.
I hope things get better here.
Anyone doing a deepdive on these topics would seemingly be put on a list. It is absurd.
It seems even having a passive interest in computer science or cryptocurrency would inevitably lead to one taking a class or buying a book on these topics. The business person in me always brainstorms the various potential business applications of any technology -- and that inevitably leads to a lot of discussion.
Any system of policing that results in entire professions and swathes of hobbyists being considered and treated as enemies of the state is essentially the same level of injustice as the witch trials of old and shows our species has not improved all that much.
Covid 19 is a different virus and the interventions of a flu pandemic are not going to yield the same results.
Infection is a binary status. You are either infected or not. There is no such thing as half infected or slightly infected. The probability of infection goes up when the air is more and more saturated with airborne virus... When air in a poorly ventilated space is fully saturated with virus, it simply does not matter if you wear a surgical mask or not as these interventions are doing nothing of significance for you in that situation.
I don't need to see your studies because I have helped build and certify N95 factories and know a lot about it. The masks arent usable for long and arent reusable, either.
Cloth masks do nothing and are not a consideration to any serious adult.
The outbreak curves and percentages are basically the same, especially when you account for the population differences in age, obeasity, diabetes, etc.
A red state might do worse at times, but is also more easily explained as a result of a more vulnerable population.
Be scientific about it rather than political. There are a lot of ways to analyze the data.
Unknowable in the case of China. I say this not as a critic, but as a matter of fact: Policy in authoritarian states is to lie. Policy is also to arrest and intimidate people who tell the truth on such matters. To illustrate this another way, I put myself and my family at risk by merely discussing this honestly.
>> That's proof there were measures that worked.
As we are on the 4th calendar year of this pandemic, I suppose you need to specify your definition of worked. I suspect we have very different definitions of what the goals would be and how we would define success of an intervention method.
For example, the intervention of wearing a cloth mask in a crowded supermarket. One would think the goal is to prevent infection, but the article of clothing does no such thing as it is not capable of that. It is a fantastic intervention when dealing with influenza, but it is not a sufficient intervention for that particular goal of preventing infection in the case of the covid virus from 2019.
>> If every country performed as well, or if China had acted as it did but earlier, it's quite possible that COVID would have gone extinct by now from that alone.
You are praising something that you have neither understood nor experienced. Please, stop. I really should not be having this conversation because it could get me into trouble. For example, I know people who have been abducted by the government for these conversations. You have no idea and it is evident that you've not researched this at all. I cannot get into details, you should do that on your own.
>> If we were doomed to fail,
Doomed to fail were the experimental interventions that had no scientific merit.
We are now suffering deaths of despair (I know of multiple youthful suicides this past year) and in a global economic meltdown the likes of which will be written about for centuries.
In the coming year, many people around us will be saying no one could have known or seen these things coming or that these interventions would be failing, but these people will be wrong.
It does not require a 200 IQ to know that cloth masks do not work. This was known before and during the pandemic. Every* (it is certainly hyperbole for me to say _every_) pandemic conference that discussed big pandemics has noted that these interventions (notably mask mandates, etc of the nature we see in countries today) are equivalent to tinfoil hats... This science didn't change during the pandemic -- what changed was neo-propaganda and misinformation procured by the government.
Maybe I am just a relic from an age where humanity was a little less authoritarian and didn't view leaders as infallible. That is very possible.
>>it was because of the perennial problems of human stupidity and selfishness.
Your disgust for humanity is noted. I, for one, view humanity as a wonderful group. We succeed together. We suffer together. We advance together. I harbor no ill feelings for any group of humans, though we are all different and have different ways in which we can contribute to the joy and wonder of life.
>> Meta
My comment on your disgust for humanity was unfair. I take it back. I preserve the comment so that you can at least read it and know what my gut reaction was at the time of writing.
I am sure that you are a good person. I believe in you. I believe, upon reflection, over the coming years, your views will shift a little as more information becomes clear to you. I also believe the same is true of myself, my views too will shift. That is to say we are not static characters, we are not political mascots of some ideology, but instead we are dynamic characters in the wonderful story of life.
We have a lot in common. We are both on HN. I appreciate you, your time, and your contribution to this dialogue. I think we have both said much of what can be said on these topics.
We should digest each other's points of view over the next year and reflect on it.
>> Politics
Its part of your discussion with me, so I'll just disclose. Direct messages are not possible here.
I acknowledge you may be too partisan to hear or digest my reasoning here, but I'll share it anyways.
In the 1980s and 1990s, it appeared to me that the GOP became sick with a dependence on radical religious voters as a pillar of their electoral strategy. Too much of what was used to define the GOP boiled down to religion.
In the 2020s, it seems that the DNC is now sick with a similar dependence on a different radical religion that is equally anti-fact. The DNC is now comprised of both moderates (who I love) and extremists (who flirt with authoritarianism).
I will likely vote how I've always voted -- I vote against extremism and against authoritarianism. I will likely vote for the GOP in the coming mid term election. It will be the second time in my life that I've voted for GOP candidates. I've never voted for a GOP Presidential candidate, though I will always respect the winner of the vote.
I believe in the free world.