coryfklein

Is it just me or are the wildfires much much worse this decade than they were the previous two?

I live in Utah where all the smoke from the west-coast wildfires likes to come take up residence, and I can't recall more than a single summer before 2015 when wildfire smoke was pervasive outdoors. But in just the past few years it seems that a good 50-80% of the summer the air outside is completely unbearable due to smoke.

I can't be making this up, this must be a recent phenomenon. But my Google-fu is failing me in trying to find a chart that confirms my intuition. I'm curious: what changed, and when exactly did this new trend begin?

Seems like maybe you're responding to someone else's ideas about Bitcoin, as Lyn usually downplays it's use for payments and emphasizes it's capabilities as a settlement layer.

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> fix the government.

Yeah, good luck with that. It also seems quite contrary to the typical entrepenuerial spirit which is usually in favor of coming up with free market solutions that work around government futility.

Interesting way to get through the political and tribal bullshit: force people to make a prediction.

Pretty quickly you learn that the easiest way to get the "right" answer is to simply choose the answer with the opposite from popular expectation.

But then this reveals a possible agenda on the part of the quiz writer! If you were to simply go by the data presented in the quiz, one might think that COVID restrictions were actively harmful to health and promoted COVID cases!

Well they certainly weren't going to be able to fabricate their own Intel chips, that's for sure! Baby steps, my friends.

(Not that it's in any way fair to call "design your own chip" a baby step haha.)

Well Apple isn't exactly known for giving things away for free, so putting Yelp as the top-tier result in Apple Maps is a pretty good indicator that a deal was made.

I've listened to 4-5 Joe Rogan episodes and not once got the impression that he was trying to be a comedian. Now I may be an idiot, but I don't think I'm _exceptionally_ idiotic compared to most folks who might come across his content.

Not OP, but the dynamics that quash dissent in these specific areas are still at play even when individuals like you ask for specificity and openness. If your goal is to get at the truth of the matter, you'll probably have better luck discussing with folks 1:1.

smoking cessation product

It's not just political suicide, it's a game theoretical non-optimal play because any one country doing this only hurts themselves while not actually solving climate change. It only works if you have some large number of the top emitters agree to cap all together.

I for one am very happy with all of the content consolidating into 4-5 major brands. I can pay $10-15 a month and rotate through individual streaming services. I don't need to be able to watcth James Bond at any particular point in time, I just need to be able to find some content I'm going to enjoy tonight.

Interestingly enough, Prime Video is bundled with my Amazon Prime subscription so it's the one video service that I don't actually rotate.

Why can't men write about it?

I like StackOverflow; whenever I have a question about how to code something I Google it and the answer is on StackOverflow about 95% of the time. I don't know what I would do without it. But I guess everyone here hates it? Seems a bit of an odd situation for a community of hackers to be in.

Isn't the appropriate procedure here to add a sticker and call it a day:

> This product contains chemicals known to the state of California to cause cancer

Yes, that is correct. /facepalm/

Inflation is a progressive tax, but in the opposite direction we normally expect. The wealthy hold a much smaller proportion of their wealth in cash than do the poor so inflation is, in fact, a way to extract more wealth from the poor.

The rich tend hold their wealth in stock, land, and other assets. Most of which inflation is mostly neutral or beneficial to. The dollar value of TSLA goes up in response to general inflation, but the purchasing power generally remains the same.

Maybe things have changed, but a $1000 same-day exchange on LocalBitcoins should be pretty straightforward, and I believe KYC requirements don't necessitate any sort of time delay in that exchange.

> contributing to the enormous e-waste we are all piling up

Sincerely asking here, but what do you see are the most significant negative externalities here? We're not exactly running out of landfill space anytime soon, and most landfills in the US are very careful to ensure waste doesn't pollute the surrounding environment.

Is it the greenhouse gas emissions? I'm curious how the total emissions on buying a pair of headphones every 2-5 years compares to other everyday activities like shipping my weekly usage of broccoli to the grocery store for me to eat.

Is it the concern of labor going to waste? Something else?

Love this comment, it is the epitome of Hacker News. It points out all the ways the OP is wrong, while simultaneously confirming the OP's point in the first place: don't be a retail trader because you're not properly equipped.

For myself, as soon as I realized that retail trading doesn't make much sense, I personally haven't bothered learning an exactly specific mental model of why. You almost need to be a professional finance person to even understand the specifics here. For now my model is: "making money in derivatives markets is really complicated and hedge funds invest large sums to counter this risk, so unless you're willing and able to match their investment you're unlikely to see their returns."

Looks like the top of the "downloaded" list is basically all of Bob's mods? What's the story there - is it basically "Factorio but with an alternate game progression"?

You should feel bad for the human being who loses two grand at the casino!

Users will balk if you call your application a web browser and it doesn't stream video from most of the major video providers.

Yes, but in the context of presidential pardons there is nothing the GOP can do to either back the president or not back the president. It doesn't make sense to attribute presidential pardons to The Republican Party when there is a sole individual who decides who to pardon and why.

I'll point out that, now that Donald Trump is out of power, many in the GOP in general have been rather quick to turn their backs on him and outright criticize him. While he was in power, sure, Republicans politicians were politically savvy enough to side with him, knowing that the alternative was suicide. But there is now room to disagree with Trump and we're seeing many (like Mitch McConnell, and you don't get more Republican than him!) use that opportunity to distance themselves.

Donald Trump is not the Republican party.

Ah! Thanks for pointing me in the right direction! From said letter:

> Over the past several weeks, we’ve reported 98 examples to Parler of posts that clearly encourage and incite violence.

> ...

> This is further demonstrated by the fact that you still have not taken down much of the content that we’ve sent you.

> plots of murder for example

Parler claims to moderate such illegal speech. I'm curious if anyone here has evidence that, when brought to moderator's attention, Parler has opted not to delete such content?

I'm not an Ethereum expert, but I don't think it's typical blockchain stuff. TBH I find Ethereum extremely confusing, but it seems to bill itself more as "distributed compute units" instead.

You can be sure that any companies that host user-published content today are looking closely at the response to Parler, and are probably accelerating plans to get off of AWS. What happens when the Eye of Sauron turns to you and declares that you don't do enough to moderate?

Hate speech is actually protected speech under the 1st Amendment, meaning you have every right as a US citizen to speak and publish hate. True threats, on the other hand, do not have the benefit of 1st Amendment protection. Then again, Parler claims that such speech is removed via moderation. Do we have evidence that Parler has chosen not to moderate such speech?

Of course they are still there! But the conversations increasingly aren't taking place there. If free speech is essential to a liberal democracy, we're moving to a place where the majority of speech takes place in non-free-speech areas, and that does not bode well for the health of our democracy.

> no legally forbidden censorship has been happening with regards to the recent insurrection against congress.

Yes, this is true as far as I am aware as well. But I find myself in a conundrum; had this "inciting" speech taken place in the town square or a public park, much of it likely could not have been censored because it would have been protected by the 1st amendment and the last 100 years of case law. Where, then, is the town square and public park of 2021?

Despite the fact that the legal protections of public speech haven't changed much in decades, the practical protections of public speech (as I discuss in greater detail in [1]) have indeed been eroded, because social media platforms and, apparently, web hosting and device makers are now the arbiters of the vast majority of speech. Free speech that only applies where virtually noone can hear you is a very limited free speech indeed.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25662466