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I definitely believe that’s the case, and it’s a similar case for private schools.

To be clear, I’m in Texas; and there’s been a push here for vouchers for example, and it’s all politically/religiously motivated.

So I’d just say we need to be aware of the bigger picture. The “need” for homeschooling is a red flag, and although for some students it’s a positive choice; for others it has massively negative consequences.

So awareness of those issues, and a powerful right wing religious lobby pushing an agenda shouldn’t be ignored because homeschooling works for some kids.

When these groups lost the battle for teaching creationism in schools, they literally took their textbook and did a “search and replace” with intelligent design.

Luckily that attempt got shot down in court. So they have moved on to vouchers and homeschooling in many states.

Bill is a voter, voting on matters of extreme importance to us all.

Also, evolution is not a belief, it’s a fact. Raising a population that can’t tell fact from fiction has profound consequences to us all. Those plumbers and electricians interact with us all in complicated ways, not just their jobs.

The PISA assessment by the OECD demonstrates that only 13.5% of American students age 15 were able to distinguish fact from opinion in reading tests.

In a democracy, that matters more than plumbing and electrical job ability.

Around here, every homeschooler we meet is extremely religiously conservative, and is unabashed in talking about not wanting their kids to learn certain aspects of science like evolution or parts of history because it conflicts with their faith.

Obviously as an anecdote, I can’t say how prevalent these types of issues are among homeschooling in general, but I do believe it’s enough of an issue to be concerned.

We already have enough people raised who have trouble understanding issues that are of vital importance to our society, and it’s only becoming more of an issue. In a democracy we need an educated electorate who can make some basic educated decisions when voting.

Public schools are not perfect by any means, but at least we have some say as a public about those curriculum, and have successfully fought things like intelligent design being taught in schools. A growing homeschooling trend takes those issues further out of the public’s control, and it’s in the public’s interest that kids all get at least some basic level of education.

We need to take steps to strengthen our public education system, and the trend of homeschooling is at the very least an extremely concerning indication that our public school system is failing. It’s a national crisis, and most certainly will affect the US ability to compete against countries like China with strong public schooling. (Studies consistently show that Chinese students beat American children in all academic categories.)

My understanding is that someone still needs your Apple ID login to get DFU mode to work.

To be a little less facetious though, at what point do we expect a company to dig us out of our own mistakes.

Let’s say you didn’t know you had to take your new car in for an oil change? You ignore the warning lights and requests to service the vehicle. When the vehicle breaks down, I think it’s obvious that the car manufacturer can’t be responsible for fixing it for you.

To me, this is the same. The computer is functioning exactly like it should, locking him out is a feature for the vast majority of users, requiring some very basic knowledge to prevent/fix (as mentioned in my other comment, it’s hard to have what happened to him happen without circumventing security on the mac)

That’s not true with new Macs. If you go into recovery mode it first asks you for the machine password. If you say you forgot; then it will try Apple ID.

OP specifically states this was a new M2, so it’s not possible unless he left it unlocked.

It might be possible if he never associated it with an Apple ID at all (literally the first thing the setup asks you to do, I’ve never tried not). Without an Apple ID though, you can’t update/upgrade the OS, download App Store software, use iCloud backup, iMessage, FaceTime, apple care, contact warranty support etc etc. And Mac is pretty good about bugging you to do this. So if he did this, saying just “I didn’t enable Find My” is a bit disingenuous.

So to be clear, you cannot reset a Mac without a login just because it does not have “find my” activated.

BTW, then he also admits “maybe I setup an iCloud account I don’t remember.” But his other linked article about this states “They presumably can see that my Apple ID is associated with it.” Ummm. If that’s the case, why doesn’t he recover the Apple ID first? So on closer inspection a lot of things don’t add up, other than the fault was almost certainly his.

It’s a little like buying a Lamborghini, and then speeding and totaling it, and then complaining they need to make it not as fast so you can’t do that.

I’m sorry, but I honestly feel like this is the OPs fault entirely. It’s clear they had disabled account security on the laptop, in order for the other user who swapped laptops to add their account to that laptop. It’s not even that they didn’t enable “Find My” (which it does during initial setup, all you need to do is add an iCloud account)… he disable the password required setting to open the Mac. (Yes you can disable the requirements for logging in, but it’s definitely not the default setting) If you jump through such hoops in the first place to weaken your computer’s security, your can’t claim it’s not your fault when someone encrypts your computer on you.

I buy Mac’s specifically because for me this is a feature. I have backups. And if someone steals my laptop or I lose it, I’d much rather be out the money and the hardware and have it 100% bricked unusable and inaccessible, than have any possibility of my data getting accessed. (Not to mention making it worthless to the average petty thief).

Creating a work around, no matter how many N levels of authentication means there’s a hole for social engineering, and I’m definitely not a fan of that.

So it’s a trade off. If you don’t care about such level of security, then there are other laptop options, but please don’t ask Apple to start making their security weaker because there are those of us who want it this way.

And if you’re traveling with your laptop, put a password on it at least, and better yet encrypt it.

This was most startups back in 2000. Having witnessed it first hand, I can tell it’s an extremely accurate description. So sad it’s still going on. In the 2000s we had “B2B” that VCs threw money at. AI is just the latest acronym.

But then they’d have to pay taxes, and all those corporations don’t get the juicy tax detections for “donating” to AI tech that will massively increase their profits.

More context on Peng Shuai for those interested:

Searches about this behind China’s firewall show no results due to censorship (not something you would expect if there wasn’t coercion going on)

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinese-tennis-player-pe...

Outlining her conveniently timed retirement, and absence and disappearance from social media.

https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/olympics-pengshuai-02...

Easily found context, ignored by kkzz99, who instead dug up PCR state media interview, shows clearly the kkzz99 account is state sponsored.

So you’re a German software engineer who is fluent in Chinese, and reads pro Chinese “newspapers” from Singapore? You also happen to be awake at all hours of the day, and speak completely fluent English. You’re also a German who for some reason is extremely pro RPC? Color me skeptical. It’s also hilarious that you just did exactly what the top comment pointed out you would do:

> Claim to be part of a group held dear by the audience.

> Antistatement: Im totally against <topic>, but <propaganda narrative talking points >.

Btw, the interview questions seem very clearly aimed at creating a narrative, so yes. There were no personal questions, only questions aimed at supporting a narrative.

China has a documented history of such tactics. For example, state TV aired the “confessions” of Chinese human rights lawyers Wang Yu and Jiang Tianyong when they were in detention. Lawyers literally convicted of “subverting state power”, “inciting subversion of state power” or “picking quarrels and provoking trouble”.

Women coming forward in the US is hard enough, and women being silenced here is still a problem. Never mind a country where no state official is investigated for such things, where there is no free press to independently investigate these things, with a history of arresting and disappearing activists.

But let’s hand wave all of that clear and consistent history away, or pretend it doesn’t matter.

Show me an open and transparent investigation of Zhang Gaoli. I’ll wait.

You make it sound like the US has a constant single minded strategy, but this flies in the face of how US foreign policy actually works. US foreign policy is typically reactionary.

This was very apparent during Trumps tenure in which the foundations of NATO were being questioned. Even at this moment, during the current election cycle, we have a number of candidates who are talking about a more isolationist, laissez faire response to things, including the current conflicts.

The US, being a country with democratically elected leader, has on many occasions through its history pivoted significantly in its foreign policy as certain parties and ideologies gain and lose traction.

This is in clear and direct contrast to countries like Russia and China with governments run by small groups over many continuous decades directing specific foreign policy strategies.

I make these arguments here to clarify how this account’s propaganda attempts to function, using emotional arguments and other logical fallacies to obfuscate facts. See other comments here, that this account is the type of account talked about in the CNN article.

It’s literally the topic of the article. The article is exactly about accounts like yours. That’s not whataboutism. That’s the topic at hand.

Obviously you can’t explain how you are responding to these articles at all hours of the day, within minutes.

> “I generally don't comment, but I feel strongly about US-China relations, which makes me comment.”

Why on earth would you create an account 4 months ago, then only comment pro China and anti US sentiments? Hacker news is not a place for political arguments in most cases.

In addition, you cannot explain why you literally spread false news and misinformation. In an earlier comment you stated specifically that Peng Shuai never disappeared.

This flies in the face of multiple international, indisputable facts. References which can be found on the Wikipedia page about her disappearance. The typical response then is to attack Wikipedia, or hand wave away the proof with something like “western media is bias”.

I think the goal is to attempt to instill what they see as instability in our democracy. Throw around unfounded accusation and attempt to sow deepening discord along party lines. They see the January 6th attack on the capital along with the threats to hang Nancy Pelosi as successes along these lines. This type of tactic is a lot harder to recognize.

Typical whataboutism. See my other comment that this account is clearly Chinese state run.

The speed with which this response was made is telling. On a comment and thread many hours old. Your initial comment was at 1am Central Time. Within minutes of this comment, at 9am Central time you responded. These are clear indications of a monitored account.

In many other of “your” comments it’s been pointed out that your statements are incorrect, and provably false. At that point it goes from opinion to misinformation, and propaganda.

One cannot pretend that China is not a totalitarian system built, with clear and consistent human rights violations. Where those who oppose the party line disappear. Contrast that with the US, where a former president is in a very public and contentious court case, with open coverage.

Totalitarian regimes such as China and Russia view democracy and freedom of speech as a weakness to be exploited. What they fail to realize is that truth wins out. You can only lie for so long before you run smack into the truth of matters.

Until and if China ever embraces the UN declaration of human rights, including the ratification of the ICCPR, its intentions are clear. China specifically believes that maintaining the party stranglehold on the country trumps the notion of universal human rights.

And please don’t reply trying to obfuscate the issues, throw other propaganda, or whatabout’isms around.

The support of a government clearly in direct opposition to freedom of speech, human rights, and democratic institutions cannot be supported in any society that values freedom and democracy.

It doesn’t. This is one of the accounts talked about in the article. Read through the users previous comments. Young account, all comments primarily focus on anti US pro China sentiment.

Unfortunately, some non-small percentage of men are awful prospects for marriage and/or raising children. A fair amount of this can be understood if we look clearly at the science of reproductive strategies. Certain men do better at reproducing multiple children by avoiding devoting energy and time to a single family, and instead being promiscuous. Because women are the ones carrying the children and feeding them initially, the genetic reproductive strategy for women usually leaves them bearing the brunt of child care in the face of this. (see “parental investment”)[1]

None of this is meant to rationalize or okay the behaviors, but if we don’t look honestly at the causes, especially ones that make us uncomfortable to face, we won’t find solutions.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_mating_strategies

Do you perhaps fall on the aspergers spectrum? I realize I often make assumptions on how others mind’s work so I’m curious. I’ve heard that often conversations seem derailed when those on the spectrum pivot to subjects they are interested in versus a current topic. So it’d be helpful in identifying if that’s the case so I can understand other similar comments in the future.

Some of these issues, like the corruption, is probably due to having 3rd party kernel extensions enabled. One of the pop ups shown even shows that explicitly. I had the same issue for a raid controller app. That needs to be updated on the new machine hardware by holding the power button and changing to reduced security to enable the kext loading.

If someone installed apps with kernel extensions, disabling enhanced security on the hardware, then Id argue they should be competent enough to understand the issue, so the article is a bit disingenuous on that front.

Additionally, things like Apple ID for iCloud login require re-logging with 2 factor, again because the hardware has updated.

So there’s probably a cleaner UI model here that could run the user through all of these side cases, but it’s not as simply as copying app permissions (all of the unix level file permissions remain intact already)

As Michael Burnham from Star Trek so wisely put it “It would be unwise to confuse race with culture.”

Culture, unlike genetics, is fluid and easily changed (compared to genes)

For something like what your suggesting to occur, the loss of attention, or the inability for loss of attention span would have to become heritable.

At the moment, assuming the internet does erode attention span, those whose attention spans were most eroded would have to be heavily selected against. That means, their loss of attention span or their propensity to lose attention span with internet use would have to pass through gamete into the next generation.

If it’s not heritable, then the Amish are not “immune” because as soon as the Amish moves across cultural lines which is inevitable (many of which do, they routinely leave that culture) they’d be faced with the same issues. On the flip side, many within the non Amish community who choose not to use the internet would flourish without being Amish. (Since internet usage and its loss of attention span would be cultural and easily changed)

Natural selection only works on the level of the genes. Unless aspects of culture can be attributed to genetic diversity, then they are simply fluid, and not something that can aid in their reproductive advantage.

One could argue that the Amish do hold some genetic differences that make them seek out the culture they hold, and be as fertile as they are, but that’s definitely not clear to be the case.

If such cases were true, then perhaps one might argue for cultural diversity as a proxy for genetic diversity. But I don’t know that there has been any support to show cultures are genetically heritable. In fact I believe the opposite has been shown, when taking or moving populations out, they easily assimilate, showing that those cultures are definitely not heritable.

>> are tribal entitlements necessary for the preservation of something worthwhile

> I mostly agree with your overall gist, but I will poke a little hole here just for completeness

So I guess, your comment was non sequitur? I mean I assumed since the grandparent comment was about entitlements, and the parent comment about entitlements, that your response poking a hole in their argument about entitlements was also about entitlements.

I mean if you’re just saying “diversity is good” we can agree with that. But this whole thread stems from the Maine’s constitution entitlement rights for Wabanaki having been removed from print.

An example is the entitlement of sovereign land use that promotes disadvantage. Many Native American reserves suffer from chronic poverty, alcoholism, drug use, etc. Entitled to land use, the US government holds final title, resulting in an inability for people living on the land to do things like collect taxes, private land development, mortgage of assets, etc.

So in this way, the “entitlement” of land use reserved for native Americans actually results in chronic disadvantage.

A more complete assessment:

https://www.americanbar.org/groups/crsj/publications/human_r...

What place do entitlements play in preserving such diversity, and would other means perhaps play a better role? There are examples that indicate they might cause the opposite to occur, such as with casinos. What are the examples or arguments for how they help?

This is a thoughtful and insightful comment, and brings up issues I wouldn’t have thought about or understood.

Even though the parent comment was terse, this comment shows why we shouldn’t be downvoting / flagging opinions into oblivion. Free speech and listening to opposing views can bring about meaningful discussions and help is all understand the world better.

Flagging uncomfortable topics because they violate modern wokeism is a disturbingly Orwellian practice.

Well I mean I do use garlic in about 2 out of every 3 meals.. so there’s mincing at least.

Obviously you can make a sandwich. Or cook a burger. But if you’re eating healthy fresh produce and meats then how are you not cutting things? Maybe like steak and asparagus every night? It’s that or processed food. Or maybe people call warming up pre made foods cooking? I honestly don’t know.

Here’s random recipes I picked from a recipe app.

  Mushroom kale risotto (chopping mushrooms, garlic, kale)
  Ratatouille penne (celery, red onion, garlic, zucchini, squash)
  Gnocchi veg (tomatoes, broclli garlic)
  Turkey sweet potato roast (sweet potatoe, garlic, onion, yellow pepper, parsley)
  Stuffed pork tenderloin (garlic)
  Chicken pasta (chicken, garlic, green onions)

Now if you tell me the average person just makes Mac and cheese, or eats sandwiches, well then I understand. About 42% of Americans are obese, and fast food makes up a significant part of the average American diet. So I guess I’m reading the study as if it’s looking at the “average” person who uses a cutting board cooking, rather than an average American (many who may not even use cutting boards)

So maybe I’m in a bubble cooking these meals, but I’m not sure what actual “cooking” doesn’t do a lot of cutting. Knifes are the chefs primary tools. (watch any cooking show and count how many times knife hits board)

If that’s true, then the average person is not cooking but preparing ready made foods.

I cannot imagine cooking without dicing and mincing ant least once a day. And it’s not a couple dozen cuts otherwise.

  Dice onion: 60 cuts
  chiffonade basil: 20 cuts
  mince clove garlic: 40 cuts
  Julienne carrot: 25 cuts
  Cube chicken: 20 cuts
  etc etc etc.

I have a feeling hacker news is the wrong demographic, and most folks on here are too busy to cook healthy foods for themselves every day, let alone a family.

I don’t have a clear sense of what an average American does, then, but if you’re an “average home cook for a family” then I don’t think it’s that far off.

> If I do cook onions, course chopped, maybe 7 cuts per.

It is not possible to dice an onion with 7 cuts. Even “course chopped”, 7 cuts would have giant chunks of onion in them.

How is this possible? One onion probably is at least 25 or more cuts. Anything chopping or mincing is going to be a lot.

I’m sure it is variable based on diets. But full home cooking, 500 doesn’t seem that far off to me.

Edit: I just tested this. 30 for half an onion.. so 60 for a whole onion.

I’m pretty certain when I make stew tonight; I’ll hit several hundred just for that.