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In my own experience, ice (either the frozen water kind or the compression and elevation components) doesn't do a damn thing. For soft tissue injury my usual plan is movement movement movement. Getting the blood flowing and using the affected area (lightly) is the best way to get back in the game I've found.

I guess I'll go on record and say I think this is a great idea. There's too many journalists who just spew hot takes all day - at least make them pay for the privilege

The NPR news hour is, mmm, sort of OK (better than something like WashPo or Fox News anyways). But their non-news programming is unlistenable to me.

Not really sure how to square this analysis against this op-ed from the WSJ today: https://www.wsj.com/articles/twitters-lawsuit-against-elon-m...

(The WSJ article was clearly written in a professional tone, and it made eminent sense - whereas I have a hard time believing the person who wrote this blog got their J.D.)

Matt Levine has also done his usual whiny sarcastic coverage of the event and come up with something more akin to what this person (and Twitter armchair lawyers) think.

I guess I'll wait until the dust settles but I think the guys from the WSJ are gonna be right.

In Minnesota anyways, the schools in lower-income areas get more money per pupil than the "good area" schools. In some cases dramatically more. For example, the high school in north Minneapolis (a not-good part of town) get's $20k per student. Whereas the southwest Minneapolis high school (nice area) gets 13k. This is common across all grades.

So the disadvantaged area schools get 35%+ more money per pupil, and the outcomes keep getting worse. And the politicians keep doubling down on the same policies and wonder why things aren't changing. Money isn't everything, or apparently even most things. What a mess.

This kind of tone really doesn't engender sympathy:

> We get it, Microsoft sucks, we should all be fired, rah rah rah.

> I just don't know what else he's asking for here. Credit? Us to die screaming? The blog post is matter-of-fact, and Casey is right: however, he said himself that it was trivial to do this. Is it not acceptable that we use the same language?

Your "apology" really is anything but. If anything you and your team come off as combative, thin skinned and hostile to outsiders. But, you do you bro.

So, he was drunk, high, and riding on a sidewalk without a helmet. And now it's the City's fault?

Do we blame the city when drunks crash their cars in to lane barriers? Or trees?

I don't like those scooters and I think they are dangerous - but even the man in the story admits he rode them many times previously, and knew he was not supposed to ride on the sidewalks. He knew what he was getting in to.

This trend of "no one is ever responsible for their own actions" is not going to end well. When do we start holding people accountable?

Why the focus on the fact that it was a Republican strategy firm? Why does that matter?

Being the Washington Post, I'm sure it's to insinuate that all the bad things that happen are Republican-led. Only the GOP plays dirty tricks, right? After the Steele dossier, the Biden laptop, the Russia collusion misinformation campaign, and willfully hiding the mental decline of the current president - you'd think we'd get past the whole "only Republicans bad" narrative. But I guess that just goes to show how successfully the WashPo and others are running their own strategies to push agendas...

Taibbi had a great take on this: https://taibbi.substack.com/p/worlds-dullest-editorial-launc...

Why the hell did this editorial get the reaction it did? I can’t understand it and this “rebuttal” should not be front page HN.

Based on the headline alone, I'd add Twitter and Reddit too.

I dunno, I think it was really spectacular. It's "standard Hans Zimmer" in the way that it's a bunch of new sounds no one has ever heard before - but they are also close enough to normal sounds and cinematic themes to be familiar. To me it's the mark of true skill. It sounds like something out of this world, but also something I'm already comfortable with.

I bet there's maybe 5 people on Earth who could score a movie like this and make it as credible as Hans did.

I don't condone this law, but I think people here are missing an opportunity for understanding. I see so much black-vs-white moral righteousness on HN lately when really, the world is a sea of grey. And understanding a thing does not mean agreeing with a thing. But a little empathy might soften the inflammatory rhetoric.

Israel is proud of their Jewish heritage, and are generally surrounded by millions of people from other ethnic and religious backgrounds who hate them. I mean, it is very common to hear people in countries near Israel openly calling for death to the Jews or destruction of the Jewish state (essentially advocating genocide). Hell, I remember tweets from the Ayatollah promoting violence against Israel, and Twitter just let it fly.

In light of all the historical context and current geographical situation, I can understand the motivation to have a law like this. Whether it's morally just, effective, or just openly racist is certainly up for debate, but to me it is not so clear-cut as others would say.

It's not that he's worried about being invaded tomorrow, it's that he doesn't want to let the slippery slope get started.

I don't know how old you are, but when I was young and idealistic I felt the same way you seem to. Now I see a world of grey and I can, at least a little bit, empathize with (though not condone) the Russian position here. From their perspective the West is being intentionally belligerent, and we know it.

Despite what the media and the talking heads say, the west poking the bear is not about democracy or western values. It's about power and control. And Putin is repaying us in kind. And the Ukrainians are left to pick up the pieces.

I agree - it was abundantly clear Isaac wanted to push the prevailing narrative, had no interest in alternative perspectives, and wanted to score some smartypants points in the process.

Mearsheimer sounded cogent and intelligent, and I think he made some very interesting points.

His article from 2014 seems like it could have been written this week with how prescient it is: https://www.mearsheimer.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Why-t...

Consider that there have been terrible things happening to people throughout the world, every day, for years. This is bad, of course, but I'd caution you that you're letting the media dictate your emotions. Did you feel this mad during the (still ongoing) Syrian conflict? How about when Russia invaded Georgia? Or the first Ukraine invasion in Crimea? In all three cases the threat of nuclear war was probably as high as today. And the atrocities during this war so far pale in comparison to those other three. And that's just conflicts involving Russia. Over the last few years there have been unspeakable atrocities committed across the continent of Africa - that make this look mild.

It's not that this is good or acceptable, but if you're just now getting mad, or just now seeing humans for what they're truly like, then perhaps this is a good lesson and an important milestone in the maturation process. Human nature has not changed so much over the last 80 years. It's good to be reminded of that, though the reminders are difficult.

Yes, get a job. You can always work on your programmable proxy nights and weekends.

Marketing/selling something like what you're building is going to be at least 3x harder than building it - so prepare for that. If you don't have a single person willing to pay you money for it now, or at least a promise of it someday, you might want to switch gears to ensuring there's even a market for what you're building. Getting some firm commitments from potential customers before continuing down the path would be a good idea imo.

You sure like to be condescending. Every one of your replies to me starts with condescension. And I mean... my guy... I don't really think any of your comments are particularly compelling. I'm very aware of the state of UBI research, and I don't consider any of it to be very meaningful. I guess you do - that's great. But to completely discount the COVID stimulus is... cognitive dissonance.

You have to be kidding me. This is your big experiment?

"There are 175,000 24-year-olds in Gyeonggi, and for one year, each receives the equivalent of $220 in a locally negotiable currency per quarter via a credit card."

So 1000 bucks a person for a year. COVID stimulus plus child tax credit went to millions of people... and even the smallest amounts were more than this experiment in SK.

Like... what else ya got?

Your response is smug and glib. You can make 150k without too much trouble as a plumber. Or a mason. And still they can't find people. If you can't find people to work for those wages now, you think UBI will make it better? Please do explain that to me.

There isn't a single UBI experiment that remotely approximates what people mean when they talk about UBI. They are all small samples and all for limited time periods. The COVID stimulus was the closest thing we've seen on the scale required to get meaningful results.

We already have the answer. 2019 was arguably the greatest year for the American economy on record. Real wages for the lowest quartile were rising at one of the fastest (if not the fastest) rates in history. Poverty as measured among Black families was at its lowest record since WW2. Unemployment was 3ish% and people were coming off the bench to work. Inflation was < 2% and in some measurements hovering around 0.

So what was the big secret? You won't want to hear it. First and foremost it was the tax cuts and jobs act. Yeah yeah, a giveaway for the rich the media says. Nonsense. Second it was getting the government out of the way of the economy and business. Removing regulations was absolutely a factor in the success. And finally it was using our influence to benefit the US first and foremost (tariffs, foreign policy etc). Of course the media has poo pooed all these things, particularly because of who was at the helm when they happened. And I don't expect anyone on HN to agree with me.

This is also a pipe-dream. You can't automate plumbing, drywalling, framing and dozens of other construction jobs. They already can't find people to work those jobs - when you add UBI do you think there will be more of those workers? No. So who's going to build the houses? Who's going to make the supplies? Who's going to pick up trash? Moreover, who's going to be a nursing assistant, a home care aid, or even a teacher?

The stimulus is absolutely a factor. I agree there are other things pushing on both the demand side of the equation as well as the supply side. But UBI will never increase supply - at best you'd craft it in such a way so as to be neutral (though I don't know how you'd pull this off - someone has to work the crappy jobs)

But UBI absolutely will increase demand - and therefore prices until the same equilibrium is met but at a higher price. Basically, the poor will still be poor, but the rich will be poorer too. If a race to the lowest common quality of life is what you want, UBI is the answer. For any other scenario keep looking.

UBI is a pipe-dream. Look what happened when we tried it on a small scale with stimulus to "everyone". Rents went up 20-40% across the board, and demand exceeded supply in most industries. This will happen in any UBI scenario - the cost of goods will rise to meet whatever money people have.

The reason is simple - we are not in a post-scarcity society. I don't know why people think we are. Desirable apartments, land, products and myriad other things still follow supply and demand. If you increase demand, and supply stays the same, you will get higher prices. And no, UBI will not encourage companies to increase supply - with what workers will they do it?

For everyone here saying "Just use Let's Encrypt" - well, they've had some security issues over the last couple of years. Most recently [1]. They revoke certs and change challenges seemingly on a whim. I've had a number of fires to put out in the past 12 months because of LE.

Also, good luck using LE in a web farm type environment "easily". Given the challenge limits there's usually a fair bit of plumbing required to get multiple servers on the same domain with the same certificates. It's anything but "just works".

[1] https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/lets-encrypt-...

I can't read this link, but presumably this is the same content without the paywall? https://www.nytco.com/press/wordle-new-york-times-games/

> At the time it moves to The New York Times, Wordle will be free to play for new and existing players, and no changes will be made to its gameplay.

"At the time" is the sticky bit.

This used to happen to a company I was consulting at all the time. It was mostly in the context of hiring H1B workers from India. The company would interview "the ringer" in India - the guy was poised, articulate, knew the answers to all the questions etc. etc. But the guy who showed up didn't know anything, usually had difficulty with the language etc. This was pre-Zoom so it was all phone screens, making it much harder to be sure.

However, years later I was telling this story to a Wipro recruiter who said casually:

"Oh yeah, we call it the Hindu Switcheroo" (I kid you not)

Well I can assure you the protesters in Minneapolis were violent, destructive, and I personally saw hundreds of protesters looting stores, breaking ATMs, smashing windows etc. etc. Hell, the protesters even burned down the police precinct.

The riots in Minneapolis were worse by every metric than Jan 6. And in some cases orders of magnitude (cost of damage, for one). And I'll tell you what else - a lot more people are going to jail for the Jan 6 riots than the Minneapolis ones.

Yep, this hits the nail on the head. I've got my shots, and now I'm firmly in the "let it rip" camp. Omicron is the endgame as far as I'm concerned.

The point of all the onerous COVID rules and vaccine mandates was to prevent the spread, right? Keep pressure on the hospitals down? It didn't work. In the US anyways, COVID is, and has been, everywhere. Masks? Useless. Student/teacher/daycare exclusions for exposure? Useless. Vaccines? I think worthwhile, but in the face of Omicron, also basically useless.

More and more people are realizing they will be exposed to COVID during their life. It's not an if, but a when. I knew this the minute it became a pandemic, but others had some idiotic "we can beat this virus" mentality, promulgated mainly by the (left-leaning) media.

Well guess what? The only thing that would have made one bit of a difference (besides the vaccines) was bolstering the healthcare system. But the current administration in the US has done nothing of the sort. Time to let it buck, let the cards fall where they may.