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True. The etiquette I was taught re: references is to discuss and clear it with them first, both to be sure that they're willing to be a reference, and to confirm that they'll actually say something nice.

I love that -- thanks! I have a lot of sympathy for what motivated restaurants to adopt QR code menus, but as a patron I hate 'em. If this prank is done at scale it can help drive the restaurants back to real menus.

But discrimination based on things other than race, gender, etc. is not necessarily illegal, or even wrong. When a company is considering candidates it discriminates based on skill, experience, demeanor (and the vague "culture fit", which is indeed worthy of criticism as a criterion). With AirBnB, the renter applies, and the owner has the [now quickly eroding] right to refuse. Basing that on things other than immutable characteristics is not necessarily wrong.

No, not based on immutable characteristics like race and gender; but, I want to see other signs that might indicate somebody I don't want to rent to. For example, I'm going to be very leery of renting to somebody with neck tattoos or a teardrop tattoo. Others might not want to rent to somebody who wears a MAGA hat in their photo. Owners have a right to decide who stays in their house.

Side note: it seems HN memory-holed the article altogether: not flagged, showdead has no effect. It's just....gone.

That's single variable thinking, for sure. We've been living through a lot of that these past 2 years.

It's easy to solve for one variable; beyond that, one has to balance things so that primary goals (hiring capable and personable talent) are still achieved.

As a business, a key metric to measure in the experiment should be how many hosts does Airbnb lose as a consequence.

Now is good for me!

The restaurant industry is notoriously high-risk to start with, and they certainly have been impacted more than most other industries. Many other businesses were simply shut down (i.e. you can't have customers), which is devastating on its own. But, that period lasted a relatively short time. With restaurants, they had to make new investments in plexiglass crap, outdoor dining areas, etc..._and_ they were partially or fully shut down, or had to adapt to takeout only -- all of it costing time and money, and adding risk. The rules for them changed more frequently and unpredictably, and have been in effect throughout these 2 years.

The author should also mention another factor limiting the number of patrons who show up, and aggravating those that do: turning the restaurant into an enforcement arm of The State in demanding proof of vaccination.

Sincere best wishes and good luck with this -- thank you! Then, please do the same for code sample sites. :)

Do you pronounce the T in "soften"... maybe you use fabric "sof-ten-er"? Do you have a brush with "bris-tels"? Those would be more inclusive and modern pronunciations?

"I personally would applaud it as progress"

One man's progress is another man's regress. Maybe it's the result of the "Hooked on Phonics" generation having grown up.

I find that in the past few years I encounter more people (native English speakers) who intentionally pronounce the T in often. I notice that several are NPR correspondents, which makes me think some are saying it to "sound smart". It's funny, really.

I think she was countering the assertion that there is no distinction with the fact that the distinction is real, and is important.

I think she's joining Glenn Greenwald over at substack.com.

I very much recommend ownership over rent. However, purchase is sometimes not practical, out of reach, or just not desired. I've myself been in steep markets (California) where I rented for years while I saved up a down payment.

Some people own their home, others rent it. Different situations suit different people.

You just described the effects of the student loan industry, too.

Well done. My father was a realtor, and taught me early to distinguish between House and a Home -- the former is a physical thing, an investment, and is your Home while you're living in it; the latter is a precious concept, but a separate one. I'm grateful for him teaching that wisdom to me and my siblings when we were younger.

It's fine _if_ you can find a good therapist... but keep in mind you're putting yourself in somebody else's hands. You might find a good one, or you might find a charlatan who could really confuse, sidetrack, or mess you up. Be very careful when choosing. Don't agree to a lengthy commitment to one, but rather try them out on a session by session basis.

Good luck!

I'm guessing it's done on approach so that the autopilot won't keep the plane from landing -- which would beg the question of why the autopilot would even be on during takeoff or landing.

As one would guess, it shouldn't have been on. Insight comes from a comment in TFA:

"I’m a captain at a U.S. major airline with a lot of time in 777s. Something this doesn’t mention is the that even if ground level was set into the mode control panel, the aircraft wouldn’t have descended if it was being hand flown. That means that the flying pilot here selected the autopilot on immediately after takeoff. This is unusual at Western carriers as we like to hand fly. To me this indicates a lack of experience or confidence or both."

Well, "anti-vax" is a sweeping generalization, and usually meant as an insult. The comment speaks of skepticism, not denial or opposition; and, skepticism is very healthy. Critical thinking is a good thing, not a bad thing.

I'm genuinely curious: does "technical and political work to keep Earth habitable for subsequent generations" include efforts to reduce the earth's population size? I ask this because sometimes such efforts fail to address the root cause, often deliberately.

How many other medications do you take, or more specifically _require your children to take_ that:

1. were invented 18 months ago, have been available for only a year, and were hurried through the FDA's processes

2. underwent limited clinical trials

3. the manufacturers and providers are immune from lawsuits

4. the effectiveness was cited as 95% 8 months ago, but has proven to be much less.

...

I'm betting that the number is 0.

One has to admit, these vaccines and their rollout is all very unusual and against normal order. People having hesitation and skepticism is actually very healthy.

The premise of this seems excessively optimistic -- and/or excessively egoistic. It's plausible that humans will still exist on Earth 8,000 years from now, but that requires fantastic optimism (as in it requires fantasy to predict not only the future you can foresee/imagine in your likely lifetime, but for many, many millennia and lifetimes beyond your own). On the other hand, assuming humans (in whatever new form) are inhabiting this earth are still here, starting to timestamp your works (writings, etc) with 5 digit years says you really expect your outputs to be in existence then. Though they very well might be, does one think that without your foresight to use 5 digit years it would maybe somehow be lost, or difficult to archive?

Unix's time limit is based on the capacity of 32- or 64-bit integers (hardware). For denoting years, we lost nothing because the ancients didn't write dates as 4 character years -- we, and that info, survived adding digits.

They should; instead though, schools are disposing of standards because they're now unpopular (i.e. called 'racist')

https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/15/us/university-of-california-s...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/16/us/harvard-admissions-act...

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/move-end-standardized-t...

Who did your older sister prefer and want to live with... the biological parents, or the other family?

So there is a Child Tax Credit... of sorts. /s

I mostly agree with the author's conclusion:

"Parents have a critical role to play when it comes to what their kids read, and Out of Darkness isn’t for everyone. But it is a book that matters to someone, and that student deserves to be able to find it in their school library."

... except for it being the school library. A library, yes, but I understand a school library not having it.

This is very good, and applies to so many people from the Midwest. This describes, pleasantly and without vitriol, the attitudes (shaped by perspective) that many coastal folks with little exposure to the rest of the US have. These are the same folks who call the Midwest states "flyover states", implying "nobody who's anybody stops or lives there".

I've been asked by someone from Boston if we celebrated Independence Day in Texas, and have seen a UC Berkeley graduate become genuinely frightened by the sight of a Southern Living cookbook.

Being ignorant of places you haven't been to is understandable, but it seems a common pattern for those in the Midwest to see the coastal places as "special" and desirable to at least visit; whereas geographically ignorant Californians (the ones I'm most familiar with) generally view all the interior states as "lesser". Granted, this is a bit of a generalized judgement on my own part.

Things change. Their products used to be so good they were considered as a standard for quality and usability. Few of the iconic companies of the past retain their status. Apple has sunk a long way; but, like IBM and Microsoft, though, there's a still a lot of air to fall through before they hit ground.

File count and general "bloat" is an indicator of the quality of the engineering in the product. Especially for a security product _minimalism_ should be evident -- nobody with good security sense would want or allow anything not truly necessary to the product's functionality to be included.

There's a lot of room between "super trivial" and "needlessly complex" -- it shouldn't be either.

Trusting a cloud-based third party with my passwords is a non-starter for me.