lax4ever

To preface, nothing against the poster since I know they were just copying the article title.

This article headline is a bit misleading, as the FTC is not looking to ban the subscriptions themselves. Rather, they would like to implement a rule that requires servicers that provide subscriptions to make it as easy to cancel as it is to enroll, rather than the current jumbling mess that is trying to cancel something like a gym, Amazon, news, cable, or other subscription where servicers try to maintain retention by putting in a ridiculous number of hoops to jump through to cancel.

As I don't have the karma to downvote, my approach, which is likely to remain unchanged even if I ever get to the appropriate karma threshold, is to simply ignore. My mindset on this has been (and not saying it needs to be anyone else's) that my parents taught me ignore taunts, bullies, etc. and I simply extended it to this. I don't even want to put in the effort of downvoting to give the impression that I find someone's post or comment worth the effort of doing so.

See, that would be useful info to put on the FAQ page, instead it just says "After users reach a certain karma threshold".

I don't know if it is a karma threshold or not, but I have never been able to downvote a post and/or comment. Only upvote or flag.

Martin Luther's perspective was more of a "Works in thanks of Grace". One is saved by Grace alone, and in thanks for that grace one's works should reflect the will of God as provided in the Bible. EDIT: It's more about works being a demonstration of the faith one has been given rather than works being involved in the receipt of faith and grace.

IT would seem that this author and those who have decided that a good use of their time is to argue about the gender of God have little in the way of understanding around the nature of God.

I would highly recommend the reading of what are referred to as the three Ecumenical Creeds which break into some detail the nature of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit (in particular the third creed, the Athanasian).

https://wels.net/about-wels/what-we-believe/creeds/#toggle-i...

This is a deep subject, and these creeds pointedly do not include any reference to a discussion on gender because, besides being a massive distraction to the actual point of the Scriptures, it is not relevant. If one is so focused on the need to assign appropriate gender to everything and anything including God then one has drifted seriously off topic.

I would encourage anyone to find a pastor near you [1] and take the time to have a serious discussion, and hopefully series of discussions, with said pastor.

In any case, this seems to have seriously wandered off the topic of what kind of news should end up on HN.

[1]https://yearbook.wels.net/unitsearch

>Hurricanes have obliterated parts of the Gulf Coast, dumping more than 50in of rain in some places.

This is not evidence of climate change, and if you go and read NOAA's and the IPCC's own data they show that there has been no significant change in the frequency or intensity of hurricanes, and any minor change is actually a decrease in frequency of the last 50 years.

>Wildfires have denuded the California wilderness and destroyed thousands of homes.

Forest fires are also not a climate change event but rather a natural occurrence that was made all the worse by California's/DNR/USDA policy not to let these burns happen more frequently and allowing the build up of dying or dead material that burns much easier and makes life harder in forest areas in the state, something that the Forest Service has admitted. https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/sierra/landmanagement/?cid=st...

>A once-in-a-millennium drought has dried up rivers and forced farmers to stop planting crops.

A once in a millennium drought would suggest that this has happened before and is not necessarily the result of any changing climate. Beyond that, how do we know that this is a once in a millennium drought? I'm no geologist, but I do know that weather records have only existed for the last approx. 150 years, during which I think water distribution of the Colorado river was meted out during years of very high rainfall, etc. that caused baselines to be determined incorrectly.

>In cities like Miami and Norfolk, where sea levels are rising

Again, NOAA's own data shows that while seal levels might be considered rising, they are doing so on average of less than a foot per 100 years, and that's often with only 50-100 years of data. This is not necessarily evidence of climate changing because over the next 100 years this could go the other way and average out. https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/mslUSTrendsTable....

For an article that makes large assumptions on the movement trends, primarily of Californians, the author does little in the way of providing data to back up the claims.

Maybe ChatGPT is more like a human than I thought. It makes crap up just as much as the next person.

When one becomes more focused on what to call something because that thing might be offensive or "exclusive", one has lost the entire point.

To add potentially a little extra context, the HN account whoishiring[1] posts three items on the first of each month regarding potential employers, employees, and freelance work. HN requests that any seeking employment, or what you appear to be looking for, post in the appropriate thread.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=whoishiring

I mean, the governer's office is not technically wrong. Hiring/firing on the basis of protected status is illegal.

I would consider myself lucky if I were in your position. I have dualbooted on several machines, and Windows updates have broken at least half of them. I wish you continued good fortune in the future!

Yeah, that's actually pretty common behavior for Windows and a well documented drawback of dual-booting Windows and Linux.

Even if there was a corresponding "black" addition that was meant to assignment the opposite meaning, that still would likely have nothing to do with race.

I remain curious about how many of these commenters for or against corporal punishment of children (to be distinguished from capital punishment, which is the allowance of a death sentence for capital crimes) have actually raised children.

The UN Convention on the Rights of a Child specifically does not mention the use of corporal punishment and makes no binding requirement of any of its signatories to refrain from the use of corporal punishment. Such interpretations that have been attempted to be made from articles within the Convention have been rejected by multiple nations, including Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom.

And every year, at a minimum of 300,000 Americans use guns to protect themselves from robbery, assault, rape, and murder. I feel for the parents that have lost children, but even the most conservative estimates show that guns are used in self-defense far more than suicide or violence that results in homicide (accidental or intentional).

What this article doesn't point out is that CDC, DOJ, and FBI estimates, as well as a range of private studies and surveys, put defensive firearms usage about a conservative minimum of 300,000 instances per year, though it can range to around 1-3 million depending on the source. I would normally discard that kind of range, but the numbers have been fairly consistent in the 300,000 to 1,000,000 range. That means that for every person killed with a gun, either through homicide or suicide, there are at least 7 people who defend themselves with one.

I'm not entirely certain that anyone was suggesting that George Floyd's death was justified.

Full Title of NOAA and IPCC headline since this is just a blog post: NOAA and IPCC Predict Far Larger Decline in Hurricane Frequency Than Increase in Intensity

NOAA HURDAT Site:https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/data_sub/data_format.html

NOAA HURDAT Data: https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/hurdat/hurdat2-1851-2017-05011...

I've never done this personally, but I believe Apple's Disk Utility has a function to zero out drives. In theory, if you boot into Recovery Mode (Which, IIRC, was Command+R or holding the power button on ARM machines), you can access the utility and shred the drive with Disk Utility and then reinstall from there.

I think one of the commenters on Twitter got it right. The fact that Citi did not back down after a CFBP tells me there is a SAR (Suspicious Activity Report) on the file, which the bank is not legally allowed to inform the customer about.

Dupe of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32886266

Which, in the case of COVID, is not exactly a great argument for the restrictions either considering that after two years of COVID the world has experienced less than 7 million recorded deaths [0] compared to, at a minimum, after two years of the Spanish Flu we were looking at 17 million deaths (though it could be closer to 50 million) [1]. And that's with a global population that is an estimated 3-4x greater than the world population of 1918 [2] and with far easier global travel.

[0]https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu [2]https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/world-populat...

My spouse found our primary group through local Facebook searches. These homeschool groups are often called "co-ops" or "circles", but another good place is to check out your local parks, museums, family attractions like a zoo or activity center during what would be typical school hours. Engaging local parents that you see with what appear to be school aged children at these places (and I realize that can be awkward at times) is a good way to connect as well especially if your children are along.

EDIT: You can also check your local library, as the librarians are likely to know of at least one person who homeschools and might be able to connect you.

Homeschooling is not the isolation that most people think it is. In fact, the vast majority of parents who homeschool (myself included) join forces with other parents who homeschool for events, activities, and learning opportunities, all of which bring with them natural socialization while still allowing for a far more tailored learning experience than you can get in any classroom. In addition, homeschool kids typically spend more time around adults and get a better understand of the socialization standard that is expected of them, allowing them to build mature relationships easier.

Can I just say, wow, that's insane.

I can feed a family of four from McDonalds for around $24.00 out here in the Midwest. Are your Big Mac meals plated in 14 karat gold out there?

How is this not basically the reverse of redlining?

Yes, because men and women can't possibly be different.

1) Except, they didn't form a consensus. There was plenty of disagreement, and there is still a fair amount, of what the appropriate response was, often within the same fields of medicine.

2/3) I will give you that the vaccines have undergone some testing, but do I think it is nearly enough? No. The testing period for these vaccines was far below what a standard testing period is for medical procedures humans participate in. Standard Phase 1 approval takes, on average, 10 years, and this vaccine did it in less than two. While this vaccine has appeared to be helpful, when it comes to a novel disease and drug testing, there is only so much leeway we can and should give.

4) If we were looking for immediate reactions, sure, but improper dealing with biological functions is a long-term game like cancer, not something typically observed or resolved in the short term.

5) The problem is, we didn't know that millions more were going to die without this vaccine, we made an assumption. This is a novel disease that we didn't have anything close to accurate mortality projection rates, even before the vaccine. They were all over the place and were about as accurate as the lottery numbers in a fortune cookie. Beyond that, we can't really know if this particular vaccine did actually save lives because the drop in case numbers not only corresponds with vaccine rates but also with natural infection recovery and immunity rates. And with estimates of over half the country appearing to show such a high level of immunity to the disease that they didn't even show any symptoms we really didn't know what to expect.

6) And this goes back to my original point. Maybe more people die without the vaccine, but orders of magnitude more? I find that unlikely. 600 million COVID cases in the world [0] and only 6.5 million have died in the whole world. I find it very hard to believe that waiting on a vaccine would have increased those numbers significantly.

7) The body's generative abilities only go so far. The protein development may be a minor issue, it may not. I still would like the question tested and answered.

8) Even if a stop-gap measure is better than no measure at all it should not be forced on people. Make the vaccine available? Sure. Be open and up front about the perceived strengths and flaws? Absolutely. Provide regular updates? Of course. Force people to take it (even just making it a condition of being able to work or go to school)? Absolutely not.

[0] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

EDIT: I suspect neither of us will be able to convince the other of their position, but I did want to let you know that I do appreciate the civil tone that has been kept throughout the conversation.