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Massive congratulations! Let's see about malaria next.

I have heard that it might not be crazy to apply DDT sparingly and appropriately to this problem. To my knowledge, it was a big part of how mosquito-borne disease was virtually eradicated in North America.

Wetland habitat destruction is a real concern, but so is the untimely deaths of hundreds of millions of people.

> you guys understand that Hong Kong has and always been part of China, correct? UK gave back a land that wasn't their to keep.

PRC signed an agreement with the UK that set out the legal parameters for this transfer of sovereignty, and PRC is contradicting that agreement with their actions. While it may not legally be the UK's to keep, it was not China's to take in this respect either.

> What can any Western country or US president can do? Do you declare a war with a country over a piece of land that is rightfully their?

Well, in the mean time, the U.S. has terminated the special status of Hong Kong which allowed it to serve as the conduit between the civilized world and a country with essentially no rules that regularly outweigh pure class/political privilege.

The English legal system and liberal order that the UK imposed on Hong Kong was in large part what made them so dazzlingly wealthy and dynamic; and if PRC wants to corrupt that, the result is that the benefits of the system they are corrupting disappear with that system.

Also, it is not always right to honour the law, when dealing with bandits. The CCP does not care for the law, so their assertion of a legal right to Hong Kong (which has not matured anyway) is hypocritical, and can essentially be ignored at no moral hazard.

Furthermore, even if we asserted that the CCP has some agreed legal right to Hong Kong that will mature in some years, I would not agree that it has a moral right to take its people as property.

It's complicated to get buy-in on actual sanctions within the anglosphere and Europe, but it's not as though the U.S. is not pushing for them. [0]

[0]: https://www.ft.com/content/fcaf0a57-ac0f-4695-af0f-82a44e6ae...

The UK and Australia are willing to flap their mouths a bit [1] over it at least, and the UK is much closer to actual sanctions (Australia has, for the time being, not terminated their special trade arrangements with Hong Kong).

[1]: https://americanmilitarynews.com/2020/05/us-uk-canada-and-au...

Ultimately only the U.S. has taken any leadership on this matter, even if I think it will be inadequate. There is more to be done; but with the U.S. Presidential election looming, one thing that would steel the resolve and buff the resources of PRC assets in American politics would be a major announcement.

Nothing is as simple as the free world bullying the nominally-free world to condemn the only major state in the world conducting a holocaust; because apparently those "allies" don't give a toss.

As slow as PDF.js is, Acrobat is somehow slower.

The single result it gives is a link to VKontakte. Given that it's largely a walled garden, I think that's a reasonable result to give, with no other input.

I might go for: If you are 60 years old or younger, fill form 331. If you are older than 60 years, fill form 445.

> A true leader would have gotten on the phone with all of his counterparts in all of our allied countries and given notice to China that the new laws to curtail freedoms are a red line. And come up together with a list of collective sanctions (including banking) to threaten China with

This is literally, exactly what the White House did.

It isn't enough, we need to do a lot more.

> Hong Kong fell without a peep from the U.S.

Except completely reclassifying it to remove the thing that made China want to seize control in the first place: special trade status. Other than that, what could the current administration do that wasn't screwed up by its predecessors?

Yeah I think it may be a bit overzealous to say that even people who are not supplementing at all, and even in a population where low Vitamin D is common, should wait until they measure k and Vitamin D (which could be not for a long time).

“first, do no harm” seems to be the thread of this caution though, so not exactly unexpected from a doctor.

The fact that ketamine is also used by veterinarians is unremarkable. Almost every common human antibiotic is also used for fish; are broad-spectrum antibiotics “fish drugs”?

Ketamine is routinely used by paramedics, I think more routinely in Western Europe than in North America.

The real question is whether it is appropriate for police to request the use of sedatives while effecting an arrest; and you could argue in some cases that it is entirely appropriate even if your only priority is the wellbeing of the arrestee.

For what it's worth, most of the outbound route (but not the return) was secondary motorways.

I count us all as lucky that the two cold war states were the lucky picks that would not be overcome by the urge to find out what happens.

I'll add my anecdote: last year I took a long bus journey two ways between Hamilton, Ontario and the Philadelphia area. At one of the transfer stops, Binghamton NY I think, I picked up a 14GB SIM card and activated it in my phone, and it had signal almost the whole way to Philadelphia, I was watching videos the whole way, and made two video calls. Population density on the east is higher, but it's not that high, cutting through Pennsylvania.

I wonder how hard it would be to write an MGR terminal emulator today.

Darktable is great by the way; nothing's perfect, but its indexing and navigation is faster than Lightroom and the filters are basically what you use. I've also heard good things about RawTherapee.

> I'd argue this makes a lot more sense than some sort of drone delivered jettisoned/retrieved battery..

Oh absolutely, it compares favourably to one of the most asinine first-pass approaches to this problem I've ever seen, heheh.

The real solution is to find a way to produce good liquid fuel from a cheap and abundant source of overprovisioned baseline power (maybe make hydrogen† from your nuclear power in off-peak hours).

Batteries are mostly composed of matrix, so even if you could extract energy as efficiently from the non-matrix materials in the battery as you can from hydrocarbon combustion, you would still be lugging around all that matrix.

† Yes, I get that it's 3 times less energy dense than good hydrocarbons, but it's a start when compared to batteries.

With turbofans and turbojets it gets a little harder as well, since unlike stationary turbine generators, not all "waste heat" is actually wasted, when considering thrust-specific fuel consumption.

> If these are passenger aircraft, that probably wouldn't fly

Well, it doesn't need to have the same rate of acceleration as a carrier's, but honestly it just doesn't make sense in general.

Furthermore it doesn't make any sense in the Spanish language, where it is perfectly normal to have Latinos (n. m), Latinas (n. f), and Latinos (n. n).

It is a word entirely for the American activist class.

> Yes it is, but we could define it algorithmically. Perhaps 5x the median of the last 5 years of operational expense? That would essentially say "you can run with no revenue for 5 years on this pile of cash, that's enough of a rainy day fund."

This is completely inadequate, and directly hurts the productivity of business (if for no other reason than forcing companies to account for it).

> No, you are perhaps thinking about "printing" money. Which is that money is injected into the economy instead of having it being generated by the economy.

Stagnant cash deflates the currency directly, like bitcoin on hard drives in the dump, or sunken pirate gold.

Undue† wealth inequality is tied to the sort of rent-seeking that this tax will enable. Given the inordinate ways to classify and exempt movable property from a wealth tax (even greater than the existing insanity in income taxes), it is essentially inevitable that this will invite more lobbying and corruption, net more rent-seeking, and compound existing inequality.

† vs. inevitable/natural wealth inequality, associated with real disparities in productivity and the nature of sampling individuals on a widening curve

> I'm saying that a limit could be established on how much is too much

That amount is different for every kind of business.

Furthermore, putting cash into the market by force is basically just inflation isn't it?

> The short version appears to be that the author has managed to replace standard linear algebra notation with an alternative (but mathematically equivalent) graphical notation, which is harder to do computations and write programs in.

> This submission is the latest in a trend of what I would classify as "math-lite" category theory and Haskell articles that reach the HN front page, which purport to explain something interesting but end up just rehashing standard mathematics in opaque ways.

This is, coincidentally, the ambition of APL.

Maybe the term Disposition Matrix was more precise and less euphemistic than we were concerned it was. I guess you could compute a kill list from a genuine matrix of dispositions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposition_Matrix

It's not a backup, it's the authoritative dataset.

> There is a difference between being critical of something and hating it.

The original comment said “hate” not “is bad”; probably the source of a lot of the confusion in this thread lol.

> If you want to destroy capitalism, hacker news is probably not the most promising place to start. If your goal is to tweak it I actually think it is.

Idunno, even just calling it “bad” seems to imply that there are better things, which is not really a statement about “tweaking” anything. A statement in favour of tweaking capitalism would be something like “capitalism on its own can not reliably produce moral goods”.

Capital markets produced the the goods and services that make this forum possible. If you hate capitalism, you hate basically everything that got you to this conversation. So why not stop feeding into it, in the few obvious ways you can?

Because it's fake, you don't hate capitalism if you like Hacker News, even if you think you can. Hacker News is literally owned and operated by venture capital firm

Filtering this stuff from a master transaction log is kinda ludicrous, not looking forward to implementing that.

Then turn off the computer and cancel your internet.

I think it would be interesting to approach this from the language mode side, insisting on structured buffers (syntax tree with rope leaves†). It is pretty rare that two clients (mode and user window, or two user windows) would lock a single large leaf, so you could just choose an authority/leader for each subtree, and have the leader explicitly and synchronously sequence the peon clients' edits.

Then, working backward from language specific modes, I could imagine a way to generalize this to free form text, by negotiating the split points with the authority (or not at all, in the case of free text being edited by one client).

Though I guess for now just making these completely synchronous across the whole buffer, as you have, is fine in most cases, and already a significant improvement vs some editors (looking at you, beloved Emacs).

† i.e. for js, you could imagine a tree of statements/blocks containing expressions (maybe incl. operator precedence); for Clojure you could imagine a plain syntax tree, for JSON you could imagine it being the literal JSON data (plus whitespace metadata).