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middleclickon Japan sets record of nearly 100k people aged over 100

If Japan is such a high trust society, why do they have separate train compartments for women?

middleclickon SpaceX said to fire employees involved in letter rebuking Elon Musk

Ouch, abuse? That usually means you have run out of arguments. Well, point proved, anyway.

middleclickon SpaceX said to fire employees involved in letter rebuking Elon Musk

Still waiting for that citation for performance and wokeism but I guess I will never see it.

middleclickon SpaceX said to fire employees involved in letter rebuking Elon Musk

> Are you advocating for change in your workplace that isn't strongly linked to workplace peformance?

Who is doing that? Please cite something.

> And wasn't even on the public radar 20 years ago?

Where does 20 years ago time frame come from? That's pretty arbitrary and seems more to be based on your feelings than fact.

middleclickon SpaceX said to fire employees involved in letter rebuking Elon Musk

Please define wokeism. Is for example, arguing for equality wokeism? Or forming a union?

middleclickon SpaceX said to fire employees involved in letter rebuking Elon Musk

> We created a rule that politics and religion were not appropriate topics at work. A couple of people quit in response, and morale improved dramatically.

Yeah sounds totally believable.

middleclickon Bugs are evolving to eat plastic, study finds

Carlin had a quote for you: "Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that".

middleclickon [dead]

Are you OK? This post has nothing to do with racism but sexual assault allegations.

middleclickon Ask HN: Cloudflare broke my domain's DNSSEC making it unreachable since 4 days

Awful in what sense though? I also maintain many domains and have not touched them in years since their initial setup, with LetsEncrypt (and the Certbot renewal timer).

middleclickon Success in Canada means moving to America

https://globalnews.ca/news/8543281/covid-trucker-convoy-orga...

> Now, as the convoy descends on Ottawa with the stated aim of opposing all COVID-19 mandates, anti-hate experts allege those with white nationalist and Islamophobic views don’t just represent the fringes of the movement but are among the organizers of the convoy.

There is no guilt by association. These are the people themselves.

middleclickon Success in Canada means moving to America

One Nazi flag, many Confederate flags, and white nationalists in the group:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-conservative-swasti...

> A small number of the assembled protesters have displayed Nazi insignia, including the swastika and yellow stars of David, while others have flown the Confederate flag during these anti-government demonstrations.

> Other groups have since attached themselves to the movement, including some far-right and white nationalist elements.

What should we call these people? Your being upset at them being called Nazis says more about you than Trudeau.

Note that the protest organizers made no attempt to dissociate themselves from these and only did so in the later days of the protests.

Trudeau's criticism of his conservative colleagues was more about them not criticizing these people (which they didn't) and not calling them Nazis.

It's also telling that the protests against lockdowns criticizing Trudeau, calling for his death (https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-protest-racist-deat...) were not addressed towards Doug Ford, the Ontario premier responsible for the lockdowns. No politician in Canada should get any death threats but the point I am making was no criticism was directed towards Doug Ford for something he did (the longest lockdown in North America in Ontario) but towards Trudeau, who had no role in it.

That tells you everything you need to need to know, that is, if you want to know it and not be willfully obtuse.

middleclickon Success in Canada means moving to America

Trudeau called people who were waving Nazi flags Nazis. What else do you think he should have called them? Please point out specific instances in which he labelled people as Nazis other than those ... waving Nazi flags?

Also, there is no "Montreal food" as much as there is no "Toronto food". I don't know why you think there is a distinction.

The healthcare you seem to be upset about is years long effort by the conservative governments to gut it down including the current conservative government in Ontario. And yet, not a word from you about that?

Good luck for your move to US but I think you have some other things you are unhappy about and I don't think moving countries is going to help.

middleclickon Jack Dorsey says he agrees with reversing Trump's Twitter ban

Why did you feel the need for a new account?

middleclickon Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen3 Review – with Linux

The quality has noticeably deteriorated after Lenovo brought the Thinkpad line but then in general the quality of electronics is only getting worse not better.

middleclickon Google's Certificate Transparency Search page to be discontinued May 15th, 2022

https://github.com/SSLMate/certspotter/ possibly?

middleclickon When they warn of rare disorders, these prenatal tests are usually wrong

I had rather my doctor be upfront about all possible scenarios than to be try and nice about them and save possible information.

middleclickon Unvaccinated workers who lose jobs ineligible for unemployment benefits (Canada)

> Then the whole point of this thing is pointless. We're selectively punishing people. We don't prevent or punish positive cases from going around to work, public transport, etc and infecting others, yet we punish people that choose to simply not vaccinate.

It's not pointless. Unvaccinated people are far far more likely to occupy the hospital and the ICU -- see above. How is that pointless? I am not talking about positivity as that is not relevant. See the official numbers above.

Your hyperbole is not valid as these jobs already required vaccinations so I am not sure what the new outrage is.

middleclickon Unvaccinated workers who lose jobs ineligible for unemployment benefits (Canada)

You are the one who made the claim that age is relevant to this when it is not as if the ICUs are full, it impacts everyone.

So maybe find the source and share it here since you are the one who made the argument? Burden of proof is on you, not me.

middleclickon Unvaccinated workers who lose jobs ineligible for unemployment benefits (Canada)

Cool.

https://health-infobase.canada.ca/covid-19/epidemiological-s...

Which groups are not "at-risk" here? What age? Because it seems like there is a significant % of the population in groups other than 80+ that are in the hospital.

middleclickon Unvaccinated workers who lose jobs ineligible for unemployment benefits (Canada)

Not correct. Here is the official source:

https://covid19-sciencetable.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/2...

Please cite your sources.

middleclickon Unvaccinated workers who lose jobs ineligible for unemployment benefits (Canada)

> blocked from receiving government services

Quite the hyperbole: not all government services, just employment insurance and that too if you were only fired for not receiving the vaccine. A reminder that in many of these jobs, there was already a requirement for getting a set of vaccines so this is not new. Though for some people, this vaccine is "different" but once you ask them to explain why they can't. So no new rules. You needed vaccines for most of the jobs and this just an additional one.

You will still receive employment insurance for other stuff, irrespective of your vaccination status.

> prevented from patronizing various businesses

You are not prevented from accessing essential businesses and no one checks your vaccination status or even asks for one.

> even restricted from traveling and the ability to work

You are still free to drive to work or take local public transit.

The difference between ICU rates of unvaccinated and vaccinated people in Ontario for example tells us that the vaccination is working:

https://covid19-sciencetable.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/2...

^ Please see the above graph.

If you cannot participate in society moving forward, then you should not expect society to cater to your needs.

middleclickon SpeedCrunch

This is one of the tools that I use everyday but I don't appreciate it much because it always works for me and I don't think twice.

Thank you to the authors for working on it. Time to send them a donation!

middleclickon Internet disrupted in Sudan amid reports of coup attempt

Please read the article I linked. The GitHub repository doesn't have any of the code that is relevant. For example, the code on api.webprobe is obfuscated and is not open source. For a long time as the article notes, there was no warning before the tests ran and even now, the list of website the web probe scans is not shared anywhere, not even after you run the tests.

Again, please read the article as it covers all this and much more and why Netblocks is a problematic organization in this space. It's a detailed article.

middleclickon Internet disrupted in Sudan amid reports of coup attempt

Netblocks is not a reliable source:

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/netblocks-internet-shutdowns

The Wired did extensive reporting on them and their unethical practices and is worth a read.

Please be extremely careful with their reporting. They don't publish their data and it's a mystery on how they get access to it.

middleclickon What I know about cleaning and seasoning cast-iron skillets

I exclusively cook on cast iron or stainless steel. They don't have any non-stick coatings and if Dark Waters taught me anything, I don't trust any non-stick coatings. In fact, one study found the Teflon alternatives to be a lot worse.

middleclickon Ivermectin Shows Us the Consequences of Politicized Science

There seems to be a huge overlap between people who are staunchly anti-vaccines and pushing Ivermectin. I wonder if there is a link.

middleclickon Hire-to-fire at Amazon India?

> Code quality was atrocious. We had one enormous Java method (>1000 lines) which would take care of nearly every single request coming into our service... With only about 7-8 unit tests

AWS is pretty reliable for the most part so I am pretty surprise that the code quality is that bad.

middleclickon Hire-to-fire at Amazon India?

This is a peak HN comment (the one you are replying to)! The other day on the Wikipedia thread, there was a data scientist who said he could run a website like Wikipedia all by himself. "How hard it is?". And here we have the same thing for Amazon..

middleclickon Wikipedia is swimming in money–why is it begging people to donate?

The George Floyd thing is not mentioned because it's not true:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/07/15/fac...

middleclickon Wikipedia is swimming in money–why is it begging people to donate?

This assumes that traffic has not changed since "1% of its coffers". Traffic has grown and the site has become faster.