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Even if you make egg freezing cheap, it will still have an abysmal success rate (particularly if a woman waits until her 30s to have the eggs freezed), and should rationally be viewed as a hail Mary of last resort. This should not be viewed as the default rational path towards pregnancy, even if it were free. A society which is structured to encourage this path is setting people up for serious disappointment.

Both the Pulse and Pocket acquisitions look like corrupt favors done by Mozilla executives for their friends, so it makes sense to lump both together.

That's nothing to do with school though, just youth. Kids who get into fights in the summer months away from school aren't sent to jail for it like adults. Being at or away from a school isn't a factor in that difference.

Nah, that doesn't ring true to me. I got into plenty of scraps during the summer when I was a kid. Nothing that rose to the asymmetry I would describe as bullying, but certainly it was violence. And besides the overt fights, many of the games we played were essentially organized fights.

Maybe things are different now, with kids spending too much time indoors playing video games instead of running around in the woods. But I think violence is generally an outcome from boys being together and relatively unsupervised. The insidious part about violence in schools is the double-jeopardy you face from administration; first you get your ass kicked by the bully, then you get your ass kicked again by the bureaucracy putting you through the wringer.

> In America there is a concept of "zero tolerance" that keeps the bullied compliant and the bullies in charge. It was not until I started to get very violent that the bullying stopped.

Exactly my experience as well. Fighting back is the only thing that ever made the bullying stop. I fought back once in the locker room against a boy two years and two feet older and taller than me, basically lost the fight immediately, but because I fought and wouldn't submit, everybody else stopped the fight and after that day I was never bullied in school again.

The reason I never fought back sooner is because I was scared of the rules even more than the bullies. The "Zero tolerance" rules made clear that if I fought back I would be just as bad as the bullies, and in just as much trouble (except I'd actually be in more trouble, because my parents would be livid at me for getting suspended while the bullies' parents wouldn't give a shit.) "Zero tolerance" means zero due process. It's the school administrators essentially siding with bullies by default because it makes the paperwork easier. Absolutely immoral. It should be their responsibility to figure out who actually started the fight and punish the perpetrator but not the victim.

In the end I didn't get in trouble after all, because locker room fights were beyond the eyes of adults and nobody ratted anybody out. I resent the teachers and the administration the most, for making me afraid to stick up for myself. The kids who bullied me were psychos or broken people, and I find it easy to forgive them. But the administration did harm to me by being lazy bureaucrats.

> It's super expensive to buy healthy food.

Fresh veggies are the cheapest thing in a grocery store. And you don't need to buy the organic/exotic ones to "eat healthy" from the perspective of losing weight.

You know what's expensive? Junk food. For the price of a single bag of chips I can buy several pounds of carrots.

A mechanic taking a car for a ride is at least plausibly productive; the mechanic tests the car out to make sure it's running well, no weird noises/etc. Of course if you just brought the car in for an oil change and not asking them to investigate a weird intermittent noise, I can see why you'd be upset.

What's the point of any mask mandate anymore? When you fly into town for the con you'll be on an airplane with dozens of unmasked people. Same thing every time you go to the grocery store or virtually anywhere else.

Just give it up already. Mask mandates are now beyond pointless.

Since they don't need it, they shouldn't even be asking in the first place.

That's an upgrade option now? It used to be standard, I think even suggested that you remove your drive before sending in your thinkpad. Granted, the last time I had to do that was 2009 or so.

Sounds like a bug, I'd try it in a fresh profile and see it still behaves that way for you. I just installed the extension a few minutes ago and it's translating manually when I click the button.

That's certainly crass, but it shouldn't be illegal to say.

If people don't want to support their country's military and servicemen, that should be their business; it's a legitimate political position to take. Not least because all British soldiers are volunteers, and most of what British soldiers have been doing for the past generation is tagging along with American imperial military adventurism.

Did you accidentally press the "Translate this tab automatically as you browse" button? Maybe try in a new tab.

It seems to work brilliantly with Russian. Less than 5 seconds to translate a medium length wikipedia article on my computer. This exceeds my hopes and expectations.

Absolutely brilliant! I hope they eventually ship this with firefox by default. I doubt I would have heard of this extension if not for this HN post; shipping it by default would probably be useful to many people.

> What do (did) 7000 people do at Twitter?

I don't know, but Discord has a small fraction of the employees. They have hundreds of millions of active users, handle tons of live audio streams in addition to the text traffic, and their client software has a lot more features than twitter. Why can Discord do more with less?

> "the story"

But it's not a singular story, it's many thousands of independent stories. That link only provides the other side of some of them.

When I talk about class I am talking about income, not moral conduct. That should be obvious from the context. Cops push the races out of high/medium income neighborhoods because that is where the cops live.

And street races are unquestionably dangerous.

I didn't get the impression that it was said as a negative critique of film, but if you want citations in that direction it's easy. Just look up all the crap the Kodak plant has been found to dump into the water/environment around Rochester. Lots of dioxins, carcinogens, etc. Tons of methylene chloride just to name one example. It's a giant chemical production plant, what do you really expect? GMO kelp and rainbow farts?

> We also could use some dialing down this aspect of pop-culture (movies and music in particular)

Some politicians tried this back in the 90s and were widely derided for it. The matter hasn't really been addressed since; the public has seemingly decided that only fools could believe people are influenced by movies, music, and video games.

It's a trendy hobbyhorse for the past couple of years: Every problem with cities is because of car culture. And the problem with rural areas is they aren't cities, because of car culture.

Are you sure it's actually easy for police to stop illegal street races without starting dozens of high speed car cases? These street racers have fast cars, little regard for public safety, and no desire to let themselves be arrested. It doesn't seem so trivial to me, but you seem to think it's just a matter of police attitude.

I'm not the one who framed it as a race issue, am I? The issue is almost certainly one of class; cops are paid well and are likely to live in middle class neighborhoods. The drag-races likely most common in lower income neighborhoods.

> they don’t care about the (mostly black or Latino) residents of the residential neighborhoods in which these happen.

From wikipedia:

> As of 2019, the Los Angeles Police Department had 10,008 officers sworn in. Of these, 81% (8,158) were male and 19% (1,850) female. The racial/ethnic breakdown:

    48.8% or 4,882 was Hispanic/Latino (of any race)
    30.9% or 3,090 was non-Hispanic White
    9.62% or 962 was African American
    7.66% or 766 was Asian
    2.46% or 246 was Filipino American
    remaining were Indian and Other Ethnicities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Police_Department#...

> Similarly, the US cut off oil and resources to Japan.

The US ""cut off"" oil to Japan by having possession of the Philiphines, which was situated directly between Japan and the Dutch East Indes. The Dutch East Indes had the oil, the Dutch didn't want to sell it to Japan, and Japan intended to take it by force so they could fuel their conquest of China. The American-occupied Philippines were between the two, so Japanese military leadership decided to eliminate the American Navy first.

Japan were not victims in this. It was their imperial ambition that did them in.

NeoVim devs earned that 'Neo' by rapidly adding features that were in demand for years (and were subsequently implemented in Vim, in response to NeoVim's new pace of innovation.

Anyway, adding Neo was enough to differentiate the two names, so what's the problem? Let's not forget that Vim did the same thing to Vi when it was named "Vi IMproved."

Sorry, it's not clear what you think I'm wrong about or what you're trying to say at all. Can you please clarify? Preferably without the insults and layered sarcasm.

A lot of Americans are American because their European ancestors got sick of European affairs and wanted a clean break from it.

Nonetheless, a lot of the anti-interventionist rhetoric seen on the net today feels very astroturfed. Anybody accusing NATO of warmongering is safe to write off as a Russian-aligned troll, considering Russia is the one who actually invaded a foreign country. NATO's "war mongering" amounts to offering sanctuary to the countries with a rational fear of being invaded by Russia.

> China's gov't has a hand in every company in its borders, or so it is suspected

Not merely suspected, it's a matter of Chinese law that the Party is represented in any company large enough for them to take notice of.

It's national security, what do you expect? Even if specifics are known and they're not operating under a general precautionary principle (maybe they are, but so what?), the specifics would be classified, not broadcast to the public. That's just the nature of national security concerns. Everything gets overclassified.