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This is arguably dangerous because I imagine tractor ownership is a strong prior for prediction of political affiliation. Just one of the many exploitable dangers of mass privacy invasion.

>STFU with all of the moralizing and support policies that actually work, even if you have to pony up a bit to pay for them. It's cheaper for you in the long run

>Your options are to be angry today and sick or dead tomorrow, or to let it go, support effective policies today,

You're asking for one portion of the populous to take on the burden cause by lack of restraint by another. There is legitimate reason for "moralizing" here. This is the point where what "two people do in the privacy of their bedroom" spills over into affecting everyone else.

It's ironic that "yelling at people doesn't work" yet we see just as much yelling and moralizing by the people who want the freedom to do whatever they want even when their actions DO negatively affect others.

The real issue is constantly swept under the rug. The only real barrier to POC in STEM in 2021 is POC culture. It's hard to host events for inner city denizens when the vast majority are simply uninterested in such pursuits, or worse, shun each other for having such interests. Lack of representation will not be solved so long as we continue to ignore this inconvenient truth. And it's similar for lack of female representation.

Edit: in anticipation of controversy, it is not my attempt to troll or start any flamewars with this comment. It's a perspective that is sorely lacking in discussions addressing diversity in tech, and dangerously so, because if we refuse to question the role of the choices of those who are underrepresented, then the only alternative is to blame people and systems who are not responsible for the issues, which makes the interventions ineffective at best, counterproductive and destabilizing at worst.

Resorting to calling people "anti-science" is just as counterproductive and unnecessary as calling them "anti-vax". You're only solidifying animosity and mistrust. People have every right to question what they're being told by the same governments who mishandled this epidemic from the start - especially since there such strong political incentives that aren't necessarily aligned with scientifically based recommendations.

Not a good look considering indicators suggest inflation is accelerating[1]. Which would be an expected outcome considering how much money the US government printed over the course of the pandemic, and now how much we are about to print to support the next stimulus/infrastructure program.

>Chairman Powell has very explicitly claimed that money doesn't matter in recent testimony. He's basically said that money and the measurement of money doesn't really matter because it's unrelated to inflation

And I don't know how much faith the populous will put in his reasoning as I suspect confidence in government is rapidly eroding, not just in the US but in the first world. But something is probably wrong if your economic advisors are saying that money in circulation and money velocity suddenly don't influence the value of the dollar.

The US is a powderkeg and last year a couple fuses were lit.

1.https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-economy-inflation-idU...

A mob occupying private land, for weeks (months?), and declaring autonomy under a radical, explicitly and overtly anti-american, revolutionary flag, threatening and ejecting any approaching officials, including medical services, with violence. Particularly when this mob is affiliated with a decentralized network throughout the united states with similar goals.

Storming the capitol with weapons, having leaders with knowledge of the layout, and actually spilling blood. The picture of the right in this country by media is generally a caricature of an inbred, uneducated southern hick, so it's easy to pretend that they planned for a serious coup and we're just completely incompetent. But the lack of weapons in any significant quantity, or their use, or even their brandishing in the capitol, suggests that there were never any serious plans for a coup or even for violence.

The fact that "insurrectionists" came within 5 feet of the entrance to the chamber with the politicians they were allegedly targetting and obliviously walked past it more likely shows that there was no serious preparation, given that the layout is easily searchable online.

This is manufactured hysteria by the media, for political goals. It comes from the same place as this twitch policy - we are in the midst of a dirty culture war.

Literally everything you're describing would be identical to that of a preplanned protest. The implication of "organization" is that of a plan for "insurrection", for which there is no proof of premeditation.

>If Trump really wants to get his thoughts out to the world, he can host his own website and publish them there

And what's the recourse when the same forces collude to shut someone or some group out of the hosting platform for wrongthink? Build your own server farm? Build your own cloudflare? Build your own DNS? How far do we go in allowing tyranny by a loud and powerful minority? If we can regulate corporations to prevent corporate monopolies, perhaps it's appropriate to implement loose regulations against social monopoly. Collusion to silence an entire set of viewpoints by unilaterally associating them with a minority of extremists is quite literally oppression.

>Critics have criticized the idea of a "culture fit," arguing it sidelines people of color

Is there any room left in our society to acknowledge cultural clash? It feels like I'm being gaslit when the imperative is to "celebrate diversity" and simultaneously deny that positive differences between cultures mathematically implies negative differences, which among other things can hinder cooperation.

QAnon is fringe. Social Justice is mainstream progressivism. There is no QAnon equivalent to diversity and inclusion policy/training in industry or academia. It is not socially acceptable to discuss QAnon except critically. There is no comparison here, this is the thrust of the social justice movement, and even if one accepts that a minority of progressives believe in this sort of extremism, the unfortunate fact is that it is being forced into society from the top down, with training, quotas, "mental health," and the like.

The proof that media discussion regarding taxation is purely, ideologically ideologically driven is the fact that, as in this article, the Laffer curve is almost never mentioned. Any discussion about tax rates without considering where we currently sit on the Laffer curve is an exercise in futility (or propaganda).

Countless is also entirely hyperbolic. Approximately 1000 people were killed by police in 2019, and the vast majority were violently resisting.

Or, possibly police are hesitant to do their work, and criminals are feeling emboldened.

It looks like the material is organized on a grid. Imagine a lense + algorithm that conforms to the depth map of the FOV. You could get super focus (there's probably more appropriate term) in a single shot.

When you're looking at something complex on the scale of the earth, it's easy to cherry pick data, even accidentally (we call that bias), to paint whatever picture you want. Right now there's immense institutional pressure against any research that is critical of climate change, so it's hard for me to trust anything in that field. There are indications that increased CO2 concentration is a huge boon to crop growth.

The abstract is a little concerning, but the good news is that this suggests that the gut biome does have influence on the brain, and perhaps that influence can be reversed or utilized with engineered biomes and/or bacteria.

Perhaps the path to transhumanism will start at the gut.

>Interestingly, the sharp increase in the prices for cryptocurrencies happens in a period where the uncertainty in the market for traditional currencies has risen due to the enormous amounts of money that governments worldwide

In my experience, until 1-2 years ago, btc movements were anticorrelated with the market. This seems to have reversed around the time that financial institutions entered into the BTC market.

>the Chilton's or Haynes (I'm sure there's a difference but I sure couldn't tell) manuals will cover just about anything you'd want to do.

Chilton and Haynes both generally consist of vague instructions like "unscrew bolts and remove part x". They're good for identifying which components need to be removed for access, but they often offer very little in terms of where bolts are (sometimes there are pictures), or how to deal with problem areas (e.g. sometimes you need to wiggle or turn things a certain way).

Their limited instructions don't compare to watching someone actually do it and walk you through problem points simultaneously.

And a the interpretation of an experience, however personal, is not some singular, universal truth.

Why is this flagged? Even if it's controversial, it's a fault line that begs discussion, with direct and indirect implications for the vast majority of HN users.

It was the same story with hydroxychloroquine, which was a promising treatment until trump made the mistake of mentioning it publicly.

These purely ideologically driven non-experts in media and tech have absolutely no business playing gatekeeper with censorship. They're doing far more harm than good.

Title is misleading. The round exploded after leaving the barrel. I don't think it's physically possible for one of these jets to "shoot itself"

Isn't it racist and sexist to presume that women and POC won't play a game just because it's made by white men? How is that relevant? Is anyone else concerned over this kind of overt, casual, anti-white racism and misandry that has become socially acceptable as of late?

It also wastes screen space, as the whole page is about 50% narrower. Far less information dense, optimized for ads and engagement (about half of screen space is dedicated to recommended posts when a thread loads). Feels like commercialization.

Wouldn't modern laser technology be suitable for destroying small drones? I know there are research prototypes being developed against jets and missiles - drones have far smaller mass and move more slowly.

Didn't see anything in the article - has anyone come across sources for more details on the actual network architectures/algorithms they used? That they prefaced one of the algo names with Alpha is probably a good clue...

Then the solution is to teach people not to mistake Chinese people for the CCP, not to police language. And this narrative of "white supremacist" violence is a concoction by the media. Whatever increase that can't be accounted for by increased reporting is most likely not coming from the white supremacists or even the white demographic. It's an increase in inner city tensions that have been around for decades. And the people predominantly committing these acts (and I assure you statistics point to a single demographic in particular) are probably not the type to follow Trump's speeches.

The data clearly demonstrates at this point that the virus is indeed comparable to the flu, except with higher R value. This is also an implied strawman, that sizable contingent that you are alluding to is questioning whether the price of the lockdowns, and continued lockdowns, and approach to lockdowns, are worth the mitigation.

Clearly the virus is only a major issue for elderly and infirm patients, where the vast majority of people under the age of 30-40 present mildly or asymptomatically. And if that's indeed the case, then perhaps forcing the entire population to shelter in place for more than a year makes less sense than, say, recommending protective measures primarily for the vulnerable.

An excellent case against twitter's "fact checking" and censorship. They are not experts, and as this whole debacle proves, experts are fallible too, and it is not twitter's place to determine and censor dissent from consensus.

I imagine if it were deadlier, people would have been more incentivised to deal with it. Bodies piling up on the streets is a much better motivator for staying inside and socially distancing than news reports of regional hospitals being gradually overwhelmed by a predominantly mild or asymptomatic virus.

The fact is that even ignoring government response, all of our medical institutions seemed to presume that this was yet another [avian, swine, bird, ...] flu outbreak and it would be about as minimally impactful for the west as the rest have been. Which indicates that doctors and hospital administration were either not reading the literature coming out of China as early as last january 2020, or they simply disregarded it as sensationalist and/or sloppy. And, to be fair, given the state of crisis that our research institutions are in globally, I can't entirely blame them, though I still think it was irresponsible that no one seemed to make any preparations for months after the outbreak was apparent. It's as if everyone sat on their hands waiting for the government to tell them it was serious.