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If inflation is caused by selfish companies raising their prices, why are they only doing it now and not, say, three years ago? Did they only decide recently that they want to make more money?

They probably moved to the same place as all the people who said they'd leave the US if Trump got elected.

"China has successfully controlled the virus, which proves that we could have done it too" is actually a point that people used to make with a straight face.

I know, but the full Tweet wouldn't fit within the HN character limit.

Brave implements Tor support by default.

FWIW, Elon tweeted this today:

> To be super clear, we have not yet made any changes to Twitter’s content moderation policies

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1586149451348910081

So it's not clear why these supposedly banned groups are now supposedly able to rejoin without consequence?

I suppose "not changing the policies" isn't synonymous with "continuing to enforce the stated policies".

Isn't which blade half is on the bottom determined by which way you hold it?

My only government-issued ID in the UK is my passport and my driving license. In theory if I didn't drive or leave the country I wouldn't need an ID at all.

Although the crackdown on illegal immigration means that I now need to prove my right to work in the UK whenever I take a new job. I'm not sure how I'd do this if I didn't have a passport.

Do "most" posters at HN work at FAANG or in adtech? There's a lot of those people here for sure, but I can't believe they're anything close to the majority.

3 to 5 million Ukrainians starved to death because the USSR deliberately cut off their food supplies in a targeted attempt to kill them.

Technically HN's servers are located on Earth, so the technical part of HN is technically on Earth.

> Sorry for being a pedant

HN is the last place on earth where anyone should apologise for being a pedant.

> Ever noticed random apps on your Mac hang sometimes when you click on them, or having events lost entirely?

No

Don't they care about having something left at the end to pass on to their inheritors?

Was about to post the same thing. Magnet is one of the first things I install every time I get a new Mac. Can't live without it. And it only costs $2.99, what's your excuse?

> this decline is probably due to the enormous disruption in children's education caused by Covid lockdowns.

FTFY

We closed them because everybody else was closing them. Anything else is just post-hoc bullshit.

Why couldn't grandparents have been kept safe while the kids went to school?

Oh, I thought GP meant I could see the amount of upvotes/downvotes that another person's post has received. I can't see that (yet?)

Does it? How much karma do I need before I can see it?

Wow, I've been using PocketCasts for a couple of years and I didn't even notice this feature before. Nice to learn that I've hit the "advance 30 seconds" button enough times to have missed out on over five hours of ads. What a fantastic non-use of time.

I said that it can make a huge impact. I'm sure it doesn't always.

What part don't you understand?

I actually think this would be a good way to run admissions at ultra-selective elite universities - places like Harvard or Oxford where getting in or not can make a huge impact on the entire rest of your life. Everyone knows the evaluation process is bullshit and highly dependent on luck, so why pretend otherwise? Just discard those applicants who don't meet some minimum objective standard (SAT scores or whatever) then pick the remaining names out of a hat.

It's never going to happen, but still. If people don't like it then maybe the solution is to improve the quality of other universities so that getting rejected from Harvard isn't such a big blow in the first place.

This is why, in the UK system, you're only allowed to apply to five or fewer universities in the same academic cycle. (It's possible to enforce this because all applications go through the same centralised system.)

You're also not allowed to apply to both Oxford and Cambridge in the same year - otherwise both universities would get twice as many applicants.

This is an interesting video about how hard it is to effectively animate just one small aspect of human motion: walking through a door: https://youtu.be/AYEWsLdLmcc

Can't read this site on mobile because the "dismiss" button on the stupid email capture popup is hidden behind the fixed navbar so I can't click it.

Why do designers do this?

Nor when May took over from Cameron, when Major took over from Thatcher, when Callaghan took over from Wilson, when Home took over from MacMillan, when Churchill took over from Chamberlain or when Chamberlain took over from Baldwin.

It's extremely common in British politics for the prime minister to change without calling a general election. In fact there were only two PMs in the entire 20th century (Heath and Attlee) who both entered and left the premiership as the result of an election.

Anyone who complains about "unelected PMs" needs to read more history.

I'd say it's 1688: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glorious_Revolution