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Biontech pioneered the mRNA technique and they were sponsored by German taxpayers; and Pfizer was promised by Operation Warpspeed that US taxpayers would purchase 100 million doses of any potential working vaccine before it was even developed, that must have felt motivating. There was no vaccines developed entirely through private funding even though the profits were entirely privatized, ie Moderna received about a billion in development aid and AstraZeneca somehow managed to pocket research out of Oxford University.

It was never this hot within millions of years and differentiating between a world ending event and one that destroys economies and societies and eventually most life on the planet is disingenuous in itself

This article over on https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Games/Techniques/Cr... mentions a CSS property `image-rendering` that could perhaps come in handy.

This guy over on https://indica.medium.com/how-the-economist-is-just-propagan... comes up with a healthy analysis of exactly that.

Except Toyota already came up with a subscription to start your car over on https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/12/22831105/toyota-subscrip...

Young men on the other hand appear to face the biggest increase in COVID related heart attacks according to https://www.cedars-sinai.org/newsroom/covid-19-surges-linked..., so perhaps the vaccine remains their best option.

Well it hasn't been proven that it isn't either, in fact https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/14/us/politics/moderna-boost...

It's not hard, really, given that you will need to make only $1.90 per day to automatically become declassified as poor [1]. If anything, capitalism makes this harder to do achieve [2] which probably explains why the limit is set so low.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/i/international-poverty-l...

[2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X2...

Supposedly some library called SQIP might handle that as explained over on https://medium.com/free-code-camp/using-svg-as-placeholders-...

ES6 is compatible with Node out of the box.

You can `import` and `export` just like in the browser (and in TypeScript) as long as your files come with the `.mjs` extension. Cherry adds this extension by default, so I imagine it comes with the server in mind.

You can also keep the `.js` extension and configure this behavior in the `package.json` to run the same files both client- and serverside.

Some libraries still expect to run as CommonJS, but then you might find an "es" version if you poke around in their repositories.

If Tailwind relies on classnames used in the HTML and defined in CSS, then that is the document based HTML/CSS model. The composability you are talking about is a feature of CSS, not the component framework. By stopping short at "utility classes" instead of "semantic" classes that define a complex appearance, you in fact destroy composability in favor of either inheritance (assuming that your component framework allows) or simple copy-pasting. Ironically, Tailwind does feature the concept of classnames that aggregate utility classes to produce a complex appearance, it is called "@layer components", and it is infinitely more composable because you can @apply these things as well.

.my-tab { @apply my-button bg-transparent; }

There is actually a very powerful CSS framework hidden in there somewhere, but they remain intent on appealing to developers who believe that real layout is coded with JavaScript, perhaps it is because Tailwind is a multi million dollar business that relies on selling components to teams that give up on making their own.

Your components don't minimize outside dependencies when they share the same global stylesheet, by the way, they would for example not work in my website even though I am using Tailwind (if highly customized). This shared dependency, or "global variables leaking into my scope" as programmers would phrase it, is the problem that CSS frameworks have been fighting for years, and now it's become a brilliant feature of Tailwind that components can share styles. Welcome to CSS! Now you only need to define your complex layouts via @apply and you can share them as well, that is what composability is all about.

Well if you CSS can be loaded once and then cached:

.button { background-color: blue; color: white; padding: 0.5rem 0.75rem; border-radius: 0.25rem; }

Then the browser will need to download less bytes:

<button class="button">Click</button>

Compared to:

<button class="bg-blue text-white px-3 py-2 rounded-sm">Click</button>

And this does make a difference when your entire layout is done with Tailwind. Consider that the HTML, unlike the CSS, might typically not be cached, and that the server is now also charged with emitting higher loads of data. Consider also that all these utility classes are all loaded in the CSS on the front page even if some or most of them is used on everything except the front page. The performance win is not as unquestionable as Tailwind would like to suggest.

You should do what works for you, but even so.

When you declare `py-4 px-2 bg-blue text-white rounded-lg` on five buttons in a row, doesn't this work almost exactly like inline strings when you compare to the semantic classname `button-secondary` that is maintained in one single place much like a constant? And wouldn't you just rely on constants to maintain consistency between components, in other words use CSS variables?

.button-secondary { background-color: var(--color-action-secondary); }

Inline media queries are not easy to read. What does this button do?

<button class="inline-block px-large py-medium rounded-large border-solid border-thin font-regular bg-core-yellow-100 border-core-yellow-300 bg-text-core-yellow-800 bp-medium:font-medium bp-medium:bg-core-green-100 bp-medium:border-core-green-300 bp-medium:text-core-green-800 bp-large:font-bold bp-large:bg-core-blue-100 bp-large:border-core-blue-300 bp-large:text-core-blue-800 bp-x-large:font-black bp-x-large:bg-core-red-100 bp-x-large:border-core-red-300 bp-x-large:text-core-red-800">Sign in</button>button>

It changes font size, background color, border color and text color when you resize. That's easy to tell if you don't inline it

.button { @apply inline-block px-large py-medium rounded-large border-solid border-thin; @apply font-regular bg-core-yellow-100 border-core-yellow-300 text-core-yellow-800; @media (--bp-medium) { @apply font-medium bg-core-green-100 border-core-green-300 text-core-green-800; } @media (--bp-large) { @apply font-bold bg-core-blue-100 border-core-blue-300 text-core-blue-800; } @media (--bp-x-large) { @apply font-black bg-core-red-100 border-core-red-300 text-core-red-800; } }

Edit: Hacker News did of course inline it, but that only proves the point.

The same goes for light and dark mode. These are by the way Custom Media Queries [1], but Tailwind has a `@screen` directive much to the same effect.

Gradients aren't much different in CSS nowadays, really, and the "built in grid system" is really just a super inflexible subset of CSS Grid that will run out of luck if you need something other than equal sized columns. If you use it for the core page layout, chances are low that you will want your sidemenu, main content and sidebar always appear in equal width columns. In Tailwind you don't, of course, but it is a wonderful feature of CSS.

Tailwind actually is future proof, but that's only because you remove Tailwind from the list of dependencies and check the generated CSS into your souce code repository. At some point all these websites will need an overhaul of the visual identity and people will realize all over again why presentational attributes were removed in HTML4 along with the introduction of CSS. You can update your Tailwind version, then, but nothing will happen. Fortunately, this "plugin system for custom code generation" can be replaced with a stylesheet.

Tailwind has certain qualities, but the things you mention are not some of them. I like that you can't simply copy the CSS from some textarea in Figma and paste it into the CSS, because that will soon make your website even more unmaintable even if it is vanilla CSS. You are in other words forced to think about the layout, the spacing system, the color variables and the breakpoint behaviors, ironically what the typical proponent of Tailwind would like to avoid. If all of these things are declared in a highly customized Tailwind preset, and if you elect to maintain complex components (eg. with synchronized breakpoint changes) in CSS files via `@apply`, it becomes an effective tool to enforce a "design system". Some might say that Tailwind's own creator advises against this strategy, but that should only encourage you, in my opinion.

Essentially, what he is saying [2] is that you should not use SQL to transform you date from one format to the other because the SQL will break when someone changes the database structure. Instead, you should just hardcode the result of this transformation directly into the database and now you won't need SQL at all. You could argue that this would be retarded since the abstraction layer enables different, future presentations of the data in question and that is exactly what I am trying to say.

My best advise is to go light on presentational attributes, which is what utility classes is, and move your Tailwind into proper CSS as soon as the implementation indicates moderate complexity [3]. Here you can make use of the `@layer components` stuff that bears an uncanny resemblance to semantic classnames, but more importantanly, now your Tailwind can easily break out into real CSS, for example to author your core page design with a Grid of uneven column sizing. Make sure to Use CSS variables for everything including your Tailwind preset so that `12px` are never mentioned in the JSON, but instead refers to `var(--base-unit-or-something)` which can be referenced equally in vanilla CSS. Keep the best of both worlds and Tailwind can add more value than it destroys.

[1] https://preset-env.cssdb.org/features/#custom-media-queries

[2] https://adamwathan.me/css-utility-classes-and-separation-of-...

[3] https://frameable.com/company/tech/how-we-found-sanity-in-a-...

It is literally why the game was invented and how capitalism works.

I can't tell if you are in denial of this or if you believe it so evident as to be a waste of your time.

https://survivingtomorrow.org/monopoly-isnt-a-game-it-s-a-pr...

I think that super power affiliation is perhaps a somewhat outdated definition of the three worlds concept and Britain certainly doesn't fit the modern one [1]. This guy argues that Britain is best thought of as a fourth world country [2] and he explains why the financial markets now compare Britain to a banana republic [3]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_World

[2] https://eand.co/how-america-collapsed-and-became-a-fourth-wo...

[3] https://eand.co/britain-just-hit-the-next-level-of-self-dest...

That's today according to https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/

Class instances are objects and it's the objects that have state. Functions can only abuse themselves as objects to store state.

function johnson() { johnson.state = {}; }

This is however shared state and the state will be reset whenever the function is called a second time. So what you normally do with a function is to pass the state via arguments and now the same function can work with different states. React could totally do this via props or as a second argument.

function Johnson(props, state) {}

Instead they changed the laws of functions so that a function can act different the first time it is called and also be called the first time multiple times if and when the function calls a functions that looks like JavaScript but follow different rules [1].

This is weird.

[1] https://reactjs.org/docs/hooks-rules.html#only-call-hooks-at...

In React terms, "functional" almost always implies the opposite of purely functional. It just means that the component is declared by a function instead of a class. First time you call it, the function can assign state that it may reference in future calls, not unlike the methods of a class. How they actually go about this is however almost entirely weird.

This will change once they have boosted the 50+ population, or that's at least how it usually works. The Omicron targeted vaccines should be ready by then, so we are not necessarily out of luck. I'm 49.

The top complex component in Word is the text editor while the tricky component in Maps is the map. Neither of those can be made with the frameworks we're dealing with here, so that is a go. We can make the traditional UI with a simple view library like lit-html [1] and we'll want to keep some state around, but most state managers can be rigged to Vanilla. I'd totally prefer Web Components to any popular framework for the particular apps you suggest.

[1] https://lit.dev/docs/libraries/standalone-templates/

He only read the headline and now we're all discussing his feelings instead of reading the article which is about something else entirely. I recommend anyone still following this dysfunctional thread to go ahead and read it.

If you click the link, you'll find that the article features text below the headline that deals with literally none of those things.

That's just how just centrism looks on a global scale. People out here find it hard to imagine how Democrats could possibly move further to the right. If the Overton window leads to America, perhaps you should stop chasing it.

What natural mechanism do you belive nuclear energy to influence?

Yes. While we were discussing it, this guy wrote an article that sums it up pretty much perfectly: https://survivingtomorrow.org/inflation-is-soaring-get-ready...

Another hot take on inflation, I think, is https://eand.co/the-economys-crashing-because-we-re-an-indus...

It says in the article that there are

> ... stories about how the increasing temperatures from climate change kill people in heat waves, but fail to mention that the same increasing temperatures also save lives because fewer people freeze to death. Yeah, I don’t trust any of these sources.

This is not sourced, but then again it is also not science.

True, but the comment implied that people would buy 10x more avocados if their fortune tripled ten times and so a 10x price hike was needed to keep avocados in stock. This is not how eating habits work.

Inflation will also decrease the value of greedy peoples money, so what happened in 2021 was simply that greed got out of control. If you are greedy, the best way to fight inflation is to raise prices and collect more money. Once people stop bying things altogether, greed will dictate that prices come down. It's a lot simpler than what the article gives it credit for.

At this point I think we might as well admit that inflation is 100% caused by greed.

It's funny because all the theories presented in the article - that inflation is caused by mandatory minimum wage, government regulation and taxes - is exactly what a greedy person would suggest.

I don't follow their platforms, but in Europe one can still expect conservative parties to believe that people should have public goods like healthcare and childcare and education and retirement as basic human rights, that dignity is something we deserve, that a job should mean something more than wage slavery and that the average citizen shouldn’t die in debt. Who they define as persons or citizens is up for discussion on the right, but measured on this other corporate-capitalist scale of being "right", the Democrats are off the scale in European terms.