Based on 2020, about $45,000 profit per minute.
That's not even close to what happened. The administration left it alone for days saying they'll let private business sort it out. (Default investigation notwithstanding.) When a bunch of news media started reporting…
Which is kind of silly, because apple varieties demonstrate that people are willing to pay a premium for strains with good taste/texture. With the exception of selling to industrial food makers, it seems perhaps that…
For me, the effect is less (or possibly just less noticable) after a few weeks. But some coffee or tea gets me going pretty quickly and the effects wear off. I've always been a slow morning person, so 30-60 minutes to…
The key is to hunt for commercial-grade appliances. In some cases, they can be found and offer similar form factors to consumer devices, and in others you may be out of luck. Commercial kitchen appliances,…
I can't reasonably assert that one should or shouldn't. I just answered parent's apparently rhetorical question, "Who gets hurt if I wear a mask?" Their assumption is, "Nobody," but the truth aligns more closely to,…
The CDC has no authority regarding the masking of either vaccinated or unvaccinated people. Its guidelines may influence state response, but they do not supercede or even augment them. Yet they have been treated as…
Nobody, directly. Who gets hurt if social structure is affected by the apparent identity of masking? There are plenty of instances of catastrophic social division due to physical differences. I think your choice should…
I can't judge your cynicism, but I can say it's quite suspect that media outlets—apparently—behaved as the mouthpiece of the state: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27145446
Thank you for noticing this. This is a media blitz, and one may wonder why there are prepared, published stories about CDC guidance that hadn't yet even been published. I'm sure there are many rational reasons for this.…
Perhaps, but what I've witnessed: (in the broadest strokes of unspecificity) Rural: "I don't like what the city folk are doing. They should change." Urban: "I don't like what the country folks are doing. This is how we…
Plaintext transport doesn't matter if at least one part of the payload chain is cryptographically protected/verified. If you have a machine that's air-gapped and its only IO is strictly humans (read: keyboard/screen,…
I fear that you're being downvoted for pointing out the even bigger threat of our national media's exceedingly more dangerous acts of propaganda, presumably because readers either don't recognize it or are wilfully…
McDonald's used to fry their fries in a 93% tallow oil blend until they stopped in 1990 because of hysteria over cholesterol in beef fat. Guess nobody considered the patties were still chock full of (much more) beef…
I don't think this is a "gotcha". I asked for a threshold, accepting that there are varying costs and benefits. I think that your justification is lacking, however. As though there are no positive externalities for…
Sure: - suburban areas largely "subsidize" the cost of education, which far exceeds the cost of roads and utility infrastructure subsidized by the cities. The quality of schools in suburban areas is also largely higher…
When you stop subsidizing suburbs, will you also stop subsidizing the flyover states? How about the impoverished? Medicare for unhealthy people? Education? Fire departments? Like, what is your "I don't care for…
These here city folk don't much care for our kind. Nevermind the shirk for the value of diversity—both geographically and functionally—they've optimized the life out of life and gosh darn it, so can you. Sure, subsidize…
I responded to the correct comment: the one that effectively said, "if you don't like it you can leave," in response to their parent comment that suggested they're not enthused to be asked to pay more taxes while we…
It doesn't have to be incomprehensible. Just diggable. Click through to finer and finer granularity. Searchable. It's just ("just") a data vis problem. I'd work on it but too busy. Maybe for the future. Could be fun.
Less than 15% goes to roads, schools, and (I assume you refer to when you sardonically say "killing people domestically) law enforcement. You appear to have a high view of government spending, and that also seems to be…
I think they're being downvoted, in part, because a lot of people here either assume it is being spent well, or justify it as a necessary evil. What might be valuable would be for someone to whip up an app that allows…
I can understand your perspective, but that's only held up if one subscribes to the (erroneous and misunderstood/misused version of) Karl Popper's Paradox of Tolerance: > A tolerant society should be tolerant by…
I agree with this characterization. I have an extensive analysis of how I came to the same conclusion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26603166
I don't. I haven't really found any, and this is the conclusion of my own observations over the last year. Prior to lockdowns and work from home, I didn't pay much attention. Once I was forced to stay inside, I tuned in…
Based on 2020, about $45,000 profit per minute.
That's not even close to what happened. The administration left it alone for days saying they'll let private business sort it out. (Default investigation notwithstanding.) When a bunch of news media started reporting…
Which is kind of silly, because apple varieties demonstrate that people are willing to pay a premium for strains with good taste/texture. With the exception of selling to industrial food makers, it seems perhaps that…
For me, the effect is less (or possibly just less noticable) after a few weeks. But some coffee or tea gets me going pretty quickly and the effects wear off. I've always been a slow morning person, so 30-60 minutes to…
The key is to hunt for commercial-grade appliances. In some cases, they can be found and offer similar form factors to consumer devices, and in others you may be out of luck. Commercial kitchen appliances,…
I can't reasonably assert that one should or shouldn't. I just answered parent's apparently rhetorical question, "Who gets hurt if I wear a mask?" Their assumption is, "Nobody," but the truth aligns more closely to,…
The CDC has no authority regarding the masking of either vaccinated or unvaccinated people. Its guidelines may influence state response, but they do not supercede or even augment them. Yet they have been treated as…
Nobody, directly. Who gets hurt if social structure is affected by the apparent identity of masking? There are plenty of instances of catastrophic social division due to physical differences. I think your choice should…
I can't judge your cynicism, but I can say it's quite suspect that media outlets—apparently—behaved as the mouthpiece of the state: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27145446
Thank you for noticing this. This is a media blitz, and one may wonder why there are prepared, published stories about CDC guidance that hadn't yet even been published. I'm sure there are many rational reasons for this.…
Perhaps, but what I've witnessed: (in the broadest strokes of unspecificity) Rural: "I don't like what the city folk are doing. They should change." Urban: "I don't like what the country folks are doing. This is how we…
Plaintext transport doesn't matter if at least one part of the payload chain is cryptographically protected/verified. If you have a machine that's air-gapped and its only IO is strictly humans (read: keyboard/screen,…
I fear that you're being downvoted for pointing out the even bigger threat of our national media's exceedingly more dangerous acts of propaganda, presumably because readers either don't recognize it or are wilfully…
McDonald's used to fry their fries in a 93% tallow oil blend until they stopped in 1990 because of hysteria over cholesterol in beef fat. Guess nobody considered the patties were still chock full of (much more) beef…
I don't think this is a "gotcha". I asked for a threshold, accepting that there are varying costs and benefits. I think that your justification is lacking, however. As though there are no positive externalities for…
Sure: - suburban areas largely "subsidize" the cost of education, which far exceeds the cost of roads and utility infrastructure subsidized by the cities. The quality of schools in suburban areas is also largely higher…
When you stop subsidizing suburbs, will you also stop subsidizing the flyover states? How about the impoverished? Medicare for unhealthy people? Education? Fire departments? Like, what is your "I don't care for…
These here city folk don't much care for our kind. Nevermind the shirk for the value of diversity—both geographically and functionally—they've optimized the life out of life and gosh darn it, so can you. Sure, subsidize…
I responded to the correct comment: the one that effectively said, "if you don't like it you can leave," in response to their parent comment that suggested they're not enthused to be asked to pay more taxes while we…
It doesn't have to be incomprehensible. Just diggable. Click through to finer and finer granularity. Searchable. It's just ("just") a data vis problem. I'd work on it but too busy. Maybe for the future. Could be fun.
Less than 15% goes to roads, schools, and (I assume you refer to when you sardonically say "killing people domestically) law enforcement. You appear to have a high view of government spending, and that also seems to be…
I think they're being downvoted, in part, because a lot of people here either assume it is being spent well, or justify it as a necessary evil. What might be valuable would be for someone to whip up an app that allows…
I can understand your perspective, but that's only held up if one subscribes to the (erroneous and misunderstood/misused version of) Karl Popper's Paradox of Tolerance: > A tolerant society should be tolerant by…
I agree with this characterization. I have an extensive analysis of how I came to the same conclusion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26603166
I don't. I haven't really found any, and this is the conclusion of my own observations over the last year. Prior to lockdowns and work from home, I didn't pay much attention. Once I was forced to stay inside, I tuned in…