Wyoming23

Wow, another New York Times article that's against West Coast technology companies.

At this point, I don't think the NY Times needs writers, an LLM can easily cover their mandate to disparage tech and anything that rivals the American Northeast as a center of political, cultural or economic power.

These posts are tiresome. They all boil down to "my view should be the middle".

You could just as well claim the Democrats are far left and the republicans center left.

> The main purpose of "problems", and especially of homework, was a show of social submission, designed to persuade the teachers to reveal the next secret.

Of all the weird misunderstandings kids have about the world, this might be the weirdest I've ever heard.

I'm kinda fascinated, do you recall at what age you believed this? What was the context you grew up in (country, culture, school). Do you recall where the seed of this idea got planted?

Oh come on, no there isn't.

Have you seen what life in Tokyo looks like for the average person today? The size of apartments, the crowds on subways, etc.

People's quality of life would be far better if the population density were lower.

I'd much rather have a world with a steady or shrinking number of people and a rising quality of life, than a world with an exponentially growing population and declining quality of life.

Your experience doesn't match mine for US. Either SF is unique (almost certainly true) or the specialists they're referencing are extremely in demand for specific conditions.

With my regular PPO health insurance from my employer, I've had no trouble getting appointments with various specialists over the years. Occasionally I call one place and get told they can't see me for 2 months, so I just call the second name on the list and get an appointment sooner.

Spanking a child and beating a child are two completely unrelated things.

It's my understanding that spanking isn't the optimal way to discipline children and still shouldn't be done, but conflating it with beating a child is ridiculous and offensive.

No one should be shocked that a gimmicky reality TV show that had 600lb contestants with lifelong eating disorders shed weight incredibly rapidly while living in a house for a month with fellow contestants didn't provide long term solutions to their underlying mental health and food addiction issues.

The biggest loser was the equivalent of turning drug rehab into a gameshow and putting it on TV.

It's maybe interesting in the context of addictions and disordered eating habits, but not really relevant for general weight loss, weight management or physical health for most people.

Dang, how does this title not qualify as flame bait?

I once read a comment from an expert in that field who said that it was essentially impossible to prevent contamination, and that they had to constantly test and then shut down and sanitize when they discovered a different species of algae in their system.

How do you mitigate that issue? (And good news if you have a solution, that same person said they figured whoever solved that problem would be the world's first trillionaire).

Doesn't the service provider (AT&T or whoever) have a copy of the messages they could subpoena?

It seems shocking to me that deleting the messages off the phones makes them inaccessible to prosecution, when presumably there are backups on multiple servers controlled by telecom companies and other government entities.

Which is why a million Americans died and tens of millions have long term neurological, lung or other organ damage from the disease.

You're overthinking this.

Yes, you could buy a second AC and do complex wiring and control trickery to hack the system... Or you could just not sign up for the voluntary system and pay an extra couple bucks a year.

Any effort to hack the system is going to be far more cost or hassle than just not signing up for the program, for people who are following financial incentives. If you want to hack the system for the fun of it, sure you could, but the utilities aren't really worried about that.

Frustrating to see NPR going to clickbait and such silly dramatic reporting.

I'll save you a click - a female representative proposed an update to the dress code, to bring the women's dress code more in line with the men's. The men's dress code wasn't updated because it was already more restrictive. That's it. That's the news.

Your example is kind of unintentionally hilarious, because "hard work works" is in fact an incredibly controversial stance, and one that has caused people to lose jobs, "get cancelled" or be called racist, unsympathetic, privileged and out of touch, tone deaf, etc.

Even here on HN, where the users are far more entrepreneurial, aspirational and self-improvement focused than the population average, people are still cautious to ascribe only a small portion of their success to hard work and to make the obligatory statements about luck, privilege, community and circumstances as the major factors.

Texas has been doing far worse things.

Allowing fracked gas power plants to operate without proper winterizing so they fail in the cold, unfairly shifting costs off of the fossil fuel operators who control the state government onto solar and gas, hamstringing residential solar.