hikingsimulator

Given how "western occult science" is just magical thinking and pseudo babble, it hardly fits on HN. Additionally, "western occult science" typically glosses over its 1920-1940s roots and branches. Wondering why...

>learn to code

This is the most tone deaf answer I've read in quite a while. Learning to code, and everything you listed isn't available or possible by most people in a timely manner.

The question was what can be done now, by novice people. Not by people who must first acquire years of tech knowledge.

It's not reinforcing your point to say that. Not everyone can do it. And it shouldn't preclude them from being safe.

This is equivalent to pointing at some ivory tower of safety and say: "git gud."

I do recall Trump not wanting to let go of that power, in it? It wasn't out of his own magnanimity that he stepped down. Checks and balances still worked, appallingly sure, but they still worked.

Not anymore.

This goes far beyond "nuclear proliferation." It's about medical, pathogen research. The Wuhan lab for coronavirus was also backed by the US to study such viruses.

Proliferation is also about vaccination and HIV prevention, etc. USAID et al. are among the most important programs in development and prevention worldwide. This is a tragedy chosen by a majority of Americans because what goes around comes around. COVID showed again that pandemics don't stop at borders.

One big issue is that industry jobs in some areas increasingly expect academic excellence in the shape of "publishing in top 3 conferences" for example.

I don't know where you get your statistics, but Russia's demographics is roughly 70% "ethnic russians," which amounts to about 100m people.

The main issue with this approach is that it doesn't help people who struggle financially or come from disfavorable backgrounds -- whom federal student loans aimed to help.

Some sets of circumstances don't favor score maximization on such tests, whereas being in a high income family favors prior access to education that help get those scores for instance. Ergo you'd not solve a better access to education that way.

Similarly, means testing for those slots also has negatives incentives. It's a hard issue to solve.

This is a retelling of a discussion between Peter Watts and a friend about climate change.

Peter Watts is better known for writing Blindsight, which I consider the best sci-fi novel of the past 20 years. I highly recommend it.

It's a rather clear example of how the concept of neutrality in addressing various, rather important, topics falls on its face.

The weather in the US can be wild compared to what Western Europe is used to. England doesn't have to deal with the same events.

That's a dumb argument. It's not like Qatari money is trying to buy the mathematical inverse of Israeli money in a game of tit-for-tat.

Though I personally agree with the core idea of this site, I'm always wary of political websites, mailing lists, projects, etc. that do not explicitly state who's working on them. People or orgs alike. Sure, it might be related to the person behind democracy.io (who's got a Github page), but it's not explicit.

The lack of "about" page or equivalent always make me squint. Some websites may require their maintainers to value anonymity, but it's not a given.

> hm, and how do you feel about Qatar sponsoring higher education in the US?

Focusing on international interference by one state does not reduce the blame that can be thrown at another. There's no limited reserve of blame that requires to be cleverly distributed. The undemocratic influence over public institutions by lobbies, like Qatar's (see Qatargate in Europe) or Israeli-linked ones alike and many more, are the death of our societies.

For those scratching their heads, this is the personal page (blog? fan-mail publication? It's hard to put a pin on it) of Kelley L. Ross, PhD, a Chicago School libertarian who's miffed at the left.