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"John Ganz is a Stalinist, Marxist, Leninist, Trotskyist and Pol Potist. There’s really no better word for what he is. For some reason, people have a lot of trouble grasping this o…

The day Google will fix its killing product policy, I may invest time and money on them.

> So, I do think it is good for wages to go up [...] It can be. But too much it auto-fuels the inflation which is the feared scenario: inflation a-la-seventies.

Have you read the minutes of the FOMC? Because I did and it made me a little pessimistic. "We can't allow a wage price spiral to happen." So if you have counter arguments, it would…

Jerome Powell announced an important factor for you during the last FOMC meeting: "We can't allow a wage price spiral to happen." This means that the FED will certainly increase th…

People are applauding that Western countries send these weapons but will cry when terrorists will buy them on the black market... "God laughs at men who complain of the consequence…

Not for everybody... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Schr%C3%B6der#Business...

I can only see a list of suffering people without expected outcome: North Korea, Venezuela, Iran, URSS, Cuba, etc. (Genuine question to History geeks) Do we have an exemple of mass…

Why not punishing only the government: cancel all visas to the people working in the gov and especially their family. So no more rich gov kids in Western universities, etc. I find …

On the contrary. If you cannot trust the people being informed properly in an efficient political system, it means that you have an issue somewhere. Not trusting the people because…

(Swiss speaking) What is important is that the vote/referendum process must be slow. Very slow. We often see a trendy referendum being launched because of an event. Years later whe…

Soft plastics on my nikon are an issue. I have noticed that they tend to deteriorate quickly on beach holidays. I suspect it is a combination of Sun, residues of solar cream on the…

Now it is only politics because they are afraid of the Olympics exposure and to appear weak on TVs worldwide because they are not controlling covid. Let's wait the end of the Beiji…

Actually, it is not the VIP package. Disney replaced the free fastpass by a paying "Lightning Lane" pass: https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/genie/lightning-lane/ The prices are ada…

In France, during the whole year 2020, people were told that the hospital infrastructure was overloaded because of COVID. Actually, the final report shows that COVID patients repre…

With mysql 5.7, range searches on indexes (BETWEEN() or equivalent) are notoriously slow with large datasets. We discovered that spacial index (flatten to 1 dimension) can be used …

My neighbor is Turkish (very good job). We often speak about inflation (because he recently came here and discovered almost zero inflation). Sometimes he gives me examples of the c…

I live in an area were most of the houses (+2 flats) use pellet (also in summer for hot water production). The air quality drastically dropped. It really "burns" the lungs some day…

Adding tags/topics has been a constant requested workaround to allow some filtering since almost the begining of HN. Never understood the rejection. PS: I have always read that it …

For several month we have been facing continuous phishing attacks. The attackers are using cloudflare + Russian registrars + Russian hosting. Can you guess who never cut the servic…

20 years ago, my IT friends and I were all enviously looking at California as a model to replicate. TC and Michael Arrington made us understand daily the opportunities we were miss…

1) population in USA: 1918 103m vs 2020 331m 2) Spanish flu death distribution by age was totally different (mainly "young" people were dying) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti…

And compare with France which had one the strictest locked down policy, hard restrictions, covid pass, etc. https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor... They hav…