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So the Minneapolis 3rd Police Precinct headquarters was just overrun, weapons seized, and burned down by hundreds of citizens. National Guard and SWAT are en route. Are you still s…

Modern warfare is very different than war 150 years ago. Look at Bosnia and Syria for typical examples. And before you say: oh, they're different from us, remember that Sarajevo wa…

No, no. Internal civil strife.

That question depends on how Brexit goes, doesn't it?

I agree. I'm surprised more HNers aren't aware of this potential. To be clear, I condemn those pushing us toward political violence, but it has a decent chance of arriving in the n…

I appreciate this comment and mostly agree with the contents of it. But I take exception with the use of words like "evil", "monsters", etc. I can't think of anyone who regularly w…

In the comments, an educator references an excellent article related to this confusion, "When Can you Meaningfully Add Rates, Ratios, and Fractions" that implicitly suggests some p…

I'm sure you think that's clever but there are plenty of respiratory diseases that don't require sustained contact. Measles, for example. The point is sustained contact, not the ro…

I agree with you about parks and beaches. But restaurants and hairdressers are known to be places where COVID-19 can be actively spread to large groups of people. And gyms are even…

> The primary way to spread a virus via droplet transmissions is to spend a sustained amount of time around lots of other people in an indoor space In some ways, very similar to TB…

> I wish they had considered going back decades ago Considered what? You've said they had a hard life. Edit: Oh, I misread that (parsed it as "considered, going back decades ago", …

> I don't quite understand the power imbalance here There's only a power imbalance if workers are prevented from organizing, or if they (for whatever reason) refuse to organize. Or…

> The most powerful movers are the most exploited and dispossessed people, but they don't want to risk what little they have. By that logic, then technical folks, particularly devo…

> this point could hire more mediocre talent and function in more of a maintenance mode and continue to be successful for a long time Eh, not sure about that. IBM went downhill fai…

Know that the actual laws relating to this concept depend entirely on what US state you work in.

> I coded a script in python to generate the html from rst files There’s an outstanding and fairly flexible static site generator for rst files in Python that’s been around for qui…

> For starters, this is a media company, so they would like to have instantly updated posts on certain parts of their site. How are their posts instantly updated using a static sit…