I think both are valid points: Finland has less inhabitants than London and besides maybe from Swedes, Russians and Lapps no large minority groups, of which the aforementioned most likely don’t instill ambiguity about how they obtained their citizenship and why. Studies show that homogenous countries have less objections to social welfare programs aka income redistribution [0].
What does size have to do with anything? Nobody's saying you spend the same amount or provide the same number of houses - you can scale it up to meet the larger population eh?
Of course size matters. Finland’s homelessness likely coalesces around its largest urban areas, as they provide the most foot traffic and anonymity (and homeless services) with the least annoyed population. Like in every country.
So most likely Helsinki.
If your pool of possible homeless is 5M and they gather in a city the size of 600k it is a hugely different situation than say San Francisco, which is 800k and draws from 330M possible homeless
> If your pool of possible homeless is 5M and they gather in a city the size of 600k it is a hugely different situation than say San Francisco, which is 800k and draws from 330M possible homeless
I'm struggling to follow your logic here.
The 'possible homeless' would not be total population of a country - if it is, you've got more urgent problems.
I think in the USA the number's around 500,000, or about 0.2%, yeah?
There's more than one city in Finland, but even if there wasn't (but there really is!) there's definitely more than one big city in the USA, so I don't understand that extrapolation to 'all the homeless will move to San Fran'.
And even if they did, you've still got the considerable resources of the USA [0] that could be brought to bear on the problem. The fact that the problem is distributed quite widely, and definitely not exclusive to large urban centers[1] should make it easier.
Do homeless people not congregate in cities in the US? So just scale up the effort, I don't get it lol. You may have to do more in certain cities than others, and yeah the program may need to span states.
I would always choose my 2020 lowest specced M1-MBA over my highend specced Intel-MBP from 2017.
Not only are they hot, they are also loud. You notice when intel users join a video conference because of the constant fan-noise [1].
Not to mention that the constant heat comes with rediculous malfunctions over time.
I considered leaving the platform until the Apple Silicon CPUs arrived. I currently run a kubernetes cluster on my new MBP with 13 pods plus 2 dev servers for some Java BE and another for a web-FE - no fan-noise!
For the same reason, that this post will quickly vanish from the HN front page, be shadow banned or outright flagged - a huge proportion of the well to do E-Mail class can’t stand a debate.
It’s “follow the science” (ie STFU)- even though science inevitably has debate at its footing.
I don't think so. Your point wasn't complicated and I agree with a version of it, but your tone (there and here) is negative/insulting/inflammatory. Debate on social topics is frequently hostile, due to human nature, and often those pining for "debate" (using language that tells an opinion that those on one side of the topic are unintellectual and afraid of debate) are really just wanting to express their emotions as an outlet - i.e. they want the negativity part, not the debate part, or perhaps both. As I said, I think that negativity is why such things are more often flagged on HN than many other platforms.
People offering their own science that "masks work", for example, were shouted down by the same people who later demanded their use.
Mentioning the scientific and logical flaws with Daszak's Lancet paper, or discussing the lab leak theory, got your posts deleted. Many legit scientists received death threats after speaking of them, thanks to the media's coverage of those topics.
Where was the debate on those topics? Not on social media, where lab leak discussion was censored. Not on corporate news. Not in the NYT or WaPo, at least not for the first 20 months or so.
This all isn't as simple as you seem to think. The science is not as clear as is claimed. The messaging is inexcusably bad. The trials are hidden to protect us from "misinterpretation". The contracts are secret, the analysis is fragmented.
For a current example, the scientific basis and the cost/benefit analysis for vaccinating under 14 year olds is incredibly suspect. Out of 1 million Irish children, one under the age of 14 has died from Corona in all this time - one child. Yet leaky vaccines with rapidly fading effectiveness are being pushed on them by state agencies.
The only reasoning given - trust the professionals. Trust the science. There's no debate on it, no dissenting view tolerated. Those with a different view can't show their evidence or their reasoning - they're smeared and vilified, called right-wing, Russian agents, Trumpists, morons, plague rats.
Meanwhile, vulnerable populations such as the elderly and sick in poor countries that can't afford the vaccines are watching us put the fourth shot into young and middle aged healthy people. It's profoundly sick - and not really very scientific, if preventing novel outbreaks and death is the goal.
For the most part, people are trying their best. There is no "perfect" or even "best" answer, but policy must exist, and it is a misinterpretation to assume that the existence of policy must mean that those supporting it are sure it is perfect. Your tone is omnipresent: The fixation on the worst aspects of argument - lamenting the concepts of "shouting down", "censorship", etc. Yes, these are well represented on all sides, and are magnified by the nature of the problem (health - the most concrete consequence of policy that there is). However, the fact is that, for all the people with a reasonable non-policy opinion, there are people who are irrationally anti-science and they have an impact on our health, and that will inevitably provoke a strong response, and part of that response will be an over-application of criticism. Returning back that over-applied criticism yet even more over-applied is what the people who use your tone are doing, and it's a very human part of anger and argument, but this back-and-forth is destroying the very idea of communication.
It is not, as you say, as simple as many people think. And yet, while you have legitimate complaints, you then oversimplify by saying "the only reasoning given - trust the professionals. Trust the science." But that is actually one of the most reasonable options in an unsure situation. It is unrealistic and unfair to expect normal people to be able to justify why they e.g. get a flu shot beyond "trusting professionals". Yes, it is wrong to blindly trust science if there is some kind of extenuating circumstance that suggests your personal situation might differ from the norm, or the science is being put forward by a very small group of professionals and is potentially biased; but it is also wrong to blindly distrust science merely because some people are assholes about it, or people with the "wrong politics" are championing it.
I would say the best thing is to keep criticisms specific and strong, and avoid the temptation of returning hostility and politicization using the same broad strokes with which you are receiving them. You receive news and opinions and videos and forum posts from an enormously wide context, but you deliver it in the narrowest possible context (that of an individual human), so you can't afford to be as broad (e.g. "all people on X side of Y argument do Z.").
> For the most part, people are trying their best.
I believe that about regular people. Believing that about government, media, or megacorps is foolish.
> this back-and-forth is destroying the very idea of communication.
That scenario was created when media and politicians and Pfizer et al. took control of the narrative by force.
To take just one example - they're trying to stick bi or tri-annual shots into children at €20 a pop. There's no scientific or economic justification for it. The math isn't there, the evidence isn't there, and crucially, there are better places for those shots to go. It's not sane.
The only reason children in wealthy countries are getting shots before vulnerable people elsewhere is cash. It's pure greed. There are very real consequences to this.
Your comment is reasonable, with much wisdom - but what they're doing isn't motivated by science, or by helping people. It's just greed. It's evil.
You have to be perfect if you deny people taking their turn to speak. Or alternatively accept that you could be wrong and let people propose other ideas. Even if you believe these to have absolutely no merit, it is not something you have the right to answer for everyone. This was always one of the largest problems of scientific progress, not "wrong science". If it is wrong there will be a counter-proof. Not some self-asserted authority to filter anything.
The same concept applies for making health decisions of course. It would indeed be an interesting question if states have overstepped their authority with some enforced measures and I believe it can be argued that they did.
An appeal to authority is weak if some professionals get shouted down. And they were and some of them later proved correct. You undermine your own argument if you propose this to be the most reasonable option. I hope the communication and tolerance for diverging opinion is seriously improved in the next pandemic. It has to.
Not obscure by itself, but gifted with obscurity due to its language‘s success: JavaScript‘s Map type.
Just because of the Type being introduced very late to the language, and another very successful method named identically makes it almost impossible to google your way out of any situation.
You have to rely on core documentation and link lists. Just by using “new Map()” in JS, you’re suddenly ehem mapped 30 years back in time!
I understand how users register and login on a device - but it gets complicated when wanting to allow users to couple multiple devices to an account.
Anyone here with recommendations?
Say you registered via smartphone and now want to login on the desktop - do you tell the desktop user to grab his mobile safari, login and pull up some PIN-No which then to type into the desktop client?
And how would people recover accounts if their devices are lost?
I guess technically one can always come up with some solution - but while FIDO gives a unified, cross-device way for users to login and register – it’s the complete opposite when it comes to the aforementioned issues
Microsoft, Google, and Apple recently announced support and commitment for multi-device credentials, which you can share between devices in the same "sync fabric". See some discussion on Hacker News here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31294316
>Say you registered via smartphone and now want to login on the desktop - do you tell the desktop user to grab his mobile safari, login and pull up some PIN-No which then to type into the desktop client?
That's basically how it has to be done, at least for on-device authenticators. Granted, you can replace the PIN code mechanism with some other one, like having the website email you a one-time authentication URL that you can then use to access the website to add your desktop authentication.
If you use a portable authenticator (Yubikey), then you can just use the authenticator on the phone and on the desktop. The ones with NFC will perform the same authentication on mobile and desktop.
[0] https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/working-p...