Readit NewsOk, would that imply that if the jobs numbers are not worse in the next couple of reports and instead, are suspiciously higher then the administration is in fact cooking the books?
If you really want to develop on the cutting edge, you need a lot more than smarts. You have to have that dog in you. That fire in your belly that makes you obsessed, consumed with your work and solving the problems you set out to solve. If you don't... you're gonna lose out to someone who does. Go sling Java for a bank or insurance company, then, if you want to punch out at 5.
Scott Wu has that dog in him. It's reasonable for him to expect the same of his employees.
Grinding and hustling _without_ participating proportionally in the upside is naivete at best and foolishness at worst.
Of course, because what we need is the govt deciding which sites can be banned. I'm hoping this dies in committee, however for Bay Area folks, Rep Zoe Lofgren is the house sponsor for the companion bill and Adam Schiff is the Senate co sponsor. They can be reached at
https://lofgren.house.gov/contact/offices and https://www.schiff.senate.gov/contact/
If you oppose this bill, take 5 min and let your congressperson know. They might seem to be bought and paid for by lobbyists, but they care deeply about being reelected and even a small number of constituents showing up can be effective. In order of impact personal visit > letter > call > email. The higher effort channels(visit, letter) tend to get treated more seriously. Emails are largely ignored unless they are absolutely deluged.
Brazil is a dictatorship of the judiciary. Maybe it's not a "brutal" dictatorship but it is a dictatorship.
The unelected supreme court walked all over our elected congress just days ago. Only reason why they don't dissolve the brazilian congress is they need to maintain the illusion of democracy.
> where dissenting voices get "disappeared"
> the media is heavily censored and controlled by the state
Already reality in some form or other. It's just not happening quite so overtly as it would happen in a so called "brutal" dictatorship.
> the government kowtows to American supremacy and interests
Better than kowtowing to chinese supremacy and interests.
You cannot possibly think there's even the slightest possibility of Brazil failing to kowtow to someone, right? Right. So I'd rather it be someone I agree with, and it sure as hell isn't China and Russia.
Do you have anything to back that claim up beyond your usual 'I read the Brazilian constitution'?
Yes, you may have read the constitution and you might even be very smart, however what you don't comprehend is that law is not code, nor is it everyday English in spite of laws being written in English. Interpreting the law requires training, experience and context. There is a reason why law is a separate field of study and there are licensing requirements.
If you're still convinced of your legal smarts, try volunteering at a legal aid clinic based on your reading of the constitution and the Brazilian criminal code. It will very quickly teach you just how little you actually know in this area.
I offered a supposition for what real peace might look like in the region. One component of which is a peace keeping force that is not too close to the action, but also not from so far away as to be entirely insensitive or invasive themselves.
Israel has lost all moral superiority at this point and probably alienated an entire generation across the globe. All so that Bibi can cling to power a bit longer.
Edit: Spelling
Israel's real enemy won't stop and won't surrender until that country and it's people don't exist. They have taken the innocent civilian's of Gaza / Palistine / whatever you want to call the area hostage. They are also so ingrained into the region that resources are literally siphoned from humanitarian sites like hospitals into deep tunnels beneath; as just one example of reporting I'm inclined to believe is credible, even with the mutual atrocities both sites are carrying out.
What would winning look like from a moral and ethical standpoint? Liberating the people of that region from the violence and suffering. Return them to a functioning society with social and civic infrastructure. Fully deny major violence and terrorism in the region for LIFETIMES to the point that the hate and anger finally cool off enough for people to move on.
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Winning is going to require a multi-generational investment in humanity by humanity. It's going to require the buy in of the people on the ground. It's going to require a United Nations coalition and boots on the ground from interests in that region who want to raise everyone above the hate. Also the afflicted country will need to be an absolute DMZ for that entire time. Membership in the UN peacekeeping organization the only military service allowed (and then likely in other countries).
Getting from here to there? Even less popular than the hugely unpopular war(s) anywhere else in the world. Don't ask me how anyone could do it, those skilled in the art of diplomacy have tried for longer than my lifetime and probably longer than your's and NOTHING has stuck.
Funny, this seems to be a pretty accurate description of Netanyahu's current position. He understands that he exists politically only as long as he can keep the war going. So, of course there is going to be no end to the 'war' against Hamas, even though it has transformed into mass genocide of civilians using starvation.
Is this because readers don’t want to be reminded how absurd the world outside has become?
Also, HN's algorithms have been set up to encourage and abet such behaviour and then blame the 'algorithm'. Not surprising given who owns this site.
I submitted to HN and discussed all the major episodes of this saga. Here are the links if you'd like to know more.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44152909
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44188337
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44256169
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44613114
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44736860
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44793777
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44869353
Some of these have been flagged and my comments are almost always downvoted to oblivion but I don't care, I will continue speaking out because these are my honest opinions on the subject.
Under the pretext of protecting denocracy, the unelected, supposedly impartial brazilian supreme court waged an all out legal and political war against our "Trump equivalent". They have engaged in unconstitutional censorship and politically motivated arrests.
They have usurped the functions of the legislative and executive branches of government. They are essentially judge-kings and have transformed my country into a dictatorship of the judiciary.
One of these judges has been sanctioned by the USA under the Magnitsky Act, an unprecedented consequence that nobody thought would ever happen. I mean that literally: these judges publicly mocked the idea that they would ever be sanctioned for their actions.
Now they are apparently moving to defy the sanctions by ordering banks to continue providing services to the sanctioned judge despite the sanctions.
This will get our banks banned from the international banking system, isolating our country. The economic damage this will cause simply cannot be calculated.
Brazil is essentially the world's soy farm and we import like 70% of our fertilizer. They're going to sacrifice everything to protect these judges and display their non-existent "sovereignty", like a defiant child trying to stand up to its parent. Brazil is pretty much done for if this continues.
If only you spent a fraction of that energy on self reflection...