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glasss commented on People kept working, became healthier while on basic income: report (2020) cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilt... · Posted by u/jszymborski

dolebirchwood · 5 months ago

> In your 20’s it unlocks taking big risks and swing for the fences. YC bets in this, for example. What can ambitious kids do when they don’t need to worry about money?

That might be true for maybe 5-10% of 20-somethings. The rest will blow it.

glasss · 5 months ago

Do you have data to back this up?

glasss commented on They tried Made in the USA – it was too expensive for their customers reuters.com/business/they... · Posted by u/petethomas

MangoToupe · 6 months ago

I don't really seen any benefit from buying American. The entire point of being capitalist is to let the market solve these issues, and the market has. I don't have any more loyalty to Americans than to any other people on earth, and I think that impulse is rather odd.

glasss · 6 months ago

I like supporting my local community - so I guess I don't have much loyalty to a company in Arkansas but I do have loyalty to a company down the street or a town over.

glasss commented on They tried Made in the USA – it was too expensive for their customers reuters.com/business/they... · Posted by u/petethomas

tootie · 6 months ago

I watched this and my cynical takeaway was he was trying to make an appeal to emotion. Why buy from China when we can support the good people of Alabama? Their elected senator just called me a rat. Why should I support Alabama over China? They both seem like foreign adversaries to me. At least China is making a sincere effort to reduce their carbon emissions.

glasss · 6 months ago

I thought it was a good video, but similarly I had an issue with how he discussed the loss of the skilled trades and professions in the US. He did a good job highlighting that these jobs are rare, don't pay well and are important, but he made it seem like we all just accidentally stopped investing in local manufacturing, or that we just let those skills erode. Leaders at these manufacturing companies moved things over seas, laid off the skilled workers, busted up unions, and overall sold off this skill set in order to sell cheaper products and make more money for themselves.

glasss commented on Fake job interviews are securities fraud bloomberg.com/opinion/art... · Posted by u/ioblomov

glasss · a year ago

> Wells Fargo did a bad thing. But the badness of the thing is uncertain, amorphous, hard to quantify: People were harmed, but not in ways that the legal system can easily reduce to money.

> But the financial system can: The bad thing that Wells Fargo did caused its stock to drop, which is a good rough measure of how bad it was. The shareholders perform the socially useful service of measuring the badness [...]

I think this is a really interesting point - assuming the actors in the market who are buying and selling stocks share the same general morals of the rest of the population, they can penalize companies that do bad things. But that would mean market forces would need to act on moral grounds and not on profit motives.

glasss commented on Share of total health spending, by percentile twitter.com/cremieuxrecue... · Posted by u/black6

glasss · a year ago

For most commercial companies you'll see pharmacy benefits split similarly: 1% - 2% of people on the health plan will account for ~50% of the pharmacy drug spend. That's regardless of overall health of the rest of the members. It's great there's been a lot of innovations for newer drugs that help more people with rare diseases, but specialty drugs just cost a lot. It takes a long time for generics or biosimilars can make it to market.

glasss commented on Ask HN: Best way to learn robotics with a 10 year old? · Posted by u/hersko

RyanOD · a year ago

+1 for FIRST. This is your path as it is structured and can also help your child build friendships with other kids interested in robotics.

Additionally, participants who stick with the program through high school learn every aspect of robotics - problem solving, design, fabrication, testing, coding, presentation, teamwork, etc.

glasss · a year ago

That is a great point, the things I value most from my time in FIRST are the friendships, connections, and soft skills I built. The engineering is fun, but I definitely use my teamwork, leadership, research, and presentation experience more on a regular basis.

Additionally to the OP, if you want this to be something that you and your kid do together, you can volunteer as a mentor for the team if your schedules align. You can have a very large impact beyond just your kid by doing so.

glasss commented on When eyesight fades and climbing provides comfort lacrux.com/en/videos/when... · Posted by u/bryanrasmussen

urxvtcd · a year ago

How does that work? Do they climb on routes specifically prepared for them? I'm a (bad) climber and it's a pretty intense whole-body workout.

glasss · a year ago

Yes, there some specific routes set in the gym intended for the ACG group where legs / feet aren't necessary. They'll also set similar routes nearby each other, and another volunteer from the group will climb alongside and help the other climber as needed. But a lot of routes are accidentally set in a way that works for wheelchair users as well. Especially if they are allowed to cheat a little bit and grab a nearby hold from another route when needed.

Related to the article, people with impaired vision may have a volunteer use that person's cane to point out where the next hold is, or they just need to be led to the wall to start and they can handle it from there.

For people with a bit more mobility issues they also have an ascender seat / chair (not sure what the proper name is). You sit down, get strapped in, and pull a handle down from overhead repeatedly to "climb". It's not climbing a wall with holds, but you get the same workout and still end up 60 ft in the air.

glasss commented on Ask HN: Best way to learn robotics with a 10 year old? · Posted by u/hersko

glasss · a year ago

FIRST (https://www.firstinspires.org/) is a more structured program intended to be organized through schools or similar communities (homeschooling groups, 4H, etc.). I have more experience with the bigger robots intended for high schoolers, but they have programs all the way down to kindergarten.

Doing something similar at home is very possible, and if you are nearby an existing team or program they are usually more than happy to have a conversation with parents about how to get their kids started even if it doesn't mean joining the team.

glasss commented on When eyesight fades and climbing provides comfort lacrux.com/en/videos/when... · Posted by u/bryanrasmussen

glasss · a year ago

Related, the Adaptive Climbing Group does great work: https://www.adaptiveclimbinggroup.org/

Every Wednesday at my local gym I have the pleasure of seeing people who normally use a cane or wheelchair to get into the building climb better than me.

glasss commented on Microsoft breached antitrust rules by bundling Teams and Office, EU says apnews.com/article/micros... · Posted by u/cbg0

shiroiushi · a year ago

Sure, but with open-source software and a third-party support contract, if you get mad at the support vendor, you can get a contract with someone else without having to change your software stack.

I don't see how tying yourself to a single vendor is advantageous at all.

glasss · a year ago

Unfortunately I don't think the market of third party support vendors for open source software is robust enough to have enough competitors that can provide the same quality (or at least promise of quality) as traditional vendor support from MSFT or another big company.

You can say the market might emerge if the large corporations or government agencies started shifting that way and generated demand for it, but those entities aren't known to take risks.