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Please rewrite HN as an SPA using the most bleeding edge alpha JavaScript frameworks you can find.


10MB page-weight SPA with the front page a 3 x 10 grid of image tile links coming soon. After all my background is in consumer travel and "desktop-like" business admin apps. I'm a natural for this.


The one thing that could improve HN is rendering fonts clientside on to a full screen Canvas element. Then all we need is a client-side framework for interpreting the element's pixels into HTML for screen reader support.


I dunno if you got the memo, but we're in 3rd of April now, no more jokes allowed, especially not traumatic ones like those.


Reminder for April Fools Day next Year: Get Dang to do a post saying HN is moving to a discord server.


That's not a prank, it's just evil!


If anyone is interested, you can find the US's assessment of the tariffs imposed on the US by other countries here: https://ustr.gov/sites/default/files/files/Press/Reports/202...

EG:

"The UK has duties on approximately 5,000 tariff lines, including on certain agricultural products, ceramics, chemicals, bioethanol, and vehicles. Tariffs on some products such as bananas, raw cane sugar, and apparel, which tend not to be import sensitive for the UK, are maintained to provide for preferential access for imports from certain developing countries into the UK compared to the MFN rate. The UK has some high tariffs that affect U.S. exports, such as rates of up to 25.0 percent for some fish and seafood products, 10.0 percent for trucks, 10.0 percent for passenger vehicles, and up to 6.5 percent for certain mineral or chemical fertilizers"


Needs to also model when to increase targets when it looks like Sales are in danger of hitting them /sarcasm


“Sorry, the commission budget is out of money for this budget year. You sold way too much which made the company a ton of extra money. Sadly that means it’s your fault we can’t pay you the commissions you were promised.”


I've never worked in Sales but that would send me round the absolute twist.


I don't think you can be classically liberal and also not be in favour of free speech.


Which aspects of free speech is it you consider The Guardian to oppose and classical liberal thinkers to support?


I would say one area of vulnerability would be the request that mis/disinformation (broadly defined as stuff they disagree with) be suppressed.


Where have they argued for suppression of "disinformation" "broadly defined as stuff they disagree with" should "be suppressed"?

That further is actually published as the view of the paper as opposed to opinion pieces, that often are "stuff they disagree with" yet still are happy to publish.

The closest I've come to seeing an official statement arguing for some degree of regulation have been mild and vague. Even one stating that the cost of fake campaign videos is real, and pointing out genuine concern over implications to democracy, only called for "paying attention" and "developing suitable responses".

My impression is that The Guardian is about as firm as a wet blanket when it comes to taking a stance against movements leveraging misinformation.


The classical liberals support regulating speech on the basis of the harm principle. The quibbling comes down to what you count as "harm".


Certainly on culture war issues they are far left.


Yes, partially created to save taxes or a forced sale.


I believe I am right in saying that every editor of the Guardian has been privately educated, apart from the last one.


Yes, and private education is a prime example of an area where the Guardian "inexplicably" pulls their punches.


The Aluminium Cricket bat was controversial in the 70's: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ComBathttps://en.wikipedia.org...

I guess other (banned) examples would be the LZR swim suits (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZR_Racer) and the Nike Vaporfly (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nike_Vaporfly_and_Tokyo_2020_O...)

I think I am also right in saying that you can buy a road bike that is better than the ones permitted in the Tour de France.


> I think I am also right in saying that you can buy a road bike that is better than the ones permitted in the Tour de France.

Recumbent bikes have been banned since 1934[0]! Remarkable machines. I'd love to ride one in a civilized location one day.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recumbent_bicycle


A very small number of teams aren’t well funded, have sponsorship issues, or whatever else and actually run less than top end components. I don’t recall who but there were bikes at either TDF or vuelta maybe last year with group sets which you could’ve just gone to the store and bought better ones.


>>Perhaps through sheer numbers the GDP goes up, but the net value is debatable.

GDP is going up, but GDP per capita is currently declining.


>>Yes, the composition of our population growth has changed, but we've had constant population growth (more or less) for decades.

I think if you look at Net Migration, the jump is very sudden:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/283287/net-migration-fig...

>> government has pursued mutually exclusive policies (underbuilding and high immigration)

Both policies are popular with the capital owning "rich" - it keeps the value of the property high, and it keeps employee wages low.


Those policies were popular with "people who voted", not just the rich.

> I think if you look at Net Migration, the jump is very sudden:

That's the composition of the growth, not the population growth itself.

I'm saying that if population growth was 100% from local births, or if population growth was much lower, we'd still be in this situation. The source of the population growth is immaterial.


> I'm saying that if population growth was 100% from local births, or if population growth was much lower, we'd still be in this situation. The source of the population growth is immaterial.

It's not immaterial. People often want their kids to have as good a life as they did. If there's something stopping that because there are too many kids nationally, that's very different to stopping that because the government allows giant numbers of extra people into the country.


Yes, but you are unlikely to get 700k additional, new babies born in a year.


980k in 1963, off a population of 53m.

775k in 2008, off a population of 62m.

I feel like you're bending over backwards to pretend you don't understand the point.


> 980k in 1963, off a population of 53m.

ONS[0] shows deaths of around 550k at the same time.

> 775k in 2008, off a population of 62m.

Same ONS chart shows more like 720k births, and 500k deaths as well.

> I feel like you're bending over backwards to pretend you don't understand the point.

Just as the 700k immigration figure I mentioned above I did so in good faith, making it net migration, I think you should operate in good faith as well and talk about net natural population change.

[0] https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsde...


> I think you should operate in good faith as well and talk about net natural population change.

I did, right at the top when I used this link:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/281296/uk-population/

The comment you originally replied to, I think?


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