Loving the downvotes on a valid, reasonable question.
I'm asking for specifics, isn't that what goes into a good comment here?
Or maybe the downvotes are political.
My sweetie,
Here you'll find some data about the context:
War Tensions: It humiliated Japan by completely banning Asian immigrants, which fueled anti-American sentiment and helped pave the way for WWII.
Blocking Refugees: The quotas were so strict that, during the 1930s, the U.S. denied entry to thousands of Jews trying to escape the Holocaust.
Inspiration for Hitler: The law was based on eugenics (racial superiority). Hitler himself praised the act in his book, using it as a model for future Nazi racial laws.
Family Separation: Because quotas for Southern and Eastern Europe were so low, immigrants already in the U.S. were often unable to bring their wives and children, tearing families apart for decades.
The Birth of "Illegal Immigration": By making legal entry nearly impossible for many, it created the modern concept of the "undocumented immigrant" and led to the creation of the Border Patrol to manage those bypassed by the system.
My sweetie,
I'm from another country and I'm following this story from the outside. Believe me, the whole world thinks what the president of the United States is doing is wrong. >>>>Good Luck<<<<
Too vague, or did you just not like that I mentioned your orange idol?
Trump is the worst president I've seen in recent years. You should feel ashamed if you support someone who has inhumane attitudes.
I think HN discussion should stand alone and not require research to find what someone is vaguely referring to, especially in an emotionally charged comment.
> I think HN discussion should stand alone and not require research
I don't know what random reader knows and I will assume someone can look up context in good faith. It's not productive to conduct conversations any other way. If someone understands my comments, we can exchange ideas. If not, that's ok too.
The standard playbook. If its not nuclear weapons, it's the spread of democracy, or "helping people". The global police just securing their natural resources, nothing to see here.
But but the CEO was completely unaware of this until someone pointed it out to him recently! And they never could've predicted the free tier would be "unsustainable" after spending huge on "indie hacker influencer" marketing squarely aimed at exactly the type of dev to use only a free tier! These are some very hard calculations and unforeseen circumstances, please understand.
I think a bigger problem is the HN reader mind reading what the rest of the world wants. At least when an HN reader telling us what they want it's a primary source, but reading a comment about an HN reader postulating what the rest of the world wants is simply more noisy than an unrepresentative sample of what the world may want.
I would guess HN readers are not an average cross-section of broader society, but I would also guess that because of that HN readers would be pretty bad at understanding what broader society is thinking.
Well, you can round down everything short of outright civil war to 'zero' but then you might miss important signals that you could act on. That doomsday message so far seems to be largely on the money, and in some ways has already been exceeded. That doesn't mean it can't get much worse.
The old guard of nonfascist Republicans wasn't purged until late in the last Trump term and into the period between Trump terms, and was particularly strong in the first half of the last term, the second half of last term, the Democrats controlled the House, limiting. There was not a trifecta under a fully Trump-aligned Republican Party until the current term. That makes a difference in outcomes, and has already made obvious differences in outcomes in exactly the direction discussed.
But — unlike the attempted coup which was totally his fault — I'm not sure you can blame even half of that death toll on Trump, given all the other countries that also did badly.
I can blame Trump for his policy and also his and the larger Republicans parties ideological brigade against medicine and science. Which still continues to this day, and will continue to take lives.
I'm not above blaming extremely powerful people for harmful abstract ideology. I'll do it.
Sure, and I do too, but the relative difference between "ideological brigade against medicine and science" and "what the various Europen countries did" suggests that the difference between Trump as he was and a plausible competent alternative still didn't add up to 5e5 lives per 342 million population.
China, I think, managed to get their response right (eventually, having failed hard right at the start). Either that or they managed to hide the death toll in several different dependent outputs that all roughly agree with these numbers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_by_country_a...
(That said, this map also says that the USA should be ruled over by Canada, with King Charles as head of state etc., I absolutely do not disagree that a lot of dumb things were done and should've played out differently, this is just a relative statement about how incredibly mediocre a lot of our other leaders besides Trump are in the supposedly developed nations…)
Well actually let’s find out whether they do cause it or not. Patients ought to know the risks beforehand if so.
The calculation as to net benefit can be done later.
Largely agree, but still very much depends on what you're screening for. For example, my oncologist still recommends CT over MRI for post-surgical screening as the increased resolution makes it possible to detect tumors a bit earlier.
I’m not familiar with the parameters of the machines readily available to your provider, but I can say that the risk/reward scenario for an intervention for someone coming out of cancer surgery is distinct. We give cancer patients chemo and radiation that we would never give to someone who just showed up in the ER or was still undergoing preliminary diagnostics.
And what will the luck be needed for?
A very vague comment.