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evgeniysharapov | 1 year ago | on: Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate

Because it's ultimately a distrust of people. You do not trust people to realize that the candidate is old ? Where would you draw the line on limits? Age, IQ, gender, weight, height ? Of course, we should find the balance between all these limits and "intellect of the crowd".

evgeniysharapov | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: What do Russians on HN think about this war?

All that still might be true, but there are a lot of instilled/inculcated principles or "rules of life" if you will. They might seem contradictory but those principles/rules fire up in certain situations differently. Hence there's no manual that one may read and follow, but rather it requires "to live" to gain that "lived experience" that would make applying those rules subconscious. One example of such rule, which I do have, by nature of growing up until my twenties in Russia is - "do not be a victim". Under no circumstance be a victim. Always turn lemon into a lemonade and make sure no one saw you being a weak/victim. There are different ways of doing it, but in light of recent events I see that this plays quite a lot. It's endurance and resilience and repeating like mantra, that these sanctions, this confrontation, as painful as they are, are to our benefits and we will better them.

evgeniysharapov | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: What do Russians on HN think about this war?

I am Russian living in the US, but what I can gather from conversations with my college acquaintances and family that is still living there - there's plenty of Russians who are appalled and against and can rationalize what devastation this war is for Russia, not even taking Ukraine into account, where humanitarian catastrophe is obvious. All those reasons are obvious to any person living outside of Russia and, as I said, to some Russian people. But here lies the problem, these are things that are rational. Most of the "deep" Russian populace may seem irrational now. Here are some of the thoughts they express:

- closing and isolating from West is a good thing - no bad influence and we will keep things, s.a. modernism, liberalism, libertine behavior, e.g. homosexuality and transgenderism away.

- closing foreign markets will boost Russian production and development by keeping all the resources and investments inside and protecting domestic market from unfair competition (e.g. agro subsidies)

- closing travel and foreign countries and markets will keep people inside and by extension will EQUALIZE everyone. Essentially, now there's no rich and poor and everyone is sort of equally poor. Remember, that few folks, s.a. oligarchs, various celebs with their conspicuous consumption are eternal target of people's hate.

- There's no freedom and liberty, all west are hypocrites and they always wanted to subjugate us via harsh force or through soft force. Note, that the western (btw, Australia and New Zealand are considered western in this paradigm) governments forcing vaccinations/masks/lockdowns are used against western governments claim that they are for freedom and liberty.

evgeniysharapov | 4 years ago | on: All baptisms performed by Phoenix priest invalid because he changed one word

I don't think it's dying - it thrives in Global South (Africa, S. America) The biggest undoing for Roman church was to succumb to theological innovations. It started a while ago and probably irreversible (see Vatican 2). I see many Catholics and protestants coming to Orthodox Church for the reason of "immutability" - the Ancient Church with Tradition that spans over almost two millennia and theology that did not change and will not change.

evgeniysharapov | 4 years ago | on: MenuetOS

I remember from my college days - one of the features was "fit on one floppy". Back then it was pretty cool, you wouldn't have to install anything and there was no booting from USB feature in the BIOS back then. How is it relevant now ? Is the size of OS of any concern to anyone ?

evgeniysharapov | 4 years ago | on: Southwest operational meltdown as hundreds of flights canceled or delayed

Overall, it's operational fragility. Back in 2017 or 2018 there was engine failure, that started inspection of all planes, that triggered massive flights cancellation, revenue drops and calls for reconsidering their seating policy and baggage fees. Who would forget that SW had to park their fleet after that Boeing catastrophe and investigation. Gary Kelly spending too much time lobbying instead of improving company efficiency. 2020 was almost a catastrophe for the company has it not been for billions in cash injections, subsidies and loans from federal government. Another one is, SW used to be quite unusually employee oriented for an airline company. This has changed in last 3-4 years based on their negotiations with pilots and flight attendants unions, which does reflect on company's performance.

evgeniysharapov | 4 years ago | on: Southwest operational meltdown as hundreds of flights canceled or delayed

It's spectacular to see LUV devolving from one of the best managed and employee oriented airline company to this. It's not an outstanding incident though, the company was on the downward trajectory from, I would say, end of 2017. Sooner or later every US airline company declares bankruptcy, LUV so far has escaped it. But one would bet it will happen this year (unlikely) or next year.

evgeniysharapov | 4 years ago | on: Black Former Tesla Worker Awarded More Than $130M in Damages

This case would probably lead to unintended consequences, s.a. not hiring persons of color because now, those employees can easily put company on a hook for millions, unintentionally or by "staging/hoaxing" harassment situation. Why risk it? Similar situation was in the countries that introduced compulsory maternity leave. New hiring of females 21-25 years old dropped precipitously. Also, this would probably make any business to consider leaving jurisdictions where such verdicts occur.

evgeniysharapov | 4 years ago | on: YouTube suspends Rand Paul for seven days

One can look at it as what's the null hypothesis. Presumably it should be "masks DO NOT work". But for whatever reason, media, tech, politicians, doctors chose opposite as a null hypothesis - "Masks DO work" shifting the burden of proof. Neither has been proven though. There were studies, e.g. DENMARK-19, etc. but after this became a political and ideological issue it seems no one interested to find the truth to the question "do masks work in reducing transmission of respiratory viruses". Notice that there's also question - what does it mean "work", let's say it reduces number of viral particles but that reduction has little effect on transmission, it should mean it doesn't work.

evgeniysharapov | 4 years ago | on: OCaml is 25

I have used C++ in 2001 with ROOT and it was a long wait most of the time. Depending on your codebase and libraries involved making compiling and linking fast was an art form

evgeniysharapov | 4 years ago | on: Researchers chart path to drastically lower administrative costs of health care

I think under "administrative costs" they might have hidden consolidation of the providers market. Anecdote: I wen to podiatrist about 4 years ago and now. The same doctor the same place, everything is the same. Except 4 years ago it was ~ $200 per visit, now I am looking at ~$350. What's changed? His practice became part of the big group footandankle. Similar situation happens with other specialists and family doctors, hospital networks consolidate all they could find in vicinity under their roof. There's no promised administrative cost reduction. Everything goes up in price. But apparently it's a "faux pas" to criticize hospital networks because somehow it reflects may reflect bad on the doctors.
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