El Che Guevara made free medical education rampant and commonplace. When there was a breakout of Ebola some years back, Cuba was there, FIRST, front and center. Rival that, anybody? No surprise here that their vax is superlative. ALSO, when nobody would allow disease-stricken cruise ships to dock for medical help,at the initiation of Covid-19,Cuba took them. That is how Cubans contracted Covid. Beautiful, good, excellent, time-capsule Cuba.
Please keep canned arguments like "whataboutism" off HN. It's a form of name-calling in the sense that the site guidelines use that term, and also a shallow dismissal.
It's legit to point out inconsistencies and/or comparables in what someone else is saying (I'm not saying the GP did that—I'm just speaking generally). If you feel that something isn't really an inconsistency or isn't really comparable, you can always make an argument for why, but trying to shoot down the entire category of discussion with a label is not an argument. In fact, in this case the label itself is a fallacy.
If you have some person who helps older ladies cross the street, but then murders people at night, he is not a good person. You're judged by the combination of your actions, not for the cherry picked good ones.
It’s a very appropriate response to a hagiographic description of a man who was directly responsible for the death and suffering of innocents. That’s not “whataboutism”.
Whataboutism would be if the commenter were to point out that eg. Bill Gates is also really pro-healthcare and used his capitalist-derived billions to improve the lives of countless millions more people than the aforementioned homophobic communist tyrant.
We should have the same cynicism towards american leaders. Barak Obama is a mass murdered (far worse than Che). Bush killed more than a million iraqis (far worse than Che). Clinton bombed a pharma factory killing millions (far worse than Che).
So if you want to do whataboutism start with the US first, the single biggest perpetrator of violence in the world.
I hope to offer a paid internship to local youths (up to two) for Summer 2021 to learn to draw. Asking for funding ideas for them, as I am unemployed but highly skilled and full of heart zeal. First a painter, then a JPL fellow and now again a painter. Upper West Side, NYC. Alison
The excitement would be if spacetime and quantum mechanics can be shown as emergent from something more fundamental. Locality and unitarity emergent from an underlying principle. Right now, with Feynman diagrams, locality and unitarity are built in. So this new scattering structure formulation doesn't need Hilbert space, spacetime and quantum mechanics.
When I am bullied, I step up and speak out. This is a nice posting. I let you know that it is basically invisible. I've been more than once downvoted on HN, but I speak out in an educative way and turn the situation around. It's hard to know what to do, isn't it? Nobody wants to control the way a person responds, even if they respond in a bullying manner. That would ruin the site. Still, I can remember being much more shy than I am now. I think it is more than gender, more than ego, more than ignorance. Whatever it is that makes a conduct policy even be necessary, I don't think we have the tiger by the tail on this. More needs to be done. Much more. Conduct starts in the heart of our thought/impulses. Acting out in comment or in action (at a conference) is a demonstration of how we feel and think. I wish we could reach that part of ourselves and that a "conduct code" wouldn't be necessary.
Juno launched by Atlas 551 rocket, but that powered only as far as the asteroid belt. Then the Sun sucked Juno back in, effectively causing Juno spacecraft to orbit the Sun. The Earth flyby was planned as a trajectory to increase Juno's speed relative to the Sun so it can reach Jupiter. Earth's gravity causes a change in velocity to the spacecraft relative to the Sun, as much as a second Atlas 551 would give. Like a ricochet/slingshot.
Hi code_duck. It's actually code, not free association. Let me uncode: Ada Lovelace wrote what most consider to be the first programming code. She wrote notes for the Analytical Engine--Babbage's early computer. She was a visionary regarding design and specifically how society could collaborate with technology. In the recent discussions about all people learning to code, I responded to the simple comment "Ada," by pointing a bit more sharply to the inflection behind that comment. Ada the language, yes, but the concept of society at large and coding goes back as far as Lovelace herself. There is a current of comment going now too that suggests the need for a broad underlying knowledge base on the part of hackers/programmers. Lovelace had that educational background. Humanities, science, culture. The whole soup. I am sorry that you were offended by my comment. I hope this elucidation helps. --GuerraEarth
Hey. It was the "Ada" one-word comment that made me do it : )
Anyway, thank you for being a good sport, code_duck. HN readers are an incredibly good group of people. It's a luxury, having HN. As good as a Christmas stocking each and every day.
