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> We live in a culture where it has been rubbed into us that to die is a terrible thing.

Not nearly enough, or we'd do more about it on a systematic basic. It's an abstract kind of professing of it being terrible (leaving aside people who don't even manage to do that much), without any of the concrete action that could take place if it was actually treated as a horrific tragedy on a species-wide scale.
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If I were to threaten to kill someone if you didn't stop posting on the web, and you didn't, and I followed through, would you consider yourself to be guilty of homicide?
I agree with all of your characterizations. I couldn't spend year after year doing maintenance grunt work. Luckily, I get health benefits through my wife's job so I can jump back and forth between full time and contract work with abandon.

I consider myself a "top performer".

Yeah I know everyone considers themselves to be above average, but I'm the tech lead for my company so by job title and responsibility, I think I'm qualified to say that.

But I guess I need a more nuanced opinion. I wouldn't want to be on a team where my peers are mediocre at this point in my career. There is a difference in my mind between a "mediocre" developer and an "inexperienced" developer. A mediocre developer is one that isn't where they should be in terms of competence and expertise based on their years of experience.

Even worse, is an "experienced" developer who makes horrible architectural decisions.
The boot time bottleneck (if it can be called that) on my old ABC80 was waiting for the CRT to warm up. The prompt was already there and fading into view a couple of seconds after power-up.

Booting from ROM is one thing. Loading something from tape, that's another story.
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Nope, you didn't.
OK, but so what? Most political parties in history started out as factions of other parties that then split off and coalesced around a new ideological tendency. The Republican party in the US was formed by members of the Whig and Free Soil parties, while the Democratic party (incidentally, the world's oldest political party) grew from the Anti-Federalist party in the late 18th century.

It was a relatively small group of men that ended up dominating Russia, partially due to how ruthless they were willing to be.

You mean like every other successful revolutionary party? Revolutionaries that aren't willing to be ruthless end up in prison or on the scaffold. To quote Ben Franklin as he was preparing to sign the Declaration of Independence, 'We must, indeed, all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.'
I think there's an analogy here with banking, around the idea of securing transactions rather than securing identity. The police need to be a lot more sure that the information they're working with is solid before they take drastic actions, just like a bank should take a lot more care that what they're doing is correct when a transaction appears suspicious.

"Standard overreaction" by the police is to my mind a bigger problem than the homicidal intent of the fraudulent calls. That kind of overreaction is a force multiplier for anyone with ill intent towards the US, never mind immature, violent and mentally ill people within the US.

I don't disagree with the idea that there is culpable homicidal intent for the prank caller, of course.
I support your unpopular proposal. The idea that a cop can ever (yes, ever) get away with shooting an unarmed person is beyond comprehension. The very notion of pulling a gun on an unarmed person should be considered repulsive.
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> Ironically, New York serves as a great counterpoint to your argument, because it has some of the strongest - if not the very strongest* public campaign finance laws in the entire country.

There are limits to what individual donors can give, but politicians in New York can still receive unlimited campaign contributions in total.[1] This means that large companies and unions can pool their resources to buy influence, exactly as anywhere else.

New York proves that well-regulated bribery is not any better than poorly-regulated bribery.

> Campaign contributors have basically no influential power over New York politicians, any more than voters themselves do.

So you're saying that the politicians in New York are not receiving substantial campaign contributions from the unions, consultancies, and contractors that are profiting from the 2nd Avenue Subway? Are you quite sure of that?

1: https://www.elections.ny.gov/CFContributionLimits.html
Adrenaline and poor training lead to situations like this.

The department should be held responsible even though it was an individual who made the fatal mistake.

As for the person who called in the swat team, it’s clearly murder.
More and more I think that US/europe should adopt expat worker models. Having a bunch of chinese companies bidding on this sort of work and then bringing over ships full of temporary workers and equipment to do the job seems to make sense. We outsourced manufacturing, now we need to outsource infrastructure projects. It alleviates poverty in china, and ensures that our country doesn't become a useless calcified relic.
This just isn't true. Canada and Switzerland, as examples, also have a high number of firearms and not nearly as many firearm-related deaths (at least from 2014 data I could find; I doubt it's changed).
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I do it every week day. Weekends I'm a little more lax, I might eat my first meal at 11.

That's an interesting perspective on anxiety. I experience some social anxiety, you've given me something to think about.
> Who decides people living now are more worthy of living than future generations?

That's not an either-or, it's a false dichotomy.

> Who decides who will live forever?

Once we have the technology, who is going to try murdering people by trying to make them not live forever?

The very obvious answer for "who should live forever" is everyone.
I know that nowadays "evil" has been debased a lot, but I wouldn't consider "wasting police resources" evil. Wasting a person's day shouldn't happen either - at most, a couple of hours.
Another guess: He actually said it and a few people heard it, but when he said it was before everything in the universe was constantly being recorded, photographed, and pushed to the internet, so there's not necessarily a record of it.

Back then, you could just deny something happened, and often get away with it because you weren't being surveilled 24 hours a day.

It's like when someone very knowledgeable about a subject posts information on Wikipedia. Even if they were there first hand; even if they were personally involved with the event; even if they wrote magazine articles about it and did radio interviews about it, and it was covered by television — if it happened before 2000, it'll get erased from Wikipedia by someone on the other side of the planet because there's not a web link or an ancient library book to cite for "proof."

/Yes, I'm speaking from experience.
It is not even close to blaming the hurricane on the butterfly.

While it should not be possible for such a prank call to lead to a lethal outcome, it currently is entirely possible and realistic for such an outcome to occur in our society today. The perpetrator knew that was a very probable outcome, and used that knowledge to intentionally instigate such a scenario in order to achieve that outcome.

Just because he didn't pull the trigger doesn't mean he doesn't share any blame.

The world is not the perfect, logical, orderly fantasy-land you seem to think it is.
Very true.

But the only reason that YouTube is there as a platform that allows people to upload videos for free is that they expect to make money either off of that video through ads, or through other videos through ads.
Programming by demonstration can solve many of these problems by substituting real action for the apprised abstraction. For example, one could drag and drop some item, capture that action from a log, and then repeat that action in a script.
It's kind of hilarious that copperhead OS is considered de-googled when all the hw support and firmware updates still rely on google. After google drops hw support for a device copperhead discontinues support.
Good points! 40% of my clients are actually car dealerships and branding is easier is than is seems. Last-touch attribution isn't always the best, that is why for display ads you count post-impression conversions as well.

For car companies they track website sessions, chat/contact us forms/phone calls, and "vdps" (vehicle description pageviews, basically the product page for a car). There are services that claim to track back a car purchase to user's online habits/ads viewed but I've never had the chance to try it out.

For Coke/McDonalds you do brand lift studies which are expensive and difficult, but if you're doing branding advertising you can afford it. They basically test before and after how many people know your brand and how they feel about it. If your numbers are flat thats good, if they're up thats great.

Last touch credit isn't always the best, but its what everyone uses and makes sense most of the time as long as you track post-impression conversions for display and social and give them partial credit. (I'm a fan of time decay models, but since google analytics is last touch that what always gets used.)
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In my opinion, focusing on web frameworks (emulating ror,for example) as the the major reason to write libraries with elixir is self defeating. Elixir should have the larger goal of being useful for developing in up and coming fields as ai/ml etc..
Otherwise it will be stuck as another web dev language which I think is quite saturated at this point. At least 15 to 20 years of such web framework dev languages and their libraries are already in existence so why keep adding to it?
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The bigger problem with helmets is that they feel like they protect you from concussions when in reality they don't at all. That makes people go out there feeling invincible and leading with the head.
> if you want to

We didn't want to. And when the economy crashed in 2009, I saw my neighbors whose parents made more money than us sell their homes and move to cheaper neighborhoods and my parents used their savings to make it through comfortably.
Except AOSP doesn't even pass the Android certification [edit: should be compatibility, not certification] test suite, so stage one of building non-Google Android is making AOSP actually work as it should. :(
Yeah, so blacklist that data center. You can't just spend money and assume everyone will give you a good deal. Optimize your campaign to buy good traffic.
Knowing that the situation could very easily escalate to a lethal outcome and using that knowledge in order to attempt to achieve that outcome is not a moral fault?
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> it flies directly in the face of the main argument of the article: that people, doctors included, need to fully come to terms with death, not shy away from it.

I think flying directly in the face of that argument was the point. There's a third alternative: don't shy away from it, don't "come to terms" with it, fight it with every fiber of your being.
Ask HN: Mitigating DNS cache poisoning attacks for open source sites?
I'm wondering how a website that has open-sourced its front-end (and back-end) code can prevent DNS cache poisoning phishing attacks? Since the front-end of the website is open source, the attacker's phishing site would look identical to the real site.

I was thinking the site owner could release a mobile app that checks the website's ip address and displays a message saying the site is safe to use if the site's ip address matches the ip address stored in the app. If the site's ip address doesn't match the ip address stored in the app, then the app would display a message saying the site is unsafe to use.

Is there a better solution?
Police everywhere have a shitload of guns.

Are you arguing that the police are more likely to kill people at random in areas with higher amounts of gun ownership?

I'm not sure I follow you.
Livingston didn’t say if the man, who was 28, had a weapon when he came to the door, or what caused the officer to shoot the man. Even if you were innocent before the SWAT team showed up, threatening them afterwards will get you killed and no court is going to convict them. So far it is not "established" that the officer should not have shot the man.
This is quoted in that article.

"It’s working, for now, in New York. Detroit had a little less luck with it, because there are not very many 26-year-olds earning $600,000 a year who want to live in Detroit."

It's hard to create a welfare system akin to NYC when young professionals do not want to move there.
What's your evidence that they had the intention of achieving a lethal outcome?
And many still might forego those luxury items and instead save for retirement, only to be dead, buried and forgotten at 71, all the same.

It’s a balance.

Money, Age, Enjoyment. Most can choose two, some can choose all, and some can choose none.
Are people really getting into random mediocre universities by being legacies?
I couldn't think of a more absurd reply to this incident. The whole point of swatting is to get the cops to break into your house and shake you up a bit. Anyone who's been online for the past decade knows just how trigger-happy police in America can be, and it was only a matter of time before something like this happened. This was a game of chicken fueled by a remarkable lack of empathy and conscience.

You don't get to wash your hands of the blame just because you didn't pull the trigger.
The institutions of the state act a lot more like a machine, because the people in it are punished if they don't follow orders. While "just following orders" has been established in the past as no excuse, I think we've also shown through Stanford and Milgram experiments that human psychology does act that way. Thus, I don't think it's trivial to convert it into a moral agent problem. It's more of a systemic issue.

Ensuring there are consequences for people who act immorally may help address the systemic issues, of course.
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In some incidents the phone warnings gave the wrong location which resulted in the police moving people towards the bomb: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omagh_bombing
Many people are.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/07/world/americas/mass-shoot...

Looks like your numbers are badly off (those countries have less than half the guns the US does per capita, so not all that high), and in Switzerland there are a ton of restrictions on the guns (and on the ammunition!) compared to the US, to boot.
Setting up an external website to check the main website's ip address doesn't seem like a good option, b/c the external website could also suffer a dns cache poison attack.
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> Sony famously used a similar model, but then one-upped Nintendo on licensing deals and manufacturing costs to lure major third parties away during the N64/Playstation 1 era leaving Nintendo with a set of very 3rd rate 3rd parties and expensive to produce cartridges. The Playstation on the other hand had over 2500 games.

I'm glad you brought this up, because I remember very vividly looking up the lists of games when I was younger and being startled at just how small the N64 library was by comparison.
I'd say it has more to do with our overall poor long-term planning capabilities.
A hundred and fifty thousand people die every day. We have the resources to solve multiple problems at once.
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Juries are told not to focus on the shooting, but to think if the officer believed his life was in danger. If the officer thinks his life is in danger its acceptable use of force under most department policies TO KILL YOU.

Most people in stressful situations do not follow orders well, people are not trained to "jump" on yelled orders. Barking orders at a confused/drunk person is the worst thing you can do. People are not trained to even think about their hand location except while pulled over, hands on the steering wheel.

But, we also do have criminals who do go for weapons.

I guess we just need better training and to have cameras, because each shooting is different, could be bad cop, bad training, bad situation or justified, nobody knows.
They may have been right to seize power, but the Bolsheviks have never struck me as anything but murdering gangsters with ideology attached. There's just very little good that came out of the Soviet Union from 1920 to 1940. Repeated missteps in government policy, mass starvations, purges, secret police led by a rapist, etc. It was a completely immoral system that above all else was about a small group obtaining power.

The Tsarists weren't much better, sure. Much of that history is covered here:

https://www.amazon.com/Russian-Revolution-New-History/dp/046...

Unfortunately, Putin is back to praising Stalinism. A free, democratic Russia would be really interesting.
Wasting the police's time is calling them to arrest the kid next door for stealing an apple from your tree.

Calling the police for a large armed response for a fake domestic violence situation is on a whole other level. IIRC, domestic violence calls are among the most dangerous that the police face, so I guess it wouldn't be a huge leap to think they would be on edge in those circumstances.
Swatting is clearly harmful intend that goes way beyond wasting police resources.
Yes, but was TV specifically engineered to be as addictive as possible? Was it designed to give you little hits of dopamine just at the moment you were considering turning it off?

There are tradeoffs here, of course. We can now customize our viewing experience to our tastes (though even that, I question the direction tastes are formed), fewer ads means more quality viewing time, etc. Huge improvements, but with many attendant costs.
A regular person who commits a murder will be sent to jail, even if he is later exonerated. A cop goes home and continues to collect his income.

How is that not a reward?
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I'd argue it has more to do with widespread cultural taboos about what it's "acceptable" to challenge and what deviates too far from the norm.
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Convincing the citizens of Chicago/Illinois more taxes is a good solution would not be easy. The state of Illinois itself is bankrupt and already suffers from exorbitant taxes.
The title is "myths and reality." Where did you think the myths were going to come from?
It is entirely likely there will never be any cam footage released.
I suppose that's better than clicking, although now I'm leaking information to a fourth party (and keeping it from a third, unless my identity/data is already embedded in the shortened URL).
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That doesn't apply to software development unless you're a startup with limited funding and no positive cash flow. In the vast majority of cases, the software is already released and making money. Whether you finish the next release in 1 month or 2 is of no practical importance, except that it makes the manager look good. He can report a larger profit margin because the cost that went into that release is roughly half if it was released in 1 month rather than 2.

And therein lies the conflict that this post doesn't really address or resolve: there's rarely a discernible difference in revenue between a high quality release and a buggy, low quality release, but the profit margin of the former can be (and often is) much lower. A great real world example of this is PUBG.
You are conflating information and beliefs.

A single caller claiming shots have been fired really isn't the same thing as information that shots have been fired.

I mean, your reasoning process hands a pretty huge victory to malicious pranksters that want the cops to shoot at someone.
> Are you arguing that the police are more likely to kill people at random in areas with higher amounts of gun ownership?

Cops have to make split second decisions with their own lives on the line. In a country where it's very likely that the person they're interacting with in a tense situation could be armed with a gun, it's going to make them more likely to shoot.

Perhaps not quite so relevant to this particular case, as the caller said the person was armed, but I think this would have played out differently in a lot of other countries.
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800 through 1000 square foot Aladdin or Sears Roebuck-style kit homes would do far more to affordably beautify the typical America neighbourhood than 1960s style trailer homes replete with turn signals up top and flattened tires chocked below. A visit to the outskirts of the average mid-sized American city will soon cure anyone of nostalgia for trailer-laden communities.

IMHO, homes should be smaller and designed by architects rather than efficiency experts and with an eye toward past stylistic precedents (gothic, craftsman, prairie, stick, etc.)
I never said that the police were in the were not in the wrong. My point is that you can't put the blame on the officers that responded to the call. A suspect can pull out a weapon in the blink of an eye. For all they knew, it wasn't a swatting prank but suicide by police. As much as it sucks, SWAT isn't trained to ask questions first. Those officers acted as they were trained to and shouldn't be blamed for it. They should't be dealt with harshly but get therapy and counseling for it. Those individual know that they shot an innocent man.
He said gas was 7k and the jeep was 6k, for the trip he referred to as costing 27k.

The Africa trip is another jeep, the jeep itself didn't exist when he did his first 27k two year trip, and indeed he modified it a lot. Probably a lot more expensive but also not necessary. Where'd you find the 50k number?
In case this wasn't posted, here is an index of all open source clones.

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It doesn't list OpenAge there yet but shows 0ad instead. I wonder if we'll ever see Total War 1 clone as well as a Civ 5 clone.
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It does seem to fully contradict the notion that driver's are independent contractors if they count the fare as revenue.
I would expect poorly trained police to end up faster on the trigger in environments where anybody else may have a gun.
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