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> Yes, but then you end up with a mind-reading exercise, where someone's opinion of your intent matters more than what you actually did or did not do

A sound, centuries-old concept that pre-dates the modern justice system.

(Also, in most cases, you're wrong. Intent does not matter more. Which is why actions, not opinions, constitute the illegal activity. You can hate gay people as long as you make them their cakes. You can freely express Nazi ideologies as long as you don't plow your car into people. You can hate your wife as long as you don't murder her. You can hate your boss as long as you don't burn down the office building. Etc.)

> but you will surely hit some where many reasonable people strongly disagree after enough such cases.

Certainly. SCOTUS often passes down tests, but they can be very open-ended and sometimes even depend upon cultural context (e.g., Tinker). Also, those tests are sometimes updated as new cases are presented and the boundaries drawn by the previous test are judged insufficient (again, e.g., Tinker).

> This is bad because we're all biased in various ways and knowing about that bias actually tends to make it worse among the people who don't realize that simply knowing your biases doesn't make you immune to them, leading them to overconfidence.

How so? Judges understand that the law is full of grey area. When controversial issues of constitutional law come up, they often spend a great time deliberating. This is one reason why it's imperative to have a high-quality and independent judiciary. Our judges are not perfect, and some are even quite fallible. But this sort of self-assuredness in the outcome of dicey constitutional law cases is far more common from people off the bench than people on the bench.

Even on the problem at hand, it's pretty obvious that both of the "no grey area" positions are ridiculously untenable.

For the general case, what's your proposed solution? A system of laws with no grey area? I conjecture that this problem is even harder than AI-strong. Way harder.

We're just barely learning how to write bug-free device drivers in a formal language. What makes you so confident that we could solve all the problems of politics and philosophy, in a completely unambiguous way, in an informal language?
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I worked for a large restaurant retailer in the corporate office. It's a mistake to call it a restaurant company. These companies are marketing companies and marketing drives everthing. Even to the detriment of operations and efficiency.
Rest assured, I was hoping for a detailed comparison and explanation of the differences between them and e.g. Roller Screws.
Advocating for Torx seems to be nice though.
This isn't a religious/esoteric forum here. Technical statements should be backed by proper reasons regardless of who is stating something. If you are sick to tell technical reasons then why bothering posting on HN?
Convergent evolution is totally a thing. What if at some point in time, there was a virus running around and copy pasting some dna around?
Not a surprise, but the story is a good small example of the problem, written out with enough detail for non-experts to follow. Answering a very simple question necessitated the use of a mix of skills like interviewing the homeless, persuading a government agency to release data and hacking the structure of Excel documents.
Shades of FF Chartwell, which is one of those amazing things you just think to yourself "well, this is going to take over the world of design and GUI's and so on", only .. for some reason, it doesn't:

https://typographica.org/typeface-reviews/chartwell/

"FF Chartwell is a set of three fonts* that together create a remarkable set of tools for creating bar, line, and pie charts. It uses OpenType ligatures to perform its magic – a series of numbers can be transformed into clean, perfectly rendered graphs, as you type."

Having used Chartwell for a few projects, I'm fairly convinced that this ligature trick is the way all GUI's should be done. In fact I've got this hypothesis going, that every GUI toolkit/method is eventually just going to re-invent ligatures and type... ;)
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>This is so they can keep moving software into newer GPL versions.

That is already an optional part of the GPL itself afaik.
I didn't read it as "Amazon is ripping off the USPS" but rather "Amazon is benefiting from the USPS needing to deliver everywhere in the US, even places where UPS wouldn't deliver".

I live three blocks from the post office, my grandma lives 25 miles and down a dirt road from her nearest post office. It's hard to argue that my deliveries cost the same as hers, yet we pay the same price for postage.

--edit: I hold no opinion either way on the subject, just clarifying based on what I understood from reading it.
Um, I'm not so sure about that. Sure, there's a lot more strings on a piano, but they're all separate from each other, and once one is tuned, it's tuned and you can move on to the next one.

Try tuning a guitar that has a Floyd Rose locking tremelo system. The bridge is floating on a pivot with springs, so the tension of the strings is collectively working against the 2 or 3 large springs on the bridge. So every time you tighten or loosen one string, you're changing the tuning on the other 5! And adjusting intonation is a pain too, because if you finally get the strings all in tune, then when you adjust one string's intonation, it throws off everything again. (And worse, to adjust the intonation on a Floyd Rose, you have to completely loosen the string so you can get to the tiny little hex screw to unlock the intonation adjustment, and the way it's designed you don't really have an easy way of fine-tuning it.)
Now if only they could detect how much wear and tear is on the filament.

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>> The other mistake is a menu the size of a phone book. Choice breeds paralysis. And it also drives up food costs.

When you watch Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares, slimming down the menu is typically one of the first things he does.
> or 'article' 'read'

... well, "this article is a good read" is already a timeworn collocation – according to Google, "good read" first peaked around 1920.

It's interesting. The brutalization of "ask" and "solve" into nouns is a shibboleth of the it's all just business to me crowd, just like the buzzwords on their "driven professional" LinkedIn pages. It's obnoxious.

But put that aside, and it becomes a creative exercise: what if the English language had no nouns, and we thought of the objects around us purely in terms of their functional affordances?
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I'm not an expert in the field but my understanding is that DNA has a huge amount of "junk" in it. This junk doesn't do anything but can act as a fingerprint for where the DNA evolved from, as it's impossible for the junk to be evolved twice in exactly the same way
> Office developers have been wanting to write JavaScript custom functions for many reasons, such as:

> • Calculate math operations, like whether a number is prime.

It saddens me that this is a thing we want Javascript for.

So anyway, now we have XLL, COM, VBA, and Javascript. All of them different but overlapping ways to extend what Excel can do. Am I missing any?
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> Right, and if you are declaring to the world, that this minimum is as far as you're going to go, then thanks very much!

I'm more concerned that you seem to declare the importance of preserving the minimum guarantee but seem to be willing to not provide even that: that is, while protecting the right of those who do not wish to be associated with particular content the right to not be compelled to relay it, and the right not to associate with it's originator is the minimum those people are entitled to under freedom of speech, press, and association, you seem willing to abandon that.

To give one side of this more than the minimum they are entitled to, you need to give the other side less.

> WWII and the cold war wasn't won by the side that engaged in totalitarian enforcement.

WWII certainly was, because both sides did that. The Cold War was largely a production/spending competition, and it was, unsurprisingly, won by the side that had a massive production capacity lead at the outset.

> It wasn't won by the side that knew a-priori what all the right answers were and forced their citizens to only do and think the approved things.

You mean, it wasn't won by a side that actively surpress the ideology embraced by the opposing side and hounded people out of government and industry in their own country by agents of the state on mere suspicion of having some association with it, and murdered people, including democratically elected leadership, abroad for the same association? A side that shot down it's own people for protesting the way that Co dlict was being fought? I think you need to review your history a bit. And, even ignoring all that, had the side you refer to lived up to its own propaganda, it would merely have been providing all sides exactly the minimum guarantee you claim is inadequate.
I would love a link to that recent science :)
Also - there is no cholesterol intake at all in a vegan diet. How does it get high if that is the case?
They're probably just trying to give wide berth of the world's most dangerous joke.
I want to see us move away from SSNs and OLNs (driver license numbers) as identifying instruments. But this comment seems a little naive.

There is massive infrastructure built entirely around the use of SSN as the sole and final arbiter of who is who. You can change your social, yes, but many many systems ignore that entirely because it's for the part rare and something that happens 0-1 times in a person's life.

The government cannot just say "hey that whole SSN thing yeah we're not doing that anymore" without a decade or more of lead time. Companies like Equifax and other not-quite-as-dumpster-fire ones who rely on something like SSN can't just create their own and can't just use everything but.

It needs to change but it will take years if not decades to fully extricate it from the system, and that's if the government decides today that it needs to be done, which itself isn't clear right now.
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I said the same thing a year ago. I didn't believe Amazon had counterfeit products, I'd never had one, I could tell fake from real, everyone is just buying sketchy shit and should know better. I didn't believe it one bit.

Then within the last year I've started receiving probably one out of five products being very blatant fakes. I only order Prime items and only sold from the manufacturer and only brand name, but I still get counterfeit items. It's actually driven me back to retail stores for items where I 100% need to get the real thing.
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> Um. If this gene was the result of a mutation, isn't it possible, at least in theory, that mutation happened more than once? At two different times? At two different branches on the species tree?

Genes are long sequences of information. You could easily have quite different genes doing similar things, but if you have the very same gene (sans minor differences) it's just too unlikely to have originated completely independently twice.

The closest thing I can imagine to your scenario is where, because of shared ancestry, 2 species have a certain gene, and then some minor mutation hits both of them, and now they both have some other gene. I suppose that's possible. But they already shared the original gene to start with.
Is it?

https://github.com/opal/opal/issues/942

The author of the issue suggests the adoption of a certain Contributor Covenant. Here is the latest version of the text:

https://www.contributor-covenant.org/version/1/4/code-of-con...

And here is the Node.js CoC:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nodejs/admin/master/CODE_O...

Here is the diff:

https://www.diffchecker.com/2Lj88IT6

The only substantial difference is located on the very first paragraph:

- education, socio-economic status

+ race

It is clearly the same CoC.

Nowhere in that text does it say that Twitter is some kind of private space where you can freely express unpopular opinions without consequences to your good standing as a contributor to software projects. The scope section actually says this:

>This Code of Conduct applies both within project spaces and in public spaces when an individual is representing the project or its community.

>Examples of representing a project or community include using an official project e-mail address, posting via an official social media account, or acting as an appointed representative at an online or offline event.

As evidenced by the Opal issue I cited, the mere mention of a project on your Twitter profile causes people to assume it is an "official social media account" and therefore subject to the CoC.

>His Twitter profile mentions that he is a core contributor to opal.

>Is this what the other maintainers want to be reflected in the project?

So why were there no consequences following this report?

https://github.com/nodejs/TSC/issues/324

The Twitter in question clearly is associated with Node.js:

https://twitter.com/ag_dubs

>@nodejs director. former @npmjs.

These facts were enough for me to form my opinion about CoCs and their enforcement.
Couldn't you simulate this pretty easily? You would need some kind of objective way to measure "diagonal clustering", but you could try to simulate numbers several thousands of times and then see if the observed amount of diagonal clustering is matched in some non-trivial fraction of the simulations.
I agree. Growth hacking was putting features into the product so that use of the product would inherently serve as influencer marketing and social signaling by its very nature. Think 'ask your friends for goods' from early Farmville that was required to play at a high level, the first action when joining LinkedIn being to invite your other professional contacts to LinkedIn, even way back to the "free email with Hotmail" signature watermarks so everyone receiving your email learned about Hotmail. This was considered novel because it provided a mechanism for truly rapid growth for companies with plenty of active users but very little or no incremental revenue to justify the advertising spend to acquire them. The idea was how to do marketing without paying for advertising, and what did we do to every problem in the 2000's: hack it!

Now its just any new or novel marketing idea from anywhere if the returns are superior to traditional marketing, which is fine, but what is the term now for products with growth features built in?
I know exactly what you mean, destruction of free speech because you find certain speech intolerable despite it being nothing more than speech.

You want thought-crime.

I think you know how insane a view this is, which is why you cannot simply come out in favor of it but must beat around the bush and ask vague questions trying to entice someone else to say it.

At least Richard Spencer is willing to publicly stand behind his words. You would rather hide.
From personal experience: 50/50. If a brand has solid OPs, then consulting firms do wonders; Menu is only part of the equation.

If a brand has spotty OPs (poor service, lack of "energy", employees who are not engaged) then a new menu will not help them.

McDonalds, Panda Express, and Subway did not win because they had the best food; They won because they had predictable food with good OPs and understanding of trends.

A real word example: Panda Express makes sure that when their orange chicken is coming out of the kitchen, it's always in a sizzling wok. That "experience" is trained (by their OPs) from the beginning to embody the story of "hot & fresh right off the stove" feeling (from the guest).

Chipotle attempted to simulate a similar feeling with their open kitchens: sounds of knives chopping and grill sizzling provides an atmosphere that their food is fresh, regardless if its mass produced.

This wasn't by chance but heavily researched, including the sound (in decibels) of the sizzle from the guest's side.
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It was a battle because Amazon went to the table to negotiate knowing they would not win. Their entire reason for entering the negotiations was to drive up the price for Walmart.

You don't have to win every battle to win the war.
You didn’t quite get the point as well as the sibling post
> Extensive evidence is lacking for this specific narrative, and the feature is not mentioned in the original patents. However, a 1949 refinement to the original design described in US Patent #2,474,994 describes this feature.
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I don't think this is a widely agreed definition, I think its just the definition the author provided in the context of that book because it fits the framework the author wants to consult with companies to implement. :-)
Definitely. Agree with you on both points. Maybe I find it strange as commenting on your downvotes is shunned, but it's largely OK to downvote something without explanation. This is only HN after all and I'm very comfortable being different from the 'average-HN'er'.
Could something like poor man's primitive check work?

- Create a custom http header and find a unique way to create/identify it. So theoretically another layer of authorization, just like APP ID for instance.

- Create a middleware that would scan the request and check whether it has the required custom header

- If not log everything and create a notification/slack/allow/deny and if it's good let through the request.
This is a good tool: https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/

4.5:1 is considered good for body text.
Who thought webpages giving you notifications was a good idea?
Are you more upset that the post is factual or that it is allowed to exist?
It's interesting that a lot of these variants were/are being created as security or tamper-proof mechanisms, a real world type of "security through obscurity" (although a different type of obscurity than is usually meant by that phrase). Then it becomes not obscure enough and they make a new type of screw.
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Yes, it was intended to capture human rights.

Before the Bill of Rights was ratified, the most convincing argument against them - to the people of the time - was the worry that the act of writing down the rights and putting them in the Constitution might give us (in the future) the mistaken impression that they were up for debate, that they were the only human rights, or that they weren't inherent to human nature.

From a legal sense, the human rights captured in the Bill of Rights are only enforced in the context of the US government because the constitution only applies to the US government. At the foundation of the country, there were a set of principles that applied across all of society, but the people designing the government were very worried about scope creep.
Thank you for your clarification.

I found an example of a CEO who fired an at-will employee and as a result the company was successfully sued for breaking an oral contract where the board of directors had promised that the employee would not be fired for speaking about workplace problems. https://www.jacksonlewis.com/publication/south-carolina-jury...

That would be an example of where the CEO is not a dictator, yes?

In some states, a CEO cannot fire someone without just cause, or for reasons motivated by malice or made in bad faith. And there are civil rights, disability rights, etc. which also prevent certain CEO actions. But these can also be viewed as dictatorial government actions overriding dictatorial corporate actions. :)

That's why I brought up union representation and employee contract rights which prohibit the CEO from certain actions.

I think there are also cases where the CEO is unable to impose demands because certain key staff would ignore them or leave the job, or the CEO fears the public reaction should that happen. Eg, http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/UltimateJobSecuri... .
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I think it was intended to very very high return marketing that was inherent to the use of the product itself, as distinct from traditional marketing where the product was the thing being marketed (selling auto parts) and not the thing doing the marketing (advertising in your free email signatures).
There's a lovely little book called "One Good Turn" by Witold Rybczynski subtitled 'A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw' A pure delight for those interested in such things like me.
>if you listen to what the tool is trying to tell you then it shouldn't happen.

The problem is when the tool is telling you the screw is tight enough but it's only halfway in. Or hasn't come out yet. That's where the stripping happens.
But how would Clearbit know the Facebook profile linked to that email address?

The only way is:

1) Scraping Facebook by automating the process of searching for FB profiles based by email (most likely)

2) Having access to the same API Cambridge had years ago, where it's possible they downloaded the data from someone that had me in their friend's list (unlikely, this profile has ZERO friends :)

Of course if you ask Clearbit this, they'll hide behind the guise that they just look at publicly available data, or they bought it from a "trusted 3rd party". Where does the rabbit hole lead?
> The contract stipulated that Kris and I own the copyright for the content, but O'Reilly has exclusive rights to use the content any way they see fit throughout the world now and in the future for the duration of the copyright.

I'm a little confused by this. Can Justin and Kris use the content they own? Or does O'Reilly's exclusive use rights supersede their ownership?
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My local Ma & Pop diner charges 2.75 for drip coffee. I just don't order it anymore. At 2.25 it was already ridiculous.

I'm a soda-holic. I never order soda at any restaurant. 100% water for the last 3 decades. The cost is too high and the quality is shit as well. McDonald's Coke is probably the worst I've ever tasted. It's been shitty since the 70s.