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California did better with balanced government. Republican Gov and democratic legislature. There was some semblance of balance.

Without that balance, we see prop 47 and 57. Local communities using those as an excuse to not really do much in the way of law enforcement — the city government of Santa Cruz was actively hostile toward the police well into the 90s. An individual casing bikes with bike tools in the east bay would have an “encounter” with PD, in Santa Cruz PD actually told me in a meeting - they won’t engage unless they actively see an incident in progress or the owner reports it.
Oh, but then again, do you own the domain name for the email you receive? Do you control the mail server that operates your mail account?

If so, you could use the mailer daemon to tell LinkedIn that the email address does not exist, with a bounced mail response.

You could do that, if the email address was really "yours" and not Google's (or whoever).
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> There is no real world scenario in a place that has a heating season where the cost to the consumer is better with electricity versus gas or oil. Electric costs about 4x for whole house heating...

I guess I live an unreal life. All of my heating and cooling is electric. My bills are lower than anyone I've compared with and in every case I'm heating and cooling more square feet. The magic? Ground source heat pump. Several people tried to talk me out of it and I'm glad I didn't listen.
Our total bill for a normal delivery was 25k. 25k for a doctor and nurse to pull a baby out of the vag!

It took 2 months for the bill to arrive.

Healthcare in US is like legal extortion. You could literally bill for breathing hospital air and people would have to pay.
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He tried, a long time ago, and lost the primaries to Carter (twice... not sure why he bothered to enter the primary in 1980). He also lost a presidential primary in 1992 (Clinton).

If he ran again in 2020... well, it would be pretty fitting considering he's done his whole career path twice, but it's pretty crazy that it's not absolutely out of the question for someone who was on the national stage at the same time as Carter and Reagan to still be there.
> global climate change disrupts marginal economies ...
Howbout the local corruption and criminals in charge? Or everything was fine just before the g-c-ch? Get real, will ya?
They built the feature that people's post histories stay forever. They promoted it, with things like memory posts. People used it with the expectation that it would stay.

They took the posts down, with zero warning, zero hey we're deprecating this, back up your things. If your stuff was taken down and you care about it, one would hope that you would trust facebook less.
The list of companies isn't part of the permission notice. The permission notice is the text saying "Permission is hereby granted...". That's why the terms say you have to include the permission notice and the copyright statement. Neither includes the list of disfavored companies.
The original poster was responding to someone who explicitly was bringing up the ideas of privilege.

Example quote from above "If you do not perceive that imbalance, it means you are on the better end of it, and your lack of stand is simply apathy for the status quo."

This was the topic that was brought up, and the original poster was responding to this.

Like I said, it is perfectly ok for you to not care about the ideas of power and privilege. Although I will say that many people on the left claim to care about these ideas, so it make sense to bring these ideas up when discussing things that happen at large, left-wing companies.

But the point that the OP was making is that it is very ironic to bring up these concepts. It is ironic because the suppression of dissent is very real power.

It is not a judgment on whether this is right or wrong. It is merely a statement of fact, that quite the opposite to what people claim about "privilege" and power, that if you are afraid of disagreeing with the powers that be, then you are definitely not "privileged".
Oh, I'd agree it's not quite as strong an argument. But it's not a slight on your worth - if anything it's saying you're worth enough to not want to compete against! Legitimacy, sure. I'd still rather people end up at least being exposed to opposing arguments, even if they aren't ones I'd make or agree with. And if it convinces someone that perhaps they're in a MAD situation instead of one where they're ensured a win, well... It's probably worth it.

Personally, I think that high-skill immigration is a very good thing for the country, and not a bad thing for the workers in the sectors they'd be joining. It's a globalized economy - competing with an engineer from Korea when they're 50 feet down the street isn't that far from competing with them while they're in Seoul.
That's quite untrue. Anyone who looks through the moderation comments sctb and I post can see that we ban accounts that break HN's rules regardless of ideology. And you can read this very thread (or many others) to see plenty of comments which "move beyond the left", whatever that means, which are neither flagged nor banned.
You can use webseeds so it works even when there are no peers
>>> As a dutch person I would absolutely NOT want to ride a bike in the US, it's simply too dangerous.

A lot of Americans also think it's too dangerous. It's an obstacle to getting more people on bikes.

When people at my workplace see me with my bike, or find out that I'm a cyclist, they beg me to be careful, promise to wear a helmet, and so forth. I have friends who are avid cyclists, but who limit their riding to dedicated bike paths or off-road trails, because they don't feel safe riding on the roads.

Just looking at pictures and videos, it's apparent to me that cyclists in the US and Netherlands have very different riding habits due to the differences in conditions. The Dutch seem so carefree. Americans seem to have a much more wary, defensive, and sometimes aggressive style, and may prefer more maneuverable bikes for a reason. You'd probably get used to it, as lots of us do.

We also probably have to pay more attention to planning our routes to avoid the worst of traffic. I know all of the dedicated bike paths and side roads in my town. Google Maps gives different routes for bikes and cars. Residential streets have lots of cars but not a lot of traffic volume. I actually encounter relatively few cars on my rides.

Much as I defend cycling in the US, I'd still prefer the Dutch environment.
We need a variant of Greenspun's tenth rule for systems programming languages.

Any sufficiently old systems programming language that aims for simplicity and clean code will eventually devolve into a variant of C++, except ad-hoc and poorly specified.
There are two factors here. First, nostalgia bias. HN was never apolitical and a lot of the stuff that used to appear here was just as intense. I wrote about this recently so I could regurgitate the link when this perception pops up. Here you go: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869.

The other factor is that society has been repolarizing ideologically. That's a massive macro trend and HN, alas, has no immunity from those.

We're probably in for rougher waters, which is why we're trying to set down stronger markers about what's unacceptable here. The idea of HN has always been that a place for substantive, thoughtful discussion on the internet is probably doomed, but let's try to survive as long as we can. We'll do our best, but Cnut cannot command the waves to stop.
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Isn't that story actually about generic ideology?

The premise is that there is a set of acceptable ideas and people who disagree are unwelcome. Obviously people are going to want to talk about specific examples. Half this thread is about Damore, which is directly on point.
Also annoying when you use a VPN or tor
You make several assumptions that they have someone in the first place, and that they care about them as well - but justice should never be about assumptions. The entire justice system is designed to let guilty go free if it means a single innocent person is protected from wrongful incarceration.

Why do you think involving innocents is a good idea? Especially when it means they go to jail and get their freedoms taken away? People who skip bail already put their family at risk plenty of times, often signing away property and leaving family members destitute.

It would be much better to refund bail costs for anyone acquitted than to force this on people who do not deserve it.
In practice, many US states have arbitrary barriers to abortion that make it harder to actually get one in parts of the US than in parts of the EU, so I didn’t want to make too strong of a statement. But certainly, I don’t know of any European countries with a national or federal law regarding abortion that is as permissive as the federal statutory and case law of the United States.
In the future, I hope there's a blood test to check for susceptibility... There is already talk of a gene that many people who get fluoroquinolone toxicity have in common.
What's the point of making a decentralized web when it's just going to be used by Nazis who got banned from more centralized services?
I think the idea that everyone has to have a place to live is a factor in this.

Many of my friends from who used to live with their parents ended up moving into a low-end apartment that cost market rates, but unable to find housing that they could actually afford. This forces them to compete for available rentals units (that traditionally don't require an outsized down-payments), while in the weak bargaining position of being desperate for any thing considered a luxury just to stay alive and short on money.

OK, sorry for the crappy rewrite. I'm just upset about the idea that we might look at reducing the levels of education in the United States because our employers don't need them.
Glacier’s actual storage backend technology has never been disclosed, although this is plausible. Other proposed technologies are racks of older (less efficient) disks that are not always spun up, huge slow flash memory banks, et c.
Come by Sudo Mesh meetings at Omni Commons in Oakland on Tuesdays at 730 for https://peoplesopen.net/

Or keep an eye on major repos like the firmware: https://github.com/sudomesh/sudowrt-firmware

There are many places to help. Yes, writing code, but also hands-on stuff like mounting radios on peoples' roofs, grant writing, documentation, etc. Even things like establishing consistency across projects: https://github.com/sudomesh/bugs/issues/34

I've really enjoyed it so far this year as a way of practicing software production skills with other community members and non just inside the context of a for-profit startup.

A lot of pieces are far enough it would also make sense to set up meetups and meshes in SF and Peninsula as well.

Tuesdays. 730pm. Omni Common near Macarthur BART stop in Oakland. Come help!
I've had a quick look at the paper you reference, but my immediate question is ... this was written around 2009. If the costs and likelihood of getting hacked or phished have increased significantly, some of the conclusions of the paper may now be misleading, at least in detail. Has anyone done an update in the last year?

I still like the paper for one good reason ... it challenges IT people to ask the question: what risk am I mitigating with this rule on the users, and is it worth everyone's effort that will go into it? If yes, see if you can impose the rule. If no ... just be sure you didn't get the numbers wrong.
Can you provide a number (i.e. POTS) that has no SMS capability?
Two things:

1) I am currently building a house. Pretty much every comment here is dead on. It's hard. Especially the first time. And especially anything that isn't "standard" will cost about 2x more than what you expect.

2) I stayed in an airbnb in Iceland this past spring. The house was built in the 70's and was mostly concrete. Interior walls were poured concrete. It was cool until I tried to check my email in outside of the room that had the wifi router.

There's rebar in all that concrete and I'm pretty sure it was a big faraday cage.
The web is incredibly bloated unfortunately. I had to upgrade my RAM recently because I couldn't open too many browser tabs without making the system hang, even with javascript disabled. Apart from that, you can do almost everything from the command line so even an old Raspberry Pi could be usable as a desktop computer.
> Reached for comment, Facebook says it’s aware of the issue and is looking into it.

Sounds like it may be a bug?
Well Berkeley would certainly wants to teach RISC-V since Berkeley made that architecture. But it is still great to see they are actually using it in classes!
The stock market. If you can do it well enough it can be a full time income source.
Right. And even “small” things like deck footings need to use sonotubes or similar to get below the frost line. Otherwise one or two years of frost heaving will ruin that new deck.
I've almost never had issues with manually written filters/maps -- at least, not with the iteration itself. On the other hand, having to untangle stack traces of closures of closures that have been passed through closures does slow me down when the function that's being mapped is buggy.
Same goes for a Trump supporter too?
Would you rather give up some money or your freedom?

They are not comparable at all, and locking up an innocent person is unimaginably worse.
> And we "binge" on TV shows now which didn't really exist in the 70s.

Isn't that an improvement overall? You decide you want to watch something and you watch until it's finished. Media consumption habits in the TV era were much more passive and a lot of people would watch a show just because it was on. "There's nothing good on TV" used to be a common lamentation, I wouldn't be surprised if this generation is better at switching off entirely if there isn't content they want.

> A third of teens haven't read a book in the last year

I doubt it makes up the short fall, but does anyone know how well the audio book industry is doing since sites like Audible cropped up? I haven't read a book in some time now but I've listened to several because they have several advantages over reading and the only disadvantage I can think of would by for someone trying to improve their reading ability.
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I feel discoveries like this that can either be a promising lead that turns out to be nothing (e.g. mice don’t have these neurons but other animals do) or could wind up being the single biggest discovery in the study of sentience ever are the perfect example of what real science is like.
The reverse issue is also common -- you need to go from your house (comfortable) through the outdoors (freezing cold) into the mall. The mall is kept at a toasty temperature, which means you arrive wearing heavy cold-weather clothing and immediately overheat.

I don't see how this could have developed from business wear.
And after that evaluation what did you use?
They're probably referring to the TS1155 variant of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_3592 .

To be honest I never really understood the main reason for adding compression, especially since you can compress individual files far better using existing algorithms and then write those to tape. It must be a marketing thing.
Being able to choose a default and then switch on demand via bang would be the best solution :)
Because in the first example all the person lost was money, in the other - their liberty. Not sure how they're at all comparable.
I thought the consensus on glacier was that it was optical backed storage? Has that changed?
Please don't post shallow dismissals here, and especially not ideological ones.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
She's not just a racist, she also covered for BuzzFeed after they lied to one of their sources and published intimate and personal information about her after they promised not to: https://medium.com/@therealsexycyborg/shenzhen-tech-girl-nao...
Put Japan on that list
I don't know a good resource but I think it largely comes down to how you see someone who commits a crime or breaks a rule.

People on the right tend to see everyone as capable of following all the rules. To break them is a clear choice which has consequences. People who break the law or rules suffer from a character flaw. If a lot of people are breaking the law or a rule then there is some moral breakdown in society or a failure to enforce the law.

People on the left tend to see breaking the law or rules as a natural consequence of ones needs. If a lot of people are breaking a law then there is something wrong v with that law or the systems around it.

People on the right basically have faith in laws, law enforcement and are skeptical of the motives of law/rule breakers.

People on the left basically have faith in people and their reasons for breaking laws/rules and the circumstances around their act. They are skeptical of law enforcement.

Edit: I realize I failed to connect this to illegal immigration. So someone on the left will say, "this person crossed illegally or overstayed their visa for some good reason. So many people are doing so because the system or laws are cutting too strongly against human needs/nature.

Whereas someone on the right will say. This person broke the immigration laws out due to a lack of character, ie. they didn't have the patience to wait or they have some I'll intent. Regardless, they've shown a lack of character, there should be consequences and we don't want flawed people here anyway.

So in this regard is comes down to what you think law/rule breaking says about someone's integrity or nature.
I wonder if he saw this article?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/17/trump-idiot-...

Also, you should try it. Its remarkable really, search for idiot in google images.
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LTO-8 is 12TB native, 960 meters x 12mm is 11.52 meters square! That's 17,856 square inches. Somewhere around 6000 mbit per square inch.

Current 14TB disks are around 1000 gbit per square inch or 166 times denser.

Sure you need a motor, seek head, etc. All about the size of a tape. But you don't need a robot or tape vault either.

Seems unclear where the cross over for tape vs disk is. Especially when you use things like a backblaze storage pod and spin down disks when not needed to avoid the heat, power, and wear and tear.

Does make one wonder why not disk robots? The disks are the same size, support random access, and can be hot swapped.

I dug around and couldn't find a price on a 15TB tape, or even what it was called.
Somehow, I find him to be especially inspiring and encouraging of beginners - especially some of the early no-nonsense framing basics.

He shows the clear experience of a lifetime of craft, yet there's something about his persona that's so reflective of people starting out, and his early days. Humility can't hurt either.

As an aside, the ratings on his videos are unbelievable. On YouTube, in 2018, his videos frequently hit 99%-99.5% thumbs-up. I'm shocked that's even possible.
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It was sort of hailed as a possible antibiotics of the mind before the war on drugs started and basically all research was halted.

I think it's likely that that's what caused the bad rep more so than how the dealers mixed it. All drugs that were used in a recreational way was deemed as bad.
Why is this "Just move off the grid and live off the land" response so popular on HN?
So if I said one of the following:

a) "Brandon, imagine that I f* your wife..."

b) "Brandon, imagine if I cut off your arms and legs one at a time..."

c) "Brandon, imagine if you shot yourself in the back of the head... with a shotgun... twice... and declared it suicide..."

d) "Brandon, imagine if I fed you to the pigs, and they never found your body..."

e) "Brandon, imagine if I tortured you to death..."

f) "Brandon, imagine if the Germans cut your d* off..."

I just don't really get their "sense of humor". Why is (a) funny? It's like when somebody says "that's what she said", it's just not very funny, but I can imagine they say that there.

I've actually never heard of Riot Games before this article, but I don't think I would ever want to work there. Seems like a waste of time.
The plugs are cool, thanks! :)

The 8 million webpage one was really interesting. I don't know why yet though. (I'm serious - I know this info will come in hand for figuring something out one day. Thanks.)

TIL about [aria-hidden] from "HTML/SVG usage"/"Hiding DOM elements"! I wonder what the raw stats on display:none vs visibility:hidden are (especially considering that they have different effects). I wouldn't have expected 117000 webpages (is this a discrete page count or a website count?!) to use the highly specific ".visuallyhidden"... oh it's part of the HTML5Boilerplate framework, that explains it.

The main issue with screen readers is that, AFAIK, JAWS doesn't offer a developer-access program! Or if it does, I've never heard of it. A LOT of people still use JAWS, AFAIK, in spite of the newer offerings out there. The main difficulty here is the differing-client-behavior problem, although NVDA and ChromeVox's free-ness are surely shifting the usage share (something I've wondered about for a while).
What part of Seattle are you talking about? During commute periods I see mostly people wearing "normal" clothing (well, normal for Seattle, anyway...) on bikes. Folks kitted up are usually out biking on the weekends.
Because the person who was coerced is in jail as opposed to just missing some money.
When and where was this? Just curious. In the early 90's in the US at age 8-9 I was allowed to ride all around the neighborhood and to school, as long as I was with a friend and not alone. We moved to Europe in 1995 and by then most people had stopped trick-or-treating in the neighborhood due to the TV news scares of razor blades in apples and whatnot, it seemed like the public trust had hit rock bottom.
If there's one thing you could have done to make this ideological hell worse, it's drag Marx into it.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17864571 and marked it off-topic.
Agreed! Been a long time since I experimented with drugs, but when I used to, pure MDMA was really great. Just puts you in a super positive frame of mind, and makes you feel incredibly close and connected to whoever you’re doing it with. Not surprised at all that there’s a lot of therapeutic potential there.
Wow, hard to believe this is turning a profit. I definitely don't enjoy resigning but unlike other 'difficult' employment conversations I usually have a hard deadline to meet the start date of the next job and these things are never as bad as you expect.

Did once have to give it to my boss's boss though because it was an unexpected snow day and we were 2/3 of the people in the office!
I think that is ultimately everyone's goal. I doubt many people go into work wanting to deal with politics and beliefs. Unfortunately, the reality for many groups that these social/tolerance programs target is they cannot escape politics in the workplace due to being a woman/lgbtq/etc.
I'm curious about how you anticipate handling new APIs / how this approach helps ensure consistency for people who aren't on the new APIs. Seems like if

a -> b -> c

becomes

a b -> c
\-> x

then C won't be aware of the new stuff happening in X... unless it's 100% compatible with everything B does, including every log it produces, at the moment it starts receiving traffic, which seems unlikely. In the time until C updates to read from X:

a b c
\-> x -->^

isn't C (and its consumers) operating on an "inconsistent view of the database", as produced by A?
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