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If you can reliably ensure that every single citizen who is entitled to get an ID can do so with no impediments at all in all fifty states, every territory of the United States, and the District of Columbia, without cost or delay, then fine.

As it stands, no one can ensure that.

Getting a birth certificate, often a requirement for a "free ID," costs money, time, and administrative overhead. Sometimes it is virtually impossible for someone who was born in an "uncommon" way.

Showing up in person, almost always a requirement for a "free ID," costs money, time, and logistical overhead. There are several states who oh-so-conveniently place enrollment centers for these IDs juuuuust outside the convenient reach of population centers whose citizens are more-likely-than-not to vote in the way that the incumbent politicians would prefer. Or the state pleads austerity and closes so many facilities that the wait just to enter one to request an ID is many hours. Or the delay in manufacturing the ID reaches near-infinity around common voting deadlines.

And then you have the asinine lists of acceptable IDs. For several years, for example, Texas would not accept a student ID issued by a public college but would accept an expired law enforcement commission card issued by any city or county in the state. So someone may, inaccurately as it turns out, believe he or she has a "government-issued ID" when he or she actually doesn't have one that's acceptable for voting.

And then you get into all of the other myriad edge cases that should not disqualify someone from acting as a citizen. Married women who changed their names. Married men who changed their names (because a man changing his name is "suspect"). Children who were adopted but still have old paperwork.

Voter fraud is not a sufficiently large problem that it needs to be solved by throwing a 200-pound anvil of paperwork at preventing it. And it's not good enough to say that "most" people have a driver license or state ID or passport or something like that. Every citizen should be entitled to vote.
Please work on your documentation.

It is very unclear what this is, how to use it, how to get started, where to find a simple example.

Everything is spread out over 50 different links and pages with labels like

Getting Started
Start Here
First Steps

and none of that is really applicable to actually "what do I do to use your product".
That logic doesn't add up, regardless of your, or anyone's, position.

There are many genes that are expressed naturally, or through mutation, that would remove from reproductive ability.
Look at React - if it had never been open sourced, Facebook might still be using it, but it wouldn't be the same thing it is today. For one, basically all of the current excellent React team probably wouldn't be working at Facebook. And it would be far, far harder for Facebook to recruit engineers for product teams who were proficient in React. Since it is open source and very popular, the odds of a browser introducing a change that unfixably hurts React's performance is now very low. Et cetera.

The cost of maintaining an open source project is real, but when it is a world-class piece of infrastructure, open sourcing it helps keep it world-class.
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It's not cost. The US has a long tradition of viewing required national identification documents as a violation of individual liberties.
> Yet when we talk about an environment needing to be politically neutral, then their opinion must be treated with equal weight.

No, that is absolutely not how science works. There's a reason why scientists undergo a peer review process to publish papers, and why journals have an "impact factor" score: it's because they're not all equal, and it takes an incredibly long time to become established as credible inside of academia.

If you're referring to the casual layman bickering that happens in the peanut gallery surrounding certain scientific results, then sure, all kinds of people with ulterior motives jump on those kinds of bandwagons and flamewars. But the scientific process itself does not (or at least tries not to) work that way, thus serving as a counterpoint to the idea that "everything is political".
> Unless you can prove “getting group X less addicted” is more valuable than “getting group Y addicted”

If group X is larger and/or the harm avoided from their switching to less harmful behaviours is more serious, then a simple utilitarian calculation says yes, it is more valuable.

What data I've seen is still tentative, but suggestive that this is the case.

Do you have data to show the opposite?
> a substantially smaller drag

Again, this statement assumes the conclusion of the debate. A drag on whom? You assume anything that costs shareholders is a drag, but the question we are discussing is just that: how important are the shareholders vis a vis workers and other stakeholders? (Also, shareholders don't live on an island - if society around them doesn't improve it will hurt their company too.)

In an economic sense, aggregate output is a poor measure of individual welfare. If you put Bezos and 9 people without homes in a room, the per capita income and wealth would be in the billions, but that does little good for the 9 people. The important economic numbers are individuals'; that's why inequality or distribution measures matter.

> When people look at say, Jeff Bezos being worth 160 billion, they think: How is that fair? We should take some of that money and give it to the poor and needy.

I don't hear anyone saying that. What they say is that conditions (laws, etc.) that result in massive benefits to only a tiny number of powerful people are bad conditions, and that we should change those laws, etc. so that more people benefit. They also say, we should invest more in the future and in the country as a whole, including in education and healthcare, and that will benefit everyone - rather than that tiny number of people putting more wealth (and power) in their pockets.

> Japan is actually exceptionally not productive

> [Japan's] GDP per capita is quite high

> I would attribute that more to a cultural bent ...

GDP per capita is usually the definition of productivity, output per input. Japan's productivity remains exceptional, even though it's growing slowly. We could discuss cultural bents, but we really don't know. We do know that they are exceptionally productive, at a rate over 400% of China's productivity, and Germany is even more productive, as are Northern European countries that, generally speaking, tilt even further from shareholder capitalism.
To complete, add one oversensitive white male who feels offended by the word 'master' because slaves had masters.
An interesting other side of the coin here: Emily Wilson, in her recent translation of The Odyssey made it a point to call the slaves in Odysseus' house slaves. In other translations, this idea was glossed over, the people called different things, avoiding the term. Wilson instead aimed to stay truer to the culture the work was written in, rather than appealing to contemporary ideals, or what have you.

It makes sense, though, with this context as well. The issue at hand is calling things what they in fact are. In the Odyssey, there is a source text and culture, where persons who were slaves were called such. In codebases, however, we are working with abstract concepts in the first. There is no necessary historical reason to maintain certain language. Abstract concepts are such because they do not exist out in the world, and so have no "actual" name.
Have a psychadelic experience.

It won't cure knowing people are shit. It may bring you some peace regarding it.
I can't think of a better way to not go on a second date than to send someone a link to a feedback form rather than just talk to them.
> But from a tech perspective its always destabilizing to endorse a political ideology just like it is destabilizing to endorse a religious ideology in what is a collective for economic output.

Is it destabilizing at all? The British Empire, one of the world's most economically successful projects, had its own religious ideology. The US has a "Protestant work ethic." When have we historically seen the adoption of religion as destabilizing?

It might be wrong, sure, but I don't think we have evidence to conclude that it's unprofitable.
I support dropping these cases, but it's a tough incentive that people who simply didn't show up for court are getting their case dropped, whereas people who got convicted will keep their convictions. I guess there is no totally clean way to make this transition and the sooner it happens the better.
I can, if I don't turn it on, which is where the 20uA figure comes from, keeping the device in hibernation
"...similarly aligned groups oppose voter ID"

Please stop spreading FUD.

All jurisdictions require some kind of ID to receive a ballot.

The issue is dramatically restricting the permitted forms of ID, thereby disenfranchising people.

If the government requires me to have a particular form of ID to vote, then it must provide that ID, for free. Otherwise it's a poll tax, which is unconstitutional.
The art of lobbying doesn't have anything to do with contributions. They will typically donate equally to all viable candidates and sitting politicians to avoid becoming anyone's enemy.

The leverage they use is their relationships with other politicians to engage in vote trading.
All it proves is that comments that contribute nothing get downvoted. Especially when they explicitly draw attention to the fact that they are not contributing.
> But voter fraud disenfranchises everyone.

What voter fraud are you referring to?

The type of voter fraud that IDs would counter is "in-person" voter fraud. The amount of in-person voter fraud in the United States is extraordinarily miniscule, effectively zero.

When states pass laws which intrude on liberties, they are generally required to justify those laws with "compelling interest". With near-zero in-person voter fraud there is no compelling interest on part of the state for voter ID programs.

In 2016 North Carolina had one documented example of in-person voter fraud out of 4.8 million voters. But the state still requires voter ID to counter "voter fraud". This is absurd on the face of it -- it's transparently obvious that North Carolina republicans (among others) are seeking voter ID as a mechanism for suppressing the vote among various disadvantaged groups.
It's my understanding that the DRM and phoning home is completely optional and up to the developer. Steam is happy to deliver your games DRM-free and without any dependency on their client if the developer/publsiher chooses to do so.
How bad are the worst SW engineers at top companies like FAANG?
> Inbox on the other hand is very opinionated. It was designed around the idea that your inbox is a to-do list, and everything from the UI to features like pinning, snooze, and reminders is built around that assumption.

Yeah this is a massive gut punch for that reason. Inbox is how I organize my life right now. I reply to myself, snooze emails for a specific day, track bills, all through Inbox. Say what you will about becoming too dependent on technology, but Inbox was really the first tool I had where I felt I had TODOs figured out, so that I wouldn't miss doing important tasks. This scares me a lot. Hopefully gmail is configurable to pick up a lot of the slack.
>The last of my primary reasons for using FF over chrome were killed with Quantum.

Which?
How did they enact such a fine on you without taking you to court? Is the EU crazily different in this regard than the US?
Reminders aren't in Gmail, are they? I don't like having to check two inboxes, multiple times a day. Do you know why Google didn't add reminders to Gmail?

You also seem to believe that more features are always better, but part of Inbox's charm was that it wasn't bloated like Gmail.
It would be nice if you could select text in the SVG images.
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Meanwhile Gmail search is still not working properly...
So, what you are saying is that my gmail doesn't work. Huh, that's weird, should I tell google?
This is an important thing to keep in mind. Survival of a species and a family can be more than just whether or not you reproduce, it can depend on how each individual contributes to a group to ensure overall survival.

And another example of an eusocial species would be the naked mole rat. In the end I think it should be more than fair to say that we are past the point of needing to pass on our genes absolutely, particularly because we're already straining Earth's resources without further encouraging reproduction.
Ah CFML. Lucee is the descendant of an open source replacement for the ColdFusion templating language.

Mura CMS runs on Lucee https://www.getmura.com/

It's definitely not the usual HN web building community though. Less swagger, more sell.
The whole "marketing to kids" with fruit flavors seems like a straw man. I have asked everyone who mentions it to show me one ad targeting kids, and no one yet has been up to the challenge. I think it's the whole "think of the children" excuse when advocacy groups want to amp up regulations on things.

I personally chose the fruit flavors when I was quitting cigarettes so I could distance myself from the flavor of tobacco, and it worked well for me. I cannot even finish a real cigarette now without feeling nauseated (even though I always seem to try after a few beers). I'm thankful for those fruity flavors every day.
How do you improve sensitivity?
> I suspect that I couldn't offer anything that you would accept.

To be clear, absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence, but I'm just looking for what I can learn. If someone can't cite chapter and verse on HN, it doesn't make their point wrong, just temporarily inconclusive.

> If it already has that authority, then what is this law that Warren is proposing?

I'm not sure what you mean. Are you saying that government does not have authority to regulate corporate behavior? My point is that they obviously do, and that a change in the rules is not a change in the fundamental power.
He told me finally "We expect Google engineers to be able to solve problems. What if you were a Google engineer, and you had to solve this problem, what would you do?"

At that point - he's talking to you as if he thinks you have the understanding of a child, basically.

There really is no positive recourse available other than to politely end the interview, and chalk up another day of your life (plus N days spent preparing) that you'll never get back.
> Its interesting to think about Brietbart putting this out there as some 'evil' thing,

Never worked at Google, but as they say it went about as I would have expected based on my outside perspective. Or at least I wasn't stunned by anything in particular...

Overall I think what people dislike is the disconnect between the PR message of "all opinions are welcome / we are open / neutral" vs the reality of them being fairly uniform in political affiliation. I think they might do better to just own it and stop pretending. Say something like "yeah we are biased and proud of it and we stand firm behind these values etc."
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Yes, the 4.7-inch screen is optimal for me, too. Apple should've kept this screen size and made the bezels as small as possible.

This applies to the SE, too -- keep the screen size and makes the bezels smaller.

In a way, the iPhone XS is a step back from even the iPhone 6, because it's bigger.

Apple seems to be doing things arbitrarily nowadays, like Dell and other OEMs that Apple (fans) loved to mock years ago.
Have you looked into Starting Strength (the book and the program)? It goes ridiculously anatomical in order to address the most common injuries uncoached weightlifters experience.
I agree with you on most these things, I just think I misunderstood the ‘rant’ about the more expensive goods.

And yes, some parts of starting companies can be hard, thats what you have an accountant for who does that. Doing it yourself is madness in most/all of Europe I think. Might be easier in the US but I do think many of these think help rather that stifle (I like that you cannot hire/fire people on a whim for instance), however I agree it usually goes too far. And in that regard NL is still one of the easiest; ES, FR, DE are all far worse. Bureaucracy went a few levels beyond there.

I too had companies in a bunch countries, but not the US, and found Spain the hardest and the UK the easiest. HK in between. But after you opened a company and have the employees, I prefer the Netherlands. The tax actually seem to be willing to help you (had many company tax audits over the past 25 years in different countries and different companies and the NL ones seem to be by far the most relaxed).

But sorry for the misunderstanding (still think the product rant was a bit off on this topic as it probably is really not related), and I agree with you. But what is the solution. I would hate to see the NL/EU turn into the US (as it is now) and most of the fixes that countries try are incentives that usually make the rich richer, get companies in power etc. The end game there is bad for humanity in my opinion. But maybe you have actual solutions in mind without (those) sideeffects. In which case; ga in de politiek alsjeblieft!
"...yet election machine hacking also hasn’t been a proven problem either"

Fraud and errors are indistinguishable.

Voter Action proved in court that Kerry won New Mexico in 2004. Because the touchscreens didn't count spanish language ballots. As in none.

Fraud? Programming error?

Doesn't matter.
Vaping: MAYBE it's not as unhealthy as smoking, but it's definitely not as cool.
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Just a joke, phrasing it referring to "you" wasn't meant to be personal.
> I find that I can't do more than 4x/week of heavy lifting

To quote Mark Rippetoe (it's likely in the article somewhere on his site, but I primarily consume his advice via podcast), "you don't get strong in the gym (as you mainly tear muscle in the gym) - you get strong when you sleep and recover".

Have you tried just upping your sleep?
This topic had never been about ensuring political neutrality in sciences and the scientific process but rather political neutrality in the layman's workplace. You're attempting to drag this argument to somewhere it's not.

And even then to counter your opinion: Who do you think helps fund and provides resources for said scientific research? This is part of the claims made by laymen that connects politics to the scientific process.
I seriously can't remember any (incredibly) widespread use of Silverlight – could you elaborate? The only instance I noticed it was with a video streaming platform.
I came up with the wrong answer and told the interviewer that I wasn't sure if that was correct, and to let me know if it was incorrect. He blankly stared at me and said he wouldn't help me.

Meaning: presumably he's trying to be helpful, and give you a perfectly accurate representation of how people at his company interact when trying to solve problems together.
It would be so lovely, if Microsoft would include a default malware and advertisement filter into the browser. They are not relying on injecting malware into the web pages, so they actually can do it! User's experience without malware and advertisements will be better, this will create healthy competition in user experience, other browsers will have to follow.
A C&D in Germany is the usual way to resolve disputes, in which case you get a letter + bill + C&D form to sign, you can either comply and sign the C&D and pay the fine or ignore it or just sign the C&D but not pay the bill, in which case the other party can drop it, send more letters or take it to court.

If you take it to court and the court finds the complaint invalid then they can (and usually do) force the party that sent the C&D to pay your expenses and damages (ie, lost business due to you having to turn up to court) and usually a restraining order with hefty fines on it.

Atleast in germany it is expected that disputes are resolved via C&D and letter correspondence, court is a last resort.

To my knowledge, the court system in other countries varies but is not that different...
Same is true for me too; lack of batteries (std lib) isn't helping either.
I work in a research hospital, I went through a lot of similar meetings, and a lot of emails talking about where to get help if you're feeling down.

I remember thinking hey this is a bit over-blown... but then I talked to this Iranian guy on my floor: he was extremely shocked and depressed. He had a situation on his hands -- he wanted his wife to come to America, but was afraid that wouldn't be possible and he was entertaining the idea of just quitting and returning to Iran.

Surely at Google, where a lot of immigrants work, they went through similar experiences.

So I totally am okay with what I see in the video -- I think it was the right move by GOOG executives to take that position, if only for the employees.
> I may not like it, but I respect Britain's cutoff for tobacco leaf products. If you were born 2000 or later, you will only ever get to buy vapes. Not cigars, not cigarettes, not hookah nor dojah. They're banned from you.

Wait, what? I Googled pretty extensively and it appears that was just a vote between doctors with no legal binding. Did it actually become law?
The chart is only covering so-called VPUs. This architecture claims to be best in class, but it's definitely unfair to omit how well state of the art models perform on standard hardware (IE, [GCT]PUs).
>Are you talking about this from experience?

Yes.

>it just somebody's nerves and taxpayers money wasted, but who cares.

Courts in the area I live in tend to dislike such behavior a lot.
Hmm I thought it nicely contributed a point that then was proved as well. Here is someone who supposedly works at Google which encourages "to bring your whole self to work" and where people are "supporting and sharing in open dialog" (paraphrasing from the video) afraid to make a comment on the video on a "hacker" news forum for fear of retaliation.

This is not even a Google owned platform just some external forum. So they think someone will scour the web, find their comment, take down their name, head over to Google's HR / thought-police dept., report them and they'd face retaliation. Seems on point with discussion at hand to me.
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Can you explain that process in more detail please?
I bet there is a space there for something between R and Excel. Something where everything is "as-code" in a scm friendly format but the primary interaction could be equally powerful in a text editor or a cell space.

The "workbook" path of things like Jupityr is close.
There are more than billion people in India who will be internet users and who don't have the ability to shell out this kind of money. 10 dollars is probably 2 day salary for many workers.
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> "Exactly how the legislation will be interpreted will be up to individual nations, but the shift in the balance of power is clear: the web’s biggest tech companies are losing their grip on the internet."

I don't see it very clear that the biggest tech companies are losing their grip on the internet with these new laws. They will be able to weather this and even profit just fine.
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This is 100% true, and furthermore, the process you just described is still too complicated for millions of businesses. They just make a Facebook page (or maybe a Shopify/Wix site) instead.
Check out the Coldbox framework.

I think it is pretty cool.
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My main thing is fixing up and extending problem code bases. I have quite a bit of experience in this area.

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