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The New Zealand Bill of Rights is the single most toothless, feeble, pointless piece of legislation I have ever read.

http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1990/0109/latest/D...

Literally everything else overrides it, if I'm reading this right:

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Other enactments not affected

No court shall, in relation to any enactment (whether passed or made before or after the commencement of this Bill of Rights),—

(a)hold any provision of the enactment to be impliedly repealed or revoked, or to be in any way invalid or ineffective; or

(b)decline to apply any provision of the enactment—

by reason only that the provision is inconsistent with any provision of this Bill of Rights.

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So if every other law automatically overrides it, what is the point? Are they even rights at all, at that point?

We need a stronger set of rights.
Fine, but crying and hot messes are dramatics not facts.
Could you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow the rules when posting to HN? We're hoping for much higher quality comments than that here.
I threw together a few words here about how we are using Streams combined with Sorted Sets to "upgrade" legacy databases to streams of data. Not revolutionary, but it could be interesting to some people. I can write more, if there's any demand: http://nicois.github.io/posts/databases-to-streams/
Around here they create X crossings, where the bike lane and the right hand car lane cross each other in an X. This is sheer madness.
I think it's a bit more nuanced than that.
Those websites were distributing material that was illegal under New Zealand law (content relating to the recent terrorist attack).

Any person in New Zealand who possesses objectionable content is liable for imprisonment for up to 10 years. Distributing the objectionable content can result in imprisonment for up to 14 years.

The ISPs were simply declining to distribute or possess the objectionable content (which would have be illegal for them to distribute or possess).

https://www.dia.govt.nz/Censorship-Objectionable-and-Restric...
Lockheed D-21 – American supersonic reconnaissance drone made 1969
This is it in a nutshell. But as the babyboomer population starts to decline their will likely be some supply increase as millenials don’t have the numbers or the wealth to afford the properties that become available at current market prices.
I think there is potentially merit in the idea of the idea that the cause and the issue are related; in that the same system makes some people rich and some poor. However, I don't think that's relevant to whether it is okay to hate an individual unless they actively wronged someone.
Considering the major themes that the majority of humanity believes in are the various flavors of Biblical ones, I don't have a lot of hope for Truth. Ultimately, if you can't verify a fact yourself, it's either irrelevant (so doesn't matter if it's true, just have fun) or highly suspect.
Sorry, but things aren't that simple in Santa Cruz. The reality is more complicated.

Currently, there is an SF/Seattle style camp that has sprung up on the entrance into town. The current city council is made up of a majority that sides more with homeless uses than the concerns of others including families. The first 5 (bi weekly) city council meetings of the year have been stuck on what to do with this camp that has sprung up (there were others before it).

The reason this topic has dominated is due to the current council make up. The head of county health is on public record stating that the county hands out between 3 and 600 needles each day for a camp of between 100 and 150 people. This does not account for a "volunteer" group that hands out other needles things like Narcan.

City staff has been working towards "other locations" for "transitional camps". During a recent presentation one of the pro-camp council people is on record asking "as we move people out of the camp to more permanent housing, what happens to those that move in filling those vacancies. In essence, implying he has an expectation to handle every Tom, Dick, and Harry that comes through there.

People who have "met with the campers" (including camp members themselves) indicate people don't want services or housing. Specifically the demand is for "a space for a low barrier camp that is private and allows for self-organization within the camp". In otherwords, those that have spoken and (campers and representatives) are demanding something outside what the city and county are wanting to provide.

In reality, the working homeless, those trying to make it (including homeless students) aren't in these camps. They are parking in quiet neighborhoods, camping in areas away from people, etc. I've talked with many at a coffee shop (no longer open) over the last half dozen years.

Many are right to point towards the main issue being drugs and mental illness. (The Seattle Dying Video is spot on). The problem here in Santa Cruz is that most of the "homeless advocates" and the 30+ non-profits (why so many for a city of 60k) addressing "homelessness" are perpetuating the current lifestyle of enablement. There are those that do get help and move up and out.

A recent, newly minted "advocate", is living in an RV and was living near her parent's house in Saratoga. She was requested to moved along and magically landed in Santa Cruz. She is one of those engaging with the camp, but has also made demands on the city that they provide her a space to park safely in her RV. She literally has been in Santa Cruz for less than 6 months. Oh, and has a couple of small children.

Why? The city of Santa Cruz is really good at providing a bunch of freebies to those that want them. It also has a city staff that is pretty incompetent and tends to lose when they get sued. Further, yes they are the county seat, but they have dug themselves a hole over the course of decades and the county is right in not helping the city dig themselves out.

There was even an article recently in SFGate where Berkeley is moving RV dwellers along (Sorry side tangent).
> Walmart competes with local businesses. Gucci does not.

Sure, lets go down this rabbit hole separately.

What about the Target locations, the massive multi-story Home Depot on 23rd st taking up half a block, Bed Bath & Beyond, Ikea... I was certainly lost on the actual distinction people were making and that extends to you.

Whatever permitting process was involved flew right past anyone that cares passionately about this topic in support of local.
Or that programming competitions don't represent real world programming either.
When was the US press subsidized?
Americans are unable to comprehend it in the same way that the civilised world cannot comprehend enslaving another. Just as enslaving others is wrong, limiting free speech is wrong, and inherently contradictory. Limited speech is not free. It is time for the rest of the world to understand this, and the US could use a refresher as well.
...September 11th, 2001? How is that involved? Or did you mean something else?
Of course US students perform better in a US field test. The students should also do Chinese, Russian and Indian tests translated to their languages to eliminate bias.
11 if you wear them with the dont-lose-it-strap

https://www.amazon.com/Spigen-AirPods-Pending-Connector-Airp...
Oh God latex breaks them? They should just use Lyx. I could take physics notes on a cpu faster than the profs could copy their notes.
There's no lack of integrity critiquing an extreme position, or extreme incompetence.

There's nothing wrong with the press on this one.
Mueller's report could still recommend or build a case for impeachment, even if he does not formally charge Trump, since it's legally questionable whether a sitting President could be indicted for a crime while in office.
One of the things I learned in the presentation is that economic incentives are not typically the motivation for this kind of evil. The "currency" in the environment appears to very much be fresh photos and videos of kids being sexually abused.

The trade in the material is unfortunately large. The descriptions of how the systems worked reminded me very much of the kinds of upload/download ratio systems you might find on software and movie/music piracy boards.
How can anyone here endorse something like this in any way? I get that video game addiction is a real problem, but constant surveillance is not a healthy alternative. Some people are cool with this because "kids need to be studying or playing outside, not playing video games!". But this is just an instance where your interests happen to shallowly align with the government's.

By the time we get to an issue you take offense with, there's already going to be a precedent of censorship and restricted activity and you'll be screwed. To be clear, I can't stand microtransaction-packed cash grabs and I don't game at all, but I also don't believe it's the government's place to say how we should be spending out free time.
I suspect practicality.

The US simply isn't going to tear up a significant chunk of streets in any city and lay down enough bicycle-only infrastructure any time soon.

So, it's a lot more effective to co-opt the existing infrastructure and lobby for speed limit changes, access changes, road humps, etc.

> I've seen that: dedicated, separated bike paths are unused, and cyclists continue to ride in the street with the cars.

Generally this is on bike paths that were put in to satisfy some "green initiative" but don't actually go anywhere useful. It also sometimes happens on "bike paths" that cross too many roads; you're better off riding on a parallel roadway that's actually optimized for traffic flow.

I have rarely seen idle bike paths when they exist in a downtown where people work.
I detect traces of Jordan Peterson. ;)
If the story just false, than the moral may well be the opposite of good advice.

Just in this thread, we have competing advice of "being a hero matters more than being right" vs "trying to be a hero creates another victim to rescue, harming who you are trying to help"
Different providers typically but the same service in the end.
> It would be unprincipled and ideological if people complained about tech salaries in NYC simply because tech is widely disliked, even when there's a bigger target to go after.

Target bingo is uncoordinated and dilutive.

> this is because finance actually is the richest

Exactly. This would really be making fun of the bay area's or anywhere else's ease switching the disdain.

It makes it harder to subscribe to one locality's issues masqueraded as the unique behavior of a particular industry.
Knuth/Plass seems to regularly need user input to resolve issues, at least in the TeX implementation - if that’s inherent can it be used in a browser?
Fish don’t make omega 3 oils, they ingest them from algae. So you can just cut out the middle fish and get them from algae yourself, in the form of algae oil supplements.
>> denying the legitimacy of computer-generated proofs protects their livelihood/careers.

> While this might be an issue, the bigger problem is that there are no interesting new theorems that were obtained in this way yet.

I think the issue is that there is a need for computer verified proofs, not necessarily computer generated proofs. It's much easier to create a proof verifier than a proof generator, and verifiers can give us much greater confidence that the proofs are correct (regardless of whether a human or computer generated them).
The only volume that matters is the amount of BTC transferred everyday on-chain.
When I smoked I used a small “pocket can” that was shaped like a trash can to hold my butts until I came back around to a proper garbage can. I then switched to non-filters and, even though they lack the cellulose filter, I still used the can.

I hate seeing cigarette butts everywhere. It might be because my first job in high school was sweeping the parking lot.
Agreed, there's no need to re-invent the wheel. Just do what the Dutch did: they have the best cycling infrastructure in the world and they have lots of experience.
"is the most disturbing Orwellian thing I’ve ever seen"

I think you need to go re-read some Orwell books.
They understand, they are just downplaying.
That's about common type ratings. With the same cockpit, a pilot qualified to fly the 737 is qualified to fly anything in that common type rating. If the 737 MAX is similar enough to be in that common type rating, no specific training or certification is required. That's something Boeing wanted. Probably because the airlines wanted it.
Using GitHub as a versioned file storage. I know it's not the best option, not even good, but it's usually so easy if your files are less than 100mb.

If they're bigger, you can abuse their "release" logic to upload files up to like 2gb.

Yeah there's S3 and stuff but the GIT CLI client makes it much easier to tape some shit together in a pinch. Bonus for raw.github serving for files over vanilla http
Many people do have sex with people they're not attracted to, and many people do not have sex with people they are attracted to. The distinction is useful.

Consider: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men_who_have_sex_with_men
That feels wrong. For one, the environmental cost of goods/services are not reflected in their prices, currently. Further, AirPods are luxury goods. Purchasers are probably already high carbon users.
Curious to know if you considered https://www.algolia.com/ as well?
>I hate when transportation choices are framed as for cars or for bikes. Transportation is for people.

To add, choices should be more holistically focused on generations of people into the future and the environment.

This isn’t the Wild West anymore. We got to start thinking long term.
Thanks! I don’t know the difficulties involved; I have no TV, just a projector. What steps did you have to do?

I agree that if most devices are cumbersome to stream to, then that’s too much friction for almost everyone.
Suburban political boundaries were drawn this way intentionally. The “solution” for integrated school districts was to pack up and leave for places that minorities couldn’t afford to move to, so you could keep your kids going to all-white schools.

Even today undoing those boundaries is fraught by the specter of history. https://www.ajc.com/news/local-govt--politics/fears-about-ma...
Which aspects of the New Zealand government's response do you object to?

Off the top of my head, the government has: used the existing regulatory system to temporarily halt sales of the sort weapons used in the terrorist attack; introduced legislation into parliament to permanently halt sales of the sort of weapons used in the attack, which will proceed through the regular legislative process; announced plans to investigate how the attack was not prevented by security services; and facilitated memorial services for victims.
This is silly. If overflow is really a concern, use Welford’s algorithm to compute a running mean. It avoids the sum -> float overflow issue.
I don't know what you mean by hacked, but this would have been less of an issue if New Zealand had not tried to censor it. The Streisand effect is very real. If you're looking for a technical solution, there is none. The most valuable feature of the Internet is its resistance to censorship. Cut off one head, and two more shall take its place.
I am not trying to cause a flamewar here. Or to go off down on any rabbit holes.

Even the most odious of people can be taken at their word about some things. The heroin addict in the village might not be responsible for every burglary in the village even if they are responsible for 95% of them.

In England we have a tradition that people are innocent until proven guilty. RussiaGate and whatever happened in your linked story very much falls under that category.
Pretty disturbing you compare disallowing hate speech to enslaving someone. Also pretty ironic considering

> the incarceration rate of the United States of America was the highest in the world, at 716 per 100,000 of the national population. While the United States represents about 4.4 percent of the world's population, it houses around 22 percent of the world's prisoners
The media also chose to spread the emails stolen by Russian intelligence instead of covering the Hollywood access tapes.
Three Ways to Spot Crypto Exchanges with Fake Volume
Reminds me of the first episode of Black Mirror, when the British PM is preparing for his act with the pig, his aides try to calm him by saying that the parliament have just passed a law that prohibits the possession of the material that’s about to be broadcasted.
I would, and I'm on my second set. Battery life sucks, sound quality is mediocre at best.

I have a single use case which makes the lack of a cord slightly more convenient, but I won't be replacing them again when this set dies.
Is the planet struggling because an average person may buy two AirPods in two years? Or because an average person consumes 220 pounds (100 kg) of plastic in one year?

For comparison, one AirPod weighs 0.008 pounds (0.004 kg).
Yep. That's all it is. Just some staircases. Cost a couple million dollars and was endlessly hyped by the city and architectural press. Just some staircases - nothing more. Why write articles about it? It's just staircases! It's not related to any issues at all with the city - just some staircases that showed up one day!
> Not everyone holds the same absolute views on freedom of speech as those drawn up in the American constitution

You are right about that. 99% of countries on Earth have weaker constitutional rights than the US in terms of Free Speech - if any right at all.
This comes up on every thread related to web typography, and the answer as always is that it's not possible in the general case, at least not with the specs as they are today. The biggest problem is that the CSS specification demands that a float be placed as high as possible (CSS 2.1 section 9.5.1, rule 8 [1]). But float ceilings can be anywhere in the middle of a paragraph. By its nature, Knuth line breaking means that any particular unit (word), and therefore any float ceiling, might not be as high as possible. In fact, the only algorithm that can be used in this case to satisfy the spec is the greedy one. Therefore, Knuth line breaking cannot be used on the Web.

It might be possible to use Knuth line breaking in specific circumstances, such as when paragraphs have no floats. But not in general.

[1]: https://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/visuren.html#float-position
> Hales didn't resolve the 4 colors theorem, Gonthier did that.

Gonthier didn't resolve the 4 colors theorem, Appel and Haken did that. Gonthier just created the first computer-checked proof for the Four-color theorem.
In modern times we have the X37 hanging out in space for a couple years at a time doing God knows what.

My completely unsubstainted guess is that it can change orbital parameters by skipping off the atmosphere like a rock. It seems to move around a lot more than you would expect for something that needs to make it back to a specific runway
This is highly subjective. Almost no one in the real world is obsessed with how "dumb" a pair of wireless earbuds looks.
Note that in the US the prison population has exploded since the mental institutions were closed (i.e. there was a transfer of people with mental problems to prisons) which explains also why you have this increased percentage compared to other countries.
That's not really accurate. Boeing is under continuous attack by hatchet jobs like this that insinuate they cut corners and are solely responsible for these accidents.

First, we don't have final reports from the investigators yet, so it's awfully early to point the finger.

Second, every major aviation accident is multi-factorial. It's never just one failure that causes it.

If it does turn out to be the faulty AOA indicator causing the electric trim to go nose-down, there are still a number of other obvious contributing factors in addition to the faulty sensor.

The public is demanding low airfare prices because they are getting squeezed by the increasing disparity of wealth worldwide. Wages are not rising as fast as prices, and as the cost of doing business with China slowly rises due to the trade war, prices start to creep up and the squeeze increases.

Airlines respond by flying pilots with lower time and lesser training, paying them less, and working them harder.

Pilots spend less time in the simulator working on abnormal conditions, and while they are undoubtedly great at monitoring normal flights and navigating controlled airspace, they have less experience hand-flying approaches and dealing with rare equipment failures and emergencies.

Every pilot should have adequate simulator time to be competent with every emergency procedure for which there is a checklist, but that is not the reality. The three seconds allotted by the FAA to diagnose critical systems failures is simply not enough if you can't find and execute the correct checklist in that time period.

In the old days, every single pilot from a Cessna 152 on up knew exactly what a badly trimmed airplane felt like and how to fix it instantly. When you felt that extra force on the controls, you would instinctively rotate the trim wheel in the direction of the force that you were needing to apply.

Same for electric trim systems: if the force doesn't ease the way it should, you have a runaway and you need to interrupt power to the electric trim system.

But that is hand-flying, stick-and-rudder-type stuff. If you're not getting the hand-flying time and the simulated failure time, you just don't develop that instinct.

It's not entirely Boeing's fault that an aircrew can't recognize and counter a runaway electric trim, no matter what the details in the flight manual. It's only reasonable to assume that basic level of competency.
It does. We lease all our laptops.
But also this sort of fishing expedition can be triggered by both sides and is extremely unhelpful for democracy. For the moment it is a "winner gets investigated", just because of the opposition to Trump within the FBI and parts of the conservative party. But what's next? Looser gets investigated to ensure he cannot run again?
Yes. The fact that a large number of people abuse their children this way doesn't make it acceptable any more than it made beating them with belts acceptable back when that was common.
It's a selfie station in the middle of a giant mall that is in a neighborhood of empty high rises in one of the busiest most touristy part of the city. It's not an opportunity to escape.
> Stories have been coming out for some time now hinting Mueller’s final report might leave audiences “disappointed,” as if a President not being a foreign spy could somehow be bad news.

That sums it up for me. People were desperate to believe their President was a criminal.
How are you applying for jobs? Are you spraying and praying or are you going to meetups and such to network and get recommendations? Cold resumes won't get nearly as far as a recommendation. Have you applied to remote jobs? Contract jobs? Looked for freelance work?
> Basic LaTeX isn't that hard to learn

Basic LaTeX is probably not that hard to learn. But LaTeX is a really deep rabbit hole and you need a lot more knowledge of it if you write math papers.
Your post reminds me of a strange conversation I found myself in about 10 years ago.

I was approached by a guy at a festival who'd seen me taking "street photographs" with my SLR. He talked to me for a bit about photography and seemed more knowledgeable than average about the technical aspects.

After awhile we started talking about his personal circumstances-- being out of work, not having any cash, and finally pulling up his shirt and showing me a fresh-looking wound on his side and saying that he'd been attacked earlier in the day. I didn't end up giving him any money (I pretty much never carry cash), but if I'd had any I probably would have. Looking back, in light of your post, I wonder if there was a "help me I'm injured" grift that I just missed.