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You wrote "This is the privilege of statehood."

That is not what I inferred from your original statement.

Still I ask, is your argument that American Samoa isn't now doing enough to preserve their history and culture, and that statehood would improve the situation? If so, why?

You write "I am on the side of giving those delegates votes"

Yes, I am aware of that. I again quote from the Samoa Historic Preservation Office:

"American Samoa has remained an “unorganized” territory, with its own Constitution but under direct Federal government supervision delegated by the President to the Department of the Interior. This unique status is not accidental. It is the result of decisions consciously taken by the American Samoan leaders—not to obtain citizenship nor acquire an organic act—in order to keep their traditional land tenure system, whose racial preferences would make it unconstitutional under Federal law."

What you want want tear apart the local culture by destroying the traditional land tenure system. That is another of the lessons of Hawaii, and the American Samoans are well aware of it (based on a recent podcast I listened to where they went to American Samoa to talk with American Samoans on this exact topic).

When you say that you know better and "interpret the desires of island peoples" in a way to completely invert the explicit agreement with those people, made through a voluntary and informed process, then why shouldn't I describe it as "paternal colonialism"?

You want your preferred system of government - the states and federal system - to be their government, and get rid of the ‘aiga system of land ownership. That's colonialism. You want to override their decision because you think you know better. That's paternalism.

How am I wrong about my characterization?

I agree that there's also a "paternally-(neo)colonialist practice of non-voting delegations of second-class residents". But we can't fix that by continuing to practice colonialism and ignoring the wishes of the people and their non-voting representation.
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That sounds like a distinction without a difference.
It seems to me that China has been assuming Trump's been shooting-from-the-hip and short-sighted, and allowed themselves to be outmaneuvered by him. People call Trump incompetent and bumbling and other unflattering terms, but Trump is actually very smart and is playing with a full house from a deck he stacked himself.
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Having disagreed with Uncle Bob for years, now I'm starting to see some reasoning in his thoughts :) .
This article seems really bad. Whatever point they are trying to make the pop culture references and grammatical errors make outsourcing seem like a bad thing.
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Only for the most primitive types, though. For anything else, operator[] is used in C++ instead, without an operator+ fallback. So for example, if your array is a std::array instead of a C-style array, saying 1[array] will not work.
MHTML is pretty good for this already btw (not to take away from this neat project though :)). Similarly stores assets as base64'd data URIs and saves it as a single file. Can be enabled in Blink-based browsers using a settings flag and previously in Firefox using addons (also in the past natively in Opera and IE).
> that Lisp is not a functional language. Or, if it is, so is C++

You're missing the point. Everybody can write Fortran in any language.
I wonder if they outsourced their web development team?
It's also just a few members of the founders who wrote the Federalist papers. It's difficult to know what the majority of them actually thought.
It's a client-side library.
That's a lot of cases involving cellphone tracking. In a country with only ~six million people.

Or am I just out of touch? Does every criminal case now involve cellphone tracking data?
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I agree that the 12th amendment doesn't allow states to void the faithless elector's vote, but it would be constitutionally permissible for them to criminalize faithless voting, would it not?
Its win/win for the USA. Trump gets to push the Chinese around and American consumers get to keep buying cheap Chinese goods.
Black Buck is a great example. The BBC radio drama version is really enjoyable too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAqneOzclSw
Throwing napalm over the Vietnamese jungle was a strategy error by the US leaders, and there are also a couple of other such strategical errors of theirs from the last half-century or so that I’m sure have had a very big impact on how the US is seen by the outside world. And in the end, as long as you avoid total annihilation war is almost all about politics, and being seen as the bad guy by the other countries you’re trying to do political business with is bad for politics in the long run. So I’d say strategy still remains the most important thing.
Love it. Hate to brown nose the top poster but this comment is better than the article itself
Did you read the article? This is a disinformation campaign by a nation state. This is information like literally made-up-for-clicks fake news articles on Facebook is information.
He‘s right. Germans don’t love democracy, they hate themselves.
The Vietcong won because they were willing to pay a very high price to push the US out than the US wanted to eventually pay to stay in
I'm currently exploring and looking for real world problems that blockchain can solve and use that as my source of inspiration for startup ideas.
The systems in the privileged western world already in place work so well (especially in Switzerland) that it almost looks like we don't really need something better, but go to other parts of the world and you'll see that things are not so good for other people. Especially the unbanked and the undocumented. I expect that my experience in Asia will provide me with the necessary insight to come up with something useful.

I know virtually nobody at Google who are of the same opinion, so it's a bit refreshing to see other people who share my inside Google views.
I think it would be way better to explain in the repository:

- how do you handle images?

- does it handle embedded videos?

- does it handle JS? to what extent?

- does it handle lazily loaded assets (i.e. images that load only when you scroll down, or JS that loads 3 seconds later after the page is loaded)

In general, how does this work? The current readme doesn't do a decent job explaining what the tool exactly is. For all I can tell, it probably just takes a screenshot of the page, encodes as base64 into the html and shows it.
> I really can not understand why HK people don't fight oligarchs for goods prices and living house.

How do you properly fight oligarchs in your country when you don't have control of the government?
Apparently everybody knew about MHTML but me Ü
I'm going to look into that format and see if I could enhance monolith to output proper MHTML, among other additions and improvements. Thank you for the info!
I think the title of my textbook in college Calculus II was “Transcendental Calculus”
> Yesterday I cancelled Netflix because I realized that even if I pay money each month for legal content, I still have to pirate the content that is not on Netflix.

It sounds like you're saying that if there's any video you'd like to see that's not available on Netflix, you have no alternative to pirating it.

What would be the fallout if you didn't pirate those videos?
> Imagine if there still was a private Google search tool for businesses where you could have patched into those APIs for integrating new tools. Everything could have been searchable -- Slack, Email, Docs... everything.

Isn't that what https://cloud.google.com/products/search/ claims to do?
Okay thanks! That was a pretty quick reply :) Regarding MHTML, it's basically the MIME format emails are in (which are basically inherently self-contained HTML documents). Various browsers have had varying degrees of support for it over the years. Chrome recently made it harder to save in MHTML format; I don't know how long they will be able to read the format, so I can't guarantee that if you go in that direction it'll still be useful for a long time, but at the moment there is still some support for it.
I think we need more games that teach us how to avoid conflicts, how to avoid wars. Are there any such games?
Depends - All countries restrict speech, including the US, it's only the degree. US Supreme court felt restricting speech against the draft in WW1 was constitutional, and only overridden half a century later. Limiting freedom of speech somewhat is miles away from becoming fascist.

I don't see how rationing impacts a free country one way or another as it's merely a method of achieving a fair distribution of a limited resource. The US also had rationing in WW2, introduced after Pearl Harbor. Was the US still a free country?
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Paul Graham not only rhymes with spam, his interest predates Hacker News.

https://www.infoworld.com/article/2674702/techology-business...

http://www.paulgraham.com/antispam.html
I wish I could remember the exact tool, this was over a decade ago. If you just do a quick internet search for such a tool you'll likely find whatever I used, it certainly wasn't anything sophisticated. It was a Windows GUI tool designed specifically for the task. Something makes me think that 'GetRight' tool might have been able to do the same thing, but I can't seem to see the feature on their website.
China is creating controlled inflation - they are basically printing new yuans. That might seem like a bad idea, but China is using newly created currency to buy US treasury bonds (actually buying US debt). China is basically creating a huge leverage on US and on the same time it gives USA cheap debt to buy it's own products, and weak Yuan also causes their exports to be even cheaper.

On May 2019 china had 1.11 trillion USD bonds. And at any point china may decide to sell it off - which will crash USD.
To clarify, I believe it would still be illegal as a member of Congress, unless the information you are trading on is gleaned from congressional meetings or based on legislation that will be enacted.
Good points, thank you for the review. I'll work on enhancing the readme file to be more informative.
I'd just type elsewhere and paste it in when it's ready if it concerned me.
Nope, generals play politics and talk funding. Which is logistics.
The Vietnam Cong ceased to be an effective fighting force after the Tet Offensive in ‘68. The battle took a terrible toll on them.

The NVA were doing much of the fighting after that.
GNU wget supports recursive downloads: https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/manual/html_node/Recursive...
Eh...lately one controversy has been the plan to ask on the 2020 census (used for apportioning electoral votes) whether or not one is a citizen. It turns out that non-citizens (typically immigrants) are counted in the census but are ineligible to vote. Which means, much as the 19th century EC accounted for “indirect representation” of non-voters, the contemporary one accounts has similar effects for eg recent immigrants.
I consider Google Wave closer to reddit for real time chat.
Age of Decadence is an RPG that teaches you to avoid combat by often killing you when you choose the combat route ;)
Maybe as an outsider it does, but not within Vietnam.
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The federalist papers were intended to convince Americans to support the new constitution so it would get ratified, so I feel that Alexander Hamilton deliberately going out of his way to discuss how it was supposed to work captures something about the intent of those who ratified it based on that sales pitch.
Great little product! One thought - I think i could benefit from affirmations but might feel weird asking for it always. Tying it to something i set for myself most mornings like my wake-up alarm would be a nice little add-on and start my day on the right foot.

keep going!
It's not a game. Democracy is supposed to be about capturing the will of the demos and that is what gives the government legitimacy.
Remap it?
Youtube too
Or Sports franchises.

He cheaped out on buying the Warriors by, what, $10 million? The franchise has appreciated since by, what, $2 billion?
Same here: i was wondering if he had implemented some autobots in the kids programming language Scratch.

Because that would seriously be awesome.
I'm sorry, but this is just silly
Very cool idea - thank you for this!

On question: How does it handle those cookie pop-ups, gdpr-warnings etc?
I agree more with this type or reasoning. He or his administration knows full well that they are holding all the aces. So the Chinese can pretend to play tsun tzu all they want, US just needs to hold. Currently it’s looking much worse for china, but hey things can change and very very quickly.
People here in Australia are very keen on committing to one cafe and being extremely loyal. I don't get it -- there are so many coffee options around, why not try many? I rotate around several different cafes around my office , and people find my freelancing odd.
SiteSucker for macOS does it.
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I'll likely be the one business guy chiming in with this but I've really enjoyed following topics and influencers on LinkedIn. The content is surprisingly helpful with way less trolling than other communities. That may not last but for now it's worth a look...
This thread is clearly going nowhere on HN.
Nobody in the comments sections has identified the most nefarious part of their plan. Their goal to develop an "open set of standards" is an attempt to control how other browsers protect user privacy.

This is Google saying, "oh looks like everyone else is doing things that hurt our business, so let's get everyone to work together on open standards, where we can block or delay attempts that run counter to our business model".
Still need some work but definitely make kubernetes development a lot simpler is https://jenkins-x.io/

Just drink their koolaid and (provided the Jenkins-x platform works as intended ) the majority of your kubernetes headaches go away.
> $1 million exceeds most deductibles

Most?? Most deductibles are under $5,500, you bet it exceeds it.

Did you mean policy limits? Those were made illegal recently (part of why healthcare costs went up so much).

> Batteries might not a few years down the road.

Doesn't matter. Someone with this device will have so much medical monitoring the cost of a battery won't be noticed. A battery will cost less than a single Dr. visit probably.
His famous saying, logistics is not the army’s tail, but its spine.
It seems that Oracle is like a cradle of corruption:
https://emerging-europe.com/news/oracle-romania-boss-accused...
Deepmind did a demo of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUTMhmVh1qs
Google has a significant fraction of the best and brightest developers of our generation on payroll. It’s not surprising that they create innovative technology.

It’s just that they really suck at creating products. After gmail and maps there were next to no successes; even when they throw all their weight behind something like they did with buzz and plus, they tend to fail hard.
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> Hillary Clinton just tried...

No idea what you're talking about. People that don't get their news from biased right wing sources are not usually up to date with the endless Hillary pseudo scandals.
I think there's an issue with opening a tar file, e.g. if sent to someone who needs to view the document but isn't techy.

It seems to me that having one file that any browser can easily open (and not require Internet connection to view) is a big advantage over having a directory with assets alongside the .html file. It may be one of those things that make things easier yet nobody really complains about how things are usually done when the page gets saved. I hope more browsers add support for saving pages as MHTML in the nearest future so that we wouldn't need tools like this one.
This still baffles me.. why not using YouReporter for this kind of things? Google is known to be bribed and corrupted by governments
Nice, I am just beginning to explore his work. Any recommendations on the books or articles would be great.
"He outright said he wouldn’t accept the outcome if he lost."

This is a is objectively untrue. You cannot find an in-context quote of Trump saying this 'outright'. You need to apply several layers of hostile interpretation, which the media is happy to do.
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Statement from webmin here: http://www.webmin.com/exploit.html
What are your favorite microworker hacks?
English and its ambiguous grammar... I mean when the founding fathers designed the electoral college, they wouldn't have been concerned about it taking power away from minority groups. In addition, the people in rural areas today who are so concerned about removing the electoral college giving more power to cities are not concerned about how the electoral college disenfranchises minorities because they are much less likely to be minorities or have many close friends who are than people in cities and suburbs so it's not something they'd normally think about.
In the looping video at the top of the article, notice how confidently the woman in the red & yellow sari steps out in front of the rickshaw (making it wait for her to cross).
> He said that millions of people probably use Bash without realizing it (because every Apple device runs Bash)

iOS devices do not ship with bash.
Nothing but touchscreens.

Ignoring the issues with safe operation of touchscreens while driving, buttons and dials are just far more tactile and fun to use than a touchscreen. In something like a car aimed at visceral driver experience rather than practicality it makes even less sense. I want to feel like a fighter pilot while driving a Porsche, not like I am installing an email app on an ipad.
If only we can get an efficient & cost effective Thorium reactor working, most of the coal plants can be shutdown much sooner. Going by publicly available data, we are no where near a working prototype.
Missing the HUD at launch.

Very much out of my price range but it’s become clear to me now that the make or break feature for my next car will be whether or not it has Apple CarPlay or not.
Wow, they took the touchscreen and added like, four more. Not surprised, because electrics cars ought to have them (!), but also surprised given the recent decision by Mazda to exclude them from future vehicles.
This is applicable to business. It's fun to come up with tactics or strategy. But feeding the troops (i.e. managing cashflow and making payroll) is the biggest challenge and it's what takes down most startups.
Don't support the credit card oligarchy. Only shop at places that are cash only or put the credit expense fee on the users, not the people paying cash.
I found the readme of https://github.com/tdebatty/java-string-similarity particularly helpful, and of course the (Java) lib itself. It's not comprehensive by any means, but it gives a good starting point
I’ve done the Evil Coder setup. I found it good as a game and a short group exercise, but also something that quickly lost its value/appeal after a short time.

The problem is, if you’re pairing on a real-world problem, if you play the Evil Coder, you need to remove yourself from solving the problem or communicating, which are both essential for pairing. Instead, you use this time to teach the other person what their tests actually do.

And if you’re not solving a real-world problem, it’s actually just practicing.

After that one time neither I, not my poring buddy at the time resorted to this practice any other time. We both got the point - not as much of an “aha” moment as I though it would be - and the red-green test approach works good enough for me.
You can take account of everyone without pleasing them all. For example, in systems with run-offs or some kind of ranked choice, you need to appeal to voters who might not have you as their first choice, but whose second choice votes you need. That's better than being able to use a divisive strategy that appeals only to your base, and positively repels the rest.
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Good point - this was information leakage that, even if you had traded on it - would not be insider trading.
So perhaps the CCP is actually trying to keep American goods and services out of China while delivering Chinese goods and services to the US. Sort of a way of cementing their trade imbalance in defiance to Trump.
Yes, but its in a new form.

Hardcore "no rules bared" chess is correspondence chess, where you have 24-hours between moves and can use whatever means necessary to make the best move.

If you think just buying a supercomputer and running Stockfish (or LeelaZero) will win, then you don't know anything about opening databases. All the good correspondance chess players have already run Stockfish / LeelaZero across many different openings, and have collected statistics on which openings will lead to situations where Stockfish (or LeelaZero, or Komodo, etc. etc) will inevitably fail.

These computer AI chess programs have weaknesses. A "Cyborg" team, composed of a human guiding Stockfish (or LeelaZero) through opening books can get further than any computer alone, and likely push the opponent into a subtly failing position.

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The article talks about it a bit in Centaur Chess section. That's probably where the biggest challenge lies in the future. Centaurs have access to the 8-man database, you keep opening-books secret, and you spend time studying how Stockfish, Leela Zero, or Komodo (or other engines) makes mistakes.

Or, you write your own engine, and try to use that as an edge.
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exactly. pretending being busy 4-5 hours eats lot of energy. Also sometimes, you spend weeks doing nothing and then your idiot manager wants to deliver something quickly over weekend. what a waste of life. My biggest regret wasting limited time of life on these stupid things and people.
Blaze was the internal tool developed at Google. Bazel is the external incarnation.
Oh, thank you kindly.

That's an interesting question. I think it depends on how the given modal is implemented, but closing them should technically work (unless the page is saved with JavaScript code removed [-j flag]).
Those notifications can easily be removed from the saved file using any text editor, should be pretty easy if you know how to edit HTML code. I don't think removing it would violate anything since "this website" will no longer really be a website but rather a local document at that point.
Usually it's because they like the beans the cafe uses, the barista makes the coffee the way they like it and because they've built up a relationship with the people that work there.

I'm not fussy about my coffee, I go to the same place because I like the staff there.
I'm not so experienced but how does this compare to .webarchive?
Always struck me as quite odd MHTML fell out of favor. Back in the day when I wanted to preserve a web page it was the logical choice since you could just click "save as archive".
I checked it out, have you considered doing something similar to a diary? To keep aspiring musicians on track with practice, theory, performing etc. I play guitar and find it difficult to commit time to practice and improve. Would love a planner/diary that could help me do that.
yeah hopefully, still we are young.
Showing up to work in shorts and flip flops? How acceptable this is depends a lot upon how hot the job market is.

That's really more of a cultural question, though, where the culture obviously takes the kind of job into account. Specifically, showing up to a programmer job in shorts and flip flops is going to remain accepted in most places even when the job market gets less hot, until culture changes for some unrelated reason.

The supply-demand situation is only relevant when people are going against the culture.