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> They can set the vehicle registration fees (not the tax-deductible part) to arbitrary amounts.

High vehicle registration fees was one of the major factors in the recall of Governor Davis back in 2003. It may have been just as big a factor as the electricity crisis. Voters really don't like seeing their car registration fees go up.
The extradiction treaty for one. They want Hong Kong under their legal and administrative systems. Meanwhile the people in the street have made it abundantly clear they would rather have anything but that in downright "heretical" terms to the national mythologies.
I'm curious if Steam Proton could handle this.

Few games could tempt me to create and maintain a Windows VM, but I'm already running the Steam client on my Linux boxes.
Yeah, it seems the download on the site is a free alpha before they plan on releasing it on Steam as an Early Access title.
I'm sorry, maybe you have more knowledge about the situation on Epstein's island than I do? But I imagine that is exactly the kind of place that young women seeking sugar daddies would be attracted to.

That's not to preclude the possibility (or likelihood) that non-consensual sex happens there. I'm just trying to understand why you would expect the sugar-daddy-seeking-young-women demographic to be completely absent.
Why not do the same and build way better public transportation, so that you don't spend your life waiting in traffic.
> if someone starts firing open borders advocates or basic income activist would that be ok as well?

Not all opinions are the same.

Advocating for open borders and basic income are fairly straightforward political opinions. So is being a member of the republican or democratic party, or saying you support lower taxes, or even that you voted for Trump. Had Stallman resigned over reactions to calmly expressing these type of opinions, the fallout would be very different, and I suspect most people would say something similar to what you've said, and side with him.

But if a person repeatedly says, in public, that our definition of pedophilia as a necessarily-bad thing isn't right, and that people are being too hard on the billionaires who recently got in trouble for this -- even if they do so calmly and coherently -- they are espousing views that many people believe would lead to actual harm to actual human beings. The same would be true for someone who openly supports fascism, or calls for the deportation of Hispanic-looking citizens (I want to avoid a straw-man here, so to be clear I am absolutely not saying Stallman supports these views; they're just examples).

In that case, don't other people have a right to react negatively to that?

As for the consequences of that reaction, that is somewhat proportional to the person's position. If that person was a gas station clerk who, outside of work hours, had posted something on a forum, then we'd again be having a different discussion. But the positions of President of the FSF and Visiting Scientist at MIT carry a lot more weight. Putting someone in these positions who not only holds but eagerly volunteers these types of views is seen as an implicit endorsement of these views by the FSF/MIT -- _especially_ when he chooses to broadcast these views directly to his work community, directly in defense of someone at the center of a recent scandal.

> Firing people for [their] views ... is certainly violation of free speech and thought

Stallman is free to _think_ what he wants. He's even free to _say_ what he wants -- he was never censured afaik. What he is no longer free to do is to continue doing so from the position of President of the FSF or a Visiting Scientist at MIT. Should an institution (such as MIT or the FSF) be forced to protect its personnel from all consequences for individually sharing _any_ opinion in any public forum? I don't think they should.
I would also add that "Apple technicians" is not a subset of "anyone capable".
This isn't a seminar, so this isn't the forum where one can help change minds or come to a conclusion logically. The best you can hope for is to plant seeds and expose people to perspectives they might not be aware of. I've read of some studies where people generally clam up when presented with contradicting information (which sucks). Who knows though, at the very least you will change one or two minds, which can help if not a little.
I think it is a useless analogy too but many of the programmers I work with although very good don't know much about Calculus.
Matt Levine's explanation of what happened is considerably less sensationalized. Take a look at the second item of his column today [0]. It's too long to quote and doesn't lend itself to an easy excerpt, but here are the facts that he quotes, from Bloomberg [1]:

> A sudden surge in the overnight rate on Treasury repurchase agreements that began on Monday continued Tuesday -- with the rate opening at 7%, according to ICAP. …

> What happened was an unfortunate coincidence -- just as companies were withdrawing cash from money markets to pay corporate tax, a glut of new bonds appeared on the market as the U.S. government sold some $78 billion of 10- and 30-year debt last week.

> With just $24 billion of bonds maturing in the period, this became one of three occasions this year when the imbalance between debt redemption and cash needed to buy new Treasuries exceeded $50 billion.

Again, if those paragraphs don't obviously relate to the overnight lending market, read his column for context.

[0]: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-09-17/wework...

[1]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-17/it-starts...
The US government is suing Edward Snowden for his book profits
Just an assumption, but maybe the time each stage/step takes? Maybe there are improvements that can be made to Gitlab to speed them up, or something to that affect. (I don't know the specifics so this is completely a guess)
The protests are more about indiscriminate police violence and demanding the right to vote.
Anyone who would talk about a mob is sure to place me among the pitchfork bearers, so I'm not surprised you'd think I'm giving us too much credit. Speaking for myself, I had nothing but positive feelings towards Stallman until today, and even today I gave him the benefit of the doubt until reading his actual emails. Even then I don't hate him; I just think he acted in a way that would be considered a justified cause for dismissal by many reasonable employers. I am also saddened to see that he appeals to science while having learned nothing about a subject he seems to speak so confidently about, while ignoring decades of scholarly work by those who've dedicated their lives to seriously studying the issue. I'm surprised to learn he's like that.

But I agree it's a war. It's a war that's been waged for centuries and even millennia between the hegemony and the margins, and it's a war we'll win, because we always have (well, it's complicated, but if you want to speak in those terms, that's fine by me).
Divestment of fossil fuels will probably end up being good financial advice. German utilities lost value fast when renewables were implemented.

I would put my retirement money in an S&P 500 index fund that excluded fossil fuels.
Even worse than Facebook moderators, since they do it for free
The runner is the piece of software that executes pipelines. You can install it on any machine and connect that to a gitlab instance. On hosted gitlab, they provide the runners, but limit how long you can these runners execute, which they measure in minutes.
It’s the “any regulation is bad regulation” thoughts
Uhmm, I wonder where we will find energy for such amount of devices...
The best code is what gets the job done, and on schedule. Customers don't care what design patterns you are implementing or what your unit test coverage is. I don't think of it as a "bleak outlook", just reality. It was true 15 years ago and is true today, and IMO overall coding standards are only getting better, not worse.
I live in Ontario and I'm curious as to why you think this is unlikely to be considered age discrimination here.
Blender has also made huge strides in UI/UX in the past year, it actually feels like a proprietary product now, which will give it a much bigger chance in industry.

> So, it kind of makes sense that FOSS found a niche somewhere that UI/UX didn't matter.

I wonder if there can be a push for UI/UX designers to contribute to open source Projects, I'm sure there's people out there who want to contribute...
Isn't the applicant's own name sufficient for that? Why do they need the father's name as well?
Yeah he had some thoughts on how tarsnap should price itself at https://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/04/03/fantasy-tarsnap/ which I think suggests that he would consider Backblaze underpriced.
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They're talking about the visualization, not the physics. The agents aren't getting visual input. That would make things much, much slower.
Entirely optional. You can just use it for code, connect your own CI/CD or use theirs.
1. There is no such thing as a peaceful arrest. Arresting someone is violence. He was just standing on the sidewalk when they started attempting to arrest him.

2. The choking caused his death. He was therefore choked to death.

We have riots because people like you keep defending murderers and they keep getting away with killing people.
NYC subway exposes commuters to noise as loud as a jet engine (2016)
Or it reduces the stock price of those firms giving better returns to those who are not so morally-driven in their investing decisions.
> Now, the Justice Department is investigating whether the four automakers violated federal antitrust laws by reaching a deal with California, on the grounds that the agreement could potentially limit consumer choice, those people said.

That makes no sense at all. “We will comply with stricter emissions control without government intervention, so we signed a deal with California to formalize it.” Where would better emissions control harm consumer choice?
This is, unfortunately, less and less true, when companies like Amazon will take some GPL'd software and make modifications internally and never distribute it. Copyleft licenses only apply if Amazon is going to distribute the software outside the company (such as by selling the software, or giving away binaries).
Nice! Any plans for other markets (and filtering for them)? I gather it's all 'made with love in the USA' currently.

And how big is too big to be called 'indie'? If you take it quite literally it disallows having two shop fronts, but then to disallow that and allow online-only international-shipping... Just curious how you draw a line.
It's a miracle we get what we do. If we found a better way to properly compensate these people for altruistic acts (making the acts more "rational") we'd probably get a ton more.
Even if they believe the economic benefits of loosening regulations to be a worthwhile tradeoff, I'm shocked that they don't seem to have any consideration for their political future and the damage they are doing to their brand among young people who overwhelmingly support increased environmental protections.
Isn't this working as intended? Where else does the FED actually "enforce" its short term fed funds rate? I mean how else the current 2.00-2.25% rate is forced onto the financial system? Why else would anyone even care about what the FED funds rate is?

In my home country the central bank rate is enforced by providing central bank deposits and central bank loans, available in unlimited quantity for commercial banks. When the market gets cash congested (like here) banks just start tapping the infinite central bank credit line, at central bank rate. Similarly if the market gets flush with cash banks just deposit it at the central bank. Ergo the market interbank lending rate is always between the central bank deposit and credit rates.

The fact that it doesn't normally happen is like when most purchased options are not exercised but sold back. Yeah, sure, but if there was no possibility of exercising them then options would have no value. So it has to be there, then we can safely almost never use it.
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Yeah, it's important. Gun ownership is probably one of the biggest single-issue voter topics in the US. If the left (and I mean, the real left, not the Democrat party) gets a chunk of gun users, it could change preception of the ideas in the US. Bernie almost had this in 2016, but the idiots at the DNC decided to run "Abuela" instead.
You can't fix a tragedy of the commons with individual action.
I like the the calculator-calculus analogy: calculators might not have an understanding of calculus, but they provide pretty good approximations for many derivatives and integrals.
An originalist would point out that the constitution does not grant rights, but merely limits the laws and actions that government can take.

Despite what the constitution says, human rights are not self evident, they must in fact be legalized.
I think the point they were making (in a mean way) is that it sounded like robotic PR speak, the thing any PR person would say. The support page doesn't say much about the quality of support, so the message was received poorly.

Sometimes the very friendly PR tone is considered out of place and obviously forced. Especially on a developer forum.

[PR for devs must be so much "fun" - you have my sympathies]
You clearly didn't watch the video of the shooting.

You really think a police officer was in danger in that situation, even if the guy did have a pistol?
4chan has an issue where if two posts are made at the exact same time, the photos attached are swapped, which makes for some funny posts. Not sure if the two problems are related, but if they find the men in the photo, I wonder if they posted a picture of a doll.
> That maybe has some implicit assumptions. If the entire populace of German adopted what you call the "principle", Germany would have fallen much faster and with less bloodshed.

I suppose you're right, but I don't think the assumption that there won't be a mass exodus is a very unreasonable assumption. Many reasonable ethical principles would have prevented the Nazis from even coming into power if everyone in the country applied it. I think if you were in Nazi Germany and as the Third Reich came to power it would be unreasonable to choose an ethical strategy that only works if everyone applies it, since in the moment, everyone was clearly not applying an ethical strategy.

We do have the benefit of hindsight here, though.

> To do something or do nothing, both have risk analysis. Mostly, we do our best with what we have learned...which also greatly influences what we imagine for the future.

Agreed, ethics is very situational, which is why trying to find widely-applicable rules is often a wild goose chase.
This.

Is there a lawsuit against the SWAT team? And if not, why?
China is one of the greatest phenomenons of human history. Never has a country build itself into a super power in so little time. To have such a one sided view of the world and not visit China is not a detriment to China, but to yourself.

That being said. There is no doubt that Freedom of speech is important... but the truth is more complicated than that. China does not have freedom of speech but in a way neither does the US.

We have freedoms in the United States... but did edward snowden have freedom? Additionally in all of Asia, it's a well known fact that the protests were highly likely to be ignited by the CIA. How come you don't see fair and balanced reports of this policy in the United States? Most people here in the US aren't even discussing this possibility.

Make no mistake, the united states isn't the land of the free... It's just another regime.... A regime that like China has remarkable economic success, culture and important values that is worth visiting and living in despite its glaring flaws.

I urge you to visit China and not have such a one sided view of the country not because I want to promote China to be better. But because I want to promote you and the people of the united states to be better. We are better when we work together.

Also please note that China does not need you to visit the country. China's manufacturing prowess is so high that even a trade war can't stop it from being the center of the manufacturing world. The technology is so great that the US simply does not have the infrastructure to replicate it. Like it or not, even if you don't visit China, you still have to use the products that China made for you because you as a country do not have the technical ability to manufacture the same products.

Just like how the slaughter of millions of people by the nuclear bomb dropped on hiroshima by the united states does not define the united states as a country, neither do the protests of hong kong define China.
At my work the culture is just to ship changes as soon as they improve the product/codebase
Anytime sex with children comes up there are dozens of HN accounts who'll post mind-boggling shit. "But is abuse really that harmful?", "consensual paedophilia isn't so bad", "prostitution is the same as a burger flipping job but better paid", "well, okay, this child was kidnapped, drugged, and raped and then sold via small ads for further rape, and everyone involved knew that, but do we really want to stop those ads? Isn't that the start of a slippery slope?".

It's really fucking creepy.
I hope you take it with a grain of salt. I've developed huge systems for my employers that aren't open source and my own open source contributions are nothing like my work (by design).
I dropped Prime a few years ago for all the reasons that have been hashed over many times. I've reduced my Amazon purchases drastically and not having Prime helps.

As far as the deliberate slow down is concerned, I'm positive that they are doing that because they tell me. About half my orders from them come 1 or 2 day shipping after a 5 day delay from the time I submit the order. I get an email telling me that the item has shipped and will arrive tomorrow or the next day. Then the transaction hits my credit card. It's super annoying and I'm sure they want it that way.
"leaving a country" in terms of being subject to its laws is rather a lot easier said than done.
The media's hit piece on Richard Stallman
We could do both.

However, we’re probably only 10-15 years away from EV’s becoming cheaper than ICE. At that point, we could stop the subsidy.

That’s about how long it takes to complete any mass transit project in the United States.
Look, the only reaction .gif I ever need is https://media.giphy.com/media/hvSsjR2F9IsybFwVjt/giphy.gif
For those that want the download link:
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I don't understand. Why is California not allowed to set whatever laws it wants?

Is it, like, the "California exception" is being dropped from the Clean Air Act, but CA is free to pass an altogether separate, state law? Or is the federal government somehow saying that California is not allowed to pass a law legislating something about the environment?

Or is it somehow like No Child Left Behind where technically the federal government can't control state schools, but in practice it can by setting requirements for how it hands out money?

I just feel like I'm missing something here.
Not sure I understand. If large-scale divestment of fossil fuel investments lowers their stock prices, how will that give the non-morally-driven investors higher returns?

(Assuming we both agree that "morally-driven" investors will tend to invest in renewables.)
But I am curious... Why wouldn't you want to use a CI?
Does this lead to a constitutional crisis over the EPA's ability to govern? It seems like the Feds have a difficult time using interstate commerce as a justification for the EPA's authority. In this case, California isn't attempting to regulate industry outside of the state (it just happens to be so powerful as to have that side-effect).

I feel like this is a move to destroy the EPA and make California pay the legal fees to do it.
No, that’s just the lie they sell it with.
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

Any law that allows the NSA carte blanche to observe my communication is a law authorizing unreasonable search and seizure, and is therefore unconstitutional.
Sadly, that doesn't change how others see the site: they're still guided towards consuming and contributing image-based content.
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What you are telling me is it doesn't matter who we hire just as long as they follow my internal unpublished rules because it makes my job easier.
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> "The Fed won't admit this," Cabana said, "but it looks and smells an awful lot like the monetary authority is financing the fiscal authority."

Frightening... if true. I hope Matt Levine's explanation (cited by mrosett) is the correct one.

But also, if short-term rates are spiking (even if it's a rather different type of shrt-term rate), does that mean that the Fed was incorrect to drop the rate at its last meeting?
Excellent point. Companies need to make money to keep the doors open. There is no money made in fixing something that isn't broke on the off chance you might end up needing to utilize that code later. Tech debt should be addressed when necessary, not just on a whim because someone is uncomfortable with less-than-optimal code. Refactored code requires testing just like any code update, sometimes more depending on how significant the change is.
Is that really true?

In 1789, "papers", being made of actual paper, were in transit for much longer in 1789 and there are absolutely draconian laws against destruction and obstruction of the mail.

For example, 18 USC § 1702, which prohibits "with design to obstruct the correspondence, or to pry into the business or secrets of another, or opens, secretes, embezzles, or destroys the same" also doesn't have a carve-out for governmental purposes.
> while Mr. Trump is traveling in the state, where he is scheduled to attend fund-raisers in Los Angeles and Silicon Valley.

On an unrelated side note, I was driving today and this absolutely massive plane was right over my head, almost just hanging in the air. From the underside I couldn't tell what color the top was, but I saw it had four engines and seemed to be heading straight for the local Air Force base.

So apparently I saw Air Force One today. I think that's the first time I've seen it since Trump became President. The flight path is right outside my office window, so when Obama was President, it seemed to come on a much more regular basis.
Like I said: clearly specify which opinions your employees are not allowed to hold, and that is okay. Arbitrarily deciding this AFTER they have already expressed the opinion is terrible.

Deciding post-facto smells of favoritism and can never be proven to be fair. It also creates a chilling effect since nobody ever knows what is and is not ok to say, since at any point in time AFTER the fact you might decide it is not ok.
You don't think teaching Chinese in Mandarin (5% first language) rather than Cantonese (90% first language) or trying to introduce national education into the curriculum is assimilation? Responding to criticism that it's brainwashing propaganda, here's what the chairman of a pro-Beijing education lobbying group had to say:

"A brain needs washing if there is a problem, just as clothes need washing if they're dirty and a kidney needs washing if it's sick," said Jiang Yudui, chairman of the Beijing-friendly China Civic Education Promotion Association of Hong Kong, according to news reports. Jiang's comments in July came at the same time that tens of thousands, including many parents pushing their children in strollers, took to the streets to protest against the plan.