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At least one state (Vermont) does allow people behind bars.

For the rest of them, prison populations are another form of concentrating and diluting power: prisoners are counted toward district population, but have no voting power.

I'm in the camp that thinks everyone should have the right to vote, prisoners included. Voting is a fundamental component of citizenship, and being imprisoned shouldn't take that way as a matter a principle, nor should a citizen be disenfranchised after their release (as is also common, especially in the states that enacted all these laws in the Jim Crow south era).

Especially if we want former prisoners to play a more positive role in society after their release, stripping them of a right of citizenship, possibly indefinitely, seems like a bad way to do it.
Censor: Highly targeted and specific, usually along the lines of communication. Like Xi and Winnie the Pooh. The US doesn't censor(?)

Blacklist: Broader, usually applied to products and companies. China blacklisted Facebook. The US blacklisted Huawei.
>But another argument is shaping up to be central to the plaintiffs’ case: Florida has no consolidated system for determining what felons owe or certifying that they have paid up. It’s a situation that ex-offenders say makes it virtually impossible for them to prove they are eligible to vote.

This seems absurd.

You can't vote because you owe us money... but we're not going to tell you how much you owe, if anything at all.
What’s going on with WhatFreeWords?
Well, not trying to turn this into a support forum any further, but I've just upgraded to 7.0 and right now SMS 2FA seems broken ("The verification code is invalid" every time)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/26/lens/the-superfund-sites-...
It turns out that voting is not a fundamental right else limitations on voting would be subject to strict scrutiny. They're not, and it's not, and that's wrong but that's the funky state of the law. See for ex the discussions at https://uknowledge.uky.edu/law_facpub/10/ and http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/fundrig... but with the caveats that the first article is old enough to go to grammar school and the second is old enough to vote (?), and the passage of time has done little to raise the level of scrutiny courts apply to limitations on voting.
"Note that I am trading about $1000. Losing it all will not kill me, though it would be mildly annoying since that’s my current sum total of retirement funds."

There are some things this author should be optimizing for in life and investment returns are certainly not yet one of them. Hopefully this article allows the author to get an AI/ML career so he can build more equity!

Three things I've learned in investing and finance is that 1) knowing one's age versus their equity value gives you a pretty good idea of their investment skill, 2) bad ideas are louder and more seductive than good ideas, and 3) paid advice is usually the only consistently good source of advice.
Seeing how we live in capitalism - money it is.

Remember when Google, promised it wouldn't kowtow to China? Then kowtowed anyway.
Mentioning the Civil War is ridiculous. It was a war that happened 150 years ago, and it resulted in the end of slavery in America. It's not like it was an act of oppression.

And by all accounts the situation in Xinjiang is much worse than Guantanamo Bay. To start, Guantanamo Bay at its peak had under 800 people imprisoned. Xinjiang re-education camps are estimated to hold 1-3 million people. So the scale is massively different. It's hard to know exactly what happens in the camps, but the reports of torture and organ harvesting don't paint a rosy picture.
Not to be an ass but.. but..

>Maybe don't do this on HN? (Again, keep in mind I mentioned TCP/QUIC.)

I have no idea what QUIC is and the onyl reason I recognizes 'TCP' is because back in 1994 and 1995 I had to see "TCIP/IP" every time I wanted to connected to the internet, not everyone on HN is a network engineer and/or software dev and you're not having a private conversation, you're having a conversation that might be stumbled upon by anyone that may or may not have the slightest clue what you are talking about.

If someone wants to simplify things, even greatly, in a public discussion thread then good, the rest of us might be able to have a rudimentary idea of what is being discussed.
This is only a "mess" because of undemocratic push-back against a ballot measure that was voted on by the people.

It isn't limited to just voting rights either. Look into the push-back in Arkansas over a ballot measure passed last year to raise the minimum wage.
I feel that American values would not be falling all over themselves to claim the NBA is an apolitical organization. Or at least the American values I was raised with.
"Band in China"
Any plans to restore an encrypted backup without having to send the private key to Backblaze servers?
An issue for proposals that seek to ban gerrymandering is that it is quite difficult to quantify and measure how "gerrymandered" a particular district is, since it all depends on what your goal is. Are you trying to do blind population representation? Are you trying to "groups" of people (for some definition of "group"), etc.

FiveThirtyEight did a good podcast series on gerrymandering that discusses a lot of these problems (and potential solutions to them): https://fivethirtyeight.com/tag/the-gerrymandering-project/
Tainter-style collapse over what time period, though? One of his examples seems to be the Roman Empire, which depending on how you measure it took over a hundred years.
The same planet the people who thought he'd win in the first place were on.
I'm curious how you did the restore and roughly how it went? I've done a few restores years ago. I don't know if this reflects the current process, but my experience was a bit rough. However, I'm still a long term customer with little interest in going elsewhere.

In late 2016 my laptop's drive died suddenly. I tried to restore everything via a shipped drive. I'm not sure if it was because of copy on their website (at the time) pointing out that they overnight USB drives or me just expecting that's the fastest way to get my data, but I was disappointed at the turnaround. Because it was a relatively large amount of data (a few hundred gigs?) there was a "staging" process that took a day or two. It got interrupted and had to start again (a server reboot on their side?). After receiving the drive everything went smoothly; I believe the data had been encrypted in transit, but wasn't onerous to restore from. I even think I was outside of their 30-day return and it wasn't an issue (the problem wasn't my hard drive, but a cable...with no hot spares and a special cable it took longer to resolve). At work I had a similarly annoying experience with Amazon Snowball where physically locating it and "testing" it took a few days longer than expected when expecting tight turnaround...maybe I need to adjust my expectations for physical logistics.

Many years previous I noticed my music files were showing up as 0-size--my hard drive was failing. Thankfully I could pull my collection from 30 days previous and I chose a download option. It was a bit annoying that they had created a series of zip files (which makes sense), but I believe I was restricted to the web interface for downloading them which made managing it difficult.
What is the point of an arrow key highlighting individual blocks if the individual blocks aren't editable and don't have any actions associated with them?

I don't know much about Notion, but if it's trying to be a platform that allows you to share notes and documents, its keybinding ought to be rethought. These are really bad shortcuts for a document presentation platform.

And if it's not a document presentation platform, the author shouldn't have used it that way.

If someone linked me a document that was a read-only Excel file where every paragraph was a different cell, I'd complain about that too -- because the content doesn't fit the medium it's posted in.

From a content perspective, this is a document masquerading as an app. What about this page is an app? I can't edit it, there aren't any dynamic calculations happening, the data isn't clearly separated into a table format. When I click to expand a section, I get a loading icon... and then pure text pops up that could have just been embedded into the page from the start. There's nothing that distinguishes this from a normal webpage except that the shortcuts are unintuitive.
At the state level, like North Carolina is doing now.

A federal ruling would've been nice, but if it must happen in statehouses, then that is where voting rights activists must concentrate their efforts.
Wonderful rebuttal, but as for the “Cold War never ended for Russia”, it’s more complicated than that. The Russian state (which is semi indistinguishable from Putin at this point) seems to prioritize external safety, internal stability, and national pride.

In 2008, things weren't so bad- the US had fairly good cooperation with Russia in Central Asia, Bush and Putin had a good working relationship.

Then, for various reasons good and bad, the Obama/Clinton administration did a lot of things to upset Russia, threatening thier external safety (on-going NATO expansion for example), internal stability (democracy promotion), and national pride (for some reason, Obama and Hillary just never got along with Putin. Also various economic woes necessitated action here to stabilize the regime.). As a result Russia began lashing out in various ways. And, as it lashed out, it found success largely without consequence. For crying loud, it invaded and seized land for which the US and the UK (and Russia) had given formal security assurances for in exchange for the Ukraine giving up nuclear weapons, and nothing happened. The Russian state likes its prominent role in world affairs, and thinks that it is key to internal stability.

It's not really possible to put the genie back in the bottle now, but the relationship of the west and Russia didn't have to be this way, and it wasn't 11 years ago.
This is when you traditionally would vote invalid.
Voter ID laws and Poll closures both target specific voting blocs with strong party affiliations intentionally and (often) explicitly. Both make it harder to vote.

In a perfect world ID laws could be ok but it would require a huge project to ensure every legal voter had some form of ID, eg. going door to door to ensure people who have trouble getting to out of the way DMV locations don't get left out and assistance with gathering any required documents, so far none of them have included this crucial step. It doesn't help that the number of voter fraud incidents is vanishingly small so the supposed issue voter ID laws are supposed to be addressing is a lie.
Legally, rights can be taken away by the government. For example, prison inmates do not have the right to bear arms.

Here is a decent wikipedia article on it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner_Law
Companies seem to be doing a pretty good job of shipping broken software today without the perverse incentive of a subscription.

Companies do buy subscriptions for older software even though they may only be getting security fixes at this point.

That said, I do think bundling longer-term updates into the cost is better insofar as it means buyers don't get a choice to just use the unpatched software. But it does mean that companies can cut costs by just not patching software at all or for a short period (as today).
I am not well versed in the different types of licensing for Open Source, but after reading up the links you have posted in favor and against, I think calling your software Open Source is misleading. Great work with the project though, I can understand why you would not want a big company to come in and use your hard work to make instant profit if it was all Open Source. I have no solution, but that is my observation.
In summary:

network a *lot*
Choose fast growing organizations
Choose people you can learn from
Enter a market with few smart people
Use your smart connections to dominate that market

The key will be entering a market without a lot of smart folks in it, while also choosing the group in that market that is smart.

The problem is if most folks in a market aren't smart, then those who are really changing that market look dumb to those already in it, so are the pioneering minds there smart or re-inventing failed wheels.
Replying here because I think it got too deeply nested.

I disagree with the definition, or at least the strict application of it. Therefore it is not "universal".
Actually, I don't think that's radical at all.

It's to stop calling it a riot and release anybody who is arrested because of it.

Just because you're rioting for democracy, doesn't mean it's not a riot, and it doesn't grant those who used it as an opportunity to vandalize shops and destroy subways a free pass. That directly conflicts with the rule of law.
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It's easy to be woke in US. In fact it's very profitable.

> Whether the topic is Colin Kaepernick, mass shootings or President Donald Trump, the Golden State Warriors coach is rarely shy about speaking out on difficult, controversial subjects. Except on Monday. Kerr was asked about the controversy engulfing the NBA ... He didn’t have much to say.

https://sports.yahoo.com/outspoken-warriors-coach-steve-kerr...
Precisely this, The ZX80 was a masterpiece of "just how close to the wind can we sail and still have a mostly functional for most people legit computer".

I mean it was built out of off the shelf cheaply (relatively) available TTL components and no real RF shielding (something variants in the US had to fix to comply with the FCC rules of the time).

It's astounding it was a commercial success but it cost 80 quid (as a kit, 100 pre-built) at a time when others where 3-4 to 10 times as expensive (average wage back then was around 110 per week).

In a very real sense it democratised computers to something almost anyone working could afford if they wanted it.

I know if it hadn't of been for the ZX-81/ZX-Spectrum I wouldn't have had a career in software engineering nor a life long love for computers, I was born in '80 to working class parents in the north of England even in 1987 having a computer was considered exotic among my cohort, I didn't see another one outside my family til 1990 (a C64 I lusted after).
If it's someone's job to dump raw industrial waste in the river, and stricter environmental regulations cause them to lose their job, I'm ok with that.

That's why we have unemployment benefits, and why most countries do things like have health care that's separate from employment.
Myself, the planet where a president with a stronger stock market and unemployment than when he entered ~always gets re-elected.
Where and when.
You'll get edge cases, but in a lot of gerrymandering situations it's clear enough even if it can't be perfectly quantified.

We've got SCOTUS precedent for this sort of thing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_it_when_I_see_it
>> "By who?"

First and foremost, by the inventors of fascism themselves, as I tried to show in some stealth edits in my comment above.
My experience only, of course, but every D-Link product I've owned has been a nightmare, from config on.
I've been sticking with ASUS for a while now and so far all is well...
To be fair, almost everyone thought Trump was going to lose first election.
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Why is there no upvote or comment option on this front page HN post?
Russia feels they never lost on their own territory. They stopped Napoleon and Hitler. They are sure that they would win any war, and indeed never felt they lost the cold war, at least as Russians.

China however lost multiple time (in history) against "inferior", cruel or "dumb" enemies because of internal unrest. Those lost caused part of their territory to be under the rule of foreigners for multiple years, decades even in some cases.

Nationalism worked great for liberalism in the 18th century, but now it seems it became a tool for any government.
Proper public transit wouldn't look as hard or expensive if the true value of the land was taxed on parking.
Silly little alias, "git top".

[alias]
# top 10
top = !sh -c 'git log --oneline|head -10'

It shows the top 10 commits. I use it several times every day, to orient myself while flipping between multiple repositories and branches.
>Lin is the first American of Chinese or Taiwanese descent to play in the NBA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Lin

Jeremy Lin is of Chinese descent. I didn't say he was born there.
No worries, I believe that's the correct address, yes.
I also did this on my personal website. I was surprised how easy it was, and happy that it was built into CSS, requiring no JS (as you said).
They also defined the swastika as they liked, despite centuries of prior use, and they won that one.

Really surprised the inconsistency survives, tbh
It helps with the worldview, but it doesn't give us context as to how it's contemporaries interpreted it - was this a popular book that was accepted and acknowledged, or was it a fringe effort that remains?
The video of the Chinese lady is scary.

It also scares me that so many people are willing to say, "At least we have the rule of law unlike that video." If the end result is exactly the same, that's scary.

But also, as long as somebody can show you horrendous atrocities happening elsewhere, you are willing to let minor local infractions of the rule of law stream by? Just show orphanages getting carpet bombed and it's not a big deal if we mistreat immigrants. Show immigrants getting mistreated and it's ok if we arrest homeless for sleeping in the park.

When I was young, Germans were bad guys. Then Russians. Then Chinese or North Koreans. Back to Russians. Or Mexicans. Or Canadians. Fight for justice in Africa. Feel safe and secure in your own benevolent democracy.

Watch two videos of the exact same behavior and excuse one of them because it is happening in a place that practices the rule of law. Condemn the other because of their voting system.

Edit: the point is that neither is ok.
Here is a link to the conference:

https://cyberconference.com.au/

They were recording so I guess the talk may go online.

It was a fairly standard phishing attack, though, using a poisoned pdf attachment.
I’m not sure how you made that jump. It’s surely a problem, but anything a person is sentenced to is part of their sentence. The law doesn’t seem particularly ambiguous here.
> But it does mean that companies can cut costs by just not patching software at all or for a short period (as today).

Sure. Hence the use of a very big stick.

The lack of restraint on bad actors is a societal problem, not an economic one.
Ubiquiti is targeting small business (not enterprise) but their prices are firmly within consumer range. (For actual enterprise look at Meraki prices.) Likewise Apple Airport (RIP), Google Wifi, Eero, etc. have long-term support for a modest premium. There's no huge gap.
And I question why you disagree with that definition. Can you explain?
I just read the executive order. For a programmer, I think I'm pretty good at reading government-ese, but wow! given the words in the order, I'm not quite sure how that translates into Adobe not being able to offer their cloud.

Can anyone with more experience translate the order?
Why are you equating private entities deplatformimg vs government-controlled ones? They are fundamentally different things.
So it sounds like some aspects are not invented.
It seems to me that the exact opposite is true. Access to online music through "smart devices" seems ubiquitous to me.
You know what they say: the first 80% takes 80% of the time, and the last 20% takes the other 80% of the time.
But should political messaging always be allowed in all forums though? Is it not inappropriate in some cases?

Would you be as supportive if the message had been "protect the second amendment, support the NRA" or something?
Why is paying up linked to voting? This just creates an incentive to strenuously police and fine minorities so they can't put you out of office.
i'm a chemical engineer from chile, so at least i have to know something about local minery, right?
I’m not going to be hacked because of my Apple TV or my google Wifi router; it’s going to be my light switch that does me in.
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Oh I think that is the intent for sure.
This happened here in Sweden too. Same chemical, same problem. A huge scandal especially among concerned parents where children had grown up with it. In our case it happened due to its use on a nearby Air Force base.
Sometimes the moral choice is to break the rules.
>Isn't that tautological?

No, it's no.

>Clearly, no JSON parser provides a significant gain on parse speed of small JSON documents, when you define large as those where parse time is significant.

A rather bizarre deduction.

E.g. "define large as those where parse time is significant".

So let's say a large file is one whose parse time is > 10 seconds.

So, while looking at small, ie. < 10 second parse time files, if a JSON parser takes files that others load in 500ms and load them in 20ms, then that's "a significant gain on parse speed of small JSON documents"...

We didn't have to change any of the definitions...
Elizabeth Warren has.
> ... because you probably owe us money, and we can't be arsed to find out
Yes, it is. It is exactly that.

It's just that phrasing the issue as:

"My artistic freedom to make whatever art I want, AND to make millions of dollars in China is being infringed upon by China's domestic policies."

Doesn't sound particularly noble...

The law does not compel you to censor your art. This self-censorship is driven by greed, not legislature. If you aren't interested in selling in China, their laws on speech have no impact on you.
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Well said.

I am amused that too many people on HN take the thinnest logical wedge of situations like this and say "see! It make sense!" and essentially ignore the effective outcome.

It's a very "computery" thought process - compilers are kind of like this. But when deployed in defense of the undefendable, it really does disservice to "our" community. One that I do not feel proud of being part of anymore.
There's been lots of news about weaponized fake news, but is there any research being done with loading up NN/GANs with the OPPOSITE of scissors? Statements or speeches designed to unite groups, show commonalities? I'm sure it's been done jokingly to fluff like r/aww and might seem a bit hokey or insincerely feel-good, but... have to at least wonder what the polar opposite might be.
you literally just answered yourself?
How exactly do you think she will execute that plan?

Voter ID laws have been enshrined in some states through ballot measures voted on by the public, for example.

Not only that, turnout and money in politics are arguably more of a priority to tackle, in that they would make addressing voter ID laws or gerrymandering much easier.

Overall I'm not sure her "plans" to solve these issues goes far enough, or gives enough detail of how they would be executed.
FWIW, Hillary Clinton had a serious, detailed voting rights reform plan that was clearly one of her top priorities. Liberals who were convinced into believing that free college and another radical health care overhaul should be prioritized when basic voting rights stood precariously in the balance were played in my opinion.