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No they don’t. The 14th gives consequences for disenfranchisement, and the 15th restricts the reasons someone may be disenfranchised.

There’s also the 14th’s “Privileges and Immunities” clause, but that has been weakened greatly through case law.

To my knowledge, there is no legal barrier to passing a law stating that only landowners can vote, or only people who are employed, or only people who have a net worth of greater than some arbitrary threshold.

There are lots of instances where a person may legally vote in one state, but not another. Virginia’s recent changes with regards to felons is a good example of this.
Exactly, Trump is an outcome, a symptom of a deeper, more systemic cultural problem within the US.

It's not only him, look at the entire GOP, and what forces are at play to keep these people in place.

The people currently in charge are there to protect historic interests/positions and they know they will lose them forever in a fair election. Because most of the country has moved on culturally.
> Censorship of any content implies approval of all remaining content. One can't be protected from liability as a common carrier if one is curating.

No, that's literally the opposite of current US law. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230_of_the_Communicati...

Moderation does not imply endorsement of remaining content. It only implies disapproval of the rejected content.

There are plenty of people who who would like to change the current legal system, but (thankfully) by either grace, luck, or perseverance they have so far been prevented from doing so.
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They banned my app which gives COVID-19 related information in Sign Language. No reply on my appeal yet.
Hi. You must be new to HN.

Lots of people with a 200k salary, entitlement, keyboard, and some time, itching yo have a say on how people making min wage should be able to transact.

Nothing new under soviet-harvard education. Please move along.
So your cynical view is that the government exists to serve the term rich/capitalism. Thats fine for you to think. But some of us would like to have a functional democratic republic.
You do realize the context of this conversation, correct? We're not talking about your liberty, property, or life. We're talking about apps on a smartphone or tablet.

> Private corporations don’t have the power [] to take away my liberty, property or life.

No, they can only demand you come in for overtime, require you to move where they want you to, or force you to come in while sick, at the risk of taking away your job. A risk which is minor for some of us, but which is the equivalent of a threat of homelessness for others.
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We can kill two birds with one stone: let's onshore a productive non-virtual, "building shit" economy, and use geographical anti-concentration laws to ensure areas outside the professional-class urban centers get a slice of the pie.
There are various case studies linked here: https://www.strongtowns.org/the-growth-ponzi-scheme

> Anti-American title so people upvote it straight to the top without even reading it?

What kind of reflexive jingoism is this? Just because something critiques one aspect of the US doesn't instantly make it "anti-American".
I'd love to hear another logical perspective on this.

I'm struggling to fathom another reason for a job existing (perhaps I'm closed-minded about it).

Jobs are gaps, unfulfilled value -- why would jobs exist otherwise?

I've really like to hear your perspective on this.
Publicly funded science should in almost all cases make the software underpinning it publicly available. Otherwise, how are results reproducible, verifiable or open to peer review?
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I thought of one more but it's less wordy and children can understand it. If you take a lego, with enough of them in a particular arrangement...you can create a wheel of sorts so it rolls. Legos don't roll unto themselves but are necessary parts to create the wheel-like behavior. Legos are boxy so they can't roll by themselves obviously and yet they can roll when put together in a certain way. This concept relates to nature in that atoms are building blocks to create properties of things in a particular arrangement. It's easier to understand because we have no magic bias surrounding legos or sense of purpose or importance in coming to that conclusion.
As a matter of fact this tradition of hanko is holding back many companies from telecommuting since they rely on getting hanko from the chain of management for critical and frankly some trivial internal decision making.
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So while the app was on an alternate store a security lapse was detected and fixed.

Isn't that actually proof that something doesn't need to be on google play to be checked and improved?
Same here. Give some interesting, non-artificial problems to solve. Tune a PID on an actual (real or simulated) pole balancing machine. Tune a controller on a (simulated!) rocket chasing a target in the sky. Give problems that students can relate to and understand, and in context that allows for exploration and interactively verifying solutions.
Passed someone yesterday not wearing a mask pointing out how other people were not wearing masks :)

(In San Francisco)
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I'm not supporter of free trade, I'm supporter of fair trade.

What you've described is simply - unfair. Another extremely unfair thing is different employment & environmental standards. If an EU company opens a Chinese factory just because they can make people work more hours and can pollute the environment more, I don't really see that as a "globalization benefit", but rather as "unlawful competition" which results in a race to the bottom (other EU/US companies being forced to open polluting exploiting factories abroad to compete on price).

That's why I strongly support tariffs on imported products, unless foreign companies/factories conform to strict standards and allow strict (and random) inspection that they do conform to said standards.
> Then, nothing. You'll check the analytics. Abysmal. Nobody is reading!

> After all, how can you justify more time spent on something that doesn't pay back?

If you think that the value of your writing is measured by the attention it attracts, you are set for a really rough and sad career as a writer.
I feel this pretty regularly, and I've settled on an approach where I feel like I can be helpful without too much risk of giving bad information. I bucket the statements I make into three categories:

1. 95%+ confidence, usually meaning I've done it before, or I've seen it with my own eyes, or I am experienced in this space to the level of depth that matters for this conversation. I won't qualify my level of confidence. If I'm wrong, then I'll investigate and confirm, admit that I was wrong, and we all learn something new.

2. 80% confidence, I'll say "I think it's ____, but you should verify."

3. 60% or lower confidence, I just leave it at "I don't know, let me look it up".

I think the other key is not to try to go into more depth than you know. For the example in the blog post, if someone said "So, how does React Native works? How does one write Javascript and then magically turn that into Java and Objective-C?" my response would be "Well, not quite, it adapts the native OS API's so that your JavaScript can manipulate native UI components." If they ask further, I would say "Honestly I haven't dug much further because I never needed it."
They do exactly this with their case studies. There are several linked in this post: https://www.strongtowns.org/the-growth-ponzi-scheme
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I poked at the github repo for a bit. The ugliness of the code doesn't bother me, but the quantity of parameters does.

Here's one params file that specifies some of the inputs to a run of the model:

https://github.com/mrc-ide/covid-sim/blob/master/data/param_...

Here's another one:

https://github.com/mrc-ide/covid-sim/blob/master/data/admin_...

There are hundreds of constants in there. A lot of them appear to be wild-ass guesses. Presumably, all of them affect the output of the model in some way.

When a model has enough parameters for which you can make unsubstantiated guesses, you have a ton of wiggle room to generate whatever particular output you want. I'd like to see policy and public discussion focus more on the key parameters (R-naught, hospitalization rate, fatality rate) and less on overly-sophisticated models.
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> For similar reasons, USPS is considered secure (there is a high grade federal police service for the postal service, and tampering with mail is a felony).

I wonder how quickly the cost of the boots-on-the-ground-based security system would pay for a robust electronic infrastructure to replace it.
In my experience these people do not suffer from impostor syndrome. Although I have to admit that it could be a coping mechanism, it sounds more like Dunning-Kruger. I guess there are different symptoms of impostor syndrome. For me the comment of OP definitely resonated a lot. Not being able to express the things you know and don't know clearly blurs the lines for me to accurately value the knowledge I actually do possess or have mastered. :-)
Most businesses will never allow you to actually develop and test, for a full day (or weeks on end), on a dedicated server machine.

It's about costs.
DD, UberEats and the like screw up orders too. I've had a few errors even though "i didnt have to talk to anyone"
The fact that the first half of the article is spent complaining about political matters and seeming almost gleeful that a therapy that was backed by a political opponent has not proven effective, despite the fact that the end result is continued suffering and death. This doesn't give me a ton of faith that the author went out of their way to present the most neutral view of the studies that have been done so far.
"You should use thing for what they're made for."

You ever worked on a project where a non-technical PM got to pick technologies? I guarantee you someone is going to choose this CSS library in the future because they think it looks nice, then be confused or frustrated when it stomps over some other styling they want to use because it directly styles tag names
Absolute cringe, this was hard to read. Seems like a blatant shift of responsibility. At what point do people have to take responsibility and stand by their creations, regardless of what has been spoon-fed to them?
American Patriots were only 40-45% of the population in the 13 colonies [0].

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The problem is not the lack of unit tests: The problem is that for outside observers there are no tests at all that compare the model outputs to some ground data.

All the criticism would be moot if the model delivered sensible predictions.
The opposition party could easily end this if they actually tried and offered a competing vision and a compelling candidate. They didn’t do this in 2016 and neither are they doing it in 2020. No need to kill anybody.
> regular payments are fine as long as it's not to the government?

I live in a high-tax city in a high-tax state and don't do anything aggressive to reduce my tax burden. But if my landlord screws me, I can move. Universities charge an arm and a leg, but there are alternatives, from community colleges to state and foreign schools. Taxes are unavoidable.
Sure, except that replacing a corporate liberal with a slightly less corporate radical liberal isn't really the change the country needs. Sorry, I support Buttar too, but replacing Pelosi with Buttar while keeping Mitch McConnell accomplishes little to nothing. We need to take the rightmost edge of the Overton Window, and push that to the left, making the obstruction of "merely" liberal policies with broad public support, like the CARES Act and Heroes Act, unacceptable.
Yeah really, why don't we leave out all modelling duties to companies who optimize for more money instead of leaving it with the only actor trying to optimize towards actual public health?

What could go wrong?
I'm happy to pay delivery fees to the restaurant. I'm less happy to pay fees to drive returns for growth-obsessed venture funds.
Or we could fix medicare and medicaid and make them actually efficient. No need for medicare for all.

We just need to fix billing, end price fixing, and massively deregulate - certificates of need, bans on telemedicine, pay for procedure etc. This will actually fix it. Medicare and Medicaid are incredibly expensive and inefficient.
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It's been bad for our budgets -- both governments and households -- as well as our waistlines.

Part of America's problem with obesity is diet of course, and the other is lack of exercise -- with the lack of support for active transportation being an obvious and major component of that. People in many, if not most of our developed peers walk and bike far more than we do.
Is there any evidence that the code produces scientifically-valid output?
yes it can but it’s a real pain compared to hashicorp version. I really hope they clean up the library to have a simple API.

This way it could become the standard for GO and we can stop wasting effort on multiple raft implementation.
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I think the reason I find this so objectionable is that he's focused on a tool for doing the job of software engineering, and then blamed software engineers for not making it easy for him.

There's a spot-on comment on there at the moment - this isn't the car that's ready to use by anyone with a license. This is the welding gear we use to put bits of car together. You walked into the machine shop here, used some of our tools and made something that wasn't safe.

If scientists are not software engineers, and do not have the time or the motivation to become software engineers, perhaps they shouldn't play at being software engineers?
I have YouTube history turned off along with other publicly visible tracking and this kind of nonsense still happens to me. Their algo is working on more data than just what they make visible to the user.

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Has anyone got a citation for "U.S. intelligence agencies had closely studied electrical emissions when scouting Osama bin Laden’s hideout in Pakistan"

Being very liberal with the truth, using a radio scanner could be classed as "closely studying electrical emissions".

Firstly, to get a blender's electrical signature you'd need to be pretty close to the blender, even along the transmission line. And I think it would be tough to tell one person's blender motor from any other cheap motor powering kitchen gadgetry in the local area.
From a shareholder perspective, buybacks that raise the stock price are just fine.
Got any details? The story is plausible, but it is also only told by a imageboard greentext as far as I can tell.
That was a shitty code review. Seeding issues like the ones cited don't affect the results of a Monte Carlo simulation, and there are tests in the repo, just not automated ones.

The section you quoted shows the reason for the review's sloppiness. The reviewer set out to find a way to justify their own beliefs instead of to actually read the code.
You can do pretty well with next to nothing. I spent three months hitchhiking and couchsurfing my way through the US and Canada, covering roughly 20,000 miles and staying with dozens of hosts. I started with $700 in my account, and still had a few hundred left by the end of the trip. Had I wanted to be more frugal, and not get 'local food' when someone suggested something especially good, I probably could have gotten by with less.

So it's true that you need something....but you can do it with little enough that $25 can be a significant part of your budget.
That reminds me:

I recently finished listening to Cryptonomicon. I was surprised to find out that Van Eck phreaking was a real thing and not just a fictional tech Stephenson made up for the novel. Does anyone here know if it works on modern displays, specifically phone/tablets?
It's almost like we have laws that dictate how we deal with them and as such the appropriate way to deal with them is what our laws state.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2381
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What is a government but a "corporation" that owns land and takes a political stance? I find Google to be virtually indistinguishable from government besides that it doesn't have a constitution. Even worse is that they have contracts with the US and various governments, making them a political toady.
Maybe they are! The friendship paradox says the average person's friends have more social connections on average than the original person.
just wondering, what's wrong with letting the infrastructure crumble?
Then how about the company doesn't make that investment decision for me?
Why not just free distribution and then enforce takedowns if something is deemed illegal after the fact? There’s no need for “users being in charge” or nationalization. These two parts especially don’t even seem at all necessary to your stated goals in terms of applied regulation. They would also be disastrous.
This is the same idea that Éric Weinstein talks about.He calls it the Embedded Growth Obligation he has a podcast work that listening to, The Portal.
If you're willing to dismiss all companies as optimizing for more money, it seems only fair to say that academics optimize for prestige and publication in good journals.
The programs are so expensive because there is such a large supply (or rather demand) from wealthy international students, even if they college or university is far less prestigious than this cost would otherwise suggest.
You might be able to make the point that it's both a budget and a schedule problem, but that involves some reading between the lines. Different people are going to interpret "budget" and "schedule" differently.

Also, every situation is different, as some individuals/organizations have the existing skills to do a native app without learning/retooling and assume the situation is the same everywhere else.
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They try to scan for them, and have reporting options. Its open source apps only, so first, if its removed, then arguments can be made using the full source code as evidence one way or another. And you can always grab the code for your favorite app and build it yourself.

https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Anti-Features/
This reminds me of those code reviews where you have a colleague that prefers to spend hours trying to refute reasonable minor comments, instead of 5 minutes to address them.
Many senior members of the academic community rely on their reputation as researchers to brush aside basic issues with the software that they develop for scientific purposes. These include the lack of testability, debuggability, reproducibility, separation of concerns, documentation, or usability. The lack of focus on research software quality among senior PIs, funding committees, and article reviewers is a huge problem in academia. The problems with the Ferguson model and codebase are just the latest prominent example of this.

The tools that academics have access to are excellent. If you compare the free support academic software developers receive from the rest of their community to other engineering disciplines, it's beyond great. I think the OP is wrong to suggest otherwise.

The problems with the Ferguson model are an opportunity to educate more members of the community about the fact that good software development practices are not optional for good science, and that senior members of the community jeopardize their own reputation by not paying attention to them.
As someone who delivered pizza for a long time, I can assure you that folks who don't tip absolutely do not care about having to look you in the face or not.
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I'm not sure I would describe R as "easier" than C++ tbh.
As suggested by a sibling comment the key isn't to prevent horizontal scrolling, but to prevent content from overflowing a single screen width. Which isn't hard per se but doesn't have a one-size-fits-all solution.
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This model didn't just influence decisions in healthcare. It single-handedly changed the UK government's strategy over this pandemic.

From what I understand the UK was planning on beating COVID by creating herd immunity, similarly to Sweden.
Then this model came out and everyone started yelling that Boris wanted to kill your grandma.

The problem is that it's impossible to have an intelligent discussion over this. This pandemic became a partisan issue. We're not discussing whether one of the most impactful decisions made by a government this generation should be based over absolute trash code.
You're either uncritical of the lockdown or "anti-science".
I get frustrated reading Marohn sometimes because he describes American development and it's impact extremely well, but generally avoids the number one factor driving this development, which is middle class likes suburbs and continues to demand them.

Sure, suburban development was facilitated and accelerated by the portfolio of government initiatives (highways and home loan programs), but at the core is that people were dying to get out of cities, buy a car, and have their own serene little castle with a lawn and driveway and no shared wall.

And this appetite continues to be the dominant one. While Americans seem to be rediscovering the value of human oriented streets that Marohn champions, they aren't willing to turn away from the suburbs, the way they did cities 80 years ago.

Perhaps Marohn's predictions regarding government financial collapse will come true soon, or perhaps traffic congestion reaches a breaking point that forces a change. But until then, and as long as they can afford them, Americans still want spaced out single family houses that spread out across the fruited plain.