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If you are a citizen of the united states, you get a vote if you're 18, according to the constitution. No tests, IDs, or other things are required. To add any additional burden is counter to the constitution, and as a result any additional burden could be seen to prevent people from voting that have the right to vote.

Nevermind that when you add additional barriers, discrimination occurs against anyone that cannot meet the barrier, or does not want to meet the barrier.

Example:
- "tests" in the South during civil rights to prevent african americans from voting

- Requiring any sort of payment or money to create a Voter ID in a state. If the person does not have money or time this is discrimination and against their rights as citizens (you are not required to prove you are a citizen. your ballot can be provisional)

- Requiring someone be able to read. It's not a requirement to vote. Any forms requiring reading are a no-go.

- Requiring them to have a permanent address (again, leads to discrimination for those without addresses.

- Requiring someone take a lot of time they cannot afford to get an ID (again, some folks are working too many jobs to go to the DMV for a day)

the list goes on...
Isn’t that what I just said? There’s no upside. The political class would rather have fraud (real or imagined, as is the case with election fraud) to use as a hammer with which to bludgeon the other side.
Hmm, seems like this idea is looking better. Keeps getting down voted, reminds me of the PG essay on what is taboo today that won't be down the line?

Probably more that people judge others blindly and superficially, and that this will get down voted too without real words to engage in a debate.
And as Adam Smith pointed out, it is there, and visible. It can't be hidden, can't be spirited out of town or offshore during the dark of night. You don't even need to know who it is that owns it; as long as they pay their land value tax, they can remain anonymous.

You might search for the term "unearned increment." It was a common expression to point out what people who reaped but did not sow receive due to our failure to collect the economic rent.

One person's unearned increment is another's — and likely many others' — lost birthright. Who is entitled to it? All of us! How do we implement this? Land value taxation.
It might be me personally, but I can't stand old, long-winded and effervescent writing. My eyes start to jump around in it, and I can't maintain focus. It makes me wonder how our writing and media will be perceived in a hundred or more years.

Entire patterns of thought become antiquated as our communication wiring adapts to the ever increasing pace of society. Social media is driving dopamine hits from shorter and shorter forms of engagement.

It's amusing to think that Harry Potter might one day read like an opaque relic.
Why do you put locks on your car or your house? I bet you've never been broken into. There's not a high chance of it either. Why do you want your email encrypted? No one's sniffing around your personal life, so why do you want a solution to a problem that doesn't exist?

Remarkable how people distort their principles when it gets in the way of a political symbol.
[We can't have nice things] because there's a non-trivial quantity of the voting population that literally believes straw-man arguments about other people's views.

It's maddening dealing with Americans sometimes.
I'm not surprised this is happening in Washington State. Here the voter registration requirements are writing a name on a piece of paper, here's your ballot.

But no voter fraud is ever detected. Hmmm.
Happy 2nd Birthday Pion
If you had a Facebook offer and it's been under a year then it's almost certainly still valid. So you sell the accelerated vesting RSUs, cash in the severance and join Facebook. Given the accelerated vesting and severance you're going to make about as much as originally expected.

Not sure why you consider getting laid off a problem for someone who has Facebook offers in the recent past. It's the people still employed at Lyft that are in a harder position versus having taken a Facebook offer. That's however a quirk of the pandemic, in any other recession your Facebook RSUs would be tanking in value as well.
Open Source only exists because of individual contributors, so I wanted to take a chance to thank everyone that has contributed. I see a lot of 'project anniversary posts' that like to list all the features that have been added, but Pion is different then that.

If you are interested in getting involved now is a good chance. There are lots of problems to solve, and it is a great place to learn.
I think journalism is going to have to clean up its act a lot before I'm willing to trust it enough to pay for it.

I'm seeing more credible journalism done by bloggers than the mainstream media at the moment.
Wouldn't it be more efficient and more convenient to get a dumb-phone or flip-phone that was made by the nokia or motorola (or other) company back in the early 2000s (in the pre-iphone era)?

Some of those had internet access, usually just a browser.

As for the OS, if I remember correctly, some were able to be 'rooted' and another OS installed.

There's certainly a lot of internet delving required, which will make it a very interesting project. :-)
Qt doesn't require that but even if it did writing it 6 times is vastly more expensive. People would just rather spend 500k on writing it 6 times than 5k on a license because they are somehow offended at the notion of paying for dev software or tooling.

It's a major reason UI coding sucks. There is no incentive for anyone to make it not suck, and the work required to build a modern UI library and tooling is far beyond what hobbyist or spare time coders could ever attempt.
You are lumping in a lot of quite diverse places. China and South Korea took quite different approaches. China's is, as you state, very blunt. South Korea has used contact tracing to good effect.

My comment wasn't "all countries in Asia", it was about countries in Asia using contact tracing well.
I’d love to get one but it’s out of stock everywhere :(
I deal with text+discrete data. On the one hand this falls well into a document structure, on the other hand it wasn’t clear what exactly was offered on top of what we get from our current setup of elastic+rdbms (we are ok with data duplication and records are ~immutable).
Their answer was always "We only support Firefox"

These days, that's better than "only support Chrome", but I get your point --- being browser-agnostic seems to be something a lot of sites, not just learning-related ones, are unfortunately not doing lately.
A Commencement Address Too Honest to Deliver in Person
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> Now don't get me wrong, I am not saying C# is a bad language, just that when you compare it with Swift, Kotlin, Rust etc, it's clearly playing catchup.

btw. it's the other way round. most modern stuff was in c# while the others played catchup and some still do.
no language has async/await implemented as good as c# has, no language has nullable value types as good as c# no languages has a reflection api that is really easy to use and if that isn't enough there are also expressions which are more like macros and due to the way how generics are implemented no internal api sucks.
btw. c# even has channels.

swift has nothing over c# and all features swift has were more likely be in c# before they were in swift.
It doesn't suck, but try Jetbrains IDEs. C++ and other "not JS" language support is vastly superior including refactoring that actually works.
It probably depends on your hardware. I have an "older" (several years at least) Windows work laptop with iGPU that is quite sluggish with VS Code when hooked up to an external 4K display. However, it's snappy compared to Microsoft Teams in the same situation.

Meanwhile, my similar era MacBook with dGPU hooked up to the same screen is very snappy and I honestly would probably not be able to tell the difference in a blind test between VS Code and typing in a native text box (like the one here in Safari).

I'd consider myself pretty anal about latency -- I was never able to deal with Atom's, for example (disclaimer: I haven't tried it in years). I even dumped Wayland for X11 when I had a Linux desktop because of latency (triple buffering or something?) I couldn't get rid of.

But VS Code is not bad.
It is a good site with 2 caveats. It is center-right (this is not bad per se, but just be aware of the bias). With a high frequency, the summaries are terrible and misleading.
Native desktop apps are far superior to Web/Electron
Remember the heady days when Twitter, MySpace, Facebook, et all had almost open access to their 'social graphs', allowing people to grab content from one place, post to another, build connections using tools like Yahoo Pipes? I sometimes long for simpler days when companies were more open with their data. Didn't Netflix even have a more open api back in the day that you could rank and sort, and see new release dates, etc?
Source for voter fraud happening at a meaningful level in WA?
South Korea's initial outbreak was fairly large, if I recall correctly, as it was connected with a church.

This isn't some small, statistically insignificant difference. It's a massive difference in the number of cases and deaths.
Music Software and Interface Design: Steinberg's Dorico [video]
This has nothing to do with voter fraud, and how easy or hard it is to register to vote doesn't seem to bear on the topic.
I hear you on the value a text editor on the server side. I have picked up the basics of vi for this use case, but I ain't fast with it :)
Bitwig has been ported to Android ? Or IOS ?
How do you figure? Intelligence / multi-talented-ness, and interest in changing the world, aren't necessarily correlated. Most "geniuses" still probably just want to get reasonable wealthy and retire to pursue their hobbies. (They just have more interesting hobbies than the average person.) And, for people who weren't born to wealth, the FAANGs are a good place to get one's f-you money from, without necessarily needing to dedicate the entirety of one's motivational resources to solving work-related problems.
Reason #4: ID cards would function as "internal passports" that monitor citizens' movements

I don't understand this one. This was never a thing in the EU, even though IDs are mandatory in just about every member state.

I spent on-and-off four years in Italy and while I initially had to present and ID to my landlord there, who then needed to pass this data to the police, nobody bothered me after that or checked if I'm still there.

Hell, even after a law was passed that initially basically forbade anyone who was in the country more than half of the year from driving a car with foreign plates I still wasn't bothered by anyone, because as I was a citizen of a Schengen area state, there was no reliable way to determine when and where was I lately.
Interesting thanks for the link.
I'm more curious how well the 'we made a whole new batch of tests under emergency time pressures so that students won't benefit from googling' claim holds up, I mean google certainly did its part here during the last decade by becoming less and less useful for finding answers to non SEOed questions and yet...
Checking your app, sounds very useful :) Thanks for building it
Ask HN: How did the pandemic/economy crash/lockdown affect you?
We are as a family holding up pretty well. Having a house with a yard dampened the effects of a lockdown. I enjoy spending more time with the family. Lost about 10% of net-worth due to economic circumstances. All in all things are not too bad.

I am wondering how are others/other families coping with this. What kind of impact did all this have on your life?
>If the user doesn't want it, and it's forced on them anyway, it's malware

That's pretty much the point OP was making...
Indeed in these cases lz4 makes sense. I'm thinking of what lz4 was created to "replace" namely snappy in SSTables: the pattern is mostly write once, read at most once or twice, and both of those are sequential to benefit of non-SSDs speeds. In these situations fast (de)compression schemes are definitely a gain.
The Psychology Behind DDoS
Exposure Notification Reference Server for Covid-19
Show HN: Opel for Business
As someone who likes Figma immensely, saying it can compete head-to-head with a native application is a very long stretch. The feature set of the application is great as is the tooling it provides, but the performance is simply abysmal. Photoshop starts up faster than Figma, and that says a lot. Offering the same application in both the browser and as a standalone is an interesting proposition and there are a few others out there who do that (a-la Spotify), but so far they all pay a considerable price for it.
I would love to hear from someone with the real answer but I've always assumed it is legacy baggage from the old days. The impact on performance has probably never been big enough to compel the entire x86 ecosystem to make them coherent.
Did you actually read through those? They're either local elections, or single instances. Neither of which would be considered impactful or even of scale to change much of anything... But

It's rather strange that they left out the most recent and egregious instance of fraud. It just happened in NC. Funny how quiet the right gets when its one of their own...The GOP busted for fraud. Election invalidated. Just more projection from the party of projection. You can do better.
Static type safety is one difference.
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That's how it's done in FL for non-opioid schedule II. None of our Dr's can call or transmit Schedule II Rx, they have to be hand carried paper scripts.

Opioids are limited to a 3 day supply tho (with some tight exceptions, for those patients that can afford a PM Dr).
I don't think it makes sense to use it on even small laptops screen to be honest so I don't really see the point. You'd have to redo the UI and whole paradigm entirely anyways for it to be meaningful on small devices. But there is certainly not any obstacle to porting - from my own experience with ossia & Qt, it is fairly easy to make iOS and Android builds, the difficulty is in finding a proper iOS and Android UX.

In particular C++ code works on every machine that can drive a screen without too much trouble - if the app is built in C++ you can at least make the code run on the device... just have to make something pretty out of it afterwards.
read the book "traction" - you'll have a better idea on how to spend it without wasting it.
Perhaps this is a start of a way out of the tiny-package madness in the Node ecosystem.
Using JavaScript outside a browser by running the V8 JavaScript browser engine on the server is a bit of a gimmick, but enough people can't bother to be a polyglot, and it's not that crazy.

But, once you are writing code in TS, then transpiling that to JS, then running that in V8 on a server, you have taken a big step into the Rube Goldberg dimension.
I'd check https://www.2doapp.com

It's super fast and featureful
Does it give you access to /dev/disk0 (or /dev/nvme0, or /dev/sda0, or /dev/rdisk0 etc)? If not, no.
I did enjoy that! Thanks for sharing, it was really interesting.
RSS works pretty well for me. Every single website I follow supports it, both the mainstream and the niche ones. I use on my desktop and phone NetNewsWire, which is a great, fast and simple piece of software. Overall, I’d say RSS is not the latest and greatest anymore, but it keeps working for me.

In fact, I use RSS for this website as well.
u forgot linux. :(
Thanks a ton for sharing. This is such a great comment.
That's the classical post-Axelrod right-wing paper (Freeman Dyson of course) against the Nowak school of cooperative thought.

See eg. https://www.nature.com/news/physicists-suggest-selfishness-c... which describes that political struggle going on for the last 40 years. This was eg countered by https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236189156_The_Evolu...
Good idea Philipp. The results are not as great, BERT based similarity is still very far off human performance.
It is because the rich and powerful own the land that georgism is hard to push through. You could implement georgist laws simply, but the rich and powerful have connections that you don't and politics will always favour them, so you won't get any of that policy to hold. This isn't georgism's fault in particular, but the fault of just about any tax scheme.
"There is no upside [to fixing it]" is not quite the same as it being actively beneficial to those tasked with fixing problems to have the problem remain unfixed.
Fair enough, however regarding massive multiplayer requirements most game shops are anyway using Java or .NET on their backends, as you can easily check going over their job adverts.

As on the client side, proper coding plus offloading stuff into shaders already goes quite far.

And even in the debatable point that Java isn't the best language for any kind of game development, well maybe Mojang would never have taken off if Markus had decided to prototype the same in something else.

Nowadays the Java version is only kept around due to the modding community, as the C++ version is found lacking in this area.
I'd be surprised if that is the case—or perhaps we have different definitions of what constitutes a "browser-based application." For example, I do all my online banking in my browser; it's the most fully-featured way to do so. It might not obviously be a PWA or an SPA, but I certainly think it deserves to be called a "browser-based application." What else could it be? It's certainly not a "web page." In fact I'd argue that any site that has content that's scoped to a user and can be manipulated by the user is a "web application."
You are correct, I meant that even in a peer-peer merge (which can even be just one person debugging the same program on both a Mac and a Linux machine), any merge conflicts are marked and left for the user to decide about.
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The Era of Fragmentation, Part 3: The Statists
The article explicitly warns against that:

> Do not fail either of the probes if any of your shared dependencies is down, it would cause cascading failure of all the pods.

The idea would be that the downstream dependencies have their own probes and if they fail they will get restarted in isolation without touching the services that depend on them (that are only temporarily degraded because of the dependency failure and will recover as soon as the dependency is fixed).
I reckon it’s a phonetic play on “GUI”?
I think Canonical will be the next major "earth-shattering" acquisition that Microsoft makes. Ubuntu is so widely deployed as the defacto Linux OS everywhere from Linux CI images, AWS instances. Azure. After IBM bought Red Hat it seems like there's a run on owning the Linux "ecosystem", even if you can't own the code. Microsoft is demonstrating that they want to own the new world of development/deployment ecosystem end-to-end. Github, VS Code, NPM.

Next will be the operating system that everyone runs their stuff on. Doesn't WSL already default to Ubuntu anyway?

Edit: also isn't Shutteworth still funding Canonical out of his pocket? The last I checked it wasn't nearly profitable.
At first I misread that comment as "e-textile microtransactions". I thought my shirt pocket was about to become pay-per-use.
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Not sure if I would call string handling in Swift sane, but to each its own.
Enjoy! And thanks for the kind words
The point of invasion has been to kill people until the other government will do what you want. "Kill people" is supposed to be just the military, but there are inevitably civilian casualties. A big part of the point of a military (namely defense) is to keep anybody else's military from getting inside our borders, where it's our people being killed.

Both snidane and I assumed that there would be danger to civilians in case of an invasion. The invader doesn't have to intend genocide for that to be true.
The Prophecies of Q: US conspiracy theories are entering a dangerous new phase
In any recession Lyft and Uber would be tanking more than Facebook. The whole salient of my argument is that these companies had weak business models and now they are being exposed. They were never going to be profitable.
That's great for 9 year olds. But for the people it matters for now, these points don't apply.
You get people from some adjacent field (some CAD/CAM people for the geometry bits, someone from Uber for the distributed system bits) to solve the hard technical problems and hire game programmers for more product development / API design type roles
One example (maybe the only example?) of a capitalist country with leasehold land is Singapore. The land policy there seems to have worked relatively well.
Oops, you're totally right, I messed that up. Too late to edit the parent unfortunately. I think it's certainly still impressive, though!
Architecture and documentation of official German Corona-Warn-App
A simple rule of thumb is the number of services you have. For instance, my current employer has been working on getting everything on Kubernetes for the last year or so and we have two services... the frontend server-side renderer, and API.
To the degree that Coca-Cola is harming people, they owe something. Coke likely occupies a very valuable site in Atlanta, and perhaps has O&O bottlers on locally valuable sites, near centers of population, served well by transportation infrastructure that brings ingredients in and finished products to the customers. When communities start collecting the full value of those sites (and stop burdening the buildings and equipment with taxes) who will be harmed?

Should Coca-Cola be taxed on its good will? or for adding to people's satisfaction?

The biggest promoters of Henry George's single tax were business people who saw a way to a more just society in which all could prosper. But there were others -- railroad, steel, other monopolies -- whose continued position depended on keeping their monopolies, and they were less than enthusiastic about the concept.

Who owns the land in the central business district of most cities? Often it is the corporations that use it, but frequently it is trusts of people long dead, whose heirs just keep enjoying the ever-rising land rent. They didn't create the value. The corporations should pay for the value of the land they use; so should the trusts who collect the land rent of our most valuable sites.

And the value of Warren Buffett's holdings might be affected, but the freer market it will create will provide opportunities for all sorts of entrepreneurs to work their business plans.

And recall the data on how concentrated stock ownership is.
Ha, that sounds exactly like something I'd do.
Ask HN: What Git GUI client do you use?
I find github desktop pretty convenient on win/macOS but their unofficial linux builds (sadface) are still too shoddy for daily use.

there actually seem to be a lot of different clients since i last checked..

so what do y'all use?
I've wondered whether we should see more experimentation in the OS space. Why should Windows, Linux and Unix monopolize everything?

Also, with FPGAs, maybe we should see more OS HW level experimentation.
Barely ever. If I have to install an app, even (especially) an Electron app, you've already lost me unless you provide something I can't get anywhere else.
Right, Drew is agreeing with me.

Did you miss the response in-between? :)
Maybe it would be OK if all the Typescript people went Away to Deno and the few of us left who just want to run plain JS on Node, could, in peace.

... As long as there is enough interest still in Node to maintain it. Hopefully, there is still interest in running the same language as browsers do, without additional dependencies.

Personally, I would prefer Clojurescript to TS, but not strongly enough to want to be tied to its fate.
I started using Linux in the late 90s and have since lost all expectation of someone writing an app for it.
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