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The huge upside to First Past the Post is that the electorate definitely understands why their candidate lost the election because it's so simple.

The purpose of Democratic elections is not something like "good government". We haven't the faintest idea how to do that. What elections do for us is enable bloodless transitions of power. The useless idiots currently in power can be voted out and you can replace them with the useless idiots you want to be in power instead if you can get enough votes. Will they be any better? Well of course you hope so, but the one thing I'm sure of it is that fighting a civil war over it would be worse.

So the problem to think about isn't "Which electoral system best satisfies Arrow's conflicting criteria in my opinion as an educated person who has spent a lot of time thinking about it?" but "What ensures the people who voted for Bob not Alice will accept that Alice won?".

If you're choosing a single person like the leader of your Executive or something equally consequential democratic elections are (along with sortition) one of the least terrible of the bad options you have, and complicated mechanisms like the Schulze method you're talking about are likely to mean losers are defiant so they're probably the wrong choice compared to First Past the Post or other simple methods.

If like Debian you're basically just picking the head of a club, it's scarcely matters how you do it, Schulze seems over-complicated to me but it's just not a big deal. Having democratic elections isn't important for this purpose anyway - nobody is going to kill and die for Debian leadership otherwise, but knock yourselves out.
>> I believe it's the primary reason for the complete apathy law enforcement shows towards de-escalation and self-restraint in general.

One of the big issues in law enforcement reform is have more police who actually live in the communities they serve and patrol. This (in theory) should address the idea that if you've had previous run-ins with a low level criminal, you're more apt to show compassion and understanding when you have your next contact with them. You take into account you know they're not harming anybody, and most issues can be handled with simple conversations.

I live in Minneapolis and there are so many reasons Chauvin shouldn't have ever been given a badge and gun. 15 complaints of police misconduct/brutality, his personal relationship with Floyd has been well documented (they worked in the same bar). He was put on Park Patrol after his last incident of brutality, yet was one of the first to respond to the call - which is perplexing. He also worked at a local bar and the managers and owners said he had a quick fuse and was quick to violence to end disputes in the club. He also lived in an upper middle class suburb, far away from the streets he patrolled in Minneapolis.

I would also point out a black Muslim cop was recently sentenced to 12.5 years for fatally shooting a white woman when she approached the squad car after she reported a sexual assault near her house. The charges in that case are almost identical to what they've charged Chauvin with. It will be interesting to see how this trial goes and what kind of a sentence he will end up with.
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... on Facebook. Or Twitter.

There are plenty of platforms that would host Trump. Or PETA. Or neo-nazi groups. Or anti-abortion groups. Or radical animal rights.

They may not have as large a reach as Facebook or Twitter. But that is likely a factor of the general public's interest in what they have to say.

So "ever being seen or considered" is fallacious.

It comes down to "I have the right to be heard by as many people as _I_ want to be heard by."

It's no different to saying that ABC/CBS are required to air your views, but choose not to, and ignoring the fact that you can go on Public Access TV or a smaller market, and still claim "I'm being censored!". It's not an accurate reflection of the state of affairs.
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If Congress is considering legislation to change QI then the Supreme Court has little reason to take up these cases. SCOTUS should stay silent when the legislative branch is at work to correct something that was a judicial creation or when it looks like Congress intends to legislate in an issue.

Edit: I will just reply to all of the comments downthread at once because they all seem to urge the same thing. SCOTUS has no incentive to act when the legislative branch is doing something that could easily overturn or not align with their decision, which would render their decision moot. A law that Congress passes overrules any and all SCOTUS precedent on the issue because Congress "legislates against the backdrop of the common law." Further, Congress has the ability to move much faster than SCOTUS: a bill could be passed on less than a month in Congress while it will take at least a year for SCOTUS to reach a decision.
>dinner party rules

That won't protect you. When your employer is actively signalling and funding support for particular groups or political positions, failure to join in is taken as a political action, and you might get attacked by co-workers for being anti-group or anti-position.
I'm curious how much this is driven by foreign students, specifically Chinese, staying home. On social media I've noticed the meme that China is peaceful and stable vs the USA which is currently still fighting the virus and plagued by massive unrest.

I think the lack of interns, tech layoffs, and WFH may be a larger part of it, I'm just wondering if there is any data out there on how it breaks down by category.
Sure, but this is still a good exercise. Not every library has to be 100% unique and solve a completely different problem.

Kudos to the author for sharing and good luck.

edit: what I don't get is how this post ended up at #10 of /news (I'm jealous)
The idea that law enforcement and government officials should be treated less strictly under the law is, to me, completely preposterous. If anything, they should explicitly not be given the benefit of the doubt and should be treated much more strictly under the law.

I realize that a huge number of people completely disagree with that, and I don't really know how to persuade any of them other than to urge them to examine history and note the consequences of authoritarianism.
One thing the article doesn't really dive too far into is that Svelte is template driven, while Solid is more about React's jsx-drive-components. As I've used both style methods for years, I think I'm growing fond of Svelte's template approach as the best general purpose solution. This is because usually my pages are 70% static and can be expressed as simple nearly vanilla web-idiomatic html pages. Being able to keep all that static code as close to vanilla web really helps to reduce other overall complexity, with the added benefit of being able to copy html with css from anywhere into my project, and then add dynamic behavior without "rewriting" basic html into jsx (which can lead to subtle bugs).
Every. Time.
> police kill members of their community at random.

I understand your emotion, but saying that the police walks in the street killing random black people is also unproductive.

You can imagine folks on the right showcasing your post as an example of the "loony left", then starting a discussion about the fact that more whites are killed by police, and so on.

Each time that happens, you lose a tiny bit of support, and that hurts what Obama thinks is important - the election outcome.
Not censoring the president is political?

That seems like a very black-vs-white / with-us-or-against-us mentality.
Those armies of high paid lawyers are not always right. Plenty of companies get it wrong and then pay the price in court.
Your website says you have a Toronto office; would this position be available there?
So then flip the question, why should government be immune to nuisance suits if there is no precise way to differentiate them from serious suits?
That NYT article and more is linked to from a link in the submitted article.

https://www.cato.org/blog/wake-george-floyds-death-all-eyes-...
Unfortunately, no, but you are going to need it.

I was fooling with a cycle-collected reference counter for Rust for a while, but eventually gave up because of the difficulty in handling finalizers.
I grew up on the East Coast. When I moved to the West Coast, I found folks on the West Coast much nicer.

One of the first people I met on the West Coast was about to move to the East Coast ... "because everyone's so much nicer there".

Either the people are always nicer somewhere else or something else is going on.
>At the risk of sounding ignorant, isn't it just a website?

A website with a gigantic sales and account management apparatus behind it. The costs are centered around acquiring and retaining users/customers, including a big customer support footprint.
That's probably quite accurate for front-end projects which pull in a ton of packages for 1. A compatibility layer wih older browsers. 2. Build tooling.

Node projects tend to have a lot smaller dependency graphs.
setup.py can check the OS and pick necessary requirements. so it can have different dependencies in different OSes.

I've used it like this - https://github.com/JaDogg/pydoro/blob/b1b3de38ac15b9254ef1be...
Well right now that isn't true. IA suspended limiting the number of loans they issue to the number of books they own.
I don't think your experience is atypical but I do think your acceptance of something that is quite awful is fairly atypical.

It's also possible that you use Python on Linux, where it is at least tolerable. Try again on Windows.
Also not a lawyer, and US-based in case it varies by country.

Do you know if a waiver is needed in this case? My understanding is that I can walk down a sidewalk, around Disneyland, around a resort, and film anyone / anything in plain sight. (I don't do that, by the way...) In other words, assuming you're not climbing over railings etc., if you can see it with your eyes, you can film it or photograph it.

Wonder if anyone here (plenty of legal eagles I'm sure) can confirm this or correct this. We don't need to get bogged down in corner cases & rare exceptions... for example, I think I heard that in some states, if the police ask (demand?) that you stop recording, you have to, otherwise you're in violation of the law... but even as I type that, as an American, it just sounds wrong... but I don't know.
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...but that's exactly what Twitter did - they carved out an exception for politicians.
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Maybe we will get another "cash for clunkers" program out of this.
> You can't ask "everyone" to focus on every issue, it's way too much work.

Once upon a time, the US Constitution made a point of saying that Congress must meet at least once a year, whether they have business or not. Because it seemed, at that time, entirely plausible that they might not have that much work to do.
There are some screenshots on pp. 72-75 of surface details on a trench and a cube.
> If AOC or Bernie Sanders tweets again about "Revolution"

If generic, or as a principle? No.

If they say "pick up weapons and shoot those who dissent"?

Then they're advocating or threatening, and that should be handled similarly.
With all these riots - I think we're going to see another 4 years.
Startups don't get 0% loans from the federal reserve. Banks "do", but interest rates for unsecured, high-risk startups is well above 0%.

Startups get investments from investors, but investors have an opportunity cost. A lower bound on opportunity cost is market index growth, around 7% per year.
Meanwhile, all the copies of those same books which were purchased by libraries are now sitting on library shelves, unable to be loaned out.

The copyright holders have already gotten paid.
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It’s a vicious cycle. The rioters and looters pillage their own communities. This causes productive locals to flee, as it is now a safety issue and most of them were impacted financially by COVID-19 so they do not have the means to rebuild. Eventually all that’s left is rubble.
Because judges are human and at least in the California cities tend to be more liberal and anti-landlord.

Also there are so many tenant protection laws, it may not be possible to just not accept rent. I've honestly never looked into it because I wouldn't do that to someone.
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Calling someone names is not an ad-hominem. Making accusations about a person's character can be a valid inference based on their behavior. What makes an ad-hominem is thinking that a person's character (or other attributes) has any bearing on the correctness of their argument.

For example:

"X is a bad person, therefore their argument is invalid" is an ad-hominem. Bad people can still make valid arguments.

"X's argument is both invalid and in bad faith, therefore they are a bad person" is a logical inference.
I can use it as a list of games to avoid?

I’m too poor to afford free games.
The Fountain was really interesting in this regard, as it had the main character floating in a giant orb surrounding the Tree of Life. Completely different from the typical spaceship aesthetic. IIRC the space background was all microphotography, not CGI.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=the+fountain+movie+space+ship&t=os...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdmPrsKV0Kg
The point of representative democracy is to prevent the tyranny of the majority in mitigation of the deterioration of minority rights.
Not as if Republicans don't want the stock market to stay as high. Both parties will push for such a resolution.
While the idea has some merit in making the cost of repeat offenders expensive so that the force polices itself to protect their pensions, it is unfair to penalize those that have no control including officers that have already retired.

I think the best way forward is to force individual officers to carry liability insurance that covers settlements. This will have the effect of pricing out repeat offenders from the job.
Giving a platform to fascists makes them seem normal and just a quirky alternative to the mainstream. It effectively allows them to easily spread their propaganda.

In his book Mark Bray writes: "It’s important to note, however, that the vast majority of people who oppose limiting speech on political grounds are not free speech absolutists. They all have their exceptions to the rule, whether obscenity, incitement to violence, copyright infringement, press censorship during wartime, or restrictions for the incarcerated. If we rephrase the terms of the debate by taking these exceptions into account, we can see that many liberals support limiting the speech of working-class teens busted for drugs, but not limiting the speech of Nazis. Many are fine when the police quash the free speech of the undocumented by hunting them down, while they amplify the speech of the Klan by protecting them. They advocate curtailing ads for cigarettes but not ads for white supremacy."

In my opinion de-platforming fascists is indeed infringing on their right of free speech, but this infringement is justified as it protects the the safety and well-being of marginalized populations.
Yes, and industrial farming is a known major problem that wreaks havoc on the environment and in the case of animal farming at an industrial scale commits horrible atrocities. So yes, you are right... it is not just pulp trees at issue.
I still don't get it though. What would you be suing a commissioner over that would get them to reverse their decision? If you're suing them directly for their decision, then surely that just wouldn't be a valid lawsuit. If you're suing them for some unrelated valid issue, but using that as pressure for them to change their decision, then surely that's already illegal. Isn't it considered extortion or blackmail to compel someone to give you something of value by threatening to sue them or report them to law enforcement?
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Someone posted this, whatever that means:

𐐌 𐑊𐐴𐐿 𐑉𐐴𐐻𐐮𐑍 𐐮𐑌 𐑄𐐮𐑅 𐐻𐐯𐐿𐑅𐐻, 𐐮𐐻 𐑊𐐳𐐿𐑅 𐐿𐐭𐑊. 𐐶𐐲𐑉𐐿𐑅 𐐼𐐮𐑁𐐲𐑉𐐲𐑌𐐻 𐑄𐐰𐑌 𐑅𐐻𐐰𐑌𐐼𐐲𐑉𐐼 𐐬𐑊𐐼 𐐢𐐰𐐻𐐲𐑌 𐐰𐑊𐑁𐐰𐐺𐐯𐐻, 𐐺𐐲𐐻 𐐲𐐻 𐑄 𐑅𐐩𐑋 𐐻𐐴𐑋 𐑁𐐫𐑉𐑋𐐼 𐑁𐑉𐐲𐑋 𐑄 𐐢𐐰𐐻𐐲𐑌 𐐰𐑊𐑁𐐰𐐺𐐯𐐻. 𐐆𐑋𐐰𐐾𐐮𐑌 𐑄𐐮𐑅 𐐺𐐨𐐮𐑍 𐐲𐑅𐐲𐐼 𐑁𐐫𐑉 𐐹𐑉𐐰𐐿𐐻𐐮𐐿𐐲𐑊 𐐹𐐲𐑉𐐹𐐲𐑅𐑆.

𐐡𐐰𐑌𐐼𐐲𐑋 𐐼𐐭𐐼 𐐮𐑌𐐻𐑉𐐨𐑀𐐼 𐐺𐐴 𐑄 𐐔𐐯𐑅𐐨𐑉𐐯𐐻 𐐈𐑊𐑁𐐰𐐺𐐯𐐻 .
The idea is that you can sue police officers who violate your Constitutional rights under color of law. Maybe you take a photo of a police officer sleeping on the job, and they take your camera and smash it. They've just violated your Constitutional rights, and you can sue them to recover your damages.

But police arrest a lot of people, and they aren't experts on the law. They will get things wrong frequently. They can't be expected to make the correct call every time, but they also can't do the job if the average officer is regularly sued. So the courts came up with the "reasonable" standard. If the officer took away your Constitutional rights, but it was reasonable for them to think it'd be okay, for example if it was a fuzzy legal area or an obscure point of law (what if there's a split court on whether photography can be prohibited in subways?), then you can't sue them. In effect, you can't sue a police officer for acting like a "reasonable" police officer.

So far so good. Police can keep policing without also being lawyers, but people can still sue police officers who are clearly violating their rights. In theory.

But then in 1982 with Harlow v. Fitzgerald, the Supreme Court had an issue with Nixon's aides and whether they deserved absolute or qualified immunity, and they came up with tests. Although it wasn't the focus of the case, the decision happened to grant that qualified immunity applied to every government official couldn't be personally liable for damage unless they were violating a "clearly established" right.

So now police officers were protected by a different standard than a vague "is it reasonable" test. Now the test becomes "has it been clearly established that this is a right." This isn't awful in theory, but in practice the courts have decided that "clearly established" means "has this exact thing come up before and has a court decided that this is or is not constitutional/legal?" This leads to truly ridiculous scenarios, like a judge saying "okay, sure, there have been cases where we decided that you can't use deadly force against unarmed people fleeing by car, but we haven't decided that this is the case if the car is near a highway, so that hasn't been 'clearly established.'"

Anyway, that's the state of things. There are certainly plenty of scenarios where the previous standards of "reasonable" and "good faith" would seem perfectly legitimate. There are oodles of situations which requires a tricky multi-part test undertaken by a judge, and for such cases, a police officer shouldn't be sued for getting it a bit wrong. So the basic concept isn't fundamentally ridiculous, but the "clearly established" test for qualified immunity is.
>Also, it redistributes wealth to the less well off; obviously, with the potential to earn a higher payout.

If the net effect is to outcompete small businesses with unprofitable schemes it seems like what we're actually doing is shrinking the overall pie and just redistributing the share of what's left.
Solid (posted earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23368473) does exactly that and some more.
> Robbing a bank and giving away the money is a decision not based on money or liability, but you shouldn't be very surprised you still get put in prison for it.

You've picked the one circumstance-- an unprecedented worldwide pandemic that is wreaking economic mayhem-- that could possibly weaken one of the indefatigable "pre-digital analogies for understanding digital ethics."

I would not be surprised if the police were unable to locate a culprit who had been handing out monthly $1200 cash bundles from bank robberies. (Especially if they delivered the bundles on a dependeable schedule.) :)

Edit: clarification
Could you elaborate a bit more? I’m honestly curious.
Generally implicitly either through proxy or get method read. Solid provides an explicit API as well.