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No, I'm sorry, because you are the one who complete misunderstands the law and the US system of government.

>Congress is the ONLY branch of the government which gets to shape the boundaries of constitutional law.

Yeah, no. Not even close. Are you familiar with Miranda, Brown v. Board, Obergefell and dozens or hundreds of others? These are all the supreme court shaping the boundaries of constitutional law. Congress has zero power to intefere here. If Congress passed a law trying to outlaw gay marriage tomorrow, it would be unconstitutional and unenforceable immediately.

You say it yourself in your second paragraph: Congress has plenary power to shape the boundaries of constitutional law via amendments.

No, I didn't say that. Congress does not have "plenary power" (not a single actor in US government has plenary power). Constitutional amendments require approval by states, so if you think I was saying congress had plenary power over anything, you misread.

>he judiciary only has power when the legislature has not spoken, and that power should, theoretically, be constrained to mapping the smallest contours of the constitution because delineating the shape of the boundary is Congress's domain (some would say it is their most important duty, which they have neglected for the past half century).

Not true at all. The Supreme Court can rule any legislative act of congress unconstitutional. Congress can make whatever law it wants and Scotus can say "nope". I love that someone who doesn't know about Marbury v. Madison is attempting to lecture me on constitutional law.
> I've always wondered if the agent was clueless or just govt as a whole

yes.

Neither of them have an incentive to do better.
> In a republic where deal-making has to happen, if you ran on W, X, Y, and Z, you might have to compromise on Z to get W, X, and a watered-down version of Y. Doesn’t mean you changed your mind on Z or strict-Y, but you can’t get everything you want because other Americans want other things and they can’t get everything they want either. Maybe a lesser politician would only have gotten W and half of X

If I owned a company and the people I hired to manage it were playing games like this, and if I asked them for insight into what, specifically, is happening behind the scenes, and they told me "it is literally not possible for us to provide you with that information" (and wouldn't say why it is not possible), I would be immediately launching a side project with the intent to replace the whole lot of them.

Yes, I realize "it's complex", but complexity is a continuum, not a binary.

With respect to the article, is it not true that the President has some substantial ability to float ideas into the public consciousness, that would put the heat on the state and municipal politicians to come up with some better systems to manage law enforcement and officer interactions with the public? And if the federal level truly has no power whatsoever in instituting reform or enforcing federal laws (what's the FBI do again?), I don't see why a comprehensive framework with recommendations for operational reform and greater transparency couldn't come from the top down. If there's nothing to be held accountable to, and no one to do the holding, I don't see why people are surprised when law enforcement restraint is largely left up to the goodwill of individual officers.

This whole situation and the way it is discussed seems rather absurd to me, but maybe there's something I'm not seeing.
I think there is a difference between the truism that the companies which exist are the ones that didn't destroy themselves, and ascribing an "interest" to a company.

Similar to the shortcomings of treating evolution as having a goal.

I'm not going to write an essay on it right now though.
Many of the people for whom the system "hasn't worked" have only had the statute right to vote for a generation, yet still face de facto barriers to exercise their right. For them, the system has never worked.

You keep spouting bullshit absolutes but don't seem to realize (or you're just unwilling to accept) that there are effectively two systems; a more of less functioning system for people like you, and one in name only for the disenfranchised.
Now I know this is old news, but it's not unheard of that law enforcement finds ways to infiltrate protests and make them turn into something else than a peaceful affair, even in tame ol' Canada.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/quebec-police-admit-they-went...

https://www.ctvnews.ca/quebec-police-defend-officers-actions...

So instead of condemning the few who 'incite violence', it might be useful to ponder if the game isn't rigged and external malicious actors could be acting as agent provocateurs.
Some bad Yelp reviews and wasting the time of a minimum wage employee? Not exactly the apocalypse or "a cluster bomb" or whatever you called it. Yes businesses have externalities. No, this cute story does not make me question silicon valley. Spending a lot on customer acquisition costs is the norm and on net works out very well for SV.

Again, Airbnb is not a bad business model, so we're now having two different discussions. This discussion is supposed to be about why people don't like cash flow-negative businesses. Airbnb is a great business model (cash flow positive with solid growth). I see it has some externalities that you don't like, but literally every business has externalities. It's fine that you don't like them but that's not an indictment of capitalism or SV. It's just a business you don't like. Are you equally upset with most of the Fortune 500 that probably have worse externalities than driving up prices in some trendy neighborhoods? If so, that's fine, but nothing to do with our discussion.

Uber is a fine business though. The issues with uber aren't it's cash flow problems. They could very quickly become cash flow positive if they wanted to (they would just have to change their growth trajectory).

If you're worried about carbon emissions, that's fine, we all should be. But you should be furious at basically all businesses. This is nothing special to do with Silicon Valley. You should focus 100x this rage on the Permian Basin. Are you?
Pompeo says U.S. considers welcoming Hong Kong people, entrepreneurs
In the UK, revenue from ebook sales grew 3% between 2018 and 2019. Where is your evidence that the business model of "counting copies" – i.e. selling books to people who want to read them – doesn't work any more?
Aviation auto-pilot will most definitely fly you into things.

Systems exist which will override auto-pilot in the event of such happenings, like Auto-GCAS (ground collision avoidance systems) and equivalents, but these aren't really designed for sudden obstructions -- they are mostly designed to help regain level flight if a pilot becomes unresponsive during maneuvers and is pointed in A Bad Way -- but auto-pilot is not going to be engaged during such flight, anyway. But systems like this do have authority to disengage whatever other systems that may interfere with their operation, like auto-pilot.

There are many onboard systems to allow awareness of such conditions that will result in collision, but not much in control of actual flight characteristics on any but the most advanced or experimental planes.
Turn them all off. I pull from my many inboxes on a regular schedule, when i choose the time.

This approach needs discipline otherwise your JIRA “inbox” or any of the 100s of other inboxes-in-disguise we all have, will be overflowing in short order.

Discipline could be something as simple as GTD strategy.
That's an uncharitable read of that comment
This is awesome, and could actually be a really cool competitor to itch.io if you play it right.
To me these job posts are focused in tech rather than skills.

Premature leads to premature.

Good luck!
With roughly a million cars sold and only a handful of owners dead (6 [1]) from their own mistakes (not paying attention), sounds pretty successful to me. Lots of folks would kill for a 0.000006% fatality failure rate, considering the human failure rate:

> Distracted driving is dangerous, claiming 2,841 lives in 2018 alone. Among those killed: 1,730 drivers, 605 passengers, 400 pedestrians and 77 bicyclists. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_self-driving_car_fatal...

[2] https://www.nhtsa.gov/risky-driving/distracted-driving

Disclaimer: There is some nuance to this. Early Teslas had no Autopilot, some have Autopilot 1 powered by MobileEye, some have Autopilot 2-3 powered by Tesla. I still believe my point regarding statistics stands. Some people have died, but the amount is noise when considering changing the marketing. Pay attention like you’re supposed to and you don’t die.
How did they come to have that market dominance?

By purchasing potential competitors before they got big.
Had a GPS that started jabbering crap when it got cold.... showed up as system dying because it was being flooded with events, ie. Some other task died because it wasn't getting enough cpu time.
Most of that doesn't belong on the alternative web I have in mind. It can keep living on the current one.

Usability features like dyslexia friendly fonts, large fonts, etc., belong in the browser, not on a web page. If anything, this would be easier on the alternative web.

The key idea would be that when you go to a URL on this alternative web, you know you're not going to get slammed with some cycle-sucking, RAM-sucking, virus-carrying, UI horror. More gopher-ish, but relatable to those who have used a web browser.

I can dream.

edit: Ha. Right now, this comment has 6 points, and my original above has -2 points. My illusions of HN rationality are thus reduced. sniff
I just rented 2 bed apt in peninsula - absolutely no drop in rent - 1 year lease is norm (could not find any month-to-month lease) and I was not offered any free rent for any weeks. Not sure where this plunge is happening!
I agree with you that it seems the people sparking the looting/fires/etc seem to be mostly white. I just don't think that will matter in the minds of the average person who barely watches the news. To the extent that they are watching anything, they will see tons of videos of black people committing crimes on social media.
you were of course correct, but your professor was simply illustrating a point- of whether we can trust our senses, of how we truly "know" something. philosophy often brings up "commonsensical" questions such as these. he probably didn't reply to you because he was bored from hearing the same smart alecky response every year :)
> 1. What's your process?

Whenever I come across something that I find especially interesting (for me!) at work, I just write an article. I actually have a backlog of interesting stuff I'd like to blog about, so the subjects are not in short supply :-)

2. How did you start? What was hard? What was easy?

Started 3/4 years ago. It's been always easy, although, I'm quite obsessive about the precision and depth of the subjects I write. In edge cases, I can pour dozens of hours into an article.

Also, sometimes it happens that research for an article leads to nowhere, for example because the article would end up being nothing interesting. Or because I'm not knowledgeable enough, and it's not practically possible to gather the knowledge required to write a consitently good article.

Some stats: almost 50 articles, around 74k words, currently 6k pageviews/month.

3. How do you stay motivated? Do you?

Generally speaking, I do enjoy writing, although I definitely need to handle: 1. the stress of writing subjects that take dozens of hours to research and write 2. the loss of attractiveness that happens to subjects over time.

My best strategy for 2., has been to write immediately about a subject, if I decide to write about it.

Definitely, rather than thinking "how to motivate myself to write an article", I think in terms of "how to remove the demotivating factors".

Regarding the external motivations, seeing the traffic growing is very satisfying, and it also brought me as a speaker to a famous conference, but it wouldn't motivate me if I wouldn't like to write.

4. What were the struggles you had to overcome to develop a regular writing habit (e.g. shyness, self-consciousness, poor time management skills, etc...)? How did you do it?

Wrote in this in point 3. Something that may be worth adding, is that I write an article more or less once a month. It's quite comfortable as a rhythm, although of course, spending 8+ hours on something, even once a month, may be too stressful in the long term for some.

A consideration worth pointing out, after a quick glance at other posts, is that there are different article styles. I can't write an article in an hour even when I fully know the subject, because when I write 1. I extend the breadth and depth of the subject, 2. I may experiment for the fun of it 3. but also because there's lots of "padding" due to creating a path for the reader to make them easy to fully understand the subject.
That's not my point. It's not a user-accessible file, but still steals space from the user.
I always read these threads and have very mixed thoughts on this argument of being for or against Universities. I believe the pros of spending four years at a college outweigh a lot of the bad (loans, bad professors, etc) but only if you know what you want to do when you're done.

A lot of people go to Universities hoping to find themselves and never do.
Yeah, people in my circle were starting to get some heavy flu around early 2020, around late January 2020 if I remember correctly. I myself caught the flu around early March. Covid test kit was still rare at that time period so I just stay at home. Not sure if I that was covid or not, the only way to find out is probably by doing antibody test which I'm reluctant to do as I'll have to visit a hospital for that. Hospitals here are closing their non-essential services to try to limit the number of people going in and out of the hospital.
I agree that once I stopped being ego driven, quality went up. Weirdly this also happened when I stopped worrying about my career, I got better at doing my job (less stress)
Your wiki is stupid cool. Love the layout and look and content. Just thought I'd let you know.
Dude, it's just English speaking people, basically.

So yes, everyone else has it. And it's not like everything else is a nightmare dystopia...
It seems entirely "fair play" (and even desirable) to me to exclude from the voting rolls anyone who is not actually eligible to vote per the election rules.

While I'd prefer the election commission do this investigative work to keep the lists clean, I'm fine with anyone who goes and does it. (I am unaffiliated with either major party.)

Is there a genuine public interest served by not performing this data cleansing and allowing ineligible voters to cast ballots?
The landlord is selling:

- A month (or year) of time in the apartment for cost $x.

- An option on purchasing more time for cost $y/time unit.

What these "tricks" do is make $x less than $y. That makes sense in the short term when you expect to be able demand higher rent/unit time in the future. When that expectation is no longer likely, it makes sense to lower $y to $x because other landlords will, and they will have less turnover (costs) and the same amount of income.
Agreed, but the intention appears to serve as a launchpad for digging into the rules yourself. Links to original sources would make this much easier of course.

Thanks for the link to Ganssle’s blog. I’ll be sure to have a read today.
The actions of the police officers was an atrocity. However I think the Milgram experiments have more to say for this than racism. Free speech ‘ain’t about the speech that is acceptable , it’s about protecting that which is despicable. As for underlying causes for the riots: government bailouts, financialisation, destruction of the American dream, welfare dependence, media sewn division of racism but not actual racism. Where is the data to support anything but equal social progress of local born African American’s on average visa vi “whites”? Where is the data to show that skin colour matters in America, despite Asian American’s and Nigerian American’s exceeding economic outcomes of average American’s by significant double digits levels?
If your device doesn't change the way your customer does business, why bother?

Every truly successful device will be used for purposes you didn't dream of when you first created it.
> The burden is necessary given the proliferation of bad actors

But the bad actors don't really abuse technical standards. They abuse links. The only part in Google's list of criteria that has largely remained untouched in the last two decades and is still the factor for ranking. So much so, that I'm confident that, if ranking factor relevance was a search result, the first page would just be the same result over and over: Links.

That's the reason for the centralization of power: those with more links will be ranked on the top, will have more visibility and, you guessed it, get more links. Guess what happens: they then start to sell either links or they rent out subdomains and folders on their website.

Google, as a company, does not care about bad actors. Some teams in Google do, but they are not the ones setting the policies.
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> Are you planning a murder?

I am not, but personally I think planning to commit a crime should not be a crime until you act on it and it becomes "attempted".

> For example, the kind of person who thinks that it can only be called free speech if it's completely unbridled. As if every right has to be absolutely limitless in order for it to be considered a right.

Yes, I think that would be counterproductive. I think the discussion should try to find where this line is, and in this specific case, if platforms have any additional duties aside from dealing with what would be actually illegal. On this front, I think the problem is less about what additional kinds of speech should be regulated, but more towards the ability on social networks to basically force yourself in front of other people who don't want to interact with you, something which I don't consider a right at all.
Oh my, if people are so surprised and "demand to know the truth™ " about a single, shitty, over-leveraged company - let's wait for the rest of the year and then 2021 for all the other bankruptcies to unwind. The "middle class" will be ripping all of their hair from their heads.

Just ~two months ago they couldn't sell even the treasuries! The best credit paper in the whole world! Corpses will be flying left right and center, you don't just pretend things like that never happened and continue happily ever after.

It is always the same reason: too much money/credit. It was the same in 2008, it was the same in 2000, it was the same in 1987 (okay, maybe this one was more on the "quants" of the day with their insured portfolios), it was the same in 1968, it was the same in 1929, it was the same in 2012 in Europe, it was the same in Japan in the 80s, etc. It's literally that simple: too much money = problems down the line. The only variables are how much is too much (above all time highs in corporate debt is almost certainly too much) and how much more down the line (seems the treasury bond market cannot be much more clear on this issue; also look at the GDP prints and projections).
I have no idea what Icahn is or isn't responsible for, but when you say "every other company in the sector uses the same kind of debt" it's obviously failing to address the topic at hand being Hertz failing unlike other companies in the sector. People I think are reasonably sensible and not particularly out to blame Icahn seem to think something was different about their debt. Something was obviously different about something.
If your systems are cattles [0] your case holds. If not, your method won't work on the long term.

Also, preseeding can do much more than ansible/salt/puppet. It can produce %100 reproducible systems under 5 minutes.

Case in point:
I manage a cluster and our deployments are managed by XCAT [1]. I just enter the IP addresses, the OS I want (CentOS or Debian), and some small details in 5 minutes. With three commands, I power up the machines and in 15 minutes ~200 servers are installed the way I want, with the OS I want, identically and with no risk to drift into anything.

The magic? XCAT generates Kickstart/Preseed files and instead of pushing a minion and blasting through the installation, it configures them properly. Some compilation and other stuff is done with off the shelf scripts we have written over the years. More stable and practical than trying to stabilize a salt recipe/pillar set or an ansible playbook.

I only re-install a server if its disks are shot or it somehow corrupts itself (which happens once a year per ~500 servers due to some hw glitch or something).

The new ways are cool, but they don't replace the old methods. You're free to choose the one you like most.

[0]: https://www.engineyard.com/blog/pets-vs-cattle

[1]: https://xcat-docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
I read the article and saw the video. I'm answering to the comment talking about the general problems of the approach.
That's funny, I'm an IT professional now and I'd like to one day own a farm.
Yeah, that one was me :) All Clear is my latest attempt. It's a hard nut to crack.
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For many of us, when we went to STEM we finally found our tribe and became social as hell.
Just yesterday I reported two posts on Twitter calling to shoot democrats in the head. If you want to see some examples right now you can search for any political imageboard or spend a few minutes on Twitter, it's not rare at all.

Thanks for the answers.
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> the imagery and emotion will remain

People have short memories.

> Just like 3-mile Island effectively put an end to nuclear energy in the U.S. even though it was an isolated incident

Construction cost killed nuclear.