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> The MLK quote is trotted out pretty often, but "a riot is the language of the unheard".

Does anyone really believe this applies in this case? Lots of protesters are openly condemning the riots as "patently not about justice but only personal greed and appetite for violence".

> The problem here is not the violence, but a policing system that is so fundamentally damaged and has not been effectively reformed fast enough.

Both? I don't understand this "either or" mentality. "Why is everyone condemning the riots instead of condemning Floyd's murder?" Literally everyone is condemning Floyd's murder. Even the police unions are condemning Floyd's murder. It's the one thing everyone agrees on. Murderer was arrested and charged. The "debate" is about the merits of burning/looting/shooting-up communities (with an apparent preference for poor, minority communities) on top of the criminal prosecution.
I replied below to the other person saying the same thing. In California this is not the law, but they should check their lease.
> speculative cash-flow negative rental properties

Usually that means rents aren't enough to cover the mortgages.

Example: Buy a house for $2 million. Mortgage, taxes, upkeep, insurance, pushing toward 100K a year. But there is no chance at all you are going to be able to get $8K/month rent to cover that.

Long term rental property owners, on the other hand, are doing very very well even if they don't sell.
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The Federal criminal law analogue of 42 USC 1983 is 18 USC 242 ("deprivation of rights under color of law"). It probably doesn't surprise anyone to hear that referrals to prosecute under 242 have steadily declined over the years, regardless of the party of the administration.
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pip install <package>

works even on iPhone (for pure Python packages in Pythonista for iOS)
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With a lag, and it really depends on the area and how many people benefit from money printing. If the scheme is QE like in europe, the housing prices will not gain as much as the market prices in low to middle-class area.
why do you need me content indefinitely? Shouldn't I have the right to remove my content especially if it's inaccurate?
Please don't post content from CNN, they are too often misleading or misrepresenting truth

Case in point, they are they only "news" org to have edited the George Floyd videos into new clip orderings

There are always better left perspective news sources
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The comment originally said it was the cost of a pointer copy, and I was pointing out it's not a pointer. eg., sizeof(std::map<std::string,std::string>) is 48, which is the "pointers and bookeeping" you mention.
I wonder why people renting their cars on Turo(or buying cars to do so) aren't causing car shortages? Oh yeah, because there aren't the artificial constraints on supply there is on housing. Let's focus on the problem and not wish ill on those trying to provide a useful service to others.
Amazon is also the apotheosis of the growth model tech companies build on. I was working in finance in the early 2010s, and it was then fashionable for analysts to point out that Amazon's classic profitability metrics were flashing red.

However, the Amazon model (and to a lesser extent the Uber model, etc.) was to continue penetration pricing as well as plowing every dime made over costs into growth. It made the company look overvalued but the share price was in retrospect justified.
> r_ch* p* tr* ph* * s* regularly engaged in the bullying of users and subs until they attacked the wrong person and got quarantined.

I'll admit I don't really understand the practice of censoring things that aren't clearly swear words from context, but in this case you've censored it so much (and I suspect thrown in spaces so Hacker News doesn't italicize bits of it) that I really have no idea what you're talking about.
Another approach is Webscript: https://mudgen.github.io/webscript/docs/
https://old.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/gu3qq1/cop_just_ca...

Do any of the people who got gassed in this video look like they are committing violence or destruction? The cop who tossed the gas grenade is certainly committing violence, but that's about all I can see.

> I'm not a tough person, I'm not an aggressive person, I'm not a violent person. I was just standing there quietly alongside other peaceful protestors. I wanted desperately for the police to prove us wrong and show compassion and a desire to serve and protect the people. I was speaking gently to the officer who shoved me back before this...trying to look him in the face through his gas mask...telling him my name, about my wife and my family. I don't know why really.

> Then this gas was dropped and it went to hell. I was already blind within seconds. I couldn't breathe, I couldn't see. When I opened my eyes the smoke was too thick anyway to see a way out. I shouted that I couldn't breathe several times. The police just told me to move. I yelled, "Where?" with my last breath, but no help. I stumbled through the gas. The whole time in a complete panic. I could not breathe, and my involuntary response when the gas hit was to push all the air out of my lungs. I felt like I would collapse within seconds, and nearly did.

> Somehow I got out, after going a couple blocks through the smoke. I was nauseous, I had vomit in my mouth. Snot poured from my face. I still couldn't breathe. Every instinct told me not to breathe, but I figured I needed to get the gas out of my lungs, and I forced some breath.

> I stumbled away for the next 30 minutes, trying to get home. Some kind people gave me milk to pour in my eyes and face to help with the burns. Someone sprayed me with baking soda and water. As I was leaving, I saw more and more people coming down silently to join the protests.

> It's the next day, about 20 hours later. I still feel the tear gas in my lungs. It still burns.

> Not being able to breathe is the most terrifying experience of my life. A little fucking ironic, isn't it, to have the police forcing tens to hundreds of protestors to not be able to breathe at this protest?

It is going to be an us versus them, because not a single cop broke line, to do anything about the one who threw the grenade. They are making this an us versus them, because they stand as a united block, protecting their own, regardless the circumstances.

The job of a peace officer is to de-escalate the situation. Not a single one of them in the video is de-escalating the situation. One of them is committing assault, and the rest are standing there, watching.
Fake news--they asked for evidence relating to illegal (i.e., criminal) activities.

A riot shouldn't make murder and theft "freebies".
> As pioneers in dependency management

Maybe a noob question, but how come they are pioneers? Weren't there languages with package systems before Python and JS?
I wonder if things would be better if there was some mandatory thing like jury duty where you had to go meet and hang out for an hour with a different randomly picked person every a month at some center where they'd have something for you to do so it's not 100% awkward.

I realize that's a terrible idea, but not sure of any way of changing people's attitudes towards each other when they'd rather stick to their little groups and believe the worst about everyone else.
>I see in another of your posts you said something to the effect of "If (protests) become violent, don't be surprised when (the police) respond with violence."

You must have me confused with someone else. I've never made a comment like that.
> I have my serious doubts. Spending large amounts of money wisely or blowing it wildly can look the same (HS2?) but the outcome is different.

Austerity takes money out of a contracting economy making the situation worse, creating a vicious cycle, and whats worse hollowing out govt services (NHS, policing, education). Austerity is dangerous on a number of levels.

> Is this any different from a person getting indebted on a credit card? Honest question.

Yes, its completely different. Debt creates a liability, it needs to be paid back.

Monetary financing - aka helicopter money - is precisely the opposite.

The central bank "prints" money: it can be credited to the govt's account, or the CB can directly credit household bank accounts with money created from thin air. No new liabilities are created.

The problems with monetary financing is that it can get addictive; its use outside of situations of extreme economic distress is the biggest risk with its use.
The mega-REITS who bought all the affordable apartments in the bay area deserve what is coming to them. I rented a slummy 500 sq ft apartment (literal roaches in the kitchen) in Mountain View for $2000/month back in 2015 and just last fall, fully 3 years after moving out, I got a shakedown letter from them demanding I pay up some $300 "overdue balance" or else they fuck up my credit score. This is the first I ever heard of it. Of course I paid because my credit is worth a lot more to me than $300, but I was just thinking about how somebody in a less privileged position would feel getting a notice like that.
This is not true at all, I regularly rent Airbnbs in major American cities for less than a quarter of what a basic hotel room would cost in the same location. The AirBnbs are a lot larger and nicer too.

It gets even better when you split the cost with people. I can get a full, nice house in a great location in LA for a little over $200 a night all in and split it with 5 friends. I would have to get a hotel penthouse for the experience to be even close.

And yes, the fact that it's so cheap does significantly increase the appetite for weekend trips for people my age. The housing part of the trip goes from a major expense to almost an afterthought.
Maybe the market downturn can account for why these bonuses are less than we normally see. But these are senior execs we're talking about; it is not uncommon for them to switch industries. Their job specialty is managing a company, not renting cars. The current Hertz CEO has only been in the car rental industry for two years.
It was. But the key thing in Athens Republic was not the sortition itself, but the controls put in place to guarantee that "chosen" representatives were doing a good job.

Being chosen after sortition was not a fun thing, it was a heavy burden to bare. Representatives were held accountable for their decisions. Their private life basically became public to ensure that they would not be bought by "lobbys".

A lot of people are usually taken aback by sortition because they think the goal is to randomly pick a dictator. They are still representatives, and with not a lot of power actually. The people in Athens were still voting their laws directly.
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I do see your point, the problem is that most free-to-play games do have in-game purchases, and the impact on the gameplay is somewhat discussable since each game have their own mechanics that they keep changing it in each update...
I think labeling the two sides as fundamentally incompatible is a real danger and quite possible a symptom of the two parties and not it's cause. I see enough similarity between the actions of both parties (maybe not as much their rhetoric) that I think if there is incompatibility, there is a deeper reason for it then "muh beliefs".
>I don't know anybody who learned math or physics outside of a college classroom.

I think the vast majority has technically learned maths and physics outside the college classroom. The teaching quality I'm getting at my university isn't the greatest (bar a few exceptions), and I find myself regularly going to Khan Academy or 3blue1brown to understand a concept better. This is learning outside the classroom!

In a lot of ways, I find universities to be assessment centres and certificate issuers. Not in all ways of course, certain aspects such as labs, coordination of group projects, someone to ask questions to get back to you instantly, are all things which cannot be replaced in any circumstance. But when it comes to the dry theoretical stuff, I'm not sure why I would go to a lecture if I know I can get a better quality of teaching somewhere else online.

Of course this is only true for a few subjects (maths and entry level physics/engineering). I unfortunately have to rely on the lectures provided for the more specialist modules I'm being assessed on (such as heat transfer and chemical engineering principles). This is mainly so that I can comply with the teacher's specific assessment criteria and the terminology/definitions/textbook/ordering they use. I may be able to find heat transfer explanations somewhere else online, and they probably would explain things better, but they wouldn't help much when it came time to use the terminology that the lecturer expects you to use during an assessment, or if you're expected to use the equation sheet that the teacher made for you and expects you to use.
> National Geographic also covered the launch, and its footage incorporated some of the NASA content. Then things got stupid.

> By Sunday, the archival NASA video was no longer available to view, Twitter users spotted, because of a copyright claim from National Geographic.
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Not to mention that the communities they are destroying don't have a great tax base to begin with. After destroying businesses and property its going to shrink even more.
Good note, you are correct, my California lease says the same thing. Previous leases in other states were specific about giving notice but this one does not. In my opinion, this is worse for the renter than the landlord as the landlord can choose not to accept your month-to-month rent offer at the last minute leaving you stranded. I prefer the notice from either party route.
I received "An unexpected error occurred".
I don't even believe Trump was glorifying violence, but calling him out as if he did sure could rally the people who are actually starting the violence against innocent businesses and civilians. Too bad Twitter doesn't have to govern themselves.

Trump's tweet showed he was concerned, not glorifying. If he wanted to glorify it, he would probably say something more along the lines of "Get in line or we will use our GREAT guns and military and open fire on you thugs." He also wouldn't need riots as an excuse to tweet about such things.

Zuckerberg is supporting freedom of speech when his company didn't have to choose to.
He is correct that censoring only worsens the problem and it removes opportunities to improve the situation. If Trump were censored, people would not know him or what he is doing as well as they do now. Amidst all the risk to MZ's company and the violence happening around us, his decision is highly courageous and respectable as he is serving the American people and their rights, even though he said himself that he doesn't like what Trump said.
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pipenv is terrible. poetry ain't there yet. seems author forgot to mention the problems with pipenv and poetry. virtualenv + pip will take you far. then to reproduce pipe to requirements.txt.
poetry etc are still using pip under the hood
> No REIT drops rents; instead, they offer "$0 deposit", "no rent for the first 45 days", etc.

Is this true in markets where people can legally squat for months? Or as in Seattle where landlords are required to indiscriminately house the first qualified applicant? $0 deposit would make this very exploitable.
>The failure after the riots

It would appear that you in fact made my point for me.
Corn and wheat are essential food items. There is no "digital alternative" to corn and wheat. No one should need to buy a physical book/newspaper in this day and age.

These wood pulp tree farms are producing luxury consumption items for the middle and upper class. Working class people don't read physical newspapers
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I do return a proxy. It's just readonly. I really like the unidirectional data flow and explicit read write segregation of react. This adds so much control without having to add Framework like control mechanisms. I know it isn't easy, but it something that makes the solution elegant in the end. I think that passing data should also mean the choice of passing the ability to update it. That is a problem I have with almost all reactive implementations in libraries today. I think React has that part just right.
Agreed. I'm hoping JSX (or another JS-first approach) becomes the de-facto standard for frameworks. Svelte seem interesting but giving up JSX is too much to ask. A framework like Svelte that "compiles away" the JSX would be worth looking at.
The shareholders that matter are all on the same team. There's no way other shareholders would have let Icahn direct $57m from their collective pocket to his own 3rd party businesses unless they were getting a cut.
A company does not have any interests since it's not sentient. A company serves different stakeholders, most importantly, customers, employees (which includes management) and owners, which for large companies is typically an enormous and diverse group, including VC, activists, passive absentee owners and usually also management.

Your story that some activist or VCs don't act in the "companies" interest doesn't make much sense. At most you could say that some owners have different interests than others.