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Yes, they look a little... phallic?

I enjoyed the lore surrounding the design though, how the gravity wave tech is used to create shields that are unfortunately less strong on the sides of the ship. This of course leads to great Horatio Hornblower style naval broadside battles. And I really dig the driven-by-war improvements in technology, specifically missiles.

A similar space-navy-sci-fi series is the Lost Fleet series by Jack Campbell (pen name of John G Hemry, retired US Navy). First book is called Dauntless, and I highly, seriously highly recommend everyone read the whole series: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112292.Dauntless
Do you think people have the right to use violence for self defense? If so, who can people defend themselves from? Who can't they defend themselves from?
> Obviously it becomes a problem when rental income disappears at the same time depreciation increases because of a depressed used car market. Hertz clearly didn’t plan for that. But breathlessly calling out the headline debt number without acknowledging that vehicle debt is a reasonable strategy for a rental car company is misleading at best.

This seems contradictory—if it can’t survive in an emergency, it doesn’t seem like a reasonable strategy.
This was reasonably common for our office-based employees in better times. I expect it will be even more common when we re-open our offices.
My personal blog also ditched GA and uses an alternative tool without cookies. Admittedly, it's harder for businesses whose management is steadily being replaced by analytics.
I think the slow-and-steady branding is kind of funny when the competition appears to be fast-and-steady.
“Your Patreon is a business. Act like it.”

Ouch. Marketing copy like this doesn’t endear me to /any/ product or service. Unless (maybe) it’s intentionally trying to be cheeky.
let's see what they did:

* They arrested a number of people exercising their constitutional right to protest. In this case police abuse.

* Stated they were going to war with the mayor - after all he's is not 100% in support of them having no consequences for their illegal actions.

* Then deliberately published as widely as possible the details of his daughter specifically

Given their ability to completely control every aspect of this, it's clearly intended to achieve the same result of doxxing: if you don't do what we say, we will deliberately put your family's life in potential danger.

NYPD union is a gang. Every officer who supports this action, or any of the brutality and constitutional abuses by the NYPD is complicit, and are criminals who should be in jail.
It really depends. Sometimes it's a matter of figuring out which startup script controls X default setting.
I'm an author.

Anyone know the most effective way for me to protest this with my publishers?
Debian has ~60,000 packages and it'd be pretty impractical-to-impossible to cover them all in a single book. This handbook is about the really common tasks--even most of the specifics it goes into, such as with mail servers, LDAP, etc, they have alternative packages and implementations in Debian that aren't covered.

Thankfully, most packages are very well-documented, you can usually browse around /usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE to see the upstream documentation and possibly any Debian-specific information. HTML and PDF versions of documentation tend to be in an independent $PACKAGE-doc package, so as to keep the main package rather small.
Conda is a great tool.

But it forks the ecosystem, twice:

First, Conda packages have to be maintained separately from PyPI packages.

Second, the "default" repo is maintained by Anaconda, but the community maintained Conda Forge repo is also separate, and officially the packages in one are not compatible with the packages in the other. (In practice they usually play nice).

Having three incompatible package repos is not ideal.
Good site. Thanks for the link.
Qualified immunity wouldn't protect a DMV agent (or other bureaucrat) depriving you of your rights in violation of the law.

It only protects a government employee who makes a discretionary decision as part of their normal duties. This might mean they get it wrong, but if they can show their decision was reasonable and (where relevant) pursuant to a process established by the agency, that's fine. In that case, the problem is the process not the employee, and so the proper defendant is the agency not the employee that is simply following procedures set forth by the agency.
But the prosecutors shouldn't have such a relationship with the police in the first police.

- While the (especially Anglo-American) courtroom is adversarial, prosecutors shouldn't be at all compensated (money, promotion, etc.) by who they lock up. Something based on future crime rates would be much better.

- Rather than DA's needing the police, the police should need the DA. Arresting someone that isn't convicted should reflect very poorly on the police.

That side, both groups are badly in need of complete replacement, which makes it hard to talk how they ought to work together when the real "ought" goes so much further
I have always wondered what Han was dreaming while frozen in carbonite for 6 months.
>citizens don't have the right to use violence against each other

Do people have the right to self defense? Are police legally obligated to keep you safe?

>there is absolutely no way American citizens could fight their own police and their own army

Please tell me the last time America won a war against a militia or insurrection embedded in the civilian population.
Indeed. I discussed this with a bunch of my GPU buddies, and we came to the conclusion that this code is not safe in the face of lack of forward progress guarantees. Also, shameless self-promotion, I have an extensive discussion of GPU forward progress in my recent blog: https://raphlinus.github.io/gpu/2020/04/30/prefix-sum.html
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> struggling to get Python installed and into their `PATH` ... it's frankly still amateur hour over there

But that has been solved on Windows for quite a while hasn't it?

Python installs the "py" launcher on the path, which allows you to run whichever version you want of those you have installed. Just type "py" instead of "python". Or "py -3.5-32" to specifically run 32-bit Python 3.5, or "py -0" to list the available versions.
Personally I just try to avoid Python development because I hate feeling like I'm dealing with what should be a solved problem. Recently I had to work with an outdated Python Tensorflow framework and the only way we could get it to work correctly across different dev and deployment machines was with a fat Docker image that took hours of head scratching to build. It was miserable.
I think that level of disillusionment is a bit dangerous, because I've seen people starting to support the Chinese way of governance because they say the American one is broken.
It might seem strange, but they are using a change/build/deploy mechanism designed to deliver updates to any and all parts of an OS across a range of hardware devices.

I'm pretty sure the mechanism, from end-to-end, is complex, and providing an optimized path for small changes would require resources, introduce more risk, and come at the expense of something else.

Sucks, though, for everyone who doesn't have a reasonably fast or reliable internet connection.
I was supposing that civil suits might be filed for actions that would not otherwise be prosecuted under criminal proceedings. If it is easier to hold the police accountable in these small issues, then it may not be as necessary for larger issues.

But you are right that civil suits can also be filed for serious crimes.
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Top tweet reply Twitter fed me was on point -

Replying to @rustlang

"The world is bigger than just the USA."

There are a lot of problems in the world, Syria pops into mind or a billion people who can't fully feed their kids.

But they are not a viral Twitter sensation. Gotta be 'cool'
That's a good question, it's why, for example, Bloomberg Media is still private.

The only two reasons I can think of are:

It gives your employees a cash out plan if you used RSUs/Options/Ownership in the company as an incentive for hiring.

Some businesses benefit from going public by it adding credibility (and open financial books). Some very large enterprises (Fortune 100, major governments) tend to look more preferably to publicly traded companies so it makes sense for the business to go public to go after these customers.

There are also ways to defend against "public involvement" in publicly traded companies that have been around forever. Look at Facebook and the NYT's stock class structure, for example.

It's also finally easier to get liquidity when you aren't desperate for it, and the public markets position you for it in a good way.
I was on a thread with a cop in Nashville who was feeling hurt about all cops being painted with a negative brush, then I brought up how bad unions are and he literally asked me if I was in law enforcement... he then went off on how bad unions are.

Police unions are immoral institutions at this point. Between unions, qualified immunity and the DA PD conflict of interest there is literally no garbage collection for cops.

The whole immune system apparatus is gone. Each of those three pieces need to be clawed back, too many perverse incentives and too much on the line for an individual cop to report or antagonize a psycho coworker.
There is a great deal of evidence that police officers are much more violent than the general population, including the oft-referred-to "Police Family Violence Fact Sheet". http://womenandpolicing.com/violenceFS.asp
Sorry, you're right that Uber would have to do more than lay off engineering staff. It would also have to scale down marketing, promotions, etc. This would of course screw over any long term growth prospects they might have. But my general point still stands — if it were not for chasing growth, Uber is just barely profitable right now.

The original article cites revenue numbers without understanding the business fundamentals. In Uber's case, its 2019 losses are severely misleading. $3.6 billion of those losses were losses associated with performance-based equity compensation around its IPO [1, p. 55]. According to GAAP, they losses for 2019, but in reality they should be amortized across the previous few years.

The costs associated with engineers (I assume "research and development") are listed as $4.8 billion. This means by just cutting engineering Uber still is in the hole by around $3.7 billion per year. But if you throw away all the engineers, your growth prospects are screwed anyway, so you might as well throw away most of marketing as well ($4.6 billion), at which point you're in the green by $0.5 billion [1, p. 64]. You could also save much of the $0.5 billion you're spending on administrative overhead, so maybe Uber is profitable by $1 billion or so.

[1] https://s23.q4cdn.com/407969754/files/doc_financials/2019/ar...
I agree. htm in my eyes in a mix between JSX and templates, and does strike a good balance.
The immunity enjoyed by Legislators is similar to but distinct from the Qualified Immunity enjoyed by government employees.

In the case of Federal Legislators, their immunity is written into the constitution explicitly.

No such explicit provision exists for government employees.
Experiment: try applying the First Sale Doctrine to digital music, video, and software downloads.
It’s a service which even if being operated in compliance with local laws has a negative cost to the rest of the neighborhood through higher issues with noise, trash, parking, etc. There are reasons why hotels aren’t spread randomly around cities.
I thought this was a great answer on how computerization has affected rocket design. We basically went from a big, dumb, single-use, on/off rocket, to something that could be restarted multiple times and throttled over a huge range. We're able to simulate the entire chaotic combustion processes as well with compute power that was unimaginable in the 1960s when the Saturn V rockets were designed.
> But, my point is that SCOTUS has little reason to take these cases and risk being overruled by Congress.

Well, it's got one big reason: to clarify the basis of the doctrine, particularly, whether (and, if so, to what extent) QI for discretionary acts not covered by absolute immunity is, as IIRC absolute immunity itself is held to be, of Constitutional character and thus not subject to legislative nullification.
You would think so, yet Scientology managed to use this exact tactic (suing individual IRS agents) to get away with not paying many millions of dollars in taxes.

This would imply the tactic works (and that IRS agents probably need more protection too).

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-08-13-mn-861-st...
How come other tools don't just replicate successful models?
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Unfortunately, when I tried it, it made the media keys stop working entirely, not just stopping Music from opening.
I have anecdotal evidence in the other direction, but here is the oft-referred-to "Police Family Violence Fact Sheet". http://womenandpolicing.com/violenceFS.asp

Here is a really brilliant Reddit comment that covers a broad survey of studies that broadly support my point: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskSocialScience/comments/b9fkny/is...
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And the IA followed that rule too but opened up wider access with an "Emergency" library once lockdowns due to COVID-19 were put in place.
Can they not buy insurance for this?
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I mentioned this in another thread, but I’ve heard the idea of putting cops on rotations similar to military deployments.

I don’t think a cop can psychologically hold up being on the street for years on end without losing some perspective. The job fundamentally blasts you with the worst of people, and it’s easy to develop a rotten world view if measures are not taken to handle that input.

A maximum limit of X months per year on the street or something, the other half in some other duty.

My take on the Floyd murder was there was definitely an element of a power complex that the cop devolved into over years.
> I don't know what they were thinking. I'd love to hear how they arrived at the decision to just brazenly flout copyright law like this.

In a previous HN discussion [0], @Apocryphon linked to [1] speculation on a possible explanation: that the IA leadership is perhaps hoping for a landmark court ruling [2] that challenges the first-sale doctrine as it applies to ebooks.

Physical books can be lent out freely by libraries but digital goods like ebooks cannot because they are exempted from the first sale doctrine [3]. This forces libraries to enter into separate licensing agreements with rights holders, which is why the IA is purportedly trying to challenge the rent extraction from libraries, albeit in a less than ideal way.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22731472

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22734145

[2] https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1244257620548038656.html?...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine#Applicatio...
I should have said that it's the best in my opinion. I think people from different backgrounds do prefer different methods, for example Vue seems very popular with PHP.
Oh. My bad. Thanks for pointing that out.
Let's not get confused. The top execs are getting screwed in an "I didn't get my free ice cream" kind of way. The rank and file are getting screwed in an "I lost my job/pension and now I can't afford my home or food" kind of way.
Posting because I don't see the word Enterprise anywhere in this thread!
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> Once I heard Facebook's logic... I actually found it compelling. I think it's good we have social media companies that don't all agree with one another and act as a single entity. That would be scary.

I don't think any reasonable human being will argue with that.

The problem are a lot of other practices of Facebook, like the lack of privacy and all sleazy corporate lingo and lobbyist pressure they utilize to never actually have to be a privacy-first company.

And that's not even touching their experiment with free Facebook traffic in India, simply branded as "Internet" which, predictably, led many people to believe that Facebook is the internet. (And surprising no one, this was stopped only after a big wave of negative PR.)
I'm willing to bet you more than a beer that a large share of people under rent-control are high earners.
I think that works when you use Python cli tools, but not when you're working on 5 different projects, each running different python version.
Are NAM forecasts available or just GFS?

For historical data, can you get historical forecasts as well as actuals?
One wonders why any of these big companies hire consultants like Accenture. It's basically giving them a license to steal. They would probably be better off finding a scrappy startup trying to compete with them with technology and copying their modern systems, spending their efforts in write code to migrate data from the legacy systems to the modern ones.
I was pretty sure we're still in the context of CS, which tends to be pretty lucrative.
Interesting. Link for the lazy: https://www.google.com/search?q=Honorverse&client=firefox-b-...

They look like merge between a capsule and a dumbbell. Could you describe which direction does they generally move. I see that the weapons array seem to be on a longer side. What function do the wider parts on ends are for, propulsion?
There is no right for equal treatment for a construction company to be chosen by a developer.
If the government is the"developer", you regularly see lawsuits.
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You should try not to be easily swayed by whataboutism.
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Assets in general are a good idea when a currency is being devalued.

Midwest real estate I’ve acquired offers cash flow you can’t find on the coasts but no hope of appreciation. To each their own.
I doubt that they could or would dare to reuse one onscrubbed, but it could still be fun to put one one the ramp painted in that used look. Perhaps one side gleaming white, the other "this is not my first rodeo"?
Since when is using manifests a revolutionary idea? It's been used over a year in Julia for package management. IMO this whole thing blew out and feels like an unjustified mob mentality to attack MSFT over some trivial technology borrow. It also feels like we are not getting the full story, only Keivan's side, who is obviously trying to steer the narrative in one direction. For example, what actually happened in the interview?
I think that in order to determine if a shooting was justified, you must determine if the victim was committing a crime. That should be the standard. If you kill someone who was not committing a crime, you should be punished, regardless of what you believed at the time or what police department policy you are following.
Likely to be more than one day. If they are fired over this act, it will be terrible PR. So, it still has an effect and can encourage other employees to follow suit.
Progress need not be stopped or crippled because something sucks somewhere. In fact, progress should be focused on, in spite of the suck.
It's impossible to know the specifics of your passenger's case, obviously, but claiming things like "the search was probably illegal" is fairly common. Did they provide any reason for the supposedly illegality? A police officer's power to search is a fairly well trodden part of the law.
Suing the department just means the taxpaying public (who are generally the injured party in the first place) end up paying more in taxes to cover the cost of the lawsuits and the police department continues unscathed.
Not related to the topic but seeing this posted under my username this caused me a LOT of confusion until I counted the number of times the letter “A” occurred.
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Rules of engagement:

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ending-excessive-pol...

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