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I was observing the BLM protest in DT Renton today.

The Renton PD seemed to employ a "out of plain sight" approach.

Patrol vehicles strategically placed, a few uniform officers were near occassionally chatting with protestors, and patrol vehicles driving by the scene.

At one point a team of bicycle cops appeared out of no where rode through along side the protestors.

Each "side" seemed to be respectful of each other.

The approach of the Renton Police Department not antagonizing the protestors had it's intended effect--the protestors protested peacefully. In fact, when police vehicles flashed lights, or chirped sirens in support of the protestors, the protestors cheered in support back.
Here's a few lists of reasons for why SWEs might want a union:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15248774

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8498324

commandlinefan 3 months ago [–]

Well, there’s a lot of philosophizing on here about what a hypothetical future with unionized programmers might look like; some good, some bad. We already know what a future without one will look like: open offices, JIRA ticket quotas, unpaid overtime, permanent contract work, whiteboard coding interviews, penalties for experience and education and zero training.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22359605

And a rather prophetic comment:

LarryDarrell 10 months ago [–]

My worry is that without premature organization, the next recession is going to make the "tech worker shortage" a permanent thing of the past. We'll never have as much negotiating power as we do now.

If say there was a Tech Workers Union/Guild/Association, we might have been able to protect the older workers at IBM, or the outsourced workers at Disney. Maybe there could be a push back against open offices and poorly implemented Agile. As it is, we're just better compensated workers floating from job to better job.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20384298
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> Thought experiment: imagine politician X tweeted "[i]n order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must be intolerant of intolerance" in response to a supposed war on Christmas or war on white people.

I mean, if those things were actually happening, they'd be right. Otherwise it's just sealioning.
What you're quoting is in turn a response to someone basically saying the military should be deployed because "antifa" has been "designated as a terrorist organization". In this context, "designating as enemy" is a rather polite description of that, and you can't just take issue with what they said and ignore what it's a reply to.

> People who oppose fascism and violence may call antifa an enemy for the violence committed and espoused in antifa's name.

Great, but can they either a.) bring that up on their own, or at least b.) pay attention to the context they attach this complaint to?

Unless you want to make the case for labeling antifa a terrorist organization, what you may "call enemy" or "disagree with" some or all aspects of what you may or may not consider antifa is simply not relevant. The strong ["antifa is a terrorist organization"] has been made, it's on the table; and you're defending an infinitely weaker claim nobody even hinted at disagreeing with, apropos nothing.
It would reduce his reach but it would not prevent him from writing these messages and publishing them, or interested people from finding them (pretty much everyone would know they can follow @donaldtrump@whitehouse.gov from one of the free speech Mastodon instances or whatever within a day), so I don't really see what the problem is. It's just that he wouldn't be promoted by Twitter.
I'm sorry, but you're going to have to be specific. Saying "antifa" does not imply a singular group. The same way "KKK" does not imply a singular group.
Zettelkasten looks like a blogging system for notes, isn't it? Write a piece of notes and tagging it.
I'd assume it is like vapor from onions, which seems to be mostly drawn towards your face because it has a nose sucking air in the middle of it.
Great points, I’ll follow up via email!
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Some parts of Western Washington might fit your criteria. Maybe Western Oregon as well and Northern California. I mean north of the Bay Area and towards the coast -- temps are more extreme the further inland you go. Large parts of Northern California, Oregon and Washington have a lot of nature -- national forests, etc.
There is still the Posse Comitatus Act, which limits the use of the military for domestic purposes.
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> They also don't make it clear that advanced summon is basically useless outside the US, because it only works when you're within 10 meters of the car.

Hmm, is >10m a geoblocked feature or is <10m somehow more useful in US than elsewhere?
The sense I get of it is that he is making excuses for looting behavior.
Legal documents have cross-references to annexes/addendums. In addition, some words used are defined in the definitions section.

For contracts, there is a customary order, you start with subject of the contract and end with force majeure, severability, term etc.

I don’t believe there is a hyperlinked inherent structure in legal documents. Skilled lawyers can of course draft a meaningful, concise document. But, I think that’s analogous to a skilled programmer writing clear and understandable code.

Most lawyers I know dread formatting and checking for cross-refs.

However, I think we do have one quality, we are used to subconsciously analyze sentences for ambiguities, double meanings, logical contradictions etc. Therefore, lawyers may use English in a way that would do the least harm (or most harm depending on which side they’re on :)).

If we figured out natural language processing or (even if very unlikely) switched our legal documents to an unambigious context-free language such as Lojban, lawyers’ jobs could be entirely automated.

I suspect that impressively structured legal documents stem from templates that have been perfected over the years by multiple lawyers, battle-tested by actual use.

That’s my impression being a junior associate and normally doing the grunt work of checking cross-refs and formatting contracts.
Yeah I agree entirely on Pychaem debugger being awesome. But it’s no substitute for logging in production. Somethings just need to be logged, either for proof or those situations where you just can’t reasonably attach a Pycharm debugger.
If you have full text search you still have to know what to search for. With links the connection will still be there even if you forget about it.
I'm seeing many videos of police doing things like attacking journalists, beating their own cars so that they can later blame the protestors or videos of police unloading bricks from their pickup.

The problem is not de-escalation, is that the police is behaving in a criminal manner.
It's probably time for TheFacebook to die. Or just become a zombie like Yahoo. But here's the sad thing: Nobody will be sad when it happens.

If Apple died I'd be sad. Likewise Stitchfix and Digital Ocean and Github and Airbnb. Hell, maybe even Microsoft a little bit. But not Facebook or Google.

If I started a company one of my goals would be to create a lasting culture providing enough real value that at least a few people other than the employees would be sad when it died.
It wasn't too difficult to find, either (I think; untested): https://hiddenpalace.org/Propeller_Arena_(Sep_11,_2001_proto...

Despite the game's concept being entirely arcade-focused that prototype date makes me wonder if the plane focus had anything to do with the cancellation...
You guys seem to be growing quite well. I worked on a project for bob (scoreme) as lead backend engineer, pretty much integrating every service that runs in the background :)
Sure, but there's also culture and things go in and out of fashion and ideas go varying level of viral, too. I have certainly seen a post become popular and decide that an essay I read which has some passing similarity might likewise be too. So I post it, and someone links it on Facebook, and we run in similar internet circles and it hits you twice in different ways.
> how left wing protests seem to frequently degrade into violence

"The Women’s March on Washington was likely the largest single-day demonstration in recorded US history" and entirely free of violence.

> all Americans were outraged about Floyd’s death

"Outraged" is a strong term. "One more tragic item in the news which is quickly forgotten" is more accurate for most of white America.

> as soon as looting, fires, and violence starts

No longer forgotten, is what that achieves.
Perhaps you meant "prescribe" instead of "proscribe"? :)
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Interestingly many black protesters have attacked Antifa members for perpetuating violence, including one group who dragged a man dressed in Black Bloc attire to police.

There are people who are using the current events as an excuse to sow division and chaos, and Antifa groups are absolutely included.
Who would've thought that this would be the thing to bring White Nationalists and anti-Whites together?

A profoundly anti-White government in all forms of propaganda and law, being set upon by the Africans and brainwashed Whites they radicalised.

And we get to sit back with popcorn watching them pound each other into the turf (while still somehow managing to both blame White people).
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> The fact that it was used in '92 for riots means it will be hard to challenge.

I don't think there is any question about the constitutionality of the Act. I don't think there was any question about the constitutionality of the act in 1992 either. There might be a question about a particular application of it, however.

> I feel it is an afront to the Constitution and the founders' intent, though.

Article I, section 8 of the Constitution says Congress gets to deal with insurrection: "To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;"

Well, the Insurrection Act, passed a mere 20 years after the Constitution was written, before the last founder President, does exactly what the bit of the Constitution I quoted says. There had been revolts within Washington's presidency, which he himself put down in the field (not from his residence or office).

> Another reason the Second Amendment exists is so that citizens can remove their local police and protect themselves until they organize a new poloce force.

There was no police in 1787, or in 1807 for that matter. There was also no standing army. The militia was all there was, and the militia was just armed citizens. Certainly, many believe that the Second Amendment's purpose is to make feasible a revolt / tyranny difficult to impose, so in that sense you're right, but there was no police in 1807.
I'm very interested (slowly building up a library) in cold war espionage - no one does it better than the Russians. The present tense is not an oversight, the Lubyanka is still the tallest building in Moscow as the saying goes.

To me the Soviet Union represents this kind of philistinic failed experiment (Lenin was literate which therefore elevates him above Hitler?) come horror movie that is simultaneously terrifying and yet very fascinating.

One of the strangest things one finds in books about Soviet spies (double agents or not etc.) is that often the only photos of them in public taken with state blessing and thus surviving are those taken by the Soviet internal security services.

I find Soviet aircraft design quite interesting too, in the sense that even just in the cockpit designs you can see the work of designers making do with relatively limited budgets. In a flight simulator it becomes obvious that US planes are almost easy to use whereas Russian cockpits are one size fits all (i.e. training vs design costs)
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unfortunately i don't think detecting potential crash is that easy ( and i think it's part of the original problem).

eg in OP. There could also be other situation where autopilot think there's a problem when there's none.
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=emb_title&time_continue=... some of the collateral damage, if you can listen to this woman speak without feeling anything, then you don't have a soul.
The PCA has an explicit exception for use in accordance with the Insurrection Act. FYI.
Good questions, not sure I can answer satisfactorily :)

> Terrible compared to what?

Terrible compared to other available programming languages.

> What do you find a better language?

Lisps, Haskell, Erlang, Rust, but even eg Python, Ruby, C, Java.

> What makes a language terrible for you?

Allowing me to do unreasonable things and resulting in unreasonable behaviour. Eg JavaScript:

[] + {} == [object Object]

{} + [] == 0

> Is COBOL terrible or C Or Go?

Programming languages are products of their time and context.

When COBOL was created, it might've been the best there was. By now, I think COBOL can be considered worse than many alternatives. If someone decided to write a non-toy greenfield project in COBOL today, I'd be surprised and might question their sanity.

C has two things going for it: it's a simple language and it's close to the hardware. I wouldn't call it terrible.

Go, now I really dislike Go, but I think there might be situations where it's the right tool for the job. Simple web services perhaps?

PHP was terrible already when it was created. I don't hold that against Rasmus, he just wanted to get simple things done, and didn't even intend to create a full-fledged programming language.

JavaScript... Brendan Eich wanted to put Scheme scripting in the browser, but because Java was popular, he was told by management to make it look more like Java and also to call it JavaScript. Oh also he had like a two week deadline or something.

Yea, I dunno... good hard questions :)
It seems to me that almost every violent protest/riot started peaceful but then police make it violent.

I have seen this so many times where police stay out of the way and everything goes smoothly. I think US police actually want a riot. They want to create violence.
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Every situation where the police arrive has become violent. It’s not the protestors that escalate. The presence of the authorities has created this situation. I’ve seen it with my own eyes.

I don’t believe the police want to do this, but they are so on edge, and there are so many people taking advantage of the situation to throw sparks on kerosene, that the best thing the authorities can do is pull away and let peaceful protests continue.

But we instead have only the most linear thought directed at this problem. People, crime, force. Understanding the systems involved, the real motivations, is beyond our leaders and many people assessing these situations. Right now, two blocks west and four blocks south from where I am, is a national guard tank. I am less safe than if it weren’t there, because it’s just another bomb that can explode, like every police officer in Los Angeles tonight, tomorrow, the day after.

That’s the situation. It’s not a video game where you right click and apply force. People do things for reasons, and until our leaders understand that and how to work with it to de-escalate, there will only be more blood.
That's a good quote. I've been trying to figure out what a programmable wiki would look like and I always end up with something that looks like a smalltalk VM.

I think it's possible to build a personal memex now. I'm looking at couchdb, lucene, apache tika, deno, and node.js as the initial set of tools to mash together and expose through the browser. CouchDB and Lucene will be used for persisence and searching along with Apache Tika for extracting metadata and doing OCR on images and PDFs. Deno and Node.js will be used for executing code on the server and the client. Deno can be used for sandboxing and exposing each person's knowledge base to programmatic control by other people like a federated search engine where people can share interesting code patterns for acting on knowledge bases and exposing hidden patterns.

Combine with some basic machine learning models and you get a pretty useful personal toolkit for knowledge enhancement.

Also, a quote by another good thinker

> Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them. - Alfred North Whitehead
I made this notepad style calculator. You can use basic mathematical operators and parentheses and hopefully all will work. You can have comments starting with # that won't be evaluated. Basic percentage operations will work, and hopefully all combinations of the above. The input is saved in your browser so you can revisit the page and have all the text still present. I did everything as a static page so there is literally no framework at play here. Just index.html, index.css and a script.js. I used the amazing and magical nearly.js parser library to get the operators and parentheses working properly.

The most difficult thing for me was the design. Once I had a design in my head it was also very hard to realize it using CSS. I simply don't get CSS. The final version looks a lot less snazzy than I had imagined.

Please let me know what you think of it!
> Property destruction should absolutely not be met with violence, no. Things can be replaced. People cannot.

Um, no. I value my property more than I value your life, the law happens to agree with me, deadly force can be used to defend my property. Property destruction should be, and is, met with deadly violence; your right to life does not outrank my right to my property.
Oh shucks, I'll look into that, thanks!
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> the problem is that public transportation is public and therefore can't or won't enforce the standards for ridership that any sane private company would

It is weird that most of the world seems to manage that just fine. At least in Germany they also have no issue with calling the police on misbehaving passengers.
Does this work well for teams? Or does anyone know of a version of this that would do so?

I work on a large K8s-based project. Each person may know a lot about one small part of it, but when they need to find out about an unfamiliar part, they need to trawl through Slack messages or Github issues.

I could see something like this being really useful, assuming everyone is disciplined in using it.
One possible solution is to deputize local law abiding citizens temporarily. And rehire officers that undergo stricter training.
Which acts of destruction and rioting would you condone, if any?

Torching black-owned businesses? Looting critical supplies from pharmacies, supermarkets and other retailers? Stoning people nearly to death in the street? Murdering a federal officer in California?

Where's the line? What's acceptable?

FWIW, the vast majority of protesters involved are not involved in the aforementioned acts.
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there is no such thing as "library status". anybody can start lending books as a community, private, or subscriber library anywhere at any time.
I think they selected 300k of the richest from HK. As you may have guessed it's about money! Don't expect any warm welcome for the poor ones...we just had Brexit and we must make a success of it...
By the way, the U.S. armed forces includes in its ranks a small army of lawyers. That doesn't mean they'll necessarily identify unlawful orders as such and refuse to comply. But it's something.