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> Actual 1st Amendment rights like "Freedom of Association" were severely curtailed by Civil Rights legislation

The 1st Amendment does not protect some vague right to "freedom of association". It protects "the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances". Which is exactly the right that the protesters of the 1960s whose actions helped to get the Civil Rights laws passed were exercising. To say that those same Civil Rights laws "severely curtailed" those same rights is ridiculous. They did no such thing.
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You can define your own arbitrary HTML < /> tags and style them or use JS with them in modern browsers (which is what hstack and vstack are, which seems to be inspired by the pylon framework and SwiftUI).

If you need to support really old browsers than using an HTML5 shiv will be sufficient for any <tag /> to work:

https://johnresig.com/blog/html5-shiv/

There's a longer discussion here about pros/cons:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16867332/html5-why-not-u...

I have a feeling this is one of those things that will become more common with this broader support for HTML5 and web components but at the moment it's not very common and there are some debates on whether you should break web standards/specs.
Build a Django Reusable App from an Existing Django Project
Windows XP even before SP2 was a _delight_ compared to the true train wreck that shipped on consumer PCs before it: Windows "Mistake Edition" Me.
> Judges are not supposed to enact policies. They are supposed to say what the law is, not what someone believes it ought to be.

I think that was true at the country's founding, but is no longer true today. The entire purpose of Civil Rights legislation was to enable the courts to "enact policies", which they have done continuously since. They are literally doing what Congress asked them to do.

If you don't like Civil Rights legislation, fine. But don't blame the courts for using it as the basis to do what Congress has clearly empowered them to do.
Agreed, angels are a much better financing path for founders building profitable startups.
I noticed new capitalization rules. I never knew black is Black and white is White.

Geez.
Almost 0 overhead to implement. Same precedence as unary '-' so extra parsing is trivial. No need to generate as AST for it.
Well, sure some part of it may not be intentional but i think I've seen mentioned (here?) that Google tweaks its search results so that they conform to some "company principles".

A quick search gave me this :

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-google-interferes-with-its-...
It's not an argument against or for anything, it's a simple logical fact. Two things lining up logically doesn't mean there is causation, as there can be other things that also line up that could be an equally valid explanation. Finding causation requires actually looking for it, and doing some statistical studies. Of which I'm betting many do exist!
All true. But please do not forget the startup times which was almost an eternity to boot up. In a time without SSDs and no prefetch cache.
You're right, but I really do think it was inevitable. Flash Lite just didn't run well on any of its supported platforms at the time, and the then-new technology "HTML5" had the advantage of being simpler and more open. The main thing Flash had going for it was the inertia from developers who already knew it.

If you're interested here's a blogpost from Adobe's developer relations person at the time of Flash on Mobile's demise http://www.mikechambers.com/blog/2011/11/11/clarifications-o...
> public funds that get funneled into unproductive firms

If they were productive firms, they wouldn't need government money. This is why free markets work better, because free markets allocate resources to the most productive uses.
Poor independent founder who spent $1M out of pocket on his first startup. Let’s hear his story.
Ubench.h: single-header C/C++ benchmarking
Yeah I'm struggling to get too excited here. Theoretically latency with current geostationary satellites "could be as low as" 477ms, but they're usually 600ms+.

Plus this is for v2, which Elon has said will be launching on Starship ... so some years away.
https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/?q=lunch

Also you are reading a lot into my comments. I have never said anything approaching "only the government can decide its own secrets". My belief is simply that secrets are not inherently bad. Revealing a state secret should only be done when the person publishing that information can point to a public good that will result from that information being revealed. How does knowing lunch orders from random DNC employees help reveal war crimes, corruption, or spying?
>_federal agency_ ... political reasons

Federal agencies only exist due to political expediencies. If the public no longer wish for the policies to be enforced, why keep the agency?

Such is democracy.
I was inclined to agree until the choice to use the term "colored person". That's an obvious and well known racist trope with very recent historical ties to segregation. I'm not sure if it was a deliberate statement on political correctness but I really think it undermines your argument and makes it seem like a disingenuous crock of horse manure.
There is a recent effort [1] to provide low-level support for faster operations by transforming user code to take advantage of a compiler's instruction set, memory packing, etc. This is being expanded upon to essentially provide a Julia-native BLAS. Some of the benchmarks are even competitive with or beat Intel MKL (calibrate that statement appropriately to your level of trust in benchmarks). I wouldn't count out a Julia ARPACK implementation just yet.

[1] LoopVectorization: https://github.com/chriselrod/LoopVectorization.jl Announcement post and discussion: https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-loopvectorization/3284...
> I believe trauma instills scientific-type knowledge that is factually false but locally adaptive.

One has to step back and recognize that the author separates knowledge into 'trivial' (information needed to pass a test), 'engineering' (how to drive a car) and 'scientific' (math, physics, science).

This is a way of categorizing knowledge along the usefulness/utility axis and is problematic in many ways but let's leave that aside.

> False beliefs need more protection to be maintained than true beliefs, so the belief both calcifies, making it unresponsive to new information, and lays a bunch of emotional landmines around itself to punish you for getting too close to it.

This 'narrative-weaving' is a good first step but the next step has to be to run it through various test cases to see if it holds up.

I don't think it does on many levels but let's take one - what constitutes a false belief vs a true belief and who decides a belief is false and that it needs calcification and landmines to protect it?

A 'true' belief can just as easily be surrounded by emotional landmines - for example someone who had been abused as a child can have all kinds of defense mechanisms to prevent that situation from repeating itself. Or is that a 'false' belief because most people are not out to abuse him/her? Does a belief morph from being true to being false, depending on your surroundings? For example the child needed the defenses in an abusive household but is then adopted by a loving family, does that change the belief from being true to being false somehow?

This nilly-willy use of language to me, is indicative of absence of training in philosophy, where you can't just say things, because people have been saying things for 2500+ years and most weak arguments have already been debunked from multiple angles.
Sorry. They don't have ownership. But Netflix runs the majority of their service on AWS. That's why I was asking about also breaking away from services that are N degrees away. I mean...I can stop using AWS directly, but if my Netflix money is still going to them indirectly, what have I really done to blunt AWS?
I use CentOS because it is Fedora with a slightly slower upgrade cycle. I've been using Fedora since it was called Red Hat Linux and I paid for a boxed set of CDs. Stability is nice.
MainStreet launches, helps startups claim $10,000s in government tax credits
Yeah this is something. They all seem to have started at the same time.
> Can you provide some examples supporting the claim that the "court of public opinion" doesn't have a good track record?

Does the regular outcome of popular votes in favour of shafting minorities, restricting human rights etc. rather than general fairness and dignity for all persons regardless of background count?
The affirmation is demonstrably false, at least while using recent compilers and a standard (-O2) optimization level:

https://godbolt.org/z/rNxpQy
How is your experience with buyer disputes? That's the biggest issue I hear about on ebay
Architecting an Intuitive and Powerful Offline Experience in Notejoy
The Hey Way: The Manifesto from Basecamp’s (née 37Signals) New Email Client
Snowden flew to Russia

He chose to go there

Would it be ironic to move to a city where police is brutal, knowing very well it is, by accepting an invite from the major of the city and then tweeting about police brutality in other parts of the World?

Yes it would.

I live 30kms away from Switzerland, it's really not that challenging to go there.

Maybe being in Geneva to secretly investigate the Swiss bank system working for CIA, writing that Switzerland is like "living in an opposite World" just because your own country is living a financial crisis (2008) while Swiss were shielded by their government from it and refusing to testify against NSA while Switzerland offered asylum in exchange for cooperation, didn't work too well for him

When it became clear that there was no ground to make it a political case, they dropped the offer

Switzerland provides political asylum, not criminal asylum

(Whether Snowden is a criminal or not is not relevant)
ProofWiki: An online compendium of mathematical proofs
To clarify - Mens Rea is not the intent to go against criminal code, it is the intent to commit an action which would result in an outcome the criminal code penalizes. You can be entirely ignorant of legal standards and still act with intent.

This is to separate the following two scenarios since I think it'll be pretty clear to folks that the justification of punishment is different in the following:

1. A person pushes a button on a blank wall and someone is shot as a result.

2. A person squeezes the trigger of a firearm while that firearm is pointed at someone.

Other than the classic "Don't go around pushing big red buttons" the person in the first scenario is not morally culpable for their actions due to a lack of knowledge of what might follow from their button pushing. This is also the reason why actions like trying to shoot someone and having the gun jam tend not to be distinguished under the law from actually shooting someone (when such a situation can be identified). Your intent in squeezing the trigger was to shoot someone - the fact that the universe happened to intercede and prevent your action was something you could not foresee.
A Guy Named Craig May Soon Have Control over a Large Swath of Utah
Maybe Julia will become more popular, but I'd bet on the 800 pound gorilla Python getting faster through broader use of Dask, Cython, and Numba. I'll never bet against the network effects of language and library development.
> You could in theory design a modern UI that resembles the classic UI, but it wouldn't really be "the classic UI".

I bet this would look awesome. Especially in high DPI.
The “manager” and “senior manager” titles are IC roles. I’ve seen plenty of people land a “manager” role right out of school. And “senior manager” is a short jump.

And if the team isn’t very big, those ICs report into a Director. Otherwise their may be an Associate Director in between.
Yep, I meant an investigation is started, so yes. Sorry
I also ran Windows Server 2003 as my regular desktop OS for a few years. I got an evaluation copy in the mail at some point and just kept using it. Even with the extra overhead of running network services on it for my household, it was still more performant than Windows XP on that same computer.
Thank you for that! I just learned something.
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This seems to be a consequence of the de-professionalization of corporate Tech. “Bring your whole self to work” and all that.

While it seems good natured in this specific case, it can very quickly turn into a small percentage of squeaky politically-minded wheels turning a non-political company into an monoculture activist one.

Personally, I wish we just went back to a professional/private distinction. Keep your politics out of the workplace. Otherwise, I don’t see this ending well.
You could just steer the beam away
...as much as I kinda like a lot about 37 Signals work, this sounds a lot like fishing for sunk cost: "I paid 99 bucks for that, I have to use it or I wasted money." It's not an uncommon practice, but it's shady.

The product sounds nice, especially the thread grouping. I might even go for it once they have personal domain support, though I'm rather wary of the difference between what they try to do, and how it will work in practice, and pricing it at double of, say, Fastmail, makes me feel like someone's trying to exploit me.
"What I have yet to see but always secretly wanted, however, is a database that natively supports incremental updates to materialized views"

SQL Server ala 10+ years ago enters the discussion.
Except that the Senate leader has declared any such effort "dead on arrival".
The corruption of the DNC is a very real thing.

>How does knowing lunch orders from random DNC employees help reveal war crimes, corruption, or spying?

Right, corruption never happens during lunchtime.
For completeness, I'll quote the majority's counterargument to that thought experiment:

> Change the hypothetical ever so slightly and its flaws become apparent. Suppose an employer’s application form offered a single box to check if the applicant is either black or Catholic. If the employer refuses to hire anyone who checks that box, would we conclude the employer has complied with Title VII, so long as it studiously avoids learning any particular applicant’s race or religion? Of course not: By intentionally setting out a rule that makes hiring turn on race or religion, the employer violates the law, whatever he might know or not know about individual applicants.

> The same holds here. There is no way for an applicant to decide whether to check the homosexual or transgender box without considering sex. [...] Any way you slice it, the employer intentionally refuses to hire applicants in part because of the affected individuals’ sex, even if it never learns any applicant’s sex.
Until you can name at least one common current terminal emulator that does not respond to DSR 6, you have not tested this enough. (-:
Who is “we”? How many people go to museums and really explore them?

But at least you made my point. IA is a museum, but run by amateurs displaying not Egyptian history, but homepages of 13-year olds from 1997.
> but its a textualist argument that the original legislation did not intend to include homosexuality

Ah, but that's not textualism. Textualism is a method of statutory interpretation whereby the plain text of a statute is used to determine the meaning of the legislation. Instead of attempting to determine statutory purpose or legislative intent, textualists adhere to the objective meaning of the legal text. [0]

[0]https://ballotpedia.org/Textualism
- Master database tells the slaves what to write

But that's only an ad-hoc state of affairs; the only thing telling a database (in postgres, at least) that it's a replica is that it has a couple of settings telling it what to replicate from, and if you remove those and restart (or otherwise trigger a failover), the replica becomes the new master.
While comments are talking about growth potential, and considering revenues instead of earnings, and “network effects” as a moat, I’m reminded of Steve Jobs’ zinger on Dropbox which might equally well apply to Zoom... “it’s a feature, not a product.”

I don’t see any reason why motivated players like Microsoft and Google cannot catch-up with better offerings integrated with their Office/Apps suite.
IMO what actually needs to be done is tax on automation that would directly fund universal income. That would actually help humanity.
I know, right. My MacBook Air from 2015 went bust. I was looking for ideas to reuse some of the stuff when I encountered his "making a dual screen laptop video" [0]. There's ton of fun stuff he does with broken LCD screen, the camera module etc. I remember binge watching the entirety of his channel.

[0]: https://youtu.be/9aLzfjZu1DY
Seconded. Literally 100% of the Lego I have from the early 1970s works perfectly with brand new sets.
David Cutler is a Man of Focus, Commitment and Sheer Fucking Will - the bodies of microsoft operating systems he buried that day are the foundations of what they are today.
DNS Analysis Shows Hundreds of “George Floyd” and “Black Lives Matter” Domains
There Are at Least 36 Intelligent Alien Civilizations in Galaxy, Say Scientists
It is still pretty damn bad, sexual harassment and libel but miles away from SWATing. That is essentially attempted murder and a credible attempt to try to inflict permanent mental damage.

The fact that the police are so trigger happy and bad at assessing the scene for consistency to be a more reliable and safer option than trying to hire a hitman has long been an obvious sign of police reform being desperately needed for years.
I mean, yes, that's clearly the intention behind the distribution. As someone who works with RHEL everyday, why wouldn't I choose CentOS for my personal projects?

What would you recommend instead for servers? Debian?
Lots of companies enter bankruptcy, are restructured, and emerge from the process without equity being destroyed. There is certainly some chance that happens here.
For all the people who don't like this change, here's an analogy. Try thinking of it like you're making your bed. Admiral William H. McRaven has a terrific speech (link: https://jamesclear.com/great-speeches/make-your-bed-by-admir... ) about making your bed, with some excellent quotes:

"Making your bed will also reinforce the fact that little things in life matter. If you can't do the little things right, you will never do the big things right."

"If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed."

No one really thinks that renaming "master" branches is going to save the world, or really, do much of anything. I'm going to do it because it's a little thing that takes less than a day. After that I'll move on to something else.
Master: "Someone who has control over something or someone. ... (engineering, computing) A device that is controlling other devices or is an authoritative source. "

They are not unrelated. I'm not making an argument whether the word is inappropriate or not. Just pointing out an etymological fact.
Moderators don't flag, users do. Presumably because this is a duplicate, it's been submitted at least twice already.
> Lead

I guess it is not a coincidence they are putting a neutrino detector in a place called that way.

Am I correct to assume there are old lead mines there?

Edit: there are mines, very deep mines, but not Lead mines in fact. And the detector is in one of them.
For some products, this is just not possible.

Consider that you want to make an App store where you add value by manually validating every app available through your store and build trust with your customers by only serving the best apps.

How can you compete with the Apple App store? You can't. At least, not without creating a hardware/software ecosystem with millions of users.

You could shortcut that buildup of scale by only targeting android users but then your competition against the Apple App store will be entirely dependent on the strength of Android ecosystem.
It reminded me more of Tiger King: a group of people driven by a petty feud to commit increasingly spiteful and illegal actions against a couple who make their lives at work difficult.
I think your "small c conservative" thought is actually more like libertarianism, but otherwise I agree.

(When I think of actual "small c conservatives", someone like G. K. Chesterton is what immediately comes to mind…)
I don't think by "everyone" they meant people who weren't aware of what flash was and users. Just the people who could conceivably be trying to avoid it -- creative types and developers.
This was the thing that struck me when I ran a Mindstorms summer camp a bunch of years ago: The kids were learning to program the brick with a programming language, but the physical design of the robots they made was, itself, a kind of 'physical programming.'

And legos, more than most things, are thus programmable structures. Recall that lots of early computers (for example, the one on Apollo missions) were NOT re-programable. The code was encoded in the physical form, and couldn't be moved around without essentially re-manufacturing the device. The step to programable computers was a major milestone.

Legos make a similar leap in an engineering space instead of a computational space; it's super cool.
Thanks for you work on this.

To help promote the cause you can add some quotes by Clarence Thomas to help promote the cause. He chided the other supreme court members for not supporting reviewing it.

> I continue to have strong doubts about our §1983 qualified immunity doctrine. Given the importance of this question, I would grant the petition for certiorari. - Clarence Thomas

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf/18-1287_09m1.pdf

https://lawandcrime.com/supreme-court/clarence-thomas-chides...

Edit: looks like you included his and other supporters pictures already which is cool
I wouldn't call the difference very small...

Unsolicited porn is mildly embarrassing at best. SWATting almost always results in _at least_ weeks, months or a lifetime of PTSD thereafter, bodily injuries from the force of being physically restrained even if not resisting, and significant property damage running into the thousands of dollars. If you have any dogs that will try to protect their family, the police do not have protocols for containing them, they simply shoot them. SWAT missions can also end in the deaths of suspects due to over-zealous officers or poor communication in the heat of the moment.

I know which one I would take if given the choice.
Flash used some unusual methods of authorizing network access (like crossdomain.xml [1]) which are significantly different from standardized HTTP cross-domain policies, and which can authorize some forms of network activity which are never otherwise permitted to web content (like connecting to arbitrary ports and transmitting arbitrary data, or sending HTTP requests with forged headers).

[1]: https://www.adobe.com/devnet/articles/crossdomain_policy_fil...
I admit that I have very little knowledge about bond markets, but when you talk about moving away from "corrupt currencies" aren't all goverments / EU doing something similar just now? (is China?)
WD has published a list of SMR drives : https://blog.westerndigital.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/2...
I think it looks great.
Why is it a native app and not PWA / Website ?
I couldn't install it.
I have great memories of building and programming things in my OG Lego Mindstorms. I consider the day when I started building things from my imagination rather than from the instructions book to be the start of my career as a programmer.

It's expensive, but if you have children with interests in technical things this set is one of the most fun and productive things you can buy.
> I'm no fan of ICE – a very large percentage of my friends in the US are immigrants,

What does the second point have to do with the first point?