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They should open up their own issue tracker for public viewing, so that (1) you see how many issues they have, and (2) you get a feel for what the end-user sees when they use the tool.
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Do you come from a country with common law or civil law? Common law is all about opinions and consideration of precedent. It grants a wide range of flexibility to judges.

Civil law is a lot less flexible. Most of the world uses civil law. Common law is I think exclusive to the former British colonies.
Doesn’t appear to be a problem. Print money to accelerate out of the quagmire seems sensible.
Another name for "selective censorship" is "asserting one's property rights". Do you not care about property rights?
This has been done so many times, I wonder why it never worked out
Dude: I'm an author. The books I write pay for the food that feeds my family. Are you saying I'm evil for asking to be paid for my work?

I can tell you that if the IA/EFF prevail, professional authors will disappear and the only people who will get to be artists will be those with trust funds and rich spouses. Is that what you want the world to become?

Do you really think artists are evil for wanting to be paid?
Great, something to actually discuss. I'll refer to a comment in another thread.

> The argument for election is so to reduce nepotism and cronyism.

So we come back to the question: "Which is better? Elected judges or appointed judges?"

> They can't just do what they think is right. They have to pander to some niche.

The question is about who's bias you are using to appoint the judge. Are you using the bias of current lawmakers/elites? Or are you using the bias of the public? You're right in that they have to pander to some niche. So which do you want?

I also mentioned in another thread that the point of democracy is to distribute power. Letting officials is a consolidation of power. Letting the public do it is distribution. There's advantages to both.

And honestly, looking at voter information guides, judges are mostly talking about their qualifications and how they are unbiased. In my last guide there were two judges. One said that he served the community well and cited some cases. The other said we need more transparency and that as a judge he would make rulings public to increase transparency of the law. Neither were really pandering to parties. Judges aren't allowed to be affiliated with parties. Neither of those judges were saying things like: "We're going to get those black people," (like Jim Crow era) "I'm a liberal and hold left-wing values," or even things like "I'm concerned with immigration law." The latter because it would be considered political. There are guidelines. These guidelines are to restrict their ability to make party appeals. At least pandering to the public is more transparent.

But when it comes down to it, it really is a question of who they are pandering to, not if they pander. There has to be some mechanism to appoint judges, and they will just pander to whoever is in charge of that.
Judges could also order that "fugitive" slaves could be returned to their "owners", or that people convicted of treason could be vivisected, if you go far enough back in time. I'm not sure what point is being argued here. If you want to make judges personally liable for following the law and/or for making mistakes, why would anyone become a judge?
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No, because potential sales are not sales. You never had the XY dollars to begin with.

This is what separates IP theft from physical property theft.
I feel this comparison is a little glib, considering that when the hard drives fill up you need to buy two new ones, while the tape drive only needs a new tape.
I was already on the fence at $50, as I don't watch many of the channels. Primary use was for local, and just a couple of other channels. I'll keep it for July, and then use that time to get an attic antenna setup, and then look at an antenna + Sling option, or some other setup.

Overall, they need to split into multiple offerings so they can still present some value options. I don't watch sports, so that was already a waste of money in the subscription for me. These new channels do not add anything I'll be watching either.
As a current Jira admin, I constantly have to fight this. A non dev team came into Jira and implemented a huge octopus of a workflow (despite my strong advice against it) and were shocked to find out it didn't really help them work better.

The handful of teams inside that department that I've gotten to switch over to a simpler To Do / In Progress / Done style workflow have been much happier.

Jira has many, many faults, but most of them are what the users do to themselves.
Yeah, agreed. I think you just need to be making apples-to-apples comparisons based on the type of trip.

If you're talking about trips of no more than a few miles (that don't include hauling too much cargo to carry), you can compare driving with walking. If you're talking about trips of tens or hundreds or thousands of miles, you have to compare driving with flying or taking a train.

I would be interested to see crash/injury/fatality stats for car trips under certain distance thresholds. I wonder if those are tracked anywhere.
Ponzi schemes generally don't have open specs. Defeats the purpose.
ObShameless reminder that https://puffer.stanford.edu remains free of charge.

The site streams San Francisco affiliates and local stations of NBC/CBS/ABC/PBS/FOX/CW as part of a university study on video streaming algorithms -- it's essentially a big A/B test to try to reproduce or clarify some of the findings in the research literature. We're now posting all our data and analysis each day. Research talk here: https://youtu.be/63aECX2MZvY

The content is... well, it's U.S. network television and associated daytime programming. But some people like it! And it's free (for people inside the U.S.).
Since when is hero defined as "the person who does the most dangerous profession"?

Also, there is a world of difference between professions where accidents are common, and a profession where humans may be actively trying to kill you.

A hero might be a person who knowingly risks life and limb for the safety and wellbeing of others. Even more heroic when those others are strangers (ie it is more heroic to rescue a stranger's child from a house fire than it is to rescue your own child from a house fire). Even more heroic than that is when you do it day in and day out(ie it is more heroic to be a firefigher, saving strangers every day, than it is to save a stranger once).

So, if that is a reasonable analysis of heroism, some police can definitely be heroic. I'm not sure about the percentages though. I'm sure some police got into the profession because they wanted to be a big man with a gun. Others did it because they want to help the community they live in.
> Is there a similar repo of the looting and violence committed by protesters?

Does it matter? They're being investigated and prosecuted regardless[1], because they're criminals. We expect police to behave better than criminals.

Society is always going to have some crime, and we will continue to investigate and prosecute it. But there should be zero tolerance for crimes by cops. Otherwise we can't trust them, and everyone becomes less safe.

1. https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/18/21295301/philadelphia-pro...
That's a lot of hyperbole. Just because it is more useful to someone else doesn't make it extortion.
Also in the FT:

https://www.ft.com/content/5d017675-9d61-4592-beea-1d47621ec...
Think Canada uses something similar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_appointments_in_Canad...

Lower level appointments go thru a provincial JAAC, while superior and above go thru a federal JAAC. After JAAC's shortlisting, the respective provincial or federal government or minister of justice decides.

I suppose there's always a way to stack the committee to get a biased shortlist to choose from, but the committees aren't all appointed by the government. Some are appointed by judges, law society, etc. In practice, it seems to work way better than just having a city council choose.
It should remind you, it is the same guy!
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Slavs where taken as slaves and is where the word slave derives from.
Block everyone who is not kind to you. That's how I have been doing my internet use for 6 years now, and I have not missed out so far.
Hey Peter, you write really well!
They are talking about BankID which is a national identification system that only runs on recent proprietery systems (mostly used on iOS and Android, but IIRC also supported in another version on MacOS and Windows).

There is no linux version available (there used to be a few years ago IIRC), and using U2F or other security devices via open standards is not supported.

It's a pretty OK system (for most people) made much worse (for some people) by not supporting standards they should have years ago. Yubikey is a swedish company, BankID is a swedish company, they both deal with identity online, how they have not actually managed to interoperate is beyond me.

Basically it's a system that caters to the masses and does a pretty good job at that but it's very bad for the non-technical (who don't have a smartphone) and the very technical (who might not use the OS'es that they support). I expect more from a system that most people use to pay their taxes.

There are also any number of security questions from the above, but I'll refrain from those.
YouTube TV is nowhere near good enough to demand that high of a price. The shows are limited, the DVR interface is terrible, and the DVR barely even works. It's nowhere near as good as Vue was.
> martial law

> bootlicker

It's all so tiresome.
There's a bit of disagreement on that. I'm an author. Copyright allows me to make a living writing. The law may have issues, but my copyrights do not stop anyone else from writing their own books or creating whatever they want.

Unfortunately, the standard model for paying for book writing by selling copies to all readers is at odds with your conception of what a just world might be.

I've seen communism. I've seen wacko central power systems. To me, copyright is not corrupt and more just than the other systems.

But you're free to weigh in and explain out you would do it in a more just way.
Clean design. Clear and thoughtful writing.

For some inspiration, have a look here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23626929
The content on AppalachianTrail.com is disappointingly shallow to put it mildly.

The second most popular article on the site, about carrying a firearm on the AT, can be boiled down to "the laws are complicated, here's a lawyer joke and 2 links".

Regardless of your stance on guns, an article making an honest attempt to address the question of carrying one might, just maybe, talk about the laws of each of the 14 states the trail passes through and address the question of the various federal jurisdictions the trail passes through as well. Maybe you'd also try to find some hikers who have tried to carry guns and interview them.

The food and water articles are similarly shallow. You could write a chapter or more on each.

The article on menstruation is just outright copied from another blog, with attribution, to be fair.

And there's nothing about the current COVID-19 situation.

Honestly, it's a lot of low-effort unmaintained content that doesn't add much, if anything, to what you can find with several minutes of googling. It's the kind of site that I assume is peppered with ads (or maybe affiliate links, I didn't look too hard) to make a couple of bucks.

Anybody looking for actual information about the AT would be better served by any of the following:

appalachiantrail.ORG <- The ATC

whiteblaze.net <- AT hiker forum

thetrek.co <- formerly appalachianTRIALS.com

https://adventuresinstoving.blogspot.com/ <- This is what actual niche content looks like.
I mean, I don't think anyone is saying languages with GC are bad for a wide genre of games. They just are inappropriate for the most cutting edge, performance intensive games.

Unity is a lot easier to get started with than UE4, so I understand the popularity. But for some games, the player can really tell how inappropriate the engine is. You can feel the GC churning away: poor performance, high dispersion of fps, frequent stuttering, etc.

While any game using any engine could have these problems, it's especially prominent in unity games.
I just read that entire article. Thanks for posting that. I like everything it's saying, and it points out some of the major drawbacks of REST.

I've never used GraphQL yet but I know I do like it. Most of what I've done has been a mix of OSFA and BFF. RPC API design is more art than science, but definitely everything about REST is wrongheaded, inside out, upside down, and ass backwards. lol.
> What I am trying to say that vim is an effort of over half a century of good idea accumulation, putting lots of effort into being backward compatible.

I wonder what Vi(m) would be like if it were redesigned from scratch.
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It's been pretty cool to see that grow. I recall chatting with antirez about it on IRC ages ago when he was still working on the initial idea.
No, it's not a fundamental cost of doing business, and many businesses no longer so that.
This is largely due to a limitation of Android itself. If your app wants to do any sort of background task that's not tied to Google Cloud Messaging, it needs to setup those background tasks. When your phone reboots, those tasks are cleared. Many apps use the "run at startup" permission to receive a notification from the system when startup has completed. It doesn't actually mean the app is running in the background.
Probably because it was the default editor in a bunch of Linux distributions.
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Imagine looking at the cacrceral state and saying “you know what, this is a great response to a hard problem”.
Isn't that what neovim is trying to do?
Did patio11 start working at Google instead of Stripe?

More seriously though, it looks like people are overwhelmingly not happy about this change. Google already launched a special form to give feedback:

https://support.google.com/youtubetv/contact/yttv_price_hike...)

Their youtubeTV support pages also have a banner stating:

"We are experiencing high contact volumes and longer than normal wait times. If you have feedback about our updated price, we encourage you to fill out this form. Find information about our updated price on this Help Article or on our blog post."
tilts head You start off by saying "exactly", but then go assuming that I said the opposite of what I said. To state it clearly, copyright is a monopoly. Patents are a monopoly. That these are government-granted monopolies enforced by law, rather than a natural monopoly caused by scarce resources, does not make them any less of a monopoly.

The car analogy does not apply, primarily because cars are fungible. Books are not fungible, unless they are printings of the same book. Cultural ideas are not fungible.
Child protection is like a loaded gun sitting on a table waiting for someone to pick it up. Anyone who doesn't like you or the way you raise your kids can phone in a trumped-up complaint and send investigators in your home to see if your child needs to be taken away and put into a lowest-bidder archipelago of foster homes and group facilities. Disgusting all around to me.
Then you effectively are creating a maximum punishment that could easily be ignored by some of the population.

Take speeding tickets. What if a person just decides not to pay and keep speeding? Not that they can't, but they don't. Eventually you lose your licenses. You continue to speed, getting more tickets, and now also getting tickets for driving without a license. You continue to refuse to pay the fines and continue to drive without a license. You aren't driving any differently than when you received your first ticket, so there is no increase in negligence. What option do you think the courts should have to someone who acts like this? Currently there is jail time for contempt of court, but we are taking that away.

You can try to forcefully take the money, and if they are earning a paycheck hopefully the business agrees. But what if they don't, or what if the person does not earn income in a way that the state can easily seize it?

You could seize their property, take their car, etc. But at that point you are still threatening prison if they physically try to stop the police. Yes, the crime is now escalated to assaulting an officer, not just speeding, but it is all because of that speeding ticket. And if they resist with enough force, they may face lethal force in return. All for a speeding ticket.

That's how our legal system is structured. Any punishment is accompanied by a risk of a harsher punishment if it isn't followed. If you ever have a punishment that is not, then you effectively have a law that can be ignored (which we see sometimes with businesses who break laws and pay fines lower than the profit they earned from breaking the law).
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Sort of, except that emissions testing is a regulatory requirement.
We should just close down the planning department or change its mission to mandate very very fast development.
Pertinent info: starts today. Opt-out, not opt-in.

>will look at these photos and first names and indicate their perceptions—or, what race they think the information we shared suggests. They’ll share these perceptions with a specialized team at Airbnb exclusively for anti-discrimination work
How the Digital Camera Transformed Our Concept of History
I still miss Bugzilla - which was relatively fast. Thought modern js libraries make parallel API calls and make it look fast. But JIRA is too slow and becomes slower with number of tickets and users. Any day, I would prefer speed over nice user interface.
But they do care about power outages, hurricanes, tornadoes (maybe not in US-EAST1), cut fiber lines

The probability any one very rare event is low. Preparing for it helps mitigate risks for many other issues however.
A commonly accepted definition of hero is "performing a duty and/or serving others, even at great danger to oneself, often for little or no reward". So "how dangerous is the job?" seems relevant to me.

> there is a world of difference between professions where accidents are common, and a profession where humans may be actively trying to kill you.

A large fraction of police deaths on the job are traffic accidents.
That price is basically just YouTube TV becoming Cable TV.

Thankfully one positive for streaming services over conventional cable / satellite tv is that they're not long term contracts, but rolling every month so you can easily switch between services & cancel or stop paying with no repercussions other than service loss.
Just wanted to say this was a great answer. As an adult just getting back into math it is very encouraging and motivating.
Of course, it's not close to an apples to apples comparison. But it struck me as being not entirely disimmilar to Uber/Lyft in principle. Don't forget rail is _heavily_ subsidized here.

Capacity is certainly a strong point for rail though.
Does it matter?

Where crimes, such as burglary and assault, are being committed, police will generally be called upon to act. A subset of those responses will involve police violence. One would hope that such police violence only occurs in self defense, but we know that to not always be the case. So yes, the two things are mathematically correlated. One drives the other. It would be interesting to be able to tell what the incidence rate is, rather than just seeing a group of cherry-picked incidents designed with the sole intent of satisfying the public's appetite for a specific narrative.
> Are you saying I'm evil for asking to be paid for my work?

No. I love and appreciate the work of authors, and I spend more than 1000 EUR per year in books. I systematically buy technical books that the author offers for free on their website. For the authors of the free software that I depend on, I try to donate if it is possible.

To answer your question very clearly: you are not evil by asking to be paid for your work. That is a very reasonable thing to do! Can you please point me to your books? I will likely buy them (if they are tangentially interesting to me).

All of that will not change the fact that sharing books is not stealing, and that using the verb "stealing" for the act of sharing is a callous manipulation of the language, even if it is sanctioned by law.
>Virtually nobody uses them here in France and I think in the rest of Europe,

Definitely not the case here in the UK, credit cards are very common.
The vast majority of devices sold today already support the hardware, so you're too late if you feel you're not willing to tolerate this.
But that doesn't allow someone to violate the copyright, due to the potential risk, like a troll jumping out from below a bridge. It'd be better if there was a way to easily check if a copyright was being actively paid and maintained.
Thermals have a subtle but huge effect on my room temp. My three devices of Macbook Pro, LG Ultrafine 5K and BenQ LED desklight together seem to add an extra 5-10 degrees to my small enclosed room temp. under load.
Self-hosted, as mentioned.
Lua is a funky little language and runtime but it is absolutely perfect for scripting in the domain that it was designed for: embedded.

I used to do a lot of game dev and it was incredible for testing different interactions/movements etc at runtime just to get all the inputs right and then implement in the game code. It has saved me probably 1,000s of man-hours in my career. Nowadays I use it in NGINX for high-velocity requests that are just backed by Redis. Lua, LuaJIT, and Redis have made me a lot of money in my career. I'm forever indebted to their incredible creators and community.
I think the takeaway here is that there are lots of people who are _partially_ p-zombies: missing important "inner experiences" that everyone else has, but otherwise appear normal.
On page 3 of [1] from the article which shows most number of deaths, it seems like there's almost a perfect correlation between 'size' and 'deaths'.

I remember thinking about getting a mini Cooper, literally while driving in my family's quite large SUV, and my father indicating how they are unsafe due to size. I couldn't help thinking of the odd kind of 'race to size-safety' factor severely limiting people's ability to drive smaller, more efficient cars.

I want to drive a small car for a variety of reasons. But the moment I have children ... 'safety' might be my #1 concern (along with the convenience of a large utility vehicle). It could very well be that this 'safety arms race' is harmful.

[1] https://www.iihs.org/api/datastoredocument/status-report/pdf...
Must have been just the impression I got. When I read about it many years ago, I thought it was very much like JS except with a different syntax. I mean, besides the number thing, it uses prototypes for inheritance, and its "tables" are very much like JS objects in the way of how o.x == o["x"] for example, or how arrays are basically built on them (though augmented with a little syntax-sugar). I don't know of other languages that share these characteristics.