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There is a school of thought (with some validity, though I think it lacks nuance) that points out that the early Roman Empire, the Principate of Augustus until the Dominate of Diocletian, tried to empower the Senate. The Senate had its set of provinces, the emperor his. The cursus honorum was still used to track and groom administrators and leaders and the senate's support (balanced against the army and the people of the city of Rome generally) still legitimized the emperor. But over time, goes this line of thinking, senatorial attention and interest fell away somewhat from administrative and managerial responsibilities and turned more into a social/politicking club, and the emperor "naturally" picked up the slack.

There is an element of bias to this, and it often reveals a political preference of the author, but it's not without some merit.
More (scraps of) information here at the moment: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/53346831
U.S. Supreme Court Deems Half of Oklahoma a Native American Reservation
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No[1], TypeScript is unsound in many ways. Most of them are intentional trade-offs to catch as many bugs as possible while not being too restrictive/allowing most JavaScript code to be annotated.

[1]: https://codesandbox.io/s/te0pn?file=/index.ts

Edit: Apparently TypeScript playground links cannot be shared :(
Edit2: Published on codesandbox.io, hopefully that works
That seems like an insane way to divvy up land. My first instinct was that it was done that way to make the land effectively unusable as tribal land, just because that's how the government tends to roll in these cases
It's a current WIP idea for the spec: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-temporal/pull/700

Figuring out a name is still part of the ongoing discussion, so this specific case of `LocalDateTime` isn't a huge deal, and I might have misrepresented things slightly in my original comment, sorry! But I do think the overall point still stands - that it might be best to just use the same names and terminology as Java does.
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Performance is much worse, but am I the only one that likes the redesign? Better fonts, better spacing.
As an aside, the book "The Art of Deception" by Nicolas Capaldi [0] provides a good rundown of some common logical fallacies.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Art-Deception-Introduction-Critical-T...
We use flyway to create a template. Then each test that mutates the DB automatically invokes a cleanup routine which recreates the test DB from the template. You get into hot water around the connection pooling, but it's much, much faster than refreshing using flyway.
building a model for and with domain knowledge == premature optimization? In the end a win on kaggle or a published paper seems to depend on tweaking hyperparameters based on even more pointed DK: data set knowledge...

I wonder what would be required to build a model that explores the search space of compilable programs in say python that sorts in correct order. Applying this idea of using ML techniques to finding better "thinking" blocks for silicon seems promising.
'On June 30, Google's email delivery service was targeted in what we believe was an attempt to bypass spam classification.'
It's not like Police nation-wide are required to purchase Ford vehicles.

It's a giant cash cow for Ford. This will only hurt Ford.

Police already have vehicles... and they can source new vehicles from any other willing company... even if it was a foreign company like Toyota.
There was recent alleged sexual harassment between him and his secretary so its presumed to be suicide.
What do you mean? Alexander said himself that he was doing this as a protest and publicity stunt, and he seems to have taken no actions beyond that publicity stunt to make the content less available (e.g., he hasn't (yet) requested deletion from the Internet Archive). His words and actions seem entirely consistent to me, so I'm not sure why you doubt him.
You're talking about lotteries. I'm talking about savings accounts. My point is that savings accounts should be held to a higher standard, because obviously.
A bit more information from the NY Times article:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/09/world/asia/seoul-mayor-de...

> His disappearance came a day after a secretary in the mayor’s office told the police that he had been sexually harassing her since 2017, two Seoul television stations reported, attributing the information to unidentified police sources.

> Mr. Park, 64, had canceled his official schedule for Thursday and called in sick to City Hall. His daughter told the police that he had left home after leaving a cryptic, “will-like message,” according to Yonhap, the national news agency, which cited an anonymous police source.

> When Mr. Park had not returned home after five hours, his daughter called the police.
“So if the cars they create for the police are used to oppress people”

It’s not the cars that are the problem — there’s no modification that somehow senses POC and then runs over them, for example. Do you also stop selling them clothes because the uniforms are designed for cops as well?

This isn’t something where you can say this is universally bad. They’re a fundamental part of society - there to enforce laws. And if you agree that police are necessary, then they need to get around somehow.

I can appreciate how these employees feel like this is a way they can create change. They work for Ford, after all. But it’s a classic “when you have a hammer” situation. The problem is way more complex and nuanced. This only works against you because it makes your arguments look silly to those you want to convince to care.
> Instead of an ad hominem,

That touched a nerve, didn't it?

Let me guess, you don't speak any of these Chinese dialects: Cantonese, Taiwanese, or Mandarin. Because if you did, you would know there's massive overlap between them, phonetically. Are they mostly "mutually unintelligible"? For sure. But to claim that they are more distant from one another than the Romance languages? Complete and utter bullshit.

You probably don't speak any Romance language outside of English, do you?
> The reporter is unaware that the Internet Archive exists? The content is obviously still readily available, so the reporter is either stupid or disingenuous.

(Or both.)
What about "may"?
I've recently adopted both Francis Fukuyama's vetocracy thesis as well as Ezra Klein's prescription for majoritarian rule.

Yes, both are major oversimplifications to a complicated situation, with path dependencies and subtle counterintuitive cofactors. But it's good battle cry.

We need more accountability, more transparency, more democracy.

A systems engineer strives to create functional feedback loops. Today, that means closing the gaps in our broken feedback loops. Consent of the governed, and so forth.
I think there are perceived deep divides but those are mostly fictional. e.g. a number of conservatives like the ACA but hate Obamamcare. Propaganda is doing its job of keeping the electorate divided, even if a large number of our aims are actually aligned.
Plenty of companies don't care one second that it is a MS product, in fact it is a positive value on their eyes regarding product support and tooling.

First of all there is more to Java Web development than JEE and Spring, which in any case, other eco-systems don't have a mature answer for many of their deployment scenarios and cross system integrations.

XML is beautiful, there is yet a format that supports machine manipulation, IDE graphical tooling, comments, schema validation as XML.

Anyone that praises Rails will be right at home with XML and annotations magic.
Universities carefully not knowing about these and future fraud techniques is key to developing replacement admission purchasing schemes.
It's not necessarily that the privileges have been given freely, moreso that they were acquired.
My perspective strongly identifies the phrase "the kingdom of god" with Isaiah's vision of the mountain, which is firmly of this world and our time. It is a making-right of this world that we should never forget to strive for.

The mistake that rather a lot of my evangelical cousins make (i am not one) is that, to paraphrase James, they tend to be so focused on the life to come and have such a crabbed interpretation of "staying unblemished by the world" that they entirely forget -- or worse, regard as something that blemishes you -- the "visiting the widows and orphans in their distress" clause. And that just won't do.
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It's working as designed. The same system that prevents Congress from properly voting on PPP Loans is the same system that prevents Trump from banning all muslims from the country overnight.

I'm not smart enough to know if there is a better solution for America.
Except this is demonstrably untrue.

The 115th (2017-2018)[1] Congress had both a Republican House and Senate and it got extremely little done.

Our Congress is completely ineffective.

[1]:Fixed.
> Tribe members who live within the boundaries are now set to become exempt from certain state obligations such as paying state taxes

What about everyone else? Shouldn't they pay taxes to the tribe?
It seems more like it's saying that people deserve to receive the benefits associated with the test score that they actually got.
> Volkswagen

Which is literally Hitler's creation (the name means People's car)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen#1932%E2%80%931938:_...
Likewise, there are hundreds of treaties still in existence.
That would "burn" the CA (it will be removed and/or blacklisted from every major browser and operating system once it's exposed, and exposing it gets much easier with the recent push towards certificate transparency), so it can only be done once per CA.
I mean, if you pass a HOF to some other function, then that is also a dependency.
> Why not scrap most of the social programs, cut federal taxes, and let states implement their own?

Because I'm not really interested in abandoning my fellow citizens who lack the means or the support structures to leave where they currently are to the tender mercies of people who plainly don't give a damn about them.

Even every "red state" has plenty of people in need who can't afford to go elsewhere and shouldn't be asked to abandon their families and their lives to just not die.

(EDIT: I normally don't respond to killed comments, because feeding the trolls sucks, but: I live in Massachusetts, dude. I'm used to a state that actually works. I wish you all had them too.)
> So it doesn't really work

Yeah, you're right. In Canada, "status indians" get a tax exempt card to avoid sales tax at least. I didn't realize that in the US all American Natives are actually considered US citizens and are taxed federally just like everyone else. Only the tribe itself is tax exempt.

That is according to: https://www.thebalance.com/do-native-americans-pay-taxes-417...
It's a form of protest. This is how protests work, a company doesn't do something you don't like, you boycott them. Your company/ organization does something you don't like, you raise the issue with management; sometimes you call in sick or quit.

This isn't any different from police having a "Blue Flu" or any other protest. People who are members of a company/ organization that want to influence the company do it in lots of ways.
I performed various searches after reading this and I must say, I am impressed.
Not sure about China, but that is pretty much the unstated assumption that defines life in other developing countries.
The post I was replying to said "Or just regulate the dumb behavior of these dumb start ups to not distort the market in dumb damaging ways,"

I assume that the proposed regulation here was larger in scope than the Portland City Council rule, especially since that rule does not do anything to correct the market distortion -- arguably, it makes it worse, by mandating that they undercut economically viable approaches, rather than just letting them do so. That was what I was addressing.

This particular rule is innocent enough on the face of it -- it has only two requirements [1]; that they cannot charge more than 10% of the purchase price, and that they cannot reduce payments based on compliance with the first part. To enforce this (especially given how broad the definition of a delivery service is) will be a supreme act of discretion, and clarifying this rule and eventually handing it off to the local commissioners of the counties' health departments for enforcement will complete the slide into the endless land of bureaucracy.

[1] https://www.portlandoregon.gov/auditor/article/763323
Ah yes, unlike cities which house only the most pure of thought.
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Scott is extremely popular in the rationalist community (second only to EY and possibly RH), and has a sizeable following outside of it. He doesn't need to "pretend[] that his hand was forced" to get any sort of "future opportunities" he might want; he just needs to ask. This whole kerfuffle doesn't exactly help him, even from that POV.
I was being a bit glib, and others have expanded better than I can on the theory (plus Roman politics is complicated) but here's an example of the theory: https://www.history.com/news/rome-republic-augustus-dictator
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I don't think this is disingenuous. Unlike pretty much every other player scraping the internet, the Internet Archive is a transparent non-profit that has relatedly proven itself to be squarely on the side of the public. I think it's very reasonable to treat them as the exception.
I agree. I am one of those career people. Unfortunately I dont make enough to quit.

The lies the company tells to dangle the carrot in front of you eventually destroys you when you never get it. At my company, the policies are great but they don't follow them. Plus, the project leadership/vision sucks.

I've never been diagnosed with depression. I tend to be happy, or at least content, when not at work. When I'm at work, I constantly dream of quitting.
Rural counties are conservative, urban counties are liberal, and never the twain shall meet.

I posit that there will always be this conflict until cities have a blue federation superimposed on a red countryside. But the constitution isn't set up that way. Maybe next time.
> it's mainly the private domain of a secret society at this point

It really isn't. But people outside Nigeria are generally barely aware of the existence of southeastern ethnic groups that are not Igbo, to talk of interested in their contemporary lives.

They could have tried to build a relationship/collaborate with (especially older) Ejagham or Annang people. But that would take time, effort and actually caring about bridging the gap, not simply aiming to make a buck.
> The police aren't universally bad

As long as they are allowed to investigate themselves and are not require to make any reports or have independent oversight, we can't even claim that!
I figure it must have been to get around a rule that says "you can't add a no-parole rider for this kind of crime".
Yes specialized hardware for AI are seeing steady improvements, I'm curious if these improvements rely on the particulars of the algorithms running on these machines.
As an example several of the AI chips use lower precision floating point numbers than general CPUs since the algorithms in use for training nns don't need the higher precision.

I actually wonder if having specialized AI hardware isn't the same problem as having specialized AI models, that is in the short term it will improve efficiency but in the long run prevent discovery of newer general learning strategies because they won't run faster in existing specialized hardware.
It's really hard to join customer A's addresses table with customer B's invoices when they are different databases.

There's no reason to join across customers in this situation and it saves you from making that type of mistake.

Colocating this on the same database and using the same users/credentials just makes it easier operationally. It's about isolating the data.
Good. The natives deserve a fair shake and the land is roomy enough for people to get along and work together.

Forcing that is a damn good thing.

The USA has a lot to account for, and it is very sick.

Rough roads ahead. Maybe they lead to better places.

I do not feel good about the last 4 or so decades of travel.

As a people, maybe world, we may well be better for going down this road.
Because you’re funded by investors who have been lied to about eventual automation.

Netflix delivered DVDs at a loss to build a brand and content licensing for their streaming service.
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Perhaps. On the other hand, she played a role in escalating the situation. It took a doctor stepping in to find out why the woman was being held upside down.

Context should be an important factor when deciding to intervene and how to intervene. If I encountered such a situation in a hospital, I would have interpreted it as unusual and beyond my comprehension, but it would not have struck me as an intent to cause harm. People tend to go to a hospital for help. Those who hurt others in a hospital would likely do so through violence.

I'm not suggesting that she should not have intervened, but she (and the security guard) should have understood the situation first.
Usually those of us who have voted for less government have voted for candidates that haven’t even gotten elected. People instead are voting for-or-against abortion, for-or-against gun control, or whatever other never-been-solved issues and then letting their voted-for representatives run rampant on nearly every other issue. (Never mind the role of the two party system, the anti democratic shenanigans in those parties, and the only real choice being the lesser of two evils.) Those politicians have given us more and more government in the form of regulatory bodies, enforcement bodies under the umbrella of the executive, and bureaucracy. You may or may not like those things but to lay them at the feet of people who want less government is absurd.
Your comment seems self-conflicting.

As you note, when congress sees an urgent problem worth solving, they move quickly.

When I read, "congress is abdicating its responsibility", it seems to me people are just upset a law they like wasn't passed.

In other words, people want a dictator they agree with, rather than taking the time and effort to change the minds of their fellow citizens on any given issue.

Besides, inaction is often the best path to take, particularly when there isn't a clear winning idea.
No. Read Scott's own reasoning on the situation here:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/06/22/nyt-is-threatening-my-...

In short, he's not worried about dedicated antagonists finding him. He's worried about his psychiatric patients finding his blog, and that interfering with his relationships with them. Deleting the blog makes it moderately more difficult for them to do that.
This misses "having an understanding about the source code and associated actions". Like refactoring helpers, autocompletion, etc. This is what distinguishes an IDE from a text editor for me.

But anyway, the Rust playground has none of those anyway.
If you want to compare which problems are worse, plenty are much worse than slow effects of climate change, like wars, contagious diseases, exploitation of poor people, poverty and inequality in general, political systems controlled by the rich that want to keep it that way, etc. Those problem cause massive suffering and even death. And what's the worse that could happen to humans due to climate change? Some foods might disappear, some people might need to modify their houses for new weather, some might need to relocate. It's not insane to simply ignore the problem altogether, it's very rational. Now how to solve all those actual problems is a big question.
There are countless situations in which Congress tries to punt its responsibility to the other branches. If they want to be a responsibility-free elected TV pundit class that lives high on the taxpayer hog, then let's amend the constitution accordingly. Congress just tries to delegate responsibility to the other two branches so it can get back to fundraising, "investigating," and grandstanding.
How much activity do you expect from a party whose organizing principle is to shrink government small enough to be drowned in a bathtub?
Could always browse http://oocities.org for some similar memories!
Thanks. You helped me understand better.
Do Native Americans not pay any tax at all? Or are they still obligated to pay federal taxes.
> Just so you know, we are a republic. Not quite as easy as a democracy,

That's very peculiar specially American internet thing to say. In 1787 the terminology was still unsettled but it's not so today. In both political science and in the common use outside the United States democracy and republic are not excluding each other.

United States is democracy (the source of power) and republic (the structure of the democracy as opposite of monarchy) and federation (structure of the government).

Most modern representative democracies are republics. The term republic can be used to any form of government in which the head of state is not a hereditary monarch. For example many communist states are Republics.

US is also first or one of the first liberal republics.
I am referring to existing anti-trust laws, and I do favor criminal action in almost every case here.

Regulations do have the force of law, theoretically, but rarely have the ability to enforce at scale, and would much rather deal with a couple of giant companies rather than try to deal with a variety of different companies, so there's a natural push back in that direction.
Seems like Canonical is taking a page from the old Microsoft playbook: Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. Will this stop them before step 3?
In the US currently it appears that "cancel" equates to "criticize". There's no nuance possible, seems to me, so why bother?

It's no wonder so many people are not playing the game. Equally so it's telling that "silence equals consent" is the reaction to people checking out of the game - the invested players and GMs really don't like people not playing along.
The pencil has been iterated upon countless times, by a huge number of individuals and organisations. They also have a huge variety of forms for different uses and contexts: carpenters pencils, steno pencils, charcoal pencils, pencils for users with disabilities, etc.

These factors are influenced by material constraints and opportunities, but don't discount the importance of design iteration in the simplest of objects.

And as someone who has spent a lot of time drawing, the feel and quality of different pencils (wood, graphite hardness etc.) is something people care an awful lot about.
A government that doesn’t govern leave a power vacuum that will be filled. In best case by more local governments, but more likely by corporations or mafia style organisations.
The lottery takes an incredibly high cut
> Unpopular opinion, but...

HN tends to upvote those, because they are often controversial and interesting.
Because they knew most things they wanted to do would be vetoed. As such, the bills that went forward had Obama's support from the get go.

This is separation of powers at work and is a good thing.

Edit: the comment above was edited to change the congress and dates in question
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I confess that any description of anything that uses the word "screed" will tend to seem to me to be in bad faith. Largely because every time I've dug into the origins of such a description, it has indeed been in bad faith.
You could always go even further to the FP darkside and join the Purescript community >:)