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> Maybe the electoral college isn't really that democratic

Presumably you know this, but it's not supposed to be democratic. That's literally why it exists, to curb majority rule by cities at the expense of rural voters, who occupy the majority of the land and—more importantly—are cannon-fodder for our military and thus need a seat at the table if we city-goers hope to continue sending them off to die.
> The key difference is that this is a weapon in orbit... but this is the difference relevant to treaty obligations.

Conventional weapons in orbit aren't illegal, and there are no treaty obligations that prohibit them.

The BBC either didn't do the most rudimentary research, or is engaging in misleading propaganda. (It is quite ironic to find that a subthread about Russian propaganda is rooted in a such a fundamental error of fact. We are well and truly in the post-truth era.)
Or the act of fending off depression, anxiety, and panic disorders can positively influence perseverance toward life goals. That’s a just as valid conclusion from the data.
They were free because banks wanted to stop paying tellers. Giving you a financial incentive made years of habit evaporate quickly.
So does that mean you did not work on any laptop before 2015 or so when very high resolution screens were basically unavailable?
If you want humans to become a space faring people, you need to accept the idea that there will be at least 1000x more things in space.

People's comments here are generally insane to me.

Let's go to other planets.
Let's build a Dyson swarms of O'Neil cylinders with a quadrillion humans living in luxury.
Let's keep the light of consciousness alive.

Some things will change along the way, like amateur photography.
I didn't say the X-37B is used sensibly. I said it's not a practical and inexpensive anti-sat weapon. It's just not comparable.
> It is increasingly tempting to vote for the Guillotine.

It didn't work so well the last few times it was used - the English revolution, the French revolution, the Russian revolution, all ended up in a bloodbath, next one more gruesome than the last. I urge you to reconsider.

Also I recommend "the revolutions" podcast: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Duncan_(podcaster)
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I haven’t paid for an ATM except when traveling internationally. The major banks screw you but if you pick a credit union or a few banks like TD Bank it’s easy to avoid.
I think one way in which we saw this movie before, was with the move to offshoring programming. It was really big 5-10 years ago, and then quietly got unwound when it turned out that close communication between teams requires more than phone, email, and video. There are places where it works (I am an example of that), but it normally doesn't work all that well, because the advantages of being in one physical space are normally hard to quantify and thus hard to reproduce.
Yes, exactly. My friend's company was Windows based with mapped drives to external servers.
> I'd consider firing someone for belonging to a particular political party the exact moral equivalent of firing someone for belonging to a particular religious denomination or ethnic group.

I support firing someone for supporting a harmful cause, and particularly from intolerant causes. If, for instance, you provide material support for stripping voting rights from a minority group, or denying hospital visitation rights to couples with a certain sexuality, I would support your employer firing you for that. That applies regardless of whether you’re providing that support via a political or religious group. Political and religious groups shouldn’t enjoy any special protection when they’re doing harmful and intolerant things.
This doesn't seem to solve the main problem I have with Amazon: even when I know exactly what I want, it's impossible to find. Amazon hides the thing you want behind the items they want you to buy instead, and they allow fakes and spammers to flourish. They never have the right aspects in their search filters, either. Looks like Google is the same way. I can't find an A19 LED light bulb with 2700K color temperature and CRI 90 or better. I'm going to have a much better experience in an actual store.
Bringing all of the pains of an open floor plan into the privacy of your own home.
> On average, the research shows that knowledge workers waste one hour and four minutes.

Just minutes? No seconds? Garbage study.
I think you make valid point and pose an interesting question. Your comment shouldn’t be downvoted.

There isn’t an easy answer to this. On one side there are many cases where people give away powerful things for free, which has huge positive implications and on the other hand there I sympathize with the notion of wanting to reap benefits of their work.

The underlying problem may be that you only profit if you demand or enforce it?
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Just never use apps that require cloud connection to store your data.
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If you create somethibg, you decide what happens to it. In the case of IP, this should mean you decide whether or not you want to release it/tell others about it. But an idea is not a physical object. Once you tell somebody else your idea, they can tell somebody else with no loss to yourself.

It's like lighting a candle. If you create one, you do not have to share it with anybody. But once you do light somebody else's candle from your own, they are now free to light anybody else's without taking anything away from your candle. That's how ideas work.

The only reason IP law exists, is because people have decided that profit might be lost if people share your idea with others. We are artificially stifling the spreading of ideas from person to person, because of profit. This is a tragedy.
Actually he's right. I did work with Dojo many years ago. It was very complete, but I found it clunky and slow for my use case. I rewrote the entire app in ExtJS. At the time, this was the most polished toolkit around. If your project was not open source you had to pay for it, but it was worth it. It had every single thing you can think of and it was all working very well, i18n included. However, it was an all-in proposition, and felt like coding a Java Swing application in some way.

Having said that, I don't miss it and I very much like the way things are now.
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It's kind of free but your service's landing page requires a domain name and hosting provider, so it's free setup but paid hosting is required (which appears to support multiple companies, not just yours to your credit).
Our incentives were aligned then. I haven't spoken to a bank teller in decades, and it's not like I miss it.
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How is this any different than office based companies? My team has multiple cliques; the coffee bros and the vape bros. The Windows admins and the *nix admins. The sports fans and the sportsball haters. The desk lunch people and the restaurant eaters. Some of these overlap, but not always.

Now that we're remote, it's much easier. None of the high school bullshit. If you're on a project, you're assigned work and have project team mates if you get blocked. With daily standups (even for non-programming roles), it's pretty easy to see who's struggling with a story, who might need some help, and who's rocking just fine.
I really hope you mean /s
If you think that the opinion should not belong to someone in a position of power, vote against that candidate. But if enough others vote for that candidate, then that's a strong democratic signal that this opinion reflects many people's will and needs consideration and representation.

In essence, the opinions of your opponents and enemies are just as valid as your opinions, no matter how much you dislike these opinions (it's plausible that they dislike your opinions just as much) and you should not get a veto to say that their opinions don't belong to someone in a position of power but your opinion can do so; people have the right to have their opinions represented in politics.

Fringe opinions deserve only trivial representation and that's what they get, but this article is about various mainstream opinions held by as much as 62% of people, it's obvious that most of these opinions should be allowed to belong to someone in a position of power.
I do a lot more writing than coding. But, while I used to be able to do stuff surrounded by books, absent an Internet connection, I'd have to work through something with lots of [need to check], [flesh this out when can look up], etc. if I tried to do anything in the absence of an Internet connection.
Why would Jeff be jealous of Elon? That makes no sense.
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Part of that is the sheer volume of those books that were sold. People throw away more copies of Hunger Games in a day than many books will ever sell until the end of time. Like the anecdote about Pablo Escobar losing 2 billion dollars every year due to rats and mold destroying his mountains of cash that he was unable to store in banks (for obvious reasons).
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> So, I'd say mobs and counter-mobs are problematic but the root is permanent unaccountable powers that can ignore whatever material grievances different groups have.

I don't think it's a foregone conclusion that the current mob mentality only came about because of unaccountable powers, or even if it did, that it will necessarily dissipate if those powers become and are held accountable. Some things are self-sustaining.

I don't think we can just look the other way because the negative behavior is caused by a feeling of rage and impotency. Should we try to fix the injustices that cause the feeling of rage and impotency? Yes. That doesn't mean we should also ignore the negative effects that rage and impotency results in, otherwise we'll be following a chain back forever.
Probably not - if something gets as popular as these it isn't likely they're going to be forgotten anytime soon, least of all the Hunger Games.

Many of them will probably grow into 'classics' in the decades following, and it's a bit rare to see them just fade into obscurity, but it happens.
I have to say I'm a bit surprised at the positive reaction to this here. This person admits that they're contracted to work 40 hours/wk but they they only do 20-25 hours when working from home. I've always tracked my time even when working from home to make sure I'm doing the amount of hours I'm getting paid for.

If this person was contracted to achieve a certain amount of work done I'd totally understand, but they're contracted based on time. Kinda surprised how positive the Hacker News crowd is towards skipping work for up to 50% of contracted time. I know work gets tiring, but I find it hard believe anyone can really do great solid work for half a day and then can't possibly get anything productive done in the second half.
> I am bullish on Risc-V and think there's a good chance we will all eventually converge to that.

I'm very hopeful for the mill. I think they have a good 15-20 years left to get their stuff together before we can definitively say they've succeeded or failed. Barring that, though, riscv is quite nice. 'Specially the vector instructions—so much nicer than simd.
Yeah, absolutely.

> participants were asked to rate their goal persistence (e.g., “When I encounter problems, I don’t give up until I solve them”), self-mastery (e.g., “I can do just anything I really set my mind to”) and positive reappraisal (e.g., “I can find something positive, even in the worst situations”). Diagnoses for major depressive, anxiety and panic disorders were also collected at each interval.

> People who showed more goal persistence and optimism during the first assessment in the mid-1990s had greater reductions in depression, anxiety and panic disorders across the 18 years, according to the authors.

Not only is your conclusion a valid one from the data, I'd say that it should very well by the default conclusion. Answering low on their goal-persistence questions would be obvious flags for being depressed.

Especially because there's no casual link that can be established, the most I could say from reading this article is that if you aren't interested in pursuing goals, you may be depressed.
A "fund me style" could be something like https://opencollective.com/
My wife used to be in commercial real estate. She said that that from what she heard from colleagues, the industry is actually doing pretty well at the moment, since so many offices have to be completely refitted for covid-19 precautions, and that's something that's also handled by those companies.

But right now a lot of places are still under contract for their leases. Might be a different story in a year or so when more leases expire and they just don't bother keeping their offices.

You want to know an industry that's really screwed? The industry she left commercial real estate for: events/conventions. Her current company has had basically no revenue since the first lockdowns, and that's not changing anytime soon.

She's been eyeing jobs in commercial real estate again as an escape from events, as they're in better shape for the moment, at least.
Wow I'm surprised people are so eager to go back to the office and completely aren't valuing the potential freedom of being able to live where they'd like rather than where their work happens to be.
Looks like it was confirmed here earlier I just missed the feed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23926289
The point of the 'rule' is that some things are so repugnant, there's no doing them 'ironically' or 'as commentary'. Hence the goats. If, when accused of goatfucking, you produce a goat and start fucking it, you are a goatfucker not a wry commentator on the baselessness of the accusation. If someone at a rally accuses you of racism (by, you know, association since you are rallying in support of someone with a long track record of racism) and you start shouting a virulently racist slogan, you're a racist. It's super-duper simple. Your interpretation is that yelling 'white power' is not actually racist because... some weird meta-thing. The entire purpose of the rule is to act as a terminating condition in otherwise unbounded meta-recursion.
That could very well be true, I'm simply pointing out that OP appears to be stating as fact something that the article denies.

> Additionally, they explicitly waived all waitlists when they launched the program, and spoke about is as if controlled lending had been temporarily abandoned (whereas now they’re saying it was still CDL, just with a larger source pool). As far as I can tell, this is all a post-hoc attempt to make the whole affair more legal.

Well, obviously a post-hoc justification wouldn't make it legal. But on the other hand, if what they did was legal all along, the fact that they misleadingly described it at the outset in a way that made it sound illegal presumably wouldn't make it illegal.

It's not 100% clear to me what the justification is supposed to be. The article clearly seems to be implying that their lending was 1:1 with physical copies. If that's false, then obviously making this statement is not going to help their legal case, because the truth of it will be revealed in the course of the lawsuit. If it's true, then what was novel about their approach as discussed in the press release back in March? My best guess is that it has something to do with the physical libraries all being closed - that this enables more 1:1 lending because of the "650 million" books locked up, even if not each individual book was scanned separately. If that's not what they're claiming, I'm not sure what the point is.
AFAIK you can do that with radiotelescopes, but cannot easily with optical telescopes. That is because optical sensors lose phase information of incoming signal.

There are telescopes formed from arrangement of smaller telescopes (like mentioned Very Large Telescope of European Southern Observatory), but these have to be connected optically (by a system of precise mirrors), not just digitally.
Yep - big brother.
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Show HN: Part of Speech API
The thing is that the number of people who strictly belong to the capitalist class who participate in this app will be vanishingly small, because most of those people are too busy cashing checks to talk with us proles.

Really all you need to do is convince the working class on this app to seize the ol' means, since it's so much larger.

Of course, the existence of the petit bourgeois (and the fact that that group would be the main audience for this app) complicates all this.
Sold. Just picked one up. Thank you for figuring this out and making it easy to get!
Since Trump literally explained his comment, your steel-man seems entirely wrong/misplaced.

I'd rather Twitter just ban Trump entirely because he's an asshole and they don't like him. Such a policy would be far more honest.
Completely agreed, and well stated.

However, in this case, I don't think it's that Facebook doesn't want to apply their ToS consistently. I believe it's that activist employees, and opportunistic companies feigning boycotts, don't want them applied consistently.
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I'd like them to add country of origin to the facets, but that would allow me to eliminate 90% of Amazon so they never will...
That was a shit editorial, by someone who did no research.

He was highlighting Tech jobs, when we already tried that shit 20 years ago.

Spoiler: It didn't work out well.
> The idea is that the state should not generally be in the business of determine what political speech should be legal

I understand, but how can the same state allow mobs and employers to harass people and sometimes destroy their lives because they do what the state allows? The state doesn't just declare freedoms, it protects them. For example, if the state doesn't throw you in jail for your opinions, can someone else do it without the state intervening?

> Do you seriously not see the difference between, "this opinion should not get you thrown in jail" and "this opinion should not belong to someone in a position of power"?

I see that the first statement comes from the state and it is valid for everyone; the second is subjective and is made by a group of people who have taken on themselves the role of judge, jury and executioner. Granted, it's a statement that is in your right to make; but if you act on it you can become responsible of harassment, stalking, mobbing.
We tried something like this in 2014 so our remote graphics designers would feel like they’re more in the office. It was a small team of 10 in the office plus 3 remote.

Everyone HATED it. Having a camera actively on you all the time is incredibly unsettling. We ended that experiment really quick.
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building relationships is really underrated (especially among the Aspergers-inclined tech crowd) is and much harder to do remotely. Most of moving up in life and finding new opportunities is about who you know, and someone you only know through email and slack isn't the same as someone you know who you've spoken to face-to-face every day for several years.
> That which is asserted without evidence can and must be dismissed without evidence.

TFA provides evidence for nothing, so I guess we just dismiss it all then?

My point was how do you even begin to assess to what extent slogans, disinformation campaigns, apathy towards either candidate or some other factor was effective in swinging the result? Demanding proof that disinformation moved the result even a little verges on ludicrous.
I was thinking of those points too, but I figured that an analysis like theirs would point something like that out.
Nobody in the management of a company like Google would ever breathe a word about meals and transportation being part of comp, because if they are part of comp then they need to pay taxes on them. The two companies where I worked that had expensive on-campus meals both had systematic approaches devised by corporate lawyers to make sure that meals did not appear to be compensation.
Probably a lot more common to work more than less so it all washes out in the end.
Sorry, this seems bogus. There are a lot of ways to block Tor connections, and Tor doesn't try to make it particularly hard to identify ordinary entry nodes. That's what bridge nodes are for, if you need it.
likes to rewrite history and ignores facts he doesn't like, bullies people that oppose him, goes on unstable twitter rants, builds a cult of personality around his persona, paints himself as a rule breaker, etc

They are not the same person by any means, but they do share similarities
Since forever. Are you entirely unfamiliar with the law in most US jurisdictions, and the Anglo-Saxon legal tradition in general?
Without profit, people couldn't have created those things in the first place. Not because nessarily even they wouldn't have wanted to out of greed: if you can't feed your family at all with something it is less likely you will spend the amount of time on it that you would on something you can. Not to mention a lot of movies/books (Because of printing costs)/shows would just not have been possible without enough captial which comes from people who get said captial by making a profit.
Commission free until Google get's traction and then all kinds of bullshit rules and games, and ZERO customer support . . . would you really trust the same people who just arbitrarily cut off peoples gmail accounts and such, and you have ZERO ability to contact them and sort it out ?

then, imagine them taking it to the next level holding on to your money and not responding . . .

I can certainly sympathesize with that YouTube lady last year who went to YouTube headquarters and starting slinging lead . . . bastards.
Opponents of Critical Theory are not interested in debates. They are interested in defending their privileged positions by any means possible. Questioning their rightful status at the top of the hierarchy is destruction of liberal norms itself. Facts specifically don't matter, what matters are the opinions and careers of the elite class. So I doubt this project will help with out modern culture wars. /s

Hey wow, making strawmen is fun! They're so easy to demolish!
Why the Founding Fathers Despised Democracy
About two weeks ago, my wife, young sons, and father-in-law saved the life of a hiker in Colorado using an InReach. The messaging helped dispatch decide to send helicopter. According to doctors, she had less than an hour to live by the time she arrived.

Also, having the messaging functionality meant that we knew they weren't injured.

Beacons don't allow you to provide details, but they are better than nothing. Out of 30 hikers that passed by, my family was the only one with satellite-based emergency reporting capability.
Haskell's problem is that it's so consistent (e.g. in enforcing purity, to the point of frustration for common tasks), if you don't understand it, you won't get anywhere. CSS's problem is rather the opposite - or if it's consistent it's consistent in its own, rather frustrating way. Mathematics may not be how we inherently reason, but I feel good having solved a problem in Haskell. I feel bad having solved most problems in CSS.
Fear is not a bad thing in itself. It's fearing the wrong thing that leads to trouble (and incidentally, I think fear-based paralysis is best defined as a symptom of fearing the wrong thing). When faced with a threat, making a risk/reward calculation is really an attempt to be rationally driven in one's choice of what to fear.

As a corollary, courage can be defined as fearing the results of not being appropriately brave more than the threat itself.
It's just like, back in the 2000's, Intel insisting GHz was the only measure that mattered (compared to AMD's lower clocked but more efficient designs), but in the other way around.
Or it's not "or" but "and," with the the two feeding each other in a positive feedback loop.