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> Unless I'm reading this[1] wrong, the California State Assembly has been a Democrat supermajority since 2011, and the Senate has been since 2013.

The relevant threshold is 27 (2/3 of 40 is 26.6...) seats in the Senate, 54 (2/3 of 80 is 53.3...) in the Assembly.

So in 2011 neither house has a supermajority (and, prior to a State Constitutional Amendment in 2010, a supermajority was required to pass a budget with or without tax changes), in 2013 Dems had supermajorities in both Houses which they lost for the 2015 session in both Houses, regained in 2017 by the 2016 election in both Houses, lost in the Senate by a recall in mid 2018, and regained by the 2018 elections for the 2019 session.

> Moreover, Democrats have only been one or two votes short of a supermajority in both houses since 1999.

No, up to 2 in the Senate and 6 on the Assembly short; and up until 2010 that meant Republicans, while, they couldn't pass anything on their own obviously, had a veto on the annual budget which thhey regularly held hostage to extract other concessions.

> So, I still think my statement is fair, that the GOP has no effective power in California, and that has been the case for two decades.

It's not; they've had a veto on tax policy changes that aren't pure cuts intermittently, on at least one house (which is all it takes) over the last decade, and a veto over the budget consistently for the prior decade.

Oh, and as well as a legislative veto on the budget they also held the Governor's office for much of that prior decade (the full years of 2004-2010), which gave them more power (especially because, unlike the President in the federal system, the Governor has a line item veto on the California budget.)

So, no, they haven't been without power in California for two decades (or even the original claim of one, but its much more ridiculous to now claim two.)
Reminds me of the Juicero, which took a fairly basic concept (validating a QR code and squeezing a packet of mushed up fruit pulp so juice would come out) and still comically failed because, even with all their meticulously machined gears and cogs, it did a much inferior job to a human hand and a few conveniently shaped kitchen utensils.

Never mind that an internet connected, custom-engineered juice press was a bad idea in the first place. It was still out-manufactured by simple tools like a garlic press, or a little metal thing you twist your fruit on top of. Or a blender.
I've watched the stream, and it painful. Not only is the book built on very little evidence, but Shrier just gets so many things wrong on stream, I have to wonder if she actually did her homework. Things that aren't even up for debate like effects of HRT, even in instances where it'd strengthen the optics of her argument.

It doesn't help that Rogan only seems to have one hard opinion (legalize drugs) and seems to disagree with most of his guests very little, which makes for a good stage for his guests but not a very balanced discussion.

I'm still hoping he'll eventually have a trans person on (that's not Debbie Hayton, Blair White or Buck Angel).
List of Music That Never Gets Old to Me
... "somewhere" perhaps being here[1][2], where it's speculated that the issue is the technicality that OpenJ9 is Apache/Eclipse licensed and not GPL.

[1] https://twitter.com/volker_simonis/status/105261065466907443...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19826967
The conjecture by Erdős is the following: if A ⊂ ℕ is such that Σ_{n ∈ A} 1/n diverges, then A contains arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions. Bloom and Sisask now proved that A contains infinitely many length-3 arithmetic progressions, following from their main result which is an improved upper bound for Roth's theorem.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.03528
When Wells Fargo set incentives that were impossible to meet without defrauding customers, yes, they got caught. They fired thousands of tellers.
That's cool. I appreciate that.
People Aren’t Reading or Watching Movies. They’re Gaming
Quantum encryption is solving a non-problem. It provides a mechanism which guarantees that a message sent over a point-to-point optical link hasn't been intercepted. However:

* It is orders of magnitude slower than normal data transmission.

* The range is limited.

That makes it suitable for key exchange between two switches connected by a fibre. However Diffie-Hellman key exchange does this perfectly well already, if you need it. Also quantum encryption can't survive going through any kind of forwarding other than an optical circuit switch, so as soon as you do anything higher level you need to decrypt and re-encrypt the data, breaking the physical guarantees.

When you look at the security threats to modern communication, physical taps are way down the list. Security is already built on the idea that the network is compromised, so end-to-end encryption is already the norm. Adding quantum encoding buys you nothing.
I will never understand this. A couple of hours investment now and you've saved yourself a lifetime of stress and confusion. There aren't many tools that I'm sure are going to stick around for the long-haul, but git is one of them.
They are coming at you from every direction at once.

What you’re asking is analogous to asking where the center of the Earth is on a map of the surface, and arguing it must exist because of how things on the horizon change when you move.
Eh? I run into FBA all the time on .ca.

It is rarer than on .com, I agree there, but barely exists seems inaccurate.

What does annoy, are all the reshippers which charge sometimes even 10x more for a product. 4x the price is typical.

All they do is list a product on .ca, from .com, and wait for an order. Then they buy from .com, receive amd reship.

Amazon just seems so shady. Sneaky. As if their entire platform is geared to allow others to deceive.
8% speed of light relative to what?
I now use amazon to buy Anker products and that's it. I recently was shopping for a heart rate monitor - the Wahoo TICKR X was out of stock everywhere except Amazon. I couldn't get over the feeling that it was in stock only because it was fake, so ordered a Garmin from a bike store instead. There is no store I trust less.
Ask HN: How to Self Study Deep Learning?
How can I teach myself deep learning? Is it possible to learn such a complex subject without attending to uni? What would be the best resources?
Another extremely happy user of the following combination waves hi:

• Mutt

• OfflineIMAP (to be replaced with `mbsync`; OfflineIMAP is not being ported to Python 3, unfortunately)

• Notmuch — for fast indexing, searching, and tagging e-mails

• Postfix — Mail Transfer Agent; offline queuing. Overall, it's one of the most robust pieces of software; Postfix never failed even once on me in nearly six years.
>yeah, I know it's theoretically above the speed of light, but I'm not sure about the specifics here

I thought superluminal communication is considered impossible.[0]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster-than-light_communicatio...
I’m going to go against the rules of the internet and feed the troll.

The government has two options, give money with no strings attached to consumers and let the market work, or give money to institutions with conditions.

Clearly universities are not consumers, but institutions, so your silly analogy breaks very quickly.
The default program on https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/try.html returns an error on mobile safari.
2 Factor authentication doesn't protect against modern attacks. WebAuthn is the method you are looking for.
The demo blog seems to be really-really slow. Pages load in seconds.
MIPS was pretty popular among early Shenzhen tablets.

Then they just disappeared. Either MIPS screwed up or ARM did something really smart. My money is on the former...
Can anyone explain to this confused westerner why "Все Могут Короли" would even need to be snuck past the censors via a "mistaken" airing?

The theme doesn't seem to be very different from other pop music, such as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw-9qu4gcWI .

A mid-80's western report on the "vodka economy" suggests that in this case the bottle itself was meant more as a traditional component of a bribe/tip, and probably didn't contribute much to the pecuniary value. (Indeed, one suggestion in the paper is that, just as the dollar lost its gold standard, during the seventies the ruble also lost its vodka standard of 3 RUB = 1 L.)

https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/nceeer/1985-Berk-Duke-Treml.pdf

> "30. Krokodil [No. 14, 1970, 5] carried a cartoon showing a living room where every inch of space -- floor, window sills, furniture -- was filled with vodka bottles . The woman pictured amid these hundreds of bottles explained her predicament : "My husband is an excellent plumber, but he does not drink ...."

> "38. Increases in vodka prices are important in yet another respect. Interest rates on savings accounts in the USSR are, on the average, about 2.5% per annum, and increases in vodka prices since the late 1950s have more than compensated the consumer who has kept his wealth in vodka rather than in savings accounts."
I can recommend the book "Programming Ecto". Previously I had only dabbled with ecto in the context of Phoenix, but it didn't really click for me either, but the book does a good job going through the different parts of Ecto and clearing up some of my confusion with it.
The quote, usually known from the Princess Bride, is actually from Field Marshall Montgomery addressing the House of Lords:

The next war on land will be very different from the last one, in that we shall have to fight it in a different way. Rule 1, on page 1 of the book of war, is: "Do not march on Moscow". Various people have tried it, Napoleon and Hitler, and it is no good. That is the first rule. I do not know whether your Lordships will know Rule 2 of war. It is: "Do not go fighting with your land armies in China". It is a vast country, with no clearly defined objectives.

Montgomery didn't say except in Winter. He said don't do it all.
Not just “higher”, the paper is talking about 3,4,5 or even more times higher.
The results of blockchain-based elections can be checked after the fact, that's true. But if the votes of the individuals in the electorate can be checked after the fact, the system was badly architected. The USPS solution linked by OP does not link the identity of a voter to their blockchain identity, so coercion remains as much of a threat as in postal voting.

Blockchain-based voting systems can be either the least or the most anonymous voting systems. Electronic voting allows the abstraction of many voter-suppression tactics which are still in play in the US.

I may have misjudged the audience, because the postal voting argument is very US centric, at a time when the prevailing media narrative is that postal voting is an essentially infallible system which should not be questioned. I would find it hypocritical if people strongly supported mail-in voting while not considering that blockchain-based voting carries similar advantages and risks (which is why the USPS proposed this, I'm sure).

If you read my other comments in this thread, you'll see I'm not in favor of implementing a blockchain-based voting system yet. I just think the above argument was made from a fundamental misunderstanding of blockchain technology.
This doesn't strike me as a strong argument. While it is true that cultural similarities between Central Europe and the US are mostly superficial, while the underlying cultures and values are quite different, I don't see why that provides a solid reason to dismiss GP's point. For example, I don't even know how I would get a gun here in Germany, much less a gun that is useful in committing a bunch of murders (and immediately getting arrested, since all guns you can buy are registered as far as I know). So clearly it would be quite difficult for me to shoot a bunch of people up. Of course, I could use use other weapons to hurt or kill people, e.g. a stick or a kitchen knife. And that's what people usually use, so there is clearly some displacement going on (no/few guns available -> use other weapons to commit crimes). However, not all crimes can be easily committed with any weapon. School shootings don't work with a knife (though you would probably still injure or kill a few people), you need a gun (or a bomb) to effectively kill many people quickly. The consequence is that school shootings are incredibly rare.
There are surely red/yellow dwarf stars even closer to the black hole (beyond our observational capability). The skies on their planets would be fascinating (but hostile to life).
I think you are missing the key point here. This is wan-to, clearly....

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_at_the_End_of_Time
Azure, how to build a reusable multi-data disks VM ARM template
Very nice video, though in the personally delivered sponsored message at the end he seems to be contradicting himself. Why would you still trust a password manager after seeing the video? And wouldn't it be incredibly stupid if an entire nation put their passwords in a vault controlled by some company in possibly another nation?
....the amount of times I have typed initgraph(&gdriver,&gmode,"");
A superelastic alloy with a nearly limitless temperature window
NYC is dead right now. The question is whether it will come back to life.

My hunch is yes, because it is still a good brand.
An observer near Sagittarius A* at the star S62 has just published a report about us moving at 8% of the speed of light.
Or, you know, use a hash of the previous row as a column value of the current row. That way, you can’t tamper with any data already stored in the database.
So, in general, Dublin Big Tech jobs are in:
- customer support

- sales

- finance (explains itself really)

- SRE (mostly because of favourable time zones)

Most of the core engineering is in London/Zurich. Dunno what's gonna happen post Brexit, but anecdotally, the FAANG which I am most familiar with has had real problems hiring in London post-2016.
Orbiters...
>Iron-based superelastic alloys with near-constant critical stress temperature dependence

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/369/6505/855

>Designing a wider superelastic window

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/369/6505/773
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In a merger of this scale all the big powers (US, EU, China, and I assume also UK now) have basically veto right.

There are countless examples where country 1 has stopped a merger between a company from country 2 and one from country 3.
I bet those emperors would be quite pleased to know that millions see their faces two thousand years later.
SQLite 3.33
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It says several times that it allows monetization without ads, but it says nowhere how. How?

EDIT: okay, I went looking on other pages of the site: it uses "micro-subscriptions" via https://microscriptions.com/.
> Yet we do not take drastic measures to prevent these deaths.

We do, actually. A virus like COVID-19 and second-hand smoke are only comparable to a certain degree, though. For example, smoking in public indoor spaces is banned in many, many countries in the world. I'm sure the measures would be even more drastic if inhaling second-hand smoke once could a) kill you within ~2 weeks if your health was already compromised b) cause brain damage within ~2 weeks if you were an otherwise healthy individual.
Great point!

But actually, I minified this code so that people can quickly try it out. I'll try to explain it in some other article.
Wouldn't the first stable release of HTML count as "a drastically simpler set of web standards" together with the fact that any browser should support it?

Everything else is to me a matter of compression. Netflix's success seemed to me 50% good marketing and content and 50% compression and data handling.

It is wrong to think that a webpage has some sort of canonical view on it. And FB, Twitter and even Forbes is all about generating the impression of group perspective being one thing as opposed to be views on one, perhaps elusive, thing.
The Last Storyteller
Steal my business idea – you won't
Why so many of us accept authoritarian lockdown rulings is beyond me. It’s even more alarming how willing many are to report their neighbours for perceived infringements. Freedom of movement is sacred and people should be able to make their own choices based on the information available.
call by name is an abomination - essentially you can call func(a[b]) ... every time func's parameter is referenced inside a[b] is reevaluated - b can be a global or a local in the function making the call, inside the function you can read the resulting value or even assign to it .... essentially you need to pass a small code fragment that returns the address of a[b] (except that you can also pass "1" and what happens when you assign to that).

That and Algol60 scoping were probably the main mistakes in Algol60 - people were still figuring that stuff out back then.
indeed, every time i see such articles i remember my high school teachers’ metaphor: in science when we “observe” a phenomena doesn’t necessarily mean that we see it literally, like when we drop a pen to the floor and we hear the sound, we know a pen has fallen to the floor although we haven’t actually seen it with our eyes
And now, hilariously enough, they have ended up with a lot of their growth coming from Linux-based systems.

To be fair, I recently bought a new Thinkpad, and with Ubuntu 20.04 and Nvidia CUDA just worked, with absolutely no tuning (I didn't even need to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH, which I found pretty odd). So things seem to be improving, because there's money in it for Nvidia.
Came here to ask exactly this. Not knowing much about relativity leaves me wondering if this is actually significant?
> also an intense emotional empathy

I've read people saying this before, but DSM-5 299.00 (F84.0) for ASD suggests the complete opposite. So where do you get this description as a trait for ASD?
Microsoft’s Latest OS: Azure RTOS
You never disable your ad blocker to see content that refuses to show on user agents with an ad blocker installed?
That's fine when you run mutt on your local machine, but the whole reason to use mutt is so that you have a dedicated email machine that you can ssh into and use screen to access email from anywhere. And then things like this become 10x harder (I never found a way, although last I tried was 15+ years ago). Attachments, too.
Estonia is probably the most vulnerable country to election tampering in Europe aside from Belarus. Their entire internet and e-voting infrastructure was built up after the largest cyber-attack on a foreign nation, which came from Russia after Estonia removed a Soviet-era war memorial.

This attack also led to the NATO Cybersecurity Center of Excellence being based in Tallinn, and Estonian firms becoming leaders in cybersecurity consulting worldwide. The Estonian example is a splendid example of decentralization and self-sovereign identity done right. All medical records, civil data, banking information, is stored in a decentralized mesh called X-Road.

Finland and other Nordic countries are now adopting X-Road after Estonia's success with it.

If you wish to speak more about this, I'd be glad to, but you're wrong on all fronts. I don't want to regurgitate my blockchain arguments, but if you Ctrl-F this thread for "Right to Vote", you will find my contention about how verifiable, anonymous, and single-vote elections can be held on-chain.

But don't get me wrong, I'm not a proponent of it. I still thing in-person paper-ballot voting is the most reasonable way to vote.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_cyberattacks_on_Estonia
- https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/data-security-meets-diplo...
If it reliably produces better outcomes why wouldn't you?

What next, prevent women from having tubal ligation because you're offended that they don't want children?
If you appreciate SQL, the example (update inventory from daily sales) is a thing of beauty.
Because ARM is one of the few things he invested in that actually makes money.

It's a cash-crunch driven deal, nothing else.
Libretro/RetroArch – Hacker vandalised buildbot and GitHub organization
Google cache:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?hl=en&q=cache%3...

I was hoping we'd gotten past the era where blog articles stopped loading under a bit of traffic, alas.
When I left Amazon the fastest growing team in the country was the antifraud team and they already had like 2 floors of agents working on it. But I also heard that issues which hadn't occured 3 times in a row were dropped on the floor because of Amazon's scale.

This was quite a few years ago now, I can only imagine Amazon is spending more money on the problem now vs then.

not to defend Amazon, but maybe the scale of the problem is too big - maybe there is a long tail of fraudsters similar to the long tail of illicit content on youtube.
It'd be interesting to see some examples of queries that operate on the graph structure of the repo.

mercurial offers a language where you can build expressions to select revsets:

E.g.

> Changesets mentioning "bug" or "issue" that are not in a tagged release:

hg log -r "(keyword(bug) or keyword(issue)) and not ancestors(tag())"

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/help/revsets
> I'm 100% convinced the delay was caused by Nvidia refusing to accept responsibility.

To be fair, the issue was mainly caused by Apples form-over-function thermal design.

To best of my knowledge, Nvidia GPUs works just fine in all other laptops.
If people feel the need to use text inside their <canvas> elements, I've done some (not very rigorous) research on how JS engines interpret font size instructions in their canvasRenderingContext2d environments:

- Absolute size keywords ('xx-small', 'x-small', 'small', 'medium', 'large', 'x-large', 'xx-large', 'xxx-large') may-or-may-not work — and the resulting size may-or-may-not have a relationship to the <canvas> elements surrounding environment.

- Relative size keywords ('larger', 'smaller') can be hit-and-miss too.

- Absolute length values, defined with px, pt, in, cm, mm, pc, will usually work as expected.

- Viewport lengths (vw, vh, vmax, vmin) will often work; note that these lengths are set on creation and don't automatically resize when the viewport dimensions change.

- For lengths defined by the font itself, rem will use the root element's font size for its reference; %, em, ch can be less helpful. Again these won't automatically resize in a responsive environment.

- Of the rest, Q is not supported by Safari browsers, while cap, ic, lh, rlh, vb, vi are not supported by any browser. Avoid!
Since there's enthusiasts in this thread: I have a working SE/30 in storage but the monitor light is dead. What would be the simplest/cheapest way of fixing it?
OpenRCT2 0.3
When you buy these fakes from Amazon are they sold by Amazon? Or are they 3P sellers?

Or is the problem that FBA sellers are infecting legitimate "sold by Amazon" inventory?
I completely agree with your concern.

But, I had to make it as simple as possible for non-programmers.
Demo results look great. Two other options I'd like to see are color scheme and inner/outer padding.
You could use Knex.js but it's not an ORM. TypeORM is the go-to from what I hear (I don't use ORMs).
Yeah, I find it of little use due being syntax agnostic (e.g can't tell me about the changes on a function because it doesn't know what a function is). If you are taking about me asking the same for "files" I meant being able to see all the versions of a file in a single page (maybe using "infinite scroll" in case there are too many)