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> rock-throwing protesters versus police officers wearing body armor and gas masks, carrying ballistic shields and lobbing flash grenades.

So regular riot control equipment in 95% of the world...

The only other stuff they mention are semi-auto rifles which are not militarization. Us civilians have the same rifles which are way more accurate than a standard handgun. I dont want an officer using a handgun at 50-100 yards trying to stop an active shooter, I want them to have the best tool for the job which would be a patrol rifle. That's safer for everyone, especially bystanders.

> My police department should not be anywhere near militarized. It's inappropriate, wrong, and is a waste of funds because they should not be kitted out that way.

How is riot control pads / shields and an armored vehicle to stop bullets and rocks being thrown militarization? I don't see any offensive weapons used other than crowd control agents which last I checked are used in most of the world for the same purpose. They also still use fire hoses in many other countries which we stopped doing in the 60s due to the bad optics of them during the racial tension.

> They bring out those vehicles during protests, among other things.

Judging how the protests have turned to riots over the past few months in major cities, they are completely justified in doing so. Getting rocks, molotov cocktails and everything else under the sun thrown at you when you're trying to stop people from burning down communities would make me want the best protection too. But even in those cases the vehicles are used as transport and command / observation platforms. You mostly have a problem with crowd control tactics it sounds like which are pretty standard when dealing with a declared riot. Here is a good video on the tactics with explanations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yT9bit2-1pg
Same, although I just have the one old Kindle that I revived with a new battery. It's never had a network connection since I factory reset it. I just dump ebooks onto it via USB. It might be recording all sorts of analytics but I don't care because it'll never be connected to the outside world.

Plus, for all the people saying basically "it's for your own good", the battery lasts much longer on aeroplane mode. For this device, for me, WiFi is an anti-feature.
>This is a batshit right-wing conspiracy theory site. Here are some direct quotes from that site that I found within the first 60 seconds of clicking around:

>>CNN is obviously approaching the election as a partisan mission, and has signaled that fair coverage is not in the cards. The goal is to put Democrats in control of the government.

In your view is CNN not partisan?

In regards to Robert Lee, like other misleading fact checks, the objection wasn't that he was fired. People were observing that it was misguided. I think we should be able to have this discussion without terms like "batshit right-wing conspiracy theory".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_bias_in_the_United_State...
Not sure you can limit concurrent async functions easily in RXJS. This seems to be a much nicer API for that use case.
Consider the van life and having a mobile office.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg37Cbx-kak
BTW You can login now and search all 4,000+ ideas for free.

I guess I could set up a daily random idea email if you wanted. But I couldn’t guarantee the quality of said idea :)
No, but it does change how profitable it is to make those deliveries.

Delivering to urban areas is generally more cost effective because there is an opportunity bonus. People in rural areas can simulate that opportunity bonus by getting more packages more regularly.
Listen live to our county falling apart in Kenosha WI https://www.broadcastify.com/webPlayer/30891
Everyone has a bunch of cards, they just don't use them.

We have a credit card for a mall, only for the free parking at said mall. We never actually pay anything with it, only scan it in the parking garage.

That said, cashless transactions have gone way up in the past year though, though the introduction of PayPay QR code payments (which means that waaay more small mom&pop stores accept a cashless payment system since adopting it is basically free), the government 2-%5% cashback cashless incentive that ended earlier this year, and the coronavirus.

It will be interesting to see the new cashless usage numbers next year.
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Fewer votes against Trump unless, like good Democrats, they mail in all their ballots before they die!8-))
Known devil is better than unknown devil
I really appreciate your constant LIDAR analysis in these posts. I always expect to see a comment from you when posts are about self driving or lidar advancements.
Nice work. I've used [1] bottleneck in the past to do this, but it's very complex and bloated for simply limiting concurrency. Might try yours out soon!

[1] https://github.com/SGrondin/bottleneck
Yet, with job you'd still vote for more income to go to corporations instead of social security net.
And money, and power.

A retimer is a much simpler device (thus cheaper) and can be tested using linear methods. To test a line with a redriver you really need a full on BERT system + a VNA whereas you can get by with just the VNA for the retimer. To accurately characterize PCIe Gen 4 and 5 you need to go to almost 50 GHz of bandwidth on your test equipment so you are talking big money on hardware for test, design, and validation.

Meanwhile, a redriver doubles your power budget on the driver since it literally is a second set of drivers in the middle of your PCIe line.

This is an ad from a company that sells redrivers. It's an informative ad, but still an add so it should be viewed with a critical eye.
This is great! Thanks for posting it.
In my mind civil disobedience, as an ethical concept, is about refusing to comply with one or more laws that you believe to be unjust. Disregarding the Jim Crow laws seems to be the "textbook" example in this regard.

So blocking a road in order to draw attention to some other incident of injustice isn't about how the law about blocking roads is unjust, nor is it even about the some other unjust law. In your example the protest was about the George Floyd killing in which the police officers were rather quickly charged with a crime.

The protesters in your example are indeed "protesting" but I don't think that their tactics are an illustration of civil disobedience, as I understand it.

So if we are to excuse protestors for breaking laws I think there needs to be a different ethical argument that must be made. And that argument has to tackle the problem of which crimes can be excused: disorderly conduct, assault, arson, vandalism, theft/looting, manslaughter? And perhaps it matters how that disobedience is directed? For example, torching the police vehicle of the police force that is implicated in the injustice seems different to me (but still not necessarily excusable) than torching the police vehicle in a city thousands of miles a way from the incident, or than looting your local Best Buy.

For those of you who feel like these types of protests are ethical/warranted/justified, I would ask, what is the limiting principle? What would represent the protesters going "too far"? When would it be appropriate to say enough is enough? When is it no longer protesting and is just criminal behavior?
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Yes! You can keep your Atoms and VS codes. Sublime is sooo fast. It never lets me down for opening huge files.
> Church and religion, I would say mostly works on positivity.

Depends on the religion, I guess. I was raised Catholic, and a lot of it was about making people fell guilty about their sins and telling them if they keep doing bad things and don't repent, they'll spend an eternity in hell.

Not exactly positive, IMO. Sure, there was always mention of how if you're a good, Christ-believing person, you'll get eternal rewards, but that always felt like a relative afterthought to me.

> The stereotype of the Chinese is they will work towards a common goal but leave a traffic accident victim on the street.

It's funny that you mention that; just today a friend in San Diego saw a car accident out his window (driver was unconscious after crashing into a parked car). He ran downstairs to see if the guy needed help, and saw four people standing there, gawking, taking pictures and video. He asked if anyone had called 911, and no one had.

I guess that's not exactly the same as ignoring an accident victim, but it's just as bad, if not worse.
Andy Ngo is an amazing, on the ground journalist. He has covered an amazing amount of stuff in Seattle and Portland that's not reported on any other major new media outlet. I've watched a lot of his coverage and I use to live in Seattle. Based on what I see and what I hear from others on the ground there, I respect his reporting and think it's valuable.

Is it bias? Of course. Every single news agency has a bias. But I still think Andy is trying to report accurately and do the right thing. I balance what he says against his opposition and I have decided for myself that I think his intent is good.
Would be even better if Oumuamua turned out to be an artifact itself. Its acceleration without any visible off gassing is still unexplained.
> an eight of their allocated range

Assuming your calculations are correct, this means an issuer can only emit 8 cards in average to the total population.

Cards have an expiration, people lose them, break them, they change and come back to banks. For the main issuers it’s not ridiculous to have to issue 20 or 30 cards per account to a user in their lifetime.

Then people have multiple accounts (e.g. my mortgage was on a separate join account).

There’s just enough normal circumstances to run out of numbers, not even considering freak cases.
Stein's Paradox
The usual sorry tale of rickety ships, dubious owners, shady ports of registry (I didn't even know Moldova had a harbour for seagoing ships, but turns out that they have, since 2006, after a territorial exchange with Ukraine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_of_Giurgiule%C8%99ti), crews stranded aboard for months because the owner doesn't care etc. Be that as it may, the blame for storing 2750 tons of a dangerous chemical in a warehouse without proper safety measures in a port located at the heart of Beirut for six years still rests firmly with the Lebanese authorities...
This is borderline FUD. You don't need to use Steamworks to publish a Steam game. With respect to games, most commercial licenses also have these same restrictions, e.g. Unreal Engine.

This seems fine, GPL is probably not suitable here. I don't think Valve is going out of their way to harm anyone's freedoms.

If you really want to release your game as GPL, then do the usual workarounds: use a shim which RPC's to the proprietary bit.
On my Linux system Ctrl+p and File->print are the same dialog box.
Yeah, I actually need to login to my online bank to confirm most of my online Visa transactions (at least for the first time with a particular merchant).
I mean I was targeted. By personally I meant that I had that personal experience. It was as part of a group - the cops tend to use "collective punishment" when it comes to protests, after all.

The use of tear gas is the use of a chemical weapon and a war crime, but when you turn it against civilians in your own country we give it a pass.
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Collaboration also pushes this field forward. Lots of great AI research coming from China and the US and luckily lots of it is shared openly. IMO that’s how to maximize the rate of innovation.
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I completely agree with this. Taking 100% blame for something you had 0% control over was a bad move. Your intentions were good but as sloaken said “maybe a 10% refund”.

The issue you have now is that this client has been trained to walk all over you and expect everything they ask for. Not too dissimilar to that of a dog that learns to cry for table scraps.

The bottom line is that your clients come to you because they need you as much, if not more than, you need them. You don’t have to throw it their face but it’s extremely useful to remind yourself of it from time to time as it will help you take up for yourself when, and hopefully before, these types of situations arise.
"ebs pricing" search does not find standard, at least not in top rank, because standard is not on the ebs pricing page. You need to know to add "previous generation" or "legacy" or something like that to your search terms. Easy when you remember it, but not great transparency from their side.
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Mozilla seems to be banking on "a freer/opener web" being a convincing selling point on its own. But at that point, they might as well just rebadge chromium like all the others.

Corralling power users into a separate app version ala Nightly now comes across as a vain attempt at creating a longterm offramp to avoid backlash.

It really makes you think "what's the point?" about it all.
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I think there is no point in blaming Facebook here . Facebook has to follow a country’s laws if it wants to operate there and there are well known laws in Thailand against criticizing the monarchy. If not followed, then Facebook has a real risk on being banned in that country.
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Looks a retimer is much more complicated than a redriver.
> That makes sense. But isn't that punishing to lower end hardware users?

Yes, and the punishments will continue until hardware improves. More seriously, this is definitely a big trade-off. That's why page weight has been growing over time and client side metrics haven't been getting much better despite improved hardware and connection speeds. There's no free lunch. As I've mentioned in past comments, now's a great time to be a web performance consultant.

> Also aren't you moving much more data back and forth to do that?

Considering that usually the bulk of the frontend arrives once and then gets cached/runs continuously, I would say generally no. Server side rendering requires the page to be sent in whole on each request, unless you're doing some funky hybrid stuff with partial server rendering.
From my experience any company that is developing interconnects either has the needed test equipment or uses a test house. It seems strange that access to test equipment should factor into an engineering decision.
The people taking power tools to the fence weren’t provocateurs. There was an effort to remove the fence. It’s reasonable to debate whether that’s legitimate form or protest or warrants the outsized and very violent responses we continue to see, but I think most people discussing Portland have very little grasp of the whole context of the past 90 days of continuous protests unfortunately. I also think people fail to put things in proper perspective when weighing small acts of vandalism against responses.

But I agree with you Andy Ngo is not a legitimate journalist. An example of that was compile by this thread last year.

https://mobile.twitter.com/respectablelaw/status/11638952462...
I had bookmarks. Now I put those in collections. It's worse for going to 1 specific site, but great to going to many sites at a time (think HN, twitter, newspaper and weather, all at once when you start your day).
Your proposed strategy opens civil society up to endless denial of service attacks. Normal life grinds to a halt every time someone feels like they need to "protest". Would you be OK with a single person just sitting in the middle of a highway holding a protest sign? 5 people? 10? 50? Is the nature of the protest important?

The classical notion of civil disobedience is that you have to be willing to accept the consequences, so you can't resist arrest and you have to accept being jailed or paying the fine etc. What I don't see in the recent "protests" is any willingness to be arrested. In fact I see lots of people resisting arrest.
It's great you could break this down year by year! Good to know what is possible in the long haul but also the commitment it requires.
This has been a very long fight, and there are a few pockets to defeat to declare that we’ve eradicated polio. I see many comments talking about malaria. One of the most effective ways to tackle that is through the work done by organizations, like Against Malaria Foundation (AMF), that are also supported by Effective Altruism based organizations (like GiveWell, Effective Altriusm Funds), etc.). The cost of saving a life from malaria is quite low with this. I would strongly encourage people who donate to charities to donate at least a small amount regularly to AMF or the others mentioned above.
It's called 3D Secure and requires a PIN to verify transaction(typically with SMS), or a security device provided by bank.
This is my view as well. I think the American public has unrealistic expectations of what law enforcement can actually do in these situations and further, what federal law enforcement and the national guard is capable of.

It seems like when they sent DHS down to Portland it ended up just exacerbating the situation. No "order" was restored; they just left after a week or so.

And I think more broadly, the "tough on crime" crowd needs to recognize the limits of its own ideology. We have the largest prison system in the world and still do not have law & order on our streets.
Neither the linked article nor the paper mention religion or religious rituals. In fact, they do have some idea about what these were used for and explain it in the discussion section.

Back to your dismissal though. The thing about "ritual means we don't know" is that it's essentially an inside joke that got picked up by people who don't understand it and parrot some variation whenever they see the right keywords. The word 'ritual' is a pretty broad descriptor, but it has a fairly specific set of meanings that boil down to stating the activities being described have symbolic meaning, with overtones of being non-functional. It doesn't mean the activities described are religious in nature and it doesn't mean that we don't know what the physical activities were/are. The symbolic meaning is the part that's hardest to nail down and where the disagreements happen.
> beat builtin Bayesian inference

That’s exactly what tools like the scientific method do. Systems of law enforcement could be similarly redesigned to sidestep many cognitive biases.
But you don't have to read far to get to this bit:

> Fewer than one in five Black Americans feel very confident that the police in their area would treat them with courtesy and respect. While similar to the 24% of Asian Americans saying the same, it is markedly lower than the 40% of Hispanic Americans and the 56% of White Americans who feel this way. This could either stem from Black Americans' own negative experiences with the police or from their familiarity with people who have had negative encounters with law enforcement.

Most Americans (52%) according to the poll, are not very confident that police would treat them with courtesy and respect. That's shameful if you ask me. The power that police wield makes it all the more important that they are respectful in their interactions with the public. But we wouldn't accept that kind of performance in any private business front of house role
So you weren't personally targeted. In what way were you targeted? Were you doing nothing to arouse police attention? I think most first world countries have a gas they can use for riot control. Are you insisting that most first world countries are regularly engaging in what you would call war crimes... that are worse than other countries?
hhw says>"Zelenco[sic] has been thoroughly disgraced for ethics violations. "<

What ethics violations? Please provide a cite that says "Zelenko has been thoroughly disgraced for ethics violations" or even charged with any ethics violations. You're slandering him.
Nobody gives a shit about peaceful protests. If they did the Iraq war would never have happened and many policy areas would be far different from how they are. Riots should not be a first resort but when other types of civic engagement have failed they're a wholly legitimate tactic to force change.
It's curious to me that you can make race a legal requirement for anything.
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He mostly just reposts other people’s work with his own very selective spin. You might as well follow the original photo journalists and watch the raw scenes to form your own opinion rather than have Andy Ngo spin it for you. You won’t find videos of pipe bombs exploding and proud boys pointing guns at protestors and police assaulting protestors if all you follow is Andy Ngo because those things don’t fit his agenda.
This author has commented before about not wearing a mask, apparently not believing in the science behind it. Ignorance is bliss.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24152591
I will announce in a couple days
>A small but vocal number of users complained

You can use this to rationalize-away every regression in every piece of software. Enough "well, they're just edge case loud power users" papercuts may eventually prove fatal.

A to-hell-with-your-workflow sneak update, no-downgrade path approach like this speaks volumes about Mozilla.

EDIT: Sneak insofar as no clear communication about how much functionality users would be (potentially permanently) losing, and no directions on how to avoid that outcome. The play store rollout has certainly been inconsistent but that's probably more on Google's end.
Thank you. So debs for debian? I have great collaborators working with me now that could do this. We have one for Arch I believe. I just haven't prioritized this yet.
> A completely irrelevant point, just like this tired cliche.

Then what was the point of bringing that irrelevant point?

>they're able to collect revenue for alternative revenue streams such as the App Store.

Did Apple tell you that, can you give some sources for your claims. They might be doing that but also pass the cost to the user when the user purchases the device.

> The cost to the end user is how much it costs them to download/acquire iOS, which is $0

And we are back to the starting position, show me where can I buy Apple hardware without the OS, if you cannot show me that then you cannot say IOS is free, the cost is included in the device price.

> maintaining high Customer satisfaction

Then why did they intentionally make old devices run very slow?

Has it ever occurred to you that they did that intentionally to force users to upgrade so that they can get new revenue for IOS and the hardware?

> Also you can't pay for iOS.

Yes because the price is included in the hardware.
I believe source codes are free speech and binary is not somehow
The tool is not important
Is Gendarmarie French for National Guard or something?
So the best reply you could come up with was to assert that those videos are lies with weasel words without addressing facts or providing any substance or counterpoint?

Burying your head in the sand does not count as honest discourse or objective reasoning.
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It's not FUD at all if you use extensions outside of whatever Mozilla deigns to add to their whitelist.
Could some questions really be arguments?
With reduced policing and increased chaos and rioting it seems logical that those with means will employ private security forces.

It's the same reason guns are selling like crazy, with new gun owners at all-time high.

I fear a situation where because of empathy the state has given up the monopoly on force by essentially allowing violent riots that destroy individuals livelihoods, and those individuals will look for some other way to secure themselves and their property.