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>The people promoting these courtesy cards have absolutely no problem with speeding and jaywalking being crimes, and in fact are proponents of police discretion

I agree on both counts. They are proponents of police discretion to let them off for crimes they dont want to be charged for, and have no problem with it.

>to e.g. constantly pull black people over and give them tickets for made up infractions just for the fun of it. It isn’t the “friends and family” of the police who want to end stop-and-frisk, decriminalize minor drug offenses, end cash bail, stop funding police departments from speed traps, ...

I disagree and dont know where you are getting this from. The characters in the article clearly wanted to get off the hook themselves, but that doesnt mean they want to see minorities targeted and abused. I want to get off the hook when stopped for speeding, but that doesnt mean I want police to be shooting and terrorizing minorities.

>You have diametrically misunderstood the point of the “3 felonies a day” book/argument, and you are shoehorning it in here to confidently promote your pet theory, without evidence.

Again, I disagree. The point of the book is that everyone is a criminal and LEO can currently use their discretion to go after anyone they choose to. MY POINT, is that by making 100% of citizens criminals, we have eroded public support for the enforcement of the law. Those who get get caught for everyday crimes are considered unlucky, and those who get off the hook are celebrated. We should enforce the laws we have uniformly, and get rid of the ones we don't want. This is far superior to unwanted laws on the books and rarely enforcing them hoping we wont be affected. Infrequently enforced laws are terrible for a number of reasons, but a big one is that those without power and connections are the ones who are most likely to be affected.
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Don't you need a tracker as well?
This release is a big step towards multi-platform, thanks to the transition to .NET Core. Support for Mac, Linux is planned. Support for mobile devices, in particular Android, I think will be available this month. You can find technical details in the comments below.
The 'ACA' is not one plan and it certainly does not require health insurance carriers to pay for 'ALL' healthcare expenses after you reach your deductible. Coverage varies by state and by level (ie., gold or platinum). Many plans do not cover out-of-network doctor visits for example. On top of this, you need to get prior approval for every medical procedure because not ALL are covered. In some cases, the insurance company will recommend a different treatment, instead of the prescribed treatment. I speak from experience.

AHCA coverage is superior to what we had before, but it isn't enough. It was drafted with the Health Insurance lobby in the room, so do the arithmetic.
See, I think your problem is specifically with the fact that C provides the same operator for "assignment" and "assignment and I get a value back". The issue is that the latter is useful but generally not what you want, so this is why we warn about it but I don't think it's justified to be horrified about it.
Right, my claim is that NYC will not get many more tall towers. It's settling down into a state where there will be few more.
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He knowingly and clearly broke laws by stealing and disclosing classified information. I think he was ethically correct to do so, and his act qualified as civil disobedience, but that's why the US government is after him.
Well, what you're saying is it's a bad bet to make. But that's what makes bets interesting. So, interested on taking the other side?
There is no need to side-install; just go on the play store and search for some bullshit spam phrase like 'unblock pubg' and you'll get your pick of dozens if not more of ad-filled, malicious "VPN" that does MITM and ad injection into all pages.

You'll literally get thousands of results of spam apps just directly named "VPN FOR PUBG" or "VPN UN BLOCK PUBG GROUNDS BATTLE PLAYER GAME CALL OF DUTY SPONGEBOB ESPONJA BOB", all of which are malware.

I just checked for myself, and this is pretty much how it is. The publishers behind this garbage have hundreds of uploaded apps, all of which are effectively the same one but with different names like "UNBLOCK P U B G PAKISTAN" or "VPN FOR PUBG PLAYER FORT NIGHT", and a random one loaded virtually every single data-exfiltration SDK known to man, and several known to animals.
While perhaps satisfying, the issue is that this usually does little good in that the person you are directing this at will rarely change their ways in response.
Dont know why this is being downvoted. Sounds like a reasonable argument
This is essentially the qualified immunity debate. SCOTUS has decided that unless the government defendant did something that SCOTUS in the past has specifically ruled is unconstitutional, you don't get to win a ruling against them. Where specifically is defined exceptionally narrowly.
I've heard they don't have enough production reserved at TSMC to make consumer GPUs on TSMC 7nm and they are only going to use TSMC for Quadro. Plus Samsung is cheaper than TSMC.
> [OOP] continues to puzzle programmers. If they are used to top-down programming or functional programming...

What the heck is "top-down programming"? I've been writing code for close to 20 years and this is the first time I've encountered this term.

Google reveals results like this one [0], that explain it as "essentially the breaking down of a system to gain insight into the sub-systems that make it up."

So, in other words, literally any kind of programming? All programming paradigms are about building abstractions to avoid repeatedly dealing with low-level details.

Is this really a thing that people talk about?

[0] https://dzone.com/articles/how-does-top-down-programming-wor...
You can do that with various constructs without doing OOP style though.

Eg: in JS you could use a symbol to store that state that is only known to the methods allowed to handle he array "internal" state. (JS isn't a great example because there are ways to get access to those hidden symbols when you shouldn't, but it doesn't have to be that way)
Despite the wailing and gnashing of teeth on places like HN, OOP has been wildly successful. It's not popular by mistake, it's an outlandishly good, imperfect problem solving tool.
K&R is woefully out of date. Gives you no info on how to do things safely and sanely. And encourages a leet style of programming that results in catastrophic edge case bugs. As you can see in comments above where naive code that iterates backwards through an array fails when the array size is 0. Worse K&R leet style buys you absolutely nothing with a optimizing compiler written in the last 30 years.
I have a raspberry pi with a hard drive. I throw the files in that and then use dat/ipfs.
One terrorist at least disagreed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City_bombing#Impact_a..., and considering his arguments context (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Ridge) I think there was a grain of truth to his claims (though they don’t justify killing babies of course).

(The Oklahoma City bombing was the biggest terrorist attack next to 9/11 and yet never discussed in any history class I’ve taken, while the latter is discussed in virtually every class on any subject on its anniversary. Probably an interesting reflection of xenophobia (probably among other things) I think.)
Sorry, I missed that. I think it's a bit disingenuous to use a year-old proposal from a failed primary candidate, though, rather than the actual wealth tax under discussion.

However, if we were to use Warren's proposal, our lucky millionaire would be unaffected, because it doesn't kick in until $50mm. (A happy coincidence.)

If I run the numbers again, using a very lucky millionaire with $100mm in assets, it comes out as follows:

1. Warren wealth tax: $2,613,000 yearly spending power

2. CA wealth tax: $2,939,000 yearly spending power

3. No wealth tax: $3,104,000 yearly spending power

Warren's proposal is much more aggressive about leveling wealth inequality, especially considering that it jumps to 6% for billionaires. I'm not convinced it was a serious proposal, though, given that it was part of Warren's campaign rhetoric. I think she's serious about a wealth tax, but I suspect the specific proposal was a starting point in the bargaining process—an attempt to shift the Overton window, if you will—not the expected outcome.
> Undermining trust in society is an enormous problem. The whole reason the west was successful is because people can go about their day without having to worry about nominal costs of corruption in day to day life.

Not worrying about the nominal cost of corruption is not the whole reason the west was successful. There are countless of arguments from both sides of the aisle that would show that to be untrue (capitalism, democracy, reward for innovation, acceptance of immigrants, pillaging land/resources, exploiting slaves, etc). The US has always had plenty of corruption so arguing that a lack of it is what made the west successful is difficult to justify.

> Eventually, you end up like a third world country where you expect to pay a bribe or know someone to get anything done.

There are laws today that prohibit bribery of police officers and they are enforced. Not sure this slippery slope type of argument holds water in the face of that.
That's an interesting ad, but a bit ironic given Intel's later Pentium floating point division bug.

On the topic of using calculator chips as coprocessors, National Semiconductor introduced the MM57109 Number Cruncher Unit (that is the real name) in 1977. It was essentially a repackaged 12-digit scientific calculator chip, operating on binary-coded decimal values with values entered in Reverse Polish Notation. This chip was absurdly slow; a tangent, for instance, could take over a second.

http://www.projects.scorchingbay.nz/dokuwiki/_media/electron...
It certainly may, but craftsmanship does not require creativity. And creativity can be realized despite poor craftsmanship.

A master luthier does not invent a brand new type of instrument each time they create a guitar. They may have learnt to make guitars from someone else, and do nothing but follow the process they have mastered. And, many authors are terrible at much of their craft, and yet so creative that their prose is still engaging. While the real world is invariably messier than this, that does not mean that one can conflate craftmanship and creativity as the author does.

TBH, I'm afraid that I'm finding it's hard to see the author's conflation of the two as anything but culturalist.
I totally agree, bit it is the kind of corruption that most people are ok with, which makes it particularly insidious.

I'm not saying lawbreakers or corrupt police are freedom fighters, just that the root cause is garbage laws which neither the police or citizens believe in.
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It doesn't help that Catalina seems to have some serious performance regressions.

As one of may examples, set up an SMB3 connection to a network-attached storage device and then write a short program that uses two or three threads that walk a big director calling stat and lstat on every file. For large complex file hierarchies, Catalina (unlike Mojave) will start stuttering the entire UI and media playback.

"rclone" with --transfers=3 can bring a 2019 mbp to its knees, like Windows 3.1 writing to a floppy disk.
I think the argument is kinda cheap. I mean, there are also those people, who just understand the superficial principles of OOP and struggled to understand some OOP design and therefore don't like it. Simply saying that the people who like OOP are the ones who don't see though the folly, works the other way around too and has no real substance as an argument.
I was asking myself exactly this a few days ago, to share ~500mb worth of files with a few people on a message board. https://gofile.io/ worked fine.
Generally I would hope that your CI build allows you to set this kind of configuration. (At the very least, you must have this as an option, because someone will run into it at some point and will have to turn your -Werror off.)
Whaaaa?!

> because there's no higher authority to appeal to for enforcement.

Then we do not live in a democracy with a rule of law. Why have the constitution at all?

Barring weasel lawyering and issues around standing. The very idea that you would claim these violations are not punishable means that they will continue to occur.

I am having a hard time fathoming how you take this stance at all.
I actually just use https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/s3/presign....

Then I copy-paste that into a self-Slack and `wget` it on the other side.

It's almost equivalent ergonomically to a `python3 -m http.server` and because it's the same whether I'm giving to someone else or to myself, I spend less thinking!
There has never been any limit to what one can put in a DNS RR.

From the year 2000, 42 ways to distribute arbitrary data over the internet, including DNS:

http://web.archive.org/web/20001207014600/http://decss.zoy.o...

djbdns has always allowed arbitrary characters in TXT records. I have put HTML in TXT records to serve mini web pages over UDP. People have put speex files in RRs. Not sure "BIND" or other popular DNS servers of the day allowed such flexibility. Nowadays it is easy to find such software.

Someone will probably comment on tunneling over DNS or Wikipedia over DNS.

This is why ICANN DNS and its use of DNSSEC always seemed wrong to me. If it's someone else's data, ICANN should not have the power to instantly "invalidate" it. Resurgence of DNSSEC was in part a response to the idea that shared caches are vulnerable, but DNS is more than just shared caches; and the way DNSSEC is used in practice relies on the strange assumption that ICANN is the self-appointed arbiter of "official" domain names. But as you can see DNS, the protocol, can be used for more than simply "official" ICANN-approved domain names.
> "this ORM is just bad, next time we will use a different one"

...pretty sure there are competing abstraction layers to working with DBs other programming paradigms.

> OOP works on low complexity, small projects, but quickly falls apart at certain point,
> More experienced people figured out some way around OOP to make it more robust,

I thought it fell apart?

> "oh, you just doing it wrong: insert excuse and advise here".

Wait til you learn what point-free style is in Haskell! Have fun!

> People who really though it through, and tried different approaches are the ones that hate it and are vocal about it.

So if you happen to like OOP, you just haven't thought it through. Thanks for the constructive comment!
The lawmakers have good insurance and are wealthy enough to pay for the rest of it.
>> If the Constitution says "Congress shall make no law..." and Congress still makes a law, what are you going to do, throw Congress in jail? That's nonsense.

> Actually, it's nonsense to think anything to the contrary. Either our founding document matters as the backbone of our Laws or it doesn't. Your outlandish logic nullifies any power that the government may have over it's people. It nullifies the social contract.

Huh? You're right that the Constitution defines the social contract, but it's still nonsense that violations by branches of the government itself should result in jail time. Checks and balances is supposed to ensure compliance, and honestly any attempt to add jail time to the mix would probably have all kinds of disastrous consequences to the balance of those checks. If this governmental system is to by dynamic enough to survive, its parts need the ability to probe the boundaries as needed. That can't happen if the people who make them up are paralyzed in personal fear of being jailed for a misstep. The framers themselves recognized that, since the Constitution isn't full of threats of criminal penalties. Even impeachment is deliberately just a removal from office.

> It's not a document of 'norms' and 'procedures'. It's a structure of how our Republic is built.

It's both of those things. If all the branches of government conspired to violate the Constitution, all that would happen is the country enters into an undefined state. If they were willing to do that, do you think they'd enforce penalties of jail against themselves for their violations? The Constitution itself isn't going to leap out of its case to arrest them.
This is generally why such a policy is often accompanied with "we don't want you introducing warnings; the policy is just relaxed while you're developing the code".
Do you mind me asking what applications Google uses this for internally? Is this used in a flow that's ended up in production? Also, what are your thoughts on integrating optimized RTL blocks?
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"The USA policeforce seems focused on policing"

In my experience, they seem mostly focused on figuring out how much time they can get paid for standing around chatting. Others experiences vary, but I don't know many people who would put "policing" high on the list of things US Police focus on.
The ambulance emergency is just one example, there are many more that you aren't considering. As one more example there are many passing situations, such as pretty much any two lane highway, where it's perfectly acceptable to break the speed limit for a brief period. I can think of other exceptions too and this is just after thinking about it for a minute, there are probably thousands of real world situations neither of us could think of ahead of time.

Plus, this is all assuming such a system could be implementing flawlessly. In practice, such a complicated and messy system would have a million bugs. Who keeps the speed limit database of every single road in country up to date? How are all of the precise boundaries of every single speed limit zone going to be defined and recognized by every vehicle?
from the wiki page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented_programming

>Significant object-oriented languages include Java, C++, C#, Python, R, PHP, Visual Basic.NET, JavaScript, Ruby, Perl, Object Pascal, Objective-C, Dart, Swift, Scala, Kotlin, Common Lisp, MATLAB, and Smalltalk.

So pretty much every popular language out there. Doesn't look so hated. :)
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The problem with this is a case against a professional tends to pull in other professionals as witnesses. You may not end up solving the problem because cops may refuse to testify against other cops. The solution is to rely on common sense, it is unknown if that will happen.
Everyone from card carrying Stalinists to Hillary Clinton is called a "Marxist" nowadays, so no.
I don't think anyone is getting out of rape or murder with a courtesy card. The article talks about crimes like driving on the shoulder, expired registration, ect.
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Sure but my point is just that we still need local government and there are real benefits to small government. I agree there are also benefits to federal oversight but I don't believe that more federal power or control would continue to be beneficial. The balance is important and I prefer as much power concentrated as close to me where I have a chance to influence it.
Not trying to be snarky, but isn't everything a product of its time? Is there some work that has been timeless? Shakespeare maybe?
My favorite of this style is honestly Nothing Else Matters by Algal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCUx9nOt9u8

He does a great job, plays the instruments on video too.
Was just thinking this as I liked it.
PRC is happy annexing Indian land without open declarations.
Sometimes I wonder if the bad connotation due to piracy made this protocol not standard (in a sense, that's not widely adopted, and people need dedicated clients, instead of it working for example in browsers).

I don't know enough, maybe it has security issues, or some limits... but the fact is that it's still widely used, by tech literate people, so it still stands the test of time and it must be doing something right.
> No regular people voted on the Constitution.

Nitpick. The people who were sent as representatives from each state to help write and ratify the constitution were chosen by the people of that state. So technically, through representative democracy, the regular people did agree to the constitution because their representatives agreed on it.
I think this is a really important comment that deserves to be discussed.

You can see this on display in virtually every hackernews thread. Somebody will say something like "I sort of like X, but my problem with it is Y". But what they don't tell you is their experience level, the context of how they came to believe Y, or really any supporting understanding of whether Y is an actual technical tradeoff that needs to be considered. It's sort of an overly grandiose, performative way of saying "oh yeah I tried haskell once, and I got stuck on this thing, so I never came back to it."

As one of the novices just trying to allocate my time, I'm constantly trying to understand whether, say, it's worth really understanding C++ at a deep level, or whether I should just try to learn Rust. All too often, I find this devolves into me scouring the internet for "C++ is ok but the ownership model is so primitive that I would never start a new project in it" and comparing it to "My problem with Rust is that it's still such a nascent language I can't trust it to have the libraries I need". Who are these people, and why are they saying these things? Are their gripes relevant to me? I have no way to know!

Reading some comments on hackernews, I often come up on a comment that seems to be speaking another language. At first I'm intimidated into thinking that there's a secret club of intellectuals that understand exactly what this comment is talking about. But then I start to wonder.. is this actually elite minds speaking in a very high-level way with extremely advanced context? Or, is it just some overly opinionated junior person who just assumes everybody is working on the same web tech stack they are, and speaks with that implicit assumption? When they say "OOP is now considered an anti-pattern, most companies are moving towards reactive FP", do they really mean "I work at snapchat and the ads group I work for is moving away from OOP. My friend at amazon said he's doing the same thing"?
Of all the systems the US has I think the insurance industry is the last to come to mind to fix a problem.
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