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I remember the Mayflower Compact vaguely from school, but didn't really understand its significance until I read this article.
When China does not allow foreign companies to operate in their land (Facebook, Amazon, and a host of other companies) then why should we allow their companies to exist here?
It's been a long time but I remember one explanation of the value premium was value stocks are more likely to get wiped out in a crisis (no free lunch).

Another was that high commission costs would have eaten up all the gains in actually maintaining a value portfolio. Apparently there's a lot of churn in and out of value.
It had never occurred to me that other cultures might be less familiar with the concept of social generations. People find them interesting for the same reason as history and sociology generally – they are useful tools for understanding how the world works. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_generations
Yes I am very much worried about a government that will seize my property because I suspiciously have more money on me than I should without a trial (civil forfeiture). I’m also worried about a government that spies on its citizens (Snowden leaks) and tries to weaken encryption.

You’ll have to excuse me if I am more worried about a corrupt government (Republican and Democratic) that repeatedly uses it power unfairly.
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> Also - merely making a nomination makes Trump look strong. Winning a competition against Dems - which I think he can because he has the votes - looks strong. I don't see any way for the Dems to win with this unless Trump nominates a total fool.

The conventional political wisdom after Kavanaugh was that Democrats would be demoralized for the 2018 election and would fail to retake the House. What actually happened was one of their biggest House wins ever.

> Trump is flirting with the same poll numbers Hillary had las time and Biden is not a strong candidate ... this is not a good position for the Dems to be in.

Kind of? There's no Johnson this time getting 8% of the vote (at this point in the race), so that group is dispersed between Trump and Biden. So while Trump is about where Hillary was at this point, Biden is cracking 50% in national polling on average, which is much higher than Clinton in 2016 and definitely not good for Trump.

Biden is much stronger than Hillary at this point, especially in swing states like Florida, where he is polling well with older voters (a complete flip from 2016, where older voters in Florida went decisively for Trump). If you look at Clinton's support in Florida it looks like a sine wave over the race. Biden's support is much more steady, so that is a difference. Biden wins Florida and it's over.
Don't confuse either of the statements with a "belief" he holds.

The two statements were to two different audiences. The one stoking fear of his competitor was in Washington D.C. The other was to his own employees.
Exactly the point: no popcount.

It is just hard to imagine the thought process that would leave something as important as popcount to such a dodgy and long-delayed prospect; hard to imagine omitting it from the core instruction set, so that it is only ever implemented, if ever, in the most distended and expensive chips.
Honestly, PACER is the least offensive docketing system I’ve used in the US, especially given that the charge for each document is capped $3. State court systems are worse.

Delaware charges around $40 to search for a case, and then charges $10 for each document you pull. And don’t get me started on how terrible California is since each county has their own docketing system, and many still only have paper filing. It’s a joke that you still have to send a runner to a court in Silicon Valley to file or pull a document.
The reason why this is not transferable to the Democrats, is because they haven't previously refused to hold confirmation hearings for an appointee solely on the basis that there'd be an election later that year.

If you're asking whether Democrats would have placed themselves in a similar position in 2016 if the roles were reversed, then the answer is no. I'd expect them to consider the nominee, and quite likely vote against - but they wouldn't stonewall until election.
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You gotta think of the government like a gang, except in a different timeline, it would be our gang. A government has human values and morals. It is a social organ. A corporation has only one value: increase profit; it has no morals. Government is a way for us to organize ourselves with the intention of improving life for all. In a corporation, the goal is profit. Any improvement in our standard of living is completely coincidental, and corporations will often take away these life improvements in an attempt to sell them back to us for no other reason than to increase profit.

It's important to make sure the people in power have their priorities straight. The government is already set up to make the country a better place for all. Corporations cannot fulfill this purpose.

And as for twitter, a lot of tech companies these days are vertically integrated monopolies. That means they have a diverse collection of proprietary services which lack inter-operability and stifle innovation and economic development. For example, how microsoft releases inferior versions of almost every kind of software imaginable, in an attempt to keep all people inside their ecosystem. This is what the original anti-trust suit against microsoft was about. Microsoft was found guilty of holding a monopoly multiple times. They only got away with it because they kept appealing until they found themselves in front of a weak judge. Does twitter have this kind of monopoly? I'm not sure. Amazon certainly could be broken up into a few different companies, as could microsoft, apple, google, easily.
My post doesn't really go into any of that actually. Though it seems to have triggered something in you that's reacting against SW.
The frustrating thing about the center is the propensity to take things at face value, no matter how bad faith.

The far, far worse problem is the extremists propensity to take everything as bad faith, no matter how genuine.
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My go to article for Pratt parsing:

http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2011/03/19/pratt-parsers-e...
What's your point? No matter how bad the US govt does, it doesn't mean we shall give a free pass to communist China to do whatever they want.
I think the U.S last century had maybe decades (maybe a bit longer or a bit less than a decade in some cases) that changed what had gone before drastically, as such the feeling came about that every generation was different than the one before and should be categorized.

So, last century U.S, the roaring twenties, the great depression, WW2, then I think the 50s were probably seen as something of a return to normalcy after the war but in some ways quite different because now the U.S was really in charge, followed by the 60s, I don't think the 70s was that big a divergence but lots of big thinkers seem to think it was because of the end of Vietnam, the end of Nixon.

I think the last big decade shift were things were significantly different (last century) was the 80s which began the dismantling under Reagan of the New Deal which kept up in the 90s - however by this time the idea that generational shifts were important had taken hold and somewhat trivial things like changes in musical tastes were taken as examples of such a shift.

Then of course there has been a technological change in this century by widespread use of computers and the internet.
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How many years does the US need to keep pretending China will become equally open?
Makes sense. TikTok is one of the only app who ever came close to dethroning Facebook as the largest social media site. Instagram and Snapchat were the two others. They acquired one, and after failing to acquire the other, they simply cloned all its functionality. They also are in parallel trying to clone TikTok, but obviously getting it banned is far more efficient.
You're basically arguing against monogamy though. My comment assumes a monogamous relationship, and that both people went into it knowing it was monogamous and being okay with that. Seeking sex elsewhere in a monogamous relationship... Isn't monogamous.
I know sharks are a significant predator where I live and in places I’ve seen in documentaries. I’d assume that’s the case around all of the oceans since sharks and octopuses occur together everywhere. I’m not sure if that’s the case in the deep sea, though.
Sure, #hackerfleet on freenode :)
Gmail was developed internally.
Heres an account from the view of one of the allies involved in the same operation.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-12-18/inside-the-islamic-st...
This is ridiculous. It’s also what the republicans believe the democrats are doing. Both sides are absolutely certain they are right. Funny how that works.
This made me laugh. Thank you.
It isn't as if RISC-V implementors are precluded from extending or implementing the bitmanip spec.
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When people say IO bound in this sense, they mean that's the lower bound on what your users experience:

4G latency 50ms

AWS inter AZ latency 1ms

Thread context switch 2us

The response times from things like search APIs even at FANG companies with vast resources and highly skilled engineers are often in the hundreds of milliseconds.
It brings the Xerox PARC and ETHZ workstations REPLs into Windows.

Basically everything in the OS is available for scripting, regardless if it is a DLL, COM, .NET library.

And the shell is a proper programming language with modules support and uses structure data as default.

This means you can easily make use of any OS feature or even automate existing GUI applications via COM/OLE, or their own libraries.

And there is an OS provided IDE as well, with integrated debugger.

So overall one gets a little closer to what the Lisp Machines used to be, just with a mix of .NET and native libraries.

Yes this would be possible in UNIX, but given the fragmentation and POSIX culture, it will never be adopted at scale for it to work the same way as Powershell does on Windows.
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i'm not sure the (repeal of the) fairness doctrine is a prime culprit, but i'm open to hearing a fuller perspective.

more to the point, i just heard a real example of the kind of empathy and compassion we need by nba hall-of-famer isaiah thomas on tnt's "the arena" airing right now, of all places.

it was in relation to LA county sheriff alex villanueva calling out lebron james to put up money for the recent shooting of two sheriff deputies in compton. this is a powder-keg issue here in LA right now. the knee-jerk reaction would have been to put down the sheriff for an unreasonable emotional outburst, but isaiah basically extended his hand and narrated how he understood where the sheriff was coming from, even if the demand was not exactly well thought out.

that's really hard to do in the moment, and my respect for isaiah just rose significantly because of it.
2020 was the year that convinced me that the American empire is drawing to a close.

I guess it comes down to if I can swallow Chinese ideology when the US descends into chaos. Might be an easy decision to swap my blue passport for a red one.
Every kind of advice kills people. For instance, lockdown advice has caused a lot of "deaths of despair" in the US, and the economic damage will kill countless more in the future.

That doesn't make it not worth it! But it IS a tradeoff.
There is no infinite QE. It is dependent on confidence in the value of the currency, which has been decreasing by a number of metrics, although we can certainly argue about the rate of decline. Not a rebuttal to your overall point, but worth paying attention to.
OK, I got it.

TL;DR effects of contrails is actually higher than from _accumulated_ CO2.

It's very interesting, I did not know that.

So if we continue flying, we will continue increasing CO2, but the effect of contrails will stay the same, and relatively effect of contrails will be lower.

So, again, the effect is very interesting, I did not know about it. But the conclusions you made are probably oversimplified and inaccurate.
Except you really do need to care about this complexity on CPUs. Things like cache locality & predictable access patterns are critical to achieving good CPU performance. This is why there's things like data-oriented design, SoA vs. AoS, and Z-order curves. It's also why linked-lists are so incredibly awful in practice, despite having superb algorithmic performance in theory.

A big reason programming for CPUs doesn't seem as complex is because the vast, vast majority of time nobody actually cares about CPU performance. We all just prefer to pretend a runtime or JIT or compiler managed to magically make a language that's god-awful horrendous on modern CPUs run fast. They didn't, we just all look the other way though.

The difference between CPUs & GPUs is when people reach for GPUs, such as for games or HPC, those are also the people that care a lot about performance. And guides like this are for them.
India does in fact have a caste system, but what does that have to do with this conversation?
By many measures tech stocks have not been this overvalued since 1999. Similar situation. COVID + staying at home + government stimulus means there's a lot of money sloshing around. Tech companies are relatively unaffected by pandemic so all this money ends up there.

Lots of general public getting in on the market just like 99. Senseless valuations on companies without a dollar of revenue. A historic year for tech stocks right after a historically long bull run, just like 99. Many allegations of fraud since money is so easy to get. Tech stocks make up something crazy like 30% of value in market, again just like 99.

If tech isn't in a bubble, I don't know what's going on. How does virtually every tech company become twice as valuable in 6 months? They don't.

Unlike last time, most of these companies won't crash to zero. But they could easily lose 2/3 of the value as soon as life goes back to normal and everyone sees how much damage corona has done. The relatively fast early recovery has the markets in a state of euphoria.

I moved all my money to "value" stocks last week. These tech valuations defy all logic. Remember when Buffet said to be fearful when others are greedy? Well right now he's investing out in Japan
Think of it this way: It can be good for FB as an established company that can incorporate in every country like coca-cola opening local plants that play nice with the local government but still make money and “really bad long term consequences” from an intellectual point of view because it will no longer be possible for a startup to grow globally without the resource necessary to incorporate in every country(which is good for FB since no longer a kid in his dorm can make a competitor and bad for everyone else because a kid in his dorm can no longer make a competitor).

So essentially, “go Trump do your thing but I am (personally)very sorry what the Internet has become, must suck to be U“.
Wow, I would have never guessed that! That makes me think that it might be fun to buy a piece of land and live inside an old 747. I found this video where someone is living inside a Boeing 727: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iat-WgSvGME

Here's another person living in a 727: https://www.youtube.com/watch/?v=rKm5oF2p-II

This one has a much nicer interior: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdwLlI9abgU

According to one of the comments on the first video, they spent 120k on the plane, and another 100k to move it to the forest. I would probably want to spend another ~300k for renovations and everything else (proper foundation, shower, kitchen, water and sewer lines, etc. etc.)

It's not cheap, but that's a lot cheaper than I was expecting. Especially compared to the average house in an expensive city. I think it might also be a lot more fun than living in a "tiny house".

I recently read this "Why We Don't Like Our Underground House" article that was posted on HN: https://dengarden.com/misc/The-Pitfalls-of-an-Underground-Ho...
That was a reminder that doing something unconventional can be risky and cause lots of unexpected problems. So it would probably be a good idea to also spend a lot of money on architects and engineers to make sure that everything is done properly and there's no surprises.
I've done that as well and it's great. Well, if I really need tabs, I use the tabbing that's built into my window manager (Sway). But it makes me really consider if I need it, and then it's easy to pop the "tabs" out, move them to different work spaces, etc. It's such a darn-clean look too.

https://i.imgur.com/UvJbEMG.png
I am curious, which specific think tanks do you believe would work on “breaking up big tech?”
Yes, it does. Monitoring is easy with htop - just look at the ram and swap usage. Leave FF open too long with too many tabs, and even the swap starts to fill up and the whole computer gets laggy.

This is a well-known problem. What's hard to believe?
No, he didn’t.
FB and Messenger itself are just not great products anyway when it comes to social media and messaging. Even if they weren't banned, users in China will just use WeChat, Weibo etc that are built specifically and tailored for them.

It's unfortunate that the US is too late in getting in the game with China. They've already caught up (and some) with the US in terms of technological prowess and innovation. China can open up and let the likes of Facebook, Google etc in, but they won't be able to compete with the local companies like Alibaba, Tencent. China at this stage doesn't need the US as much as they did before when it comes to tech. What China needs is the rest of the world (EU, UK, South America, Africa etc) to not join forces against it. Just a shame that the current administration isn't able to see that and prefers being iso-America for America and at the same time pushing its allies away.

Bottom line is, the US got outplayed, and is still getting outplayed. Past administrations should have seen this coming. Current administration should have made better decisions in navigating China. While the US is trying to go toe to toe with China, China is already thinking ahead by forging alliances and making its presence in African and European countries via the Belt and Road initiative as well as reducing its dependency on US agriculture by shifting soybean purchases to South America. I doubt the banning of TikTok and WeChat in the US is really going to concern them.
For it to be a federal crime, there just needs to be federal interest. They can make it a federal crime if they're interested.

Federal Interest doesn't define the jurisdiction of the Federal laws.
I have literally never seen someone on HN defend China's blocking of foreign apps.
Not necessarily, more like just something that makes you feel like you stand out from the crowd. Whether it actually makes you stand out or not doesn’t matter that much.
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OP is saying that there's no risk, because you can wait until after the election, but before the new term begins (i.e. before January, 3). Trump could still nominate then, and the current Senate could confirm.

But this is also exactly why this gambit doesn't really work - because the voters know that whatever happens at the polls, the end result is the same. They could hold voters hostage to the Supreme Court nomination back in 2016 because there was a split between the president and the Senate that blocked either side from getting what they really wanted until the next term.
That’s not how elections work in the US, 60/40 is not a big enough divide to undo a gerrymander. The majority of the liberal population lives in dense urban areas and thus their votes get “wasted” as they’re reliably Democrats, while sparser regions which consist of the minority view get more representation compared to their actual numbers.

Add to that the fact that many voters are single issue voters, so their opinions on different policies don’t end up amounting to much.

So even if some policies are popular overall, they need to be popular enough to overcome these things to form a durable coalition that advocates for them in the halls of power.
Which is why Khronos APIs are a clusterf..... of extensions, only those that never actually wrote portable OpenXX code across multiple platforms, graphics cards and had to deal with driver bugs on top praise their portability.

Write once, add code paths and debug everywhere.
> It's important to make sure the people in power have their priorities straight. The government is already set up to make the country a better place for all. Corporations cannot fulfill this purpose.

In the history of the US, when have the people in power ever had their priorities straight?

Before the Civil War? During segregation? The War on Crime? The War on Drugs? When interracial marriage (miscegenation) was illegal? When homosexuality was a crime (laws against “fornication”)? The only western country that still has the death penalty?

Even in the context of “regulating tech” it’s clear that the current administration is only going against companies it doesn’t like for some reason.
[air] Cargo tonne km (CTKs) were down about 13% year on year as of July, but are recovering. You can find relevant charts here.

https://www.aircargonews.net/airlines/iata/iata-outlook-carg...
> We wanted to build commercial device using RPi but its a no go due to its blackbox nature.

I think you misspelled prototype.
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"CD deployments" - Ha, like an "ATM machine"? At first in thought you were describing deployments on compact discs!
> isn’t the current administration trying to regulate tech

As far as I see, the largest danger to free speech in the US is company policy makers. YouTube, Twitter, Facebook ban all and everything without any suggestions from the government. And media like NY Times also do self-censorship without any government intervention.
It seems unreasonable that US government can dictate what apps one can use or not use, and also there is no semblance of a transparent due process being followed for this.

Also TikTok has not broken US laws as per US courts. How can the President ban something which is not app/anything which does not run afoul of existing laws?
That's why this is essentially an arbitrary move.

The national security threat seems a vacuus argument as per many data security analysts, tiktok not being that different from instagram, etc.

The president/executive should not have authority to ban anything at all without a legislative process.
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Maybe they would, and maybe they wouldn't - time will tell.

But the argument that "it's OK for us to do it, because they would" seems a bit thin.

It's OK to loot this store because if I don't someone else will...

And it's OK to do anything I like as long as I can point a finger and say "but he'd do it too"

So, yeah, this is a textbook case of hipocrasy, but being hipocratic doesn't matter as long as we win.
Geeks have been saying Apple products were “status symbols” since the iPod was introduced in 2001. Just maybe people want Apple products because they feel they are better?
Alyssa's blog post links to this blog post:

https://libv.livejournal.com/27461.html
Given the appointment age of most justices, 20 years and life aren't much different.

The last 4+ justices appointed were in their 50s. Gorsuch was 50. A top name on the short list both times was Amy Coney Barett, 48. They've been grooming a 38 year-old, Justin Walker, for the court. He went from a few months of litigation experience to the federal bench to the DC circuit in a year.

Notice how all these people also look very healthy? They're trying to get people who will last a lot longer than 20 years.
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very speculative opinion.