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> It's fairly irresponsible...

It shows poor judgement.

I think it shows she was as hungry for power as anyone else.

"In 1999, she underwent major surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation to treat colon cancer. Ten years later, she was diagnosed with early stage pancreatic cancer, for which she also had surgery. In 2014, she went to the hospital after suffering chest pains during one of her famous workouts and discovered she had a blocked artery. [1]

She had been a supreme court justice for almost 20 years by then. Regardless of whether Obama's pick would have been watered down by lack of congressional control, her vanity has made things much worse and tarnishes her entire career.

Edit: So I don’t regret this entirely, she is deserving of great respect even if she made a possibly grave miscalculation.

We do not know the outcome yet, and whether intended or not this could result in something bigger working out in the same way WeWork’s failure could turn out to be a boon to RISC V.

[1] https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/11/what-cult-ruth-...
Oh fun, I love the prospect of gambling away my career.
"Cheaper to do it for real" might only work out if you actually get the shot you need on the first try. There's probably directors out there who went for the same approach with less financial success.
That's one example. Politics has always been a nasty business. People who think it's worse now are either ignorant of the past or lack perspective.
Tripping over the Truth: The Return of the Metabolic Theory of Cancer
It will not be anything high performance.

http://www.semimedia.cc/?p=7803
If you think being asked to be more PC is such an affront that you turn your back on literal genocide, then I'm not going to be your friend.

If a government moves forward with literal genocide, I won't blame any person who takes up arms against it.
> A single long-haul flight can generate as much CO2 per passenger as many people in the world generate in an entire year

Then ask your government to introduce carbon tax to make easier for normal people decide how to spend their hard earned money climate-efficiently instead of shaming people.

> It could easily be tons of CO2

Sure. Maybe they should buy a new flat instead, which was build using concrete, which was produced emitting a lot of CO2. Or maybe they should buy a car instead and burn oil producing CO2 and driving roads and bridges which were built from concrete with emissions lot of CO2. Or maybe they should just spend their money buying some useless stuff without even thinking how much CO2 was emitted for production of that stuff.

Just introduce carbon tax.
What happened with Garland was new in that the Republicans refused to hold any hearing or vote on the matter. They did not violate any laws with their refusal, only norms. I don’t know why no nominations were made before Election Day in 4/10 cases; that may have been another lesser norm, or the vacancies may have been closer to the elections, or both.

In any case, the refusal was a further erosion of any semblance of working towards the good of the country with people of opposing ideologies. The same goes for the increased frequency of government shutdown threats and occurrences.

Really, if those practices had stood for so long on norms, they should have been codified into law already. But the Congress, regardless of party, doesn’t like to cede any power. It’s equally unlikely that if the Democrats take control they’ll do anything about it either. I’m vague on what it would entail—it’s been a while since I read up on it—but another hurdle might be that it would take an amendment rather than a law. Regulating what the Congress does is explicitly harder than making laws for the rest of us.
Not an insightful comment. Airline travel is particularly bad.
Well, you know what they say: The two happiest days of your life are the day you buy a broken down widebody 747, and the day you blow it up.
Yet Trudeau, who was present at the meetings where these corrupt decisions were made gets by with a "sorry".

And which bad actors are you referring to? There are plenty of US politicians who have been guilty of corruption who have gone to prison.
A few points to consider:

1. Facebook funds many of these games; think of it like a first-party game made to drive sales of a new console. The developer gets paid up front, Facebook recoups the revenue via incremental sales of HMDs and software on their store.

2. Note that many games are VR offshoots of existing IPs. This means the opportunity for asset re-use and consequently lower costs.

3. "High quality" and "big budget" are not equivalent. There is a huge spectrum between a tech demo and a flagship title with 400-500 people working on it (as is the case of AC). AAA-caliber, lengthy games can be made by teams of 50-75.

4. Again, those revenue numbers are on Quest only. PSVR is an even larger market, and PC VR (Vive, Index, WMR, Rift) is probably about the same size.

The most important point though is that if your entry point requires Cyberpunk 2077, Red Dead Redemption 2, or The Last of Us, then it is indeed too early.

However, the two hottest non-VR games right now are Fall Guys and Among Us - great, high quality games come in all sizes.
What if you, at some point, find that the America you love makes it abundantly clear that it does not love you back, though? At risk of affirming Godwin's law, I'm sure that a lot of people living in Nazi Germany thought Germany was their home and loved it there, too. But at some point, you have to cut your losses, though.
Everything is relative. Obviously politicians aren't principled in an absolute way. But democrats absolutely are more principled than republicans. They have failed to lie like republicans do. They don't gerrymander as effectively. They refuse to utilize fake news to energize their base like republicans do.
Yeah no way this matters to the current generation of Trump supporters. His second in command, McConnell, is probably calling an emergency session tonight to get the votes he needs to put in someone to end Roe v. Wade, as it is probably the most symbolic victory of women against the white male patriarchy since the birth of the USA (and suffrage) and it must not stand.
Or bothering to pay attention to cooking methods. Sunday roast is awesome by itself, if you cook it right. No extra seasoning needed.
Here's the complete breakdown for the most recent term: https://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Merits...

36% 9-0
10% 8-1
20% 7-2
11% 6-3
23% 5-4

(Note that this is a somewhat unusual year, as several cases were pushed from the previous term to the next term due to COVID-19--and the cases not pushed were so selected because they had more urgency, which generally means more contentious).

Most cases tend to be unanimous or nearly so (0-1 dissenters), and only about ⅓ of cases are contentious (5-4/6-3/5-3). This has been decently stable over the past few decades.
Venezuela, Cuba and Vietnam too. Pretty much anyone that has suffered under authoritarianism and communism and wants to live in a country where they have freedoms and are rewarded for their hard work is welcome in my book.
If you mean that you're treating the Democrats and Republicans as a single party, sure, there's a decent argument for it, but also, it's a "party" that permits significant internal dissent and debate. The Communist Party of the Soviet Union remained a single party until the end, but the country started on its path towards becoming freer and less authoritarian when they became open to internal dissent.

Frankly, independent of actual political goals, the most concerning thing about the state of US politics is the extent to which the Republican Party does not tolerate internal dissent. There was a lot of it in early 2016, and it all evaporated as people fell in line behind a cult of personality (a term introduced at the start of the above process in the CPSU, incidentally). Regardless of whether you're left or right or center or anywhere else, if you're at a place where disagreement with the leader is a reason to question your loyalty and good faith, you're at a place where there's far less pressure for the leader to serve the country than for the country to serve the leader. (This is why it's not particularly helpful that the leader isn't super competent or even that the leader is not on team More-Stupid-Wars - a position that, by itself, I agree with. I also enjoy it when trains run on time.)
> If nuclear launch codes were written out on t-shirts I wouldn't be happy about it either.

If the government only found out that its nuclear launch codes were leaked because it saw them written on someone's t-shirt, I would be unhappy about the government, not the t-shirt.

Also, if the government decided to ban the t-shirts rather than changing the codes, I would be even more unhappy.
It is very possible they are using utilities to pull this off developed by someone else. They may have training for the utilities they have but that doesnt make them IT experts.
Can I boot on ZFS root yet?
Now go and try to explain that to the doctors.
We all know that they could roll out Gentoo (chromebook style) and be supersecure, but the reality is nothing will change until hospitals stop using proprietary software that requires Windows.
I agree with this, social media is most often won by the service reaching the most users. Wechat is the only app you can use to chat with people living in China, and to (easily) chat with home when in China. So why have two apps installed, when one works everywhere?

It's bad enough that the Chinese market is already a bubble (foreign companies need a Chinese partnership to enter), yet the Chinese companies can freely operate in the western world.
This won’t happen. I’m a reasonable person and happy to change my mind with evidence, and don’t say this lightly, but the republicans do not give a crud about any of this. They are the most conniving and soulless individuals that exist. This is coming from a recent former republican. I miss George Will’s Republican party.
I always found it interesting that part of the American mythology is that it's a safe haven for the oppressed and ravaged peoples of the world who left their home country for a better future, but that the exact same thing, applied to the US, is somehow unthinkable.
Not related to the rest of the thread, but this popped up the other week and, honestly to my shock, worked well on my Pi3.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24441112

You may or may not get some latency with video. Seemed to vary for me.
R.I.P. Notorious R.B.G.
Rand is short for Randal. He was not named after Ayn Rand.

His full name is Randal Howard Paul.

Also, which libertarians have been fine raising the deficit? They are pretty much the only ones that consistently argue against it whether the budget increase comes from Republicans or Democrats.
Good luck with that. Right now, your country is doing the most awful deeds - just this week we find out your immigration agency is herding women into concentration camps and forcibly sterilizing them.

Comparing to 20th century history, the US now is pretty much in the early stages of Nazi Germany.

What are you going to do about that, exactly?
> It's not like [there] are actual consequences for not voting the party line.

There absolutely are, they just happen to be a side-channel in this particular system.
Even if the counts are private, counters create an ulterior motive beyond substantive discourse in the desire to collect likes. Their signals constrain speech as posts are authored. Just like the profit motive, the like motive greatly skews reality from beneath the surface of what is being said.

And to disagree with someone, you should have to at least open your mouth. That's a conversation. To just be able to dislike or downvote let alone anonymously is harmful for everyone, even the person downvoting. Instead of exercising speech, it's a slap on the wrist response.

Removing context removes nuance, and removing nuance removes intellect.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24523014.
In terms of erosion of democratic rights by the Supreme Court, the gutting of the Voting Rights Act is the most literal example, as is the decision to prevent Al Gore from taking the White House in 2000 despite being the legitimate electoral victor. A more peripheral example is Citizens' United.

Non-judicial examples include sabotage of the USPS to prevent mail-in voting, the last state election in Georgia (where the then-secretary of state supervised an election in which he was a candidate; needless to say, he won), removal of polling stations in Democratic areas, targeted disenfranchisement of demographic groups that traditionally vote Democratic, Mitch McConnell rejecting measures to increase voter turnout on the grounds that making it easier to vote would be a "Democratic power grab," Republican use of big data to jerrymander safe districts to maintain GOP control of states despite losing the popular vote, FBI interference in the 2016 election by releasing unsubstantiated accusations (the Comey Memo) against Clinton shortly before the election, and, finally, the Republican party soliciting foreign help to illegally acquire and spread disinformation against Democrats.

These are not signs of a healthy democracy.

I can provide sources if you would like but this stuff is everywhere and simple DDG/Google searches about these examples should lead to plenty of information.
I'd guess it exists for most politicians. I'm just specifically calling out Republican senators as it seems they're no longer beholden to the US power structure. It's a novel position for me to be hoping the US establishment retakes control, instead of succumbing to whatever external powers are working to disrupt it. Freedom has to arise from the people via technological progress, a collapse will merely drag us backwards.

As for how the creation of compromising material happens - people lust after power to obtain things that money can't buy. Epstein's island wasn't merely for recreation.
Democratic party isn't as popular because it's leaders are too principled to make the tough, unpalatable decisions republicans make everyday. They consistently fail to properly market their more popular platform and allow republicans to control the conversation.
The court seat matters more than the Senate and more than the presidency to Mitch McConnell. He’d give up his own senate seat to confirm this justice.
McConnell has already publicly stated that he's bringing a nominee to the senate floor. You didn't think he'd have consistency and integrity even with his own precedent did you?
OK, but please don't post unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to Hacker News.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24523185.
It looks to me like the media are still bitter about Facebook allegedly helping Russians elect Trump, and so they make up this non-news and instill panic and fear into people.

Pretty sure that now most people will be convinced that Facebook is recording them secretly.
Many of WAF's canned rule sets are ridiculously broad. I'm content to use the low-reputation-IP rules, but almost nothing else is advisable, unless you're intent on exposing (and not fixing?) a badly-written service to the world.
Thank you for your support. I do not know where you live, but one issue that I am concerned about is California's ACA-5, which seeks to bring back racial preferences to public universities and will be on the ballot this November. It is being framed as being pro-equality, but I am concerned that it will also enable universities to discriminate against Asian-American high schoolers.

One idea I've heard proposed is to instead ask a yes-or-no question, "Are you black?", so that universities can help increase black representation, but the important part is that they should not be able to find out whether or not you're Asian-American. At the very least, universities should not be able to distinguish between Asian-Americans and the white majority. The understanding I've heard is that WASP elites aren't necessarily concerned about other minority groups eating away at their influence, but they know that in a meritocratic system, Asian-Americans will outperform them, and therefore they use the "holistic admissions" system to keep Asian-Americans out of top universities (e.g. Ivy League schools) and therefore prevent Asian-Americans from reaching leadership positions and endangering their influence.

Furthermore, college applications ask where you were born and where your parents went to university. Although there is an option to select "prefer not to disclose" for race, my parents were educated in China, and I was born in Japan (despite not even being Japanese anyway!), and I couldn't hide this information. Colleges should not ask this, as it allows them to discriminate against immigrant families, namely Asian immigrant families. China-related xenophobia may make such discrimination worse.

Right now, I'm in college. My dream in HS was to study programming language theory, and I wanted to get into a good university strong in type theory and constructive math. However, the admissions officers were laypeople who wouldn't have even heard of PL theory, and furthermore they negatively stereotype Asian-Americans who are interested in math or programming, or who have an academic focus. I want to make sure that other Asian-Americans in the same position that I was will get a fair shot at a good education.
It was obvious she should have retired then. I think she was great but her not retiring during Obama’s last term was arrogance. And now there is a good chance that filling the Supreme Court with another republican justice will motivate a lot of anti-trump voters who will hold their nose and vote him in just to pack the courts.
x86 has a quite variable instruction size, up to 15 bytes. So an x86 decoder will be more complicated than an ARM or RISC-V decoder. I'm pretty sure that means that designing performant IP is more difficult engineering-wise for x86.
Warmongering I'll agree with. Powerful interests have made a lot of bad things happen. We can't change the past but we can and should work to change the future.

However, I'm quite pleased we defeated Nazi Germany and hastened the downfall of the Soviet Union. The rest of the world should be as well.

Racist! Nope. There are racist people here. The country as a whole and an institution is not racist at this point and that very simply an untrue (if popular at the moment) claim.

Indoctrination. Ya, like that from the public school system and Reddit being displayed in this thread?

Here's the bottom line for Americans. You live here. There are lots of good things about the essential set up and circumstances of this country. You presumably have to live here. What you have from the past is what you have. So stop your juvenile whining and destructive misplaced hatred and start doing something positive and make the place you live a place you want to be.
Types of Diversity in the Workplace
It's funny that the article mentions The Dark Knight without mentioning that in that movie Nolan blows up a real building in the scene in which the hospital is destroyed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nJTZzgBwnQ
> I'm claiming McConnell is a man without honor or even decency and that the United States is headed into the toilet.

Sure, but it doesn't really matter. The issue is whether or not McConnell can confirm a Trump nomination this year, and he absolutely can.
I think that's pretty reasonable.
> but the name is... err...

Nothing is wrong with the name and you are free to fork it and name it Hitle if you want.

edit: s/ I'm sure it would be a big hit /s
it should be Hitli then
The Republican Supreme Court can say any law passed by a Democrat is unconstitutional. So good look with reforms.
You are right, and shouldn’t be downvoted for pointing out a simple truth.

People are upset because the media played it up as such a miscarriage of justice, but the truth is the senate wouldn’t have confirmed him and so they didn’t vote for a hearing.

The Democrats of course can and obviously will do the same the next time they have opposition in the senate - and would have done the same, I’d bet, if the situation was flipped then.

I actually think many don’t understand this as it was really propagandized on Twitter, etc as some massive deal, but having the hearing wouldn’t have changed anything.
Why should the vote for president of someone in Wyoming be worth 5.5 times as much as a voter in California?
You mean Joe Lieberman, who was Al Gore's choice for Vice President when he won the Democratic nomination for president in 2000, and went on to endorse Republican John McCain for president only 8 years later?

The facts are that Democratic Senator Max Baucus, Chairmen of the Senate Finance Committee and Obama's pointman in the Senate who was responsible for writing the language of Obamacare (Romneycare) invited a cabal of insurance industry lobbyists into the negotiating room to write the bill and specifically excluded all single-payer advocates from the negotiating table. Its pure revisionist history to suggest that Obama and his minions did everything they could to push a public option (let alone single-payer or even a Medicare-for-all type provision). The facts are that Obama and the Democratic leadership caucus were determined to pass a bill that enshrined the predominance of the for-profit, employer-based health insurance industry. Obamacare (Romneycare) was designed from the beginning as an effort to preclude real, substantive change and improvements to our healthcare system by implementing some very minor improvements (such as the pre-existing conditions clause) and some cosmetic changes. This was abundantly clear to everyone who was paying close attention at the time and not getting their information from corporate news outlets.

https://pnhp.org/news/max-baucus-should-not-be-deciding-heal...
Is that relevant to the conversation? No, so that question doesn't need an answer. This is an intellectual discussions website, and you must contribute to participate here. Every submission and comment must teach everyone something, expand views, ideas and contribute to society in some way. I don't think you telling how much trash you're picking is contributing to society. Please remember, this is an intellectual discussions website, it isn't easy here.
It wouldn't make a difference if only client code was open-sourced, sure.

But if the entire system was open for Americans to peruse and operate their shards of, that might be a different story. Not saying that is practical, but I've never seen an objection on nationalist grounds to the fully open-source code I wrote from China while employed by a Chinese company in 2012-14.
"Democrat" is a Trump-speak signifier and chosen on purpose.
No, unsafe code may affect the rest of your code (safe code).
Lmao at actually believing Randal paul isn't named after Ayn Rand. I see you've fully embraced the cognitive dissonance that has made republicans so successful. I hope democrats can do the same. I'll give credit to Ron though. That was a very principled thing to do, respect.
Thats a fairly extreme statement - you're saying that "because extreme events also used to take place, the internet is not involved, and in fact is a help". So to you, the internet is a completely neutral platform with no side effects? I do not think you will find many people on the planet that will agree with you.
You are talking about repercussions, yet clearly there is no proof that Instagram was "spying" on anyone.
I don't think this is true. In the past people have reached across the aisle to compromise and collaborate successfully.

If your position is right, doesn't that contradict the continued existence of the United States? What's "United" about the US if it breaks down into a bunch of hostile warring tribes?
Presumably post-election, Biden can appoint, and the new democrat senate can confirm, 2 justices.
100mbit is similar to a slow sd card or usb stick anyway?
But with the internet much more of what you do is visible and more people know about it. What you said could be attacked with "white silence is violence"