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> Do you see how your original statement was misleading? Monopoly power

No, it is not misleading. Instead, your terms are misleading.

They are misleading, because when someone says "monopoly power", what someone would immediately jump to is a singular firm.

But that is not true. Instead, the only thing required is significant and durable market power.

The less misleading term would be to say that a company only has to have significant and durable market power, for it to fall under anti trust law, and you should also point out that it does not require a literal singular firm.

> when you see someone use the term "monopoly power"

No, actually. What I will do is correct them to instead use the less misleading term.

It is a huge misconception that people have, that anti trust law only requires a singular firm for it to apply. It is extremely common for people to say that.

It is so common that the literal FTC had to made this clarification in their official information that they released.

If the freaking FTC had to release this clarification, then I think that it is important to point this out.

> It will reduce confusion.

What would instead reduce confusion even more, is if people made a specific effort to point out that a singular firm is not required for anti trust law to apply.

Because this is the most common misconception when people talk about anti trust law.

(It is so common that the FTC has to clarify this in their documents!)
That word consent means something...
"Your seven-hour scenic flight will include low level flybys of unique Australian destinations across Queensland, the Northern Territory and New South Wales including the Great Barrier Reef, Uluru, Kata Tjuta, Byron Bay and iconic Sydney Harbour. "

The offer did include some perks, not just a random flight over a bunch of random ocean.

Similarly, wood cabin rentals are very hot in the US now. An opportunity to do something different that breaks up the monotony without notably raising the COVID risk.

Fairly smart move from Qantas, from my POV. People are desperate for a safe(-ish) diversion. I found the "virtual safe room escapes" business model to be pretty similar.
Ardern campaigned on cutting legal immigration and became Prime Minister in coalition deal with the New Zealand First Party.
Well, that's your country fucked then eh? Bad luck.

I think your only hope now is some good old-fashioned Presidential assassination.

No-one would be more deserving than Trump to get a bullet between the eyes, eh?
That's equivocation.
When she was ~75 years old, and that doesn't take any political foresight to know she was old then.
Also as an immigrant, ditto. If you don’t like America that much, please leave. We can replace you with someone from Hong Kong.
This is an updated version of an earlier diagram (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24379125) which takes into account the newly released Quest 2 and Reverb G2, a few headsets we missed, and a few changes suggested by commenters.

I primarily built it to help my own framing of the modern wave of VR headsets (even though there are a lot of fun and wacky ideas from the before-times, they're a bit out-of-scope), but it's since bubbled into an infographic-esque diagram. If there's anything else we missed or that you think should be changed, let me know and we'll put it in a future version!

Direct link for people who don't like Twitter: https://i.imgur.com/WS6y5gH.png
Modern x86 processors are far from simple though and so it's arguable that it's not significantly less complicated.

Though to be fair I'm not sure it's really all that complex relatively to modern high end processors. Most of gpu is just the same unit repeated.

For mind boggling complexity in my mind is the manufacturing process undertaken by the likes of TSMC.
Perhaps it was a single rogue doctor, though I wouldn't use "typical malpractice" to describe such a heinous act. What I do see is this: orders coming right from the top on specific detention policy.[1] They were willing to do child separation in the innocent days of 2018, and they got away with it. What is stopping these same people from getting bolder with their ideas and orders?

1: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/trump-cabinet-o...
Because there's a very careful balance of slow spread and natural immunity. If we turn off spread for long enough, we turn off natural immunity too because our body isn't receiving constant low dose exposure.
It was a new rule, concocted at a moments notice, and discarded the moment it outlived its usefulness. That latter moment was today. It was the definition of abuse.
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Bill Clinton tried to thread that needle with the safe, legal, rare triad. I wish we could try that again.
This Would be so beyond the pale that it could lead to honest to goodness civil disorder.
The literacy test that I took wasn't even controversial. Back in middle school my civics teacher actually had us take one of these literacy tests. While very few people in the class passed the test (I think just myself and one other person), anyone actually familiar with the text of the US Constitution should be able to pass it. Sadly almost no one in our class was familiar with the US Constitution.

I'm totally okay with a test where the only document you need to study from is the US Constitution.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/28/politics/mitch-mcconnell-supr...
So many health and monitoring tools have a web UI these days. Someone chats about a server acting weird, you’re in the chat, looking at logs and graphs in several spots, maybe using your own app, looking at commits in several modules, and looking up error messages online. Spread out across 2-4 screens.

Plus there’s whatever feature or bug fixes you were working on before that all started, and the research you were doing for a ticket you want to propose, and you have to get back to those when you’re done.

And somewhere there’s a window with this HN post you have to find again in order to respond.
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What do your studies say about creating new states to gain more votes in the senate? Something that's already been introduced in the house.

Worse even its being created by shrinking the zone that was purposefully created to not be a state. Puerto Rico would undoubtedly also give 2 more democratic seats, but at least it's a large American territory, not something we're artificially creating for more votes.
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The reasons listed to support the title are:

- Poor error handling

- Manually written SQL

- Reinventing the wheel

- Young and fast evolving technology stack without well-established standards of use

Here are some companies that may disagree with the author:

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> covered on one side with tiny structures

Click bait. Not "completely flat" at all.
https://www.republicanleader.senate.gov/newsroom/press-relea...

He’s basically that the partisan makeup of the Senate as of the most recent election should be the controlling factor.

It has the veneer of a neutral rule, and that’s all they need.
hahahaha

His words mean nothing. Unfortunately, he does what he wants, not what he's said. His past proclamations are merely inconvenient distractions.
He has absolutely not been consistent. For example, here's the Washington Post claiming he did "a 180" on the issue: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/05/29/oh-wed-fi...

> It's happening whether we like it or not, and there's no "precedent" we can appeal to in order to stop it.

Again, you're responding to some point I haven't made. I'm not claiming there's any way to stop it, I'm claiming McConnell is a man without honor or even decency and that the United States is headed into the toilet.
Leaving aside the specific politics, this is one of many reasons I advocate for replacing voting with sortition (picking representatives from the electoral roll, in much the same way as juries are picked).
Isn't this true for any source of distraction? What about a baseball or a book or a dvd or anything?

The presence of a distraction reduces cognitive capacity? Other than superficially padding their "researchers'" resume, what is gained by this "study"?

We've know this for years. It's why teachers insist kids put away their smartphones, etc.
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He was just playing the incredible hand dealt him.
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> By the way, the archaic meaning of "regulated" means "properly disciplined and drilled". It did not refer to control or supervision by a state.

That still leaves open the question of what levels of discipline and drilling the (federal or state) government could demand of someone for them to be included in the Militia.

It is already accepted that felons and the mentally ill may be prevented from exercising 2nd Amendment rights, so it is perhaps not inconceivable that there could be minimum and maximum age limits, or minimum numbers of training / inspection days for people to be deemed validly part of the Militia.

Whether any such changes would reduce gun crimes, or increase crimes generally, or be politically viable or desirable, are separate questions.
How is it “cynical” to point out that where a split senate/presidency exists in an election year, the senate has historically used its confirmation authority to postpone filling the vacancy?

And the response is to demand something that actually would be unprecedented: packing the senate? Which only Democrats have done before, under circumstances where it was obviously to coerce the Supreme Court into deciding cases differently. Acting like Democrats hold the moral high ground here is utterly absurd.
Naaah, I keep tissues nearby. Gotta maintain a clean nose at all times.
As an Irishman in Canada and previously lived in the US, I can safely and concretely say the political and governmental grass is greener in both countries above the US.
have you ever tried vim-wiki (or vim-wiki + vim-zettel, if thats your thing)? its been a godsend for me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnGXerN0tlo

Here is a video of Jeremy Clarkson getting an English Electric Lightning installed in his front garden, much to his wife's dismay (as you might expect)
What is at stake if the EU agrees this is a violation?
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> I for one, hope to all hell, this doesn't happen. It would make the supreme court just an extension of any party in power of presidency and senate.

I completely agree, but at this point I think it's inevitable.
I hope flying low over pretty places doesn't become popular. Planes are really noisy.
There's no democracy to preserve. The Supreme Court is inherently anti-democratic. As is the electoral college, the Senate, etc.

The US Constitution is explicitly anti-democratic, and it always has been, as the founders intended. I'm not saying this is a good thing, I'm just saying that's what it is.
There are ways to do it. Expand the court and then pass a legislation banning court expansions without supermajority
> the erosion of democratic rights.

Can you name which rights have eroded in the recent years? Like, 70, 15, 4 years?
At some level... does it matter? The BCM2837 (used in the RPi 3), is 40nm if https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=137991 is to be believed; more advanced fabbing is good if you wanna go head-to-head with cutting edge ARM or even x86, but for a lot of stuff you don't need to be that good.
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I bought through Kickstarter a Ramos alarm clock which requires entering a code through a separate keypad (defaulting to MMDD) to turn it off. Unplugging the alarm clock doesn't turn it off. The only options are to turn it off before it goes off or enter the code.

After my kids were born, I stopped using it because we didn't want to wake up the kids (I've had my phone on silent mode for the last six and a half years now). All was well and good until one day the cleaning lady apparently turned the alarm on and I didn't notice. The alarm went off in the morning and I went to the keypad in the bathroom to turn off the alarm—and the batteries in it had died. I ended up taking the alarm clock to the basement and wrapping it in a towel until the battery backup gave up.
> I'm sorry but how exactly did they democrats get in the way last time when Obama was president?

How could they? They didn't have the votes, because people didn't vote for democrats. You want democrats to have power in the government: make sure they have a majority.
Not trying to hurt any feelings here, but as far as I can see as an unbiased person who's looked at far too many frameworks for their own good, the FUD is coming from the React fans.

I'm seeing a bunch of commenters getting defensive and saying "well technically" while conveniently ignoring the difference in effort required to do islands in each framework. You can't say dropping JSX is at all comparable to plopping in v-clicks on existing HTML.

You can certainly adopt react "incrementally", in the sense that you can implement an entire new self-contained feature and plop it into an existing app if it already uses REST APIs, but react is decidedly not as trivial to sprinkle into a non-SPA where data comes mixed with HTML rendered on the server.
Lots actually, the way it is fueled, completely different (as in you don't re-fuel it you replace it) so all of the re-fueling infrastructure is not needed. They replace water (low pressure or high pressure) with helium which gives them two benefits, one it carries more heat and two it doesn't become a high explosive[1] when exposed to extreme temperature. Another benefit of helium is that if it leaks from the system, it carries no fission byproducts(like Cesium) in solution and has no radioactive isotopes with half lives of more than a second. 6-Helium has a half life of .8 seconds and emits a beta particle.

So pretty much all different :-)
> Both Bush and Trump were not elected by a popular vote.

Neither was Clinton. Sometimes it goes your direction, too.
Merrick Garland was recommended to Obama by Republican senator Orrin Hatch as a reasonable candidate, before the death of Scalia.
Of the ten least-populous states, half are solidly Republican and half are solidly Democratic.
The average adult life span may be a better metric if child mortality rates were high.
Oh, the old "the reason my party can't get anything done is because they are too principled".
Legitimacy matters.
I said it's hardened enough to be safe against common threats.

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If we're going to compare it to WW2 where they were doing experiments on humans and running eugenics projects, I think we should acknowledge that this is fundamentally different than that. Someone who didn't read the intercept story [1] might take the WW2 comparison too literally and think we've begun official mass sterilization programs. We haven't. What happened is tragic and awful, but it's not the same thing that Hitler did.

[1] https://theintercept.com/2020/09/17/forced-sterilization-ice...
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The only people I've seen principled is Justin Amash, Rand Paul, Ron Paul and Ben Sasse. Beyond those few, everyone else is pretty much playing power games.

Very very few people in Congress do anything but vote along party lines on pretty much everything.

I don't know how you can democrats are principled to a fault with a straight face when you have Nancy Pelosi who is just the Democrat's McConnell.
How is that helpful or interesting in any way? I don't think talking about how much trash you pick is any interest of us, an intellectual community for intellectual discussion.
Please tell me the last time a democrat-controlled senate confirmed a Supreme Court justice for a republican president in an election year.
This seems naïve. Cost is a factor.

Greg, a nobody who nobody likes says X thing - X isn't a big deal, and doesn't affect most people and about 45% of people would agree X shouldn't be said, even if it isn't a big deal.

Mark, a senior directo who everybody loves says Y thing - Y is a big deal, but only 10% of people would agree it shouldn't be said.

Guess which will get called out?
Biden didn’t just suggest the idea, he was also citing historical practice!
Or maybe present a better alternative that gets people to vote for your side?

Your party aggressively screwed over a candidate who could have energized the base and still would have captured 99.99% of the center in a trade for a principle-less barely coherent snooze fest of a human being who would toe the old party line and then you claim the only remedy is to play as dirty as the other side?

Excuse me for not buying it.

I voted for Obama but the democratic party is bordering on as repulsive as the republicans these days and this type of thinking is to blame.
He at least had the public accountability to quit.

US can't even manage to forceably remove major bad actors
I’ve seen some proposals where there’s a low-mass extension to the cable that can change delta-v quickly and then reel in the real tether. Moral equivalent of bridging a ravine by tying a thread to an arrow, pulling a string across with the thread, pulling a rope across with the string, pulling a cable or two across with the rope, and pulling or building a simple bridge across using the cable.

But with the bridge, it’s just distance you’re crossing. With a tether you’re also dealing with velocity. And changing velocity changes distance...
Damn right it is. Once she passes the President and Senate get to nominate a replacement. RBG isn't somehow deserving of a candidate that maintains her legacy. In fact, she has zero say in who her replacement is.
I've been using BOSL2: https://github.com/revarbat/BOSL2

There's a whole fillet / chamfer library using masks and such, but I've found that you can go a looong way with just basic shapes that start out chamfered/filleted, and unioning and differencing them.
And if you look at the popularity of their platform it should've been all of them. Republican platform is buoyed by irrational pro-choice one issue voters and Russian funded NRA propaganda.
> but I'd say that grammar nazis and teachers alike are actually somewhat effective IMO.

We have no evidence this is true. Certainly historically we know it isn't the case, there very strong evidence surrounding how languages drift over time that exist alongside contemporary pendants later proving to have not made a difference. But we also haven't really had a society with near universal literacy before so maybe that changes the dynamic.
Because it's not about consistency, it's about winning. And McConnell sure is doing a lot of that in terms of his agenda to stuff courts full of conservative justices.
Your basically just talking about an empty shell. Used parts are an active market so anything useful is stripped off and sold. After you crash it you just send it to the aluminum smelter, which would have been it's fate anyways. No real waste.
Republican money tends to be generally effective. The threat of withholding the same will certainly work to bring them more in line. Also, https://www.axios.com/trump-ginsburg-supreme-court-10bf5f37-... .
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No he wasn't, he was just standing there spouting bullshit. As usual.
Trust me, no one thinks that "monopoly power" refers only to a single firm. When someone says Microsoft has a monopoly on desktop operating systems, they are aware that macOS and Linux exist as competing operating systems. They don't think that Windows is the only operating system in the world.
Ask HN: How can I become politically active and promote Asian-American rights?
I am Asian-American, and I'm growing concerned over rising discrimination against Asian-Americans. Asian-Americans have no social or political capital, i.e. in my experience, anti-Asian racism isn't taken as seriously as racism against other groups, and it isn't "trendy" to support Asian-Americans on social media. I am scared that prejudice against Asian-Americans is increasing, and neither of the two mainstream US political parties have a reliable track record for us. We're basically ignored and politically irrelevant. I predict that Asian-Americans need to quickly build social and political capital or else the coming years will be rough for us.

I feel that one of the problems is that Asian-Americans tend not to be politically active. I want to be the change I want to see in the world. Some of my thoughts:

- It's important to build soft power through culture (e.g. by having more Asian-American artists)

- Asian-Americans are said to be the "new Jews," so maybe I can look at whatever Jewish-Americans did to advocate for their rights as a model

How can I best promote Asian-American rights? Also, what can I do to protect myself from the general dirtiness and dangers that come with becoming politically involved?
Yes, as the world moves more and more toward online commerce, a statute specifically crafted for "fraud using transmission of information over wires" is just the modern tool we need to fight back.
Given the appointment age of most justices, 20 years and life aren't much different. Furthermore, lots of justices resign a couple years before death. RBG was practically begged to resign, but alternately believed Hillary would win and/or thought she could outlast Trump.

The idea is similar to tenure. You can do and say what you believe without influence and pressure from either party. It also dodges influence peddling preparing for leaving office. For example, in the defense department, officials will make recommendations and then leave office and profit from those same companies. If you're in office for life, this common (and almost impossible to prevent) kind of corruption becomes basically a non issue.

The federalist papers would shed light on such things, but actually reading them (and the wealth of nations)is likely to turn you into an independent who dislikes both parties.
If anybody wonders what 'irony' means, this is it.
You have to get the distance and velocities to line up, and it’s challenging to change only one of those in a three body situation.
Lately I've noticed more people publicly saying negative things about China. It warms my heart and renews a little of my faith in humanity. China is so obviously a bad actor and has been for so long on so many fronts. Finally it seems people are waking up to this as a fact. I'm no Trumper but its seems all his predecessors were simply too cowardly to stand up to them.

Someone finally did stand up to them - and look - we're all still here and the world continues to turn. Who knew right?
I had a checklist of requirements:

* OXF import so that duplicate transactions are not an issue.

* An iPhone app so my wife can see the state of the budget.

* Envelop budgeting by default.

Lunch Money meets none of these. I don't think I am the target market, but the UI has won me over. I'm totally going to do everything I can to make this work. I suspect the API will make that possible.

Amazing job on the interface, clean fast and appealing while showing loads of information all at once.
It does depend some. There's a ton of difference between a 738-300 and a 737-800, for example. Crazy different engines and capabilities. Approach, angle, altitude matter too.

I say this as a person that lives within a couple of miles of a big airport. So not guessing.
Let's hope someone murders Trump - and, hopefully, his entire worthless family - before it's too late for the US.
Did you just make those numbers up out of thin air?
"conspiracy to access a protected computer without authorization, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and wire fraud"

Ah yes.

They are charged with "using electronic communications or digital networks to obtain money based on false representation or promises." Remember fraudsters: If you just meet these people at a McDonalds you wont be charged with a crime. Do not use mail or wires and watch the government squirm.

https://www.justice.gov/archives/jm/criminal-resource-manual...