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This is amusingly silly. Changing the composition of the Court is not unheard of and FDR, not exactly known as the poster child of "destroying the legitimacy of Constitutional government," nearly did it in 1937 (and likely would have if not for another untimely death.) https://today.law.harvard.edu/if-democrats-win-in-november-s...
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Does that mean it _always_ happens? Or only sometimes?
Isn't it a fairly simple, mechanical job convert a non-parameterised query into a parameterised one. No non-local reasoning required. Things must bw pretty bad if you're running code with known SQL injection vulnerabilities!
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Wrote this simple plugin that just shows the new and modified files in vim's quickfix window, powered by git status.

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Hope you find it useful as well.
I think quashing divisive conversations in the workplace is generally a healthy thing to do for the well-being of your employees, however Facebook has put itself in a unique position which also makes the move hypocritical.
If you think McConnell has a shred of honor or cares one whiff about not being a hypocrite I have a bridge to sell you.
I wouldn't worry about this too much. I agree with a sibling comment about standardizing on one being an option, and on the other hand if you do push yourself through I think your mental plasticity will improve as a result, so: win-win what ever you decide to do. Unless you measure your performance by output, I guess ;-)
I suspect, based on your comment, that you and I have a fair amount of conflict in our expressed politics. (I was firmly in the “May RBG hang on for dear life” camp.) Nevertheless, I agree with the core tenet here: term limits would be a major improvement for the SCOTUS, even if relatively lengthy. They would mitigate for all involved parties the otherwise daunting threat of a particular personality, potentially ideologically incompatible with one’s own worldview, holding sway open-endedly and potentially for a generation.

(Separately: I found that the NPR link didn’t work for me at first, and checked NYT; they had not yet posted an obit.)
They just won't both bother responding. I remember Adam Schiff's arguments during the senate part of the impeachment procedure - "Is there any doubt he did it?", there was no real response to this. Mitt Romney is now the radical amongst the congressional GOP.

The type of politicians who kicked the chair out from under their own leader during watergate are probably rare amongst democrats and non-existent bar one (https://youtu.be/qS-aFfJe20U) amongst these republicans.
McConnell immediately clarified his position was "the Senate shouldn't consider a nomination in an election year if it's controlled by my party and the president isn't in my party" -- no kidding, this was his actual clarification.
Trump's campaign has been blasting SCOTUS picks to their email list for weeks. From the latest one:

> Did you hear the news? President Trump has released his shortlist for candidates for the Supreme Court. Here is a sneak preview of a few of the names on the list:
> Senator Tom Cotton
> Senator Josh Hawley
> Senator Ted Cruz
> And more…
The Senate, not congress.

"[The president] shall nominate, and by and with the [...] Consent of the Senate, shall appoint [...] Judges of the supreme Court"

https://www.senate.gov/history/powers.htm
I would estimate that if you include the true environmental costs of destroying a plane with explosives, this is not accurate.
Alright, it's finally time for a court packing. Let's be real, NO ONE is expecting Trump not to fill her seat.

Also why we need to win the Senate as well.

I'm also curious about how John Roberts is going to react to what comes after her seat's filled.
The president has an R next to his name this time.
From the article:

> Asked what he would do in circumstances like these, McConnell said: "Oh, we'd fill it." [the supreme court seat]
Absolutely. My family is feverishly working on how to leave this hellscape of a country we’re in. The United States is dead.
> Do you honestly think the Supreme Court would allow a President to win a 3rd term?

Why wouldn't they? They have nothing to gain from opposing it, and much to lose.

I mean, do you honestly think the United States Postal Service would dismantle its own machinery and send out misinformation about elections?
Well, the house explicitly has financial powers, and they can impeach officials. If the house was republican and the senate was democratic, you would see much more financing for projects Trump wanted. Like, just to make up the most ridiculous example we could think of, a giant wall...
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Appending strings together is a single bytecode instruction and this cannot really be fixed.
I think it hinges on their (Trump, really) confidence on winning in November. No reason to do it now if you're sure you're going to win. No reason to worry about possible repercussions in the form of lost voters if you're sure you're going to lose.
Ontario Canada too.
It baffles me to hear how many people use tabs - some vast amount open at once. I open and close pages as I read them, and only have what's relevant to me open at any time. To me this is what Reading List and bookmarks are for.
> but if elected Republicans simply use votes to do the same thing it's "no regard for the constitution".

They didn’t use votes. If it had gone to vote, Garland would have been confirmed. McConnell refused to bring it to vote.
It's only bad if you're doing it when you have the option of doing something helpful. Like politicians offering prayers for tragedies that are the result of bad public policy.
I wonder what the “strong” president would do there. Threaten to unleash a plague on Kentucky?
To be fair, they passed the ruling for non-supreme court justices. Republicans extended it to include them in 2017. Still, an example of terrible governance and foresight on both sides.
This is awesome. For context: Fusion 360 personal license is being locked down in October, and will restrict many useful functions, including exporting projects as STEP file (industry standard file format).
Time for some history. The GOP senators never expected a moderate like Merrick Garland, who was named by senators in the news before Obama announced his confirmation.
He did make such a statement months ago.
Probably the most realistic choice. She's backed by the Federalist Society, rather than Tom Cotton and Ted Cruz.

Plus, she's a woman. She'll get branded as the 'RBG of the right'
Tit-for-tat. Harry Reid had exercised the “nuclear option” to exclude most Presidential appointments from being filibustered a few years previous.

We’re in an iterated prisoner’s dilemma and we’re still in the “last turn sets the new norm” phase. I’m hoping there’s a way out before too long.
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He could have it done by Wednesday if he wants. Just pick the youngest and most ideological from the Federalist society's list and give them an up/down vote and the President can sign off in no time.
The Republicans have won the popular vote once since 1988. They have no politically legitimate claim to those seats.
Fine - used established, legal processes.
“These would have been on a cramped gun-deck (where the passengers would also live) with gun-ports”

Was that really the case? It seems far more likely for the crew to have lived on the gun-decks since presumably they would have been trained to use the cannons, instead of the passengers.
Because my browser is like my brain and my life: disorganized and full of loose threads.

I imagine there's likely a correlation with ADHD, as well.
From what I see, Vue.js has a very healthy commercial ecosystem. Many people seem to be making money off their community work. Be it with blogs, courses, conferences, offering plugins, UI, etc.

I think this decentralized web of incentives is more sustainable in the long run than a single corporate sponsor.
Netlify redirects would work, but I wanted more portability. Hard to beat good ol' static HTML!
I’m sad to say you may find the grass is always greener on the other side - government corruption exists everywhere that government exists.
> Dropping bombs is like taking antibiotics, sometimes necessary but always creates resistance.

Does taking antibiotics always result in antibiotic resistant bacteria?

I wasn't aware of that, and at first glance it seems implausible as otherwise all antibiotics would have been ineffective before we even discovered them?
Being embarrassed about wanting to be in power is a perpetual problem for leftism (It's understandable - it involves saying yes to the institutions you probably want to reform).

Consider Corbyn in the UK - Awful polling from day 1, doesn't help much with Brexit, loses 2 elections (One meh, one disaster) but the lessons learned is that they won the "argument" and it's all good?
Mitch McConnell and Trump will have a replacement confirmed by the end of October.
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The problem is that those activists and politicians you refer to are a reflection of what way too many voters genuinely want.
Since the parent link is to an NPR piece, here's NPR's coverage of Ginsburg's memorial tribute to Scalia: https://www.npr.org/2016/02/15/466848775/scalia-ginsburg-ope...
The next logical step is that the Democrats will flatly refuse to confirm any future Republican nominee for SCOTUS, regardless of what year of the President's term it is.

Partisan politics is tiring. The US is steadily becoming more and more mediocre while the rest of the industrialized world improves, because we are focused more on winning petty battles than improving our nation.
Then it's time to fight back.

Make it absolutely clear to McConnell and Democratic leaders in the Senate that if McConnell fills this seat in an election year, then the Democrats must increase the size of the SCOTUS.

McConnell needs to fear the reprisal more than he fears the delay. Because you're right, this is about power. Nothing else matters to them. So make them fear this.
What lost votes? Trump's base is going to eat this up. They would only be mad if he didn't ram through an appointment as fast as possible.
> This is about power. In politics, nothing else matters.

Sounds about right.

> the activities associated with the governance of a country or other area, especially the debate or conflict among individuals or parties having or hoping to achieve power.
Remove the Publicly visible Like Count and those kind of conversations and connections are easy.

The Like count makes people defensive or aggressive especially when they are called out in public leading to never ending reaction and counter reaction cycles.

Without that dumb random signal interfering in conversations all kinds of strange connections are possible.

I see it at work meetings between highly competitive people who dont have anything in common with each other. I see it on whatsapp chat groups.

But I don't see it happening on FB, Twitter and on the News. These mediums favor reaction-counter reaction over solutions.

Connection takes time and the right environment. Anyone who wants connection and solutions to trump reactions, please have those conversation in an environment without random signals interfering with the process.
> will make sure Trump wins a second (or third, or fourth, or fifth) term

How would a Supreme Court Justice do this? A third and fourth term would require a constitutional amendment, which requires ratification by 3/4ths of the states.
They have lifetime appointments, what would they have to gain by ruling against a Constitutional Amendment??
anyone but tr*mp
They will 100% fill that seat before Jan 20th. The outcome of the election does not matter. Anyone who thinks otherwise really doesn't understand McConnell and the gang. They'll let Romney dissent, it'll be the impeachment vote v2.

I saw some interviews with her, pretty amazing lady. Sad to see her go.
I figure it was already pretty high to begin with.
Har har.
Confirming Supreme Court nominees is the Senate’s constitutional duty.
I would not be entirely surprised. There was a time when Democrats seemed to be intimidated by threats over nuclear options and such. Now that they know the truth, maybe they won't heed such warnings and decide that they need to win at any cost, just like their opposition.
Could you or Justin explain this?

https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1251462876029579264
The argument is not from me, but from scholars and religious researcher and I am just forwarding it on HN. The money you put on your digital wallet should not magically increase. It should be like your physical one. When you put $100, that’s what you get. When you put $100 and you get $110 without trade is riba. When you buy $100 for $110 is riba. Riba is when money magically appears without any effort/business. When you put money into a wallet, the terms is that you just want to store it, you don’t want the wallet to somehow circulate your money into investment, that’s not wallet, thats bank. If it is the business you do the deal with that provides cashback (you buy meat and the meat store give you 10% discount or 10% cashback) then it is allowed as they are the first party who were part of the transaction, you don’t “lend” them money at all.

Credit card that charges interest/fee is already considered riba in Islam, no need to go into the cash back situation as it is already forbidden in the first place.

The Al Quran clearly answers your questions. “God forbids riba and permitted trade/business”. Riba had 0 risk for the lender, while investment/trade/business has risk. It is unfair to invest but only wanted profits, in business there’s a risk of loss, and there’s a chance of profits. Investing time and skills, or money for other business is allowed. No one would label it riba. When you starts being unfair by investing and you wanted only profits in return, without risk of loss - then that’s loan, not investment.

The etymology definition of riba is interest, but the actual ruling around it and the law is very complex.

I agree that some financial institutions are just using the label Sharia and Halal while in actualities it is just conventional banking.
Here's my prediction:

Trump will nominate a successor in the next couple weeks. McConnell will start the process, but delay the vote until after the November election. This way:

If Trump wins, McConnell can say that he was entirely reasonable and consistent, and he waited until after the election to ensure that the people really wanted Trump's SCOTUS nomination to be confirmed.

If Trump loses, McConnell still has the option say hell with it, and ram Trump's nomination through anyway. Any Republican Senators who might be worried about re-election chances will already have kept or lost their seats. I expect election results won't be final enough to call by the end of election day like they usually are, but even if it takes a couple weeks, that still leaves over a month for the Senate to vote on the nomination before their session ends at the beginning of January.

The other possibility is that McConnell will just get it all done immediately. He likely has the numbers now -- I doubt any of the fence-sitting Republican Senators would vote no, even those who are up for re-election this year -- and it's not clear that he actually gives a damn about appearances at this point. Waiting could also have a downside: it's possible that enough Republican Senators who have lost their seats in the election could feel too uncomfortable confirming a nomination of this magnitude during their own lame-duck session. But again, not sure how much these people will care about fairness when the chips are down.
You might want to see how this election turns out, first.
Voting and gerrymandering are the metagame.

We should pay people to vote, that would help turnout (up to about as much as it would ever get).
The precedent set was that the Senate can overrule the president. That precedent will be followed.

I don't think anyone misunderstands the situation - McConnell is going to do whatever is most expedient to get a Supreme Court composition that he likes. Any specific justification is mostly cosmetic - Senate has the power, and the controller of the Senate uses the power.
I suppose, but the number of days before they bring a nominee to the floor seems a more direct measure.
Clearly the congress at that time was acting in bad faith and would have delayed her successor being appointed, as they did with Merrick Garland.
For anyone interested in a serious analysis: https://reason.com/2020/09/09/two-cheers-for-president-trump...
> you can arbitrarily render a React root anywhere

I think this exact capability is what led to such strong React adoption. It's almost viral within an application. The main application that I worked on a few years ago was on Backbone / Marionette and we evaluated React by writing several small but complicated nested components, with state controlled by existing mechanisms. After liking both the flux application architecture and the ease of gradual transition, we pulled the trigger on React. It slowly ate our application from the inside out, but never forced our hand.

React isn't "lightweight" (JSX being the primary hurdle), but it is very easy to adopt incrementally!
I'll also link a video of her eulogy to Scalia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jb_2GgE564A
I consider that a feature, not a bug!

Others may disagree, though. :D
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The only difference I see is that hacking is always premeditated, making this a much worse instance of murder by definition.
What. People were acrimonious in the medieval ages. They didn't have like counts. This is such total bullshit.
One possible strategy for Trump (which would be very much out of character) would be to wait out of respect for RBG and/or the Garland precedent. Meanwhile, he uses the empty seat as a campaign issue to keep reluctant conservatives from jumping ship.
There is the chance that his constituent's mostly just vote for a Republican and would still vote for him either way.
Hillary won the popular vote by 1.1% and currently the Republicans hold a razor thin Senate majority and have been substantially outpaced by Democrats in the House, so I'm not really sure where you get the idea that there's a "far disproportionate share of power/representation". It seems pretty proportionate to me.
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I can’t see Dems doing that. They don’t have the popular support for something like that, let alone the courage.

What they should do is physically barricade the Capitol. I’m not really joking. It will come to that.

My first guess of the most action they will take:

Staging a walk-out of the vote.
Haha, thank you! I imagine a fair few people get it, but don't share the needs that motivated me to make and publish it.
Are there 4 that are facing an uncertain re-election campaign right now?
It would be nice to have a faster, parallel Python but the best scientific ecosystems are Python and R.

For most scientists, programming productivity matters the most, and plenty of programs are embarassingly parallel.

For instance it's no trouble at all just launching a single threaded Python program once per sequencing sample, and it plays nicely with the supercomputer queuing system.
That is because the people of the USA don't want the ~40e6 people in California to be able to dictate policy for the ~2 million people in Kentucky. Most Americans are perfectly okay with this because there hasn't been any serious effort at an Amendment to grant each citizen with similar amounts of power in the Senate.
Depends on your own weights. I do not consider the WSJ generally non-authoritative¹.

Exceptions:

- Opinion section I weight zero

- Republican/Democratic political strategy I weight low

¹ I weight Bloomberg zero across the board
It's not even surprising when you consider that SCOTUS judges are, by constitutional design, appointed by presidents, who by design, are supposed to represent the electorate.

If judges were supposed to be pure judges and not activists, they would be selected by an independent process purely based on legal / academic merit.

All judges, but especially Supreme Court ones, are political activists. They just have the education and experience to wrap it in legal language.
I did not say that the hospital was negligent
Having more people able to vote in winner-takes-all elections in gerrymandered districts won't help as much as you'd like.
> It only takes a majority in the senate and house to add a seat to the SCOTUS

Exactly. If Biden wins and the senate flips, they'll just add two justices (for 11 total) to get a majority. The right will scream bloody murder, but won't be able to do anything about it.
Where can I get an equivalent tablet or laptop with the performance and specs of a $329 iPad - yes it can use any 3rd party Bluetooth keyboard and mouse.

The iPad Air is also more performant than most laptops being sold abd it’s cheaper.
If you're an independent at this point, you're a fascist. Get off the damn fence.
Not all sanctions ban all trade, and a lot of them are targetted at a whole nation. And they are always politically motivated.

Now I have no clue if this particular sanction is warrented, or if it'll have negative impact, etc. So maybe it is short cited, maybe it's not. I'm just saying apart from the higher profiles being sanctioned here, this seems similar to a lot of other sanctions.
Rest in Peace RGB

Rest in Peace American Republic
There's no reprisal that would intimidate him into not taking every opportunity to claim more power.
Do you know how laws are often interpreted? It's asking what is the faith and meaning of the law, NOT what is literally written in paper. This means past precedents are incredibly important for defining what a law is. Refusing to hold a vote for a nomination of a qualified supreme court justice is not against the law on paper, but it is against the meaning of the laws and the precedents of how the president interacts with the supreme court.

It is not the senates job to decide if a nominee is worthy of being nominated, or if the president should make a nomination. It is their job to vote on the nominee. They did not do that.
Theres a sliding scale of it though. The disinformation and anti-intellectual campaigns are generally weaker in mainland Europe and as a consequence the governments are less broken.

The US is at the point where 30-40% of the country would drink bleach and shoot their neighbor at the presidents command while probably similar numbers are functionally illiterate. Not to say the democracy has been functioning, but you can't have a functional one with these preconditions.

And its structurally intentional. This is all a product of decades of machination and effort to craft this cultural zeitgeist of zealotry and active war against one another while robber barons pillage the commons.
Sure, but, for example, Jacinda Ardern isn't Donald Trump or Boris Johnson.
This is hardly about petty. its about power, and always has been. and the sides are in no way equal.
I don't know about head kicks. I think you just need to be a political realist. The reality is that you need (edit: cooperation of the) Senate and Presidency to get a Justice nominated. Obama didn't have the Senate and didn't get his pick for Justice. Trump does, and will get his pick.

The whole "Republicans are hypocrites" thing is true - but obviously so. Whatever was said about not doing it in election year was simply a political lie they felt they had to say to avoid the "We are doing this because we can" reality.