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In my opinion the difference is whether you have the discussion from your free will or because it is being imposed on you.

The stance of the loud is: "This is an important issue and we should all talk about this until the society is better!" But that actually disenfranchises the quiet ones who just want to get work done. Not everyone cares, and forcing them to care is wrong.

It doesn't sound like Zuck will stop you for sitting around the lunch table and discussing the issues, but he will make sure that no one calls you names, or passes you for a promotion ..etc, for wanting to opt out.

I don't really have any information on what's happening on the inside, but judging this from the information we got publicly, it really seems to me as a way to enable every employee whose voice is being outnumbered.
I think this is the first time in a long while that a non-nytimes obituary post leads on HN. Did the nytimes social media team all move to npr?

Anyways I think ginsburg is the perfect example of why we need age, health and/or term limits for SCOTUS. Lifetime appointments should not exist in any government position and health should be a consideration on whether someone can hold a major government position.

It's embarrassing to see both sides ( including ginsburg herself ) use ginsburg's life as a political football.

Also "champion of gender equality"? Was she a judge or a political activist? Or is she just another example of the politization of the courts, media and every aspect of our lifes?
I was wondering the same thing. I can see 5 or 10% slipping under the radar, but 90%? What were these 200 employees even working on?

Engineering would be the most distant from customers, I guess, but even they must've noticed how few bugs were coming in.

Hard to believe it wasn't found out earlier.
You accuse me of pessimistic gut feeling while laying out yours. The election outcome is far far far from certain. I used to deal with coworkers who were similarly smug in 2016 and they were proven to be equally wrong.
There is no evidence that she would be opposed to women entering the draft. The case hasn’t been tried before the Supreme Court, but a Federal Court has already said that excluding women from the draft is discriminatory.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/02/ruth-bader-ginsb...
It's more like the congress exercised there constitution power to do fuck all if they wanted. Just cause it's a shitty thing doesn't make it un-constitution. What happened to Obama was his party didn't have the votes to approve someone so it didn't happen that's it.
If a company was outsourcing critical business logic to, say, Nigeria, I would absolutely criticize them for that. The color would have nothing to do with it.
This.

Seeing trump as a cause and not a symptom or as the leading disaster for American democracy is a very common distraction.

McConnell is the heart of all of it. He is nothing but an appetite for power. He’ll do anything. No morals whatsoever (and I say that neutrally, as a fact and not a moral judgement.)

And he wins.
What do you mean "too weak"? It's literally impossible for the President to push through a judge who the Senate refuses to even vote on. There's nothing Obama, or any president, could have done. It's not within their power.
I'm somewhat curious how much deference and respect the administration will grant her. Basically how many days before they start pitching their nominee.

Edit: Fwiw, the RBG movie about her is on Hulu now.
This turn of events means a likely ossification of American policy for a generation. Much like in Iran, you risk ending up with a "council of sages" who is out of step and out of touch with the will of the people.

I say "you" because I can go elsewhere. My extended family wishes for me to return to Italy for my own safety.
This is the Republicans' opportunity to stack the court overwhelmingly in their favor and guarantee the end of progressive and liberal influence in Constitutional law for a generation. The repeal of everything from the ACA and gay marriage to Roe V. Wade is on the table.

They're not going to turn that down just to mess with Trump, this is way bigger than Trump.
Merrick was a pretty moderate choice who had been praised by many Republicans. Since they never voted on him, we don’t really know if they would have changed their minds and voted against him.
I mean legally it's always been this the Supreme Court has been very clear on every cases regarding confirmation that Congress is free to act or not act at it's leisure.
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Ultimately, a President with a friendly Senate will always fill the seat. An unfriendly Senate is going to delay the heck out of it. Any rhetoric around that is pretty much just noise. They will send someone through as they've published a couple of lists and have been filling the lower courts pretty quickly. It is not like people weren't aware Justice Ginsburg was very sick.

Frankly, given the President, I would bet it will occur within the next week or two. I do wonder what the polling will be like on this issue. I can actually see a couple of scenarios where Democrats would want to run on a filled seat.
No. My argument is that applying rules from other languages as if we are speaking them, and not English, should not hold sway. Rather, we should pay attention to sound and flow in English when deciding how to pluralize, etc.
Mitch McConnell in 2016: “The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president."

I'm curious what his argument would be for this being different.
Unsure: are you being sarcastic?
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Old people lowkey flirting is so wholesome.
I can't imagine that first seed investor wouldn't press charges and file a lawsuit.
Another customer extremelly satisfied with Namecheap. Your "beast mode" has saved me countless times.
For context https://www.politifact.com/article/2016/mar/17/context-biden...
Just like Obama's nomination was blocked for more than a year to "let the voters decide"?
The Democratic Party legislates as if it represents all Americans. Which means compromise.

Rarely has the Democratic Party held all three branches recently. Holding the senate is a huge win for the republicans - they can be as obstinate and block things and only need a barest majority to do appointments and many other procedural shenanigans.

Like what the fuck is the house supposed to negotiate with? “We won’t pass bills”: the republican senate is entirely happy not to have bills passed. Now what?

The Republican Party is entirely devoted to debasing government and spoiling the notion of governance.
They already pitched nominees because they knew she was dying. So zero respect.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/trump-suprem...
No, you have it backwards. He increases his chances by appointing another conservative, pro life judge.
Afraid no link - I'm actually in the process of buying 777s right now at a bit less than that (and then hopefully flipping for 5 apiece). Fresh out of a heavy C check, too.

But if you're curious re:prices, you can call the dealer listed on Controller.com as selling a 777. He's actually got several for sale in that neighborhood (and is super friendly, too - Eric).
I strongly agree with this description of the workflow at this [timestamp](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl2Flp4oK-g&feature=youtu.be...). Very healthy! Very unhealthy when these principles aren't followed for creating truly new products that people really need and want.
I don’t know what that is supposed to mean. Drivers get replaced wholesale by more worthy alternatives from time to time.
This wasn't always the case, here's an excerpt from the wiki on recent changes making this the case:
"Senate cloture rules historically required a two-thirds affirmative vote to advance nominations to a vote; this was changed to a three-fifths supermajority in 1975. In November 2013, the then-Democratic Senate majority eliminated the filibuster for executive branch nominees and judicial nominees except for Supreme Court nominees by invoking the so-called nuclear option. In April 2017, the Republican Senate majority applied the nuclear option to Supreme Court nominations as well,[2] enabling the nominations of Trump nominees Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh to proceed to a vote.[3][4] "
Yes, people are wrong every election, that’s what happens when someone wins and someone loses. The same thing will happen in 7 weeks as well.
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McConnell says you never replace a Supreme Court Justice in an election year.

Let's see just how long it takes him to release a public statement going back on that one...
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This is really depressing, even for a non-American. The only question is whether they appoint a new justice before election or after.
They've already started. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/trump-suprem...
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You're ignoring the kompromat. It's presumably why most of these Republican senators have given up all shreds of conservatism and stand by watching Trump turn our country into a dumpster fire.
Holy fucking hell. You're in for a ride if this is the short list. As an European I really really hope that y'all can turn this shit around in November, otherwise it's good bye US.
Eternal rest grant to her, O Lord; and let light perpetual shine upon her. May her soul, and the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.
You think it's dangerous to have access to social networks not under US control?

Many governments would, of course, agree, but this is traditionally the domain of governments seen as "authoritarian", such as, e.g., China. (Is it reasonable China does not let its citizens access Facebook?)
and you replied, so eew, your keyboard ...
This sounds just like the book The Phoenix Project, where they talk about work flow.
...and the journal is not?...
You'd expect at least a passing reference to Fresnel lens in a piece that talks about flat lenses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresnel_lens
> They do not give a fuck

Something that the Democrats need to realize is that they (especially Obama) assumed too much good faith in the congressional GOP.

You can stick to your principles while doing it but, when you are against a party who now considers its last nominee (Romney) a radical BLM leftist, when they go low you need to be ready to kick them in the head.
What do you mean "even she"? She literally said it was a wish!
well we can fund an OSS, but i have this feeling you underestimate the complexity of all possible hospitals.
You know they dont respect her at all and they'll replace her as soon as feasible. This is a political win they can't ignore and people being offended won't change that in the least
There would seem to be precedent for this now.

Justice Antonin Scalia died in February of 2016, a replacement was nominated in March of 2016, and because Scalia's seat had become vacant during an election year, the Senate would not even consider a nomination from the president [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merrick_Garland_Supreme_Court_...
Everyone here saying the republicans did this to Obama so how could they appoint a judge clearly don’t understands leverage.
If you are thinking about Senator Susan "Concerned" Collins and etc., you are pining for fool's gold. They make token noise and then comply.
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> Mr. McConnell and his allies say the two situations are different. Where one party controls the Senate and the other the presidency, as in 2016, they say, vacancies should not be filled in a presidential election year. Where the same party controls both the Senate and presidency, they argue, confirmations may proceed.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/18/us/justice-ruth-bader-gin...
> cleaning up

I would not underestimate this cost.
What is it that you think airplanes are made out of?
Seems unlikely - at the ACLU she wrote an amicus arguing that giving benefits to wives of male soldiers but not husbands of female soldiers was unjust and the husbands should be entitled to the same benefits (https://www.oyez.org/cases/1972/71-1694), and last year's federal case National Coalition for Men v. Selective Service System ruled, based on the precedent she set in that case, that the male-only draft was unconstitutional. The ACLU, along with a number of women's rights organizations, filed an amicus on appeal arguing that the ruling was correct. (The appeal was organized by a conservative group founded by Phyllis Schlafly.)
Yeah I agree with this. I claimed a few years ago that you could view https://www.oilshell.org/ as a "better POSIX", and I still hold that view.

http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2018/01/28.html#limit-to-posix

Recent comment about this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24428347

POSIX is just too limited and not what people use in practice.

If you want a portable shell script, in many cases my (biased) advice would be to make your script work on both bash and Oil. (Obviously there are short shell scripts which you may want to run on BSD, etc. This is more about big scripts, which POSIX falls down for.)

Oil already runs some of the biggest shell scripts in the world, many of them unmodified. Moreoever, when there's a patch necessary to run it, it often IMPROVES the program.

http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2020/06/release-0.8.pre6.html#p...

You'll be less tied to the vagaries of bash.

If anyone's script doesn't run under Oil, I'm interested. See https://github.com/oilshell/oil/wiki/What-Is-Expected-to-Run...
He already has, in a talk at the Federalist Society last year, where he said that if given the chance to replace a SCOTUS justice in 2020 he would not hesitate.

EDIT: And again, just over an hour ago, McConnell promised that he would have a vote on a new justice within a week of receiving the nomination.

Meanwhile, Murkowski of Alaska announced she would not support confirmation hearings until after the election.

And in other related news, Senate Democrats have promised to add seats to the Supreme Court if they win the Presidency and Senate in November and McConnell goes ahead with his plans...

The next few months are going to be exciting.
McConnell has already stated that he will put someone up even though his logic would apply to this year.
If they hold hearing for a 45 nominee before the election, they prove they were acting in bad faith. The expectation is that the president gets to appoint judges during his term, unless there is a reason to deny the nominee. By denying that they challenge the power of the executive branch. I.e. Does the president only get to pick a judge if the senate is a majority from the same party?
In a normal government, precedent would likely be followed.

This is not a normal government.
If Trump and the Republicans confirm a new Justice, Democrats have indicated they will pack the Supreme Court, appointing as many Justices as they feel necessary to get the rulings they want.

"If they show that they're unwilling to respect precedent, rules and history, then they can't feign surprise when others talk about using a statutory option that we have that's fully constitutional in our availability," he said. "I don't want to do that. But if they act in such a way, they may push it to an inevitability. So they need to be careful about that."

-- Tim Kaine, D-Va,
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/democrats-war...

The Constitution and Bill of Rights are interpreted through the Supreme Court. If you pack the court, you have essentially destroyed the legitimacy of Constitutional government. The consequences of this cannot be overstated.

All Constitutional rights will be up for reinterpretation and elimination. This is a very precarious moment in history. Perhaps the end of American history as we have known it. That's a grandiose statement, but it's not an incorrect one.
That is compelling, but I wouldn't overlook tit-for-tat. Senators live to be re-elected, and there are lots of close races in this exact timeframe. Four "we will take a dive" promises could make a difference.
How would it be an amazing feat? Trump already has a list of candidates, and all it takes is 50 Senators to say yes (plus Pence breaking a tie if they somehow don't get 51). There's no requirement to allow any but the most perfunctory of floor debates, and the filibuster has been eliminated for SCOTUS justices.

Guaranteed McConnell will ram this through with plenty of time to spare.
I hope that RBG's replacement will be selected and sworn after Inauguration Day – but I have a chilling feeling that it will happen before.
McConnel also ended the filibuster on nominees to freeze democrats out of the process completely.
The relationship between RBG and Scalia served as inspiration for one of the most beloved post-Sorkin episodes of The West Wing. The Supremes, 5x17.
McConnell is just doing what his constituents want. Otherwise, they wouldn't have voted for him repeatedly since 1984.

EDIT: One might argue that Mr. McConnell correctly anticipated the desires of the USA electorate because in November of 2016 they expressed a wish for more conservative judges in federal courts. If the voting public was outraged by McConnell's actions, one might expect they'd vote accordingly.
Why would they wait for the things you think are more important that don't have anything to do with it?

Republicans have a majority of the Senate judiciary committee and the Senate. They have it if they want it without involving stimulus or anything to do with Congress.
I wonder what the hosting costs of mapping is. The site says the average map has 24 cm/pixel resolution, assuming a 100 000 x 100 000 pixel average ‘knitted’ map that would be 10 gigapixels per map. With 100 000 maps that would be a petapixel of maps. If it’s losslessly compressed, which I doubt, that could be as much as 1.5 petabytes. Probably less, though.
There's no probably about it or thinking required. That is literally the law. The President nominates a replacement, and the Senate votes to confirm it or not. There are plenty of layers of politics, posturing, and pomp added on, but the law is simple and clear.
Clearly Obama should have just done an end-run around Congress, because that's how democracy works in America now, right? Just write an Executive Order and ignore the fact that it's totally and completely illegal. That would show "true grit," breaking the constitution and all...
It's different when you're a member of the US SUPREME COURT
This is a laughable inability to distinguish between 'I don't like it' and 'it's unconstitutional and illegal', mixed with obvious massive hypocrisy.

When the Republicans refused to confirm Garland, they did it fully within the processes laid out in the constitution.

If the Democrats had the senate now, we can guarantee they would have blocked every Trump nominee past and future. Or do you think they would have allowed Kavanaugh through? Of course not, they tried everything to stop him, inside and outside the process. And I know you cheered their efforts.

You're just being massively hypocritical. You want the Dems to block Trump nominees by any means necessary, but if elected Republicans simply use established processes to do the same thing it's "no regard for the constitution".

EDIT: Clarify garland situation, doesn't change the point.
Read: don’t say “I told you so” until it’s absolutely too late
I guess you only ever extract punctually named files. But it's still rather amusing that with the exception of 'case', the only places where $1 is properly quoted are the ones where it's not really necessary, and vice versa (but then again, it's not done for the parameter, but rather the single quotes).

Anyway, my advice to you and anyone else having trouble with tar is that "tar caf" and "tar xaf" are the only things most people need to remember about tar, with or without compression.

(In this case, most people means people who use tar, but so rarely that they have trouble remembering how to use it; they probably never use it for anything else other than (un)archiving. Also, xkcd isn't gospel.)
Unfortunately modern activists and politicians want to make it seem like no reasonable person could disagree with them. This makes it impossible to engage in a dialogue and bridge a gap.
It's a bad faith enforcement of the constitution. In democracies like the US, precedents are as powerful as laws. This was not literally breaking any laws, but this was as bad as breaking a law.
Precedent means nothing. There's no law. Mcconnell just abused his power and will do so again with no regard for his past position.
You don't need to, though, that's what parameterized queries are for. I'd argue that providing out-of-bounds checks like that will increase the likelihood of someone relying on them down the road.
They can do it. But the very same Senate Majority leader set the precedent to not confirm appointments in an election year.

If McConnell violates this precedent that he set, I would strongly advocate for Democrats (whenever they have the Senate) to remove the legislative filibuster and increase the size of the SCOTUS to 17.
> no regard for the constitution or laws of the land if they benefit from ignoring it

Any American politician who appears to have such a regard 9 times out of 10 is a manipulative psychopath who is stringing you along.
It looks impressive but given the standard exaggerated claims of university press offices it’s hard to say if it’s really groundbreaking.
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Interesting, so if Trump can nominate and pass another judge, it'll be by using the rule that the Democrats changed in 2013 to benefit themselves.
Larry Wall said It's easier to port a shell than a shell script in 1998 ... 22 years later I still think that holds.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10104203

Although I would agree that there's a slight hole there: you still need to port stuff like coreutils and all the dependencies, which has been done of course. But I'd be happier if something like busybox was actually portable.
Respectfully, you probably do know independents. We just don't often talk about our political views to people who say compromise is dead and you have to be on one side or the other.
McConnell's constituents = half of Kentucky, so ~2 million people. Meanwhile ~40 million Californians have zero say in the process.
Who said I was squatting? You’re assuming I couldn’t put together a website with tutorials on Swift. It’s literally what I do all freakin day.
If you want your child to eat their peas then you should reward them for doing it.
The cynic in me says they will leave the seat open through the election, with full intent of filling it in the lame duck sessions, to keep it as a drive for GOP votes. "Don't let the Democrats fill the seat!"
This is the exact same logic behind all conspiracy theories.
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Precisely.

There is a desire, specifically and especially on the left, to get so caught up in their principles that people believe it is the primary source of change.

For example:

What should be the first acts and priorities be of a democratic administration?

Healthcare? Nope.

Climate change? Nope.

A federal holiday for election days? Yes.

Passing legislation mandating mail-in ballots? Yes.

That’s how you think about politics. About power. Lock in any advantage and expand it. Democrats have popular support for their policies but cannot for the life of them think strategically.
I'd like very much to see a black bar for her on Hacker News. She did as much to promote gender equality as any American ever.
banning china is probably the only good thing hes done.
The only surprise here is that there have been no significant changes to these proportions in decades.

Correction: changes will come after sufficient people are surprised by the consequences.