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Near permanent?

Obama was president 4 years ago.

Your comments also call into question if you understand that the house is determined by popular vote. The senate alone can not force anyone to live their lives differently. It would require control of both the house and the senate to do that.

And you said near permanent control while being the minority, when Republicans last had won the popular vote for control of the house in 2016.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_United_States_House_of_...
I'm not a lawyer but I'm super willing to bet that someone who embarasses both Amazon and the FBI is gonna wind up with a federal rap and very few friends to fight it.
Interesting, I am talking about the previous administration, and your answer is to talk about something totally unrelated. You like pulling strawman on people?
I want one too! Russia's space agency chief declares Venus a "Russian planet"
One is transportation to an amusement park ride.
Per passenger is a little more difficult with cars but this [1] seems to suggest the average car occupancy rate is 1.59, which brings the F150 up to 33mpg/passenger.

[1]: https://www.energy.gov/eere/vehicles/fact-613-march-8-2010-v....
A google news search for “ossification” turns up a ton of articles starting in 2017. Seems like it became a political buzzword back then.

Kind of like “post-truth”.
> appointed by men that didn’t win the popular vote

or even the Electoral Vote. Remember that Bush v Gore was decided by the (Republican leaning) Supreme Court, not the electoral college.
But it's not equally exposed to the programmer. The branch predictor in an Intel CPU may be insanely complex but when writing code you usually don't need to care. On the other hand if you want to use a GPU you have to care about a huge amount of complexity right from the start.
So the issue was that Reagan put up an acceptable, suitable candidate finally.

Whereas Mitch's philosophy is "no candidate will be entertained as being possibly acceptable or suitable".

Trying to drawn parallels between the two is grasping at best, disingenuous at worst.
I have also long desired something like this. I'd love a parametric vector (+ image) editor; it's an unfilled niche. (If any startup people are looking for ideas, here's your million dollar opportunity.)

There are the CAD programs, like SolveSpace/AutoCad/QCAD, but they aren't really designed for illustration: you would have to constantly export the blueprint to style it. I think the closest you can get now is UI design software with constraint features, but that software isn't really made for free-form work like Illustrator/Inkscape.

This discussion may be of interest to you, though it is not UI-based and none of the software has been open-sourced (yet): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21774018

EDIT: Looks like Inkscape can do a few vaguely CAD-like things with "live path effects", but it's by no means a proper constraint solver. See the feature request here for a full constraint solver, which includes a summary of past progress and proposals: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inbox/-/issues/1465
It already is. I live on a pretty island and in addition to the commercial flight path, I see all sorts of general aviation.

It's not a big deal, except for the big military transports; those things are loud and don't care.
i think someone in his administration understand China better than all the previous. American have this belief that if you bring China into WTO. the open trade with China and free flow of commerce should transform China into a democracy. after 40 yrs, we see none of that. 8 yrs of Obama/Biden soft on anything China to the point of appeasement. (Chinese expansion on South China sea) Chinese CCP have only grow stronger and Xi have consolidated all powers into himself. Xi is more powerful than Mao.

what we are seeing from Trump admin is 1. seperate Chinese people from CCP. i think that hit hard to the point that Xi have to come out and said CCP is UN-separable from Chinese people. 2. trying out how to use National security to hit Chinese companies like what we are seeing right now and with Huawei.

it will be interesting to watch geopolitics in coming years if Trump win re-election. if Biden win, then it just back to Obama's era policies.
Around 1980-ish DrDobbs Journal published a series of articles on developing your own C compiler which lead me to writing my own C compiler for the BBC Micro in 6502 that became self-hosting on April 24th, 1982. It is thanks to DrDobbs that I learnt to program in C.
If you get to keep the bribe only once the briber is found guilty, it gets even more tempting.
You can’t possibly argue in good faith that the republicans would not have changed it anyway.
Mcconnell's stated policy was that he wouldn't confirm any Clinton nomination, regardless of the year.
Ever hear of Obama gate? The justice isn’t being applied evenly.
Maybe more like, electric motors are the LS of motive power just as soon as they're common enough? If it's not a diabolically weird motor, there will be a motor controller to deal with it. Tesla's sales volume and active opposition to repair might beat GM to the punch with salvage parts alone if GM doesn't get something on the market quick:

https://www.evwest.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=...

Tough to argue with a 400kW motor + transmission that could fit without epic metal work in the back of a Smart, the front of a classic Mini, with a bit more work in place of the differential and gas tank to make a rear engine Miata. Fitting batteries becomes the main challenge, but battery placement is more flexible than fitting an LS, transmission, fuel, intake, exhaust, etc.
So if you have it so figured out, answer me these two questions from an objective, philosophical standpoint.

1. What defines a human life?

2. When is it acceptable to take a human life?
If someone is expressing a good-faith opinion then you shouldn't write them off just because you disagree. Of course, "good faith" is a subjective judgement.

Over time I've come to realize that usually there's a legitimate reason why someone believes what they do. Often they are either optimizing for different things, or view the matter differently.

If listening to someone's opinion is actively causing emotional harm, then sure, don't listen to them. But I worry very much about the rise in offense-taking. Perhaps it's an illusion but I've felt it's become incredibly difficult to talk to people with different [political, etc] opinions than my own: not because of me, but because of their attitude towards dissent.
I think that kind of friendship was possible because Ruth probably did not accuse Antonin of being a whte supremacist and Russian agent.
Sounds like you are depressed. You should talk to someone about it.
Can those power requirements be done via electrical power/green energy? As a LFTR fan I look for some role for nuclear in the mix of power generation, which just doesn't compete with the plummeting costs for solar/wind.

I thought aluminum smelting was even worse than steel.
and comparing mpg assumes they will cover the same distance in 7h.
SC Justices were not expected to be so powerful.

The founding fathers thought that the US constitution would look like the UK. President = King, Congress = Parliament. The judiciary was practically an afterthought, and like UK courts, would be subordinate to Congress. “ In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make.”

Note the “such exceptions and under such regulations”.

As history turned out, Congress has barely used this power to rein in the courts and in the mid-19th century on the courts grew more and more powerful and have become a sort of mini-legislature.

James Madison already recognized this, writing in 1788 that he realized a mistake had been made in the constitution: “ as the Courts are generally the last in making their decision, it results to them, by refusing or not refusing to execute a law, to stamp it with its final character. This makes the Judiciary Dept paramount in fact to the Legislature, which was never intended, and can never be proper ... ” (https://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch17s25...)
I have no evidence for the following statement, but as someone who grew up just before social media was a thing (I became a legal adult about a decade before Facebook), I truly feel that the zero-sum thinking, while present before social media, really took on a new form because of it. It is much more vehement than before. You don't get the same kind of interaction on a forum or a bulletin board that you do on Twitter or FB or [modern social network].

When I was growing up, there was no Fox News channel nor any of the cable news channels (I remember when MSNBC was a brand new thing). News was something you watched for 1 hour in the evening.

24 hours news + trench digging/tribalism have done a horrible number on modern discourse.

Thing is, I think that that's because before, there WAS no discourse, not really. It was slower. Most of the conversation was had by those you watched on TV. Alot fewer people participated. The internet DID democratize that, with frankly predictable results.

Not saying we should have done differently but I do think we need to come to terms with what that means (e.g. realizing it's forcing us into zero-sum thinking and consciously choosing something else).
Doing things that are so obviously destructive to the whole institution of government that the Founders thought it wasn't worth writing down in the era of quill pens on sheepskins, because they couldn't imagine anyone being evil enough to do it? Yes, that's what bad faith is. It's things you can technically create a justification for that contradict all decency.
seems there must be a bit more to it
where did all the money come from?
why join a rebel force instead of a force supported by western wealth?
I've often wondered if I had the strength to read a eulogy in front of a crowd. But I realize it's something that my loved ones would deserve.

Kind of like deciding to hold your pet when it's euthanized even though it's emotionally easier for you if they are taken into the next room at the vet office to die alone, scared.
Sometimes I read comment sections on conservative websites. They say the exact same thing except with the parties reversed.
Bernie? He lost to Hillary by almost 4 million votes, then lost to Biden by 9 million votes (The largest margin since 2004) - how is that motivating the base.

He's a protectionist idealist who the republicans were dying to run against because they knew he'd be easier than Biden.
At least one way: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=747%20space%20shuttle&iax=images&i...
Not the land. The imaginary lines drawn mostly by slavekeepers.
Sometimes the line items in the history list aren't really informative, and if you can't recall what particular day you might have visited the page you might have some homework in front of you. I wish the entire page was catched in some way so I can search for a keyword or use some regex to make sense of my foggy memory. This is a computer for crying out loud, I should be using regex, not feeling like I'm digging through a filing cabinet of reciepts by hand, which is exactly what the experience is when sites title themselves opaque things like "Add Comment | Hacker News" for the 2000th time in your history log.
Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Rich

I would however say there is a market for explaining what you see when you fly.
What's funny is the article starts with Flat Earth, a theory even the conspiracy crowd ridicules. There are tons of Flat Earth videos on YouTube to this day. If it's so dangerous, why not censor it site wide like all the videos questioning vaccine safety or pro vs anti-vaxxer debate videos where the anti side appears victorious? Those last only a few days at most.

It's because Flat Earth videos are not meant to be censored. They are meant to stick around no matter what so a wacky, not-believable theory can be linked to the conspiracy crowd in an attempt to discredit them. Don't believe me? Search any conspiracy themed subreddit/forum and see how many users write "this again?"

Same exact thing with Q Anon nonsense. Those videos aren't censored off YouTube, as a matter of fact they're everywhere. Why? Because the media is attempting to link concerns about something legitimate like contaminants in vaccines or hydroxychloroquine actually saving lives with something insane like Q Anon.

QAnon, the theory that Trump is actually working behind the scenes to take down the deep state and elite pedophiles from the inside. Just please everyone.. Do your part by sitting there and waiting. Take no action whatsoever. Keep faith and trust the plan. You still waiting and doing nothing?
Okay perfect. This is working perfectly. Get it?
And instagram is known for it's fake userbase. The majority of accounts are probably just bots.
Branch, not party. Executive and Legislative.
> You can have your cake and eat it too by waiting, though.

The risk of not winning either is too much. They'd rather get the "win" and campaign on the win.
I remember seeing someone link a $40 player recently-ish in a HN thread (I don't feel like searching but I think the context was hiking if you want to try and find it). Agreed that price is outrageous but they're not all like that.
I doubt they bought anything. They didn’t need a 747, they needed to blow one up. One that looks airworthy, not the cheapest crap they could get.

I can’t imagine them fixing up a well scavenged airframe, I imagine they took a nice, but retired frame, blew it up, and sent it back to the yard.

Of course the internals would be scrapped ahead of time, but why not airworthy? Tons of these things sitting in the desert.

Makes me think of someone using an insured rental car to shoot the big scene of their breakout movie
Democrats blocked Bork for an article he wrote 25 years before, which raised the libertarian argument of whether Congress should be able to regulate racial discrimination by private parties. It is to this day a challenging topic for even liberal libertarians, because those laws rest on a sweeping interpretation of the interstate commerce clause. But Democrats used that article to defame Bork as a segregationist. The second nominee withdraw his nomination after it came out he used marijuana, after what happened to Bork. So yes, Democrats were not in a position to play that cars a third time against a wildly popular sitting President.

There is ample evidence that Democrats would have behaved like McConnell did. For example, their threats to pack the Supreme Court in 2019. (After their threats to pack the Supreme Court under FDR gutted large parts of the constitution.) The fact is that Democrats don’t perceive conservatives as legitimate players in the political process. That’s why they continually raise alarm about conservative Supreme Court nominees, even though in 40 years of a conservative majority on the court, not a single major liberal precedent has been overturned.
And trump has appointed a huge amount of federal judges, including appeals court judges. With this he'd have appointed 3 supreme court judges as well.

It's apocalypse for the democrats.
I have no idea what your point it, but you may want to add one more example. Let's say I am a Trump supporter and the opinion is that I am a scum and should die before the election, then it may be ethically correct not keep myself in their presence.
I agree it has become difficult to talk to people with different political opinions than my own. I just think the statement suggested was logically too strong, and entirely non applicable in very important failure modes. There are often legitimate reasons why someone believes what they do, but sometimes the belief is "I think there should be no consequences to murdering someone like you, because you're not worth the social resources you take with your disability", which was a belief expressed to me, and I need to protect myself emotionally from people who genuinely believe I should be dead.
Again, you are using the statements/actions of an extremely small subset to stereotype an entire party (tens or hundreds of millions of people).
Laser is light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation. Fresnel lens doesn't amplify light it focuses it. It is not stimulated, it is just passive component.
(am taking BASB course) would be great if all my open tabs could be bucketed into the PARA framework somehow...
I mean, honestly, yes, if someone wishes your death I don't know if it is healthy to expose yourself continually to their opinions that you should die. That's emotional abuse.
The Republicans already take everything to 11, as a matter of stated policy, since 2008, regardless of whether the Democrats go to 10.

Note that Trump and McConnell are rushing to fill the Supreme Court, despite 4 years of leaving about half the government posts vacant.
The frustrating thing about the center is the propensity to take things at face value, no matter how bad faith. It has been patently obvious for decades that the Republican party plays by a thoroughly cynical playbook. A credulous centrist elite accepts each new plot twist as the status quo, after a genteel interval of whining.

Enough is enough. People in favor of good governance need to end a system that allows a minority of voters to elect a President. That allows a minority of voters to elect a Senate majority that represents a minority of citizens. That allows a minority of voters to elect House majorities. That refuses the franchise to largely minoritized citizens of DC, Puerto Rico, and the other teritories. That does not allow the present and formerly incarcerated to vote. That allows unaccountable moneyed interests to blast the electorate with propaganda. That has, as a final check, a court of 9 life appointees.

For a long time, the country managed to float by on tradition, but our refusal to build a modern government is presently our downfall.
Goa was part of Portugal for 400 years, yet once India was unified they invaded and conquered it.

Don’t underestimate the motivational power of nationalism. Humans in the 21st century aren’t really any different from those in the 20th century or 19th century, there’s still a great attraction to seize territory you feel belongs to your nation.
What has become clear over the past 100 years or so is that people have ideas, and they work to find logic to support them working backwards. Laws all need interpretation, there's no way around it. And by ideas, it appears to mean ethical frameworks these days. The interpretation of laws is very much based on the ethical framework of a person even if they possess the same logic.

The proxy for the parties then become the judicial versions of literal constitutionalism (Republicans today, more literal typically means more conservative) and statutory interpretation (liberals), which then cause a clear split in conclusion for many cases, increasingly so.

This is a natural reflection of American society slowly drifting and polarizing into two groups of thought, and judges are human minds, not computers.
The victors write the history books, and McCarthy didn't hang on to power long enough to do so.
On the third try to fill a vacancy that opened up in a non election year.
There is only one way to look at this, and that’s what it is. It’s the president and his administration searching for any route to re-election and thus abusing any power he has towards that goal. It could also be collusion in which Trump is trying to personally profit or have supporters profit.

The security angle is theater. Many American corporations gather and abuse much more data than any allegations against TikTok and WeChat. And if people are really worried about foreign monitoring, then there are millions of cameras and microphones embedded in baby monitors, pet feeders, home security cameras, and other smart devices, all foreign made and networked. Some claims of influence could be made in TikTok, but there’s literally nothing stopping that from happening on platforms owned by U.S. companies, where it’s been proven to have happened and is still currently happening. So that argument doesn’t apply. If it does apply, it applies to a much broader app landscape than just TikTok and WeChat.

So in the end, everyone debating this thing as if it is an actual intelligent thing to be discussed is just adding legitimacy to Trump grasping for re-election and another one of his chaotic moves. There are actual problems but those are only plastered onto this whole deal by externals. The president literally tried to treat this thing as if it was an episode of The Apprentice, demanding payment from the sale. It’s ludicrous.

This is exactly what Adam Curtis means by Hypernormalization.
You should look at glass (something 99% of people would call "completely flat") under a microscope.

The 3µm-wide structures in TFA deviate <1µm from the surface, so it's even flatter than glass, and your objection sounds rather petty.
Probably best to not dig into the details too much since this thread isn't about that, but I personally absolutely understand why they characterized it as an "unhinged mob", given you had a very transparent attempt to fabricate a life-altering rape claim in order to hold up a nomination.

I watched every minute of the hearing, read the memo released by Rachel Mitchell (the lawyer hired by the Republicans to ask questions in their stead), and did a bunch of other research around the issue, and it became clear to me that the story was completely fabricated, given that even close friends of the accuser could not corroborate her story, let alone the party itself ever having existed, and Kavanaugh produced a (weirdly) meticulous calendar that showed that he wasn't in the area whatsoever.

Personally, I am a strong believer that sexual assault is a criminal matter. It's not the kind of thing you stay silent about for decades, having never stored any memorandums of the alleged crime (the therapist notes did not name Kavanaugh specifically and were relatively recent), and then try to spring on someone to prevent their appointment. If you really think someone is a rapist, you should try to put them in jail, not just stop them from taking a political position. (And yes, I understand that often victims do not want to bring up criminal charges and I understand why. But if you haven't documented any real evidence, trying to bring up an issue 3-4 decades later is just totally absurd. These are life-destroying claims being made here. Ford (the accuser) had NO EVIDENCE (the "therapist's notes" did not identify Kavanaugh, or go into any detail into the supposed act)).

Anyway, I've rambled enough. Sorry for the wall of text, but I really hate how so many friends of mine to this day still think Kavanaugh is a rapist without a shred of evidence; indeed, it's worse than that because all the evidence makes me personally feel that this was a case of outright deceit rather than false memory or a simple mixup. There were just too many contradictions and changes to the story and lack of detail where it really mattered to make the allegation even remotely credible, even if we use a "there's reasonable cause to believe he was a rapist" standard. That is to say that I don't think Blasey Ford met even an incredibly weak standard of evidence.
That’s the whole point of the discussion: Vue makes it easier to have Django spit out <tr @click=doThing>My data here</tr> and then Vue notices and adds the event listeners. In React, it is very difficult if React has to start with foreign template output because it wants to own the (V)DOM.
I like the use of Roots blower rotors in the example screenshot --- as something that can be mathematically described relatively simply, but far more tedious to draw manually.

I was a little perplexed at the OCCT acronym at first; it refers to the stress testing tool overwhelmingly more than this.