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> As a Canadian, it’s not that different.

As another Canadian, it is much different.

Though Trudeau et al have done two serious problems (SNC-Lavalin, We), they do not hold a candle to the grifting and absolute corruption that is Trump and GOP.

Further, the much vaunted "checks and balances" of the US system have been shown to be a complete sham given the enabling that McConnell has allowed, the court packing that went on with the Supreme Court and this is happening with the lower courts. And that's not even getting into the impeachment trial.

At least with the Westminster system the electorate can throw out bums and have a clean slate where the new party can sweep away the more terrible stuff of the previous administration. The Liberals were able to backtrack on some of worse things the previous Tories, and implement some important policies relatively quickly (e.g., climate change).

If the CPC manages to get in, at the very least they'll probably cancel the completely useless Order in Council regarding firearms, and perhaps at least implement more useful gun violence policies (like reducing inequality). Of course if they continue to reject carbon pricing (or perhaps at least move toward cap-and-trade) then their chances of getting in are slim giving the general public's view toward climate change.
That jibes with my impression of the decisions I’ve seen. You and a sibling comment are giving me these stats and I’m not sure if that’s to refute or support my point? 1/3 of decisions being split like that is quite a bit. 1/3 being unanimous is also significant.

I guess my point is that their friendship didn’t seem to have impaired either justice’s ability to do their job with faith to their respective judicial philosophies.
I jus discovered vim-wiki a week ago, so it’s on my todo list. I’m on pat leave right now, so not really doing any hard core knowledge management for another couple weeks.
Move to a small red state and vote
Why would he give up virtually guaranteed victory in exchange for something that only matters if he loses?
Is it relevant what people do vote for?

Getting the most votes isn't what translates to forming a government in the US. The big things are: having your family members run state governments, setting district lines, and setting up laws to prevent people that disagree with you from voting. Not to mention just having a lot of money to bribe already elected politicians.
Senate Leader McCconnell has said as much: https://apnews.com/84003fe2f5c8d910afda84d2b33f19be
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There is no reason to 'other' people like this. Parties are things that people adhere to, some for a season, some for a lifetime, but they reflect very little about their worth as human beings.

I come from a large family and we represent the whole spectrum of political beliefs, in a single generation, and all my sibs are equally kind and selfless, regardless of their political affiliation.
Being friends with a bigoted piece of shit is only wholesome if you are also one
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pihole works really well for me as a LAN-wide ad blocker.
There are degrees of collectivism and collective action though.

The mere fact we roughly agree (via cultural norms moreso than law) to more or less respect a core set of individual rights is itself a collective act. We don't live in Hobbsian war-of-all after all.

And pretty much every human society at this point has governments that tax in order to provide services for the "good of society" (granted with many different degrees of success).

I still wouldn't want to live in a fascist or soviet style state though, if that is your point. Fully subsuming the will of the individual to the goals of the state is personally abhorrent to me and my values, but I can certainly imagine other value-sets where a more collectivists society is better able to achieve those values.
Unfortunately Asian Americans are in a tough spot right now politically with renewed interest at the state level in legalizing affirmative action, including in California.
To me it seems like an extremely solvable problem. Facebook could do an A/B test right now of removing all likes and see what happens. You'll get an answer as to some of the effects in a week. The question is what metrics you decide on determines "moderate" as opposed to "extreme".

To anyone at facebook - please dissuade me if I'm being naive here - I'm always looking to update my mental model of this.
The nuclear option is that the next time they win an election, they add 9 more supreme court seats.
That assumes that the state has a responsibility to micro-manage every activity, with prohibitions on activity that doesn't follow the prescribed regiment, to prevent negligence.

The individuals involved in an activity are the only ones responsible for avoiding negligent behavior in a society based on the liberal democratic principles of individual rights and responsibilities.

However, to give due credit to your musing, the Uber situation is somewhat different in being on public roads, which lawmakers do have some responsibility to govern an individual's use of, for the safety of others who share public roads with the individual.
I think he's probably making calls and planning meetings for tomorrow with the R's on the wall about nominating a SCOTUS judge this soon, as we discuss here on HN. I have no doubt he's had this planned for years and is ready to execute his plan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randall_(given_name)
“Stop dumbing things down” he said, so I made them beat a game to load any data
Fail to see how that matters in states like California and when the former presidential candidate lost with a surplus of 2.5 million votes. Your vote for president only really matters in a handful of states regardless of how many popular votes you tally.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24265430
The era of Christian fascism begins.
You are completely right, I don't know why people are downvoting you.I predict they'll have someone nominated and approved and sitting on the seat within a month. All legistlation will be dropped until this matter is complete. No stimulus checks, no help for businesses, everything else just dropped to Ring2 and getting a new SCOTUS judge is in Ring 0
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Yea, Syria's a much better place now that those Russians have left.
I am not sure what they has to do with Safe, Legal and Rare.

This motto that was the foundation of the Pro-Choice movement has nothing to do with abstinence-only sex ed.

One of the things that has been losing support and making the issue more polarizing is the fact that many in the Pro-Choice movement have moved to a Pro-Abortion movement wanting to celebrate abortion, and to use abortion as a primary means of birth control instead of a rare occurrence when other methods failed or were not an options.

Also the raise in support for 2nd and 3rd trimester abortions has not helped the Pro-Choice movement, the public when surveyed have an almost (something like 80%) distaste for 3rd trimester and only a slightly more favorable view of 2nd trimester abortions. While they are medically rare, extremely rare, politics is about optics and perception, the Pro-Choice movement is not winning any hearts and minds by supporting those.

//For the record I am very much in the "Safe, Legal and Rare" camp, I oppose celebrating abortion or making it something that should be viewed as a primarily birth control method, I also define life as starting "when the fetus could medically survive outside the womb with normal feeding and care" at which point only medically necessarily abortions should be legal as decided by a medical professional
The JSX point boils down to this: you can't say with a straight face that using react without writing JSX is as idiomatic as pulling vue from a CDN, and you can't say that using JSX is as easy to setup on a legacy codebase.

React doesn't depend solely on there being a stable host DOM node. It also generally assumes data is programmatically structured. Try rendering FAQs as HTML with PHP then sprinkling answer toggling functionality with React and you'll see it's not straightforward at all; it would require refactoring backend code into a REST API or similar. With vue, add v-if and you are done.

Nobody's saying vue doesn't have faults; it has plenty of them. Let's not get all fanboyish when someone points out a legit con in react.
you can get a VPN to bypass the Great Firewall. You can't get anything to bypass the App Store
If you're looking at a 60/40 split though, even the extreme levels of gerrymandering can't override it. So what are the other things that people vote for - they must have a large rightward split if people keep voting right wing, in the face of all those left-leaning polls on policies.
> The real Git code is too complicated to be useful for learning basic concepts with ease. ... It deals with a lot of edge cases that we don't care about for learning.

Good choice, well explained. More than a toy problem space but stripped of factors that obscure the lesson. The author knows what they are doing.
Actually, I think this is now normal in the U.S. and should be expected going forward. From both duopoly parties.

Power grabbing is the game.
To be fair, he’s right. The constitution says the senate gets to approve the judiciary, and the senate is comprised of state-weighted representatives. If the majority of states don’t want a judge, they won’t be appointed. This is basic constitutional law.

It’s the constitution, particularly the election process of the senate that’s wrong: There’s no reason every state, regardless of their population, should have equal say in who gets to decide the judiciary (among other things).
Biden's speech was just saying that the nomination shouldn't happen during an election. I don't think he ever said it couldn't happen during a lame duck session of the Senate.
I don't understand how your comment contributes or helps to the discussion. I would like to inform you that this is an intellectual discussions website, you must contribute to participate here. Regurgitating your interpretation of this submission is not contributing in any way or form.
That article is 5 years old. spacejam.com is still going
it's about posturing, appearing to 'take a stance' , whatever.

A lot more data is exported to china through the cheap IP cameras.
Agree, but worth noting that they can nominate/seat someone after the election. They have their POTUS and majority until the end of January.
In emergency situations, having gear with as close to 100% uptime and 100% reliability as possible far outweighs something new and fancy that gets stuck on an update, license issue or needs a reboot.

People who dont risk their lives trying to save others in real, mortal danger, truly need to stop thinking their opinion holds weight in these situations.
>Do not use mail or wires and watch the government squirm.

Why? Presumably because the state prosecutors are poorly funded compared to federal prosecutors?
Damn I didn’t realize OpenSCAD didn’t have filet/chamfer! Lua certainly has its advantages over python. The dubious choices are usually the most fun even if you end up in the deep end though.
This logic might apply during less polarized times.

American politics right now is full-on us-versus-them, and who has the biggest numbers. McConnell is in Kentucky and ahead in the polls, and he’s smart enough not to full-on troll the left with a flat-out fascist.

The left will respond as if he did anyway, but they’ll have a lot less success in convincing conservatives it’s a bad move if the judge is not beyond what most conservatives will support. That line has shifted far to the right (or, to the far right) over the past 30 years.

I guess I’m saying that opinions on an “inoffensive conservative justice” is a bimodal distribution, and McConnell’s right hump is higher.
The fact of the matter is, no matter who wins your vote for President likely does not matter anyway

The biggest problem we have is people seem to only care about the presidential election, your local city /county council, your mayor, your local auditor, property assessor, school board, and many other local positions have a much higher impact in your daily life than the president ever will, and your vote in those elections absolutely does matter
Framing this as an "Apple-defense" seems kind of odd when it's just the legal reality of the situation. There is a single agreement that covers development for all Apple products.

The fact that you might be involved in multiple areas of business is no more relevant here than it would be if you had a food delivery app, a yoga app, and a music app. The same agreement governs all of your conduct with Apple.
Anyone working at a startup company is doing that.

Startups don't seem to lack for hires in general.
I don't even know what it means to "force a false dichotomy". Obviously nobody, least of all me, believes that all homeless people are millionaires or baseball players. The point is, most homeless people, in general, have family, relatives who are "normal" people, who may have any sort of profession or economic class.
So would you be ok if Republicans won this election and then packed the Supreme Court?
never thought about that. I usually try to keep my code short to try to impress other programmers, but that's really good advice
McConnel had serious doubts that Obama’s nominee, Merrick Garland, would _fail_ to get a majority in the senate, so he forbade the nomination to come to a vote. So it’s a little different than you pose: you a pretending that Obama’s nomination came to a vote and lost (which would be entirely legitimate). The majority leader prevented that from even happening.
As an absolute leftist, I think you're overstating the effects of gerrymandering. State gerrymandering cannot win statewide seats, nor the electoral college.

Anti-voting regulations, while frankly absolutely despicable, I've not yet seen any studies regarding a significant effect. Do you have any data on that?
Yeah I wouldn't bet too long on that. McConnell knows how to twist arms, they will crack to pressure and get a solid conservative in there before the election. Of that I'm sure.
"the senate has historically" means that is literally the "norms"

There are lots of things to argue but that isn't one of them.
While I agree this is a pretty pointless activity, I'll point out that modern commercial jets get ~89mpg/passenger [1]. A Ford F150 gets about 21mpg.

Likewise commercial aviation yields about 0.2 deaths per 10 billion passenger miles [2] compared to 1.13 deaths per 100 million miles driving in the US [3], over 500 times higher.

[1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_economy_in_aircraft#:~:te....

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_safety#:~:text=The%20....

[3]: https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/state....
ISIS formed in Iraq.

The US finances many terrorist groups ourselves, so I'm not sure what your point is—nations are happy to take advantage of new powers regardless of how it conflicts with their propaganda. I don't know how you could look at the invasion of Iraq and come away with the conclusion that ISIS is either surprising or could have formed without our help.
Automation of niche bug classes is the name of the game for high earners. Or you're the 0.01% and find new vulnerabilities in services that will pay big bucks for them. For example account takeovers in Google, FB and the like or remote code execution in high profile software have payouts that are a minimum of five figures.
Only after reading about this did I realise that RBG was Catholic. There would have been a lot of familiarity of thought and philosophy in their backgrounds.

In some part, it makes it easier to disagree. Some of the arguments have been going on for centuries.
There's unfortunately a pretty fine line between "oh good, we shut down in time" and "oh shit, there's an out of control growth of infections" that makes that somewhat difficult.
10 ms is fine. 100ms works but you get odd echoes like a speaker system in a big building.

You need some way to compensate for clock drift between different playback devices. Even good clocks will drift 10ms in a few hours.
> he simply could not get him confirmed

That's hardly the whole truth. McConnell refused to even hold hearings.
Trump most likely has had plans for this for months and knows who he's going to pick, expect a choice by the end of next week and confirmation within a month. They don't have much time to get a new person in there so they've had a plan for this for months, if not years.
Thank you! I promise to make it a reality
Sorry, if that were true, then obama could've nominated someone else.

Why would you need to block a vote you know you will win?
I am going to take a stab in the dark, and guess you live on one of the 2 coasts, and have never spent any time in the Rust Belt, Iron Range, or the Breadbasket states???

Because the Democrats have been loosing those people for years and years now

//for the record I am libertarian and support neither party.. and I think Picking Harris as VP is what will cost Biden the elections
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I see this on HN all the time - there will be some discussion about a problem that America has, and some one will suggest some solution. And then there'll be resounding cries of "that's impossible, too expensive, can't be done etc", but the suggested solution is something that > 50% of other western nations already do and there's plenty of evidence for it's effectiveness.
There are multiple chrome extensions that export chrome tabs to markdown or similar, though....
HMH is kind of special though in that its author, Casey Muratori, has many years of experience in gamedev. I think the saying of the parent commenter to yours is mostly applying to people who are trying to make game engines for the first time with little or no past experience in actually shipping complete games.
> [if] Obama had a Democratic Senate majority when he nominated Merrick Garland…

With a Democratic majority, Garland would have been confirmed. It's exactly because no Democratic majority in the Senate existed that Garland wasn't even voted on (and actually didn't even get a hearing).
You hit on the problem without seeming to realize it.

Wow, being a bit insulting there. I am stating how it works. The Senate Majority leader can do it. That's how it works. Supposed to doesn't really matter when talking about what will happen.
Yes, the point is that Republicans violated the principles you are laying out here under the exact same situation. So violating this principle again in the exact same way would be the only non-hypocritical way to handle this situation.
At most 10ms. Sub 1ms would be awesome.

And yes, definitely. If you can build in a “chromecast receiver” so that a user could cast to multiple synced speakers (at full quality), you’d definitely have my attention
I don't get this theory. There are a lot of people out there who want to see a conservative justice elected, but prefer Biden over Trump in the White House? Or a lot of conservative voters who are apathetic about the presidency and might not vote, but would be convinced to come to the polls if a Supreme Court spot was at stake?

I mean I can believe both of those sets of people exist, but hardly that they're numerous enough to dictate the election strategy.
Another case for removing big money from politics
> I don't think talking about how much trash you pick is any interest of us

That's rather presumptuous, it is of interest to me.

And considering the previous post from last year received 100+ upvotes and 100+ comments, I think it's safe to say that it's of interest to others as well.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24523153.
The general problem with any kind of pro-democracy reforms is that the people who need to approve reforms are precisely the people who benefit from current antidemocratic policies. No one will approve reforms that will end their careers.

Some of the US' democratic problems could be helped by splitting up the more populous states so their populations have more representation in the Senate and Electoral College, but any such plan would need to be approved by flyover state Republican Senators who benefit handsomely from the status quo.

Given that the GOP party line--echoed by both McConnell and Trump--is that fixing US democracy would be a Democratic power grab, meaningful reforms are dead on arrival. This is especially true as any meaningful reforms would, by definition, remove the Republican party's disproportionate hold on power.

Sadly, I don't see a way out of this. With no route for peaceful reform, the usual escape route for irreconcilable differences within a country is civil war, but the human geography of the United States makes another civil war very unlikely. An inexorable slide into deepening authoritarian oligarchy/kleptocracy seems unavoidable.
RBG was notably Jewish. I don't know where you got that she was Catholic. Scalia was Catholic if that is the cause of the confusion.
That is not what happened at all, he didn't hold a vote because he didn't want to and used an excuse that "Presidents shouldn't be able to nominate a SCOTUS judge in their last year". Now he's changing it to "majority party situation" and that is not what he said when he refused to hold any confirmations. He is a sneaky snakey weasel and has been for decades.
I can imagine the time to deliver the plan and rig the explosives might be only roughly a week. And the shot where it blows up is only going to take that one day or night. Then there is cleanup time. So the whole thing only takes a few weeks. On the otherhand a good CGI shot is going to take months. So even if the plane isn't cheaper overall, weeks vs months still might makes sense in the overall production timeline if the premium isn't that much higher.
Another person replied to your comment and criticized you for interpreting my post in a certain way. (The reply is now flagged and dead.) I would like to make clear that the ACA-5 is absolutely one of the political issues that I am concerned about.
The people are represented by the House of Representatives. The Senate represents the land.
Think also about how much data plans and smartphones cost in 2012, particularly ones centred around video streaming
Sure, but the fundamental issue isn't McConnell, it's that Obama seriously weakened Democratic control of both the House and Senate during his time as President. As a result, his party lost a Supreme Court pick.

"Elections have consequences" and all that.
I've had success whitelisting sites using the Chrome Block Site extension[1], and I'm considering just switching to whitelisted sites-only full-time. (Right now, I have it scheduled for the morning hours so I can get things done.)

At that point the laptop becomes more of a single-purpose "get things done" machine rather than a general purpose device I can waste hours clicking around on. :) Consumption-wise, it's led to me watching more films and TV shows rather than a string of 5-15 minute YouTube videos. I'm still spending 2-3 hours a day watching "video," but now it's (IMO) meaningful content instead of glorified clickbait.

I've also been selectively disabling JavaScript more and more, and might switch to disabling by default (and then re-enabling on useful sites that need it.)

All of this, plus leaving Facebook and Twitter, has done wonders to make me far more productive over this summer. Can't speak for everyone but I highly recommend taking the steps above.

1. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/block-site-website...
We allow the state to micromanage the activities of individuals all the time, such as with drug, prostitution, and porn laws.
It would be a disaster and escalate beyond reason. What one side does, the other side will do harder.
What's wrong with "democratic" and why would it tell someone's political leanings? Isn't it just a different way to say "democratic"?
Very few countries at this extent.
Harry Reid was warned of the long-term consequences and he ignored them.

Had Reid not pulled the 'nuclear option' the filibuster from the minority would stop the confirmation.