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The funny part is I once watched a legal scholars breakdown of the 2A and why it made sense and how language drift has caused the issue and that this would not have been a confusing sentence to individuals of the period it was written in. The supreme court rulings and positions support his conclusion and based on it, there is little in the law to be "interpreted".

If we look at the crux of the issue it is this part of the text that causes issues: "a well-regulated militia" this issue, specifically is the term regulated. In modern terminology, regulated takes on the meaning of controlled and generally implies controlled by an authority, which even in classical definition there is some connotation to control by a system of rules that govern it, but it implies that the control are a ruleset that guarantee a desired outcome. In colloquial terminology regulation would more translate into a word that meant "to supply via a process or ruleset to keep functioning properly" and in this context the 2A makes perfect sense. The best example I can think of is a regulator on a SCUBA tank, it regulates the supply of air so that the diver receives the correct amount of air. This is the concept that is being transferred in the 2A. The framers where concerned with government infringement, they wanted to ensure that the militias where well supplied via a process, the 2A is that process or ruleset to regulate (supply the militia) thus their individual right to keep and bare arms shale not be infringed. I have tried and tried to find that video and wish I would have bookmarked it as it really helped make sense of a confusing sentence that can imply a different meaning when "interpreted" with the modern dual use of the word regulated.

If one takes the text and replaces the word regulated with supplied it becomes apparent what the intent was:

"A well supplied Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

The issue is, that regulated more confers what they where trying to say and that was that they need the Militia supplied by men and guns via a process, that process and ruleset that regulates the supply is the 2A, specifically the lack of ability to infringe the right to keep and bare arms.

This is also why the practice of possession of a weapon in public is not an extension of the 2A. As it does not deprive a person of their right to keep and bare arms, yet restricting a particular class of arms does, thus we cannot ban handguns.
.. and prior to the reformation, people would pay priests to pray to the saints to intercede on their behalf.

People got so upset about the Catholic church selling the right to bend the divine rules that one guy wrote an extremely angry listicle, made a viral post on a church door, and the rest is history. And centuries of sectarian warfare.

(Seriously, most of the 95 theses are about indulgences: https://www.luther.de/en/95thesen.html )
If we disregard the Kessler syndrome/ablation cascade happening, what kind of worst case scenario are we looking at?
We are behind on the industrial development for offshore wind farms. We will likely buy the tech from Europe, as well the rest of the world.

I don’t understand how the size of the nations means that UK would expand to sea but we wouldn’t. Can you step through your reasoning for me? For example, the wind corridor in the center of the US doesn’t provide anything for North Carolina. How does the size of the US and UK relate to this?
Oh man, how do I wish a foobar that runs natively on Linux :(
Sleep deprivation is actually an effective treatment for many cases of depression.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-sleep-depriva...
> If annoying price structures are that bad, a competitor will create a superior pricing system that takes away marketshare. If that doesn’t happen, then it’s probably not a big deal.

Post hoc ergo propter hoc

Just because it happens, doesn't mean it is not a big deal.
But the NSA doesn’t need willingness.

If you operate in the United States, you must obey the US laws, among which are the espionage programs (claimed to be national security measures).
A goal of remembering absolutely everything using infinite matter and infinite energy, surviving big bang/big crunch events, feels like a bit of scope creep. Also, I don't particularly care about the primordial ouroboric plemora, or whether some theoretical larger self is immortal, I'm not and the people I love are not. Like the kid in this fable, I say "Death is bad! It took my granny away."

Let's first aim to give humans the option to not die after a mere 3 billion seconds. Let's aim to first increase that by a factor of 100 or more. If the heat death of the universe or which centuries to keep in memory look like they're going to be a problem, then I'll be happy devote a few millenia to the effort.
Pitfalls of Isolation Levels in Distributed Databases
How do you organize them? Have you tried any tools before? What made you give them up if so?
Not including age of information / timestamp seems risky
a deck and pitch is less important than who you know.
You don't want to incentivise this too much or people will start taking bribes.

Also, "I helped a member of the public defeat my organisation's policy" is a negative on the resume not a positive. Sadly.
Blood type could be linked to Covid-19 risk and severity, new research suggests
Overflow in the physics simulation code.
Yes, and this is compounded by the season-ending cliffhanger.
The headset is the razor and the games are the blades.
> Non homoiconic languages (Elixir, Julia) usually use quote/unquote syntax

So do homoiconic languages; quote/unquote/quasiquote and friends all originate in, or at least are used in, the Lisp family of homoiconic languages. (IIRC, Scheme uses more them than the CL branch of the tree, but both major branches use quote, and the ' abbreviated syntax for it.)
The ephemeral key is regenerated when a participant leaves right?
But what about all those wonderful Chinese and Korean movies and shows??!?
It's a bit of a false dichotomy I think. Injustice causes our global humanitarian crises and while rocket scientists are very smart they're probably not the best people to solve corruption and injustice.

There are 7 billion people on earth. That gives us a bit of leeway to multitask. We can have activists and rocket scientists solving different problems.
And then you will be charged a 30 dollar mandatory activation fee once you attempt to use your phone.

Wheras on T-Mobile you pay 729, and then do not have an activation fee.

It is basically a scam, much like how hotels are allowed to charge "resort fees" to have lower prices in online search engines.
The full throated support of the coal industry by the Australian government seems embarrassingly short-sighted.
In Europe (and, I would guess, everywhere) everybody can launch a GSM phone without cooperation of phone companies.

You do need to pass certification tests, but those are set by governments. Those tests may be defined with lots of input from industry and may be executed by institutes created by manufacturers as a group, but AFAIK, those institutes are so independent from the manufacturers that they won’t let commercial interests affect test results.

The issue with the original iPhone was that consumers were used to get a ‘free’ phone with their subscription. To do that, manufacturers need to work with a phone company.

The iPhone’s success was not a given and Steve Jobs had fairly stringent ideas about pricing. That made it hard to find a phone company to work with. IIRC, AT&T was a bit of an underdog in the market. That made them fall for Steve’s offer.
I literally thought I knew what the prices were until I read this article. I saw the "from $699" and "knew" it meant the cheapest model (the mini) was $699. Turns out I was wrong. I was wrong because they mislead me. Knowing the truth matters for me both in purchasing decisions and in recommendations to others, which I do a lot of.
This wouldn't exist on our earth, but there are superconducting neutron stars out there (at pressures far greater than we can produce on earth). I wonder if this has any implications for those.
It's pretty good, obviously not as good as high end speakers, but for the price (I got mine for £200) it's really good value and effortless to use. Main feature is it can adjust to any room or place you put it.
I find it bit bass heavy, though I prefer more neutral sound.
I bought it just for listening of music while I work and I'm very happy with it. I want to get another one to pair them into stereo setup.

Some reviews:

https://www.flatpanelshd.com/review.php?subaction=showfull&i...

https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/6/16976906/apple-homepod-rev...
Studies have shown that people spend less money when prices are higher/all inclusive. Check out the story of Stubhub and their attempt to be all inclusive. (tldr: people stopped buying tickets until they unbundled the mandatory fees)

What's good for GDP is good for America!
It seems some aspects can be explained by (modelled as) synchronization, but not all. "Spooky action at a distance" resembling faster-than-light communication still exists.

The two top explanations are either some info can travel faster than light (from our perspective), or the universe forks into copies when needed.
Monthly typically (and when important security updates are released): https://github.com/docker-library/official-images/pulls?q=is...
People like to talk about technology saving us, but there is only one technology that can stop climate change now. I can't remember what it's called though. It's kind of a big wooden frame with a big metal thing that slides vertically. Used to be popular in France at one time.
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To survive we need to take care of ourselves and our environments. Reducing dependence on earth is a small aspect of that, in my mind.
Hedging is not a bad idea. We clearly have the resources for it. And to make matters worse, every day we are discovering something new about the instability we are wreaking upon this planet. Why on earth would you argue against hedging in the situation we are so badly ignorant we might see a planetary collapse within a minor variation sufficient to wipe us all out?
Show HN: Budget your web-surfing (Mac app)
Really this should be medical misconduct - how can the customer give informed consent if they don't know what they're consenting to?
How soon will Apple be a carrier themselves? Acquire Verizon, vertically integrate, spread 5g, beat everyone?
Ok, I have $699 in a US bank account. Tell me how to exchange $699 for an iPhone 12 Mini?

My understanding from the article is I cannot, I would have to exchange $729 (with Apple), or something along the lines of $30 with one of those carriers and $699 with Apple for a total of approximately $729...
I think it's not a fair thing to say. HashiCorp's projects are using MPL 2.0, and please correct me if I'm wrong (IANAL!) it would allow you to create an open source fork of say consul, call it OpenConsul and continue development there. That this hasn't happened yet (or if it did, it never gained any traction) is a testament to HashiCorp being a responsible custodian of its projects and their respective communities.
something akin to 'reward points', but yeah...it's a bit of a grey area! Cadoo.io is doing a similar thing with exercise and they treat it legally as 'loyalty points' but in reality it's prizes. It's one of the big unknowns about the model to be honest - we kind of hope that it will seen more like a community finance initiative or a business cooperative.
The world and our lives are very interconnected. You can't just focus on a single task nor would that actually lead to any better progress.

I suggest you read this: https://lettersofnote.com/2012/08/06/why-explore-space/

> "In 1970, a Zambia-based nun named Sister Mary Jucunda wrote to Dr. Ernst Stuhlinger, then-associate director of science at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center ... Specifically, she asked how he could suggest spending billions of dollars on such a project at a time when so many children were starving on Earth. Stuhlinger soon sent the following letter of explanation ... later published by NASA, and titled, “Why Explore Space?”"
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I've always wondered which part of the medical supply chain is causing healthcare prices to rise so rapidly. There's no way these are natural market rates being driven by supply/demand, it's gotta be something artificial. My guess is something along the lines of medical device companies colluding to prop up prices to hospitals.
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A compiler that converts a SQL Stored Procedure like language into C for SQLite
Steve Jobs was rolling in his grave
That's both a very useful post, and also enraging that we would have to do something like that to protect ourselves from getting raped by the system.
The high school I went to in Sweden was perfectly fine. No bullying, not that much stress. And it was just a normal average public high school, nothing special. Middle school on the other hand was hell.

In general I have heard of much more people being bullied in middle school compared to only one or two in high school.
Were your workspace setup expenses covered?
I was wondering whether expenses for setting up home office or work from home setup were covered by the company. How does it work in your organization, what's included, what's not and how should one go about it?
Agreed on all accounts. I'm mostly just disappointed that, when the chance comes to actually affect change, we seem to mostly just be moving from one provably broken system (FPTP) to another (IRV). While at the same time increasing complexity more than necessary to achieve a better outcome.

But even with IRV, I would be happy I could finally throw some votes at third-party candidates whose platform I align with, without throwing away my entire vote.
FB sounds like it's trying to be an multinational version of WeChat by becoming the operating system of life. There are many cultural reasons why this is feasible in China but not in the US (and many other places)
Man, this really represents the rift in Open Source and Corporate development right now. It seems like there are developers who contribute to Open Source because they like the mission, the impact, and the values. In contrast, there are others who contribute to open source because their job requires or mandates it. Then there's people who have a mix of both.

All three have wildly different values and historically corporations aren't very good at listening to anyone that isn't waving a check. They use reasoning like "priorities" to close source formerly open source projects, bend project values to reflect their own values, and wedge projects with funding in exchange for representation or control. Corporate controlled and born projects are often used as marketing or for good PR, a cursory browsing of a company's Twitter page will show how they utilize it for this type of end.

I don't really read Mitchell's speak as corporate or double speak, but I do think that referring to HashiCorp (and other) projects as "open source" is a half truth. The line that I draw here is that I don't think Mitchell is lying, rather, I think that open source is now an umbrella term that means very little and really terms like open core, free and open source software, etc are more concise. We owe that outcome to inviting our corporate friends into the fold of open source with not enough restrictions, tracking, and accountability but there's a piece of me that feels this outcome was largely intentional because it's become a means to an end as I described above. These could just be feelings but the situation is common enough that it's relatable.

I'd encourage corporations to be more transparent in their verbiage, their investments, and their representation in these projects so that it doesn't continue to confuse people who participate in and enjoy the "free" side of open source. When I look at an open source project I'd love to know if a majority of the maintainers or funding comes from a corporation. If those things are true, then as someone who highly believes in the ideals of free software I may want to stay far away from people who are susceptible to corporate influence and values. On the other hand, that increased transparency may help clear the air and prevent issues from being perceived as non-transparent or outright misrepresentation.
I don't need to believe it is true. However, a substantial chunk of the US population has European ancestry. I never met the immigrant generation, but certainly three, I think five, of my great-grandparents came from Europe. One grandfather grew up speaking Platt-Deutsch along with English.

Something--many things--motivated these ancestors to move. This may be in the back of our minds.

There is also the matter of a certain inborn prejudice in favor of one's country. If you're not in a really awful setting, you probably think well enough of it, and imagine that others would.
Long Division in Binary and Hexadecimal
This is what scares me most about google products. If I lost my gmail account, I would be totally screwed. More surface area across google products just gives me more of a chance to get banned by some false positive somewhere, with no recourse because none of these big companies seem to care about the human. So I try to avoid google products.

There parallels with any of these giant single user account companies.
1Gb is 125MB/s... most SSDs benchmark at around 500MB/s... even with small files, it should be possible?

Likely your wifi, nic, or switching infra and even cables would be where I’d look other than your SSD.
Wow, thought I'd be one of the few struggling with this.

Bought the device with the hope that I could register an account for the first time in years, but similar to others, my account was instantly banned with no explanation other than "violating community guidelines."

One of Facebook's arguments against anti-trust accusations has been to point to the lack of consumer harm. This is fairly obvious evidence of material harm to consumers who just bought $500 paperweights.
Twitter Censors Direct Messages
Contracts never stopped Steve Jobs from doing what he thought was right for his customers.
I posted the same on Reddit, and if you want to follow conversations there, here it is:https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/jae5c4/w...
> the difference between Dutch windmills and English waterwheels was a wash (no pun intended) at the critical early part of the First Industrial Revolution

Would be interesting to see numbers on this. I would have guessed there was substantially more total power from water in England (just before steam) than the wind in NL, but could be wrong. It may depend a lot on what year you pick for the comparison. And whether you include all the isolated windmills pumping water to keep farmland dry, or only the ones doing work that was also done by water-mills.

Coal and steam weren't the first chapter, but are hard to overestimate once they did arrive, IMO.
This warrants a thought out reply - I will come back later to respond fully.
Interestingly I did the math last benefit cycle and if your employer doesn't fully pay for it the better insurance may not be worth it. The additional per month cost cancels out any savings no matter how much usage you get out of it (if you take the out of pocket max into account).
I think you started great, but didn't follow through on your own thought.

"learn to help each other solve problems"

The most important problem we need to solve, is how to survive in the universe, where any large rock falling from the sky can wipe out our civilization, if not the whole mammalian branch.

We don't have to abandon efforts to improve human life on this planet while trying to expand to more than one.
So, for a $699 phone , monthly installment is $29.125

So, as I noted above, this adds 1 month of payment depending on the career.
No, but powerful slaveholding interests were a major factor in the design of our government. It's the reasons our voting system favors low-population states--because slaves only counted as 3/5 of a person and the slaveholders were worried this would mean less representation in government and the danger that owning slaves would be outlawed.
A better question is why do you care so much? This isn't some kind of national holiday you are missing out on, it's a company trying to get you to spend money. If you find the way the do it annoying - don't buy anything or shop elsewhere.
Not the person you replied to, but personally, I like having control over what exactly gets into the final image, and (IME) have found that devs aren't great about remembering to update .dockerignore files. Re: extra layers, if you use multi-stage builds to separate the builder and final app images, you can avoid that.
> 2 months later you come back to it and want the newest version, so you have to download an update, because the auto-update feature was blocked by your firewall. Then you get it updated and running. A couple days later you decide not to use it, so you go to uninstall it. The uninstaller fails for who the f knows why so you delete the folder on your drive, but your OS still think it's installed. So you figure out how to manually remove it.

this is incredibly better than the "web scenario" which is (and I got burned by this two times - there won't ever be a third time), "you come back to the app two months later, except the company has shut down and all your data removed" or "you come back to the app two months later, but you now have to pay for the superior tier if you want to be able to edit your stuff because some features you were using have been moved in that tier" (hello genmymodel), or "you come back to the app two months later and it's now super slow and has a couple annoying bugs but you can't downgrade because it's a web app" (hello asana).
“Lockdown restrictions have had the unintended benefit of increasing the amount of time people are spending in nature.”

This struck me. Imagine if the Gaia theory is ‘correct’, and one of the feedback mechanisms for an overstressed planet is the release of pandemics that force humans to consider their surroundings more closely.
AT&T/Cingular was in a very weak position at the time, and really needed a win -- Steve Jobs exploited/leveraged the situation.
Cool. Has anyone told James Damore?
As I've not hired other people than developers or engineering managers, I would hesitate to recommend it. It might be helpful, but that would be more accidental than deliberate.

The hiring pipeline setup is probably similar for other tech roles, but I cannot vouch for anything else. I've had a technical program manager and a tech writer tell me it helped them somewhat. Two product managers read the beta, but when I reached out to ask if they found it helpful, I never heard back: so I assume it was not that useful for them.

What I would assume applies to other tech roles as well is this:
- Try to get a referral, where you can. This will 10x your chances of progressing from the resume screen.
- Use a clear format that hiring managers can scan easily.
- Aim to tell a story with your resume. This is your sales pitch.
- Be specific and use numbers, where you can. Talk about the impact you made and the business results you enabled.
- Tailor your resume to the job description if you cold apply, over sending the same one, over and over again.
Strongly disagree on Billions.

Season 1 was good and they’ve only gotten better since.