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I said it's more work than sitting down. Both is not a lot of work. A relative increase in a value does not imply an absolutely high value. I imagine if you enjoy peeing while standing up, it's worth the effort.
And you're assuming bad faith, perhaps due to your Republican bias.

The main examples I've seen on my feed are claims of dead people voting, all of which match the situation I described. If you're talking about people still registered where the DoB makes it unambiguous, then yes, we're talking about different situations.
The practice described in TFA lacks even nominal protection of due process. The fact that where such protections do exist they are often still ignored ... does not make the original inequity any more fair.

If your argument is attempting some other point, you might consider restating it more clearly, as I'm utterly failing to find anything but an implicit justification of Google's practice here.
Humans alive today don't have much worse lives because of our killing of the Mammoth, the dodo, or the giant sloth.

Humans alive in 2000 years also won't have much worse lives. It'll be a sidenote in biology class "Did you know, there used to be many different types of animal roaming freely, but now there are just two types left, cats and dogs.".
Shouldn't that be an issue they could meet half way on in order to get national identification implemented? Here we have an hook for which the right could get behind, and the benefit of national identification is very clear for all that time between elections.

It would indeed discriminate against those without it, but then a national identification is given to everyone who has a right to vote. One is directly linked to the other. In countries with national id you have to have the card if you want to buy alcohol, buy tobacco, drive, go to the doctor, get social security, banking, and many other regular stuff which people need to do multiple times between elections. If it something people need daily, they will have gotten it before the election.
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I really like the idea. I have been looking for such a platform for a long time but couldn't find one. Therefore, I developed a quick solution for myself some years ago: https://constructeev.com/
I used it for many use cases (for my students, team, workshops). People were happy about it but some didn't trust it in terms of anonymity. Even computer science student who should know better. So maybe you can also address this issue.
On activation, both IPhone and Android phones offer to turn on accessibility and people turn it off. Windows does not have accessible installation as far as I know, but it also has some basic screen reader on activation. Don't take my word for Windows though because usually I try to put a better screen reader as fast as possible.
I can't say for Macs or Linux, though I've heard that now some distros also come with a screen reader and it could be switched on at some moment.
It'd be rent seeking if Apple wasn't making the platform better for developers.
Buried very deeply in the comment section, yet the best response.
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The VC funded kitchen doesn't need you, they replaced you with a robot[1].

That aside, you're absolutely right that higher turnover is a distinct and real possibility. Which is one of the risks that should be articulated to the powers that be, and taken into account when they make decisions.

[1] https://misorobotics.com/flippy/
To the first questions, you do have a point, those are questions that are worth asking. And it all hinges on "which government?", "is the militia well-regulated?", "is it feasible to constitute a modern militia such that it could realistically resist modern state forces?" and so on. Randomly scattering black guns into people's bedroom wardrobes does not a militia make, so if a militia is what we want, what are the processes we need to go through in addition to providing the tools to make sure that such an organisation could be effective if it was needed? What would the command structure look like? Training? Membership eligibility? And not incidentally, how does it avoid being classed as a terrorist organisation from the moment it breaks cover, rather than a constitutionally relevant political body? All that's in the mix. And that's a reasonable set of questions to pose. I don't have the answers to many of them, but critically, that's not how the second amendment is politically framed today. The prevailing interpretation of the second amendment is in support of individual rights, not collective. And again, that is an intentional framing created by specific people for a specific purpose.

> Then lets also consider that when you talk about self defense, and the possible loss of life, should we be forced to play the "just enough" game with defensive force? Who exactly likes gambling with their life?

That's exactly the situation in most of the West. It's just not normal to have to expect to be both in a life-threatening situation, and for the correct response on your part be to kill someone. That's a social and governmental failure right there.
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You need to renew your let's encrypt certificate ;)
I mean, this is a fairly trivial loophole to close if you have a lawyer who knows what they're doing.

In fact, you don't even need to close the loophole. You just need to make FAANG employees pause long enough to worry that they might not comply, deterring them from using said library.
Good canned tomatoes are canned very quickly after being picked. They'll beat most supermarket tomatoes. They'll lose to fresh tomatoes picked at an appropriate time and eaten fresh.
I would simply expect a good MQTT client.

I could pay if it's well made, but not much.
Best strawberries in the world are found in a small valley on the west coast of Norway where the combination of late summer, cool nights and long summer days with lots of sunlight makes for a long ripening process and perfect strawberries.
Yes and for multiple reasons:

1) Soil depletion - well documented for decades

2) Increased CO2 in the atmosphere https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2018.00924...

3) Companies are getting "better" at maximizing crop production by weight

4) Very lax regulations
If the thing holding you back from the change is your salary, then you're just renting out your life to someone else in exchange for money.

In that case, any job can pay rent for your life. It's just a question of whether you feel your life is worth the rent someone is willing to pay.

The difference between this job and others is that you are subsidizing the higher rent by covering the cost of your hobby time for them. You should consider reducing your perceived life rental income by the amount you're subsidizing and then compare jobs based on that unsubsidized amount.

You might stick with it anyways, or you might discover that there's better value to be had elsewhere.

edit: clarity.
Actually I agree with your sentiment.

Yet, I would say Eric and the IDW are not really helping people living in slums or are piled up in prisons. They are more in the intellectual celebrity camp, so I feel that podcast is really highlighting that.

I don’t listen to the creators much, I just find it annoying that Eric, Bret and others get so much exposure on hacker news.
As there are some rather stupid elements in their argumentation (the podcast makes a good point there...).

Personally I’m a big fan of Democracy Now! Amy is doing stuff compared to just making podcast episodes and complaining about Evergreen ;)
Taking a wild guess: Tall people with bad backs?
The internet is now positively a nasty place. Everyone is optimizing for "engagement" which essentially equates to "controversial content". You can't find any genuine advice because Google has been gamed to the point where top 50 pages for any query are affiliate pages.

Forums and the communities they fostered are dead. Their replacement, Reddit, has a structure that favors the hive mind.

There are ads everywhere and they swing between downright creepy (ads about what you were searching for an hour ago) to completely awful (semi-pornographic Taboola/Outbrain ads). When they're neither of these things, they are just plainly deceptive (sponsored content).
> All we can actually do is choose who to trust when we acquire software.

Right, but when you buy an iPhone Apple says that they are the only people you can trust. The argument is that this isn't necessarily the best scenario.
The decline of deficiencies has a lot to do with fortifying processed foods with various nutrients, and generally food being cheap enough that poverty is more associated with obesity than starvation.
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I realized when I started traveling extensively how tasteless the food is. In thailand I just assumed they just knew how to better prepare the ingredients. Then I went to greece and had a proper greek salad.

If you don't think you like greek salad, Let me tell you.

A Greek salad is only going to taste good in greece. Why? because all the ingredients that make up a greek salad are local and in season around the same time. Its not a complex salad and stands entirely on the strength of the produce that makes up its parts. In greece I found it bursting with flavor. The flavors were sublime with tomatoes rich in umami intermingling with spicy olive oil and savory farmer's cheese. Any version you get in America is going to be a pale insult,

In Ukraine, I gorged myself on blueberries. They tasted just like the ones I used to eat from a wild bush near my childhood house.

I'm currently in Turkey. Same story, grilled vegetables and kabaab give me far mroe satisfaction. the produce is JUST more filling, and satisfying.

American produce SUCKS.
He used the stones to destroy the stones.
This is tangential, but a friend of mine did a kind-of (but not really, obviously) similar exercise with her classmates in her MFA program.

I think they called it an empathy exercise or whatever. I don't recall but it seemed like they had good intentions.

My friend suggested people try a schoolday as simulated type 1 diabetics. The prompt was pretty simple: Simulate blood glucose checks, generate a random blood glucose number (within reasonable range and adjusted for food intake), make a note of it, keep track of nutritional facts of the foods they intended to eat, pretend to take some insulin by just making a note about their "dose" and base their food intake decisions based on BG value and timing concerns.

Literally, just limit what you eat and when based on a number that you can't directly and instantly control. The whole exercise was designed (by a diabetic!) to be as incredibly easy and approachable as possible. It was the absolutely training-wheels version of an experiment that intentionally left out a lot of the more difficult problems when it comes to managing T1D. Their program did all of their work in one classroom all day, and my friend was there to help with number generation and to help in general, the whole time.

The whole thing fell apart by lunch for literally every student other than the only other T1D in class.

I think 1. People probably aren't great at designing these things for themselves. And 2. Even when somebody else can give them a tiny actual approximation of constraints, it tends to break down because people don't actually want to stray too far from their baseline state of comfort, no matter what.
Why has everyone forgotten that China has nuclear ballistic missiles? Total war against China would involve the destruction of most major cities on both sides.
In Paris in 1985 (only time I've been there) you could buy massive strawberries from street stalls by the kilo, the size of a small apple, cheap, and super-delicious. I don't know where they came from or why I've never seen them here in Australia.

Apart from that, I had delicious small homegrown ones as a kid, and the occasional almost or totally tasteless medium-sized ones from shops ever since. I always wonder how it feels to be a farmer growing totally tasteless strawberries for a living.
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We were specifically discussing the cookie banners though.
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I am so irritated with JavaScript bloat... completely unnecessary cruft 99% of the time.

I built my blog with the goal to have zero js but I had to capitulate for google analytics.

The blog is a static website deployed on a CDN and I have no access to access.log - I honestly couldn’t find any analytics solution that won’t require js.
I do have one, but I rarely use it. It's good for WFH, though, because it makes me look smart in meetings.
That’s why it’s all rights reserved. If you want to use it to make money you have to ask me. In the scenario you describe is probably say that’s okay, but like I say it’s up to me and only me, at the end of the day.

This of course means it’s not open to the kind of free-form open collaboration that typifies Open Source but if anything this just goes to show how more restrictive licences such as GPL actually promote innovation.
Yeah, that was my first thought. The food is tasteless and less nutritious because of the cultivars the farmer chose, not soil quality.
I understand the American name for Vaccinium myrtillus is in fact "bilberry".

The farmed blueberries one can buy in a shop here in North Europe are large, and really very different from the blueberries/bilberries one can pick in the nature. Over here (Finland), both are available in shops; the "bilberry" (V. myrtillus) is bought for distribution from people who gather it from forests (often Asian or East European guest workers and even sometimes even retirees who do it for fun and additional income) while V. cyanococcus (V. corymbosum) is imported from commercial farms in Central and Southern Europe, and I suppose is mechanically harvested.
When discussing conditional probability, this is absolutely what you can do.

Let's use your example. Conditional probability is P(A|B), the probability of event A, given that event B was observed. What's the probability that I am a magician, given that I shuffled the deck and when you saw it it was still in new deck order?

Now certainly, there is an astronomically small chance that this was observed due to random chance. And yet if you observed this, I'd expect that you would, with relatively high confidence, believe that I stacked the deck.
Ask HN: Requesting Payment for Feature Requests in Github
Does anyone know of any good services that allow developers to request payment for feature requests in Github?

There are a few bounty-based services out there

https://gitpay.me (Poor adoption; Bad behavior in the past by enrolling developers without permission)

https://www.bountysource.com (Started keeping expired bounties; Sold to cryptocurrency company)

https://issuehunt.io (Not sure about this one. Seems to have some traction: https://issuehunt.io/r)

but I'm looking for something that puts the developer in control by allowing them to request payment on feature request issues in Github. It could be as simple as adding a "Pay Now" button to the issue.
I agree. I actually don't think organic is as good as whatever natural methods were used. I would prefer wild or food grown on less 'managed' land - that would be the gold standard for me.
For projects with copy-left license one has to contact all contributors and ask for their permission to relicense:

https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/33/how-can-a-...
> then you get tail-calls for every function, which effectively obviates the stack.

This is true, however CPS moves the work from the stack to the heap, so a deep enough recursion would exhaust the heap instead. Using a trampoline[0] in conjunction with CPS ensure constant stack usage for tail-recursive functions.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trampoline_(computing)
It's not as simple as that. Apple does not approve cloud gaming apps either.
The multi-reader scenario definitely supports multiple readers of the same file system - we use it both in and out of Kubernetes on GCP.

Kubernetes has specific support for this with its ReadOnlyMany access mode: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/persistent-volum...

However, I do see on that page that AWS EBS doesn't support this mode, so perhaps that's what you're thinking of.
Due to GMO you have vegetable much bigger but with the same amount of vitamins and minerals.

So, for example, if new generation fruit is 20% bigger, you're lacking that amount of nutrition in your diet.

And pesticides: if there were healthy for our bodies, we would eat them for our advantages, wouldn't we?
Should the name of the thing give away that it may not be exactly the right thing to do? I mean DEAD-lift...
A middle ground in the encryption/privacy debate seems to be "the authorities can spy on what I do, but have to notify me first".

That could be implemented by having full e2e encryption as today, but requiring clients to hand over the keys when requested by a local governing authority. The client/app would then immediately show to the user "Local Authorities have viewed a copy of this message".

Why isn't this middle ground being discussed?

I understand authorities don't want to alert their targets about an investigation, but let's be honest - if they read the messages and find you've done some crime, authorities will eventually track you down.
The one-account-only rule is horible treatment of users. What's wrong with having multiple online persona's? Using them avoids the conflicting roles of being a career professional, a parent and also politically active.

With multiple account the FB could still mine your data and show personalized ads. Still they insist on single account backed with real ID. This shows some deeply ingrained totalitarian ambitions. Luckily I still have my Oculus account so I can still enjoy Quest 1 without FB BS.
7. Get a job that pays the bills, write code in your spare time for the joy of writing code, or not write any code in your spare time at all. Die happy.
I would not underestimate the minimalism philosophy in reducing clutter. It gets to a point where doodads and clutter is demoralising, and often materialistic and distracting.
Uber.

Something like 62000 drivers at last count invoked the arbitration clause, which got mighty costly.

Can't say I feel sorry for them.
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I think it's not just that produce is picked unripe. As some sibling commenters say, there might be more to it. Either genetic, through selection, or chemical, through whatever they put in the soil for it to grow bigger / quicker.

The issue I have with most store-bought produce is that it has practically no taste whatsoever. It tastes like water. Tomatoes taste like water. Peppers taste like water. I've never had store-bought berries (of any kind) taste anything.

I've noticed that when you pick an unripe tomato, or cherry, or grape, or whatever, they actually have a taste. Not a very good taste, I wouldn't like eating unripe cherries.

However, the same things from a supermarket have practically no taste.
I've never had produce picked from my mother or grandparents' garden taste like water. If they're unripe, they'll taste bitter, sour, something. They will absolutely have some kind of actual taste.
I'm not active at all on Facebook itself - checking now, my last post was >18 months ago, and and other interactions (likes, comments, etc) even longer. But I leverage Messenger for a few contacts that prefer it, and that Messenger use seems to be sufficient to ward off the inactivity trigger.

I'm surprised they don't just treat the Oculus usage similarly, and count that usage as "activity" in the context of considering an account active/inactive.
Porn was one thing the original Oculus CV1 package did good – they've included a special pilot for multimedia.
If your current job is your would-be hobby, and you still have to work +40h per week, chances are that it can't get better than this.

It's just working itself that sucks.
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Well, even growing your own tomatoes might not help that much. Modern hybrid varietals are breeded for color uniformity which removed the taste. Let me tell you it is quite hard to source real heirloom varietals: there are tons of new "heirloom" varietals, but those are basically just modern varietals with some mutations that makes them not look like industrial ones.
> First, you want sufficient range so that overflows are less likely, especially for multiplying two smaller format numbers and accidentally overflowing the range of your largest format. Second, you want range and precision that captures the smallest widely used physical constant (Plank constant) and range for the largest (Avogradros’s number).

All that really means practically is that you want about 8-10 bits for your exponent.

If you're starting with 32 and 64 bit words, that naturally gets you into a couple particular ranges for mantissa.

But they weren't starting with a 64 bit word and then removing ten bits for exponent. So that leaves a big missing explanation for how they got to 53.

Especially since, as the author's sibling comment says, it was fixed point. It couldn't represent either of those numbers.
Ok, so let's look what Merkel did what would never be possible in the US according to that post (and by the authors opinion proves that the US is so much more on the right than Germany):

> In the 2008 financial crisis (and now again) the government paid part of workers’ wages to save jobs (Kurzarbeit)

Trump went even further and sent checks directly to every taxpayer.

> She stopped mandatory military service

US got rid of the draft in 1973 under Nixon

> Germany is getting out of nuclear power by 2022
> Germany is getting out of coal power by 2038

Neither is the business of the federal government in the US but instead of the states themselves, on top of that this is done in Germany by importing exactly that power from other European neighbours, an option the US does not have.

> She ran a balanced budget

That is considered as on the right in the US

> Legalized gay marriage

The US had that first nationwide, and individual states had it much earlier. On top of that, Merkel voted against that law in the German parliament (Bundestag)

> Accepted a large number of refugees from war-torn Syria

Since Syria is closer to Europe than to the US this is not surprising, the US accepts asylum from middle and south America instead.

> Cut taxes (Solidaritätszuschlag) for the working class and middle class, while keeping them in place for the upper class

Sounds like the tax reform of 2017

> If you did one of these things in the US, you would be considered a progressive leftist. Doing all of them would make you a radical. In Germany she is still considered center-right.

-> While this is a nice visualization, the author had no idea about US politics and how it contrasts to German politics
I really hate the internet now.

I used to love it so much. It's what taught me my current career and brought me financial independence.

If I could press a button and erase Apple, Google, Facebook, and Twitter from existence I would. It's all trash.
It's not about organizations _demanding_ that you do work for them for free, it's the constant _expectation_ of it. I experience it myself quite often where users of my software ask about timelines for bug fixes or new features, but very rarely offer to chip in and certainly never to sponsor the work.

Of course these organizations have no way to force me to do anything, but it is emotionally draining to constantly have people expect you to.