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Decentralization, and distributed power is key to the US System

People need to remember that, no matter who is in power.

The problem is both republicans and democrats "forget" this when they are in power so they attempt to consolidate it, and believe that consolidation grand the virtuous

Then when they are out of power, the "other side" using that power become "corrupt and immoral"

Just like the irony that in 2016 the US electron system was so fragile that Russia stole it, at least that is what he heard for the last 4 years, but now that democrats have won the US Election system is as strong as Plymouth Rock and unwavering in face of people trying to steal it...

//for the record I do not think the election was stolen in either 2016 or 2020.....
I think it becomes "virtue signalling" when you go beyond acceptance of difference and enshrinement of equality, to the point where you actually seem to be suggesting that rights and feelings of the minority sections of society which you are trying to protect, trump* those of the majority.

*no pun intended.
> Create a dedicated address everytime you subscribe to a service

I tried this and don’t recommend it.

Yeah, you get the advantage of knowing who leaked your address. But I don’t care. If the ‘spam and lists’ address gets too spammy, I’ll just create another.

The disadvantage is that you have to configure a mail client to send from this address if you ever want to do that, and I found myself doing it far more often than I imagined. Need to write back to a store regarding a transaction? Frequently enough. To my health insurance company for some reason? Of course.

No, the idea is to remove as much friction as possible. This adds friction. Keep it simple.
Weren’t the main concessions made to Southern slaveholders items like the 3/5 compromise? The senate’s distribution on the other hand would benefit states like Rhode Island, New Jersey, etc...
> And you can disable the backlight on any keyboard.

I don't want to have to disable an useless backlight. I want the backlight to bring in functionality that makes it worth keeping.

Per key RGB led? Great! Have a daemon learn my typing to make suggestions by lighting up the keys I'm the most likely to use in a context dependent operation.

ex: if using Firefox, after I type the L-I-N-U key, I want X to be shining. if using Excel, after typing (-[A-Z]-[0-9], I want : to be shining.
I think the interregnum period will be chocked full of rightwingers lashing out at the country and people in general. People that know Trump supporters know that there was a lot of identity wrapped up in his presidency, and see it cut down to one term is going to set them off.
Or the employee of a sprawling corporation with a family to feed, a mortgage to pay, a family health plan to pay, college and university for their children to pay. Tell me someone that is more beholden to their master than these modern peasants. Yet their daily delusion is to be as free as Bezos could dream of.
Trump will lose his Twitter ‘public interest’ protections in January
Partly because of the voter turnout. By % wise its not a huge difference.
> the president did little, if anything to help their situation and channeled that resentment for his own benefit.

False claim
My takeaways from the article, use GraphQL for modern webapps:

> Users expect an experience as native as it could be from websites. The Jamstack is taking over on the frontend. Hybrid models with server side rendering and dynamic Javascript clients are the enablers of these applications. RESTful APIs excel at a different set of problems. They will not go away, quite the opposite! They’re just not the right tool for this style of applications the industry is currently shifting towards.

...and REST or RPC for anything else.

> I think REST APIs are a perfect tool for internal APIs, partner APIs and server to server communication. This is an area where GraphQL doesn’t really bring any benefits over REST. Alongside RPC it will have a great future in this area. GraphQL on the other hand is more than happy to wrap resource- and RPC-based APIs.
Free speech isn't the ability to force somebody else to repeat your statement though

As long as the string is being loaded from somebody else's servers, it's really them doing the speaking
100% not true. Legal observers were in all places, and Trumps lawyers had to admit it in court when they said a ‘non-zero’ number were present. Most counting places even live streamed the count.

I think this is probably one of the most secure elections ever executed.
This is an interesting point, but he's also done and said a number of things that indicate a level of comfort with his supporters committing violence that is entirely inappropriate for a leader of a democracy, and suggests that he wants a paramilitary loyal to him. Those are exactly the actions of an authoritarian. "Stand back and stand by"

There's also been a focus on personal loyalty in high office that is also unseemly in a democracy, and has caused problems for the USA in the past too.
Very likely
I did pay attention during the Bush era as well, I remember buying my first newspaper when US invaded Afghanistan. The point is none of us had any faith in those old farts. We wanted change and none of the parties represented change, they actually were the status quo to fight against.

Now it's like hope for a better, radically different world has just disappeared. It's with us or against us. There's no third choice.
Despite softer tech spending, cloud revenue accelerates in the Covid era
Open borders to all refugees (and literally everyone else)and make is as easy as possible for those under repressive regimes to leave. Other than that, continue to trade with the country for basically everything except weapons or anything that could be used to make weapons.

This is also how I feel about China and Hong Kong, NK, how I would have felt under WW2/Germany, and how I would feel basically every other foreign policy incident.
I wonder what stories like this are like for the mods on this site. It must be a waterfall of flags.
The free market only works within nations where the mobility of labor is on par with the mobility of capital.
In the Bay Area, it’s more like $60-120/sqft/yr, and that’s triple net. Add in 50-100% because you need walkways and such between offices, bathrooms, security, mail room, IT, and other common areas. Then add more for building operating expenses, property taxes, building insurance, and common area maintenance. Yes, in commercial leases the tenant pays the property taxes, because the leases are for multiple years.

So dedicated office space can be expensive.
The traditional way of demarcating those interactions into categories would be on the basis of consent and coercion. For example, people in the Soviet Union were compelled where people in the US were allowed to choose amongst the options available. This information is not accessible by observing aliens because their observations are limited to material interactions and they lack implicit knowledge necessary to make inferences that would allow them to distinguish between the two.

From a macro perspective the difference would be whether the owner of a firm or conglomerate is able to make decisions that would cause him to lose his conglomerate or if he can compel people to continue to support him. Of course in the US we have plenty of enterprise that are "too big to fail" but to my knowledge amazon is not yet one of them.
Once you've added a retry feature you've created an SMTP server.
This x10000%. I've been telling my friends this for years that I'm angry at trump but I'm genuinely afraid for the next more refined iteration of him.

Hopefully this four years will encourage us not to put our guards down again.
Interested as well. Also, there is a more lively thread and poll at IndieHackers[0] if you are interested.

[0] https://www.indiehackers.com/post/2020-prices-for-transactio...
I had an Asus Zenphone AR. Used it to 3d scan environments, worked quite well, until the screen died (they all have this defect)
Yes, but we are not "involved" in the war, we are just _involved_ in the war. And I personally don't care if it was there when Trump took office, I care about what Trump did with it.
Biden says the right things, as experienced politicians do. Let's withold judgment until we see what he does.
2016 was closer actually. This was more of a landslide compared to 2016. Plus 5 million more voters for Biden
Your (implied) counterproposal is not neutral either: you are suggesting that rurals and suburbans should be ruled by young type-As who are willing to pack themselves into tiny, overpriced apartments and make their careers a top priority well into their middle age. Why should that culture dominate?

> Are you implying that each Californian should count for less than one vote?

In a federalist republic, yes that's exactly what that means. The country was deliberately designed as a collection of independent states, and not a single population whose diversity is merely geographic.
As a european outsider I see big social media (Twitter, FB, Reddit etc.) as the loser here, no matter the president.

- Dems already hated them because they were "complying" with the right/far right. Not enough removal, deplatforming etc.

- Reps also hated them because of all the removal and deplatforming, "free speech" problems etc. Then HN replies with the "They are a private company so they can do whatever they want" > which leads the conundrum when Google banning accounts and the whole site gets upset about it. [0]

Just the week before the election Vice had an article, "Facebook Has Always Been Right-Wing Media" [1]. It was aptly removed from here but shows the upcoming struggle which I think as I said above will be much worse for social media sites

Interesting times for sure.

0, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24965432

1, https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7vvwq/facebook-has-always-b...
It's highly suggestive of a direction though.

> It's On February 2, 2021 PT, we will stop selling new licenses for our server products and cease new feature development in our server product line...maintenance and support for an additional three years, ending February 2, 2024 PT.

> Even with three years to prepare for these changes, we understand that not every customer will be ready to make the switch from our server products to our cloud products. For these customers, we'll continue to offer our self-managed enterprise edition, Data Center.

Frankly, I have no idea what they'll do because so many plugins can only work with their on-prem API.
Most judges actually are non-partisan-decide-based-on-law type. But they simply are not favoured.

Consider that sanders made it a litmus test for his supreme court nominees to overrule an unpopular court decision. Most judges would avoid at a politician demanding this, as it defeats the purpose of a judiciary.
Not exactly true. In every trial in the senate, the guilty votes come exclusively from one side, but the not guilty votes are historically slightly more bipartisan.
For both Clinton and Johnson, all the guilty votes came from republicans, while all senate democrats and a handful of republicans voted not guilty.
Trump's impeachment trial was unique in that it was a straight party line vote.
Nixon almost certainly would have been impeached (the Democrats had a large majority in the house), and a large number of republican senators were expected to vote guilty (which would have been unique). He may have been able to escape a conviction in the senate, but the evidence was pretty damning and the American public would have been furious. In some sense his resignation was the only way to salvage the Republican Party.
It's answered in this Quora question.

https://www.quora.com/Does-the-American-Constitution-allow-f...

It hinges on the fact that Electors in the Electoral College don't have to follow the popular vote.

" the legislators can change the state law to require Electors to vote for the President regardless of the popular vote."
I feel like that resilience was draining away. He'd already subverted the DOJ and the supreme court. One more term probably would have sealed it.
Finger on the pulse, my man - people HATE being called thick these days.
Why ZeroSSL and not e.g. BuyPass?
That sounds precisely like politics.
There is a lot of value in this post

I'll list some pros and cons

Pros of this approach

A) Finding Product Market Fit (which is I guess what you mean by Marketing) is much easier when you focus on a niche

If you go very wide you might never be able to find the right product market fit

Going narrow makes it easier

B) [Perhaps most Important] Fast iteration. You move very quickly from

Being good Product Market Fit - meetings users' needs decently well

TO

Amazing Product Market Fit - meeting users' needs super, super well

There are lots of pros. However, those two are the biggest by some margin

*

Cons

A) We're in a world where there is an overabundance of capital. So now you don't necessarily have to 'go niche'

You can go to multiple niches at once, or even wide

*

B) Picking the right niche becomes incredibly important

Plus

It's complicated because how do you know you picked the right niche?

You might have a product that is perfect for hair dressers and personal massagers to book appointments, but you are targeting doctors

Sometimes, going wide has the benefit that the market tells you what your product is suited to

*

overall this is a good post. The examples are too 'adjusted to fit the post' rather than actual examples where going niche helped
Haven't used GitLab but I found GitHub's issues extremely limited and the UI turned away any non-engineers. So GitHub becomes the "engineering internal issues tracker" while everyone else uses something else. So now engineers need to keep track of two different systems and keep them in sync.
Rome was involved in multiple periphery wars during the "Pax Romana" as well. Instead, the historical term refers to internal peace within the empire.

Pax Americana usually means the same thing, though the borders of the empire are a little less clear.
Show HN: Yregex when you can write Python
But "you" don't vote that way
Trump SCREAMING game: guess what parts of Trump tweets are SCREAMED OUT LOUD
Thanks for the link. I guess I was born in a time (early 80s) where populism was on an all time low. However, the Cold War did exist, and that caused FUD as well (though that term partly unfairly de-legitimizes the realistic fear). So populism, it has been on the rise ever since I became an adult. I wasn't around yet, but what I believe happened was Reagan. War on Drugs. Reaction to the counter-culture, by marginalizing these minorities. If you remember Adam Curtis' series The Power Of Nightmares, already a new threat was on the verge when the Cold War was over. And that threat was exploited on for greed and profit, at the expense of the common men and common women (the soldiers).
It's been 7 months. How is that a generation?
Good points, and I largely agree with you. My "both sides" observation was more to do with how I see so many people willing to disown each other in our individual lives', not so much about broader policies. There is no common ground to be found between believing or not believing in science. But there is common ground for us as individuals to see the humanity in each other.

> Yes, if you're red/republican/conservative/right, you're voting for those things, you're signing off on them.

I wish I were able to convey this better to some stubborn family members. The argument I hear is that they are voting for partial representation of their conservative values, and they are aware of the downsides of this choice. But I don't buy it. I think they are undervaluing the negative costs of that vote, or completely ignoring them.
QE, inflation, slave labor and a People's Bailout
Great news and I voted for neither! But what a relief!!!
Biden is literally the most popular president for Blacks in US history, blowing past Obama. Historic!

LOL Some HN racist Trump voter downvoted this. Facts hurt!
They can’t declare victory, only project. Personally, I’m suspicious of the results, but if nothing changes, if fraud is not discovered, it’s a fair call.
It depends on what you look for, Steam has put a lot of work into consolidating ways to run windows-only games to work on Linux.

Aside from that, games like Factorio, Minecraft, Civilization 6, XCOM2, Shadow of Mordor, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided run on Linux just fine.
this election was a huge win for republicans, despite trump losing. they (in all likelihood) retain a senate majority, while massively narrowing down the gap in the house.
> This summer, in PA, a judge of elections pleaded guilty to stuffing ballot boxes for democrats in exchange for cash.[0]

A single individual is hardly evidence of "widespread fraud". If you want to play dueling anecdotes, I'll see your PA and raise you Republican vote tampering in North Carolina [1].

None of this is relevant to the substance of my comment, however, which is that I have a hard time seeing how anyone dealing in good faith can honestly say that they "don't know anyone that is claiming widespread voter fraud" [emphasis added].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/30/us/mccrae-dowless-indictm...
well, as dems liked to say until this morning "count every vote".

Biden's margins are hair thin.
The makeup of the US government does not reflect it's population. Harris wasn't the first female VP candidate to run for a major party. Geraldine Ferraro was the first, and Palin also ran in 08. Being a minority candidate doesn't mean they are qualified, but the lack of diversity in the US government is a huge problem. About 50% of America are women, and a large portion of America is not white. That's not represented by our government. Those firsts are important.
I agree that China is a big threat, but trade wars is a bad way to address it. History has shown that the US pretty much always ends up losing in a trade war. Mind you, I don't know what the right solution is, but I do know that trade war is not it.
When nothing else works, try this (2011)
Are there any silicon valley / Y-Combinator companies focusing on election/voting infrastructure, services and hardware?

State of Florida was given millions of dollars after 2000 Bush vs. Gore fiasco in revamping its voting infrastructure, I can't find the source of the exact amount.

Besides the legal challenges in voting process, there seems to be a ton of low-hanging fruit in this industry from Technology standpoint. From automatic ballot opening machines to high volume processing of ballots, forgery detection, traceability, etc. I don't think electronic voting is a good idea, but I am curious what has been done in the "analog" voting process to improve its speed/efficiency, etc.

Edit: Found the source of funding, Congress has approve $380 million for improving voting infrastructure in 2018: https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/fede...
This just isn't true. The US has been a multiracial nation for most of its history due to the country's enormous population of enslaved and eventually emancipated black people combined with an extraordinarily liberal immigration system. The US's diversity is one of the things that differentiates it from nearly every European country. It's a good thing.

You using the Irish as an example is totally bizarre to me because they barely get along with the English (who are mostly also white and Christian). The Troubles were not that long ago and represent a level of political violence between different cultural groups that the US hasn't seen in a very long time.
Why stop at the electoral college then? The same logic can be applied to both houses.

Hell it's the same way in parliamentary systems.

This is a feature of any indirect vote.
You clearly responded before reading the entire comment.
I'm kind of sympathetic to your plight, at least until I get here:

> Now, if you can’t unsubscribe (because there’s no link, it’s broken, or simply doesn’t actually unsubscribe), and this is a legit company, please please please let them know.

No chance I'm taking the time to do that. 99.99% they already know that it's broken and either made it that way intentionally or intentionally refuse to fix it to boost some kind of performance metrics. Why take the time to contact them? To the spam-filter it rightly goes.
That still trades off density for speed, having independent arms would be a huge benefit.
I was not saying we should only elect our most insulated and inbred. Joe Sixpack is a perfectly valid candidate.

The point is that when negotiations are at stake, you want an actual diplomat at the table, not an insult comic. If Joe Sixpack can keep his shit together enough to avert a war, feel free to elect him.
That's a good point. Removing centralized laws so there is more autonomy for individual states is one thing, which is not removing checks and balances. I overlooked that on the libertarian part of the comment.

Unfortunately, Trump did not go around removing centralized laws, or any I know of at least. Everything he did has more to do with a power grab as best I can tell.
No. I just answered your question and pointed out that there's a big difference in the legal protections offered to twitter. What twitter did is borderline ethical, it would have been more honest to ban trump rather than plaster his tweets with their own opinion of them.
The People's Republic of China has maintained its draconian anti-drug stance since before the international drug conventions of the 60s and 70s.

I would concur much of the puritanism and authoritarianism around the world about drugs originates from the US, but hardly all of it.
Also for non-optimised compilations, Zig devs are working on their own backend which should be much faster.

That said, I don't know if I'm interested in Zig: I like comptime but passing around allocators doesn't seem pleasant I think I prefer Odin's 'context' concept.
https://archive.is/wQQ3h
That's a great article, thanks for linking to it. Energy can explain so much about human endeavours in so few words.

I've read quite a lot of history, but Richard Rhodes' book Energy, A Human History, gave me a perspective unlike any other.

Who would have thought that the laws of thermodynamics would be so important a mechanism for social science? Well, I suppose physicists might, but social scientists usually not.
> Also: He didn't start yet another new war.

He didn't, but he did abandon the Kurds:

* https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trum...

* https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/yes-donald-trum...

Helping his Turkish buddy to be able to go after them.
In reality, in 2016, abstention won the election and it wasn't even close.
The way to deal with China through legislation and working with our allies because it has to be a long term process. Tariffs and photo ops like FoxConn in WI did nothing hinder China.
That is legal? Wow, very sleazy. In Brazil you lose your office if you switch after elected. You can still go against your party when voting, but changing parties after election has got to burn you forever...
> Look around and tell me that the general middle class American is worst off than they were in any other decade of modern America

They're not even close to being as well off as they were up until the ~80's - 90's.