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I just read the Federalist Papers from front to back, it was absolutely beautiful.

My short review of the book would read;

"It is not just an excellent display of political knowledge, nor just an astute vision of governance, but mostly an acknowledgement and exposé on human nature. "

I am from Australia and wish we taught it in schools also.

I didn't know there were Anti-Federalist Papers so time to buy some more wine and get going.

Note: Ben Shapiro does a nice video on what the Federalist Papers are about.

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It was one of the harder reads I've done such that it almost feels like a life accomplishment.

I'd personally recommend just googling the top 5-10, choosing some that you like and just listening to the audio book versions e.g. -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PiSeeJQkrQ

I always prefer reading myself but in this case my comprehension was slightly better just listening to some of the essays.

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“It has been frequently remarked, that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not, of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend, for their political constitutions, on accident and force.”
- Hamilton
The post discusses nuclear winter briefly, but I'll cover that in more detail here:

The theory of nuclear winter is predicated on a specific chain of events:

* The mass use of nuclear weapons causes massive firestorms in large cities.

* These firestorms pump soot in unprecedented amounts into the stratosphere.

* The stratospheric soot causes massive, persistent climatic cooling.

If any of these claims fail to be true, then the entire thesis breaks down. And there is some reason to doubt all of them, especially the hyperbolic versions of the hypothesis (e.g., "going like 100 years without being able to grow food").

Let me tackle just the last one. Volcanic eruptions are the most effective stratospheric soot pumps we know of: the eruptive columns of even smallish eruptions (like the 2018 summit explosions of Kilauea) routinely reach the stratosphere. In modern history, the most powerful eruption would be the 1815 eruption of Tambora, which is calculated to have erupted about 41 km³ of tephra. The result was a well-documented global cooling (the Year Without a Summer). Now ask yourself how likely it is for even several simultaneous nuclear explosions to inject that into the stratosphere. Now also consider just how much impact the eruption had in history: it doesn't merit a mention in many history books--a far, far cry from "100 years without being able to grow food".
but what is your biggest problem?
I switched off Mac years ago.

My servers run Linux. Not bsd.

Having to deal with this sort of stuff is just a waste of time.

Mac's don't have a monopoly on quality, haven't for a long time.

And since it's a usual response, anyone claiming Linux is too fiddly haven't used it in a long time. And while it can be if you want to roll your own DE its completely optional. Using something like fedora you can literally do almost everything non developer based with point and click.
> folks who chanted "fry 'em like bacon" [...] in the streets just a few weeks ago?

This did not happen.
I thought we'd see #91 (1053/"Ten Thousand") but it's lame having a 4-digit XKCD in the top 100
You might be right, and if you open an abuse Report on the repository linked in this post (it’s in the hamburger menu on iOS, dunno about web), you could simply paste your comment into the text area and be done.
If you're looking for multi-cursor support, you might want to take a look at https://github.com/martanne/vis. It doesn't support ctrl + click, but I find ctrl + n and ctrl + j go a very long way. For anything more complex, vis supports structural regular expressions.[^1] Those work for both replacement (as is customary) and for multi-caret text selection.

[^1]: These structural regular expressions took me a bit to get used to, but by now I really like the concept.
If I run my own ecommerce shop on AWS, Amazon should just be able to shut it down and force me to sell through Amazon instead?

If I run a service on an EC2 instance that uses Auth.0, they can shut it off until I agree to use Cognito?
> Apps installed on a user's Mac are expected to run indefinitely,

But if a malware is signed and installed to a computer, revoke it can prevent further running.
Avoid sharing DNS caches with strangers. Do not use third party recursive DNS (also known as "open resolvers"), e.g., 8.8.8.8, 1.1.1.1, etc.
I would think the bigger problems are drivers & secure boot rather than just instructions. M1 is a regular ARM processor so existing backends at a minimum would work fine even if they're not fully optimized (+ I would be a bit surprised if the M1 support for LLVM isn't upstreamed).
Which Linux distribution has the most guns?
Asking for a friend, of course.
:P
The money mentioned in that article is about being the default search engine, not being a functional one. Basically the question I'm asking is why DDG has to outsource to Bing.

> there are a lot of big sites that will forbid you from crawling their content, unless you are Google, or Bing

If you're talking about robots.txt, that's just a suggestion. It doesn't hold any actual preventative power.
It doesn't become safe when you're offline, it's just that you're no worse off than you were. OCSP is s a certificate revocation protocol. It's only used for disabling certificates which were issued in good faith but now need to be revoked. Suppose Apple signs application X, and the signature is good for a year. Six months later, Apple discovers that application X contains malware, so they revoke the certificate. However, your computer doesn't know about the revocation until it checks the OCSP server, which requires you to be online. If you're offline, it just skips the check; the certificate wasn't revoked yesterday, so it's probably fine today too. The bug is that if you're connected to a network but can't contact the OCSP server (either because the OCSP server is down, or because you're not connected to the internet) then OSX keeps trying to connect and becomes sluggish and/or unresponsive. This is how we know that it's a defect rather than a deliberate choice; if they had decided to make the OS non−functional unless connected to the internet they would have done a better job of it.

It wouldn't surprise me if they one day wanted to require you to be online 100% of the time so that you can't skip the OCSP checks on applications, but I don't think that would go over very well. Apple wouldn't even be the first to produce applications that refuse to work if there's no internet connection. If you don't like the thought that they might one day spring this on you, I recommend investigating Linux.
> This was the original ”fake news”.

No, that is a narrow view of history. The history of propaganda, yellow journalism, sensationalism and fake news has a long and storied history beyond today's talking heads
Which statement is hyperbolic, about multi-day low-wind weather or that we depend on the powergrid for survival?
The photons got flattened out and were too wide to fit through the receivers in the SFP's.
Maybe you should choose to use curated information services rather than ones that show you anything and everything people could think to post then.

Might I suggest moving to Facebook rather than complaining that Voat doesnt fit your needs when it doesn’t claim it does?
> >if motherboards were sparse why not look on ebay or something?

> I've never tried that. I thought that newegg had pretty good coverage for motherboards, and they make it easy to filter by CPU type, whereas I don't think eBay does. I just tried searching eBay for "intel 2011-v3 dual" and I did get

it's worth checking out supermicro site itself
https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/motherboards/server-b... just select the platform processor series, check which board seems the best fit and then try if searching that on ebay yields any results

> >this motherboard seems like a really bad choice, because it's for a workstation not a server - doesn't have vga out, does have audio output and doesn't have IPMI

> I don't need audio output, so that doesn't make a difference to me. VGA output would be convenient, but it's also pretty easy to fix with a cheap GPU. IPMI would have been nice, and some readers have pointed out to me that SuperMicro has IPMI on a very similar board, so I should have gotten that one.

I agree - you don't need audio output, but you've paid for it. That was my point. You could've saved on all three things by choosing the right motherboard. (edit: 3 things - integrated audio, dedicated gpu, kvm)

> >i'd also go for a better powersupply than bronze - at least gold, if that thing runs 24/7. The return of investment is like ~2.5yrs depending on the PSU (at least in my country)

> Does that assume the server runs under load 24/7? My CPUs are at very low load most of the time.

basic PSU calculators can help you - https://outervision.com/power-supply-calculator -- just fiddle with cpu utilization and computer utilization time and you'll see

also you might wanna check bios what mode you're running - if performance or eco or whatever (honestly not sure if workstation MBs are different in this regard, i am dealing with server MBs only) but you might be running on higher TDP than you think anyway
The original post starts with the phrase "I’d actually like to go back to the old times of Tudor England." before getting into the beheading bit. Do you believe Bannon is actually pining for a time machine as well?
if facebook gave this post a score of -infinity, such that it is literally never recommended to anyone, doesn't show up on feeds, and you can only find it by typing in the URL, that would be fine with you?
I thought it was rather smooth too the first time I used it. Then I rebooted and the start menu was all messed up. Searched (from a web browser on a different system; not much documentation when you use it offline but at least no ads) and reason was... I changed the time. Somehow that reverted some of my changes to the start menu. Maybe a year or a bit more later, after I had arranged a few hundred program icons, the start menu just stopped working entirely and none of the suggested fixes I could find would help (except the one to completely reset the start menu and undo all the customization). But at least that led me to discover the super useful start right click menu (that still worked). Plus some strange audio issues with some programs that got much better in 2004 but still occasionally present. Plus the text entry box to search the app list to uninstall takes several seconds to even let you enter text (if you start earlier it seems random if it appears or not). And I'm fairly sure a few more such issues as well, so you are luckly if it is smooth for you.

But yeah, it does have a nice streamlined feel to it that I apprecitate (way better than the default Ubuntu interface IMO) except for the obviously hostile aspects. And the streamlined feel does really enhance the feel of how intentional many of those hostile aspects are.
There's plenty of figurative or suggestive speech that's not literally "I will kill so-and-so" or "Someone should kill so-and-so". As other commenters have noted, Bannon's actions and other statements suggest he's intentionally dancing around the issue.

Facebook have previously removed, for example, suggestive posts from Ramzan Kadyrov, which, while they did not make direct statements, were threatening: https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2016/02/02/instagram-removes-...

While Kadyrov has a more established history of following through on his threats than Bannon, I don't think it's unreasonable to come to the conclusion that Facebook does have a double standard: if you or I post "<prominent government official>'s head should be on a spike", do you think their moderation team would apply the same leniency?

I wager they would not: what we see here is part of an established pattern where Facebook's executives, and Zuckerberg in particular, do not want to be seen as biased against the right wing sentiment, because remaining in the good graces of those with political power is more important than actually upholding their supposed community standards.
What weaknesses? You know, look around. It's pretty clear that the First Amendment is having some negative effects.

But my position is that not having the First Amendment also has negative effects, and those effects are worse. Such as, for example, creating a world where your post could be deleted merely for suggesting that the Constitution had a weakness.

I'm going to say stuff. Some of it will go against the prevailing narrative. I want to be able to say it anyway. Sometimes, I'll even be right. I think the right to do so is important.
Makes sense!

We've just launched our Documents feature, aiming to be a G Docs/Confluence alternative. Still early days though!
First we need to remember that this isn't a binary question of freedom versus no freedom. It is a question of where to place the line on a spectrum. Or perhaps more specifically where does the line exist between your rights and my rights.

Does your right to spout hate speech about my religion infringe on my right to freely and safely practice my religion?

Does your right to spend $1B on amplifying your political speech drown out my political speech and effectively nullify it?

Other countries have answered yes to those questions while the US has answered no.
I'm at a loss of words. The size of balls it takes to say what you just said will affect the gravitational balance of the planet.

Evidence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFJmkws1Q40

Also, here's NYT: https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/831483401467265024

Is this OK or nah?
Then it's a bug in the design.
Great insight, thank you.
And not just Norway, but specifically Trondheim. Correct me if I am wrong, but I expect their lifestyle to be even less sedentary than the average Oslo resident. I expect the results to have slim pickings (pun intended)!
You may have watched the video an infinite number of times. That doesn't give you any grounds whatsoever for your claim that whymauri is lying. It also doesn't make your claim any less against the site guidelines.
>I think I would of agreed if I hadn't read a larger quote giving the actual context here. It's very hard to brush it off in the same way:

BANNON: Second term kicks off with firing Wray, firing Fauci. Now, I actually want to go a step farther, but I realize the president is a kind-hearted man and a good man. I'd actually like to go back to the old times of Tudor England, I'd put the heads on pikes, right, I'd put them at the two corners of the White House as a warning to federal bureaucrats. You either get with the program or you're gone -- time to stop playing games. blow it all up, put Ric Grenell today as the interim head of the FBI, that'll light them up, right.

JACK MAXEY (CO-HOST): You know what Steve, just yesterday there was the anniversary of the hanging of two Tories in Philadelphia, these were Quaker businessmen who had cohabitated if you will with the British while they were occupying Philadelphia. These people were hung. This is what we used to do to traitors.

BANNON: That's how you won the revolution. No one wants to talk about it. The revolution wasn't some sort of garden party, right? It was a civil war. It was a civil war.

>The call to replicate actual specific events in the American Revolution really makes it feel real, along with the mention of a civil war being on.
Licenses are only ever used to remove freedoms (from others), never to add them. The author does not have any reasonable entitlement to use force to prevent others from using their software in ways they don’t like.
How is it false? Would you care to provide any kind of source or at least state what you believe the actual figures are?

Official statistics says the only fatalities were from physical injuries, stuff like collapsing walls, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disa...
But, as they say, happiness is not in money. It’s in its quantity.
This might be easier to understand with some context. This is the GTK maintainer, who is about to release GTK 4 in a few weeks, and GTK 4 needs some unreleased fixes in Cairo. He requested a release earlier this year.[1]

The last stable release of Cairo was in October 2018. A very simple merge request[2] submitted by Nikolaus Waxweiler two years ago has not been merged even though everyone agrees it is good because nobody has been willing to take the responsibility to approve it.

The test suite is broken and tests were failing CI for all commits for a year (until the tests were disabled) because there was nobody who knew how the test suite worked who had time to fix it. There has been a proposal by a Google intern to add fuzzers for OSS-Fuzz to find security issues—but no maintainer has the time to review it.

Yes, there are a few commits and merge requests getting merged here and there, thanks to Uli Schlachter who is still active, but this is a large graphics library with many, many features, used by thousands of applications. It is not finished and not in a good state. Web browsers and other applications that have resources to move to Skia have done so already; GTK probably will not have spare resources to do this.

[1]: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/cairo/cairo/-/issues/422

[2]: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/cairo/cairo/-/merge_requests/...
I work at Instagram, which is a O(millions) LOC Python monorepo with massive throughput and a large engineering team. It's actually quite nice — but our code is heavily, heavily typed. It would be miserable without the type system. Some of the older parts of the codebase are more loosely typed (although they're shrinking reasonably quickly), and those sections are indeed a huge pain to ramp up on.

Part of the success of IG's large Python codebase is FB's investment into developer tooling; for example, FB wrote (and open-sourced, FWIW) our own PEP-484 compliant type checker, Pyre [1], because mypy was too slow for a codebase of our size.

1: https://github.com/facebook/pyre-check
Is that really true that M1 is just an ARM processor? I've heard the difficulty in emulating it is due to Apple specific things, whether they be drivers or new instructions.
Well the primary benefit of Portabella is end-to-end encryption.

The reason for e2ee is so you don't have to trust the provider. If you're hosting stuff yourself why wouldn't you trust your own infra? As long as you've got a TLS connection to and from your servers + encryption at rest, client side encryption gives no particular benefits.
You could interpret current system where people are made to be good unquestioning workers in schools.

Arrive on time, don't question authority, learn to follow what you are being told.

After that they are lead to believe living on dept and credit cards is the only way to be happy.

And they are stuck in shitty job that they cannot quit since they have interest to play. So they keep their heads down and just keep going.
Or they're just on the verge of a stroke or severely under-slept while deciding where in your skull to drill. Yeah I think I'm cool with the somewhat healthy doc.
Full scale nuclear war means big cities will be bombed and millions of people die. What civilizational collapse are you talking about? The lack of Hollywood movies and absence of the NYSE?
Fixed, sorry about that one.
Alternatively: the EC compromise reflected the personal self-interest of Hamilton/Madison/Jay, just like your citation of them reflects your personal partisan lean. As mentioned, I really doubt you'd have been making a principled argument to that effect in 2012 when the skew went the other way.

It's just silly. And it can produce antidemocratic outcomes on occasion, as it did in 2016.
I assume you mean https://web.archive.org/web/20201106185230if_/https://www.fa... because you've brought this up like six times already, but I think you're overinterpreting it. To me it looks like someone pasted a headline from some news story reporting the heads-on-pikes comment. Probably some intern, as I doubt that Bannon is pasting things into Facebook, he is surely too vain for that.
I linked to my post because it provides the context you ignored.

Here are the tactics you have used so far:

1. Narrow definition.

2. Ignoring context.

3. Gaslighting.

4. Personal attacks.

This is the other side of the coin from Mgchev‘s comment.
True. Linux is the best value and the best developer experience IMHO - unless you need commercial software that is Win/Mac only. Even then you can virtualize which is safer too. I can also easily get a Darcula theme OS-wide for Gnome so..
If you take the population of black Americans you’ll find that the overwhelming majority of them have their history in the ~3.9 million people trafficked during the slave trade and the following diaspora from the south throughout the 40s-60s, the majority as in 80%+. If you look at Asian Americans, you’ll find that the overwhelming majority of them do not descend from the ~20k transcontinental railroad laborers.

It’s not hard to tell that their experiences must be vastly different, because 20k is a very small proportion of the total Asian American population, while 3.5m is a much larger percentage.

I hope this help you with differentiating how relatively homogeneous groups are.
> the failure mode was considered

Considered but not tuned. I've never noticed any delay launching or using software that doesn't require an internet connection while not being connected to the internet. (I definitely did notice slowdowns today - Zoom in particular which I tend to quit out of when I'm not using it because I don't trust it one bit but am compelled to use it for work)

Seems like apple was accepting connections for the signature check but were unable to actually service the connections, leading to the timeout/failover.

I honestly like the idea of signature checks on software that give me some confidence that the code that is running is the code that it claimed to be when it was published/installed and has not been manipulated via some other vector.

Whether apple is the appropriate steward of that system is certainly up for debate, but certainly other companies that run app stores have similar systems and similar risk. It certainly doesn't seem obvious to me what a secure, anonymous, performant and federated system to solve such a problem would actually look like.
The best source is the Constitution, and second to that are Supreme Court rulings. Madison came to the convention with the meat of what would become the Constitution, but the actual language was shaped and clarified by committee. Most of the Federalist papers are the product of Madison and Hamilton, and those are raw, but they are arguments in defense. Given how many were written by Hamilton who had less participation and less effect, I would argue they’re useful arguments for the why of the Constitution, but not the best means of interpreting it.

I don’t have any annotated versions of the Federalist Papers I can recommend, but The Heritage Foundation has one of the better web annotations of the Constitution[1]. Scroll through and you’ll find various clauses accompanied with full essays in the little “i” icons.

What you may also find helpful is context for the why and the how of the Constitution, as in why did the Articles of Confederation need to be replaced and how did the Constitutional Convention decide to replace them and how they went about replacing them. National Review hosts Constitutionally Speaking[2], and the hosts of the show keep trying to bring it back in various ways but they finished with what they initially promised by the end of Episode 41.

[1] https://www.heritage.org/constitution/

[2] https://www.nationalreview.com/podcasts/constitutionally-spe...