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So there's 2 ideas here: kernel, and packages.

For the kernel, I'm curious how your suggestion is better than Linux is already. Linux, today, is already a performant, secure kernel with an incredibly stable userspace-facing ABI.

For packages, the problem isn't so much being able to install old and new packages (although that's certainly useful); the problem is maintaining a stable version while still fixing bugs and security issues. It's no good just having a packaging system that lets me run a 5-year-old glibc with a fresh-from-git application server if that ancient glibc has multiple known exploits in it. The work in an LTS system is carefully backporting fixes to your chosen old version while holding its ABI stable.
Arguably, the media's role is to stress test claims made by the government. They certainly do it for the trump admin. Though I wonder if they'll do it for the Biden admin.

I wouldn't say it's their fault. But still in 2020, the media breathlessly reports targeted leaks by intelligence agencies as fact. We didn't learn anything.
Short answer: States have constitutions as well. The Constitution is the overall guiding document for the Federal government; state constitutions are foundational/guiding documents for the components that make up the United States.

A good way to think about the US is as a more federalized EU, after several centuries and a civil war to figure out how power devolves between the Federal and State governments. The individual states were originally sovereign entities, bound together through a very weak system called the Articles of Confederation. After this was shown to not work very well, a group of legislators committed treason against the government outlined in the Articles, and convened to write the US Constitution, which the sovereign states decide to adopt after furious debate.
No. A dishonest company. Many companies are dishonest; perhaps most have to compromise on some smaller or larger things - but let's not forget that it's possible, if hard, to have a honest business. What we need is to beat the market into a shape in which it structurally promotes firms that have integrity.
If you are super rich sure, if not, Quality of Life in CA city is small apt in not great part of town vs suburban home in great part of town.

> Texas is still predominantly white.

Texas is big, it's not monolithic, percentage of ethic origins varies widely geographically. Also have you ever been to Texas, or anywhere. Your comments come off as extremely naive / opinions learned from online rather than experience.
I don't deny anything you said here. But:

Why would Biden's certification be a cue or trigger for left violence? That's the part of what you said that makes no sense to me.

I mean, if Trump managed to remain president somehow, I could see the left going absolutely insane with violence (and with reason). But why when Biden makes it in?

And if you mean that the left is going to continue in violence even after Biden is certified, that's probably true. Some of them are going to be violent until the entire system is overthrown and everyone gets a puppy. But it sounded like you were saying that Biden being certified was going to be the start of a bunch of left violence, and I can't understand why.
Are you implying that older people don't have value? They teach the younger generations, they work and produce value, they help raise families and communities. I don't know what kind of jaded economic math you are trying to conjure.

The thought that we could let our older and at risk population get decimated because we didn't think they had economic value is a crass oversimplification and belies a lack of understanding of how our systems work.
>After she emailed her concerns to Musk, a Tesla lawyer took her aside, she said, and told her that if she continued to push matters, she should remember that some of her friends at Tesla had green card applications pending. (Contacted by The Times, the lawyer denied saying this.)

Come on son, this is some Cyberpunk Johnny Mnemonic level shit. I hope this woman takes these clowns to the cleaners.
In the case of ballots, each ballot should have a recorded chain of custody, so it's actually not 'impossible' to prove something didn't happen. If the accusations are "There are a bunch of ballots that were entered into the counts without proper chain of custody" that can be easily proven or disproven.

If the accusation is "Signatures were required to be verified and bipartisan representatives were legally supposed to witness the process" which apparently is the case in many jurisdictions, that too would be easy to prove or disprove. There will be records associated with those observations and chain of custody records of those ballots.

Unfortunately, some ballot envelopes have already been 'thrown away' so they cannot be audited to see if counts match, to see how many ballots were indeed signed (sometimes a witness is required), or be able to be verified against other controls (such as numbering, ensuring the name on the ballot matches who it was sent to, etc).

The law says you must hold an election, and exactly what steps you need to take to hold such an election. If you didn't follow the steps, there wasn't a lawful election. That's more or less what some of the lawsuits are about.

Are these claims 'baseless'? I don't think so. There's no shortage of sworn affidavits and statements from election officials about how the processes weren't followed. There's also court cases (such as in Georgia) where the executive branch possibly unlawfully struck an agreement with Democrats to relax certain requirements.

The only remaining question is, how heavily should this evidence be weighed, and is it enough to affect the outcome of the process. TBD.
If there was a giant disinformation campaign about that election claiming that the historically attested fraud did not occur, that Tilden was actually the legitimate 19th president, and this was directly weakening the fabric on which we've built our democracy? Sure, I guess.

Obviously it isn't, so no one cares. The point here is clearly to combat deliberate spreading of lies about an election. Now, you can argue that it won't work or will backfire, but there's no significant question about the purpose here.
Only 17 states have those, California and Texas don't, and even if they did they're limited to specific other states.

It's simply not accurate to make the general statement that state personal income taxes are based on your domicile.
They passed an amendment to their constitution.
Also its something that make things like React a little less relevant, by providing a powerful api which will perform much better.
More comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25360432
That's not the public. But I'm fine with owners of a company deciding what they would like to host.
What underpins the visceral emotions you feel? If you're entitled to rant on the Internet, if you feel some payoff to that, don't you think someone is entitled to "virtue signal?" Isn't "virtual signaling" just, "someone else's passion about something, but that something is just not something I personally feel passionate about?"
The difference is that mainstream platforming of those ideas exposes them to massive amounts of folks who stumble upon them, whereas you would have historically had to seek it out on purpose.
You do realize that the largest outbreak of measles in 2019 was not because of Anti-Vax YouTube Videos or other misinformation right? It was directly linked to religious fundamentalism that barred a large group of people from getting vaccinated

So all the YT censorship in the world will not stop that unless you are going to advocate prohibition of religion as well which I feel you likely will not get as much support for

YT and online misinformation is a good scapegoat, much like Usenet was in the 1990's for people that do not understand the real, actual problem

you are not going to fix these problems by censorship
Each state in the US has its own constitution that defines its governance.
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You keep quoting the bits that are talking about the Mueller investigation and not the Senate Committee.

This? This is about Mueller. Not the committee.

> lack of sufficient evidence that the Trump campaign conspired with the Kremlin to impact the outcome of the 2016 election.
> I was given a credit that didn't even cover the delivery and service fees, let alone the tip that they don't let you edit after the order

I'm opposed to the whole idea of tipping, but putting that aside, I can't see how it makes any sense to tip before you've had the service?
> We also disallow content alleging widespread fraud or errors changed the outcome of a historical U.S. Presidential election.

How can any honest person accept this state of affairs? What would be the reaction of the gleefully censorious US big tech employees, many here on HN, if non-US social media giant enacted such measures in their locality?

I don't see evidence that the 2020 election stolen from the Republican candidate, but this is a huge red flag that something might be going on. It would absolutely be consdiered as such were this happening elsewhere.
> state government covered $7,500 of every Tesla bought in the state.

This was a general subsidy for every car maker, regardless of location.

> Obama’s administration...

Was also not California specific.
You seem to be arguing that because cases 1-9 were without merit, case 10 and beyond are too. That may turn out to be true, but it is also quite literally pre-judging.

Your argument also accepts that the courts judged these cases to have no merit, while implicitly denying that such judging was necessary.

How should a Google staffer differentiate between case number 9 (dismissed) and case number 10 (still on the docket)? And what hope can they have of coming to a better understanding of the details and merits of a case than the exact body (a court) which is set up to do precisely this?

The whole legal system is premised on every case being judged on its own merits, and rightly so.
I don't know why OP is so bitter and wants to emigrate but in general, English is not about moving to another place but doing business beyond local.

The Netherlands and Scandinavia accounts for the most of the European global tech output and this is not because Spaniards don't know how to code.

The Dutch and people in the Scandinavian countries are so proficient in English that they do products like the Americans. Knowing English that well makes it possible to understand the global popular culture and think in global scale when doing startups.
"Nothing works in California; it is “failed state” tier. It is also a preview of the national dystopia to come if California isn’t sawed off and left to drift off to sea in a Calexit. It is either that, give it back to Mexico, or a war of extermination -nothing less will save us from the nightmarish California Dream. The Bay Area has nice weather, and some interesting people live there out of what I assume is inertia and provincialism, but there is no worse place to live in North America today. It’s a physical paradise made into dystopian hellscape by the people who live in it."

This is completely unhinged (and bigoted) fantasy. I have lived in multiple places around the US and liked many of them. California works pretty well, actually. It is not remotely like the USSR circa 1985.

It does overtax and underdeliver. But the federal government does that on a much grander scale.

The Bay Area and LA are overcrowded. There are other places to live in California! Some with much more natural beauty.
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I lost weight because I found something I truly enjoy and it isn't hard to motivate myself to do it. What you are talking about sounds like work. I've used more analytical ways for a while and I get bored and lose track. Scheduling a weekday where I always go mountain biking with friends is fun and keeps me fit.

For me anyhow, the fun aspect is critical.
Yes, I absolutely believe that Alex Jones has lost some of his audience since being "deplatformed". Some of his audience will continue to follow him, some will continue to follow some other source of cray, and some will wander out of the fever swamps. I consider this a positive outcome, even if it's not a perfect one.

Also consider that he's lost a lot of his ability to grow his audience, which is no small thing.
I'll quote it again since you didn't read:

> the findings run parallel to the conclusions of Mueller's probe, which found overwhelming evidence of Russia's efforts to interfere in the election through disinformation and cyber campaigns but a lack of sufficient evidence that the Trump campaign conspired with the Kremlin to impact the outcome of the 2016 election.

That's from the article you linked.

a lack of sufficient evidence that the Trump campaign conspired with the Kremlin to impact the outcome of the 2016 election.

Do you see that part?
Well this makes no sense. I mean, good luck with your decisions, but Europe is wast, and there are certainly places where someone could prosper.
Sematech would have succeeded if the U.S. government had any interest at all in protecting its domestic manufacturing, or if Japan had better labor protections. Now everything is offshored and I can't fly my drone on military bases because all computer chips come from China. Pretty bad move in hindsight.
There’s nothing secret or private about any of this. Go read what the judges’ responses where to the Trump legal team’s claims were. Some of these judges were appointed by Trump. The Supreme Court has struck down multiple claims. Those are public too. Election officials have investigated and found to evidence of fraud. The people Trump is attacking in Georgia for example are Republicans. Barr’s investigation found no evidence of fraud that would have changed the election.

Every person that was actually involved in the election has said Biden won fairly. They made public statements. It’s all out there in the open available for you to see. If that doesn’t convince you I don’t know what evidence would.
Mind explaining a bit more about the weaknesses of Debian in prod? I'm a Debian fanboy and from what I can gather people are still hung up over the SSH keys security fiasco (which was [and handled] extremely bad ofc) a long time ago, but am obviously wrong here so would love some enlightenment from someone in the know
This a very interesting, yet curiously unsupported assertion.

Indeed, it is a "crucial fact," and one with zero public, supporting evidence. If you were to find this evidence, you would change the world. Do find it, if you can.
That's an interesting observation, though I think you've missed the effect of scale. Keep in mind, a one block town would be 100% accessible by a public transportation system consisting of a horse drawn carriage on permanent loop.

More of Portland is accessible by public transportation than the SF Bay Area, but then again, in absolute terms, there's notably less Portland to be accessed. I'd say that what you can access on public transportation in the SF Bay Area vastly exceeds what you can access in Portland, mainly because the SF Bay Area is far, far, bigger. There's also a lot more that you can't access in the SF Bay Area (and if you work in tech, you may be forced to access it).

One way to illustrate this would be to overlay a public transportation map on top of population density map based on census tracks. You'll see that there are far more high density census areas in SF/Oakland serviced by light rail, subway, bus systems, and so forth than in Portland, and that the areas connected offer vastly more in the realm of commerce, entertainment, arts, sports. The same will be true of Seattle was well.
My guess would be eventually the fines rack up to the point where it becomes a more serious offense and more drastic measures are taken. Also, a lot of the enforcement measures likely do not fall under the umbrella of "prosecution."

I'm not sure if driving without a license can ever be escalated to a felony, but I'm sure they can do things like impound the car, etc. That would never involve the DA unless it was challenged in court
> has been massively growing even pre-pandemic

Well, anyone can massively grow (pandemic or not) when you're selling dimes at the price of a nickel.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-05-18/the-un...
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You know your viewpoints are correct when you gleefully engage in literal book burning to erase opposing ideas.

Where one political party controls nearly all mass media and chooses what history is, memory holes any opposing ideas, where anyone with an opposing idea is dehumanized and branded as evil, de-platformed, banned, censored, fired, (and eventually, worse).

It's straight out of 1984 and the playbook of every evil regime. And just like every evil regime in the past, it has wide support and the citizens cheer it on and support it and ignore the evil, because they're told it's evil for a good cause. They cheer it on because they've been brainwashed to hate the other half of the population and believe it's OK to do evil to "bad" people. For a party so concerned about stopping the next "Hitler" and how Nazi Germany could have ever happened, they sure love following in the same exact footsteps.
> Google is free (and should remain free) to censor whatever they want on the platform that they own

So, since ISPs also own their platform, should they also be free to block content that competes with their services along with content they’re required to block by law?
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One idea I've had is tie new housing supply numbers to it.

Build X amount of new housing or have your property tax go up 10% per year until at market rate.

Would never pass, but I think it would be interesting.
> Then nuclear will be cheap.

But it still won't be built, because Solar PV and wind are roughly two-thirds the cost and falling. (Including the cost of backup power supplies for periods of low sun or low wind.)

(Not to mention having much shorter construction times until first revenue, lower delay risk, lower investment risk, and lower operation and maintenance costs.)

Nuclear had its chance in the 1990s. Today, we have cheaper and better options.
It couldn't find anything on collusion, but the question of obstruction is still open... and what exactly were they obstructing investigators from finding? Evidence of collusion maybe? We won't know because they obstructed the investigation.
Users flagged it. We can only guess why users flag things, but I suspect the baity title played a role, plus the celebrity aspect, plus the political aspect. The story itself seems on topic, so I'm going to turn off the flags and change the title.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25360889.
They are extremely expensive.
Perhaps for the same reason an editor for a very prominent news paper got fired for publishing a policy statement by a very prominent politician.

Killing the messenger nowadays is all the rage. "Rage" here to be taken literally.
then go somewhere else for content
I have a feeling he'd say that was ridiculous, based on this quote from his manifesto:

Q: Were you taught violence and extremism by video games, music, literature, cinema?

Yes, Spyro the dragon 3 taught me ethno-nationalism. Fortnite trained me to be a killer and to floss on the corpses of my enemies. No.

People are more intelligent than these criticisms give them credit for. Their beliefs come from opinions and thoughts, not just from above. See Ross Douthat's recent column, "Why Do So Many Americans Think the Election Was Stolen?"

"The potency of this belief has already scrambled some of the conventional explanations for conspiratorial beliefs, particularly the conceit that the key problem is misinformation spreading downward from partisan news outlets and social-media fraudsters to the easily deceived. As I watch the way certain fraud theories spread online, or watch conservatives abandon Fox News for Newsmax in search of validating narratives, it’s clear that this is about demand as much as supply. A strong belief spurs people to go out in search of evidence, a lot of so-called disinformation is collected and circulated sincerely rather than cynically, and the power of various authorities — Tucker Carlson’s show or Facebook’s algorithm — to change beliefs is relatively limited."

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/05/opinion/sunday/trump-elec...
If you are reading popular books on social science (which many business books are), it is very likely that the author is pushing research they are personally invested in succeeding. They are often not trying to convey a nuanced understanding of a phenomenon. Furthermore, popular books are often not peer-reviewed to the same extant or at all as regular research literature.

A better alternative is to read review articles in journals. They are shorter than books and will also give a more reasonable estimate of the certainty experts have in a certain field of results. For example, in psychology there is the Annual Review of Psychology, which generally publishes ~50pg readable summaries of literature by experts in the field. For the love of social science, please stop reading popular books on the brain/mind.
It's gone to the courts dozens of times already. Just because they continue to fruitlessly file suits doesn't mean that it is actually ongoing.
It's a bit incoherent to offer subsidies to encourage the creation of new tech and then get mad at people for taking you up on the offer.
Which fact?
It distorts many aspects of governance.

People don't move because there's a tax hike proportionate to how long you've lived there, so there's less turnover in housing, meaning less supply, meaning higher prices.

It puts a hard, long term, effectively permanent cap on tax growth, so cities must plan for everything to continually get leaner. Cities make land use and zoning decisions based on uses that are net contributors to revenue, vs net costs. What is a net cost? Housing in general, especially housing that might contain school aged children - that's why 3+ bedroom apartments are so much more rare. What are net contributors? Offices and retail. So the places with demand get to pick, and SF and the Peninsula restrict housing as much as they can and have a huge concentration of offices.

Places on the outskirts (e.g. Dublin, Livermore, Gilbert, Brentwood) are allowing housing to be built because they're trying to turn nothing into something, but any established, and especially built-out city, has a strong financial incentive not to admit a single additional resident to live there, while encouraging everyone they can to shop and work there.
Private companies control what information they publish, not what information "people are allowed to see".

To the general audience: the rhetoric of the parent comment is designed to blur the lines and invite accusations of "censorship" where none apply.
So under what philosophical model do we justify forcing YouTube to host content that they find objectionable just so that content is more easily discovered using their algorithm?
Unfortunately normal and healthy are not the same. Seems Texas politics is normal for Texas politics at the moment.
^ an Austin tradition typically reserved for the yearly SXSW festival, when the city is flooded with tourists during a time that has nicer-than-usual weather. It is also traditional to develop a cruel sense of joy when people begin complaining about how hot it is in early July, as you tell them it is about to get, somehow, _much_ hotter.
Godwin's Law and you're done.

But baring that, how do you know which side is propaganda? Is it FOX/CNN/MSNBC or is it Newsmax/DailyWire/NYPost/Blaze/Crowder? Which side is the propaganda and which is the capitol T Truth?
Yes, in a perfect world where all of his followers fact-check everything he says, that would be enough to discredit him. Sadly this is not the case.