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> Do you, or do you not have rights as an Australian?

It isn't a black-and-white thing "you have rights or you don't".

Constitutions serve several purposes – to lay out the basic structure of the national government (the executive, legislature, judiciary, etc); in a federation, to establish the division of powers between the federation and its constituents (states/provinces/etc); to establish procedures for amending the constitution; and to protect individual rights.

Different constitutions differ on how much they have to say about that last topic. Some constitutions say a lot, others little. The American constitution originally had little to say on that topic, but then the Bill of Rights and Reconstruction amendments added a lot. The Australian constitution is somewhere between the two: it has a bit more to say than the original (pre-Bill of Rights) US constitution had to say, but a lot less than the current US constitution has. Protection of individual rights is not an either-or, it is a matter of degrees, and the Australian constitution provides significantly less of a degree of it than the US constitution does.

It is however possible to have rights in practice without them being guaranteed constitutionally. In Australia, there is no constitutional right to freedom of non-political speech, but in practice the law allows a wide freedom for that–but not unlimited, and narrower than US law does. Part of it not being a constitutionally entrenched right, is that Parliament could change the law tomorrow to significantly narrow it, and one would have no recourse against such a law through the courts.

You seem to view constitutional law as being all about individual rights, when there is a lot of constitutional law which has nothing directly to do with that topic.
This was exactly my question while discussing with a few Danish friends who brushed it off saying, “yeah it’s wrong, but it’s not that bad.... while in Denmark they should be willing to live like a Dane”. My argument was whether they would be willing to wear a burka or give up driving as a woman without complaining in Saudi Arabia a not that they are good anywhere. The point is what is wrong should just be called out as wrong and not politically sugarcoated.
Maybe a transflective LCD would also be easy on the eyes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transflective_liquid-crystal_d...
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A deeper problem is that many consider voting broken by definition, unless their team wins. Because the opposition has been "corrupted" and "fooled", their dissent is not legitimate. They see the ballot box strictly as a utilitarian tool, which when it does not give the God Given outcome, can rightly be followed up by the ammo box. Because the opposition is wrong and dangerous to this country.
Why didn't you train on random images from the web? If you carefully select your sources, most of them will be non-nudes.
Slight tangent, I find it interesting how a lot of (non technical) people these days refer to their desktop background images as "screen savers". I am of a generation that remember when screen saver programs were widely used to prevent monitor burn in. I'm guessing that the term has persisted without the understanding of what it actually means because screen saver programs are rarely used any more, power saving features have taken over.
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> If no-one even notices without being explicitly told

Two thought experiments:

Would one notice if meat was or wasn't halal if one wasn't explicitly told?

Would one notice if fruit juice was or wasn't kosher if one wasn't explicitly told?
Possibly as simple as they are removing Bot accounts?
All other things being equal, _if_ unused RAM used less power: yes.

Unused RAM doesn’t use less power, though. Writing and reading it do, but afaik, all current systems happily refresh the memory content of all RAM, including unused RAM, and that’s what eats the power in an idling system.

Installing less RAM will help, though. I think that’s one reason why Apple ships iPhones with less RAM than flagship Android devices.
Some companies don't separate ML roles by title, but that still leads to problems.

Without management-driven separation, too many people try to work on just modeling. You wind up with nobody labeling and cleaning the data. Everyone complains that it's hard to get their models to work on the limited data available, but no one wants to be relegated to the data cleaning role.

I have yet to see a good company layout that makes everyone happy. Too many people want to work on modeling, and the worst part is that individuals are right to fight for it. The more practice you get, the more you improve at the work. Plus, companies tend to value good modelers, so your salary goes up too. It's a very frustrating feedback loop.

Separating modeling work by title or by team is one of the few ways companies can keep from having a run on the modeling projects.

There are a few other ways, but they are all pretty bad too. You can have a "keep what you kill" structure, where everyone gets first dibs on doing modeling on the data they've collected and cleaned. I've also seen a company that makes the modeling job as miserable as possible with slow tooling and high expectations, so lots of people wash out and only a few modelers are left.

I wish I knew a good solution to this. My only idea is to play-up the importance (and salary!) of the support roles, but I'm not satisfied yet.
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Hey HN! I'm Gaurav, founder at Superadmin. It’s like a visual CI for your web apps. You can run the test-runner on builds and it will render pages and alert you if there's any changes.

We had a tool like this at Google and I know many companies build something simple on their own or setup really complex toolchains to do this.

We've used alternatives, namely Cypress and found it is extremely time consuming to setup, and difficult to maintain large amounts of testing code. There are some solutions to these problems we're solving that we're super excited to release soon!

With the use of a chrome browser extension (coming soon) we're looking to make a no code tool to build tests and make it easier to get regression testing checked off for teams.

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> I have a key binding for escaping to emacs to work on the current source.

Are you aware that you can set the Jetbrains editor to use emacs key bindings?
It is sad to see Larry McMurtry has passed on. He was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford 1960-1961 along with my friend, Peter Beagle.

My personal favorite of Larry's books is "Leaving Cheyenne", which plays out three intertwined lives in West Texas during the brief interlude we call the "wild West". While "Lonesome Dove"is an epic novel, "Leaving Cheyenne" is an intense record of love and commitment set against the evolving West Texas backdrop. It is among the few novels I have read more than once.
> Big banks actually want Bitcoin. They are smart enough to see past the end of the dollar ponzi scheme,

Ahaha. Citation needed, extra-ordinary claims etc.
Oh, thanks for pointing it out. Honestly, I was more interested in leveraging the type system than on proper dimensional analysis. I could find no mechanism by which Ada allows the programmer to disable the default operation overloads, so I decided to try that out.
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How is that manipulation? It also goes the other way, if you try to manipulate view counts with bot accounts for upvotes those votes will get deleted.
Especially given the political nature of the channel, it's far more likely it's just about removing bots and spammers than a nefarious conspiracy. Besides, I'm surprised anyone cares about YouTube likes and dislikes, especially as a real measure of popularity.
A large portion of the channel has been upgraded into two lanes in the last few years.
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I’ve avoided saying so for many years (because I wanted to earn more bitcoin) but there are some fun ways to debilitate bitcoin

A ban requires an ongoing attack on the bitcoin network

An ongoing attack on the bitcoin network doesnt require a ban

Basically a well funded organization will have to engage in a multi-pronged and simultaneous approach to debilitate bitcoin, while also deterring its use in person

This pretty much requires a government sponsored entity to do
>White men can and do blame sexism and racism for their failure to advance all the time, and have been doing so since the day when overt discrimination in their favor stopped being a near-universal norm.

Yes, everyone is guilty of this. When you mess up, blame someone else. That's how you get stuck regardless of your race or gender. You'll be on a crusade against the wrong thing and never achieve anything.
>> But the future seen from the past is weird even when it includes only actually-realizable technologies.

Amen. You can freeze technological advance and let only society develop on its own, and the future will still look weird. Take the LGBT revolution; it has nothing to do with tech but today's world looks weird to somebody from the perspective of just two decades ago.
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The issue seems to have been resolved.
RoR is a great framework it should get more recognition.
‘Journalist’ should be a regulated profession like ‘Doctor’ or ‘Structural engineer’ or ‘Airline pilot’ or ‘Architect’. It seems very likely that poor journalism has incited violence that has caused death and injury. Other proffessions that hold people’s lives in thier hands are regulated. Journalism should be too. Of course anyone can still say whatever they want on the internet just like I can give out homeopathic advice if I want to but they wouldn’t have the badge assuring quality control.

Articles could be signed by the journalist and you could check the probity of the journalist in the same way you can check the safety record of a Pilot with the FAA. Complaints could be tried by a tribunal panel with findings of poor professional conduct published like they are for Doctors and Architects the ultimate sanction being struck off from the profession.
> Was their client caught on camera committing a crime? Just spin some b.s. about that person on screen being someone else.

That only works if it could plausibly be someone else. The defence's job is to introduce reasonable doubt, not prove that their client didn't do what they are accused of. It's the court's job to establish whether there is any merit to those claims.
Thanks for the recommendation. Another spiritual off-shoot is Clementine / Strawberry.

https://www.clementine-player.org/

https://strawberrymusicplayer.org/
Except when it isn't. I don't know if I'm uniquely bad at web search these days, but Google seems to do the exact opposite of what I want. I.e. when I need some solid information about a piece of technology or knowledge, it'll spam me with content marketing bullshit published last week. But when I need something recent - like a current opinion on some software alternatives, or installation instructions, all I get are results from 5+ years ago.
This came up because the issue of banning Bitcoin came up in India again[0]

The original interview is here, and the Bitcoin segment starts at 14:30:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJ82qABNWQA

The whole interview is worth a watch if you're interested in his perspective on the global economy. What Dalio actually said was in the long run he wouldn't be surprised if the US Government eventually attempt to ban Bitcoin, and he made the historical comparison to gold (which he favours).

For those that don't know their history[1]: "in 1933, Executive Order 6102 had made it a criminal offense for U.S. citizens to own or trade gold anywhere in the world, with exceptions for some jewelry and collector's coins.". These restrictions lasted for 30 years

I actually tend to agree with him. Bitcoin blows a gaping hole in any capital controls any government could ever want to impose, and its one available to ordinary plebs with an Internet connection.

The reality is though, only 3% of the ~32 million funded wallets in existence actually transact every day[2], and only 7 million wallets globally have more than $1,000 USD worth in them[3]. Bitcoin isn't really a threat to anything yet.

[0] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/india-proposes-ban-bitcoin-us...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Reserve_Act

[2] https://www.bitcoinmarketjournal.com/how-many-people-use-bit...

[3] https://bitinfocharts.com/top-100-richest-bitcoin-addresses....
Germany/Sweden but talking to friends people from France and Spain as well as the other Scandinavian countries think the same.
Right. Label common sense as racism, and then be surprised that men clam up.
I can read it and I didn't pay for it. You probably visited the website too many times and it hit the paywall limit.
I'm sure there's ways to extract loads of e.g. tiktok videos, especially the non trending / highly produced ones (I'm making assumptions about the use case here).
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> Citation?

All costs below are in $USD nominal per mile of fully-underground subway system.

NYC subway extension, east side: $3.7B per mile.

SF Central subway: $928M per mile.

Tokyo: $400M

Beijing: $240M

Berlin: $327M

Naples: $194M

Milan: $175M

This is backed up by a Citylab analysis:

Alon Levy at Citylab shows approximate range of underground rail construction costs in continental Europe and Japan is between $100 million per mile and $1 billion. Most subway lines cluster in the range of $200 million to $500 million per mile.

The US has a range of subway construction costs of $600 million to $2.6 billion per mile. The US median price cluster is $800 million to $1 billion per mile.

And of course plotted in Tableau [5].

> That’s how democracy works. If you don’t vote, you don’t have a voice.

Indeed.

[1] https://www.marketplace.org/2019/04/11/subways-us-expensive-...

[2] https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2018/01/subways-and-light-rail...

[3] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-26/the-u-s-g...

[4] https://pedestrianobservations.com/2011/08/22/construction-c...

[5] https://public.tableau.com/profile/romic2976#!/vizhome/EnoTr...
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Right, there are many ways to convey that you are not going to offer your help. Most of them do not make you sound like an asshole.
Oh it's absolutely the dart/flutter plugin. Just as it was the C# plugin when I attempted to use it as a VS replacement, and it was down to Rust plugin when I tried that.

So in the end the only decent experience I had with it was Typescript and JS.

Compare that to IntelliJ or Visual Studio. If I was mostly doing Web frontend or node I would 100% use vscode. Otherwise I just find it's too unreliable and I don't want to waste productivity energy on it. (I wish it was on IntelliJ level, I would pay for that with vscode remoting possibilities, more than I pay IntelliJ even)
" If jetbrains isn't the most used, then it's not the best."

Oversimplification, when comparing free software and paid software.
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Thanks for the advice and genuine concern. I stand corrected, mine was a theoretical knowledge and no I did not take any decision based upon that (incomplete) knowledge.
I would take zero over non-zero given the consequences.
You can find a customized version of it on web.de / gmx.net / mail.com under the product name of "Online Office", once you login with a registered user.
Why a snarky response to a harmless question? The person asking the question didn’t say anything about US expertise or Egyptian expertise.

It’s considered condescending to send help in dire situations?

Damn, everyone is on the edge these days.
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If you are using either one of the following portal it's basically under the name of "Online Office" (there's also mail, cloud and other services similar to what Google has): https://web.de/ https://gmx.net/ https://mail.com

The first two is mainly for German users, the last one is for international ones.
Always vendor software instead of relying on public repositories.
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So you're saying the legal system is stacked in favor of the large, so we shouldn't bother with laws at all?

If you broke Oracle's license terms they'll be suing you.
> They could also decide to re-use the SSNs of those who have been dead for decades.

That will definitely NOT cause a new bunch of issues!
> Then there is this saying that if a lawyer represents himself in a court, he has a fool for a customer

Also making the reverse assertion true too: that client has a fool for a lawyer :-)

Of course, many unsuspecting non-lawyer clients also have fools for lawyers; it's hard to tell whether or not your lawyer is any good (unless his name is Saul Goodman)
> instead post a useless error without the conditions that led to it.

Why are your errors useless?
Bitcoin enables tax evasion, sponsoring terrorism, all kinds of illicit trade, malware ransoms, and god knows what else. Isn't banning or hindering those in the interest of the general public?
> because the only way to go back in time is to have a speed greater than infinity

And how is that a misconception? That seems to be exactly the thing the "answers" describe: the time it takes to travel from point A to point B being negative, somehow. Even when discussing problems where we've defined that duration to be positive.

> Probably because your approach is very confrontational

Just because you perceive it to be so doesn't mean it is. Just like, relevantly, how two signals arriving at a reference frame doesn't necessarily indicate the causality of whatever generated those signals.

> get directed to a wikipedia page where it's answered

It's not answered in said page. If it was then I'd be discussing that answer, rather than continuing to ask for that answer. (Not to mention that just linking some Wikipedia page without any attempt at providing context is itself pretty dismissive, but whatever)

Specifically, the "answer" in that page only seems to describe the situation where the signal in its own reference frame is actually travelling faster than c, whereas the very premise of things like warp drives is to, you know, warp spacetime such that the distance covered in that signal's own reference frame is substantially shorter than normal.

That is: a tachyonic antitelephone assumes that, you know, the signal exists as tachyons. Citing the concept of a tachyonic antitelephone in the context of a discussion around warping spacetime to shorten the distance entirely (i.e. remove the reliance on tachyons entirely) suggests - to me, at least, with my dumb dropout monkey brain - some implication that any situation where a signal from Point A arrives at Point B (where A and B are, say, 1 lightsecond away) any sooner than 1 second after being sent from Point A necessitates that signal to be treated as tachyonic, no matter what the signal "perceives" in its own reference frame. Thus, my question: why?

And if you can't answer that question, then that's perfectly fine! I can't answer that question, either, so it ain't like I'd hold it against you. But if you're going to take the time to dismiss that question as being stupid or misguided or what have you, the least you could do is attempt to explain why it's a stupid question - or, better yet, just answer the question.

> Pop science books are a thing, try those instead?

Would you care to recommend one?

> But combining that with "oh why am I getting downvoted and dismissed" wailing seems disingenuous though.

If you actually believed me to be the disingenuous one in this conversation, then why bother continuing to comment? If you don't have anything to contribute, and don't believe I have anything to contribute, then, you could always, you know, leave me to my ignorant wailing :)
>now I email myself wikipedia current events

Same (except the email part). Its also useful to check the page history for each day too since it can often be a political battleground.
Since most production occurs in China too, shouldn’t we need law to identify green powered manufactured goods ?
> Curiously HN gets people who want to be as rich as Elon Musk, but don't think anything should cost money!

Those are different people, just both using HN
https://www.hndigest.com/ is the best here.

Not quite hacker news centric but I do source my own newsletter from hacker news https://betterdev.link

Note stay way from https://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/ When I clicked "Daily email subscription" it shows me a very creepy full screen ads https://pix.fastloop.xyz/upload/7242cd2fe763c406fc5b743e3de4...
It's pretty easy?
You do realize the rise in attacks on Asian Americans are not simply anecdotes from the media but shows up in the statistics and police reports?
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Supposedly (haven't dug into it yet) videogames consume more energy than bitcoin. [1] Yet we don't see a similar organized effort to ban gaming. Why?

[1] https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/introducing-cbei-a-new-...
If you take the title at face value, the lobbyist explicitly states that it is safe to drink. Asking him to drink up is no longer particularly extreme to me.
Yeah, it's kind of my thing :-)

One of the previous times I hit the front page of HN it was for inserting snark into an X509 certificate and then using it on my site.

https://rya.nc/cert-tricks.html
One example of it. Others were mentioned also. Get rid of your bias.
> This limits options for the free version they tested, as by design it will not completely prevent all detected automation from passing.

"Not completely prevent all" seems to mean "prevent about 5%", which is cold comfort for users who expected better. If they had paid for the service, would they have gotten better results (i.e. fewer successful bot sign-ups)?
95% of LibreOffice Online commits were made by Collabora anyway, they mostly just wanted some recognition for their work I suppose.
I think you misunderstood what they're saying - you can get it for free no matter the user count, as it's open source software. They only do support contracts with organisations greater than 20 people.
yes but if you flip the numbers is gets weird. a third of expats in Italy wanted the UK to leave the EU? that doesn't mean it would be hard to find someone to interview for "entertainment". Every third group should have someone.
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> Just because you perceive it to be so doesn't mean it is.

Yes, I see that you're capable of being confrontational all day, and unwilling to follow up via clicking links on your own. Why don't you find someone else to troll?
Maybe I'm missing something, but why do the coal & oil plants get a free pass to dump their waste into the air? Its much easier to contain and store nuclear waste because you can keep track of it, whereas the coal and oil waste is just dumped in the air for everyone to breathe.
It seems the world is driving towards some kind of "unique conscious collective intelligence". I guess the idea is that machine learning and AI are hungry for data, and as long as there is money, it's obvious that privacy won't matter, but data will.

It's important to understand the positive aspects of the consequences of data collection. Of course information is power and it short circuits democracy. But on the other hand, computers give the extraordinary possibility to gain an insight through actual statistics. It's a loss for a gain. Maybe that's how democracy will evolve, and maybe it will help voters, in the end?

It's murphy's law.
It's not the individual principles that changed, it's the feedback loop that has tightened.
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