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Well, since this was honestly asked, as opposed to "Why don't we swan dive into the cesspool," I'm happy to relate my experience, and the opinions derived, thereof.

First of all, I don't have an axe to grind, re: RMS. I'm grateful for his contributions, and find some of what he says a bit annoying (but not something I lose sleep over). I honestly don't care whether or not he sits on the FSF board. It has almost nothing to do with the day-to-day work I do.

> but has he actually harmed anybody? Committed any crimes?

Well, the actual question was "Committed any crimes?", verbatim, so answering, by referring to the law of the land (or lack, thereof), is quite understandable. We live in a time, where "If it's legal, it's gold." seems to be the modus operandi of the business world. I find that we spend precious little time, considering such trivialities as Honor, Integrity or Honesty, when looking only at the legal code.

As to "harming someone," I suspect that we may not be the best judge of that. I deal with highly traumatized people, several days a week, and am quite aware of the grievous harm that can be done by folks, not intending to do harm. Often, the most damage is done by simple words (or lack of words), from those in a perceived position of authority (like parents or bosses).

> Obviously yes, saying dumb things will get you criticised and people may think you're a dick.

When people in positions of authority (and RMS is definitely an authority, whether or not he sits on a board) say stuff, it has a lot of impact. In my extracurricular world, I also spend a lot of time, running around with baby wipes, and a pooper-scooper, cleaning up emotional and physical damage, caused by the careless words of folks with authority that refuse to take Responsibility for their positions of influence. I have been one of those people, and have caused damage, by careless words.

I get rather peeved at people that have achieved some position of influence, then disregard the considerable Responsibility that comes with the trappings of power. Like I said, a bricklayer can spout off a bunch of guff, but their bosses are morally (and sometimes, ethically, and even legally) Responsible to watch what the heck they say. Today's hyper-connected world makes this even more imperative. Jerome Powell can crash the stock market by taking off his glasses to rub his eyes.

I really wish that society did a better job of teaching simple ethics, courtesy and logic. As someone who actually has a somewhat diminished capacity for this, I have had to learn it from scratch; often the hard way. I have caused a lot of hurt and embarrassment, over the years, been held to account, and have had to apply a great deal of self-discipline to mitigate my natural inclinations. It has not been fun. It's difficult for me to be sympathetic to folks that should have it come natural, and I know, for a fact, that there is a better way.
https://github.com/rs/node-netmask/commit/ec1b5b56a822babf90...

I don't see it.
>>They don't have to pay taxes this year because they didn't make money in previous years? How are previous years relevant to this year?

If you don't allow a company to carry forward loses you get a capricious result:

Company A makes $20M in 2019 and $20M in 2020 which is $4.2M dollars tax each year or $8.40M total tax on $40M total earnings.

Company B makes -$30M in 2019 and $70M in 2020 which is 0 year and $14.7M or $14.7M total tax on $40M total earnings.
I agree with you that it's not based on logic and reason. And I am OK with that. The mystery and subjectiveness is part of the point and part of reality that we need to grapple with.
It matters whose insurance company pays, though.
So what you're saying is, "it's complicated"?
I have 3 of these in my backyard in Croatia, but we call them "Mušmula".

Never realised they went out of fashion elsewhere.
I would image the opposite tbh, that $9b of delayed goods per day is not lost, it's just delayed. Most of that goods, unless they are perishable goods, will sell like normal, just a bit later.

There is obviously a loss here on increased costs and loss of sell opportunities due to the delay, but that figures are mega inflated IMO.
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Edgy opinion: religion is useful for guiding the human inclination to look for causes and reasons. All people will believe all kinds of nonsense, some people fanatically, so it's useful to make sure these people have healthy outlets. Lower church membership may not be the atheist utopia one desires, especially in the west with our rampant and unapologetic individualism.
The fact that you speak with such a reverence about racial segregation is truly frightening.

The fact that you think that would solve anything, despite centuries of evidence against it is even worse.

You will never be able to fix the past, nothing will ever bring back those people and they will never get a chance to live a just and fair life, let alone a happy one. It is unjust that it happened the way it did, it is sad, it is inexcusable, but it is also already done.

The only hope we have, and if we owe them anything we owe them this, is to create a better future by not repeating the mistakes of the past.

But instead you are doubling down on them. Dividing everyone again. Putting everyone in boxes and forcing them to give up their lives and dreams for them. Opening vicarious wounds and making people find a hate inside of them that was never there in the first place. And then wonder why the pushback.

I realize you think you have all the answers and that is why you speak with so much superiority from up high above the rest of us so I’ll never be able to change your mind, but for others that might be reading this, be very skeptical every time someone asks you to forget yourself and become a label, as that is what brought us here. You are better than a label, you are much much more than that.
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Men's lodges, fraternal organizations, and so on around here tend to have a religious underpinning of specific faiths, or seem to be charities of some kind with a connection to religion. As such, I think declining church membership would drag them down as well.

I wonder if men's clubs exist which are neither, just completely secular. I haven't been able to find any when searching, aside from The Club, which technically fits but as a bathhouse for hookups, wasn't really what I had in mind. I know lodges centered around professions more or less fell apart, and perhaps the last vestige of secular groups would be country clubs.

It's hard to tell how much of this is just "people aren't joiners anymore" and how much is declining church membership.
It depends what philosophical questions you want an answer to.

If you're asking "What happens to us after we die?" then the church has as good an answer as anyone, because nobody's bringing any hard evidence to the table.

If you're asking "How should I act and think to be a good person?" then religion has some ideas - some of them really good ideas, like the golden rule - but it's a huge question touching on almost everything. And some of today's questions require a lot of extrapolation over and above the words of the bible.

If you're asking natural philosophy questions, like "what is lightning" or "what do we need to do to prevent future flooding" then you probably won't reference religion at all (except perhaps when you get back to moral questions, like if your flood defence displaces people)
This is true, but irrelevant. There is plenty of non-copyleft software that is thriving. FreeBSD, PostgreSQL, X, Rails, you name it. None of them have succumbed to the fates against which GPL proponents advertise their license as the only defence.
The military and police have a long history of being deployed against workers in the US. In at least one case firing upon striking coal workers.

Companies like the Pinkertons have been using violence against striking workers for a long time, (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_strike ) and are still in operation and used to quell labor organizing today. Amazon hired the Pinkertons, for instance, to spy on their workers.
>Not something I claimed.

No but it follows immediately from what you did claim (quoted in my previous reply).

>Feel free to provide a citation.

I need a citation for the fact that Hitler (and to a lesser extent Goebbels) are synonymous with the words Nazi and Holocaust? Really?
10 million market order shouldn't move the market too much if against USD on a US exchange.

You can always just call an OTC broker and the spread is typically 0.3-0.5%
Yes, several other commenters have made that suggestion, and I agree it is a good one. This tool is aimed at those interested in a public domain text, or people who using other tools who are looking for additional practice in the form of interactive exercises with explanations.
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Class in American discourse is a weird thing. If they had achieved suburban middle class lives, what made them working class?

In England, you might say well if your dad was working class then you are working class for your whole life regardless of anything else. But the American notion of class isn’t generally thought of that way.
Woke scolds are more judgmental than any old church marm but have no God they feel they should humble themselves before. The leaders of the Intersectional crusade see themselves as the highest moral paragons and the whole faith lacks self awareness
Don't forget Summa Technologiae, from 1964, wherein he wanted to example the "thorns of roses yet to bloom": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summa_Technologiae

It's tempting to say that Lem was way ahead of his time, but then we look at his contemporary philosophers of politics, technology, society like Jacques Ellul, Marshall McLuhan, Gilbert Simondon, and realize that the mid-20th century was awash in brilliant foresight about the unpleasant implications of a technological society.

IMO this nuanced thought was simply lost in the craziness of the late-60s and the sex/drug/rock&roll hedonism of the 70s, which then matured into stockbroker 80s, before a second wave of tech-capital-blindness emerged in the 1990s.

And now as these waves have transformed the entirety of modernity, we are faced with the unpleasant question of "where does it go from here, now that the Boomers -- whose narcissism birthed Consumerism -- are dying off?"
Here’s some to kickstart things. Genuinely curious

1) did you grow up in the church you currently belong to or did you join later? If the former, did you ever explore other ones? Why/why not?

2) there can be doubt about what the Bible literally says given the number of authors, editors, and time involved. For example, someone chose x word when translating to English, that also could have meant y. Or, x book was included and y book was not. What are your thoughts on this?

3) there are a lot of rules in the Bible, especially one like Letiviticus (sp?). As someone adhering to literalism, do you aspire to follow them all? If not, which ones do you? If so, how do you deal with (likely) not following them all?

4) how do you keep your faith nourished / going in today’s society, where membership in churches is declining and Internet denizens can have a lot of skepticism toward religion?
In college I built a project that could reasonably well predict the key of a given piece based on the distribution of note usage. For example, most pieces written in a major key would have the highest usage of the root, and the dominant of a key.

This obviously has a number flaws, but worked remarkably well for western music written between 1600 and 1900.
Companies in the US used to hire hitmen to murder union leaders (I guess they still do, at least in South America). When that didn't work they sent in the national guard to mow down the strikers with machine guns.
"reason", one of the "four pillars of [the] Wesleyan [Quadrilateral]" is "all emotion over logic"?
Agreed. I would add that all of my cheap stand alone GPS devices have had this capability for a long time without the need of AI or network connectivity. They give an audible warning that I am in a school zone or going too fast for where I am. The school alert was enabled by default on two models and the speed limit warning had to be enabled. I have a heavy foot.

I would never work for someone that has to watch me on camera, unless of course being on camera was my job.
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But 5 minutes should be fine? It surprised me that so many has 1 second or 20 second TTL.
For the life of me, I cannot remember his name and I cannot find a reference, but there is a post-war German theologian who celebrated the kind of personal Christianity that doesn't require a church hierarchy, arguing that acting independently with the values of the faith without being told what to do is the best outcome.
Problem is boxes are not necessarily designed to be suspended in the air by lids
I, for one, was thankful that we had something relatively non-polarizing in the news to discuss. "Stuck boat needs to get unstuck" is the kind of practical problem that people on both sides of the fence can agree on :)
A better calculation is to see how much Egypt makes per day in Canal fees and use that as an estimate, as the canal fees are set to make it just a bit cheaper to use the canal vs the horn.
You can start here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlt4XKhucS4
I've never been religious but for 30+ years I always considered myself christian. If asked on such survey, I'd answer with the church I used to go twice a year for Christmas and Easter.
One day I watched Ricky Gervais give interview on Cobert show (who's religios). And geez those jokes made me realize I'm actually and atheist. Now I would answer with no affiliation.
From my friends observation, many are on the same edge, where practically they are gone from church, but may still show up on survey. In such cases those membership rates are going to drop a lot and fast.
"Right" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. Reagan was correct that the strikes may have been illegal, but I wouldn't say that Reagan was "right" to fire all the workers.
Fundamentalism is still a vague description. I left the Catholic church in my teens and was angry for the experiences I'd had. As I grew as an adult my ire went from "religious institutions" to "certain moral communities".

In any moral community there will be outliers and some of those outliers can take hold of a message. You can see this in modern day with secular moral communities as well. My main takeaway, after 20-some years of evaluating this is that morals are something okay to evaluate your group on, but they are not ethics. They cannot apply widely, make their way into law, or try to shape society because by their very definition they are intrinsic to small groups. That doesn't mean these groups can't teach us something, but the foundation of their ideas requires subscription and often holistically.
What exactly is there to unpack? You have modern-day humans going around believing that an omnipotent God impregnated a human female so that his son could sacrifice himself for the sins of humanity. It's patently absurd (though really no more absurd than any other religion).
> I can trust code that is part of Java, .Net or Python standard library is good or decent quality.

I think you’re being a little optimistic there.

Consider Java’s URL class, for instance. Its equals() implementation will resolve the hostname in both URLs and consider them equal if they resolve to the same IP address. So that’s a) completely wrong, b) a potential source of security problems (consider an attacker pointing their hostname to your IP address to control URLs that are “equal” to your URLs, for instance), c) horribly unpredictable (two URLs may or may not be the same depending on whether you are online or not), and d) awful for performance (introduces a network lookup even for hashcode(), for instance).

That’s significantly worse than a bug like this, which is essentially an oversight that failed to consider an obscure notation nobody uses.

> Say you grab a 10 years old Java/.Net project source and a node one, and try to setup a developer environment to be able to create a fix. Would you bet that on average is 10X harder to get stuff to run on node ?

Java is probably okay, but I’ve tried this with .NET and it was extremely painful.
While I'm not going to argue the history of if/when he left the project, my understanding is that it's fairly agreed upon that he is the creator of Node.js. If you google "node js creator", he's an embedded answer (not a search result).

The first line on Wikipedia in the nodejs history section is "Node.js was written initially by Ryan Dahl in 2009".

You can make whatever point you want, but maybe try to do it without rewriting history, or changing the agreed-upon definition of "creator".
The same would hold true if it was a single function part of a big single-package framework though.
Good thing hacker news doesn't run large civil engineering projects.
Heroku doesn't (yet) officially support Deno. That's the main reason I don't use Deno for my personal site. So I'd say there's a market there.
> Respectfully, your comment is way off topic, and nothing to do with discussing The Deno Company,

My take from reading the blog post was that the Deno Company's entire thesis is that the developer community will increasingly be moving away from these older abstractions and towards web-based abstractions, and Deno is positioning itself to fuel that migration. GP's comment addresses this directly; it seems rather on-topic to my reading.
When I read the parent comment I didn't infer any of the spite you seem to have felt. It's an interesting question, rephrased: "Is this the best way forward? Or is it only better because people don't need to learn a new language? What are the advantages and disadvantages? Will my current approach to development go out of fashion?"
Agreed. Even the false analogy with woodworking is ridiculous. There are definitely tons of woodworkers that are enamored with the craft and the tools, and that has nothing to do with the quality or usefulness of what they make. It's just people liking different things and the different aspects of "making something". People don't need to think alike to perform the same jobs.
Sounds accurate, from a super high level, except for the "other planes of existence" part. I'd need to dig into that with you to understand more.
AWS application load balancers have records with a TTL of 60s. Presumably they are doing it because they want the flexibility to change the IP addresses or the number of IP addresses dynamically. Seems like a reasonable use case.
>"but you'll struggle to find many interested and passionate developers"

I hire subcontractors from time to time and after skipping clearly incompetents "passionate about the language" come next.
Doesn't really work out in Britain and the US who pretty much demolished the unions, it's actually worse.
I agree that it won't be a large multiple, but, I do think it's naive to assume that it'll be a fraction of the cost. Consider the shear volume of stuff being transported. Millions of tons of goods across hundreds of delayed transports, some perishable, some with tight timeline requirements, some with tight contract requirements. And it's not like as soon as ships start moving again all of that cost will go away. Ships are still going to be diverted for weeks of not months to relieve traffic pressure.
“God does not exist; but don’t tell my servant, lest he slit my throat in the night.”
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There's an app for VR on Oculus Quest [1] that the dev is working on live instructor collaboration as well as set learning pieces. He has upgraded the hand tracking for physical keyboards a few times I am not sure it's current state but this maybe of interest to you guys.

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Re: arbitrary. I once attended a Stephen Toulman lecture where he explored the meaning of 'arbitrary.' While the word is often taken to connote "random and uninformed", the root of the word indeed connotes "arbitration," i.e. informed judgement.
But as I already noted, Reagan was re-elected in 1984 and a lot if his supporters were union members. IIRC, the leadership did endorse the Dem. candidate, who I do not even remember who he was.
One impact I read about was that Egypt makes ~$300K per ship in tolls, which they won't make if ships take the long route around Africa instead.
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1. Stance on abortion among your brothers in church? As if brothers should even have one that matters?

2. Do you follow the edict that if you’re not baptist then by definition you go to hell? How do you reconcile this with having friends or anyone at all you care about who are then going to hell?

Point is, I’m not sure there is any middle ground that’s acceptable. I don’t come here as an atheist, just as someone who’s trying really hard to believe but finding no acceptable ground to stand at all. The only smart people I find religious (especially Christian) are ones who were born and grew up forced to go to church. Typically they’d give up on practising it in their teens, basically break every rule in their book for two decades and then somehow rediscover it because now it’s convenient to find some community and higher purpose in their life. The ones who convert from elsewhere when they are adults are almost always gullible and did so for the most transactional reasons you can think of.
> different sized spaces work semiotically the same way

Actually I'll nitpick myself about this. They aren't the same, semiotically, because traditional musical notation is purely symbolic (the signs have literally nothing to do with the signified) whereas white spaces would be somewhere in between indices and icons, which do share some semblences of some kind with the signified. In this case, width of space maps to duration of time, which is a fairly basic embodied metaphor in the George Lakoff sense.
HN tends to be pretty bearish on Tesla, although overall bullish on SpaceX.
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wow the guy really hates Bob Martin, maybe it's a good thing to keep in mind that Bob is just a guy, he's not a prophet or a god, he doesn't know everything about everything ... you don't have to do or believe everything that Bob does or says or anyone else for that matter.
But also Bob is entitled to his opinion, and I think he can tweet his opinions without being called elitist or anything alike because otherwise if we started name calling people with opinions, we're in deep deep shit!

PS: you can substitute Bob with any other name
Oh, I was just riffing on the parent comment.

I've had a look at your tool and I think is great. It greatly complements Lingua Latina and it is an essential tool for someone going through the traditional path of learning latin.

I wish I had something like this when I was learning latin in highschool. Furthermore, anything that helps disseminate classics is great in my view.

Thanks for your contribution!
I don’t think anyone is getting their morals from Instagram.
heh we probably disagree on some things (mostly about comms, likely not perspectives tbh), but I appreciate you regardless :)
Looks like I am the only person surprised that the membership is this high, even more so that it was in the 70% range just 20yrs ago.

I admit my guess is based on my interactions but I was expecting it to be in the 20-30% range.
Business owners in Europe are not any less greedy or evil, they are simply constrained by laws and the political environment to be unable to commit the worst offenses.
It wasn’t clear enough that if it isn’t, you’ll be expected to give me $500?
It's unfortunate in situations like this, but strikers have to take on some degree of risk when they strike for any of this to work.
"Official" church membership way down, membership at new dangerous religions like BLM and Wokeness way, way up!
I was hoping it'd be a software update to address the scourge of stock low beam LEDs, that blind the crap out of oncoming drivers.