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A few months later, Obama codified indefinite detention without trial. Some of us sounded the alarm, but it seems that politicians are still drunk on power post-9/11 and neither party is interested in the "rule of law" as set out by the constitution.

https://www.aclu.org/issues/national-security/detention/inde...
This has got to be the most confusing announcement.
> a beginner would not likely quote the argument, so the point is moot...

But a beginner could still tab-complete file names and get them automatically backslashed.
There is a lot to unpack here, and it is difficult to know where to begin.

I had a friend who was a pastor who lamented he didn't like that his yearly board game get-together with his other [often pastor] friends often ended up discussing their dead bedrooms. I have no idea how these dynamics have come to be so common, even taking into account the usual ebbs and flows in relationships. I don't know if this problem occurs at higher rates in more religious couples. I suspect that this is the collateral damage of [obviously misguided] purity culture, but we see the same patterns outside of religious couples.

Edit: I should clarify to say the only reason I'm writing this is that these problems have a big impact on people's lives, aren't easy to fix, and often buried from everyone around them.
> having a romantic and sexual relationship is not a requirement for a happy life.

I don't have the all data off hand (see some citations below) but I believe they say married men live longer, commit less crimes and are happier. So yes in some sense, can you be happy if you are not married however, is it almost certainly harder. I assume you would find similar data for not having a romantic parter. You, a human, are not an island and almost certainly would benefit from close personal and romantic connections.

I would say that there is a way of expressing this towards your partner -- especially too early in a relationship -- that can be very draining.

https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/sampson/files/2006_crimino...

https://www.health.harvard.edu/mens-health/marriage-and-mens...

https://ifstudies.org/blog/does-marriage-really-make-us-heal...
This is what I always try to ask people. Is there even a possible definition of free will within the laws of physics? It seems to me to be blurry philosophy and nobody has the same definition. Not that it's invalid to talk about if there's no physical framework. But there's no scientific way we can talk about it that I've seen.
Registered voters v. voting-age population: if you don't have a process for removing the dead or the moved from the rolls, this can happen. It is not impossible that I am on the rolls in a couple of jurisdictions I left anything from 17 to 40 years ago. I haven't voted in them since I left, though.
Back when YC experimented with application through the community, or "Apply YC:", I deployed a YCCoin on Ethereum and applied. Basically decentralized Karma. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15226688

There was one comment "why would I use this?" Rightly or wrongly it seems that is still the question everyone has for NFTs.

At the same time in 2017 I had simultaneously built out redditco.in, igco.in, and facebookco.in. If you follow NFTs you might be familiar with the Tweet NFTs and Jack's first tweet getting a multimillion dollar bid, right as that was occurring I got a cease and desist/trademark infringement letter from FB. In a responsive letter I encouraged FB to allow me to auction Zuckerberg's first FB post as an NFT along side Jack's Tweet and with that I would gladly transfer them the domain names. It sounds dumb at best, tinfoil conspiracy at worst, but that is exactly when the bids on Jack's Tweet and all the media surrounding it stopped, and I never got a reply to my response to the TM infringement letter.

From there the NFT rabbit hole only got deeper as I began receiving quid pro quos, or pay to play requests for invitations to join an "exclusive" NFT marketplace, even getting a retweet from one of the anonymous NFT collectors on Twitter that has spent millions on NFTs as proof the quid pro quo requests were legit. The Twitter account I was using literally had 1 follower, but was being retweeted by an anonymous NFT collector spending millions (I think even bought one of Grimes' NFTs for about $750K).

I will say this for pg's essay, this NFT, and bid...at least pg and company did not create an anonymous or fake persona or personality and pg openly placed the initial bid. However, unless this results in so much backlash no one wants to touch it, my guess is consistent with the entire NFT space, the ultimate bid for this NFT will end up being some anonymous NFT collector with a record of spending millions "collecting" NFTs.
Power is power, they have more in common than in difference. I'll stipulate that they arrived at power and maintain it slightly differently.

> There is nothing that Apple has that others cannot buy.

How can you state this as a fact? Even a relatively high-level Apple executive wouldn't know that with any level of certainty.

I don't really take issue with Apple compared to some of the others, but their vertically integrated position means that they don't have vigorous competition. There are only a handful of empire-scale companies that can compete with them at all. Smaller businesses are not vigorous competition, since Apple (or similar) could crush them at any time they want with their scale, as they recently did with Tile.
How much is (not taking) the vaccine worth it to you?
Thanks for the input! So far the neighbor hasn't been reasonable at all, so I don't expect we'll get to do this the easy way.
On the flip side, however, no one owes you companionship or a relationship (platonic or not). If you are struggling to fulfill that need, it's on you to improve yourself through building skills, seeking therapy, finding appropriate medications, or whatever else. Pushing the blame outwards to some other group for not bending to fulfill your needs is a real problematic stance.
That's how I got a steam controller I intended to use for kodi/xbmc but it's not easy enough for me yet. I'll give a stadia controller a try :].
Imagine flagging this and just proving the point of the article.
I don't think that is true, but that's because I think there's a huge difference between what people think will make them happy and what actually will. The former tends to be an ever moving target, the latter requires a change in perspective that takes quite a bit of effort and doesn't make anyone any money.
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This was a great read, thanks for posting!
An "AI winter" like we had before isn't plausible now. In the past, it was the failure of AI research to deliver business impact. The current ML boom is fundamentally different in that it already has become a standard part of the stack at major companies:

- Recommendation engines (Google, YouTube, Facebook, etc.)

- Fraud detection (Stripe, basically all banks)

- ETA prediction (Uber, every delivery app you use)

- Speech-to-text (Siri, Google Assistant, Alexa)

- Sequence-to-sequence translation (used in everything from language translation to medicinal chemistry)

- The entire field of NLP, which is now powering basically any popular app you use that analyzes text content or has some kind of filtering functionality (i.e. toxicity filtering on social platforms).

And that's a very cursory scan. You can go much, much deeper. That isn't to say that there isn't plenty of snake oil out there, just that ML (and by extension, AI research) is generating billions in revenue for businesses today. There's not going to be a slow down in ML research for a while, as a result.
Mall owners find charter schools make good tenants in many spaces left empty
Sure! Cultist simulator, Civilization, Kingdom Rush, Bad North. Many other good examples. Now, if you're just talking about games that are available on mobile platforms only, then the crowd gets substantially thinner. I theorize that this is because if you have a game that can compete on PC, you'll put it there, and not have it be mobile only. And there are precious few gaming styles that work best on a tiny mobile phone screen.
I wouldn't marry a person who _only_ had sex with me though, so your logic is largely flawed.
I had never heard about this one. Neat.

re: Amiga, it is sad that, with 256KB of ROM, they couldn't fit a key combination to call exec's Debug() in the strap module.

I understand that, somehow, nobody thought about it.
I was quite out of tune with this whole issue until I watched the Alek Minassian[1] interview/confession[2]. I still don't really know what to make of it. I will warn you: it's not easy listening, however, it is eye opening and adds further context to this substack post.

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

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGFWovUuWak
>This is basically a red flag for any relationship. If the only thing making or allowing a person to be happy in life is their partner then something is wrong. Mental health is no joke and not being able to enjoy life is usually a symptom of an underlying cause. Depression is probably the most common but anxiety disorders can be similarly hard.

This is nonsense. The instinct to reproduce is inescapable for the vast majority of people. Without it humans would not exist. There is only so much social conditioning that can be done to override the innate drive for partnership and sex. Ignoring this basic drive, which is implicit in Maslow's hierarchy of needs, disenfranchises young men who are disproportionately driven by evolutionarily derived instinct to seek romantic female companionship.

>A partner is not a replacement for the natural circle of close friends humans are supposed to have

No, more like friends are not a replacement for intimacy.
Probably the H1B
Can we please leave this kind of stuff on reddit?

I know HN has pretty broad rules, but between stuff like this and the near constant posts about the SV housing market it really cheapens the forum.
I share some of my notes on Twitter, that's the social engagement for me. I also write for my blog. Both can lead to a discussion with someone.
No, this is a social problem and has nothing to do with nature.
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I used to work in machining shop using saw to cut stock for big expensive milling machines.
They allowed only one shift, because that was just barely enough to keep milling machines running evening and night, but often machines would stop.
If we had second shift, machines would never run out, but the boss was the kinda guy who rather have 100e+/h machines stop, than see some worker not being 100% busy all the time.
> the best explanation that I've heard for the feeling men have of basic unhappiness without romance and sex is toxic masculinity; the general societal rejection of deep emotional relationships between straight men. Lonely? Make strong friendships! Spend your time with other men who like you and enjoy your company and validate you

I'm not sure I buy this. I'm a man who has lots of close friendships (many of which are with women, but some of which are with men), and I still feel like it's not enough and that I want a romantic/sexual partner. A partner is not a replacement for a close circle of friends, but neither is close circle of friends a replacement for a partner.
For any suffering a communication issue in your relationship, I can't recommend enough the book: "Conscious Loving" [1]

Asides from being an enjoyable read, it provides an excellent framework and guide for how to have conversations about difficult topics successfully. It pairs well with the book "Nonviolent Communication"

These things take time and effort, but they really truly work.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Conscious-Loving-Co-Commitment-Gay-He...
Fair enough, I definitely missed it being a satire: shouldn't have skimmed the content:)
While fast, PiStorm is still similar to a 030, and not anywhere near fast enough for 060 demoscene.

Workbench is what it is.
Is this too simplistic?

Take care of yourself - health (mental and physical etc).

Sex work should be legal if there is a "market failure" as the article argues.

If someone doesn't want sex in a relationship and other person does - any way to negotiate something - ie, get on tinder for one person or whatever if the issue isn't so critical to break up over?

Is porn a problem? ie, perception everyone getting lots of crazy deep throat action or whatever? Real life is not exactly like that I don't think?

One tip - get off computer / phone / ipad and out from in front of TV. Seriously your life gets better so many ways. Board in bed? Sex gets a lot more interesting.
> This is basically a red flag for any relationship. If the only thing making or allowing a person to be happy in life is their partner then something is wrong

When you get older, a partner (or children) are important to keep you going. Your body will fail you. Your mind will fail you. Your life will end and (statistically) it will be a long downward slope. Binding yourself to the right person keeps that slope more even, for longer.

People who think being alone is great are right, until some point after the slide begins that has slowly eaten away at your own ability.
Then it’s a good thing I haven’t put forth such an argument! Advertisements aren’t what I take issue with - it’s the tracking that comes along with them that I find repugnant.
I'm not sure I follow; sex and sexual activity are a part of the first level of Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

Note, it's not intimacy but sex itself. Intimacy lies on the 3rd level.
Oh, I thought that was an official announcement for a moment.

I recently came upon the Mill architecture and I'm really excited about it conceptually, but in practice it really feels like the project has stagnated in the last few years (or, really, since 2014).

In particular, the project looks no closer to implementing a FPGA version. Now, I'm not familiar with embedded chip design, and if someone familiar with the domain comes by I'd be interested to known whether 7 years is an unusually long time for prototyping a CPU design on a FPGA.

But even if it isn't... I mean, in the time since Mill was announced, we've had an entire console generation come and go (PS4: 2013-2020) and virtually no progress has been reported aside from the filing of patents; and the last patent listed on their website is from 2016, 5 years ago.

I really want to be excited about Mill, but the lack of progress reports is making that pretty hard.
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Thank you for this information. What are ber, ln, and ku?
Most people need comfort for the misery of their lives.

some choose food (obesity), some choose crazy partners (tend to be great in bed but bad in life), other choose video games (sense of accomplishment), and others try to help others as a way of hiding from themselves.

most people are running, some though are doing it in a socially acceptable way. but the root cause is the same.
I forgot the details. It's not a blanket requirement but has to do with FEMA money. Basically, they don't want people relying on FEMA instead of buying insurance.

"If you receive disaster relief funds following a disaster declared by the president, that money often comes with a caveat that you buy flood insurance to cover the cost of repairs or a replacement building if it is in a high-risk area for flooding. The Federal Emergency Management Agency requires that you maintain flood insurance on the property for as long as you own it. You’re also required to notify the next owner of the requirement if you sell the property. If you fail to cover your home with flood insurance after you receive federal disaster aid, you’re ineligible to receive future relief."
Totally, but most people are not emotionally well adjusted or in a place where they an introspect and build themselves up to be the better version of themselves. A lot of folks would be helped by therapy and having someone to talk through to work through this (but that's a healthcare conversation, which we don't have to devolve into here).

I unequivocally do not condone folks who go off the rails in ways that cause harm to others (self destruction and harm is similar, but a different conversation), but I've seen enough mental health challenges and crises to understand why it happens. In general, life is hard, and no one is coming to save you except yourself.
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The only thing I've seen compete is Rebol like languages and their concept of dialects.
While not 'core' to Stadia's pricing model, it does support Ubisoft+ where you pay $X a month for access to all the Ubisoft games on Stadia.
I believe everyone is capable of being happy in their own company. It may take a lifetime of work for some people to achieve this. We are social creatures and human interaction is essential for our well-being, but that doesn't mean you can't have your own personal goals and interests or just simply enjoy time with yourself: you are a human being in your own company, too! Frankly without that ability you are not going to have healthy relationships with others no matter how good looking or successful you are. I know so many unhappy couples that put on a good front. I was part of one for years.

In the West in particular we are crippled with insecurity, anxiety and doubt. Are we masculine/feminine enough? Do we fit the image we have of other people's desires? We have incredible wealth and abundance and feel like shit. It's a societal ill as well as a personal one. It is possible to practice contentment, gratitude, and self-compassion and acceptance, these are just things that are not taught or idealized in our culture. I do think the mindfulness movement, commercialized though it may be, has something to offer to modern secular society.
Yeah that quote is a bit silly.

Nazi was a shortening of "National Socialist German Workers' Party" which, by this article's logic, means that socialists today should feel at least some level of kinship to the Nazi party. In reality, the Nazis were socialist largely in name only. Likewise, today's feminists have a much broader and less altruistic agenda than one could reasonably infer from their name.
> having a romantic ... relationship is not a requirement for a happy life

Do you think having friends is a requirement for a happy life? It's not strictly necessary, but they are a positive factor, and most people will not be happy entirely devoid of friendship.

Having a partner is a friend you commit to and are closer with than other friends (generalization, sure). I have friends who I would not support through depression, but I would support my partner through depression. Needing someone like that is not unhealthy. It will be difficult to find someone willing to give the same commitment to your friendship as to their partner (generalization again).
Indeed, you shouldn’t based your identity around it or blame others (e.g. incels) but at the same time you shouldn’t be made to field there’s something wrong with you for wanting it. Like most things there is a balance to be found. I think the stars every day that I failed my way into relationships for most of my life and I can’t imagine the struggle of these individuals.
What they built isn't illegal. The naming and branding of what they built likely infringes on a trademark. Either way, the point was more this communities urge to knee-jerkingly dismiss a project for whatever reason. There is often a default of "this is why it won't work" or "this is why you are wrong".
Vince Thompson is one of about 2,000 Mohawks who lives there. He's also represents the Island as a chief on the Mohawk Council of Akwesasne. Just to take his daughter to a dentist appointment and go to some meetings, he says, he has to go back and forth through U.S. and Canadian customs, waiting in line and answering intrusive questions each time. "I’m going home. I gotta report in. Then I gotta race back home, pick up my daughter, then report back in, then proceed to the dental or medical appointments," Thompson shakes his head. "It’s unbelievable."

https://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/36230/201...
No, it just meams ypu select for people willing to run a scam sophisticated enough to recoup the developer fee, the ones who don't care and have money to burn anyway, and you shut out every aspiring app writer/contributor with a decent idea who is strapped for cash.

Never, ever underestimate the determination of someone in need of a way to economically do nefarious things. Financial barriers are no barrier at all if you do it right. Tenbux is more for presenting a barrier to anyone without access to a digital payment medium than anything else.
Yes, it's probably true, the iPhone of 9 years ago probably collected a lot less information, and the cars of 9 years from now will also collect a lot more.

However, less on the original point and more on yours, the iPhone of 9 years ago didn't have that much worse of a battery than today. Batteries have technically been progressing, but it's slow.
Maturity models are just theoretical constructs designed to tell you what you aren't doing right. They aren't a roadmap, so their utility is about as useful as an academic research paper. Don't target what your organization should do around a maturity model.
Have there been any comparative studies on this phenomenon between countries with legalized sex work and countries without? I live in a country where it is illegal and have gone through very long dry spells, and let me tell you it is extremely frustrating.

If love, sex, and relationships are as core to people's self-confidence as the author makes it out to be, it seems imperative to let people have access to those things in at least some form. I've certainly been envious of those countries where I would have the option to order up a temporary lover, and the useful-if-fleeting confidence boost that comes with.
Academia has no cohesive definition of ‘fake news’
The linked twit simply shows top 20 largest companies by market cap in 1990 vs today. That's a fact. If you want to argue that the particular fact is somehow misleading or misrepresenting, please put an argument with an evidence - without that, this falls into the "attacking the motive" fallacy.
What a banal comment. You understand precisely nothing and you start proclaiming solutions that make no sense and then you even have the gal to psychoanalyze the health of the author's relationship.
A perfect example of the attitude of some that refuse to even try to empathize with others.

Your problem is that you just have no ability to comprehend a situation that is not very similar to your life. So for you, anyone who acts in a way that you do not understand is obviously acting up and doing it wrong, rather than acting in a way that makes sense given the person's circumstances.
There is a big difference between getting recruited and actually getting a job offer.
> feminists have a much broader and less altruistic agenda than one could reasonably infer from their name

What is the evidence that leads you to this nonsense conclusion?
This is the best and most succinct explanation.
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They are. For many, a new appliance is a significant investment. Even when it's not, I'd rather pay 200€ for a used washer than 700€ for a new one. There has to be a network of repairmen who refurbish and resell machines for that to happen.

I also repair my appliances because it's quick. I can usually fix it in a day or two without interacting with another human, for very little money.
Anecdotal stories of the survivors from 100 years ago when you could work a bottom of the barrel job for 1 week and cover a months living don't apply today. In order to insulate yourself from failure, you need wealth today to draw upon and cover your cost of living. Many americans don't have a spare $400 (1), they can't quit their job to tinker with a perennially failing side business without ending up risking living on the street. Many americans are trapped.

1. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/23/millions-of-americans-are-on...