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What the ACLU ultimately does is defend the rule of law from being usurped or cast aside by conflicts over speech.

Defending speech one hates is a way to maintain and develop the integrity of the law as an institution, and I think this is the underlying mission of the ACLU. The examples of what they do protect the right of individuals and groups to say this or that, but the real work of the ACLU is to be a grinding stone to refine the law the way an official opposition party works in a parliamentary system. While hard cases make for bad precedents, it is in the hard cases that ensure the law is fit for purpose.

In this sense, the ACLU are not reliably progressive activists or allies, even if they often outwardly behave as them, because they in-effect take a fundamentalist position on the principle of the rule of law over the effects of speech. In this view, progress may only occur on a foundation of the law, and this is what offends radicals and fanatics alike. The material of the speech they choose to defend is secondary to, and even independent of, whether the parties are saying something evil or not.

What I do not think they were prepared for is the co-ordinated assault on language itself, where we have real uncertainty about whether the rule of law can withstand a cultural movement in which words have no fixed or shared meaning. Arguing the meaning of a text, and unmooring the text from meaning as a means to selectively reconstitute it are very different problems. The integrity of the ACLU to its principle maybe a useful canary for how much the culture can withstand.
The Fed announces plans to sell off its corporate bond holdings
I don’t think it is incremental.
Discord voice chat works in browser without an account. Not sure about video, though. Discord has it's bugs, but IMO it's categorically better than zoom.
Nathan Fielder is a comedian who turns business consultant parody into fine art.
Nothing worse than petty threats in corporate speak. He must be serious since he was planning to engage with his lawyers rather than just circle back with them.
If fact, most people would probably consider threatening legal action to be forfeiting any trust the two might previously have had.
A fairly simple case. We made a design error at the start treating jobs as separate entities, when in reality the will be grouped and generally flow together. (Jobs in a production context are various objects made with the same set of specs. Jobs in a customer context often include some objects that are fancier than others.)

We took the lazy route and provided a means of linking jobs to a parent. I tweaked the weighting somewhat because some changes were more likely to be related than others and displayed the top 20 choices. The next step was going to be an input box to let the user pick--but it didn't get written because the desired job always showed up. That state persisted for years before it finally didn't cough up the desired job in the top 20 list. Looking over the problem case they had done something with the name that hadn't originally been envisioned that caused it to score badly--but even then it turned out to be in slot 21. Someday it will need an input box but the quick fix was to simply add another menu option to the list.
Season 1 was great but didn't care for season 2.
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Sure. Nobody dared speak up against the Holocaust. (Those that did were sent to a labor camp or had their heads sliced off.) Lack of free speech meant the Nazis could (and did) kill anyone for any reason with complete impunity. There was no right to life under Hitler.

The first thing dictators do is remove free speech. This is what enables removing all the other rights at the dictator's whim, because then nobody can speak out against it. Nobody can even inform others about it. This is why totalitarian regimes so aggressively suppress free speech.

The Soviet Union collapsed soon after Gorbachev stopped repressing free speech (glasnost and peristroika). This is not a coincidence.
Very much so. But many times just a small example putting the thing in context of usage helps a lot. Sometimes that is needed sometimes it is not. This style is especially useful if you have a call/anticall style like malloc and free. An example of malloc could also have an example of free along with it indicating to the reader (hey you want this too). Some docs it is not obvious what the matching call is.
Non-competes in California are non-enforceable with the exception of certain stock-holding company executives.
Yup, lots of personal finance startups have "name" names: https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/11/4/20943551
> Everything has leveled out a bit until recently.

You can say that again. I'm typing this on a desktop PC powered by a Xeon that is approaching 10 years old and I don't have any complaints. The cost of upgrading it over the years has been modest.

In comparison I have a Nexus 5 that is about the same age and getting modern Android on it is a pain, the processor really struggles and the physical device itself has seen much better days.
Let me know when they make an iMessage client for the web
Just deleted Replit account, and heavily suggest the same action.
https://archive.ph/9TwBx
Oh my. This is the last use case for the last apple product in the house.
As far as I know, in order to qualify as a "transwoman" you must be male. If a female person identifies as a woman, they're not trans. So a transwoman is a trans-identified male person. I don't mean any offense here, I'm just trying to use clear and unambiguous language. Not everyone on HN is from the USA and this issue is confusing so it's helpful if everyone uses clear language in my opinion.

Whether transwomen are "women" is a contentious question with a subjective answer, obviously people disagree about it. I prefer therefor to stick to observable facts: 1. the person is male 2. they identify as trans.
Yes, they're using the same naming tactic as demonstrated by the Patriot Act and the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea. Old school liberals and progressives recognize that our labels are being usurped by illiberal regressives. Hence why ACLU has an identity crisis. There is a generational divide that's hollowing out liberalism and progressivism in service of political activism.
This wasn't an experiment with UBI. It was an experiment with guaranteed minimum income. A true UBI wouldn't go away once someone is employed.

Your misconception is quite widespread, though. I fear that this experience with guaranteed minimum income will politically kill UBI, anyway.
I don't mind the technical discussion at all, it's a fun write-up, but if you "look at the the ecosystem of web applications and measure by difficulty" and find the most difficult possible app you can, and using that to shape your vision of how to build web apps, lionize what a web app is, I think one is very very liable to end up with a completely non-web monster that ignores many of the strongest strengths of application & site design that are possible.

Google Docs is themselves moving to canvas based rendering, which might as well be turning the screen into a giant VNC session into their codebases[1]. Web, dead, pushing pixels in people's faces, in. All the extensions that extend & enhance Google Docs are about to die, being replaced with a very small, much narrower API provided explicitly by google.

I see statements like,

> This gets me excited about whats to come, because what's at the edge of difficulty today tends to become the new normal tomorrow.

And think, please, let us not be path dependent on a web-recreation of classic desktop apps. The web is more interesting, it has online content, liveliness & connectivity to it that far surpasses the other platform's norms. Let us think of how we might advance the web for good web things. There's worth & value to examining hard problems, but I am worried that this attitude has us set out to build faster horses.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27129858
Stimulus Checks Significantly Reduced Hardship According to Study
this is the same question that china asks when confronted with the uyghur problem. they believe they are fighting terrorism and extremism and those camps are (part of) the solution. we can disagree with them – and if the extreme claims about those camps are correct, then i do disagree with them.

on the EU issue: there isn't one single solution since all the cases are different. a few come to mind. i would not pay blood money to morocco and libya to "keep them at bay" because the EU can't just champion human rights at home and then fund concentration camp-like establishments outside of its borders – we are not funding the ones in xinjiang, we are funding the ones in the libyan litoral. a way more efficient refugee processing scheme with the participation of everyone else would be ethically better. much as i disliked him, matteo renzi put it very well for the eastern european extremists: no refugees, no money. on an EU level i'd also crack down on pushbacks (such as the ones happening in spain and in greece), where the carrot should be a better refugee distribution.

let's not forget that europe's exploitation caused this problem, it's also on us to help people and figure out a solution.
While space exploration is great, it's not nearly as important as earth conservation; which crypto has also wasted a lot of.
"People try very hard to protect that investment and that's why gangsters tracked down where you live and broke your legs"

If someone is invested and stands to loose money, it does not gice them a free pass to act immorally.
Since those are purely voluntary, they are not against free market principles.

Anyone can (and has) form a commune in the US, too. There's nothing to stop you.
The technical answer of what part failed and why is only a small part of the overall answer, though.

For example, with the Challenger explosion, it's O-rings vs. the culture and organizational deficits that led to: the O-rings, failure to revise the seal structure despite evidence of problems on prior launches, and the final decision to launch Challenger.

All of that is arguably the most interesting part.
Spoken like someone that should probably be using a desktop.

Personally, having backup batteries is a requirement for the places I work.
Actual deaths from bolawrap being aimed at the head and neck?
Do you really think that the reason we don't have 13 hour workweeks is that "people choose not to structure their lives that way?"
It's ethically OK to lie in these situations. You think I gave Radio Shack my real PII whenever I wanted to buy a battery?
Why is this comment downvoted? Can someone explain the reasoning?
The better and longer lasting the basic design is, the more frustrating it is when some fiddly little part makes it inoperable and you can't replace it for no good reason.

And AppleCare+ is not cheap.
It really isn't. Some countries can produce a trained physician for less than the cost of a new MRI machine. And beyond the capital expense those machines are expensive to operate due to technicians, maintenance, consumable supplies, power, etc.
Have a Google for "Matt Hancock's neighbour" or "Dido Harding". It's not unknown that there are some questions about UK procurement that need answering.
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Case in point is the new object capture feature.
Pretty much your entire comment history is transphobic propaganda.
Apple shows us macOS Monterey, with easy movement between devices
There are CAD companies that sell for far less that have much more complex software.
Because it’s a time suck. Even if you have deep pockets, you have limited time. And potentially bad PR.
Damn, I was such a major user. I was wondering what happened all of a sudden..
I remember the guys from ViA Inc (not the same Via as the processors) with their tablets tethered to their wearable belt computer. They'd carry the tablet in a thigh holster.
Incidentally, I don't even mean to pick on that video specifically. I actually quite deeply respect the folks at Enthought. It's just that the equivalent functionality has been around and been being pushed for about 15 years now (albeit it enabled via different algorithms over time). The deeper problem is that it usually solves the wrong problem.
Wait, so you think that once you work at Pepsi you are never allowed to create your own business selling soft drinks?
even if I don't know what I'm talking about in the least, a judge would still have to assume everything in a pleading is true and imo Repl.it would have done enough to get there w/ trade secret allegations had OP not taken the OSS down.
Not just politics, but often they'll couple OSS to their own build systems and stuff. Yeah, it might be 50ms faster on paper, but that whole project now depends on that company's OSS licensing allowing that dependency to exist publicly. That's some really scary power.
Are you referring to Pfizer because of the mRNA-vaccine? That has actually been invented by the German biotech startup BioNTech ;-)
The answer is “everyone”. I’m particularly aware of this as I just spent the past two days setting up my non technical parents-in-law with 1Password. Not to go out on a tangent here, but on the whole, authentication is broken for “normal” people. By the time someone takes a computer in to a repair facility, giving the person on the other end their password is about the least of their concerns.
I had the same issue. I sent my phone to ubreakifix (Google's official repair partner) for a repair with warranty. After completing the repair they asked for my password and said that if I didn't provide it it would void the warranty on my phone.

I refused and they eventually relented while still providing the warranty but it ended up delaying the repair by 5 days (for a 2h repair).
According to Elizabeth Warren. Their CEO disputed that. Neither party, nor this article appears to have cited any actual sources.
Paying $2000 when you could pay $2 is how much of the economy operates but personally I think situations like that, often under the umbrella of “rent seeking behavior”, are actually harmful to society.
How to be a medieval thief (and how to catch one)
The Upcoming Remote Work Company Culture War
the trick is just to use fully open source software whenever possible. btw if anyone's looking for what uTorrent used to be, check out qbittorrent.
US recovers millions in cryptocurrency paid to Colonial Pipeline hackers
What an unfortunate set of events.

I think both parties communicated badly with each other. It is easy to try to look at this in a binary fashion. In reality the situation is very complex and prone to misinterpretation.

There are no excuses for childish behaviour though
Maybe it is not bats we should be worried about
This repo is probably going to become the next youtube-dl on Github.
This whole "code is law" thing came out of the following:

Within programming, you have contracts, i.e. function definitions. This is taken by the non-tech people, blew up and got the attention of all people have 1) no idea how code works, 2) have no idea how the law works.

While great for spreading the word, it also spread the WRONG word. This is one of the reasons why "nobody understands blockchain". It's because the communication is plain wrong.
That plan only worked in the US though, and it spectacularly backfired everywhere else, where iMessage is mostly irrelevant.

I know a guy that never set up iMessage on his iPhone - when I asked him why he didn't, he just told me he only uses SMS for OTP which he reads from the notification, so it never occured to him to open the Messages app at all.
Seeing that I would simply assume they didn't want to advertise specifics about salary, which is not unusual, so they entered 0 into a form. Am I missing something?
And there is still seemingly zero expectation that FaceTime will be a standard. It's still a closed proprietary system. One that has web access to it now.

Will non-Apple device owners be able to start FaceTime chats? TBD perhaps. Will non-Apple account holders be able to connect to FaceTime rooms? Maybe. Will they be able to create chats? Almost certainly not.

It's unfortunate that the real spirit of creativity & innovation that Apple once believed in & knew has come to this. This is "progress", but such a narrow, corporately provided & limited window of progress, to me. I'm expecting friends will start expecting me to have an Apple account now & be willing to use their proprietary communications systems, now that the barrier is a bit lower, but I'd really rather not.
Well, we could obviously just ask the North Korean emigres who work in our countries. Surely they will tell us the truth? Or the many North Korean tourists who visit Europe and North America? Or indeed the vast numbers of North Korean folks visiting around the world for work purposes?

Oh, wait. We can't ask any of those people, because they seem not to exist. Is that because North Korea is so wealthy that no one wants to leave to work elsewhere? Because North Korea is such a utopia that they don't even want to travel overseas? Because their industry is so advanced and self-sufficient that they need no trade deals with others?

You don't have to believe everything you read about North Korea, but to dismiss it all as US propaganda without offering a significant countervailing body of evidence is, well, silly.
It's not extreme at all. I don't think that's the only thing a person should consider, but it has to be part of the picture. Secondary sources can have their own agenda. Also the simple fact that they have to choose what to include from the primary source means you don't get a complete picture. Even somewhat responsible scientific reporting falls into this trap: They may successfully report that something has a correlation, avoid implying a strong causal link, but then fall flat on their face by failing to realize that it was a low-powered study with very few participants.

Tertiary sources are often reporting on secondary sources: The NYT reports on something that WaPo reports on. Any mistakes or biases present in the secondary source may be amplified & added to. I never read reporting about someone else's reporting without seeking out that first reports. At best, tertiary sources should be taken as commentary/opinion/interpretation.

Non-primary sources are for when you want something explained to you in non-jargon terms or a TL;DR, or you want an expert's opinion on the primary sources etc. A medical study comes out about hear disease, and you want a cardiologist's assessment of the study. Even then, you need to understand who the cardiologist is. The average cardiologist may not be a great source: There are levels of expertise within any community, and I want someone who is at the top of the field. I don't want the average cardiologist's opinion.

The problem is that no one has time to track down primary sources for everything they read/see/hear, or the level of knowledge to evaluate it. I'm fascinated by quantum computing, but I have no chance of understanding primary source research there. I have no choice but to rely on a secondary source or, if possible, the researchers themselves giving a higher level TL;DR.

My rule of thumb is that, absent prior knowledge of bias/agenda/ill-intent, I skeptically take what people say at face value but don't accept it into my own views/opinions/etc unless I've done some digging of my own. If I'm not capable (e.g. quantum physics) of doing that, I simply try harder to get a variety of expert opinions, and avoid presenting anything I say/think as anything other than an outsider's imperfect understanding.
> We're going to disable this one ...

All pretty reasonable; The only thing wrong with your suggestion is it's missing the part where you contact that user and let them know what you are doing and why...
Elon Musk Reveals Support for Ethereum Plan to Upgrade Bitcoin Rival Dogecoin
It would be great if they offered iMessage cross-platform.
> This is neither free nor open by either the OSI or the FSF's definitions.

In the famous words of Peter Griffin, "OH MY GOD WHO THE [expletive] CARES?!!"

If someone isn't being paid for their work, then any version of OSS isn't really sustainable long term.
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I've read quite a a few editorials as well as main articles about excessive speech policing, primarily at colleges. There's plenty of reporting about self-destructive policies of the Demorcats and warnings about playing into Trumps hand. Also, the "NYY picks" of comments about articles are generally commenters complaining about illiberal trends.

I don't read cover-to-cover so I might be getting a selective view. My general impression is that the NYT is trying to satisfy it's generally older, whiter readership by weighing in against wokeness.
That's a pretty bold assertion when the M2 chart itself demonstrates that broad money supply has never contracted in any substantial way. Federal and corporate debt to GDP are also at historic highs, which is precisely the environment in which the Fed prefers to let inflation run hot.
“Pop trash” sounds like you’re dismissing it out of hand because you don’t like the conclusion.

I mean, it might be, but as I’m not even claiming to be a domain expert I have to (argument from authority fallacy notwithstanding) rely on the author biographies as a proxy for how much they know.

Now, would you like to give me a brief summary of how, biologically speaking, you recon being malnourished fails to put a bunch of revolutionaries at a relative disadvantage to a non-malnourished bunch of revolutionaries?
Why PRK over lasik?
Close, he said they were going to make it standard (but then never did):

"Now, FaceTime is based on a lot of open standards — H.264 video, AAC audio, and a bunch of alphabet soup acronyms — and we're going to take it all the way. We're going to the standards bodies starting tomorrow, and we’re going to make FaceTime an open industry standard."
DeepMind: Reward Is Enough
stolen funds tend to sit dormant in wallets for years. cannot bring charges unless they try to cash out to fiat
> For those living in America, that’s what they can expect. It does no-one any good to pretend otherwise.

Be that as it may, it likewise does no one any good to pretend it has any connection to justice.
You can rightfully dismiss the wording of PR statements, but it's a little harder to dismiss their list of actions on behalf of Conservative citizens and groups. Including Donald Trump.
> I believe people have the right to create life

This is the crux of my disagreement with you, and you haven't really presented an argument for your position.

> if no one is ever justified to bring others into being then all life is the product of injustice

This is exactly what I'm saying. I've said why I believe it's unjust, and you agree with the core of my reasoning; that unborn children can't consent to their birth. If you have an argument for why that doesn't make procreation a moral harm then I'm all ears.
Do you have a source? First I've heard of this angle
Extensions on mobile Safari is intriguing. Will all functionality from desktop extensions be possible on mobile? Or just a subset?
If KiCAD gains some signal integrity stuff (and other niceties you get with the expensive stuff) then it'll be really good for the space, I think.

KiCAD is far from perfect, however some industry familiars should be apologetic and embarrassed at how poor their offerings are compared to the open source equivalent (plural even, sometimes). I didn't spend a huge amount of time in Altium designer but, although I did like parts of the UI, it just seemed like a old codebase past it's sell by date with a pretty face slapped on top.
So, unidirectional Zoom.