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> The only people bringing up the free speech argument are the people defending Google, not the other way around.

Quoting the OP, "Regardless of whether you agree or disagree with Damore, he was engaged in free speech." This sounds like it refutes your statement, no?

Having worked there when this happened, the discourse definitely felt like, "Google is stifling the free speech of one of their employees" vs "Google has the right to fire employees for any reason."

> Open discourse can exist as a value too

It does (are we not engaging in it right now?).

There were (and I assume still are) plenty of random internal mailing lists where those types of discussions happened. I mostly stayed away from them because my goal at Google was to build cool products, not waste my day on internal mailing lists; I prefer to go to HN to do that.

> Just as LeBron James has the right to defend the genocidal regime of China.

I guess the NBA and China is the Godwin's law equivalent for free speech. He has the legal right to say what he wants, he doesn't have the right to have what he says have zero consequences (which is what the comic says).

You argue that he doesn't have a choice, but he does: he can speak his mind and potentially lose access to his largest market; he's just unwilling to do that because he deems the economic ramifications are too large. You always have a choice, most just choose to not make the hard one.
A behavioral psychologist might be able to help. They have a big bag of tricks and can help provide some accountability.
Been using Multiverse for a bit now and I honestly love it so very much. It's a brilliant mix of creative expression and creative limits - I can make cool stuff without having the infinite array of options that I would in design software. I recently wrote about my experience with old forums when I was a youngling on the internet and creating the post was honestly so much fun! I've felt my creativity really coming back since I've started using Multiverse.
Another good reason IMO (3) another implementation of the conversion may be a useful reference/point of comparison
InfluxDB Cloud might be the single best solution if what you want is a managed service that just works somehow.

As a time series database however it is rather painful.

You can't have InfluxDB only. It comes integrated with the complete ecosystem. For example, it exposes an app/web server by default which you can't disable.

Flux DSL is decent but so was SQL and I already knew SQL.

Shipping a database does not appear to be topping their priority list and it's kind of irritating. A year into the InfluxDB 2 release you weren't able to delete data. Now you can, but you can't be sure when that's going to actually happen. And there's no way of monitoring/managing currently running queries. Add to that its massive memory consumption and you're left wondering what other database solution would get away with this.

For personal projects I have since moved to IoTDB
To quote the parent commenter:

> I don’t want Facebook, Google, Amazon, etc to be able to do an end run around App Store controls.

Alternative stores is a subset of this core issue: sideloading apps to circumvent the gatekeeping process that Apple created for the users benefit.
Eco tourism is huuuge in Costa Rica, and the local peoples greatly value both the cultural and economic value of conservation. I don't think that explains why they've been successful when others have not, but I'd be surprised if leadership and it's constituents there did not at least have the political will to do whatever it needed to to maintain the beauty of the country--it's literally their livelihood.
The book "Why Nations Fail" and the followup by the same authors "The Narrow Corridor" paints a fairly convincing picture that the success or failure of many modern Latin American countries is directly correlated with the extent to which the Spanish colonialists were able to enslave/subjugate the indigenous population, and the types of societies and institutions that followed that initial seed. For example, in modern day Bolivia you can overlay a Spanish colonial map detailing how much forced labor must be performed in each region with a modern poverty map and there is still a high degree of correlation.

"The Narrow Corridor" has an entire chapter devoted to examining the differences between Costa Rica and its neighbor Guatemala.

Guatemala had a large indigenous population that was forced to work on Encomiendas -- essentially Spanish plantations worked by indigenous slaves. This resulted in large swaths of land to be controlled by a few elite. This imbalance eventually results in a highly extractive and exploitative political and economic system. The same 8 families that were major Spanish colonial landowners still essentially run the country (though apparently their power is finally waning). The Castillo family has been the most powerful for literally half a millennium.

Contrast this with Costa Rica which was far more sparsely populated. This resulted in small landholders working their own plots of land, and, in the short term, relative poverty compared to other Spanish conquered lands. But being overlooked by the Spanish, and having a wide spread of land ownership across the populace resulted in a homegrown movement of rural democracy.

Links for further reading:

https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2021/04/03/the-influe...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costa_Rica#Spanish_colonizatio...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_El_Salvador#The_oli... (El Salvador, but a similar situation)
It’s not Medicare it’s Medicaid and the qualification can be up to 400% of the poverty line and the coverage tends to be quite good with minimal ($5) out of pocket costs. In some areas it can be harder to find a family doctor because Medicaid pays them so little for a visit, but drug coverage, for example is comparable to private plans (with way less out of pocket).

And now with Obamacare exchanges, low incomes folks can qualify for substantial premium subsidies. Deductibles and out of pocket limits can still be significant, but one could consider it catastrophic coverage.
> For human traffickers and clubs, this brings them money because if woman were to operate legally on a freelance basis, they'll have no business mode.

Operating legally on a freelance basis is the norm for strippers right now. The club's business model is that they charge the stripper for use of the floor.
Just a few months ago, the 'lab leak hypothesis' was itself a conspiracy speculation. Now its an accepted possibility.
Argues for synchronous interaction. A bit more flexible than pair programming but essentially the same.
yeah im one of the kid that is eternally grateful to sites like myspace and geocities
> What you mean to say is that you do not personally understand the myriad uses where it makes an order of magnitude difference in performance

You clearly misunderstand the concept of a modular ISA.
RISC-V does not only target high performance.
It targets simple scalar microcontrollers, general purpose superscalar machines, and specialized acceleration (Except specific encoding like VLIW for now).

Each of these domains needs a slightly different ISA, and a modular ISA like RISC-V can aggregate all this by providing several ISA extensions.
Then, for each domain, we must select an appropriate set of extensions.

And bitmanip is not necessary for all domains.
If prostitution has to be done at places with security guards it wouldn't be a big issue though, she just screams and the guy gets thrown out and possibly charged/arrested.
This isn't about renters, though. It's about compensating landlords who were forced to provide a service for free.

Like, are you upset that the government compensates hospitals for caring for people who aren't able to pay? If not, then you understand that this concept is not harmful, and there is no disingenuousness.
I'd buy software written by Fabrice Bellard.
> OTOH, with ordinal methods you are forced to distinguish between candidates that you think are equally good.

That is not true, ordinal systems (including IRV) may allow weak ordering.
The US was envisioned as a union of separate countries, like the EU. The EU is sliding towards US-style centralization.
It is customary for a nation to ask diplomatic permission before entering territorial waters with a warship. OTOH maritime law is fairly clear:

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According to Article 19 (2) of UNCLOS, passage of a foreign ship shall be considered prejudicial to the peace, good order or security of the coastal state and thus in non-innocent passage if, in the territorial sea (less than 12 nautical miles from shore), it engages in any of the following activities:

(a) any threat or use of force against the sovereignty, territorial integrity or political independence of the coastal State, or in any other manner in violation of the principles of international law embodied in the Charter of the United Nations;

(b) any exercise or practice with weapons of any kind;

(c) any act aimed at collecting information to the prejudice of the defence or security of the coastal State;

(d) any act of propaganda aimed at affecting the defence or security of the coastal State;

(e) the launching, landing or taking on board of any aircraft;

(f) the launching, landing or taking on board of any military device;

(g) the loading or unloading of any commodity, currency or person contrary to the customs, fiscal, immigration or sanitary laws and regulations of the coastal State;

(h) any act of wilful and serious pollution contrary to this Convention;

(i) any fishing activities;

(j) the carrying out of research or survey activities;

(k) any act aimed at interfering with any systems of communication or any other facilities or installations of the coastal State;

(l) any other activity not having a direct bearing on passage.

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Just sailing through is usually not a problem even with a warship. In this case of course, both parties were making a statement. The British that they don't recognize the annexation of Crimea, the Russians that they don't care what the British think about it.
Japan has a different corporate culture to the US. Lifetime employment is still attainable, and company loyalty goes both ways. It's not really fair to compare that to the US, where it's primarily about the bottom line. In this culture, you can't fault workers for looking out for their own interests first.
no ticket.
Absolutely loved Costa Rica when I visited several years ago. It is on my list of places to go back.

However, I was saddened to see litter all over some of the beaches I went to.
Yesterday's thread on this pointed directly at the paper instead of a tweet: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27598222

It seems odd that advocates of the lab leak theory frequently claim to have been silenced and yet have been spamming updates on almost popular every forum for weeks now.
That's exactly the issue. Individuals have 0 recourse against Facebook, but Apple does. Apple is basically selling you a collective action against the likes of Facebook to fight against having everything you do tracked and monitored. What I don't get is the people who so desparetly want sideloading on iOS. If that's what you want, AOSP is a thing, go use that.
If you go by historical data, when nobody has a standing army everybody has mercenaries (which leads to instability at scale).
Small and unlikely?! Wikipedia alone has thousands of them, and that's a safe, low guess. Probably tens of thousands. And there are lots of single-page tables on the Web that don't have sorting implemented, but that a user might wish to sort.

[EDIT] further, aside from that being a great feature for vanilla HTML even if it had continued to only be a document format, that's a great stepping stone on the way to having proper, datasource-backed tables, as is common in mature GUI widget frameworks and libraries.
Environmental Policy (EPA). Family policy (gay marriage, transgenderism, etc via the Supreme Court). Healthcare (Obamacare). Education (no child left behind, the dept of education). Higher education (federal backed guarantees). We can go on...
> Nobody is getting hooked on paying people to pour concrete.

So you think sex work is illegal / made very impractical in so many countries to protect the customers?
I'm not sure whether everything is right there regarding that Librem 5 unit - 40% of the battery eaten in 3 hours with screen off is way faster than what I see here on my phones (disclaimer: I work for Purism). None of my phones also get as hot as described, so that may be related. I'd be interested in seeing power consumption data (`tail -n+0 /sys/class/power_supply/*/uevent`) and thermal data (`gthcli`) in various idle states from that unit. I haven't done any exact battery tests recently, but from my experience I can easily reach screen off time of more than 10-15 hours and screen on time of 5-6 hours depending on what stays on, and the phone usually stays cool unless I leave it in bed under a blanket at which point it can get pretty hot after a few hours (but still not burning to touch).
> Perhaps a partnership with some existing manufacturer that is struggling for relevance in the phone space like LG or Motorola?

Not sure about the Pinephone, but Purism explained that they were searching for hardware allowing 100% FLOSS. i.MX 8M Quad SoC worked for that: https://puri.sm/posts/breaking-ground/. No other mainstream manufacturer is interested in that.
Comments by Warren E. Buffett on philanthropy [pdf]
I've tried with Ubuntu for a while but not had luck. Does installation work easily with Ubuntu now, or did you have to hack a bit? If so, is this written up somewhere?

Looks like it is super easy with Nix but I've not yet had success on Ubuntu.
Been using model M keyboards for 25+ years; have had a total of one complaint about the noise: I woke my wife up one night with a sudden burst of typing, she said it sounded like a spray paint can being shaken.
That's apples to oranges even looking just at marginal costs; you're comparing "past mortgages and current profits" to "current mortgages." That's a reasonable approximation some places, but right now I'd pay an extra $15k+/yr to mortgage a house equivalent to my apartment.

Not to mention, housing has high fixed costs and just isn't available for a lot of people. You need a down payment, various closing costs, proof of decent credit (not just that you haven't defaulted on a loan, but that you've been actively building credit), and ofttimes proof of some moderately high amount of income or sustained bank balance. Even with enough income to make the monthly payments you could still have to save and plan for years to get over the hump of actually buying a home.

Once you've actually bought the house, your actual expenses are burstier than when renting. You might get lucky, but if the furnace or something dies in the first couple of years you won't be able to weather that loss if you were just on the cusp of affording home ownership (whereas a renter would be just fine because it's their landlord's problem). Since certain major components of the house are effectively self insured, that raises the bar for initial savings you need to purchase a house with the same financial safety as renting.

There's an additional assumption you're glossing over -- that for every apartment there exists an equivalent or worse house. At times when I needed really cheap rent I could grab a 200sq ft studio apartment, but that option isn't readily available for most home buyers.

Even assuming buying were feasible for everyone it still wouldn't be close to optimal. The extra fixed costs associated with a home purchase or sale make it much more difficult to move for family issues, school, job opportunities, .... If you're in a situation where you plan to move every couple years then renting is likely cheaper (certainly easier) than purchasing a home, even in places where the rent is higher than an equivalent mortgage.

And on and on and on. If you're going to stay somewhere a few years and have a bit of a financial buffer then I totally agree that home ownership is often a good idea. It's not that clear cut for huge swathes of people though.
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For 97% of Human History equality was the norm, what happened?
That's not how it works at all. Not levying taxes on something is not the same as subsidising something. It's not "our" money until he does something with that money that we as a society have deemed taxable.

I fully agree that there is something criticise here, but it's definitely not that he is somehow taking "our" money. It's his money until he decides to spend it. It's money that could be hours, if we instructed our government to take it from him. But we haven't, so that's that.

I like the idea of charitable foundations being able to receive tax free, though I would admit that is a matter of taste and not a clear right/wrong distinction. What I do object to is that his family has paid positions in those foundations. That just smells of tax loopholes. If those foundations manage to perpetually break-even, they would be able to fund his family with cushiony jobs forever.

But, as far as I can tell they're not being paid egregious amounts, and the foundations are all actually spending their money on good things, so in this case there doesn't seem to be any shadowy business. Especially since most of it is going to the Gates Foundation anyway.

But, if we're talking policy, I think it would be a good thing if there were restrictions on how much family members of philanthropes can earn at charity organisations, if anything at all.
Apps that I need or like would stop developing for the main store and start demanding people sideload or install another App Store and I would inevitably have to follow along and put my credit card into multiple stores. I don’t have any bargaining power to prevent this, apple do.
Of course I could not sideload apps, but I expect that I would lose access to some games and services that I use. There is all downside for me.
I did indeed think about adding Matomo to the list, but my main focus was to highlight products by Indie hackers, Solopreneurs, and small teams. But you are right, as Matomo is open-source and probably one of the biggest (if not the) competitor to GA I should definitely include in the list.
I don't know about any other countries but this is extremely common in the US. Dating is a line item in most men's budgets. In my experience, and I'm sure others, it's never pick a bar or something where it can be affordable. With modern dating and apps you are simply a number. I'm sure someone will chime in that they met their lover/soul-mate/girlfriend/whatever on dating apps but the data has time and time again shown this to be the exception and not the rule.

I generally will end a date if the bill isn't split at least for the first few dates. As a result, I had nothing but trouble to the point of swearing off dating until a chance encounter in the real world introduced me to my current girlfriend.
Isn't this common? I think Intel TPMs use that as well. They have their own clocks. I wonder if you could tamper and inject your own faster clock signal though.
People died with that auto feature a years ago and yet it still happens today when we auppose to see a lot of JARVIS-like cars on the street by now said the real Tony Stark back then. Malicious attacks will occur and pray you and your love ones are not in it when the attacks happen.
That's probably not accountable as "renewable"...
As a % of population, and % of military spending... does "less innovation" hold up? I assume you have some data backing that claim, would be interesting if true, and the reasons why.
Vim for Life? (Podcast Episode)
Look at the death rates in Sweden, and the fact that COVID seemed to be floating around for months in Italy etc, before anyone took notice.

A critical part of the COVID scenario has been the fear and lockdown, which far exceeds justification or established pandemic management guidelines.

If COVID was spread only in the West, it would burn out like Swine Flu or any regular once-a-decade flu variant:

https://swprs.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/sweden-monthly-...

The fact that it spread first in China allowed the CCP to control the narrative, that lockdown and authoritarianism was the only way to manage the virus.
A bit of a nit - your storage driver could absolutely emit a program that formats your disk due to undefined behavior.
Or they can just tell them facts instead of pretending to care what a random hater thinks. Just like they did. They also asked what bad UX they referred to, so they did what you wanted but it was still disrespectful apparently. If genuine feedback was met with "go fuck yourself" we could maybe call it user hostility but this was not.
Your currency losing value is not the same as someone else's life circumstances improving.

This program is about compensating landlords who were forced to provide housing for free, much like how hospitals get compensated to provide medical care to people who can't pay. I see no complaints about the latter, even though it's the same mechanism as the former.
Part of the bargain was that Tesla will be recycling the materials for these batteries when they are EoL. Until that actually happens, the battery only solves half the problem.
Yes. For the curious,

https://github.com/Tarsnap/tarsnap/graphs/contributors
>There's the saying "if you look for yellow cars, you'll find them." I think your assumption that the difference was gender is just a product of the times: you were looking for that answer.

Without passing an opinion on the subject, isn't that kind of a flaming laser sword? You could apply it to any parallel drawn between two things regardless of whether the comparison is valid or not. It doesn't seem like a useful tool to discriminate valid ideas from invalid ones.
whoa this is awesome! thanks for making the source available too :) https://github.com/tvillarete/ipod-classic-js
One simple example from the article is that sideloading would increase the security attack surface for iOS users.
Minitel:
https://www.osnews.com/story/27387/the-first-app-store/
Sounds like he had an interesting relationship with the CIA, to say the least:

>"At the time, I was conspiring against the Latin American dictatorships and wanted help from the United States", he recalled. "I was a good friend of Allen Dulles."

>"Anyway", Mr. Figueres went on, "the C.I.A.'s Cultural Department helped me finance a magazine and some youth conferences here. But I never participated in espionage. I did beg them not to carry out the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, which was madness, but they ignored me."

>Figueres backed the leftist Sandinista revolution in neighboring Nicaragua that overthrew dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle in 1979. He railed against U.S. policy when the United States supported Nicaragua's Contra guerrillas.

It also reads as though his 1958 testimony before Congress [0] shamed the CIA into facilitating the assassination of Rafael Trujillo, a bloody right-wing dictator who Figueres all but named:

>"If you’re going to speak of human dignity in Russia, why is it so hard to speak of human dignity in the Dominican Republic? Where is intervention and where is non-intervention? Is it that a simple threat, a potential one, to your liberties, is, essentially, more serious than the kidnapping of our liberties?"

>With Figueres as sponsor, Bosch and Ornes agreed to form a coalition government in anticipation of the overthrow of dictator Rafael Trujillo.

Such a fascinating figure. Amazed I never knew his name before now.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Figueres_Ferrer#1958...

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