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Enforce obscenity laws against incest and other extreme forms of pornography

How would you go about enforcing this, and how does that differ from existing proposals about child porn?

Institute the death penalty for child sexual abuse and make sure it is performed swiftly and publicly

All the worries about people being framed or wrongly convicted apply equally well to that proposal.
I still see the CRTC or RAMDAC terms used for modern scan out engines, even if the terms are a bit anachronistic.
> the US has by far the highest rate of charity in the world

How much of this comes from "tithe 10% to your church"?
This [1] seems to be a more discerning answer

[1] https://hevodata.com/learn/mariadb-vs-postgresql/
Exactly. I don't use GMail either, own my own domain and run my own email servers.
I always heard it explained that it's full-node wallet users who tend to control the future direction of a blockchain, not just those invested or mining.

I would like the 21M limit to be increased so I can stand to make some profit mining! Currently that's impossible for me. I'd like it to change.
No, the inverse.

We shouldn't treat the opinions of a CNA who might have had as few as 85 hours of education as "the opinions of a medical professional" - -that- is entirely valid. Their opinions can be credible, and they can have valid concerns, but they're not held higher because they have a cert or license or degree.
The judge, the doctors, and everyone else that failed to do even the most basic searches or confirmations of anyone’s identity should be put in jail in this case.

I’m also surprised this happened in Hawaii. Are they so overrun with crime and cases that they couldn’t handle doing their most basic duties to confirm identities? Not that they would have any excuse.
> How’s stopping Jack and Sheila from going back home in not australia doing anything for covid in australia?

I don't know the exact intentions of the Australian government, but the rationale as outlined in the article is that it stops the "go abroad - catch COVID - come back" cycle at the first link.

Again, I don't personally condone it.
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Emacs is really thriving right now. There are a lot of creative developers contributing to a really nice ecosystem of packages right now, with some things getting pushed upstream.
The problem with your supposition here is that America's rich have been already acting like "corrupt, racist, oppressive, hypocriptical imperialists" for at least 120 years. United Fruit Company[0], the Business Plot[1], etc. For the rich, it has always been morally acceptable to cheat the system. The 20th century saw the establishment of pensions, then they were raided barely a generation afterwards.

I think what you're complaining about is that the historical propaganda (not to mention historical material abundance for the plebes) which smoothed over the bad stuff doesn't work as well in the modern age. There's cellphone cameras, whistleblowers, shrinkflation, and planned obsolescence these days. What investment and fellow-feeling should the little people feel for The System?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Fruit_Company

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot
You forget that death sentences are carried out much more swiftly in China.

Also, while there's a lot to be said about court systems, public defenders etc in US I wouldn't compare the two.
Correct. But if you can't even take someone to civil court you have no chance of criminal charges sticking (barring some specific statute or precedent to the contrary)
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Interesting point of comparison to, say, iOS development, which costs $99/yr, full stop, not per-seat.
There's a beautiful mini documentary with Craig Hickman, the creator of Kid Pix, here:

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

It's by Jeffrey Alan Scudder aka Whistlegraph aka HN's own justanothersys. His fantastic No Paint (very much in the spirit of Kid Pix) was discussed here a ~year ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23546706
> The media responds to what the public is interested in.

No, not at all. If this were the case then the public would be more interested in deportations under Obama than under Trump, considering the former deported more illegal immigrants in his first term than the latter, and yet coverage of border protection under Trump was far broader and more critical than under Obama (disclaimer: I voted for Obama and against Trump).

> It's clear from your comments that your throwaway account was created solely to spread FUD so I will stop engaging with you now.

Unless your legal name is "gamblor956" you have no room to talk. Anyway, I have half your karma and my account is only a third the age of yours, so clearly I'm here making valuable contributions (indeed in this thread alone I probably gained 50 karma, so clearly lots of folks agree with me, meanwhile your comments are grayed out).

EDIT: Yes, Internet Points are stupid and I don't generally care about them, but they aren't completely useless for very crudely approximating who is and is not a troll.

EDIT2: Looks like several people (or perhaps one person with several sock accounts) are downvoting all of my recent posts in rapid succession. Like I said above, I don’t care about my Internet Points! :)
> If so, find it mind boggling that you could be arrested in America for falling asleep on the pavement/sidewalk!?

Yes, but it's a little more complex/subtle than that may make it seem. Some things to consider:

* Arrested doesn't mean convicted. A cop may take someone in ("arrest" them) to get them off the streets and give them a night in jail to sober up. Then they get let out without pressing charges. In some cases, this may end up being a net benefit for the person, in others it obviously isn't. Your country probably does the same thing. I assume "drunk tanks" are pretty universal.

* Police officers have a lot of discretion on which laws they enforce. There is a downside to this in that it lets them use that discretion in biased ways, but—ignoring that for the moment—it does mean that many times cops are more lenient and compassionate than the law implies that they should be. You rarely hear about those stories on the news but talk to a cop or do a ride-along and you'll see that they spend most of their time not arresting people and instead giving them warnings.

* Honolulu has a famously bad homeless problem, while also being heavily dependent on tourism for its economy. There are a lot of "beach bums" that move to Hawaii without any plan to provide for themselves and if Honolulu doesn't do anything about them at all, they can end up harming the place's overall economy, which would then make it harder for the city to afford the services these people need. Doing nothing is not as innocuous as it might seem.

* In general, a society must do some enforcement of public spaces. Otherwise, they cease to be public spaces. I live in Seattle which also has a lot of homeless people. Some of them build encampments in public parks. This means that, de facto, those are no longer public parks. They're private property because the public no longer has access to them—the squatters in the encampment will run them off.

The name for a place where you can choose to be and no one can kick you out is "private property". If you don't want all of your public spaces to turn into private spaces, then you do have to prevent people from unilaterally privatizing them to some degree. Of course, it's not black and white and there are good discussions to have about where you draw the line. Obviously people need to be able to spend some time in a public space. Is napping OK? Sleeping overnight? In a tent? In a shelter made from pallets and tarps?

Many of the laws that draw the line harshly are driven by the observation that when you give a little, some people (not all) will try to take more and more. So it's not so entirely that lawmakers are heartless sadists who don't even want to have to see a homeless person, so much as a fear that if you let someone take a nap, they'll sleep overnight. Let them sleep overnight and they'll build a structure. Let them build a structure and they'll start fires. And at that point, it becomes really hard to keep that place available to the public.

It is a hard problem and anyone who thinks it is black and white is choosing to not see all of the complexity.
What algorithm are they using?
I purposely left this to be quite ambiguous to get a broad range of responses.

Who are the "etc." here?
What do you feel guilty about?
Why don't you feel guilt?
> So NUMERIC is kind of like TEXT except when the text is a pure number.

That‘s exactly the thing that always comes back to bite you in Excel.
The concern is less false positives, and more if the Chinese government tells Apple "find everyone who has this picture on their phone in Hong Kong"
My wife's employer is not mandating vaccines and they are on the verge of mandating a return to work with everyone wearing masks all day long to accommodate their anti-vaccine employees. She may not stay there much longer. Life is too short.
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> and that computers store data in binary digits

I know that computers store data in binary digits but it has absolutely no impact on how I do my job. I'm vaguely aware of how bitwise operators work but have never had to use them in my work, only in random hacky side projects.

> like being an architect who doesn't understand trigonometry or something

I'd equate it with a an architect that doesn't know where the brick supplier they are working with sources their bricks from. It's absolute essential to the project, nothing is going to get built without the bricks. But the architect can still plan the use of those bricks and the project can be entirely successful without them needing that knowledge.
Better yet, there's a website that allows you to find other websites that answer your questions.
I don't think there are valid points on all sides of the debate. A disturbing number of people think that homeless people should basically be exterminated.

That's not a welcome idea at all, and it deserves no validity.
This isn't about buying mining equipment either.

It's whether bitcoin miners need to KYC the other boxes they communicate with. It'd be like requiring bittorrent clients to have a copy of drivers license on file for every other node they make connections to.
And by most here, you mean every single country in the world apart from the US, Eritrea, Myanmar and Hungary.
Check this out; similar needs to be done in the americas:

https://rumble.com/vkorz0-freedom-fighter-court-victory-ends...
So you're saying sending money to a bitcoin address would help obscure the identity of the receiver?
Not if your lawyer is any good.
Huh, I specifically said "concerns about collisions" is a real concern. I said that "mass surveillance" is a real concern.

What is not a real concern is fuzziness in the question "is this image of child abuse". And I really don't want to continue a discussion where you try to come up with gray areas. A computer may not be able to tell the difference, but humans can.
That's generally the idea of a flat tax, yeah. Tax everything at point-of-collection/creation (e.g. "you cut down a tree" or "you burned a log") or point-of-import (likely offset for similar taxes collected by the origin country), and there's no need to track anything beyond that point. E.g. re-use or re-selling is (CO2-)tax-free because it doesn't change the net input/output of the whole system.

Which rarely happens in practice, and we're so far from accurately taxing all these processes that it isn't even a dream of a dream. It's mostly tackling big targets, since that's where a ton of the impact-per-dollar-and-per-outrage can be found.
I don't have to, you can look at pretty much any of their language curriculum and find a huge presence of English in nearly all their education systems.

Certainly you will find people learning other languages for trade depending on the region, but even in East Asia, as you say, English is taught in China, Japanese, Korea. In Singapore English is the language everyone learns (and is taught in). In Vietnam the primary foreign language taught is English. In the Philippines one of its official languages is English. Argentina teaches English in elementary school. In Brazil students from grade 6 have to learn a language, which is usually English. In Venezuela English is taught from age 5.

So what exactly do I have to tell them?
> The judge, the doctors, and everyone else that failed to do even the most basic searches or confirmations of anyone’s identity should be put in jail in this case.

No, they should be put in mental institutions under the name Castleberry with strict instructions to the medical staff that they are delusional and misstating their own identity.
Agreed. What happened here is absolutely horrific.
I like upbeat (not droopy) and not too many lyrics (which can distract the language-processing parts of the brain that I need to work). Trip-hop fits the bill well for me.

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Can’t see this without immediately remembering countless hours playing toward a city full of Arcologies in SimCity 2000. Fun times!
Regulations also limit the number of hospitals you can have in a city/county. You have to demonstrate a need for the healthcare facility. Currently 35 states require a CON (Certificate of Need) to open a new healthcare facility.
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Is there any actual evidence presented here? This is someone who's repeating "But it’s important to remember that this is the same company that won’t encrypt your iCloud backups because the FBI put pressure on them.", for which there is also no evidence and quite a lot of testimony to the contrary. His credibility seems questionable in the absence of evidence.
Water has a high specific heat capacity. If you have a given amount of energy (stored in chemical bonds) and some of it goes to heating water, temperatures will be lower.

It appears you have a very basic understanding of physics.
Yeah, while you could argue that the IRS should do pre-filled electronic returns, the reality is that if you have a W2 and a couple 1099s, doing your taxes is pretty straightfoward.

As you say, it's more complex income sources and potentially deductions that lead to big accountant bills.
> by this tax

This isn't actually a (new) tax, it's a surveillance framework intended to support stricter enforcement of existing taxes. So far as that goes it's an added expense (mostly externalized) and not likely to pay for anything. The claim is that there is $28 billion of tax evasion going on which all this extra reporting would supposedly curtail–assuming all else remained equal—which is pure conjecture and not something that should be relied upon as a funding source.
Is there a summary or transcript available?
I would suggest that the major benefit would be that if things go to shit wherever you are, you can flee back to the US. There are probably other countries you could choose for that instead, though.

Also, if you give up your citizenship, does that have any implications for traveling back to the US? You might very well have friends and family you would like to visit occasionally.
I mean most anthropologists now believe that Neanderthals were at least as intelligent as homo sapiens, and most of us do have some Neanderthal genes...
I disagree that's how it's promoted. You could make this argument about any piece of software (change the code to make it insecure, now look at the security hole!).

If someone were to do this with Bitcoin, users can decide whether to use the old chain or the new chain. Unlike a centralized service, no individual (or even group of people) can prevent you from using the version of the network you and your peers want to participate in.
>It is beyond me how people intelligent enough to hang around HN can pretend to have no understanding of how systems work.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his cheap internet virtue points depend on his not understanding it.
If they're using perceptual hashes, which they almost certainly are at least some of the time, then there's a huge space for false positives for each perceptual hash.
No. Most of the cohort I was talking about are left-leaning people, often vocally critical of the Catholic church, pro-gay rights, pro-choice, environmentalist, anti-racist etc. (I'm talking about Italy, not U.S.)
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I believe octopi have small brains and from and according to research are fairly intelligent creatures.

My guess is we've been underestimating the intelligence of most animals.
I don't know. If they made that public it would be completely ineffective.
DSPs were around, but there's no way that car stereo was digitizing the signal, delaying it, then converting it back to analog.

I get it was an impressive experience, but it's essentially certain it's what the other poster said: just boosting the out of phase content between the channels. This was a very in vogue effect at the time. I remember listening to the top 40 on the radio one time and Madonna had some new song where they were hyping it as surround sound and turning it into a whole event. In any case this effect can be more effective than you might assume. After all, the first consumer version of Dolby Surround was just this out of phase content run through a bandpass filter and sent to surround speakers.

I knew a family friend with the 90s version of the Impulse. Neat quirky car from what I remember. As a kid I definitely thought it was very cool.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. I'm not sure subjugation of Communist states by force would have lead to a better outcome, historically.

I just find it fascinating and a bit sad that authoritarianism is often seen as somehow better, if it comes from the left.

If people truly value democracy and freedom, authoritarianism should be opposed regardless of its underlying political color.
It would be trivial for a bad intentioned actor to send those images to a target that he wanted to incriminate if the target is not tech savvy.
Really like the Affinity products, but Designer still does not support hatch fills. This is a real deficit, as it’s required for technical drawings, e.g. for patent images. Does this new version offer this feature?
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson aka Boris Johnson is not as clumsy as his haircut makes him look to be. The guy keeps fit, doesn't look like Rambo but he is fit with a bit a sticky build. He is intelligent, he survived the muddy waters of politics, affairs and is prime minister.
Of course he always knew he is American dual citizen, a person like him does not handle an apartment sale himself, he has handlers and advisors. And he was in a very high income bracket for a while and it's safe to say he fell into a us taxable segment before that sale.
He is a showman and this was just the event where the tax bill was too high and he said "no more".
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None of this reply even has anything to do with what I asked, which was why you think you need a VM and garbage collection to run specific CPU instructions.

> All concurrent complex datatypes leak memory with C/C++

That's completely ridiculous and shows that you have a very fundamental misunderstanding of how these things work. They are wrappers around functions that do the atomic operations.

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/atomic/atomic_store

Feel free to show me the memory leak you were talking about.

https://godbolt.org/
I see that your unstated but implied stance is that Neanderthals were less inteligent than homo sapiens. Do we know that? How do we know that?
> the rationale as outlined in the article is that it stops the "go abroad - catch COVID - come back" cycle at the first link.

These are not people going on holidays, they're not going to do that, which is why the rule did not apply to them.

The article explains that these people had to justify their being residents of other countries to leave without a special authorisation. If you want to "0 COVID" you prevent them from coming back in as you do for non-australian residents, and you prevent australian residents from leaving without authorisation.

> Again, I don't personally condone it.

But you are certainly defending it.
Just saying "fuzzy hash" doesn't begin to explain how this would work. There are an infinite variety of algorithms along with arbitrary tolerances configurable. "fuzzy hash" just isn't helpful no matter how many times you repeat it.
Less West Side Story more Jungle Book.
I genuinely don't understand the idea that markets can somehow operate outside a social / political framework. Barter economies maybe but anything involving money or contracts. Imagine a free market without say any legal framework for contracts?

I remember a few years back the Libertarian party candidate saying "yes a driving license seems a good idea" and almost being forced from the job. Is that where you are coming from?

I disagree that politics is "deciding for others without their consent". That seems to describe violent dictatorships. (Yes that's a form of politics but not one I am advocating)
you're right about these other incentives, but they're all forms of time off.

I believe the GP was referring to the other "stuff" companies try to do to get you to feel like they care about you, but that don't impact your ability to make your own choices about your life the way more time or money do.

e.g., "free" swag, company-wide retreats/outings
Sadly the first page of results is all similar to this site, in terms of quality. HN readers are more knowledgeable than websites that can find other websites.
> it’s not compatible with technical writing and will likely get the paper rejected if it is done there

Something seems to be going wrong there if easy to understand writing is rejected by papers.

> Journalists should consult with experts not unlike any layman consulting a lawyer for legal advice.

That's pretty gate-keepery. Also, it clearly hasn't been working. Having to consult a laywer for legal advice is a consequence of our extraordinarily and unnecessarily complex code of law and court system. Its not a good thing. Consulting experts just isn't feasible for most people. Its not a good state of things IMO.
yes, and that's (part of) why Canada has endemic Covid-19 and NZ does not.
So let's look at this. There were people who screwed up. Then they covered it up.

The key question is "what sort of system makes it harder to cover things up?" because the people element of people not wanting to get in trouble or have their mistakes visible isn't going to go anywhere.

You also need to have the non-mistake, non-cruel cases visible, to see if things are changing for the better or worse, rate-wise.

A "less cruel" system isn't a particularly specific or well-defined thing to strive for if it's not specifically trying to address those human failings, since people can still be cruel.