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> Furthermore, I do not want my children playing with other families who have guns inside the household. I don't see it as safe.

So we get to the crux of it. It's not the signs that prevent you from socializing with your community.

On to the signs. "Posted, no trespassing" is an indication that bad things may happen if you jump a fence. Maybe all it is is getting arrested and charges pressed. Do signs like that make you feel unsafe?

Signs like that are intended to deter the wrong kind of people, that is, those who would harm you. They have the added side effect of bringing together like minded people, and deterring socialization from people with a problem with it.
Who would think that a rectangle would be better then a circle for a steering wheel is a non-race car? You now have to look at the steering wheel to make sure that you are grabbing it in the correct position?
How long until you can make money with photos, they turn on ads, and the platform will be exactly like YouTube, except now for photos?
As mentioned elsewhere, the pride usually stems from self reliance.
The USSR was never meant to be a very liberal and democratic state.

For one example, Soviets forcibly disbanded the (democratically elected) Constituent Assembly after 13 hours of operation, because they didn't get the majority in it, and couldn't influence its decision - and this happened several years before the USSR was even formed.

For another example, the very first Soviet constitution (of 1918; again, before USSR was even a thing!) allocated voting power as follows:

"The All-Russian Congress of Soviets is composed of representatives of urban soviets (one delegate for 25,000 voters), and of representatives of the provincial (gubernia) congresses of soviets (one delegate for 125,000 inhabitants)."

That is, one urban vote counted for 5 rural votes. Most rural votes (and thus votes in general, back then) were those of peasants, who tended to vote for parties such as SR. Urban votes, on the other hand, were mostly factory workers, who tended to support Bolsheviks.

Furthermore, the same constitution outright banned several groups of people from voting:

"(a) Persons who employ hired labor in order to obtain form it an increase in profits;
(b) Persons who have an income without doing any work, such as interest from capital, receipts from property, etc.;
(c) Private merchants, trade and commercial brokers;
(d) Monks and clergy of all denominations;"

As for liberal, one of the first Bolshevik decrees was the "decree on the press", which specifically stated that "bourgeois press" is not subject to freedom of speech. Or we could talk about how the Constitutional Democrat party was banned outright a few weeks later, and its members subject to arrest.
Lemon.io perhaps?

I also listed 100 examples of different productized and subscription-based services here: https://manyrequests.com/blog/100-examples-of-productized-se...
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Hard to take such a reply seriously since Japan never had lockdown and is doing fine without it.

Anyway I wholly agree the GP, the West had gone crazy in both the handling of the pandemic and how heavy handed it is with opposition against the ambient madness. And now governments know they can get away with such power tripping without any consequence, situation will continue going worst and worst on the freedom front.
Since I was being asked, this is exactly the answer I would have given. We don't have to have a solution for every problem, because living in society together has inconveniences; some of them are simply worth it.
>Precisely why many Americans are convinced gun ownership is an answer to something, despite all the statistical evidence, I'm just not likely to ever understand. Thank you for your patience with my questions.

It probably doesn't change much but Americans ask the opposite question since ownership is already legal.

We ask what you hope to solve by removing gun ownership.

From the perspective of a gun owner who is in favor of better gun control, the biggest issue with gun legislation in the US is that those proposing restrictions either have no idea what they're talking about or are just catering to those who don't.

The pro gun control crowd is too busy inventing a nonsensical category of guns to ban ("assualt weapons") to even acknowledge that the homicide rate comes from poor people killing eachother with cheap, concealable handguns.
Totally out-competed and outmanoeuvred by Maciej...

:-)
i recall a top comment from a few years ago "Every time I read about this company I get a feeling everyone involved is completely insane", and one of the Genius investors lurking here got genuinely offended, lol

edit: here it is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8022414
Its only a matter a time before those internet killswitches get used on social media companies and data brokers under public health orders

I'm looking forward to the simultaenous multi-pronged state level actions using the tools we already have

Where we are now is purely tolerance and pretend
Do kids still read computer books?
SuperForth
A shitty, functional programming language made in a moot, however commendable attempt to better abstract and run USACO soloutions.
> I really, really don't understand why I have to put my self in the position to be censured, scanned or to not have control over the UX.

People said the same when YouTube became a thing.

> And one more thing: Making a service iPhone only is not cool. Apple is not cool anymore.

Fully agree here.
Broadband is a natural monopoly. Most natural monopolies are either owned by the government or regulated. At the national level government in the US has failed with respect to broadband. I hope we can address that failure locally by building a government owned broadband utility.
> is doing fine without it.

17,000 deaths may be a lot better than some other countries, but I certainly wouldn't describe it as "doing fine" compared to the near-zero death counts in regions that imposed fast and strict lockdowns.
I was routinely physically bullied as a kid and I learnt the hard way that sometimes you just had to fight back even when you were outnumbered and unlikely to come out on top. Why? Because if you can land just one or two punches next time they’ll think twice about whether it’s worth their time.

Even if it’s ill advised, and even if it’s likely to harm OP more financially, only a response as strong as this will make a them think twice about their policies.

What Rosa Parks did wasn’t advisable, but it was the right thing to do. The same can be said of many human rights activists. Not that this is comparable to those struggles, but we all have our part to play in creating a better world.
Good. They're free to do that as a private company. If Facebook is so important that they shouldn't be allowed to moderate their own platform then designate them a utility.
Yeah. What's next to follow? The whole format ecosystem - only KDL, i.e. all the equivalents of XPath, XSLT, XQuery, XML Schema, libraries, and modern re-envision of other tools such as jq and JMESPath...
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2167558-explicit-inst...
Exactly.

The only reason people make content they aren't passionate about is advertising.
Funny how all the "comspiracy theories" like the Wuhan Lab leak later get confirmed to be true.
There are numerous examples of this happening, a couple mentioned in responses to you, but in Indiana I know that a law was passed a few hears ago (with quite a bit of protest from police unions) saying basically that you can treat a cop as an armed intruder if he forcibly enters your house without a warrant.
> Hyper-V has some MASSIVE updates which noone talks about, as well as stuff like the network stack being rewritten

Maybe be the change you want to see... Try talking about those things.

I've heard nothing about either one, do you have an article or articles? Microsoft hasn't done a very good job communicating the non-UI changes. Insiders have measured performance losses but no significant gains yet.

Hard to call people criticizing other things a "false narrative" when there's been near no communication on the things you're bringing up, and they don't mitigate the complaints.
It's pretty close to HashCorp's HCL, actually.
They are accountable. Don't use them. I could not give less of a shit about what platforms like Facebook do because I'm not on them. Do I have less speech?
My understanding is that the price of food is not generally included in the most-commonly reported version of the CPI for the past few decades. So you could both be right.
It's doubly ironic because of course a large swath of the guns in what is bordering on civil war in Mexico are supplied by the US, made possible through the (lack of) gun ownership regulation.
I've been using the app since it was invite only and I gladly paid the yearly fee. Is the app perfect? No but what app is right out of the gate? I find the subscription the most useful feature of the app. Knowing there's a gate on the app ($$$ wise) has made my interactions with other photographers more worthwhile and genuine. There's currently one purpose here vs a million reasons other than photography on Instagram.

As far as usability uploading photos from my main camera isn't hard. All those photos get dropped and managed in OneDrive so when I'm ready to upload I can upload from my phone without a problem.
how to draw an owl: 1. draw some circles 2. draw the rest of the fucking owl
I'm actually astonished people still believe "fast and strict" lockdowns work, or that they actually happened anywhere.

Edit because rate limiting:

In any "lockdown" situation, a large percentage of the population must, by definition, exist in the world to enforce the lockdown, deliver food, keep critical services running, tend to the sick, etc.

The desirability and feasibility of a "fast and strict" lockdown is a fantasy of the laptop class and/or authoritarian propaganda.

Closing borders before there is community spread, a la Australia and NZ, is a separate issue. Those were not "fast". The borders to those countries have been closed since early 2020. In the case of Australia, their citizens cannot even leave without a special permit that is almost never approved.

There is currently no end in sight to their "fast and strict" lockdown. In fact, they have increased restrictions in the last several months in an attempt to prevent interstate spread within the country.
Kafka's hallucinations make a lot of sense in today's world!!
Note that OP said "legitimate", not "legal". These are not the same.

You have an inherent (natural) right to freedom of speech, which includes propagation of information. Intellectual property rights are an artificial construct that is created by society, effectively limiting freedom of speech and granting limited monopolies on distribution of certain information, ostensibly to achieve certain social goals. Both the goals themselves, and to what extent the arrangement is conductive to achieving them, is very much debatable.
It's gotten a lot better since we entered the KindleBreak era. The community went nuclear, and now instead of applying various hacks to try and prevent updates from being downloaded, the jailbreak package includes a little service that (as I understand it) watches the disk and immediately deletes anything that looks like an update package. The MobileRead "Open Sesame!" thread [0] has all the modern tooling in one place, if you're interested.

[0] https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=320564
Yet every swiss male citizen does military training and is issued a weapon to keep, to use in staying proficient.

There's no need for a military culture, when the government has already mandated it for you.

Not that it isn't popular:

>On September 22, 2013, a referendum that aimed to abolish conscription was held in Switzerland. However, the referendum failed with over 73% of the electorate voting against it, showing strong support for conscription of men in Switzerland.
Engineers are not the customer, the executives of companies willing to sign off on the license fees are, they're the only ones they need to keep happy.
I think the bigger issue with that argument is that there isn't any one moment where your rights are stripped away and the people rebel. It's a gradual process that most will not notice before it's too late. At least that's how I see it.

I'm very optimistic about the future, and even then, seeing the division in the US and how both sides give zero fucks about the rights of the other shows to me how it can happen even here.
As a former Los Alamos resident I wish you luck in this endeavor, but my guess is Los Alamos is probably too small to run a cost effective ISP operation. My recommendation is to approach this from a "how do we bargain with ISPs as a single unit" perspective, not a "how do we build and operate our own network" perspective. My apartment building in Seattle just converted from cable to fiber. We're only 200 units but it was still enough of a prize to get some competition and concessions out of the vendors, and collectively LA has 50x those numbers. If you can get even 2 vendors to bid on a contract for the whole city then you may be able to get a pretty decent deal. Conceivable they'll refuse to play ball because they're scared of the community broadband concept, but at some level they are still businesses and so if the deal makes sense they may take it. Probably still need to hire a manager, but the expertise to look for is how to manage vendors and negotiate contracts more than "Cisco advanced certification", and you may be able to hire them initially as a consultant instead of a permanent employee.
Human rights aren’t a dangerous idea, brother.
For seafloor mapping, the other opportunity is in wind power, which is actually a reasonably compelling market
In this case, I applaud the engineer. He called the company's bluff. Though, I believe quitting immediately was a bit too much.

Don't falsely advertise to lure people! Be clear about your vacation policy.
> It takes a lot more than a Glock and a few boxes of ammunition from the sporting goods store to befuddle the US military

Which is exactly why we resist laws that ban rifles.

> You’re not going to get that in appreciable quantities in the middle of the US without Uncle Sam and several three letter agencies noticing.

I don't think you fully grasp the extent to which the US population is armed.
Tesla cars are routinely doing 600 and 700 mile records. I think we'll have to wait for someone to hypermile a Lucid car first.

https://nextmove.de/hypermiling-records/
This is exactly the time, and exactly the reason that we have laws to limit government control.

Governments don’t try and take more and more control when things are calm and peaceful.

If you don’t have your rights during an emergency, you don’t ever have them.
should've called it the iphone (lambda f: f(f))(lambda y: lambda f: f(lambda n: y(y)(f)(n)))(lambda f: lambda n: f(n-1) + f(n-2) if n > 2 else 1)(7)
> People just don't like change.

People don't like clearly unfinished products rushed to market before they're ready.
I'm a FIRE type personality, which means I would like to take the hit now to be better off in the future.

What that meant at my first real job was that even though I would have liked to take time off during the year, I liked the idea of having time off saved up better.

Since we couldn't carry days over, that meant that around the middle of November I told the team, happy holidays, see you all next year.

On January second, my boss told me he would never let me do that again. Which was sort of my first clue that employment conditions could be negotiated on a one by one basis.
Literally ten times less than the deaths due to tobacco each year in that country. Yet I see cigarettes sold everywhere.
Just be careful. When I went to part time I made the mistake of choosing Monday as one of my days off - most public holidays here are Mondays so I missed out.
This speculative argument falls flat in the face of actual data.

More effective and regulated gun control and less access to guns is 100% consistent with less gun crime.

That there was a revolution in 1777 doesn't change the fact both the UK and US were fairly equally involved in other kinds of political violence, I mean, you do realize the UK have been at war with others and themselves since the dawn of time? That they had their own 'revolution' and a Republic 100 years before the US?

The Japanese have quite a violent history as well and yet have zero gun crime.

Most regions in the US don't directly have a relationship with slavery and even accommodating for elevated levels of crime among those communities - gun violence is still very high.

Guns are widespread and available to almost anyone in the US, and there's a huge amount of gun crime.

Canada/Australia - more restrictions, less gun crime.

Europe - quite heavily restricted, a small amount of gun crime.

Japan - effectively totally banned, and almost 0 gun crime.

Switzerland has militia training and ownership, but it's generally not pistols, and they definitely don't carry guns for personal defence. Their rifles are locked up in the basement.

Mexico has tight gun laws, but they're not enforced.

While there are concerns about freedoms, the formation of 'tyranny' etc. to contend with, there's no doubt that effective and highly restricted gun control has a significant impact.

To anyone who's lived in Europe, Can/Aus/NZ and the US, it's just blindingly obvious, it's not a rhetorical argument at all, it boils down to trying to understand the reasoning of people who have difficulty conceding the reality of how safe it really is when there aren't that many guns floating around.

Most police in the UK don't even carry guns, that's how real the implications are ... and it's not cause 'they didn't have a revolution'.

EDIT - FYI here are the data points:

USA: 4.5/100K gun homicides, 1.2 guns per/capita

Canada: 0.5/100K gun homicides and 0.4 guns per/capita

France: 0.1/100K gun homicides and 0.2 guns per/capita

Japan: 0.0/100K (!!!) gun homicides and 0.006 guns per/capita

It's crystal clear and unambiguous: for countries that have civil infrastructure, general lawfulness and the means to affect social policy etc. - fewer guns means fewer gun crimes. Obviously, there will be variations (i.e. Scotland has a crazy amount of stabbings) but prevalence of guns is a firs order issue.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-r...
As a 14 year old in 1981, I bought a Timex Sinclair from Sears with money that I had been saving up for a over a year. Best. Purchase. Ever. What I learned on that $99 machine would change the course of my life.

Thank you, Sir Clive, for helping me to find my calling.
While they are a private company, and there are arguments about their rights as such, having free speech means being willing to "permit the exchange of dangerous ideas" to avoid the suppression of 'good' ones. That is actually the whole idea and there is very little compromise possible while still maintaining a free society.
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Nothing is more permanent than a temporary solution.

This is an old Soviet proverb. This also applies to tech.
While others have said it's an Australian thing, to give an example a popular Sydney based pub-brewery down the street from me has the rule "No Dicks!" on their wall and it really works. Always a friendly place to be, the people genuine and a sense of community.

Swearing, when used properly, punctuates an otherwise boring corporate message.
What a useless comment. Of course they’re free to do it. The discussion is about their decision TO do it.
Most interested in open source, decentralized, self hosted. Thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28558599

Come join!
That's the thing. They are quite dangerous. Ask the Jim Crow South, the Chinese Communist Party, or the Bush Administration. They are very threatening to ruling classes that have a vested interest in the status quo, or in some radical vision they'd like to inflict or enforce upon the world.
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It happens to me as well, appreciate your thoughtfulness. Vimeo is still the same deal - same weaknesses as YouTube, just less popular.
Exactly how do you think you wind up in a dictatorship?
This requires you to accept that there are "dangerous ideas" in the first place; or worse, that a business is in a good position to decide what those are for everyone who participates.

I think that might just be a convenient rubric, though. I think their real problem is "advertiser unfriendly ideas."
Explain Australia and New Zealand.
> Holidays should come with some limits, eg. no more than X weeks per year, like it was in the past

That's anchoring bias. Unlimited does have some nice properties (e.g. very generous allowances in many cases, and the possibility of spending unaccrued time, for example)

If we're in talking about ideals, I'd just ask for people to be more transparent about what the actual dynamics are: if taking 2 months vacation where everyone else takes 1 week affects metrics tied to promos, then say that upfront so people can make a conscious decision about whether signing up for asshat culture is worth the brand prestige or career trajectory potential or whatever it is that people value.
I bet none of Facebook's fans saw it coming; that one one day their social media posts would be part of an official "threat profile"
android is just getting the ability to let users pick their colors & here's a bunch of appdeves irked that they cant override the user's ability to pick colors on linux.

i for one really really liked when i could make a nice theme, a look & feel for my computer. that was a cool time.

i dont know what the third way is. letting apps express power over the users sounds bad. wider fommunity here sounds like cantankerous bad actors.

edit: i'm way way way off here. apparently gnome won't let ANYONE theme. not users, not app-devs.
You've unfortunately been posting tons of flamewar comments lately, including personal attacks. We ban accounts that do that. I don't want to ban you, so would you please stop?

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

To prevent misunderstanding: I'm not siding against your views. I've just noticed that you've repeatedly been breaking the site guidelines lately, often egregiously - and this is not something we can allow, regardless of how right you are or feel you are - because it destroys HN for its intended purpose.
Your story doesn't end the way that all those religious people experience it.

Man refuses vaccine, listening to the wisdom imparted in his heart through his relationship with God. Man thanks God for saving him from certain death caused by vaccine. End of story.
I hear you, and I agree. There are a lot of subtle factors that go into designing good software. And even if you could write code that never needed to be rewritten or thrown away, the desired outcomes change over time anyway, so eventually you just end up with a really nice paper-weight. Still, if you go out of your way to write crappy code you'll end up with a crappy outcome.
My employer just let me take it piecemeal, like any other leave. Looking back that was probably worse for both of us. LSL is a good excuse to improve your bus factor.
No commenting on the React thing, but yes I do think that VSCode has much higher performance requirements than Xbox dashboard or Office plugins.

VSCode has a very technical user base that will complain a lot if there is any kind of sluggish performance when doing live debugging. It's not just to work on small JS projects anymore. I use it to debug CUDA kernels on several processes at the same time and a lot of people have similar push-it-to-the-limit use cases.