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

So what? I don't care about "less gun crime"; I care about "less violent crime".

Talking about the subset of crime, violence, death, and injury that's caused by firearms is fundamentally dishonest. You could argue by the exact same logic that the lack of passenger trains in the US reduces train suicides compared to Japan. The specific tools are not the fucking issue.

> 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?

Sure. For instance, England and Scotland were intermittently at war for centuries, which resulted in a lot of the people living in the English/Scottish border regions developing a particularly violent way of life. These people were a huge pain in the neck after the unification of Great Britain. So a whole lot of them got shipped across the Atlantic Ocean to America.

You know who else the British shipped to America? Violent criminals. This was one of the reasons we declared independence, actually. People think of Australia as a former penal colony, but that only started because we stopped letting them ship people here.

Who else came here? The Puritans, whose other accomplishments included such things as burning witches and violently establishing that English Republic you alluded to.

The normal, peaceful, law-abiding Brit who wasn't particularly interested in violence or religious fanaticism? Those are the guys who stayed behind in Britain.
Probably nature doesn't care about the way we classify the mechanisms. There are lock-and-key mechanisms (receptors), weak interactions, combinatorial interactions, signals (neural signals), boolean networks (gene switching) etc. As an electrical engineer, who did Ph.D. in system biology, I wa s fascinated by the different routes biology takes to do seemingly same computation.

As someone said, "Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution". If there is a way to select a mechanism that gives a real advantage to the organism, then it doesn't matter which bucket it falls into.

PS: I was also amused by the lack of sinusoids and an abundance of sigmoids in biochemistry.
> The rhetoric of "remove weapons of war from America's streets" does not jive with the "small arms are not good enough weapons of war" argument.

I never mentioned removing or outlawing firearms. But by all means, continue to strawman.

> Okay, but Americans have more than that, they have everything you mentioned. They have the largest economy in the world from which to draw the wealth needed for those things. They have militias, they have state governments with treasuries, a significant portion of the population is trained by way of service in the military.

The functioning society of America has that, but a ragtag insurgency within the country does not. Do you think those state treasuries are physical things you can raid? Do you think corporate America isn't going to help keep the status quo? Do you think all of the anti-crime monitoring (especially in the realm of finance) won't notice any of this before it gets too big? Government gets a whiff of this and it's all too easy to paint the group as a bunch of right-wing nutjobs and sick the ATF on them.

The initiating event would have to be so catastrophic that a large percentage of the population "defects" in a very short timespan. And at that point things are so cataclysmic that the Second Amendment isn't even a factor any more.

> I think you're underestimating the importance of small arms in waging an insurgency.

And I think you're underestimating everything else. The successful insurgencies in history generally did not start out with a well armed population. Small arms are easy to smuggle in once everything else is going--especially when you have a foreign benefactor.
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Forbes says 118kWh.
https://youtu.be/X9VZGkyL6KY
11:32

Also, people are only considering net for range.
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No more than eight hours
This seems like a very short-sighted take at best. Moderna has been around for over a decade. Their goal from the start was to commercialize mRNA therapy, targeting a variety of therapeutic applications such as heart disease and cancer. I don't know if viral immunization was ever even on their radar before Covid happened. The point is, they have been working for a long time to bring mRNA tech to fruition, and now they have successfully demonstrated they can do it. Their business model going forward isn't going to be just collecting rent on Covid vaccines.
What certain people say is right. Are you actually taking the side of the pigs in Animal Farm?
That’s a regressive tax. Most of the fixed income people living in my neighborhood would be driven out of California if we charged them the current market rate for property taxes.
Thought I'd also mention "The ZX Spectrum ULA".

https://www.amazon.com/ZX-Spectrum-Ula-Microcomputer-Compute...
FWIW, I once worked at NSA, and likely care more about privacy than anyone you know. These places employ 10s of thousands of people, and the people that come out are as varied as the industry at large.
>are you talking about literal anarchists...or just libertarians?"

Probably less binary and anywhere along that continuum. That is, it's a question of degree wherein my concerns go up the closer things get to zero.

It's difficult to discuss in earnest without somewhat painstakingly specific scenarios, but the gist of my comment was that as you shed government, its powers don't simply disappear; they're redistributed elsewhere. And, given that our government is (at least theoretically) by the people, we're really talking about relinquishing the power of the individual to corporations.

Taking it back to the topic of this thread ("Amazon factory towns"), I believe that's essentially what the country would become—wholly owned by corporations.

I don't believe in the concept of corporate personhood and I don't think corporations need more power, so I don't believe that's a good outcome.
Browsers should be cherry picking the most compelling things that people accomplish with complex code and supporting them as a native feature.
Maybe the Browser Wars aren’t keeping up anymore.
I wonder if even a single entity has been convicted for perjury in the history of the DCMA.
Cookie banners are an indication that the EU botched part of GDPR. We really just need an outright ban on tracking cookies, agreed. That’s the type of legislation people are suggesting.
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Look, for better or worse I think we might be better off with just no private gun ownership, but I will tell you why I think the anti-gun part of the country is so riled up:

It’s not the murder rate itself. That doesn’t matter as much to people emotionally. They know it happens, but for the most part it is so concentrated in areas people mostly want to not think about that they ignore it. I have never heard of anyone say that they want to outlaw guns because of handgun murders in the inner cities (which is obviously a problem, obviously wrong, and obviously fucked up in its own way). I think the main reasons people want guns gone is because of school shootings. And the percentages and chances here don’t play as much of a role as the fact that most people like kids and don’t want them to get shot and that it’s not the kind of tragedy you can easily write off. When some random person is murdered by some other random person I think people assume either bad luck or bad judgement. But most people aren’t willing to accept that children could have their lives cut short and that preventing this should a top priority compared to private gun ownership.

I am sympathetic to the idea that a targeted minority or an oppressed group greatly benefits from gun ownership. If the day Zimmerman followed Martin and Martin was the one with the gun then both might well be alive or at least the person being attacked would be. Or every time a woman can fight off her domestic abuser with the help of a gun. But how do you do the cost benefit analysis on that calculation? I think it’s difficult but the majority rarely thinks of the needs of a minority. On the other hand everyone thinks about children whether they want to or not.

Lastly and slightly off topic: I am baffled by the fact that mosr police officers are pro-gun. If I was afraid for my life on my job I would want the threat at least reduced if not eliminated. Outlawing private gun ownership will reduce private gun ownership and more importantly their availability to criminals who the police might apprehend. So why would they not want to have that happen?
I believe the complaint is that Github is violating the copyright by leaving it public, not that the submitter is infringing against the submitter.

Though in this case there is the problem that when you push to GitHub you give them a license to provide it, and my first-pass skim doesn't show that you have arbitrary abilities to revoke it: https://docs.github.com/en/github/site-policy/github-terms-o...

You can revoke most of the rights by closing your account, but in this case that would be begging the question.

That said, I'd agree it's the right thing to do, except they should make some direct effort to double-check the ownership so that people can't just arbitrarily claim to own things like this and take them down.
Yeah, three companies worth an estimated $300B can keep any language alive. It’s fascinating to track the second wind of out-of-fashion languages, held aloft by a few mature companies that depend on it.
I wonder if github continuing to host the code despite his wishes for it to be removed would constitute a violation of DMCA?
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Natural immunity to Covid is powerful. Policymakers seem afraid to say so
Isn't that graph hopelessly tainted by eg. the dominance of WordPress? I mean, yes that's PHP, but just because 80% of sites are running it doesn't mean 80% of development is in PHP. Far from it.
A side effect we've already seen is that these companies tend to be a bit more alarmist about conjunctions that are incredibly unlikely. I suppose it's good marketing.
> The problem in the US isn't the right to bear arms. It's that the wrong people are bearing them. The militia types are the authoritarian aggressors that they themselves fantasize about resisting.

Authoritarians control institutions. What do the “wrong people” control? If the January 6 nutters had taken the capital, who would have supported them? General Milley? The national guards of DC, MD, or VA? Any of the country’s corporations or other institutions? You’re confusing the Whiskey Rebellion for the Beerhall Putsch.

Maybe give some consideration to the possibility that what’s really happening is that you’re a resident of the Capital clutching your pearls at the “threat” posed by people in District 12.
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I will never forget those 8 colours.

I hope that he realized how much joy and positive change he brought to many people like me.

Rest in peace.
> Be careful when you venture in this world people. It's never a bad idea to stay anon. The established players are extremely, extremely rich, they don't pull any punches, and can bend the public opinion almost at will.

I am a crypto pro and I am often asked by friends and acquaintances, "What should I buy?", "What is the hot coin?" etc.

The answer is what you say in traditional finance - "Buy the market!" - not "Immediately invest all your money in out-of-the-money options and junk bonds!"

What I recommend is 50% BTC and 50% ETH, and dollar-cost-average some very insignificant amount every month. Don't put anything in you can't 100% lose.

I think people on HN recoil with crypto because it's very easy for uninformed people to invest a lot of money in scams, while theoretically a similar-stage scam in traditional finance would only be open to accredited investors.

My counterpoint is that you need to be very technically adept to use something more advanced than Coinbase, and even Coinbase is not exactly easy for a non-technical person. The people investing in the most risky, extreme edges of crypto are overwhelmingly aware that this is extraordinarily risky.

If you think early-stage investing has ever been a safe game, you are sorely mistaken.
> we would occasionally get feedback from users and prospects that the .xyz domain felt unprofessional

I had a .xyz domain. I thought it was easier, the domain was short to type.

I was completely wrong. I asked a few non-technical friends. They said they would never use my site because of the .xyz, it felt like a spam site. I redid the site on .net with a longer domain name - much better results.
> web browsers have clearly signaled that they are never going to provide better native typesetting

I don’t think that’s accurate. There’s enough interest that the CSS Text Module Level 4 draft expands the white-space CSS property to cover more line-breaking stuff, including a text-wrap property that lets you control the line-breaking algorithm <https://drafts.csswg.org/css-text-4/#text-wrap>; to be sure, no browser has implemented it yet, and not everything that’s in such drafts ever gets implemented, but it shows interest at the least. Firefox also has a long-standing bug for it, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=630181, where you can see definite interest from key Firefox developers (so long as the performance hazards are managed), though they personally are unlikely to implement it, so it’s most likely to happen if someone external decides to put effort into it.
Bitcoin derivatives proved there is no other parameters in the valuation except brainless random gaming. Bitcoin futures are always the same as current value. I thought they might bring some long-time stability but did not happen. Reason maybe that bitcoin trading is too slow and stiff. You cannot buy large amount of coins and calls at the same instant.
Well, that’s only 5 years too late to make me consider it :P

The situation where anything goes wrong, and you just sit there staring at CF being unable to delete some S3 bucket for hours, eventually going into the console manually and deleting it in one second. Has left me really sour on the whole thing.
This is spot on. My brother is a candidate for one of their cancer treatments once it makes it to a wider testing phase. They didn’t just come up with that in their spare time this year. That’s a long time in the works.
> I guess my dreamed up scenarios were more vague "shooter/assailant in the area" whereby I figured I'd want to "make myself less desirable to bother with".

Generally the rule on such matters is that there is no such thing as a warning shot, both ethically and legally. For the same reason that shooting for the legs is a bad idea, bringing a lower caliber firearm to warn someone off is kind of a no-no. You should either be shooting to end the engagement, or not shooting at all.

Obviously retreating from an encounter is always the best course of action (and a legal obligation in some states) if possible.

> It is interesting that 22lr hasn't really been technologically updated.

22lr has seen tons of advancement, just not as much in the realm of terminal ballistics. There is incredibly intense competition for more accurate and consistent 22lr ammo, as this is the caliber used for a lot of olympic shooting and some increasingly popular non-olympic competitions.

Fundamentally, it's really not possible to squeeze much more energy out of 22lr. Every production cartridge has a set maximum pressure and firearms are certified for this pressure by nation specific proof houses. For 22lr the max pressure is about 72% the pressure of a 9mm[0]. Squeezing more terminal power out of this cartridge would risk catastrophic firearm damage and probably company liability.

Making matters worse is the fact that semi-automatic (e.g. handgun) firearm design changes pretty radically around or above 380ACP pressures. Above that firearms must have some sort of mechanism to delay opening until chamber pressures fall to a safe level, otherwise cartridges will potentially rupture during extraction and hurt the shooter. All 22lr pistols are of a much simpler design that improves accuracy and lowers price, but makes getting 9mm pressures into an existing 22lr handgun an impossible task. Much easier still to just start with a 9mm, since those work and are well understood.

Also, it's a rimfire cartridge, and that's undesirable for a variety of reasons I'm too tired to explain right now.

0 - 64% of the higher spec +P ammo.
I have not been able to find a single example of prosecution of perjury relating to DMCA.
Oh man. I use this feature often. Microsoft is slowly driving me to Linux in the form of ChromeOS.
This is what we'll lose if "the old Web" dies out with walled gardens owned by medium and others.
Merging two talented individuals is just a prerequisite, but not a guarantee for success, so lets modify the formula to (1/100)^3.
That's fantastic. Does this sense of community continue to apply when a black family moves in?
Some people here actively confuse "activity buddies" with friends. You can go to a board game night with a person for years and not develop a relationship with them. Friendship thrives on intimacy and mutual vulnerability. A friend is someone who can give you an honest opinion, or deliver a piece of bad news, or whose unsolicited advice you actually value. This kind of intimacy isn't something you build over a game of Settlers or at a rock-climbing gym. You build it mostly one on one, mostly while not doing something else. There aren't a ton of scaffolded options for this kind of unstructured bonding, and this is why friendship is more rare than just meeting up with some people to play Catan on Thursday nights.
We've tested and found covid-positive white-tailed deer all over New York state. Presumably there are other animal reservoirs.

We now know that the vaccines widely available (at least those used in the US, Israel, the UK) have waning effectiveness, likely requiring periodic boosters.

We also know those vaccines are non-sterilizing, meaning it is at least possible for fully vaccinated individuals to contract and transmit the virus.

Even assuming vaccine mandates in perpetuity, and widespread compliance, there will presumably be some overlap of "lapsed effectiveness" in the population between boosters. We literally don't have the capacity to administer boosters to all 200 million American adults exactly at the same instant, or even in the same month. Nor do we know for sure how long the effectiveness window lasts, or whether that may vary between individuals or type of vaccine.

How exactly are we going to "eliminate" covid, given this reality? Many Americans are terrified that the goal is "elimination" of the virus. Similar to the War on Terror, wherein we did a tremendous amount of collateral damage endlessly chasing an unattainable ideal.
As of 18 months ago to my knowledge most expats still used name brand ExpressVPN, Astrill, etc. while techie types used stuff like v2ray+shadowsocks or shadowsocks alone. Shadowsocks is really underrated, once you’ve found your location, plugins and obfuscation “stack” that just work on the gfw it’s also super handy in other countries that have lighter and less sophisticated censorship.

https://www.v2ray.com/en/.
I just meant to say that numerical code is not actually write-only.

Fortran is like a DSL. You just write the numerical solver part with it. Everything else is just regular code.

Just like anything else, the decision comes down to whether the ecosystem has the right tools for the job. It's a deliberate decision. It's not like people are relegated to it because they don't know anything else.
Same for other gun toting states like Idaho.
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Does someone have to lose? If crypto becomes a usable currency, it becomes an effective store of value. That means that it's entirely possible for crypto to become more valuable and useful over time.

>In crypto, if you are winning, someone has to lose.

The loser doesn't have to be someone in the crypto market. If I buy 10 dollars of bitcoin, other cryptocurrencies don't collectively lose 10 dollars of value. Arguably, the loser in that case would be the businesses that I would have used that money to invest in.
> Furthermore, i find US fascination with their theoretical ability to fight their government with small arms adorable and misguided.

I’m not sure how you mean adorable and misguided.

1) If you mean it would be ineffective against a military invasion, I have to disagree. The military has never won a guerrilla war, let alone one on their own turf. Think Afghanistan on steroids with how many guns are in the states.

2) If you mean that being politically active would be far more effective though then I 100% agree.

I know some gun owners in the states, and my impression is that for some it quickly turns into standard consumerism. Maybe their first gun was for self defence, but not the 20th. They can obsess over their guns, similar to how people obsess over other gizmos like the latest iPhone etc.
> Basically your argument boils down to: The USA is substantially an undeveloped shithole full of corrupt/ineffectual law enforcement, barely functional or legitimate government, broke unemployed people incapable of solving problems peacefully with nothing to lose, and powerful thugs beyond the reach of the law, so we should feel great pride that we aren’t quite as violent and dangerous as places where the gangsters are the primary source of local force and the law enforcement / military are essentially gangsters themselves.

No, it doesn't.
Just imagine if there was a GDPR-like law that allowed for private enforcement.
Your response to the accusation that a government is being authoritarian is that it’s OK because there’s “a lot” of places with “complete” freedom? That’s bordering on “this is good for Bitcoin” levels of Stockholm syndrome.
> If you aren't going to acknowledge that we maybe have room for improvement

This is a completely dishonest representation of what I have said.

Here it is again:

> The US is not lacking in either press or economic freedom compared to ‘peer’ nations. Whether or not there are countries who have better ratings, any honest reading of the list sees that the US ratings are similar to peers.

Nowhere did I say there wasn’t room for improvement or even claim the US was at the top.

If you’re going to lie about both what I said, and what the links show, what do you think we can accomplish?
> Their goal from the start was to commercialize mRNA therapy

Somehow I just realized the company's name is derived from "mRNA."