skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> refuse to accept college IDs as valid for voting, even those issued by the state government because it's a state school

I mean, yeah, you don't have to be a resident of the state or even a citizen to go to a university in the US.
I think its most clear at the extents. For instance, if you live in Point Roberts. [1]

Most people also associate citizenship with right of abode, but that's not always true either. For instance, the BN(O)s from Hong Kong are British Citizens who on that basis cannot live in England or Hong Kong - or anywhere. A separate document, an HKID or a visa, are required for them to live in HK and the UK respectively.

At the end of the day it's just paperwork that decides who negotiates your right to travel and is responsible for coming to get you if things go bad.

It doesn't really mean much else. Where you live and the government you engage with regularly in my opinion has far more bearing on you, your obligations and your benefits.

[1] https://goo.gl/maps/tmia7U6hef3Pvf4v8
I've never presented an ID to vote. As a registered voter I show up to the polling place, give them my name, and sign a book with my address at the time of registration. That's it. This includes needing a provisional ballot one time because I moved.

Each state is tasked with voter registration/validation. Why provide an ID at all when every single voter and vote is going to be verified against the established voter rolls anyways? Every state has a register/recorder office that validates eligibility to vote at the state and federal level that is far more thorough than asking volunteer poll workers to becoming poll police.

I don't know where you live, but it sounds like people are trying to stifle your voice with what amounts to BS.
> Could even make this part of the ranking mechanics. Maybe you _can't_ enable the client-side anticheat until the server-side one thinks you're sus. Then you get prompted to turn on the client-side support and get a cool badge or something.

That's somewhat similar to how FACEIT did it when I tried it for TF2. The serverside detection decided if you needed the client side detection.
I mean... They are actively trying to make you follow the common practice of following news sources, favorite teams, groups, etc.

I have less than 200 "friends", Reuters, Economist, DeWalt and a few local groups on my profile. And it's a stream of complete garbage....

Because I get served the article posts, where my friends comment on(that's default) or interact with.

That's the normal use case for Facebook, to get you dragged into the cesspool.

My sister is paranoid and it was facebook's desire to get more interaction out of her that literally resulted in her becoming a paranoid COVID anti-vaxxer. Which is infinitely infuriating...

At this point even Reddit is better than Facebook.
This is great news. Two features i’d love to see implemented are a dedicated retopo view and a sketchup like modelling view. I’d be willing to contribute financially to these two (don't have deep pockets but i’d spend 1k or two to have native support implemented).
The story of Mel explained (2015):

https://jamesseibel.com/the-story-of-mel/
For background info on the referenced Chrome extension: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=%22cloud+to+butt%22
Absolutely!

US citizenship essentially became IRS trap.
One hypothesis is that the motivation behind voter fraud never had anything to do with evidence suggesting that voter fraud occurs. Voter fraud is an excuse to enact legislation that makes it harder for certain demographics to vote.

If that hypothesis is true, then people will never stop believing in voter fraud until said demographics no longer have any significant representation in politics.
Do not make yourself even suspected of anything computer related to state or federal authorities. It is never a good idea.
I’m a long time Ubuntu user and haven’t really shopped for other distros. Any recommendations besides Debian?
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"Like" is a strong word.

On the one side you've got the tragedy of the commons that is big vehicles are less safe for other people to be around unless they two are in a big vehicle.

On the other side, Tesla, Toyota, Honda, and Nissan still all have relatively strong sales of sedans in the US. The US market decided that sedans were best from "imports" decades ago and GM/Ford just gave up trying to compete. Then there's of course Tesla telling GM/Ford exactly where the hockey puck was going if they wanted to compete with "imports".
If anything, Cannonical is aligning with mainstream in recent years: upstart -> systemd, unity -> gnome, mir -> wayland

New things that are Canonical specific are netplan and snap. I think snap is solving software packaging in Linux. If anything, I wish that snap brand stores were more affordable.
There's tons of ways to get an address in the U.S. several digitally.

You can transfer money into that account via digital transfer?

OF course your Netherlands employer won't match 401k, they prob don't even know what that is.

Will they match it a 401k if you GIVE UP your citizenship?

Doesn't make sense.
Right before he died, David MacKay did a study indicating we needed to rely on an insane amount of nuclear to survive (but we live in a world insanely against nuclear power). Since then the price of solar energy has plummeted. Has anyone done the study to update these numbers?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/environment...
Unlike many countries, US doesn't have a national required ID card, so voter ID schemes must resort to other kinds of identification. Republican-controlled states have often restricted forms of identification to those sorts that many democrats may not have in an attempt to discourage them from voting.
Seems uncommon that those things would prevent upgrades. It sounds more like Ubuntu is beginning to suffer from an excess of complexity.
Although possible how would you pull it off at scale? It's hard enough to mobilize voters to begin with. So, would you risk going to jail on an individual basis? probably but let's assume the minimum amount of time it happens probably equals itself out.

At scale you would need to pay people. Now you risk getting caught trying to pay the wrong person. And for what?

I would bet your money is better spent running propaganda web farms or dark money advertising.
> Nowadays everything works out of box.

Except for decent power management on laptops, and certain Bluetooth headsets.
Honestly, that's not even the biggest problem.

Here in Australia, there are so many checks and balances when it comes to counting votes that it actually disgusted me when I heard some of the games various entities were playing in your last presidential election. The fact that the number of votes cast wasn't released until results were tallied and they kept "finding" more to count was perplexing. That partisan orgs like unions were given the contract to do the counting was also a really strange thing to do. And that scrutineers were kicked out in places was a disgusting act, here they by law must be allowed to watch everything regardless of political affiliation.

We also do not let counters out of the room until everything has been counted and accounted for and have multiple checks along the way to make sure nothing has been lost or added. Seems statistically unlikely to me that individual fraud would make any difference in US elections given how decentralised it is, if anything was happening it'd be powerful players controlling who is counting and how they are deciding which votes count and which don't.
Great catch, that's the oldest prank in the book, but still one of the funniest.
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As others have mentioned it looks like like you are using the default Window Manager. You can install others that will provide a more familiar taskbar for you (that is a taskbar on the left of your screenshot). I've like LXDE and XFCE in the past, Im currently using KDE + Plasma, its only been a couple weeks so Im still learning it but might switch to another. Long story short you can definitely find a taskbar that will meet your needs for Ubuntu.
I am always happy to defend an advertisement that has informative content and is up front about it’s true nature as an ad. An honest ad would be a win-win, consumers understand things more and the product, if its good, gets increased sales or awareness.
You are still conflating two totally unrelated things.

The book is one of the first sources to move into discussing "components," as in coding against interfaces/protocols/traits/etc.

ECS deals with "components," as in pieces of data composed using a relational model. This has nothing to do with interfaces or protocols whatsoever! It is practically the opposite thing- working directly with raw data, with no abstraction boundary.

You can't just pattern match on the word "component" and expect it to mean the same thing to everyone.
Nobody can be sure there's a need if they don't get to know a better stack.

Before management can plan some migration, the technical people must know what else exists and how well it can be used on your environment. After your people run a few replaceable experiments, they can reach management and inform them of the costs and benefits of each choice, but going to management with "our stack sucks, we don't know how to improve it" is guaranteed to lead to a bad outcome, and defending a plan that you don't know how well it will work has a very high chance to turn out bad.
Having worked for a NYC government vendor who, unfortunately, outsourced a huge chunk of dev work abroad due to low costs (and I assume the manager's shady relationships with outsourcers), the amount of bugs and blatant negligence I observed in the delivered code was staggering. Even with said mistakes the manager/project managers were more concerned with getting the project out the door, so once delievered, they'd ship usually without internal audit of the code.

It makes one wonder if this is the case with the healthcare site you used, and whether or not this outsourcing of dev is common practice among government vendors? If so, it seems that we can only hope for something to fix these situations, given that government seems to only care once shit hits the fan
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The only thing that would lead it to being successful is if people are convinced that the attempt itself isn't alarming, and don't act aggressively to do something about it.
Point of order, but a Texas concealed handgun license (CHL) is a state-issued photo ID card. It is very much not a "gun club membership." I'm pretty much on board with many of your points, but not that one: a CHL is a state-issued ID, while a student ID is not. Texas's law is internally consistent, if not particularly helpful.
in the other end of the world... in somewhat dense place where there's no hundreds of human-free kilometers, i know some family that not only are living off-grid, off-water say 3-4kms away from some village, but also off-phone, off- whatever infrastructure, .. and they also managing to live off-banks, off-bills, and all that. Producing and trading naturaly grown stuff.. Now that seems like impossible to me.. or impossibly persistent..
Switch window managers and you'll be able to do that.
This story just gets worse and worse:

https://news.stlpublicradio.org/government-politics-issues/2...

"Missouri Gov. Mike Parson on Thursday launched a criminal investigation of a St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter... The investigation begins today, and Parson said the investigation could cost taxpayers as much as $50 million but did not detail those costs or take questions at a news conference Thursday."

$50m over this now? They say never to assume malice when outright incompetence will do, but I'm beginning to wonder if some corrupt dealings involving IT contractors might be going on under the table.

Whichever one it is, at this point I think the governor should just apologize and resign immediately. Not holding my breath.

Edit: Looks like the governor is tweeting about this now. Straight from the horse's mouth:

https://twitter.com/GovParsonMO/status/1448697768311132160

Really couldn't make this stuff up if I tried: "This individual did not have permission to do what they did. They had no authorization to convert and decode the code."
I agree. Only elites should be allowed to use stuff like LSD, computers and the internet. This can be arranged simply by criminalising it; along with a social convention that elites don't get prosecuted. /s
Probably. I used that add-on a while ago, and it also modifies your form submissions. Learnt that the hard way.
What value to the ecology are the practices of literal vultures?

They eat the dead and moribund
You clearly never owned non-US mutual funds then.

If you don’t make much money, and what money you do make is cash, you spend that cash immediately instead of putting it in your bank account, and you don’t care about retirement, then sure, it’s easy. Dead simple, in fact!

If you’re pretty normal though, it’s impossible to invest in mutual funds and ETFs outside the US unless you want to deal with PFIC filings (you don’t) and if you live in the EU, you’re double screwed, because they won’t let you buy US mutual funds either. And by the way, the accounting algorithm for FATCA is complete nonsense, because you need the highest value of each account over the year, a number that simply doesn’t exist in most banks, so good luck digging that up properly. And if you don’t, $10k fine if they prosecute.

And for retirement, I’m honestly not even sure what to do there, so yeah.

It’s a shitshow, and I’m not sure what your situation was that you didn’t feel like an accountant was useful.
I’m sorry that the free content isn’t in your desired format. I offered a genuine suggestion that helps me use it.
Could this be an issue of that sentence you quoted being really difficult to comprehend? So they attempted to rewrite it and got it wrong?

I’ve read it 10x and am still baffled. It’s the “voter turnout reduction of ID laws” part that I don’t understand. I guess I should go read the paper itself.
Recommend any good courses on it? I have anxiety about trying new things because I HATE HATE HATE the suck at the beginning stage. Took me forever to pickup guitar because of it, but would LOVE to actually start doing digital art.
You're assuming the "because that information was valuable to them" part. Or you're using such a broad definition of valuable that would also make this comment thread valuable because I have refreshed it multiple times.

While you could construct hypotheticals where OP is using the health plan information to gain actual value, they are all so far-fetched I wouldn't buy them as a fictional plotline. Dude was probably just curious.
Thanks for playing, but I do not use Chrome. Also, I'm a bit perverse in my enjoyment of doing this on my own.
there is an obvious compromise here - require voter ID but only in counties where enough registered voters (say over 95%) have one. Regardless of voting, people not having an ID is a serious problem local governments must solve.
Doesn't pass the smell test. There is a group spending a lot of time doing this. Do you think it's because it makes no difference, and they're just having fun?
I don't think Ubuntu defaults to btrfs.
>"You can’t do anything in most European countries without your ID."

That's the case in America, too.
> It's either a fiction or it's real.

This I disagree with. Nations are real in the sense that they have a material impact on the world, but are fictions in the sense that they only exist when people believe in their existence. It's like money. Obviously money is real - I have some in my wallet right now - but if no one believed in the currency then it wouldn't exist. It would just be pieces of paper.

> Nations as constructed obviously provide value to the people residing there

I would quibble with the assertion that this is the _reason_ nations are constructed, but I do agree that they provide value.

Some people's lives are just more complicated. I'm a dual citizen myself, with two citizenships from birth. I was born in Canada from two American parents. I've had two passports all my life. I happen to live in the US but I've never really chosen one country over the other. I derive identify from being a citizen of North America. There are plenty of people with slightly more complicated than average stories, they should be able to exist.
> I’ve learned that ubuntu upgrades only if you update to the next version as soon as it is released. I have a 14.04 server that I cannot upgrade anymore and it sucks.

Actually you can upgrade from old releases. You do need to move from LTS to LTS, rather than jumping. So you can upgrade 14.04 to 16.04, then to 18.04, and then to 20.04.

See https://askubuntu.com/questions/91815/how-to-install-softwar... for details.
You don't have to be a citizen to have a driver's license, either, but they're accepted.

Doesn't matter if you're a resident of the state. https://help.vote.org/article/17-i-am-a-college-student-shou...

> The choice is legally yours. You have dual residency, so you can register back home or on campus as long as you don't register to vote in both states. You can use our Voter Registration Tool to register to vote in less than 2 minutes.
My iMac was still on El Capitan and I updated it to Big Sur to resolve it.
> It's the "perceived" part that I am suspicious of (and I assume the GP too).

Poll citizens and ask how much voter fraud they think happened in the last election, in their state, before a voter ID law is passed. Wait for a voter ID requirement to be passed, and another election to happen. Ask again. Compare. Repeat a few different places if you want to be thorough.

That's one method, anyway.

("Polled citizens' perception of a thing about the world is wildly wrong, and changes in that perception don't follow changes in reality the way you'd hope they would" is a so-common-it's-boring result in political science)
She also wrote "Without an address in the US, I can’t open an investment account there; with US nationality, it is becoming more and more difficult to do any investment or borrowing outside of the US.".

Yeah, how to remain non rich: keep your money in a savings account and not invest in stocks, etc. Want to start a business? Need a loan for that? Sorry...

Also that webpage doesn't even say those banks accept American clients, "expats" don't mean American, EU freedom of movement and ease of getting work visa means there's people from all over the world in the EU, either temporarily or permanently.

Addendum: I've also talked to someone who said she couldn't take some jobs because if she has access to the company's bank account, she has to report that to the IRS, maybe even the amount in that account, which of course no foreign company would volunteer unless they really have to.
Additionally, tires filled with air can be dangerous over or under filling them.

Filling tires at too high pressure can lead to blowouts.

Filling tires under pressure leads to degraded performance handling issues potentially causing accidents in some cases.

A more consistent normalized baseline performing tire, even if louder, would be welcome. This would end the seasonal low pressure tires in winter due to the cold and higher pressure during summer due to the heat.

One time we got new tires and went on vacation and parked our car in an outside parking garage in a hot summer for a week, we came back and the side facing the sun the tires had exceeded PSI max and started to buckle. I am sure we have all seen those videos of people standing over tires and overfilling them leading to essentially a pressure bomb. Managing air pressure in tires can be problematic, airless tires are a welcome innovation.
This seems like a bit of a departure from one of the authors’ papers from 2017(1). I wonder what the big differences are that somehow the US is immune to disenfranchisement but France isn’t.

1. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=author:%22Pons%20Vincen...
I forget I have it enabled sometimes. It's a welcome reprieve from the seriousness of daily work stuff when I catch the plugin do it's thing.

How would this make it into a posting though? Was it a copy-from-browser and paste-into-tool type of a gaffe?
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Only if you decode the plaintext with your eyes.
Right, but voter ID isn't to prove you have the right to vote - that happens at voter registration.

The state already knows John Jones, born 1st January 1970, is eligible to vote - I merely have to prove that I am John Jones, born 1st January 1970.
It's a DIY KISS distro, but with a lot less building packages from source like on Gentoo. And with systemd as default which to me is a benefit.
that would also make it violently and severely dissociative with the number of competing consciousnesses.
Cloud-to-butt implemented via editing live TCP streams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoOqznZUClI&t=1210s
Not an artist, but for about a decade I worked with artists (and other production crew) to create a remake of Riven: the Sequel to Myst. Had a lot of fun times and learned a bunch from them. http://starryexpanse.com/
I'm sure you don't mean it, but this reads very much like victim blaming and responsibility reduction. Most likely the assumption of what the distribution should do is different for the user and provider, which is going to lead to a lot of talking past each other and not many issues being fixed.
> started grilling me about how many other plans I browsed

I think as soon as anything healthcare adjacent comes up most people will feel the need to get very nosey about what you accessed. It's possible they would have needed to file an incident (though, honestly, they should've regardless of what the reporter responded with) and gone through some procedure.

It's unfortunate the guy was a dick about it - but asking the extent of the data you accessed probably isn't unreasonable and may have been legally mandated.
What interest does it serve to make their life hard? She just wants to pay taxes where she works and lives. And what’s wrong with being a “rootless cosmopolitan”?

I don’t think anyone would mind losing their US citizenship as soon as they leave the country, if you could also regain it as soon as you enter
Pascal is/was a really decent programming language - just a bit too wordy for my taste.
I can only imagine the terrible feeling in the pit of someone's stomach today when they realized that the plugin modifies form submissions, or they cut and pasted from a page that was rendered with the help of the plugin.

The good news is years from now they'll have a great story to tell at parties.