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States are actively implementing nullification of federal laws. Some blue states are illegal immigrant sanctuary states. Some red states are federal gun law sanctuaries. Marijuana sanctuaries abound. People in positions of power are openly discussing more nullification and even national divorce.

You don't repeal laws, you nullify them. The ACA is small potatoes in that regard. They're not coming for the ACA, they're coming for the whole union.
Jonathan Haidt’s The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion is a great book on this topic.
> When housing becomes an investment, the goal is to get that sweet ROI which generally means working to restrict the supply of housing to make prices rise. Lobbying is a high-ROI activity.

There are many ways to lobby that increase both the value of real estate and make the system better. For example, you could lobby for a visa for immigrant construction workers, which will reduce the cost to build.

> And housing doesn’t need to be expensive.

Definitions matter, but that's my original point. Construction companies in JApan also have a sweet ROI or they wouldn't build at all, you can achieve multiple goals. The current market structure is in good part a result of regulatory capture, but housing will remain profitable in multiple other structures. If it stopped being profitable, it would be impossible to build, and you wouldnt be able to improve or create new supply which is definitely the worst result long term.

> dystopian outcomes (see also healthcare

Healthcare is the **show it is precisely because it is NOT a free market by any practical or theoretical definition.

I want to mention one more thing about the narrative that Nimbyism is an investment topic. It really isn't: it is in the landlords interest to get more construction going, because more people increase the value of land, it doesn't decrease it. That is why land in a city is worth more than in a rural town. A SFH owner turned into the low owner of an 8 appt complex is way richer, as in 10X. At the tokyo example, it is close to 10k per square meter of land! https://www.statista.com/statistics/875736/japan-average-lan...
I use it. I store stuff on my Synology NAS and have a backup policy to B2 configured from the NAS. This gives me both local and offsite backups.
I think is a usability vs aesthetic scale. The likes of CDE score high in usability and low in aesthetic; the various "material" toolkits score high in aesthetic and low in usability.
Where would I find out how to set up bidirectional APRS for our local club?
If i have a bitcoin that i haven't used, that bitcoin still has utility to me or other people
Wow. This is a HackerNews thread, not some academic panel.

The handle I'm responding to hasn't exactly provided "evidence" either, including for:

* the existence of nebulous things like "value stores", "intrinsic value" or what constitutes or possesses either

* that Bitcoin is a negative-sum asset, a MLM or a pyramid scheme

* that a distributed tamper proof ledger doesn't have any usefulness for any practical purpose

which is fine by me, we're all just here to kill time between builds and deploys anyway :P but if you think evidence is required knock yourself out and prove some for any of the above
Seems so many people are against working on anything, but their technical competence.

I feel like this is just another skill to learn and easy way to set yourself apart from other people. Especially if others don't like to do it. I want to be both likeable and technically competent.
All you have to do is say no once in a while.

No, don't bring the company to a halt with a tantrum. Just insist on getting one thing fixed a month and nine months from now everyone will be a lot happier.
Yes.

The expectation isn't that you actually adopt or accept the values. The expectation is that you know that if you fail to do so (and you lack sufficient privilege in your organization), then you will be held accountable.

Practically speaking "woke" people would prefer to work with people who share values, but most of us will settle for people who can at least emulate a decent human being while interacting with other people at work.
> Seems like I should generally prefer a multi-user install? Does nix-darwin play well with that?

On my macOS computer, I don't have a multi-user install. Never had issues with it (but I also only just use one user account for everything).

Just tried running the nix-darwin installer, and it sets up some extra users as part of that anyway.

> Am I supposed to `sudo -i nix-channel --add / update` or not use sudo? Is unstable the generally recommended channel? Do I use sudo with nix-darwin, since it's supposed to be kind of like NixOS / system-wide?

Once you've got nix installed, in general you don't want to "sudo nix ...". Unstable is fine; but if things break, it's easy to rollback changes with Nix, so that you can use the versions which worked.

There's no need to start out with wrangling with nix-darwin. Just starting out with "nix-env --install --attr nixpkgs.<whatever>" will be closest to how homebrew is used.
I'm a bit more skeptical of the CIM than I was in the past, but the EBM to me just seems hilariously inadequate to explain the obesity crisis.

It's like if a patient came to their doctor complaining of water retention, and the doctor said "well clearly you're drinking more than you're excreting" and sent the patient home with instructions to drink less and pee more.

My hunch with the CIM is that a human in good health can pretty effortlessly maintain a non-obese weight without much regard for things like macronutrient balance, but that some fairly widespread factor has disrupted that regulation mechanism in a large fraction of the population.

That in a sense a keto/low-carb diet is a workaround for a mechanism that's broken in a lot of people, rather than some platonic ideal of how everyone should be eating.

As to what broke it, there are some interesting hypotheses here [https://slimemoldtimemold.com] but no clear answers.

I do personally feel a bit better eating a lower glycemic diet (from the standpoint of consistent energy levels), but I haven't achieved any weight loss that way (BMI hovers just under 25).
To be fair, those are unusually high-end products compared to typical consumer SSDs, and three out of four are enterprise drives where endurance is measured according to different criteria that inflates the number a bit further.
If you're already in the market of buying/selling homes and you find a good contractor for your area (if you plan on making any changes) then it can be low touch.

Zillow, in many cases, just bought and instantly relisted the property on their own site.
If monarch supported large customers it would take over those holdouts
i literally use edge daily because of the vertical tabs.

i don't know where i can submit feedback or if the edge team will ever read them. but when the vertical tabs are minimized the auto-expand on hovering is very distracting and almost never needed.
Addicts with the "normal" meth vs "delayed" meth would still seek out the "normal" version.
As far as I know, the South China Sea is pretty geologically active. So it's possible the seamount got created since the last good mapping
The movies seemed to try to make Aragorn a lot more relatable than the books do.
I think you could make a case for a sort of back-and-forth, where you test your understanding by trying to do it all in your head, get the wrong answer, carefully check your work by doing all of the steps on paper, find the mistake, make an "oh-of-course" facepalm, and then try doing the next problem in your head.
Dire economic and social consequences clearly do not discourage authorities from sending men with guns (and threats thereof) to confiscate people's wealth. It happens all over the globe, frequently, and with large magnitude, both 3rd and 1st world and and with the full support of nearly all of the public.

In many places in the US we have government officials who decide who gets to live in which house and how much they will pay for rent. Tenants are part owners in properties, sometimes majority owners.
No, I am not.

And no, cool kids do not always go to college.

And no I am not conflating the two.

I am saying that rich cool kids buy Apple. And 18-21 year olds are the tastemakers for all the kids younger then themselves and also, sometimes, for adults older then them too.

Please note: I am not saying that you have to think 18-21 are cool, I don’t, but they are by popular definition.

And no, they have no competitor across their product categories. They have competitors for specific products, but no one really goes head to head with them across even half of their products and for most of their products they are #1 by a huge margin:

Luxury Phones
Headphones
Tablets
Music Service
Computers
Smart Watches

They are a leader or top competitor in all of those spaces. Who else can say that?
My favorite story of algorithmic pricing gone mad was discovered by a postdoc in my grad school lab, leading to an out of print book being listed on Amazon for over $23 million: https://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=358
CrashPlan essentially bailed on the consumer market a few years back!

I'd agree that customers can be fickle - especially technically inclined customers. It's actually very easy to switch backup systems.
I read and liked most of those books and I still have no idea how to pronounce her name.
The only issues I’ve run into with older laptops are limited wifi speed/range, the inability to decode HD video streams efficiently, and battery life, which is mostly solved by a new battery, though efficiency isn’t always great with older devices.
Historic boat-building has little to do with nurbs or Bézier curves.

It is true that a boat is a curved shape (as were cars or aeroplanes before the mathematical models were devised) but the construction is quite different. To state the obvious, there are no control points. Instead you get some cross-sections for various different planes, then scale it up and manually try to achieve G2 continuity by comparing the points described in multiple places in the plan (ie in different cross sections from different but intersecting planes), adjusting them, and springing batons to create curved lines. You get different shapes depending on how thick/springy your baton is. Once more of the boat is built, the process continues with adjustments and baton-springing to try to ensure that curvature is continuous and it’s derivative is not too large.

But these plans would traditionally be produced by starting with a scale model for half the boat (often this model would be scaled up straight into the boat without plans in between). And traditional boat building (say 100 years ago) would often not be particularly true to the plans anyway, treating them much more as a guide (a case where this matters more is some of the traditional steel shipbuilding in Scotland where the yards were too small so boats were built in two halves then perfectly joined together at the end).

Now compare this to the OP which is about various mathematical models for curves and surfaces, and the comments above which talk about the history of those models. I think the automaker usage described above was about the problem of going from the computer-described curves to the real world and I guess CNC at the time couldn’t do it properly (you surely aren’t going to CNC-mill a car model out of a massive block of metal) hence transforming a computer description into something suitable for a physical model—fixed lengths of spring steel plus weights. Spring steel sounds a bit like springing batons but I think that is where the connection ends and I think this connection has little to do with the rest of this reply chain.

Though to be honest I’m not particularly sad that you posted it.
We recently went through buying a Zillow owned house in Phoenix AZ and response and attitude from the selling agent and zillow was pathetic. They took 3 full days to send the signed contract after they told us we our offer was accepted.

Couldn't get the inspection done within first 9 days(inspection contingency is 10 days) of signing the contract and only got a response when we said we were going to cancel escrow. Got the inspection complete on the 10th day and there were so many issues with the house and repairs done that we felt it was not worth the negotiation to sort it out with Zillow and decided to back out. Not sure if this is a general trend but my agent was fed up and he said he will never deal with Zillow again. This was 3 weeks ago.
Okay, but of that 7% how many of them suffered addiction and life destroying behaviors? I'm guess a large percentage of those users.
I bought a bunch of Japanese KitKats as gifts last year, but it was more of a "oh shit it's the middle of November and I haven't gotten anything yet" so that's where the feeling thoughtlessness comes from. It did feel better than giving someone something they might not use though.
Same idea: And you can tell where the window borders are, unlike a modern dark gray rectangle on top of another dark gray rectangle.
We got the giant world-wide networked communication interface decades before we got the virtual-reality side of the metaverse. It turns out connecting billions of humans together on a single network was the easy part!

So all the interesting parts of the metaverse going forward are all the VR aspects which is why the discussions are focused on that.
All countries did not perform equally, and we all took very different measures of varying degress. Japan didn't really do any official lockdown, for example, while other countries did. The fact that you can't point to a country that already wears masks as a custom (Japan) and see the obvious benefits means exactly nothing because of that. Now hey, if we had two Japans that behaved identically in every way besides mask usage then that would really be something. Instead, we have a bunch of data being collected on what amount to uncontrolled experiments and we won't really know for a while, if ever.

What I do know is most of the time it's very, very easy to wear a mask. So maybe, if you have good reason to believe it helps, just do the easy thing even if you can't know for sure.
> Linux on the desktop isn't helped when people post truly delusional things like calling this 'modern.'

Not enough animation? Too easy to distinguish parts of the interface? Needs more ads? Do you have anything material to say?
you want the timezones to be 30 minutes apart? (i assume you aren't proposing 15) that sounds so much worse than the status quo
Somebody making $21B in meth didn't make it in a home lab.
I like your idea. Im gonna try to use your project soon, but due to my companies policies ill probably have to slowly implement your ideas. If it comes to that I might rename your "wish"es to "requirement"s as that would fit with my company's culture a bit more.
The main question is not about the freedom of users, but about the freedom of the sort of entrepreneurs who read Hacker News to market legal drugs to heavy users as aggressively as possible.

Addicts are where the money is. If you want to make bank on drugs, it's all about speeding up the downward spiral of addiction and extracting maximum value from addicts while they're spiraling.
There's a National Geographic documentary series called Drugs, Inc. [1] that I find fascinating.

Let's set aside what an abject failure the so-called War on Drugs has been in the US and the violence of the drug trade and just appreciate the market economics for a second.

One episode listed all the stages coca leaves took to becoming crack cocaine. Processing in jungle labs, transportation to smugglers, further processing, flying to Mexico, entering the US and distribution. And each stage there is loss to law enforcement, rival gangs, theft, etc and that loss rate is reflected in how the price jumps at each stage.

In another, it detailed how meth (IIRC) entered the US primarily in Phoenix. As a result, Phoenix has (so the show said) the cheapest meth in the US. For every 1000 miles you radiated away from Phoenix, the price doubled.

To me it was fascinating to see people who generally had little education, came from terrible backgrounds and grew up amidst crime and violence talk about the math of distance and price and how it impacted his distribution organization. It's sad to see someone who actually has a talent for hustling and basically sales be lost to the drug world.

This is yet another reason why I think the "are you a felon?" question should basically be outlawed in the US.

Additionally you see how organizations have evolved to insulate themselves from disruption (from rivals or law enforcement). Most people know very little and certainly not the big picture. Merchandise frequently changes hands.

I don't know what the solution here is. I fully support legalization of recreational cannabis in any world where alcohol consumption is legal. I certainly don't think we should be sending people to prison for possession.

At the same time, you have cities like Seattle, Portland and San Francisco that are literally being destroyed by non-policing of drugs and small property crime.

But the US prison industrial complex is and always has been a direct attack on the poor and minorities.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drugs,_Inc.
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But meth already is being sold to the public. At pharmacies and with a prescription, not to the general public in convenience stores.

I don't think that people hate seeing others having fun, but rather its the demonization of drugs in the post war era to quell social movements that has now entrenched a deep hatered to substances not blessed back then that is the bigger issue.
I can vouch for the apu2. I've operated many of them and never seen one crash due to an hardware issue.

Couple it with 2x wle600vx wifi radio for dual band wifi and openwrt or another Linux based router is. No 5ghz driver on *bsd.

The alix is the predecessor and is EOL.

Unfortunately, the apu2 is out of stock from pc-engine main shop due to chip shortage.

You might be lucky and find a reseller with some stocks.
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Making Webapps Collaborative with Composable CRDTs
https://www.wkrn.com/news/professor-loses-weight-on-junk-foo...

Anecdotally I’ve done the same. I lost 20 lbs or so eating fast food regularly. I’m able to get to around 12-14% BF like this pretty easy. It might be harder to go leaner.
Maybe [1] https://pkgsrc.org/ ?

Check [2] https://pkgsrc.se/ before, to see if the availability and the 'freshness' of packages fits your needs.

edit:

[3] http://pkgsrc.joyent.com/install-on-osx/ if you don't want to compile and have binaries instead.
From a practical business perspective, performing a diversity and inclusiveness review is a risk management activity.

It doesn't really matter if the business strongly supports or opposes a particular set of diversity and inclusiveness goals from a fiduciary perspective, but it sure does matter if the business keeps losing money or missing targets because it is embroiled in scandals, paying out settlements to staff that have suffered discrimination, or being hauled in front of regulators to air their dirty laundry.

One would hope that being a decent place to work, and treating people fairly would be enough of an incentive, but for everyone else, there are risk management processes designed to have repeatable processes to identify business risks, escalate them to leadership, and presumably either accept the risk, or steer the project towards a solution that has a more acceptable risk profile.
The heat is terrible too. You had no heat issues? All the laptops I had will cook you alive if you tried using them on your lap.
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I interpreted "personal security" in the narrowest sense to steelman the argument. They are saying that flailing around blind is a compromising position to put oneself in; so is disrobing with a stranger you met at the bar.
Worth mentioning that since this post CDE has switched to autotools, so it's a more common configure && make && make install now
(this is from a 35 year-old Emmy-winning documentary series called The Story Of English - all online at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6D54D1C7DAE31B36)
I'd say yes: Arsenic is present in dyes classified as natural, mineral-based, according to https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5315675/ ("Natural Colorants: Historical, Processing and Sustainable Prospects").
> The Pirate Bay
> But they (and a lot of other underground sites) are exemplars in 'solitary nerds working on sheer competence'

Those are highly exceptional cases with specific motivations for their organizational structure (evading the law). They are also a sort of projects that have very few competitors due to their questionable legality, and therefore the organizational structure's effectiveness can't really be compared against regular "licit" software projects.
Missing the basics of high-quality, high-precision, and high-fidelity rendering. We've learned how to do these things since 1993.
Not every kind of review is applicable for every single launch, but diversity and inclusion is applicable to more than just AI (in general, I don't know what the review process or requirements are for D&I)
Everyone has a couple traits in common. For example the EU regulate several very minute things that anyone in the EU must follow. Like how the Chinese regulate the sale (or ban of) certain luxuries.
> https://webassembly.org/

How is that any better than 'javascript'?
I don't know if that was intended to be snarky, but yes, that's exactly what you should do, and people do in fact do that, and it often does work (although probably not as quickly as you'd like).

How else am I supposed to know Bob and Joe are doing bad work? Should I count their LOC/day? Pore over their code and rely on my own (10 years out of date) opinion of it?

In my humble opinion, there is one (1) good way to measure developer productivity, and that is to ask their teammates, and if you won't tell me your teammate is awful, you can't really complain that I don't act on it. Of course it's possible that you tell me and I don't do anything, but at least then it's my fault and not yours.
I'm really not sure what you mean, that precedent has existed since the very beginning of BSD when it was forked off from Version 6 Unix and they decided to change some things. There are a ton of other upstream Linux/Solaris/MacOS/whatever packages that don't work well or at all on BSD unless they are ported. That's why every BSD has a "ports" tree...

Edit: I am also even more confused as to what that has to do with init systems because BSD never used a system V style init, whereas Linux distros typically did for that period before systemd. So this stuff wasn't portable anyway. See what I mean that the logic doesn't follow? I really can't understand what someone meant when they wrote that.