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There are many variants of these "don't boycott Israel" laws, which try to find ways around the unconstitutionality of such laws. It sounds like the variant in the article is a state level law that requires the state to not contract with parties boycotting Israel. So in the end this is part of his contract with the government, but the city has no choice but to include such a clause.

For example a similar law in a different state was found unconstitutional by a Circuit Court:

> The US District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas heard the case involving Act 710, a statute that forbids state parties from establishing contractual agreements with companies that boycott Israel.

> The Court ultimately concludes that supporting boycotts of Israel is protected under the Constitution and that Act 710 violates First Amendment rights.

https://jolt.law.harvard.edu/digest/eighth-circuit-state-law...

But these kind of laws are controversial and different courts have come to other conclusions.
This was my experience as well- holding out on old versions of iOS + inevitably breaking normal workflows like banking ended up becoming too much of a pain, went back to a stock setup.

That and the random resprings which were likely the fault of jailbroken content I installed, but often it is too time consuming to debug exactly which tweak was causing the instability
"Microsoft Bug Bounty Program's (MSRC) response was poor: Initially, they misjudged and dismissed the issue entirely. After our appeal, the issue was classified as "Critical, RCE", but only 10% of the bounty advertised for its classification was awarded ($5k vs $50k). The patch they came up with after 5 months failed to properly address the underlying argument injection (which is currently also still present on Windows 11)"

So they wrote a protocol-handler bound on every Win10 machine which arbitrarily runs a command if you can convince the user to click one message box.
Calling the process a Murderboard is the first strike. The DirEng not being involved in the design for a project this critical is the second strike. The DirEng being antagonistic in the meeting is the third. Three strikes and you should be out, for your own health and sanity.

I have been in process meetings where we went over what went right, and what didn't, and how we can do better in the future. They were called retrospectives. I have once also been in a meeting, after the project failed (due to funding/requirements mismatch), to determine why. Even that was called a post-mortem, and that name also didn't sit well. It's insensitive, and there's no good reason.
last i knew palentinians had no real political power in israeli and their treatment by the israeli government is precisely why you would boycott israeli goods and services.
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i have a question. if the lawmakers made a law "no doing business with a company unless they boycott israel". will that also work? would that be constitutional?
Anti-benchmarking clauses are sometimes called DeWitt clauses after Oracle famously tried to get a professor fired for testing their offerings. https://danluu.com/anon-benchmark/

I never knew how true that anecdote was but that’s typically the boogeyman story that gets passed around for things like this
I think it would depend on which system you were introduced into. Also 99% sure in my classes in the mid 90s they taught stack push. Which made sense as registers were pretty valuable. It was not until RISC came along, and register renaming, that you could consider 'wasting' them on passing args in the general case. In the 'DOS'/'Win16' world calling conventions were all over the place. You could get into trouble real quick if you did not pay attention to those calling convention modifiers. Especially if you were using libs from different compilers. In the linux world where you can control the whole stack it is easier to say 'this way and if you stray away from it, good luck'.

Small sample of the remnants of that in the DOS world.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/cpp/argument-passing-an...
A a freelance consultant, Pre COVID I was easily booking 50 times/year
This might work in the US, but the rest 80% of the world...

I am aware of booking's dirty tools to make you feel you have to book NOW! However, after around 100+ booking.com booking all around the world (including small villages in Amazonia or Laos) I am eternally grateful that for that extra 1$/night or so I get instant support with whatever probleem I had.
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By the way, what does this sound like?

> The wide appeal of Albania's schemes can be attributed to several factors, including Albanians' unfamiliarity with financial markets; the deficiencies of the country's formal financial system, which encouraged the development of an informal market and, within this market, of the pyramid schemes; and failures of governance.

> There were also governance problems, both in the financial sector and more generally. The regulatory framework was inadequate, and it was not clear who had responsibility for supervising the informal market. Even after the approval of a banking act in February 1996 that appeared to give the Bank of Albania the power to close illegal deposit-taking institutions, the central bank could not obtain the government's support. Indeed, the government was supportive of the companies: senior government officials frequently appeared at company functions, and, in November 1996, even as the pyramid schemes began to crumble, the prime minister and the speaker of the parliament accepted medals in honor of the anniversary of one of the companies. During the 1996 elections, several of the companies made campaign contributions to the ruling Democratic Party. There were allegations that many government officials benefited personally from the companies.

If y'all don't think this is embodied by Hester Pierce I don't know what to say.

[1] https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2000/03/jarvis.ht...
I would think the seizing up of the financial system in 2008 was more a symptom, than the actual thing itself that needs fixing. How would trustlessness prevent the mortgage/real estate crisis that happened? Doesn't seem like in itself these things would remove the incentive to design predatory mortgages, and exploit an inflated market. Real estate is already non fungible, no?
The ratio of legitimate to illegitimate use of traditional currencies is way different than the ratio for cryptocurrencies. Of course the total number is smaller, since the total number of cryptocurrency users in general is smaller.

The point is that there is massive legitimate use of traditional currencies, which makes them a benefit despite the illegitimate uses. The same is just not true for cryptocurrencies.

Also, traditional currencies have many, many safeguards against illegitimate use. Cryptocurrencies are specifically designed to prevent those safeguards.

There is a good reason that ransomware only took off once cryptocurrencies became available.
I'm confused. That in no way reduces your freedom.
> it's Mary Kay for young men

I like that one better.
In some cases, you will be escorted off the premises immediately, then paid to stay at home until the end of your notice period. This is mostly for people with somewhat sensitive jobs, though (research, sales, some management positions) and probably more common in finance than elsewhere. And usually imposed no matter what side initiates the departure.
I think the issue is more nuanced. Many of the arguments against cryptocurrencies (or blockchain technologies) do have merit in my view (e.g. Theter being a scam, economic concerns such as deflation or the problematic envrionmental impact of PoW) but that does not mean that the entire space and any further innovation in it should be dismissed outright. However, I agree with you that this is the prevailing sentiment on HN. I find this quite sad because substantiated discussions on reddit about cryptocurrencies gets drowned out by all the shilling that is going on.
Web3 is all about not trusting big tech corps but trusting few hustlers, TikTok influencers, NFT enthusiasts who seem to have users best interest and know all about the tech.
> Tons and tons of details upfront when I just want to find examples of basic usage. It should have the examples section with common patterns right at the top.

This is called a synopsis, and lack of one is the single biggest mistake that documentation authors make. When I look across the landscape of programming languages, I see them rarely.

Perl documentation always has a synopsis because it's a big cultural expectation, and it almost always useful to get the user started, or to jog the memory. Man pages have it, too, but they tend to cram too much useless information instead of restricting to common cases and patterns.
Sure, but BTC is global so you need to divide BTC's energy usage with the population of New Zealand to make a fair comparison.

New Zealand's population is 0.06% of the world population. Best guess of Bitcoin energy usage put it at around 100 TWh so New Zealands part would be 0.06 TWh.

So I think we should really compare pro rate BTC usage of 0.06 TWh against NZ's 40 TWh. I have no idea how much of NZ's usage is spent on financial system though.
It's increasingly hard to tell one from the other.

The mechanism here appears to be (the article itself is light on facts) a contract, same as would be with a private entity. The entity on the other end of the contract could be private, public or mixed. The rule/clause may originate in a contract between this entity and a 3rd party, or the entity's interpretation/implementation of a regulatory framework.

In regulated industries, the last version is ubiquitous. A bank, casino or whatnot will have a "compliance" function. There will be "regulatory/compliance" requirements, rules and clauses. It's never clear whether these are government rules, private policies, etc.
> And yet, abortions continue to be legal everywhere.

This is expected to change shortly, due to those very same "three appointees to the Supreme Court".

The assertion that "evangelicals have no power" in the US is simply silly.
Of course, but there are various options out there. For instance, Razer Huntsman Elite is loud enough to wake the dead, whereas Razer Huntsman V2 (linear) is whisper quiet - complete opposite.

Personally I prefer mechanical keyboards and other gaming gear not because of flashy LEDs and other fads, but because of the durability, build quality and features. Seemingly little things like volume wheel on the keyboard or tilt wheel on the mouse, can ad a lot to comfort of use.
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> my point is that what you cited as a piece of evidence for malign intent on Google's part isn't actually supporting evidence

It's worth noticing that it's pointless to censor requests like "gab.com" anyway (though that happened in my case). A person typing them already knows what they want. Now, try "right wing social media", "free speech media", "social media without censorship", etc. For me it doesn't show anything relevant but the links to the "correct" think tanks. Does this fact prove the malign intent of Google? No, but it's still there and you know it (except they consider this a virtue).
You are edging close to questions you are not allowed to ask, let alone answers you will be allowed to discover, and surely not allowed to share.

Let me put it this way, those "evangelicals" it sounds like you are blaming are actually victims of a certain type as part of the whole abused become abusers cycle.

There is a scene in Til Kingdom Come, the PBS documentary that perfectly illustrates what is going on … people, utterly poor and destitute, in rural Kentucky having their children collect money, literally scraping together coins, to send it to Israel … and no Jewish person saying anything like "woah, hold on, you have nothing and we are immensely rich beyond your wildest dreams, you should invest that money in your own community" let alone maybe the Jewish community inverting things … to help those who are literally mentally subjugated to them like in Egyptian types where dirty slaves serve demigods rulers.

But I have said enough and do not mean to draw the ire of the demigods. Forgive me if I have offended your sensibilities, beneficent masters, please do not take away my fake internet points or muzzle my voice with a digital curse or vaporize my account.
Evangelicals Protestantism is the biggest religious category in the country (25%), yet no Supreme Court justice is Evangelical. By contrast, 6-7 are Catholic (21%) and 2 are Jewish (2%). That doesn't seem like enormous political power to me.
I'm not sure where you're getting that from
Just took a look at ENS, within 5 mins I was able to find <pupular_first_name>.eth's first and last name, who they work for, their LinkedIN profile, their ETH address, how much they have in crypto holdings, what NFT's they buy/sell and full tx history... Who wants that?
glad you liked it :D
Ask HN: What are some good reasons for reinventing the wheel?
In the context of industry software development, what are some good reasons for reinventing the wheels?
See rest of article. Only paragraph 3 is about proof of work; 4-10 are arguments unrelated to environmental impact.
What do the clauses look like? Do they actually mention "Israel" by name? Could it perhaps be poorly drafted clauses that are meant to convey a requirement that contractors to the government must equally consider procuring goods and services for the government from all countries and/or suppliers without bias of personal preference or opinion?
that's by law in Italy

Both parties have to be present in person and sign the documents in front of a notary that also collect copies of the checks emitted directly by the bank at the moment and write down their id number on the deeds
As of bash 4, `shopt -s autocd` will automatically do that (and more).
Paul Ford puts it much better himself:

>Tilde.club is one cheap, unmodified Unix computer on the Internet.

>That’s it. That’s all it is. It is no more than that.

>If you look for more for it to be you will find nothing.

The implication I'd add is that it's just a 'shared' unix machine.
I see. So this statute requires a contract clause. Are there other such statutes, requiring certain clauses as boilerplate?
Yeah but… money. You can’t pay rent with smiles. Accepting donations would probably mean having to work less at their main job. Or they could re-donate it.

There are people willing and able to pay, leaving those money on the table is pure waste.
If people buy cryptocurrencies instead of holding dollars they contribute to financial stability of the US economy. Why? Because holding dollars is risk free through the deposit insurance program. Meanwhile holding Bitcoin also forces you to bear all its risks. Nobody sheds a tear when Bitcoin crashes. It's doing it all the time! Meanwhile, a systemic break down of the dollar would also ruin the real economy.
This is the entire point of most PoW mechanisms. It's a way of "proving" that an miner expended a certain amount of effort or energy to validate a transaction. It also requires that expenditure to be significant enough that gaming the system is expensive. As a result most of of them scale as the effort inevitably get's easier thus ensuring that the energy required to validate a transaction will only ever be capable of growing not shrinking. If it is allowed to shrink the consensus properties start to fail. Whether you think this is a worthy use of that energy will depend on how much benefit you think the consensus properties of your particular PoW implementation are providing.
Great work. Keep it up.
Keep in mind that Fastly's C@E might not even be needed, as you get VCL as standard. You don't check pre-made boxes, you write a non-Turing complete but quite powerful language that gets atomically deployed to their whole CDN in a few seconds. I'm a big fan.
Ah, now that is exactly what I was looking for! I want to do some artwork in OSHPark purple-and-gold.
who?

Tons of accounts get suspended all the time on Twitter.
The interesting thing is not that you would need a blockchain to trade wine futures — obviously you don’t.

The interesting thing is that if you can sell the futures as (for example) NFTs then you put them into this Wild West of crypto enthusiasts where

1) All kinds of unpredictable things might happen to the token between sale and redemption! And

2) The culture of crypto enthusiasts might very well lead to much higher prices for your wine than people who actually know about wine think it’s worth, cf. Beeple.

Either or both of these things might motivate a winery to give it a shot, tokenize a few thousand future cases of their weakest plonk, and see what happens.

Just because your market works fine without the blockchain doesn’t mean there’s nothing to be gained by trying.

On the other hand, it might be illegal because: alcohol.
Much like the calls to action in an infomercial:

- these BS tactics work, very well, for a segment of the audience

- the rest of the audience is not sufficiently offended to do any harm
> Everyone with a finance background hates crypto.

This is clearly an exaggeration. There are many people in the finance industry who have put money into cryptocurrencies.

> Name literally one concrete example of a concrete and specific problem better solved by crypto than a classical solution.

There are people who believe that digital asset ownership (including money) via the blockchain is superior to classical solutions of centralized custodians/governments controlling those assets (while still having chargebacks, recovery from lost private keys, and all the things people think you can’t have on blockchains even though you can).

Many people also trust large companies/their government not to freeze/confiscate their assets and think this is a silly use case. Those same people have likely never had their account closed and lost thousands of dollars of digital assets, and have never had to flee their homes for safety from their own governments.

Having different trust models is why people fundamentally disagree on whether blockchain is valuable.
Same here in Germany. They even check employment duration.
I live in and love Texas but, man, there are some stupid laws on the books. The one preventing Tesla from selling here is so ridiculous as well.
Two of these are similar to a mailing address.
If I move I need to a dozen different websites and services with my mailing address. Since it's not often I don't remember to track where this needs to happen.

If I was forced to change my email address, I might not be able to recover some accounts. Some don't support changing username (which is my email). I don't want to count the number of websites I'd need to update.
Correct. Shell scripts are for desired state configuration of the OS but BASH is for Linux / Unix and you need an advanced degree with extra study after in order to properly config those nightmare distros so nobody even tries they leave all the defaults.
And apparently Win11 too.

Don't all protocol handlers invoke some execution? Like http goes to my browser (only Edge) and that other windows internal one which also goes to Edge (and resets my registered http handler)
You don't have to be a politician to hold political power.
I also don't see why this is so newsworthy.

This alleged contract clause seems a lot like the sorts of nebulous "we reserve the right to back out without penalty if you do something not befitting our brand image" clauses you get when providing services for prestigious institutions but with a more government style legalese applied to it. Basically Houston doesn't want to potentially deal with the blow-back of a contractor is taking a particular stance on a particular political issue. It would be unsurprising if cities like Boston have similar clauses barring contractors from expressing strong anti-lgbtq or anti public employee union political sentiments. At the end of the day none of this really matters. The city will a ways terminate a relationship with a contractor if they cause political problems. The contract clause just makes the inevitable lawsuit slightly more uphill. Houston probably doesn't really care for the state's law on this issue so odds are they will likely never try and enforce these specific terms anyway.
> We discovered a drive-by code execution vulnerability on Windows 10 via IE11/Edge Legacy and MS Teams, triggered by an argument injection in the Windows 10/11 default handler for ms-officecmd: URI

> Exploitation through other browsers requires the victim to accept an inconspicuous confirmation dialog.

No confirmation needed with Windows 10 and IE11 or Edge Legacy
Hard to be more wrong in this subject. You sound exactly like David Letterman.

Technical issues always get solved. All of this is misconceptions, poorly informed takes, or poor implementations that are true today but won’t be there tomorrow.

My take on this is that HN users are tech stack obsessed.

HN users only see an inferior tech stack, but fail to understand that an inferior tech stack might have Greater Utility for the common people.

HN users earn their living by being the best at what they do and choosing the best tech stack is a part of it, which is why they don’t understand blockchain. It’s an inferior tech stack, but it beats every other stack on game theory, which is not the usual purview of the average developer. Hence they reject it as “inefficient” because they keep looking at it through the prism of tech instead of society.

For society trustless distributed systems are better, but if you keep looking at it from a tech/throughout perspective, you’ll never get it.

The trick to this is understanding the following - nobody trusts you to hold a centralised database. Stop talking about centralised databases - centralised databases did not solve the digital art problem. NFTs did. Centralised databases mean we have to trust you - the developer - and your company or business. But we don’t. Nobody does, and neither do you if you’re completely honest with yourself. How many times has a developer changed or deleted a service you needed and you had no recourse whatsoever ? How often are services “sunsetted” alongside the entire database?

Stop looking at it as a tech stack problem, and start looking at it as a trust problem. People don’t trust you to run their services, for good reason, and they would much prefer an open source, immutable, decentralised ledger than your SQL, 10 times out of 10.
> being free of race conditions is a big help

Maybe this is a nitpick, but the need to say it suggests you might not understand something important. (Safe) Rust has data race freedom not freedom from race conditions. The most likely reason to muddle those is not knowing what the difference is, which is important because race conditions are an unavoidable phenomenon in computer systems (and indeed the real world) whereas data races are something very strange and difficult to reason about.

If you put the cat out the front door, then walk to the kitchen and close the kitchen door, you can't be certain the cat is still outside, it might have run around and back inside. That's a race condition. Rust doesn't inherently care about those, so if you do then you need to program carefully to handle them. Data races aren't like that, they don't have a clear real world analog, perhaps they're as if you could discover that sometimes while you're putting the cat outside, somebody else is simultaneously putting the same cat inside your house - except, that doesn't make much sense. Nor do data races, which is why it's important that Rust prevents them while many languages just make that your problem.
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