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> Because Ruth Bader Ginsburg didn’t live three more weeks

nonsense—if she and the Democratic Party weren't so certain they had 2016 in the bag, she could've stepped down, allowing President Obama to appoint another justice… but of course then this would rob Hillary Clinton of taking credit for getting a replacement for her, and the optics of the First Woman President replacing one of the most cherished woman SCOTUS justices was just too good to pass up, I guess?
It’s not a minority view, both in the United States and in the world at large.

I don’t quite understand why American progressives think they represent the world at large. Neo-colonialism, I suppose.
> Only seven of the 59 countries allow elective abortions after 20 weeks, the group found: Canada, China, Netherlands, North Korea, Singapore, the United States and Vietnam.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/10/...
Disingenuous and/or incredibly naive as to how politics have been impacting cases coming before the courts.
Probably because execs use it.
> If it’s bad law, it’s bad law.

Presumably it's your opinion that it's a bad law. The majority of Europeans think it's a good law - possibly the best regulation the EU has ever promulgated.
Where you see delegating to the states, I see a minority (less than 30% of Americans agree with this) enforcing social views on the majority- and it will not stop here. Other things the Supreme Court has blocked state law using the same logic as roe v Wade (due process of the 14th amendment[0]) on are blocking contraception bans (grisewald), overturning anti-sodomy laws (lawrence), and giving equal protection to gay marriage (obergafel). Several states still have laws on the books banning those things and there could easily be a situation in 4 years where gay couples, legally married in California, are arrested for sodomy after the border to Texas when traveling. There are already laws on the books seeking to do this for abortion providers or people seeking abortions.

This is a small minority that just needs 51% of voter turnout in a particular state (or not even that in a heavily gerrymandered one), and they can control the lives of anyone living in or even traveling through an entire region of the US with apparently very little federal protection (and certainly no representation for the travelers)

This ruling is disastrous and shows the capriciousness of the current court in interpreting precedent to mean whatever is popular with their party. The 14th can amendment be limited but the second cannot, the first can mean infinite money in politics but the 5th does not mean Miranda warnings are required anymore.

Edit -[0] this link is not hypothetical, Thomas’s solo concurring opinion calls these cases out by name to be reconsidered by the court in light of this recent decision, and shows members of the court are absolutely interested in returning these to the realm of the states.
The elected representatives of the Democratic party is overwhelmingly moderate. There are a handful of conservative democrats and equally many progressive democrats. Progressive democrats have been loosing as many primaries as they win, but overwhelmingly they are not up for election, instead a moderate democrat is the default choice.

The same can not be said about the Republican Party. This is not a both sides issue. Polarization is happening on the right wing in the American Party system, and the right wing alone.
> what about support for abortion exceptions for incest or rape?

If you’ve been paying attention, exceptions for incest and rape are being thrown out of the window in most red states. That was a pre supermajority compromise. Now that the supreme court is a conservative supermajority, the compromise position is no longer desirable for conservatives. They have the power and they are using it.
another great argument in favor of banning cryptography. no encryption - no ransomware
But there tend to be fewer rural poor per-capita compared to rural middle/upper class per-capita, which is why election maps tend to show blocks of blue in metro areas with red elsewhere.
Senators hold power completely dissproportionate from the population they represent - the senators from Vermont hold the same amount of power as the senators from Texas, while representing orders of magnitude fewer people.

The senate is, by design, an inherently anti-democratic institution (it represents the rights of the states instead of the rights of their populations).

The presidency I think is at least elected quite democratically, so I'm not sure what GP meant there.
There are no laws prosecuting abortions done out of state. It’s possible some will be passed but I also think they are a) impossible to enforce and b) won’t be upheld by SCOTUS because they violate the dormant commerce clause.
There is a 0% chance ACA would have gone anywhere if it included protections for abortion.

0%. Democrats did not in fact have a "perfect vehicle" nor did they have a chance to enshrine abortion into the law of the land.
In my experience there are few great jobs behind shitty people. Great jobs tend to not put shitty people in the hiring loop.

Similar works backwards, if you're using the interview to also ask the right questions, good people are generally not going to lie to you...
The problem I see is that due to the former ruling there never has been any political decision on it ensuring us women go back to the fifties now
Which coworking space at you at out of curiosity? (If you're comfortable answering)

I live in Kendall and am always on the lookout for decent ones that aren't the WeWork's.
Do you paint other religious groups with that same broad brush? I'm sure you supported similar rhetoric about Muslims post 9/11.
its not really "both sides" when only one side is having a say in how the ruling is handed down
The key here is at equal perceived effort. An unfit vs. fit person putting in 100% for an hour is a very different story.
If you're willing to jump back to C++ to get around the borrow checker strictness, couldn't you just use Rust's unsafe block where you're sure it won't result in a bug?

Is it harder to fuzz Rust? Honest question, because fuzzing is something I occasionally read about but am not practiced in.
Many comments here praise Uniqlo and for years I also bought all 'my uniform', my short sleeve shirts there (guess I live in a warmer climate). But now I got the same feeling as you have. The shirts that I bought a few weeks ago are really different and I finally decided I need to find an alternative.
They're not _that_ expensive (usually $500-$1k/mo) and I wouldn't really characterize the vetting as "thorough".

Don't get me wrong, carriers have been making strides to lower the amount of spam that's sent through the air (A2P requirements, toll-free number verification requirements, etc), but a determined scammer can still exploit SMS/MMS pretty easily.
For comparison, in Haskell you would get for this definition:

myfun :: Int -> Char -> Bool
myfun a b = undefined

if you give too many arguments:

myfun 1 'c' 3

• Couldn't match expected type ‘t0 -> t’ with actual type ‘Bool’
• The function ‘myfun’ is applied to three value arguments,
but its type ‘p10 -> Char -> Bool’ has only two

if you give too few arguments:

putStrLn (myfun 1)

• No instance for (Show (p20 -> Bool))
arising from a use of ‘print’
(maybe you haven't applied a function to enough arguments?)

I like how it says

applied to three value arguments ... but its type ... has only two

and

maybe you haven't applied a function to enough arguments?
They decide what's in front of them. If you've got a good challenge case for Wickard v Filburn, they might hear it. But this case wasn't a case that could overturn Wickard v Filburn.
Huh. I received a text message a couple of weeks ago, informing me the "gift" that I had "bought" had been delivered to the "location agreed upon" by me, and to please visit this really suspicious looking URL for details.

The Internet, for better or worse, has taught me a healthy amount of skepticism, plus I definitely had not bought any gifts (how is it a gift if I buy it myself?). But I can see how it is easy to fall for these scams if you aren't used to looking for them.
As if Alexa wasn't creepy enough...
We changed the URL from https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/06/24/us/roe-wade-abortion... (which is more of a feed) to what looks like a reasonable article.

The ruling itself is at https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/19-1392_6j37.pdf, via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31863903.
speaking quickly with broad strokes that really have a lot more underlying nuance than im implying:

there is a greater sharing of ideas in urban locations. more progression happens. they fail to spread the progression to rural locations.

It is a dynamic and evolving ecosystem and we are failing to educate and / or motivate rural locations to care about these things properly.

Instead urban culture usually acts superior, makes demands, and assume what they believe should be obvious and by not coming to the same conclusions immediately during a confrontation that means rural people are evil.

Rural people double down on the beliefs because at the end of the day nothing really matters and they might as well stick to something that gives them a sense of belonging since they very obviously do not belong with urban culture.
Is Open Source Software a Practical Alternative?
A cursory google pulled this wikipedia article up (linked below), and it makes it seem like mass knifings are generally rare and generally less destructive compared to north american shootings.

Do you have an article or graph (per capita or absolute) of deaths comparing the two countries you could point to for more info?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_attacks_in_China
Society has already decided that proving guilt in a drunk driving case is a sufficient reason to violate bodily autonomy. I argue that saving a life is far more important than proving guilt for a fairly petty crime, therefore by the already accepted standard, it would be permissible to force the transfusion for this purpose.
I am curious for perspectives on this.

My immediate guess, based upon dealing with people not Japanese specifically: Japanese culture welcomes outsiders who respect the culture. But once you try to get deep into the fabric of the community (buy property, marry a local, etc.) there is a strong invisible wall of which you were not aware.

Most cultures seem to have different ideas of where and how boundaries are created to push away outsiders. The notoriously cold Germans are initially very cold, but once you're on the inside there is complete trust. Meanwhile, the flaky southern California "let's do lunch" thing is an endless series of weak onion-like translucent boundaries and you never can get to the core of things.
Direct democracy would have meant one republican presidential term in the last 25 years and the SCOTUS would be highly liberal
I loved all of the puzzle Zachtronics games! They're great puzzle games on their own but some also have leaderboards which give you the feeling that you can do better or solve them in different ways.

I'd revisit older games to see which steam friends beat my scores, and then I'd go back through and rediscover, optimize, and get back on top.

I'll definitely miss their games.
TIS-100 – An open-ended programming game
This. A bunch of Canadian government interactions also use SMS as 2FA and I live abroad for months every year. At least most tech companies let you switch to an authenticator app...
Thousands (USD) for a drink or two, tens of thousands for a bottle or two. It's a very well known scam in some parts of Tokyo, and similar forms exist in many parts of the world.

Long and short, don't let someone on the street talk you into going into a bar or tea shop or whatever, and especially don't follow them to a second location.
What are folks thoughts on changing hard work into difficult problems?

That seems to be the more interesting transformation. And potentially where startups thrive.

What are some cases where you thought you transformed hard work into a difficult problem?
I wish :-). I'm just a dev on the other side of the world.
> I thought development of Minecraft started in 2007?

The first version of Minecraft was developed May 2009, Infiniminer was released April 2009.
Don't forget to register and vote at the next elections.
That's all there is to it https://www.vote.org/
Many of the judges on the bench were literally pushed through undemocratically through the deep state cabal known as the Federalist society. The idea that the US can fix things by just voting better is laughable.

Also why is everyone playing “devils advocate” on this thread? It’s clear what the majority sentiment is here, why bother pretending to take a middle of the road “nuanced” position?
Yes I would say the gun rights decision was judicial activism.
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I mean that in November the GOP will do well. As it's been said, "It's the economy, stupid." And the timing and extent of this economic cycle will greatly favor The Reds.
Pregnancy has nontrivial effects on women. There is risk of death, emotional and physical changes to the body, and you need to adapt your life around these things. In the case of rape there is also trauma. It seems incredibly unjust to rob the mom of the choice to decide what to do in that situation. Having a position that ignores the mom in favor of the baby is terrifying.
Because it is not profitable.

Buying cheap third party consumables is a hack. It is people taking advantage of the low prices (entry level printers are often sold at a loss), without paying for the overpriced consumables that is where the real profits are. Back then, manufacturers could absorb the loss, but now, with the printer market tanking, it is becoming harder and harder.

A company that decides to tolerate third party consumables is likely to attract customers who want to do exactly that, a significant loss. If they want to stay profitable, their printers will be more expensive, more than what casual users are ready to pay.

I don't know about laser printers but traditional manufacturers sometimes offer an alternative to expensive ink cartridges: ink tank printers. They are way more expensive than their equivalent cartridge-based printers, but ink is sold in bulk with no DRM (cheap). These, however, are only worthwhile if you print a lot.
Wall of silence surrounds plan for nationwide collection of peoples’ net records
I don't think it's a straw man. You show me the big evangelical movement centered around adoption of children who would have otherwise been aborted. Which, you know, would be the obvious Christian answer here, rather than forcing your will onto others.
To quote the man:

“We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian Darwinian theory he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.”
When Obama was running in 2008 he claimed to want to codify Roe as law his first day as office, and was elected with a super majority. Never once tried. This was not the only opportunity in the last 50 years.

It’s not JUST about means, motive, opportunity. There has to be the desire to spend the political capital. I think it’s interesting no one in 50 years with all the majority make ups have put the effort in.

I don’t speculate a reason other than it seems more expensive than the media might have me believe?
Hard of hearing as well. Personally, I have found Zoom's live captions to be decent to make sense of what's happening. There are some words that are misinterpreted, but the overall context is understood.

My only complaint is that these accessibility features should be available to everyone, not gated to free users. At the start of COVID in 2020, Zoom allowed free users to request captions as well and it took a few followups for my account to be enabled. Not sure if they are still offering it.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31862258, which was posted earlier and is the major ongoing thread. Your URL was better, though, so I used it there.

I'm sorry we don't have a way to 'credit' the submitter of a better URL on a story. It's on the list to implement karma-sharing between multiple submitters of the same story, but that's not done yet.
When is letting the mother die the only way to save her child's life?
Starting my own company.
I would expect a lot of this software locks down your computer in the name of "preventing cheating" but the company's unstated goal is "harvesting more information."

In a similar vein, after 9-11 the airlines loved the idea that they had to start checking the ID of every passenger to ensure it matched the name on the ticket. They said they supported this for "increased security" but the real reason the airlines liked the idea was that it eliminated ticket resale, which had been a major annoyance to the airlines' bottom line for decades.
Sure it would. The changed outcomes in 2 recent presidential elections alone would have resulted in a completely different supreme court, which would have changed all of this. If the senate had proportional representation everything Dipshit McConnell hamfisted through wouldn't have happened either, which would also create a very substantially different political landscape.
Let me guess, you're in a group that is not normally outcast for existing?

Gradual expansion of equal protection only makes sense if:

1. you are already protected

2. you benefit from unequal protection.

3. You want to appear "nice"
>SSC's analysis of fashion as cellular automata is the most coherent writing on this

For those unfamiliar, it's the top part of this post: (note the year in the url if you choose to continue to part where it actually discusses politics)

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/04/22/right-is-the-new-left/

I was also thinking about Scott's review of Fussell On Class, which is similarly insightful

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/book-review-fussell-on...
None of them got much traction yet...
I’m changing my views on regulations and supply-side economics.

I think this nation needs to kick start innovation and tech progress that was displayed in 1950-1970.

That means, low taxes, control inflation, get budget in order and have a surplus even, stop spending and question the efficiency of the Gov (Do 2x from existing funding). Huge tax breaks for startups and small biz. No state income tax.

It’s wishful thinking but I want Taiwan x Singapore x HongKong economic policies in the USA. Special economic zones like Shenzhen.
Agree it was a weird hill to choose. I can see more expansionism being picked at over the next few years.
> Then what about miscarriage? If a newborn were to die under unknown circumstances, there should be an investigation.

Most states have laws regarding causing miscarriage via assault, even California so there are investigations already.
The 150k/year also accounts for overhead such-as taxes, HR, cash reserves for rainy day, software licensing etc.
Well, it's my eyeball and I can do what I like with it. Calling something barbaric is a nonsense to me when it doesn't hurt and is done with informed consent (and it works!)
I'm sure there are risks, and you might have some haloing at night or whatever, but I went from -4.75, -5.75 to 20/20 vision! And if I end up slightly long sighted.. small price to pay for 20+ years free of glasses. Lasers wow indeed!

Of course people should make informed decisions. I'm sure enough of the operations have been done to get a very informative risk breakdown. And if you are happy with glasses more power to you.
It's my understanding that engaging from the ego mindset "I'm right and everyone else is wrong" operates at an unconscious level when feeling threatened by a viewpoint, which has its roots in "If im wrong, then I don't exist, or Ill die". So when a individual has a strong ego investment in a position, its not really about what kind of view you are coming from on a conscious level because the unconscious mind drives this part. If i am understanding you correctly, I'm guessing you think that all people should be fair and just in their actions. The fact remains that we have this part of ourselves that can short circuit that kind of reasoning and it does drive much of our destructive behavior as a human species.

IMHO Its going to take awhile for the human species to evolve out of that.
The electoral college has very seldom deviated from the popular vote. It's happened a handful of times, but not frequently.

My point is that people who clamor "popular vote" don't always take into consideration what would happen if we implemented popular democracy.

Interestingly, Japan is another country that gives the countryside political advantage and tax advantage.
When courts step outside their traditional role of interpreting and judging legislation we often refer to it as judicial activism.

Otherwise you'd be correct.
Not exactly gerrymandering, but there is a systemic bias against Democrats due to the structure of our government. The most obvious example, Republicans have won the national popular vote once in the last 8 presidential elections.
None of those states want to make post-birth infanticide legal.
I ended up porting my (Canadian) number to a cheap pre-paid MNVO service that was $100/yr for unlimited talk/text and no data (within Canada), but seemingly allows me to roam forever and receive SMS for free. Cheapest option I could find in Canada, besides maybe some VOIP providers.
This assumes there is a universally agreed upon definition of "upward" and "forward". Religious people would argue things like abortion rights and pride celebrations are the opposite of upward and forward progress since they enable and encourage what they believe to be sin.
To add, I've experienced a few too many services that seem to block Google Voice numbers for 2fa purposes (although, maybe they're blocking based on area code and there wouldn't be a problem if I ported my existing number to GV).
:raises-hand: Emotion is not the driver, reason is. Two syllogisms:

1. Innocent people ought not be killed. Children are innocent people. Therefore, children ought not be killed.

2. What is conceived in a woman is an innocent young human being. Young human beings are children. Therefore (given syllogism #1) children in utero ought not be killed.

Those syllogisms can lead to emotion, but they are not based on it.
There is a Backup feature [1] that saves/exports to a Netscape bookmark format file locally or to Dropbox or Google Drive.

I save to Dropbox, and have a cronjob import it into ArchiveBox to create a local backup of sites [2].

1. https://help.raindrop.io/backups/

2. https://www.ecliptik.com/bookmarking-with-raindrop/#archivin...
Laws are the result of politics. I think it doesn’t make sense to say you can interpret/reason about laws in a non political way.
Gerrymandering needs to be tackled possibly at the level of a constitutional amendment, but like the filibuster it's a nonsense loophole power that neither side wants to give up.
I wouldn’t say nobody. Certain schools of Islam explicitly teach that “ensoulment” of the fetus occurs after 120 days, as per my limited understanding. This timeframe largely coincides with the beliefs of a significant majority of Americans (per recent surveys) that abortion should be legal until the first few weeks of the second trimester.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensoulment#Islam