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Is your pro-life position such that you only allow an exception for the life/health of the pregnant person, even in the 1st trimester? That's pretty radical.

> You don't have the right to tell people how they should fight for their principles.

Society has the right to balance people's interests. People who can become pregnant have (I think obviously) a huge vested interest in bodily autonomy, as does every free person. The state has to balance that interest--indeed that right--against others' pro-life positions. My argument is that there are lots of compromise measures that actually work to reduce abortion bans without doing things like increasing the death rate of pregnant people [0]. 70% of people who have an abortion are within 2x of the poverty line. It seems like a simple thing we could do is to help these people out financially. It seems like a dumb thing we could do is force these people to give birth and try to raise a child in poverty.

> I'm not American, but I can be described to have moderately pro life views, in that I think abortion should be always banned, except for the 3 reasons I listed above, which (after proof) would bypass the ban at any moment in the pregnancy.

Just to be clear, your views are not moderate, they are extreme. The vast majority of people support unrestricted abortion in the 1st trimester. Further your position--again--leaves no room for problems that occur during pregnancy that require an abortion: fetal abnormalities, the pregnant person gets cancer, fetal death, etc.

> Pregnancy is the direct result of the women's actions

Again you are ignoring assault and problems that occur during pregnancy.

> ...irresponsible women...

Ah, here we are. This is misogyny. Birth control fails. People are assaulted. Some people are in abusive relationships where they're unable to use birth control yet forced to have sex. Please learn about this issue before you start impugning others.

> 3-50% or so of women are against abortion in the United States, and men are divided roughly equally...

This is wrong, or at least wildly unnuanced [1].

> A big part of my pro life bias is as a counter reaction to the obnoxious moral certainty of the progressive variant of abortion defenders, those who find it morally okay to "shout their abortion" and compare babies to cancer and parasites.

I get this. But I think you're taking out your frustration on the wrong people here. There were nearly a million abortions in the US in 2020. Practically none of those people are taking to Twitter and doing the kinds of things you're talking about. They're just people trying to do the right thing in incredibly difficult circumstances. People who seek abortion need our help and care, not our scorn.

> I, quite frankly, want to punish those people.

This is misogyny too.

[0]: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/abortion-restrict...

[1]: https://news.gallup.com/poll/244097/legality-abortion-2018-d...
Hypothetically it should be possible to make an entirely new RDS cluster as a replica at a new version and fail over to it, with a similar error rate to a normal replica failover.

Setting up the infrastructure to manually manage your own cluster failover would kinda go against the spirit of using RDS and letting AWS manage infrastructure for you, though.
Unitree Robotic Dog: $2700
Part of the conservative worldview is just so deeply tied into the idea of "deserving," both in a good and bad sense, that it interferes with the value of harm reduction.

If a single mother struggles it's because she deserves it. If her child suffers for that struggle it's her fault. So long as there's something or someone to blame, you can ignore the question of how you could have prevented the problem in the first place.

In fact, if you provide her support, you might be rewarding her infidelity. And then people will perceive that as a reasonable thing to do and more people will do it and then and then and then....

But the important thing is that she didn't "sin" by "killing the baby". If the baby dies after it's born, it's also her fault.

Like I said, there's no hypocrisy there. Being a hypocrite isn't the worst thing someone can be. It's entirely possible to have a perfectly (or as perfectly as humans are capable of) self-consistent worldview that is also incredibly cruel. I think a lot of people have lost sight of that.

At some point people started to believe that conservativism was about "preserving the past" but that's subtly wrong. It's about "preserving hierarchies". Recognizing that all people are worthy of life is contrary to the idea that some people deserve what's coming to them.
The basis of guerrilla warfare is using the stronger opponent's strength against them. Farmers come with scythes and staves and capture a rifle. Farmers come with scythes, staves and a rifle and capture more rifles. With rifles and the element of surprise, artillery is captured.

It goes back to Sun Tzu, and up to the present day. One of its most recent manifestations is the US equipment captured by the Taliban.
How's the receptivity to foreign immigrants of, um, darker complexion and that speak only English and a second European language that is not German?

Also, how are public pensions? Do people expect to go by with that 30 year from now, or do people usually have a backup plan/private insurance
Time – The Fight over Abortion Has Only Just Begun
A quick follow up to this. Abbott is acquiring office space in Willis Tower (formerly the Sears Tower), and intends to bring 450-500 employees to downtown, offsetting the Citidel loss.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/business/2022/6/21/23177495/abb...
I tested a Subaru manual at the dealer a few years back. The exit from the dealership was uphill onto a busy road. So, I stopped and reached for the handbrake.

There was no handbrake.

I managed to work my way back down to the dealership and asked, "Where's the handbrake?"

It turned out that Subaru had decided to replace it with a button and an "automatic" "hill-holder" feature.
> or just plain biased by one agenda or another.

When it reaches mainstream news, there's always an agenda.
It’s commonly agreed that the short version is way better.
All proof-of-work systems use the concept of solving a hard problem to pace the rate of growth of commits to a chain.

Asking whether an approach has less power consumption than another approach misses the point: all PoW systems maximize energy expenditure to maintain the security guarantees of the chain.

Neither does this one have ASIC resistance which means that capital-intensive fabs can be set up to produce chips that perform these operations faster than general purpose CPUs. If you can run more attempts per second than the other guy, then you’ll mint more blocks over time as well.

This is a cool algorithm, and my hat’s off to the authors. However, it doesn’t make PoW green or accessible.
The best certification is a CV with top tier companies.
I saw the thread title and knew a typo was more likely than Texas actually doing the right thing. I still get no satisfaction from being correct.
I would rather see FOSS stagnate than be built up in the wrong direction, accumulating more tech debt that will take decades to unravel.
I typically go with something like "Have you considered extracting this to a separate function"?
Doing this for back-issues of Zero Hedge would be particularly entertaining.
The parent comment seemed to me to be implying that humans aren't capable of copying. In my experience I've had more issues with human developers plagiarising than with copilot plagiarising.

You could create such a system. I agree that Copilot operates at a very different level of learning :) the question is a little murky actually, but I think some people are arguing that everything Copilot produces isn't sufficiently transformative and hence violates GPL of code in its training set. Some people are arguing it sometimes generates direct copies and hence violates GPL. Some people are arguing that it is sufficiently transformative and at little to no risk of violating copyright. It's a big question!
Yes. Before reading the Archive.org version someone linked below, I thought from the title that it was a ridiculous course of action, but testimonial.to is just so likely to misspelt that this is probably a good move. Not sure about the cost, though.
I've never used the Kindle app, so I don't know what that user experience is like, but I've been pretty happy with Sumatra PDF for reading EPUBs. Inside the advanced settings you can adjust color, font, and font size. For me, that's all I need from an ebook reader.
The author's making perfectly valid points on why Gnome's UI is sub-obtimal.
I've only read the novel... didn't realize there was a short story version of it until just now. The short story reads a lot like, well, a short version of how I remember the novel to be.

FWIW the novel was also excellent and is one of my all-time favorite books. As someone who is smart but not that smart, in a culture (software/tech) where intelligence is fetishly worshipped to the detriment of other personality traits, this was a very humbling, humanizing, and deeply touching read.

EDIT: Actually, I just read the short story version. The story is essentially the same, as you'd expect, but the pacing suffered a little bit IMO. It was more believable in the longer form, where plot developments happened more gradually and the characters were fleshed out more. The novelization has more emotional impact because it was a smoother journey (at least as I remembered it) vs the rapid progression of the short story version. But, granted, it didn't help that I already knew the basic premise before reading the shorter version, so YMMV. Still, if you have time, why not go for the full thing? It's the sort of story that invites quiet contemplation instead of quick digestion.
The article doesn't focus solely on the tweet, but is considering this typo from the tweet to be common.
About the CloudFlare, not much to say. Poor planning it is...
The best technology available is to change the standards...
DARPA study challenges assumptions about distributed ledger (Bitcoin) security
I'm from Vienna.

Don't believe it.

You're welcome!
Another relevant book in this space is How To Break Up With Your Phone [1]

[1]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL21618775W/How_to_Break_up_wi...
Aren’t we mostly giving that money to US defense contractors?

Raytheon Technologies, General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman, BAE Systems, Lockheed Martin, and Boeing are getting the bulk of that $40 billion.
It comes down to what you want to do with your tablet.

I want to replace paper books and notebooks. The iPad is unrivalled for that. If I need a machine to type on, I need a full OS on a full laptop. I just pack both.
Yes, Android is Linux. That means that you can just install the GNU OS with the kernel that comes with the device, and get a GNU/Linux installation running on top of it.

But by doing that you get to maintain all the malware that comes builtin on the mobile OSes.

The OP wants to replace the kernel. But most mobile devices use very specific hardware that do not have drivers compatible with the standard kernel you get from your distro. Technically, the manufacturer should have to supply you the source of the drivers they use (so you could port them), but good luck enforcing any right of yours against a large company on the legal system (any country's one actually).
“Blue America would fit comfortably with northern European Protestant countries, Zakaria said, while red America’s cultural values make it closer to Nigeria and Saudi Arabia.”

They say they don’t want sharia law. They’re disingenuous - they want sharia law just fine, just their version of it.
What mailing is more efficient: the good old email or a direct message via ChatBot?
Serious question: why not simply an ultra-light laptop?

I've taken a hard look at what the strengths/weaknesses of tablets are (see my link-drop elsewhere in this subthread), and the one thing they're really good at seems to be reading ebooks. For which a dedicated e-ink ebook reader is far superior.

Almost any productivity task is better done with a keyboard, ergo, laptop.

Video and audio capture are more flexibly and usefully achieved with a dedicated camera or recorder, and both can be extremely inexpensive.

(I've also reasons for wanting my audio/video capture tools to have minimal connectivity and not be part of a surveillance-capitalism platform.)

Handwritten notetaking is another possible application, though having a keyboard available makes typed notes and note-management systems viable. Then there's drawing / sketching. Again, e-ink kworks well for B&W there.

Video can be watched on a laptop. Audiobooks are pretty well suited to an e-ink tablet again.
This article is notable in that it contained this sentence:

> Recycling remained inefficient and of dubious benefit, and never really caught on.

Which made me realise, the first time I read it, that he didn't know what he was talking about and was just repeating what he heard in his weird echo chamber with unwarranted confidence. If you're in that bubble that will apparently seem like a totally normal thing to say, if you're not then it will seem like utter insanity.

Even more so when you follow the link, and realise he's linking to a New York Times op-ed, which doesn't even agree with the claim (though it's trying pretty hard to give the impression it is).

> THE environmental benefits of recycling come chiefly from reducing the need to manufacture new products — less mining, drilling and logging. But that’s not so appealing to the workers in those industries and to the communities that have accepted the environmental trade-offs that come with those jobs.

Oh so recycling actually works, but we need fake jobs for people who don't care about economic efficiency? I'm glad we got some clear eyed realists in to explain this all to us.
If ‘rule of law’ isn’t built into a deal, how can the deal be thought to be enforceable? Asking for a friend.
The atmospheric chemistry one was Ozone which turned out to be real, and was solved through regulation.
But the site is safe from dosers
You'd be surprised by the half-life of a tweet. I have tweets that are still bouncing around accumulating impressions and engagements half a year after I posted them. There's a self-driving cycle that forms where likes and retweets cause the algorithm to push them out into more people's feeds, which lead to a steady stream of additional likes and retweets, which push them into more people's feeds, and so on.
We still have MATE as a replacement for Gnome 2 but I've switched to Xfce personally as soon as Gnome 3 was released.
Interesting point. Generally, in my experience, specifications, that is the documents produced prior to building a system are replaced by the documentation that’s created after the system is built.

I have seen some projects try to keep the specs updated, even fewer that try to keep the specs/build/docs in sync via tagging and unique IDs.

If the specs were within this framework, my guess is they would go under reference; for example, an API spec would easily be kept in sync and would naturally go under the reference section. In fact, the example given is for a CLI:

https://docs.divio.com/en/latest/reference/divio-cli/
This is why I don’t take criticism of gnome seriously. Why exaggerate. This is hardly a “bevy” of extensions.
Affordability doesn't seem to count in this list. On average housing expenses (rent or mortgage) are around 60% of income in Vancouver metro.

I won't even get into weather: the first few days of blue skies just started this week after a year of bleak gray-on-blue. Depressing is an understatement.
The PCjr started my collection actually, $15 at a rummage sale in 1997. The infrared keyboard was pretty neat.
I like gnome.

2015: Tried gnome3 on Fedora on my laptop. Hated it. I liked unity more, but I persisted with gnome anyway (because I had better things to worry about than DE), and eventually didn't mind at all. Used plenty of extensions to make life easier.

(I hoped between distros for no good reason, but used gnome in all of them).

2018: PopOS came out with their own style of gnome which IMO looked better. Switched to using that on my personal machine. I also stopped using extensions; only a couple of tweaks.

2020: Had to use XFCE on a desktop machine because I needed my machine to use as little resources for itself. I grew to like it eventually.

2022: Tried Fedora 36 with gnome 42, and I like the way gnome has improved. I now use it in the stock version, with absolutely no extensions or tweaks or anything. It just works (or rather, I adapted to what it provides).

Some random thoughts:

* My baseline criteria for liking a DE is: it should NOT remind me of Windows (the reason for that is a story for another day). This means Cinnamon and KDE are out, though they're pretty cool nevertheless.

* Gnome used to be a resource hog. This was really the only problem I had with it. After using XCFE for a while at work I had made up my mind to switch to it the next time I hop distro, but then newest gnome seems to have got resource usage under control again (or am I imagining it?).

* XFCE is a good no-bullshit DE.

* I don't care too much about DEs anymore.
Ask HN: Why is HN mega addictive?
How much did you have to spend for all those typos?

I'm assuming less than $35,000, given you were pleased with the 5k extra visitors across the typo domains.
I don't know about anyone else's Pinboard experience and am not denying anyone's experience, but I use it pretty much every day (I'm surprised by how often I use it) and I've never had a support request. Wait, that's not true, I once asked him to change the way tweet indexing worked, and he ignored me. But other than that: nothing.
That doesn't take into account the additional traffic generated by the "I spent $35k on a domain" story, so there is that as well, this story is on the front page here and I expect will go out in daily and weekly newsletters, so I think it could pick up a few more customers.

I'd love to see a "I spent $35k on a domain" follow up in a year to see if it was a profitable decision or not.
FreeXL is another alternative: https://www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/freexl/index
> You're blaming the Dems for relying on a precedent staying a precedent, as if that's a dumbshit rookie move

Yes, I am definitely blaming them. Judge Ginsburg warned them, told them it was not going to survive certain challenges. The dems did nothing. If the smartest legal mind on your side (and she was not the only one BTW) is warning you that something you hold claim to hold sacred is in danger and you choose to do nothing to protect it, that is a dumb shit move. However, I’d argue that it may have been intentional—that to the democratic leadership abortion rights were not sacred, but only valuable to them for the political division it caused.

>You said banning contraception is a "scratch issue" with evangelicals

Contraception is simply different. There isn’t the “innocent third party without a voice” factor there that will motivate the activism and financial investment in that activism the same way. Same sex marriage is kind of the same, there is no third party component to it to protect.
I don't know about other industries, but driver's licenses have never come up at all in tech. Treating it as a red flag is obviously facile, but, honestly, no worse than nonsense I have seen in tech hiring... but it's just not something that comes up.

College degrees can definitely matter, unfortunately, but they're not strictly required. I've seen teams and managers who were pretty snobbish about which university somebody went to—to the point where not having a degree would have been better than going to an unknown or poorly regarded school. It's an absurd idea and, thankfully, seems to be getting less common in tech, but I saw some of it first-hand. (From what I've heard, it's still a real problem in law where a bunch of firms in the US are virtually T14 or bust.)
Manipulating the window stack with the mouse is something the majority of users will never do? That is a strong assumption.
Horizontal well fracking was perfected/took-off in 2006

https://ballotpedia.org/File:EIA_fracked_wells_2015.png

Wells are burnt off for months, the more wells the more burnoff.

People get sick up to 60 miles away from the burnoff, I wonder how that affects wildlife.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220625131156/https://testimoni...
Have you been to the Pacific Northwest?
I agree with you in principle, but it's difficult to draw the line when the hiring process needs to be practical. We can't interview everyone and perfect recall isn't necessary. My experience from dozens of interviews has been that many certifications are a rather strong negative signal, at least for our standard software/data engineering roles. I'm sure there are many exceptions to this, but I'll happily miss out on 1-2 good candidates if that means I can filter out 50 bad ones using the same signal.

Of course it's never a binary decision and the complete picture of the resume matters. For example, if someone got a bunch of certs 20 years ago when they started their career that doesn't have any negative impact. But more often, people try to use certs and MOOCs to pad their resume and hope use them to hide the fact that they lack real work experience.
Seven weeks with no sign of immune rejection is a good result here, for the very first attempt. It's largely what they would have been hoping for.
what do you mean Lennart doesn't have our best interests in mind?
I think it could be actually directed to GTK rather than to Gnome itself.
Gnome lately assumes everyone uses it on a mobile platform touch screen; fine, there are many desktop environments so I'll use a different one, but when this assumption comes from GTK now Houston we have a problem since a huge number of Linux desktop applications use it.
I don't have anything against Gnome and actually sorta liked it on tablets, but the way GTK devs ignore every standard drives me absolutely insane. They made a sudden paradigm shift so that a plethora of desktop apps today compile with a GUI library that wants to be run on mobile. Sorry, that is not the way to go: want to add mobile functionality? Great! I fully support it, but please don't enforce it. What about a flag to be #defined at compile time and used only if the app code completely honors it?
I hope somebody will create a patch or something to undo that behavior.
Yes, Workers are limited to 100,000 requests on the free plan.
Every day before I wake up, the first thing I check is HN since 2014.
Unfortunately functional title bars are starting to go away in XFCE too.
Why are asking HN if board game exists? You can’t figure this out on your own? You can’t google it? Or look it up on boardgamegeek?
It makes seems to me, especially since it seems to be a common typo and the price would continue to rise along with the success of his business.
> How do you get notifications without a System Tray?

What are you even taking about?

https://wiki.gnome.org/Design/OS/Notifications

> I dislike GNOME the community for their attitude, and dislike their sotfware ...

So... hater's gonna hate?
"when we fearmonger, support plummets"

yeah I'm not surprised.
How has Central government's attempt to boost saffron industry worked? I have read it has been very cack-handded.
Worth noting that Tom has since returned to smartphone usage (with some interesting tweaks): https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/returning-to-smartphones/
The crux here is we don’t all agree that a life is at stake which makes it impossible to align on anything. If I look at it through a lens of a life at stake then some of these positions begin to make sense, but I don’t, so they seem nonsensical at best and I’m sure my position seems uncaring if not evil from the other way.