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> - people are forced to give birth against their will

Birth is caused by pregnancy. Pregnancy is caused by sex.

There’s a simple way to avoid being “forced” to carry a pregnancy to term: either don’t have sex, or use one of the many contraceptive methods - use two if you are really worried!

Yes this doesn’t work in all cases, in cases of rape for instance - but that is why abortion laws often make exceptions for rape, fetal abnormality, risk to life of the mother, etc. Abortion is not the binary black-and-white issue that is presented in American politics, most countries have quite some nuance in their law on abortion.

Returning to the case of merely undesired pregnancies, restricting those abortions does not force anybody to do anything, it commits them to the logical consequence of their action that resulted in the creation of a new human.

Balancing the rights of the mother and the rights of the unborn is the responsibility of the law. It is not satisfactory to cede all rights to the mother, nor to cede all rights to the unborn child, as the two extremist positions in the US seem to want to do.
Factorio most successfully scratched the same itch as the Zachlikes for me. There’s Human Resource Machine and 7 Billion Humans, which have a similar puzzle format with online histograms. Prime Mover comes to mind too, but the learning curve was steep.
Court OKs lawsuit by woman who says she helped create Pinterest
Hysteresis is, in general, predictable, though sometimes compensating for it is impossible. Are you speaking from experience in measuring SG90 hysteresis and gear wear or are you theorizing?

(I'm theorizing, because I think theorizing is valuable, but I want to be careful to distinguish theoretical predictions from reports from experience.)

The broken 3-D printer idea is brilliant. Unfortunately, right now there's only one broken 3-D printer for sale near me on MercadoLibre, and it's an SLA printer, so it only has one degree of freedom of positioning. However, it won't be a thousand times more precise; typically RepRap FDM printers like the Prusa or Creality have positioning errors on the order of 0.1 mm, and a thousand times less precise than that would be an error of 100 mm. The BrachioGraph drawings seem to have an error of about 2 mm, only about 20 times worse than a bog-standard RepRap, and actually, 20 is less than 1000.
I get to lose some rights too? What a deal!
I think it’s hard to compare those countries to the US, culturally they are way way different than the US.

Russia didn’t really regress, did it? It experimented with 8 years of democracy after a thousand years of authoritarianism and went back to its comfort zone. Poland and Hungary as part of that soviet bloc once is affected by those old soviet ghosts still driving some of the culture. The US doesn’t have that long authoritarian past and is still pretty rebellious

India…well it’s an enigma anyway with such ancient traditions and culture, it’s going to be an outlier anyway.
There’s no need to pay for birth travel and all of these companies provide health insurance to pay for births. Parental leave, not so much, but the pre and post partum health coverage should be fine. Careful if they eliminate ACA as being preggers goes back to being a pre-existing condition requiring cobra coverage when changing jobs.
> Try to articulate what's so weird about nonprofit boards, fundamentally. I think a lot of it is the combination of great power, unclear responsibility, and ~zero accountability; additionally, I haven't been able to find much in the way of clear, widely accepted statements of what makes a good board member.

This can be by design if what's in the TV show Ozark reflects the reality. Powerful people need a charade to exert their influence while avoid accountability.
The least awful is the aweful way it is typically done.

Quickly and deliberately.

The mitigations are things like severance and job search help.

Talking about how bad you feel having to do it is not less cruel.

The cruelest part of layoffs is false hope.

You knew today and it was Friday.

It should have happened by the end of business.

Good luck.
>How far off am I, from a global perspective?

I think this view of right/left as an axis of government optimizing for freedom/control is only very prevalent in particularly right-wing commonwealth discourse.

The law and construction of social systems in the common-law English tradition stem from a position that one can do anything unless barred by law, including in situations where it hurts others. The law of equity, largely derived from religious canon law, existed as a separate system layered upon the common law court system of 'hard rules' to fix situations wherein the application of common-law would lead to morally suspect outcomes. The situation in civilian countries, by contrast, generally define a sphere of acceptable behavior which explicitly excludes abusive and intentionally harmful behavior - the restrictions on behavior are baked in. Civilian-derived systems are far more common than those from the commonwealth, and accordingly the types of discussions had in each are very different on this point.

The result is it's very rare to conceive of left and right in terms of freedom, because most other nations derive from systems in which freedom is already viewed as one element to be balanced against other considerations rather than the unmitigated chief virtue upon which all analysis is founded.

Even in the commonwealth, progressive discourse is not driven in terms of de-jure freedoms, it's driven by de-facto freedoms, largely economic and social freedoms. The government only needs to be restrained when it restricts social rights or maintain economic systems that strip dignity from individuals. Generally, however, these aren't discussed in terms of the degree of freedoms afforded, but rather in terms of rights and equality before the law.
That’s weird, I had
bodily autonomy during COVID.
Bankman refers to SBF the leader of ftx
I suspect, having had a long career in tech, no one of import will care.

"The Industry" is an embarrassment. It is lazy, incompetent, and would be drowning if not for its oligopoly status. Companies who produce useful software will win out over the lackadaisical tech culture that exists today.

What the people bemoaning this decision should worry about is the regulatory backlash against technology--coming from the right--which they totally ignored and pretended was not possible. This decision is a precursor to that inevitability.
Err, what’s wrong with both? Works with the flu…
Larry Osterman is one of the Jeopardy questions to “Who’s worked at Microsoft longer than Bill Gates”

I worked with him at what turns out to have been towards the start of his time at Microsoft. Lots of great stories even then
Everyone really overstates this for the US.

75+ population is 6.8% now

In 2040, it's forecast to be 12%.

It'll be an economic burden for sure. Yes, we'll need some more nurses-- about 25-30% more, during which time the working population grows by several percent.
Jeez, have you seen the HN guidelines recently? Wtf is this comment
But will they be able to compensate them as well?
Werewithal (or werwithal) forthcoming dictionary definition: transformational withal, typically during a full moon, though it regularly manifests in Hacker News posts, causes not yet fully determined. The withals can be complex.
"Oh, you don't want a child? You'll get over it here's 24 weeks."
> and now they won't

That doesn't sound like facts to me.

When one side of the debate does nothing but spew nonsensical falsehoods, it's really easy to pick a side even when it seemed morally ambiguous before. Even easier when I'm agreeing with RBG.
The good name of Goldman Sachs, lol. The only people who don't find the vampire squid's name toxic, are those who only care about money to the point that these sorts of things never would have bothered them.
That comparison was intentional. But in this comparison, the Roe court is the Guardian Council.
You can't avoid polarization by just meshing people together. If anything, it can backfire.

Simply a fact of life, that we are different. Our values, philosophies, ethics, religions, perceptions, etc. We are different, and sometimes our differences are irreconcilable. Forced multiculturalism and diversity will backfire. That's just a fact of life. People who are for abortion won't want to be forced to buddy buddy together with people who are against abortion, and vice versa.
Thank you for posting this. We know that COVID couldn't have come from China. It came to China through frozen meat packages. WHO-China report already stated that fact. Dr. Fauci also believes that.

The only reason we can't find evidence because other countries wouldn't collaborate, for obvious reasons. Racists are trying to blame China because of lack of competence of their leaders.
You can confirm it's non-commercial and they let you keep it for free... for now.

They made the change fairly late in the process, and supposedly there was a way to undo the paid migrations by opening a support ticket, but I saw lots of posts about people being unable to migrate back and get refunded.
The tough thing about the problems that are just a long list of ifs is the shape of the data. It’s usually not clear till you’re very deep in the problem what the “right” data structures are. That’s problematic because those are the difficult things to change. I think it’s a very valuable skill to be able to sniff those out early.
Two reviews of Markolins work are worth reading before you take it seriously:

https://twitter.com/EmaNymton90/status/1540235304854032385?s...

https://twitter.com/gdemaneuf/status/1507092599945166849?s=2...
I recently declined an Apple role that required Austin relocation. I like Austin and considered the move, but ultimately my family is my priority. We can't risk moving to a tech hub in a blistering red state with growing regulation on personhood. I told the recruiter Apple needs to reconsider where it plans to do long-term business.
>You WANT the representatives deciding the boundaries because they are ultimately beholded to the people

How are they beholden to people if they can disenfranchise people via gerrymandering? The primary check against arbitrary action of an elected official is to vote them out, but gerrymandering allows them to significantly lower the responsiveness of voting to their benefit.

You can't argue that you should support gerrymandering on the basis of democratic representation given that gerrymandering DIRECTLY MITIGATES the effectiveness of democratic representation.
It will be a conflict. But you can commit the revert to a different branch and run both schemas at the same time. This provides a lot of flexibility! Check out https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2022-04-29-dolt-revert/ for some discussion of this.
If code is released with no license, the correct assumption is you should not do anything with it, in my opinion.
Rocky flats was one of the only times one agency raided another. Wild stuff.
Err, having had a long career in tech, I’ve found that companies like to hire younger people. Those who might be sexually active, considering starting families and trying to balance career requirement vs pregnancies. Such as young professors, rising developers, pretty much every aspect of stem. While the regulatory backlash is a concern, I would think that attracting or keeping staff is a larger concern.
Ask HN: Book about 100 different software architectures?
There used to be a book about 100 different software architectures. Anyone know what it was?
But for YouTube creators it's NOT a free service, they're uploading videos for YouTube to monetize so both YouTube and the content produces get revenue.
> You know these 24 weeks aren't a vacation, right?

I never claimed it was. It’s a time to bond with your child and get acclimated to new responsibilities. That Google offers 24 weeks of maternity leave is something should be lauded, not vilified.

> They're about 100x more demanding then the average tech job, and on-call 24/7. Not to mention that after the 24 weeks are up, you still have another unpaid (in fact, you are paying!) full time job of raising a child for at least another 17.5 years. That is a tall task for someone hoping to climb in their career, even if they want a child, and it's just not the right time right now.

So? That’s what life is. Just because it might be difficult at times doesn’t mean it’s not the right decision. Claiming that it will impair your career or you’ll be tired taking care of the ones you literally love more than anything in existence is a cop out.

> The great and wonderful thing about abortion is that, even when it's legalized, someone who wants to have their baby can still choose to, if they wish. Just as they can choose not to.

There is nothing great about abortion. And ease and normalization of abortion for convenience has contributed to way too many over the past fifty years.

>> And all of this is from the relatively cushy and overcompensated perspective of a tech career! Now imagine someone between minimum-wage jobs struggling to make rent every month.

People grossly overestimate the cost of raising children, both in time and actual dollars. Yes, there are things that scale directly like plane tickets and private tuition, but there are economies of scale for everything from food to housing.

Forgoing some travel and changing your leisure habits is small price to pay for a lifetime of joy.

> Do you know how many kids today were born and not given the time or resources from their parents to succeed?

Life can be tough and it’s not a fair shake for all, but given the choice I’m sure they’d prefer it over the alternative.

> Did you know the fact that – today – 1 in 2 people nationwide who are homeless were products of the foster care system [1] ?

I fail to see how that’s relevant to a tech salary worker choosing to keep her baby. The child would not be in a foster home.
> I’m not sure many people could afford a PS5 in places such as this.

Why does it have to be "many"? Bootleg games have extremely high margins for the bootleggers.

That said, the PS5 is cheaper than an iPhone, and there are plenty of those. If you're bored, look up instagram pictures geolocated in the poorest cities you can think of, then count the number of recent iPhones that at least worth a new PS5. The number may surprise you.
You don't have to agree with their axioms to understand how a small number of simple axioms lead to their beliefs, right?

The hard truth that few people talk about is that very few people believe in banning early abortions of unviable fetuses or in cases of rape, very few people believe in allowing elective abortions of viable fetuses in the 40th week, and it's hard to find an objective scientific line in the middle ground.

It's a problem requiring a very nuanced compromise in a society that has a very hard time with nuance, and as a result, is having a harder and harder time with compromise.
> 1 in 2 people nationwide who are homeless were products of the foster care system

Holy cow. That is absolutely incredible statistic. And it seems 25% (at least) of Americans who entered foster care experience homelessness as adults.
I'm not so sure. say that Planned Parenthood operates shuttles to abortion clinics out of state. then Mississippi makes it a crime to operate any business within the state that facilitates abortion.

that would have an indirect effect on interstate commerce, but I could imagine the Court upholding Mississippi's ban, since it only concerns businesses that operate there.

of course, this would run straight into the Heart of Atlanta Motel decision that ended racial discrimination in hotels.
>When I refer to abortion I'm talking about a mother consciously choosing (or being coerced) to kill the baby in utero.

Involuntary manslaughter does not require conscious choice to kill, premeditate conscious choice is murder, you brought manslaughter into the argument.

Just as someone drinking and driving does not intend to kill someone they can still be found guilty. A woman older than 35 having unprotected sex which could lead to geriatric pregnancy could be considered to putting an unborn person at risk due to much increased chance of spontaneous abortion.

>These types of dilemmas are common as far as I understand in medical ethics.

These choices will be easy in states that outlaw abortion with no exceptions because there will be no choice.

>I believe an unborn baby is a _person_ with the same intrinsic human rights as you and I

If zygote is a person does that mean freezing embryos that may never be used is homicide? Is embryo selection in IVF also homicide when only picking some of the embryos?
I saw it unaided this morning. I live at roughly 40°N 85°W, and went out at 5:30AM. With a clear view of the horizon, Mercury was unobstructed but hard to see with the pre-dawn light. I might go out again tomorrow morning at 5:00 or 5:15 to see it more distinctly.
Oh. Somebody said it better than me:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31851592
The remedy for this lies with Apple and Google to compete over. They’re naturally incentivized in various ways. Mozilla too but Mozilla can’t seem to figure out what to do until it’s passed by, even when the opportunity is still there. Imagine paying it forward to not have calls and text and voicemails related to your expiring warranty, reliable messages, etc. I don’t think even slack can touch this. Otherwise they would have already. Allow me to point out the planet has been networked for over 100 years and this is the best our lawmakers and tech companies can muster. It’s as though everyone has lost sight of doing something practical (for money).
Am I too selfish to want 2 arms?
The split of pro/against is really close to 50/50. If you think that the smart people are only on one side or that only one side has "good" arguments, then you are living in a bubble. The argument over abortion was going on before Roe v Wade. Roe v Wade only prevented legislation from finding a solution.
And I, having seen Austin, TX grow from a laughingstock to an industry powerhouse, find your points humorous.

There is a very big elephant in the room for where people are moving. And those people are young. And those people do not have the belief monoculture that has existed prior.

Smaller elephant in the room #2 is that cost pressures and globalism don't care about the opinions of the traditional PMC that has reigned supreme when tech was on the upswing.
Will they dial down investment in nations with far worse human rights or is this just virtue signaling?
wrt. business decision. I think that in-vitro fertilization would soon become not an option in the "life at conception" states. Probably eggs freezing too. Even may be some forms of contraception. That will have more and more negative impact on that group of employees who would need such services. Also family planning becomes very dented at the "planning" part as getting pregnant one would have to accept the much higher risk of having to carry to terms even if say early genetic testing would show some serious defects, and that may result in delaying of the decision to get pregnant, less pregnancies overall, etc. especially for people who favors planning and consequences estimation based approach to live. That all would result in more stressed employees and lesser number of happy families, and that would negatively affect productivity.

(Note: i'm for abortion rules based on sentience level - i think that sentience level of cats/dogs/pigs is where we shouldn't be able to end the life at will while say fish level is ok, chicken is still ok though feels a bit uneasy, and that means as far as i understand about 3, may be 4 months cut-off for abortion in my view (incest and serious genetic defects a bit more complicated, and i think it warrants somewhat later cut-off))
Is there any evidence of a link between sars-cov-2 to other previously known viruses that the Wuhan lab might have had in its possession? Could there be a plausible candidate virus that might have escaped from the lab? Was any of this data public prior to the pandemic?
Based on what implicit assumption? That a government would allow that information to be published? Look at how cagey and not forthcoming the Chinese government was under the current conditions.

Try to extrapolate to what they would act like if it did leak from a lab.
From what I know ICEpower chips are intended for (and used in) "high end" applications while the TI ones are intended for general purpose consumer devices. At least that's how they're marketed and an amplifier manufacturer will often state specifically that they use an ICEpower chip in their amp. Whether or not one can hear the difference is another story.
The still-unfinished Austin campus will be the largest outside of Apple Park, so....
Wanna cite some sources? I cited mine. You're making some pretty big leaps there.
True, as they are often comfortable with capital punishment, seem ok with war and don’t give a sh*t about fetuses once they’re born.
Teams that really deliver well pull folks that work in supporting roles into the engineering & product team culture. Transactional relationships hit limits depressingly quickly - they also become toxic in ways that hurt the product you're trying to build.

If you treat your supports as equal team members you can attract and retain amazing talent that helps you iterate and deliver good products quickly. If you throw tasks over the wall and let people indulge in power fantasies you're wasting your time.
Does that include gun rights?

I'm empathetic to the sentiment, but I think we have to be a bit proportional about this kind of stuff, because 'our rights' is a really, really broad thing, and every issue is different.

For example, if this were more of a perfunctory argument about state vs. federal rights, and SCOTUS was really consistent about it, and this was a social issue that got caught up in a legal issue ... and otherwise 'pretty much most states had good rights' on this issue, well, then the whole thing would look different.

So it's hard to make blanket statements about 'rights' and even specific issues are just full of nuance.

It's probably a good decision by Google and they likely should apply some pragmatic pressure to help a resolution on this one.

After Trump/Jan 6/Ongoing investigations, BLM protests, COVID, and literally Russian invasion of a major country, I thought 'Black Swan' season was over! My god man, this is just too much. Yet another 'big fight'. Hey Zeus. It'd be nice to have some centrist consensus on a lot of this because ironically people are not remotely as divided as it seems from the headlines.

I think it's likely best of Bit Tech navigates these issues separately, with careful deliberation, 'doing the right thing' while not getting to populist about it ... because bigger question for Google, is 'what to do next'?.
No. You're legally not allowed to discriminate among customers, employees, neighbors, or renters.
Stuff it full of 10% or higher people. They have daughters who go oops as much as any other and deserve the attention and excitement, especially if they make foreign trips.
Before bitcoin was still the early days of ransomware. It existed mostly as tech support scams. Now that the floodgates have been opened ransoms will go back to being high-risk western union payments and will be much higher. You can't put the cat back in the bag.
Outsource job placement services.

Your job is to move the company forward.
Definitely, especially compared to Python. I bring it up because it can be counterintuitive when writing a naive solution from a managed language in something like Rust for performance reasons.