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Unpopular opinion here, but I'm pro-life and am considering moving to full remote to get out of states that allow unrestricted late term abortions. In my view, systemic killing of unborn people [1] is up there with slavery and Jim Crow in the worst parts of American history and culture. I have Quaker culture in my family going way back.

It'd be nice to be able to vote with my feet on some of these things. If course, most large employers are also overtly against this new decision and doing things like directly funding abortions, so now I have that whole aspect to consider.

Maybe we can work on making it easier for small and medium sized business to offer interstate remote work arrangements? Seems like megacorps have an unfair advantage in dealing with the red tape hiring employees who reside in N different states.

[1] Yes, reasonable people can disagree about when personhood is viable. And yes, I support bodily autonomy when other people aren't involved, including most drug legalization, etc.
Do you really think they wouldn't still overturn if it was decided based on equal protection? We should not fall into the trap of deifying the court. They are not above politics and they never have been.

And they didn't rule against it because of the privacy angle. They ruled against it because they are trying to destroy the jurisprudence of substantive due process and unenumerated rights, because it serves their reactionary politics.
Yes, Ballmer spent his decade squeezing oil from rocks while completely shitting the bed on anything forward looking; as a result they lost ground on almost every consumer facing product. On the outside Microsoft was starting look like IBM.

However his focus on enterprise laid the seeds for 365 and Azure and flourished once Satya made it clear that not everything had to revolve around Windows and Office. I think Gates is also a bit to blame here as I think the story goes that almost every decision that came to the board was shot down unless it meant more windows/office sales
Funny story: Years ago I was one of the first recipients of an AMD64 box at Microsoft because I was working on a build system that cross-compiled for that and IA64. I asked the internal DL where to get a build of Windows for it, and (possibly ham-handedly) mentioned it was a doorstop until I could get one. Anyway, Cutler called me an asshole. Good times.
Back then people wrote assembly language themselves.

At 1-2Mhz, sometimes Khz, it was how one got performant code.

Addressing flexibility makes assembly language programming practical for people to do.

Check out the 6809 for a beautiful ISA and probably one of the most powerful 8 bit CPUs.
Texas is clearly bad, but China isn’t.

Guess which ones brings more revenue?
So you think it’s ok, we shouldn’t have laws against that. It’s her choice.

To be fair it was the case in primitive societies, they could dispose of the kids or the elderly at any time.

I think a prefer a society where we protect the vulnerable, those who cannot defend themselves.
That's really sad about the 1977 flu. Was there evidence that it was human-caused, and that proper procedures weren't followed? Could local prosecutors have pursued a case based on something like manslaughter or criminal negligence? Would it even be possible to still build such a case? (i.e. maybe the statute of limitations didn't expire yet?)
Bankman-Fried, but yes, Bankman is actually his (and his father's) legal name. Talk about nominative determinism.
So what you’re saying is that if you’re communicating with someone over txt because you have an iPhone and they have an android and you want to send them a link then you’d rather ask them whether or not they have the same OTT messenger as you, then tell them you will send a link to them using that, then send the link, rather than simply sending the link to them in the existing thread?
ICEPower amps tend to objectively outperform cheaper Class D amps in terms of distortion while also putting out more power.

However, as other commenters have noted, this may or may not translate into audible benefits depending on one's use case.
> Every tech worker I know who moved to Austin is here in spite the fact it’s in a conservative state, not because of it.

Then you missed the party. I hate to break it to you. Welcome to being a consumer of tech culture, not a producer of it.
This looks cool, and thank you for using rust and not js/npm.
You've got to understand, anti abortion people believe it is murder. This is akin to asking them "why do you care if some random person gets shot in south side Chicago?" It just isn't a line of discussion that makes any sense.
I can’t give an opinion on the iOS experience. It really could be bad. What I love is the web experience, and it’s where I tend to use a screen so it works well for me.
How about people learn the consequences of sex instead of killing fetus?

I would adopt a baby if it would save his life.
Rights extend to people who aren't citizens and living beings who aren't human as well, but nice reply.
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I think the person you’re replying to agrees with you; they were trying to intentionally be absurd. The only problem: a fetus is not a child, and this entire rhetorical strategy requires us to ignore that fact.
Be honest, try to give them other options as soon as possible, give them a number their future potential employer can call. Maybe even write something
The people who lied and censored the people who talked about the theory realized that there was just about nothing in this world that showed that it was false, or really true. https://thehill.com/policy/3517712-who-report-on-covid-19-or...
It's not a baby, it's a clump of cells just like the many most people shell or push out of their penis after a good wank.
That's the optimistic case I guess. But I've already given an example where I suspect Google used timing analysis to figure out a youtube video that I watched (over VPN and using a FOSS youtube client). I think it's plausible that Google is already using timing analysis to track users
No, it's the opposite of your point.
https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/the-bruce-effe...

If animals do it in nature, and humans do it with dangerous methods when denied access to safe methods, it's going to be with us until the end of time, regardless of law.

Let's face it, this is just another drug war. An opportunity for Republicans to deny Americans personal autonomy and liberty. A justification for state aggression against your neighbors and friends. Wake up.
> that only form a cohesive whole by virtue of the layout rules in a html rendering engine

That got me laughing out loud in the elevator hahahaha, love it.
The "Zope" interface model was proposed 21 years ago but not accepted:

https://peps.python.org/pep-0245/
It has very few general-purpose registers (A and B accumulators, IX and SP indexes), and it was designed when few (if any) mainstream processors were pipelined. Fewer addressing modes would mean more intermediate values to store, and more cycles spent in calculating their values.

If you have plenty of registers and a pipelined processor with a decent bypass network to get intermediate results available earlier, then it makes sense to simplify the addressing modes (to increase frequency and/or shorten the pipeline). However, the 6800 had neither many registers nor a pipelined ALU.
Sounds like a paradox of competence.
The elephant in the room, as far as support for GOFROC (gain of function research of concern) goes, is Fauci. Several leading biologists (Marc Lipsitch, David Relman and others) have argued for years that the risk/reward ratio for GOFROC is too high to justify it. But it had to go all the way to Obama for Fauci to change course. Obama imposed a 3-year moratorium from 2014-17, which was lifted soon after he left office.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-flu-virus-risk-wor...
It was also in some Williams games, including my favorite: DEFENDER.

Crazy what could be done just pushing pixels at 1Mhz!
Is the Benchmark AHB2 (the previous champ) really class AB? I think it's more like a switching (class D) amp.

Those AHB2's are tiny and run cool while putting out a few hundred watts of power - I think that rules out class AB.
Counterpoint—immigration and generally population growth will not exacerbate things like the housing crisis
> If you’re like most of us on HN, at work, when we make big mistakes that cost our companies money and users, we have thorough retrospectives, learn from our mistakes, identify root causes, build for redundancy and high availability, and prevent the same incident from ever happening twice.

Depends on the process. If the retrospective process is a big PITA that goes nowhere, and management is only going to support changes that it wanted before the incident, regardless of any knowledge uncovered by the evidence, then minimize the reporting and hide under a rock for a while, try not to get management attention again.

Which scenario seems more applicable to a government lab in Wuhan?

I don't think we're going to get the straight information from the lab, because the incentives aren't there. If they admit they did it, everybody is mad, and CCP has to take action to save face, and the lab team doesn't want to face that. If they admit they didn't do it, nobody believes them.

Outside of finding some lucky samples, like a good match from outside the area in say October or November, I don't think we're going to get anything definitive from forensic analysis of virus DNA. I'm not an expert in the field, but the same sequence gets interpreted different ways by different experts; and usually with some wishy-washyness.

The data quality for the early pandemic isn't getting any better or more independent from the same officials we don't trust.

If we can't get a story we trust from the horse's mouth, and we can't figure it out through forensic analysis, the best way forward is to figure out what interventions would be reasonable if we assume lab origin and what would be reasonable if we assume natural origin and do the practical interventions.
Why does its location change whether it is a clump of cells?
I think Singapore makes it easy to immigrate legally if you have a job offer (like Canada, Australia, HK, etc.). I don't think they allow for "family based" immigration.
Top most liveable cities in the world – EIU
Another example, harder to pin down, is Hewlett-Packard from pre-Fiorina on. Since they're now three different companies, it would be an exercise to compute valuations (anyone?), but for me the real loss is the HP culture, or "the HP Way" if you will.

HP used to be a proud, if boring, company, the flagship of the Valley. Their people were great to work with. They were ethical. You could spend your whole career there and many people did.

Then they had Fiorina, the diva and drama queen, and then Mark Hurd and more mergers and would-be mergers than you can shake a stick at. There was a public shareholders' meeting at Flint Center because interest was so high. Where was the Board in all this?
> One does not get arrested for peaceful protesting

Plenty of people do. They typically get roughed up, held in jail for a bit, and then released without charges.

Because the bar the police need to meet for arresting you is 'They felt like it'.
I live in Austin.

That is factually inaccurate.
Sounds like a good way to get stuck with the worst performers.

I realize that we want layoffs to be humane, but putting the company in a worse spot than it is at present doesn't help anyone.
People can do what they want through voluntary contracts with each other. If marriage is a right, then we don't need government license to practice the right.
Literally. It's batsh*t crazy. Don't worry though, the favorability of these partisan companies are at the lowest they've ever been. These companies will learn the hard way and it's gonna be so much fun to watch. It's just a matter of time before better alternatives come out and destroy these companies. As soon as there's true alternatives, people will switch.
The “consequences” you’re glossing over here include rape (both forcible and statutory), fetuses who would die at childbirth anyways, who endanger the lives of their mothers, and so forth. There’s no single group of people who seek out abortions, and virtually nobody wants one in the abstract: they’re a means for preserving bodily autonomy and a necessary consequence of our legal respect for said autonomy.
Geopolitical Consolidation of AI
Viability as defined by Roe was 28 weeks at the time of the opinion and (due to technological improvements) 24 weeks in recent years. Not "the day of birth".
This person is in no way interested in facts, they'll move the goalposts again after it becomes widespread practice.
That would be fun!

I would add the MMU from the CoCo 3, so one can bank in lots of RAM with only minor league fuss.
Everything a publicly held corporation does is a business decision, it's naive to pretend otherwise.
> but ultimately my family is my priority.

That’s an ironic way of saying you’re pro abortion.
Totally agree, I'm more arguing devils advocate than anything. I think a minority imposing laws on the majority is undemocratic.

I just also think it's worth trying to actual meet people where they are, most genuinely think we're killing babies and want to stop that, and to be fair we have no idea when a human life starts. I'm just really over the villainization of people who are just concerned.
Which is completely fucking bonkers and should be squashed ASAP, lest these states go completely rogue.
I can empathize. As an early teen, my family moved from a major US city to the rural midwest which is filled with "blue collar born and bred Americans." I was immediately bombarded with a strict Christian and puritan-like culture in high school. I grew up in a Catholic household but I had never experienced the intensity of a group of kids following their parents upbringing to a tee. They hated anyone who had longer hair and didn't play football and didn't go to church on Sunday. It may sound like a caricature but I immediately asked my parents to change schools. It never happened. I experienced a tough four years of high school because I liked alternative music and dance music like techno. I never made long lasting friendships during that era. Over 20 years later and I can't shake the uneasy feeling that seemingly well-intentioned people seek to eradicate uniqueness in humanity. I've been to plenty of those homes with parents who would greet me with polite words, but I could sense the dichotomy of distaste and good Christianity sensibility.

I never considered myself politically active during that era. I chalked it up to the country mindset. But, since then I've witnessed the rise of their hatred powered by the systems many of us built – social networks and similar technologies. I don't believe either of the two major political parties represent my ideologies and ethics. Instead, I find them both to be trapped in a game of showmanship while wrestling for control of a great nation. Seemingly non-1% citizens loose rights, freedoms, and opportunities to grow as persons. The majority of my high school peers never left their birth town and simply perpetuated the farce taught them in early in youth. The farce being that they own something of America to greater degree than anyone else and that their government owes them everything, but they want to exist without regulation or taxation...and any non-white non-christian non-rural humans. I still can't wrap my head around their logic and I spent a lot of time experiencing a similar existence.

Back to the topic of Texas life. I believe that people born in rural communities like I experienced, would have different belief systems had they been raised in more open and mentally adventurous environments. In other words, their culture is not genetic instead it is more like a meme. Why risk putting our nation's future in stifling cultural states?

As a side note, I witnessed many of my peers turn to drugs like meth and fake cannabis like Spice by the end of high school. Maybe that is the American and I did it wrong.
Sure, but was not raising money a better alternative at any point? It sure doesn't seem like it to me.

I feel bad for companies with runways ending in the next 6-12 months, of course, but that's life. If they hadn't raised funds 6-12 months ago, they'd likely be in a much, much tougher spot.

> Throw a collapsing market into the equation and suddenly your next round is looking decidedly unfavorable.

I'm not sure in what universe an unfavorable round is worse than insolvency.

If you need to raise funds, you raise funds or die, realistically. No one knows what tomorrow brings. Anything else is trying to time the market.

If you didn't need to raise funds, but did... enjoy the privileged comfort of your war chest over the next few years.
> 1. This doesn't get hot enough to cremate bodies.

The goal is not cremation, the goal is disposal. It only needs to get hot enough to make the bodies go away, not to cremate them.
> However, this is what Republican politicians need to support to avoid being primaried.

this is a key issue, as long as someone can make it through with less than 40% favorability, these things will keep happening i think...
A slightly more cynical version:

1) Startup founder gets an idea and develops a legitimate product.

2) The company gains some customers, but the growth is tough, since competing products often sell below cost.

3) The founder gives up and goes to VCs.

4) VCs take away the controlling stake in exchange for an endless stream of cheap money, so the company can start selling dollars for 90 cents just like the competition.

5) The founder's vision is no longer a critical asset, the cheap VC capital is. The founder gets pushed out and replaced by the VCs' protégé.

6) If the stars align, the (still unprofitable) company exits. Numerous retail investors buy shares in something they've heard about but don't fully understand. VCs get 100x returns. The founder gets a letter of appreciation.

The whole cycle is all about getting a bigger share of the endless stream of cheap money from the fed. VCs throw in a lump sum to buy visibility. Enough visibility guarantees that more people with extra freshly minted cash on hand will choose your shares over other speculative investment.

Except all that recently printed cash is now competing for wheat and baby formula (hence inflation), so the fed has no choice but to backtrack and raise interest rates. And if this holds for sufficient time, the whole VC game may suddenly stop paying off.
If you're rioting and assaulting the police, they should have no trouble pressing charges when they pick you up. And yet, the number of arrests always vastly exceeds the number of people charged. Oftentimes, not a single person gets charged after a mass arrest.

Perhaps the explanation for this conundrum is that not everyone you dislike is actually a criminal. Perhaps not everyone who gets arrested is a criminal. Perhaps being at a protest where someone else through a brick at a window does not make you a rioter.

Perhaps you're not arguing in good faith.
> The split of pro/against is really close to 50/50.

I don’t believe you and I think you’re the one in the bubble.

Your turn.

Also; did you even read my comment before replying to it? Come on, brother. It is obvious that I am talking about Google employees.
I've never met a person who thinks birth control should be illegal. I am sure they're out there, but this "they're coming for your morning after pill next" is scaremongering. Gay sex is probably the same. Gay marriage I think you're probably right.
> 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’s nothing about legalized abortion that makes it easy to keep a desired pregnancy.

China has coercive laws that prohibit women from keeping desired pregnancies, despite having permissive abortion laws. So does North Korea, and a handful of other horrific states.
You could really raise money (millions?) in less than 3 days before? That sounds crazy to me.
And it'll all be for naught thanks to American godvernment allowing BS hyperregulation and hyperlitigation to prevent them making any profit.
Standards are one of the things that really defines modern tech.

It's usually fine when they change, because adapters will be made, as long as the new thing becomes the most common standard, so they don't even block innovation, in fact they probably create more innovation that nonstandard designs, because you can do things that requires huge volumes to do cheaply.

If blenders were standard, knife sharpeners would probably use the same base too. If it had a power connections vacuum blender bowls would use it. If it had digital control, you'd have baseplates to use magic bullet cups on a normal blender with the same push to activate system.

The world could have a lot less junk in it. I wish the government or some foundation would start a department of standards development, and teach consumers why they should choose approved gear that uses all the relevant specs.
I don’t know many people with shit on their trucks, unless it’s from the birds before going through the car wash.
This reminds me of another note taking system of a more successful writer. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23386630
Well, there's more than one relevant sense of "competence". Competence in the sense of acquired skills can be harmful to (introductory) tech writing, because experts pay attention to different things than beginners do.

Competence in the sense of intelligence is helpful, and was called for explicitly in your parent comment:

>> ask really good questions along the way
I am not 100% anti abortion, but I think it’s a bad thing.

The law said that at one day after birth if you kill a baby it’s murder but one day before it’s fine, do as you please it’s ’her choice’.

I think we are too far gone in that direction, a fetus still something, a human life in formation, damn you would face legal consequence if you mistreated a dog.
The argument around roe is quite simply that it was an overreach of constitutional authority by the federal government. Now individual states, the people of them, can decide how they want to govern themselves. That's all that's changed.
It's just good business. There are lots of women at Google who are valued contributors and will leave if they are forced to live in a state hostile to them. Google can't afford for them to leave. Ergo, Google creates an environment where they can avoid hostile states and continue working for the corporation.
That's what got me as well. They just inject themselves in the middle of my request and expect everything to be fine.

Being this naive as ISP is just astounding. I've seen similar weirdness from socialwifi hotspots here.
I literally have a friend-of-a-friend right now being denied an abortion for a fetus with severe Anencephaly. There’s a group thread trying to figure out where she can travel to in order to terminate.

These fucking monsters want her to carry this non viable fetus for 5 more months to deliver a guaranteed stillborn baby with 0 chance of survival. Can you even imagine the trauma that would inflict on the mother? The number of people who are going to ask about her pregnancy? The severe health impacts she’s going to face because pregnancies are extremely taxing on the body? The most ignorant among us are making laws based on their uniformed feelings and it’s going to cause serious harm to a lot of people.