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Thanks for enlightening me. /s
I never said change would come fast.
But if the basic act of voting at every election appears like such a burden for many progressives, there's no point in lamenting at the outcome.
> That said, I think it will end up like marijuana: illegal federally with a bunch of states who just don't give a fuck.

And don't forget the immense amount of suffering inflicted disproportionately on minority and disadvantaged groups.
LaMDA is a mathematical program that processes an input and gives an output, it has no more free will than a calculator. It's a sophisticated chatbot, not a general AI.
Not when legislators refuse to overturn it. That's obviously an issue too, but it's not really related to the problem here, which is that the two party system causes many people to have their opinions unrepresented.
SMS gateways know the destination provider too, and I believe this is how blocking VoIP numbers is implemented in practice.
> Your conceptual model is way too vague.

Same can be said for you? A "Thinkpad" is nowhere near as sophisticated as a human. Your challenge equates to something like "Go put a human pancreas cell in a jungle hut in a bath of nutrients. Come back in a month. It will be dead and not have even tried to survive."

At a certain level of abstraction, the matter you are comprised of is indistinguishable from a computer, while still being a useful comparison: despite the means, circuits and cells both take signals, process and return modified signals. Likewise, we can compare both of these things to a member of a colony organism, such as an ant.

Though each element has different levels of sophistication the actual "sentience" occurs at a higher level... a sum of all the signals leading to a decision. For a human, whose thoughts surf over a network of squishy cells, this decision might lead to something like movement or dance. To an ant colony - movement or dance is not really an option... it is a big deal to move the colony, no matter how much movement any given ant might display.

For an AI - well it would entirely depend on attached mechanisms. Have you not seen humanoid robots move or dance? Given enough circuits in an appropriately sophisticated arrangement, could we conceive of a robot that observes visual signals, makes decisions about the information, and subsequently changes it behavior in response? That sequence alone qualifies that mechanism as "Sentient", though we might not be able to declare that it is "Sapient" or has "Consciousness".

> Frankly I think you should probably shut yours off for a while.

Frankly, I think you should read something like a basic text describing these issues. A simple primer to give you at least a basic footing in this conversation. The concepts I've just described are decades old and have been continuously poured over by thousands of people much smarter than you or I.
OMG this is so spot on. I've been putting together a business document without clear statement of what's needed, and I get the necessary info on what they want in increments, in the form of 'no, do it this way' afterwards, without any overview. It's just taken so much time, so much more than necessary, and worn me down badly.
I have been wondering about this. Every state gets two senators representing the _entire state_, so you can’t gerrymander senate seats. I wonder if we need something similar for congressional districts, perhaps by allotting no less than two seats per district, which themselves are composed of one or more counties (the idea being county lines are not drawn by election boards).
The court's view on the 2nd amendment is so wildly, outrageously out of line with the Founder's intentions, and the actual text of the law, that any hope of "restraint towards political activism" is beyond futile.
That seems fine. I do try to only wear work swag at work though.
The city council approved a trial for Glasgow city council workers - they approved it for themselves - they don't have control over anyone else.
I tried entering some large numbers and I got a 500 error. I entered 600000 as a test amount.
Plenty of discussion about that on contemporary philosophy. You should just search a bit:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Defense_of_Abortion
I’ve lost access to a phone number on Google Voice. After my parents died, I ported their landline to Google Voice. This number was in my family for more than 50 years.

After porting a second number into Google Voice (and involving Google Fi) I lost access to the first. A 50+ year old phone number that everyone important to me already had memorized.

If you call the number now, it’s answered by a Google voice subscriber message. So I know the number is still with Google. I just can’t access it anymore.
It's literally part of their national party platform (banning gay marriage). I cannot believe that people honestly think that Republicans won't be chasing banning contraceptives, gay marriage, and trans rights next.
The value proposition doesn't make sense to a lot of people any more. Also, a lot of people are facing rising costs/losing jobs, etc. so it's one more thing threatening their way of life.

Not to mention some families are fairly distributed and any tech savvy person has many viable alternatives.
>They cannot devalue your token.

Actually they can, they can technically just print more BTC by changing the protocol. Also I should remind you, Elon Musk (who is not even a miner) can devalue your token just by making a few tweets.

>There are always other miners that WILL take the money.

They can't do this if the other miners force a protocol change through as their blocks will start to get rejected, the only option then is to fork the chain.

>The Bitcoin difficulty equation has never changed. The math has not been changed. We have newer tx formats, and a newer signature scheme. We also have complete backwards compat.

This doesn't matter, the point is they have the ability to change all of it. Look at any of the bitcoin forks, this has already been done countless times. Saying "this will never happen to BTC" is certainly an opinion you can have, but it's not one based on any kind of objective "math and physics" reality of what they can or can't do. It's an opinion based on trust that they won't change it. You're trusting them to be the sole authority over the network.

>Do you really understand this?

Yes. Do you understand that all distributed systems have weaknesses and constraints, and are subject to change by their operators? Blockchains are not special here. Please don't trust anyone who designs these kind of systems and isn't forthcoming with a full description of the pros and cons.
> ...strange design language with elongated/disproportioned bodies of people (I forget the name of it)

It's a design language that doesn't get one into a PR trouble, I get why it exists.
Most business software isn't safety critical in any way. If you're arguing that we need a framework around things like "self driving" cars, then sure. There are already processes for software in medical devices.

I'm personally eating a steak from a restaurant that isn't inspected, the risk is low and any restaurant I'd go to for a steak relies on repeat customers. The incentives are aligned. Inspecting ground beef at the source makes sense, but that's a different matter.

Sometimes cheap has a quality all its own, to paraphrase and repurpose Napoleon.
>It is interesting that they don't want to try the new things under the Zachtronics names, but it also kinda makes sense, since their fan maybe has certain expectations from that brand?

Given that the studio is disbanding, I don't think it would make any sense for any of the former members to continue a new project under the Zachtronics name. They're not just continuing to work together on something else. To quote:

>"We all have different ideas, interests, tolerances for risk, and so on, so we’re still figuring out what we want to do next."
Don't have a SIM? Get fucked.

There are people who don't have a cell phone because they see it as a distraction engine that will gobble up their life. Digital addictive drugs. But it's almost impossible to maintain this stance in modern life. Have you seen the trend of restaurants that no longer print menus? Instead there is a QR code that opens up their website to get the menu. Every service now wanting SMS verification adds to their problems.
For Google Workspace accounts, it's a paid service (I believe $10 or $20 per number and month). The personal version is presumably a loss leader.
It's always possible, but the game calmly asks the user to focus, structure a problem in their head and then form a solution.

I wouldn't ask them to finish the game, but watching how they absorb what they're shown and whether they can expand this to new solutions is a fairly easy tell most the time.
I would like it if reporting on these humanitarian crises would more often mention how they are largely caused by US sanctions, that usually receive little if any press.
Compromise.

Roe was that. Dobbs is not.
I had a TRS-80 Color Computer when I was kid which had one major drawback: it could only display 32 characters across the screen compared to 40 characters for the Apple ][, C64 and most others at the time.

The Coco could run an operating system called OS-9 which was Unix-influenced and came with a good C compiler and also a bytecode interpreted structure basic called BASIC09.

I know C compilers were really popular among CP/M users running the Z-80 and 8080 chips and also on the IBM PC which had a segmentation system to reach beyond 64k that I thought felt really elegant in assembly language but was awkward for compilers.

Where OS-9 had all the above beat was that it was a real multitasking OS and I had two terminals plugged into my coco in addition to the TV console and could use it like a minicomputer.

When I switched to an IBM PC AT compatible my favorite programming language was Turbo Pascal which adds everything missing from Pascal to do systems programming. I switched to C when I went to college because that was supported on the the various UNIX workstations they had.
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Moderation is cheap. The price the consumer pays for it is having content be removed/filtered/edited because it violates a submission guideline, ToS, or a moderator's worldview. Usually the latter. I don't think you can quantify that value personally. Definitely worth more than a few million dollars for the potential reach.
At our company we still use a MC68HC11 for an industrial device.
> We don't really, here in Europe. WhatsApp is the main communication method.

This is only partially true. There are also countries like France where WhatsApp only has a Market share of about 22%. Switzerland is very split too, I personally know more people using signal or telegram than 'still using' WhatsApp.
GDP per capita doesn’t mean much here, median wage would be a lot better.

Also there are a ton of different stats for median house price and 19k I can only find on a single source, the rest is a lot lower
> today's decision went out of it's way to say that it is not meant to apply to any of those other issues that you mentioned

Thomas's opinion pretty specifically cited some of those other cases. It wasn't joined by all the others who voted with him, but then again, Kavanaugh claimed that Roe v. Wade was "settled law" during his confirmation hearing, which clearly doesn't seem to be what he's saying now. I'm not surprised that this is his real view, and I won't be in a few years if suddenly he also votes against some of those other rulings.
He said he learned that loving being a teacher was 'not the case'. Perhaps he learned it in the last two months, or was trying to remain positive about the position publicly while reconsidering privately, etc. People change, I don't think there's anything profound to look for just because he changed his public opinion from a few months ago.
You believe it is right on a technicality, but don't care to factor in the women who are guaranteed an early, unnecessary death because of this ruling?
Texas has no income tax. But the property tax functions as a backdoor income tax because there is rich school district to poor school district redistribution. Therefore property taxes are high in Texas, though not higher than, say, in New Jersey (which also has an income tax).
A government might: block sending or receiving remittances; track or prohibit purchases of goods and services it considers immoral; devalue the official currency to a significant degree; easily confiscate gold, land or other traditional stores of value.

Some or all of these could be considered opressive, depending on the context. A medium of exchange that can circumvent unjust laws could be said to decrease repression. Not sure how much better I can explain it.
Sorry for offtopicness, but could you please stop creating accounts for every few comments you post? We ban accounts that do that. I don't want to ban you, because your comments (with this account) are good.

This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

You needn't use your real name, of course, but for HN to be a community, users need some identity for other users to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be a different kind of forum. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
> The Roe decision invented a Constitutional right where one did not exist

Bodily autonomy is not a constitutional right, but self defense is?

> Even Ruth Bader Ginsberg was on record saying that the decision was flawed!

A misrepresentation of what RBG was getting at. She was very much of the opinion that legislatively it should have been codified as a right. She's right, but it's pie in the sky, as much as her desire to be replaced by a woman President.

> today's decision went out of it's way to say that it is not meant to apply to any of those other issues that you mentioned.

Thomas specifically called out those decisions as being up for review. Alito mentioned it in his leaked opinion. (it may have been bargained out of the opinion, or maybe he chose not to be explicit as to not raise pressure in the political sphere, which seems likely given the nature of this court) Four of the justices who voted against Roe today within the past decade are on the record as saying that this was settled law. They are liars, and people are right to mistrust the court.
That is intentional. The same mechanisms exist in the EU to protect smaller states, for example.
Actually, he is going to quit teaching high-school computer science to continue working on games.
My iPadOS shows the correct guess in the middle of the three options and then, as I go to tap it, swaps in a ludicrous incorrect guess. It is rage inducing.
That is definitely a bigger problem, but the original poster seemed already ready to write those people off when talking about the impact of poor red state women as a sacrifice for a democratic process. I am arguing that doesn’t give the gay couple traveling through any democratic rights and absolutely does restrict their rights. The abortion bans in Texas has ample precedent for criminalizing behavior that occurred in other states. Sodomy laws also have a history of selective enforcement specifically to persecute gay people.
Yeah, SBT is pretty awful. I feel like Scala suffers from design by committee, and by being the choice language of certain types of Enterprise Software Engineers TM.
Okay my exact percentages are probably wrong, the point being the vast majority of abortions could be prevented by safe sex.

Safe sex is absolutely universally possible. Free condoms are given out all over the place, and in places where they aren't it's probably better to practice abstinence until you're ready than kill unborn children so you can get a quick nut.

In cases except rape, which are a small minority of abortions, there is reproductive autonomy.

Elaborate on "moral hazard".

I explicitly said most. Not all. Most. Most abortions, like most births, would have resulted in a healthy adult human. You're responding to a misreading of what I said.
Thanks, that's all I was hoping for, doge over lightning. I like the culture of doge more, people seem to want to use it and not just stack them up for the apocalypse.
He held up a flag and that makes him pro-gay-marriage? Is that all it takes? Some people are so stupid it hurts.

The 2016 and 2020 platform both said that marriage is between 1 man and 1 women, they didn't mince words. Pretending Republicans won't try to overturn gay marriage is about as stupid as the people who said they would never overturn Roe v Wade.
Old iDevices who are stuck in a non-upgradeable Apple OS are a threat to humanity.
There were conservative democrats such as Manchin and leiberman who beleived their constituents weren't in favor of abortion rights. A straight party line vote on abortion rights wasn't going to happen. There were also republicans in more urban states that knew the majority of their constituents favored abortion, but because they were worried about being primaried they wouldn't vote for abortion rights.
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Change to proportional representatin or runoff elections.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger%27s_law
Dockerized Miniflux as well. Light on resources, quick, plenty of features without being bloated, and the fetching of article content works with the default selectors for most sites.

I use Miniflutt on Android instead of the PWA mainly for the mark-as-read on scroll functionality (which I contributed because it's a must-have feature for me). About the only feature I find missing is a global regex blocklist which I may put in a PR for as well.
Thanks! Mina is the most interesting cryptocurrency I've seen since Bitcoin. I didn't mention it since I'd look like a shill trying to pump my favorite coin. Disclaimer: I have 0 cryptocurrencies in my portfolio right now. I'm only interested in the technical aspects.
I don't even know if you and I agree on political issues, but I'd vote for you.
There are cases where it will literally be a trolly problem. E.g. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/andrea-prudente-incomplete-misc...
This is a key for company firmware, so the second point has nothing to do with it, except the easier it is for a user to write their own firmware, the easier it is for malicious actors to do the same.
Nothing I've said contradicts your statement. I agree wholeheartedly. But that is precisely why process-oriented thinking is important.

I think everyone (with the free time) should invest in learning Poker or card games. Lessons there can be applied elsewhere while still remaining intuitive and easy to understand!
How do the examples in the article cause any problem. You only get sent a code when you request it. And you type it into a website that you are familiar with.
I grew up in rural Utah with plenty of religious conservatives. I spent 3 hours a week in church with them.

Now I live in SLC.

I've gotten to know a lot of different people and their perspectives.

Some are obsessively political, and no doubt will be celebrating this decision. They will spend 3 hours congratulating each other for it the day after tomorrow.

Others are quietly moderate. They believe in many of the same Christian values, but don't see it as government's place to enforce them.

A few are more loudly moderate. They will take the time to present a different perspective and actually argue for it.

The combination of these three creates a social dynamic that supports anti-abortion legislation and other conservative political goals. Despite it not being the desire of every person in the community, that is what the community at large will support politically. Those who disagree don't have the means or support to be represented.

Meanwhile, in the city, I walk around the corner to the trax station, and see a handful of homeless people going about their lives. They ask for help finding their way to court or therapy. They ask for change because they can't get it on their own.

What I have learned is that rural conservative communities are self serving. Conservative ideas are promoted, represented, congratulated, etc. Critical perspectives are either silently held, or spoken to deaf ears.

The fallout of conservatism can't make a home there, and must instead walk away to the city where she can beg for begrudgingly given change.
And then God send them to genocide their way through the promised land.
You mean how our drug laws and penal system are the constitutionally-protected successors to slavery? I haven't forgotten.
> A large portion of America views abortion as murder.

That is not true, they are a very loud minority. Most polling puts people who really care about banning abortion (in the ways it is being done right now) at below 20%.

The reason it is not passing legislation is because the Senate (which is required) is not a democratic institution. A state like Wyoming has 65x more voting power than a state like California. Current the Senate sits at 50/50 yet one side represents 40M more citizens than the other.
I really appreciate reading this. This is good for me to know if I ever have the opportunity to work with a non-hearing person (not sure what is considered the most acceptable term).
I disagree. Nature does practice OOP and taxonomic hierarchies are real things in nature if they are based on their evolutionary history. People say penguins are "flightless birds", but look how they swim. They don't swim like fishes. They basically are flying in water because they share the same genetic programming as other birds, just slightly modified to use a different medium. Nature doesn't re-implement things from scratch but is great at code reuse.
Yes, and I tell people not to store on exchanges, take custody of their coin.
There is no bank in Bitcoin!

Agree, there is risk for the 5 minutes it takes to transfer the coins out. If you are on boarding from fiat, there is a degree of trust to extend to the exchange. But this is not Bitcoin, it is a centralized exchange. There are other ways to buy and trade coin too. Earning is best.

I knew not to leave coins with MtGox. I knew not to leave them with Cryptsy.
This is a lesson I learned from banks.

Can you elaborate how a bad actor, any bad actor, can confiscate, steal, reorder or devalue a UTXO recorded on an immutable blockchain for all eternity?
What's good about producing a bunch of code that no one understands and only probably does the right thing?
That's right. Value and Cost are not the same.
Roberts’s concurrence essentially says that too. Honestly his concurrence reads more like a dissent to me.
A reference to the womb does not imply life.
As one can see in React, which contorted itself to be "functional" and ended up inventing bad, new syntax for objects in a language that already had objects built-in. They evidently couldn't figure out a better way to handle it, and landed on reinventing the wheel, badly, and but calling it something else.
If Jane Street can teach OCaml to traders, I can teach it to developers. That's not a concern for anyone other than a sweatshop.
Isn't that amazing though?

Turns out those computers in our hands are actually just regular computers and all those dinks at Apple/Google are trying to nefariously lock us in!
Bless you for that. Unironically. I keep telling my kids you have to judge things in the 100 years over hundred years metrics, but have been feeling rather bleak today, also with the midterms looking like the anti-democratic forces may well win.

Also, due to having to argue basic shit like the value of a pluralistic educated democracy when we have the physical problem of climate change bearing down and really wanting our attention. I marched for Roe v Wade in 1988 the first time, protested against stupid wars in 1986, helped build what I thought would tie humanity together in an enlighten network of discourse in the 90s as a programmer, had kids in the 2000#, and now back to Roe v Wade. Meanwhile the CO2 is 420 ppm and we haven’t got a damn Mars 100 picked out yet (Sci fi reference there). I want Red Mars with more realistic population distribution, not Parable of the Sower.