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The actual decisions do not reflect that at all, and they go into great depth to explain the reasoning, none of which seems remotely ideological (other than legal ideology which is orthogonal to political leaning).
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I followed the 2016 election and 538 very closely. Over the last week or so before the election was called, 538 gave Clinton a 3 out of 5 (or 60%) chance of winning, dramatically lower than any other outlet anywhere, and 35% lower than the NYT prediction.
Interesting piece, I am curious about how well the throat mic picks up whispered speech. I recall a gaming oriented throat microphone being sold once under the premise that it would let you communicate without disturbing other people late at night.
I agree and the executive branch has at least two major roles in the constitutional law-making process. First is the presidential veto, and second the Vice President in his or her office of President of the Senate can vote on bills from time to time.
Yeah, to be clear, I'm not running away from America. I'm in a similar situation where my partner wants to move to Germany (in a couple years), and I think that sounds like a swell idea.
The problem is that our federal legislative system is heavily tilted in favor of Republicans despite them being firmly a minority party. This is most apparent in the Senate, but gerrymandering gives them an edge in the House too.

So when you're talking about consensus, the country has it. There's consensus on immigration, gun control, and abortion. It's just that Republicans prevent us from acting on it.
So do you think that everyone should remove gamestop from stock brokers? It's not connected to the underlying business performance.
> in the very past everyone was a merchant and they sold their goods/services

In the past nearly everyone was a serf and they provided their goods/services to their lieges in exchange for basic needs like having someplace to live.

In the present it's pretty much the same thing, except with us serfs being paid wages (which we then end up spending most of as rent and taxes) and serving multiple lieges.
I'm not sure because I don't use itsme anymore (it stopped working on jailbroken devices a while ago, so I just switched to TOTP auth with CSAM) but if I remember correctly the initial setup of itsme doesn't work on Linux, as it requires a browser plugin for the card reader that doesn't run on Linux. CSAM uses a different browser plugin that does work on Linux.
This is an incorrect summary of the EPA. The EPA can only act according to laws passed by Congress, which is an elected body. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Environmental_Pr...
According to your link it was real. "That’s not to say that everything about the story is wrong; merchants really did engage in a frantic tulip trade, and they paid incredibly high prices for some bulbs. And when a number of buyers announced they couldn’t pay the high price previously agreed upon, the market did fall apart and cause a small crisis—but only because it undermined social expectations."

In the link I posted is this gem: "Peter Garber in the 1980s published an academic article on the Tulipmania. First, he notes that tulips are not alone in their meteoric rise: 'a small quantity of ... lily bulbs recently was sold for 1 million guilders ($480,000 at 1987 exchange rates),' demonstrating that even in the modern world, flowers can command extremely high prices."

I wasn't making a point about the degree of societal collapse from tulip mania. I made the point that there is a long history of greed and speculation.
Brokers also let you trade foreign currencies and metals.
A direct reply to which tweet? The tweet which Outreach replied to is not visible "because the account owner limits who can view their tweets".
Worth mentioning that itsme is a private consortium of several banks and phone operators which explicitely says that data collected will be used for marketing purpose and "research".

That you can’t even think of using it if, like me, you are not using a phone operator or one of the few banks which are part of the consortium.
You have two things that burn fuel and produce CO2. Thing A burns fuel, its CO2 isn't released but captured. That captured CO2 fuel is then burned at Thing B and released. Half. (if you assume the energy from reprocessing the CO2 into fuel doesn't produce Co2 itself and comes from clean sources)
> That one hasn't failed yet.

He said 'failing' not failed. Supply shortages are still being felt in local industries based on anecdotes I'm hearing. I'm pretty sure that'd qualify as 'failing'.
'More respectful'? What was respectful about states denying people the ability to see their partner in the hospital because they have the crime of being gay? Or being denied the ability to participate in basic rights because they're gay?

Or is it just because it doesn't inconvenience you? Like these are all things that are very fresh in the memory of anyone gay that's lived in southern or red states. It's not a democracy if you have a bunch of people you treat as second class citizens.
It's not just about chronic malignant threats like those countries; it's also about acute threats. Take as an example, if you were Ukrainian, you had about 2 months of runway during which there was ample evidence Russia was going to invade Ukraine and the country would likely be flattened. And yet, when Russia did invade Ukraine, there were throngs of people trying to escape. I'm not talking about people who are disabled or immobile, I'm talking about middle class people who simply thought they had more time and didn't want to disrupt their life for nothing. See also Afghans in Kabul, who thought either the Taliban wouldn't win or they'd have several more months to get their lives in order.

This is also a popular trope in fiction. In the recent Handmaid's Tale series, there are several episodes devoted to life immediately before the fall, and what you see is a lot of evidence stuff is going to hit a crisis point, and a lot of people insisting that it hasn't quite yet.

Obviously the threshold to act has to be fairly high -- and I'm not saying America is Kabul or Kyiv or Gilead -- but I think there's nothing wrong with listening to the part of your brain that says "wow, it feels like the shit is imminently going to hit the fan". Because if you wait until it actually does, you'll have significantly less capacity to act.

There are also options beyond leaving the country. Some places are physically safer and physically more isolated from threat than others. For example, in the event that there is a rapid institutional collapse in the United States, it seems likely that Hawai'i would be among the places most likely to endure a little while extra or to most easily facilitate leaving the country. Areas near unguarded border crossings on the northern border also have an appeal in that regard. I think the right degree of seriousness with which to take something like this is not so much "I should move to Hawai'i tomorrow in case there's a civil war" and more "If I can work remotely in Hawai'i or if a job opens up, I might gain some degree of personal safety/sovereignty by moving there."

Personal context: I am a non-American. I spent most of the 2010s living in the U.S., and I emigrated to another country in early 2021. The pull factor to emigrate was a job opportunity abroad that was great and that my wife agreed would be a fun way to spend a few years, but the push factor to emigrate was significant uncertainty about the institutional stability of the U.S. We were setting up our paperwork just as the Capitol Insurrection happened.
> people can send me pull requests by email.

Great, you already lost half of them.
> I thought would come from it being viable in a "loud, high intensity situation".

The reason they're used is because they're particularly good at rejecting background noise - so that you can hear someone over the sound of nearby gunfire. Throat mics are obviously right at the source of audio vibrations and aren't picking up vibrations from the air (at least not on purpose) so they have high ratio between signal (voice) and noise (unwanted background).
What am I missing here? Is 12Ghz unregulated? I thought you had to buy spectrum before using it. Also why does it have to be 12Ghz? The article didn't make that clear.
You can say "I don't like X". You don't have to say every is "Fascism". It's ok just to be upset and not like something.

Fascism by the way would be rule by fiat - eg a King or a Dictator can just declare new law: "I declare all Hamburgers shall now be served with bacon and anyone who fails to do shall be executed".

Writing down laws and having a neutral body interpret them is a really important part of fair forms of Government (but not unique to Democracy). There is no defense to a fiat in a Dictatorship but that is a defense in eg Democracy. The publishing, disseminating and authority of rules is the basis of a fair form of government.
They are definitely better. ANC can't beat physically blocking the soundwaves from hitting your eardrums.
If it's backed by scientific consensus? absolutely.
I think it depends on who you're selling to.

If you're selling to big companies that consider what you do some kind of critical component, they might care.

If you're selling to end users or other businesses, they likely don't care at all.
That thing is still pretty noisy! It looks like it's pushing the ionized air through some kind of jet?
I have been, for about 10 years, the solo developer of https://www.uxwizz.com and there are both individuals and companies that trust projects built or ran by a single person.

I think what makes it easier in my case is that the product is self-hosted, so the clients don't have to rely on me to keep things running, plus they always have access to their data and product, even if I disappear.

Furthermore, I make sure to only release builds/publish updates that are not broken and that I am available in the days following a big release.

That being said, there have been many cases where companies (usually on the bigger side) decided not to work together because of my small company size and associated risks (but this mostly happened when discussing special uses-cases or partnerships, not when simply wanting to purchase and use the product as is).
The same thing happens with people who should know better that google or even the www is not "the internet"
Of course they are!

This is such a sweet headline!
>people want to buy it, and people also want to sell it. That means there's a market and therefore a value to it for those people.

People don't want to sell it, they have to, in order to pay the electricity bills for the mining (in their countries normal currency, for that matter).

There is no inherent value - you can only sell if the exchanges find someone who is willing to buy.

The value to the seller is the Dollar/Euro they get at the exchange. The value for the buyer is speculation on the price, which someone else then has to pay at the exchange in normal currency. There is exactly zero value in crypto itself.
> People are powerless to do anything unless 100% of them vote

I'm not following this logic? Why do we need 100% of people to vote?

I assume you mean to "oust ineffective elected officials" but I suspect that there are many people that don't vote because they are "happy" and don't feel at risk of their desired official being outed. But again, I might be off base. Hoping you can clarify more of what you meant.
Abortion isn’t 0 or 1, legal or not legal.

There’s a million nuances in it, rape, incest, medical reasons, and the time of abortion.

The abortion debate doesn’t exist in Europe because almost all sides managed to agree on a 12 week limit and it’s left alone.

I would guess in 10-20 years the US would arrive at the same conclusion, with small differences between red and blue states.

Stop making this a yes or no issue. And that’s not what the Supreme Court did. They didn’t ban abortion. If 60% want abortion legal they can vote for whoever gives them that.
> In addition many features of GitLab don't work at all or work much less well if you turn off JavaScript.

I feel like the venn diagram of people who complain about JS being required and of people who have never had to code up a web /app/ that users expect rich interactions without a page-reload is just a circle.
> The "lifelong bureaucrats" are typically (but not always, see the CDC) policy and subject matter experts.

We really, really needed one of those groups of unelected bureaucrats to be policy and subject matter experts, and they weren't. But don't worry, all the others we haven't actually checked are!
Agreed, the executive branch (the bureaucracies) does not make laws, congress does. The fact that the bureaucracies are governing above and beyond what they are legally allowed to do is actually horrifying and very undemocratic.
We can't take the natural resources, benefits of geography, and nuclear weapons with us, so those we leave behind will inherit a very powerful nation. Something to think about.
> It’s. Just. Not. That big of a deal.

There are trailing indicators and leading indicators. The fact that something like Dogecoin can be invented as a joke (according to its investors) and be said to have a market cap of over $8 billion is an indicator - that's 8 "unicorns". Bitcoin's market cap is over $350 billion. You are right that it has to be seen in the context of global finance, but other parts of global finance were bubbly at the end of last year, and if there's confusion over that, Dogecoin's 8 billion dollar market cap is an indicator, even if eight billion dollar is not that much in the context of global finance.
Harvesting and storage of a naturally occurring element is lower maintenance in theory. It is easily stored a thousand years ago and a thousand years from now, even if some global catastrophic event occurred that renders modern technology useless.
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In the end, they still accept or reject laws, with no accountability whatsoever. The supreme court’s decisions are laws, for all intent and purposes, and have just as much weight as what Congress writes.

The incestuous relationship between the judiciary and the legislative branch in common law systems is very problematic and does not allow true separation of powers. Like so much in our democratic governments, this works as long as most participants behave in good faith, but breaks down when some do not.
> Everything that you do with your brain and paper can be duplicated on a computer.

Can you stop pretending I'm talking about things that are computable when talking about things that don't terminate? When someone says that computation is only defined for the computable numbers responding with the claim that they don't understand "that finite sized representations of computable real numbers exist" is honestly either stupid or malicious.
>To see thousands of Americans who can't afford to lose their savings lose it to Coinbase due to wilful negligience, incompetence.

This is a weird take. Coinbase isn't perfect but I don't see this as a valid criticism. Coinbase are equally responsible for thousands of Americans becoming richer than they ever dreamed of by providing them easy access to the crypto world. Coinbase is a trading platform, losses and wins are to be expected.
Who else read that story and is finding themselves having trouble figuring out what should have been done between “lie” and “don’t lie”?

Just curious.
I'm just informally applying the Pareto Principle and assuming the overwhelming majority of the folks here on HN live in urban or suburban environments and this scenario wouldn't apply.

walking for needed stuff is more motivation than just plain walking?

Yes. That's why some doctors recommend their patients to get a dog. The dog provides the motivation to take a daily walk. Most people won't walk for the fun of it if the weather conditions aren't ideal.
It’s extremely loud, something I didn’t expect, and sounds very much like a high speed fan. Together with the black box it made me suspicious if we aren’t being deceived. Two comments under the article think the same.
The statement mentions CodeBerg as a Gitea-based non-profit alternative. A discussion about it 2 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22795930
> instead of treating it like a second version of Congress.

what do you mean specifically?
You don't say it explicitly, but there's a bit of a garden-of-eden in this story: Founders were running this great wonderful profitable business and then those darn VCs come in and ruin everything.

A founder isn't forced to take on investors. The same founders who were so "down to earth" and profitable are the ones making the decision to take on investors. The founders can't be responsible for profits and then suddenly get taken advantage of by investors. Everyone involved is eyes-wide-open.

Lots of great businesses have been built, in partnership with investors, during higher interest rate periods and downturns.
Ask HN? Which tech stacks are popular in China?
A lot of big/small companies in North America/India etc are pretty open about their tech stacks and engineering practices.
I couldn't find too much about the tech stacks of the companies in China. Alibaba has a few open projects but thats it.

China has quite a lot of tech companies which have managed to handle scale, but not much is known about their tech stacka and engineering practices. Anybody knows about it, or where i can get more information
thanks for the correction, i had a feeling it was slightly wrong
That's not true, in my experience you can even use it if you only have a French phone number and no Belgian bank.
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Google will choose shoddily-generated blogspam of no use to anyone and I will append "reddit" to my query, doubly ruling out small forums.
I suppose thats fair and a good note.

Don't we think that time is limited though? I have a white collar job and find myself relying of premade food. I can't imagine if I had two jobs or two jobs and kids
Reminder: decisions like Roe v. Wade (and many others in the era before this court) weren't passed by "the left" in a political sense. For example: five of the seven-justice majority in Roe were Republican appointees.
The way in which judges are brought to the bench in America and subsequently to SCOTUS is political. While it isn't Congress it isn't as independent as many people previously portrayed it.
> Congress can fix everything that’s happened in the last few weeks via proper laws.

SCOTUS deliberately kneecapped the Voting Rights Act quite a bit in recent years. For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelby_County_v._Holder

Legislation isn't much protection from a nakedly partisan Court.
This (things moving fast) is just digital trash. You won't see it in 10 years.
While I think that I understand your feelings, here is something to consider: Yuval Noah Harari (historian who has written some great books for understanding the world) recently said that if countries like the USA can solve the partisanship problems we have then there is no limit to where our society and civilization can go.

This seems well worth working hard for.

My personal approach is to be very hard on family members and friends who if democrats talk about republicans as evil incarnate and if they are republicans then talk about democrats as woke idiots who are ruining the country.

I try to point out how stupid both sides are and they are fighting the wrong battles against the wrong enemy.

Another reason to stay in the USA: currently the world is splitting into two economies led by:

1) BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) - they will probably have about 60% of the world's population aligned with them.

2) USA/Europe/Canada/Australia/etc. - they will probably have about 40% of the world's population aligned with them.

Except for the USA and Russia who have the resources (food, energy, defensibility), I think that most all of the other countries can not exist without external trade. If the shit really hits the fan for the world, being in the USA might be a very good thing, even if we don't solve the political bigotry of democrats and republicans hating each other.
This is exactly right, when I was in grad school we also explored new ionization designs to reduce the voltage requirements to achieve this. In our explorations, biggest problems were weight and voltage issues.

Very cool to see though, you can make this at home with a very basic high voltage generator and a set of needles.

Here's another design for DIY:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGq7LfjDyZM
It's a pun on a longstanding joke of Urbit as Martian technology; it has nothing to do with the planet Mars.
Parts of the constitution were literally written to appease slave owners. How is that not partisan?
In this new climate, it will take more than laws. Permanence will require constitutional amendments (which is actually how most things get rooted at the state level, the state constitutions change pretty regularly).
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Collectors, gamers and investors are 3 different groups (with some overlap, of course). Gamers buy the games to play them. Collectors buy with the intent of holding on to the collectable forever. Investors buy games with the intent of reselling them later (hopefully at a higher value).

I think at a certain price, collectors and investors wouldn't play the game though - it could reduce the value to either of them. Gamers also don't necessarily care about the condition of games (scratches on the label), having the box and manual, etc. The price difference between loose carts and CIB games, games with matching serials to the box (if applicable) reflects this. Hell, I've seen just a Super Grafx BOX go for a few hundred - but that is a worthwhile investment if you're trying to resell your SUper Grafx, and some collectors need it to completed their collection.
You can't make some of this stuff up.

>Bitcoin's decentralized nature makes it impossible for anyone, even governments, to fully kill it.

Can the government kill any shitcoin really? Hell, Luna is trading at $0.0001. Therefore, it is not dead! Therefore Luna is the future!

>Furthermore, the cat's out of the bag, so to speak. In the US, several members of congress already own bitcoin, and the list of elected (and unelected) officials who take pro-bitcoin stances publicly is getting longer.

Since some powerful peoples' salary depends on them not understanding bitcoin critiques, bitcoin is the future!

>Additionally, adoption of bitcoin and cryptoassets continues to grow rapidly.

I'm going to try you to get you to invest in bitcoin by telling you lots of people are investing in bitcoin!
Are you legitimately "both sides"-ing Democrats and Republicans here? Wake me up when a horde of armed Democrats storms the Capitol.
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It's not like the regulators are incorruptible. The regulators get captured all the time. I don't know what the right answer is here.
> refusal to use Git[1] due to its complexity

I kind of like this friction. If a software developer finds git too complex, that’s an important signal that I should minimize my exposure to them. I’d never work in a team that dumb, and I wouldn’t want any dependencies on their code.

Of course there are other reasons not to use git, but complexity is not one.
You are defining an arbitrary boundary and making a false dichotomy. Do you understand what I'm saying?

Stop putting them in the same category. This is useless and nondescriptive. Here's what I mean by that : if you were to build a machine learning classifier with a decision tree algorithm, what do you think some of the most important differentiators would be?

Tell me which party tends to acknowledge scientific evidence more often.

A fool sets impossible standards and moans that everyone falls short.

Accept reality. Choose from the better options. There is no perfect except in mathematics (and maybe some physics we don't know yet)