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by umvi 1y ago
I didn't say they are countries, I said they are like countries. Finding all the ways they are not like countries to prove they aren't countries just ignores all of the similarities.
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by umvi 1y ago
How does it not sound like 50 countries? There are 50 countries (states) each with their own laws and government. Hence varying degrees of gun strictness depending on the country (state). Laws that change the federal constitution must be ap
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by umvi 1y ago
Think of America more like 50 countries. Now take your school shooting example. A lot of states have made changes to their gun laws in response to this. Making federal (i.e. applies to all states) gun law changes is more challenging because
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by umvi 1y ago
It turns out that the USA operates kind of like "twitch plays X", so your comment reads like "Twitch has great potential to beat Pokemon but as an outsider it's unclear whether that is actually a goal" Lots of diffe
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by umvi 1y ago
I'd recommend vanilla TypeScript instead of vanilla JavaScript. The benefits of typing are enormous. You don't even need npm in the critical path either if you use VSCode since it has tsc built in
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by umvi 1y ago
> Since FoundationDB is hard to understand, there is (and will be) strong resistance to adoption. That's just how things are: we do not enjoy thinking too hard. More like: we all have limited time, and if it's hard to understan
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by umvi 1y ago
"you can't buy love", as they say... Nobody will take care of loved ones as well as kin, as onerous as that may be...
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by umvi 1y ago
What if someone from EU invokes "right to be forgotten" and demands HN delete past comments from years ago. Will those deletions be reflected in the public database? Or could you mine the db to discover deleted data?
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by umvi 1y ago
I wonder if Slate ( https://www.slate.auto/ ) will be exempt as well since they tout "Made in USA"
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by umvi 1y ago
> there is no good government like China Here "good" means "is competent and calculating" I suppose. China's government wouldn't even blink blocking Proton Mail or any other non-Chinese technology without ev
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by umvi 1y ago
I'm seeing other stories now that this punchbowl news article is made up (ex: https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2025/apr/29/hsbc-t... )
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by umvi 1y ago
Hard to tell since the legacy media has historically leaned left (and has tended tend to look the other way on stories that make democrat administrations look bad), but I would not be surprised if, out of 7 million, some % of corner cases s
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by umvi 1y ago
I don't think it's intentional, but rather collateral damage from trying to do deportations quickly and at the "millions" scale
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by umvi 2y ago
So does this mean all of our Chromecasts are going to stop working again once this takes effect since (judging by Google's response during the week long Chromecast outage earlier this year) Chromecast is run by a skeleton crew and won&
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by umvi 2y ago
Does your average consumer actually care? I've never met a single person that had a mindset of "I need to pick up some stuff at Target... oh wait I just remembered they cancelled their internal DEI program, I'd better do some
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by umvi 2y ago
I don't disagree with you - I'm in favor of both slashing spending and increasing taxes. It seems as though republicans like to decrease both spending and taxes while democrats like to increase both spending and taxes. Both stra
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by umvi 2y ago
You can't just spend your troubles away forever. It might temporarily alleviate things, but long term it will collapse the entire system. At some point there need to be painful austerity measures - budget cuts, increased taxes, and the
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by umvi 2y ago
Maybe the federal government needs a reset/dismantling/pruning/whatever you want to call it. With any "normal" president (including Kamala Harris), the federal government would likely be expanding spending and gov
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by umvi 2y ago
Go's wasm is pretty bad. Rust's is good though.
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by umvi 2y ago
Agree - unit tests are best for pure functions and the like. If you are having to do a ton of mocking and injection in order to unit test something, it's probably a sign black box testing might be higher value
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by umvi 2y ago
It's more possible at giants, IMO. Level of technical competence/excellence tends to be inversely proportional to company size. FAANG might be exceptions, but IMO large companies (like big banks, etc) have a lot of hidden techni
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by umvi 2y ago
Adding a progress bar back might cause people to just skip to the part they want to see instead of watching the whole thing again though, and I'm worried that might not be in the best interests of the content creator or advertisers.
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by umvi 2y ago
The book about this, "A Higher Call", is excellent
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by umvi 2y ago
> I’d expect to find it in many more places I'd expect the same, the problem is just the vast distances involved with space (meaning we are looking into the past) and the enormous quantities planets to check make it difficult to fin
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by umvi 2y ago
I keep my religious beliefs and scientific beliefs mostly segregated, so they don't affect each other too strongly for the most part. The reason for this is that those 2 things are reinforced by different sources. My religious beliefs
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by umvi 2y ago
We know the probability of life arising in the universe is >0 because we exist. However, we don't know if life can arise spontaneously given the right conditions (abiogenesis) or if must it be "seeded" at some level by an
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by umvi 2y ago
Maybe it's just getting hug of death right now, but I can't seem to sign into 23andme at all
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by umvi 2y ago
So there wasn't a way to capture the fact that Tim was helping with so many JIRA stories in a way that makes Tim's work more visible? Like maybe pair programming stories that Tim owns and moves on the board (assuming Tim's ti
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by umvi 2y ago
So it's more economical to put a failure prone AC/DC converter into every single led bulb?
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by umvi 2y ago
Now we just need modern houses that have a DC circuit dedicated to lighting

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