chuckgreenman

In Cincinnati, it's illegal to ride a bike on a sidewalk, which makes sense, it's not very pleasant for the cyclist or pedestrians. The result is that bicyclers ride in the street. You'll regularly get harassed for riding in the street, even when you're all the way to the right, or people will just open their door right into the lane when they street park. It's really difficult to travel with bicycles safely in a medium - large US city.

This is something that I struggled with, good writers can build a story that reveals something over time. I'm not a good writer, I can't build stories like that, so I just have to lay the point out and support it after 5th grade form essay style.

Most cops are college educated, however, let's not kid ourselves, a BS in criminal justice is a little different than a BS in engineering.

I recently changed how I eat, mostly chicken thighs, stir fry beef, rice and canned / frozen vegetables depending on the deals for the week. Oatmeal for breakfast.

Meals are clocking in between $0.90 and $2.50 per serving, It's pretty cheap to eat unprocessed foods, it's just gets kind of repetitive. I feel much better than I did when I was eating processed stuff and my food budget is much smaller.

There are people who want to improve government with technology, just because it's an uphill battle doesn't mean it isn't worth doing.

Also, governments are big spenders. Plenty of incentive there.

I'd agree that everyone on HN knows what they are getting into, but we're not an accurate cross section of humanity to be fair.

If you're a bit out of the loop like me, here's some stuff that I've looked up trying to understand.

Kaiserpapers.org appears to be a compilation of articles criticising Kaiser Permanente. The note read in that light makes it seem like they feel Kaiser Permanente has hacked them.

Had to do some research because I don't live in one of the areas that they serve but Kaiser seems to be a combination of a hospital network and an insurance company with doctors paid salaries rather than per-service.

Seems like a good idea, not sure what criticisms are about, maybe someone who is more familiar with it can shed some light on the situation

I'd argue that isn't ethical either. Commonplace and unethical are unfortunately not mutually exclusive.

This is clearly an attempt to gather evidence about the defense and the journalists involved. It is also likely that they are attempting to identify the source for the Navy Time's reporting.

Here's an analogy from the civilian world: An employee reports an OSHA violation. Their employer is fined and forced to spend money on fixing the violation. Angered by this, the employers management tries to find who reported them to OSHA.

They were caught doing something wrong, and now they are trying to identify who caught them doing it. The ethical response is to admit wrong doing and make it right, not intimidate your opponents. If you don't understand that I'm not sure there's much debate to be had.

The prosecutors embedded a tracking image in an email that they sent to journalists and the defense. It's not just for tracking to see if the recipients have opened the email, but it could help them identify who the email is forwarded to.

In this case, the journalists have confidential sources, they may forward that email to them, which would leak the source's IP, which could reveal the identity of the source.

A free and strong press is how we keep powerful institutions in check. It is not an inflammatory statement to say that a reprisal by a government institution that has been accused of doing something unethical is unethical. It's just common sense.

There is a question as to whether it is legal or not, it is unequivocally unethical.

Exactly correct. I think most gun owners (or just people who have fired a fun) understand that they'd be dispatched quickly by anyone who's job is to be proficient with firearms.

There are many more cops, sheriffs and other LEOs than sovereign citizen types. It would be a short battle.

This is inaccurate. Great strides in civil rights have been made through non-violent campaigns to change minds. We've had a slow, civil change to fighting our battles in the court of public opinion rather than on the dueling grounds.

Appeals to tradition aren't effective, we don't need to make the same mistakes as our ancestors.

At least leekspin.com continues!

People's definition of what is right is different. Why not give your vision a bit more force behind it.

That's not immoral, it's just the way to get ahead of the detractors.

Honestly, why wouldn't you. We're in a call out culture period of time. If you're running a business it makes sense to research the people most likely to become a problem for you in the future.

Not personal, just business.

This assumes that you have $100,000 to treat it. The vast majority of people couldn't come up with that kind of money or talk an institution into lending it to them.

If you do have the money you can get your own supplementary health insurance that goes above and beyond. (This is common in Canada, not sure about England though.)

Private care is already rationed based on your ability to pay so these arguments really don't hold water at all.

The insurance system is already bureaucratic as all get out. Creating one payer would actually streamline the experience.

The government has a monopoly on the national defense as well, a good that we all need. That works. Why wouldn't health care be the same.

Canadians and British folks seem pretty happy with their nationalized health care.

Certainly there are complex aspects of it but you could teach someone how to do most of what you need to do in SQL in under an hour.

It's sort of like the mouse trap problem. Mouse traps and SQL are already incredibly simple and incredible effective, that's why you don't see a reinvented mouse trap at home depot and why SQL remains unseated despite many efforts to replace it.

I really like this comment, because I think it gets to the root of the problem. People on Hacker News would probably be happy with an engineer, systems thinker turned politician.

That's probably because all of the smart people that we know and interact with regularly are engineers and systematic thinkers. What ever the Business version of Hacker News would probably want someone with a business or economic background. Ditto for medical professionals, artists, etc.

What seems clear is that the only bar for being elected is some amount of charisma. Barring that, just stoke fear in your chosen party's base.

I grew up in Florida, a state addicted to standardized testing, and after a while you start to notice something. Standardized tests are like a meta game. I'm sure they provide a basic bench mark to see if you're literate or can do basic math but beyond that it's just pattern recognition. After a certain point you stop reading the passages, just skimming, because it's always the same types of questions and you can sort of intuit which beats of the story you need to look at to get the answer. The math sections are the same kind of thing. Match the question up to the right memorized algorithm and run it.

The tests measure your willingness and ability to become good at something with no short-term, obvious benefit, which is a clever system. However, not every high school student has 200 hours to spend getting good at bullshit.

> This isn't the main part of what I'm concerned about honestly.

Exactly the problem mate, that is something you should be concerned about.

I'm not sure if this is an Instapaper clone, an Evernote clone, an rss reader, or a flash card sync system. Not really sure anyone needs this.

You talk about walled gardens and privacy concerns and "rebooting" the web but say that you're using Google's firebase as a backend for sync. Personally, I'm just sort of at peace with the fact that Google has a copy of all my email and records of my location for the years I've had an android phone. But let's be super real - Google products and privacy aren't known for going together.

Can we get a regulation on non-experts making laws about things that do not understand in the slightest.

People on Hacker News are also pretty likely to back ups. Getting your work laptop confiscated by agents will probably only earn you points at work.

There's also a good argument to be made that the search is illegal, it's important that everyone stand up for that, even if its stressful.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/04/bill-rights-border-fou...

I'm hoping that manufactures will start building a plausible deniability user profile you can log into while leaving your actual profile encrypted, appearing to be slack space.

This kind of thuggery seems to be getting more common.

This is a pretty great way for these simulation burgers to start out. When I get a fast food hamburger, I'm not expecting something processed. I haven't had an impossible burger but it looks a lot like a fast food hamburger. Looking forward to trying it!

> I could have learned what I did in a much shorter time.

I think people with CS degrees working the field could probably re-cover all of the content of their degree in 4-5 months of independent study, however, there's a lot of school which is deliberative practice. Hours that you need to spend getting good at understanding concepts, writing proofs and building the skill of critical thinking in a computing context.

I think post graduation there's a tendency to compress that period and forget about the hours of practice and just being terrible at building things that it took to gain the craftsman's mind.

Being able to respond to a doodle pool directly from an email is awesome! But the number of those use cases will be dwarfed by marketing companies that abuse these feature to track people even more.