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What you're calling kidnapping is actually referred to as arresting, and it is entirely possible to identify violent individuals with certainty. Every riot in Seattle has had multiple police helicopters circling the area; it isn't difficult to identify and track particularly violent participants.

Proving whether that person participated in the riot is a matter for the courts, all that's needed for an arrest is reasonable suspicion.

The verse structure's practicality as a reference mechanism far outweighs its downsides.

It's a bit of a stretch to indict the verse structure for the general decline in Biblical literacy in Christians.

It's entirely possible to quote a verse with correct contextual interpretation that conveys its meaning; if we're looking for a culprit for declining Biblical literacy I'd be much more apt to blame loose translations and paraphrases like The Message and The Passion Translation than the concept of verses.

> Prohibited: Single point, 3-point, tactical, and quick detach slings

Funny, I just received a VTAC sling from Amazon. I wonder if I was able to buy it due to the "enforcement failures" mentioned in the article or if it's because it is a 2-point sling (obviously much safer than a single point or 3-point sling which are basically weapons of mass destruction).

I turned it off after 40 minutes. I appreciate movies that use slower-pacing to build tension (No Country for Old Men comes to mind) but every scene in The Blackcoat's Daughter is glacial to the point of being parody while still not accomplishing much in the way of characterization or plot development.

Maybe one day I'll revisit it, because I see it recommended all the time.

I've often marveled at the absurdity of how many of my coworkers openly admit that a big appeal of the office for them is getting away from their wives and kids. Healthy and normal!

I highly doubt anyone with a portfolio worth $1000 or less knows or cares about things like loss harvesting.

All the proper hygiene in the world won't prevent you from being infected if there's an overnight explosion in cases while you're in contact with hundreds of people in airports, airplanes and social gatherings.

Even if you did manage to avoid getting sick, there's a chance you could get stuck in quarantine in Japan, the US or both as countries become more aware of the virus' dormancy.

Anecdotally, I have several friends who have cancelled non-refundable trips. If it were me, the desire to go on the trip wouldn't outweigh the stress of worrying about being infected, being held in quarantine, or traveling while a global panic sets in.

This guide is clearly intended to focus on the ops-side of ElasticSearch. No one is being irresponsible, you're basically just complaining that the article was written about one topic instead of another.

Notice how it also doesn't talk about system architecture, load balancers, disaster recovery, etc? It's because the author chose to focus the post on cluster configuration. The topic of security could be its own standalone writeup and I highly doubt that its omission is an endorsement for running an ES cluster totally exposed and unsecured.

They're acutely aware of the power big tech holds and how politically devastating it would be if Google, Facebook, et al started to regulate their platforms in a politically biased way.

That's why the idea of regulating social media and search products as public utilities arose, and why Facebook is currently walking on eggshells to appear neutral and apolitical.

That has been a common pushback to many media/broadcasting mergers though. It presents a real threat to freedom of the press when a broadcasting company absorbs a media company as they can more easily suppress stories that don't serve their interests.

CNN being critical of the administration is immaterial (practically all large media outlets are). The concern from the administration seems justified rather than malicious in this case.

This is the only rationale I can come up with for the game development policy: AGS hasn't produced anything in 8 years and what they have in the pipeline looks disappointing so...cross your fingers and hope one of your employees makes the next Minecraft.

It makes no sense why use of a small-scale nuclear weapon would somehow escalate to armageddon. It seems to hinge on the assumption that government leaders are completely irrational robots that, once a nuclear weapon of a size equivalent to a conventional bomb is used, take that as license to use nuclear weapons of any size.

It's much more likely the "unwritten rule" you speak of would just shift, where nuclear weapons of a certain payload (probably equivalent to conventional weapons) would be acceptable for use. Government leaders, being acutely aware of MAD, would clearly communicate the new accepted boundaries and proceed from there.

Both situations feature people being banned by companies due to their speech because the companies fear backlash from more powerful entities (China or the media/general public respectively).

They seem pretty comparable to me.

I agree with you completely, but this whole debacle has highlighted what seems to be hypocrisy in the general public's reaction to this.

Remember when The Daily Stormer got kicked off CloudFlare and a whole host of other platforms, to the point that no one would take their business and they were effectively censored? The average take on that seemed to be a mix of "Free speech doesn't apply to private companies" and "If you don't like it, build your own CDN/DNS/Paypal/certificate authority etc"

So what's the difference with this? Again, I agree completely with the concerns here, but what happened to TDS and a lot of other fringe sites was even more blatant and serious: They were de facto banned from the internet, whereas this is all over...a video game.

Did everyone come to the conclusion that corporations are powerful enough to effectively snuff out free speech since that happened, or is it different because this is China, or...?

The whole shard rebalancing problem is solved if you have an acceptable disaster recovery solution in place, which I'm assuming the author doesn't if they're complaining about have to keep around the raw copy of their data to be indexed.

My team has an automated workflow that runs once a week. It creates a new cluster, re-indexes from source, starts taking customer traffic and then deletes the old cluster. The shards stay balanced, and we can recover from a total cluster failure within about 6 hours.

If there truly is a cash shortage to the point that it is threatening bank liquidity, the Fed's likely response would be dropping rates and increasing the money supply with another round of QE.

If that happens, you should be buying, not selling, since QE basically acts as a subsidy for equities as institutions seek yield with cheap money.

That's the problem: Approximately half of the US stock market is made up of passive funds like index trackers which make up a large percentage of American 401k and retirement plan portfolios.

As soon as a company IPOs they enter into the portfolio of millions of passive investors, who unwittingly become bagholders for companies like Uber and WeWork that have no sound fundamentals or viable business model.

The market has become very distorted due to this and a myriad of other reasons. Everyone is gunning to find the next winning unicorn lotto ticket without any regard for fundamentals in a sort of collective pump-and-dump scheme. Thankfully there was a glimmer of rationale with Uber and Lyft's failed IPOs, and I expect WeWork's will be even more disappointing.

Maybe it's been updated since then. This is the guide I followed: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/HostingWebsi...

I've never used S3 to host a website before so I decided to try this and see if it's really that complicated.

First, I searched for "host static website on S3" and found an AWS docs page with a walkthrough.

Then, I created an S3 bucket through the console. I uploaded a "hello world" index.html file to it.

Then I went to Properties, checked "Use this bucket to host a website" and gave it the name of my index file. When I clicked Save, I had a hosted HTML file that I could navigate to.

I'm struggling to see how it could be simpler than that. What exact problems did you run into?

I haven't had this problem. For simple string searches CloudWatch returns exactly what I'm looking for, even for partial word matches, and for more complicated queries there is the excellent Insights feature.

Most AWS services' console/API are 1-1. Occasionally a console might offer some convenience features which are just a combination of API calls, but I'm not aware of any service that has functionality solely offered in the console. As the original comment touched on, this would be really unusual in AWS where most attention goes to the APIs/SDKs which are what larger customers use.

Until someone injures themselves climbing up a storage rack, or someone hides in a refrigerator and suffocates. The liability is massive.

It can be relied on, but it's up to you to configure it properly. AWS has no way of knowing how critical your application is and what level of redundancy it needs, and this has cost implications so they can't do it automatically.

I'm not the original commenter but for an EC2 hosted application, any architecture that uses a VPC with proper cross-AZ subnetting and a load balancer would not have been impacted. EBS snapshots would minimize any data loss.

> "America is a private club which accepts membership applications of people that it likes for whatever reasons"

This is every nation state on earth. Of course they care about your background, skills and likelihood of naturalization. It's hardly unique to the US

Funny that you mention crypto (I assume that's what you're derisively referring to).

Did you know that the ominous, threatening letters sent out by the IRS to crypto traders was an indiscriminate shotgun blast of mailings sent to every Coinbase customer with an account value over a certain threshold? Did you know that the IRS wanted personal info on every single Coinbase customer until that was ruled unlawful?

So yes, thousands of presumably innocent people who "followed proper accounting practices and who reported their income correctly" were harassed by a letter from a tax agency insinuating that they had misreported crypto earnings.

Thank goodness we live in a republic where majority opinion from non-specialists doesn't determine policy.

I'd wager that 95% of Americans are not qualified in any way to speak to conservationism and the myriad of inscrutable legal issues that come with it. Of course you'll get a load of positive replies when you ask a random person on the street if they support the "Endangered Species Act" or if they would prefer to see it "weakened".

Until you've seen a $150 million data center project abandoned because the FWS wanted a multi-year, multi-million dollar study on its effects on the local spotted boll-weevil population you don't fully understand how destructive and absurd the legislation has become.

Data is the best tool we have. It can be cherry-picked and tainted for sure, but I'd much prefer debates be governed by that instead of whose argument is the most "humane"/morally superior

That paragraph is a smug, flowery dismissal of the kind of evidence-based discussion that happens on HN.

It's passive aggressively accusing HN commenters of wrongthink and of abusing unreliable tools like "data" and "logic" to counter "humane arguments" (read: emotional arguments).

It basically dismisses the role of data in debate by suggesting that it is malleable or selective--we've all probably encountered this type of weaselly thinking, one that demands proof for an argument and, when provided, attacks the source as biased or the data as flawed. You can argue for pretty much any position when you embrace a brand of anti-intellectualism which believes that all data is fake/flawed and reality is subjective.

If you strip it down, the author is basically saying "I wish these annoying nerds would stop thinking so much and get onboard my bandwagon."

Hearsay would be if someone else said a Google engineer told them that Google was biased. If a firsthand accusation from an engineer is hearsay then whistle-blowing of any type wouldn't be a thing.