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This is not correct, at least in the US. You can keep it even if you didn't order it, regardless of whether or not it was sent in error.

https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0181-unordered-merchan...

I’ve seen leader and follower on some motor controllers that I’ve used.

They already have Patreon-like features for servers where you can "boost" a server with tokens you get from your Nitro (premium) subscription. These "boosts" allow the whole server to get more stuff.

I disagree with your argument that we shouldn’t care about this as long as it’s legal.

There are many things that are legal but still damaging or wrong. In many cases (including this one, IMO) we as a society should be able to know more about the behavior so that we can deal with it if it’s problematic.

Don’t forget to look at the more detailed companion to this excellent article!

https://www.thirtythreeforty.net/posts/2019/12/designing-my-...

Now that I read my comment again, it is clear that I was being more inflammatory than was necessary.

Thank you for calling me on it.

(As an aside, this is one of my highest upvoted comments ever, which perhaps says something about what gets internet points on HN.)

When people say the US is business friendly, I think they’re really observing that the US is big-business friendly.

Convoluted taxes allow big business and the very wealthy to evade them more easily.

Convoluted bureaucracy makes it easy to get ahead by working the loopholes, which you can only do if you’re big enough.

Same thing for other legal matters.

All of this is really a cautionary tale of regulatory capture pushed by vested interests, usually at the expense of working people.

Very impressive! You can even start an X11 session (startx), open dillo (a web browser), and open the emulator webpage within itself!

Perhaps you can learn without a calculator, but these timed statistics tests do not function without one. Do you really expect people to do repetitive operations on even n=10 datasets when they only have an hour? You can’t use Excel (because it’s on more capable PC that you can use to cheat).

At the end of the day, if you want to remove the calculator from the statistics classroom you probably also have to remove the standardized test.

They may not be saying that, but the US absolutely has sodomized people during the so-called “War on Terror”. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/dec/09/cia-torture-...

Here’s one about the army that’s more graphic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ghraib_torture_and_prisone...

No one has been prosecuted for the war crimes the CIA commited. Although some low-level army personnel were court martialed for the Abu-Gharib torture, none of the clearly complicit higher-ups were even indicted. In the case of the CIA’s torture program, it is clear that those at the highest levels of government sanctioned these war crimes. Bush, and those around him, should be in prison for their disgusting, shameful actions.

I think the GP is drawing a distinction between private and personal property. If you outlaw private property (e.g. things owned in absentee by entities, usually to seek rent, like landlording) then you are not outlawing people owning the places in which they work or sleep.

It is only when you outlaw personal property (e.g. your clothes, your home) that you encounter the problematic scenario that you suggest.

When Marx says he wants to abolish private property (i.e. the means of production), he does not mean to abolish personal property. I think this nuance is often ignored or unknown, which is unfortunate.

You are attacking something the author did not say. I will assume that this strawman was unintentional (if I were to instead assume that you were acting in bad faith then there would no point responding to you; if you are in fact acting in bad faith, please take a moment to consider why it is that your argument requires a distortion of the truth to be defensible).

The author does say that trespassing on private property, owned by corporations, is not wrong like other forms of "trespass" may be. His argument has one critical nuance that you ignore, however: he says that trespass is not wrong when it is an act that reclaims fundamentally public spaces from private ownership to make them accessible to everyone. A park, a corner between two buildings, and even a view of the city are deeply public things.

Your office (especially the specific area in which you work and the items there) are not, and have never been, public spaces. These specific areas and items are also (by most interpretations) private property, which is another criterion that author has for property that should not be violated. To say that the author suggests that your office should be trespassed upon is an assertion ignorant of these components of the author's argument.

> And what if I don't want to use a "web property" to distribute an extension? What if I want to give my users a honest-to-God file, whether via e-mail or IM message or USB drive?

You still can give your users a file, as long as it's signed my Mozilla.

> Or what? I can't make an extension and give it to friends unless it meets your policy? That's pushing it a bit.

You can still install unsigned extensions if you're using Beta, Nightly, or Developer Edition, which are intended for power users.

> Mindreading.

Your initial point that GP is making an unsubstantiated claim about the intentions and strategy of a large group of people with diverse motivations is a good one, but the claim is stated in a rather unproductive way that detracts from your argument (significantly).

> Get a time machine, tell that truck to James Madison. Tell it to John Stuart Mill.

This second argument seems like a straw man to me. The GP is not saying that we should apply new ideas about speech to past thinkers. GP is instead simply stating that the left happens to have these ideas about speech and that this is the intention of them.

> There is one proven way of raising consciousness and of expanding the possibilities of consciousness, and that's free speech. Every other mode of conceptualizing the kaleidoscope of realities leads to bad places. Every other mode other than free speech is a blasphemy against the Enlightenment. I will defend your right to blaspheme of course

Once again, I think that your argument here that free speech is the only way to raise consciousness is an interesting one with significant merit, but the subsequent straw man really derails it. You imply that the GP is "blaspheme[ing]" free speech, but GP does no such thing.

> I will defend your right to blaspheme of course, but reserve my right to sneer at your "dialectic" and at your deeply broken toxic simile about how "words and speech are exceedingly used like weapons".

This bit doesn't really add much. "words and speech are exceedingly used like weapons" is not a simile, and sneering at GP's use of the word dialectic + the scare quotes doesn't really add anything substantive to your previous assertions.

NB: I suspect that this comment will come off as overly patronizing, and I apologize in advance. I hope that this will at least add to a constructive discussion of this topic, and help other readers focus on some important points in the parent's post.

FRC was the thing I immediately thought about when I saw this (they still do PDF encryption), but the techniques here don't really apply.

I'm pretty sure that you could just try to brute force it, as the passwords as usually dictionary-based with substitutions (e.g. R0bot$InSp&ce).

Edit: After taking a much more in-depth look at it, all of the past game manuals' passwords are too complex to crack in a reasonable time (even with a dictionary). With a top 1000 word list dictionary with substitutions of 3-letter words like the above there are (conservatively) 1x10^20 combinations. You can't crack the PDF user key directly either, because recent game manuals use 256-bit AES keys.

We have excess energy all the time. Many power plants have fixed, unpredictable (e.g. solar/wind), or slow-changing output. When demand is low, these plants often are often producing excess power.

An even more egregious example is gas flaring. The extraction rate is not totally controllable, so there can be more pressure than the plant can handle. Currently, most plants just burn this gas without generating anything, because it would be prohibitively costly (compared to the return) to transport that electricity.

I think that GP's position is tenable if the tyranny comes slowly. Sure, a country-wide armed insurgency is hard to beat. That's relatively uncontroversial. If most people are comfortable as the water boils around them, however, then the armed insurgency is not going to be country-wide.

I think that argument has some basis in history (e.g. Nazi Germany), where the tyrannical government slowly got worse and worse without major internal revolts. On the other hand, there have been times where the people snapped and revolted all at once.

A task manager was recently added to Firefox. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/task-manager-tabs-or-ex...

The designated initializers example will actually compile in recent versions of GCC, Clang, and Visual C++, even if that's not part of the standard prior to C++20. A better example (i.e. one that doesn't compile in C++ but does in C) would be

  int arr[3] = { [1] = 5 }

or even

  struct A c = {.x = 1, 2}

or another example where the designators are not declared in order of the struct members, or where the designators are nested. The version of designated initializers standardized in C++20 only allows the simple case that's currently implemented in all the major compilers.

See https://stackoverflow.com/a/29337570 for more info and examples.

More specifically, the person who presented this was the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and he was only removed from his position as chairman. About a year later he was appointed as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO.

Is C++ -> C interop your only reason for avoiding C++? If it is then you might reconsider C++, because calling C code from C++ is usually as easy as wrapping the #include in an extern "C" block.

I’d say older people should focus on educating themselves about the various issues in an academic sense, particularly if they haven’t been exposed to the many new issues facing younger people that are often ignored by the many politicians catering to older groups.

Don’t just listen to cable news and partisan radio shows, read studies and learn the statistics/background so you actually understand what they mean. Look up primary sources to get perspectives from younger people who may face very different circumstances than you did at their age.

You have a whole life of experience that can help and hinder; take the time to understand the changing world instead of clinging to the past so you don’t just make things worse.

From my own experience it’s disappointing to see older people ignore or stall on a variety of social issues that no longer affect them because they’re set. Even worse, some ignore or pooh-pooh serious long-term problems just because they’ll be dead when the ill-effects kick in.

I’m not sure what to blame for this selfishness and myopia, but it’s important to remember that “uninformed” is not just an adjective that applies to the young.

This sounds more like a Python and pyyaml problem than a YAML or JSON problem. Someone could come along and totally refactor XSLT even if XML stayed the same, and then you would be in the same boat.

Long-distance running is more hip and thigh intensive than anything else, so it makes sense to me (an armchair expert).

A smaller and less expensive V-SLAM option would be the Intel RealSense T265 camera.

Tracking accuracy can sometimes drift quite a bit with this if you’re not careful, but it can perform pretty well, especially if loop closing is enabled.

Having such a basic part of a programming language be awful is inexcusable. It's not just that it takes a lot of time; even if it took no extra time, you're still wasting extra space on your computer, risking breakage on external updates, and compromising security because you can't even tell what code you're running.

This case wasn't about taxes, it was about controlling wheat supply in order to stabilize the national wheat price during the Great Depression.

Shotcut is a relatively capable Linux-compatible FOSS video editor. It has animation support, video effects and text, and can export to anything that ffmpeg can.

https://shotcutapp.com/

Firefox with tracking protection enabled, uBlock, HTTPS Everywhere, and the Smart Referer plugin

The most interesting part about this (which they don't mention on the homepage) is that they are collecting data which they use to retrain a neural neural network that predicts transmission time. This neural network and a predictive model are paired to do things like adaptive bitrate selection and congestion control. They even retrain the model every day based on the past day's data.

This approach apparently performs better than using just a predictive model or just a neural network without any explicit model at all.

They also say they plan to open this up to other research and that they will continue running the site for a couple of years.