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uirion How to own an airline in 3 easy steps and grab the TSA nofly list along the way

State law in the state where I live defines the unorganized militia without regard to sex.

At least the 7th circuit agrees with you, (United States v. Meza-Rodriguez) even if there are other federal appeals circuits that don't. So this is something that will likely go to the Supreme Court eventually.

uirion How to own an airline in 3 easy steps and grab the TSA nofly list along the way

The second amendment is one of the few exceptions rather than the rule. It is difficult to argue for inclusion in "the people" who have the right to bear arms when excluded from selective service and from the definition of the unorganized militia.

uirion How to own an airline in 3 easy steps and grab the TSA nofly list along the way

The Bill of Rights makes no distinction between citizens and non-citizens in its text. It says that rights belong to people, not exclusively to citizens of the several States.

The Equal Protection clause protects citizens and non-citizens alike, e.g. Graham v. Richardson, 403 U.S. 365 (1971)

The first amendment protects aliens once they are admitted to the US, Bridges v. Wixon, 326 U.S. 135 (1945)

There is a right to travel that is an extension of the first amendment rights to freedom of association and freedom of expression.

uirion How to own an airline in 3 easy steps and grab the TSA nofly list along the way

Why does your citizenship status matter? The right to domestic travel within the United States is enjoyed equally by everyone within the US.

uirion How to own an airline in 3 easy steps and grab the TSA nofly list along the way

The singular only version of "they" is "they", just like the singular only version of "you" is "you". "You" was formerly plural, with "thou" as singular, but "thou" has since fallen into disuse.

uirion How to own an airline in 3 easy steps and grab the TSA nofly list along the way

Have you considered that someone who chooses "it/its" as its pronouns is intentionally trying to break the English language with said choice? In this case, it is Swiss, and therefore it is likely not a native English speaker which could be a factor as well.

uirion How to Write English Prose

"I find most, if not all, passages in the works of Sir Thomas Browne to be thoroughly delightful."

It's not hard to address double negatives.

uirion Tech journalism doesn’t know what to do with Mastodon

SMTP is to Postfix as ActivityPub is to Mastodon. If you're not technical enough to care about the distinction between protocol and implementation (as most users are not), then the distinction is largely academic. You can register on a server running Mastodon and communicate with anyone on any other server running Mastodon or with anyone on any server running any of the other ActivityPub implementations (Pleroma, Misskey, etc).

uirion Kids Who Get Driven Everywhere Don't Know Where They're Going (2012)

I grew up in Toronto and relied primarily on public transit growing up. As a kid, I would have a good mental model of the area around a subway station but as soon as we went underground it was like a wormhole to another part of the city. It wasn't until I was a teenager that I had a good model of how the areas around the different subway stations connected with each other.

Did you rely primarily on the subway system before you ditched transit?

uirion Over twenty percent of cable TV bills are bogus fees, study says

It's better to give some rebate. Say the poverty line for an individual is $12,000 and sales tax is 10%. If you want to exempt 1.5x poverty spending from the tax, it is better to give everyone an $1800 sales tax rebate than trying to write exemptions.

uirion VMware Acquires Carbon Black for $2.1B and Pivotal for $2.7B

EMC, then already a public company, acquired VMware in 2004. EMC took VMware public in 2007 when it sold 15% of its stake in an IPO.

EMC acquired Pivotal Labs in 2012. Months later, VMware and EMC each spin out a division, which included Pivotal Labs from EMC, as a new private company called Pivotal Software.

Dell announced its acquisition of EMC in 2015 which completed about 11 months later, in 2016. EMC shareholders each receive fractional shares of a publicly trading tracking stock representing Dell-EMC's interest in VMware in addition to cash for the non-VMware parts of EMC.

In December 2018, Dell went public by buying back its interest in VMware from the shareholders of the tracking stock.

So what you said about VMware being the only public part of Dell computers was true, up until the end of last year. Dell as a whole has been a publicly traded company for nearly 8 months now.

uirion Amazon can be held liable for third-party seller products: U.S. appeals court

Any US legal entity (corporation, LLC, etc.) formed in one of the 50 states is required to have a registered agent in its state of formation. The primary purpose of said registered agent is to receive legal process on behalf of the US legal entity.

So any US corporation or LLC should meet the "US legal and financial presence" requirement that you describe.

uirion Making email more secure with MTA-STS standard

If so much mail is sent between the sponsoring organisations that the aggregate hit rate will be approximately 100%, then wouldn't approximately 100% of mail be sent over the TLS only port were the sponsoring organisations to decide to only use TLS among themselves (e.g. a hardcoded SMTPS everywhere list) ?

The point of an open standard is so that the vanishingly small fraction of people running their own mail servers can easily implement it too.

uirion I’m 14, and I quit social media after discovering what was posted about me

even those who post constantly are more aware than people just a few years ago about how much information the internet is absorbing about us.

I'm about 10 years older than the author, and we were aware. The Cambridge Analytica scandal is just the straw that broke the Camel's back. That was Facebook's MO all the way back circa 2010. It was just that most of us teenagers at the time simply didn't care. The adults warned us the same way they warn teens today but for the most part they didn't care about the data mining back then either.

uirion Ask HN: What do recruiters look for in a GitHub profile?

I was responding to this question:

If you have a project that you didn't care enough to write cleanly, or even document in the most bare minimum of ways (a helpful README to contextualize the code) then why are you even putting it online?

If I put it online for a different intended audience then the question "how do recruiters judge them?" is beside the point.

I am well aware of the difference between git and GitHub. I alluded to some projects that I don't put on GitHub. Let me be explicit in stating that just because the project isn't on GitHub doesn't mean that I don't keep it in a git repository (or other version control, for certain employers). This has nothing to do with confusing git and GitHub.

uirion Ask HN: What do recruiters look for in a GitHub profile?

I've been programming for years and I've had a GitHub account for about as long. Almost every piece of code I've ever written that wasn't for an employer or a school assignment has gone into a public GitHub repository. It goes online because that's what I do. It's the easiest way for me to share code with friends and others, to manage it across multiple machines, etc. There's no reason to put it in a private repository, especially if I'm sticking an open source license with a disclaimer like this attached:

THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE THE PROGRAM “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.

uirion Suse is once again an independent company

I don't understand why Microsoft would acquire Canonical. Microsoft already has an operating systems business in Windows. I don't see any obvious synergies with other lines of business except Azure.

Azure officially supports a number of distributions. The risk of alienating the existing partners who package these distributions for Azure likely outweighs the small benefit Microsoft would get from acquiring Canonical. A deep partnership already exists (e.g. Ubuntu Advantage integration throughout Azure). They don't need to own Canonical for that.

uirion Twitter Thread Compiler Apps and Copyright Ethics

Trademark law functions as an extension of laws against fraud. It really doesn't have much to do with copyrights nor patents.

uirion What ABC called "pink slime," USDA now says can be labeled "ground beef"

I'm mostly concerned about the ammonia used during the process. The ammonia is used to kill off germs due to contamination. Maybe we should just throw away contaminated animal by-product.

uirion Larry Roberts has died

If by "modern internet", you mean TCP/IP, then no. You'd need a circuit-switched network to do that, and those are all obscure/niche networks except for the Public Switched Telephone Network.

Real landlines work even if the power is out.

uirion What Happens When a Founder Is Fully Vested?

I really hope you haven't been neglecting to fill out form 5471 and form 8938 based on a misunderstanding of reporting requirements.

FBAR requirements are separate and distinct from FATCA.

uirion What Happens When a Founder Is Fully Vested?

Is this the kind of thing which has tax consequences?

Interesting thought experiment for a US expat setting up a local corporation: at what step in the process does FATCA actually come into play?

uirion I Can Be the Bank: Individual Investors Buy Busted Mortgages

There are typically laws that deem a company to be related to a person if that person and their (natural) relatives own some threshold percentage of that company.

uirion Google May Have to Get Used to Third Place in the Cloud

Office 365 licenses are reported with traditional Office licenses. It is an entirely separate unit from Cloud revenue.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Investor/earnings/FY-2018-Q4...

uirion Destruction of evidence charges filed for remotely wiping iPhone

It is probably similar to the police seizing your keys or combinations for locks to a storage unit and you changing the lock on the storage unit.

The police can just go to google or slack with a warrant to get the evidence. The physical equivalent would be going to the storage unit proprietor and cutting the lock.

IANAL but I would expect it to count as "hindering a police investigation", obstruction of justice, or something similar.

uirion Sweden's cashless society is no longer a utopia

If you're in the US or Europe, you'll probably get a better rate by exchanging cash into local currency at your destination.

uirion On Hold for 45 Minutes? It Might Be Your Secret Customer Score

The essential difference is in the name! A debit card creates a debit from your account. It is your money that is used to complete the transaction. A credit card creates a credit to a revolving loan account. It is the bank's money that is used to complete the transaction (and you repay the bank separately). The bank cares a hell of a lot more about its money than it does about your money. Sure, regulations come into play as well but they're not enough to bridge that essential difference.

uirion Decline of Greyhound service mirrors rural Canada's plight

making it government-run ensures it won't be taken away again.

It only ensures that it won't be taken away again until the next time the province elects a majority Tory government.

uirion Japan's Hometown Tax

I thought that public schools and policing were funded in the US by local and state taxes not by the Federal government (which is what the Presidential election fund refers to).

uirion What I loved about Paul Allen

The problem with "it's not personal, it's just business" is that business is always personal.