CoastalCoder

The article seems compelling, but experience tells me to get both sides of a story before judging.

Anyone know if there's a detailed response from NASA to the article?

Does anything in the FTC action prevent users from filing their own class action suit(s)?

(Sincere question, not snark)

I'm wondering if this means 3 million copyright violations that could be litigated in civil court.

Good point.

If people are calling this hypocrisy, then I suspect there's a larger moral argument that hasn't been articulated.

> I mean, it's bad, but it's factually not a minefield.

That's not clear. Mines are generally concealed. It's the reason that mine-sweeping is slow and dangerous.

And there's no public information (AFAIK) that let's us rule out mines having been, or even currently being, laid.

Once you have enough karma you can flag stories.

Back around 1996, Notes would show hieroglyphics that changed with each new password character.

> There must be a lot of pride and meaning in being run over by Saleforce's money truck.

Worst. Isekai. Idea. Ever.

I assume that depends on the individual.

But FWIW, my point was about very harsh punishments in general, not specifically the death penalty.

My first sentence was in jest. I've used LA for various things, but haven't had many dealings with eigenvectors. So that information was genuinely new to me.

My expression of gratitude was sincere.

> Anyone familiar with linear algebra will know that repeated matrix multiplication by non degenerate matrices reveals it's eigenvectors.

TIL that I'm not "familiar" with linear algebra ;)

But seriously, thanks for sharing that knowledge.

FYI we tend to use up votes rather than "I agree" comments, partly because it keeps the overall signal-to-noise ratio for comments higher.

This line of reasoning interests me because it seems to arise in other contexts as well.

Do very harsh punishments significantly reduce future occurrences of the offense in question?

I've heard opponents of the death penalty argue that it's generallynot the case. E.g., because often the criminals aren't reasoning in terms that factor in the death penalty.

On the other hand (and perhaps I'm misinformed), I've heard that some countries with death penalties for drug dealers have genuinely fewer problems with drug addiction. Lower, I assume, than the numbers you'd get from simply executing every user.

So I'm curious where the truth lies.

> Not in some AI "dey took er jerbs" kind of way

FWIW, I read this as equating a particular regional accent with stupidity.

I imagine it wasn't intentional, but it's something to consider.

> Question from a European who doesn’t deeply understand your partisan politics: what specifically should they have done differently?

For what it's worth, I think a lot of us Americans have realized that we don't understand the partisan dynamics either.

Many of us are very confused about the ongoing support for Trump. There's clearly a huge chasm in mindsets, and personally I've made little headway in forming a plausible mental model that explains it all.

I agree in principle.

However, having been unemployed for over a year with a family to feed, I learned a little about what I'd put up with to get a job.

I'm not trying to police the whole website.

I noticed your account was new, so I thought you might appreciate a likely explanation for why your post was being downvoted.

Friendly suggestion: your post contains a mix of interesting points and ad hominim attacks.

People will be more likely to engage with your main assertion if you leave out the insults.

Any thoughts on why you have that preference?

I'm pretty late to this discussion, but...

I was somewhat horrified to discover that the STL ended up with a special role in the language spec. (IIRC, one of the tie-ins is initializer lists.)

IMHO it's far wiser to leave the standard library as something that isn't needed by the core language, and where users can (at least in principle) provide their own alternative implementation without needing compiler hacks.

I.e., those details are inherent in the definition of "library" in the C/C++ world.

Add-on bidets are a fabulous life hack.

I like your ethic of thinking critically regardless of who's in power.

Sincere question: do we have any stats on how (party in office) correlates with (government publications containing lies and/or misleading info)?

Too risky.

This is an awesome discussion.

It's showing that we need to make some finer distinctions to meaningfully engage with each other on the topic.

It beats the heck out of each side assuming bad-faith.

For those of us who haven't read it, could you explain why it's salient on this topic?

> China to put up the last piece to make it into 19th Europe.

Could you elaborate for us non-historians?

> unless you want to explain to me how to eat negative eggs.

I'm sure there's a good joke in there involving trans-dimensional vegans, but I'm still on my first cup of coffee.

> Trump represents the average American.

If that were true, you wouldn't see such a deeply divided America right now.

> This is just how the government and the public sector works.

I work in the public sector, and that isn't remotely my experience.

Could you roughly quantify what faction of public sector workers you believe operate that way, and how you arrived at that belief?

Thanks for respecting HN's KJV-only rule!

/jk