jeff_petersen

> The future is software. For entities that live purely as software, and aren't so picky as us meatbags are about continuity of consciousness, "traveling" from place to place by sending data is the most practical method.

Sure, but for entities that live purely as software the concept of "being" in a "place" is probably completely unimportant.

There's no reason to assume that software entities would have any reason to want to interact with meatspace, especially when they can conjure every possible world (and every impossible world) out of nothing.

> The supreme court nominations alone should be enough to convince you

They did. I do not want Hillary Clinton appointing judges to the supreme court any more than I want Trump doing it. Again, Hillary is not a progressive, so I see no reason to believe that her justice picks would be.

You haven't really made a convincing argument in her favor, you've essentially said "yes, she would have been an awful authoritarian who would continue and amplify the bad policies we already had, but at least she paid lip service to some inconsequential social wedge issues that serve as uniforms for my team!"

edit: It's especially disappointing that Hillary didn't lose by an even wider margin. Perhaps if the Democrats got bitten hard enough by their failed strategy we could have a chance at some real reform in four years. Instead people like you rewarded their avarice and deceit, so we can expect things to continue like this.

I fail to see how stopping Trump from winning is a palatable outcome if the alternate option is Clinton winning. She is diametrically opposed to just about every progressive position, I don't see how any progressive could support her in good conscience.

Unless of course it's more important that the team you identify with wins than what the principles that team stands for are.

Were you going to vote for the guy who later endorsed the corporate-owned neoconservative warhawk? Because, given that, it seems like his principles weren't worth very much.

> I absolutely hate maintenance tasks (dusting, washing dishes, exercise) and wish they could all be automated away

I sort of share this opinion, and when it comes to dusting and washing dishes I still agree. But recently I started weightlifting and its come to be much more fun than just straight cardio ever was, now I look forward to going to the gym. Worth a try if you haven't already.

Also polishing my shoes is a maintenance task, but I find it very relaxing and gratifying when I'm done. But yeah, as soon as I can get a robot butler to handle the other stuff I'll be happy as a clam.

The only episodes that even came close to making me feel like the older episodes did were "Playtest" and "Men against Fire," but even they're not up to par.

I think San Junipero is widely overrated, the pacing is awful and it isn't terribly thought provoking.

They've peaked, the high point was the Jon Hamm special episode and now it's over.

> As someone that been on HN for 9 years

This kind of pissing contest does nobody any good, while we're on the topic of adding value to HN

Not just memory footprint (which is still at least somewhat relevant, and if you've never tried to delete a node_modules folder from Windows explorer you're in for a treat. More Microsoft's fault, but still annoying), but the sheer amount of trust required for all the dependencies. Only one of those tons of dependencies needs to be subverted to do something awful to you. The attack surface is much larger than it is in other environments.

Really well until the enemies of your clients decide to off you?

I find the Gerald Bull story fascinating, definitely worth reading for anyone unfamiliar with it.

> Heck, get in touch with a drug cartel, have them set up a US corporation to buy the thing and walk away.

> Alternatively, leave the boat and move to one of those countries and set up shop there.

While this might allow them to sell the boat to somebody it might also get them in trouble if they ever plan on coming back to the US.

IIRC Christians prohibited charging interest on loans (usury), not banking per se. I suppose a bank could be operated by Christians that simply accepted deposits and charged a sum for safekeeping with no loans whatsoever. I don't know that anything like that ever happened in practice, however, since anybody with enough money to require safekeeping in a vault probably had their own vault.

Likewise an interest free loan would be permissible, though there wouldn't be great incentives to offer them except to family members, for example.

> His rule of thumb is "If it isn't a major article there's probably errors"

...and if it is a major article, there are definitely errors, some likely introduced on purpose[1] (since major articles are the juiciest targets)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ravpapa/Tilt

> e.g. a good guide how to get EMACS running for Chicken Scheme

Did you see this? http://wiki.call-cc.org/emacs

Generally, for Schemes the standard is to use Geiser mode (not that you would know that as a beginner)

> Deal with Amazon's new, terrible delivery service

God, this has bitten me more times than it should have before I stopped buying from Amazon. Several times they marked an item as delivered even though it wasn't (I was home all day and nobody came to the door for any reason, no trucks on the street), presumably because they have a package quota and they aggressively overstuff their drivers. Once they delivered it, but left it right at the head of my driveway. What a huge pain.

I read "hardware" in this case to mean the case of the device, and not the computer inside it.

Let's hope no cardboard was used in constructing this OS.

In all seriousness, I've been meaning to play around with 9front so maybe this weekend is the time I'll finally get around to it

Here's what you said:

> The war happened overwhelmingly _because_ slavery was going to be abolished.

That's not the same as "working toward abolition."

> this exact language is leading people to believe that the civil war had nothing to do with slavery

[citation needed]

> Just because it hadn't yet happened does not mean it can be an important, or even primary motivator.

I said that a desire to keep the institution of slavery was the primary motivation. That is not the same as them reacting to abolition, which would violate causality.

Please try to be more civil rather than slinging around insults and accusations.

> you can argue pedantically

This isn't a minor detail, it's actually quite important.

> perpetuating the seeming belief that the civil war had nothing to do with slavery

Don't put words in my mouth, that's not what I said and I would appreciate it if you'd be a bit more intellectually honest here. The South seceded because they were convinced Lincoln would work to end slavery. They did not secede because abolition actually happened.

The United States didn't abolish slavery until after the civil war as one of the Reconstruction Amendments. In a way, the war triggered abolition (or spurred it to happen more quickly), not the other way around.

My first reaction to both of these is that they're unsettling, though the Pix version makes me feel more uncomfortable than the Live Photo.

> Personally it looks rather ugly especially when looking from near bridge. But then a lot of modern architecture is ugly for my taste...

I agree with you 100% there. That is a particularly ugly building.

They could certainly opt out of any shooting education, it wasn't compulsory when I was a Boy Scout. Though I think the fact that they'd be shooting at paper targets would be a pretty immediate rebuttal of their beliefs.

I've not tried the Kia or the VW, but I enjoyed it a lot better than the Leaf and found the interior to be nicer. It may be spartan in how it looks, but a great deal more thought was put into the layout than in the Leaf.

The i3 is ugly, but it's a lot of fun to drive. The only reason I don't own one is that it doesn't have enough range. I make 120-mile trips fairly frequently and it's just not practical for that.

I hope it someday gets to the point where I can use it as a daily driver. I think it's really cool, and as long as it runs a web browser and allows me to SSH into another machine for anything that requires another OS I'd be happy. It would be a lot of fun to play around with.

It surely does have something to do with that, but the point is that it wouldn't be possible if Oxy weren't well-suited for recreational use.

> "Stereotyping" ends up the best description, though it's less than satisfactorily insulting.

Why does it have to be insulting? Rather, why do you have to import shame from an unrelated activity to make your point? It seems to me like that trivializes racism and doesn't do very much to bolster this argument.

Even the JVM startup time isn't that bad now. It's actually a lot worse in my experience when using alternate JVM languages like Clojure and Scala.

Came here to post just this. It is an "academic" language, designed more for teaching than for any production use, but it has a good pedigree and I've had some fun playing around with it.

It is very fast, but how much of that is due to it being written in assembly? Isn't the real bottleneck for an application like this going to be network speed?