lockhouse

Sometimes you can’t because of the way deductions work.

Voter fraud can be difficult to prove. Voting in most parts of the country is optimized for anonymity and voter convenience at the expense of security.

I care about evidence, I believe it is absolutely possible to commit voter fraud and not leave any evidence of it, and I also do not believe that Trump lost due to voter fraud. All of these things can simultaneously be true.

I fail to see the harm in making our elections more secure, so long as we do not disenfranchise any legal voters.

I think the biggest issue you’re going to run into is that the Department of Defense acquisitions process is incredibly complicated and favors large incumbents that specialize in government contracts. It can be very lucrative once you get your foot in the door, but be prepared for lots of government red tape and lengthy timelines from your custumers before the first check clears.

Oh and if you can find a minority, disabled, female military veteran to “own” your company at least on paper it will give you an enormous advantage, as the laws require the military to preference such companies when purchasing.

I find Pascal based languages to be much more readable than most JavaScript and C++ code bases.

The best part is that Lazarus is write once, compile anywhere. It works on all major desktop OSes and even some less mainstream ones.

What if national voter IDs were available at your local post office or military recruiting station? The availability and hours would be much better than most DMVs or welfare offices.

Playing devils advocate, lack of evidence is not the same as lack of guilt.

It is entirely possible that voter fraud occurred AND there is no evidence that it occurred.

Again, I’m not saying that happened, but I think there are some common sense improvements that could be made to the voting process that remove any doubts.

Not sure if you’re being facetious, but some of us have too much of our pay deducted from payroll throughout the year compared to our tax burden, so the IRS returns the extra money to us.

Or we could just offer secure voter IDs to everyone that is legally eligible to vote free of charge.

It could be like selective service. Sign up after your eighteenth birthday to vote.

Also, use scantron style ballots that use computers to automate vote counting but not vote casting, with members of all major political parties monitoring polling stations and vote counting to ensure everything is above board.

GTK is a C library, which makes it much easier to make language bindings for compared to libraries written in C++.

I mean simplify the tax code to the point where it is so simple there are no loopholes for the rich to use.

Reduce government waste. You could leave entitlement programs completely intact and still cut billions of dollars in spending without anyone but heavy hitting political donors noticing. Then simplify the tax code with straight forward graduated income tax brackets without exceptions or deductions.

Given that there are several brands of Mac mini server rack mount kits on the market, clearly there is a demand for Apple hardware in the server room. If nothing else they would be a nice alternative to rack mount Mac Pros for a build farm. I would think the performance per watt would be very competitive with other server vendors on the market as well.

This! Every time I hear about a new tax for the rich, somehow the middle class end up actually paying it.

The rich have every tool in their arsenal to limit their tax liability. When you can afford the best accountants, lawyers, and politicians that money can buy, you can ensure that you will never have to pay your fair share. Oh, and even if a new law somehow does make their costs go up, they'll just pass it on to the middle class by raising the prices on whatever they sell to us to make money.

Unintended consequences are real.

See also American Red Cross, Susan G. Komen Foundation, Wounded Warrior Project, and Black Lives Matter for other great examples of big non-profit charities that behave similarly.

How can you possibly be against any of those causes? Don't look behind the curtain to see how we're actually using the money you give us.

Dear Tim Cook,

I have an idea for Apple's next great product. Bring back Xserves, but with M-series processors in them this time. Then hire the Asahi Linux developers and get Linux running very solidly on them. Make it so you can buy them with either macOS or Linux pre-installed.

Sincerely,

lockhouse

It's actually not backwards compatible with all previous Xbox games. There's a compatibility list...

https://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/backward-compatibility

However, that is an impressive amount of backwards compatibility that other game consoles don't have.

So not clear at all, thanks.

Are there actually clear guidelines of what constitutes hate speech, or does it also include expressing opinions the mods don't like?

It's 4 kids, plus the Wife, but that's why we have a minivan.

It’s more like we tend to buy with a mindset of being prepared for likely future scenarios.

These are things many people need to do multiple times a year.

> The OP did talk about pulling "policy levers" to change incentives.

This is what we’re afraid of. Those policies will cause immense harm and suffering to people who cannot simply buy the small EVs that policy makers want us to buy. The unintended consequences would be devastating to many.

We do at least once a week, which why we own a minivan and not a small car.

Some of us take our kids with us when we shop. ;)

So if they don’t need a larger car they shouldn’t have them?

Small cars are available, even in the US, but most people aren’t interested in buying them. There are lots of reasons for that. Unless you plan to get draconian about it, people would need a reason to favor small cars.

In many parts of rural America it’s not feasible to buy groceries and other supplies a day at a time. The stores are too far away to drive to that frequently. Plus it would defeat the purpose of a smaller car as more energy would be required overall.

I fail to see a reason to buy a car that would be suboptimal for my personal situation.

Does anyone make a small car that safely seats 6 people with adequate storage space for doing a week worth of grocery shopping or luggage for a weekend trip?

If I'm not mistaken, the vast majority of web app backends are written in interpreted languages like Ruby, such as PHP, Python, JavaScript, and Perl.

For example, Github, Shopify, and Hulu were written with Ruby on Rails and they seem to do alright.

It's funny, the HN crowd has gotten all up in arms about this, which even if true is merely childish and annoying. However, when the previous management blocked the New York Post for daring to break the story on Hunter Biden's laptop, that was apparently okay.

Instead of downvoting me this time, I would appreciate some discussion of how the alleged throttling is somehow so much worse than the actual censorship of an important news story about blatant corruption and multiple criminal acts by a politician's son that abused his father's position of privilege for personal gain.