Dalewyn

In no uncertain terms, the only guideline I've violated as far as I'm aware is the one stipulating no political battles. As far as that, I defer to your judgment with one contention: Everyone else who were and are also engaging in that behaviour should be similarly reprimanded.

As I've written in my email, I've noticed a significant uptick in political threads and subthreads over the past month for fairly obvious reasons. If you are that adamant about the guideline, and that is your right, I hope you police all such (sub)threads much more vigorously in the future.

In closing, I'm just sad at the true colors of this community. I take supporting racism personally as a Japanese-American, and all the other positions like supporting fraud, wanton waste, and selective enforcement of laws (aka social justice) are downright absurd. We will inevitably have differences in our beliefs, but I expected better from a community of hackers and entrepreneurs/investors who would presumably support liberal (libre) values and fiscal responsibility.

Just to clarify, when you said "this account" did you mean me or the person I was conversing with?

EDIT: Seeing as I can post a comment I'm going to guess you meant the latter, but I would appreciate clarification if you don't mind.

EDIT the second: It seems I am shadowbanned, so I'll leave an email I guess. It saddens me that an American entity (Hacker News) doesn't support American values, though.

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Of course, why wouldn't I? So long as would-be immigrants obey the law they are quite welcome.

I tire of repeating that ad nauseum towards people engaging in bad will, so I'll just leave you some links:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/endi...

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/refo...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concord_(video_game)

That this is not "mainly an American phenomenon".

Streaming video gets compressed to crap.

That's because your source video is crap.

I'm not sure if you realize it, but all forms of digital media playback are streaming. Yes, even that MP4 stored locally on your SSD. There is literally no difference between "playing" that MP4 and "streaming" a Youtube or Netflix video.

Yes, even playing an 8K Blu-Ray video is still streaming.

Quite literally any country with a government worth talking about controls entry of foreign nationals. It is a privilege to enter another country as a foreigner, and that country has every sovereign right to deny you that privilege if they so choose for any reason (usually citing their laws).

The fact that you ignore this demonstrates your bad will in engaging in these conversations.

At the risk of possibly sounding crass, the practical solution is to simply never tell them of the decedent's passing.

Unless the matter of concern is a legal or financial one (eg: bank accounts, pensions, insurance, etc.), quite literally nothing and nobody else requires knowledge that the account holder passed away.

Never tell Valve that your gamer dad passed away and they will be none the wiser and noone will have any problems as you "inherit" his account and its associated games. You're not trying to defraud Social Security as a 150 year old, after all (...right?).

You might be interested to know that the Managing Director of the Fukuoka Stock Exchange was arrested yesterday[1][2] on allegations that he took upskirt shots of schoolgirls. He was caught because his tablet's camera emitted the mandatory shutter sound.

Laws like this serve primarily to deter casual criminals and catch patently stupid criminals which are the vast majority of cases. In this case it took a presumable sexual predator off the streets, which is a great application of the law.

[1] https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20250212/k10014719841000.ht...

[2] https://www3-nhk-or-jp.translate.goog/news/html/20250212/k10...

The rejection of woke ideals goes well beyond the US. The Japanese people also hate elements of woke getting into their culture and they don't even speak English.

You might be interested to learn that Trump's cabinet has at least 9 women, one of whom was the Governor of South Dakota, another who was an Attorney-General of Florida, and another who is a reserve duty Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army.

Most Senate Democrats have voted against their respective confirmations, by the way.

We are quite fine having women as leaders if they are actually competent and charismatic like it would be the case with men. Neither HRC nor Harris were that; the former was reviled and the latter couldn't even speak coherently. The Democrats can easily get a woman elected President if they would simply choose a good candidate with policies that resonate with the electorate.

Pretty much this. Honda was all but begged by the Japanese government to bail Nissan out. Remember that the Japanese government had a role in taking out Renault and preventing a French takeover of Nissan, their political hand was already overstretched.

The merger/buyout collapsed because Nissan is too proud to admit that they have failed and aren't in any position to be making demands.

Also, this is a tangent but with the US Steel buyout/investment from Nippon Steel being a common subject matter these days, remember what Japan did to protect Nissan every time they bitch about the US protecting US Steel. What goes around comes around.

Americans selected a president who is against "equity", "inclusion" and "social justice"

Indeed. Our American values are and always have been Equality, Pursuit of Happiness, and legal justice respectively, as declared in our Declaration of Independence[1] and Constitution[2], even if there were and will be complications along the way.

Liberty is power, power is responsibility. Noone ever said living free was going to be easy, but everyone will say it's a fulfilling life.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_I...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preamble_to_the_United_States_...

Exactly what I'd expect someone from a country

I'm Japanese-American, so I'm not exactly happy about Japan's state of irrelevance (yet again). Their one saving grace as a special(er) ally and friend is they can still enjoy some of the nectar with us if they get in lockstep like the UK does (family blood!) when push comes to shove.

Who is even the creator here?

People and countries who make and ship products.

You don't make rules by writing several hundred pages of legalese as a litigator, you make rules by creating products and defining the market.

Be creators, not litigators.

I love the retelling of "I don't really care, Margaret." here.

But politics aside, this also points to something I've said numerous times here before: In order to write the rulebook you need to be a creator.

Only those who actually make and build and invent things get to write the rules. As far as "AI" is concerned, the creators are squarely the United States and presumably China. The EU, Japan, et al. being mere consumers sincerely cannot write the rules because they have no weight to throw around.

If you want to be the rulemaker, be a creator; not a litigator.

Assuming they don't or concluding they don't because they don't align to your preferences means that you, not them, are polarized.

Many people here including parent commenter argue for rule of law, which includes controlling and protecting the border and deporting illegal aliens as written in the law. However, those same people (not necessarily parent commenter, but probably the case also) argue for an uncontrolled anarchistic border and presence of foreign nationals in the same breath.

This is why I am of the mind that the only standard the Left has is the lack of standards. Rule of law, except not those laws.

what is the actual cost incurred by the users here?

Time.

Every bit of JavaScript is more time to download, execute, and then render the page. Time is a valuable resource, users appreciate not being told to waste it.

I think it's better to distribute the workload across clients.

The bulk of such loads should and ideally must be on servers, not clients. Use PHP, not JavaScript.

Also worth noting, the biggest motivator for JavaShit by far is the website owner(s) cutting costs. More load on the clients is more idling of the servers, the consequences of this will be homework left for the readers.

The ideal amount of JavaScript is zero.

Japan is one of the foremost funders of deep research.

Perhaps they were once upon a time, it's questionable if they still are today.

And anyway, that's not even the real problem Japan's R&D world has: The real problem is that Japan can't bring products to market. If you can't make some money your R&D is going to eventually run out of gas and die.

Japan is also poorer than its financials might suggest. Japanese society shuns pioneering, the road not yet taken might as well be the plague; everyone wants to be #2 or lower, not #1. This means a lot of Japanese capital ends up sitting around doing nothing besides accruing petty interest, only a small fraction gets budgeted for pioneering into the new and the unknown after significant disparagement.

Except when the "expected tolerance" is unreasonable.

Even if the connectors and wires are to spec, the design leaves next to no margin for play. You need that margin to account for reality: Handling by casual end-users rather than trained professionals, the ambient temperature of the average room or office, dirt and grime that might get lodged and go unnoticed, wonky supply/draw of power, and more.

Running 8.3A through connections rated for 8.5A is "expected tolerance", it's also fucking stupid in no uncertain terms.

What is the reason the spec keeps specifying next to no headroom? Clearly that was the fundamental problem with 12VHPWR and it's being repeated with 12V2X6.

Any engineer worth his salt knows that you should leave plenty of headroom in your designs, you are not supposed to stress your components to (almost) their maximum specifications under nominal use.

But then you've got to figure out and prevent all the security holes that can be introduced by adding file access, networking, etc.

So an operating system?

If someone you know is treating them poorly

That's the thing though, re-read what the author said very carefully:

"that person is your enemy, even if that person has always been cool to you in the past, ... or your partner has never actually met the person."

If your spouse decides for any or no reason to hate your friend that they never even met, you're just an asshole if you then decide to mirror that sentiment just because.

When the person you love decides that someone in the world brings him or her only frustration and pain, that person is your enemy, even if that person has always been cool to you in the past, or you’ve never actually met the person, or your partner has never actually met the person. The more you love someone, the more ardently you should feel not just obligated but driven to want to destroy the people your loved one wishes ill.

If you're going to betray a friend just like that, you're a mentally ill asshole rather than a loving family man.

Somehow y'all are getting it completely in reverse. Clearly ads in a car is going to alienate certain people, not appeal to them. That's the literal opposite of "diversity" and "inclusion".

You and I both hate the mere idea, but it's certainly an interesting idea and if it finds fans for one reason or another (eg: cheaper upfront price tag?) it's a good product whether any of us like it or not.

Let me put it this way then: CFPB has been around for about 14 years out of the country's entire history of about 249 years.

We will be fine without them.

The moral is: If everyone hates Bluetooth, the problem aren't the haters.

Personally, my experience with Bluetooth has been mixed. It certainly works, but audio quality is bad for headphones, latency is bad for mice and keyboards, sometimes the connection requires an intervention from the Norse pantheon, and so on.

does not have a preferred airline company because my choice of operator depends on destination and availability

That's certainly the line that can't be compromised, ultimately you fly because you wanna get somewhere. But finding and choosing favorite airline(s) has many perks that aren't easily quantifiable, enough that many frequent flyers choose to focus their patronage for those benefits.

I'm personally a Delta fanboi because Northwest was my childhood airline on family vacations. My Delta SkyMiles account goes all the way back to 1998 when my dad opened it for me as a kid, back then it was Northwest WorldPerks.

Small tangent story: Delta SkyMiles was instrumental in my getting an AMEX credit card as my second ever card with merely 6 months credit history as a literal newcomer nobody to the credit world. It's been my favorite card to carry ever since.