<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: Guvante</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Guvante</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 02:23:53 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=Guvante" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Guvante in "Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My bad I meant original example. I agree the "you agreed to auto renewal" silliness happens everywhere.<p>Likely the difference is court costs.</p>
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<p>That can happen in the US too... When you agree to a contract you are bound to the terms of it.<p>Why do you think it is so common to hear horror stories about gym memberships?<p>But in your example no one agreed to the contract which means no agreement exists.<p>Generally you can say that payment was agreement to terms but that doesn't work if you deceived to get the payment.</p>
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<p>In the US these kinds of scam fail to be legal on the basis of contract law which is way more nuanced than "can't do this"...<p>I am not talking about common sense I am talking about things like informed consent and consideration.</p>
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<p>Honestly I am surprised that tackling a method of easily collecting approval votes hasn't been done yet.<p>Like even in the abstract "here is what a voting sheet would look like" that isn't meaningfully more complex.<p>To be clear I think it is a hard problem and so far is the biggest detractor to alternative voting schemes.<p>However given all that I agree with your point that it is a meaningful path forward.</p>
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<p>A government that cannot commit violence is toothless.<p>How do you enforce court rulings?<p>We shouldn't be ignorant of how the violence is committed and restrictions should be numerous and enforced for sure.<p>But presuming a meaningful government that cannot commit violence can exist is unrealistic.</p>
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<p>Government has control by virtue of existing.<p>If you say government control is bad in general you are just saying there shouldn't be government.<p>This is impossible as the things the government does will happen it would just be under a different label.<p>That is all I meant by non-sensical, you need to be more specific to have a real point.</p>
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<p>I agree and that was my criticism specifically.<p>Don't say "government involvement is bad" specify what exactly you mean.</p>
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<p>Your analysis presumes that the government is controlled by a single group which hasn't historically been the case.<p>This weird hyper politicization is young in terms of the US.<p>And again you don't acknowledge that "government control" is too vague a metric to be useful.<p>The government has some form of control by virtue of existing so if you want to be critical of it you need to be more specific.</p>
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<p>Are they actually legal?<p>Generally those kind of scams setup an illegitimate transaction that would be reversed in a court case.<p>Whether they rise to a criminal matter is complicated but the vast majority of such scams hold up to scrutiny and instead rely on shell games to make retrieving your funds to expensive to be possible.</p>
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<p>On the one hand giving parties more power sounds a little gross.<p>On the other hand I don't know a solve for every bill having less than a handful of votes that are bipartisan...</p>
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<p>A lot of things are easier at the federal level.<p>After all the federal budget is so large because you can swap states but you can't get away from the IRS.</p>
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<p>The left has been complaining about the executive branch over reach for quite a long time.<p>Hell as much as the drone strikes get simplified down to "Obama killed people without trials" the main complaint at the time was that he was acting without Congressional approval.<p>Democrats shouldn't have responded to Congress getting blocked up by Republicans realizing that they could make "ineffective government" a self fulfilling prophecy but pretending everyone is okay with it isn't accurate either.</p>
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<p>Reductionist "if only the government didn't get involved" doesn't work unless you presume no government is beneficial (it is not since you just recreate all the bad parts of government anyway)<p>You can be critical of the policy of export controls and the meaning of them in modern day but saying it is a problem with the government in general is nonsensical.</p>
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<p>Tabs are not used consistently for nesting so your argument is missing some nuance.<p>E.g. foo(//long function call\n\t//more parameters)</p>
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<p>It isn't technically a scam to offer a limited trial and bill when you go over as long as the terms mention that.<p>After all B2B transactions are often invoice based.</p>
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<p>Did you just not read the rest?<p>I was quite clear you are presupposing it is better without actually justifying that.<p>"Some standard is better than no standard" isn't generally true, it has some requirements.</p>
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<p>That is only true of semantically equivalent things.<p>Tabs vs spaces don't matter they are equivalent.<p>But consistency is only better when it is an improvement.<p>It is fundamentally important that convential commit is better for adopting it to be an improvement.<p>After all in your example wasting the first four characters of your commits with poop would objectively reduce the quality of your commit history, whether or not it was consistent.</p>
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<p>Why undoubtedly?<p>In what context does wasting your first characters on fix vs feat matter?<p>PRs are going to have an explanation that has way more detail than necessary to figure that out quickly.<p>One lines tend to be (for me) in a situation where the difference is immaterial. If I am rapid firing through history I need to know what you did not why you did it.<p>Again I am not claiming that these are bad or even that they aren't good.<p>I am specifically disagreeing that any change is automatically good, that isn't true.</p>
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<p>I mean so it is identical to how I already do this...<p>If I am pushing a PR with a working combination and rebasing after upstream merges how is jj changing the flow?</p>
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<p>But that means you haven't actually done anything with the PR, it is a hypothetical thing.<p>Hopefully you have perfect CI coverage since you didn't bother to compile your PR even.</p>
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