<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: throwlaplace</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=throwlaplace</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 02:48:49 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=throwlaplace" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by throwlaplace in "Amazon sellers marking products as collectible to get around price gouging rules"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>While not perfect free market/capitalism pulled up more people from poverty than any other system<p>Nope not true - that award goes to communist China<p>>China lifting more than 800 million people out of poverty since the start of its economic reform is a "great story in human history", World Bank President Jim Yong Kim said today, underlining that there is "lessons to be learned" from this Chinese experience.<p><a href="https://www.business-standard.com/article/international/china-lifting-800-million-people-out-of-poverty-is-historic-world-bank-117101300027_1.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.business-standard.com/article/international/chin...</a><p>>Over the past three decades, China has successfully led the greatest poverty alleviation program in the history of the world. During that time, an estimated 500 million Chinese were lifted out of extreme poverty.<p><a href="https://news.trust.org/item/20140408110950-ndf6e/" rel="nofollow">https://news.trust.org/item/20140408110950-ndf6e/</a><p>I'm sure I'll be downvoted for this for some reason or another</p>
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<p>False. I'm drawing attention to the amendment and what the will of the people was/is and efforts made to subvert that will. The amendment as on the ballot said nothing about requiring money as a prerequisite. That's what Florida voted for: returning freed felons their rights. To ascribe some other interpretation to "terms" is to subvert the will of the people of Florida.<p>Ultimately the courts will decide whether the legal language "terms" includes fines and restitution. Seeing as these felons are free and fines are a civil matter I don't know how the courts could find that such things are part of their <i>criminal</i> sentence.<p>Edit: also btw I linked to reputable sources. I didn't obscure anything or omit anything.<p>It's right there on wiki:<p>>However, by mid-2019 Republican Governor DeSantis signed a bill into law which originated in the Florida Senate, SB 7066, which required that "people with felony records pay 'all fines and fees' associated with their sentence prior to the restoration of their voting rights"<p>It's a post facto qualifier. If fines were implied by the initial amendment this bill would be unnecessary.</p>
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<p>How dare they indeed? It wasn't in the amendment. No one voted for that.</p>
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<p>btw in florida the voters literally overwhelmingly voted for an amendment that re-enfranchised felons<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Florida_Amendment_4" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Florida_Amendment_4</a><p>and republicans are still trying to subvert it by sneaking in restitution as a prerequisite. it was challenged in the courts, overturned, and now appealed<p><a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/04/27/844297011/voting-rights-for-hundreds-of-thousands-of-felons-at-stake-in-florida-trial" rel="nofollow">https://www.npr.org/2020/04/27/844297011/voting-rights-for-h...</a><p>check out this tweet<p><a href="https://twitter.com/mrddmia/status/1264687609995026437" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/mrddmia/status/1264687609995026437</a><p>Edit: what exactly am I getting downvoted for? Did I post something that wasn't factually correct? Did I use foul language? Did I antagonize?</p>
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<p>what's the difference between a law and a policy? redlining explicitly excluded black neighborhoods from FHA loans.</p>
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<p>Indeed. And note that black men are overrepresented in the prison population.</p>
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<p>What do you think share cropping and Jim crow laws were? What do you think the several civil rights acts following the 14th amendment were addressing? What do you think separate but equal and then desegregation was? Why is it that there's always someone asking for "proof" of racism? Anyone with a high school diploma knows about these things and yet all of that well known history is insufficient proof.<p>edit: we rightfully so recognize people demanding proof of the holocaust as bad actors. why not with this?</p>
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<p>>there's literally laws on the books making it a crime to commit an offense against protected classes of people because of their race alone.<p>do you think the laws are literally broken or figuratively broken then? also there are many laws at many levels of priority. some of them in effect enable you to kill protected classes of people under convenient circumstances<p><a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/05/29/police-misconduct-supreme-court-reconsider-qualified-immunity/5275816002/" rel="nofollow">https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/05/29/poli...</a></p>
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<p>>AWS IoT Greengrass makes it easy to perform machine learning inference locally on devices</p>
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<p>this is a strange question but is there somewhere you can "rent" access to a jetson? in particular AGX Xavier and Xavier NX. the reason i'm interested is i want to benchmark some code <i>before</i> i buy one to see if it's a suitable platform for my application.</p>
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<p>That's because we're conditioned to think of constructors as functions rather than as types. I think that's not that odd honestly but I do see how counterintuitive it is for people that don't work much in typed languages. I'm not a Haskellite but there you can clearly see the distinction when defining/instantiating sum types (where the type and data constructor live in different namespaces).</p>
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<p>>and he will loose next election badly<p>lol don't bet on it (i haven't!). you're greatly underestimating his base and greatly overestimating voter turnout.</p>
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<p>sections 2b and 4c are the action items; new fcc and ftc regulations that prevent this kind (or broadly whatever kind they deem relevant) of behavior.</p>
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<p>>I’m genuinely curious, what’s the last straw?<p>i don't think it will be a final straw - i think it could be a confluence of things though<p>>As anti-government protesters demonstrated in Timișoara in December 1989, he perceived the demonstrations as a political threat and ordered military forces to open fire on 17 December, causing many deaths and injuries. The revelation that Ceaușescu was responsible resulted in a massive spread of rioting and civil unrest across the country.[4] The demonstrations, which reached Bucharest, became known as the Romanian Revolution—the only violent overthrow of a communist government in the turn of the Revolutions of 1989.[<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolae_Ceau%C8%99escu" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolae_Ceau%C8%99escu</a></p>
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<p>do you know what the number of people below the poverty line is in the US?<p><a href="https://www.npr.org/2019/09/10/759512938/u-s-census-bureau-reports-poverty-rate-down-but-millions-still-poor" rel="nofollow">https://www.npr.org/2019/09/10/759512938/u-s-census-bureau-r...</a><p>38 million.<p>12% of households don't reliably eat<p><a href="https://www.feedingamerica.org/about-us/press-room/new-data" rel="nofollow">https://www.feedingamerica.org/about-us/press-room/new-data</a><p>people are getting evicted en masse soon<p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/27/us/coronavirus-evictions-renters.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/27/us/coronavirus-evictions-...</a><p>do you really think "no one" is going starve to death in the US in the coming months? or even that many people aren't?</p>
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<p>>no one is in even remote danger of starving<p>like do you actually believe this? just because none of your friends are starving doesn't mean there aren't people that are<p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/22/covid-19-could-detonate-hunger-pandemic-with-millions-risk-world-must-act/" rel="nofollow">https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/22/covid-19-...</a></p>
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<p>that solution didn't work for me but this one did<p><a href="https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/system-preferences-software-update-badge.2204123/page-2?post=27869914#post-27869914" rel="nofollow">https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/system-preferences-soft...</a></p>
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<p>one of the authors is at snap. inquiring minds want to know: will this soon be available in snap camera?</p>
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<p>>But we do want to sort comments so that, on average, the distance between the "ideal" order for any given reader and the actual order is minimized, don't we?<p>why? who cares? do you not know how to skim and skip irrelevant text?<p>>I just wanted your thoughts on how this could be implemented effectively<p>you could think of any number of ways to vet comments. we live in the future after all; you could require a minimum length, you could classify comments according to sentiment and reject those that have unwanted overtones, you could use topic modeling to see whether in fact the comment was on topic, etc etc etc. ranking algorithms have had thousands of labor hours invested in them across all social media sites - apply the same fervor to this problem and there will be an adequate solution.<p>>the posts are much fewer, the range of interests is much narrower, and the site itself is very heavily moderated.<p>you're wrong that there are fewer submissions to arxiv<p><a href="https://arxiv.org/help/stats/2018_by_area" rel="nofollow">https://arxiv.org/help/stats/2018_by_area</a><p>you're also wrong that it's moderated - the only thing that you're required to have to submit is endorsement. but i also don't understand how heavy moderation is a counterpoint? yc is one of the most successful vcs in the world - they can't afford moderators? i also don't know what the relevance of arxiv's narrow range of topics is.</p>
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<p>>comments are much more valuable to the reader than others<p>This presupposes some kind of universal value function.<p>>but how can you tell whether a response is "genuine"? It sounds like it'd devolve into people leaving vacuous replies just to clear that prerequisite<p>This is like perfect is the enemy of good counterargument. I don't know and I'm not going to hypothesize right here right now where one misstep on my part gives credence to the idea that it's impossible.<p>Here's what I'll say though about modern forums: they fixed a system that wasn't broken as far as discourse goes. When I was in high school the were forums where responses were ordered in time rather than by popularity. Those places were actual venues for discussion. Ranking only exists for monetization. If you don't agree with this then consider professional venues for discourse: academic journals. I have never browsed a journal or arxiv by the number of citations or the hindex or whatever.</p>
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