sarker
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sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
19d ago
Referendum voting is terrible, and often saddles legislatures with impossible choices.
A legislative veto is one thing but rewriting the referendum is just ridiculous.
Legislatures are usually the ones proposing spending related referenda anyway IME, so it's kind of a case of "stop hitting yourself".
sarker
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19d ago
I called it for Trump based on the slightly hysterical attitude here on the best coast, but we can't both be right.
sarker
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19d ago
Well, all of Hindu Twitter thinks that all whites are evil racist and are wishing for a Kamala win so that the US gets flooded with migrants and
Curious since the BJP enthusiasts I know personally are pro-Trump and point to his anti immigration stance as one reason why.
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19d ago
I've heard something that went, "well, if an ID costs money and you have to present this ID to vote then technically it's a poll tax and thus violates the 24th amendment",
I can't imagine that this is a serious objection since I expect just about every state offers a no fee ID option for at least some people. But I'd be on board with making IDs free to make this objection go away. States can keep charging for drivers licenses.
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21d ago
Plant based milks are fairly popular and much more successful than meat alternatives.
https://foodinstitute.com/focus/deep-dive-the-state-of-alternative-milk/.
According to the National Consumer Panel, 41% of U.S. households purchased plant-based milk in 2022, with a repeat purchase rate of 76%.
Many people especially in my experience (non vegans, non lactose intolerants) prefer plant milk in coffee over dairy.
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21d ago
no?
So you've got a system where you can't pay some latency for availability (I'll level with you, 250ms is an ass-pull on your part, even planet scale databases like Spanner that are way overkill for something like this can manage much better latencies, to say nothing of a simple MySQL master/replica situation), but it's totally fine if it goes down and stays down over a weekend?
If we're talking about a system where 24% uptime (aka business hours) is totally cool, yeah I guess you don't need to think about reliability, but again ive never seen a system like this so i don't know if they exist.
If we're talking about a system where uptime actually matters, it's totally unsustainable to page someone awake to do a manual fail over every time the primary shits the bed. That also comes with a cost, and it's probably bigger than a few ms of latency to make sure your database is available. Making stuff run all the time is literally what computers are for.
sarker
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21d ago
Yeah but you've presumably already had to solve that problem one way or another because you've (I assume?) already got a service that needs a highly available database. Surely configuring replication for MySQL isn't insurmountable for a leet haxx0r such as yourself.
sarker
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22d ago
People absolutely cannot resist looking at this and saying well why do that when you can have the standby take over automatically. And yes I get it that's a reasonable desire. And yes, you can do that, but that model is so much more complicated and difficult to get right.
Who's going to get paged awake at 3AM on Saturday to run a shell script to fail over to the standby? I presume there's some services out there where two or three days of downtime is fine but I don't have any experience with them.
In contrast I find it's pretty easy to set up a service with a few replicas and a load balancer with health checking in front of it so that nobody needs to be manually selecting replicas. It's not complicated and with reasonable infrastructure it's a problem you only need to solve once and use it everywhere, in contrast to hand rolling another unreliable service that's going to become somebody's operational burden.
Put another way, being a pager monkey for one unreliable service is already dumb. Doing that for ten services is just ridiculous.
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22d ago
for various 'born free' morons to euthanize squirrels and ferrets on their way to eliminating cats.
I couldn't find a justification for the "eliminating cats" claim on that thread.(Some) Bird people certainly want to make outdoor cats illegal, but I haven't seen anyone want to actually eliminate all cats.
Off topic, but unfortunately TNR somehow fails to reduce feral cat populations (I don't have a cite for this off the top of my head, but I read it in Cat Sense). I don't have a problem with people letting their cats out, at least in the US (although we should recognize that the density of cats in residential neighborhoods is much greater than the density of the wild felids that lived there before, so the bobcat comparison is unconvincing).
sarker
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22d ago
sarker
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22d ago
- reversed stupidity is not intelligence
- everyone only pushes directly to staging, but some people also have a separate prod environment
sarker
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22d ago
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23d ago
They are still eligible to be paid and receive credits for early release, so it's not that they get nothing for their efforts.
I don't care much about the punishment, personally, and I'm happy to have criminals warehoused in prisons to keep them out of polite society.
sarker
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23d ago
Sure, in the sense that you won't be disciplined for not paying your taxes, It's just that not being in jail is a perquisite of paying your taxes, and therefore you're not actually forced to pay taxes.
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23d ago
Here's what the legislative analyst wrote about the prop.
People who refuse to work or do other activities can face consequences such as losing the ability to make regular phone calls.
Do you disagree that this is a concrete example of being disciplined for refusing a work assignment?
sarker
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23d ago
Here's the full text of the prop.
Slavery and involuntary servitude are prohibited.
(b) The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shall not discipline any incarcerated person for refusing a work assignment.
(c) Nothing in this section shall prohibit the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation from awarding credits to an incarcerated person who voluntarily accepts a work assignment.
(d) Amendments made to this section by the measure adding this subdivision shall become operative on January 1, 2025.[6]
Concretely, which section here do you find objectionable?
sarker
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24d ago
If that one passes, I am reliably informed that most of the prison jobs will go away due to lack of funding, leaving prisoners without any options to make money.
Why? If the prisoners wish to work, they'll keep working. If the prisoners largely don't wish to work, I don't think it makes sense to make them work so that a small minority can fulfill their preferences.
sarker
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24d ago
Hlynka had some Slavic (Ukrainian?) blood in him, so much as I'd like it to be otherwise, I'm afraid it's unlikely.
sarker
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24d ago
It's a little strange to think that he wouldn't have been in contact with people close to Trump who would know that he's not dead. Of course, it would still make sense for him to be cautious about a second strike, so to speak.
sarker
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24d ago
I have never watched CNN but this appears to be false.
There's a pic of biden's inauguration speech with the counter on it, and on later days as well.
Maybe they showed it less frequently, I'm not in a position to judge.
sarker
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24d ago
The covid death counter is alive and well.
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26d ago
So going door to door and executing civilians is actually "attacking military outposts"? Or was that also the IDF?
Yeah, we've got a lot of people unironically advocating for open defection here in the states as well.
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