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heretogetout | 3 years ago | on: Anti-Abortion Centers Find Pregnant Teens Online, Then Save Their Data

And then there's Mary Miller (R-Ill) who celebrated the ruling as a victory for white life. She claims it was just a mistake, but she's also the person that used a quote from Hitler in a campaign speech so "who knows." IMO it's an example of what I'm talking about: using the wedge issue of abortion to move folks closer to white nationalism and fascism in general.

heretogetout | 3 years ago | on: Tell HN: I DDoSed myself using CloudFront and Lambda Edge and got a $4.5k bill

> Many people would enable it, forget about it, and footgun themselves on the other side.

Yeah, but I figure as long as Amazon doesn't immediately remove stored data, the damage of the footgun would be minimal. Speaking for myself, of course, I'd rather have a short outage than an unexpected thousand dollar overnight expense. It seems so trivial that it's unclear why AWS would not implement this feature. The only explanation that makes sense is that they want these surprise bills to occur.

heretogetout | 3 years ago | on: Anti-Abortion Centers Find Pregnant Teens Online, Then Save Their Data

> Even if abortion was a moral issue, and not about preserving human life, nothing precludes states from legislating morality.

Not nothing -- we have a constitution that guarantees rights, many of which are rights to behave immorally (in the eyes of some). In fact that's the core of the Democrat's argument.

> And people perceive that conflict as involving more fundamental issues than what the marginal income tax rate should be.

Agreed, and that's pretty much my entire point.

> It’s an error to rely on the Presidential popular vote. Because it doesn’t count nobody is trying to win it.

I see this argument a lot but I don't find it convincing. There are plenty of senate and representative seats that are not competitive and yet we still count their votes when discussing the balance of power between the two parties, despite the fact that one side is less likely to try to win.

heretogetout | 3 years ago | on: Anti-Abortion Centers Find Pregnant Teens Online, Then Save Their Data

It's a wedge issue where neither side will give any ground, which makes it exploitable. If you figure out a way to tie a wedge issue to the rest of your political platform you're virtually guaranteed support from one side or another. IMO one side has been much, much better at exploiting this fact and has has achieved great power despite representing less than a plurality of voters.

heretogetout | 3 years ago | on: How to set junior employees up for success in remote

I think the same arguments could be made if you swapped in-person for remote (nearly) throughout. There are those of us who prefer remote work and have been told that we must spend dozens to hundreds of hours a year just commuting in order to be more productive. "Finally", more companies are acknowledging our POV and optimal work style after years/decades of talking about it -- I think that's why there is so much enthusiasm around remote work these days.

The pendulum may have swung too far, on that I'll agree.

heretogetout | 3 years ago | on: Abolish Zoning

Don't worry about climate change causing the sea level to rise. If your land is at risk you can always sell it and move, right?

heretogetout | 3 years ago | on: Abolish Zoning

This sounds a lot more expensive and time consuming than broadly regulating by category, and for what is probably marginal gain. Why bother?

heretogetout | 3 years ago | on: Abolish Zoning

Runoff isn't the only concern. There's noise, big-rig traffic, odor, unappealing landscape (important to some). At some point it's a lot cheaper and easier to just regulate with zoning than to regulate each individual component of a site[0]. And frankly both sides -- residential and farmer -- should be happy to be away from each other.

0: Which, of course, developers would also object to and would lead to a lot of patchwork regulation due to grandfathering.

heretogetout | 3 years ago | on: I think the GNOME designers are incompetent

I can't honestly say this is how OSS projects die (I just don't know) but there does seem to be a correlation between corporate support and low PR acceptance. I know I'm put off by all the anti-contributor corpo-CLA nonsense that's permeated the OSS world and I'm guessing I'm not the only one.
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