If anything I’m sure Republicans would rather we require welfare recipients to undertake a boot camp program to force them into the labor force. This seems right up the alley.
I’m all for folks dropping or opting out and making their own way, that’s what I did as a drop out a good 15 years ago.
I still think there is a certain point to the anti-intellectualism association. If you’re if the mind that universities are involved in something of a scam, printing degrees for low-quality, low-effort students in exchange for those sweet, sweet loan dollars… that will naturally lead to folks having a raised eyebrow at work wondering if Timmy in the corner is really worth is salt or just has a gimme-degree not dissimilar from the perception issues of the Affirmative Action hires - one now begins to question if everyone, or just most, have a bullshit degree and an inability to really think… just another NPC.
I mean, it's not perfect, but is graded poorly (32%, right, mixed quality, low quality sources, and moderately opinionated) by The Factual using their isthiscredible.com service.
Part of do better should at least be coming with a basis for your argument instead of just pointing at political leanings.
The epidemic of gun violence in the United States is blatantly obvious to every one of its allies, and 2nd Amendment rights one of the major political brain worms that is undermining US standing around the world (and don't get me started on Canadians and UK folks who argue about gun rights trying to use an American framing of the position).
While the U.S. murder rate did increase somewhat in the COVID years, it is still significantly below its peak in the early '90s. Pre-COVID, it was only about half what it was.
Sure, perhaps I shouldn't have been so figurative. The level of endemic gun violence in the United States is deeply alarming to basically all of it's other peer nations and allies. The fact that the level of gun violence is "on the decline" doesn't change the fact that there is still a shocking amount of gun violence in the United States, or the fact that an increasing number of Americans want restrictions or some form of gun control.
The comment I replied to dismissed another users comment as politically motivated with a call to "do better"; I made the essentially the same argument and at least presented data to back up my argument.
If an opposition to gun control and voicing that opposition is ideological warfare inappropriate for this site, I would expect to see this entire submission flagged.
That said, to bring it into context, HN is a tech focused website; the nature of this regulation is rooted in the fact that there is no practical way to regulate how a 3d-printer might be used, since they are trivial to build using off-the-shelf components and software, in many cases, for a skilled engineer, just using components salvaged from common household electronics and appliances.
This legislation is highly relevant to HN since it exemplifies how such an "unregulatable" technology might be regulated by imposing specific requirements on the outputs of that technology, and explicitly criminalizes the use of that technology to manufacture specific devices. A good example of how this contrasts with other technical regulations and laws, and their impacts on technology, consider modern printers - they are easily capable of scanning and printing at sufficient quality and low cost, paper currency that would pass at least casual inspection by observers, provided you can get the appropriate print medium for the currency in question (for some currencies). In response to this, there are several varieties of regulation that extend deeply into print and scan technologies as part of counterfeit deterrence.
This outcome for the manufacture of firearms is actually more desirable than more intrusive legislation that would mandate that 3d-printer firmware or other fabrication technologies attempt to discern what could be a firearm or munitions component, and refuse to print it. Strictly from a technologist perspective, without ideology, I would support this legislation on that front. In other words, as long as you don't use this tech to do crimes, you are ok. More restrictions on the proliferation of firearms is just a bonus :)
Spring of a decade plus ago was fine, it just required a day or two of upstart to configure the whole deal if you weren’t already familiar and had a good project to reference as a basis for bootstrapping.
The tradeoff of today with Spring Boot is you might get bitten down the line with a little configuration mystery, although it’s such a well-blazed path you’re probably in good company and will find your error solved and documented.
In addition, it’s Java so virtually any serious task is done in a well-blazed fashion with numerous open-source options available. In contrast my Node library I used to generate and validate an XML document at work last month cannot read in its own XML output. It’s a boon for efficiency.
The only downside Java really has is that it’s a bit harder to “hack on” a dynamic, evolving JSON structure so it may be a bad fit for organizational reasons if your company lacks a cohesive, mature Engineering staff.
my biggest gripe with old Spring was how far you had to go to get "hello world" on the browser when starting from zero. I never would have thought embedding the whole application server would be a good idea but SpringBoot proved me wrong. That plus the annotation based config vs xml files is what made fast development with Spring possible (in my mind).
Also, Spring would be a miserable experience if it were not for Maven/Gradle. Have you ever counted the jar files included in a typical SpringBoot+Spring-Security+Spring-Data app?
> my biggest gripe with old Spring was how far you had to go to get "hello world" on the browser when starting from zero. I never would have thought embedding the whole application server would be a good idea but SpringBoot proved me wrong. That plus the annotation based config vs xml files is what made fast development with Spring possible (in my mind).
All of this is long before Spring Boot. Embedding the web server so that your system is just a plain Java application is a great idea; annotation based config is a great idea; both of those are things you could do (and I did do) back in 2010 on Spring 3.3.
The stuff that Spring Boot adds - the spooky-action-at-a-distance classpath scanning, the we-can-use-them-but-you-can't annotations, the way you can't override part of an autoconfig but have to either accept what the library gives you or write a full config from scratch - is a big mistake. Those who forget Java EE are doomed to repeat it I guess.
> Also, Spring would be a miserable experience if it were not for Maven/Gradle.
Sure. "Have dependency management that doesn't suck" is good advice for any software ecosystem.
I think older spring was fine, but many people complain about xml configuration as a big one. And, like you said, it took time to setup. Spring Boot today with modern Java is a really nice backend environment to work in.
I’ve seen cases over the years where doctors irreparably maim a patient requiring a lifetime of expensive professional services and home care, are set a fair judgement meant to cover these costs, but then skip out due to maximums set in law thereby hosing the victim.
Suppressors are only Federally legal with a tax stamp, typically acquired with a “Form 1” self manufacture or a Form 4” transfer (purchase) along with a $200 tax for the stamp, per item.
The seller would need special ATF licensure and follow an onerous process to sell what is typically considered safety equipment in Europe, ironically. This involves submitting fingerprints, passport photos, and a lengthy (9+ month) approval process on the part of the ATF.
For the self-manufacture, this has been de-factor outlawed by the current regime with DIY kits being arbitrarily reclassified as suppressors themselves. Most if not all Form 1 builds are outright denied.
So, in short, Temu cannot sell these at all. Of course they also occasionally sell selector switches to concert Glock handguns to fully automatic. This is even more comically illegal than a suppressor workaround.
right, I forgot to mention that manufacture also requires a tax stamp which is only available to registered manufacturers.
And yeah the Glock switch thing is absolutely wild. Sure, calling a shoelace a machine gun[0] stretches philosophy a fair bit. But the widespread availability of a bit of hardware that can only add select fire to a handgun tells me that enforcement is only a problem for those willing to adhere to the rules at all.
My Bosch 36" mid-range induction cook top was about $2500. High-end ones are like $4000-8000 or even more. So nobody's getting a luxury anything for $850.
One of the few durable consumer goods that is a lot cheaper in Germany: a new 60cm (24”) Bosch induction range is about 800 EUR. 80cm ones are also available, but I wasn’t looking at them, as 60cm works better with our existing kitchen, though I doubt they start at 2500 EUR.
One for simmering sauce, one for boiling pasta, and a third for frying up some sausage, veggies, etc. Three at a time isn't unreasonable if you know how long everything takes and do it in parallel to all finish at the same time.
Mine is very similar to [0]. We use 4 pits max, which i think is comfortable. 7kW combined, it does a kind of qos when you set all pits to max power, which works out just fine. It has pause/resume and a countdown timer per pit that works intuitively. I would say the price is not a holding back factor. That's why I really do not get what people in this thread are talking about.
Yes, even well paid worker bees are still worker bees.
The queen bee who owns a share of the hive, decides how many bees to hire/fire, where they work, when they work, what % of the honey to share with the worker bees, etc.. now thats a different class.
What about managers/trainers of sports teams, if the stars of the team get a significantly higher salary? The manager/trainer might order them around, but does that make them belonging to a higher class, even if they earn way less than their "subordinates"?
you are misreading "owns a share of the hive, decides how many bees to hire/fire, where they work, when they work, what % of the honey to share with the worker bees"
Team managers/trainers do not meet most of those criteria.
At most the GM meets the majority of them.
Only the team owner would meet all the criteria.
That hive is too small to matter. Kind of like I don't really concern myself with all of the wildlife in Australia that would like to eat me. It doesn't affect me in the least day to day.
Amazon was once a small business. It's possible to grow that hive but the vast majority get exterminated.
That garbage piece of writing completely ignores nearly 80 years of conventional history which includes first-hand account from the very Japanese council cited in the story.
Absolute joke content that doesn’t belong on a site like this.
The article is from a respected foreign policy site, and makes a case that is well accepted by historians. You can say that the bombs were still justified(which I believe), but the attitude in these comments are borderline insane. Makes you think americans can't handle a little criticism without losing their mind.
Would you mind pointing out what exactly is wrong in the article? Right now it isn't very clear what you take issue with. Most of what I've read about the surrender of Japan puts a lot of emphasis on the Soviet invasion, not only on the bombings, so I would be interested to know what you mean.
