Even low end devices are shipping with SSDs now. The last time Windows 10 was slow for me it was either because it was still on a 5400RPM drive (brand new $900AUD PC from a retailer...) or because Intel had tricked a whole lot of ODMs into thinking the Z series Atoms were desktop processors rather than for mid-range smartphones.
In fairness, the low-end $200 laptops have emmc storage, which isn't what consumers think of as SSD. Yes it is solid state and faster than a hard drive. But it's not typical SSD performance like you get on the $400+ laptops.
eMMC 5.1 (introduced in Jan 2015) has read speeds up to 250 MB/s and write speeds up to 125 MB/s. They're much faster than the earlier eMMC chips, as well as laptop hard drives. Sadly, the early slow chips kind of gave them a bad reputation. They're perfectly workable now for a low-end machine.
These pages are both grossly biased and intellectually dishonest. While I wouldn't go so far as to say it's impossible to impute motive from action, it's irresponsible to call defending borders racist when there are other reasonable and less incendiary explanations.
I've historically supported the ACLU's mission, but right now they are showboating for donations and that plan is working out great for them which means we can expect them to double down on the strategy. It's no secret that a significant portion of political activism and fund-raising is just skinning suckers. The right ran the same scam on its constituents during the Obama years.
"it's irresponsible to call defending borders racist when there are other reasonable and less incendiary explanations."
I haven't heard one single reasonable explanation for why the US taxpayers should put $15 BILLION (before budget overflows and deadline pushbacks) into this wall. Until it is remotely justifiable, a knee-jerk monument to collective racism and xenophobia is ALL it is.
Starting a trade war with Mexico so we can say they paid for it though creative accounting will hurt our economy and cost the working class much more than a simple crackdown on employers exploiting illegal immigrants.
Considering you can find Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Obama and various other Democrats calling for secure borders and barriers of various sorts throughout the years...
It wasn't racism and xenophobic when it was called for then... Bill got a standing ovation from both sides when he made his speech...
100% my opinion here, but based on what I've read and heard so far a physical wall is a terrible way to actually prevent illegal immigration. Most illegal immigrants arrive legally but just remain illegally.
But you know what a big wall is? A symbol. It's my opinion that the purpose of the wall is not to actually 'secure our borders' but to act as a symbol that those to the south are not as welcome as before.
that justification is very weak re the border wall. we can argue that it is a dumb way to do things. but if that was the case then everything the gov does needs an ACLU lawsuit.
the constitution does not guarantee open-borders and the entire immigration system is there to act as a virtual wall in the first place. So I fail to understand the ACLU's position on the wall. It definitely has nothing to do with constitutional issues
Both articles just say "unconstitutional" and say "racist" a bunch of times without citing statute or case law. Sorry if I don't find such arguments compelling.
How do people still not get this? The First Amendment is a limitation on the government of the United States. Period. It does not apply to other countries. It does not apply to private entities within the United States. It does not apply to Facebook, Twitter, Reddit or any other social media.
> How do people still not get this? The First Amendment is a limitation on the government of the United States. Period. It does not apply to other countries. It does not apply to private entities within the United States. It does not apply to Facebook, Twitter, Reddit or any other social media.
To be fair, most of the time I hear your complaint, the people complaining about the loss of free speech has nothing to do with the Constitution (though that isn't the case in this instance, of course). It's possible to oppose certain speech restrictions as damaging to a community you care about and to be upset when those restrictions arise. Not for constitutional reasons, but for reasons having to do with the health and ethical grounding of a community.
Though this is just my sample: It's of course possible that we are exposed to very different circles and that you're more often exposed to "Reddit can't ban this subreddit! It's unconstitutional!". If so, I'm sorry, that must blow
"... a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression, since, though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties, it leaves fewer means of escape, penetrating much more deeply into the details of life, and enslaving the soul itself."
“When two-thirds or three-quarters of the CEOs in Silicon Valley are from South Asia or from Asia, I think . . . ” he didn’t finish his sentence. “A country is more than an economy. We’re a civic society.”
|> Implying that Asian CEOs can't be part of civic society.
Implying nothing. He didn't finish his statement. Period. End of Story. I'm not going to attack him on a sentence that he never finished and instead on what I inferred from him, which is wrong. I'll wait for him to actually act, and trust me, I'm watching very carefully.
I hate Steve Bannon and Trump, but lazy and dishonest retweeting of your own personal biases are what causes this complete fake news epidemic. I said the same thing in the New York Times post. This is what is killing America, because we can't have an honest discussion.
The same thing happened with the "media should keep their mouths shut" quote. Another dishonest quote taken out of context, which only weakens any respect in stories that are anti-Trump. You don't beat Trump by spreading your own lies, you beat him by spreading the truth and opening the eyes of his supporters.
Continue living in your own echo chamber, I don't care. I prefer to engage people who are more interested in the truth, not propagating their agendas through half-truths, like you. Unfortunately, if you and the people like you win, Trump will be in power for the full term.
Bannon and the rest of the conservative media trade on implication, so we should get better at recognizing implication.
Do you see all the ad network ads that show Michelle Obama with a taken-out-of context angry face? The reason the right buys those ads is to create hate through implication. The headline and click-through content don't matter.
That's 9.6 kilometers for you metric folk. Someone has suggested a March breakup for the Ice block. That is the time of the Minimum Ice Extent. I would love to know what the projections are for how long it will take for this iceberg to melt. Imagine what adventures it will have traveling around the world with albatross, turtles and whales for company.
Yes I am. This is my personal account, but I use it to automatically post to Hacker News. I was playing around with BigQuery one day and found the Hacker News dataset [1]. From my experience with the Reddit submissions dataset [2], I knew that I could compose this query,
SELECT
AVG(score) AS avg_score,
COUNT(* ) AS num,
REGEXP_EXTRACT(url, r'//([^/]*)/') AS domain
FROM
[fh-bigquery:hackernews.full_201510]
WHERE
score IS NOT NULL
AND url <> ''
GROUP BY
domain
HAVING
num > 10
ORDER BY
avg_score DESC
which returns a list of domains with more than ten submissions sorted by average score. This turns out to be a list of some of the most successful tech blogs on the internet, as well as various YCombinator related materials. Out of the domains with over 100 submissions, daemonology.net has the 9th highest average score per submission. I manually visited all the domains with more than about 30 submissions, found the appropriate xml feeds, and saved them. I added a few websites like eff.org whose messages I think everyone should read anyways.
Then I jumped into python and started trying to figure out how to post to Hacker News. It was a little more complicated than I anticipated [3], but an open source HN app for Android helped me figure it out.
I set up a cron job on my $5 Digital Ocean that runs the script every few minutes (pseudocode):
If you can reach http://news.ycombinator.com, Check all feeds for new entries, Post a new entry to hn, Sleep for an hour before posting another
[2] The only difference on Reddit is the subreddit system.
[3] After you send a POST request to send to the login screen, Hacker News gives you a url with a unique "fnid" parameter, and you send another POST request to another url with the appropriate "fnid".
We appreciate both the cleverness here and your detailed explanation. But could you please not do this anymore? It isn't malicious, but it's unhealthy for HN's ecosystem. For example, when an author submits his or her own work, that can add a lot of value to the community—but your bot pre-empts that, as it indeed did in this case.
There are many more reasons why this isn't a good thing for HN. For example, it's better for submissions from popular sites to be distributed across a wide range of accounts. That gives more users a chance to feel like they're making important contributions, and gives the community (and authors) a clearer sense of the audience.
There are lots of ways to write software to interact with HN, and lots of users with the ability to do it, so we really depend on the good will of the community only to do that when it serves the whole.
