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No argument here. All aspects of the government should be open to public scrutiny.
I'll risk some downvotes by expressing my pet view that if the government is going to use capital punishment - it should be public.
The US is a representative democracy and "we" have delegated the monopolistic use of violence to the government.
If the government is going to capitally punish someone, it ought to be done in full view of the people from whom the power to do so derives.
That is the opposite of a tyranny.
I kept being thrown off by the headline and article saying "cops".
Posted by
_justinfunk on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @06:27PM
from the ask-hn dept.
Are "our enemies" launchings space assets that eat/wound/hijack/destroy our space assets? Do "we" launch space assets that eat/wound/hijack/destroy "our enemies" space assets?Since all these assets are top-secret on both sides, it seems like it could be a whole dimension of war that I've never considered could be actively underway.
“There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
I think you would actually find biblical scholarship really interesting. It's way more fascinating than you give it credit for.
You make presumptions to examine arguments.
Presuming this is just incompetence instead of malice, when the missing paragraphs are replaced, will "Constitution of the United States Website has replaced missing sections" hit the front page of HN?
More than that, they needed a professional with vision.
Posted by
_justinfunk on Tuesday December 10, 2024 @04:27PM
from the youtube.com dept.
Posted by
_justinfunk on Thursday October 17, 2024 @07:49PM
from the show-hn dept.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/refeed-podcasts/id1592716684
I’m sharing my first iOS app, Refeed. It all started when my wife would send me podcast links, but I wouldn’t listen to them because they weren’t in my podcast player.Refeed solves that problem by giving users RSS feeds to share that include episodes from other podcasts.The app builds a new RSS feed from the items in the source RSS files. The original metadata is mostly kept.The best part is...
Posted by
_justinfunk on Monday October 07, 2024 @09:58AM
from the nature.com dept.
Posted by
_justinfunk on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @03:57PM
from the youtube.com dept.
I'm not being snotty. What is the fixed point from which they are measuring the speed? Is the object moving 1M mph relative to earth? The black hole at the center of Milky Way?
All motion in space is relative. Wouldn't it also be equally accurate to say this object is motionless and everything else is passing it by at 1M mph?
"The state can't give you free speech, and the state can't take it away. You're born with it, like your eyes, like your ears. Freedom is something you assume, then you wait for someone to try to take it away. The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free" ― Utah Phillips
Posted by
_justinfunk on Monday August 12, 2024 @02:31PM
from the youtube.com dept.
> I had originally intended to spend this trip operating FT8 and CW, but for some reason I found myself really enjoying FT4 (a mode I had never used before), so I spent most of my day camped out on 14080Kc, and then shifted to 10136 and 7074 in the evening.
As a non-radio enthusiast, I was following along until this sentence.
Posted by
_justinfunk on Tuesday July 09, 2024 @11:24AM
from the twitter.com dept.
Who did you vote for in the EU? When were those elections?
If Apple gets to have an nefarious agenda, then the EU may have one as well.
Posted by
_justinfunk on Thursday May 09, 2024 @11:00AM
from the computationalimaging.org dept.
This would be sweet using the tap feature in the previous generations of AirPods.
For anyone who cares about the stack:
1) Node Express Server
2) Using Firebase RTDB to store swap state
3) CloudFlare Tunnel to a web-server I had laying around
index.js is 141 lines, including the HTML for the homepage.
Posted by
_justinfunk on Thursday April 25, 2024 @02:38PM
from the show-hn dept.
https://swap.ist/
I needed access to a toggling value for an automation. I could have written a local file or use a local data store but I was inspired to make a simple web service instead.swap.ist gives you URL key that whenever accessed will toggle between true or false.The use-cases are... at least one, but probably more.
My perspective is that emphasizing that the US is a "republic" and not a "democracy" is not just to be pedantic (certainly they enjoy being pedantic) but to underline that the US system is not set up to be a majority rule. All the wolves can't vote to eat the sheep for dinner type of thing.
Personally, I get suspicious when elected leaders start talking about the powers they need to fight the "threats to our democracy".
Worth revisiting is the CGP Grey video "Rules for Rulers": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs
I had this same question. Also, are "developers all over the world" "happily using Zero Sheets"?
Based on OPs description, I wonder if this company was spun up while already doing business with those companies.
Posted by
_justinfunk on Thursday April 04, 2024 @05:05PM
from the app.suno.ai dept.