michaefe
Re:OpenStreetMap State of the Map 2026
on Friday August 28, 2026 @12:55PM (#49481344)
Michelin being a higher tier sponsor than Esri is interesting
SurveyorBench
CFTC declares market emergency, orders Kalshi to continue to operate in New York
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Kalshi temporarily blocked from sports betting in Michigan [pdf]
Egg Allergy Prevalence Before and After Guidelines for Earlier Egg Introduction
Re:Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets
on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @12:02AM (#48202942)
Yes, I know it's not common but it is used https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution-conan/amendment-10/...
Re:Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets
on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @08:31PM (#48201550)
Oh interesting, I didn't know that about the contract market authority.
Re:Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets
on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @07:59PM (#48201305)
While it's obviously sports betting, the fact is that federal law gives the CFTC the power to determine what is and isn't a future and expressly preempts state intervention in futures markets. And, the case as to why futures markets generally should be subject only to federal oversight is quite strong IMO. So, the case can quickly become whether or not the CFTC should consider sports betting to be a future, and judges typically defer to the executive branch when it's not obvious (and in this case I don't think it is, the bar owner in Philly hedging an Eagles loss is an entirely plausible, albeit unlikely and uncommon, situation).
While I am partial to the argument that the CFTC is actually taking away the states' 10th Amendment police power right, that is a somewhat tenuous case in comparison to the enumerated right of the federal government to provide sole jurisdiction to the executive branch to enforce a law (and not to mention a law that impacts interstate commerce).
I imagine Minnesota loses this case and what's far more likely is either a more liberal congress changes what is a future by law or a more liberal executive branch reduces the protections for Kalshi et al.
Fixing the Most Dangerous Dam in the World
Re:Show HN: GridTravel- A community based travel app for users to shar...
on Thursday May 14, 2026 @11:15PM (#48144141)
Super cool! Unrelated to the idea itself, but it seems like (at least for me) the images on the desktop landing page aren't rendering on either chrome or safari
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Atlassian is changing how we use customer data on August 17, 2026
Every Bracket
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Re:NNSA conducts aerial radiation surveys over San Francisco ahead of ...
on Monday February 02, 2026 @06:49PM (#46864056)
3D Geological Models in Minecraft
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Black Neon Tetra
Re:Sylvia Noland vs. Land of the Free
on Monday September 15, 2025 @12:52PM (#45252003)
"Although the generation of fake legal authority by AI sources has been widely commented on by federal and out-of-state courts and reported by many media sources, no California court has addressed this issue. We therefore publish this opinion as a warning."