Wrong.
Readit Newsdkuntz2 commented on Bus stop balancing is fast, cheap, and effective worksinprogress.co/issue/... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
To me the most interesting aspect of all of this Trump shitshow is that the US, always brought as an example of "well designed democracy with it's checks and balances" is showing very clearly that it's a banana Republic
it remains quite telling that in the wake of world war 2, when the us military designed the postwar japanese government, they based it on the westminster strong parliament system and explicitly avoided the us strong president.
> Those representatives were supposed to make national decisions on your behalf, including choosing the president.
This is, incidentally, how we massively screwed up the federal government. In the original design US Senators were elected by the state legislatures, the premise being that they would prevent federal overreach into the regulatory domain of the states because they would be directly accountable to the state governments.
Then populists who wanted to do everything at the federal level pushed for the 17th Amendment which eliminated the state governments' representation in the federal government and people stopped caring about local politics because it started feeling like an exercise in futility when federal law could preempt anything you wanted to do and the thing meant to keep that in check was deleted.
And the federal government was supposed to have enumerated (i.e. narrow, limited) powers. It doesn't have the scaffolding for people to hold it accountable. You can elect the local dogcatcher but the only elected office in the entire federal executive branch is the President of the United States. Which is fine when the main thing they're doing is negotiating treaties and running the Post Office but not fine if you're trying to do thousands of pages of federal regulations on everything from healthcare to banking to labor to energy.
That's somewhat ahistorical, the 17th amendment happened because state legislatures were frequently deadlocked and could not appoint senators, meaning states went without senate representation entirely.
In a fifteen year period 46 senate elections were deadlocked in 20 states, at one point Delaware had an open senate seat for four years due to this.
That said the proper reform to this would've been the abolition of the senate, as it has always been and will always be an anti-democratic force, not moving for senators to be elected by the people.
well, it's illegal to use jammers, so.
dkuntz2 commented on Don't discount American democracy's resilience natesilver.net/p/dont-dis... · Posted by u/neehao
Don't discount how dumb nate silver is.
this website needs to be autoflagged it's always junk science
dkuntz2 commented on Tech Writers Are About to Become Obsolete kibbler.dev/blog/turn-you... · Posted by u/kewun
lol, lmao, author clearly does not understand what a tech writer (or any writer) actually does and how they're important.
dkuntz2 commented on Gmail is entering the Gemini Era blog.google/products-and-... · Posted by u/xnx
wish they wouldn't
If I do this on my mac, I wonder if am technically violating the HEIC patent license. I suppose it depends on the details in the patent license, plus perhaps rights Apple has acquired for its users. I definitely don't know, but maybe someone on HN does?
I would assume not because you can do the same thing using a CLI apple installs on all macs, sips
sips -s format jpeg in.heic --out out.jpeg