Readit Newspandemicsoul commented on FCC votes to limit prison telecom charges worthrises.org/pressrelea... · Posted by u/Avshalom
Prisons need to be run by the government and aim for rehabilitation. For-profit prisons shouldn't exist. What's the incentive for a company to rehabilitate prisoners? It'd ruin repeat business and eat into profits. :/
I wonder how many people in this thread generally vote for Republicans, who are disproportionally the recipients of for-profit prison company money? https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus?ind=G7000
My God, this toxic POS company needs to die.
pandemicsoul commented on Ask HN: How do people create those sleek looking demos for startups? · Posted by u/anandasai
It’s obv a person manipulating the mouse and scroll. It’s very uneven and jerky.
Do these tools provide HMI automation, where you script the mouse movements/clicks/scrolls during the recording?
No, but Screen Studio does allow you to tweak how the mouse appears to move, in the sense that you can make it move more smoothly or quickly.
pandemicsoul commented on Ask HN: Why should I use your service? It's just gonna sunset · Posted by u/JadoJodo
Same, and no, no hope. Money trumps all – most people are in this for the buyout, and when they get it, their users don't mean anything anymore. The best we can do is just use the services we like and know that any additional service we add will someday be a big fiasco to transition out of. Which, by the way, is why we should demand that every service make portability a standard.
pandemicsoul commented on My Journey to Achieving 5M Users with a Solo-Developed Website old.reddit.com/r/SideProj... · Posted by u/usecom
Correct link is here: https://old.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/181a6pu/my_jou...
Yes, the bubble is poised to pop. The vast majority of AI startups are grasping in the dark for an idea that will capture enough market share that will make them sustainable, and very few will find that. Right now VCs are dumping tons of money into the space to find the things that work, but eventually the vast majority of those bets are going to lose and those startups will fail. The media will go bananas trying to paint this as the end of tech, the end of AI, the end of capitalism, but in reality, it'll just mean a bunch of startup founders and their employees will lose their income stream and move on to other things. The cycle repeats every time a new technology gains traction.
pandemicsoul commented on Show HN: OpenSign – Open source alternative to DocuSign github.com/OpenSignLabs/O... · Posted by u/alexopensource
How is this different from docuseal.co?
It's not – it's just a "competing" product.
Just like a month ago there was a study showing that no amount of quick walks could offset a day of sitting.
That amendment is so overly broad the author should be forced to re-take some sort of how to draft bills class.
It would require fingerprinting for purchases of "certain 3D printers". What does that even mean? I guess the existing law defined what "firearm" means in the context of that law, but if I was a retailer selling 3D printers, I would have some serious questions about it.
My 5-year-old entry level 3D printer could probably print parts of a firearm, but those parts would probably not be very durable to a point they would be completely unusable. Would selling that printer be subject to this law? Who the f** knows. I don't think the author of the bill knows either.
Maybe someone could ask. She's Jenifer Rajkumar: https://nyassembly.gov/mem/Jenifer-Rajkumar
This bill is listed on her list of sponsored bills: https://nyassembly.gov/mem/Jenifer-Rajkumar/sponsor/
It's so tiring to have these kinds of conversations with folks who do not understand the legislative process. There's no need to treat the legislator like an idiot. She's doing what EVERY legislator does, which is to identify a problem ("printed guns are a loophole in how we manage guns in this state") and saying she wants to find a solution to that problem. One mechanism by which legislators do that is by writing draft bills and then helping it through the legislative process to be improved, sorta like how you'd write a draft essay for a college class and then go back for a second and third pass before submitting it. As part of this process, people who are in favor of no legislation will come forward, people who are in favor of strong legislation will come forward, she'll hear their advice and feedback. If she's lucky, the bill will be seen by a committee who will hold hearings and re-draft it.
When you see a "ready to go bill," it's either been through a dozen-step process in this legislative session OR it's been brought up in a dozen different sessions and been improved along the way as legislators have to re-introduce all the bills they are sponsoring in each legislative session.
The legislator is not an expert in the issue, and I doubt she's claiming she is. She's proposing the broad strokes of a solution to a problem she sees. The point is not to pass the bill in its current form – it's to figure out how to solve the problem, using this general idea as the starting point.